How to Improve English Fluency with the Recording Method | Go Natural English

Hi naturals, I'm Gabby from gonaturalenglish.com where you can become fluent and confident in English

Today we're talking about a method that I've personally used since

2002 to improve my own fluency in other languages you guys know that I love

Learning languages almost as much as I love teaching English now just as much as I love it

I love it all. So anyway, I've never made a video about this method that I came up with

For myself and that I use inside my complete English course fluent communication

so I thought it's a great time to show you the recording method that I use I

Also use the recording method in my five day English fluency challenge

Which is reopening soon. So check the description for a link to sign up

The fluency challenge is free and it's a great experience for you to try out the recording method

So anyway today I'm gonna show you how I use the recording method step by step

You're gonna see how I use it with other languages and how you can apply it to

English in a couple of different ways this method may seem really obvious

to some of you but I think a lot of people are going to find it innovative and new so

Whichever end of that opinion spectrum you fall on well

I hope that this is helpful for you. Anyway, so you should use the recording method if

You would like to practice English more?

But maybe you don't have a lot of people to practice with

you should use the recording method if you would like to have a

challenge to improve your English skills to the advanced and fluent level because it is

You should use the recording method if you would like to increase your confidence because what's really cool about the recording method

is that you are actually

self-correcting and when you self correct when you help

Yourself to improve your English you realize how smart you actually are

You didn't even realize how much you know, let me explain

Let me quickly tell you how the recording method works or how I've used it and then I will show you with an example

okay, first of all, you need to have

Material or a topic?

I'm going to show you how I do the recording method with material and then with a topic so you need to have

Somewhere to begin something that you're going to say or talk about

the first way is to choose material that you are going to repeat or

Copy this is like the imitation method or the shadowing method which I've talked about before

but this time we're actually going to take it a step further and

Record yourself when you just copy

Repeats imitate shadow, whatever you want to call it

You are missing out because when you record yourself and you listen to yourself

It's a whole nother

Exercise completely different when you record yourself. You're going to feel some good stress

there's bad stress and there's good stress bad stress is like when your water pipes break and

Everything in your apartment gets wet and you have to call the plumber. That's bad stress good stress is when you have a

Challenging exercise to do maybe a deadline for a paper. It might feel a little

Stressful a little bad, but it's actually good for you

Another example of good stress would be training for a marathon

So you might feel a little stressed out about all the training you have to do, but it's actually good for you

So recording yourself can actually feel a little stressful

Definitely awkward, but it's good for you. Trust me

and when you record yourself then obviously you're going to

Listen to yourself, right and listening to yourself is when the magic

Happens it's also where the awkwardness happens because the first time that you listen to yourself on a recording

Well, most everyone feels like oh

That was so awkward. I don't know who that was talking

But it couldn't have been me but it's normal to feel this way. Anyway, I'll show you how I do it

I have already done the recording method a lot. I've already done exercises many many times

Recently, I haven't had a lot of free time to use it, but this is a great opportunity

So back to the steps first you choose whether you're going to repeat some

Material or whether you're going to do kind of free talking about a topic maybe

Introducing yourself because that's a very common

Skill that we need to have in English and then you're going to grab a device. Maybe your smartphone. Maybe your laptop maybe

Something else that you can record audio with it doesn't matter what it is as long as you can record video

You don't have to go out and buy any new equipment. I'm pretty sure that you have

Something that you could record yourself speaking with and if you really don't pretty sure one of your friends does so this is a free

Activity for you to improve your English fluency. So then you record yourself great done

It's key here that you don't keep stopping and starting over if you make a mistake

Mid way just keep recording. This is not a test. No one is going to listen to it or judge it except for you

Unless of course you decide to share it with your teacher tutor colleagues friends classmates and whatnot

Okay, so you recorded great

Then you're going to listen to your recording then when you listen to yourself

You're going to really focus on a few key points

primarily

Anunciacion and related to that your fluency. Are you hesitating a lot?

Are you able to speak as quickly as the speakers that you are imitating or?

Fluent native speakers that you would like to speak like are there any grammar mistakes?

