🔴LIVE: How to speak English confidently even if you STILL make mistakes + Q&A

hey guys what's up Stefanie the English coach here live on YouTube the very

first time so this is a new experience for me I am not sure what to expect I

hope this works just like Facebook live because I'm used to Facebook live I'm

comfortable with Facebook live this is like new territory you guys and anytime

you're in new territory it's so scary right? but that's good actually that's

okay because today in this video we are going to be talking about confidence

okay? and speaking English confidently even if you still make mistakes so let's

just make sure that this video is gonna work oh I have my first comment awesome

hi Mohammed this is great you guys I'm glad that the comments are showing up

unfortunately I'm having this thing flash at the top of my screen that says

very bad connection so I'm sorry do you guys hear me okay

hey Marcos what is up? good to see you here do you guys hear me okay? hi Sidra

oh my gosh look at you guys normally we're all on Facebook together now we're

on YouTube let's see if this works it still says very bad connection oh well

you know what I'm just gonna make this video we will make the most of it I

would love to see your commentary your comments and everything you know as I'm

making the video okay? and then please do me a favor and tell me in the comments

what kinds of videos you'd like me to make that are live videos because you

guys all know that I could talk for days about fluency and confidence and all

kinds of stuff right like the basics but there's so many other things we could

talk about I mean I could do like I hadn't thought of this before

I really hadn't thought of this you guys told me a year ago like Stefanie you

should get on you it took me so long to come here imagine

if I have been doing all of my you know live videos here I could have organized

them into classes and done all kinds of things and I think I can even share my

screen when I use my computer right now I'm just using my phone but normally I

can like share my screen on my computer so I can make slides I can make it like

actual classes I'm so excited so okay so I guess you guys can hear me well

because I have a mic on and you're interacting with me nobody said we can't

hear you so I'm assuming you can hear me okay good

because like I said this is the first video I'm making and I'm like nervous

that it's something's gonna go wrong but that's how life is right something

always goes wrong especially when it's the first time that

you're doing something cool so I see some people are in Brazil some people

are in Germany where else are you guys watching from this is so fun

okay so let me ask you guys a question when you're speaking English do you feel

confident? okay do you just open your mouth and speak you know even if your

sentences don't really come together well okay so to hear says I'm really

struggling in pronunciation and accent okay so that's something we could

definitely talk about Marcos says culture news and so on yeah hey we could talk

about that you know I'm thinking of you know really venturing out and talking

more about just life things because those discussions I think are fun and

they can really help you guys with you know learning new vocabulary and just

interacting in English so Marcos says I don't feel shy okay good so Marco what

about when you're in like a high stress situation like when you're giving you

know leading a meeting at work or when you are you know interviewing for a

position or something like that you know not just casual conversation but when

there's something at risk or at stake you know something you could lose so

Murph says I don't feel confident okay so the thing is oh and Kat says I don't

have issues with talking to someone in English but when it comes to specific

vocabulary then it gets scary well that's called jargon Kat and you

know what if you don't know specific jargon you know in English for something

specific then you don't know it like don't freak out for example if I go into

my dad's garage I don't know what half the things in there are called because

it has to do with like mechanics and stuff like that sorry guys I keep

looking there and there and there like there's comments flying around I

apologize so anyways yeah like I don't know all kinds of vocabulary about

everything either so if I don't know what something is called I just say that

thing or what's that or something like that so you know don't let that rob your

