How can I speak English...,

[Silverobama]

I went to an English club tonight and talked to some friends. During the session, a woman called Jennifer askd me "How can I speak English for an hour without any stoppage?" I know she was referring to someone who kept talking volubly for an hour. And she said her goal is to keep talking for an hour with stopping for a moment.

Is the question natural?

 

[Skrej]

No.

How can I speak English for an hour without stopping?

 

[Annabel Lee]

"How can I speak English for an hour without any stoppage?"

How can I learn to speak English so well that I would be able to talk in English nonstop for an hour?

 

[5jj]

How can I learn to speak English so well that I would be able to talk in English nonstop for an hour?

That is adding a lot that was not in the original words.

 

[Annabel Lee]

That is adding a lot that was not in the original words.

Given the stipulated context of utterance, the speaker's question seems motivated by concern about reaching a certain level of development in English, and I think her question should reflect that; however, the inspiration behind my reply was really to point out how conveniently the adverb nonstop would work here.

If I must confine myself to minimal deviation from Silverobama's sentence offering here, I shall instead recommend the following. But I would note that Silverobama's and other learners' sentence offerings here often receive critique (in terms of context and motivation) and extensive/nonminimalistic revision.

How can I speak English for an hour nonstop?​

 

[5jj]

How can I speak English for an hour nonstop?

That, like Skrej's How can I speak English for an hour without stopping? is a sound, natural English version of Silver's acquaintance's

How can I speak English for an hour without any stoppage?

No mention was made of ' concern about reaching a certain level of development in English'.

I know she was referring to someone who kept talking volubly for an hour. And she said her goal is to keep talking for an hour with stopping for a moment.

 

[Annabel Lee]

No mention was mad of ' concern about reaching a certain level of development in English'.

I assume that Silverobama's English club is a club intended in part to assist learners in their development in English. If a member or participant at such an English club indicates admiration for someone who is able to speak volubly for an hour in English and indicates that she has the goal of being able to do so herself, she may rightly be said to be concerned about reaching that level of development in her English-speaking ability, may she not?

 

[5jj]

She may. All I am suggesting is that you added an inference that was not in the original message.