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1 Hour of English fluency tips you MUST know to get fluent
1 Hour of English fluency tips you MUST know to get fluent
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1:11:31 · Jan 1, 2025
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welcome to this incredibly important
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and special English lesson where we're going to go through in depth the four
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essential skills you need to master in English these are pronunciation Reading Writing
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and listening this is a special lesson
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because I brought together these four skills
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and my best tips strategies
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and examples so that you can improve improve your English step by step each
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one of these skills is crucial to master in English
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and it's going to help you write more fluently speak fluently read with better
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understanding and to be able to understand better
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when you hear people talking in English the key is this go through this
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entire lesson and either take notes write the notes down
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or go to the description to get the summary
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and then so important is
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that you take action
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that you take what I talk about in this lesson
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and apply it to your everyday learning
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so get ready to take this English lesson
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because it could transform the way you learn English
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and therefore transform your path to English fluency let's start with listening here is
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a question that I received on the last podcast episode now listen to this
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carefully and see if this is something
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that you've been wondering about too okay hi I find your podcasts are useful
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and valuable and really keen on them however there's one things
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that I always wonder I mean you speak pretty slowly
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and there's not many Advanced vocabulary in your podcasts I could mostly understand your
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content therefore will they help me to improve my listening
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or have I to listen to a difficult audio
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so this person is asking
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if my podcasts are useful for her
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because she can understand nearly everything
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or mostly understand the content
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and doesn't feel like there are many Advanced vocabulary items in there
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so I'm going to talk about this today
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because I think it's something
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that a lot of people think about
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and wonder if listening to podcast made for English Learners is valuable firstly let's
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talk about the pace of my podcasts
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when I am given a podcast whether this is for English Learners
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or on my other channel
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which talks about marketing I tend to talk in a presentation style
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and if you think about TED talks
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and the way that people speaking a TED talk it's fairly similar to
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that I try to keep it a little bit more natural in the podcast
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but it's still a presentation
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and when you are presenting things you don't just talk like you're having a
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conversation it's a different type of way of speaking however on my YouTube channel
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I'm sure you have watched some of the conversations
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that my wife and I have had where we just discuss various topics
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and those ones are different
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because we're having a conversation
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and the way you speak in a conversation is different to the way you
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speak when giving a presentation
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and secondly when it comes to Advanced vocabulary
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when I talk about how to learn English most people already have learned the
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words and phrases needed to think about
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and talk about and listen to
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that topic because if you are an English learner
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then you will have researched
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and listened to podcasts about how to learn English how best to learn English
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therefore you've had the repetition of the phrases
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and vocabulary and you're probably more familiar with this type of topic than
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if I started talking about vocabulary about pingpong for example
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and if I talked in a very similar way
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but talked about pingpong
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which I don't know
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if I could make a podcast on
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that but let's say I did
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then you wouldn't be able to understand
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as much because it's more of a specialized topic
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so those are my initial thoughts about this
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but I do want to talk about this further
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because it brings up a really important point
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when we're talking about what to listen to
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when learning English what type of things should you listen to
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when learning English okay
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and before I go into
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that I just want to say hi my name is Jack from T fluency
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if you are new here welcome to you
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and feel free to subscribe to whichever podcast app you're using
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or if you're on YouTube click
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that subscribe button and the notification Bell
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and then also take a look at the description for some resources
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that will help you learn English including my book
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which is free to download the five-step plan for English fluency now to help
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me talk about input
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and the type of input you need the the person
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that I think is
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so important here and somebody
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that I have followed for a long time is Dr Steven crashing
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and he talks a lot about comprehensible input comprehensible input
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which basically means input
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that you can understand okay
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so I found this article
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which summarizes this quite well
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and it's saying comprehensible input in English is English language
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that you can understand language inputs of things
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that you hear like podcasts the radio conversations
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as well as things
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that you read like books article English blog articles Etc
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and cres specifies that you can't just read
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or listen to anything
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and improve your language you have to read
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or listen to things you can understand language acquisition happens best he says
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when the input is just slightly more advanced than your own level
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so for this episode we'll focus on listening
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but you can apply this to reading
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as well and the key Point here is
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that you need to find resources things to listen to
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that you can understand you have to find things
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that you can understand
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but also find things
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that challenge you a little bit
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as well and I think this works really well
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because when you understand something you can enjoy it you can get the repetition
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of sentences so that you acquire the language now acquiring a language
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and learning a language is SE to be different
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because you can learn grammar rules okay you can learn sentence structure
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and pass a test to say okay I now know how to form the
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present perfect using different pronouns Etc
