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To get fluent in English, you need lots of input Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours of input.
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And to do this, English has to be a habit.
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It has to be something that you do every day.
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and it has to be automatic It has to be something that you don't really think about because
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to do it for long enough that you can reach a high level.
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It has to be easy and it has to be Effortless.
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Now, there has been so much written about how to create habits and how to build habits.
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And I'm not going to repeat all of that because,
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like I said, you can go and research these sorts of things from people who know a lot more about
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the science and about the way the brain works.
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than I do.
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So today I'm just going to tell you how I made learning Spanish A habit? and hopefully,
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You can take something from this And maybe it will help you to make English more of a habit in your life.
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First of all, I listen to two hours of Spanish every day and that might sound like a lot of time,
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because it is, but I want to reach a high level of Spanish.
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quick.
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So I want to do it for as long as I can each day.
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So that's why I do two hours.
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But I didn't start.
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at two hours.
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I started small.
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and built up.
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So When you start making English a habit, I would...
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Start small, start with Five minutes.
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Just say today, I'm going to listen to five minutes of English.
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and do it.
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and something that worked really well for me was that I would do it at the same time every day.
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So after I finished work, I would sit down with my laptop, and listen to Spanish.
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and that is all I would do.
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I would do five minutes and this creates a reward in the brain because our brains love moving towards a goal.
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So if you can do something that is small,
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it still gives your brain that positive reinforcement that it needs to go and do it again.
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And the good thing about starting small is because
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it takes less activation energy you don't need to really motivate yourself to start because it's only five minutes.
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So you go and do it.
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Once you do this, once, twice, three times, you will naturally want to do more.
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So, Start small And then let the natural
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process of wanting to do more take over let that happen and you will soon find that you want to do.
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More than five minutes.
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and it will build from there.
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Now it's easy to say just do or watch your comprehensible input,
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watch your English at the same time every day and do it in one go.
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But that's not really realistic because we do so many
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different things in our day it's not always possible to have the same time every day
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available especially when you want to listen to a lot right because if I'm listening to two hours of Spanish
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I'm not going to do it all in one go.
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something that has worked really well for me is...
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I can't remember the name, the technical name, but it's basically doing Spanish while I do something that is already a habit.
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It's pairing Spanish with an activity that I already do.
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So I walk a lot so when I walk I listen to Spanish as well because Why not?
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What else am I doing?
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So if you can take a habit that you already have and then listen to English while you do it.
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That is such a good way.
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of, getting the repetition of listening to English doing it over and over.
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and helping you to form those habits.
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And again, the repetition here makes it automatic and that is what is so powerful about habits is because
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The first time that you do something, it requires effort.
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but the repetition makes it automatic and it removes that effort So you just do it.
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automatically without really having to think about it and with Spanish it's like
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that now for me I don't wake up every day and think "Oh wow,
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how am I going to get two hours of Spanish done?" It's just something that happens because I've built the habits.
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that mean as I go throughout my day, over the day.
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I gradually reach that two hour mark.
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I think something that's also quite useful in helping you to build habits is If you take a big goal,
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and you say, okay, I want to be conversational in English by this time Okay, how many hours of English do I need to listen to?
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To reach that, And then you say, Okay, so when do I want to reach that goal?
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then you can break it down and you can see exactly how much time every day, you will need to listen to English.
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And If that is something that you think you can do, That's great then go for it.
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But if it's something that you don't think you can do, That's fine you just might need to extend your timeline
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and realise that it might take a little bit longer then you think And the reason I talk about that
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in relation to habits is because if you have a big goal in mind if you have this outcome
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that you can see yourself doing I think that helps you be motivated to build those habits in the first place.
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If you have an end goal in mind and you have a timeline,
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I think it's really important to have a timeline in mind because it helps you to have realistic Expectations.
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and it can keep you motivated to keep going every day,
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especially before You've built those habits because at the start before you've built those habits, you do need a little bit more motivation.
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But then once you've got the habits, they really do a lot of the work for you and you can move towards your goal
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without really having to think too much about it.
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I would also recommend setting your target every day of how much you want to listen to,
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to slightly less then what you think you can do.
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It took me a long time to reach a point where I can listen to two hours a day and
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At the start, I told myself, "Oh, I'm going to do two hours a day
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and it's going to be great and I'm going to be able to improve really quickly.
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But I found out that it was too much.
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It was too much.
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And at the start, I think it's important if you have a lower goal, than what you think you can do because...
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Sorry if you can hear the plane passing overhead.
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but If you have a goal that is less than what you think you can do.
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Once you hit it, You can keep going, there's no problem there. But...
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If you have a goal that you're constantly not hitting, you're consistently falling short of that goal.
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It can be quite demotivating and
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I think it's really important to have the that positive reinforcement of successfully hitting your small goal every day
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Even if that goal is smaller maybe than what you think you can do, Again, I don't know loads about the brain,
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but I feel like it almost tricks you into um it basically just releases these Good feelings.
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inside you And I think it's really worth tapping into those feelings and tapping into that extra motivation.
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So don't set a goal that is too high.
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But by all means, If you are hitting your goal, go ahead and increase it because you'll end up speaking English even faster.
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I hope you found this video useful and remember start small,
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Have a timeline in mind have a goal in mind and
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Listen to English while you do something else that you normally do.
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And I think these things will help you to build a habit
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of listening to English that will help you to become a player.
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So, Thank you for watching.
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and I will see you in the next video.
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Per chi è questo video?
Questo video è perfetto per chi vuole trasformare l'apprendimento dell'inglese in un'abitudine quotidiana, soprattutto per gli studenti intermedi che cercano di superare la barriera della fluenza. Se il tuo obiettivo è parlare inglese con più confidenza e rendere lo studio meno "forzato", queste strategie sono per te: non ci sono trucchi, solo metodi pratici basati sulla vita reale.
Parole e espressioni da rubare
Ecco alcune frasi utili dal video, con una rapida spiegazione:
- Input comprensibile: Contenuto in inglese che puoi capire anche se non conosci tutte le parole (es. video con sottotitoli o conversazioni semplici).
- Activation energy (energia di attivazione): Il "spinto" mentale necessario per iniziare un'attività. Minore è, più facile è iniziare!
- Pairing (accoppiamento): Metodo di associare l'inglese a un'abitudine già esistente (es. ascoltare un podcast mentre fai la spesa).
Come migliorare la pronuncia: shadowing in inglese
Il video parla di creare abitudini, ma per migliorare la pronuncia inglese, c'è un metodo chiave: il shadowing (o shadow speech). Si tratta di ripetere immediatamente dopo un parlante inglese, imitando intonazione, ritmo e accento. Ecco come usarlo con le strategie del video:
- Start small (parti piccolo): Inizia con 5 minuti al giorno, durante un'attività già abituale (es. mentre ti pettini i capelli o fai la colazione). Usa un audio semplice e ripeti ogni frase.
- Accoppia con abitudini: Se cammini ogni mattina, ascolta un dialogo inglese e fai il shadow speak mentre cammini. Così, non devi trovare tempo extra!
Il segreto è che il shadowing in inglese diventa automatico se lo fai con cose che già fai. Non preoccuparti se alla fine ti sbagli: l'importante è praticare regolarmente. Con il tempo, la pronuncia diventerà più naturale, e l'inglese diventerà una parte del tuo giorno, non un compito!
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | has been · has worked · I've built |
| Possibilità con “might / may” might/may + verbo — qualcosa di possibile ma non certo | might sound · might need · might take |
| Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ing | start making · love moving |
| Obbligo: must / have to / need to dire che qualcosa è necessario | has to be · needs to go · need to really motivate |
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.