5 Simple Habits that made me FLUENT in 9 Languages

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG-OmfL3hzs

الملخص

TLDRThe video emphasizes the importance of eliminating common mistakes to improve language learning. Key mistakes include overanalyzing materials and one's own abilities, spending too much time on non-productive activities, and over-relying on tutors. Consistency and targeted exposure to the language are crucial for progress. The speaker suggests a structured approach to minimize decision fatigue and advocates for maintaining a focus on communication: understanding and being understood. They recommend using quality materials and maintaining consistency in learning efforts. The video concludes by urging viewers to join a community for support and structured learning to avoid common pitfalls.

الوجبات الجاهزة

  • 🗝️ Seek to understand and be understood in language learning.
  • 🧠 Avoid overanalyzing to maintain a natural flow in learning.
  • 📚 Use structured approaches to minimize decision fatigue.
  • 🚫 Eliminate non-productive activities in language learning routines.
  • 📈 Consistency is key to making lasting language gains.
  • 🗓️ Prioritize activities with high returns in language progress.
  • 🤝 Tutors should be used as a resource, not the main learning method.
  • ⏱️ Focus learning efforts within structured time blocks.
  • 🔄 Balance comprehensible input with native content for progression.
  • 🌍 Join a supportive community to enhance learning.
  • 📖 Use interesting contexts for learning through books and videos.

الجدول الزمني

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    Mistakes are detrimental to language learning. To see improvement quickly, learners should focus on reducing mistakes and eliminating decision fatigue. Structuring your learning routine day by day and integrating into a supportive community can provide necessary guidance and reduce stress. Overanalyzing can be harmful. When children learn, they are more relaxed and less self-critical. Adults must adapt this mindset by letting language flow naturally and focusing on understanding the general context rather than dissecting every detail.

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    Consistency in language practice is crucial for progress. Not using language consistently will slow down learning significantly. The key is consistent contact and understanding language patterns. Utilizing resources like quality media materials and comprehensive stories can deepen learning, while tutors should be seen as facilitators rather than the main source of learning. Language learning should be structured so that personal responsibility is emphasized and opportunities for understanding through practice are maximized. By immersing in comprehensible input and challenging oneself with native-level material over time, fluency can be achieved.

الخريطة الذهنية

فيديو أسئلة وأجوبة

  • How quickly can you see changes in language development by eliminating common mistakes?

    Eliminating these mistakes can lead to noticeable improvements in language development, sometimes in as little as a week.

  • Why is the 'seek to understand and be understood' approach important in language learning?

    Focusing on understanding and being understood in communication helps reduce anxiety and pressure in language learning.

  • Why is consistency important in learning a new language?

    Consistent exposure to the language helps the brain develop patterns needed for language comprehension.

  • How does overanalyzing affect language learning?

    Overanalyzing prevents the natural flow of understanding in language learning.

  • Why should learners focus on activities that provide better language learning returns?

    Maximizing engagement with the language provides greater returns on time spent compared to non-targeted activities.

  • What types of materials should be prioritized in language learning?

    Good materials include context-rich videos and engaging books that align with the learner's interests.

  • How should language learners effectively utilize tutors?

    Learners should use tutors as a resource to measure progress and not solely depend on them for learning.

  • How can learners balance materials at their level with native-level content?

    Using both comprehensible and native level materials can pull learners forward and help them merge levels.

