Real English Conversation \ Obsession over Vocabulary will not make you Fluent
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
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John has taught English since 1999, in both volunteer and professional capacities. John’s father’s parents were Slovak immigrants, and he has traveled there twice, including once to teach English. His experience there inspired him to develop a program of lessons which specifically target the deficiencies of native Slavic language speakers.
John can be reached through e-mail or Facebook:
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Hey Everyone! ) I’m Anna and welcome to my channel. Here, I post some useful information for English learners. I’m from Ukraine and I’ve worked on my English and accent, for the most part, on my own, but you can find out and trace my story by watching my videos. I’ve been studying American pronunciation for a long time, and I still do, and I guess I always will - because it’s not math. Learning a language, it’s a lifetime journey. I know exactly what it takes to become fluent and acquire an accent in a non-English speaking country, and I’ve never even been to one. And I’m sharing this information here - on my channel.
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00:00 About John
03:45 Obsession over vocabulary
07:48 Is making mistakes when speaking English OK?
09:01 What to do to get our English to a native-like level?
18:17 What is the quickest way to improve speaking skills?
20:18 Why do some people succeed in learning and other don’t?
23:25 Spoken English is different from written English.
28:26 Get in the right mindset.
37:37 What to watch to practice listening skills get familiar with the culture of the US?
41:14 When can you STOP learning English?
44:50 How to make your accent less noticeable?
John has taught English since 1999, in both volunteer and professional capacities. John’s father’s parents were Slovak immigrants, and he has traveled there twice, including once to teach English. His experience there inspired him to develop a program of lessons which specifically target the deficiencies of native Slavic language speakers.
John can be reached through e-mail or Facebook:
thelegosource@gmail.com
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Hey, brand new cool laptop of yours is great! He told that he is not watching movies after 2000, recomend him movie Birdman, he will make an exception))
Hi Anna! This is Rosalba , we did the Makeover course together, Do you remember me?
Thanks for sharing this in your channel!
I think is amazing to teach English to our kids!
I also speak English with my son sometimes and , I don't care what other people say but I mostly speak my native language with him because my first language is going to be a part of his identity and cultural inheritance. How are you doing? Do you speak your mother language as you speak English with him?
Have you consider that maybe he is going to miss a part of your culture?
Congratulations for your channel!
@@rosalbamaldonadoriosgunnes7982 Probably her son learn their native language at school
It's a great show! loved it so much 👍👍👍👍
It's a great show! loved it so much 👍👍👍👍
I like the expression used by John "where there's a will, there's a way"
Hey hey hey hey🤣🤣🤣.
Thank you very much for this video, I am 56 years old and I am studying English, I learned Portuguese, then I want to learn Russian, this video encouraged me a lot, a hug, from Bogota.
Aprendeu português, que legal !!
I totally agree with him!! It’s so key to be careful about what you’re using to learn English. What you put in your brain really affects you. One can become what he/she comsumes. Thank you for making this video!😊🙏
Man, phonetics are so underrated! Since I am aware of them my confidence soared again :D
I do like the way talked in this video, and made tons of mistakes on my English study journey. What I have done before was trying my best to talk in English every second possible, that experience makes me who I am now.
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Appreciated for bringing your guest. He is exceptional understand the problem with English learners. I enjoyed listening to him, & everything he said is correct about people who live in US for generation & stil they can hardly make a proper sentence. Thank you again.
A million thanks to you. ❤👍👌💯
You and John are amazing! Thank you so much for making this video.
I love this channel. it was watching your videos that I realized that I didn't need subtitles anymore to understand people speaking in English.
thanks Ana for this Conversation with John, i am learning a lot, especially the way to practice english everyday and make balance with my native language Bahasa Indonesia 👍🏽
Sometimes I forget words in my own native language, the pont is that I end up adding it to english word without thinking .. 😂...so weirdo moment.
