the biggest problems that clients share with me i don't feel confident when i speak english i
don't have enough vocabulary and i'm not fluent enough now what's wrong with these sentences
we'll see in this episode hi i'm your english coach christina and welcome to
speak english with christina step by step english lessons to help you learn faster
feel more confident and reach your full potential and today like every week i'll help you move
one step closer to reaching your goals in business english actually before we get
into today's topic i want to try something new to help you to better learn vocabulary with my videos
at the start of each video i'll teach you a few chunks or expressions we'll put them on the
screen for you so you can write the expression and the definition and then you'll hear the
expression somewhere in the video and when you hear it you can write the sentence that i say to
have the expression in context so get your pin and your notebook and let's go the first expression is
to chill out to chill out and this means to relax by doing an activity that's just calm and relaxing
the second expression is it blows my mind it blows my mind it means i'm extremely
impressed surprised or amazed by something all right let's get into our topic so
i don't feel confident when i speak english i don't have enough vocabulary and i'm not
fluent enough when i speak english what do you notice about these sentences they're all
negative and i can tell you from my 15 years of teaching business english that these feelings are
very very common for learners so if you feel this way why is that and hint it doesn't have a lot
to do with your level now here's something that i learned in my training as a neuro language coach
your brain it likes to be lazy it likes to react just automatically when possible without thinking
too much and this includes how you feel when you speak english nervous shy or not confident
now why is this let's go back in time a lot of clients tell me about their bad english classes
at school well for most of us that was a long time ago so how can your english classes from 30
or 40 years ago affect the emotions that you feel today when you have to speak english especially in
professional situations if you felt negatively about your english classes when you were a kid
your brain began to say to itself english bad feelings so that became your brain's
automatic reaction and because your brain likes to react automatically it has had
many years to practice disassociation english bad feelings and maybe maybe you like learning
english now especially when you chill out watching the crown on netflix but when you have to perform
in english those old automatic feelings return now what do i mean by perform in english for example
when you have to do a conf call with americans and and you feel nervous
or you're gonna present a product to some new clients and you feel uncomfortable these are all
high-stakes situations where you have to perform it's a little like back in school
and both at school and at work you want to do well so the environment is different between school and
work but the emotions that you feel are similar so even if you had bad experiences learning
english in school 30 years ago your brain still automatically associates negative emotions with
speaking english when you have to perform and those old feelings have been programmed into your
brain for many years it's the automatic emotion that your brain defaults to and as a result
you feel nervous you lose confidence and you don't speak as fluently as you want it's crazy
right i mean this stuff blows my mind but don't worry because there's good news you can actually
reprogram your brain to feel confident and fluent when you speak english and stop those automatic
negative emotions and you don't even have to improve your level
that much really how is that possible that will be a topic for a future video but if you want to
start feeling more confident and more comfortable and more fluent speaking english join my faster
fluency conversation club each week you'll have up to five hours of live conversation practice for
more fluency and more confidence and you'll get lots of resources to help you a podcast in english
the transcript vocabulary cards grammar exercise pronunciation exercise to help you speak better
and notes from your teacher after the conversation session so to get all of this and to support my
work at speak english with christina become a member of the faster fluency conversation club
and the link to join is below the video and now you're one step closer to feeling more confident
speaking business english and if you want to take a few more steps with me then i've
created a playlist for you about how to improve your english faster it has episodes to help you
stop translating in your head to learn advanced vocabulary and to have more confidence when
you speak so click here to continue learning with me and i'll see you in the next episode