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التمرير التلقائي:
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    there is no way around this if you are
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    consistently doing the wrong things you
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    will never reach your language learning
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    goals mistakes are the killers of
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    language gains if you can eliminate
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    these five things I guarantee you that
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    you will see a change in your language
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    development in under a week before we
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    get deep into this video there's a theme
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    that we're going to constantly return to
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    that is going to help you tremendously
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    as you become a language learner seek to
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    understand and seek to be understood
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    that's it basic level communication if
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    you approach things in this manner you
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    will have a far better chance of
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    reducing the pressure and anxiety on
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    yourself as you try to learn to speak
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    and understand a new language one of the
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    best things that you can do as a
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    language learner is to eliminate
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    decision fatigue if you could have
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    everything structured in a way that
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    gives you the knowledge to know this is
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    let's
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    go there are three issues here
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    overanalyzing our material over
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    analyzing ourselves when we go to speak
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    and overanalyzing when we go to read
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    listen or when we hear something this is
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    a problem as an adult when we were
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    younger we just let things happen
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    we let go it is the number one mistake
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    if you are in your head whether it's
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    language learning speaking playing a
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    sport doing whatever you are not going
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    to allow flow to come in this is the one
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    thing an ability to handle and relax
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    with chaos it sounds abstract but it's
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    truly very concrete I'm going to give
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    you guys an example when you are
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    listening to someone talk you are not
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    analyzing each and every word the reason
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    you're not doing that is because you
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    you're at a level of flow the language
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    is so deep within you at least to some
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    degree especially with context that you
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    don't have to look at every word but
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    what happens is and thanks to our
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    schooling the traditional method has us
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    thinking we need to go word by word list
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    by list at the beginning how do I do
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    this right we'll get to vocab later on
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    because there are some people that just
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    don't understand that they did not have
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    flashcards when they were two your
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    parents didn't do that you learned a
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    language without flashcards and without
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    having to learn vocab specifically you
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    asked all right because as I said seek
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    to understand and seek to be understood
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    this is the key to all of this what you
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    want is to focus on the whole picture
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    can you understand and make sense of
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    everything that's happening in what
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    you're reading listening or watching
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    that's the switch that'll allow you to
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    just take in and be cool with the entire
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    situation me as a huge meditator that's
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    another skill and something that I
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    definitely think everyone should add
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    because what it does is teaching you to
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    slow down the chatter slow down
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    everything else that's going on around
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    you and just focus on what matters what
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    you decide that matters that's the point
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    of not overanalyzing and it's the very
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    first point because if you can get past
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    this you can just start downloading the
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    language onto your brain without you
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    even realizing
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    it too much time is spent on things that
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    are not giving you a return now this is
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    where you need to analyze things because
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    I'm betting that the majority of you
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    have studied another language in school
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    for many years and you're sitting here
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    watching this video about what to do
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    when to learn a language do we have a
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    problem with our schooling and the
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    traditional method yes we do but that's
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    what we need to do if you're spending
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    too much time in an app that's making
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    you play games if you're spending too
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    much time in your mother tongue if
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    you're spending too much time with a
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    tutor discussing rules or speaking in
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    English or in your mother tongue this
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    this is all time technically wasted what
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    you can do and I'm not saying you
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    shouldn't have fun while you're trying
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    to learn these languages you need to
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    have a focus on things that are going to
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    give you a better return what that would
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    look like is spending as much time as
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    possible in a level in place that's
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    giving you the input that allows you to
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    learn because you'll understand this a
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    whole host of problems you will have in
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    a language is going to be based on vocab
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    the problem if you've not seen our
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    flashcard video is that
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    the best way to do this is to have a
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    focus an interest that you love one that
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    is going to keep up your motivation and
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    your discipline to return to it and it's
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    going to allow you to think about it
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    when you're not studying we want to make
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    sure that you're reading you're writing
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    you're listening your speaking your
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    thinking is all aimed at a center point
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    we want to create a cocoon a world for
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    you to live in that way you have the
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    ability at the end of this to know that
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    that is where I want my 20% if I can
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    have all of my input and all of the
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    things that I'm studying around that at
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    the beginning and even further as you
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    get better and better you will do
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    wonders always look to invest your time
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    on the things that are going to bring
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    you the most value if you do that you
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    will make some serious
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    gains inconsistency will kill you period
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    the only way to make true and Lasting
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    gains is to stay consistent with your
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    work and so now that we've already gone
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    through and said don't overanalyze make
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    sure that the things that you're doing
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    are actually going to give you a good
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    return and we've we've done our 7-Day
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    language challenge we've done other
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    different types of challenges and we've
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    said to you 15 minutes is more than
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    enough for you to make some sort of gain
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    but the truth is you got to string
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    together a bunch of days your brain has
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    to understand that it's always going to
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    be something for you the worst thing you
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    can do is have 1 to 3 days of work and
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    then 6 weeks off or 3 weeks on and then
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    3 years off right so your brain is
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    trying to make sense out of all these
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    new sounds and words characters and
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    things that are coming in if you can't
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    give it a chance to make a pattern out
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    of that you will take forever forever to
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    learn this new language you have to
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    constantly be in contact with the
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    language anything that really gets you
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    interactive in the language is helping
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    but like we said the things in the 20%
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    are going to help you quicker faster
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    with more ease and get you more but of
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    course if you want to go play the the
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    Duo thing and whatever that's fine it's
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    going to give you something if someone
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    forced me to choose only two things that
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    I would have to do consistently to learn
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    a language I would make sure that the
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    first one is a quality piece of material
