쉐도잉 연습: How I became fluent in English WITHOUT living in another country - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

What if I told you that you don't need to move to another country to become fluent in English?

That you could achieve fluency without ever leaving your home?

In this video I'm going to share my story

and all the methods I used to become fluent in English right in my home country.

I think I want to begin this video by talking a little bit about my background

because I know a lot of you guys here are new on my channel

so I really want you to know my experience with English, why I decided to become fluent in English and all the different struggles I faced along the way.

I'm originally from Russia.

I was born in a town and I only moved to Moscow,

the capital of Russia, when I was 17-18 years old because I wanted to go to college there.

And so I began learning English when I was a little kid.

I was probably like six or seven years old, but obviously when I was six or seven I did not want to learn English.

Like my English was obviously not amazing, you know.

I was going to a regular school and pretty much I hated English.

I can put it this way.

And I think only

when I turned 15-16 I was like I think I understand now why I need English

because I really wanted to go to this university in Moscow

and English was one of the exams that I had to take.

And so I became more curious and I made this decision for myself

that I wanted to make the journey of learning English fun.

And I also really wanted to go abroad and you know meet some

English speaking friends and I knew that for me English was the ticket to that future.

And so I became a lot more serious.

I started doing all of my English homework.

I was like an A plus student when it came to English.

But again my English was not amazing.

When I went to college I was 17, 18

and at that time I decided to work on my accent

because I realized

that for me a big part of becoming fluent in English was also working on my accent

and that's why right now I speak this way like more American even though originally I'm from Russia

so my Russian accent is obviously very different from my American accent.

I think for me becoming fluent in English meant a lot of different things.

It meant traveling the world, it meant getting a good job,

it meant getting a good education and just like living my dream life.

I was like really obsessed with English but I was actually never like obsessed obsessed with going to the United States.

I just really liked the accent, like the American accent.

I was like oh my god one day I really want to learn how to speak that way.

And instead of just wanting to learn to speak that way, I started taking action.

I started doing something and learning how to speak more like an American.

And of course, I faced a lot of struggles.

Like right now, if I want to improve my Spanish and have a more Mexican accent, I can just like book a class with an accent reduction coach.

But back then, I didn't have any money.

I was a broke college students.

So what I did was I found some books on the internet, I started watching a lot of YouTube videos about accent reduction

and that's how I actually improved my accent a lot because I learned so many different rules, I did a lot of drills just by myself.

I was listening to some audio recordings, I was repeating the same thing,

basically doing shadowing and that's why I talk about shadowing on this channel a lot because it helped me so much.

Of course there were a lot of moments when I felt demotivated, when I felt like, you know,

I couldn't really create a sentence because I lacked some grammar

or when I talked to a native speaker for the first time in my life.

I was probably 19 years old.

I was so scared because I was literally like, okay, what do I say?

How do I behave?

Am I going to understand this person?

It was scary.

But I think what really kept me going was my motivation.

And also I could see the progress I was making because I was making videos of myself.

I was taking notes.

I could open, you know, my English workbook and I could see that at the beginning of this year I was learning this grammar rule.

But now I know how to use it.

So definitely tracking my progress helped me a lot.

I didn't practice with native speaking teachers.

And looking back, I obviously do not think that native speaking teachers are unnecessary.

I think talking to native speakers is necessary.

And if you can afford booking a class with a native speaking teacher, that's amazing.

That's going to make the process shorter for you, help you progress faster.

But if you don't have this opportunity, I don't want you to feel upset.

I don't want you to feel demotivated

and I don't want you to feel like

because you can't talk to a native speaker it means that you will never become advanced in this language.

The same thing goes for traveling.

I came to New York City for the first time in 2020

and I think at that time I was 20 years old

and I my English was already B2C1 I could say and I achieved that level by

staying in my home country and

when I went to New York City obviously people there like random people on the streets they weren't teaching me English.

I think that's also a very big thing for people to understand.

When I moved here to Mexico City people on the street are not interested in teaching me Spanish.

They're interested in communicating something to me and if I can't communicate with them successfully, it's on me.

It's something that I have to work on at home.

I also really want to talk about some key strategies that help me become fluent in my home country, fluent in English in my home country.