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and objects and to do different types of verbs
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and then you can pass a test to say you've done
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that but acquiring this is where you reach your stage
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and I talked about this in my last episode where it just feels natural
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to you where it just feels natural to you okay where you say
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and use the present perfect in a natural way
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because it just feels right you don't have to think about the rules
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when you're speaking and getting lots of input helps you with this
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because you're going to listen to the present perfect again
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and again and again you're going to read it again
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and again and again
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if you read books
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as well and by doing this you're going to acquire the grammar in a
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natural way you're going to learn this in a natural way
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but only if you can understand what you're listening to
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if you don't understand what you're listening to
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then you're not going to acquire the language with the same efficiency it's not
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going to be as good
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and by listening to things you understand you're also going to understand the context
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because learning grammar is not just about sentence structure
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and conjugating verbs it's also about knowing
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when to use that grammar
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so if you keep hearing people talk about how many times they've been to
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a foreign country how many times they've been to this Etc um
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then what you're going to do is you're going to understand
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when you can use this
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and say things like oh I've been to Italy twice
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or I've been to the US once
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and you'll be able to use the right structure
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and use the present perfect in the right situation
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so that's one reason why getting lots of comprehensible understandable input is important
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and by the repetition
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that you get you're going to acquire the language
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and just really truly understand grammar
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and when to use it correctly however
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if you just constantly listen to things
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that you can understand
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then you're not going to learn new things
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and I think that
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when you whenever you listen to one of my podcasts let say
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that you understand 80% of what I'm saying
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then you're going to learn new things
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because you can understand the majority of what I say
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and then you can more
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or less guess the new vocabulary
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or if you're listening on YouTube watching on YouTube you can turn on subtitles
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and see the words
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and phrases I'm using
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and look them up
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but the key here is
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that you need to have
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that base of understanding something
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and then then you can learn new things from Context you can understand a
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new word or an adjective for example
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because I'm using it in a certain way
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and you understand what I'm saying therefore for most people listening to this I
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think my podcasts and other English learning podcasts are great for comprehensible input don't
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always think that you have to learn new vocabulary
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that you have to listen
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so that you can learn more advanced vocabulary
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because there are certain words
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and phrases that we use again
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and again and again okay
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and we have these high frequency phrases
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and words and idioms
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that people use on a conent basis
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so it's better that you master those phrases especially
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when it comes to what you normally talk about
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so if you need English to give presentations about finan things
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then you can learn English for finance
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because those are the words
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and phrases you're going to use again
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and again but you're also going to have to learn the basic phrases for
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small talk conversation negotiation talking about your past talking about what you like the
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usual topics that you learn
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as a learner and by listening to things
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that you already understand you're going to get
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that comprehensible input which is a rep repetition you need to acquire a language
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not just know the grammar
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but acquire it so
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that you can speak naturally
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and understand people when they talk
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so before I talk about the resources you can use I just want to
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go back to this question again where they're saying is this useful will it
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help me improve my listening
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or do I have to listen to difficult audio I think the best thing
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to do is to get lots of comprehensible input listen to things you understand
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and constantly increase the level of what you listen to
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so challenge yourself at times I know I have done this
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when I was really focus on learning Spanish I what I did was I
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started by listening to the news
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and I followed the news therefore I could understand the news stories especially international
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news stories and I learned new vocab
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because I already knew what the story was about
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so there are different things
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that you can do to constantly improve what you're listening to
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and the the level
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that you're listening to
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and I think the key here is to go slowly to go slowly okay
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to really just build up your comprehensible skills
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so that you can improve your your comprehension
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and the way that you can listen to people
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when they speak so here are some resources
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that you can use
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and firstly know that the difference between resources made for English Learners
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and also resources that aren't made for English Learners
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and you might want to focus more on one
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or the other depending on your level
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so I think some great things to to listen to
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and to read as well firstly the news
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if you're interested in it
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if you're interested in the news like politics Global topics Etc
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and you already know what's going on in the world at the moment
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then reading the news
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and listening to the news in English is a great stepping stone to moving
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on to different types of things
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but also I think other things
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that are great English learning podcasts like this one um presentation style talks like
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Ted Talks personally this is just a my opinion I'm not a big fan
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of TED talks but
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that type of style are great um interviews where you can go on YouTube
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and and just watch interviews on topics
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that you like because usually with interviews they're more of a presentation style where
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people are presenting what they believe
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and they're asking questions
