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What are the most common myths that my students say that I disagree with?
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Watch until the end to find out.
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People think that listening and speaking levels should be the same or they are the same.
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That is crazy.
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I posted this video just talking in English for 20 minutes and saying that if you understand this, your listening is advanced.
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And I got a lot of comments saying, I'm intermediate, I'm B1.
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Even people saying I'm beginner, which is not true, but I understood everything.
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And I always have to remind you guys that your listening ability is higher than you're speaking.
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That is the case even for native speakers.
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There's no way around it.
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That's just the way that language in the human brain works.
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I've talked about this before.
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Even native speakers, we understand so much of the language that we don't speak ourselves.
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My passive vocabulary is through the roof.
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My active vocabulary is extremely limited.
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Listening is easy.
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It's the speaking that's hard.
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And it's the same thing for me in Spanish or Portuguese.
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So stop expecting your speaking to be at the same level as you're listening.
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This is probably one of the most iconic myths that so many people believe.
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And that is that you have to go to another country to learn or become fluent in a language.
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I am living proof of that.
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I've never been to Brazil, but I understand almost all Brazilian Portuguese that I hear.
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My speaking level is nowhere near my listening ability, but I can still have a conversation with someone.
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But I've never been to Brazil.
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I've talked to some Brazilians online on the internet.
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I've watched Brazilian content.
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I've put myself in a bubble of that language on the internet, but I've never been to the country.
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And that's the whole point.
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It's 2025.
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You can simulate being in the country better with the internet than actually being in the country.
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For years, I taught English classes online.
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I had conversation classes with students over the phone.
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I feel like at least half of them already lived in the United States or Canada.
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Some of them have been living there for years
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and they still contacted me because they weren't actually getting enough speaking experience in their real life living in that country.
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Even people who had jobs there and co-workers who are native speakers.
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And even if somebody does talk to you, they're not going to correct your mistakes.
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They're not going to help you like a teacher would.
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But this is just the harsh reality of moving to another country.
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The United States is also extremely multicultural, so nobody's surprised to meet a foreigner there.
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Nobody's impressed when you're learning English or you speak English, and people aren't going to talk to you just so you can improve your English.
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Everybody thinks that they'll just go to another country and they'll just become fluent.
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There's people that have been living there for decades that don't speak the language very well.
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In your home country, there are probably many foreigners who have lived there for a long time
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that don't speak your language very well.
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It's 2025.
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You got to learn how to use the internet.
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You got to learn how to learn things by yourself using the internet.
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We have artificial intelligence now.
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We've had YouTube for years.
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We have language learning apps.
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We have Netflix.
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We have websites where you can talk to native speakers.
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You can literally have conversation classes with native speakers for a fee, of course, but still it's an option.
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If you want to move to another country, that's fine, but don't do it just to learn a language.
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You need to talk to native speakers to practice or improve your speaking.
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I studied Spanish to be able to have a conversation in Spanish.
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Then when I felt confident to have a conversation in Spanish, then I started talking to people.
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I started talking to native speakers.
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Practice speaking by yourself. Be creative.
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Practice shadowing.
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Ask yourself questions.
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The possibilities are endless.
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The myth that you can speak a language well or be fluent after using an app,
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a course, or going to a school or an academy or whatever, a class.
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Don't get me wrong, you can learn a lot with those resources.
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I encourage those resources.
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If the teacher's a really good teacher if the apps are good.
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Absolutely.
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The apps are really ideal for beginner students.
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But the point of the app is to get you to an intermediate level.
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I see so many videos on YouTube like, do the language learning apps really work?
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And every time I see one of those videos, I'm like, why would you ever think that you can become fluent with a language learning app?
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That was never the point.
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The point was to go from knowing nothing, total beginner, to intermediate.
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That is the point of the language learning app so
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that you don't have to waste a teacher's time learning the basic vocabulary.
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It's to give you a foundation in the language.
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It's just to get to intermediate level.
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That's it.
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As soon as you're at an intermediate level, why are you using language learning apps?
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Stop it.
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I've talked about it before how I think a lot of courses are scams.
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They're ways for people to make money.
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They're not all bad, but most of them are a waste of money.
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Buying a course is just a way to support whoever is selling the course, if you like them and you want to support them, because all of that information is available for free.
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The information already exists on the internet.
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So it kind of takes advantage of people who don't know that.
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They don't really understand how to use the internet very well, or they just don't really want to think.
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They just want to shut off their brain.
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But if that's your perspective, well, you're going to have a hard time learning a language
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if you just want to be lazy and shut off your brain.
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The autodidactic process starts when you decide to learn the language.
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So it's not just about learning the language by yourself, it's also acquiring the resources by yourself.
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And you can do it all for free.
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However, there are some great teachers out there.
