How to Learn English | Simple Method for Fluency (in just 30 minutes!)

Future perfect continuous  has two different forms...  

We'll have been doing and be going to have  been doing, unlike simple future forms  

future perfect continuous forms  are usually interchangeable.

Aww yeah! So does learning English ever  feel a little bit like that to you?  

Well if you watch this video until the end we're  going to give you our methodology that we've  

used with all of our students for dramatic  changes and how they perceive the language  

and results and fluency now this methodology has  10 parts which you don't necessarily have to do in  

order and it's broken down into three cyclical  steps so we're going to jump right into that  

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all right so starting out with the first step in  the cycle we have mindset now we have three parts  

to this the first one being your purpose now this  is where we start with all of our students because  

something we've noticed about all successful  English learners is that they have a clear burning  

desire to learn the language and being able to  cultivate this is going to make you so much more  

successful because it's going to help you to get  past those really challenging moments when you  

want to give up so what we do with our students is  we have them start with why now I actually talked  

all about this in a recent video where we looked  at some of the kind of bigger impacts that one can  

make with their English and you can definitely  check that out down in the description below  

but basically this is about not starting  with what which what is basically the thing  

that you want to get your goal right so for you  it's probably English fluency it's being able  

to communicate with others confidently and  without a lot of mistakes right but in order  

to get there first you have to have that drive  behind it you have to have that strong purpose  

that strong why so I recommend that you actually  write this down so you can get some clarity around  

it and you can actually look at it every day now I  have an exercise that I used to do with all of my  

students I talked about that in that video that  I just mentioned so definitely check that out  

so the second part is having a clear plan so  we kind of move from that y down to the how  

so how are you going to get to your goal  of English fluency now a really important  

part of this can actually come from a book that I  absolutely love called the seven habits of highly  

effective people which I actually talked about  in a recent lesson that I did on some of the best  

books for your English learning and if you are  a book lover like I am then you might find that  

interesting to add some books to your list  and i'll definitely link that as well down in  

the description below but this concept of start  with the end in mind now this is actually about  

thinking or even visualizing where you're going to  be when you reach that goal so you could actually  

even close your eyes and think about you know when  I am a fluent confident English communicator what  

would life be like where will you be what will  you be doing how will you be using your English  

differently than you are now something that  can help a lot with this is actually meditation  

because it gives you the focus that you need  to concentrate on the moment it will allow you  

to get that visualization of where you want to be  much stronger and another exercise that I love for  

this is kind of a fill in the blank activity so  it goes like this when blank happens I usually do  

blank but now instead I will blank so that sounds  kind of confusing let me give you an example so  

say that usually when you sit down to study your  English you get distracted by your phone and you  

usually start to look at instagram for instance  so we want to rewrite that behavior right so we  

would say instead that when I sit down to study  English usually I get distracted by my phone and  

look at instagram for 30 minutes but now instead I  will set a 10-minute timer look at my instagram as  

much as I want during that time and then i'm going  to put my phone away another room where it can't  

distract me so that I can study well let's look at  another example say that you want to go and speak  

English and you have opportunities to practice but  that you get really shy so maybe something that  

you could try is that when I feel myself getting  really shy I usually just decide that i'm not  

going to talk to anyone and I go home or something  like that but now instead what i'm going to do  

is go up to the person and just say hello so  maybe that oversimplifies it but really if you  

do this exercise you're going to find that when  you actually interact with those challenges when  

you actually reach those roadblocks that you're  going to feel much more prepared for it because  

you already have made a plan for how to deal with  them so I highly recommend that you actually try  

taking some moments to pause the video  and writing some things down like that  

so when you do this when you start with the end of  mind and then you kind of work your way backwards  

imagining the challenges you're kind of giving  a summary of the entire process you're kind of  

able to look at it almost as if it were a  tangible object now what has to happen then  

is you actually have to do the work in the day to  day right to actually reach that end goal now the  

best way to do this really is through small steps  every single day now we'll talk more about habits  

in a little bit but actually I would just share  with you that recently I just got a new puppy  

and so i'm in the process of training her now  something that has worked really well for me  

is instead of trying to sit down for an hour every  day and train her is instead just finding three  

to five minute blocks throughout the day where we  can just do very quick different little trainings  

and this is obviously much easier for her she  has a very short attention span it's much easier  

for me because it's more convenient and you can  totally do this with your English i'm sure that  

you are busy and stuff you have trouble actually  carving out an hour or two hours of time to study  

and really it's not that motivating to do  that so what kind of little things can you  

do throughout your day that will help you to make  it much more easy and convenient and fun for you  

