everything I did to learn English

00:17:28
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Resumo

TLDRThe speaker discusses their personal journey of learning English, emphasizing the importance of mindset, vision, curiosity, and self-criticism. They introduce the RRRW framework: Research, Routine, and Refinement as practical steps for effective language acquisition. The focus is on engaging with diverse resources, maintaining a daily practice, and incorporating writing as a key skill to enhance fluency and comprehension. Through sharing personal insights and strategies, the speaker aims to motivate and guide learners towards better language proficiency.

Conclusões

  • 🌟 Vision: Envision your future self as a fluent speaker.
  • 🔍 Research: Find content that genuinely interests you.
  • 📅 Routine: Establish daily habits for consistent practice.
  • ⚖️ Balance: Keep it short; 15-30 minutes is effective.
  • ✍️ Writing: Improve articulation through regular writing.
  • 📚 Diverse Input: Expose yourself to various language sources.
  • 🤔 Self-criticism: Continuously assess and refine your skills.
  • 🎧 Engage: Use every opportunity, like social media, to immerse in English.
  • 💡 Set Goals: Create your own roadmap to progress.
  • ☑️ Document: Keep a vocabulary notebook for new words.

Linha do tempo

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The narrator shares their journey in learning English, emphasizing the common challenges faced by non-native speakers, such as struggle with accent and context. They reflect on the traditional education system's shortcomings and highlight the role of language in human evolution. The narrator introduces their approach by dividing the video into mindset and practical steps for learning English, suggesting that vision, curiosity, and self-criticism are key elements for a successful learning experience.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker discusses the importance of maintaining a growth mindset even after achieving certain proficiency levels. They stress the need for ongoing self-assessment and not becoming complacent with language skills. The narrative emphasizes creating a personalized roadmap for learning rather than relying solely on external benchmarks like exams. By focusing on continuous improvement, learners can avoid stagnation and enhance their language abilities in a native-speaker environment.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:17:28

    The presenter outlines a practical framework for language learning, emphasizing the balance between input (reading and listening) and output (speaking and writing). They introduce the 'RRR W' framework—Research, Routine, and Refinement—pointing out that effective learning requires finding engaging content, establishing consistent habits, and actively seeking diverse and challenging materials. The importance of writing as a tool for enhancing both language skills and cognitive development is also highlighted, encouraging learners to integrate writing into their daily routines.

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Vídeo de perguntas e respostas

  • What mindset is important for language learning?

    Having a clear vision, curiosity, and self-criticism are key elements.

  • How can I find resources for learning English?

    Research topics of interest and use platforms like YouTube and AI tools to discover relevant content.

  • What is the RRRW framework?

    It stands for Research, Routine, and Refinement, focusing on how to engage consistently with language learning.

  • How can I maintain a language learning routine?

    Set specific times, choose go-to resources, and start with manageable study sessions.

  • Why is writing important in language learning?

    Writing helps organize thoughts, improve articulation, and solidify understanding of the language.

