hey guys welcome to lingua marina today
we're going to talk about a problem
that a lot of you have i've been doing
this research on this channel i've been
asking you
what do you guys struggle the most with
and most of you guys struggle with
speaking and
i can totally relate to this problem but
today i want to dig deeper
like we learn so much
when we learn english we focus on
grammar and like grammar
is tenses grammar is articles grammar is
um everything like how we structure the
way we speak
it's all about grammar but the problem
is we spend years learning grammar
and we still can't speak so today we're
gonna
talk about this problem and whether you
actually need to learn grammar
to speak english because sometimes i
never told you that but sometimes you
don't really need to learn grammar
to speak english so if you're interested
and if you have the same problem
please continue watching this video now
first of all think about
kids think about kids that are four
years old five years old who live in the
us
do they learn grammar do they have any
understanding of what
future perfect is i'll tell you what
like
my american friends if i ask them do you
know when you use
future perfect continuous and they would
tell me like
what are you talking about what are
these words like nobody even
thinks about that and you know why
because they learn
english by learning phrases this is one
of the best tips i want you to take from
this video
i'm gonna follow up with a lot more but
if you learn
phrases like i have never been to spain
you just hear that when people talk
about places that they've
never been to they use this whatever it
is they're using
doesn't matter you just learn the phrase
i've never been to spain okay i've never
been to that cafe
i've never been to that restaurant i've
never traveled
to that place you know that in this
circumstance
when you're talking about a place you've
never been to you just use
this construction that's it and you
learn the phrase or
i remember when i was learning
conditionals i was like oh my god
zero conditional first second third like
how do you even remember them and
how on earth when you're talking to a
native speaker
how on earth would you just stop and say
hey i need to remember a second
conditional structure because this is
what i'm going to use here
no you're just learning phrases and
something that helped me remember one of
the conditionals was this
the song wish you were here i'm like
okay
so when he's not here and i wish he was
here
i say wish you were here and this way i
remember the construction i also
remember that
you were not you was like this is a
typical mistake right
so learn phrases stop doing this word by
word learning
learn those phrases and once you notice
that oh my god i've heard this phrase
before
this is something i need to learn
because native speakers use it a lot
and then no need to focus on grammar no
need to say oh wish you were here
for the first conditional okay i'm gonna
write that no
you just remember the phrase the more
content you consume in english
the more phrases you get exposed to the
better
you get at speaking right this is this
is super obvious so
tv shows youtube whatever but please
make sure
you're actually noticing those phrases
like wish you were here
like i've never been to like what's up
whatever
just make sure you notice them one tip
to expose yourself to more information
in english is to
read books but what happens with reading
books is sometimes
we just get stuck on one book and we
spend a month reading one book
and in the end we're like okay this is
taking too long and we just drop it
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realized that
you know there is this one piece of
information is just being presented from
different perspectives over and over
again
and i already got it like i already got
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and again it gets you exposure it gets
you condensed information
you know people go to conferences spend
days there little conferences are still
not allowed these days but if you listen
to three books in a week which is like
an hour
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and in less time and information from
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it's actually summarized by
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now we figured out that you need to be
exposed to a lot of phrases we figured
out that
you need to learn them by repeating them
five to ten times another psychological
thing i wanted to talk about is that my
parents are not very good at english
but well they've learned grammar but
they don't use it and they don't need to
use it whenever they go abroad
they just use you know the words that
they know they use the body language or
whatever
to explain what they need and guess what
people like even if you say
i go there yesterday they understand
that you went there yesterday okay
grammar is wrong but the goal for us
with learning english is
to make people understand what are you
talking about
and if you use the wrong grammar people
be like okay
that was probably wrong but he used
yesterday so they would understand
just make sure you like include your
body language include your emotions so
they could better understand what you
mean
but again don't focus on it you know
what i think is that a lot of people
would have been a lot better off if they
stopped being perfectionists if they
started speaking english before
actually learning all the grammar rules
if they just
let this go just okay i'm gonna go ahead
and speak english i'm gonna make i don't
know
the goal is to make at least 10 mistakes
in this conversation
doesn't matter because i want to speak
and
you know the if the person thinks that
i'm dumb
whatever again something that i found
being in the us
is that you can have the most horrible
accent in the world
you can have the worst grammar in the
world and it might be very hard to
understand
you but if you enjoy what you're talking
about if you're an expert in your field
people will listen to you they don't
care like when you come to a doctor
if he's really professional what do you
care about the way he looks like
what he wears no of course not you would
just care about
him being a professional so this is
something i want you to remember like if
you're professional
if you are really passionate about what
you're talking about people would not
care about your grammar
and once you have this in your head this
would really help you move forward and
i'm gonna give you some extra tips on
how to
speak english without actually paying
too much attention to grammar the next
mistake is translating
again when we're translating from our
language to
english in our head we try to translate
different
constructions that we use in our
language and again
it doesn't matter necessarily that what
we say in our language is the same in
english
because in english we have completely
different rules so stop translating
again if you want to use something over
complicated like conditionals
just maybe remember one of them like
with that song and that's
it and then you will just you know the
further you go the more
confident you become in some basic
structures the more you would be able to
add on
but starting with the third conditional
right away
that's too much and because i think
again the problem that we're talking
about here is more psychological
than a scientific problem that you need
a certain amount of grammar to actually
start speaking i think
all of you guys who are watching this
video who are able to understand what
i'm talking about
you have enough grammar in your head and
that you're just
afraid that you're not going to be able
to use the right construction so
the thing is i would advise you to talk
to a lot of people
but to put you at ease talk to
non-native speakers
this might be a controversial advice
because again if you want to
hear somebody who speaks perfect to
english then yes it's a teacher it's a
native speaker
but if you want to let go if you have
this psychological
thing in your head that tells you i have
to be perfect when you're talking to a
non-native speaker
who makes mistakes you just feel so much
at ease because you know they
also make mistakes just like you do and
it's psychologically so much easier
i notice it my husband notices it
everyone who speaks english
in the us like all of my us friends who
are non-native speakers they tell me
that it's a lot easier for them
to understand me to talk to me in
english because they know i'm not a
native speaker
and i won't be like oh she said that
wrong because i know i make mistakes
myself i would never
judge so again talk to non-native
speakers if you just want to let go
of this tension that you have inside
that you can't speak english
well and the last but not the least if
you go to an english-speaking country
that's always the best and
try to interact with as many people as
you can not just like your teacher if
you're taking a course or just your
classmates
if you go alone that's the best so when
i was 14 i traveled alone to the uk
when i was i think it was 23 when i was
22 when i went to canada on my own
again amazing experience i was staying
with a local family
uh speaking to them in english and just
doing everything i had to do in english
which meant flying from toronto to
vancouver flying
from vancouver to whistler like visiting
all the places and managing my lifestyle
myself
so that helped me a lot 2013 well i went
to the us with my family but still i was
like on my own exploring
miami i was on my own exploring new york
again this all
really really helped so don't be afraid
to travel alone traveling alone is first
of all a challenge for your
english and second of all it's a
psychological journey because
you are with yourself you're digging
deeper into yourself you're digging
deeper into your problems and i just
like
how you like how your perspective
changes after those trips
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