Shadowing Practice: English Speaking Fluency in 45 Minutes a Day: My Exact Strategy - Learn English Speaking with Video
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We want to learn English and we want to do it this year.
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And this is the best New Year gift that we are going to be giving to us in 2027.
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Now that is set.
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How do we do it?
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Okay, before I get to that, I want you to understand two things.
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There are two things that are really relevant, important to English.
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First is your consumption part, which is the easy part.
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And then is the creation part, which is the harder part.
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Okay, but it's not very hard.
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It's just harder than consumption consumption is where you take in English now right now you're consuming English
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when I'm speaking to you you're learning it I mean it's default that's how brain functions you're listening to me
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and you can understand every sentence that I'm speaking
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that means you are not at zero you're already
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if there is a scale of say zero to ten you're already at maybe four
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or five right now if you can understand me completely because I speak very clear English.
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My words fall distinctly apart, really clear.
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My pronunciations are such that anybody can understand me, be it an Indian, be it a Native American speaker, anybody.
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I'm sure anybody can understand me.
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That is how clear I can speak.
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And I've worked on it.
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It did not come to me naturally, by the way, but that's not the topic of this video.
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Anyway, we'll talk about that later.
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So now you're already at four or five.
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How do we start?
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Now, the biggest mistake that you're making, if you are on this journey of improving your communication skills and learning to speak in English,
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biggest mistake is that you're consuming way, way, way lot more than what you're creating.
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That is where you're going wrong.
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Since consumption is easy, watching a video, easy, listening to a podcast?
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Easy.
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Reading a book?
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Probably not so easy, but still easier than writing a book.
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That is consumption.
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Where somebody else has done the hard work and you are just consuming that, right?
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Of course, you've made a choice for that.
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That's all.
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Good, good choice.
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But again, you're not doing really the heavy lifting here.
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When it comes to creation part and what do I mean by creating?
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Creating is where you are creating English.
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You're creating sentences.
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Sentence construction is happening through you.
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It could be either through a written medium.
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It could be typing.
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It could be writing.
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It could be speaking.
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Most important activity for learning English is speaking.
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Okay, this is where you're lagging.
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Why?
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Because we don't want to come out of a comfort zone.
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Why should we come out of a comfort zone?
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Come on.
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Come on.
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It's delaying your success.
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It's delaying where you can be.
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Why do you want to be?
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See, you're sure that one day you're really going to be very good at English one day.
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I mean, why do you have to be there 10 years from now
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if you can be there in one year from now?
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That's the question.
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Why don't you want to change now?
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Because it's just hard, right?
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It's difficult.
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I get it.
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It's difficult.
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But difficulties, the challenges are fun.
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I mean, where are those times where you used to enjoy taking up challenges?
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I'm sure you enjoy challenges because it's ingrained in human beings.
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We love them.
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We take up challenges, we succeed at them and then we celebrate.
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That's the drill.
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What you have to do is you have to switch to more of creation than consumption.
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So we're clear on the consumption and creation part.
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Two activities in consumption are your reading and your listening.
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Two activities in your creation part are speaking, topmost priority and then comes your writing part.
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Now out of these four activities that are concerned with English.
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I believe 90% I mean it wouldn't be an exaggeration if I say so.
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90% of your prowess depends actually on speaking part and I'm sure you're not doing that well enough.
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You're just too scared and that is something that is inside you so you've got to take care of it.
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I can only motivate you.
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The rest of it is your duty.
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Honestly can't do much more than that.
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I can give you trackers.
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I can give you motivation.
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I can talk to you about ways you can do it.
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But at the end of the day, the real hard work and heavy lifting has to be done by you.
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Okay, so this video is going to tell you about the specific to-dos, things that you actually have to do.
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Then I will talk about a tracker that we have for you in the description of this video.
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Absolutely free just for your use downloaded
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but the hard work has to be done by you okay
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so specific to do's the tracker and extremely important eight things
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that you do not have to do on this journey
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and I've got some very fun pointers on there believe me you'll be stunned okay
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so let's start with the specific to do's I have divided
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it into three things first is your daily challenge second is your weekly challenge
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and lastly is your monthly challenge
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and to track these there is a tracker okay let's start
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with your daily challenge what is the daily challenge daily challenge
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is really simple anybody can do it anybody who's serious about
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their learning serious about their improvement about their personality anybody can do it
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so simple consumption of 30 minutes every day and creation of just 15 minutes every day.