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    so as you can tell by now English is not
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    my native language I still make a lot of
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    mistakes I sometimes use expressions in
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    the wrong context and as much as I try
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    to push it away my accent shows up
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    especially if I'm tired however however
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    I feel like I've gotten to a point where
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    I'm very comfortable with reading and
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    writing about complex stuff and having
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    conversations about a variety of
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    different topics with a fair amount of
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    depth and I guess my journey started in
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    a way that may sound familiar to you
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    which is like a first encounter at
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    school and a dynamic filled with boring
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    workbooks and overall disengaged
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    teachers and students and I think it's
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    so sad to be studying the language for
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    so long like all through school and high
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    school only to be able to hold a very a
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    very basic conversation with with a
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    native and even that conversation feels
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    you up with anxiety I also feel like
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    this uh leaves people feeling stupid or
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    like they're not made for language
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    learning and I beg to differ because uh
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    you're human I hope and um through our
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    Evolution language learning has always
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    been a survival tool like we needed it
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    for uh sharing knowledge for territory
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    expansion for cooperation and it's a
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    tool you still possess I just feel like
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    you haven't been provided with the right
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    skills for learning to happen and
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    throughout this video I just wanted to
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    share some insights uh about how I
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    acquired those skills through my
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    experience and all the things that I did
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    to help me get to where I am right now
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    so firstly I'd like to divide this video
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    between two main parts cuz I want to
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    talk a bit about the mindset around the
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    learning and then talk about the
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    learning and some practical steps uh you
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    can make right now as soon as you finish
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    this
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    video so when it comes to having a good
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    frame of mind uh when it comes to
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    learning looking back at my journey I
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    found three main elements that really
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    helped me get here and the first one was
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    my vision so when I was getting into
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    this English speaking bubble I started
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    to Envision a future Chris that would
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    would be highly articulate and as I was
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    building that version of myself in my
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    head that kind of pushed me towards wed
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    to really be in pursuit of that vision
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    and I really believe it's a very helpful
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    exercise to do like just to Vision who
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    you want to become or what kind of
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    learner you want to be cuz honestly when
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    you feel tired or like you don't want to
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    hit the books or put the effort in um I
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    think that having this little vision
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    really helps because I would just think
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    of that Chris and I would really feel
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    like what I was about to do really made
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    a difference it's like okay it's going
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    to be just 5 minutes of studying but
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    this is really going to make my vision
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    come true and also I was really
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    passionate about my learning like I
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    would spend hours and hours just reading
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    extensively talking to myself um
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    recording myself or just writing oh and
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    I would also keep like a little um
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    vocabulary notebook and I would take
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    that with me everywhere like we would
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    watch a movie we would whatever I just
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    wanted to write that down um like new
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    words and stuff and I guess the second
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    element to a good mindset is curiosity
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    like really having a sense of curiosity
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    and being excited and engaged with your
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    learning is another key element here cuz
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    you don't want to engage with things
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    that are not exciting to you like I'm
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    guessing if you're someone who got to a
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    point where you're very good at English
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    and like you can speak and whatever it's
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    probably not because of all those
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    grammar textbooks that you did in high
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    school but because of maybe because you
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    found some content like some shows some
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    movies some podcast or whatever that um
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    you really enjoyed and like you just
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    kept doing that and it it kind of became
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    SEC second nature right so having a
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    Clear Vision and being curious about
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    your learning it's important but there's
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    still one piece missing and that is
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    self-criticism even when I was a
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    teenager and I was growing up I had this
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    sense of self analysis cuz I would
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    always see see where my weaknesses were
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    at and I always made it a point to work
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    on them and if I'm honest language exams
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    were really were a good direction to
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    follow and to see where my skills needed
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    years ago I passed my C2 certificate
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    achieve like academically in a language
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    academically being a key word here and
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    the moment I passed that exam I just
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    thought to myself like I've made it like
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    I finally made my vision a reality like
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    um there's nothing else to improve like
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    I i' I've gotten here like I'm here
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    right now and I completely lost my sense
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    of self-criticism and I got stuck and
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    now I happen to be in an environment
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    where I'm surrounded by native speakers
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    and I'm so humbled like there is so much
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    room for improvement I I just I'm making
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    it a point every day to just like try to
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    improve myself as much as possible so I
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    guess my point here and the lesson I
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    draw from this is that you don't want to
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    let external finishing lines shape your
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    view about your progress and while exams
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    were a perfect tool for directing me