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and they're talking about a topic
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that you're interested in
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and then also graded readers these are books
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that have been adapted for different levels
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so you can say okay I'm an intermediate speaker
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and listener I'll find books graded readers
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that are for intermediate Learners
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and then you can think okay
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and B1 let's try b1.2
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or B2 on topics
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that I I already know
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and understand and then find things
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that are comprehensible things
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that you can understand
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and then build up your knowledge
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and your listening over time
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because another thing is sometimes
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when you're listening if you're not used to listening to things in English
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but you you know the language
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then it can all just happen too fast you're thinking in your head
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and you're missing things
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so it's about reaching
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that stage where you're just listening
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and understanding to what people are saying
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and then you move on to the next level
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and then just to talk about the other part with Advanced vocabulary again this
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I think it's so important to think more about frequent quently use phrases
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that you need to know instead of advanced vocabulary both are important
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but I think the the frequently used phrases this is more important
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and being sure that you can quickly understand someone
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when they use that phrase
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and again focus on the type of English
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that you're learning think about what am I using my English for right now
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or what am I going to use my English for in the future
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and then focus on those words
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and phrases find audio find books find podcasts
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that focus on those types of topics
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and then just acquire language
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and and vocabulary over time there'll be some words
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and phrases in here I'm sure
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that nearly everyone listening to will have found something new for example before I
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said quite frankly maybe that's something new to you
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and you can look
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that up and repeat this again
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and then you can learn it
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so just in summary this podcast is made for English Learners I speak with
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a presentation style which some people find slow for example
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but I've listened to podcasts
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that aren't made for English learners for example someone like Sam Harris listen to
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one of Sam Harris's podcast episodes
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and you'll notice that he speaks much much more slowly than I do
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but he's not making podcasts for English Learners that's his St style of presentation
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and I like that style of presentation
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although sometimes I do speed it up
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and then secondly comprehensible input in my opinion is
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so important and it's important to find things
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that you can understand
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so that you can get the repetition of phrases
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so that you can really just improve your comprehension
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and that you can just acquire the language instead of learning the language
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but you still want to find something
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that is going to challenge you
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so that you can learn new words
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and phrases so nothing is nothing is lost it's better to listen to something
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that's too easy than too hard in my opinion
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because that that's the way
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that you're going to enjoy things it's going to happen naturally you're not stressed
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about understanding things instead you're just getting some great input
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and repetition and all this all of this uh all these phrases
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that you're going to just acquire
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and truly understand by listening to things a lot
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but at the same time do challenge yourself from time to time do think
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okay let's try to listen to this podcast episode
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that I didn't understand 6 months ago can I understand it now can I
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understand this TV show
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that went over my head a few months ago do challenge yourself
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and and think about listen to a variety of different things
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and different accents that you can understand different people
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but I would love to know your thoughts what kind of things do you
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like listening to do you enjoy listening to things do some podcasts
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or some resources make you feel stressed
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because you can't understand them
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and what else do you like listening to let me know in the comment
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section if there is one on the app you're using
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so that is how to improve your listening in English I hope you found
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those tips useful before we go on to speaking
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and writing let's now go through reading this is an important area
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because in everyday life we're going to read in English
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and this method is going to be really useful
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and it's going to break down the difference between extensive
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and intensive reading and also look at how to improve this skill let's go
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into it now before we talk about intensive
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and extensive reading in the books Etc I do want to say
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if you want to get a free book
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then go to tofluency.com there will be a link in the podcast description
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and you can download
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that for free it's going to give you a a plan of action
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so that you can actually move forward with your language learning
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and also if you enjoy this episode
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then please share it with your friends
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and if you are feeling very generous leave a review below okay
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so let's start with intensive versus extensive reading
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and why this is important
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because there are two types of reading
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when it comes to language learning in intensive is where you read to learn
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new words and phrases
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and you analyze the text
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and the grammar so you pause you stop
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if you don't know a word
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and look this up
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or you pause you stop
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when when you want to have a look
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and think about a sentence
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so you're really focusing on the words
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and the phrases and the grammar
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and not the book in general now extensive reading this is spelled e t
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NS i v extensive reading is
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when you read for fun
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and you are reading just to enjoy the story
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or the book in general
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so you don't stop to look up new words
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and phrases instead you just continue reading like you would in your own language
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so that is a difference intensive is
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when you're focusing on the words
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and phrases you're focusing on learning structures
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and grammar extensive is