confidence okay cool so speaking confidently anytime that there you know

there's a few things that go on here right? some people it's just like they're

born with confidence you know you they just don't struggle with confidence they

can just speak say they're mind or whatever and then there's other people

who measure their words a lot more they really think before they speak and maybe

they think too much maybe they overthink things and they

don't you know say something even though they have a really good point to make

okay because they lack confidence now some people some of you even you're

probably maybe very confident when you speak your native language but then when

you speak in English all of a sudden you clam up and you're just like oh my gosh

like they're gonna hear my accent they're gonna hear my bad pronunciation

they're gonna hear me make a mistake yes Nishan over thinking totally kills

it so you guys have to understand that everybody struggles with a lack of

confidence in one way or another you know for you guys maybe it's with

English for other people it could be with you know public speaking in general

or who knows what maybe you know guy is like they lack confidence when they're

dating girls and they just are like I don't

know if I'm doing this right or saying the right thing or girls too if they're

dating guys maybe they're like oh my gosh what should I say what should I do

what is he expecting you know it can be really a frustrating thing but what we

have to realize about confidence is that usually it's all in our head

right? so if you don't speak English English confidently okay it's because

you probably have some kind of fear right? and your fear might be rational or

irrational you know like if you speak poorly at a job interview you might not

get the job that is a reality so you have that fear okay but if you're just

worried about you know strangers judging you 24/7 over your communication skills

and that's a little bit of an irrational fear because the truth is while you're

worried about what other people think of you other people are worried about what

you think of them right it's crazy how this works but you just have to remember

that so when you're sitting there you know talking to somebody in English and

you're just like is you know am i messing up what are they thinking of me

the person you're talking to is probably going oh my gosh do I look fat in these

clothes am I too tall am I too short so yeah Marcos says the only important

thing is that who listened to me would understand what I tell yes and that

should be our goal that is the goal of communication it should be about people

understanding you and you making your point clear I have seen people speak

English very badly with absolute confidence because they're just like I

don't care I'm learning I'm you know I just I don't care you know they don't

care that's the secret to speaking confidently you have to not care what

other people think about you or about your English you just have to speak it

when we when we lack confidence it's because we are overthinking everything

we're thinking too much about what other people think of us so yeah anyways I'm

just like rambling on and on about this idea it feels different doing a video on

YouTube then on Facebook I don't really know why

because maybe I'm just so much more comfortable with it on Facebook or maybe

because on my Facebook videos there's usually a lot more interaction so I just

jump in whenever I can with the comments but um another thing I wanted to say is

that improving your your confidence right like there's two parts there's the

practice part and then there is the just psychological component of confidence

right? sometimes you just have to tell yourself that everything is going to be

okay and I know that sounds like really generic advice but again you have to

analyze the thoughts that are going through your head are you having

rational fears or irrational fears what can you do about those fears and then

practice when you're good at something you feel confident like when you get

down to tie your shoes you're so confident when you tie your shoes that

you don't even think about tying your shoes because you're like yeah I tie my

shoes when you know you don't even think twice that's how you want it to be when

you speak English but in order to get to that level of course you have to make

sure that you're consistently practicing so let me ask you this what are you guys

