Shadowing Practice: 5 Things I Never Do When Learning English - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You've probably been told a hundred times how to learn English, but today I want to talk to you about a few things you shouldn't be doing.
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I made all of these mistakes in the past and they made me feel anxious, stuck, and like I would never sound good enough.
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A quick disclaimer first, all of these lessons are based on my personal experience.
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If these things work for you, that is absolutely great.
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I'm here to share my journey and I really hope you will learn something useful from today's video.
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If you want to share your experience, things that you never do while learning a foreign language, you can do so in the comments.
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Alright, so the first thing I no longer do when learning English
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or any other foreign language is I don't put native speakers on a pedestal.
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When I was in high school and then my first year in college,
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I would see native speakers as those perfect beings just because they could speak English really well and that was my goal.
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I would constantly compare my accent, my pronunciation, my choice of words to theirs.
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And it created crushing anxiety every time I spoke because I was never good enough.
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My English level was never enough.
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And it's not like somebody said that to me and then I became super self-conscious about my English.
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No, for some reason, I created extremely unrealistic expectations for myself.
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My expectation was I have to sound exactly like a native speaker.
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And yes, I'm not gonna lie, in a way this perfectionism helped me, but mostly it made me fear mistakes.
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I would idolize sounding native as the only goal.
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And every time I would make a mistake, I would forget a word.
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I couldn't just ask a person like, okay, how do you say this word in English?
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No, I had to go and check this word myself because I didn't want people to think that I didn't know English.
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And so now, luckily, I was able to work on this mindset.
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And right now, in my Spanish learning journey, for example, the situation is completely different.
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I know that my accent or my mistakes, they don't make me less.
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And guys, the fact that I make mistakes in English
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or Spanish or any language I'm learning just means that I can speak more than one language.
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You know what I mean?
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Like my native language is Russian.
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And so, okay, if I make a mistake in English, if my accent is not perfect,
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it means that English is not my native language because I can speak more than just English.
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You can do something amazing.
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You can communicate in more than one language.
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And honestly, perfectionism can only take you so far.
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One day, inevitably, you'll realize that it's hurting you more than it's actually helping you.
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And that is how we move to the next thing I no longer do when learning English.
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I don't let perfectionism steal my joy.
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In the past, my perfectionism used to push me to study, to work, to do stuff, even when I was exhausted.
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To be honest, I was so disconnected from myself, from my body, because in my mind, I constantly lived in this survival mode.
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I had to study more, I had to work more, I had to do more and more and more to be successful.
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And all of that really ruined how I felt about myself.
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Like, I was never satisfied.
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No matter what I achieved in my language learning journey, for example, I always felt like it wasn't enough because it wasn't perfect enough.
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Perfectionism in general is a trap because you can always find things in absolutely anything that you don't like.
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It's gonna give us an illusion of control, but it's only an illusion.
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You know, that fear I used to have, it made speaking feel stressful instead of exciting.
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Like, I literally didn't want to talk to native speakers
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because I was too afraid that my English wasn't going to sound perfect.
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And only when I let go of that feeling, only when I made my study time more relaxing,
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did I actually start seeing real sustainable progress.
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Because yes, progress comes with mistakes, but it doesn't mean you're failing.
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It means that you're growing, you're learning something new, you're stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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And that is why, you know, there's something unfamiliar, something that you don't know, but that is completely normal.
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We can't know everything.
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Perfection is an illusion.
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Perfection was also something that I had to deal with a lot when it came to my work and my productivity.
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And one tool that helped me simplify everything
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but still get things done is AccuFlow
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and I want to say a huge thank you to them for sponsoring a portion of today's video.
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AccuFlow is one of my favorite productivity tools.
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It combines time blocking, AI planning and all of your tasks from different places in one clean organized space.
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I usually use it to plan out my week.
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I just drag my tasks directly into the calendar, color code my events, and it helps me actually stick to my plan without feeling overwhelmed.
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You can connect Gmail, Notion, Slack, and even Todoist, and all of your tasks automatically show up in one place, in what they call a universal inbox.
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So you don't need to switch between a bunch of different tabs to remember what you need to do.
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One feature I really love is their new AI co-pilot.
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It learns your habits and starts auto-scheduling your tasks based on how you work.
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And if you're someone who likes tracking your progress, AccuFlow also gives you productivity stats, so you can see how much time you're spending on different types of work,
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your language learning, and where you might be getting stuck.