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when you're just reading a book
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and you don't stop
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so you're trying to get the general meaning of the story
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or the book in general now you might be thinking
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which method is best
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which one should I focus on well it depends on a few factors
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and soon you're going to learn how you can do both at the same
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time but first let's discuss
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which books in English are best for you
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which books you should buy
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or read to help you learn English now my answer to this is very
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simple there is no one book
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that is perfect for everyone
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so there's no book
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that is going to be perfect for everyone a book
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that suits you a book
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that is perfect for you probably won't be perfect for another learner listening to
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this podcast so with
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that in mind I recommend
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that you find books
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that first and there are three categories here first books
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that interest you books
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that interest you don't waste your time reading something
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that you find boring
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if you find it boring put
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that book down and find a different book there's no reason to read something
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that doesn't interest you
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because we have access these days to books from all over the world we
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can loan them we can read them online we can buy them we have
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access digitally to so many different books
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and we can also think about this in ways of this could be an
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article online or it could be a magazine
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so read things that interest you
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and the main reason for this is
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that firstly it's more fun
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because why read something
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that you find boring
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but secondly if you find it interesting
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then you're likely going to use the language
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that the book uses in everyday life you want to talk about this book
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it's on a subject
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that interests you and
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if a subject interests you
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then you're likely to talk about it now number two find a book
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that you can understand find a book
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that you can understand there is nothing more frustrating than reading something
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that is too difficult
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so this means that you should find something a book
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that isn't going to be too complicated
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and this is going into the area of something called comprehensible input this is
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where you get input you listen to things you watch things
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and you read things
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that you can comprehend
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that you can understand
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because if something is going to be too difficult you're going to be frustrated
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by reading it and also it's difficult to learn new words
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and phrases when there are
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so many new words
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and phrases to learn
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or when you're not understanding what is going on in the story now a
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quick tip for that is a graded reader a graded reader now these are
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books that have been adapted for Learners like you
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so you can say okay I have a lower intermediate level
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or a higher intermediate level
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and you can find books
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that have been written specifically for your level now
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if you want to learn more about this just search for graded readers
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and I'll leave these tips in the description
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if you want to know how to spell this
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and what's important to know is
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that basic English is good
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so basic English is good this is how you are going to learn new
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words and phrases in a more natural way
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so so far we have said
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that you should find books
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that interest you things
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that you enjoy and books
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that you understand now the third tip is to find books
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that are specific to how you use English now
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or how you want to use English
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so books that are specific to how you use English now
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or how you want to use English in the future for example here is
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a very specific example
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if you're going to take the I exam read I sample papers
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or I outs reading model answers
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because that is what you need to focus on
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or if you need to learn business English
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then find books that are related to business
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if you want to be able to have good everyday English where you can
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use small talk and have conversations
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then read books that have conversations in them this is just getting a little
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bit more focused so
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that you are really maximizing the type of book
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that you're going to read
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and what I recommend you do
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as well is go to a website
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that allows you to have a look inside a book for example I
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when I'm looking at a book I go to amazon.com
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and it says take a look inside uh Kindle an ebook
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and I start reading a few pages
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if it looks good
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if it's intered me
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if it's comprehensible Etc
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then I'll buy the book
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but if not then I'll move on find a different one
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and get that one instead
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so feel free to go on Amazon
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or whichever website you use to get audio books
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and and ebooks and just start reading a book
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and see if it's right for you now I mentioned audio books there I
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think it's also smart
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as well to find books
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that have audio books
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because what you can do is a few things you can read the story
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first and then listen to it afterwards
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or you can even read
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and listen at the same time now you might not like audiobooks
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so it might not apply to you
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but a lot of people want
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that Audi book so
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that they are able to listen
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and while they're reading
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or listen to an audio book after they have read the story okay
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so let's now say
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that you have your perfect book
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and you understand the difference between intensive
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and extensive reading what's next
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so how best read a book this is what I think is a really
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good way to make sure you're getting extensive
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and intensive reading at the same time
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and it also cuts down on it reduces the frustration
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so this is a method
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that will include both both intensive
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and extensive reading and there are three steps here it is firstly read extensively
