hello and welcome to the third episode of the English anyone . com power
learning podcast I'm really happy to be making this episode today because i know
we still are working on things with the new website and there's always new
things to learn and new challenges and I hate not being able to put new videos up
on the website so I'm happy to make this podcast and at least we can have this up
on YouTube while we were still working on things on the website but everything
is going really well all of our members are back in the premium section of
English anyone . com with their master English conversation lessons and with
this first podcast after we just chose the winners for the master English
conversation scholarship competition a fantastic contest where we had a whole
bunch of students from all over the world have selected for students that
are going to be studying with me personally and they will get tips for me
every month and they'll be able to send emails and talk with me about things
about the successes they're having in the challenges they're having and every
month i will produce a new power learning podcast episode that i can give
tips to them but that I can also share with everyone else that's learning out
there initially i created or I kind of design the scholarship for just one
student but i really wanted to give a good idea for everyone learning out
there about what it's like the different challenges that people have depending on
if you're a man or a woman if you're very young or not so young or whatever
the different kind of challenges you have depending on where you live in the
world so i ended up choosing for great students that are all from different
parts of the world different ages and it should be a really interesting
experience for everyone over this next year so you can see what people no
matter where they're coming from there are certain principles about language
learning and we'll be going over those but if you follow those prints
the Bulls if you follow these certain things about how to learn a language
you'll really be able to find success quickly because there are so many bad
things you can do about learning and so many things that waste your time so i
really want to give a lot of great tips and you'll be able to feel motivated and
inspired by the people that are on this competition so really it's a it's a
chance for everyone to improve but especially all of these free master
English conversation lessons that these four great lucky winners have received
they're going to get into master English conversation we've got over a year of
lessons for them to practice with
so even though they will only have to complete one special mission homework
assignment for each month they'll be able to use all of the previous ones and
go back and we've got hundreds probably thousands now words phrases grammar
points lots of different things that they can practice so hopefully it's not
too much information but i'm excited to have them get into the program and then
be able to tell everyone else what it's like to learn with master English
conversation so in this episode of the power learning podcast it won't be too
long but first i'm going to have each of our four winners from the master English
conversation scholarship contest introduce themselves to tell you their
name tell you their age tell you a little bit about themselves and then
also a message a little bit for you so you can feel inspired to get out and
keep practicing yourself remember all four of these people are not living in
an english-speaking country so we've got one from Vietnam one from a Czech
Republic we've got india and then we've got a solid water i love to say that i
love that Spanish pronunciation and Salvador i love that anyway so we've got
students nobody is living in the United States or Canada or England or any other
country that would have english as a kind of regularly spoken language even
if a lot of them may be studying it in school so i want you to see that you
don't need to live in an english-speaking country in order to
practice they will be learning all of the secrets that we
teach-in master English conversation and then you will also be able to get to
learn a lot of fantastic things about how to improve and ways to go out and
meet more people so you can really be practicing with native speakers so i'll
let them introduce themselves first and then I will come back after that and i
will tell you and the four winners what they're going to be practicing this
month so enjoy
hello my name is in and 17 years old i have been to England plastic yes but it
seemed step my master of learning English didn't bring good results so
this time with innocent 1.com i hope i can become more fluent English speaker
hi-de-hi maska i'm from india i'm an employee and working in an outsourcing
company i'm 31 now
english is one of my subjects in high school and in college and I started this
as a subject i'm speaking never included in my English story actually my sincere
English practice has been growing them from one year when they completed my
studies my conversation skills are almost zero once i showed my career I
realized the importance of fluency in English to improve my career
opportunities but for some reason even though I understood the importance of
English I didn't take any step to improve my English and a couple of years
script a bit without doing anything to improve my English skills but I think in
march twenty trouble one fine morning I took a decision to improve my English
and since that time with the help of internet i started my English practice
and now I came to this level invited my practice is going on one day drew
announcer the scholarship contest i participated image and after completion
of two rounds through selected me as enough for winners
when they received the main from drew about this news i felt very happy and i
can say how much I was happy at the time and I envisioned how my English would be
in 2014 and in the division
what I see is I'm talking I'm speaking English as my bed along with
and my writing skills are also like my mother tongue
yes this is what i'm going to eat you by the end of this course there is no doubt
about it if the guidance of Drew and with the help of his awesome lessons my
dream will come true
you guys are all going to see this fact and more importantly I never forget
who's helping my life and his wonderful support thank you
hello my name is joe swash Cody hola
i am from czech republic i am a woman i am 42 years
all I was studying English for six years then I had been going to school before
27 years I studied on only from books English was very boring lesson in school
I didn't go to student at english i didn't use English event ears I again
boss studying English before baniar then i will be English through and play I
give help other people order 40 i give help order the main that is possible to
study English and working and caring about children and husband and household
you could be English fluently door and change your life
hi everyone my name is careless i'm 25 years old I've been learning English for
two years and a half i want to say to you something about learning is I know
there's very difficult it's very tough and i know that you know that as well
and for that reason i want to invite you to follow us in this great journey
because we will be fluent and you will see them you will see then i invite you
to keep on learning because it's very important is for your life is one of the
most important things that you're going to learn in your life so tone don't be
party is going to be amazing
even if you don't speak it very well I don't speak very well as well and I know
that that is not the reason
how can I get through in the reason is i don't have confidence and that's why i'm
