well hello and welcome to the very
very first english anyone . com podcast
podcast i have a brand new microphone
microphone and i recommend you use
use headphones in order to listen
listen to this so
so you can get the full benefit of
of these great microphones that i
i have here these are 3d stereo high
high quality microphones i'm using
using and if you have headphones on
on right now you'll be able to listen
listen
listen you
you can check this out it's very cool
cool so now I'm talking to you over
over here and I'm moving around and
and I'm talking to you over here now
now but i got these special microphones
microphones for Christmas and I'm
I'm really excited to start using
using them now on this podcast just
just a little bit about myself if
if you don't already know who i am
am i'm drew badger the co-founder
co-founder of English anyone . com
com
com I'm
I'm an author and a english-speaking
english-speaking confidence expert
expert and I love to help students
students get out and achieve their
their dreams by being able to speak
speak English fluently and confidently
confidently in these podcasts this
this will be sort of a stream of consciousness
consciousness stream of consciousness
consciousness is not having something
something written down you just speak
speak about things as they come to
to you
to you so
so this is a stream of consciousness
consciousness I will have these on
on itunes as usual just like a regular
regular podcast you can also find
find the transcript as soon as I finish
finish the transcript for this and
and the other episodes of the podcast
podcast that i'll be releasing you
you can find those on English anyone
anyone . com and
and also put these on youtube you
you can notice today i have maybe
maybe a little bit of a cold it's
it's winter here today is I think
think it's a tuesday or wednesday
wednesday i don't remember but maybe
maybe it's a I think it's Wednesday
Wednesday january . and it's the first
first day for releasing a brand new
new podcast and I'm really excited
excited to start talking today usually
usually when I go to sleep at night
night i'll listen to something and
and there are a lot of it
it could be news or maybe a movie
movie or something like that but there
there are certain voices that i really
really like listening to when i go
go to sleep so
so even if I'm not necessarily learning
learning for the just for the information
information i like listening to the
the sound of people's voices it's
it's very interesting to me and it's
it's very soothing to me very calming
calming
calming I
I get lots of males from people that
that like the sound of my voice so
so even though i think my voice sounds
sounds a little bit weird I
I figured a podcast would be an excellent
excellent way for other people to
to listen to my voice maybe you can
can listen before you go to sleep
sleep or as your falling asleep or
or in the car or at work or wherever
wherever you are and you can mimic
mimic my pronunciation so try to make
make the same sounds I do and really
really begin improving your English
English and just listen to more kind
kind of native English from me and
and even learn a few things about
about how to study as well so this
this podcast each
each episode will have a particular
particular topic but as i said before
before it will be a stream of consciousness
consciousness where I'm just kind
kind of talking about an idea I don't
don't have anything written down and
and you'll hear me say um and uh and
and thinking about things and I'm
I'm doing that because i want you
you to hear how it sounds as a person
person that's actually talking so
so my English will not always be chromatically
chromatically correct i'll be making
making pauses and thinking and my
my sentences will not always be perfect
perfect and I want you to do the same
same thing when you speak think about
about expressing yourself and not
not so much about trying to be perfect
perfect or correct all the time the
the point is really to communicate
communicate with other people and
and express how you feel in the meaning
meaning of your sentences in your
your ideas but they don't have to
to be correct in order to do that
that in today's podcast what I want
want to talk about is something that's
that's really near and dear to my
my heart and to be near and dear to
to your heart means it's something
something that's very important to
to you
to you and
and this is the idea of when you lead
lead people just like we do at English
English anyone . com we
we are kind of teaching people how
how to speak and we become leaders
leaders in that way and when we lead
lead
lead it's
it's difficult especially when you
you have a business you have to kind
kind of make a choice between doing
doing what you think is right and
and also doing what other people think
think you should be doing now this
this is a little bit tricky so i'll
i'll go a little bit deeper into it
it
it one
one of the things that happens in
in business especially if you have
have a big company is that you will
will ask people what they want and
and oftentimes it's a great idea to
to ask people what they want but a
a lot of people either they don't
don't know what they want or because
because they're not they're not experts
experts in what they're learning about
about or what they're talking about
about they can't really answer that
that question in the case of learning
learning English the typical thing
thing that a lot of people do if they're
they're selling online courses is
is they will offer a forum where the
the learners can come and you can
can all kind of come together and
and this is something that a lot of
of people ask for and they expect
expect when they have a course or
or something like that they will be
be in a community of other people
people that are also learning the
the language and this is interesting
interesting to me because I think
think it's not the best way for people
people to learn and this is a reason
reason why we don't actually offer
offer any kind of community like that
that
that now
now that may not be the ideal situation
situation for everyone but certainly
certainly from myself when I was learning
learning japanese I was basically
basically just talking with Japanese
Japanese speakers and I didn't spend
spend any time in a classroom at
all
all I
I basically taught myself Japanese
Japanese I would learn a few things
things watching a movie or reading
reading a few books or something like
like that but i would spend most of
of my time talking to people and this