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    towards my weaknesses and seeing where I
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    had to uh work on I feel like now I have
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    to take matters into my own hands and
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    just create my own road map and set my
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    own goals you should never think that
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    you've arrived or that there's nothing
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    left when you lose that you you just get
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    stuck as I did CU self-criticism really
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    is an important skill to have if you
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    really want to improve
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    yourself so now that we talked a bit
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    about the mindset I want to kind of
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    bridge this element with more practical
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    steps you can take and you know language
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    learning can be understood in terms of
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    input that is what you receive what you
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    put into your body like reading and
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    listening and in terms of output what
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    you produce like speaking and writing
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    and while both are crucial uh input
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    always comes first because you need to
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    give something to your brain in in order
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    to produce something just think about
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    the fact that we as humans in order to
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    start talking we need like three or four
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    years of constantly getting input from
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    our environment and then start talking
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    that's why talking is usually harder and
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    you can understand way more than what
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    you can produce it's a normal thing and
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    also the two processes work differently
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    in the brain but that's a topic for
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    another conversation so that's why I
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    feel like you should firstly focus on
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    input and firstly I want to give you a
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    framework that I named The rrr W
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    framework just because it makes sense
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    for me and uh the first R stands for
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    research find something that you're
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    genuinely interested in do a little
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    research on the internet of potential
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    resources to work with and do not
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    underestimate this step for example I
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    just like to put stuff that I'm
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    interested about on YouTube cuz YouTube
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    I feel like it's one of my best uh
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    learning tools I don't know like
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    nutrition psychology um whatever I don't
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    know whatever comes to mind and now that
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    I have ai in my life I I like to ask
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    Chad GPT to give me some resources like
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    for example um I'm into this my
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    personality is like this blah blah blah
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    I don't give too much information by the
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    way that might be dangerous I don't know
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    and I also like to put him into context
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    like I'm a learner like I'm at this
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    level I would like something that's
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    easier blah blah blah and I would also
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    suggest that you mix that you go for
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    content created for Learners and
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    authentic content because usually
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    content created for Learners is like
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    slower and it's very useful but um you
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    should be exposed also to the authentic
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    stuff cuz you know you don't want to
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    have that gap of like I'm learning this
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    but it turns out that the language is
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    nothing like this I don't know if you're
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    understanding what I'm saying and now we
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    get to the second R which stands for
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    routine and one of my favorite quotes of
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    all time is we become what we repeatedly
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    do therefore excellent is not an act but
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    a habit and I love this quote because it
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    just encapsulates how much habits shape
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    who we become CU When you have a habit
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    of engaging with a language every single
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    day you will eventually become someone
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    whose second nature is to just have that
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    language in his life in his or her life
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    and I would go as far as to say that a
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    routine it's what's going to potentially
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    turn you into a fluent speaker and
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    essentially you want to look out for
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    three main three main things in your
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    routine you want have go-to resources
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    you want to really decrease uh mental
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    constraint cuz you don't want to be
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    having only like 10 minutes to dedicate
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    to your learning and being so paralyzed
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    by so much analysis that you end up
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    doing nothing so you want to prevent
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    that and you want to be specific about
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    it I want to watch YouTube okay which
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    video I want to read which article or
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    what book I want to listen to a podcast
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    and write down some notes okay which
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    episode you just need to be prepared and
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    for example I like to do this on Sundays
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    so every Sunday I prepare a bit my week
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    ahead and I'm like okay and this day I'm
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    going to do this and Tuesday I'm doing
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    this and that and I just prepare myself
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    you will also like to have a regular
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    moment in your day when you're doing
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    your routine cuz you kind of get your
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    body used to that at the same time every
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    day so I would suggest you experiment
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    with this like try one week or two weeks
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    and see where you can block some some
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    time to sit with the language without
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    compromising too much your mental energy
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    or the rest of your
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    day so my camera just died uh well not
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    right now but when I was recording this
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    so I had to do some stuff and now it's
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    night time so I'm sorry for the sudden
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    change but I believe as I wrote down
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    here that I was talking about the
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    routine part and how you need to go
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    resources and finding a regular time to
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    just um sit with the language every
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    single day and the last point in this
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    part was to keep it short and sweet cuz
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    I don't know about you but I have this
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    tendency of overdoing things at the
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    beginning like I get so invested in like
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    changing my life somehow that I just um
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    overdo it and after one week or two I
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    just I kind of feel burned out and I