not fluent yet but i want to be I want to be fluent and i encourage you to go
on learning is gonna be great and i invite you to join us in follow us and
you will see that this is possible
okay see you're wrong bye
alright I'm back again i hope you enjoyed listening to our lovely for
winners
they're really great people i really enjoyed listening to their entries so
each of them all of the people that I that applied for the scholarship
competition had descended in audio recordings of themselves in every month
they will continue to send audio recordings so you can really look at the
progress they're making so we can kind of call this a benchmark benchmark is a
kind of base level where you begin to check the progress of something so each
month this is also for themselves but for you listening out there where you
get to check and see how their pronunciation is improving or how their
vocabulary is is building or their confidence is building as well when they
can even check back in a year from now they can go back and listen to this and
see wow just just how different their english is just by doing a little bit of
practice each day and being smart about how they practice so this month what I
really want the four winners but also you out there everyone else that's
listening to this i'm going to we kind of go into fluency even though you
already understand most of what I'm saying right now but when we talk about
how to get fluent in a language i really want to focus on one specific thing each
month different part of fluency and that way you don't have to go out and worried
about so many different things at the same time because it can be confusing
there are so many tips online so many videos so many different teachers and
other students that will tell you lots of different information what you should
be studying how you should be studying many different things like that but in
the same way when I was a young baseball player i used to play in Little League
this is just a kind of a level four young children that are playing baseball
but i would watch a lot of the parents and they would always have something to
say to their kid don't do that or do this or watch the ball or do these other
things and the kids they would do the best they can but the mind the human
brain is
can't hold all of that information at one time so I don't want to give a
thousand different tips about what you can do they will have access to all of
that information by using the lessons and master English conversation but for
the four winners and as well for you and everyone else that's listening out there
teachers and students are really want you to focus on this one specific thing
this month we're going to go into fluency starting with the biggest
possible thing and then getting more specific as we go through the year so
this first hip is all about the kind of sound and speed and flow of the language
and really this is just even listening to my voice right now it has a certain
melody to it it has a certain beat a certain flow to it and each language has
that and you can usually tell a different language even if you don't
know exactly what the language is you have a general idea of what the
languages just by the melody of the language so let's say an example from
vietnamese i don't speak any Vietnamese at all but the sound of Vietnamese is so
different from English and the flow and the beat and it's more of a blog that
they had a bad rap and I'm doing that really badly because i don't speak
vietnamese but what I want you to think about is how the sound of vietnamese or
indian or thai or whatever your language is is different from English and the way
you can practice that is the same way I'm speaking right now in the same speed
I just take one sound like blah blah blah blah and i can introduce myself
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
again I'm not saying any specific words because all i want to do is just get the
flow of the sentence so whatever sound you can make make that sound perfectly
it don't don't try to pick a sound it's difficult for you to make but pick a
sound that's easy for you to make and then listen to any kind of English you
here in your day or a video or something
you see on the news or a radio show anything like that
whatever you can find I want you to repeat that same thing back even if you
don't know all of the words or what all of the mean I just want you to repeat
back using blah blah blah blah just one sound could be DD or mom whatever the
sound is whatever you can make a sound from your own language so that way it
will be much easier to practice find some natural native English even if it's
fast and just listen to the flow and then try to copy that
so you could find a YouTube video or watch a DVD and pick maybe even just 10
seconds or 20 seconds if you want to challenge yourself you can go longer but
what you're really trying to do is get the flow of the language the sound of
how the words blend together the sound and the way that a hot person makes a
sentence so when they're angry in English they make a different kind of
sound
i remember when i was younger i used to watch an old TV show in America called I
Love Lucy and the husband of Lucille Ball in the TV show his name is desi
Arnez and he was from Cuba and he had a very specific way of speaking and he
would say lo see you got some splaining to do and it was much different than
English I I can't really do it perfectly right now but you can hear that it's
different from English or even Japanese if I say let's say I want to say
something in Japanese like I want to see a movie with Oklahoma Titus and it's a
different way of speaking local agency Titus Boko imei Jessa and even though
it's not perfectly it's not perfect japanese it's definitely different than
what i'm saying in English I want to see a movie I want to see a movie I want to
see a movie
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah it's different it depends on
the actual language you're doing but really find something
where you can get the the tone of the language the speed of the language and
don't worry about the actual words or the vocabulary so much i really want
this month for the four winners and also for everyone studying out there I really
want you to sit back and just practice those sound if you can do that then you
will become much better at hearing when people are making particular kind of
sounds or if they mean a certain thing by listening to the flow of the language
so this month we're starting with probably the biggest thing you can start
with in overall fluency at the kind of intermediate 2 beginning of advanced
level which is understanding the overall flow when you listen if you go back and
listen again to the four winners when they're introducing themselves then
you'll you'll really get a good sense of how even my name is even just saying
that they have a specific way of doing that that's particular to their language
so just like if I am living in America and I meet someone from india i usually
expect them to have a certain kind of accent and the reason people have an
accent is because they don't really try to practice the real way that people
pronounce things they get the the words correctly but they're not speaking in
the same way with the same flow so if it's your goal to actually speak like a
native speaker and you want people to think wow I'm actually talking with a
native speaker not just someone who understands the language or knows the
vocabulary but they really understand what it's like to speak if you want to
be that if you want to have that and people be really impressed by how you're
able to speak then practice your flow have an excellent day and we'll see you
next time bye bye