I actually did a video recently also talking about  things that you can do every day to improve your  

English which i'll link down below that might give  you some more ideas all right finally there is a  

science called implementation intentions now  what is that that sounds really complex right  

but it's actually quite simple now most people  when they want to learn anything or they want to  

do anything important they feel some resistance  to it and usually they'll say you know I don't  

feel like doing it right now i'll do it later i'll  do it tomorrow i'll do it someday but what happens  

then is that you end up never really doing it  but what you need to do instead basically is  

just start doing it start doing it with something  really small really easy just to kind of get it  

going now basically what happens here is that  if you're waiting for the motivation to come  

it never really comes but when you start doing it  with something really small something really easy  

kind of the simplest way that you can just get  it rolling what happens is that the motivation  

then comes and you end up probably doing a lot  more than you intended now if you think about  

anything any work that you've done in the past any  project that you've worked on this probably has  

been something that you've kind of naturally done  you've resisted it at first but as soon as you  

got started that motivation just kind of naturally  came and it got easier now to build this intention  

it can also be really useful to write down when  and where you're going to be doing this thing now  

different studies have shown this can actually  make you two times more effective in accomplishing  

your goal so again it kind of comes back  to these little exercises that you can do  

to kind of reflect to visualize to think about  that and plan and work your way backwards  

now we're gonna talk more about this in  step two but really you can think about  

this whole entire video as kind of a plan for your  English fluency to how to get to that end goal  

so that said let's move on to the third part  which is about cultivating grit now what is grit  

so an author named angela duckworth she actually  wrote a book all about grit and this is because  

she identified it in studying different successful  people from athletes to musicians to people in the  

army to really any walk of life that this was the  number one characteristic that kind of unified all  

these people and being able to be so successful  so grit helps you to cultivate your joy and your  

curiosity for learning English so what is it  exactly grit is perseverance plus passion now  

passion that kind of comes back to your purpose  for learning it's that drive behind it it's that  

thing that gets you excited to start doing it to  reach that big goal now you might think of passion  

as something that you either have or you don't  have but a lot of times it's not something  

that you just innately have a lot of times  it's something that you actually have to do  

some work in cultivating and then perseverance is  actually showing up every day and doing the hard  

work now another really important part of this  that's going to make you successful in cultivating  

grit is having a growth mindset now you can  either have a growth mindset or a fixed mindset  

people with a fixed mindset basically think  that either they have the talent to do something  

or they don't so for example if they have some  challenge they're probably just going to say you  

know i'm just not good at this so I might as well  give up or if they actually are successful with  

something they think maybe it's because they were  born with that success or because they're really  

intelligent or something like that now people  with a growth mindset think kind of differently  

when they fail at something they don't think you  know it's because I just don't have the talent  

for it they say I need to work harder next time  I didn't work hard enough and that's why I failed  

so when they encounter any challenge basically  their idea is that I need to still learn something  

I need to work harder I need to try more next  time now if you feel like you have more of a  

fixed mindset don't worry you can cultivate a  growth mindset this is something that we help  

all of our students to do now in step six we're  going to talk more about deliberate practice  

now this really is the key to being able to  reach mastery in anything that you want to learn  

or any skill that you want to build and obviously  having grit and having a growth mindset are going  

to help you a lot at that but we'll talk more  about that in a little bit okay moving on from  

mindset we're going to get into the actual  method so what are the things that you actually  

need to work on to improve your English skills so  the first part of this is making English a part  

of your life now this is probably the most fun  part of the process and it's probably the number  

one thing that separates unsuccessful learners  from the successful learners so this is all about  

making a fun natural and convenient but it's also  really important to recognize that as learners  

we're all unique and each one of us have different  ways that we learn best so what worked perfectly  

for someone else might not necessarily work for  you so not only is it about sitting down and  

actually doing the work to learn but it's about  experimenting a lot and finding out what works  

best for you as a learner it's about getting  curious and trying a lot of different things  

and it shouldn't be putting you to sleep either if  someone told you for example that learning English  