Acredito que falou certo, mas muitas vezes pode ser a memória e não o curso de inglês, tire um tempo para isso. Vai gostar bastante das aulas depois disso! Sucesso pra você. Pedro Édino
First i would say you are looking splendid and it was well experience for us, i wish get fluency in English like you
Perfectly said, both of you were so amazing and i really love their conversations, the way you both are talking it's good to hear because the accent was very nice to hear in the ear absolutely. Hopefully most people who watched these were learned a lot and it makes me inspiring this video.
I teach in Moscow, and have done so for a long time. I've pretty much always resisted the 'moderated speech' orthodoxy, believing that you should just engage with students naturally, speak naturally, repeat and maybe rephrase or explain things when necessary, but never slip into unnatural speech, and also to try to always use authentic sources of any learning material (I try to use videos with transcripts to back up the learning, and to make meaning and understanding and processing of the facts and ideas in the content the focus) and it's always worked out that they get better at understanding and gradually start speaking more naturally, plus naturally acquire the language in an actually practically applicable way in the process.
John makes me think I should study this phonetic aspect all more deeply and systematically and maybe do it more thoroughly, but it's a similar approach, though more kind of left to chance via the process with me, and has worked pretty well over the years. Actually though, on the 'left to chance' aspect: I did discover that with German, which I studied a bit too, and spent some time in Germany, that I had picked up elements of phonetic 'deviation' from the written form without ever being taught it or being conscious of it, and have seen the same in students, who learn 'gonna' all the same, and often don't realise they're doing it, for example.
I have unfortunately hit up against issues with some students who think such a free approach is somehow bad (most actually think it's good, especially more experienced learners), and also even a manager who had secretly apparently assessed me behind my back as being inadequate for this reason, actually even only on the basis of one student's complaint, a student whose issues I was very aware of from the first lesson and for whom I was doing the right thing. I actually had work taken away from me on this basis, and it became a conflict between management when I found out.
If I had done what that student and manager wanted I would have been not only doing the wrong thing for that student, but also reducing the quality for all the other paying students who needed to learn to deal with natural English. As I say, I was aware of that student's issues, mainly explained by her being older than the rest and having learned more via reading, grammar translation and unnatural speech, in the Soviet system, or the remnants of it at least, whereas the others were younger and had grown up with TH-cam, etc.
The question I put to them in the end is whether she had ever not known what to do in activities in class or ever not completed them successfully, and maybe they could tell me about the groups IELTS results (they didn't, but it turned out they'd all passed), and they could not say any such thing. And I'd seen how she did everything in class, because part of my job is monitoring that all the time. So in the end she had engaged with natural speech and struggled with it, but succeeded all the same, and I'd done the right thing in navigating them all through it to that success, and never succumbing to that pressure to lower quality according to students' or other educators orthodox ideas of how it works. I stick by that.
Actually I worked in another school previously where other orthodoxies led to us being gradually pushed out and replaced there. The management hadn't actually bothered to check what was going on or ever even asked enough to try to understand what we were doing (all behind our backs, as in this later instance). We'd improved the level of ability of the children we were teaching so that year 10 Russian pupils were passing a Cambridge CAE, whereas before we were there they were managing a PET at best (I was the first teacher to get one year 11 student successfully through an FCE, just after I arrived). Year 5 couldn't speak at all when I arrived, but when we left all kids at that age spoke quite freely. Our earlier manager returned there for a little while a couple of years later and said the standards had already dropped. People are slow to let go of their conventional way of doing things, and reluctant to just look at, reflect on, and talk openly about, what really works. They cling to their 'expert' status, instead of letting go of it and therefore being able to open up and learn and change and improve. And students get sucked into this stifling framing of things too.
Unfortunately there are always pressures to fit some simplistic orthodoxies, and the way is to openly reflect on what is really happening and how what works and always be open to improving things by letting go of those orthodoxies and honing strategies to the most direct ways that actually work. Even what you're doing now, and seems to work, should be viewed as a 'simplistic orthodoxy' that you should work at usurping with a better approach somewhere down the line.
