Surprising Way to Find the Best English Learning Language Exchange Partner

13,875 views ・ 2015-12-11

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Hey guys!
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How's it going?
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I have gotten a lot of questions recently about how to find someone to practice English
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with you.
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So, in this episode, we're going to answer that question.
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I'm going to help you to find the perfect English language exchange partner, someone
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who you can practice with any time you want and it's free.
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So, I think you're going to want to watch this one.
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Let me tell you, before I explain exactly how to find your perfect language exchange
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partner, that if you want to learn more about Go Natural English Method: the Seven Steps
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to Fluency, you can find a free course.
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You can sign up for it at gonaturalenglish.com/7steps.
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Okay, so back to the question about finding the perfect language exchange partner.
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I know there's a lot of problems: like, okay, where do you find someone?
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So, if you live in an American city, or an English-speaking country, that's awesome.
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But maybe a lot of you don't.
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I know that the Go Natural English community is all over the world, and that's really exciting!
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I see you watching from Brazil, form Japan, from Germany, from all different countries.
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It's amazing!
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So I know some of you are watching from the United States or other English-speaking countries,
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but some of you are not.
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So, what if you live in a country where there's really not as many English speakers around?
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You're lucky if you live in a big city, because you can probably find them.
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But if you live out in the countryside, it might be more difficult to find them.
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And even if they are around, how do you find them?
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Well, often I say, "Okay, we can look online, right?"
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How do you find an exchange partner online?
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It can be a bit difficult too, right?
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How do you find someone who can commit to meeting you, who is there and available on
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your schedule?
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How do you find someone who's as interested in speaking to you in English as you want
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them to be, someone who's patient, someone who will always practice with you?
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Okay.
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I have a solution.
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I want you think about: who is the person who you already speak with the most?
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Is it your friends?
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Is it your family?
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Think a little harder.
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Where's that voice coming from that you hear all the time?
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Maybe the voice that, you know, comes to you when you think about things?
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How about talking to yourself?
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Don't laugh!
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Don't laugh!
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Okay, you talk to yourself in your mind more than anybody else.
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More than your friends, more than your family, more than anybody else, you're always talking
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to yourself.
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You probably don't talk out loud to yourself all the time, but your thoughts are always
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going.
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And what language do you speak to yourself in?
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Probably your native language.
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How about we change that to: talk to yourself in English?
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So, I'd like to suggest that the perfect language partner for you to begin with, for free, no
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hassle, no scheduling issues, no commitment issues, takes no time to set up, super easy
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-- is to begin to think to yourself in English!
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So, how do you do that?
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Start small.
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You don't have to think everything in English because there's going to be a lot of words
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that you're not sure about in the moment.
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So, you can find out; you can look them up; you can make a list of new words that you
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want to use with yourself.
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But start an inner dialogue in English.
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Instead of asking yourself in your native language, "Oh, what should I do today?"
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ask yourself in English.
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And then you can answer in English.
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You can write down your ideas in English.
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You can even talk out loud to yourself in English.
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There's other things, like singing a song in English, that you can do, you know, just
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on your own time; you don't need anyone else to do that.
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Ask yourself, "What am I going to eat for lunch?"
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in English.
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These are all thoughts that everyone -- well, I have them, I think everyone has them: "Well,
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what am I going to eat today?"
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You have them naturally.
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So, why not think them in English?
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Okay?
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So, this is going to make a huge difference because, really, the person that you talk
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to the most is yourself; it's your own inner mental dialogue.
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So, start here and then we can talk about how to practice English -- there's another
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episode of Go Natural English that I can link to here where I talk about seven different
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ways to practice in your home country without even leaving.
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So I talk a little bit about language exchange partners there.
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So, if you're surprised I didn't tell you to meet with another real person, check out
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that video.
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But I think that you'll really benefit from having your inner dialogue in English.
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So start talking to yourself in English, making your to-do list in English, thinking about
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your plans in English, your dreams.
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If you think about what you'd like to do next year, think about that in English.
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If you think about what you'd like to do this weekend, think about that in English.
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I think you see how this works, right?
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So I hope you enjoy this tip, thanks for watching, and I hope to see you back at gonaturalenglish.com/7steps
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so that you can be part of our course to learn more about our method to becoming fluent.
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Alright!
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Bye for now!
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