watch this video if you study every day but you don't feel that your English is improving
and you wanna understand why, coming up.
Hey friends, teacher Prix here to help you talk to anyone anywhere anytime in English.
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I study English every day but I am not improving, teacher Prix, what's wrong with me?
What's happening?
So here I am not gonna be showing you a few things that I believe could be happening to
you, actually, these are questions.
I want you to answer these questions and think about your study routine and your lfiestyle
and the things you are doing to improve your English, so this is a moment for you to reflect,
ok?
The first thing that I wanna ask you is how long?
ok, you're studying every day for how long, how long have you been studying every day?
oh, teacher Prix, why is that important?
well my friends, if you started studying last month, it is important.
Usually, when someone tells me I am studying every day, my first question is for how long?
Did you start last year?
ok? then, we definitely need to investigate no, Priscila, I started two weeks ago.
Then, hello, you're not going to be making a huge change after two weeks studying alone.
I understand where this question comes from.
When we start studying every day, we wanna see the results immediately, but it doesn't
happen that way, it is just like going to the gym, if I start going to the gym every
day, in 2 weeks, I will feel a little change, but it is very little, you don't see a big
change, you don't feel a big change, the same thing with English.
So, when did you start studying every day?
Has it been three months?
5 months?
six, seven, eight?
A year?
knowing that will help you understand the root of the problem, where it began because
if you are studying English consistently every day and for quite some time at least 3 months
then we can investigate the study routine itself, but if you started last month, if
you started two months ago, then it is not enough time yet, even if you are studying
every day, it is not enough to know if that's the problem, , if something else is happening.
The next we can analyze is what is your study routine like? because, ok, you are studying
every day.
But what do you do alright?
what do you study every day?
Do you just watch videos on youtube?
Do you just hit play and that's it?
That's your study routine?Because, guys, if you follow me on my channel, if you are my
subscriber, if you watch my lessons and you study them, you know that this is not studying.
If you just hit play and every day you watch a different video, ok, that's good, but that's
not really studying.
What exactly did you learn from that lesson?And just having this mental very brief, very short
quick conversation, oh yeah, I learned a lot today, that's not really studying.
ok?
So, this is something that many English learners struggle with, they think they are studying
every day, when in reality they are not, they are just watching lessons they are just watching
things on the internet, and that's not necessarily studying, ok?
now, this leads me to the next question I want to ask you.
Is your routine active or passive? because watching lessons is a passive activity, you
hit play, you could be checking your phone, you could be talking to someone, you could
be doing a million things and watching the video so when you turn your activity into
an active one, you are then becoming more productive and how do you know you learned
a specific lesson, suppose you watched a video from me, yesterday I posted a video about
5 phrases you can use to interrupt someone politely.
How do you know you learned?
Do you remember any expression?
Because I could ask this question to many people and they would have problems to remember
if they only passively watched the video, that's why every day at the end of my lessons
I ask you to post something in the comments, to really bring English to your life and actively
participate, it is not only because I want comments, because I want view, no!
I want you to turn your study moment into an active moment.
So, by asking you to post an example, to write something, to tell me your favorite expression,
I am helping you turn your study routine from passive to active ok? and that is my goal,
if you only watch the video and then you go to sleep or then you go do your thing, you
are not actively studying.
And if you do this every day, you're not being productive, so how do you check your knowledge?
do you write things down?
Do you remember the information that you studied?
If it is the next day and you don't remember anything, it is probably because you're not
doing enough active study you're maybe too focused on passive learning which is important,
it is also important, but it is not sufficient ot help you improve your English.
ok?
The next thing that I wanna ask you is do you practice speaking alone?
Now, I know this may sound silly, teacher, I don't have anybody to practice with, I am
alone.
I study alone.
Well, ok, it is fine.
I understand but what kind of exercises can you do to practice English speaking alone?And
honestly, if you watch my channel, you know that there are some exercises you can do that
will help you practice English speaking alone.
Maybe if you study every day and you're not learning, what you could do is: if you study
every day, dedicate some time to answering questions.
Yes!, you can find some questions on google.
I have some videos here on my channel where I recommend some websites where you can find
questions and maybe ten to fifteen minutes a day, you find these questions, you read
them aloud and you start answering them.
That way you will be practcing even if just a little the speaking part.
ok, so if you are not getting results, you're not listening to yourself, you're not practicing
intonation, you're not practicing speaking you're not practicing pronunciation, and if
we just stay in the theory and we don't practice, we're not really getting results.
We're just getting more lessons without checking if we are learning or not.
When we try to speak, even when we are alone, we can have a better feedback if what we are
doing is working or not.
So, practicing English alone can be a little weird for some people.
Some people feel a little uncomfortable, but it is very productive if you follow some tips
to learn how to do it.
And finally the last thing that I wanna say, ok, Priscila, I am studying every day, I've
been studying for more than 6 months and it is not happening, you know, I've been trying
many different things.
WHen a student asks me that or when my follower subscriber tells me I am changing, I am doing
many things, then I ask them: How often are you changing your study routine?
your exercises, everything you do?If the answer is oh teacher every week I am trying to do
something different.
That's a problem too.
Your brain, like it or not.
You brain likes and needs discipline.
It needs consistency, if you are always changing the activities, the lessons, the style, the
time you study, your brain will never adpat to the style, to the routine you are following,
it will constantly change, it will constantly need to adpat, so if you are changing too
much, the lessons you do, the videos you watch, if you are changing too much, this could be
one of the reasons why your English is not improving.
You need to stay consistent for at least two, one two months to start seeing some results,
so if you change too much, you're not giving your brain enought time to adapt and feel
comfortable with that new activity and consequently you may have this feeling that you are not
improving.
ok?
Very well, my friends, now to finish, I have a question for you, what do you think you
need to do to improve your English?
Post here in the comments, let's participate, remember, turn this video into an active moment
where you practice, so from all the information I have given you in this video, what do you
think you need to do to improve your English?
I hope I can see your answer in the comments, other than that, thank you so much and I will
see you next time.
Bye!