9 DAILY PRACTICES TO ENHANCE YOUR ENGLISH FLUENCY

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Your desire is to speak English fluently, but sometimes it gets a bit frustrating
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because you don't know what to do.
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Well, this lesson is for you, my friend, because in this lesson, I'm going
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to teach you nine daily practices.
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That's right.
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Nine that you can start doing right now to improve your English fluency.
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Are you ready?
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Well, then I'm teacher Tiffani.
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Let's jump right in the first daily practice.
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And I want you to pay close attention is.
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Describe something in your home.
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You heard me, right?
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Describe something in your home.
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Literally look around your house, look around your apartment, wherever
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you live right now, and I want you to pick something in your home.
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Each day, this is a daily practice and you're going to
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try to describe that thing.
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You might choose a fan.
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You might choose your toothbrush, whatever you choose, your goal
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is to describe that thing.
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You can set a timer on your phone to see how long you can.
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Describe that thing.
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Now, the question you're probably asking is Tiffani, why is this
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such an important daily practice?
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Here's the very first reason why this is so important and
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you must do it on a daily basis.
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The first reason is this will enhance your vocabulary related to everyday objects.
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Think about it.
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As you start off, let's say you pick up your toothbrush and you want to describe
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it, but all of a sudden, only words from your native tongue, only words from
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your mother language are coming to mind.
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So you'll naturally go to your phone.
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You'll go to your computer, you'll go to your tablet or your dictionary.
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To try to find out the word in English.
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Again, this will enhance your vocabulary.
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Yes, it's a simple item, but in order to speak about it, you need
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to use various vocabulary words.
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Here's the second reason why this is such an important daily practice.
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This will boost your confidence in speaking about familiar topics.
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I have worked with people.
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Thousands upon thousands of English learners.
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And many times the issue is confidence.
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The person feels like, ah, I'm not good enough, or the person
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feels like I don't know enough.
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Well, when you do this on a daily basis, as you walk around your home,
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you'll realize, oh, I can describe that.
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Oh, I can talk about that.
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And all of a sudden your shoulders would go back a bit.
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You'll start smiling a bit because you'll realize your English fluency is improving.
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And the third reason why this is so important is it improves your ability
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to describe details and specifics.
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You're giving details about objects that seem so simple.
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But English fluency is all about being able to express yourself about
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simple things and complex things.
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So the first daily practice is once again, describe something in your home.
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Now, these daily practices are going to be simple, simple to implement, but
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whoo, baby, they are powerful and they will affect your English fluency so much.
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So let's move on now to the second daily practice.
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Here's the second daily practice.
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Describe.
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Someone, you know, that's right.
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Are you noticing that we're using things that are related to you, things in your
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home, people, you know, again, the second daily practice is describe someone, you
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know, I want you to think about your favorite person in the world, your best
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friend, your mom, your dad, your sibling, whoever that might be your spouse.
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Describe that person, talk about them.
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Maybe it's your children, whoever you want to describe.
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This is a daily practice today.
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My mom tomorrow, my boyfriend.
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The next day, my dad continuing on each day, describing a different person.
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Now, why is this daily practice so important and so powerful?
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Here we go.
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I want us to look at the reasons why this is so powerful.
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The first reason is this, it develops your vocabulary and phrases
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related to people and relationships.
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I've said it before.
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And I'll say it again, English fluency is all about your ability to express yourself
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about simple things and complex things.
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So when you try to describe your family member or your friend,
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all of a sudden, all these ideas come into your mind, right?
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Because you enjoy.
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Spending time with that individual that you're describing on that day.
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But now you want to figure out, wait a minute, how do I describe
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how this person makes me feel?
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That will inevitably lead you to learning new vocabulary and new phrases.
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What about this second reason right here, it encourages you to use
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descriptive language and adjectives.
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Remember, we are trying to help you, my friend speak English more fluently.
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So when you spend time trying to describe someone, you know, you'll
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figure out new ways of describing them.
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You'll figure out how to use all this English that you have in
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your database To describe this individual again, a daily practice.
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And what about this reason right here?
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It helps you practice sentence structure and grammar.
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You're probably saying Tiff.
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I thought you didn't talk about grammar.
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Oh, my friend.
