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A2 English Listening Practice - Good English Learners
A2 English Listening Practice - Good English Learners
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Hey English learners, welcome to this A2 English listening practice video.
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I hope you're doing well and that you're ready to practice your listening.
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Today I want to talk about what makes a good English learner.
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And of course, this is for any language, not just an English learner,
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but uh a good French learner,
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a good Spanish learner. uh what makes a good language learner.
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So I want to talk about four things that make a good English learner.
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There are many more things but I want to highlight four.
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And uh before we continue on,
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if you can understand me in this video
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and it's pretty easy for you to understand what I'm saying,
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but you can't understand native speakers when they speak fast,
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then my listening training is for you.
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So, make sure you sign up for my membership
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and you'll get access to my listening practice seminars in
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which I help you understand native speakers
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when they speak fast.
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So, at the time of recording this,
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it's only $2 a month to sign up.
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It's cheap, affordable.
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You should do that.
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The link is down below.
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Uh, do that so you can improve your listening.
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So let's talk about some different things
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that make a good English learner
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or language learner in general.
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So number one, an interest in other cultures.
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Okay?
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When you're interested in other cultures, this gives you a reason.
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This gives you motivation to learn the language that you're learning.
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Even if it's challenging, even if you're having trouble, uh it's difficult for you,
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you hit a plateau perhaps.
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Regardless of these things, if you have a real interest,
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a genuine interest in other cultures
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and specifically the culture
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that speaks the language
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that you're learning,
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in your case, English.
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So perhaps it's American culture, Canadian culture, Australian culture, British culture, whatever.
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If you have that intense interest in that culture, it gives you a reason.
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And having a reason to learn a language is super powerful.
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This makes all the difference.
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Okay?
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When you have a reason, you actually uh want to do it.
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You don't just have to learn the language, but you want to.
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That's super uh helpful and motivating.
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Uh and it makes it easier I think. uh it makes you have less
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resistance uh when you encounter differences
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when you see that uh the language
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that you're learning uh English for example has these linguistic differences
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that you don't quite understand for a lot of people
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that can make it hard for them to continue on with their language learning.
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But if you're interested in other cultures,
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the culture that speaks the language that you're learning,
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you are more likely to accept these differences.
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These differences aren't necessarily a problem.
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You're actually kind of interested in the differences just like you're interested in the
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different culture.
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So that helps a lot.
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It helped me a lot when I was learning Spanish.
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At that time, I was super interested in Latin America, in Mexico in particular.
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I was super excited about discovering that culture,
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getting to know the different aspects of life
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and culture and it helped me uh accept the differences
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that I was encountering uh with the Spanish language.
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So uh that was uh something that really helped me.
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It really aided me in my language learning.
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And for example, if you're looking to become more interested in US culture,
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if you want to learn more
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and um get excited about learning about the different states
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and cities in the US,
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I encourage you to check out my US Conversations podcast in
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which I talk to different English teachers from around the country about their state,
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their city.
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It's a lot of fun.
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So, that link is down below.
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Next, uh the thing I also the next thing I wanted to mention was
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that patience really helps someone be a better language learner.
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Okay?
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You shouldn't be discouraged about how long it takes.
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Learning a language takes a long time.
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Let's be honest, okay?
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We should be realistic about our expectations. we shouldn't expect to become fluent quickly
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because that's just simply not the case.
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Okay?
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Uh it's important to uh understand this
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and to be patient with yourself
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and to be patient during this process.
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Uh don't force things.
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Don't try to force it to go super super fast.
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Of course, try to uh do
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as much as you can
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so that you can learn more quickly in general.
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Obviously, you can do that, but don't force it.
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Don't get too anxious about needing to speak really quickly
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or needing to understand everything really quickly.
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Be patient, right?
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If you put in the work and you're regular with it, it will come.
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Okay?
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So, don't force it.
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Be patient with yourself.
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Uh you're going to make the same mistakes again and again and again,
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hundreds of times in some cases.
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Okay?
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Uh that actually happens.
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Sometimes it literally takes like 200 times before you finally say it right.
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Okay?
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Most of the time you can probably uh learn things more quickly than that.
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But sometimes you make the same mistake many times, dozens of times.
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Okay?
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And you forget things.
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All right?
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Uh we forget things that we learned in the past.
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And so you're going to make the same mistakes again and again.
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You're going to forget things that you learned.
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So, you need to be patient with yourself.
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Be patient during this process.
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People often give up too soon because they're not patient, right?
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They just assume that because it's not easy for them,
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because it's taking a while.
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This means that they are not talented at language learning.
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It's just not for them, right?
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uh they come to this conclusion but in reality they're just not patient.
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Right?
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I've been learning languages for years.
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It's a slow process in most cases unless you are just forced to learn
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really quickly for some reason.
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Sometimes that happens but most of the time that doesn't.