doing to consistently practice your English with others okay active practice

active practice not oh hang on sorry I was trying to fix something there

active practice not passive okay so someone was asking for my Skype ID no

you guys come on there's so many of you there's one of me anyways so yeah what

are you guys doing to actively practice your English with other people now in

case you don't know or don't realize right here on this channel there's James

with the Deadpool accent awesome hi James

right here on this channel you know we have almost 3k people 3,000 people at

this point who are actively trying to improve their English you could easily

find a partner here just read the comments and then find somebody who

writes a decent comment you know and write something really nice and

thoughtful and then go hey you know that was really thoughtful comment and

then make a comment in return something equally as thoughtful and then say maybe

we could practice together what do you think okay because if you just go and

say hey want to practice with me you're not gonna find a good practice partner

mm-hmm Nishan says if I get to that level my

friends won't understand me and they'll treat me like an alien okay Nishan I'm

glad you brought that up okay because we're gonna talk about that

you guys if I miss your comments you can put it again it's hard to keep up with

all of them so I apologize but anyhow it's true friends put a lot of pressure

on you and I talked about this in another video - I'll have to link it up

here later but friends put a lot of pressure on you sometimes like you can't

win with them you know if you speak poorly in English they make fun of you

but if you sound just like a native speaker they go oh who do you think you

are who you're trying to sound like a native speaker you think you're better

than us right and honestly if those are the kinds of friends that you have maybe

you need to consider getting new friends I mean maybe that's kind of harsh but I

am kind of like an all-or-nothing kind of girl like I would not appreciate my

friends doing that now I know that I think that tends to happen more in

circles of men and guys but I haven't seen it happen too much with women and

girls but if I had friends that were putting me down and making fun of a goal

that I was trying to reach I wouldn't put up with that I'd be like I'd give

them the middle finger and I'd say peace out so ya know but you have to choose

your friends wisely you have to surround yourself with people that are like you

know have the same ambition and stuff that you do anyhow guys I'm gonna like

turn this next part into a Q&A because I decided that it's too hard to stay on

topic you guys are bringing up some really great points and stuff so if you

guys have questions let me just turn this into a Q&A and we can just talk

about some random random stuff so Elver says I

realize that actors speak excellently fluently because they practice over and

over again the same lines yes but in their real life ah where's that comment

but in their real life they also struggle sometimes remembering

vocabulary and hesitate yes all over a great point so exactly you guys when

you're trying to learn with like a TV show or something those actors practice

those lines hundreds of times that's why they say it the way they do this video

if you watch it and compare it to my other youtube videos it's gonna be

really different I'm gonna say you know a lot more because that's a filler word

that I use I shouldn't but I do and my husband when he edits my videos

he always has to say oh my gosh she said you know like 50 times in this video and

he has to edit that and take it out so regular speech you guys is different I'm

speaking spontaneously right now I'm being repetitive I'm using fillers I'm

pausing to think about what I'm gonna say it's not you know the same thing as

giving a speech that you've prepared for or doing lines and acting and something

that you've prepared for so you have to know that and you have to know that you

know when you mess up with your English you have permission to do that Kat yes I

have a husband and I mentioned that in many times in other videos but maybe

you're new here so that's okay Merve says the difference between them

is easy it depends where you live for instance one of them is used in the USA

one of them is used in British I don't know if you're responding to someone

else there Murph because I wasn't talking about that and then at least the

most like I don't know I'm confused have you ever been to India?

Nishan no I haven't but it is on my list of places to go actually I mean I

want to go everywhere you guys but yeah I have so many places I want to go I

have here I'll tell you where I have been okay I have been what I was I'm

from California born and raised there my first international trip was to Mexico

and

it says like very bad connection again hopefully this is hopefully this is

working and all the comments went away anyways um hopefully hopefully this is

working so anyways my first international trip was to Mexico and

then I went to Argentina I lived there for four years and then I traveled

abroad to the UK Ireland Switzerland Denmark and Italy no I haven't been to

Turkey yet Merve I want to go there though I want to go there definitely

Marcos says I've been at home same I think you meant that you've only ever

been in your country right? Brazil so in English we would say I've never been out

of the country or out of my country do you speak French? no not at all Oh Marcos

they're speaking talking about the difference between cookies and biscuits

yeah you guys there's so many different words when I was in the UK and Ireland I

was like I don't understand what these people are saying so

Elver it says I don't like to lose completely my accent because I guess oh

hang on because I guess sounds exotic like when Gringos speak my language

Spanish but I want to speak excellent good yeah uh-huh I think that's really

great because you know some people they want to sound exactly like a native

speaker and I think that's a good goal to but a lot of times it's because

they're trying to hide their own accent and I say you know why are you trying to

hide your accent you should be proud of where you're from be proud that you

learned English don't try to cover your accent let it be let it exist you know

but at the same time you know you want to make sure you're speaking clearly

some people have such strong accents it's like you can't understand what

they're saying okay Yazdan have you been to Brazil? not yet

I really want to go to Brazil it's been on my like to do

for years and I was in Argentina for four years so I was so close I could

have gone but it just never worked out so okay I'm gonna reply to Ronnie

Ronnie's in North Korea it's kind of hard to find a practice here Ronnie

watched the video that I did on how to practice with native speakers okay I

made a video about that you can use the same strategies there to practice with

non-native speakers okay use the internet it does not matter where you

live as long as you have the internet you can practice and I will link a guide

in the description later I made a guide on how to find practice partners okay

it's on my website EnglishFullTime.com Erin says I saw your interview with

that person her name is Hadar and who was not a native speaker of English but

now she speaks like a native and is an accent coach yeah she's awesome you guys

should definitely subscribe to her Channel

okay my name is Stefanie Stefanie and here's something for you guys to keep in

mind you Spanish speakers it's not a Estefani that's like Spanish okay but

it's in English you have to take off the E at the beginning and just say

Stefanie okay Kat says people say my voice change when I speak English

Spanish or Portuguese it's because I really try to imitate the tone they say

the same thing about me Kat when I speak Spanish people go whoa you sound

different in Spanish Rashad says hi coach I don't care about how my accent I

just want to be sure that I am not repeating many silly mistakes in the

same talk or conversation yes and Rashad you will improve with practice my friend