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There are some people who really know what they're talking about
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and they're experts on particular topics and they have a really great way of teaching.
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And if you like them, fantastic, go for it.
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But don't say I didn't warn you.
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Pronunciation doesn't matter that much.
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This is funny because I actually say pronunciation is the number one thing.
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It is the most important thing.
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The reason is that if your grammar is wrong, or maybe you use the wrong word or the wrong verb tense or whatever,
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we can maybe still understand what you're trying to say.
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But if we don't even understand what words you're saying because we don't understand your pronunciation, then we're totally lost.
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We can't even guess at what you mean.
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I remember one time I had a very advanced Indian student.
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I don't think that he made any grammar mistakes.
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His English sounded very advanced, very fluent.
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But the problem is that I had a hard time understanding what he was saying.
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The whole time I had to hyper focus.
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I had to really, really listen.
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And sometimes I didn't understand what he was saying just because of the pronunciation.
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And that's not the case when I listen to people who are from Scotland or Ireland or, you know, most native English speakers, I can understand.
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Some people are concerned with losing their accent.
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They say, I don't want to lose my accent.
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I like my accent.
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Fantastic.
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Don't worry about it.
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You're not going to lose your accent.
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Basically, every student I've ever heard has a slight foreign accent.
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We can tell they're not a native speaker.
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You don't have to try to keep your accent.
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Trust me, it will not go away.
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For most of you, it will not go away.
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Just focus on pronouncing clearly.
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Yes, you have to learn how to make new sounds that you've never made before.
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Yes, you have to try to imitate native speakers.
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You're never going to sound exactly like native speakers all the time.
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That's okay.
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But you have to try to imitate them.
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You have to try because if you don't try, it's going to be hard for us to understand you.
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I've heard people say, yeah, but when gringos speak Spanish badly, we still understand them.
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That's not true.
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I've heard a lot of gringos whose Spanish is not that great, and I've seen Spanish speakers struggle to understand them.
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I've seen Spanish speakers struggle to understand other Spanish speakers from other countries.
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A lot of people live in a bubble where they don't have a lot of contact with foreign people, and so when they hear somebody with a little bit different pronunciation or accent, it is hard for them.
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You can evaluate your listening ability with movies, TV shows, even music I've heard.
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I already made a video about this.
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If you haven't seen my video, why you don't understand movies and TV in English, you have to watch that.
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And I tell you not to base your listening ability off those things.
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There's a long list of reasons why movies
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and TV shows are harder than listening to people talk in real life and they're not as realistic.
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There are even reasons that I even forgot to mention in the video.
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I gave you seven reasons but there's actually more.
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You can learn a lot with movies and TV shows
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and they can really help you but I promise that even when you think you're advanced, even when you think you're fluent, there's always going to be movies and TV shows or certain moments
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or conversations in movies and TV shows that you don't understand very well.
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And music, forget about it.
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Native speakers don't understand music.
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I think I didn't even understand any lyrics in English until I was like 10 years old.
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Native speakers are constantly looking up lyrics because we don't understand what they're saying.
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Music is extremely different than talking.
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Not to mention there are tons of sounds that are distracting, making it difficult to hear correctly.
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I recommend basing your listening ability off real life, real life experiences, real life conversations with native speakers.
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You can go on those websites where you can have conversation classes with native speakers.
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Just Google it, conversation classes with native speakers.
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I have an affiliate link for italki.com where you can get $10 off your second class.
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I'll put that in the comments.
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Or you can watch YouTube videos like this.
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YouTube videos where somebody's talking to the camera, those are pretty good for evaluating your listening ability.
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They're not the most realistic thing because we do cut out pauses
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and we make it a little bit faster a little more perfect
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but it's definitely better than movies
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and tv shows you can also listen to podcasts you need
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to stop translating in your head this is a great myth
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it is totally false people are obsessed with this idea of
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stopping translating in their head like it's a bad thing i
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need to stop i need to stop translating i would actually argue that you need to translate better.
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It's not that you need to stop translating, it's that you need to learn how to translate better.
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Sometimes you can translate phrases literally between two languages, but even in those cases,
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I've seen people translate wrong just because they're not conjugating verbs correctly
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or they're not really thinking about what it is that they're saying.
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So don't stop translating, just translate better.
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No, but also another reason you need to totally forget about needing to stop translating is because it's absolutely necessary.
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Over time, as you progress, as you advance, you will naturally think more and more in that language and translate less and less.
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But that happens naturally.
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You can't force that.
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You have to translate in your head in order to get there.
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But what you can do is you can make a mental note every time you realize
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that you have to think differently in another language.
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So if you notice that in this case you shouldn't translate literally between the two languages, you need to make a mental note of that.
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For example, in Portuguese they say it like this.
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In English they say it like this.