with the news is a really great way to increase  your vocabulary you shouldn't do that just because  

that person told you so if it's not something that  you actually already enjoyed doing in your own  

language so this can actually be a really great  gauge is to look at what do I enjoy doing and  

to start doing those things as much as possible  in English and another thing that can be really  

effective that I used to have all of my students  do is thinking about something that you're really  

good at now you could actually journal about this  and think about what are the things that made you  

really successful in learning that thing or in  acquiring that skill and then you can kind of  

reflect on how can I apply what I learned in that  to my English learning and I think you might see  

that there's actually a lot of connections that  you can make that are going to really help to push  

you forward and help you discover what makes you  unique as a learner so part five let's talk about  

habits now so we already discussed this a little  bit and it can be really effective already to find  

things that are fun for you that are going to be  very easy for you to work into your day-to-day  

routine but other than this it's not always so  fun and you might need to actually kind of work on  

developing that habit so really effective way to  do this can be with something called micro habits  

so what are micro habits micro habits can help you  to lower the bar and make it super easy for you  

so just to give you an example say that you want  to start going to the gym you want to get in shape  

and so most people when they do this they think  like okay i'm going to sign up for the gym and i'm  

going gonna go four times a week for an hour but  what ends up happening is most people give up at  

some point because they just can't keep up with  that commitment they get busy or something like  

that and really you can make it much easier  than this instead of saying i'm gonna go for  

four days a week for an hour today i'm going to  go four days a week and i'm just going to work  

out for five minutes now that probably sounds a  little bit ridiculous right to go to the gym and  

just work out for five minutes but the thing  is is that it makes it so easy that you can't  

not do it it's just really simple for you to go  to the gym and work out for five minutes that any  

excuse that you're gonna make just won't be valid  right and what's going to happen is that you're  

gonna go there you're gonna start exercising for  five minutes and then you're gonna say well you  

know as long as i'm here I think i'll do a little  bit more so you can also apply this of course to  

your English learning you can instead of saying I  need to sit down for an hour every day and study  

grammar you can say well you know i'm going  to sit down and i'm going to do five exercises  

so first off it'll be really easy for you to find  the time to do this and then the second benefit is  

that usually when you've sat down to do those  five exercises maybe you'll actually enjoy it  

and you'll say well i'm gonna do a little bit more  and this can actually end up being a lot more time  

than you originally intended and the best part  of this is that if you're doing this every day  

or you're doing this a few times a week you'll be  kind of cultivating the foundation for that habit  

so in the future it'll be much easier for you to  increase that time that you're spending to develop  

that habit so let's look at some other tips that  can help you to cultivate habits so something that  

can be really useful when you're trying to develop  a new habit is actually giving yourself some  

reward when you complete it every day or every  time that you're doing it and just to give you an  

example say that you're wanting to start running  you're wanting to start running every single day  

now besides just doing a micro habit for example  of making it five minutes of running to start out  

you could actually give yourself a reward so every  time that you come back from running you could  

have a piece of chocolate let's say now by doing  this it's going to give you a bit of motivation to  

get out the door to go on that run because you'll  already be thinking about when you come back  

you're going to have that piece of chocolate now  when you do this eventually you won't even need  

the chocolate anymore because you'll just enjoy  that good feeling that you have after running now  

it's really simple to apply this to your English  learning so say for example that you need to study  

some vocabulary and you need some motivation to  do that so say that you could set up that okay i'm  

going to study vocabulary for 15 minutes but then  after the reward I can watch an episode of friends  

and then on the other side of this besides  giving yourself rewards consequences can also be  

really useful and especially when you get other  people evolved to kind of hold you accountable  

so let's take an example with this so say that  you tell your wife or your husband or a friend  

for example that you want to do this 15 minutes of  grammar study every single day or that you want to  

have a 20-minute conversation every single  day so how you could actually do this is by  

telling them that every day that you don't do  this you're going to give them five dollars or  

you know the equivalent in your currency now  first off you're probably not going to want to  

lose that five dollars so you'll sit down to do  it or even if you fail on that a couple times  

you'll probably learn pretty quickly that it's  more worthwhile to actually do that new habit  

than it is to lose those five dollars and the  other really great part of this is if you tell  

your wife or husband or friend or whoever they're  also going to be checking in to make sure that  

you're doing that because they're going to want  the money now if you don't have a lot of money  