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Listen, I don't teach you grammar in a direct way.
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However, I can give you methods and tips and tricks and techniques that
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will help your grammar improve.
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Just like this one.
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So again, the second daily practice describing someone, you know, it
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actually will help you practice sentence structure and grammar.
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Your desire is to really put into words, how this person makes you feel the
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time that you spend with them again.
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The second daily practice is describe someone, you know, listen, I know that
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there are times when you feel alone, you feel like it's hard to improve your
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English fluency because you don't live in an English speaking country, or you
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don't have English speaking friends.
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The list goes on these daily practices, even if you're not surrounded by people
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who speak English will still help you.
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So daily practice number two, describe someone, you know, here
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is the third daily practice.
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I want you to tell a story about something that happened the day before.
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Very important.
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Something that happened the day before.
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Now, you know, at the end of every lesson, or maybe you don't.
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If it's your first time here at the end of every lesson, I
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tell a story for story time.
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Hey, I said, it's story time.
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So at the end of every lesson, I tell you a story, right?
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You get to know me more.
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You get to understand my life a bit more.
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I want you to start doing this on a daily basis.
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Basis, man, this is going to improve your English fluency so much.
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So here's again, tell a story about something that happened the day before.
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And why is it so important for you to tell a story about something
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that happened the day before?
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Because it's something that you experienced.
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It's still in your mind.
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You're not making up a story.
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It allows you to review your day, the day before, right?
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And remember those.
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Things that happened, this is going to really transform your English fluency.
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Here are the three main reasons why this is so important.
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The first reason is it strengthens your narrative skills and past tense usage.
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Again, The grammar piece is coming in, right?
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This will help you improve your grammar.
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Speaking about the past tense and also your narrative skills.
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In other words, helping you learn how to tell a story.
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I remember very clearly being in South Korea and I had many students
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and I had students that were in the intermediate and also the advanced level.
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Extremely intelligent.
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They understood English.
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They knew lots of words and lots of phrases, but sometimes when
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I would ask them a question.
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I would require them to tell me a story and they would stop.
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They didn't know how to put things together to make a story.
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Now I taught them over time how to do this, but this is why this
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daily practice is so important.
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You have to work on your narrative skills.
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English fluency is all about explaining simple things and complex things.
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But in an interesting way, that's the key telling stories.
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That's why you enjoy the story time so much, right?
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Your brain kind of gets in the moment, right?
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And you're actually seeing what the person is talking about.
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You need to develop.
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This skill.
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The second reason why this daily practice is so important is it
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encourages you to recall memories and structure your storytelling, man.
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I love when my students that are in my academy, the Speak English
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with Tiffani Academy, they.
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Start telling stories.
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I can see the light in their eyes.
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I can see those listening.
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My other students listening to their stories and they're fully engaged.
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This is what English fluency is all about explaining simple things.
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And complex things in an interesting way.
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Here's the third reason why this is so important.
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It enhances your ability to connect events and details coherently.
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Many times as an English learner, you learn words, you learn expressions,
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you learn phrases, but you're not necessarily sure how to connect the dots.
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Or how to use them in certain conversations.
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Doing this, this daily practice of telling a story about something that
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happened the day before my friend is going to enhance your English
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fluency and help you connect events.
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Here is daily practice.
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Number four, find a news article or a blog post or social media post and
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give your opinion about the topic.
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We're living in an age where technology can be found everywhere.
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You have a cell phone, you have a tablet, you have a computer, you
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have so many different tech devices.
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Things that you can use, go online, find an article, find a blog,
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find a social media post, and give your opinion on the topic.
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You can give your opinion by speaking to someone else.
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You can look in the mirror and talk to yourself.
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You can record a video of yourself giving your opinion,
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or you can just write it down.
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But it's important for you to find a news article.
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Blog posts or social media posts and give your opinion.
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Remember English fluency.
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Say it with me is all about explaining or giving your opinion on.
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Simple things, good job, and complex things in an interesting way.
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So three reasons why this is so important.
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Here we go.
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The first reason is it expands your vocabulary.
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And listen closely, understanding of current events.
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This is so important.
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You want to get in conversations, right?
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And you want to speak with confidence.
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So you have to be aware of what's going on when you're online.
