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Hi, there. Are you having problems or difficulties, or do you find it difficult to practice speaking
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English? Maybe you live in a country where nobody around you speaks English, or you're
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the only person you know that speaks English. I've got some advice for you.
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So, how to help you improve your speaking or your talking in English?
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Goin' crazy. Usually in English, we never say: "going" or "trying". We say: "goin'".
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So, any time in English you see this, we're actually missing the "g".
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So, probably you should say: "Going crazy trying to speak or practice English".
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But, in slang when regular speech, we say: "Goin' crazy tryin' to speak or practice English".
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So, I want you to think about one thing. Crazy people, there's one right here. I'm crazy,little bit.
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But when I say "crazy people", I really mean people who are mentally disturbed or
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have something really wrong with their brain. And we like to categorize people as being crazy,
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but they really are not insane. They just make crazy noises. So if someone is considered
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crazy, what do they do? Crazy people usually talk to themselves, they hear voices,
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especially if they're psychotic, and they will talk to anyone or everyone that will listen to them.
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So, my advice to you, secret number 42 of how to speak English, is act like you're crazy,
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or just go crazy learning English.
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The first one: crazy people talk to themselves. You are going to talk to yourself.
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If you want to really put... Bring this off and do it well, you could go on the bus [giggles]
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or on any kind of trains... Public transportation, go on the street in your city and just talk to yourself on the street.
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I don't really recommend that. If you want to do that, you can.
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But... talk to yourself, but record it. So when you do this,
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you're actually listening to your English so you can catch your mistakes and you can listen to your pronunciation.
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And, really, what do you sound like in English? So, rule number one:
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you're going to talk to yourself, but you're going to record it so you can check your mistakes
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and you can see just how well you do speak. Because I bet you, you speak better than you think.
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Next one: crazy people talk about hearing voices. Now, I know you inside have a voice.
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You, like I, have an inner being, a voice inside your head. Crazy people are known to have more than one voice.
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If you have this, you might want to seek some help.
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But when you hear voices, I want you to talk to yourself inside your head in English.
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When I lived in Japan, I learned to speak Japanese. I didn't take a course. I don't like studying.
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But my inner voice spoke to me in Japanese. So I would come back to Canada or I would go travelling,
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and I would actually speak to people who spoke English, they would ask me a question,
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I would answer them in Japanese
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because my inner voice was still talking to me in Japanese.
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So, one really, really important and great thing that you can do is make your inside voice speak to you in English.
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This sounds crazy, but I guarantee you that it's one of the ways that you know
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if you are coming actually bilingual (means you can speak two languages) or trilingual.
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So, if your inside voice can talk to you in two different languages,
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this is really amazing, and it means that your English is improving.
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Everyone has a different timeline. Some people can do this within a year, some people within months,
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some people it takes three or four years to do this,
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but once you have achieved this, woohoo, you're almost there.
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And the last one: you'll notice that if you see crazy people on the subway or you see crazy people in your city,
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they're going to talk to any or... This means "or", by the way.
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Everyone. They don't care who it is. They're not going to be picky and go:
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"I don't want to talk to that person. I want to talk to everyone."
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So, the more people that you can speak to in English, the better. You don't have to be picky.
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That means you don't have to choose. Is it a beautiful girl? A handsome boy? Young people? old people? babies? children?
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Anyone that you know that speaks English, try and talk to them. Even in your country,
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you think: "Ronnie, there's no one in my country that speaks English", you might be surprised.
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You can find people on websites, and you can find other English speakers to talk to.
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So, go crazy, speak as much as you can, and learn English with me.
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I'm Ronnie, and I'm crazy. Good bye.