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Hi, today I want to talk about 10 things you shouldn't do, 10 dots when it comes to language learning.

I'm not trying to put those out there as negative things

because these are things that I feel sap your confidence and confidence is so important in language learning.

And I relate it to golf.

I actually am a very poor golfer.

For my age, I'm relatively flexible, relatively strong, relatively athletic.

A lot of people who are not as athletic as I am are much better golfers.

And that's because I struggle with some of the very same issues in my golf

that I think some language learners struggle with in their language learning.

So here we go.

Number one, don't put pressure on yourself.

Don't put pressure on yourself not to speak.

Don't put pressure on yourself to speak.

Don't put pressure on yourself to speak well.

Speak when you want to and let it all come out.

Rely on your instincts.

Don't put pressure on yourself.

Don't think you're going to master the basics.

We often hear this, just master the basics, as if there's something basic, whether it be a vocabulary item or a structure in the language.

First of all, you can't master it.

It doesn't prevent you from acquiring more words, from acquiring more familiarity with the language.

It's a bit, again, like the golf swing.

Whenever I try to have a perfect golf swing, try to remember all the things that I'm supposed to do, I play more poorly.

If I just swing naturally with confidence, I do better.

In fact, one of the things that triggered this video was an audiobook that my son suggested to me,

because we played golf yesterday in Palm Springs and it didn't do very well as usual.

And he said, you've got to listen to this book by Dr. Bob Rotella, where he talks about the psychological side of golf,

where you can't expect to be perfect all the time.

And so don't try to master the basics.

Acquire the language through listening and reading, as I say all the time here.

And then when you have a chance to speak, just go with what you got.

And I am guilty of doing the same in golf, of not doing this.

But now that I've been listening to this audiobook, I'm going to try my best.

And we are golfing today, and I'm going to try my best to just go with what I've got.

Whatever happens, accept it.

So don't try to master the basics.

It's a futile exercise.

It will lead to more frustration, and it'll sap your confidence.

Because, in fact, it's very difficult to master the basics.

You will continue to make mistakes with the basics for a long, long time.

And certainly, if you haven't had a lot of exposure to the language, like early on, I think it's impossible to master the basics.

Number three, don't focus on memorization.

Again, it's going to slap your confidence because we are always going to forget.

We'll put a lot of effort into a spaced repetition system or a memorization system.

And for most of us, there's undoubtedly exceptions out there and people who swear by this as a method of learning.

But I find that if the focus is on memorization, you're going to be more frustrated when you can't remember.

If the focus is on enjoying the language, acquiring the words naturally in a, not a spaced repetition system,

but a random repetition system through the content that you're listening to.

And research tends to indicate that we retain things better when we encounter them in different contexts,

rather than trying to zero in on a list of words, not to mention all of the other inconveniences with SRS,

but some people like them fine.

But I feel that it saps your confidence because you are going to forget.

So don't focus on memorization.

You're setting yourself up for frustration.

So focus on memorization.

No. Number four, don't get frustrated at what you can't do.

One of the keys to success and progress in language learning, in my opinion, is to make good use of easier material,

material with a lot of repetition, like the mini stories or even graded readers but then push yourself forward into more challenging material,

more interesting material, and don't get frustrated when you can't progress as easily, where there are words that if you're on link that are yellow

that you've looked up before and now you don't know what they mean.

Don't just stay with the easy material.

They are a stepping stone, but you have to move beyond those easy readers, graded readers, many stories, staying with learner material, staying with graded readers.

To me, that's a no -no. Number five, don't try to pursue native -like pronunciation.

It's a futile task.

You will be disappointed.

I don't use the international phonetic alphabet because if I were learning English

and I listened to Australians and I listened to people from the US South or from,

you know, Ulster, Scotland, they're all going to pronounce the vowels a little differently.

So how does that international phonetic alphabet symbol help me?

I've got to put the time into listening.

My focus is not on perfecting my pronunciation.

I never spent any time on pitch accent in Japanese, for example.

And throughout my life, I've done business with people whose native language is not English, and I hear them on television.

And if they use the language well and elegantly and eloquently, as I say, the accent almost adds a little bit of class to their English.

And I'm sure the same is true in other languages.

So don't focus too much on and having perfect pronunciation, it doesn't matter.

It can only lead to frustration.

Number six, shadowing.

I don't shadow.

I'm not saying you shouldn't shadow if you like shadowing.

You should do things that you like to do.

I tried it.

I found it frustrating.

I found that either I was listening to very easy material, like the many stories where I knew the content,

and then for a while I could shadow, but then I lost interest because it's not really meaningful to me.

Or if I'm listening to interesting content that's new to me, full of interesting information on history or whatever it might be,

I want to focus in on the meaning.

So whatever I do, I like it to be meaningful and authentic.

To me, although many people rave about shadowing, it's not something that I do.

Bear in mind that my don'ts here are not telling people what to do.

It's more a matter of, based on my experience, these are things that I don't find useful or which,

in many cases, sap my confidence and my momentum in learning the language.

But everyone doesn't have to agree with me.

Number seven, role -playing.

Role -playing is a staple of many language courses.

The idea is that we'll pretend that, you know, you are a doctor and I'm a patient

and we have an artificial conversation about that situation and we play these different roles, doctor or patient.

Personally, I don't enjoy doing these.

I think they are not authentic.

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They give you a false sense of security, which will lead to frustration because

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if you are actually in a scenario like buying a ticket at the train station

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and you have been practicing that

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and you say something to the teller at the train station

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and he or she comes back with something typically quite different then you're frustrated.

