Name: 3 Ways For Intermediate English Speakers To Reach Fluency
Uploaded: 2017-12-10T11:32:17.000Z
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welcome to Real English With Real Teachers

we teach English every single
day to people all over the world with

Gerund

different nationalities and after doing
it for three or so years we've realized

that a lot of people actually start to
get stuck particularly in the

intermediate area or the b1 b2 level of
language so in this video we're going to

give you three fantastic ways that you
can implement into your life to go

beyond the level that you are at now and
so you can get out of that plateau that

you have reached with your English so we
can say goodbye to the intermediate

levels and push towards the advanced levels of English

is largely focusing on your drive your
motivation or your get-up-and-go and a

lot of language learners start out with
a ton of motivation drive and get-up-and-go

don't we because when you know
nothing to knowing a little bit it's

quite a big contrast you can say oh my
god I know all of these phrases now and

before I didn't know any of it I'm
amazing I'm learning so much I'm a

sponge of information and it continues
like this doesn't it unfortunately not it doesn't

we all know that the longer
that we practice a skill or a hobby and

we have gone past that initial beginners
phase it can be really difficult for us

to spot or to notice our improvements
over time and we have noticed with many

of our students that are at an
intermediate level some of them feel

like they stay stuck on that level for
such a long time and they can never

really see themselves progressing past
that b1 or b2

level well we were actually looking for
a case study to example this first

technique that we want to give you but
it was actually staring us right in the

face because Harry was actually doing it
so as many of you will know I am

learning Spanish and you may have seen
me in a video of Lucy attempting to sing

but clearly that didn't work because
she's got a boyfriend now anyway many of

the people with whom I practice my
Spanish have told me recently that I

have advanced my level and it appears
that now I am more or less at a c1 level

and this noticeable progression that I
have made I attribute it to this

technique that I have been employing in
my Spanish studies so I thought to

myself how can I mix one of my passions
in life with my language learning and

one of those passions is psychology so I
started looking on YouTube for Spanish

psychologists who practice cognitive
behavioral therapy and I found Rafael Santandreu

and me encanta I love this guy I love everything that he does and now

I've completely immersed myself in his
teachings and in doing this I've learned

so much more Spanish and now when I talk
about psychology and I have the types of

philosophical conversations that I enjoy
having with people about life but in

Spanish I feel confident talking about
this subject because I have read all of

his books I even tried to translate one
of his books into English it was a

really good technique for me and by
reading those books and completely

throwing myself into Spanish in that way
helped me so much

so a great technique to
supercharge that intrinsic motivation is

to connect yourself to a true interest
of yours the areas in life that make you

tick that make you forget about going to
bed on time at 10:45 or even make you

forget about the important necessities
in life of err like showering

so we asked you to get in
touch with your passions your callings

your purposes your interests and like
Harry follow or get avidly involved in

someone who personifies your interest
and we want you to get really creative

with the ways in which you interact with
these interests in English and if you

have some creative ideas
tell us write to us put them in the

comments the possibilities are endless
I tell you they are endless

you could take a course at uni or online about that topic
that you're interested in

you could host a meet-up in your local area in which
you interact in English with other

people about a subject or an activity
that you love like hiking or reading or

fashion anything that interests you
you could make your own online content that

you're actually really proud of and
showcase it to your friends and family

write reviews and blogs about places and
restaurants that you visit become a travel blogger

you could even get super
creative by thinking outside of the box

like how about writing your own short story
producing a miniature series of videos on YouTube

or you could even do something
as daring as writing your own

TED talk in English and then applying to
Ted and asking  to do this talk I mean

people actually do this and me and
Charlie are actually considering doing

our own TED talk
sometime soon and I would love to do

that in Spanish it would be scary but it
would be an incredible project whatever

it is remember that if you are not
getting the results you want then it

okay now we are ready for technique
number two now many people that get

stuck in the intermediate realm or level
of English are stuck there because they

lack the fully involved experience of
learning English our advice is to give

yourself that fully immersive experience
as much as possible and if it's actually

difficult to go to an english-speaking
country then use technology to surround

yourself in English now it is totally
possible to do this from the comfort of

your own home because the Internet is
full it is insane the amount of free

resources that you can find online on
different websites and social media

platforms that will help you with your
English all you need is access to the

Internet which means you can do this if
you don't have a favorite list of

podcasts then you're missing out if
you've never listened to a British radio

station then get on it we've got so many
fantastic radio stations that are

broadcasting really interesting modern
and also traditional music all over the

modern pop music we have radio 2 which
plays classical folk and world music

with BBC 1xtra which is all about modern
day urban music from the UK find the

radio station that discusses topics that
interest you or the radio station that

shares your musical preference and
listen to it every day if you don't know

who David Attenborough is then you need
to actually probably stop this video

right now
and go and enjoy his amazing wildlife

footage that he narrates in a
brilliantly quintessentially British way

it's fantastic if you still have your
phone set to your native language we

need to change that immediately I have
my phone in Spanish and I even have to

talk to Siri in Spanish so if you've got an iPhone

so this is a really good way to improve your
pronunciation as well because Siri will

only respond to you if you pronounce
things correctly oye Siri... f****** hell

our point here is to manipulate your
surroundings to be predominantly English

the next step to truly immerse yourself
in English is to get on a plane and

catch a flight to the UK or any other
native english-speaking country and once

you arrive in that english-speaking
country don't expect the language to

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