hi guys
what's up it's me judy i'm a first year
medical student in turkey and today
we're gonna be talking about
how i learned english by myself without
even studying it
so let's get started okay so i'll
mention about
my english background a disclaimer about
the method
and pros and cons of the method
everything that i mentioned
will be timestamped down in the
description below so that you can skip
to the part that you're interested in
so let's get started so let's start with
my english background
i went to regular private school in
turkey until i got to high school
i've never attended to an english
international
school before high school i took english
lessons as my main foreign language
and when i got into high school i got
german as my main foreign language
in elementary and middle school i
learned basic english i was like around
a2 level according to cefr i got a 2
certificate in english when i was
in elementary school i guess i don't
know i don't remember that but i didn't
try to get b1 diplom because
i kind of didn't need it i was able to
understand daily conversations and
explain like
basic things about myself and kind of
like have a basic conversation with
people
but i was having like kind of struggle
when people speak very
fast so what can you do with an a2 level
in english is here if you want to read
that stop the video and
read it english was one of my favorite
subjects back in the day
until i got high school i went to serve
at german turkish international high
school
in istanbul and we had pretty intense
german lessons
in prep class we had like 40 lessons per
week german
and we only had like two to
four lessons of english in a week at
that time only thing that i cared
was german so i wasn't really focusing
in english lessons i was sleeping
throughout the lessons all the time
sorry teacher but
yeah of course there are a lot of
differences between german and english
but i
find them pretty similar to each other
and i realized that whenever i study
english or german after that i kind of
mix up the words
in these languages and like in german
lessons
english words pop up to my mind in
english lessons i say like
and so i decided to focus on only german
for a while
and then maybe work on english later on
by studying only german
my german got better and better but
the sad thing is my english got weaker
and weaker
i knew that i had to do something but i
didn't know what to do and where to
start
and it's been a long time since i've
studied english and all that stuff and
our school was like
german kind of like school and all
students were focused on german
so nobody was caring much about english
actually
back in the day i was watching so much
youtube and one day youtube recommended
me
a video from james charles and if you
know him
you know that he speaks very very very
fast it was the first time i saw guy
doing a makeup i
was really interested in him so i really
wanted to understand
what he was saying but i couldn't but i
was watching him anyways
i decided to improve my english skills
to
understand james charles which is kind
of like
funny to me and i'll show you guys
throughout the video
how i did that okay so quick disclaimer
since this video
is about my experience it does not
contain any evidence-based
tips from me so if you want some
evidence-based tips
then stay tuned because i will be
uploading science-based language
learning tips
so you know wait for that video next
week
videos are coming so second disclaimer
is if you are below
a2 level i would recommend you to come
at that level first
because i think it helped me quite a lot
okay so let's talk about the method
the method itself is very basic okay so
step
one choose what to watch it can be a
netflix show
or youtuber or tv show whatever but it
has to be in
english you don't need to watch every
single day exactly the same
video or something you can alternate
between netflix youtube
tv shows and all that stuff but don't
forget to consume it in english
okay so after deciding it we're moving
to step
two step two is watch them at at normal
speed
and put the subtitles on try to
understand
what they're talking about and focus on
that video don't forget you're doing it
for
educational purpose now for your fun all
right
watch every single day at least one hour
of
youtube netflix whatever you have chosen
i was watching about like three to four
hours every single day in english
so yeah do that and also consume media
only in english turn your phone settings
into english
read news in english listen english
songs
sing them along try to understand what
they're talking about
make english a part of your daily life
use
english when you start to understand the
videos without subtitles
move on to the next step so step 3
congratulations so you have to be
understanding the videos without
subtitles now watch videos in english
without subtitles
at least one hour every single day
choose something that you enjoy it's a
perfect
opportunity to watch on educational
things without any guilt i don't know if
you guys feel guilt but
whenever i watch something uneducational
for like fun purposes
i kind of feel guilty so yeah after
watching one episode
or one video try to explain it to
yourself in english by your own words
what you have just watched and also try
to explain it without
translating any words you suck at
beginning
and it's kinda feels weird to talk into
