How to Learn English For FREE

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Speak English With Vanessa


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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.
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Can you learn English for free?
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Let's talk about it.
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Today's video is a little heart to heart conversation between you and me.
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I get a lot of emails from English learners who tell me, "Vanessa, I'm so sorry that I
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can't buy your courses.
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I don't know what I'm going to do."
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A lot of these people, maybe you, come from countries that can't make online payments.
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Maybe you don't have access to international credit cards like Visa or some of these people
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tell me "I'm a student.
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I don't have any income right now."
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Or "I have three kids.
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I have to provide for my family.
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I just don't have enough time and money to be able to spend on English."
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I understand.
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As I mentioned earlier in this vocabulary quiz, I'm frugal.
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That means that I'm really careful about what I spend money on.
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And especially if your finances are tight, this means that you don't have much money,
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you need to be extra careful about what you spend money on.
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The question is, can you learn English without spending any money at all?
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Yep, totally, but there is a slight qualification.
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You need to be extremely motivated, organized, and willing to get outside your comfort zone.
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Let's imagine two different scenarios.
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Here, we have Chris.
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Chris is extremely motivated.
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He has three kids so he works hard all day and is saving up to pay for their education.
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He really needs to improve his English so that he can get a promotion.
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How can he do that for free?
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Then we have Anna.
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We're going to talk about Anna in just a moment.
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Number one, Chris needs to be motivated.
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I need to be motivated?
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Yes.
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He needs to be motivated.
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Even when he's had a really long day at work, he still needs to turn on an English podcast
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on his way home from work.
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Number two, Chris needs to be organized.
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I need to be organized?
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Yes, he needs to be organized.
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Because he doesn't have a teacher or a curriculum guiding him, he needs to create his own plan.
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Personally, I think this is one of the most challenging parts of learning English for
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free, but you can definitely do it.
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Chris needs to plan out his monthly goal.
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Maybe his goal is to learn 20 new vocabulary words and improve his accent.
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Well, how is he going to do that without a teacher giving him that material?
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He needs to go online, probably online, because there's the biggest resources there, and find
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some vocabulary lessons, maybe some YouTube videos and study those again and again so
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that he can really learn those 20 words.
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Then maybe he'll shadow some native speakers' pronunciation so that he can improve his accent.
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This takes organization.
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Number three, Chris needs to get outside his comfort zone.
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I have to get outside my comfort zone?
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Yes, maybe on Saturday there is a local pick up tennis game.
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Pick up means it's a spontaneous game amongst people who maybe they're friends but maybe
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they're strangers and there are some international people who go to this pick up tennis game
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every Saturday.
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Chris needs to get outside his comfort zone and take the courage to have a quick conversation
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with them, maybe some small talk before and after the game.
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This is his only chance to use English with someone else who doesn't speak his native
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language, so he needs to get outside his comfort zone and try those new things.
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Let's go on to our second scenario.
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Our second scenario is Anna.
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Anna decides not to go out to eat for a whole month and not to buy any clothes so that she
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can save every penny for an English class.
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I understand that not everyone can do this, but Anna believes that she can so she's going
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to give it a try.
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Anna decides to enroll in a local English class.
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On her first day in the class, she realizes, though, that the teacher just lectures the
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whole time and the other students aren't at her level.
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So she decides to drop out of the class and search online for something that will be a
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good fit for her.
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Then she finds my course, The Fearless Fluency Club.
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To succeed and improve her English, Anna needs the same qualities as Chris but it's a little
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bit different.
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Number one, she needs to be motivated.
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I need to be motivated?
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Yes, she needs to be motivated.
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She had to go online and try to find a course that was a good fit for her.
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But now that she has the course, she can just follow the material.
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Number two, Anna needs to be organized.
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I need to be organized?
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Yes, she needs to be organized.
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Remember Chris?
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He had to look all over the internet to find the lessons that he wanted and to create his
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own study plan.
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But Anna, she can just follow my recommended study guide with the new lessons that she
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receives every month.
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She needs to plan and organize her time so that she can study them but she doesn't need
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to spend time finding the material and organizing how to study it.
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Number three, Anna needs to get out of her comfort zone.
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I have to get out of my comfort zone?
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Yes, she has to get out of her comfort zone.
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She wants to improve her speaking so she needs to speak.
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But she doesn't have to really search too hard to find someone to speak with because
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members of The Fearless Fluency Club often speak to each other each week or sometimes
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daily and practice together.
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Anna still needs to get out of her comfort zone to talk with those people but she doesn't
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need to worry about finding someone to speak with.
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So in conclusion, do you think it's easier to learn for free like Chris or with a course
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like Anna?
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Well, it's a little bit easier with a course because you have a guide and a teacher to
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give you feedback, but Chris can still succeed.
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If you are Chris, you can still succeed.
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You need to be motivated, organized, and willing to get out of your comfort zone.
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In fact, Anna needs to do those things too.
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If you don't have money to pay for an English course, I hope that this video helped you
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to realize that you can be like Chris and you can improve your English.
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You're here on YouTube.
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Right?
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You're learning for free right now.
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So now I have a question for you.
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I want to know in the comments, have you ever paid for an English course like Anna?
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Or are you learning for free like Chris?
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Thanks so much for learning English with me and I'll see you and you and you next Friday
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for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel.
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Goodbye.
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The next step is to download my free e-book, Five Steps to Becoming a Confident English
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Speaker.
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You'll learn what you need to do to speak confidently and fluently.
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Don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel for more free lessons.
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Thanks so much.
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Bye.
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