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So that totals up to 45 minutes of dedicated English every day.
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Now one thing where you may go wrong, listening to random undedicated and unresolved matter,
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I mean you're going probably you're traveling in a bus
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and there is some news playing in the background or some English song playing in the background in your travel vehicle,
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not going to count, okay?
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It has to be focused.
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It has to be something that you choose to do.
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Okay, you have to make that choice.
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Anything apart from that, where the choice was not yours, something that was happening in the background.
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Okay, that is also learning, definitely.
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But my problem with that is that you will drift off and you'll be thinking about 10 other things on the way.
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I don't want it to be something like this.
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This is 45 minutes of English gym for you every day.
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Now, I know it might sound a bit difficult.
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It's not that difficult.
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I'll tell you why.
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Consumption is fun.
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You're watching a television show which you decided to watch.
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It could be Friends.
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It could be Dexter or any such show, any English show you chose to watch.
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30 minutes will pass and you would not even realize that you saw it.
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It will be over like this.
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Gone.
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Right?
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Okay.
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So this is easy.
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15 minutes of speaking part or writing part is where your mind will really be challenged
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and will really be learning because it is challenged it will learn more okay
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and 30 minutes of the consumption part you've chosen to do it I am assuming
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that you'll be paying attention it is all driven by your mind
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so you have to be attentive you have to be honest
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and loyal to yourself because
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if you can't be loyal to yourself who else can you be loyal to now there may be a doubt
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that ma'am what if we miss someday because even
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if we go to gym there are days we don't want to go to gym and 365 days sounds too much.
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Okay, fine, agree.
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The only thing that you have to take care of here is that even if you're missing it out on one day, don't miss out on two days in a row.
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Simple.
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If you miss out today, fine, but you have to do it tomorrow.
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If you do it today, but you miss out tomorrow, you have to do it the day after tomorrow.
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Even if it is a break, it has to be a break of only one day.
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And believe me, on the journey in the first 5-10 days, you will start to enjoy it.
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You wouldn't want to miss the streak.
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And okay, we'll get to the good part later.
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Let's talk about the weekly challenge.
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Weekly challenge is simple.
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It's just a submission of the daily challenge.
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Approximately 200 minutes of consumption and 100 minutes of creation.
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Totals to about, simple math, 300 minutes of English.
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Dedicated, focused English.
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Now tell me one thing.
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If you've already done this much in a week, how can you even believe that you would not have improved in that one week?
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It's impossible.
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You must have learned some good words.
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You must have learned and come across some good English podcasts
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or good channels or somebody's style of teaching you admire because you're on that hunt.
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You're in that mode, deep work, flow, the flow mode.
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How will you not learn?
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It's impossible.
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Believe me, the progress shows and it shows quite quickly.
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It comes really quickly.
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Last is your monthly challenge.
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Now here's where some great muscles start to show up in your English journey.
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What is it?
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It's simple.
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I told you 200 minutes of a week.
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This is just simple.
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800 minutes of a month.
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I just simply multiplied it by four,
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which is about 13 hours of consumption and roughly six and a half hours of creation totals to about
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approximately 20 hours of dedicated focused English in a month.
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See 20 hours is not much.
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20 hours is not even an hour per day.
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Average comes out to be even lower than that
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which was exactly where we started from 45 minutes this is nothing can you not do this much for yourself
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and I'm just telling you this has to be done only for a year
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and not more than
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that once you're done for a year this problem is over
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you move on to the next one then we'll help you
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find somebody then we'll help you step up in your career we'll help you with something else some new challenge
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that you're probably looking for here's the nicest thing
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that we've done for you we've made a tracker for you
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because if you don't track it would never happen
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so you have to track all right please consider it a
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request consider it coming from somebody who's done it herself trackers
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are the most important thing on any challenge tracker is self-explanatory
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it's very easy you'll get it the moment you look at it just download it
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and see if you can manage okay it's really simple anybody can manage it.
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Okay, now we come to the part what to read, what to write, what to listen to, what to speak.
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Now I've got a few ideas for you, but there is a PDF also.
