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I teach English at a university (and also on TH-cam), so I sometimes like to watch other TH-cam channels that try to help people learn English. Just wanted to say that I think this video is very well made and helpful. I can tell you work hard on your content…it's really good.

Hello great. When the time is ripe make a video about daily routines in english. I think its one of the most important subjects that acts as the ABC of englush.thanks in advance

With today’s video of yours and the reading of the poems, you threw us into the deep end, but I wasn’t disappointed-I took it as an exercise. By the way, the way you experienced poetry in school reminded me of my own experience at the age of 13 with the teaching of Ancient Greek, where we had to study from the original texts and analyze grammatical phenomena. You can understand the difficulty and the frustration I felt. This made me, and many others, not want to hear anything related to it.

1. The Road Not Taken (1915). Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. 2. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1922). Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

... learning a new language is like living a new life in an accelerated and compressed manner and it cannot be done in a linear fashion but rather in a spiral, where you go back and approach what you already know using new words or seeing things from another angle. Language learning is as old as civilization and what is certain is that you need a teacher or guide to help you systematize and highlight what is important. There are no perfect methods or better ones than others but they all complement each other and success largely depends on the capacities or skills that the student has and the degree of difficulty of the target language. Joseph, I know that what you do is important but it only works for advanced students. Anyone who comes to understand you will do so because they have previously had good teachers and methods that have raised them to the level of your course.

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Yes, concentration has a big impact, especially if you are tired, it is better to choose how much time you are comfortable with and practice constantly. Recently, I noticed a difference, I watched videos with 50-70% comprehension, but when I watched tired, my efficiency dropped to 30-40%.

What an encouraging perspective! It gives me the motivation to keep going, focusing not on when I will succeed, but on what I can control-specifically, as you mentioned the other day, the amount of time I dedicate to learning English.

I personally think that sometimes it's really helpful to use some elements of traditional learning but it will be mistake to rely on them too much and it is depends on the person their cognitive features and a level. it mayby slows you bown or maybe helps to spead up i think. and both the sensation can be a bit delusional also sometimes people do the same thing but they did it really differently and has completely different result I'm sure that without massive exposure into the compelling content in your target language it is hard to reach the level you happy with. if it not a part of your life and a part of your personality you still have some affective filter i think.

Thanks sir. Love episodes like this one too, are plenty of practical advice to improve our learning process. I've found out myself that sit-com TV shows such as 'Friends', 'How I Met your Mother' or even 'The Big Bang Theory' are all high centered in language, I mean they are based in coversation, talking, discusing, arguing, jokes etc and this might be because they are in esence comedy shows. They all have tons of cultural references about American and even Canadian culture, and they are so much fun. So, I think this kind of content can be better to learn English than most featured films. But what do you guys think?

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Listening to your stories, what keeps coming to my mind is that, even though I don’t encounter any unfamiliar words, I still couldn’t tell the story as you do. It’s a bit frustrating, but I keep pushing forward. Who knows? Maybe one day, I’ll get there

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Thank you so much sir Everyday i watch your videos it's really helpful for us

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I am learning Spanish with comprehensible input and am currently at 1,400 hours. I completely agree with your 300 hour rule because I have experienced it in my language learning journey. Great advice! - Dave

Although a bit delayed, I want to congratulate you on reaching 2,000 subscribers and more in such a short time. Good and valuable content always gets rewarded!

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I have noticed that after practicing pronunciation, listening comprehension gets better, that's true

Thank you for the advice, it's very encouraging and supportive.

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0:03 - Intro The Six Traps in learning English 0:23 - 1st Trap: Expectation 0:45 - 2nd Trap: Comparisons 3:21 - 3rd Trap: Not following comprehensible Input 4:23 - 4th Trap: Fear of making mistakes 6:17 - 5th Trap: Focusing on testing 7:56 - 6th Trap: Focusing your time on goal setting rather than building habits Plus - Four things you can control>> 10:12 - 1: How much input you get per day 10:37 - 2: How consistent will you be 10:58 - 3: Control of the type of input you get 12:01 - 4: How you focus your attention on the input A new word (for me): pitfall= trap

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It is indeed a very valuable advice as you have mentioned in this video, the book that you have introduced to us help me lot to develop habits. So I am trying to follow it to reach my goals. Sir, you are truly a wonderful resource person and specially a person like me it is really invaluable. every day I am waiting for your video mainly because it is understood and very interesting to me. Finally I need to tell you that my vocabulary is not good enough to express my feelings about your support to learn English. God bless you sir.

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Reading allows you to catch more words in a shorter amount of time than listening in a similar amount of time. Do you understand your native language? The same is true for your second language. You don't need to spend time listening to your second language in order to understand it. The question is, is it your second language or not .... Everyone has to answer this question for themselves. I never learned English in my childhood or adolescence, but I could understand this language from the first day in Ireland at the age of 30+. I have done all my languages with books or recovering these languages by reading. While reading, I have a much stronger imagination that helps me to imagine how it looks in life instead of movies which show pictures. With your second language, more important is to lift your grammar to a native level. Who has better grammar or different vocabulary? I'm sure a reader of the book has more words than a listener... ​English is my fourth language, which means it is worse than a second language.

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Wow, what a catchy story. Can't wait to know more about those spectacular characters. I think I've got to watch this episode a dozen of times to acquire better all the new words and English sounds that it seems to have, and because it is very interesting story for me, indeed. By the way, today is November 16th and it's my birthday, so I'm getting this spectacular episode as a very spectacular gift. Thank you so much.

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I do think listening as a first step for beginners and reading for advanced learners.

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reading in second and or third language even if you have decent level harder I just noticed sometimes it's easier but sometimes it's harder to do something you don't really do for a long time in your native language. so, I think for me it's going to work better to build this a habit in my native language and then add a target language Video format is great but it's easier it's good about it and some side effect you become a bit more lazy I think. I would like to create reading habit to get benefits it has. so I'm working on this habit now and read daily quota of pages from books I like

This topic is extremely important in learning languages, and I have realized that especially in English you had better beguin to listen tons of input in order to get use to the sounds of the lenguage. By reading in English you can get structure and vocabulary, but reading (and writing) compared with listening, seems to be totally a different system of communication.

Thank you very much for the high quality of your video lessons. I have a few comments to make. First, in one of your previous videos, you mentioned that your impressive level of English is primarily due to your reading of an encyclopedia, rather than listening. Additionally, I have many examples of well-known authors whose spoken language level is far below their sophisticated writing. As an avid English learner, I have found that when you are at a beginner or intermediate level, you should mainly focus on listening, with subtitles on if you want to read along. Once you reach an advanced level and have already integrated the phonemes, you should prioritize reading if you want to advance further.

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