that's of course not the only way that you can do  this you would also tell for example your wife or  

husband that for every day that you don't do that  new habit that you will take out the trash now if  

that is something that you really hate doing  again you'll probably just need to miss that  

study one or two times in order to start saying  that it's more worthwhile for me to actually just  

do it than it is for me to have to take out the  trash now you can learn more about the science of  

habit formation how you can apply this to your  English in that lesson that I already told you  

about about the top books where I looked at  a really great book called the power of habit  

now getting into part six we already talked  about this a little bit deliberate practice  

now deliberate practice really is the fine tuning  that you're doing to kind of take yourself to the  

next level so what happens usually is when  we're learning a language we get to what's  

called the intermediate plateau so usually when  we start out learning we can learn really quickly  

there's so much to learn and our progress is  really quick but at some point we kind of get  

flat it kind of gets really stagnant and really  difficult to kind of be acquiring more knowledge  

to really be taking our skills to the next level  and this is where delivered practice comes in  

so this is identifying kind of those key errors  that you're still making kind of the big things  

that you still have to solve and repairing those  or solving them or overcoming them and a really  

great way to do this is to actually sign up for  an exam I actually had recent experience with this  

last year when I was really focusing on learning  catalan and I had actually kind of experienced  

this that I felt like I was really stagnant in my  learning I wasn't progressing anymore so I signed  

up for the c1 exam and I found this really useful  because first off I actually had a date by when  

I would have to take that exam and so I had a time  period that had to make that plan for learning  

and then I also had very specific things that I  would have to learn in order to pass that exam  

the other thing is that I got a teacher who helped  me immensely in being able to identify kind of my  

key errors my key mistakes that I needed to solve  now by doing this I found that I really excelled  

in just a short period of time I think I had  three months to study and i've learned so much  

during that time and really improved my level in  this and again having a really great teacher or  

coach can be immensely helpful because they'll  help you to identify your gaps and see those  

mistakes that you're making a lot and usually  a good coach or a good teacher is going to have  

different techniques to help you to overcome  these things without a great coach or teacher  

I think it's near impossible to ever be able to  reach a level of mastery and then another thing  

I think is immensely helpful is to have a really  great support network or community now these would  

be people who either support you so they know your  goal and they're kind of there to help you out in  

any way that you need and of course a teacher can  play this role but another really great thing is a  

community if you have other English learners from  around the world especially or maybe even just  

from your class that are in this together they're  all kind of going through the same challenges  

with you and they're there when you're kind of  having difficulties when you're going through  

different challenges we have for example our  fluency circle that's included with all of our  

courses and people find this immensely helpful to  kind of be going on this learning journey together  

all right so we've talked about making English  a fun natural and convenient part of your life  

we've talked about developing the habits that  will make it so you don't even really have to  

think about learning English and then finally  if you're wanting to go from that intermediate  

plateau where you feel like you're not learning  anything and breaking through to a more advanced  

level how important deliberate practice is so  the next step in the cycle is mastery it's to  

help you to actually reach that goal of English  fluency or whatever your goal is with your English  

and to be able to communicate confidently so the  first part of this is listening so most people I  

think when they talk about their English they talk  about wanting to be able to speak English better  

but really until you get to the point where  you're listening is really bulletproof it's  

really that you can understand natives at any  speed that when you get an interaction you feel  

comfortable being able to understand people it's  going to be really hard to be a great speaker now  

why is it so difficult to understand for most  of us what we learned in school isn't the way  

that natives actually speak in real life right  probably the first time that you actually heard  

natives we did things that you weren't expecting  at all we cut our words we link them together we  

morph different sounds into things that you're  not expecting at all and in fact if this is an  

issue that you have it's something that we look  at in all of our courses and you can actually  

join our free power learning week which is  really great to kind of learn some of these  

different things that natives do so that when you  encounter native speech you can actually expect  

how we're going to say things and understand so  if you want to learn more about that and sign up  

it's really simple just click up here or down the  description below and another really big issue  

that I see most English learning facing is that  you filter English through your native language  

now this is pretty natural because most of us  learn through methodologies that teach us through  

translation so kind of naturally in our head we've  built this habit of translating from our native  

language into English but the bad thing about  this is that when we read anything usually we  

expect it to be pronounced like it would be in our  native language when this is almost never the case  