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Okay, the PDF is in the description of this video.
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It will give you some great ideas, my personal recommendations.
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There are millions of good books.
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Just choose your genre, whatever you enjoy reading.
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Like in my case, I love reading science fiction and I'm not really too much into reading non-fiction.
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Apart from that, I'm reading Leo Tolstoy's Anna Kandina right now.
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It's a big fat novel, but it's really good.
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I don't know.
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I've still not figured out what is beautiful about that book, but something is, it pulls me towards itself.
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It's like, I feel an urge to go to the book.
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I don't know why it's happening, but it's happening to me.
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It's anyway, coming back.
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What do you listen to?
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I've made a great video that has performed really well.
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People loved it.
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There are some recommendations of English podcasts in
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that video okay i'll put the link somewhere here all right just take
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that video watch the recommendations
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and start listening to one of those podcasts the easiest way
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to learn english okay consumption good consumption this is dedicated consumption
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because because we are specifically learning english there is a podcast
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that is specifically of six minutes each episode
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that is by bbc it's an english podcast their aim is to teach english
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so it's very good podcast very very old one and six minutes episodes.
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So it's easy to watch, easy to consume.
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Just watch it on a metro, wherever you're going.
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Okay, so one of those is that then apart from
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that there are some very good other audio podcasts
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that you can listen to you can figure out your own
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flavor good tv shows good movies i make these recommendation videos on instagram where i talk about good english movies
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that you can watch a brilliant imdb by the way i
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don't just recommend any xyz it has to be well placed in ratings those are the movies
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that i recommend i can give you a few names
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because i just recorded a video a couple of days ago
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i remember the names one is la confidential then there is spotlight i don't remember the rest
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but yes i'll put those names in the pdf okay
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so good movies good tv shows while watching tv shows you learn the most
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because i learn a lot of good phrases from there a lot
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that i speak actually comes from tv shows
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that i consume then what to read i told you what
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to listen to i told you i have a few recommendations
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here on my laptops right here then what to write is
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a daily journal best part i mean i have written journals all my life
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and i never really kept a lock on them
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and i don't know how many people read it my sisters used to spy on me
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but it's okay i am not really scared of them
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so it's okay so you can just maintain a daily journal
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and then hide it somewhere so that you get to maintain your privacy.
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I wasn't really good at it, but you can be good at it.
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There are ways.
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Then apart from that, you can type also, but I prefer writing.
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I feel my mind functions better when I write rather than type.
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I'm not really good at typing stuff.
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Then you can write about life episodes, things that have happened in your life.
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Just pick one of those topics and describe those topics in 10 minutes or 15 minutes.
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Just 10-15 minutes of writing time is more than enough your daily exercise is done.
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Pull up any good topic, ask chat GPT for a topic.
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There are thousands of ways if you want to do it.
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Okay.
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Speaking, I think one great recommendation here could be of my own app.
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It's an English app where you get to talk to AI, use it.
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We also enabled the feature of talking with AI in our course and thousands of people are using it every day.
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It surprises me Because when we were launching it, we were really skeptical about it.
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Why would people, what people surprised us?
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Anyway, apart from that, you can use free resources like ChatGPT, talk to it.
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You can use mirror technique.
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You can use one of the techniques that I used to use as a little child.
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I used to speak to myself in the mirror and look at myself, look in my eyes and then talk to myself.
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and just random blabber anything
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and everything nobody's judging right you're talking to yourself make mistakes it's okay to make mistakes all right
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so mirror technique has something it's something I still do I
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still do it sort of became a habit no I used to do it for learning English
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but later on I got on I sort of got into a friendship with myself started talking to myself randomly
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and now I talk like crazy you know
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if you'll see me in my room and
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if you actually see how I talk to myself sometimes I actually
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while having a dialogue with myself or sort of let's just call it monologue
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while speaking I would pause and look around
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if you know this is something I would actually do
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because people will definitely write me off as crazy
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if they see me talking to myself that's how much I
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do it I solve a lot of my life problems using this technique talking to myself okay last part of this video, eight things that you don't have to do.
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First is getting stuck on the grammar part.
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We know your grammar is probably not way there where you want it to be and not up to the mark.
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Okay, it's all right.
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It's maybe not extraordinary.
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Everybody makes mistakes.