this gets back to whether or not you
you should be comfortable when you
you learn or whether you should be
be challenging yourself and it's very
very important for you when you become
become a learner of English or if
if you want to become great at anything
anything else that you challenge yourself
yourself and as a business other
other people like other students and
and other teachers and even other
other business people might encourage
encourage us to have a forum or some
some kind of community or something
something like that where people can
can come and students can talk to
to each other about learning and they
they would recommend we do this because
because that's what people are asking
asking for and this is what pretty
pretty much every English course you
you find online has in whatever the
the english program is usually there
there is some kind of forum but we
we are probably maybe the only course
course that does not have a forum
forum because it's not the best way
way to learn and smart students know
know that if you really want to get
get fluent in a language or you want
want to get good at something you
you have to spend your time doing
doing that thing when students ask
ask me why we don't have a four or
or more i talk with other people about
about why we don't have a forum basically
basically what I explain is that let's
let's say you want to get really good
good at tennis or some other sport
sport you can either try to play against
against people that are at the same
same level as you or you can start
start playing with people that are
are much better than you and playing
playing with people that are at the
the same level that you are is comfortable
comfortable and it's easy to do but
but it doesn't really help you improve
improve the only way to get better
better at something is to compete
compete or to practice or to train
train with other people that are better
better than you at whatever that thing
thing is so when I want to learn something
something I don't really spend a lot
lot of time talking to other people
people that are at the same level
level as me I
I always want to find other people
people that are at a higher level
level than me for what it is I want
want to learn in the case of learning
learning English what
what we always recommend to students
students is that you don't focus on
on studying the language and that
that you do not spend very much time
time at all in English learning forums
forums
forums so
so we don't create a form because
because there's already tons of them
them there are lots of places to practice
practice learning online but the problem
problem is that most people they want
want to do what's comfortable they
they want to get fluent but they also
also want to do what's comfort our
our subscribers to master English
English conversation and the other
other programs that we have at English
English anyone . com these
these really are special learners
learners and we always encourage these
these students to go out and try new
new things and to not do what's safe
safe to not do what's comfortable
comfortable and when they do that
that they really find that they start
start getting success much faster
faster and that's why I in master
master English conversation we teach
teach students how to go out and meet
meet people and to get away from the
the forums so
so when you're looking for a program
program if you are looking for something
something that has a forum or a community
community and you think that's important
important to you really think about
about what would be best for you even
even though it's not comfortable to
to get fluent in the language faster
faster for english anyone . com we
we only want students that are really
really excited about getting fluid
fluid and they want to work hard we
we want to sell lessons to students
students but only to students that
that are going to use the lessons
lessons and actually get fluent faster
faster by following the advice that
that we give if you are the kind of
of student that wants to be comfortable
comfortable it's
it's okay there's not there's not
not a problem with that but it's going
going to slow your progress to becoming
becoming a great speaker of English
English
English I
I had a nice a really great student
student from Vietnam I was having
having a private lessons with a few
few months ago and he worked actually
actually in America and he's a really
really great guy and I really love
love talking with him and it was interesting
interesting that he was living in
in America or he still is living in
in America and he works at a factory
factory and he loves kind of mechanical
mechanical things like working on
on cars and I was talking with him
him more about that and I asked him
him why he wasn't doing more of that
that in English and he didn't really
really think so much about it but
but he was thinking well it's kind
kind of hard to meet other people
people and you know to start speaking
speaking because he wasn't so confident
confident of his
his English and I explained that if
if you try to focus on the English
English of course it's going to be
be a very difficult thing for you
you to kind of learn and then want
want to practice with other people
people because it can be embarrassing
embarrassing if you don't speak well
well and you make lots of mistakes
mistakes but instead of focusing on
on the English if you focus in his
his case on the cars then if you find
find other people that are also interested
interested in cars and you already
already know things from your own
own country or your own language about
about that then that's how you really
really get into the language and how
how you really start making lots of
of friends that are interested in
in the same things you are but it
it really has nothing to do with the
the English language I
I hear a lot from students about how
how they want to go out and practice
practice their english but what they
they should really be doing is practicing
practicing whatever their interest
interest is in English this
this is a very subtle or a very slight
slight a very small difference in
in the way you think but
but when you change that way of thinking
thinking it becomes very powerful
powerful
powerful so
so again when you're going out and
and thinking about practicing think
think about challenging yourself in
in order to get fluent faster you
you really want to get out and think
think about how you can improve by
by pushing yourself you want to challenge
challenge yourself and not do what's