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so read the book without stopping
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but highlight vocabulary and grammar
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that you don't understand
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or any phrases that you want to learn
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so you don't stop
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when you're reading but either on your eBook reader
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or on a pizza paper a paper book you highlight words
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and phrases that you don't understand
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or words and phrases
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that you want to learn you keep reading for a chapter
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or a certain number of pages
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and again you don't stop to look anything up yet
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but once you have read a chapter
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or once you come to a stage where you think okay I'm going to
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go back now and have a look at these words you can go back
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look at the highlighted words
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and phrases and then use a dictionary
29:16
or whatever tool you want to use to understand what these words
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and phrases mean so again step one you read extensively
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but highlight vocabulary and grammar you read for a certain am amount of time
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and then you stop go back
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and look up these words
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and phrases that you don't understand
29:36
so this allows you to read for fun
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but also to learn something new at the same time
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and you're not stopping every time you don't understand something instead you're reading
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and understanding what is happening in the story
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or in the non-fiction book
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and if you find a book that's comprehensible that's not too difficult for your
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level then this should be relatively easy to do
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so you're reading for pleasure you're highlighting language
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as you go and
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then on once you reach a really good point you can go back
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and look up the words
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that you have highlighted now this method doesn't stop there
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because there is a way
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that you can remember the vocabulary
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and grammar that you've just learned
30:23
and a way for you to internalize this now this is my favorite me
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method and I've talked about this before with the lrrc method
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but it's more specific this one to words
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that you have written down
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or read and this is what I recommend you do
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because it's going to help you learn new words
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and phrases vocabulary grammar
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and just English in general there are three steps to this firstly you take
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the sentences that you have highlighted
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and copy them now you can do this with an ebook there's a way
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to do it if you go to the description I have a link where
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I give a guide on this
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but you can copy
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and paste them from your Kindle
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or your ebook then you paste them into spaced repetition software
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and create digital flashcards okay
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so you take the sentences put them into software
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so that you can create dig digital flashcards
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and then you repeat the sentences over a few weeks
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so that you internalize the words
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and phrases and therefore the vocabulary
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and the grammar that you have learned this is a very simple thing to
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do and it only requires a few minutes of your time every day
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but it will do amazing things for your English now once you have done
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this once you have gone through each chapter taken the words
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and phrases put them into software learned them
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or repeated them over the long term go back in about a month
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and read the book again
32:07
and you'll be amazed at how much you have learned
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and how much more you understand this time you won't need to stop you'll
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be able to fully focus on extensive reading
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because what you've done is you have taken the words
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and phrases that you didn't understand
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or the ones that you wanted to learn you have repeated these using software
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so it's a very efficient way to do it
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and then you go back
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and you see these words
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and phrases and you just know what they mean now this method this whole
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method might sound quite complex
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but it's very simple once you learn how to do it
32:47
so again what you need to do is find books
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that are perfect for you read extensively
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so that you can enjoy the book
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but while you read the book highlight words
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and phrases then go back after a chapter
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or two chapters and look up what these words
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and phrases mean then take those highlights the the highlighted sentences put them into
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software repeat them over the long term
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then go back and read the book again this is how you can use
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one book to learn
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so much English but also have fun reading at the same time now the
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next part is really important
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and it's often overlooked by many students
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and it's English pronunciation now this will greatly improve your fluency
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and also your confidence
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when speaking in English
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so again take your time listen to this section twice
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if you have to
33:52
and let's talk about how to improve this skill I believe
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that most English Learners aren't doing enough nowhere near enough to improve their pronunciation
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and that if they did
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then they would speak with more accuracy fluency
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and confidence and that is why in this lesson I'm going to outline what
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you can do in a very practical way on your own to improve your
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English pronunciation and the way
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that you speak English
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so be sure to listen to this lesson
34:36
or watch this lesson on YouTube until the end
34:39
because I'm going to highlight
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and give you the exact step-by-step plan
34:45
so that you can become a more confident speaker by working on this area
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of English but before we get into all of
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that my name is Jack from to fluency be sure to check out the
34:59
description because I'll have some great resources for you including my book the five-step
35:05
plan for English fluency all right let's get started like I said at the
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beginning of this lesson most Learners don't focus enough attention
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and study time to work in on the way they speak English working on
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their pronunciation and this is true
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as well for for most language courses most language schools
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and I think this is the case
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because most people need to do this on their own
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and really focus on it
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and it's hard for a teacher with 30 students
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or even six students to work individually with each student to make sure
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that they're saying the right vow sounds the right consonant sounds using word stress
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and intonation but there are
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so many benefits s
35:58
when you work on your English pronunciation
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because what you're going to do
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if you improve this area firstly you'll speak more accurately
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because you'll be using the right vow sounds the right consonant sounds
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and people will be able to understand you better
36:16