So John is right, and, as he says, you are living proof of it. It's not about the abstracted 'knowing' of discrete language that works (an approach that actually distances you from it), but engaging in the actual reality of both its form and its function; i.e. totally how it's really spoken in a fusion with deriving and conveying actual meaning. In the end either you're in the language, or you stick by those old ways which always kept you outside of it.
Wow....🙄 thank you for sharing this!!!
Essay
It's so good!!
wow Im grateful that someone is teaching way beyond the normal level that speaks about his intellect and not just going with the flow to have money. You deserve more brother, I hope you`ll achieve your dream and goals.
That was fantastic
Really enjoy American accents John is amazing, wanna more videos with him
Hello John and Anna!
Thank you for the interview. It's utterly amazing as you offer invaluable information.
Let me tell you my story with English. English is a foreign language in my country and this fact limits the practice of it, especially outside the classroom. The English language is encountered only in the classroom and rarely do we meet an English speaker outside. When I moved to university, I majored in English. Honestly, the first term, I was straying. The teacher spoke only English and I had to join the race or change the subject of study. I doubted my existence in the English department, but soon such doubt vanished as I started working on my English. I established a program for real version of learning English. Whenever I met an English student, I tried to learn from them.
When I went home, because we live in a countryside, there is no one speaking English right there. Guess with whom I was speaking! I spoke to whatever I found be it a wall, a tree, and animal, but not people. Some of them might have judged me negatively for speaking to myself. Learning English has taken me four years and now I am a teacher trainee.
The principles of learning I seriously believed in are commitment, focus, making mistakes, and patience.
My best regards!
Thanks for sharing, it really works, and I really don’t believe I watch this whole video without subtitles
Thanks a bunch for uploading this video! I really enjoyed your conversation and learned a lot from it👏❤
Hi Anna, Nice meeting you...!!!
I´ve been working as an English as a foreign language professor in high education since 1,995.
but remembering my starting ups with Schools and Language centers, I saw that students were afraid of speaking any other language, just because they had no the routine to do it.
La mayoria de las veces, utilizamos nuetra lengua materna para comunicarnos, durante las 24 horas, lo cual nos impide memorizar y recordar el vocabulario de la segunda lengua....
si fuese al reves, como a muchos nos ha tocado, emigrar a un pais de habla inglesa, para perder el temor, aadquirir fluidez y un mayor conocimiento.
We can sum up, saying that... we need to get abroad to live the real language life.
Thank you for your videos... I love'em.
Muchas Bendiciones para ti, en este dificil camino de la enseñanza de las lenguas....
Very, very interesting meeting. You are great moderator.
Fantastic teacher! Perfect practice! Thx a lot!
Jonh and you Anna, you are absolutely right, I also agree that pronunciation and sounds in English are very important, because even if we know a lot of vocabulary or we know a lot of grammar, and we don't pronounce it well, so we won't be understood when speaking. Anna I want you to make a video teaching Alex English. I was just starting to teach my 11-year-old son, but it is more difficult for me because I have a basic level of English, so I try to teach him through TH-cam and we can hear both people who know how to speak advanced English. A hug from Venezuela.
Even though it was a pretty long video, I enjoyed it a lot! Perhaps, the cause of it is in the way they both speaking, this simplifying, when you understand almost all the information without constant checking the words. Another reason is that all these suggestions, tips and tricks, didn't look like another slide from a presentation of an English course, but like sincere sharing something precious for them. It went from hearts, reflected their values in the discussion topic. Yep, the most pleasant thing is that It was very natural, cozy, real. 😊👍
For me wanting to master English is a tall order however, I'm willing to put in the work. I used to feel subsconscious when I spoke English however I learned to speak freely and let nothing get on my way. When I speak with my family subconsciously English words just come out of my mouth 👄👄👄 without me being aware and I think that's good thing. Because it shows to me that I'm learning. I definitely agree with John about American movies and music videos the message they sent is distorting, in other hand I watch them to get what I want and leave out the information that are misleading. Thank you Anna and John, it was a great conversation.
I love this guy... he has some really good tips.
All your efforts to bring your audience to native- like level is highly commendable, madam!