Do you sounds like you want to sound basically?

that's the gist of this exercise is for you to notice your own mistakes or

points for

Improvements because maybe you're not really making any huge mistakes

But you will notice

Where you could improve this could even help you if you are a native English speaker, and you're preparing for a presentation

Before I did my TEDx talk I recorded myself

practicing

delivering my TEDx talk

Several times and I watched it several times and took notes on how I could improve my delivery. So if you have an important

Presentation a speech or even a really important interview

It's a great idea to record yourself and then take notes on how you could improve

So that's basically it

I just have a couple of bonus points if you want to take this exercise a little bit further

It's a great idea to keep

Your recordings so that in a few months from now in a couple years from now you could look back and see

How much you have improved and so that's a benefit of being part of my complete English course fluent communication

because we have your old videos in our forum on our site that you can always go back and

compare with when you started the course and when you're midway through the course when you finish the course and

for years to come so

It's really fun to see how far you've come and to celebrate that so now let's see how I do it

I want to show you my own example, as you know, I'm a native English speaker

So I'm not gonna practice English, but I'm going to practice a language that I'm really working hard on now

Which is Portuguese because I'm living in Brazil. So Portuguese is very helpful. So

Let's go. Let's try it out come along with me and I'll show you how I use my own recording method

Okay, let me show you how I use the recording method by repeating other material. I've pulled up a

Comedy show from Brazil that's on YouTube called port to the spool and those if you're Brazilian, hey

You might know this you can tell me in the comments if you watch ports of those windows

and I'm just going to play about five seconds because that's just enough for you to see how I do it and

I've also put the subtitles on in

Portuguese because it was kind of hard for me to just listen and

To understand all the words so you could do this with material in English as well. Okay, so let's try it out. Let's go

Okay

Shaanxi was this beauty Pizarro. Hello. Hello Lionel congresso

I'm going to record that now that I have memorized my line

I don't want to read you could record yourself reading but I think that if you can memorize a line and

Just say it on your own you're going to actually get a more realistic

Listen of your own speaking abilities. So I actually have my recorder that I use for making videos

So I'm going to use that right now to record myself. Let's do it

Here we go

Jang Shifu says Veeru cabeza who help

Hello Lana congresso. So you might be thinking well great

But that was just one sentence. How am I ever going to become fluent in English?

Well fluency comes from the small steps that you take every day

What's great about recording yourself two in five second?

One phrase intervals is that it doesn't take a long time. So even if you have a really busy day

You can do this exercise. So now let's try it with something a little bit different because I don't always repeat after

Existing content. So now I'm going to put my laptop away

I'm just going to plan a self-introduction

Okay, so in my self introduction I kept it really simple this time just to show you an example and one thing that I like

To do in self introductions is to think of a question that I might ask the other person

Okay, so I just made some notes. I didn't write down every single word that I'm going to say

I just stop for a few seconds about how I'd like my introduction to be

What information I'd like to include but I didn't write every single

Word out like in sentences. So this is more

Freestyle talking than reading. In fact, I'm not even gonna look at my notes now. Okay, let's record

Hola. Mundo Mia Gaby. Oh, so Americana so profesora. Jinglei's yo moeraki. No Brazil

versa, and oh he

Okay, so I guess that that was pretty good

Let me challenge myself a little bit because when you don't notice any room for improvement

You should challenge yourself a little bit more

So I'm going to talk about some things that I enjoy doing in Rio Janeiro

And this time I'm not going to prepare before hands ashes. Americano Brazil yogic sheena

Visit Oddo aqui yo v

Vh e como turista mutas visas. Yo Fiza squeezes que, estoy

listo, simplifies empress am profe winn open Gazoo

Flip request a praia de panama y aguada también en agosto g propriety

panama mais el ghosto mais de squeezes

ggg-ghost g

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Aug Flamengo doflamingo

EU gosto de

Anda peles Adagio goes to G medieval cheer for

Komui Tobin k10 tampoco. Can Shima's Durham NC o tempo muertoball McKee yo gosto de

Estilo de vida que tenga que pasa bebe muito suku natural opa sukemasa

Yoga sutra, comida, brasil era you got some with Louis GOG Vida kiddo heal

Okay, so as I was recording myself, I found myself wanting to stop and start over several times

the thing is mistakes are okay, and it's really important to

Notice your mistakes and improve from them notice them so that you don't repeat them

so if you do make a mistake when you're recording just notice it and

Listen to yourself, maybe take a note of it where you have difficulty and where you could improve

okay, let's listen to my recorded speaking practice and notes where I could improve I

Feel like

Besides the fact that I stuttered my arse

And my vowel sounds are still pretty bad

And that was just repeating what I had just heard if you're a Portuguese speaker

Specifically a Brazilian Portuguese speaker, you could help me in the comments. Let's listen to what I recorded without

Repeating just freestyle

it was that she

What was that I

Stopped to think for a long time. So my fluency is not quite there a lot of hesitating Aki. Oh

