hey guys welcome to my channel and
welcome to the most inspiring city in
the world
london
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today we're gonna talk
about learning english on your own
sitting at home in your own country when
nobody speaks english i'm going to give
you some tips because i've gone through
the same process if you're interested
please continue watching this video
i'm walking around london right now i'm
in fitzrovia and so many memories come
to my mind because i first came here
when i was 14 years old my english was
super bad people did not understand me
and everybody thought i was a weird
person because i spoke with a really
weird accent and this was the trip that
changed my perspective on studying
because when i came back home after two
weeks in the uk i realized that i want
to change everything i want to change my
english language learning routine i want
to change the methods that i used and i
want to dedicate more time to studying
the first thing i did
i sat down and i realized that now i
have a goal and in anything you do in
your life and i can't underestimate it
and i will repeat it many many times for
you you have to have a clear goal for me
the goal was pretty clear when i came
back home from the uk because i realized
i want to live here and i want to study
here and i want to connect my life with
the english language and i realized that
perfect english is a must it's not
something i can fake it's not something
that would be additional this is
something that everybody has here
everybody speaks perfect english and i
want to be understood i want to speak
the same language i want to be able to
understand the jokes so i set the goal
for myself and i told marina in four
years you're gonna study in the uk so
task number one for you would be setting
the goal and setting the goal with an
exact date
a great thing about learning the
language is that you don't have to sit
down with a textbook for an hour a day
because once you have the goal you have
to tell yourself how much time you're
going to spend learning english every
day
and learning english doesn't mean just
doing grammar exercises and this is why
i love love love languages because you
can live in english you can watch tv
shows you can read books you can text
people you can travel so at least one
hour a day this will be perfect what i
did i watched sex in the city in english
i watched the suits in english i have an
hbo no subscription that allows me to
watch westworld silicon valley and other
tv shows you can watch youtubers you can
do whatever you want but in english and
that would count towards your education
i would also suggest having just one
textbook maybe two maximum or having a
tutor that you meet once a week to
control your progress
because it's always good to have
something to rely on in terms of like
plan of topics maybe you're doing simple
tenses this week past tenses the next
week future chances in two weeks and
it's good to have somebody to track your
progress when i studied at school we had
kaplan books we had opportunity
textbooks just you know any textbook
would be good it's just for you to have
a plan that was made by a professional
teacher and if you can afford having a
teacher i would really really recommend
having a native speaker
and having a native speaker that has
accomplished something in their lives
like for example we have anastasia who
has studied in america for four years
and who speaks five different languages
who passed ielts who scored 119 on toefl
so somebody like anastasia so you can
not only learn english from her but also
learn how to reach your goals my next
advice would sound a little weird and
might sound a little unprofessional
but you have to fall in love
you can fall in love with the person who
speaks english that would be the best
that would motivate you to speak english
every day or you can fall in love with
the tv show you can fall in love with a
nap you can fall in love with a blogger
like
you know
you can choose a blogger that really
motivates you who you want to watch
every single day because falling in love
helps you do something regularly like
sex and the city was my favorite tv show
i watched it six times in my life
because i fell in love with it oh that's
another great thing that i want to talk
about when you read a book in english or
you watch a tv show you don't have to
know every single word and if you tell
yourself oh i'm gonna write every new
word down
i guarantee you you will hate this you
will stop watching the movie you will
stop reading the book because remember
what i told you you have to be in love
and you have to enjoy the process so if
you see a word for the seventh time and
you realize it actually affects your
understanding yes translate it and write
it down the other words just look at
them and try to figure out their meaning
from the context because otherwise you
will spend all your time just writing
words down in the vocabulary some people
ask me marina do i have to learn
pronunciation together with grammar or
maybe i should have basic vocabulary
first and then grammar
the answer is you have to learn the
pronunciation
straight away because it's going to be
so tough for you to change it later
remember my story i came to the uk for
the first time speaking like this like i
am just i just came from rush not that
bad but it was something similar and it
was so tough for me to change it because
you feel so weird oh my god especially
when you sit down together with like a
russian group i was back at school with
my russian teacher russian students and
you try to mimic british accent they
just kind of laugh at you because you
look weird everybody speaks with a
russian accent and you try to mimic
something else good thing you're
studying on your own so you can just
talk to yourself in this lovely accent
or if you have a native speaker teacher
he would never laugh at you because you
would actually sound better in terms of
like american or british pronunciation
so from day one start learning the
accent start learning the right way to
place your mouth to place your tongue to
pronounce words like a native speaker is
somebody still using the phone booths
ah it's not even working
fake everything is fake oh no
people just use them for photos
basically these phone booths are just
for you to take pictures
i'm kidding but this one is not working
you might wonder which accent should you
learn there is a theory and i totally
agree with that that canadian accent is
the easiest for you to understand as a
non-native speaker and also to learn but
when you come to a particular country
you would need to adjust you would need
to adjust to their accent so it really
really depends on your goals but i would
tell you that before i was upper
intermediate i didn't really get any
accents so when i was in great britain
we were standing with my friend and she
would tell me oh marina do you hear that