yourself but trust me it will
help you so much in the long run and you
will be able to speak fluently i was
talking to myself
in english whenever i'm showering doing
my makeup do my skincare like all the
time
i was basically trying to explain things
in english
whenever i think about something i was
like trying to explain it in english to
myself
it's kind of weird because you're
talking all the time to yourself and you
kind of feel like
insane person but it's all right you
know it's gonna help a lot so trust me
okay so when you kind of got better at
understanding videos without
subs and talking to yourself move on to
next
step so step four is start to read in
english if you don't love reading
shame on you you are losing so freaking
much things so
um you know if you try to love reading
and if you failed at it
i can make a video about of it if you
guys want but
for now if you hate reading books then
read
maybe news papers or you know news on
online
on apps whatever after reading one
chapter
or one news try to summarize it in your
own words
try to explain it in english to yourself
it can be very basic you don't need to
speak like a native speaker but try to
explain it yourself
every single time it will help you and
don't forget to continue watching
english videos as well
at least one hour a day don't forget it
after doing those
move on to the next step you should be
able to understand youtube videos
without subtitles
and able to understand what you read at
this point
speed up the videos to 1.25 to 1.5
read more make it a habit to use english
in your daily life
i usually watch youtube videos at double
speed
um in english in germany in japanese in
turkish whatever
it doesn't matter but i watch all of
them in double speed and i
easily understand what they're talking
about and all that stuff okay so next
step is continue it for a year all of
them
like reading every single day it can be
one chapter or so on i mean you can read
one news edit right so
read in english listen to english songs
watch
youtube at least for an hour and
every single time after watching
something after reading
something after hearing something try to
explain it to yourself in your own
words in english and don't use
ever translator it's very important
we're kind of trying to make
english brain in our brain so
you have to create that english brain
you have to think in english and you
have to express yourself in english
in this process you're not gonna use any
other language than english
that's very very important it took me
about a year
to become fluent in english at that time
i was like talking very basic stuff
but i got better and better with the
time i'm
able to speak right now about more
complicated things
and i'm i'm not like native speaker
whatsoever
but i'm kind of confident in my english
i guess
you can of course visit some language
courses and cut that time
out but i was wanting to do at home
and i didn't want to spend some money on
so if you're broke
that's for you okay so let's talk about
the pros and cons about this method
so let's start with the pros firstly
it's fun
i mean you if you choose something that
you enjoy to watch then it's really fun
i was like watching james charles
jeffrey star
uh mini amy way and patrick star and all
that stuff
and they're talking fast and i was like
kind of enjoying the process because
with the time i kind of started to
understand them so
it was very fun to me and the second pro
is it doesn't cost you anything extra if
you have internet connection
in youtube on your phone and if you're
watching this video it does mean that
you have both of them
so you know if you're broke like me it's
perfect for you
pro three is basically you will be able
to speak fluently
so i mean i'm just a proof of you don't
need to visit classes
to learn english so i think it's very
cool i think it's a huge flex when you
say to people like
i learned english by myself without
studying it
you know i don't know maybe that just me
being narcissistic
but yeah so let's move on to cons so if
you don't do any
extra studying on grammar you will suck
at english grammar like me
my grammar is pretty bad in english
because i just didn't study it but
you know if you want to improve your
grammar as well study it i don't regret
it i mean i can always study english
grammar
but i'm not studying it i don't know why
though i think i'm
satisfied with it but yeah if you don't
want to like me then
study english grammar cons too as i said
earlier in this video
if you are a totally beginner then it's
not for you
because you need to have a bit of
information about basic knowledge
in order to do my techniques so at least
reach to the a2 level also third one
it's not for you if you're learning
english for academic purpose if you
study
grammar for extra for academic purpose
maybe it will work for you i don't know
but yeah if you're using this technique
for academic purpose i don't recommend
because
you're not gonna be good at grammar and
fourth one is this
is not a evidence-based technique so
this worked for me
but it might not work for you if you
want some evidence-based tips
then stay tuned as i said the videos are
coming so stay tuned i'm gonna make a
series a complete series of
evidence-based language
learning tips from a polyglot alright so
stay tuned
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