Name: Will You Forget Your English If You Stop Using It?
Uploaded: 2020-06-08T03:10:46.000Z
Duration: 4 min 51 s
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- Hello, I'm Julian Northbrook from doingenglish.com,

It's been about six weeks since I came to Ireland

and that I have been separated from my beloved family,

with whom, I speak Japanese, on a day-to-day basis.

And of course all of the media, the films, the TV,

in a completely English-speaking environment,

I do feel like my Japanese proficiency has dulled somewhat.

to bring it right back up in record time.

And I do get that this is a real concern for a lot of people

and that's what I'm going to talk about here in this video.

Perhaps you lived in an English-speaking country

and you've just gone back to your home country,

Perhaps you were working in an international company

and used English on a day-to-day basis there

and gone to something different, in your native language.

Whatever the reason you may find yourself

you're not exposed to English on a day-to-day basis.

You're not using English as much as you used to

and you feel like you're going to forget everything.

First and foremost, don't worry too much.

You never actually forget something that you've learned.

is a result of the way that the brain works,

the way that it manages multiple languages.

Basically, if you got English in your head,

what your brain's gonna do is, it's almost gonna just,

it's gonna push it to one side, put it to sleep,

sedate it somewhat so that it's, again, out of the way.

So that it's not draining precious cognitive resources,

to something that is immediately in front of us,

What this means then is that, your English,

It's just a little bit tired and a little bit sleepy.

So what you've got to do is, you've got to wake it up

It's just a case of getting back into the habit

Easy ways to do this is things like, you know,

Reading books in English, instead of your native language.

All this exposure will just help to keep the English up

Just understand that it's good for keeping your level,

However, a big mistake that many people make,

is thinking that they can just listen to stuff all day

or go to an English-speaking country and just being there,

is gonna make them highly proficient in the language.

that if they're not doing anything else, again,

the level is just kept and that's about it.

If you want to go beyond the level that you're currently at,

yeah, you're gonna have to put some hard, intensive,

focused study time in, to learn the language that you need.

and to actually force your English to get better and better.

That's about all we've got time for for today's video.

If you found this useful, give it a nice big old thumbs up.

If you haven't read my book, Master English Fast!,

an uncommon guide to speaking extraordinary English,

to bring your English level up to the level of Mastery.

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