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    that I can watch pick up context so I
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    can hear and see how they're pronouncing
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    and doing things the second would be a
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    quality thick book some story that I
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    could wrap my head around fiction is
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    great stories are great because that's
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    what they're going to do to your brain
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    they're going to stick in there and just
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    stay and you're going to tell yourself
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    you're going to think about them you're
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    and it's going to reach your
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    subconscious those are the things if I
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    had only just a little bit of time that
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    I would spend doing it would not be on
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    trying to learn one word here this that
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    and the other because the vocab gains
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    that you have to be perfectly honest
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    they are majority of them will come from
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    Reading if you can be consistent with a
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    story right maybe even the same story
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    that you have as a movie which is
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    possible it will change the way that you
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    do things right and you have to just you
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    have to be consistent with it for enough
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    time to get your brain to pick up on the
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    pattern once your brain gets the pattern
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    and your subconscious understands what's
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    going on you don't have to put in that
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    energy all right you don't have to you
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    won't think so hard and it's crucial for
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    what you really want to
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    do this next mistake I call the over
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    tutor I don't know if that's a word but
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    it is now what do I mean by this if you
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    put the responsibility to learn a
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    language on your tutor you will not
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    learn a lot of people pay for a course
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    pay for things to do and then they'll go
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    and then they'll just show up for the
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    class they'll sit there they won't do
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    the homework everything in language
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    learning is about doing the work all
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    right a tutor the best way to use a
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    tutor as a matter of fact I'm going to
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    make a video on this I don't care if it
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    bombs because if you can structure and
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    find good tutors it's gold all right you
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    have to structure rate they have to work
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    with you it has to be something there's
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    this there's this give and take that you
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    have to understand which is why I want
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    to make a full video on it but to get
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    you guys some simple guidelines on how
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    to get the most out of your tutor you
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    need to think of your tutor as simply a
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    test at the end of the week after you've
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    done all this you need to be measuring
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    how much more fluid you are in your
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    understanding and in your speaking
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    that's it you start to use a tutor in
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    that way they can start to become
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    completely involved in what you are
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    doing and trying to learn and that's it
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    give them the focus it should not be the
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    other way around it's a massive mistake
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    to just give up that power of what you
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    want to learn in a language to somebody
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    who doesn't know you you know you all
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    right and because you know you you need
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    to set the standard set the tone set the
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    rules and set the Direction all right it
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    it just doesn't make sense any other
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    way there are so many different schools
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    of thought for what is the best time for
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    a student to start speaking should they
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    speak from the beginning should they not
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    speak at all there are some schools that
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    don't allow you to speak for months and
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    months and months where I stand is
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    somewhere in the middle because if you
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    understand the principal theme seek to
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    understand and seek to be understood
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    then you can utilize your speech as a
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    primer and way to get back some
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    information that you will understand
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    where the problem is is that people are
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    tempting to speak without having the
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    vocab without having proper input
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    without having a true pattern in their
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    brain you're forcing it and if you force
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    it too soon you're going to delay
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    yourself it's not that you're NE never
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    going to get there you won't let the
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    process happen think about how what
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    happens to kids think about how much you
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    explain how much the tutor being parents
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    or friends family how how much they go
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    this is a phone you can call people look
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    at all the in look at all of that look
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    at all the context that you get this is
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    a book you can read in the book that's
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    what it looks like and because so much
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    of that you can skip as an adult which
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    is a beautiful thing because you can
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    actually you can learn in my opinion as
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    long as you can access this part of your
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    brain that will allow you to kill the
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    chatter that will allow you to just
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    simply think and be okay with chaos and
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    be okay with looking and sounding stupid
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    with not understanding everything that's
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    going I think adults can truly learn
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    quite quickly we don't have to
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    re-explain Concepts to you you know what
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    this is we have to explain this to a
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    child child has to figure out what a
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    book is why are there lines in there we
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    have to write what's writing okay what's
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    this word they have to learn all of that
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    you don't so that's a side tangent but
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    it's just to say that when you are
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    trying to speak early on stay in your
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    lane all right stay within the confines
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    of what you know completely if all else
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    fails remember to get more input you
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    always want to slightly be doing a
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    little bit more slightly a little bit
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    more slightly a little bit more Challen
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    yourself just a little bit more one
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    excellent way to structure your learning
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    days is to make sure that when you have
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    your most amount of energy take the time
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    to utilize something that's in your
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    level whether that's I've talked about
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    uh graded readers those are books that
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    you know are are made for language
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    Learners or Peppa Pig uh cartoons that
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    you've already seen movies that you know
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    every single word every single line a
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    series that you've seen 80 times and
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    binged watch those so the comprehensible
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    input is very very very good and then
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    when your day is done and you're you're
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    going to find that Netflix at some point
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    go watch something that's still in that
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    language but that's going to give you
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    what the natives are speaking and just
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    put the subtitles there and let go all
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    right you're just doing that one for fun
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    okay what that does is pull you forward
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    all right and because you're spending
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    the time doing something that is of your
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    level here but you've got something up
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    here that's pulling you forward you get
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    those native those things that we do in
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    every language we don't we slur we we
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    use slang and all those things and so
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    what you're doing is you're pulling from
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    both angles and what will end up
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    happening over time is that you will
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    find yourself understanding that okay I
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    don't really need that as much as much
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    you're pouring yourself here and this
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    stuff is starting to come down here and
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    then boom you'll meet in the middle at a
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    and then you'll start to move yourself
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    to only the stuff that's made for native
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    speakers that's something that I do
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    avoid and there are some habits from the
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