Hello friends ,welcome back! In this video lesson I'll be sharing with you how you
can learn to speak English just as a native English speaker... Friends for you
to understand how you can learn to speak English like a native English speaker,
you have to understand how a native English speakers learned and mastered
the English language... you can use the same techniques to improve your English
fluency, proficiency and to improve your confidence speaking in English!
In this video lesson you'll better understand how native
English speakers learnt the English language and how you can do the same to improve your English!
Friends if you're watching this video lesson most likely you're struggling
with confidence to speak in English... maybe you forget
different words, different grammatical structures... maybe you just get scared to speak
in English... friends have you ever thought about the way that you're currently
learning the English language? Are you memorizing words, so you're not making
sentences with words but you're creating long word lists? ... and you are not using those
words.... or maybe are you listening to audios of English teachers speaking in
English, but you're not listening to English being used naturally? Or maybe
you're simply not speaking in English? You lack the speaking practice
you need... friends in order for you to sound more like a native English speaker,
You need to understand how native English speakers learnt and master the
English language, to enable them to speak English confidently and fluently... Friends
for you to better understand this and I'm sure each and every one of you
watching this video lesson can relate... friends think back to the day you were
born ...if you can remember that day that is.... friends when you were born,were
you able to speak? Were you able to write? Did you understand what your parents were
saying to you? Or what your friends or your family friends were saying to you in
your native language? Most likely not... friends when you were very young... think
about the time when you were young, when you were from about 0 to 1 to 2 years...
what did you do in this time period? usually in this time
period of a child's development they are listening... they are listening and they
are observing their natural environment... Friends this is exactly what native
English speakers do... when they are born... they listen to English being used... they
observe what people are doing... how people react to certain words, whether they
should laugh, whether they should cry, they observe...friends this is an
important part of your English learning journey as if you want to learn how to
speak English like a native English speaker
you have to listen... listening is such a crucial skill and you should be
surrounding yourself with the English language just as US native English
speakers did... when we were younger listen... listened to English as much as possible because
by listening you are absorbing yourself, you are immersing yourself in the
English language and you will hear new words, grammar
you'll hear idioms, phrasal verbs, expressions, being used naturally... going
back to a child... after about 8 to 1 year maybe you're in a year and a half... a
child begins to speak... friends the first words a child usually says is mama or
Dad... Papa actually probably not dad... but mama, papa
they're very simple words... so they're usually two syllable words, and they say
this... most likely.. I don't know what your first word was, but I'm pretty sure my
first word was mama, because my mum constantly repeated to ma-ma ma- ... because
I constantly heard my mum saying ma ma ma ma ... it was only natural for me to say,
to produce this word as my first word... Friends, it's very important here to take
note that by listening, by consistently listening to my mother speaking, speaking
to me, by listening to her tone, her intonation.. I shadowed :) Friends.. this is
something that many native English speakers do... we shadow, we repeat! This is
why shadowing is such a crucial step and its very important for you to be doing this...
if you want to speak English.... speak English with confidence
friends to effectively be able to shadow you have to be able to understand what
people are saying around you.. this is why it's so important to be immersed in the
English language in verbal form.. so listening,
surround yourself... surround yourself with English being used... native English
speakers do this naturally, as their parents, their friends, when they are out
in society, they hear English being used... friends you can do this today...
regardless.. I know you're probably not six months or one year old.. you're older
but you can do this, you can immerse yourself, you can listen to English being
used through YouTube videos, by watching TV, by listening to music, by listening to
podcasts... there are many great ways for you to listen, listen to English being
used naturally... now looking back at a young child.. so maybe a baby that's
one years old ...this baby is beginning to speak.. this baby's mother and father will
repeat the same word, a thousand one times to that child, until the child says it
correctly... friends this is what shadowing is.. this is important! Friends this is
something that we natives did when we were very young and this is how we are
able to speak in English... and why wouldn't you do the same? Friends you can shadow....
