learning english is about sharing ideas
connecting with others and improving
your life and this is what so many
schools get so wrong
i remember studying german in high
school and spanish university and in
both of these cases it was all about
memorizing the rules and words so that i
could pass some tests the few speaking
opportunities that i did have were just
so unnatural have you ever had this
opportunity of feeling more frustrated
when you leave your class than you were
when you got there now time is our most
valuable resource so you need to spend
your time and energy wisely while
learning english the goal is to make the
biggest impact possible while also
finding enjoyment in the process that's
why in today's lesson i'll walk you
through our unique approach to learning
and teaching languages it comes from my
own experience learning four languages
which are of course the ones that i
learned after university we will also
share ideas from some of the best
english teachers so that you know that
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information in this video but if you
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learning a foreign language that will
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now this is a thing that all successful
confident english speakers have very
clear in their heads or really anyone
who's successful at anything
they know why they are learning the
language and what they're going to do
with it once they're successful
now whether or not you know it you have
a why a purpose for why you're learning
maybe it's external like your parents or
your boss tell you that you must learn
it
but trust me that deliberately
reflecting on an internal purpose will
be so much more powerful for you
and the more clear specific and unique
to you the better so here's the exercise
that i used to do with all of my
students so first you need to ask
yourself why am i learning english
second once you have your answer ask
yourself why again
now i know that this seems a little bit
silly but it helps you to get to the
real deep reason and then third do this
at least three more times until you've
gotten to something that really inspires
you now let me give you an example from
one of my students
at first she answered that she was
learning because she needed to
communicate in english now that's not
very inspiring is it
this is what happened when she kept
asking herself why
a further recommendation i gave to my
students was to take that deep personal
why and put it somewhere where they
would see it often now it could be a
sticky note on the fridge or maybe the
screensaver on your phone and don't just
take my word for it let's see what the
incredible emma from
english says about the power of knowing
your purpose
because i think in order to be
successful in anything
anything that takes
time energy effort persistence
commitment
like learning english like building a
business like doing a whole bunch of
hard things
there is always going to be time when
you just want to throw your hands up in
the air and walk away you know what i'm
not doing this is too hard i'm not cut
out for this
um and all of the other excuses as to
why not you know pop into your head but
i think that if you
really understand
your deep purpose your deep reason for
why you are doing something
how it is going to support you and your
family or
your dreams or your bigger purpose
it becomes
your
key
to getting through those difficult times
because there there's always going to be
the hard time there's always going to be
the challenge you know where you've got
to overcome
something that is in your way and if you
can continually be coming back to
steering the ship back to
your why and your reason for being there
and your reason for making this massive
commitment
then it's you know possible to to keep
moving forward
all right before we continue why not
pause the video
and reflect just a little bit upon the
reasons that you are learning english
what are you going to do with it
share your story with us what will you
be doing once you are confident
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all right so the next step to master
anything that you want to learn is to
actually practice it over and over again
you can accomplish a lot more than you
think if you have a smart approach now
there are a lot of ways that you can
make the practice fun
learning with your favorite tv series
for example
this is so important to keep up your
motivation but it's also important to
recognize that there is also hard work
to be done and it may not always be fun
we're basically under the assumption
that learning is always going to be fun
it's not always going to be fun when
you're exercising you give the example
of going to the gym a person who wants
to get a six-pack it's going to be a lot
of pain i mean i don't want to go back
to the old cliche but it's true no pain
no gain if you don't go through those
moments of boredom of of tedious
repetition the menial work if you don't
go through that
you're not going to be able to learn the
language people are visualizing the
fluency they're not visualizing the
process
so the focus is always on the outcome
the focus is on i want to be fluent i
want to have a six-pack but nobody is
thinking about okay what is it gonna
take
for me to get to that level i think you
need to have that stubborn consistency
right in pursuing that vision because if
you are consistent you do the one
percent every day
