Improve your English the CRAZY way!!!

568,550 views ・ 2015-09-05

English with Ronnie


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Hi, there. Are you having problems or difficulties, or do you find it difficult to practice speaking
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English? Maybe you live in a country where nobody around you speaks English, or you're
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the only person you know that speaks English. I've got some advice for you. So, how to help
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you improve your speaking or your talking in English.
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Goin' crazy. Usually in English, we never say: "going" or "trying". We say: "goin'".
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So, any time in English you see this, we're actually missing the "g". So, probably you
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should say: "Going crazy trying to speak or practice English". But, in slang when regular
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speech, we say: "Goin' crazy tryin' to speak or practice English".
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So, I want you to think about one thing. Crazy people, there's one right here. I'm crazy,
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little bit. But when I say "crazy people", I mean people who are mentally disturbed or
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have something really wrong with their brain. And we like to categorize people as being
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crazy, but they really are not insane. They just make crazy noises. So if someone is considered
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crazy, what do they do? Crazy people usually talk to themselves, they hear voices, especially
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if they're psychotic, and they will take to anyone or everyone that will listen to them.
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So, my advice to you, secret number 42 of how to speak English, is act like you're crazy,
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or just go crazy learning English.
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The first one: crazy people talk to themselves. You are going to talk to yourself. If you
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want to really put... Bring this off and do it well, you could go on the bus [giggles]
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or on any kind of trans... Public transportation, go on the street in your city and just talk
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to yourself on the street. I don't really recommend that. If you want to do that, you
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can. But talk to yourself, but record it. So when you do this, you're actually listening
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to your English so you can catch your mistakes and you can listen to your pronunciation.
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And, really, what do you sound like in English? So, rule number one: you're going to talk
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to yourself, but you're going to record it so you can check your mistakes and you can
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see just how well you do speak. Because I bet you, you speak better than you think.
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Next one: crazy people talk about hearing voices. Now, I know you inside have a voice.
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You, like I, have an inner being, a voice inside your head. Crazy people are known to
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have more than one voice. If you have this, you might want to seek some help. But when
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you hear voices, I want you to talk to yourself inside your head in English. When I lived
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in Japan, I learned to speak Japanese. I didn't take a course. I don't like studying. But
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my inner voice spoke to me in Japanese. So I would come back to Canada or I would go
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travelling, and I would actually speak to people who spoke English, they would ask me
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a question, I would answer them in Japanese because my inner voice
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was still talking to me in Japanese.
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So, one really, really important and great thing that you can do is make your inside
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voice speak to you in English. This sounds crazy, but I guarantee you that it's one of
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the ways that you know if you are coming actually bilingual (means you can speak two languages)
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or trilingual. So, if your inside voice can talk to you in two different languages, this
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is really amazing, and it means that your English is improving. Everyone has a different
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timeline. Some people can do this within a year, some people within months, some people
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it takes three or four years to do this,
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but once you have achieved this, woohoo, you're almost there.
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And the last one: you'll notice that if you see crazy people on the subway or you see
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crazy people in your city, they're going to talk to any or... This means "or", by the
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way. Everyone. They don't care who it is. They're not going to be picky and go: "I don't
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want to talk to that person. I want to talk to everyone." So, the more people that you
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can speak to in English, the better. You don't have to be picky. That means you don't have
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to choose. Is it a beautiful girl? A handsome boy? Young people, old people, babies, children.
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Anyone that you know that speaks English, try and talk to them. Even in your country,
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you think: "Ronnie, there's no one in my country that speaks English", you might be surprised.
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You can find people on websites, and you can find other English speakers to talk to.
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So, go crazy, speak as much as you can, and learn English with me.
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I'm Ronnie, and I'm crazy. Good bye.
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