"I don't believe I can become a fluent English speaker..."

hello there I am Drew Badger the world's

first and number one English Fluency

Guide and today I'm actually going to

talk about beliefs and this is something

that you will probably not likely hear

in an English lesson and that's kind of

a sad thing but it's a very important

thing to talk about I actually sent a

letter about this very recently to

newsletter subscribers and also I was

just talking with my wife about this

because she's Japanese and is also

improving her English in the same way

that I'm learning Japanese and so we

were just talking about beliefs in

general and how you think about the way

you learn and it's it's an interesting

thing because a lot of people they focus

on the actual lessons and you know it

could be the same thing whether you're

trying to learn a language or whether

you're trying to develop any skill or

even do something like start a business

and people are always interested in kind

of how to information but if their mind

is not right so this is an expression

that just means that you're thinking

about things in the right way that

you're feeling positive that they're

possible to do because if you don't have

that at first then it doesn't really

matter what you think so when it comes

to fluency all of the maybe the grammar

or the vocabulary all of these other

things that you're learning these are

important but without the right mindset

if you don't even believe it's possible

to get fluent maybe you know you have

certain beliefs yourself or you know

other people that struggle and they

think or they even say things you can

listen to their language with a what

they talk about when they say I can't do

something like I can't get fluent

because I don't live in an

english-speaking country or I'm like too

dumb to learn and this is you know both

of these things or things that I thought

when I was first starting to learn

languages especially when I was in high

school and trying to learn French and

then college and trying to learn Spanish

there both of these I failed to learn

even though I tried but yeah I really

did badly at both of those classes I

think I got maybe like B's or C's in

them like I was able to do something

just to pass the test but I could never

speak and I still don't I know a few

words of French shy and a few words of

Spanish as well but I couldn't have any

kind of conversation in those and so I

developed these beliefs that made me

think okay like if I want to learn

French I could I couldn't learn it in my

high school I have to actually be living

in France in order to do it or that

maybe I can't learn these languages I'm

just too dumb like there's really

nothing I can do I'm not the kind of

person that can learn a second language

now when you think about these kinds of

things like it's important to try to

reverse these beliefs and so these are

just called limiting beliefs and it

doesn't really matter

again if it's for fluency or something

else but when you again think a certain

way that really is the truth for your

own life so if you believe something is

not possible then it actually isn't

possible but if you believe it is

possible you will likely find a way to

do it even if it's not perfect or

exactly the way maybe you'd like to do

something so what I'd like to show you

today is just a way to think about that

you know before you're focusing

obviously you're your English is already

pretty good you can understand what I'm

saying in this video right now but if

you still can't speak at that level if

you have any beliefs that are stopping

you from doing that hopefully I can help

you reverse those in this video and get

you thinking in a more positive way so

one of those beliefs is that you have to

be living in a native english-speaking

country in order to get you know fluent

in English or you have to be around

native speakers at least so even if

you're not in a native speaking country

you have to be you know at like a school

with a lot of native speakers or living

in some kind of community spending time

around native speakers now when I

thought that it would be easy for me

okay I failed French and I failed

Spanish okay I like failed those

languages but I'm now I'm going to Japan

and because I'm living there I'm

absolutely going to get fluent and it

just didn't happen that way so even

though I was trying I tried everything I

could and I spent a lot of time trying

to learn Japanese I was still using the

same traditional lessons and the ways

that I was learning in order to get

fluent or and just even to learn the

languages for Spanish and French and I

wasn't able to do it living in in Japan

either so even though I was in Japan

by lots of Japanese people it didn't

make much difference obviously it's

helpful if you know you're learning in

the right way and that's what I really

wasn't doing so I was learning the

traditional way trying to try and use

flashcards and grammar drills and you

know like the like boring grammar tables

you've probably seen those before where

it's like like go went gone or whatever

that kind of thing so you're sitting and

trying to remember those things the way

you would program a computer but you

know life just doesn't work that way if

you actually want to get fluent so when

I thought about that it occurred to me

okay like so living in an

english-speaking country or in my case

living in Japan wasn't the magic cure