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So you're far better in my view in working on improving

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your overall level in the language in order to be able to deal with all the possible situations

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that could arrive in any given scenario.

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So trying to master the scenario is a shortcut that doesn't work.

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It distracts you from the goal, the real goal, which is to elevate your level in the language.

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And through lots of listening and reading and speaking to many different people on many different subjects,

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your overall confidence level in the language will increase and you're then in a better position to just let it go.

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Rather than as me with my golf string trying to remember what I'm supposed to say in this particular scenario.

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Next, testing.

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Don't test unless you need the test for your job or entrance into university, which is perfectly understandable.

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But if you are learning for fun, testing, whether it be a 10 -question questionnaire or an hour -long test, is a lot of pressure,

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a lot of self -doubt.

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And actually, it's not necessary.

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The only real test is when you are listening to something, do you understand?

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When you're interacting with people, do they understand you?

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Do you feel comfortable?

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This is what we should be trying to achieve in our language learning.

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And if we gear ourselves for the test, we end up doing some of the same things that I am very much against here,

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like studying long lists of words, vocabulary for TOEFL.

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And of course, we know from research on the brain that the more time we spend deliberately trying to,

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you know, focus in on certain words, the less we learn.

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The brain gets turned off.

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The brain likes new things.

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The brain likes seeing words in different contexts.

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So the test approach tends to direct learners into learning activities

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that are not helpful in the long -term goal of improving their language skills.

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And of course, we get things wrong.

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There's pressure.

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We feel frustrated when we keep on making mistakes.

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So unless you need the test, don't test.

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Here's another no -no. Don't always ask, how quickly can I learn?

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We have videos, you know, learn this language in a week, in three months.

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It'll take as long as it takes.

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Don't put pressure on yourself to learn quickly.

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Rather, you should be looking at how can I enjoy the learning process.

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I enjoy what I'm doing in Persian.

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I've been at my Persian and Arabic and Turkish now for three, four, five years.

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I enjoy it.

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Now, maybe some people are in a hurry.

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I think I would have been more successful in those three languages

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if I focused in on one and if I spent more time every day.

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So those are some of the things

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that affect how quickly you're going to proceed and how quickly you're going to progress in the language.

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But don't put pressure on yourself to learn it in a short period of time.

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I think it's counterproductive.

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It saps your confidence.

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And finally, number 10, which kind of relates to all of these parts, give yourself credit for what you can do.

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This comes out in the audiobook that I started listening to on golf.

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If I play a game of golf and all I think about is the shots that I missed,

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I come away from that golf game genuinely unhappy.

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If I can remember the good shots, if I can feel happy with what I was able to achieve,

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then I'm more confident, more motivated, more likely to continue.

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There are always moments in language learning where we forget, we don't understand, And we're disappointed,

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but we shouldn't be disappointed because we should pick out those things that we are able to do.

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In other words, I started the language two years ago.

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I now understand a lot.

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I'm able to say certain things.

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Maybe I met someone at the summer I spoke to in Farsi, a store we were buying, which is a real case, buying kitchen appliances.

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And I had a slightly lengthy conversation in Farsi.

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So I have to try to remember those positive moments

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when I felt that I had some success rather than focusing in on moments

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when we didn't achieve or didn't perform as well as we would have liked to.

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So don't beat yourself up.

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Give yourself credit for what you could do.

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And if you follow these 10 don'ts, and I don't want to be, I don't, I don't want to be like a dictatorial.

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You must do this or do that because amongst the things that I suggest you don't do, there are things that people do enjoy doing.

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And if they enjoy doing them.

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Do though, because ultimately the main thing is to enjoy the process, feel good about yourself so that you continue learning the language.

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Thank you for listening.

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Bye.

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このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「10 things I never do when learning a language」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：language, learning, golf, listening, confidence。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が138文、単語が2114語あります。音声の長さは10:39です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約198語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。単語の84%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
shadow 名詞	/ˈʃædəʊ̯/	影, 陰影
reader 名詞	/ˈɹi.dɚ/	読者, リーダー
acquire 動詞	/əˈkwaɪɚ/	獲得する
frustration 名詞	/fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/	挫折
disappointed 形容詞	/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/	失望した
swing 動詞	/ˈswɪŋ/	振れる, 揺さぶる
scenario 名詞	/sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/	脚本, 台本
pronunciation 名詞	/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/	発音, 読み
naturally 副詞	/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/	勿論
relate 動詞	/ɹɪˈleɪt/	繋げる
accent 名詞	/ækˈsɛnt/	強音, 強調
meaningful 形容詞	/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/	有意義な
athletic 形容詞	/æθˈlɛt.ɪk/	強壮
authentic 形容詞	/ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/	本物の, 真正な
vocabulary 名詞	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	語彙, 語彙力

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	発音	意味
come out 動詞	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	出る
turn off 動詞		消す, 切る

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

Don't think you're going to master the basics.
First of all, you can't master it.
I've got to put the time into listening.
When you're interacting with people, do they understand you?
Don't always ask, how quickly can I learn?

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作	I've been listening · have been practicing
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	people who are · people who swear · security, which will
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	haven't had · you've looked · I've done

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, I'm, you'reなど、短縮形や弱形を82回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「th」の音: athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
「sh」と「zh」の音: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, frustration /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/, exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, relate /ɹɪˈleɪt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, rely /ɹɪˈlaɪ/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, inconvenience /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, rave /ɹeɪv/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: frustration /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, meaningful /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/, alphabet /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/, helpful /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。shadow, reader, acquireなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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