Name: The Best Way To Improve English Speaking: Make Mistakes!
Uploaded: 2019-11-13T02:10:03.000Z
Duration: 4 min 50 s
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Hello, this is Elliott from ETJ English.com

Helping you become a fluent English speaker.

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Today, I'm talking to you about mistakes.

Now, mistakes are extremely important when you're learning anything.

When you're trying to be successful in anything.

I'm going to start todays lesson by telling you my biggest mistake

I was about fourteen years old. I was one of those kids in school

that had to make people laugh. I wanted to make everyone laugh

And when I reached the top, I was shouting to everyone:

And in the beginning, people were laughing

and they could't wait to see what was going  to happen.

Yes, I fell from the top of a tree; probably about the height of my house

One wrist was poking out that way and one wrist was poking out that way.

Both of my wrists were broken  and my nose was as flat as a pancake.

Now, obviously, this was a mistake. For two reasons...

Number one: I did it because I wanted people to laugh; and nobody laughed.

Mostly, people were crying and screaming and running for teachers and nurses to get help

Number two: I had to walk around with casts on my  arms and I couldn't do anything.

I was just led in bed like this for six weeks.

And my mum had to wash me, my mum had to take me to the toilet

When you're a thirteen / fouteen year old teenager,

You don't really want your mum seeing your down below bits.

because I really badly hurt myself and I didn't make anyone laugh.

And the truth is, I'm kind of happy this happened

because it stopped me from being quite so crazy as a child

I grew up a lot from jumping out of that tree and breaking my wrists.

I learnt that you can find other ways to make people laugh

than doing something stupid and risking your body

Although you don't have to go to quite the extreme

you shouldn't really be breaking any  limbs when you're learning English

And if you embarrass yourself, it doesn't matter.

You need to go out there and make mistakes.

Practice talking to people, and make the mistakes.

Or if you think it's wrong, ask the person you're talking to.

Trial and error.  We learn from our mistakes.

If you're in lessons with me, you can come back and ask me

And it's very easy to make mistakes  in the beginning

But the people who learn the fastest are the people who go out there

And this is how, with online lessons with me

Because you have someone correcting your mistakes constantly.

I'm always correcting mistakes in my lessons

Go out there, make mistakes embarrass yourself

Thank you for watching, please give me a thumbs up

or a thumbs down, if you didn't like this video.

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