शैडोइंग अभ्यास: Learn English with Jill | How to Expand Your Interests & Talk About More Topics - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

Hi everyone and welcome back.

This is episode two of my English learning podcast and I am really happy you're here as you know.

Today I want to talk about something

that I think is one of the biggest differences between knowing English

and speaking English and it's something I even learned myself when I was learning Spanish.

So the problem is you can study English for years.

You can learn thousands of vocabulary words.

You can study all the grammar.

You can get really good grades on English tests.

And you can still have a conversation with someone and suddenly think, I don't know what to say.

Or worse, I don't know this word.

I can't remember it right now.

or I understand everything this person is saying, but I don't know how to answer.

If that sounds in any way familiar,

I want you to listen to this episode because I don't think the answer is simply learn more vocabulary.

I think the answer is learn how to talk about more things.

And I'm going to explain what I mean.

If you listened to my first podcast, you heard me talk about learning Spanish and eventually living in Spain.

I started learning Spanish when I was 15 years old.

I studied it in high school.

Then I studied it in college.

I did my homework.

I studied vocabulary.

I studied the grammar and I got really good grades.

I was actually pretty dang good at conjugating verbs.

I kind of loved it.

It was like math for me.

I loved it.

Give me a verb and tell me to conjugate it.

I was ready.

I could conjugate like all the verbs.

I knew my Spanish grammar and then I got to Spain and And suddenly,

I couldn't understand anything.

Like, seriously, I was, I mean, I was lost.

It was completely different.

I remember being in the subway station and looking around thinking, what is happening?

I couldn't understand what people were saying.

And I couldn't even read everything, which was really surprising to me.

I remember realizing that knowing Spanish in the classroom was not the same thing as actually using Spanish in Spain.

Here's one example that I still think about.

People would ask me a very normal question.

How long have you been here?

And I would just freeze.

I knew all kinds of Spanish grammar and I had studied it for years,

but that particular question, I just could not understand it for the life of me.

And that taught me something really important.

Real conversations are unpredictable.

You don't get to choose the vocabulary that someone else uses you don't get to choose the grammar they use.

You don't even get to choose the subject they're going to talk to you about.

So that's exactly why I want you to broaden the things you can talk about in English.

So imagine that you're learning English.

Just imagine.

Maybe you can talk about your family.

You can say, I have two children.

My daughter is 20 years old.

My son lives in Brazil.

And maybe you can talk about your job.

I work in a hospital.

Or I work from home.

I've been working there for five years.

Fantastic.

Maybe you can talk about your favorite food but what happens

when someone asks you about something else what happens

when someone says what did you do last weekend or where did you go on vacation or

what kind of sports do you like what do you think about this what's your favorite thing to cook?

What kind of car do you drive?

What are you going to do next summer?

Like, oh my gosh, suddenly you need new, completely different vocabulary.

And that's not a bad thing.

That's actually the point.

Because every time you talk about a new subject,

you're going to discover words you don't know and then you learn them that's how your english grows

i want to make something pretty clear you don't have to

be an expert on a subject to talk about it you

don't have to know everything about cars to talk about cars you don't have to be an expert on soccer,

football, we call it soccer.

To talk about soccer, you don't have to know everything about cooking to talk about food.

And you don't have to know everything about gardening to talk about your garden.

You just need to be able to communicate.

Sometimes the best way to communicate is when you ask questions.

This is one of the most important English skills you can learn.

Ask questions.

Let's say someone is talking to you about something you don't know.

You can say, I've never heard of that.

Or I don't know what that means.

What is that?

How does that work?

why do you like it how did how did you get interested in that okay

so now you're having a conversation you don't need to know

everything you need to know how to keep the conversation going

and this is actually one of my biggest beliefs about learning a language if you want to become a better English speaker,

you have to get to know someone.

Think about your closest friends.

You probably talk about everything.

You talk about your family.

You talk about your job, about food, about problems, your vacations.

You talk about current events.

You talk about your favorite actors and actresses.

You talk about things that happened yesterday and that will happen tomorrow.

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You talk about things you like that you don't like.

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You tell the same stories over and over.

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And that's actually really good for language learning because you're using the same language repeatedly over and over.

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You hear yourself saying similar things.

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You hear the other person saying similar things and eventually those sentences become automatic.

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That's how I improved my Spanish.

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I had American friends who were also learning Spanish and we spoke Spanish together all the time.