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I speak Hindi.
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It's my native language, but I'm sure that I make mistakes even in Hindi.
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So it's okay.
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Okay, it's okay to make mistakes do not stick on the grammar part and do not be hung there forever
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move on it's just your ego's way of pulling you back don't listen to it make your mistakes
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and learn from those mistakes let people laugh they are not
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going to be writing your future you're the only one who gets to decide
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that point number two if you are typing content get it proofread from any app.
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ChatGPT can do it for you.
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I also have a tool, alinaraes.com slash grammar.
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You can get your typed content checked from there.
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It will tell you about your mistakes.
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It will make your article look prettier.
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Another thing to do is, if you've written in your journal, just take a picture of it and show it to ChatGPT.
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It will do the rest of the job.
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It will tell you where you're going wrong.
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It's a free resource.
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Use it.
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You're probably not using it well enough.
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Next, extremely important.
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Train your algorithm.
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See, we all are aware that algorithms are reading us every day.
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Our behavior, user behavior is something they are mad about.
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Whatever your algorithm is showing you is because you've shown interest in it.
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Pick what you're watching very carefully.
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If there is a feed, let's say you're watching Instagram and you have those that explore tab on and there are 9-10 videos running on top.
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Choose the video that you want to be recommended in the future.
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Let's say If you are interested in watching fitness videos, there are nine videos playing on your screen.
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Choose the one that shows something to do about fitness
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because Instagram will pick it like this and it will start recommending you topics around that idea.
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So that's how you train the algorithm.
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And rather than becoming a slave to it that can show you anything it wants, train your algorithm on growth and not garbage
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because a lot of people are just watching garbage
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and believe me it's the worst thing to do
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because three hours go by and you're just under this belief that you've just spent 15 minutes.
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And when you check your clock, oh my God, three hours gone.
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So that's how addictive these algorithms are.
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And we can't really do anything about it for now.
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But yes, I'm sure there are regulations coming in.
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But for now, you've got to train your algorithm, train it on growth and not garbage.
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Remember that.
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Point number four, keep growth mindset.
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I know growth seems slow challenge is hard efforts are too much too many i get it
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but believe me growth happens it may be slow
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but it always happens it happens for others why will it not happen for you
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so keep a growth mindset growth
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and changes are possible they are coming they are on the way believe
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that once you've started on this journey there is only one direction
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and that is forward there's no going backwards There is no loss you can only gain on this journey.
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Point number five.
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Again, I don't know how to get it out of people's system.
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Don't announce your ideas.
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Prematurely, especially.
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You've just started to do something and you make it public and then people destroy your happiness.
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They start making fun of you.
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They start pulling your spirit down.
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See, people can't destroy what they don't know.
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And that is a simple funda even I follow in my life.
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Do not tell unless it's already out there for people to see on their own.
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Do not give that kind of authority to people over your life.
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Because you get that dopamine kick when you announce.
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You feel happy doing it.
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And then the motivation goes down.
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Because then there is nothing else to show to the world.
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And we are living in that space where we want to make people happy rather than making ourselves happy.
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You've got to make that switch. So simple.
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Don't announce.
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Shut up.
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Point number six.
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Track religiously.
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If you don't track, it will be lost.
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You will forget.
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Because life is heavy.
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Too much is going on.
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At your work front, your personal front, relationships, already so much going on.
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If you won't track, you'll not be able to achieve your goal.
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If somebody invests in stock market, don't you think they open their stock market app, whichever app they are using, 10 times a day?
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What is that?
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They're just tracking their progress in their investments.
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And when it is in the shape of money, you feel very excited on doing it.
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But when it is not directly linked to money, I don't know where the motivation goes or the discipline runs away too.
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Please understand.
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It may not be directly connected to your financial health, but it is definitely indirectly connected to your financial well-being also.
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If you speak well, you get better opportunities, you make more money, you get more settled in life.
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Point number seven, use updated resources.
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I know there may be a formula working for you
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and you establish a good formula for yourself you start enjoying
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it you do it for 20-25 days everything going smooth but
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if you do not introduce some changes you know um you'll get bored
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and then i'm scared that the progress may i don't even want to say it
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because we don't want to go there it's going backward we want to move forward right remember
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so how can you bring change make sure
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that you finish your tv show i mean at least watch some of it every day
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so that it finishes and you move on to the next one Otherwise, the same show is going on for a full year.
