"I cannot communicate in English with people who I think speak better English than me." What to do in such a situation?

I will suggest a simple way out: for anything you fear about, just face it heads on. Sooner you face it, quicker you’ll win over it.This is my life mantra.

Thanks for asking Akanksha.You have actually identified the context in which you are making a mistake.That is... when ever you speak to some one you think is better than you in English, you falter..Few questions then -A. Why should you think someone is better? Does that mean the person is God who is going to change the health and prosperity of humanity with good english?B. Why should you think people with good vocabulary are good concept generators as well? Are concepts - something to do with word-assembly? or it has some underlying ideas to be evolved and understood with wisdom?C. Why cant you focus on the idea you are trying to speak, rather than give importance to all the "styling" and "sweetening" the person is doing to make his or her language beautiful?Please evolve your thinking in the above way - the idea behind all this to express clearly and well. It is a matter of comfort and pleasantness. Not a matter of competition or irritation.. I have wrote in one of my answer as well - if you land in U.S.A in several places you may be surprised if you hear americans are able to understand the english of a local medium person from India more clearly than an english medium person... And several local medium educated people I know in USA today are C.E.Os. So what it means - language is a tool for expression not to get "intimidated"..

When we communicate, say in English, we I think should remember that the other is interested in what we say, and perhaps the only side to get impressed by how we say, is oneself! Except in cases where ones talent in the use of language is under test, and also where the speech carries no real sense, it is what ideas or message contained in what we say, that takes paramount importance. Except for our ears, which already knows what we are going to say, and is interested in how we say, all others are interested greatly in those ideas and messages.

Change your attitude towards english first. Take it as a language, just as your mothertongue is. Once you become familier with it, you will gain confidence in it. You may use some tricks like.... Think in english, involve english in ur basic habits like talk to urself, motivate urself , flatter urself , or even criticise urself, all in english..... Talk to mirror or make friendcircle or club of english speaking.... Its a gradual process.... Take ur time.... It will get better with time. Just don't panic ....And keep in mind, its just a language ! You are its master, it can't manipulate you, but you can master it....

This is a problem people face when they value the person before them more than themselves .You yourself mentioned in the question ( But whenever I face someone who I think has better English than me…… ) Remember this is point where you question your own self esteem you judge yourself and the results are always negative and thats when you tell your self that, “Man you are nothing compared to this guy !!” and this rips off your confidence.First of all you have to stop comparing yourself with others.People differ in talents and efficiency. I believe being best is not always being better than all others in the room but being best is to do the best to ones capability. Hope you understand this. You may sound less attractive than the one standing before you but if you start freaking out you will look more bad than before and that will again reduce your confidence. By all this i m trying to focus on one single point that You yourself are putting you down and you should not let yourself tear you apart. If you don’t have your own support first-most you will never ever win. Support yourself, cheer for yourself,tell yourself that you are the best.Once i read in a book (i dont remember the author or even the book it was along time back but i do remember that who ever the author was he was a psychologist ) a trick to overcome inferiority complex.This trick is to come up with a DAILY MANTRA .This is a statement that you keep chanting that is why its called a mantra ;) Its a statement you keep telling yourself and eventually you start believing it to be true .For eg : “ I’m so happy that i am the most confident and the best speaker of all.”When you make your mantra you have to be sure what you want in your end results and the quote exactly the same. Make it look as if its the only truth like in the statement i mentioned above.i made it clear that im already the best among others which practically may not be true. Psychologist says when our brain repeatedly hear something it starts to believe it. Like if you hear someone say that you might get killed say if you enter a certain house and keep hearing this again and again some where inside you start believing it and stay away or avoid any circumstances which will get you near that house this may happen even if you strongly suggest that this kind of supernatural powers does not exist. This happen because your brain believed in what you heard and took caution .This may happen even with out your knowing because mainly this kind of stuffs happen in your subconscious mind.So just make a daily mantra and keep saying it in your mind dont stop just keep saying it, say it when your free say it when your doing something which doesn't need much focus and concentration and slowly your brain will start believing it and eventually start to act as if it the truth that is you will start believing it and will build confidence. That is if you say in your mantra that you are a good speaker then you start speaking as one . I myself has tried this and the results very just unbelievable i was more confident than ever . I chanted it say more than 200 or 300 times a day.Then if you get successful in overcoming even a little of your fear then that will again boost your confidence and one success will make the way for the other one,eventually the little lie or i will call it your wish that you stated in the mantra becomes the reality.This is just one of the many ways you can try to improve yourself.Other people who gave answers to this question has many great points too. In the end we all want to say that just trust yourself,work hard and never let anyone put you down .Fight for yourself!!!“The failure beats the gifted genius with sheer effort.”- A quote from Naruto(A TV series.)

You’re doing too much of calculation . for example .. since u want to utter everything grammatically as wells comprehension-ally correct you are being too judgmental about your skills from the listeners point of view. relax! there inst any competition and no ones getting an award! . (the greatest fear of man is the fear of getting insulted). So if you could stop tripping over what you said and how you said and what would you have had said and bla bla bla. . Then you could go back to reading the words in the bracket , if you can handle the embarrassment you can speak what ever you want with whom ever you want, without being hesitant. freedom of communication isn't based on who is in front of you . Much Luck!PS - Don't push your Anxiety to the next level.

First dont do a comparison, rather try to be yourself... Speak way you do and even if you make mistakes let it be you will learn from it. If person on other side is good guy will try to give you correction and help you. If he is a better guy will ignore your flaw and understand what your are trying to say...

First of all stop thinking that the other person speaks better English than you. The other person is just a little more confident and has passed the awkward stage you are facing. To keep your hopes up and to build confidence you should watch more English movies and try to remember the dialouges of the movie and try to repeat those dialouges in your mind and making up few situations where you can use that. This is like the best strategy to build confidence and i have used it to. Its easier than talking to yourself in the mirror and looking like a creep to everyone. Both your competitor and best judge must be yourself only as no one else knows your strength and weakness better than you.

You need not to think that they are better than you.Try to make yourself better in your mind and get a picture that you are the best. You can speak english fluently.Don’t be afraid of humans. Start facing them the moment you would be confident you ll start speaking fluently. If they can speak better than you then why can’t you? Don’t demotivate yourself. Start watching videos of speakers on you tube.Happy to help:)