About 20% of the human population on the earth speaks English, i.e. more than 2 billion people. And this doesn't just include the countries where English is the official language, there are multiple countries where English is used as an official yet minority language. Therefore, you will see a lot of people speaking English in multiple accents. Sometimes due to the heavy accent of the native language people might not be able to understand what you are trying to say but this can be fixed. Learning speaking skills is easy if you know where to focus on and what your shortcomings are. Here are a few tricks which will help you improve your English speaking skills within weeks: Listen: Listening helps in understanding how to pronounce the words. While growing up we have heard words of our native language which further helped us in fluently speaking the language. Similarly listening to English radio, podcast or even the movies you will be able to take in the pronunciation