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We don't want that.
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We want to be entertained and we want variety.
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You finish your book quickly.
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Reading is hard.
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I get it.
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It challenges your mind because you imagine things when you read.
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It's hard.
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It's like exercising your brain.
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And that is why most people don't do it.
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There are so many times I've observed when I'm reading on a plane, I sometimes just, you know, close my book and look around and see how many others are reading.
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And nobody is.
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Nobody reads.
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very few people read i don't know why i don't know
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why they don't read reading is such a beautiful habit it gives you more than it takes from you
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so entertain yourself quickly change the books quickly change the shows not by leaving them half no not
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that huh but yeah there's one thing i would like to suggest to you
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if there is a book that you've picked up
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and it's really boring
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and you just don't get yourself to like it quit it it's okay i've done
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that it's all right because it might just kill your habit of reading
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so it's okay to give it a few times but
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if you still feel that's not not working for you let it go okay
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and next thing the last thing to do is follow me
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on instagram for your own well-being now this is not a
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promotion i actually mean it we publish english content in very
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precise format it takes hell of an effort to make those short videos for you I perform acts, skits.
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I teach you words.
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I teach you amazing things about English on Instagram.
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So even if this is a promotion, all right, but I'm working very hard on creating it.
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If you will go and see the effort, you will know that she's not taking Instagram lightly.
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Go watch those reels, learn from those reels, pay attention because those reels are designed to teach you.
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Even the YouTube shots.
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I'm working very hard on them.
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I really want to teach and impart knowledge and not just kill your time.
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That's not me.
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So this was it.
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This was all.
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This is the video that is going to make you perfect in English in 2026.
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I wish you all the luck.
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This is the maximum I could have done for now.
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Rest is up to you.
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Okay.
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It's connected to your well-being.
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Remember that don't forget why you started the journey.
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If you remember your why, you will be motivated to do it every day.
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You'll be disciplined and discipline is the highest form of self-love.
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I'll see you in the next one.
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Thank you very, very much.
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If you haven't subscribed yet, do it.
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Now is the time.
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Press the bell icon and share this video with a friend of yours you care about.
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Thank you very, very much.
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Bye-bye and happy new year.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “English Speaking Fluency in 45 Minutes a Day: My Exact Strategy”. This video has 424 sentences and 4284 words to shadow. The speech runs for 23:37. The speaker talks fast, about 181 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| podcast noun | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on… |
| tracker noun | /ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/ | A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival. |
| algorithm noun | /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/ | A collection of ordered steps that solve a mathematical problem. A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input… |
| recommendation noun | /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/ | An act of recommending. |
| consume verb | /kənˈsum/ | To use up. |
| dedicate verb | /ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt/ | To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate. |
| grammar noun | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. |
| reel verb | /ˈɹiːl/ | To wind on a reel. |
| scare verb | /skɛɚ/ | To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. |
| garbage noun | /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/ | Food waste material of any kind. |
| loyal adjective | /ˈlɔɪəl/ | Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something. |
| motivation noun | /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/ | Willingness of action especially in behavior. |
| discipline noun | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | A controlled behaviour; self-control. |
| habit noun | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | An action performed on a regular basis. |
| announce verb | /əˈnaʊn(t)s/ | To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
| look around verb | To inspect a building or area. |
| miss out verb | To miss an experience or lose an opportunity, etc. that should not be missed. |
| take up verb | To pick up. |
| come across verb | To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
| drift off verb | To fall asleep slowly. |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- How do we do it?
- Why should we come out of a comfort zone?
- Why do you want to be?
- Why don't you want to change now?
- How will you not learn?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you don't track it would never · If you don't track, it will be · If you won't track, you'll not |
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to enjoy · used to speak · used to do |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've worked · has done · you've made |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is set · be done · be stunned |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 126 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, exaggeration /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, confidential /ˌkɔn.fɪˈdɛn.ʃəl/
- Long words — get the stress right: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, exaggeration /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/, explanatory /ɪkˈsplæn.ə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/, prematurely /ˌpɹiːməˈtjʊə(ɹ)li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like podcast, tracker, algorithm.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.