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  • Hey guys!

  • How's it going?

  • I have gotten a lot of questions recently about how to find someone to practice English

  • with you.

  • So, in this episode, we're going to answer that question.

  • I'm going to help you to find the perfect English language exchange partner, someone

  • who you can practice with any time you want and it's free.

  • So, I think you're going to want to watch this one.

  • Let me tell you, before I explain exactly how to find your perfect language exchange

  • partner, that if you want to learn more about Go Natural English Method: the Seven Steps

  • to Fluency, you can find a free course.

  • You can sign up for it at gonaturalenglish.com/7steps.

  • Okay, so back to the question about finding the perfect language exchange partner.

  • I know there's a lot of problems: like, okay, where do you find someone?

  • So, if you live in an American city, or an English-speaking country, that's awesome.

  • But maybe a lot of you don't.

  • I know that the Go Natural English community is all over the world, and that's really exciting!

  • I see you watching from Brazil, form Japan, from Germany, from all different countries.

  • It's amazing!

  • So I know some of you are watching from the United States or other English-speaking countries,

  • but some of you are not.

  • So, what if you live in a country where there's really not as many English speakers around?

  • You're lucky if you live in a big city, because you can probably find them.

  • But if you live out in the countryside, it might be more difficult to find them.

  • And even if they are around, how do you find them?

  • Well, often I say, "Okay, we can look online, right?"

  • How do you find an exchange partner online?

  • It can be a bit difficult too, right?

  • How do you find someone who can commit to meeting you, who is there and available on

  • your schedule?

  • How do you find someone who's as interested in speaking to you in English as you want

  • them to be, someone who's patient, someone who will always practice with you?

  • Okay.

  • I have a solution.

  • I want you think about: who is the person who you already speak with the most?

  • Is it your friends?

  • Is it your family?

  • Think a little harder.

  • Where's that voice coming from that you hear all the time?

  • Maybe the voice that, you know, comes to you when you think about things?

  • How about talking to yourself?

  • Don't laugh!

  • Don't laugh!

  • Okay, you talk to yourself in your mind more than anybody else.

  • More than your friends, more than your family, more than anybody else, you're always talking

  • to yourself.

  • You probably don't talk out loud to yourself all the time, but your thoughts are always

  • going.

  • And what language do you speak to yourself in?

  • Probably your native language.

  • How about we change that to: talk to yourself in English?

  • So, I'd like to suggest that the perfect language partner for you to begin with, for free, no

  • hassle, no scheduling issues, no commitment issues, takes no time to set up, super easy

  • -- is to begin to think to yourself in English!

  • So, how do you do that?

  • Start small.

  • You don't have to think everything in English because there's going to be a lot of words

  • that you're not sure about in the moment.

  • So, you can find out; you can look them up; you can make a list of new words that you

  • want to use with yourself.

  • But start an inner dialogue in English.

  • Instead of asking yourself in your native language, "Oh, what should I do today?"

  • ask yourself in English.

  • And then you can answer in English.

  • You can write down your ideas in English.

  • You can even talk out loud to yourself in English.

  • There's other things, like singing a song in English, that you can do, you know, just

  • on your own time; you don't need anyone else to do that.

  • Ask yourself, "What am I going to eat for lunch?" in English.

  • These are all thoughts that everyone -- well, I have them, I think everyone has them: "Well,

  • what am I going to eat today?"

  • You have them naturally.

  • So, why not think them in English?

  • Okay?

  • So, this is going to make a huge difference because, really, the person that you talk

  • to the most is yourself; it's your own inner mental dialogue.

  • So, start here and then we can talk about how to practice English -- there's another

  • episode of Go Natural English that I can link to here where I talk about seven different

  • ways to practice in your home country without even leaving.

  • So I talk a little bit about language exchange partners there.

  • So, if you're surprised I didn't tell you to meet with another real person, check out

  • that video.

  • But I think that you'll really benefit from having your inner dialogue in English.

  • So start talking to yourself in English, making your to-do list in English, thinking about

  • your plans in English, your dreams.

  • If you think about what you'd like to do next year, think about that in English.

  • If you think about what you'd like to do this weekend, think about that in English.

  • I think you see how this works, right?

  • So I hope you enjoy this tip, thanks for watching, and I hope to see you back at gonaturalenglish.com/7steps

  • so that you can be part of our course to learn more about our method to becoming fluent.

  • Alright!

  • Bye for now!

Hey guys!

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