Oh that point about a tendency in spoken English to start syllables with consonants and end in vowels even if it means reconfiguring words is really interesting. It's something I've never noticed but will be keeping an ear out for (as a native speaker).
My God, Your English is so beautiful. I can understand you so clearly. Amazing...
Hi I watch your few videos from past 3 days and I think your voice is so different like it's connecting to me. The way u pronounce a word and smoothness. Nice 👍 I like it. 😊 Thanx.
Thanks a lot Anna , thanks a lot John conversation is very exciting interesting meaningful and so on...You're inspiring to learn and expand the knowledge and besides gave a lot of valuable and applicable information! Anna , your English is perfect! Well done!
Thanks teacher I really interested in your conversation. That it gives me a lot of advantages as: motivation, understanding how to improve my ability in English language etc. Especially, I build bravery to write this comment. Thank a million teacher! :)
You guys inspire me to improve myself, thank you
Thanks for the talk
this is really helpful. I want to thank u for your channel ,I love it!!!
i really appreciated your conversation. thanks so much
Amazing . Thank you so much.
You both are doing really great thing and i have improved my listening skill ;pronunciation through this channel. All in All you helped me a lot .May I can also speak just like you ☺😊🇮🇳❤
It was very interesting and informative video and I’ve been waiting a long time for it. Because the idea was hanging in the air... I'm highly appreciate both of you!
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I miss talking with a native. We could have an app or site to talk with foreign for free. I have studied for 2 years and I must practice my speech. Thanks for sharing this video. I appreciated it.
We can practice
@@user-pp3ys2zy7h How could we do it?
On Hello Talk you can talk to foreign for free!
Hi Ana, thank you for this wonderful conversations. I'm from Brazil and I love your channel..I also love when you talk about the way you teach your son. It will be very important to him in the future because when we live in a country where nobody speaks English, it's very difficult to learn and keep the language in our mindset...the practice is always the best way of learning anything, specially, new leanguages. By the way I'd love to see a video about you talking in English with your son..Do you have one in your channel?
Will you do a conversation with me?
@madalena. I feel the same living in a country where we don't have constant contact with native English speakers. Would you like to practice your skill English conversation with me?
@@priscilapachecotetour7028 I'd love to practice with you. But in this moment I had to put my life aside for a while because my oldest sister is very sick in the hospital and I have been there with her everyday and when I arrive at home tonight I am very exausted. Could you get my email and send me a message with you whatsapp, then I answer you sending mine. And, as soon as possible, we can talk. I hooe that my sister can go home soon.
I'm from Argentina. Same situation here. I use linguado app to talk with international friends.
Thanks a lot from Brazil!
He said " you put me on the spot a little bit that one because we can go into tangential discussions in so many areas"
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Amazing.
So proud of you Ana
Best conversation very useful for students who want to become fluent in English
I really enjoyed this interview. You are such amazing profesionals!! You are an example for me to follow, Anna!
Hello
I have learned a lot with you, you are great!!
Thank you so much!!! It was very interesting and useful!!!
I love the way you share your tips.
Hii
You're right ✅ making connections with the person with talk is more important and as John said phonetics is more important 👌 I love to have him as my coach and help speak like you!!! Also, when I stayed more than two weeks in USA, due to my strong desire to speak English as a native, and I came back to 🇨🇷, my English is much better 👌
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Im from Slovakia like his father 😁
Thanks so much Anna!!!
Thanks a lot for this English content, this video was really informative and really pleasant to listen to and watch it.
Saludos 🖖 soy mexicano 🇲🇽 gracias my friend
Very intersting excesice. Tanks so much.
Thank you for sharing your video!
It is very helpful for me.
Have a nice day😊🌈
Excellent conversation. I really appreciated you.
English is just an another language that helps you to communicate and open certain boundaries. One can't change their identity with English.
You have had a wonderful conversation with a real English speaker. Love to hear him again.
This video really give me a lot of vocabulary, a lot of think that I have to acurate and I need to pay a lot atention in how I speak and how I enjoying to speak English.
