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Hi there, thank you for clicking, I'm Niharika, your English trainer for this lesson today.
I'm so glad that you could make it for another lesson with me because this will take you
to the right approach to learning, yeah, well I guess the birds want to learn too, right?
But you may wonder what is the wrong approach then? Are you wondering? Well you need to
ask yourself a very honest question, when you have to answer a question in English,
do you think about answer in your native lounge? Or do you try to translate in English? And
do you get frustrated when you find out that this was just wasting your time, and it actually
didn't help you to learn, yeah, because your English would not get any better, if you think
in your native language, yes. You need to stop translating your native lounge and start
thinking in English. Do thing it's easier than done? I don't think so, because I'm going
to show you a few steps that will teach you to think in English and that will definitely
increase your English fluency in no time. So stay tuned with me meanwhile we discover,
how to learn English the right way?
Firstly you need to work-out, no... I'm not talking about hitting the gym, I'm talking
about exercising your English Language muscle, yes. Did you know on an average, you might
know at least minimum of two or three languages. So let's just assume that you were born in
India, and you grew up learning three languages. Now which happen to be your native languages
and the third language is English. Now the first two languages get spoken the most because
you speak them with your parents, with your friends, with postman, with the driver, with
the taxi driver. Now just about everyone. So you are exercising the native language
muscles in your brain. Now because speaking any language excessively, exercises the muscle
of that particular language too. How bout working out for English too? Now if you speak
English only to your teacher in school, or probably a span of just one hour with your
friends, are you gonna get fluency, fluent in English? Are you gonna be fluent enough?
Therefore the idea to train your English muscle to be used a lot more than you do. In order
to do that you need to first buy an online or probably an English Dictionary. That will
give you the meaning of words in English. Now it doesn't translate into any other language
yeah, make sure that's it's purely an English Dictionary. You will learn its meanings and
definitely this will help you to make sentence too. Now this is essential. Well it means
that you are going to get more exposure to English language because you are not only
learning new English words, but in your mind you get a chance to think about it on how
and where you can use this word in the right manner. Now the more you indulge in that,
the more you're working out the English muscles. So that makes your English stronger
and of course it makes you think more in English langue than in your native language.
Well here's the next thing, well thinking in English. Now that you have already started
working out that English muscle, well try thinking in English too, now to do that, you
just need to come with scenarios that require you to think in a more responsible way, it
means that your response, should be in English. Take a piece of paper and imagine, that you
are at the airport, now if you have to board flight, pen down the words that you will use
in relation to this topic. After having done that try to make sentences using these words,
yes. I mean how would you use these words in your future conversations. So you think
you can use sentences like, um, "Hey I would like to take the window seat please" Or if
you are gonna be in the flight and you see the flight attendant and you need something
try to practice that. English is based on anyone who believes that if you work-out on
these scenarios and be prepared, oh your English conversations are gonna be so much fun.
Next is correcting yourself. So important, I mean people think that when you are, speaking
in English probably you are not making mistakes, of course we all do mistakes, be it learning
a new language, learning a new skill be it anything. But what's the integral part of
learning. Well you learn from your mistakes only if these mistakes are corrected. So since
we are going to learn English, if is an important thing that we correct ourselves. Now how do
you do that? Why you are practicing to think in English, if you feel that you have not
understood the way a word has to be used like the ways word has to be used in a sentence
or if you feel that the word could be used in more than one or two ways, oh then sure
you can definitely try doing that. Make a list, make a list of all the possible mistakes
that you have made. Well now you can show this list to probably your teacher or to your
friend or to someone who is really good at English. Now this person will help you understand,
what are the mistakes and how to use the language in the correct way. As you keep taking feedbacks
from other people and if you implement it, oh your fluency is definitely gonna improve.
In fact in next six months you will be surprised that your sentence construction and your vocabulary
and your confidence in speaking English.
Next is practice speaking, well since you have learned to think in English, now you
have also worked in correcting yourself with some help, you must now implement what you
have learned. Which means that it's now time to practice speaking in English with
other people. Oh don't be scared. Don't be embarrassed to make a fool out of yourself.
If you are shy to try out your new speaking skills in front or stingers or in front of
people, then try to find a partner. Well someone whom you are comfortable with. You friend
your family, someone who speaks good English, yes. Well that is important, even if it's
your spouse, even if it's your child, speaking with other people always exposes you to new
words and the different ways to say things. So be it slangs be it new phrases, be it new
idioms, it also makes you aware of all the new words that people use on daily basis.
This kind of a practice makes your conversation sound more real and more authentic, as you're
actually talking to someone and making up imaginary conversations. Moreover speaking
to other people also makes you more confident, so I would really suggest, that if you talk
to people, like have small talks with strangest or some random people, your fluency will be
great.
So people thank you for watching this session with me, as you can see that thinking and
speaking in English is the best way to go about mastering this language. Now many of
my students have really accomplished this with of course a lot of hard work, with lot
of efforts and of course a little bit of confidence because if you are nervous, things might be
difficult for you. You won't be able to face the challenges. So please go through
the points that we just discussed, let me know if you would like to have some more help,
or let me know if these points really helped you to speak in a better manner. I'll be back
with a new session soon, till then you take care and keep watching us and keep learning.