So, it was a nice day earlier, but it's gotten horrible
Look at that! Let's see if I can show you. Overcast, overcast, overcast.
But I want to take photos. So, getting my gear ready and
I'm gonna head out and see what we get. And today I want to talk to you about the importance of
Practicing under all conditions, right? Whether you're practicing English, any other kind of thing,
It's good to practice under as many different conditions as possible. Let's go!
It's raining
It's a little bit windy
It's gray. There's not much light
to be honest, it's just a
an unpleasant day
And it would be very easy for me to say, you know what? Im not gonna go out today
I'm not gonna practice, I can't be bothered. It's horrible. The conditions are terrible
What am I doing? Unlock the car
And I'll do it on a better day
The problem is, though, that you only become good
at what you practice, right? And so, if you're always practicing under perfect conditions
Guess what? You're only gonna get good
under perfect conditions
so,
let me sit down and put this up
I can talk while I drive
There we go!
So, the point is that you need to be practicing under as many different conditions
As
possible, right? Because you want to be as adaptable as
Possible, because you want to be able to flourish and not just survive
Under different conditions. So, what does this mean for English learning?
I would say that if it were me learning English in your position, or at least, you know, if if the
Table was turned, if I was the one in your shoes
I would be first and foremost not shying away from uncomfortable situations, right?
We talked about that quite often when I'm trying to give you guys advice and I'm trying to give my students advice
when you want to improve at something, English in this case, you need to be searching for the boundaries of
where your limits are, how good you are, you know, where your
Limits are kind of found and you need to be pushing past those limits
Because the only way to improve, the only way to grow is find those limits and push past them, right? Push through them
But that's the part that's
uncomfortable and that
I would use comfort as a good sign that you're in the right place, so
with regards to
watch out for these people driving past. So, with regards to English and adapting and
learning to be good under any situation
Ideally, that's what you'd like, right? You want to be able to respond to any situation you might find yourself in and
have
Practiced, have been there before, I would suggest
always looking for opportunities to speak English wherever and whenever you can and
that may be more just
catching yourself when you feel uncomfortable and would otherwise
Try and avoid using your English. So, quite often I have friends, family, students
Anyone that I know who is learning English or learning another language
say I don't want to do that because I don't know how to say or
I don't want to do that because I don't know the words or
I don't want to do that and that's it
so, you're constantly finding an excuse not to do something because you're worried about failing, but you don't look at it as
the fact that you
Haven't tried, to me, that is a sign of failure, right? Trying and failing
Isn't failure in this case and in how I would explain it here
I would say that not trying at all is the biggest failure. So, with English if you are
practicing under all different conditions, that would be
Not shying away, first and foremost, not shying away from using English
anytime that you have to use it, in any kind of
situation. if you're ordering food, if you need to ask for directions,
If you want to ask a stranger a question, if you want to have a conversation about something you don't know
That you've never spoken about before it's not shying away from those situations, ok?
That's the first step, ok? Not being afraid to try something
You're uncomfortable with. The second step is then
Searching for those situations where you aren't comfortable and so, with regards to English
This would be reading about things that you're not comfortable
Usually reading about because you might not know the vocabulary, right? Maybe you are always talking about
Science because you're a science student. And so, you're comfortable talking about science, but you never talk about exercise
When it comes to going to the gym or doing exercise you have no vocabulary. You don't know the words
so the step there would be one: research and try and find out some words and
Phrases and expressions that you can use when talking about it,
But then too having conversations about those things as much as often as possible, finding articles
About those things, watching movies that talk about those things. So,
obviously, I wouldn't suggest necessarily practicing random things that you have a
Very little likelihood of talking about in your day-to-day life,
But I would be pressing you to constantly looking, to constantly be looking for things that
May not
Necessarily come easy to you, that you may not necessarily be used to talking about that
you may not necessarily have ever spoken about before, but think about in your own language, so
That's really it for today's video as I'm almost at the location that I'm going to be taking some
Photos in, sorry about the window wipers. It's just that it's raining, but
My biggest tip today is: if you want to take your English to the next level, practice under all conditions
Ok? So, today with photography and me it's raining, it's overcast. The light is horrible
It's unlikely that I will take any good photos,
but I want to practice under these conditions so, that
Maybe I go away on a holiday in the future and these are the conditions I'm faced with. If I've never taken
Photographs in these conditions, I have no experience in these conditions, but I have no way out
So, that is why I think it's so important to be practicing under all conditions
With regards to learning English, with regards to photography, with regards to anything that you're trying to get good at
Try and practice that thing under as many different conditions as possible so, that you have as much experience
under your belt as possible as well and
Hopefully you won't be surprised as often when you get into tricky and sticky situations
Ok? So, I hope you've enjoyed this video, guys,
Don't forget, if you would like to learn English,
If you're an intermediate to advanced learner, check out the Aussie English podcast, guys, that is where I upload
All of the podcast episodes to teach you English, ok? So, it's there to take you from intermediate to advanced in your English
Check it out below. I'm Pete, I'm the host or chat to you soon. I hope you have a good day. See ya!
The moment of truth
still raining
Still loads and loads and loads of clouds
but
That's not enough to stop
Pete from practicing photography. Pete, me, from practicing my photography, but I should probably bring ah
Either coach, I guess I could bring an umbrella. I don't know what's gonna be easier. Maybe a coat
Anyway, there's a lot of people around, a lot of kids around so,
It'd be an interesting day
Every time I come here, guys, the same crowd, the same crowd comes up
He's a three of these hybrid mallard ducks and no matter where I am at this lake
They always seem to see the person who comes right up to the water and I'm guessing they get fed quite a lot
So... sorry guys, no food today
and not only is it good practice under these sort of poor light conditions when it's raining and everything
But it's also good practice
In keeping all of my gear dry in the rain
So, I've got my jacket here, got a bunch of plastic bags just in case it starts raining more heavily
But humm, yeah, it's funny. You have to practice a whole bunch of other things
Aside from just the photography in a lot of these situations, you know?
You might go somewhere that's dry with a lot of dust or a lot of sand
And so you get confronted with things you wouldn't otherwise think were a problem on a perfect day
Where you're used to going out and not having to battle with rain or dust or a heat or cold
so, again
It's why it is so important to practice these things under so many different
Different conditions because you never know what may happen, right?
There' s Coots. These guys always around waiting for food
I'm a little wet. The camera's a little wet. Hopefully I didn't destroy anything in the camera
Hopefully I can just dry it off right now with my little
Cheap little travel towel that I have here that is really absorbent. So, we'll see how that goes
give this a dry and
hope
That I learnt something new
Whilst I was out today in some pretty shitty
conditions. Anyway
I'm gonna go home and edit some of these photos and then, hopefully, you will be the judge of whether or not I
Did a good job. Anyway
Thanks for joining me today, guys, Chat to you soon. Peace!