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You have time. you don't need to learn in two months
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or else uh your life is over.
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That's usually not the case and because of that it takes a while.
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Okay.
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So, uh a good language learner is patient during the language learning process
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and they're patient with themselves.
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Okay.
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Next, a good language learner has humility.
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They are humble.
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So, what does this mean?
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They're willing to be like a small child, okay?
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They're willing to be like a little kid who's just learning something for the
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first time because you're going to get corrected.
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You're going to say things that quite honestly sound funny or sometimes even ridiculous.
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Okay?
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I don't mean that in a bad way.
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We all go through that as language learners.
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We say ridiculous things and it's funny.
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There's nothing wrong with that.
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Okay.
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Uh I have young children.
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My son says some pretty funny,
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sometimes ridiculous things and it's funny
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and we laugh at it
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and he laughs at it.
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He doesn't get all offended
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that we're laughing at something silly
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that he said wrong
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or whatever.
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We laugh at it and we make it a positive experience.
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My son thinks it's hilarious when he accidentally says the wrong word, for example.
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And that's how we need to be as language learners.
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Okay?
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We need to uh laugh at ourselves, be humble,
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not expect to be uh really good
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and um expect to be able to say everything we want to say naturally
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from the beginning.
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It doesn't work like that.
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We need to humble ourselves and understand that we need help.
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We need to get corrected.
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We need to ask other people for help perhaps when we're learning a language.
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We need to not take ourselves too seriously.
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And like I said, we need to laugh at our mistakes.
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Okay?
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If you can't laugh at your mistakes,
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language learning is not going to be fun.
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Okay?
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It's going to be pretty stressful.
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And when language learning is stressful,
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it's often not effective. uh you often don't progress the way you would like
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to progress.
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So laugh at yourself.
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Be like a small child except
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that uh you uh are not at the level
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as other people or
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as native speakers.
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Okay, all of that is important.
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All right, humility.
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Lastly, a good language learner is willing to challenge themselves.
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Okay?
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They need to be able to use content that is actually challenging for them.
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Okay?
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Content that's a little above your level,
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that contains things that are hard to understand perhaps.
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Uh and you do this so that you can reach that level.
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It's like going to the gym.
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If you always lift the same amount of weight because it's comfortable for you,
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then you're not going to get stronger and lift heavier weight.
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You have to put more weight on the bar
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or whatever and try
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that even though it's challenging in order to become accustomed to
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that new weight.
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The same thing goes for language learning.
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Okay, you need to challenge yourself
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and uh use content that's a little bit harder than what you're comfortable with
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and that will get you accustomed to content at
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that level.
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Okay.
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Uh, a really practical example of this is
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that many people just use my normal podcast episodes
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or perhaps they use uh my YouTube videos in
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which I speak slowly
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and they refuse to start listening to more advanced content. they refuse to listen
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to my advanced episodes,
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for example, or they just put that off and say,
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"I'll I'll do that later.
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I'll do that next year."
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Right?
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And they don't do what they should be doing,
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which is challenge challenging themselves to actually um get accustomed to what fast English
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sounds like.
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Okay?
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If that's your case, if you're comfortable with uh the way I'm talking now,
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if you're comfortable with my podcast episodes and you just want to stay here,
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that's going to cause your improvement to um go slowly.
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Okay?
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It's going to cause you to um not progress
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as quickly as you would like to. uh you have to challenge yourself.
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Okay?
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So for example, if like I said, if this content is easy for you,
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start using more advanced content.
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Use my advanced episodes or use other content that is more challenging, right?
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And then of course uh you need to eventually start to listen to more
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than one person talking,
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right?
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That's what I always talk about when I talk about my US Conversations podcast.
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Uh that gives you the opportunity to listen to two people talking
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and not just one.
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It helps you become accustomed to uh
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that type of situation where there's more than one person talking.
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And even just these videos, I title them A1 or A2.
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Of course, I say things
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and I use language in these videos
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that is a little bit more challenging than A1
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or A2.
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But that's the point.
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The point of an A2 video, an A2 listening practice video,
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is to help you reach a higher level.
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Right?
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If you're at an A2 level,
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you should be listening to content that's higher than that level,
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a little bit higher,
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so that you can become accustomed to
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that higher level content
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and reach that level.
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So, we're at the end of the video.
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You know what you need to do, right?
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you either need to uh develop more an in more of an interest in
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the culture of whatever uh language you're learning in your case English.
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Uh you need to be patient, okay?
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Be humble and challenge yourself, okay?
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Use content that's a little challenging for you
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so you can reach
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that next level.
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Okay?
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So, if you want that challenging content,
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check out the links down below uh for my advanced episodes in my US
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Conversations podcast.
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Check those out.
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Those will be helpful for you.
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All right.
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Thank you all for watching this video
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and I'll talk to you in the next
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