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    just want to quit all together so that's
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    why I like to really start small for me
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    15 30 minutes a day it's perfect and
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    like if you have more time dedicated to
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    it and you could consistently keep up
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    with that then uh by all means do it but
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    sometimes I find myself doing like two
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    or three pockets of 15 minutes a day and
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    it adds up immensely and ideally you
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    would want to be immersed in the
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    language in another way besides this
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    routine cuz this routine is more for
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    like sitting down with the language and
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    you would want to do that with Deadtime
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    for example maybe you're in a traffic
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    jam uh in the Metro or just walk in or
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    whatever and use those small amounts of
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    times to turn that de time into learning
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    opportunities also I feel like you can
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    trick your um social media algorithm
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    into showing you content only in English
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    I don't think that's that hard because
  • 00:12:29
    pretty much everything that's mainstream
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    it's uh nowadays in English and I just
  • 00:12:34
    also feel like this Trends or sometimes
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    shifts in society somehow happen uh or
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    like come from the English speaking
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    world or maybe I'm biased because of
  • 00:12:46
    what I see on social media but I think
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    that's a good idea also to stay at the
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    Forefront of new ideas and new culture
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    while developing your skills so social
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    media social media can be a good asset
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    if you know how to use it and now that
  • 00:13:01
    you have your choice of input and your
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    consistent routine the third step is
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    refinement and you know what they say we
  • 00:13:09
    are what we eat so limited or poor
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    quality input will definitely constrain
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    the richness of your output so you want
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    to feed your brain with a dense and
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    diverse diet of the language cuz you
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    know for years I've been having the same
  • 00:13:24
    input over and over and I kept asking
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    myself why am I not improving like
  • 00:13:28
    what's going going on and if you found
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    something that you really like enjoy and
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    it's like I don't know your favorite
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    YouTuber or whatever like by all means
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    keep doing that but if you really want
  • 00:13:40
    to take your English to another level I
  • 00:13:43
    really suggest you start looking for
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    something a bit more challenging so
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    nowadays every couple of weeks or every
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    X months depending on my goals and um my
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    time available I conduct a little input
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    check in order to kind of see the
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    quality of my input and if you want to
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    push yourself I really suggest you start
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    looking for abstract ideas for example
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    I've recently discovered um two podcast
  • 00:14:11
    called Academy of ideas and philosophi
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    philosophies this which I highly
  • 00:14:16
    recommend and I love this because they
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    really push me into thinking in abstract
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    ways and even question topics that I've
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    never really thought about before and
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    you know I've realized that for the
  • 00:14:29
    longest time I've been in my comfort
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    zone just listening to stuff that was
  • 00:14:33
    very easy and very basic without like
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    looking for that little challenge or
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    like just pushing myself and that's why
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    I want to really highlight the
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    importance of staying self-critical and
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    also setting clear goals I am now trying
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    my best to fix this and focus on my
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    weakest points and be alert all the time
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    about what it is that I have to work on
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    and another thing that I did to avoid
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    getting out of my comfort zone was not
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    writing if I'm honest writing has always
  • 00:15:05
    been one of my weakest skills like even
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    in my native language I think it's hard
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    for me to put my thoughts into words
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    like into written words I don't know why
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    I'm I'm trying to work on that and this
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    takes me to my last point to the last
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    letter of this framework which is start
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    writing as often and as soon as possible
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    cuz I've also realized how important it
  • 00:15:29
    is to write if you want to speak better
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    most of these public speakers that I see
  • 00:15:33
    that are very like articulate and like
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    they can express themselves themselves
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    very well they usually have a very
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    thorough writing routine or they always
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    write their thoughts before exposing
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    them to the world now that I'm writing
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    more I'm also starting to realize like
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    how much I've missed on because I've
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    skipped this part and you know at first
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    just writing about your day and kind of
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    journaling about it um it's already a
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    tough job depending on where you are but
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    I feel like going next level requires
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    something more uh for example I'm now
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    writing little stories about random
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    stuff I am writing about certain ideas
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    that I hear or read about I'm trying to
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    Rite my thoughts on different topics
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    like political stuff or like just life
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    in general I'm getting very uh deep with
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    this and I feel like not only it can
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    improve your English but also it can
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    improve the lenses through which you see
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    the world cuz you have to verbalize such
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    abstract Concepts that you just feel
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    like you understand them but when you're
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    when you're writing about them you start
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    to realize that you don't really know
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    anything about it and you know I know it
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    can be daunting to start writing at
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    first it definitely was for me and I
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    don't know I'm thinking maybe I could do
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    a video diving a bit more into my
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    writing process now that I actually have
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    a writing process maybe that'll be
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    helpful to someone I don't know
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    but for now like just start and write
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    about whatever try to integrate that
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    into your routine so that's pretty much
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    all I have for today I hope I was clear
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    enough um I hope this help you somehow I
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    hope you can help someone and I will see
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    you in the next one
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    [Music]
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  • language learning
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