How To LEARN ANY LANGUAGE FLUENTLY | Learn English | Go Natural English

Whether you think you can or you think you can't you're right, so you might as well believe that you can hey

What is up Gabi here to talk about? How you or anyone can learn any?

Language that you really want to learn when I talk to my friends about how I learned Spanish

Portuguese a little Japanese a little French they're like. Oh my gosh. You must be a genius. I am NOT a genius

I'll tell you that much I know for a fact that if you really want to learn a language

You can you just need to keep

Some guiding principles in mind because the way that we learn languages in our traditional classrooms

Hasn't worked very well

And that's why people think that you're some kind of genius if you know more than one language now

There are five principles that I want to share with you that can help you to learn any language now

We may not be able to learn all the languages in the world at the same time

we actually need to focus a bit on one at a time and

That's part of how we learn any language that we want to so first of all

Choose the language whether it's English or Spanish or Portuguese

I highly recommend focusing on one language at a time especially

Like when I was learning

Portuguese and also working on Spanish. They're so

similar and it was super confusing and I made a lot of

embarrassing mistakes actually mixing up the two languages

But it's okay because then I learned to focus on one at a time and yes

You can go back and forth like over the years

I started with Spanish then I took a break learned some Portuguese then sugar break went back to Spanish so yeah that works

Just fine, but it's a good idea to focus for at least several months on one language at a time

next you need to know your

motivation your reason why and have some interest in learning the language, maybe this seems obvious

But I don't think it's really obvious to everyone I mean you can think for example like Oh, Russian is so cool

I really want to learn it

But just thinking of languages and wanting to learn it just to learn the language isn't usually enough to keep us motivated

Past those first few hours of studying because learning a language does require time and effort

And you have to stay motivated people who become fluent in another language are the ones who stay motivated

Over a long time so for months at a time

So you really need to know why you're learning that language

Maybe like with me and fortune is I really love music

From Brazil which is in?

Portuguese so that really keeps me motivated to learn and I have some friends in Brazil and I like to speak

Portuguese when I go to visit them in

Brazil with Japanese I was motivated to learn quite a bit because I was living in Japan

and although I could totally survive without knowing Japanese I

Really wanted to be able to participate in everyday life and ask questions

I mean basic things like ask for directions if I was lost so it was a bit of a

survival motivation, okay, so you need to know

Your reason why and just thinking a language is cool is a good start

But it's not usually gonna carry you through the months required to really become fluent in the language

Next you really need to believe in yourself

I don't know why you'd even really start learning a language if you didn't believe it was possible

But this happens all the time

Maybe because some people are required to take English class or require to take a foreign language

And you don't really think you can become fluent, but you have to take the class anyway

Well really if you better off trying to brainwash yourself to think that you are capable of really becoming fluent

Because there's a famous quote whether you think you can or you think you can't you're right

So you might as well believe that you can

Next depending on your motivation or your reason why you want to learn the language you want to learn?

Set SMART goals mark goals are specific measurable attainable

Reasonable and timely goals so a goal like I want to become fluent in

Russian is not

A SMART goal because then we have to ask ourselves

What does it mean to be fluent and?

How much time are you willing to devote to this goal and is it attainable in that amount of time so we need to be?

really specific and the more specific your goal actually the better that is like let's say I

Want to learn the Cyrillic alphabet in?

two weeks

Random example, but it's timely because I put a deadline on it, and it's specific because it's one part of the language

it's not becoming fluent in the entire language so stick to really measurable and

Small goals like bite size goals that you can accomplish because every time you accomplish your goal well

It feels really good and it's gonna motivate you to go on to that next goal

Maybe it would be learning vocabulary or having a one-minute conversation than a 10-minute conversation

with a native speaker or maybe

Writing a poem or it could be really anything you want to do singing a song in that language really

It's totally up to you and it's better if it's up to you because when you create a goal that is something that you

Really want to do that you enjoy then you're going to attain that goal

faster because you're

Motivated by your own reasons not anybody else's

next you have to

listen and

read and

Immerse yourself in materials that you enjoy so I just mentioned if it's your goal to sing a song in

Russian

or Chinese

Or Japanese whatever language you're studying

Then you're gonna need to actually listen to that song first this may seem obvious, but so many people

Just say oh just start speaking the language and you'll be fluent just speak from the first

Second that you decide to study the language and I do agree that you need to speak

And not just wait until everything is perfect

But you have to listen in order to know what to say right so first things first

Find some listening material or some reading material that you enjoy and that is at a good level

for you whether you're a beginner or intermediate level in the language you're studying and

that will give you a

Template or something to copy so you know what to say this leads right into the next step

Which is you have to copy or imitate or shadow those?

materials so that you know what to say, so I'm a huge fan of listening to

music in languages that I want to learn I listen to a ton of Brazilian music a ton of

music in Spanish from various countries and that helps me a lot with my pronunciation and a lot with

Learning idioms and slang and vocabulary that's more on the casual side so anyway

That's a great way to learn because you can sing along you can copy it you can then use that vocabulary

in your own way in your own conversations, or simply to be able to sing songs in that language if that's your goal and

Finally use the language

Not just as like a cool party trick like look at me

I can speak a little Japanese, but use the language as a tool to do things that you enjoy so I

Know a large amount of Japanese vocabulary related to food why?

Because I like Japanese food

I don't know that much Japanese vocabulary about other topics like I couldn't talk about the economy in

Japanese, but I can order sushi I can order any kind of food pretty much in Japanese

Because that's what I like to do

So I'm just saying that

You should use the language that you're learning as a tool to do things that you like to do

Maybe you like to sing maybe you like to play guitar

Maybe you like to write or maybe you like to I don't know maybe you like to talk to people

in that language of course

That's a huge reason to learn a language is to make friends

From that country or culture where they speak the language so that we can learn more about the world so I hope that

Those steps will help you to learn any language. I know they will quick recap find your motivation

focus on one language at a time make sure that you are listening and reading to a lot of

materials that you enjoy in that language set small SMART goals and

Finally use the language as a tool to do things that you enjoy oh

And I almost forgot believe in yourself seriously if you can speak your first language

Then you can speak a second third fourth fifth

Language it is

Possible I believe in you believe in yourself, too. It's necessary to get to any level of fluency alright

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Let me know what

Languages that you would like to learn that you're starting to learn I would love to know all right talk to you soon

bye for now