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Hello, what's up?
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I'm Gabby Wallace, your American English teacher, founder of Go Natural English,
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making the world a more fluent place with your help! Now you want to be fluent in English and
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you've been studying a lot of things for a lot of years to improve your English fluency.
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Now, what if I told you that
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learning and improving is not just about accumulating knowledge and facts
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Improvement is actually about letting go of some things
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Stopping doing some things if that sounds interesting then keep watching
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Let me explain in this lesson
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I'm gonna share five things that you can stop doing and these five tips are inside the English Fluency Formula
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so this lesson is brought to you by the ebook that I wrote for you to help you improve your English fluency
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So let's go to page eight
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Five things that you can stop doing right now
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You can let go
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Release them into the world, and you never have to worry about them again and in the meantime your English will improve
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How about that? Would you like me to share these things with you that you can stop doing?
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Okay number one if you don't see immediate improvement in your English don't give up
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It takes time to change the way you learn and to realize that you are improving. It's all about
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Patience it's all about enjoying the journey of learning English
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Don't fixate so much on if you've actually improved from day to day.
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Yes, it's important to learn new things to challenge yourself
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But don't fixate so much on have I improved my score or my grades since yesterday
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focus more on
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What you can do to experience English on a daily basis?
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So don't give up if you don't see an improvement because also
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You're gonna see that some days
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You might improve a lot, and it seems like English is coming naturally to you all of a sudden
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But then other days for whatever reason maybe you're feeling tired
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Maybe you woke up on the wrong side of the bed, maybe you're experiencing a new English environment
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Well, you're gonna feel like your english actually
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Went back a level and that's natural
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Because that's what it's like to learn and improve
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You're gonna feel like you took two steps forward and one step back and two steps forward and one step back
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But you are improving next let's talk about reading books
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Don't stop reading a book just because it feels too difficult don't throw it away
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Take a break
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Try reading something else in the meantime, and then go back to that book that seems difficult
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And I bet that after a month or two it's gonna see him a lot easier
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It's a lot like these days with rock climbing
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I started rock climbing about a month ago, and it was really really hard at first. I couldn't climb anything
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It was really embarrassing by it I got a month pass and I've been going every single day
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Sometimes twice a day to the rock climbing gym
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And now I can climb a lot more and a lot better than I was on day one
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some days are more difficult than others, but I can see an improvement and that's how it is with English so give yourself time and
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Be patient with yourself
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Number three don't compare yourself with others
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there are they're people with other experiences and other goals and
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Just compare yourself with you your goals and your improvements over time
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Okay, number four is really important
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don't focus on what you cannot do
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look, we go where we focus have you ever noticed that maybe if you're driving or riding your bike
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and you're looking at something you start to steer towards it by
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accidents or
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Subliminally, not really even thinking about it
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this is what happens when we focus on the negative
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when we focus on what we can't do it seems to expand it seems to get worse
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it seems to get bigger so try not to focus on what you cannot do try to focus on what you can do and
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lean in to your positive feelings about English your
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accomplishments and English is gonna feel a lot easier too
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finally number five
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Don't try to do everything alone
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Learning English is not a solo activity. Yes. You're smart you're dedicated
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You can learn so much on your own, but English for me at least is about
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communication and that means two people or three people or four or
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Many many many many many people so don't do it alone
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Remember if you want to go fast go alone if you want to go far go together
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One of my favorite proverbs so remember don't try to do everything on your own join the go natural English community
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And I'll send you our best go natural English free lessons in your inbox all right. Thanks so much for watching
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I hope you enjoyed it. I'll talk to you again soon in another lesson bye for now