hi i'm vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm are you ready to relax when
you speak english i hope so let's talk
about it today i'm on the beach in very
sunny very hot even though it's seven
o'clock in the morning Costa Rica it's
beautiful and a what better place to
relax then at the beach right but you
can't always be at the beach when you're
speaking English so today I want to give
you my top tip for helping you to relax
de-stress and feel comfortable when
you're speaking English I know that a
lot of you use English for your job
maybe you need to speak in English with
a foreign company or maybe you need to
speak with your clients that are from
other countries this is a pretty
stressful situation because number one
you want to be polite you want to
represent your company well but also you
want to represent yourself well you want
to be confident be an adult who can
express yourself completely so when you
speak in a business situation I would
consider this the top maybe most
stressful situation in English what
about another level down from that maybe
you're walking around New York City on
your vacation and you get lost or you
want to find a good restaurant so you
want to ask for a recommendation and you
decide to approach a stranger you want
to talk with a native English speaker
well this is this is also can be pretty
stressful but it's a little bit less
stressful than a business situation
because you're not gonna lose your job
what if you go to an English class in
your city you're surrounded by other
people who are also learning English
this is slightly different than
approaching someone in New York or
having a business meeting because they
understand exactly the situation that
you're in they understand exactly that
kind of nervousness that kind of stress
or fear about speaking another language
because that's what they're doing -
they're also English learners what about
if you're just at home watching this
lesson and you're repeating it out loud
you're maybe watching the subtitles
which you can always click on on YouTube
you're watching the subtitles and you're
trying to repeat out
loud after me no one's listening you're
just at home by yourself but you still
need courage to be able to use your
voice to use your pronunciation muscles
and speak out loud and hear your own
voice in English this is I think the
least stressful situation and this is my
tip this is where I recommend starting
if you feel super stressed about
speaking English start at the easiest
level and this is by yourself no one
else is listening no one else is
watching you just by yourself at home
you can shadow or repeat directly after
me in these videos you can look at the
subtitles below the screen if you're on
the computer you can just click CC in
the bottom corner or if you're on your
phone you can click those three little
dots at the top of the screen and you'll
see the subtitles you can just repeat
out loud after me and get used to
hearing your own voice using English I
know for me when I visited other foreign
countries like in Costa Rica here they
speak Spanish I feel a little bit
strange at first hearing my own voice
trying to say something in another
language and maybe you felt that feeling
too so when you get used to hearing your
own voice using English you'll start to
feel a little more comfortable and then
you'll be able to work up to the next
level so after you've mastered speaking
with yourself alone no one's watching
then you can go to that next level which
is speaking with other people who really
get and understand how you're feeling
maybe other English learners are here on
YouTube or I know a lot of you who are
part of my course The Fearless fluency
Club a lot of you speak together on
skype you connect with each other daily
maybe on whatsapp on skype on Google
Hangouts and just try to connect get to
know other cultures other people but
also you can get over your fear of
speaking together because you're both in
the same boat this is a wonderful idiom
that means you're both in the same
situation that involves maybe a little
bit of risk a little bit of stress
you're both in that situation and you
can both understand each other so
speaking with another English learner is
a great next step up to help build your
confidence after you've mastered
speaking with yourself you've done that
for a little while you feel more and
more comfortable you've spoken with
another english learner now it's time
speak with a native speaker hmm this
could be really anyone it could be a
teacher it could be someone who lives in
your city who you trust maybe a
co-worker who is from the US and you
want to just have some coffee together
and chat together you already have a
little relationship you already know
each other and trust each other or maybe
you just go to another city like you go
to London and you want to order in a
restaurant maybe you can watch my video
about how to order in a restaurant up
here you'll be able to just feel a
little more comfortable because you've
already worked those steps starting
small then working more and more and
more and now you're speaking with a
native speaker personally I think
something really magical happens when
you speak with a native English speaker
and they can understand you you can
understand them and you just have a real
conversation something happens that is
amazingly magical for your confidence
when you realize Vanessa can understand
me
this other native speaker can understand
me and I'm communicating this is amazing
you have this beautiful boost of
confidence and it really helps you to
just increase your English in every
other way what do you think happens next
after you've spoken with yourself you've
built your confidence you've spoken with
other English learners you've built your
confidence and then you've spoken with
native speakers in a kind of casual
situation now it's time to move on and
speak at your job maybe you have a
presentation maybe you have to make
phone calls with some other clients and
other countries you've really prepared
yourself well you've started small and
you've built up to this most stressful
situation it might still be a little
stressful but it's gonna be way better
than if you just started with that and
you didn't prepare little by little
along the way when you do this you're
building your confidence and you're
really giving a gift to yourself that I
will grow I will improve and I can do it
I can relax
I can de-stress you don't need to be at
the beach you don't need to have the
waves and the sounds and the trees and
the monkeys behind you you just need to
really build your confidence day by day
by starting small and now I have a
question for you have you ever spoken
English with a native English speaker
how did you feel what was that
experience
for you if it was a positive experience
congratulations if you felt really
stressed really worried just take it
back a little bit start small start with
these steps I'm talking about shadowing
my videos speaking and repeating after
me then working up with another English
learner and then with a native English
speaker and then if you need to use it
for your job you will be well prepared
at that point before we go today we're
gonna see some beautiful scenery of the
beach you're gonna see the waves rolling
in and we're gonna repeat an important
phrase I want you to repeat it with me
this is starting at the base level
repeating and shadowing by yourself I
want you to say this phrase with me and
I hope that it will help to build your
confidence
the waves are beautiful aren't they
I want you to repeat this sentence with
me just imagine the waves take a deep
breath let's say it together I can speak
English confidently without stress I can
speak English confidently without stress
I can speak English confidently without
stress I can speak English confidently
without stress you can do it thanks so
much for learning English with me and
I'll see you next Friday for a new
lesson here on my youtube channel bye
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what I turn the spot where I'm staring
directly into the Sun if you guys see
how much I'm sweating right now I hope
you don't see my skin burning as you see
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somewhere they stole my snack yesterday
hope they enjoyed it guess there's
Jaguars in there too itself everything
the next step is to download my free
ebook five steps to becoming a confident
English speaker you'll learn what you
need to do to speak confidently and
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youtube channel for more free lessons
thanks so much
bye