american accent and there would be like
a crowd of americans near us and i would
tell her no wow i don't get any accents
i maybe started understanding accent
maybe after two times i came to the uk
so don't really worry about the accent
just worry about the correct
pronunciation
and accent will just come because accent
is about intonation correct
pronunciation is about putting your
tongue in the right place so just don't
worry if you're already upper
intermediate then just think oh where do
i see myself in three years and then
learn that accent i would say american
accent is the most popular one because
you have all of the tv shows you have
all of the movies
british is the most standard canadian is
the easiest not talking about australia
because i think it's the toughest and
you only can use it in australia
let me give you some resources
resource number one my favorite book so
far it's a study guide mastering the
american accent this is a really useful
book that's going to tell you where to
put your tongue how to pronounce words
and it will help you train resource
number two linguatrip.com is my company
it's amazon for languages and we have
everything starting with tutors on skype
different books that can help you learn
english and you can also book study
abroad courses and get admissions help
on linguatrip
resource number three fluent.express
this is a service also designed and
developed by my team that helps you
correct your written english so you just
upload the text and the native speaker
will check it in the real time and you
will see your errors
guys i wish you were here some free
books in english i hope they don't mind
that i'm like
just looking at them
oh this is for
taxes criminal law resource number four
if you don't have access to hardcover uh
books in english i would recommend
amazon kindle and this is what i use to
read books
you get the app you can get a
subscription i think it's like 14 a
month and you get one book every month
and you can also get audio books and
this is what i prefer so resource number
five is audible audible is an app where
you can listen to the books in english
language i would highly recommend the
book that i'm reading right now it's
called the subtle art of not giving a
and it's one of the best books i've read
so far it's about motivation about not
giving up about working even when things
are not looking very good if you still
feel that there are some beginner topics
in english that you have missed or you
want to repeat i would really recommend
duolingo app it's a free app that
touches very very basic spheres of
english like basic grammar basic
vocabulary super useful and the best
thing it's free the only thing with the
apps why i don't really believe in them
when you're in line or when you're
driving in the bus you would more likely
to open your messenger or your facebook
so my another advice would be following
groups on facebook that are in english
and the talk about english like i have a
fan page marina mcgilco our company has
a fan page linguatrip you can follow
other bloggers like casey neistat gary
vaynerchuk they have a lot of useful
information in english as well some
other resources if you want to watch tv
shows and movies in english i would use
hbo now.com i would also use amazon.com
if you have prime membership which is
about 12 a month you get some movies for
free hbo now you pay around 14 a month
there is netflix.com also around 14 a
month and you can just purchase movies
on itunes i would not recommend any
other illegal resources but you probably
know what i mean what i do right now i
already pay for all of my content if you
want to watch something for free there
is always youtube uh british youtubers
american youtubers just watch them for
free and there is also another life hack
all of the resources that i mentioned
before hbo amazon netflix they have
first month for free so you can use that
free trial and then just cancel and you
won't be charged anything
and guys remember don't be upset if you
don't see the progress straight away
because
i always think that like learning
english at home on your own is like
learning to swim in your room you need
to actually be in the swimming pool to
experience the joy of swimming this is
the same you have to be in an
english-speaking country to enjoy
the actual speaking of the language the
actual usage of the words that you learn
and the grammar that you've learned
because here in the uk in london nobody
would speak your own language well some
people would do but the majority would
not understand you and you will have to
use english
and this is the best practice
have you seen a video of a dog that is
right about the water but there is a
person holding it but it is still trying
to swim in the air
this is you learning english at home
it's like basically i tell my students
that you cannot learn to swim just lying
on the floor in your room this is the
same with the language you have to
travel and practice the language and
right now i am in one of my favorite
schools in greenwich in london and i
love love love this place because it's
the uk but it's not like london because
london is a big city and greenwich is
like a smaller district in london but
let's see let's see the school and let's
see greenwich when i came back from
london for the first time i kept telling
my friends they have to do the same and
this is basically why i started
linguatrip because i wanted more people
to travel to english-speaking countries
and learn languages i was so happy to
meet my followers today because i saw
more than 30 people who came to london
to study languages to improve themselves
and guys this is like the city you have
to come here at least once in your life
because it's one of the best cities in
the world i feel so at home here
and i feel that this is the place that
inspired me to be who i am these people
they're so kind smiling willing to help
like this all started here please please
please come to london and this will be
your best step
your best experience for your english
language because you're gonna practice
it and you can come with any level you
can even be a beginner because teachers
here they speak really slowly they help
you they know you're not good at the
language but they're gonna do their best
the best thing i love in london is it
smell
because it smells like my childhood
dreams it smells like london it smells
like hopes it smells like the hopes when
you're life
and i just love this place i hope you
enjoyed watching me running around
london
doing fun stuff and i hope i inspired
you to come here practice your english
and immerse yourself into culture and
explore new things and who knows when
you come to a new country when you meet
new people new ideas come to your head
and maybe this will be the first step
into your new life thank you so much for
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