Hey naturals, what's up? It's your favorite American English teacher Gabby here to help you with your English fluency
confidence and in this video your mindset
What does mindset have to do with learning English it is?
the most important part of learning English and most lessons
Don't even touch on it, so if you want to learn more about this
Extremely important part of learning anything that will also help you to have a successful
More positive and happy life, then keep watching. I'm gonna share something with you today that has helped me
immensely a lot just before I share the
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Okay, now. I want you to close your eyes
For just a moment and imagine with me that you are in a small group of people
They're English speakers and you are speaking English
maybe you're telling a story and
You're not sure about which word to use in this situation
Everyone starts laughing
Everyone starts laughing a lot, and it was not a funny part in your story, so you know that they're laughing
About your English and you know in that moment that you made a mistake
With the vocabulary word that you chose how does that make you feel?
You can tell me in the comments actually how does that? Make you feel?
imagining this situation and yes
You can open your eyes to type in the comments now to tell me how that first situation makes you feel?
now I
Want you to imagine the same situation, but I want you to realize that
in this situation you are using English and
Making that mistake is the first step
to
knowing which
Vocabulary word is the best to use in that situation?
So yes you made a mistake, but let's look at the good side
Let's look at the positive side the silver lining of the situation
You're using English you're trying you're taking action
And you're using English in an everyday conversation
with new friends
That's amazing you made a mistake
Which gives you more information about whether you chose the right word or not?
So now you have more information
You know you didn't choose the right word so that's good because now we're learning we have more information
To improve your English skills so that the next time maybe you can use the correct English word
also
third
You have a story to tell
You can tell all of your friends now about this funny situation where you use the wrong?
Vocabulary word instead of the right one and fourth you know that you won't forget
this
Situation and the information that you learned from it you won't forget this
vocabulary word the wrong one or the right one because you suffered a kind of
embarrassing traumatic moment but that is a good thing because
That helps us to remember the situation when we have some experience with
Emotion even if it's negative emotion it helps us to remember
So look at all the good things that happen from that situation
That you thought was bad making a mistake is actually a good thing
And for ways that making more mistakes can help you are
It helps you to realize that
You made the mistake and to know okay, that's not the right way
Let me find the correct way it means that you're actually getting out there and trying and using English which is the first?
Step, that's so important. You can't just think about English you have to get out there and use it and see where you make mistakes
third you're going to remember what happened because it was kind of an embarrassing moment or a
Memorable moments and a fourth you have a great story to tell so
in my own life
I've made a lot of mistakes when speaking foreign languages so there have been times where for
Example in Spanish or in Portuguese. I made a mistake, and it was really embarrassing
In Spanish I remember one day. I was talking with a man, and I wanted to say that I was embarrassed about something
well the cognate for
embarrassed in
Spanish is in - ah de and that means to be pregnant so I told this guy I was pregnant and I just wanted to
Say I was embarrassed so that was definitely even more embarrassing, but I'll never forget that in
Portuguese I
was supposed to be translating a song or the lyrics were let's have fun and
Instead of saying let's have fun. I actually
translated into Portuguese
Unknowingly I made the mistake
I chose the wrong vocabulary word and I said
Let's have an orgasm and that was completely wrong and everyone laughed at me and when I realized
What I had say I turned bright red and I was mortified
Mortified but I will never forget that vocabulary word in Portuguese
Which I won't say because I'll probably turn right again if I say it
But the point is making mistakes can actually be super helpful for you in your English
Learning journey so think of it as a helpful
Beneficial thing in many ways so if you enjoyed this let me know
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Thanks so much for watching now down there and make some mistakes bye for now