but you're also going to speak more fluently
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because you won't need to focus on how to speak instead you can just
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speak naturally and use the right sounds in a natural way without thinking about
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what you need to do with your mouth what you need to do in
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order to make those sounds
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so it's going to allow you to speak more accurately
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but also more fluently
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and this will lead to confidence
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and it will also lead to you speaking where you just flow everything just
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flows which means it just happens naturally it's effortless you don't need to put
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lots of effort into this
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so today we're going to look at how you can do this the the
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stepbystep process in which
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that you can dramatically improve the way you speak
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and then I'll also give you some very practical tips at the end
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so that you can take action
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and get started with all of this
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but first I want to talk about gol golf the sport of golf the
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one where you have your clubs
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and a ball and you swing the golf clubs
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so that the ball goes in the hole
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and the reason I'm talking about this is
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because it's going to help you think about the way to improve your pronunciation
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by using this analogy okay
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so let's say that you start playing golf the first thing you need to
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do after buying your golf clubs is to learn how to swing a club
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learn how to swing a club
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so learn how to hit the ball properly with your golf club
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and you need to think about
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and learn all about your hand position where do your hands go on the
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club how do you stand what's the correct stance do you lean forward are
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your legs narrow or are they
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then you need to think about what you need to do with your hands
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and your elbows and your shoulders
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and your hips when you bring the club above you
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and then you need to think about
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and learn what you need to do next to
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then hit the ball
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and follow through so
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that the ball goes straight
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and most people here will watch YouTube videos
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so they can learn how to swing a golf club properly
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or they'll buy a book
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or they will take private lessons
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and this part is important for later
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so you might learn from YouTube
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or by having a private teacher who's going to say do this with your
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hands stand like this lean back head straight back straight okay what you need
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to do next is this Etc
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so once you learn how to swing a golf club the next thing you
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do is you practice this skill you're not playing a game of golf instead
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you are practicing how to swing the golf club properly
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so you are practicing this skill you have learned how to do it
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and now it's time to try it
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so you swing your golf club
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and you hit the ball the next thing you get is feedback feedback
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and you can do this in a few ways you can give yourself feedback
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in terms of what happens to the ball
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if you hit the ball well
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then that's good feedback
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if the ball trickles
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which means goes slowly along the ground
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then you know you need to make some changes
40:14
but you can also get feedback by having a teacher a golf instructor watching
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you and telling you what you need to do to change
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so they might say okay next time keep your elbows straight
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or next time keep your head down
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or next time keep your back straight
40:39
and then the other way to get feedback is to record yourself swinging a
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golf club and then comparing your swing to the way you are learning
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which might be a YouTube video
40:53
and then you can look at what you need to do
40:56
and what changes you need to make
40:58
so that you get better at this skill
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and this is a constant loop it's a cycle you learn what to do
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you practice you get feedback
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and you make changes
41:12
so with the feedback you're learning more
41:14
and more with the practice you're trying it you're trying the skill
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and then with the feedback you're making changes
41:24
and then there are two more steps here the next step is to get
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repetition when you can do the things correctly
41:32
so let's say that you are correctly holding the club
41:34
and you're using your hands in the right way getting repetition gives you muscle
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memory and it makes it effortless
41:42
and I'm sure you've heard other people say repetition is the key to everything
41:48
by repeating something you learn how to do it effortlessly
41:52
and you gain that muscle memory
41:54
but playing golf would be boring
41:56
if you didn't play golf
41:58
so you have a game of golf you go around a golf course this
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is fun this is why people practice golf
42:06
but it's also a way to do two more things
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which is to perform Under Pressure to perform Under Pressure to be able to
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hit the right swing
42:18
or use the right swing
42:20
when you're playing a game
42:22
and also learn more about where you need to improve
42:27
so maybe you need to improve your putting you need to improve your drives
42:32
or maybe your short game
42:34
but the game of golf is where you are enjoying yourself you're having fun
42:40
but you're also learning how to perform under pressure
42:44
and learning what you need to do to improve some more now this podcast
42:49
isn't about golf but this analogy really helps
42:54
because learning English pronunciation
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and being able to speak English is exactly the same
43:03
as what I have just described where you learn how to do something you
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practice it you get feedback you get repetition
43:14
and then you use it in a more natural way you perform Under Pressure
43:20
let's take two sounds in English
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as an example these two sounds are minimal pairs the V sound
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and the F sound they're two similar sounds
43:32
but there's a a big difference here
43:35
and to be able to make these sounds correctly you need to know what
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to do with your mouth in order to to get this right you need
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to know what to do with your throat
43:46
and your teeth and your lips
43:48
and your tongue in order to get these sounds correct
43:52
so let's just practice this a little bit the V sound is where your
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top teeth touch your bottom lip behind inside your mouth
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and you make the v v sound V very V very
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and there's a key part to this your throat vibrates it's a voiced sound
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one where your throat vibrates
44:23
so very practice after me V very very good now the F sound is
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similar because your mouth does the same thing
44:38
but your throat does not vibrate it's an unvoiced sound
44:44
so f f f fun fun let's say two words
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that are similar now to practice with v
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and and F very fairy very fairy very fair very fairy very fairy now
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if you can notice the difference between those two sounds
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that is great but the key here now is to think okay how can
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I master this how can I really learn these two sounds in a way
45:25
where I can just say them effortlessly well again learn what to do learn
45:32
about your teeth and your lips
45:35
and the vibration like I just explained
45:38
then practice practice these sounds
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but the key part
45:43
as well here is
45:44
that you need feedback
45:47
so after practicing you need feedback to know
45:49
if you're doing it correctly
45:50
or not and this is where I believe most Learners should should really put
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a lot of attention on
46:00
and it's this to record yourself record yourself saying these two words
46:08
and record yourself when you practice pronunciation
46:12
and speaking in general now you can have somebody evaluate you
46:17
so you can have somebody evaluate your your English
46:21
and the way you speak
46:22
and I'll talk about more how I can help you with
46:25
that soon but recording yourself is
46:28