so i've heard this called lexophilia now that's a  made-up word I didn't invent it but basically it  

means that you're depending on your eyes too much  so basically what you need to do instead to kind  

of break these habits that you got when you're  learning in school is to start to trust your  

ears more so it's listening a lot more instead  of reading it's depending less on the subtitles  

to kind of help you and stuff it's learning how  we actually pronounce things so you're not just  

depending on the subtitles and starting to expect  us to speak in one way that we don't speak at all  

now we'll get to reading and speaking in a  moment but another really important aspect of  

listening and I think also of speaking is  developing survival phrases now survival  

phrases basically are different phrases that  you'll have in your arsenal that you will have  

available to you that will help you to overcome  certain challenges when you get the opportunity  

to have a conversation with someone so these would  be saying things like sorry I didn't understand  

or can you say that again so instead of just  freezing up because you don't know what to say  

or because you didn't understand what the person  said or kind of just nodding up and down even  

though you have no idea what the person's saying  you'll have these kind of different phrases that  

you can depend on that you can ask that person to  go slower or to come to your level so that you'll  

feel more comfortable with the conversation  and you'll be able to participate more  

you'll be more of a communicator and one of  my biggest pet peeves one of the things I find  

most annoying is when learners start off the  conversation by saying sorry for my poor English  

or sorry for my mistakes now I really really want  you to never apologize for your English again  

the reason for this is because first off you're  kind of telling that person already that my  

English isn't good which that shouldn't kind of be  your intention from the start of the conversation  

let them make their own perception of how your  English is because when you're already telling  

them that then maybe they're going to think it's  worse than it actually is maybe they will even be  

communicating to you a much slower way that's  not going to really be doing you any favors  

and being able to take your skills to the next  level the other reason for this is that you've  

worked really hard to get your English to the  level where it is if you're understanding even  

part of what i'm saying right now then you've  put so much sweat and tears i'm sure into your  

English learning and you should be proud of that  you shouldn't be apologizing for that so put away  

your apologies and get your survival phrases we  actually did a recent podcast on this which i'll  

link in the description below if you want to learn  all about what those are and how to start using  

them but that brings us to the next part which is  speaking so that's probably one of your biggest  

goals right is improving your speaking now before  you can even really improve your speaking first  

we need to look at confidence because you know if  you are too shy or too scared to go up to someone  

and start that first conversation then you're  never going to be able to improve your speaking  

this comes from having vulnerability and courage  so vulnerability is being able to say to someone  

not sorry for my English but i'm still learning  and so I might need some of your help a little bit  

and the courage is basically being able to go  up to someone and just start that conversation  

courage is also learning the value of fears it's  seeing them as the stepping stones to get you to  

the fluency it's overcoming your fear of them and  actually seeing them as a tool to improve now we  

talked before about lowering the bar about making  baby steps so what are kind of the baby steps that  

you can take for speaking it's maybe not trying  to go out to a party and having a conversation  

with 50 people at once it's maybe just trying  to have one conversation with someone in your  

English class or with a friend that you know who  also speaks English now I recommend speaking with  

non-native speakers before native speakers because  this can really help to boost your confidence  

first of all other learners are going to be  more empathetic because they're going through  

the same thing as you and you probably won't be  as self-conscious about your mistakes and stuff  

because you won't be as worried about that person  judging you now if you consider yourself shy or  

you are an introvert then that's another thing  completely and I actually did a lesson all about  

that which will be in the description as well  but one of the really most important things is to  

start speaking from day one now if you're watching  this i'm sure that's not really possible for you  

anymore but the reason that I say that is because  when you start learning a language if already  

from the very first day that you are learning it  you start speaking it's really going to do wonders  

for your confidence you're not going to have all  this fear a lot of that fear kind of comes from  

the fact that when you were learning in school you  had very limited opportunities to speak and so you  

weren't able to build that confidence in using  the language but if you're not speaking already  

then you need to start practicing a lot now it's  not necessarily that you actually have to live in  

an English-speaking country to be able to do this  you can start practicing even by yourself if you  

don't have anyone else if you feel a little bit  weird practicing by yourself then speak to your  

dog speak to your kids speak to a friend speak to  yourself in the mirror even just start speaking  

and as a bonus you can start recording  yourself and listen back and correct  

some of your own mistakes you could also  try shadowing so to do this you would just  