Wow, I had no idea that when I said, you know

Like I I sounded like such a gringo or gringa whatever

Foreigner. Okay. Let's keep listening here

Number zero, it was action and

And you see that I keep

Busey okay, even the way that I am filling the

Sentence with it. It's not Brazilian at all

Okay, I do feel like I'm catching the Carioca accent the Rio de Janeiro accent the way that I said 2d stuff is

Pretty Carioca. That's like very typical of Rio de Janeiro

CSIS voices - what used to simplify for example if we know pound? Yeah

poem

is a very hard word I

Still haven't gotten that quite right, but I think it's better than before when people didn't know if I was saying Pao or Pooh

the difference between stick and bread

Sweet neck when you sample. I have it by Miami. I gotta tell me I mean they're gonna

- analyze it wash some ice. That's quiz is gngo gasa G

I think I say

GMG GMG, I don't think that's a phrase. I think I just caught a grammar mistake

I think it's Jia

Jia

After I go ahead - would you something?

Don't Fleming's you I had caught a grammar mistake as I was speaking

So doable, not G or they yeah. Anyway, I caught it

well, I was speaking so that was kind of cool goes to G and

I'm bad. I must see behind you goes to G machine

for

we

Bomb contain now. I feel like I'm speaking really slow like a native

Brazilian Portuguese speaker would talk a lot faster. So that's something that I want to work on

And she's nice

Man, she okay. I use a lot of fillers like uh

And I really want to improve my fluency to speak as quickly in Portuguese as I can in English

And when went to Beaumont Keith, yeah

Agosto GB that keeping a key a possible bandwidth the soup will not do now it was so come outside

You got so much that we the Brazilian you got some with Louis

jujube that Kido healed

okay all in all I give myself like a

75 out of 100. I think that I'm doing pretty well, but I still have to work on my accent

especially vowel sounds ours

the way that I say you oh my gosh, it's embarrassing and I

Have to work on my fluency. I'm hesitating a lot using a lot of fillers like, uh,

And that's not gonna really make people want to talk with me more because it feels like I'm talking really slowly

so I feel like people get impatient with me when I talk and when I speak in Portuguese and

I don't want that to happen. So this was really eye-opening for me. I don't know about you

But this was yeah, this is a great exercise if I do say so myself

One thing that I forgot to say is that in my complete course fluent communication. We also use this recording method

I'm really bad about telling you about my complete course because I don't want this to sound like a commercial

But I do want you to know that I use this with the students who have signed up for my complete English course

That's not free. But I want you to know that it exists. We have a community on my website gonaturalenglish.com

Where you post your recorded speaking practice and you get feedback from other?

students and from me and go natural English teachers, so it's a great way for you to be able to

self-correct

Get support and corrections from others

including professional English teachers, so

That is important for you to know

Finally if you want to try this recording method, I want to give you an exercise that you could start with right away

Here's just a sentence that you could try if you want something easy and quick to record

Did you hear about the crazy thing that happened to the entrepreneur last month?

So I chose this sentence because it has some difficult sounds it has some linking sounds like did you?

Did you hear about the crazy thing has a th sound?

Entrepreneurs it difficult and month can be a difficult word to and if you're looking for other

materials that are a bit longer I would suggest using

American TV miniseries or if there's maybe a YouTube channel that you like I would

recommend

friends for TV series and

I'm a big fan of talk shows like Ellen or

Oprah

If you want something with a man speaking, there are men like, dr. Phil and

Who else is a male talk show host?

Oh, there's a game show called the family feud that could be fun to watch and you could repeat what Steve Harvey says

He's the host on there. So there's so much material you could also

practice

Repeating the lyrics to songs that you like

It's another thing that you could record so there is no shortage of material

Just be creative and try this because it's a great exercise. You saw I was pretty shocked with my own

recording and

I think you will be too in a good way

So now I want to challenge you to try the recording method on your own but wait

There's even more there's a better way that you can use the recording method after you listen to yourself

Share your recording with others

with your friends who are learning English with your teacher if you have an English teacher and if you

Don'ts or even if you do I want to invite you to join the go natural English five-day fluency

challenge this is a way that you can share your

English-speaking recording with our other group members who are supportive positive and who will help to

motivate you to improve your English and

I'm in the group and our go natural English teachers are there to to support you and motivate you and help you improve

so this is an awesome chance for you to try out the recording method and

get the support that you need along the way so check out the link in the description for you to join our

Next English fluency challenge that is starting soon

I cannot wait to do this because it's an awesome way for us to actually communicate more and

Connect more with other awesome go natural English learners from all over the world

So you're invited be there or be?

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