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You see, maybe there's something in politics.
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Maybe there's something in sports right now, when this video is
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going live, uh, the Olympics, I think is still going on, right?
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You want to have.
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A good understanding of what's happening and you want to make sure you're
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giving your opinion on these events.
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English fluency reason number two, this encourages you to think
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critically and to form opinions.
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My goal as your English teacher is to help you learn how to think in
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English, how to organize your thoughts, how to formulate your opinions.
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This practice of finding an article, a post or a social media post and giving
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your opinion will develop this skill.
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And.
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Enhance your English fluency.
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Here's reason number three, this improves your skills in articulating
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your thoughts and arguments.
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How frustrating is it when you have an idea, you have an opinion, but
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because of your English fluency, you're not able to get it out.
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It's frustrating, right?
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I've watched students trying to get out their ideas.
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I could tell by looking in their eyes that they had an opinion, but for some reason,
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they weren't able to formulate their idea.
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They weren't able to put it into words doing this on a daily basis.
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My friend is going to truly improve your English fluency.
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Here's daily practice.
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Number five, write a journal entry.
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Listen closely.
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About your day, you see behind me, if you're watching this, I have
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tons of journals, and if you've been following me for a long time, you
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know that I always say I write a lot.
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I write out my ideas.
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I write out my plans because there's something that happens
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when you put things on paper.
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So each day, I want you to write a journal entry about your day.
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It doesn't have to be long.
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You can spend maybe two minutes, right?
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The highlights of your day, right?
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It doesn't have to be long in the beginning, but as time goes
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on, you'll begin to write longer.
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And you might be asking Tiff, my goal is to speak English fluently.
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Why am I writing?
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Because remember in order to speak English fluently, you have to think first.
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So as you're writing, you're organizing your thoughts.
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Woo.
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I love this.
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You're organizing your thoughts, which means when you go to speak to
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somebody the next day and they say, Hey, how was your day yesterday?
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Your brain is like, oh, we got this covered.
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We already organized our thoughts and wrote it down.
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And you'll start saying exactly how your day was.
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Why?
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Because of this daily practice.
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Here are three other reasons why this is so important.
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The very first reason is it reinforces your writing skills
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and your sentence structure.
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Your goal is to speak English fluently with confidence, right?
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You want to speak in a good way.
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This will help you improve your writing skills, of course, and
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improve your sentence structure.
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Reason number two, it encourages you to reflect on your
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experiences and express yourself.
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I don't want you to see English as just a subject, right?
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Just something you're learning.
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I want you to experience English.
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I want you to feel like English is a tool in your toolkit.
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And you can use it whenever you want in a way that makes you proud of yourself.
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So again, it's daily practice writing in a journal encourages you to think
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about your life, your experiences, and how you can speak about them in English.
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Here is reason number three, it provides a record of your
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progress and areas for improvement.
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This is something that That I want you to pay close attention to as
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you're on this journey, right?
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There are going to be some hiccups, some mistakes you make, but if
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you can recognize your mistakes, you'll be able to correct them.
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So writing in your journal each and every day will give you the opportunity to see
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ah, This is something I'm struggling with.
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Let me work on this more.
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Ah, I made this mistake yesterday.
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Let me fix this.
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So this is a very important daily practice.
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Again, write a journal entry about your day.
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Now, before we go to.
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Number six, daily practice.
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I want to remind you that in the app English with Tiffani, I have
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an app and in this app, each and every week, you can practice, you
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can review what I am teaching you.
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So go to the link in the description or go to your.
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Google play store or apple store and go to English with Tiffani, the app.
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And each week you will find a lesson that goes along with what I'm teaching
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you so that you can practice and remember what I am teaching you.
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All right, now let's move on to daily practice.
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Number six, number six is watch a 10 minute video about
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a topic that interests you.
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Now we are all familiar with YouTube because if you're watching this
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video, You're on YouTube, right?
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So find a 10 minute video.
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Now I want you to pay close attention.
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This video does not need to be about English.
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One more time.
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This video does not need to be about English.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Instead.
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I want it to be about a topic that interests you and
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it happens to be delivered.
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In English, for example, I like cycling.
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I love cooking, et cetera.