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I found some friends that I really liked

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and I spent a lot of time with them and I spoke a lot of Spanish.

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I moved in with Spanish roommates.

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That was hard but I learned so much.

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I did my homework.

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I studied.

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But I also talked.

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And I tried to talk a lot.

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And I think that made a huge difference.

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This is also why I teach the way I do on my live classes.

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I don't want you to memorize, you know, some random vocabulary words or phrases.

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I want you to learn how to use the word in an entire sentence like this.

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I exercise every day.

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That's it.

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Your verb is exercise.

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So let's work with it.

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I exercise every day.

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I exercised yesterday.

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I will exercise tomorrow.

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I didn't exercise today.

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Now, the question, did you exercise yesterday?

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Do you exercise every day?

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Um, we do this every day in my life.

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You're not learning one sentence.

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You're learning how the sentence works.

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You're learning how to move that idea through various situations,

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different timelines, yesterday, tomorrow, today.

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That is so much more useful to me than memorizing a list of vocabulary words because when you're actually speaking,

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you need to be able to do something with the language

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and you need to be able to recognize what the person is saying that you are speaking to.

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So here's another thing I want you to do.

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Talk about your real life.

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Don't only study sentences because they're in a textbook.

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If you cook every day, learn how to talk about cooking.

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If you play soccer, learn how to talk about soccer.

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If you have kids, learn how to talk about your kids.

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That should be easy.

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If you work in an office, learn how to talk about your job.

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If you love to garden, learn gardening vocabulary.

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If you love to gossip about your neighbors, learn gossiping vocabulary and then share the tea.

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If you love makeup like I do, learn makeup vocabulary.

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If you love to do your hair like I do, learn how to do hair vocabulary.

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Traveling, travel vocabulary, cars, movies, music, you get the idea.

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Your interests are incredible language learning tools.

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The more experience you have in life, the more experiences you can grab from here and there.

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Your vocabulary will be huge.

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You already have something to say.

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You just need the English words to say it with.

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And then learn some things you don't know about.

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You don't have to become an expert.

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We can't be perfect at everything, they tell me.

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But if you never talk about something, you're never going to learn the vocabulary for it.

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So let's think about soccer.

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People all over the world love soccer.

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Believe me, I found this out this summer.

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I mean, I knew it was true, but when y 'all came to the United States, it was like, whoa.

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I was in New York during the Brazil game.

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I was down in the square with all the Brazilians.

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It was so cool.

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You might already know words like goal, player, team, coach, game, win, lose.

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Should I slow down?

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You tell me in the comments.

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But then maybe you start watching more soccer in English and suddenly you're learning completely new words.

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You're learning phrases.

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You're hearing how people describe the game.

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You're hearing how fans talk about it.

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You're hearing how commentators talk about it.

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I'm sorry, commentators.

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Commentators talk about it.

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You're learning English because you're interested in something.

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And I mean, that is pretty cool if you ask me.

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One of the most useful sentences you can learn in English is...

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Are you ready?

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I don't know.

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And you think I'm kidding, but I'm not.

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I don't know.

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I don't know what that means.

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I've never heard of that before.

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I don't know much about that.

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That is not bad English.

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That is useful English.

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If someone starts talking to you about something you don't understand, You don't have to pretend.

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Just ask, what does that mean?

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Can you explain that?

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Why is that important?

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How does that work?

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Who is that?

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Where is that?

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You know, people love talking and teaching, I think, especially in America.

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We love to help people.

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So questions are your companions.

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Questions are your friends.

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Who, what, when, where, why, how.

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Learning how to ask questions will help you to keep the conversation moving.

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I also want to take a little pressure off of you.

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There are things in English that you simply don't need to worry about yet.

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I hear English learners worrying about complicated grammar all the time.

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Sometimes, and this happens all the time,

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sometimes students want to understand every possible tense before they feel comfortable speaking it.

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You don't need to do that.

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You don't need to understand every advanced grammar structure before you can have a conversation.

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You do not need to know how to use.

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I have been hearing a lot about,

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you know, the musical words lately.

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You do not need to know that.

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You just need useful English.

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You need English that you're going to use every day and you need to practice it.

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Practice using it.

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That's much more important.

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And while we're talking about learning English, let's talk about something else.

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Idioms.

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You know, it's a piece of cake.

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Break a leg.

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Let's do it hand in hand.

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I know these expressions are often taught in English classes.

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Like, teachers love teaching that for some reason.