listen to an audio in English by a native speaker  and you would actually repeat exactly what they're  

saying at the same time trying to say it the  same way that they are or just for example what  

one of my students used to do is that he had a  lot of traffic on his way to work so he would  

take advantage this time by beforehand looking  up different topics and discussing that with  

himself in the car on the way to work and really  his speaking got so great just by doing this  

now once you're actually practicing you're kind  of getting that confidence of being able to speak  

whether it's speaking with other people or  just practicing a lot speaking by yourself  

although at some point you are going to need  to speak with other people in order to improve  

uh the next part is actually ironing out the  mistakes that you're making now this comes back  

to deliberate practice even if it's just a few  minutes a day and what you're going to be focusing  

on especially here is having clear pronunciation  so for most of you out there it's not going to  

be necessary to actually speak like a native  although you can improve your connected speech  

and you can really work on the different aspects  of that if that is really important for you but  

it's going to be tremendously difficult but for  most of you clear pronunciation will be enough  

and it's absolutely necessary because people need  to be able to understand you and again I really  

think it's going to be near impossible for you  to achieve mastery in your speaking if you don't  

have a great teacher or coach who's helping you  along the way who's helping you to point out those  

errors and helping you to iron them out now hang  in there with me we're almost done that brings  

us to the next part which is reading and writing  now depending on your goals for it and your use of  

your English this isn't going to be so important  for everyone but if it is important for you then  

really it can be one of the best ways to improve  your vocabulary of course by reading you're able  

to encounter all sorts of words that people don't  actually tend to use so much in their day to day  

but reading a lot can actually really help you  to improve your writing because you're kind of  

experiencing different stylistics of the  language being used you're experiencing a certain  

vocabulary that's a lot more literary and you  know it's just kind of giving you more exposure  

to how things can be well written in English so a  great thing about reading is that it's really easy  

to make it a part of your life one thing that I do  is I read another language every day before bed so  

you know this is a really great way for me to  kind of be able to wind down to be able to relax  

in the evening and it's also just kind of a way  that i'm subconsciously improving my language  

skills so this can be really great because you're  kind of seeing the grammar and use for example  

and when you do this of course you can study it  more but even if you're just passively reading  

it's going to kind of get into your head and  again if you sign up for a test this is going  

to be really helpful to improve your writing  because usually there's some sort of writing  

aspect so you're going to have to focus on this  in order to be able to pass that exam and again  

having a teacher can be immensely helpful not  only to be able to improve your mistakes but  

also to help you kind of to be able to write  better to be able to say things in a nicer way  

and the final part I think this is like the most  important part of the entire process is actually  

using your English for a higher purpose it's  using it to kind of make that change in the world  

so I did a recent lesson on this so i'm not going  to really go into it too much you can watch that  

it's linked down below if you want to but the  thing about this is that it's really the highest  

level that you can get in your English learning is  actually paying it forward with your English it's  

being able to start seeing the planet as a whole  living organism that we all live on and having  

that realization that no matter what divides us  what unites us as human beings is so much stronger  

all right so do you want to know how successful  that you're going to be on your English learning  

journey what you have to do is count out how many  of the 10 that you're currently doing write that  

down in the comments below and also write what  is the first thing you're going to focus on in  

order to improve and of course subscribe because  we make videos every week to help you with each  

one of these 10. so first off do you have a  clear burning purpose for learning English  

do you have a plan of how you will accomplish your  goal and do you know what you're going to do when  

it gets really difficult do you have passion  and perseverance can you keep at it even when  

it gets really difficult do you make English  a part of your life and do you not even really  

have to think about it because you already have  created positive habits do you do deliver practice  

those hard exercises that you need to iron out the  imperfections and do you work on your listening  

consistently so that you can understand without  getting lost do you practice your speaking every  

day even if it's by yourself do you read English  instead of your native language whenever possible  

and finally are you using your English to  make a difference in the world remember to  

write your score down in the comments below and  now it's time to go beyond the classroom and  

live your English ah yeah and maybe like yourself  I am an introvert but learning languages over the  

last 12 years has helped me a ton in being able to  overcome the paralyzing shyness that I felt when  

I was younger so let me tell you that if you are  shy or you believe that maybe you're an introvert  

that this does not need to be a barrier to being  able to speak English fluently and confidently