Name: A2 English Listening Practice - Good English Learners
Uploaded: 2025-08-10T11:04:52.000Z
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Hey English learners, welcome to this A2 English listening practice video.

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I hope you're doing well and that you're ready to practice your listening.

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Today, I want to talk about what makes a good English learner.

And of course, this is for any language, not just an English learner, but a good French learner, a good Spanish learner.

So, I want to talk about four things that make a good English learner.

There are many more things, but I want to highlight four.

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So, let's talk about some different things that make a good English learner or language learner in general.

So, number one, an interest in other cultures.

When you're interested in other cultures, this gives you a reason.

This gives you motivation to learn the language that you're learning, even if it's challenging.

Even if you're having trouble, it's difficult for you, you hit a plateau, perhaps.

Regardless of these things, if you have a real interest, a genuine interest in other cultures, and specifically the culture that speaks the language that you're learning, in your case, English.

So, perhaps it's American culture, Canadian culture, Australian culture, British culture, whatever.

If you have that intense interest in that culture, it gives you a reason.

And having a reason to learn a language is super powerful.

When you have a reason, you actually want to do it.

You don't just have to learn the language, but you want to.

That's super helpful and motivating, and it makes it easier, I think.

It makes you have less resistance when you encounter differences.

When you see that the language that you're learning, English for example, has these linguistic differences that you don't quite understand.

For a lot of people, that can make it hard for them to continue on with their language learning.

But if you're interested in other cultures, the culture that speaks the language that you're learning, you are more likely to accept these differences.

These differences aren't necessarily a problem.

You're actually kind of interested in the differences, just like you're interested in the different culture.

It helped me a lot when I was learning Spanish.

At that time, I was super interested in Latin America, in Mexico in particular.

I was super excited about discovering that culture, getting to know the different aspects of life and culture.

And it helped me accept the differences that I was encountering with the Spanish language.

So that was something that really helped me.

It really aided me in my language learning.

And for example, if you're looking to become more interested in US culture, if you want to learn more and get excited about learning about the different states and cities in the US, I encourage you to check out my US Conversations podcast, in which I talk to different English teachers from around the country about their state, their city.

Next, the next thing I wanted to mention was that patience really helps someone be a better language learner.

You shouldn't be discouraged about how long it takes.

Learning a language takes a long time, let's be honest.

We should be realistic about our expectations.

We shouldn't expect to become fluent quickly because that's just simply not the case.

It's important to understand this and to be patient with yourself and to be patient during this process.

Don't try to force it to go super, super fast.

Of course, try to do as much as you can so that you can learn more quickly.

In general, obviously, you can do that, but don't force it.

Don't get too anxious about needing to speak really quickly or needing to understand everything really quickly.

If you put in the work and you're regular with it, it will come, okay?

You're gonna make the same mistakes again and again and again hundreds of times in some cases, okay?

Sometimes it literally takes like 200 times before you finally say it right, okay?

Most of the time, you can probably learn things more quickly than that.

But sometimes you make the same mistake many times, dozens of times, okay?

We forget things that we learned in the past.

And so you're gonna make the same mistakes again and again.

You're gonna forget things that you learned.

People often give up too soon because they're not patient, right?

They just assume that because it's not easy for them, because it's taking a while, this means that they are not talented at language learning.

They come to this conclusion, but in reality, they're just not patient, right?

It's a slow process in most cases unless you are just forced to learn really quickly for some reason.

Sometimes that happens, but most of the time, that doesn't.

You don't need to learn in two months or else your life is over.

And because of that, it takes a while, okay?

So a good language learner is patient during the language learning process, and they're patient with themselves, okay?

Next, a good language learner has humility.

They're willing to be like a small child, okay?

They're willing to be like a little kid who's just learning something for the first time because you're gonna get corrected.

You're gonna say things that quite honestly sound funny or sometimes even ridiculous, okay?

We all go through that as language learners.

We say ridiculous things, and it's funny.

My son says some pretty funny, sometimes ridiculous things, and it's funny.

He doesn't get all offended that we're laughing at something silly that he said wrong or whatever.

We laugh at it, and we make it a positive experience.

My son thinks it's hilarious when he accidentally says the wrong word, for example.

And that's how we need to be as language learners, okay?

We need to laugh at ourselves, be humble, not expect to be really good, and expect to be able to say everything we want to say naturally from the beginning.

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