so powerful because when you record yourself you can listen to the way you
46:34
speak in a much more meaningful way
46:38
when you're just speaking
46:39
and you're not recording yourself it's very difficult to notice any mistakes you make
46:46
or any changes you need to make
46:49
but when you record yourself it's more observant it's more obvious to notice what
46:58
you need to do to change
47:01
so learn how to say these sounds
47:03
as this example practice yourself saying them
47:07
and then record yourself
47:09
and make changes think about the changes you need to make in order to
47:15
say these sounds correctly
47:18
and then once you can do
47:19
that get repetition so repeat the sounds over
47:25
and over again in a small smart way
47:27
so you're not just repeating it a thousand times today
47:31
but you're repeating it a few times today a few times tomorrow once
47:35
or twice in 4 days Etc that's the type of repetition
47:40
that is really efficient okay
47:43
so so far what we're doing is we're thinking about the best way to
47:48
master the sounds of English
47:49
and master English pronunciation Step One is knowing what to do with your mouth
47:55
to make the sounds seep step two is practicing step three is recording yourself
48:02
step four is making changes
48:04
and then this is a loop a cycle okay maybe I need to do
48:09
this with my teeth let's learn what to do again you practice again you
48:13
record yourself you think that's better
48:15
but it's not perfect
48:16
so you make some more changes until you are happy with the way you
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say it and then step five is to get
48:23
that repetition so that you build the muscle memory you can build muscle memory
48:28
in your mouth just like people build muscle memory playing golf
48:33
or playing soccer or working out anything really where it just becomes effortless
48:39
and that's the stage we want to reach now practically
48:44
if you want to say okay over the next three months I really want
48:48
to focus on this area
48:50
and I recommend you do I recommend exploring this area at least
48:55
but then focusing time each week maybe each day to to pronunciation
49:02
then I think this is a really good idea firstly learn the sounds of
49:08
English learn the different sounds of English the consonant sounds vowel sounds Etc the
49:15
schah as well and use the method
49:18
that I've talked about in order to do this now this might take some
49:23
time you're going to get frustrated sometimes it might be a little bit boring
49:29
but like I've talked about in the past try
49:31
and make it as fun
49:32
as possible and be motivated to know
49:35
that by doing this it's really going to help the way
49:38
that you speak English now it also means working on things like stress
49:44
and ination stress and intonation
49:48
and I'm going to give a good example of this in a second
49:51
and then finally it's working on things like retractions
49:55
and linking and working on these areas is not just going to improve the
50:01
way that you speak with accuracy
50:03
and fluency but it's going to help your comprehension too
50:07
because if you can say these words
50:10
and use retractions and use linking things like I could have done it I
50:15
could have done it
50:16
which is a retraction of I could have done it
50:20
but also linking I could have done it I could have done it
50:23
then you'll better understand other people English speakers
50:28
when they're using this too
50:30
and people use retractions
50:33
and Linkin all the time it is
50:36
so common so in order to understand people this will be really useful for
50:41
you so find a course
50:43
or anything really just research this are these areas of the sounds of English
50:49
dress and intonation retractions
50:50
and lincol and go through the different areas practice get feedback Etc now I
50:57
do want to say
50:58
that I have a program for this I'll leave a link in the description
51:02
that goes through all these areas
51:05
and then you can also send in your recordings to me
51:08
and I will evaluate these recordings for you
51:11
and tell you what I think you need to do to improve
51:16
so I've worked with hundreds of students on this area
51:20
and I know the the common mistakes
51:23
that people make and why they can't exec you a certain sound
51:28
or they can't use retractions in a natural way
51:32
and then like I say make this part of your study plan
51:36
so really commit to this
51:39
because it's just going to make you become more confident more fluent
51:43
and more accurate when you speak English
51:46
and then going back to the golf analogy we talked about having a game
51:50
of golf where you perform under pressure
51:52
and you learn what you need to do to improve this equip here is
51:58
having conversations in English
52:00
or talking to a teacher
52:02
or having a language exchange partner where you put everything together you have to
52:09
be able to use the correct sounds
52:11
while speaking which is a much more complex task than just repeating phrases let's
52:20
say and repeating the sounds of English that's going to help you just improve
52:24
in general it's fun to have conversations this is why people want to learn
52:30
English and then also it's going to give you a good indication of where
52:34
you are and what you need to do to improve now I do want
52:38
to practice a phrase here
52:40
because I'm going to look at retractions
52:43
and linking but also stress
52:45
and intonation okay so the phrase is I could have done it like I
52:50
mentioned before now could have becomes Coulda I coulda I coulda I could have
52:59
and then done it done it done it becomes well there it is it
53:05
links together and we also use the the glal stop done it done it
53:11
done it and then altogether I could have done it I could have done
53:16
it now I also want to just highlight some word stress here
53:21
because listen to this now I could have done it I could have done
53:26
it now this is the stress with the emphasis on I that's the most
53:32
important part of the sentence
53:34
because I'm stressing it like
53:36
that I could have done it I could have done it
53:40
and then listen to the intonation here I could have done it I could
53:44
have done it it goes a little bit high at the end too
53:48
so there are different things
53:49
that you can do with stress
53:51
and ination uh with intonation there's the Fallen intonation the RIS intonation
53:57
and then the rise
53:57
and fall intonation but all these things are inside my program the to fluency
54:03
program or you can look them up individually
54:06
or take a different course on pronunciation the key
54:10
though is to think about
54:12
if this is an area you would benefit from
54:16
if you spent some time with it
54:18
and then going through
54:20
that cycle where you learn how to make the sounds
54:24
or how to use intonation
54:25
or how to use the the schah
54:28
then you practice it you get feedback you make changes you keep learning you
54:32
keep practicing you keep making changes
54:35
and then you get the long-term repetition
54:37
so that it just builds into muscle memory
54:40
so that you can speak English fluently
54:42
and accurately now the final skill is often overlooked
54:51
and I believe that writing is such a great way to improve improve English
54:57
to practice your writing
54:59
and to use the method
55:00
that I'm going to talk about right now
55:03
so continue learning take this last section
55:06
and I'll see you after this last section we are going to talk about
55:11
writing today and more specifically six tips to help you improve your writing now
55:18
before we go into those tips it's important to know
55:21
that writing is one of the four skills of English where we have reading
55:26
writing listening and speaking
55:30
so reading and listening are both input skills whereas speaking
55:36
and writing are output skills
55:38
and obviously when you're having a conversation with somebody you're speaking
55:44
and listening at the same time
55:46
and this is a difficult thing to do
55:48
so when you think I can't speak in English it's difficult to have conversations
55:53
in English know that is normal
55:55
because what you're having to do is to think about the grammar the vocabulary
56:00
your the way you speak the sounds of English
56:04
and you also have to listen
56:06
and understand what the other person is saying whereas
56:10
when you're reading you can take your time to understand something
56:14
and look up new words
56:15
and phrases and if you want to learn about my reader method
56:19
then listen to episode I'll put it in the description too I'm just looking
56:25
it up now now episode 10 of the toluen podcast
56:30
if you're listening on iTunes
56:32
or elsewhere now with writing I think it's a great skill to practice for
56:39
a few reasons because
56:42
when it comes to writing it's an output skill
56:45
but you can take your time where
56:49
when you're speaking if you're having a conversation
56:52
then you're you're obviously having to speak to people in a spontaneous way to
56:57
adapt to think about what you're saying
56:59
and to to speak more quickly whereas
57:02
when it comes to writing think about just sitting in your office
57:06
or in your bedroom
57:07
or at school wherever it is at your kitchen table with a computer
57:12
or a pencil and pen
57:14
and just taking your time to create sentences to write paragraphs to keep a
57:21
diary if that's something you want to do where you can go into Google
57:26
gole look up new words
57:27
and phrases type in a phrase into Google to see
57:30
if it works and also use different apps
57:33
which we're going to talk about later
57:35
so I see writing
57:37
as a great skill to help you formalize
57:41
which means create your own sentences without feeling rushed without having to do this
57:48
quickly within a conversation
57:51
so think about how you can Implement more writing into to your daily schedule
57:57
and enjoy it don't feel pressure feel like what you can do is take
58:03
what you have learned recently
58:05
and try to create your own sentences from it
58:08
so let's go into the six tips now
58:10
and like I say be sure to check out the description for some of
58:14
the links I'm going to mention now the first tip is is going to
58:18
be quite specific especially
58:20
if you're studying for the iots exam
58:22
or if you're using English in a very specific way for examp example for
58:26
your job and this is to focus on the writing style you need
58:31
so focus on the writing style you need
58:34
so think about the way you're going to write in English
58:39
if you need to do this for a specific reason
58:42
so if it's for the IOS exam focus on
58:44
that if you have to write speeches for work focus on
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that if you need to write emails at work focus on
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that but also if you want to learn conversational English
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then you can write like you're having a conversation okay
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so just some ideas for you you can make a story you can create
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a story if it's a conversation English you can also write in like a
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diary to write your thoughts about your day
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and I think this is a great thing to do for any learner I
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do this on a daily basis just just
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as a a great exercise where I talk about my day what I did
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yesterday I talk about my write about my goals I write about what I
59:29
want to do for example yesterday I wrote let's write some reals
59:35
or shorts for the next week
59:37
which are the mini videos for Instagram
59:40
and YouTube and I'm saying do three to four this week
59:44
and get another podcast done one
59:47
that focuses on how to learn English
59:49
which is what I'm doing right now
59:51
so this is something I wrote yesterday
59:53
and just doing that on a daily basis will help you just get into
