How I Learned to Speak Foreign Languages Without Talking to People | Develop Speaking Skills Alone

hello guys and welcome back to my YouTube  channel in this video I would like to tell  

you about how I learned to speak English  without talking to other people basically  

I'm going to be giving you tips on how you can  develop your speaking skills by yourself and even  

though I think a lot of you are really stressing  about the fact that you don't have a language  

partner guys don't because especially at the very  beginning you can totally develop your English  

without any help from any native speakers or even  without talking to anyone and if you don't believe  

me believe other more experienced people on my  channel I have an interview with Steve Kaufman  

who is a very famous polyglot and who knows more  than 10 languages and in this interview he told me  

that speaking practice is not the most important  thing at the very beginning at the very beginning  

you should just focus on learning as much as you  can and just don't worry about speaking at all  

immerse yourself into the language and commit  to the journey so here is my story here is  

how I learned English how I improved my speaking  skills without talking to anyone the first thing  

I did was focusing on my foundation and the  foundation of any language is grammar I know  

a lot of you guys right now are thinking no don't  talk about grammar we don't like grammar but guys  

grammar is important and the basics of grammar  are even more important obviously here I'm not  

talking about Advanced grammar you just have  to know the basics of grammar because once you  

know the basics of grammar all the other things  will be so much easier all you need is a good  

intermediate level grammar book and I personally  like this one I use this book when I was at the  

intermediate level in English and it helped me  so much it definitely helped me build a strong  

foundation in English and if you want to get it  for yourself make sure to check the link in the  

description because I have saved it there for you  guys and I have a very exciting announcement for  

every single one of you guys who likes to draw  something on like electronic documents who likes  

to have electronic books or textbooks or whatever  it is and I actually want to use the example of  

this textbook English grammar and use to show you  guys how this tool works and the tool I'm talking  

about is called PDF element PDF element is a  fast and foldable and easy way to manage your  

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me get my wonderful computer open the book I was  just talking to you about and show you guys how I  

use PDF element to learn English and memorize new  words so I have just scrolled down to unit 65 all  

about using adjective and prepositions in English  and the first thing that I absolutely love about  

PDF element is the fact that I can change colors  I can change the colors of different words for  

example if you feel like you want to memorize the  word easy and difficult right these two words you  

can just click on them and then you can change the  text color for example I want it to be red so now  

it's red the second thing that I absolutely  love is again when you're learning different  

rules you can use this underline feature and for  example underline all the words or all the rules  

you need yeah and now this is underlined you can  use different colors as well and once you're doing  

the exercises obviously you can add a text box  right here and complete this exercise for example  

it was difficult to open the window the window was  difficult to open the window was difficult to open  

and obviously you can change everything about your  text you can change the font you can change the  

size and the text color and for a lot of you guys  who love Sticky Notes you can just click on the  

sticky note icon and then click on your document  and add a note for example I want to do this  

exercise later done and now you will have this  note saved guys I love PDF element because it's a  

lot better than all the other PDF editors we have  out there it works perfectly you can download the  

app on your computer on your phone or you can use  it online so if you want to try it for yourself  

make sure to use the link in the description  and download PDF element and try it out for  

yourself to work on your documents faster and more  efficiently and now let's talk about my second tip  

my second tip is all about talking to your voice  assistant whatever it is if it's Google Siri Alexa  

you know all of those different voice assistants  we have out there because no one is going to think  

you're weird because you're actually you know  doing something useful for example talking to your  

voice assistant and also because this way you will  be improving your pronunciation because if you say  

words in English in an incorrect way there's a  high chance that Siri will not understand you and  

also guys when I'm bored I just say hey Siri all  the time here's what I found and she immediately  

talks back to me hey Siri what's the weather  like today expect some clear skies today cool hey  

Siri will I be able to learn English interesting  question interesting question that's it I really  

hope she would say like yeah Veronica for sure  you will be yeah here's for a very encouraging pep  

talk what is your favorite color software doesn't  usually get to choose one but I'll say pink what's  

yours blue blue is my favorite color blue is a  fascinating color only around eight percent of  

people have blue eyes oh my God that's crazy what  color eyes do you have Siri I don't have eyes

oh my God this is hilarious guys this is what I'm  talking about this is so stupid but so funny tip  

number three that you can Implement and something  that I have done many times and am still doing is  

using the voice to text feature on your phone  on your computer on your tablet so here's what  