what's easy there are so many people
people learning English all over the
the world but very few can actually
actually speak and the reason is just
just like being able to succeed at
at anything else in life there are
are those people that actually work
work hard and push themselves and
and there are pretty much everybody
everybody else that doesn't really
really bother doing them they have
have kind of hopes or dreams about
about being able to speak or achieve
achieve whatever else they want to
to but they never really push themselves
themselves in order to achieve so
so I want everybody listening to
this
this even
even if you never become a subscriber
subscriber to master English conversation
conversation or any other program
program for helping you learn English
English that you really think about
about pushing yourself to take every
every opportunity you can and to not
not make excuses about well I can't
can't speak because I
I have this problem or I'm in this
this country or something like that
that because no matter where you live
live in the world I guarantee you
you there's somebody else that also
also lives in that same country that
that can speak English fluently and
and the reason is only because they
they change the way they think the
the way you think is very very powerful
powerful for how you can learn English
English or how to achieve at any other
other sport or thing like business
business in life and if you can really
really think about how to push yourself
yourself in situations that's where
where you're really going to see lots
lots of improvement so
so going back to what I was talking
talking about earlier about the forum
forum when you think about spending
spending time in English forums it's
it's great to meet other people that
that are also learning English but
but you have to balance your time
time between the time that you spend
spend in a form and the time you spend
spend actually with native speakers
speakers using your English it
it can be a trap a trap is kind of
of like a dangerous situation or something
something that you don't want to get
get into because it will stop you
you from making progress so
so be careful and really think about
about balancing your time between
between speaking with other people
people in forums and actually asking
asking questions about the English
English language versus getting out
out in using the English language
language
language by
by studying or doing things that you
you are already interested in in your
your own language so
so again just to wrap up this section
section of this part of the podcast
podcast
podcast when
when you think about wanting to join
join a forum if especially if you're
you're thinking about joining our
our program master English conversation
conversation in order to actually
actually become a great English speaker
speaker and get out and really speak
speak then think about whether or
or not you're actually ready to challenge
challenge yourself because we don't
don't want anyone on our program that's
that's not ready to do that it
it just won't be very much fun you'll
you'll learn a lot but if you're not
not ready to do that then it's
it's better to find a program that
that you're more comfortable with
with but if you are the kind of student
student that is really excited about
about getting out and practicing your
your English and you're really ready
ready to find how you can actually
actually become a great speaker then
then i recommend you try the program
program because we will teach you
you how to get out and explore the
the real forum which is the actual
actual real world and this is where
where you should be studying well
well I hope you've enjoyed this very
very brief introduction to this podcast
podcast i will have some of them again
again they will be longer than others
others or shorter than others and
and it really just depends on what
what I feel like talking about or
or any questions or anything else
else that I get from students but
but I know when I'm listening to something
something i actually like listening
listening to long things because I
I can put it on and listen and I can
can do something else and think about
about that while i'm listening as
as well so if you have any questions
questions I really want this to be
be a a dialogue so you can comment
comment below this on youtube or on
on English anyone . com and
and when we put this up on itunes
itunes and set up our podcast account
account over there then
then you'll also be able to download
download these and listen to them
them wherever you like so
so for this first podcast i really
really want to know what you think
think about that what
what do you think about forums I actually
actually asked one of our students
students who is in master English
English conversation about that she's
she's a great student from germany
germany and she actually agreed with
with me and it's a difficult thing
thing to do because it's comfortable
comfortable to say well you should
should have a forum because people
people do ask us why they do that
that and maybe for selling more lessons
lessons it's a good idea if we have
have a forum but for really helping
helping students get fluent I
I honestly think it's a better idea
idea if we don't have one if
if you're ready to start speaking
speaking real English then i highly
highly recommend you try a free set
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calm and let us know what you think
think about that do
do you agree you think we're wrong
wrong for not having a form you think
think it's better to have one I'd
I'd love to know what you think also
also if you think there is any music
music we should have at the beginning
beginning of the podcast usually a
a podcast will have some kind of a
a little cool music at the beginning
beginning I don't really care about
about having that or not but I'd like
like to feature some of your music
music if you have some so
so anything short if you want to send
send it to me i will feature your
your name and your music at the beginning
beginning of our podcast so we can
can get your voice and your music
music out there as well so have a
a great day send
send us any questions if you want
want to know more things and we can
can put them into these podcasts as
as well and then we can get a lot
lot more deep into a lot of issues
issues about learning English and
and and how to actually use English
English in the real world have
have an excellent day and I'll see
see you at English anyone . com bye-bye