How To Practice English With Native Speakers

234,442 views ・ 2017-08-16

The English Coach


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Hey guys what's up Stefanie the English coach here from englishfulltime.com
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in this video we are going to talk about how to practice your English with native
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English speakers okay so the first thing I want to say though is that I truly
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believe you don't have to only practice with native English speakers to improve
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your English you can practice with any English speaker so whether they're a
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non-native English speaker or a native English speaker just speaking English in
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general even with someone who is at your you know your level of English even that
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will help you improve but what I realized happens is a lot of you guys
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want to practice with native speakers so badly but you don't know any native
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speakers and you're not surrounded by native speakers so it's almost like you
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give up you just say well I have no one to practice with and so you don't
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practice at all so before we even talk about practicing with native speakers
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you have to understand that just practicing in general even if it's with
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your friends or your family or people that you know go to your school or work
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with you even just practicing in general will help okay
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even if you're not practicing with a native speaker now that I got that out
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of the way now I can tell you how to practice your English with native
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speakers and it's not as hard as you think it is and that's the good news so
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here's the deal native speakers are all over the world
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native English speakers are all over the world and we're all over the internet
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and we all use the same platforms on the Internet you guys myself other native
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English speakers I mean we use YouTube Facebook reddit snapchat Instagram all
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of the platforms that you guys already use the thing is you're probably using
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those platforms in your language and you're probably following people that
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speak your language so you're surrounding yourself essentially with
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native speakers of your own language in order to meet native speakers the
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easiest way to do that is to first do it online okay and in order to do that you
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have to start following people and interacting with people that are native
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English speakers and you have to reduce the amount of time you spend chatting
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with speakers of your own language or interacting
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with pages and profiles that are all in your language so let me give you an
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example of how to do this okay let's say you love learning about diet health and
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nutrition that's you know an example because that's what I love learning
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about but let's say you use Instagram okay instead of following a bunch of
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profiles on Instagram about you know exercise diet health nutrition in your
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own language look for people you can follow in English okay so look for
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people that you can follow in English and you can search for people by using
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hashtags now this is a strategy that is specific to Instagram I don't know how
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well this works on other platforms okay but on Instagram you can look up
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hashtags so for example you can start with the hashtag exercise then once you
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go to that hashtag you know there will probably be millions and millions and
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millions of posts within the hashtag try and narrow it down Instagram will
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automatically show you other hashtags related to that hashtag so then go
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explore those hashtags until you can find a hashtag that has maybe between
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50,000 and you know hundred thousand or a million posts because then you know
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that those communities are more tight-knit now on Instagram people use
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hashtags to form communities okay so you can go really deep into the different
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hashtags that people use and then go explore the profiles when you find a
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profile that's public that you like follow it and then start interacting
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with the person that runs the profile okay you can once a day or every other
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day make a nice comment on one of their photos and say hey you know this was a
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you know great photo I like it because of X Y & Z or whatever don't start
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commenting on all of their things at once because then they're going to freak
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out and think you're weird okay they're going to be like oh my gosh this person
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is a stalker but no if you can just find profiles of people that have between
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like five hundred and five thousand followers those are people that are
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trying to grow their following they're trying to share what they love with
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other people so they're really going to appreciate you supporting them and then
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you can take the opportunity when you feel ready to maybe introduce yourself
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via direct message and say hey I really want to just introduce
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myself and say that I appreciate what you're doing it's been so inspiring to
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me every day and if you do that okay with like 10 to 20 people over the
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course of a couple months eventually you're going to be involved in networks
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with native English speakers you're going to have friends that are native
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English speakers you're going to have people to chat with you're going to be
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able to talk about the things you love and enjoy and the point is that you know
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that was just one strategy you can use with Instagram but think about all the
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other platforms that we have and we always form communities on these
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platforms so in facebook there's groups about anything you can imagine that are
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full of native English speakers there are groups and communities on reddit as
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well okay so this is what I want to encourage you guys to do if you want to
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meet native English speakers and if you want to practice your English with them
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don't just say hey will you practice you know English with me or do you want to
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do an exchange I'll teach you Spanish you teach me English just get beyond
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that just go where people are already interacting in English and then use your
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English to interact you're going to be nervous in the beginning you're going to
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be afraid of messing up but guess what after doing this for a while you're
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going to be so much more confident okay you're going to build confidence as you
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go and just think about it this way if you mess up or if somebody blocks you
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and thinks oh my gosh that guy is creepy like just move on go find somebody else
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there are millions of us for you to interact with okay and again you will
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get better as you go so if you want to know more about how to practice your
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English with native speakers I made you guys a guide that breaks everything down
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kind of step by step so you can really just absorb the information quickly if
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you would like that guide feel free to download it I will put the link in the
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description okay so anyhow that's it you guys it's super simple go where the
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native speakers are okay and then start interacting with us and go with the
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communities that are about things that you already love and enjoy so you
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already have something to talk about okay don't think that this won't work
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for you because of where you live what your native language is what your
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nationality is or anything like that don't don't think it's not going to work
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you it will as long as you can find ways to support other people and give your
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time your energy your thoughts your nice words people will appreciate that and
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they'll talk with you so again for more information just go ahead and download
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the guide and that will get you started okay talk to you guys later and I'll see
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you in another video bye hey guys thanks so much for watching this video if you
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see you guys in another video bye
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