Hello, I'm Julian Northbrook from doingenglish.com
helping you to master the English language faster
and I got this scorcher in my inbox today.
Hi Julian, I wanted to help me
how to speak English and I wanted to practise.
It's nothing personal to this person in particular,
but dude, work on your approach.
why would I want to use my valuable time
to go off and practise speaking English
from the internet that I don't know from Adam
I mean, let's say this is somebody that I know.
why do I want to practise my English?
the benefit is not for me, it's for you
You get everything, I get nothing.
It's like me going out to a school
but that makes you a charity case
and don't you feel kind of embarrassed about that?
as me walking up to some random girl
on the street that I've never seen before,
and saying something like hey baby,
my bedroom technique isn't very good,
I wanna practise having sex with you.
I mean, do you think that might work?
I've taken some pretty direct approaches in the past,
but that was because there was already
an established relationship there in place
and of course I didn't tell her
I mean, you don't practise the old rumpy pumpy, do you?
I mean, you just kind of do it
and you get good at it from experience,
from you know, doing it, not practising it.
This is all kind of tongue in cheek, I know
and their unfortunate advertising
and the way they put this across.
You've already learned English at school,
now you've just gotta practise with a native speaker
with this practising , practising with a native speaker.
I need someone to help me practise.
Look, you need to learn the language
and then you need to get the fuck out there
and actually use it with real people
Bollocks to this I need a native speaker
Skip that and just start doing something in English.
I mean, it's not rocket science, is it?
if you really, really, really don't have any way
to actually sue the English language with real people,
then don't you think that it's kind
of pointless practising it anyway?
but the message behind what I'm saying here
really kind of is important I think,
This then is me, Julian Northbrook, signing off
if not useful, give it a thumbs up.
If I have totally offended your world view, well, bothered.
Go ahead, give it a thumbs down
and I will see in you tomorrow's video.
Not sure how to practise your English
without needing native speakers to help you?
No problem, just check out this video
to practise your English completely alone.
Be warned, number three might make you giggle a little bit
if you don't know what the best kind