Hey naturals, how's everything going? I hope you're doing great
today a lot of you have been asking me about how to improve your
Fluency and your confidence in English now. I don't know if you've ever heard people joke about how to
improve your fluency in a foreign language by drinking
Alcohol now some people believe. It's true
there was actually a study done about the effects of alcohol on your ability to speak a foreign language in the
1970s English speakers were asked to drink different amounts of alcohol
and then try a Thai pronunciation
Test and they had never studied Thai language before they had no
Knowledge of the language or pronunciation it was found that between different groups one that had no alcohol
One that had one ounce one group that had two ounces
And I had three ounces of alcohol the group that actually had one ounce of alcohol
performed the best on the Thai pronunciation test
Why is this well a lot of people know that the effects of alcohol include?
Making you feel a bit more
Confident it lowers your inhibitions
It makes you feel a little bit more brave less. Shy more willing to
Say things that you wouldn't normally say or do things that you wouldn't normally do for speaking a foreign language
This could actually be helpful, and that's why some people say that drinking alcohol
Helps you to speak a foreign language now. Let's look at the facts here
Why do they say alcohol is helpful for you to speak a foreign language because it lowers your inhibitions and makes you feel
More confident, but there's just a little problem
With this strategy if you need alcohol to speak a foreign language
You're gonna have to drink all the time imagine if you need English for work
You'd have to be drunk at work, and that's never good idea. Let's be honest
This is maybe fine if you are at a bar, or you're going out to party
But in real life everyday situations, this isn't gonna work for most of us
what will help us to actually improve your fluency and
Really have confidence is to develop some strategies for real
Everyday confidence without alcohol. I have nothing against alcohol
I'm not judging whether you drink
Or don't drink some people drink some people don't I love you all you guys, but here's what I would suggest
Develop your confidence
Everyone whether you drink, or don't drink we have to have strategies for good self-esteem
How can we do that well here's some suggestions?
first of all
Understand that mistakes are not bad. I know we probably all went to school
We all had teachers that told us our mistakes were bad and not to make mistakes
And maybe they yelled at you or maybe your classmates told you you were dumb well
Forget all of that so what if you make a mistake if someone makes fun of you just say so what you're learning
That's how we learn so we need to change our mindset and see mistakes as a positive thing
You're doing the right thing when you make mistakes because you're trying new thing is maybe new
Vocabulary maybe saying a new word that you've never said out loud
Before you've only read it and so you make a mistake with the pronunciation. That's okay
Maybe you made a mistake with a structure and grammar
It's okay
So look at mistakes as something that in the long term will actually benefit
You another strategy for developing confidence is
To realize that most people want to help you most people if you tell them I'm learning English
Please be patient with me. I'm working really hard, and if you ask for their help
They will want to help you they want to see you succeed and a third strategy is to begin
with a
Positive mindset, I like to begin each day
Affirmations with thoughts that will bring me into a positive
Mindset for the day so for example after I wake up
I will tell myself today is gonna be a great day. If I make mistakes. That's okay
I'm gonna learn so much today
People are gonna be nice
And I'm gonna smile and be happy
Today and things like that you can tell yourself what you would like to but those are just some examples that I might tell myself
It's really important to stay positive
And that will help you to have confidence so just to review our strategies here be okay with making mistakes
really believe that other people want to see you succeed and
Begin your day with a positive mindset and keep cultivating that positive mindset throughout your day
And you know what's awesome about that is your mindset is contagious, and you're gonna make other people around you feel more
Confidence and happier too so that's what we're all about here and go natural English
And I wish more fluency and confidence and happiness for you, too. Thanks so much for watching
I hope that you enjoyed this video. I hope that you have an amazing day full of positivity
Thanks so much, and I'll see you again in the next lesson. Hey if you haven't subscribed yet make sure that you subscribe
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