lots and lots of practice are you practicing? have you been practicing?

Marcos corruption the world is full of corruption oh my gosh don't get me

started

yeah Rashad you are working with a great coach and you need to schedule

some more sessions with me okay um hi Ronald from Venezuela but living

in Brazil Ronald so you speak Spanish and did you learn Portuguese to speak

Spanish with us okay I will but somebody has to volunteer by asking me a question

in Spanish and then I'll start speaking Spanish okay so asking me a question in

Spanish and then I'll reply it and you guys will see the Spanish speakers will

see that I still make some mistakes but it doesn't matter it's about confidence

it's about speaking confidently so Ron okay cool your second language is

Portuguese I think that should be "how many years, how many years have you

been married? It's been four years, I've been married for four years. Where are you from?

I'm from California" mm-hmm good keep the keep the questions coming this is it's a

lot funner than funner is such a bad... you're not supposed to say fun are you

guys I'm an English coach anyways it's a lot more fun let me see um

"how long have you been teaching English? uh many years, I started in 2014

I believe, but before that I was teaching Spanish

and I was also teaching math, so it's been like almost

ten years that I teach, that I'm a teacher. But now I'm not

calling myself a teacher, I say I'm a Coach, because a teacher teaches the basics and advanced. I help

people use English in their lives, improve their career, do many

things like that. No I don't have children. What do you think about Trump? No comments

about him, otherwise a war is going to start here in my channel and..." No, I'm not like

for him or against him I'm just like oh this isn't happening

but it is it's what? 2017 "Which one is difficult to you, English or Spanish?"

wow, we have a lot of Spanish speakers on this sorry to everybody who's not a Spanish

speaker hopefully you're enjoying me watching .. speaking another language

"Spanish definitely is more difficult for me because is not my mother tongue

I started studying English when I was 14" I know, sorry

Sidra she's like it's turning into Spanish class well I keep telling people

I owe you guys is a video in Spanish and I really do. "yes my Spanish is very

similar to the Argentine one because I lived four years there. Tu espanol es"

flawless Thank You Rafael "really, you even have an Argentine accent" yeah

"well, because my husband is Argentine and I lived there

and besides, for the record, my family, is Argentine, but they didn't teach me

Spanish, that's why I had to learn it. I'm 26, but

in my mind I'm 27, I don't know why but I'm my mind it's like if I already was 27"

mm-hmm sorry Nishan he's like yeah there's so many Spanish

speakers you guys what do you think about me starting a channel in Spanish

for I don't know what I'm just kidding I was thinking about that the other day I

was like that would be a really great way for me to practice my Spanish

because I'm lazy you guys my husband speaks English and Spanish I speak

English and Spanish but I get really lazy and we just end up speaking English

all the time so I was thinking if I make a youtube channel in Spanish that will

force me to keep making it better so that's a tip for you guys if you want to

really really really improve your English start a project in English I

don't care if it's an Instagram account uh I can't talk Instagram account or a

Facebook page or YouTube channel and don't make it Oh learn

English you know that's too easy do something about your passion in ...

