Hey everyone welcome to the monthly review the monthly show on language
learning where you discover new learning strategies motivational tips study tools
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minutes okay today's topic is how to fight language learning failure you're
going to learn one why people fail at learning a language to the two questions
smart learners ask themselves so they can succeed and three proven ways to
overcome language learning failure but first listen up here are this month's
new lessons and resources first the new 400 everyday phrases for beginners ebook
you'll love this new book because you'll be able to talk about your daily life
from morning tonight you'll learn 400 practical phrases for your daily
routines like waking up getting ready for work even brushing your teeth and
getting ready for bed second do you know the 40 most common
adjectives our new useful adjectives PDF cheat sheet gives you the 40 most common
adjectives this is a great review tool for beginners third the 30 most useful
pronouns I you she he it yours you all you'll learn how to say all the
pronouns with this quick lesson fourth 20 must know phrases for the phone learn
how to say who's this what's your phone number and much more with this
one-minute lesson you'll quickly learn 20 phrases for the phone to get these
free lessons and resources just click the link in the description below okay
how to fight language learning failure let's jump into the first part one what
is language learning failure just to be clear failure is quitting or giving up
learning in a very slow pace taking a break
making pronunciation mistakes or failing a language test are not real failures so
don't worry real failure is when you quit completely so what causes failure
simply put weak spots and pain points what do I mean by that think about it if
you're learning a language you're probably aware of your weak spots for
example most beginners can read but can't speak well so not speaking as well
as you hoped that's a weak spot or a pain point for you
others have problems with motivation no time they don't stick with resources and
jump from one to another or maybe they have trouble sticking with goals leave a
comment right now and tell me what your weak spot is whatever it is if you don't
address it now this weak spot or pain point may become the reason you fail and
if you think about it most people quit directly because of these pain points no
time no motivation can't stick to goals not fun enough or they're just not
speaking as well as they dreamed so they quit on their dream but you're a smart
language learner so what should you do differently part two the two questions
smart learners ask themselves so they can succeed just a quick warning if
you're happy with your learning routine or if you've just started you don't have
to ask these two questions now but you will need them later here they are you
should ask one what are my weak points and two what am I going to do about them
so let's do the first one one what are my weak points and the answers to this
question are fairly common not enough time not enough motivation
can't speak the language well I can't stick to goals I can't stick to a
resource and I tend to jump around so answer this question once you've
identified your needs and problems ask yourself the second question
- what am I going to do about them pay close attention here because this
question is what separates the successful language learners from the
rest everyone knows their weak points and yes it's good to identify problems
but it's much more important to have solutions because it's one thing to spot
problems and feel smart but it's another thing to actually take action and fix
them so that's where the real smarts are how do you take action what are some
learning tactics that actually work part 3 ways to beat language learning failure
let's attack some common weak spots that cause people to fail and quit by the end
you'll start to see how to resolve common problems you'll come up with your
unique approaches and you'll get into the habit of coming up with solutions so
one common weak spot is you're low on time if you're low on time the easiest
thing you can do is learn for only 5 minutes a day set a timer listen to a
lesson and shut it off after 5 minutes this will help you get used to learning
and at some point you'll want to increase your time that's why our
lessons are 3 to 15 minutes long to make learning easy and to make it so time is
not an issue another thing you can do is learn on the go with our free app if
you're on the train at the gym or walking to a store you can transform
this dead time into learning time and learn a bit of language be sure to
download our innovative language 101 app for free on the App Store or Google Play
you're low on motivation next if you're low on motivation maybe you'd do better
with a teacher someone who will interact with you and encourage you to succeed
you can learn with one with our Premium Plus program you can't speak well if
speaking is your weak point the best thing to do here is just practice more
if you're taking our lessons read the lesson dialogue out loud reading out
loud is the quick and easy way to practice speaking on your own or write
down or memorize a lesson dialogue and practice it out loud 3 times a day for a
week you can't stick with goals if you can't stick with a 5 minute a day
routine maybe you need someone else to take
charge and teach you so you should get a teacher or join an actual language class
where you have no choice but to show up you don't know enough grammar if you
want to learn grammar take our audio lessons on the site in every lesson
you'll get a conversation afterward our teachers explain every word and grammar
rule used inside so you actually get to see how the grammar is used instead of
just reading about rules you can also use learning pathways to get courses and
lessons that are specifically dedicated to improving your grammar these are just
a few ways to address your weak spots and pain points there's a lot more we
can cover but the most important thing you need to remember is to ask yourself
what are my weak points and what am I going to do about them asking and acting
on that second question is what will put you on a track to fluency and will help
you avoid language learning failure so what are your weak points what are you
going to do about them alright everyone in the last monthly review we asked you
to submit a video or audio file of yourself speaking the language telling
us why you're learning the language so thank you to all of you that sent in
submissions you've all received a premium plus subscription as a reward
now let's take a look at some of the submissions
okay so I'm gonna have a listen to the audio files that were sent by you this
month I'm gonna start hi Alicia my name isn't good I am my arm India
I am University student I have fun learn English speaking because English is a
global language for communication home business for job I want a job in
multinational company for this I need to improve my English speaking skill and
and the English class 101 dot-com is a past community for learning English I
love learning English here they make everything easy and understandable for
everyone thank you for English 101 calm and thank you awesome that was great so
this person wants to learn English for their job opportunities to work in an
international company I think that's a really good goal to have so thank you so
much for sending this and thanks for studying with us thank you for sharing
your feedback that was great okay on to the next one what's up
everyone hi Alicia howling hi I'm going round two my name is Claudia so Melanie
from Mozambique in Africa dianna Mozambique Alicia I'm making this
because I love meeting new people in new cultures I learned a lot from the
materials on this channel and I have to say thank you very much English class
101.com Thank You Alicia and yes bye bye see you
cool that was nice that was really nice yes I do know Mozambique thank you for
talking about where you're from I'm interested in hearing where everyone's
from but that was great yeah that was really like kind of cheerful and
positive and smoothly delivered introduction thanks very much for
sending that along okay I'm going to go to the next one
hi Alicia my name's Daniel and I am from kakuzu a
city in Brazil okay I study English because there is much more information
about almost everything in English than in Portuguese for example topics like
science and engineering and because I am really curious about England and United
States history any culture I would like to thank you guys for everything you
have made available on the Internet cool that's a really interesting point
actually like wanting to study English because there's more information
available about a lot of topics in English that's a really good point so
that's very cool thanks very much for sending this and good luck with your
continued studies awesome okay so those are all the files that we have for this
month thank you everybody who took the time to send us something we really
appreciate it I look forward to more next month
so which entry did you like the best leave a comment below or do you think
you can do better here's the challenge for you yes everyone watching this
record a 30-second to 1-minute video or audio clip tell us about where you're
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