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the habit of writing for English
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so tip one is to focus on the writing style you need
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if you are going to write specifically for something
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but then if you're just wanting to improve your English in a general sense
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I highly recommend doing a daily diary
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so it makes you do it on a daily basis
60:15
and then also thinking about ways to write something conversational
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and another thing to do is
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then to if you watch a YouTube video of one of mine for example
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like one of our conversations
60:27
then you can write some thoughts about
60:30
that YouTube video now tip two is to find examples of text
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and copy them now what I've been talking about
60:40
so far with writing is more of a creative role where you're writing in
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your diary you're putting your thoughts across you're creating a story
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that type of thing
60:52
but another way to improve your writing is is to imitate other writers now
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if you followed me for a
61:00
while you'll know about my method
61:03
that will help you with your general English
61:06
and especially your speaking where you listen to an audio phrase you repeat
61:13
that phrase you record it
61:16
so then you can listen back to it
61:19
and then you compare your version to the original
61:22
and think about making changes that's the speaking method
61:26
that I've been teaching for a long time
61:28
but we can do this for writing too where what you do is you
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just find any kind of text
61:34
and you copy it down I like to do this
61:37
or I think a good idea
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if you're thinking about the text to find is for example iils exams get
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the IELTS model answers
61:47
if you're doing it for like emails find email templates
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and just copy them down
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and what I'm saying here is not to copy them for exam
61:56
or copy them for your specific email
61:58
but the way I like to see is you put on some relaxing music
62:03
you get a cup of tea
62:04
or your favorite type of drink
62:07
and then you simply read a sentence copy the sentence read a sentence copy
62:13
the sentence and you don't Focus too much on the language here you're not
62:18
trying to memorize anything instead you're just writing things down
62:23
and copying things and I think this is a great method to try
62:26
because you're going to naturally internalize sentence structures
62:30
and writing styles and
62:32
if you do this again for specific purposes that's going to be great you
62:36
can also just do this with any sentences
62:38
that you find online for example let's say I do a video on tanky
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phrases you can take those phrases write them down copy them down in a
62:48
notebook and then if you want to
62:50
then expand on this
62:52
and create your own sentences
62:54
then uh use the app
62:55
that we're going to talk about later
62:57
but this is a great way to internalize sentence structures uh word order
63:02
and also a powerful way to learn grammar too now another way to this
63:06
is tip three is basically about how you can improve your writing okay
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and it's it's using a different skill
63:14
and the tip is this to read a lot
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so to read a lot
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because this is will be one of the most vital ways for you to
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help become familiar with the way
63:25
that English is written
63:26
and it's also going to help you spot the mistakes you're making in the
63:29
moment and if you copy passages from what you're reading it can also help
63:34
you overcome mistakes that you're making
63:37
and I think graded readers is a great place to start
63:40
and again go to episode 10 to learn more about reading
63:44
and I'm not going to talk much about this
63:47
because you know as a learner you'll probably know the power of reading
63:51
and how it can help you
63:53
but it's going to help your writing
63:56
because it's going to give you the input you need to
63:59
then create something but like I say also just copy it
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so when whenever you read something think about copying a few paragraphs especially ones
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that interest you or paragraphs
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that contain the type of language
64:13
that you think is relevant tip four is about practice
64:17
and getting feedback so it's important to get feedback on your writing
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so that you can overcome mistakes now tip five is going to give you
64:26
an app that will help you with this
64:28
but here what what I want to get across in tip four is just
64:32
to feel like practicing is a good thing to do
64:37
and to implement this into your daily routine
64:39
or your learning routine
64:41
so after trying the copying tactic where you copy text
64:46
and you start to feel a little bit more confident do some writing exercises
64:50
and try to find a teacher
64:53
or somebody who can correct you now there are ways to do this for
64:58
free there are different apps you can use for this
65:01
and I'll leave some of them in the description below
65:04
but also join the group learn English with Jack on Facebook
65:09
so search for learn English with Jack on Facebook
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and copy your writing text into there
65:16
and ask for people to give you feedback you can do this on different
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forums as well but there diff there are apps you can use for this
65:23
or you can pay a teacher who's going to just give you
65:26
that extra attention and go through the writing um task
65:32
that you do and this is especially important
65:34
if you're doing the I exam
65:37
and you need to get
65:37
that feedback for your exam
65:39
or if you're giving a a speech
65:42
or if you're writing an important proposal for your work
65:46
or writing a project for your work well you can get somebody who really
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goes in there and corrects things for you now tip five is to use
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apps that are not just going to correct your spelling
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but they're also going to correct your grammar now I'll leave a link in
66:06
the description for my favorite one here
66:08
and it's an affiliate link it's free to use
66:11
but if you decide to get the paid version
66:13
then I will get a little commission
66:15
if you use my link
66:16
so feel free to use
66:17
that link but this is a an app with a web browser extension
66:23
and also an app
66:24
and it also integrates into your uh email Facebook Instagram different apps
66:33
that you use so
66:34
that when you're writing let's say you write something like he has
66:40
or let's think of a mistake
66:42
that is quite common um I enjoy to go to the beach it will
66:49
say n uhuh not to go
66:52
but I enjoy going to the beach
66:55
so it's going to help you with verb patterns grammar prepositions
66:59
if you use the incorrect preposition it will tell you
67:03
so it's going to help you improve your grammar
67:06
as you're writing but it's also going to give you tips
67:09
and advice and more examples
67:12
so that you can just remember these rules in the future I think this
67:16
is an app that everybody needs
67:18
so definitely check out the description under tip five
67:22
and use the link
67:23
that I leave there now tip number six is is to take your time
67:27
and search for new sentences to learn
67:30
and practice okay so take your time
67:33
when you're when you're writing enjoy it
67:36
and also search for the sentences
67:38
and phrases that you want to use
67:41
and a way to search for a phrase is to use things like dictionary
67:45
apps and things like
67:46
that but also you can just type things into Google you can either do
67:50
this in a a general sense
67:52
or you can put the quotation marks over it
67:55
so it's an exact phrase
67:57
so if you're insure about something like I just done a lesson on everyday
68:01
versus everyday and I'm just going to do this you can hear me typ
68:04
in if I type in I learn English every day is two words
68:11
then I get or
68:12
if I just say I learn English every day sorry yeah I get 94,000
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results and then if I type in I learn English every day one word
68:23
it's 28,000 and in those most cases it it shows you
68:27
that the one with the more results generally means it's the correct one
68:32
but also the app in tip five will help you with
68:36
that anyway and what you can do here is
68:40
when you type phrases into Google a lot of the time you can put
68:45
ESL on the end
68:47
and it's going to give you articles
68:49
or Forum posts that will talk about
68:51
that phrase and it'll give you
68:53
that phrase and it will say write it like this
68:56
or write it like
68:57
that and this is what I mean by taking your time
69:00
so you can look for the correct phrase
69:02
and websites are going to help you with
69:04
that so that when you're writing you are making sure it's correct
69:09
as you write and
69:10
then obviously getting feedback
69:12
or using an app to help you with
69:14
that so those are the six tips um what I recommend you do again
69:17
is I think one of the best things you can do is to keep
69:20
a a daily diary
69:22
or a journal where you just put down your thoughts about anything what you
69:26
did yesterday what you want to do today what you're grateful for what you're
69:31
happy about your goals Etc
69:34
and that just gets you into the Habit right of using everyday English in
69:40
a way that you might talk about to other people
69:44
so you can even just write about what you enjoyed about the TV show
69:48
you watched last night just anything your thoughts on anything
69:52
but especially things that you like to talk about in daily conversations
69:56
because that's the type of English you're going to use
70:00
and then use the copy method where you can just absorb English
70:05
and learn it in a natural way especially
70:08
if you want to learn it for a specific reason
70:11
and then use the app
70:12
that I mentioned in tip five
70:14
so that it gives you instant feedback on the way you're writing
70:18
and if you're writing in the correct way
70:21
and then get feedback from a teacher
70:22
if you really want to get
70:23
that specialized feedback okay those are the four skills of English
70:32
if you have made it this far congratulations
70:35
because you've taken this powerful learning advice
70:39
and you've managed to get to the end now
70:43
that doesn't mean you have completed everything instead the key part is to really
70:50
take what I've talked about here
70:52
and apply it take action start using these methods today
70:58
and then be sure to continue learning with me here on YouTube
71:03
or apple podcast or Spotify
71:05
or castbox wherever you're watching
71:08
or listening continue taking the lessons be sure to check out the description for
71:14
English learning resources and share this episode this English lesson with a friend thank
71:21
you so much for being here
71:23
and I will speak to you next time bye for now now
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