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So when I was in South Korea, I would watch cooking programs
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where they were speaking Korean.
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It wasn't about the Korean language.
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It was about my interest.
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And they were speaking Korean.
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You need to find a video, a 10 minute video about whatever topic
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that interests you, but make sure they are native English speakers.
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Why is this such an important daily practice?
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Here's the first reason why this is so important.
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It enhances your listening skills and comprehension.
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Never forget that your English fluency is not just about what you're saying.
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It's about how you're processing information, how you're organizing your
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thoughts and formulating your ideas.
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Think about a child.
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A child doesn't speak as soon as it comes out the womb, it's constantly listening.
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It's constantly trying to comprehend.
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And then all of a sudden, one day, dada, one day, mama, these
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things happen after the child has been listening and comprehending.
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The same is true for you.
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If your goal is to speak English fluently, you must first master this.
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Watch a 10 minute video, and this will help your listening
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skills and comprehension.
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Reason number two, it introduces you to new vocabulary and expressions.
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I mentioned earlier that I love to cook, right?
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And I would watch Korean cooking programs.
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Because I love to cook, whenever they would mention a step that I was familiar
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with, and I knew the words for in English, I would all of a sudden, Oh, perk up.
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Wait a minute.
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Uh, this is how you describe this step in Korean.
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I was learning new words, learning new expressions, learning new
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phrases in a natural environment.
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This is what we want you to do a daily practice.
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Here we go.
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And reason number three.
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This keeps your learning engaging and relevant to your interests.
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One of my goals as your English teacher is to truly help you fall in love
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with English, to take the stress away, to remove the frustration, to remove
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the difficulties that you've been experiencing on your English journey.
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I want you to enjoy.
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Learning English.
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So when you watch a video about something you're interested in, it won't be boring.
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Why?
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Because you are interested in the topic.
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Let's move on.
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Daily practice number seven.
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Number seven is another good one.
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Repeat.
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Five sentences from the video you watched.
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I'll say it again.
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Repeat five sentences from the video you watched.
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So you found the YouTube video, you watched it, right?
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Then you're going to go back, watch it again.
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As you're watching it, when you hear a sentence that interests you, pause it.
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Write that sentence down or repeat immediately after the person.
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Again, you want to repeat five sentences from the video you watched.
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Why is this such an important daily practice?
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Here is the first reason.
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Reason number one, it improves your pronunciation and intonation.
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When I was living in South Korea, many times, honestly, almost
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every time when I would speak, if the person couldn't see my face.
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If I was on the phone or maybe I was sitting behind them,
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they thought I was Korean.
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Why?
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Because of my pronunciation and my intonation.
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How did I master these two things?
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By watching videos of Koreans speaking about topics I was interested in.
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Listen, I know what you're going through.
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I went through the same thing when I was learning Korean and my goal is
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to help you overcome this challenge.
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So reason number one, it improves your pronunciation and your intonation.
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Reason number two, it reinforces new vocabulary.
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And sentence structures.
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Why?
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Because you're saying it, you're repeating the sentence.
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So your brain says, okay, I guess this is going into our database.
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Reason number three, it enhances your memory and recall through repetition.
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This is again, going to help you improve your English fluency.
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Let's move on now to daily practice.
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Number eight daily practice.
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Number eight is learn one new English vocabulary word, just one.
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Figure out an English vocabulary word that you want to master and learn that word.
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You might ask Tiff, why just one word?
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Here we go.
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Reason number one, it expands your vocabulary incrementally, right?
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It uses this method of, Hey, let's be consistent.
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It's okay.
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It's not too much one word a day.
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You can master that word and you'll continue doing it.
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Reason number two, it encourages you to develop the habit of continuous learning.
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Not overwhelming, easy to be consistent because it's one vocabulary word.
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And reason number three, it provides you with a sense of achievement and progress.
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Wow.
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This month I have learned 30 new English vocabulary words that I can
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actually use to express myself because remember English fluency is all about.
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Expressing, expressing, expressing simple things and complex
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things in an interesting way.
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This is why this daily practice is so important.
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Daily practice number nine, write down something that you are proud
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of related to your English journey.
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I'm going to say this one more time, write down something that you are proud
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of related to your English journey.