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that i used that i think really helped me become advanced in english faster obviously

when i was a teenager

when i was 14 15 i did not use any strategies like

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when i realized

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that english was important for me i was just like textbook

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it is let's start learning english i wasn't as knowledgeable as I am right now about the science behind language learning.

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But I think now looking back, I can see what strategies I actually used without knowing that those things were actually strategies.

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The first thing is immersion.

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Because I wanted language learning to be fun, I started watching a lot of different tv shows in English.

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I remember how obsessed I was with the show Desperate Housewives.

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I watched all the seasons, all the episodes exclusively in English and obviously by watching that show,

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by being an active learner when I was watching that show, I improved my English a lot.

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Because I was so motivated to move to Moscow and get to that university, I think I was practicing English very consistently.

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Like I would even say every single day or almost every single day.

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It was really rare for me to skip a day.

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Obviously sometimes I was sick, sometimes I didn't feel like it but on most days I did feel like it

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because I knew why I was doing that

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and quite frankly I was a student and I had more free time than I do now.

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Right now I understand more how hard it is sometimes to find time when you have a full-time job.

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For people who have kids, who have a family, obviously it becomes even harder to find the time

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but it's still possible

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if it's your goal you absolutely can find the time it's

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just i think right now for me to build this consistent

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practice with learning spanish it requires a little bit more of

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my effort a little bit more discipline a little bit more

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of me telling myself veronica just get up from the couch

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and go study spanish another strategy

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that i think helped me a lot is making sure i keep language learning fun

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because i think that's something that made me really demotivated

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when i started learning chinese in college because it was my major

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and i still don't have this passion for chinese like i lost it

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when i graduated because i was

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so exhausted i was fed up with all of those boring texts about politics economics you know like moving products,

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selling products, everything was in Chinese and everything was so boring for me.

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And so because of that, even right now when I think about Chinese, I don't have this like passion anymore.

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I don't have this spark when I think about this language.

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But maybe, you know, in a few years or maybe in a few months, I'll be saying something else.

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But right now, I do have it with Spanish because I'm creating my routine myself.

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I'm doing all the things that I want to do.

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yes sometimes those things involve doing boring grammar things

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but I still like it because I understand how this grammar will help me create sentences in real life.

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And I think one more strategy

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that I only started using later was talking to native speakers because originally I was absolutely terrified.

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I thought that native speakers were judging my English.

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I thought that native speakers were some kind of aliens from like a different planet

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and yeah I thought

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that I was not going to be able to understand anything even though again my English was already pretty good

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when I was like 20 years old when I was in New York City but I was still terrified.

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I was terrified to go to a grocery store by myself, I was terrified to just like talk to a native speaker in New York City

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and yeah obviously right now I'm not terrified of speaking English.

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I'm literally recording this YouTube video for you guys

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but I would say

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if I could change something I definitely would have started speaking with native speakers sooner

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because right now just by having one lesson a week with my Spanish teacher, she's Mexican, she's a native speaker, I can ask her a lot of different questions,

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she can fix my pronunciation, she can correct my grammar mistakes and just getting more

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and more used to these spontaneous conversations with native speakers definitely improved my Spanish a lot.

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So to wrap up this video, I just want to say that going abroad is an amazing experience.

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If you have this opportunity to go abroad, don't feel like you're cheating the language learning system.

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It's not fair for you to go abroad and learn the language there.

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No, if you have this opportunity, if you have the desire, go for it.

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You know, going abroad and learning the language this way is amazing

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because for a lot of people it gives them a lot of motivation and

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because you're actually there you're in those situations where you have

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to talk to native speakers you're more likely to be consistent

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and obviously because you're immersed in this environment a lot of people progress faster

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but for those of you guys who don't have this opportunity

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or maybe you don't want to go abroad you absolutely can

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learn the language by staying in your home country whether it's

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english whether it's spanish german japanese what have you you can absolutely do it at home

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so i really hope you find this video useful

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if you did make sure to give this video a thumbs up

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and subscribe to my youtube channel if you want to discover even more valuable resources

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that help me go from zero to fluency in english i have created a full video dedicated to just

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that topic so be sure to check it out by clicking right here thank you

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so much for watching and I'll see you in my next video.

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