4 Ways to Be Fearless Speaking English #Spon #Lingoda

-Hey naturals, how's it going?

Welcome to Go Natural English.

Can we talk for a minute?

Your English has been getting much better.

Your fluency is improving, but what

I see with a lot of English learners

is that their confidence is lacking.

So in this episode, I want to talk

about how to be fearless, bold, and confident in English.

One of the best ways to improve your English fluency

and your confidence is to use English.

So try online lessons.

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So let me share with you four ways that you

can improve your confidence, be fearless, and bold in English.

You've learned so much English and you're doing awesome,

but now it's time to step out of your comfort zone

and talk to anyone using English.

I know it can be scary.

You might be worried about rejection

or not being understood.

I know because I felt that way using other languages,

and to be honest using English with strangers, too. ,

It can be scary even for me, too.

Sometimes I'm secretly shy.

I might not have told you that before, but I am .

So first of all, use English daily.

When English becomes a daily habit,

it's not as scary anymore, because it's familiar to you.

Things are scary and we have fear of them

when they're unknown, when you don't know what to expect.

So if you can use English a little bit every day

that will help you to be bolder and more confident than the day

before.

Next, give yourself a special identity

in English, an alter ego.

Imagine that you are someone you look up to in English.

It could be a movie star or a leader

or maybe a pop star that you admire,

someone who is bold and confident and fearless.

And imagine if I was that person, what would I do?

What would Wonder Woman do, for example?

Maybe my alter ego would be Wonder Woman.

So give yourself this borrowed identity

when you're speaking English.

Now, this is an exercise that is up here.

You have to believe that you can become fearless

being more like this person who you admire.

I hope that makes sense, to develop an English alter ego,

someone who speaks English fluently

and who is fearless in the way they express themselves,

their ideas, in English.

OK next, use affirmations.

What is an affirmation?

Well, it's affirming something about yourself.

For example, I am a confident English speaker.

You know, I hear so many of my students saying things like,

my English is horrible, or I don't speak English,

or I don't speak English well.

Why would you say this about yourself?

It's not helpful and it's making you less confident and more

fearful.

So I would like to ask you right now

to replace those negative ideas with positive ones,

with affirmations.

An affirmation is basically a positive idea about yourself.

So please, whatever you're doing,

stop and repeat after me.

I, come on, I am a confident, fluent English speaker.

All right, awesome.

This is so important to believe in yourself.

I believe in you, so why wouldn't you

believe in yourself?

Finally, remember set phrases.

This will give you an automatic way to speak English,

and you won't have to worry about what am I going to say?

So when you speak with natives, pay attention to the phrases

that they use and remember some of your favorites

so that you can copy them and use them

in your own conversations.

So as I mentioned in the beginning,

a great way to improve your confidence

and to pick up some new phrases is

to try online English lessons.

It is the best way to improve your fluency when

you're practicing several times a week using English.

And online lessons are super convenient.

You can do them from home and you schedule, it's easy.

You just go and you do it.

So try Lingoda.

This episode is brought to you by Lingoda and they're offering

you a 15% off coupon, secret coupon code,

can be found at gonaturalenglish.com/lingoda,

L-I-N-G-O-D-A. So try it out, and I think you'll be glad that

you did.

You'll feel confidence after you start

using English on a daily basis, at least on a weekly basis.

So I hope you enjoyed this episode.

So I'll talk to you again soon.

Bye for now.