you will get there if you don't enjoy
the process like a craftsman a craftsman
enjoys the process
so if you don't enjoy that you're not
going to enjoy learning learning is
forever you have to enjoy that you have
to embrace
that every day i have to do the same
thing
until
it clicks
a lot of times when i meet students
they'll say that they're going to study
four hours a day you know something
crazy i would recommend being very
practical um if you're introducing
something new in your life it's going to
be hard just to kind of make a habit of
so anyway just just take it slow
and and
expect that
it's um not going to go as planned and
that's totally okay so you want to try
to be practical and try to plan about an
hour a day of studying so so that would
be my big advice just to be practical
don't expect to study four hours a day
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now it's good to know the concepts the
terminology the grammar the language so
that you can better understand it
but it's extremely important not to get
lost in all that
nobody enjoys memorizing lists of rules
random words prepositions and whatnot it
can feel very overwhelming to learn
entire language
so instead of having that as your goal
you can aim at starting to communicate
with people as quickly as possible
i'm sure there are some students out
there like that who think i will study
the language to the point where i've
learnt it then i'll start using it don't
do that um you know there's nothing
wrong with
you you have to use english you have to
use english as early as possible in
communication in talking to people
you you have to do that and learn that
way even if you feel stupid and stuff
you've got to because you're not just
learning a thing you're learning how to
do something as long as you can
communicate your message
english belongs to you and you belong in
english and and it doesn't matter if you
know your parents spoke to you in that
language or not it doesn't matter it
doesn't matter if you only have a
limited
um number of words
the moment you are able to communicate
and express your feelings your thoughts
your emotions then this is your language
too
so i'm sure that now you're scratching
your head or maybe you're thinking
that's very nice advice ethan but i
don't have anyone to communicate with in
english so many learners feel the exact
same way that you do
you have plenty of ways to listen to
english to read it but in your
day-to-day life you have few if any real
opportunities actually use what you're
learning by speaking so
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the final point of our real life way
method that we will cover in today's
lesson is using your english to connect
to something bigger than yourself i
absolutely love how our recent guest
natasha broody put this
the world is globalizing and you know
thanks to social media i think we have i
think the windows are pretty much down
they're pretty open so we get to see a
lot of what
what someone else's life might look like
in xy or z country or region of the
world etc and because of that access
that we now have into the homes of
others into the lifestyles of others the
globalization is happening at an
exponential rate it's just it's just
happening very quickly and you will
either have to choose to enter into that
world without any kind of preparation or
you can recognize that the world is
changing outside and therefore slowly
adapt to the way that the world is
changing doesn't mean that you have to
change who you are as a person or you
have to throw away your culture or your
tradition it means adapting it means
understanding that this person lives one
lifestyle well person b lives another
lifestyle and you person c could live a
completely different lifestyle how's you
live in toleration of each other and
what i usually say is beyond toleration
how do you live amicably with three
completely different lifestyles so i
think if if one chooses to accept
globalization in terms of the world is
changing and you know i am a part of
this world how do i put my fingerprint
on it or my footprint in it if you
choose to do that then you are also
saying you know in a way like how do i
become you know part of this kind of
globalized citizenship how do i how do i
exercise my right as a global citizen
how do i participate in this wider
discussion don't be left behind you have
power as a person so you might as well
participate most definitely and i think
english is just such a big part of that
i mean love it or hate it english is the
global language if you don't know that
then so many doors are closed to you but
when you know it so many doors are open
to be that access to a lot of
information that might not be available
in other languages and be that
access to opportunities that require you
to speak english really well so
i'm sure that's no news to people who
are listening to this but i think that's
always a really good motivator is that
if you want to participate in this
globalizing world then english is going
to be a really important part of it
among other skills and competencies
something we've noticed about all
successful english learners is that they
have a clear burning desire to learn the
language and being able to cultivate
this is going to make you so much more
successful because it's going to help
you to get past those really challenging
moments when you want to give up so what
we do with our students is we have them
start with why