I mean by that every time you want to create  a note or every time you want to text someone  

instead of doing it manually instead of opening  your phone opening the note app you know you can  

obviously do that you can ask Siri to do that and  then once the app is open you can just click this  

little microphone icon and talk and that's  it and this way you'll be again working in  

your speaking but also you will be doing something  actually useful like creating a note for yourself  

so I live in Mexico City right now and the  weather here is absolutely incredible my mom  

always sends me pictures from Russia and it's  very very snowy there and honestly I don't  

really want it to be snowing here in Mexico and  I'm so happy that there's no snow in Mexico City  

and also guys sorry for being so up close but  I have something very important I have to tell  

you recently I have published a video on my  channel this one reacting to your pronunciation  

in English I asked some of you guys to send me  audio messages on my Instagram and here is the  

video of me reacting to your pronunciation in  English and giving your feedback so make sure  

to check it out as well okay I'm gonna go back  now tip number four that I think maybe is not  

perfect for everyone but it was perfect for  me because I was really desperate is talking  

to yourself in English or talking to your pets  if you have pets you can also ask them for help  

why else would you take care of them and feed  them if they can't even help you learn English  

duh so I have this cat here here's the cat and  I'm gonna try to talk to my cat because I don't  

have any pets like I don't have anything else  I just have a bunch of these cute little kitty  

ease so I don't know I guess I can just ask the  cat the cat why you're so happy and um this is  

weird guys but I'm really trying to show you how  you can talk to obviously if you have a pet you  

can be like oh like you're so cute I love you so  much you're my cute little pet let's talk about  

something like why you're so happy why are you  dancing like do you like reggaeton because I do

Veronica jam into ragathan but yeah basically  this is guess what you can do if you feel like  

it's too weird don't do this but it's a good way  to practice your speaking but seriously if you  

aren't ready to talk to other people you can talk  to yourself obviously when no one else is present  

when no one else is listening because we don't  want to sound weird the reason why I love this  

tip the reason why I love talking to myself  because this is how I determine the gaps in  

my vocabulary again I'm talking about the weather  I'm talking about my computer my phone my friends  

and then I realized that I don't remember how to  say a certain thing so this is the perfect time  

for you to Google it to remember it to write it  down there's also a very good way to take these  

conversations you have with yourself to a new  level and this is by recording yourself you can  

record your voice by just recording voice memos  or you can also even make videos of yourself if  

you're too shy there's no need to post those  videos online but I do because I'm learning  

Spanish so I always share my Spanish Journey  on Instagram I always making stories of myself  

trying to speak Spanish and motivating you guys  in this way but if you're not ready to share it  

publicly online don't do that just record  those videos for yourself tip number five  

you can Implement is reading out loud if you love  reading this tip will be especially great for you  

because when you read out loud you're forced  to work on your pronunciation you're forced  

to work on your intonation especially when you  have to read for different characters obviously  

you have to do different voices for the story  to sound interesting but what I have noticed  

is sometimes when people read out loud they  actually lose interest in the story because  

they're so focused on the pronunciation that  they even forget that they're reading that they  

actually have to understand the plot line and  guys please don't if you want to read out loud  

make sure that you you're also in tune with the  story you understand what is happening and you're  

not just mindlessly reading somehow that same  Desiree was back kneeling between her mother and  

daughter during Sunday mass she was as surprised  as anyone to realize one morning that she had been  

home for an entire month guys as you can see when  I'm reading a book I really try to make sure that  

I understand the plot because sometimes when you  read and especially when you try to do different  

voices and you know try to pronounce all the words  carefully you lose the plot line you lose the  

sense of what you're actually reading for me it's  really fun to read the dialogue especially because  

I can do different voices for example he spent  four years in prison a time he leapt over and  

would never in all his life talk much about does  that change anything he asked her she imagined him  

in a phone booth somewhere his boot kicked up on  the glass what would it change change she said he  

was quite a minute then said well I don't know so  see you guys I can practice my acting skills here  

as well and tip number six is shadowing I'm a huge  fan of shadowing and I have been talking about it  

a lot on social media so chatting is a technique  based on watching something or listening to  

something in your target language in English for  example when you watch a YouTube video in English  

pause it and then try to repeat everything after  the speaker you know you listen to a sentence you  

pause it and try to repeat and obviously mimic  mimic their intonation mimic their pronunciation  

try to sound as close to them as possible and  guess shattering is definitely something that  

I attribute the majority of My Success to because  it has helped me improve my confidence in English  

it has helped me improve my fluency speaking  English and just feel like you know I can do  

it learn new vocabulary and feel like I sound  more like a native speaker so guys I think these  

are all the tips to help you speak English start  speaking English even if you have no one to talk  

to make sure to implement all of them and I can  promise you that you will improve your English you  

will start speaking English more confidently and  also guys don't forget to check out PDF element  

by clicking the link in the description because  it will transform your learning your working just  

everything you do because their tool is so easy  to use you can sign your documents there you can  

do so many different things in just one place  so make sure to use the link below and download  

PDF element thank you guys so much for watching  this video and I'll see you in my next one bye

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