hi welcome back to love English I'm Sabrah and I'm Leila and today we're
looking at eight steps to achieve fluency in English and we are
actually British University teachers we teach EAP at a university college what
does that mean it means English for academic purposes
so we have lots of ideas to help you guys reach the same level of fluency our
students need to go to university that's right guys so we've seen that these
steps really work and we've both been teaching for a long time so we're very
excited to share these steps we have with you today so the thing is about
becoming fluent in a language is that not every step or every tip will work
for everybody learning a language is actually a very
personal thing and you're going to need to try different things to find which
method works for you and particularly things like your learner style which we
will be coming onto later so guys eight steps to fluency let's get
started let's go okay guys so step number one now you've heard this before
I'm sure it's called immersion and basically the way to learn a language is
to surround yourself in it now I'm sure you've heard this before so we're going
to talk about a few different things that you can do it's obvious that you'll
try and read the news that you'll try and watch movies in English get a
Netflix account and watch Netflix series and things like that that's a
good idea that is a good idea yeah but there are lots of other things you can
do actually like using online websites so for example there's so many online
resources these days where you can practice your English you can practice
grammar you can practice your vocabulary your listening all kinds of things like
that so I strongly suggest that you start to have a look at all the free
materials that are online these days for example you can watch movies we all know
that you can read the news Leila yeah I mean you could check out the news in
your country but in English so you can go to BBC World News click on your
country your region and read the news read what's happening
in English rather than just your own language that's right and of course
other things like for example watching a film with the subtitles on those yes
listening to English music yes I'm sure many of you do and of course guys we're
all on social media regularly but why don't you change your social media
language to English yeah then you'll see it all the time
another thing I did when I was learning Spanish actually was that I put up words
that I wanted to learn and I wanted to learn quickly and I put these
lists up all around the rooms where I would see them often so if I wanted to
learn for example vocabulary for describing people and their appearance I
put these lists up in my bedroom or kitchen so I'd see them all the time I
was literally immersed yeah swimming in the language there we go say that step
number one right guys step number two Sabrah's got her phone at the ready and
we're going to tell you why now the great thing is as Sabrah mentioned we are
in an online world nowadays and of course you guys love apps as we do now a
lot of you would like to have access to a teacher not just through YouTube but
personally so you can communicate and learn from them speaking with a native
tutor now there's a great app for this and it is Cambly there we go so with
Cambly you have access to teachers around the globe British American
Canadian 24/7 the app works around you so you can choose and schedule when you
want your lessons how many lessons you want and whether you want private yeah
where you can learn it with a group if you want to it's really something that
fits around you so because you're love English Watchers you get a special deal
and if you want to have a go at trying Cambly and actually speaking to a
native speaker now at the end of this video you can click the link in the
description box and you actually get 20 minutes of a free lesson so you get a free
trial rather than the normal five minute trial that's an extra 15 minutes
so you can talk to a native speaker and actually start practicing English at the
click of a button is what is so convenient and fantastic about Cambly
perfect what more could you want her so step number three now not everybody
learns in the same way we all have a certain style and a certain way that we
learn so for example I like to learn by seeing things I need to see the words
and I also like to be able to hear things so that I can match that and I
remember it better if I hear it now that's not the same for everybody
for example Leila how do you like to learn I like movement I like matching
things together cutting things up I'm very tactile or what we call kinesthetic
yeah that's right so everybody has a learner style and there are four
different kinds of learners style there are visuals with you you want to
see things to learn there's auditory where you need to hear things to learn
this kinesthetic if Leila was saying so touchy-feely people and there is reading
and writing for those studious people who when they write comes down and they
read they learn better now often people are combination they're not normally
just visual actually for example I'm visual auditory Leila's probably visual
kinesthetic but you'll have one that is more dominant now you can do a test
called a vark to find out what you are what your learner style is and we'll put
the link below for you guys to find that so you can actually find out how you
learn best so let's explain a little bit more about kinaesthetic Leila and how it
can help you if you know your learner style you can actually do more of these
activities so you learn better so if you are kinesthetic Sabrah was mentioning about
being visual and having lots of things around the room and pictures and words
but if you are more kinesthetic then it often benefits you did not be sat down
at a desk you're just studying a book yeah you
need to be moving or actually doing something if you're learning kitchen
vocabulary for example go into the actual kitchen and have a look around
okay a pan knife or fork you can actually touch and
see these things her brain is more likely to make those connections to help
you remember that's right it's all about connections learning connections so find
out what you are guys and once you know what you are try to play to that if your
visual you know that you have to see things if your auditory listen more
listen to more podcasts and things like that so help it to make it work to your
advantage
okay guys step number four chunking okay now this sounds a bit strange
Kitkat chunky? It sounds like! No no it's not it's basically learning stretches of phrases
expressions and actually you probably have already done this it's how we learn
more naturally to be honest so rather than getting worried about the grammar
and the intricate details of how the sentence is formed just look at fixed
phrases so Sabrah you've done this a lot learning Italian yeah and Spanish so when I was
are going to live in Ecuador I did some travel in Ecuador and I was very nervous
about not being able to speak the language so I learned a couple of
sentences and key phrases that I knew I would could say perfectly and that I
would be able to feel confident with and use do you remember any? I do I do I do
Que hora es el desayuno? what time is breakfast Wow question so I learnt
these very well and it helped me to feel more confident and slowly with these
sentences I built on those and from there I was able to actually start
having conversations so these are kind of I would describe chunking is like the
building blocks of a language yeah you feel confident with a couple of phrases