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And yes, they're interesting and And they're part of the American culture, but that's kind of it.

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They're just about the culture.

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Don't prioritize them.

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Don't even worry about them.

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I don't want you spending your limited study time memorizing expressions that you may never actually use.

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I want you to learn English that helps you communicate.

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If an idiom comes up naturally, that is the beauty of an idiom because we don't use them often.

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We use them in very particular situations.

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When you are in the situation, you hear someone say, oh, that break a leg.

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You'll understand in that moment what it means and

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when to use it so that you can use it when you end up in that situation some other time.

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So, but don't think.

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I can't speak English because I don't know 500 American idioms.

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You absolutely can.

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So here's what I want you to do this week.

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I want you to choose five subjects,

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five completely different subjects, and I want you to learn how to talk about each one.

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So I have some ideas you can use.

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You can talk about your family.

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Talk about one person in your family who is important to you.

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Who are they?

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Where do they live?

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What do they do?

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Why are they important to you?

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Number two, your favorite food.

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Don't just say, I like pizza.

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Like every American ever.

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Tell me about it.

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When do you eat it?

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Who makes it?

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Where do you buy it?

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Why do you like it?

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Number three, a vacation you took.

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Can we dream about vacations, please?

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Tell me your vacation so I can live.

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The word is vicariously.

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That's a big word.

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vicariously.

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So I can live vicariously through you.

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I can dream about going on your vacation. Where did you go?

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Who did you go with?

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What happened?

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What did you like?

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What didn't you like.

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Number four, somewhere you want to go.

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Where do you want to travel?

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Why?

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Who would you go with?

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What would you do there?

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Number five, a difficult situation.

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This one might be harder, but guess what?

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We all have difficult situations, so we can all come up with words for them.

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Think about something difficult that happened to you, or I like to say that you lived through.

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Maybe you had a problem at work.

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You missed a flight.

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You lost something.

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You had a problem with a friend.

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Learn how to explain what happened.

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And here is the important part.

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don't just write the sentences say them out loud talk to

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yourself talk to a friend talk in whatsapp in the community

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and in the whatsapp community listen to other people come back try again that's how you build your english

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and if you're scared or embarrassed

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um just think just think it's okay to not know enough about vocabulary it's okay to not understand everything that is said

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i understand i was that person learning spanish i was

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so shy i hated attention i didn't want people looking at me

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and and speaking another language made me feel very very very uncomfortable oh it was

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so hard i still feel that feeling you have to break through

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that wall and you have to talk

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while you're scared you can say can you give you can

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say simple give me a minute let me think I don't know that word.

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How do you say that?

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And then just keep going.

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If you go to the grocery store and you need to ask somebody something, why is that so hard?

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Just ask.

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And if you see someone you know, say hi.

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And if you need to talk to your kid's teacher, just do it.

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They want to talk to you.

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You know, keep that in mind too.

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They want to talk to you.

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If you're meeting your boyfriend's mom and you're terrified, just talk to her.

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It's okay.

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If you're talking to your professor, just talk.

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You don't have to sound perfect.

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You just have to communicate.

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Get the words out so uh one last thing

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and remember um what i learned in spain i had studied

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spanish for years i got great grades i could conjugate the

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verbs i could do the homework real life gave me sentences i had never practiced

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and that's what i want you to prepare for don't only learn english for your English class.

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Learn English for your life.

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Learn how to talk about your family, your food, your job, your hobbies,

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your vacations, your problems, dreams,

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interests, all the things that you know and so many things that you don't know.

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Talk about everything because the more things you can talk about, the more English you will naturally learn,

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and you don't have to learn it all at once.

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I mean, how can you?

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Impossible.

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Just choose one new subject, learn some words, build some sentences,

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ask the questions, and talk.

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That's your job so this week choose your five subjects practice talking about them

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practice writing about them and

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if you want to practice with thousands of other English learners come find me on WhatsApp link in bio

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and remember I teach live on TikTok talk every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a .m.

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Pacific time.

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That is my big, big classroom.

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You can join me here on YouTube at the same time with my little classroom, but we're growing.

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Come practice with me.

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We learn real life sentences and we speak English every classroom,

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every class time so you participate you make mistakes you ask questions we talk

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and that's how you learn that's how you become a better english speaker

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so i will see you next week keep practicing

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and remember your english doesn't have to be perfect you just

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have to use it i will see you next time thank you bye

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