How to Speak English Without Mistakes

All right. Students, students,  please listen up. Today's lesson:  

how to speak English without mistakes.

In today's lesson, I'm going to teach you the  secret to speaking English without mistakes.  

Never again you'll have to fear making mistakes  when you speak English. This is an easy and quick  

tip you can start right now. Are you ready? 

The secret to speaking  English without mistakes is...

DON'T SPEAK!

That’s it. See you next time!

What's up, RealLifers? I'm Ethan,  your RealLife Fluency Coach  

and today I'm here to tell you that there is NO  way to speak English without mistakes. Sorry! 

But, wait! Don't go just yet. I'm going to help  you understand and overcome the fear that has been  

stopping you from speaking English, right now,  regardless of how long you have been studying.

Imagine yourself doing this right now! If you  learn a language but can't speak it because you  

are too worried about speaking it perfectly,  you won't be able to achieve those objectives.

I invite you to join our community because  just like Ala you'll be able to actually  

use the vocabulary you have worked so  hard to learn AND speak more clearly.  

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So now, let me show you what I'm talking about.

I have a question, how can we  speak without making mistakes?

"How do I speak English without  mistakes?" is the 7-word question  

that I get asked quite often and  that has always intrigued me.

And for most people who ask me this,  

they usually expect that I help them  with some sort of ready-made formula,  

quick hack, or even a big secret to overnight  fluency. Everyone wants a magic pill.

Well, I'm here today to say that the  answer to that question is very simple:  

You HAVE to make LOTS and LOTS of mistakes!

When it comes to the challenge  of learning a new language,  

the idea of achieving perfection is unattainable!

and honestly, I think that's a bad goal to have.  

None of us are going to be perfect...  Ever. So, by doing that, you'll be  

spending your time and energy pursuing a  goal that is nearly impossible to achieve!

I have learned 6 foreign languages. And just  the other day I was reflecting on the years  

I spent learning all of those languages. For  each of them, I faced a different challenge.

When I first started learning German, I  couldn't figure out its pronunciation.

For Spanish, I got stuck on the grammar rules.

With French, my accent was horrendous, but  there was one thing in common about them:  

I always put myself out there and spoke!

For Hebrew, I did a 90-day challenge  

where I had to go from zero knowledge to  being able to have a 15-minute conversation.  

It was pretty rocky. But I did it!

Why am I telling you all of this? Because  mistakes are part of the learning process! 

Now, let me ask you a question.  why do you fear making mistakes?  

Think about it for a second, do your mistakes  really prevent you from being able to communicate?  

You have to make mistakes to not make mistakes.

What?

We grow up usually seeing the final  product of a person's accomplishment,  

not the path someone took. You see  amazing soccer players like Messi  

breaking records, watch Michael  Jordan never miss a shot,  

or Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, and Beyonce winning  all the possible music awards of the industry.

What you don't see are the  endless hours of training,  

the thousand missed shots, and the bucket  filled with dozens of crumpled pieces of paper.

That's why we feel "programmed"  to feel like we can achieve said  

"perfection" at the drop of a hat. I can't  stress enough how aiming at this is unrealistic!  

As a human being, you're going to make mistakes!

I want you to think of ONE goal you want to  accomplish with your English. However, your  

answer cannot be "speak perfect English", "sound  like a native" or "speak English without mistakes"

The only person capable of deciding your goals,  objectives, and purpose in learning the language  

is YOU, But if I were to give you some advice,  I'd say aim at becoming a confident speaker!

Before diving into how you can start  doing that right now, I want to let  

you know that one of the best ways to build  up confidence and start using YOUR English  

right now is by becoming part of our community  in which you'll feel safe to make mistakes,  

use English in Real Life and boost fluency to  become an advanced English Speaker. Does that  

sound like something that you want to do? We want  to invite you to be part of our Fluency Circle -  

the community of the Native Immersion Course. Now in this course you will learn the  

three keys to understanding fast  speech, vocabulary, pronunciation  

and cultural context. And now with the release  of our RealLife App you can put everything  

that you learn in the course to practice  with other learners from around the world. 

You can try it for FREE with  our Power Learning Mini Course. 

Learn more and sign up clicking up here  or down in the description box below.

Back to the topic, we've been discussing,  let's take a look at these three sentences.  

Decide if they are TRUE or FALSE.

The first misconception about learning a new  language is that natives speak it perfectly.  

No one is perfect.

Just the other day I was scrolling my Instagram  feed and saw this post by Demi Lovato.

She clearly confused your with you're because  

they have the exact same pronunciation.  Natives make this mistake ALL THE TIME.

Another example is Joey's famous catchphrase  in Friends 'How you doin?" which is technically  

incorrect since if we followed the norm  it'd be "How are you doing?" However,  

this way of saying became so iconic in the  show that lots of people use it nowadays.

And take the poetic license of songs  that sometimes mirror real-life mistakes,  

for example. Justin Timberlake sang  "When you cheated, my heart bleeded.",  

but we know the correct form is bled. Lady Gaga  said "You and me could write a bad romance"  

when we learn time after time that it should  be "You and I". Or the classic Rolling Stones'  

"I can't get no satisfaction" when it  should be "I can't get any satisfaction"

Language is flexible and alive and the grammar  rules are bent all the time. Think about it. When  

you speak your native language, do you ever say  things that are technically incorrect? And when  

you do, do you get stressed out about it? Does  it make you never want to open your mouth again?

If you want to learn more about this I  

recommend you check out this lesson  right after you finish this one.

So I've recently recorded a podcast  with Rachel from Rachel's English  

and she said something really  interesting about mistakes.

I mean I would say it all boils down to  your goals and your communication and if you  

find that your goal is to be understood and  you are even with some of these mistakes, then  

I don't think it matters. I think it  only matters if it matters to you.  

Stop apologizing, the thing is people  who speak English fluently (be it a  

native or just a proficient speaker) will  notice your mistakes but they won't care. 

As long as you can be understood mistakes,  which are usually small, will be irrelevant. 

Now, we've made a video entirely on this topic  that I'll link down below for you to watch next.

So as we've seen in this lesson there's  no perfect solution to completely  

avoid mistakes in English. So embrace  them! Even if you fall on your face,  

step back and recognize your mistakes for  what they are: your guide to English fluency.

Now that means that you've got the courage to try  and get feedback and learn from your experience.  

Trust me this will fuel you to develop the skills  that you need to communicate. When you're so  

focused on doing everything perfectly you will  always be afraid to try new things, it will  

stop you from progressing and growing because  you'll be crippled by your fear of failure. 

Now here at RealLife we believe  in "connection over perfection,"  

so by not focusing on being perfect you  will be more open, confident and have more  

opportunities to develop your language abilities  and meaningful relationships through your English.

Last thing, if you want to keep learning be sure  to run over to our Instagram because I have some  

bonus tips for you there on identifying what are  the mistakes that actually prevent communication.

So also make sure that you follow us there to  be informed of the lessons we publish every day.  

That's right, every day we have different lessons  on all of our channels, podcasts and on Instagram.

No excuses not to make English a  part of your life today. Aww yeah!!