Name: English Topics - Tips to get good at English
Uploaded: 2020-07-03T01:53:55.000Z
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My name is Alisha, and today, I'm joined again in the studio by--

Alisha: Hi, Michael. Thanks for joining us again today.

Today, we're going to be looking at a few tips for learning another language.

So, each of us have prepared a few things that we think are really useful when learning

Both of us have studied another language to some degree.

So, we're going to talk about things that were useful for us and which might be useful

for you as you practice your English skills.

Michael: I would say, “absorb media.”

This is something that actually, when I meet someone, and they sound like a native English

And I go, you know, “Where are you from?

You mean you're not a native English speaker?”

And every single time they tell me, I said, you know, “How did you learn?

I want to help people, blah blah blah.”

Every single time, they tell me, “Oh, I just love blah blah blah culture.”

I love Justin Bieber, and Lady Gaga blah blah blah blah blah.”

And so all day, every day, they're reading, they're watching movies, they're sitting

It doesn't feel like you're studying, but you are.

So, even when I'm lazy, I have no choice but to listen to the language I'm learning.

Mine was just phrased slightly different.

I said, “find something that interests you in your target language.”

So, if English is your target language, whatever it might be, if it's music, if it's movies,

If it's--if you're interested in dating someone who speaks your target language, whatever

Something that's going to make you want to study and make you want to learn that language,

so that you have that, you know, that drive to do it.

I guess I'll share another one of mine, if that's okay.

Alisha: My next one is one that I try to do myself, but I know that I mess up every once

Even if it's just a few minutes, whether you can spare an hour or two hours, or just, I

myself study while I'm commuting to work on the subway.

Just find something that you can do every single day so that you don't lose, you know,

Whether it's vocabulary, or picking a new grammar point to be looking at, or just you

know finding a new phrase on TV that you thought was interesting, just being an active learner

every single day really, really contributes, I think, to your abilities to speak and to

Let's just practice every single day something.

Michael: I think this is a really useful piece of advice for anything.

I think a lot of people, you get overwhelmed and, you know, you think, “Man!

Whether it's exercising, or playing the piano, or whatever, and you just want to finish a

Then one day, you cram as much as you can.

You get burnt out and then you don't do it for weeks, months.

Any of the best, the greatest, whether they speak a language like you is wonderfully as

you do or whatever, or play piano, or whatever.

Every single time, you ask them and it's brick, by brick, by brick.

So, I agree 100% and I also don't follow this advice all the time.

For me, honestly, my languages are not as confident.

But as far as exercise, you know, you'll get lazy and you'll pig out, and you go down.

But you can't just give up and just let it go down.

Michael: Just remember the big picture that you are making progress.

So, you're busy with work whatever, get back on it.

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