Shadow, listen...Llisten to people speaking in English and repeat out loud
these sentences. By doing this you are copying... so you're listening, you're
hearing somebody saying these words and you're copying them out loud and you are
learning just as we native English speakers did... friends but shadowing is
so much more than being able to improve your pronunciation and intonation... by shadowing,
you will shadow grammar being used naturally, you will shadow phrasal verbs,
idioms and new expressions which you can use... friends you have to
understand that many English native speakers, I wouldn't say that they don't
know grammar, but they don't know how to identify the subject, object ...okay not all of
them, but they don't know all the English grammar rules... one common problem many of
my students face is articles and prepositions... now friends I'm sure that
you also struggle with the use of articles and prepositions.. if you go and
do a google search on the use of articles and prepositions, you'll see
that there are so many rules and there are so many exceptions, but how
do native English speakers know when to use that article or when to use that
preposition when speaking in English? Friends they know when to use these
articles and prepositions because of shadowing and immersion, they have
surrounded themselves with the English language, they have listened to people
speaking, they have heard this being used repetitively and they shadow naturally..
this is exactly what I recommend to all of my students, especially if you're
having issues with articles and prepositions, that you listen listen to
English being used naturally as much as possible! Now there is a technical word
for this and this is called immersion... Basically surround yourself with the
English language, listen to it and shadow... Now shadowing is also crucial because
you are applying what you hear, you are doing... if you're not doing it then you
are not learning like a native English speaker... it's very important for you to
spend time, to dedicate time, to be listening, but also doing... so listening
being immerssion and doing, being shadowing... okay so you understand the importance of
listening, as native English speakers did this naturally...
I did this naturally when I was young, I listened to English being used, I was
surrounded by the English language, then I had to copy people, I had to copy them
shadow , repeat so that I could make mistakes... friends in order for you to
learn English like a native you need to make mistakes.. if you don't
like making mistakes, I'm sorry but you're not learning English like a
native... make mistakes! Mistakes are such a crucial part of the English learning
journey, actually it's important for any learning... any new skill that you're
learning... if you make mistakes what you do is you make them and you also learn
from your mistakes... if you don't do the theory, if you don't
apply the theory, then you don't know if you're improving and if you're not improving... it's very
important for you to be making these mistakes, make those pronunciation
mistakes, intonation mistakes.. use the wrong word in a wrong sentence... but I'm sure
that when you are doing this, you will notice your mistakes and you will
improve your mistakes in the future! Okay let's go back to a child and how a child
in an English-speaking country, a native English speaker learns English... Friends
at about two to four years old children usually interact with other people... they
may be children the same age as they are, it may be with their parents, with family
friends, maybe at kindergarten, at daycare...basically this child is interacting with
other people... now at about two to four years old a child still doesn't know all
the words in the English language... maybe some children do and I do apologize... but
they are still learning... they're still improving their vocabulary, most likely
they're making grammar mistakes, but they are making mistakes! Friends at this
stage their parents, their family friends, maybe their friends, their teachers, they
are correcting their mistakes ... they are highlighting what they're doing wrong
and that child will learn from these mistakes... friend this is why it's so
important for you to be speaking, to be shadowing and to be learning from your
mistakes... but also add about two to four years old, maybe even a
little bit older, about five to six year old... a child begins to write... a child gets
a pen and gets a piece of paper and starts to write letters...
maybe they learn to write their own name, but or maybe even really really simple
sentences...friends one step, one crucial step many English learners miss
completely in the English learning journey and which doesn't give them the
opportunity to ever achieve or reach English fluency, is that they don't write
in English! Now friends one thing you're probably wondering about is, and you're
really struggling with is being able to speak in English, but also think fast in
English! Friends I really motivate and push all my students to write in
English, and to write on a consistent basis... this is something that US English
speakers do throughout kindergarten and primary school, we are writing... so we are
using all those new words we have shadowed, we have heard when other English
speakers have spoken around us by immersion and we are using those words
which we've heard and which we've probably said out loud and we're putting
them on paper.... Friends by putting words down on paper, by writing in English.
