Name: Steps to Learning English: Where should you start?
Uploaded: 2017-02-20T22:04:17.000Z
Duration: 18 min 54 s
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Not Bond, and I know you think I was going to say Bond.

But listen, Bond always has an important mission he's got to do, right?

We're going to learn how to study English.

I know in many places, many websites, they tell you, and to teach you grammar and idioms and phrasal verbs.

But then, there's the big question of you, and: How do you study, and

how do you choose what is important for you at this moment?

Maybe you know this, and maybe you don't.

After today's lesson and we do our mission, you'll know exactly what you have to do. Okay?

So, we're going to go to the board in a second, and take a look.

What steps should we take in order to learn?

By the time you're done this video, you'll know exactly...

Or you should know where you are, where you need to go, and when you're going to be done.

E. E is standing here saying: "Where do I start?

Common, and seems to make sense, I mean, you go to learn a language-right?

-you go on a website, they start throwing things at you.

You go to a school, they say you need this, this, and this.

So, I'm going to give you the tools to decide that.

First thing we're going to do is: What's the first thing you need?

If you can't say: "bathroom" when you go to a country, you're going to pee yourself. Okay?

You don't need to know everything to get basic information done.

Basic information for a beginner really is vocabulary.

And instead of all the fancy stuff you need, you don't need much.

You need you, and a little bit of time, and to have some fun.

I'm going to suggest: For basic communication, get vocabulary.

I'm telling you right now if I see you or any English-speaking person sees you, and you see...

There's no grammar, but they'll go: "Oh, the bar is over there."

Sometimes you just touch your belly and go: "Ahh!"

People will tell you you need to learn grammar, and this and that.

And here's how you get your first vocabulary.

I don't know how many students play video games, say they learned how to fire, duck,

words that we wouldn't teach them for a while, because they were playing games.

Other people come in: "Dah-dah-dah-dah-dah, [sings]," singing.

-"I love to sing," and they sing a song, they sound like they're just, you know, from this country.

[Laughs] But when they sing, it's like the gods have come down.

I mean, literally, you go: "Are you...? You were born here, right?"

You know? YOLO, you only live once. Right?

When you do these things, you're learning because you want to learn.

You're not even realising you're learning, and it's going to make you want to learn more

You know, we'll get to the second one and you'll understand.

But you want to communicate in a much better way. Okay?

If you have those things, you can start your adventure in learning English. Okay?

And you're going to do it by doing things you love.

Now we're making language fun and easy for you, and

that's what we should do, because you'll learn it faster. All right?

And then here's the bad news: Hard work is on its way, so let's move over to the intermediate.

So if you're still on vocabulary and you can't put a sentence together, you're a beginner.

Okay? But at least you're better than other people.

You know words in a foreign language. Cool.

Intermediate is when we start, and I think you should introduce grammar.

This is when your vocabulary is rich enough that you can say things like: "Need water. Where?"

It's not a sentence, so you kind of sound stupid.

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