I can't talk do something about your passion but do it in English so if you

start a YouTube channel in English make it about diet and nutrition and exercise

if that's what you're into or who knows whatever okay

so that's just a quick idea for you guys

mm-hmm "It would be good if you made a video with the different accents

from the US" I mean yeah but you guys there are people that have already made

those videos like with different accents from the US and they're like actors so

their accents are gonna be better than mine life in English I stand up for the

rights of lazy people I'm a lazy a proud lazy dude no not really

you're funny dude have I traveled overseas to teach

English? I'm in Italy right now and I teach why don't teach English you guys

I'm a coach there's a difference and yeah I am I teach online

I run online programs so that I but it's not like going overseas to teach in the

traditional sense because I'm an entrepreneur and I wanted to start my

own business

yes Juan you can be a youtuber "which player do you like better, Neymar or Cavani?"

you know what I don't I don't follow any soccer the only reason I know those

dudes is cuz I've heard my husband say Neymar but I don't even know what his

face looks like so sorry to disappoint you guys

I just know "that I'm a Boca fan" cuz he is and so I have to be oh my goodness

okay English is very hard to learn for me so here's why it's hard for you

Ronald because right now you've probably been

learning in a traditional sense okay I should do

these videos more often this is fun right? okay wait you've probably been

learning English in a traditional sense and traditional classes are boring

very very very boring okay and so if you really want to improve your English you

have to do it in a different way uh-huh sorry there's so many comments

you guys I'm missing some of them I will go back and I can reply to some of these

later okay after the video but you need to start using English on a daily basis

to do things that you love and enjoy and talking with people that you love and

enjoy okay wait that sounds where you're talking

with people that you love and enjoyed that sounds a little strange

no talking with people that that you enjoy talking to how I'm getting

tongue-twisted anyways by doing that you're gonna have great experiences like if I

was in the U.S. studying Italian in a regular traditional class I would be

like huh this is so boring you just conjugate verbs if you're a beginner you

conjugate verbs if you're an intermediate student you conjugate verbs

if you're an advanced student you conjugate verbs and it's just like oh

when does it end? you know and that's why people you know are in these English

Institute's maybe many of you are for seven years ten years and you still

don't feel fluent okay we're confident now on the other hand if you would just

you know for example start using English with English speakers pretty much since

day one all of a sudden you'd be like oh my gosh I get to talk with real people

and it'd be so much more exciting okay so that's why like with the coaching

that I do my job is to surround you guys and especially my coaching clients and

my students surround them with English get them in touch with native speakers

etc so they can you know have a real reason for using English so an active

reason not just you know being passive and reading stuff but networking with

English speakers using English to move their careers forward etc let's see in

this moment I'm in Italy

yeah hey thank you someone's like press the like button help her grow her

channel yeah help her grow her channel thanks guys

I was actually just thinking that I might start um you know coming live on

here regularly throughout the week and I can schedule them in advance you guys

have always asked me schedule these things in advance um but now I just

might I really do want to grow this channel this is nice um okay Nishan says

where did you get the idea to be an English coach and then they uh and then

Ronald asks how I learned Spanish so those are great questions the I can talk

about all that okay so first I learned Spanish because my family they are

Spanish speakers but they didn't teach me Spanish so I felt like I was missing

a part of my identity that like lit a fire under my ass basically to really

learn Spanish I started studying in an immersion program when I was 14 I did

that for three years then I studied in college paid thousands of dollars to get

you know my degree as you know majored in Spanish but I dropped out of college

you guys I don't know if you know this but I hated the program it was bullshit it was

really bad I was like I don't want a degree from this university because I'm

not gonna be proud normally when you have a degree you're like oh yeah and I

worked really hard and I got this degree my classes were easy the teachers like

it was just really bad so I was like I don't want this I will make my own way

in life I will get fluent in Spanish some other way because all that

traditional education was not working for me and I was like I'll I'll either

go back to college later or I'll start my own business or do something I've

always kind of been like a little rebel like that but anyways I went to

Argentina I ended up meeting my husband I lived there for four years and that is

how I got fluent but don't think that you have to go to an english-speaking

country to get fluent okay that was just my personal limitation because I was not