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And I want you to stay till the end, because I'm going to tell us,
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tell you a story that is related to this daily practice, something that
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I experienced as well, why is it so important for you to write down
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something that you are proud of?
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I want us to look at reason number one.
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This boosts your motivation and your self confidence.
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I want you to pay attention.
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Learning English is not easy.
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It is a challenge.
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It is difficult.
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And sometimes I know it can be frustrating and you get down on yourself.
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If you make a mistake, when you're speaking to someone, if you can't
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remember a word, if someone else speaks better than you, all of a sudden you
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might feel discouraged, but when you remember how far you've come, how many
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new words you've learned, how many new expressions, how many new idioms, how
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much you have learned, you'll feel.
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More motivated, you'll feel more confident.
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You'll realize that nothing is impossible for you.
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So it's important to every day, write down something you're proud of.
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Why I learned a new word today, man, I said, hi.
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And I had a short conversation with a native English speaker today.
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I practiced with my friend today, write down something you are proud
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of, related to your English journey.
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Reason number two.
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It encourages you to reflect positively on your progress.
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And again, I'm saying this because I totally understand.
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It's so easy to feel, uh, discouraged.
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It's so easy to kind of have this negative voice in your head when you've
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been studying a language for so long and you don't seem to be making progress.
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It's very easy to feel discouraged.
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I don't want you to go through that anymore.
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Write down something you're proud of.
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Each and every day.
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And reason number three, it helps you set and achieve personal learning goals.
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Your goal is to speak English fluently, and you have to track your progress,
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track your journey, and I guarantee my friend, I guarantee as you follow these
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daily practices, you can do all nine or you can choose which ones you like.
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You will improve your English fluency.
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I'll talk to you in the next lesson.
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You still there?
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You know what time it is.
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It's story time.
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Hey, I said, it's story time.
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All right.
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The last daily practice that I mentioned was to write something that you are proud
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of in relation to your English journey.
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And as I was explaining that practice to you, I thought about my journey
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with Korean and also my journey with getting a master's degree
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in Korea in Oriental painting.
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I've mentioned before that.
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It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do learning Korean, getting
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a degree, going to graduate school in Korea and everything being in
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Korean, passing my degree, passing my uh, master's degree test.
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Hardest thing I've ever had to do during the process.
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Right before I took my exam, it took me three tries to pass.
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Again, I understand your struggles.
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I understand your frustration.
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It's not easy to fail.
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It's not easy to not make the progress you'd like to.
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But I remember, and I was reflecting on right before I took my exam the
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third time, I had to actually come back to America and spend six months
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day and late into the evening, Just studying every day, except Saturdays.
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I would go to church on Saturdays and I spend it with my family
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and God outside of that time.
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I was studying, man, it was hard.
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It was hard.
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And I had this notebook.
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It's kind of like a sketchbook white paper inside of it.
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And I'm an artist.
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So I would use that sketchbook as I was studying.
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If I was studying about a war, I would write notes, of course, in
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Korean, and then I would draw out.
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What I was actually studying and this notebook was filled with
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pictures with texts, trying to figure out how I could pass this test.
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So I was using this method, fast forward, I passed the test.
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God is good.
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I was so excited and I was, you know, cleaning things up and I was
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packing boxes and this is, whew, maybe a few years after, and I held
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the notebook in my hands, my cell phone, but imagine it's a notebook.
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I held it in my hand because I was trying to purge and, you
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know, clean up and everything.
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And I was about to throw it away because I passed the test, but I looked at it
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and I said, I'm never throwing this away because this is proof that I worked hard.
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This is proof that I made the progress.
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I wanted to, this is proof that hard work pays off many times.
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We need to see the proof of our past achievements.
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We need to see how far we've come because it's so easy as human beings to forget.
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And I still have that notebook.
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It's actually in a box in a closet in my home, and I'll never throw it out
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because it's a reminder that when you put your mind to something, you can
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achieve whatever you want to achieve.
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So I want to encourage you.
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I really want to encourage you.
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I understand.
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I know that it's not easy to study English.
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I know that there are times when you feel down.
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I know that there are times when you feel discouraged, but trust me, trust me.
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You can and will achieve your English goals.
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I hope this lesson helped you and I'll talk to you next time.
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