you expand two sentences and after that you keep going and it works a beginner
level as well you really can just learn phrases fixed expressions how much is it
where can I go all these young basic things yeah that's right but you can use
it later if you're an intermediate learner you can start to think about
more advanced and complex sentences and building on those but learning some key
ones at the beginning that you feel confident with so step four was chunking
so step number five now it wouldn't be learning a language unless we had lots
of speaking practice now you can do this with Cambly and you can speak with a
native speaker and be corrected that's right that's probably more important but
you also need to find somebody that you can speak with really on a daily basis
if possible now it's difficult to find this I know if you're perhaps not in an
English learning environment if you're not in a school you can think oh how am
I going to find this but because we live in this online world you can actually
practice English with people on Facebook groups and things like that there are
always other people who are looking to practice their English and perhaps you
can have conversations on skype and things like that now another thing that
you can do which again I did when I was learning a language is a way to have a
language exchange or a language swap and that is where yeah so this is where you
want to learn for example Italian and I want and this Italian person wants to
improve their English and you can arrange to actually meet together and
have one hour or half an hour in the different languages so you can speak in
your language and they speak in there exactly yeah so you actually need
obviously to find somebody who wants to do this but in countries like Spain
Italy a lot of Europe this is already very popular so if you look at for
example intercambio in Spanish is called an intercambio you
can look that up and find who wants to do that in your area so perhaps it's a
good idea to google what it actually is in that language if you're looking for a
language exchange in for example Germany or Switzerland what is it in that
language so Google that and then start to look for a speaking partner right
step number six and it doesn't matter what level of English language learning
you are at it's really important not to worry and stress too much about making
mistakes because that's really going to slow down your progress the more
mistakes you make the more you can be corrected by a teacher for example and
the more you'll hear the mistakes yourself the most important thing is to
really in the beginning slow now listen carefully to what you're
saying and you'll be able to correct some of those errors whether their
grammatical or pronunciation yourself that's right yes so now Leila and I have
a very good example of this because we're different kinds of learners and
we're both trying to learn Italian at the moment so yes in Leila's case she
does worry about the mistakes that she makes materials very nervous about
speaking she is quite shy and doesn't feel confident whereas I don't care as much about the
mistakes can't shut her up in any language Italian Spanish English she
talks I don't really care if I'm making lots of grammar mistakes what I care
about is being understood yeah being able to communicate and I think perhaps
it helped me to get started in Italian so what I would really say is that later
on when you're learning a language you then you need to care about your
mistakes and you need to correct yourself yeah but if you're in the early
stages it's really important to just get going and get speaking talk yeah don't
worry so Layla are you going to pay attention to this step with Italian, Si!
you can see Illustrated perfectly Ciao Bella Come stai ? Allora tutto bene?Y tu come stai? Bene
okay guys so that was just a little bit of fun we were having because tip number
seven is to record yourself yeah now the reason we say record yourself is
because this way you can really listen to your accent and you can really watch
the shapes that your mouth is making to see if you are making the correct sounds
in English now when you're watching movies or when you're listening to
podcasts and things like that you can actually try and copy this is called
imitation English so it's a technique to imitate a native speaker now you can
copy them and see if you're saying it in the same way now how do you test if
you're saying it the same way you listen back to your recording can be quite
scary to do this actually okay I think the most important thing with pronunciation in English
is we are we enunciates we say our words very clearly so you understand us quite
well and it's the same for you guys for us to be able to understand you you need
to pronounce those T's eee aaaa rrrr ooo are so yep so practicing and looking at the
shape of the mouth and understanding the position of where the tongue and the
teeth should be yeah all contribute to sounds in English and many of them you
don't have in your languages so it's new it's an exercise yeah that's very very
very good when you go to the gym you look at
yourself and what I don't but you look at yourself in the mirror and you check
that you are doing the exercises and the postures correctly yeah I think about
this as pronunciation for the gym pronunciation yeah exactly it's also a
good way to see if you're making an accent correctly yeah so for example you
can listen back and see if you're doing a good British accent which of course as
Brits we recommend yes okay the last step which I am guilty you're
not really achieving is to be disciplined to try and make time daily
in your routine to actually learn and practice the language and this can be
really hard when you work full-time jobs and a YouTube channel particularly
but of course be you guys many of you will be students studying at University
many of you have got full-time jobs maybe even families so finding that time
in your day where you know you can dedicate 10-15 minutes at least
yeah really to studying is so important it really is it can be very difficult if
Leila was saying to do that but good news folks is that you don't have to do
this just alone so for example if you have a speaking partner how much easier
is that if you speak to somebody they can actually motivate you all things like we
were saying before practicing online the way that I learn Italian is that I often
have for example YouTube on in the background while I'm cooking so I'll
actually be multitasking so that way I still get my half an hour of Italian
even if for example I've had a really busy day I'll still have a little time
learning Italian also I watched lots of Italian movie I try to listen to songs
I watch, how do you say, Inspector Montalbano yeah so even things like that actually
just watching half an hour of a movie can be your daily practice but I will
take you back to step number two which was getting an online tutor which can
work really well because that's already scheduled if you schedule the time
that you're going to see a tutor online then you know at that time that is your
English lesson yeah and that's that's what's so great about Cambly is you
can select the time so they will work around you alright guys thank you very
much for watching we hope we have enlightened you and given you some
helpful steps to improve your fluency now if you have got any other
suggestions or recommendations yeah so guys if you've got some comments if
you've got some things that you want to share with us some of your ideas about
how you've become fluent or how you're becoming fluent please let us know in
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