you're forcing yourself to think in English... now I know this is something
that maybe most likely many of you really struggle with, so when you're
speaking in English with somebody, you get stuck because you forget that word,
you forget! You don't, maybe, which grammatical structure to use...it's
because you haven't developed the ability to think in English... friends us
native English speakers we are forced to think when we go to school, when we go to
kindergarten, to put pen to paper and to think, to construct a sentence and to use
that knowledge that we've heard through immersion... this is exactly what you should
be doing on a consistent basis, is getting it into the habit of putting
pen to paper, writing even one sentence a day
two sentences a day but training yourself to use those words that you've heard
through immersion, put them on paper, use grammar, make mistakes, get feedback of
course on your writing and improve... native English speakers do this all the
time, we put pen to paper, we use the words and we improve... friends you have to
understand that learning English is a process, so you may have noticed I
skipped a few years here, So I have gone from a child from zero years old six years old,
but friends we're just summarizing here so that you can understand, in general
how US English speakers learn English... you can use this as well... so begin with
by surrounding yourself, immersing yourself by listening to English
speakers, by listening to English being used naturally...then you should be
applying the shadowing technique... repeating out loud exactly what English
speakers are saying... you have to be making mistakes... mistakes are part of the
learning process and you will learn, develop and improve your English by
making those mistakes... you have to be writing in English.... us native English
speakers we write on a daily basis, be that if we're SMS-ing somebody, if we're
writing an email... whatever correspondence we have we do write in English, this
enables us to think quicker in English and you should be doing the same.... but
friends if you're doing these three things and if you're not speaking, you're
doing all the theory, but you're not speaking to people, to REAL people in
English then you're never going to speak English like a native English speaker...
Friends in order for you to truly master and to truly learn English just as a
native English speakers have, you have to be using your English... it's quite simple...
so you've listened, you've immersed, you've shadowed, your writing, you're
making mistakes... but you need feedback! if you're not getting feedback from people,
then you will never know if your English has improved! Speak to people, find
somebody to speak to in English, because by you speaking to
people you'll see, hey can they understand me? or am I using the wrong
word, you may even offend somebody by using
the wrong word, but this is a mistake you will make and you will learn from your
mistake, and you'll know, and you will avoid using this word in the future!
Friends you have to understand that the English language is a means of
communication... at the moment I am speaking to you in video format I am
teaching you how to speak English like a native...
but of course maybe your, maybe you will teach somebody these tips and teach them
how to speak English like a native, but you're most likely learning English for
a better job, to move abroad, to pass IELTS/ TOEFL ,or
just simply to speak with other English speakers, meet other people from around
the world....understand friends that if you're not communicating with people you
will never speak English like a native English speaker... speaking is such an
important step, you have to go out there, find somebody to speak to in English, so
that you can see your results, you can see your improvements and this will
enable you to think faster in English, and to achieve English fluency... this is
exactly how native English speakers learn... make mistakes, develop their
vocabulary, use grammar and expressions through communication.. by hearing people
using new words, expressions, slang even making mistakes... friends native English
speakers make mistakes all the time! We learn from our mistakes, we develop our
mistakes, and I'm sure that I've made many mistakes in this video lesson...
friends this is only natural.. this is English being used naturally in
spoken form and for you to learn English like a native you also need to be making
these mistakes, just as we native English speakers do... friends to sum up this lesson
it's very important for you to understand that you can
learn English, you can learn to speak English like a native, just as we did! You
have to be listening, listening to English being used naturally, so that you can
hear grammar, vocabulary, idioms, slang and expressions being used naturally.. you
have to be shadowing, so listening, repeating, copying out loud, so that you
can practice... just as we did when we were children. You have to be making mistakes,
we learn from our mistakes, we develop our mistakes and we learn not to make
these mistakes in the future! You have to be speaking in English, if you're not
speaking to somebody in English, you are not improving and you will never sound
like a native English speaker! Speak to people use these words, expressions,
grammar that you have learnt, heard, shadowed... so that you can communicate in
English.... writing is such a crucial skill! Don't underestimate the importance of
writing, as by writing in English you are training your brain to think in English!
Friends don't forget that the English language is a means of communication.. I'm
speaking to you right now in English and we are having, well I'm having a
monologue, but I am teaching you a skill, something in English, do the same... connect
with other people, connect with other English speakers and you will see that your
English will improve and you will sound more like a native English speaker...
Fantastic friends, there you have it, you understand now how US native English
speakers learn, mastered and able to speak, like we do, like native English
speakers... I would love to hear from you! Tell me the comments below this video
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