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Staying consistent and making progress in English as well does come down to how you organize your time.
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And AccuFlow makes this process so easy.
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So if you want to try it for yourself, use my link in the description.
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And you'll also get access to a free one-on-one onboarding call, which is a really helpful way to set everything up and learn how the platform works.
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Okay, so the next thing I no longer do when learning foreign languages is I don't test myself constantly.
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In the past, I would always want to see what my level was at any given moment.
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Like I wanted to make sure that I was constantly improving, I was constantly progressing and so I would take any test I could find online.
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But you know, some tests are better and some tests are worse
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and so if one test would show that my level was like B2 or C1,
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I would feel so happy and then the next day I would take a different test
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and if it showed that my level was B1, I would feel crushed.
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I believed every single test.
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I took all of the results at face value.
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But so many of those tests are not accurate.
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They measure narrow skills and they make you obsess over your level instead of actually making you focus on your practice.
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So that is why right now for me, if I know that I don't need to take IELTS or TOEFL, I don't need to test myself at all.
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Like, it's fine.
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If somebody asks me, okay, what's your English level?
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What's your Spanish level?
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To be honest, I don't really care.
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That's not even important to me.
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A better test of where I'm at right now in my language learning journey is just asking myself these two questions.
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Do I understand what people say?
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And do people understand me?
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Because when I watch YouTube videos, when I listen to podcasts, I can actually analyze all of that.
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Okay, so the next thing I stopped doing when learning English is actually pretty interesting.
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I don't follow textbook order like it's law.
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Because you know, in school, you're often taught to learn English in this fixed order.
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And that mindset made me think that I wasn't ready for certain vocabulary or for certain grammar rules.
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And so with Spanish, I completely changed my approach.
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I no longer think that, you know, this grammar rule is advanced, or this grammar rule is for beginners.
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No, if I realize that I need it, because when I talk to native speakers, I need this grammar rule, I'm going to learn it.
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If I watch YouTube videos, and if I see this grammar pattern being repeated over and over again,
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it's a sign that it's time for me to learn it.
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I just think that language doesn't follow a syllabus in real life.
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We all like so many different things and if you like medicine for example and you watch those medical tv dramas,
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you will probably come across so many words that are pretty advanced.
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But if it's something that you love, if it's a part of your life, I think you should learn it.
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I'm tired of organizing my language learning in a very rigid way.
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I want some space.
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I want some room to breathe.
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I still follow the comprehensible input method in my learning
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and it actually helps me notice what grammar rules or words are being repeated over and over again.
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Alright, so the final thing I no longer do in my language learning is I don't study for the wrong metric.
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When I was younger, I was obsessed with becoming fluent.
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I chased that label of like being advanced.
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And I think because of that, I was also trying to look for this magic language learning method that would just work like this for me.
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That would make me memorize everything super fast, that would give me a shortcut, and I would just become fluent in a month or two.
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Maybe for some people this timeline is realistic, but I know that for me I need more time.
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I need to focus on the process, because if I only chase the end goal, first of all, like what is fluency?
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It is so vague, and I don't even think this goal is even real.
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Because if I was still judging myself with this perfectionist mindset in mind, I would say my English is not advanced yet.
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Like if I don't sound exactly like a native speaker, I'm a failure.
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And right now, all of those things to me just sound like the wrong metrics.
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I really don't want your language learning journey to be about chasing a goal
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because learning a language is so much more than that.
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It's so much more than just passing an exam or, you know, becoming advanced C1 or C2.
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It's about connection.
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It's about communication, expanding your mind because you're learning so many new things about a completely new culture.
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Again, it doesn't mean that I don't have language goals anymore.
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Like, I still have stuff that I want to achieve, but those things are often much deeper.
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They're very meaningful and because of that, the process which allows me to achieve those goals is extremely meaningful too.
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Alright guys, I think it's going to be it for today's video.
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If you liked it, please don't forget to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
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Today, I talked a lot about the process of learning a new language
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and I know a lot of you guys struggle with staying consistent.
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Sometimes I do too and
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that is why I created a YouTube video where I share all the little things
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that you can do every day to stay consistent.
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They honestly don't even feel like you're studying and they're not going to take any more of your time.
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So if you want to learn how to stay consistent in your language journey, I highly recommend watching this video.
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Just click right here and I'll see you there.
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