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  • Good morning, good afternoon, or even good evening, depending of course on what part

  • of the big wide world you happen to be in right now. I am Julian, and this is Doing

  • English. In today’s lesson, I am going to discuss another one of your questions. And

  • today’s question is, How to learn English faster?

  • So this is something that I get asked about an awful lot. How to learn English faster?

  • And actually the answer is a pretty simple one but it’s also one that I think people

  • don’t like so much. The answer is simply cut down the amount you have to learn. And

  • that is the only way really. If you want to learn faster you have to cut down and focus

  • more. Put another way, it’s kind of like a scale I guess. If you have a lot of time

  • no let’s think of it the other way around. If you want to learn everything. You want

  • to learn very, very general English that you can use in any kind of situation in any kind

  • of place with any kind of people you have a lot to learn. You have an awful lot to learn.

  • So youre going to need a lot of time to learn that. However, if you start to cut this

  • down, cut it down, cut it down, cut it down, cut it down, and work on something very, very,

  • focused then you don’t need so much time.

  • General English conversation versus talking about the weather. Obviously, general English

  • conversation is such an abstract kind of concept there’s where do you start, what do you

  • learn? There’s just so much to do and there’s so much to think about. Learning to talk about

  • the weather. There’s a very limited amount of vocabulary you need, a very limited amount

  • of phrases you will use. You could learn to discuss the vocabulary, you can learn to discuss

  • the weather very very quickly and very, very easily. Another situation might be for example

  • if you have to give sales presentations to sell your company’s product that is quite

  • focused because the kind of language you need again is quite limited. Youre only going

  • to need a certain amount of vocabulary and a certain amount of phrases and things like

  • that. Maybe it’s going to take a little longer than just talking about the weather

  • but again, it’s a much more tightfocused goal than say learning business English. Again,

  • business English what is that? It’s such a big abstract concept. It’s going to take

  • time to learn business English because there’s so much you have to learn. If youre going

  • to use English in any kind of business situation then you have to learn a lot. But if you focus

  • that on just selling your product you can learn it quite, quite quickly.

  • Of course, you probably have very focused things you need to do but you also want to

  • learn general English. I am not going to talk about that in detail in this video because

  • it’s something that I teach in my course Two Step Speaking. And basically the idea

  • there is I teach you how to make a series of superfocused goals and to then build

  • that into a long term learning plan so that you can get the kind of very broad general

  • kind of English for every situation. A piece of paper fell down, never mind relatively

  • quickly. But the simple answer to the question, How to learn English faster is focus. Cut

  • down. The more you focus the quicker you will be able to learn.

  • I think that is about it for today’s lesson. So, as always if you have any questions about

  • learning English and you have something you want me to talk about in one of these lessons

  • in the future just go down below this video and leave me a comment in the comment’s

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  • Yeah, that is it for today. I will see you in the next lesson.

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