that I thought it would be and so that

should get you thinking like what other

things maybe that you believe about how

you get fluent that likely are not true

so another thing I thought was this this

other idea that like okay I must be too

stupid or only some people are able to

learn a second language so I was

thinking okay is it is it possible that

maybe like I could learn that so I

already failed to learn French and

Spanish if I want to learn Japanese I

must I must be able to reverse this or I

have to really switch this way of

thinking so it becomes possible for me

to do it so after that maybe I can start

thinking about a better way to learn but

really this way of thinking is important

and so I thought about like the more I

thought about it really the more I

realized that I already speak multiple

languages and this is maybe not the same

thing kind of in general as speaking

like two different actual languages like

English and Japanese but when you speak

your own language certainly how it is in

English or even in Japanese for that

matter we have one way of speaking when

we're talking in a professional way or

we're talking to family and friends or

whether you're talking to like if I'm

talking to the president of some

organization versus talking to my own

child so you speak with different ways

and you actually use different

vocabularies so as an example in

Japanese like when you're talking just

to like a regular person that's you know

the same like you know just like just

another adult you would talk about foot

and use the word uh she so actually just

means

but if I'm talking to my daughter we've

talked to her and use kind of like a

baby word which is ano and so it's it's

the exact same thing we're talking about

we're talking about foot in both cases

but we're actually using different words

to describe that now logically your

brain doesn't understand the difference

between like two words in the same

language so like these two different

words in Japanese versus a word in one

language like French and another word

for the same thing in English so if I

want to say like drink in English or

Nobu in Japanese like the brain doesn't

understand the difference it's just

saying ìokay these are two different

languages now obviously it gets a little

bit more complicated than that because

maybe you've got different grammar

structures and other things but even for

something that's similar really the

point here is that you actually do speak

more than one language already even if

it's not you know an exact different

language like it's from a different

country or something like that but you

learn to speak in different ways with

different words maybe with different

tones and expressions that kind of thing

even within your own language so when I

thought about that I was thinking okay

wow like maybe I am NOT stupid I can if

I can speak multiple languages within

English it's probably true that I can

learn to speak a different language like

Japanese and hopefully you're seeing now

as I'm talking about these things like

you know the fact that living in an

english-speaking country is helpful

it's absolutely helpful if you can do it

but it's not necessary it's much more

important about how you learn and that's

why I do spend a lot of time on the

videos on this channel talking about

exactly how to learn the language how to

think and actually develop the habits

that make you speak to an English

confidently but I just wanted to give

you a little bit of taste like that for

this video because it is important to

think about your beliefs because your

beliefs are the foundation of everything

if you believe you can't get fluent it

doesn't matter how much you learn or

even how you learn it's more important

first to think about okay do I really

honestly believe it's possible to do

something and once you do then you think

about the how so hopefully you can kind

of use this and think about other

limiting beliefs you might have if you

have more put them down in the comments

below let me

if you have any questions or concerns or

other things where you're thinking you

know like I wish I could give fluent but

I've got this problem and more likely

than not there is somebody in the world

or even right where you live that

actually has that problem but was able

to get fluent anyway so remember that

your beliefs are very important and

that's what I'd like to leave you with

to date so get your mind right decide to

think in a positive way about fluency so

even right now I'm like feeling a little

bit sick but I'm still excited to get

here and to share this message with you

because it's something again my wife and

I were talking about and it's an

important thing if you're not feeling

excited about something you're not going

to really work hard and do the actual

things you have to do in order to get

fluent well I will leave you there with

that if you have enjoyed this video and

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things you know you're getting your mind

right with a video like this and

believing you can do it but if you're

still struggling with the how-to whether

it's grammar or pronunciation or

anything else and you'd like to learn

how to just communicate in the same way

I'm speaking right now I'm just speaking

without any rehearsal I don't have a

script or anything I'm just

communicating and I can teach you how to

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