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It's a different way of thinking.
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It's a different way of expressing the same idea.
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So in Portuguese we think like this, but I need to think like this in English.
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And so then you practice using this phrase and thinking in this way.
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But it's not about forcing yourself to stop translating.
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It's just about expanding the way that you think to incorporate these new ways of thinking in a new language.
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Myth number nine is that you can become fluent in a few months.
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You should already know that that's a scam.
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Learn English in three months, become fluent in three months, become fluent in six months.
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You can learn a lot in a few months.
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You can learn a lot in three months, a lot in six months.
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You're not going to be fluent.
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You're not going to be fluent fluent.
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It takes a long time.
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It takes a lot of exposure and experiences.
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British English is the original or the real English.
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People sometimes say this about Spanish from Spain as well.
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The reality is nobody speaks the original English.
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The original English is dead.
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It's been dead for a long time.
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We often say British English, United States English, Canadian English.
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We are generalizing.
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In England, there are multiple ways of speaking English.
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There are different accents, different words used, but no, the English they speak over there in 2025 is not how they sounded a hundred years ago.
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I had a comment on one of my YouTube videos saying that people in the 1950s in the U.S.
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spoke English very well.
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And then after that, it just went downhill.
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But I said people in the 1700s would say that people in the 1950s spoke English horribly,
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very strange English, and vice versa.
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So it's all relative.
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It's all subjective.
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My grandparents had their own slang that their grandparents didn't understand.
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Language is always changing.
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And you could get all mad about it, or you could just relax and go with the flow and embrace it and enjoy it.
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Nothing is permanent.
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Permanence is an illusion.
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And at least in my family, it doesn't feel like it's declining.
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I don't think my grandparents spoke English better than I do.
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They just have a different accent and use some different phrases.
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That's it.
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I've never heard anybody in real life speak like old movies.
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Even my great grandmother, who was alive for part of my childhood, she didn't speak like old movies.
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Anyways, the point is, if you're wasting your time comparing dialects, trying to act like one is better than the other, you're wasting your time.
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Your priorities are all messed up.
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There are much bigger things to focus on in life, my friend.
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It's okay to have preferences.
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For example, I prefer the Spanish in Hispanic America than in Spain.
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That's just my personal preference.
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But I'm not going to say that it's objectively better.
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It's only subjectively better.
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It's my opinion.
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Moral of the story basically to summarize this whole video is just breathe, inhale, exhale.
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You're on a language learning journey.
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You're doing great.
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Stop worrying so much.
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Stop trying to constantly evaluate your level.
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Just focus on the journey.
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Just focus on the learning and learn how to use the internet.
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I could write books about everything I've learned on the internet.
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And remember, anything that you want to improve, the only way to improve it is just to do it.
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How can I improve my English? Do it. Do English.
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Do more English.
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How can I improve my speaking?
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Speak.
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Speak English.
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How can I improve my listening?
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Listen.
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Listen to English.
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Do it every day.
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Doesn't matter if it's good or bad.
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Doesn't matter if you make mistakes.
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None of this matters forget all of
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that throw it in the trash doesn't matter stop trying to
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measure yourself just do it do it thank you for coming to my ted talk
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if you enjoyed this video please write cotton candy surprise in
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the comments just for fun i don't know write something fun i appreciate you for watching to the end
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and i will see you in the next video until next time bye
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 263 frasi e 2825 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 15:50. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 179 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| translate verbo | /tɹænzˈleɪt/ | tradurre |
| fluent aggettivo | /ˈfluənt/ | fluido |
| accent sostantivo | /ækˈsɛnt/ | accento |
| myth sostantivo | /mɪθ/ | mito |
| intermediate aggettivo | /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/ | intermedio |
| pronunciation sostantivo | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | pronuncia, pronunzia |
| resource sostantivo | /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ | risorsa |
| phrase sostantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | espressione, polirematica |
| evaluate verbo | /ɪˈvaljʊeɪt/ | valutare |
| vocabulary sostantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabolario |
| beginner sostantivo | /bəˈɡɪnɚ/ | principiante, debuttante |
| naturally avverbio | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | naturalmente |
| lyrics sostantivo | /ˈlɪɹ.ɪks/ | testo, parole |
| correctly avverbio | /kəˈɹɛk(t).li/ | correttamente |
| grammar sostantivo | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | grammatica |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| go away verbo | partire, andarsene |
| cut out verbo | smetterla, finirla |
| find out verbo | scoprire |
| get off verbo | scendere |
| mess up verbo | incasinare |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 99 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I've, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: myth /mɪθ/, breathe /bɹiːð/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, trash /tɹæʃ/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come translate, fluent, accent.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso | have been living |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've talked · I've never been · I've watched |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | beginner, which is · people who had · people who don |
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