mingling with like Spanish speakers online or

in my hometown or anything like that I was really shy not in English just in

Spanish I was really shy and that was holding me back so that's why now I help

you guys overcome your issues with confidence because not having confidence

is going to rob you of so many opportunities it's crazy

okay so anyhow that's that and then I came up with this idea to coach people

with their English because I understood the journey of going from not speaking a

language to then speaking it fluently and confidently and using the language

to you know work make money I worked in a sales position for a national US

company and I would speak with spanish-speaking clients and you know I

did a whole bunch of you know work and sales and Spanish and it was difficult

because it wasn't my native language so then I was like whoa you know English is

a global language there are so many people struggling not just to master

this language but to really use it to advance their life and their career to

immigrate to another country etc and I was like I could really help these

people I've done a lot of traveling I've learned a language myself you know I'm I

know about building business and stuff like this and getting jobs and marketing

yourself to whatever beat the competition I mean there's lots of ways

we could say it so then I was just like you know what I'm gonna be an English

coach and I basically created this role for myself the programs that I run the

things that I do it's not like they've been done before I don't do

cookie-cutter English programs where it's like oh now we're gonna work on

your pronunciation you kind of have to work on your pronunciation with other

YouTube channels and English teachers I don't focus on that because I have

something that I feel is more valuable and that's what I try to focus on so

thank you for asking those lovely questions okay make videos BBA says

please make videos having minimum 30 minutes duration I will try that way you

guys can shadow these videos so yeah I'm going to make this a Q&A like I'll call

it a Q&A video when I end it and then maybe I'll make

like a series of these Haruna says I live in Turkey and I am fluent in

English when I speak people think I am NOT Turkish and they asked me where I

come from that's awesome the same thing happens when I speak

Spanish people go where are you from are you from Costa Rica are you from

Argentina are you from Spain it depends and this is funny I have to tell you

guys this when I am in Argentina people think I'm from Costa Rica or Spain

because they know I don't sound exactly like someone from Argentina but very

close but when I'm talking with like a Mexican in California they go oh you're

from Argentina and I'm like no I'm not so it's just really funny

hey Rene what's up man okay cool so I caught up with all your questions oh

wait hang on life in English says there's something about the way English

sounds that made me fall in love with the language and now that I've heard you

speaking Spanish I think I just found the next my next thing in life awesome

yeah you guys um I talked with one of my new students um two days ago her name is

Sarah and she's living in Dubai and this girl's English is so beautiful shout out

