Name: How To Practice English With Native Speakers
Uploaded: 2018-04-17T18:18:10.000Z
Duration: 7 min 35 s
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Hey guys what's up Stefanie the English
coach here from englishfulltime.com

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in this video we are going to talk about
how to practice your English with native

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English speakers okay so the first thing
I want to say though is that I truly

believe you don't have to only practice
with native English speakers to improve

your English you can practice with any
English speaker so whether they're a

non-native English speaker or a native
English speaker just speaking English in

general even with someone who is at your
you know your level of English even that

will help you improve but what I
realized happens is a lot of you guys

want to practice with native speakers so
badly but you don't know any native

speakers and you're not surrounded by
native speakers so it's almost like you

give up you just say well I have no one
to practice with and so you don't

practice at all so before we even talk
about practicing with native speakers

you have to understand that just
practicing in general even if it's with

your friends or your family or people
that you know go to your school or work

with you even just practicing in general
will help okay

even if you're not practicing with a
native speaker now that I got that out

of the way now I can tell you how to
practice your English with native

speakers and it's not as hard as you
think it is and that's the good news so

here's the deal
native speakers are all over the world

native English speakers are all over the
world and we're all over the internet

and we all use the same platforms on the
Internet you guys myself other native

English speakers I mean we use YouTube
Facebook reddit snapchat Instagram all

of the platforms that you guys already
use the thing is you're probably using

those platforms in your language and
you're probably following people that

speak your language so you're
surrounding yourself essentially with

native speakers of your own language in
order to meet native speakers the

easiest way to do that is to first do it
online okay and in order to do that you

have to start following people and
interacting with people that are native

English speakers and you have to reduce
the amount of time you spend chatting

with speakers of your own language or
interacting

with pages and profiles that are all in
your language so let me give you an

example of how to do this okay let's say
you love learning about diet health and

nutrition that's you know an example
because that's what I love learning

about but let's say you use Instagram
okay instead of following a bunch of

profiles on Instagram about you know
exercise diet health nutrition in your

own language look for people you can
follow in English okay so look for

people that you can follow in English
and you can search for people by using

hashtags now this is a strategy that is
specific to Instagram I don't know how

well this works on other platforms okay
but on Instagram you can look up

hashtags so for example you can start
with the hashtag exercise then once you

go to that hashtag you know there will
probably be millions and millions and

millions of posts within the hashtag try
and narrow it down Instagram will

automatically show you other hashtags
related to that hashtag so then go

explore those hashtags until you can
find a hashtag that has maybe between

50,000 and you know hundred thousand or
a million posts because then you know

that those communities are more
tight-knit now on Instagram people use

hashtags to form communities okay so you
can go really deep into the different

hashtags that people use and then go
explore the profiles when you find a

profile that's public that you like
follow it and then start interacting

with the person that runs the profile
okay you can once a day or every other

day make a nice comment on one of their
photos and say hey you know this was a

you know great photo I like it because
of X Y & Z or whatever don't start

commenting on all of their things at
once because then they're going to freak

out and think you're weird okay they're
going to be like oh my gosh this person

is a stalker but no if you can just find
profiles of people that have between

like five hundred and five thousand
followers those are people that are

trying to grow their following they're
trying to share what they love with

other people so they're really going to
appreciate you supporting them and then

you can take the opportunity when you
feel ready to maybe introduce yourself

via direct message and
say hey I really want to just introduce

myself and say that I appreciate what
you're doing it's been so inspiring to

me every day and if you do that okay
with like 10 to 20 people over the

course of a couple months eventually
you're going to be involved in networks

with native English speakers you're
going to have friends that are native

English speakers you're going to have
people to chat with you're going to be

able to talk about the things you love
and enjoy and the point is that you know

that was just one strategy you can use
with Instagram but think about all the

other platforms that we have and we
always form communities on these

platforms so in facebook there's groups
about anything you can imagine that are

full of native English speakers there
are groups and communities on reddit as

well okay so this is what I want to
encourage you guys to do if you want to

meet native English speakers and if you
want to practice your English with them

don't just say hey will you practice you
know English with me or do you want to

do an exchange I'll teach you Spanish
you teach me English just get beyond

that just go where people are already
interacting in English and then use your

English to interact you're going to be
nervous in the beginning you're going to

be afraid of messing up but guess what
after doing this for a while you're

going to be so much more confident okay
you're going to build confidence as you

go and just think about it this way if
you mess up or if somebody blocks you

and thinks oh my gosh that guy is creepy
like just move on go find somebody else

there are millions of us for you to
interact with okay and again you will

get better as you go so if you want to
know more about how to practice your

English with native speakers I made you
guys a guide that breaks everything down

kind of step by step so you can really
just absorb the information quickly if

you would like that guide feel free to
download it I will put the link in the

description okay so anyhow that's it you
guys it's super simple go where the

native speakers are okay and then start
interacting with us and go with the

communities that are about things that
you already love and enjoy so you

already have something to talk about
okay don't think that this won't work

for you because of where you live what
your native language is what your

nationality is or anything like that
don't don't think it's not going to work

you it will as long as you can find ways
to support other people and give your

time your energy your thoughts your nice
words people will appreciate that and

they'll talk with you so again for more
information just go ahead and download

the guide and that will get you started
okay talk to you guys later and I'll see

you in another video bye hey guys thanks
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