Everyone knows Philadelphia Mills is pronounced Franklin Mills <| sep |> Ditto . Go speak English . With native speakers . Not a big city . NYC would be bad I think few would have the patience . I know that feeling of your mind going blank it ' s normal . Accept the idea that you will make mistakes it ' s going to happen . Do the best you can . Don ' t worry about making mistakes I am a native speaker and native speakers still make mistakes . People are pretty forgiving when you ' re going back and forth in a conversation . The absolute best thing in my opinion is to have friends or a friend who is a native speaker and then make sure that you hang out around other native speakers . Immerse yourself . Even if some in the group might speak your language , insist on English so you can listen and respond . Hopefully , someone in the group can politely remind you of pronunciation andor grammatical things lightly . It ' s difficult . You ' ll probably find it hard to express yourself and your ideas in English . But the only way you ' ll get better is by actually practicing .