to Sarah and listen she learned English 100% online on line can you believe that

like she never did a traditional class she never had a teacher that is some

serious dedication I mean the Internet has so much information I know people

that have learned how to code online just by watching videos they never had a

teacher you know so just realize you guys you have so many amazing resources

won't you probably do realize this but there are so many amazing resources on

the internet Imano says how can I improve my writing skills in English I

just made a video on that and it was pretty generic because I

wanted to make like a video where I explain where you start and then

eventually make I don't know more detailed videos about improving writing

but that would be a good place for you to start out because if you literally

have no idea how to improve your writing then all that information is in that

video yeah oh cool Kat you should learn just online - nice well now she is one

of my students so now she is in actually investing money in her English but

that's also because like I said I'm not like actually teaching English right now

I'm doing a program it's not open you guys but I'll reopen it later this year

it's networking with native speakers so it's like personal and professional

development in English and connecting everyone to the world or connecting my

students to the world of native English speakers and getting them talking with

them so yeah I won't say too much about that so I don't want this to turn into

like a commercial oh there be an interview with Sarah do you want there

to be an interview with Sarah John maybe I could ask her if she would like to be

interviewed um I have an interview coming out soon with Rene who is also

one of my students and I think he was just on here when I was like hi Rene

and Rene is really awesome his English has really improved and you guys

are gonna get to see that in the video

do you have any Turkish friends yes I have as of right now one Turkish friend

Mike says in my opinion learning this language in a country where it is spoken

is the best option I don't know about the best option I think it's a good

option but really you just like we just talked about Sarah who and Kat who

learned English online a lot of it has to a lot of it depends I think on your

own motivation but yeah and wait oh sorry I missed what you said before that

you said I know that it is totally possible to learn a language being in a

country where it is not spoken although I don't think this is the best approach

usually the methods used in schools are really really boring yeah but you have

to know Mike even if you like I know people who

have gone to the U.S. paid thousands of dollars to study in like a a study

abroad International English school and they use the same methods they use

worksheets and textbooks and this and that and you're studying with a bunch of

other students who are from other countries it's not like you're with

native speakers all of a sudden you talk with native speakers if you go to the

park and you mingle with them but that's on you you know and some people don't

have the confidence for that just because you're in a country with native

English speakers a lot of people isolate themselves so honestly I think the best

option I don't know I think that it's different for each person

and I'm glad that the internet exists I don't know about you guys but I'm so

glad we have this option because you know several years ago I would have if I

wanted to teach English I would have had to choose one place and teach it now I

can teach it to people all over the world and I'm just sitting here at my

Airbnb in Italy Rene says do you think there's a maximum age for starting to

learn a new language I don't because I've seen people you know learning

languages in their 50s and 60s and 70s I think it keeps your mind sharp so no

matter how old you get you can do it but really you have to have the right

motivation and the right learning structure because motivation with

motivation you can learn things twice as fast ten times as fast without

motivation you can you know be trying to learn English for ten years and never

achieve it so motivation is huge and that's why if you're kind of feeling

like learning English is boring and like frustrated it's probably because you

don't know your why you don't really understand why you're learning English

and you don't understand your motivation you don't know what it is and maybe you

don't have a motivation but here's the thing if you want to immigrate to an

english-speaking country if you want to get a job at a multinational

you know company that's based in an english-speaking country if you want to

work with english-speaking clients right there you should recognize that that

should be your motivation and so you should tie your results with English

directly to your future you know and hopefully that wanting a better future

will be enough motivation I mean that's my motivation for the work that I do I

want a better future just like you guys study English because you want a better

future so since I'm I have my I have a clear

understanding of why I do the work that I do that's what helps me get up every

day work hard you know and put my work before entertainment sometimes even

before my social life mostly it's like that so anyways yes

Rene your why is the most important stuff in any goal if you don't

understand your why if you don't have a why you don't have motivation and

without motivation you can't achieve things Isaac yes I will be adding

subtitles to this video it's a live video I can't add subtitles right now

cuz I'm live but if you'll notice all of my videos have subtitles Merve says I

have a newborn cousin is it suitable to teach him any language sure why not it

might be fun do you have master are you asking if I have a master's degree no I

talked about this earlier I don't even have a college degree

uh-huh I was this close to getting it I was six months away and I didn't want it

I didn't like it I didn't like the program so I said screw this I'm gonna

do something else and I built the business so I was the rebel and this

doesn't work for everybody but I really wanted to prove I think to myself and to

other people that there there are many ways to achieve the things that you want

to achieve sometimes you can go the traditional route and sometimes you

don't have to you know my teaching style my coaching style is not true

but everything I've done is pretty untraditional to I met my husband and I

married him five months later that's not very traditional I got

married in like a black and white wedding short a short wedding dress

that's not traditional I just like breaking the norm you guys because if

not we all get stuck in traditions and then we all try to force other people to

you know meet certain standards just because we had to you know like oh I had

to go to school for you know four years to get my degree so everyone else has to

do that too and I don't like that way of thinking so now we're getting into

philosophy Kat says this is funny I decided to learn English because I got

fed up with waiting for people to translate my favorite TV shows and when

I realized I was in love with the English language yes that's a great,

that's funny Ronnie says how can you talk that long without drinking water I am getting

thirsty and I am gonna shut this off in a second but you guys I like I said I've

been working in education for a long time I've had to do like seven classes

back-to-back talking for an hour in each class that's it's hard I don't I'm glad

I don't have to do that now but I drink a lot of water already so John says what

if I understand you 100% but have some speaking problems so what about it yeah

you're I know what you're asking you're asking like what should i do or what

does that mean but it helps to be more specific with your questions it's just

lack of practice Mike says I've been learning English for over seven years I

can understand well but I can't speak in the same level I can understand and that

is a common problem and that's also lack of interaction lack of practice it's

funny when you guys tell me in detail your symptoms of what you're

experiencing I pretty much know why that's going on you know and I can you

know I can like diagnose it even though you haven't really told me why it's

you tell me what's going on with your English and I can explain why

and obviously saying lack of practice that's very general but I could go

deeper into it but I can't right now because there's a lot of you guys

watching and you know so Ermet at says I remember you talking about having a hard

time letting yourself make mistakes and not beating yourself up for them you

know that really resonated with me we are so in the same boat for that yeah and

you know Ermat I just recently really made a breakthrough there actually

here in Italy I've been here for like five weeks but my Spanish you guys saw

earlier in the video it's pretty good right okay even having that high level I

would still freak out and be like oh my gosh like I'm gonna mess up or whatever

and that's why it's all in our head and we need to you know give ourselves

credit and just decide there literally has to be a decision where you decide to

not care about making mistakes trust me you're gonna feel so free after you

decide to do it don't apologize for your English ever again so I'm scrolling up

to see if there's yeah cool I'm all caught up

I like this I'm caught up with your guys's stuff okay how to pronounce

gotta like that Gotta Gotta do you see how my tongue flops

gotta Gotta hopefully that's helpful we can do more of those fabulous

pronunciation videos you guys if you want I can go live and I'll stick my

face right in the camera let's show you how everything moves Fernando that's a

great question and I love that expression what does the expression

blind leading the blind mean it means one idiot leading other idiots

right do you know what I mean like somebody who thinks they know about

something but they don't and then they're trying to teach other people how

to do something that they themselves don't even understand this goes on a lot

since you guys know I'm an entrepreneur and I built my own like online business

this goes on a lot in the entrepreneurial world people that have

not made any money online or have not been successful at all try and teach

other people how to do it that's like the blind leading the blind

you can't teach something unless you've achieved it first which is also kind of

interesting when you think in terms of language learning because how can you

help someone improve their fluency if you've never learned another language

yourself and improve your fluency and gone through that journey right kind of

makes you think let's see Elio says I want to be in your club oh I don't call

it a club but thank you are you talking about my online English program I'll let you

guys know when it's ready or when enrollment opens again but you probably

have to sign up at EnglishFullTime.com I email everybody that information

okay Red says many people want to talk to English speakers but they can't find

them because English speakers don't need other languages because they know

English Red I made a program that helps people do that you guys just don't know

where to look how did it interact with the English speakers you don't know

where to find us so I made an entire program and my students are doing the

program right now and they're having amazing success Nazarena from Italy

just posted in our private group the other day she was like oh my gosh it's

only day five and I already met this person who's coming to Italy to my town

you know in October and they want me to be their tour guide you know and show

them around and she's already making friends with people online and speaking

English with them so it's possible but the problem like I said is you guys

don't know where to find English speakers and even if you knew

you wouldn't you probably don't have a very good idea of how to interact with

us so that we'll talk with you because just like you said it's like we're not

trying to learn your language so anyhow the program is called networking with

native speakers and it reopens probably in October okay let's see let's see yeah

I'm trying not to turn this into a commercial you guys let me see

successful woman says as for me my obstacles are exactly with the lack of

expressing myself properly yes I can hold a conversation but if you choose

random topic to discuss about it I might find difficulties you might but think

about this if somebody wanted to talk to me about the mysteries of outer space

I would probably listen to most of what they have to say I don't really think

about that topic I don't discuss that topic with anybody else I don't know the

right vocabulary sometimes I confuse astronomy and astrology because I just

keep forgetting which ones which and I have to sit there and think oh no this

one's that one is something okay so that probably happens to you in your native

language you know you struggle to know what you know have discussions even in

your native language about topics you simply don't care about right so you

guys have to realize that a lot of these struggles that you have in English you

have them in your native language but you're just more aware of them in

English because you feel more guilty like Oh communication should be easier

but really someone's trying might be trying to talk to you about a topic you

have no interest in and you don't care about why would you want to talk about

that okay guys I'm gonna wrap up this video this has been such an awesome

session this was my first live video on YouTube thank you so much you guys for

watching for hanging out for asking questions feel free to yes share this

channel around or subscribe or whatever I would love to grow an awesome

community here so we can have more of these live sessions so that's it take

care and I'll see you guys in another video bye