It really WAS an awesome conversation! Thanks a lot! :) Judging by the pronunciation skills of the interviewer, John is really worth his salt! :)
Yeah. It was really awesome. Thank you a lot for sharing your conversation with us.
i didn't figure out his opinion about American series why it were disgusting (it shows the real life of American young people at that time) but I really liked him as a teacher
Anna please don't stop shooting your lessons about phonetic in my opinion we as learners are missing a lot when ignore this huge important part to become fluent!
Actually what John says about 'decoding' and who bothers to do it or doesn't, and who can or can't, is a question worthy of reflection. As a language learner and teacher I guess I do this automatically, and pretty well. A sign of this is that I discovered I can more easily decode lyrics to songs that other people can't hear, and also I have encountered situations several times where other native speakers can't understand a strong accent (even of another native speaker, but just with a very different accent), but I can, even if I've never encountered that accent any more than they have. As teachers we probably get very used to and tolerant of speaking habits from students that other people maybe can't even deal with, so maybe really should insist on a far higher level of pronunciation. I think you'll find that people who have to deal with this a lot (which isn't just teachers, but immigration officials, people who work in stores in airports or in big cities with lots of tourists, etc.) are good at it and patient with it, but many average people can't deal with it. I've encountered this in Russia and Germany too, where people who are far less used to foreigners don't have the same patience with, or ability to understand, my version of their language.
I am a foreigner in England , I have friends from many countries and I can understand more accents, including other English accents, than native speakers here. It depends how often you expose yourself to various accents
Wonderful conversation between you two ❤️
I hope more again videos like this..I really like watching this video.. 🙏👍
Anna, this video is a rich food for thought. I'd like to see more of your interviews with John. If your English is not native-like, I don't know what is.
You’re helping me every day. Thank you 🙏✌️
John is an excellent teacher. He gets it. Phonetics is very important. Purpose of learning is also important. Hollywood movies are not a good way to learn English for the reasons John listed. Watching TH-cam videos by ordinary people is better.
I love his advice, I'm learning English my own sometimes I feel like tried , Even thought I learn a lot but can't speak !!my opinion still uploading 😂😂...
Good conversation, interesting.
Wow, I wish I found your channel few years ago! I've gone through all things you were talking about.
thank you so much.
Thank's Anna it was super beneficial
Thank you so much, very beneficial tips 😊
O god when will i speak like those when will this day come to me when i will be fluent to speak in english
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Hi Anna you are doing a great job keep it up
Hi! Very useful and interesting lesson, great tips, thanks!!!
Thank you so much _ Teacher " Anna "
Thank's Ana
Its amazing than you teaching your son english , keep going . Saludos desde Perú
Hi, Ana Thanks from South Asia Bangladesh!!! It will be benefit the Students & all English languages learner or who want!
Helpful conversation Anna With an Adept Man it was informative too Great Keep it up 👍
This was very helpful, more please.
Anna congratulations your accent is impressive!
Thank you for everything!
You both are the best !!!
At - 44:24 - Russian/Ukrainian and maybe other Slavic language speakers (and maybe a few others even), take note of the very true things John very entertainingly says about pronunciation issues for you.
thanks a bunch
Learning, enjoying and interesting session.
Thanks, it helps a lot...thanks.
Such a wise man. I share his opinion about movies in general and "Friends" in particular. I'm not alone) I find "Friends" disgusting as well
Wonderful content! Thank you guys so much!!! To my regret I’m one of those teachers who start with grammar and vocabulary and it’s because I didn’t know any better( Could you please give any suggestions on what to include in the lesson of English ‘cause you have one hour that you want to use effectively?
Thanks for this interview
Beautiful
Often time people equate fluency with connected speech which is a mistake since we have to focus on content words more than function words and syllabal stress , contractions , phrasal verbs and idioms which in combination give us the rythm of English .
Anna, thank for this conversation! Hello from Kyiv. Listenning and pronunciatian. 🙂
Great one. I just got an idea :P how about you doing an online session with one of your watchers/students every week/month who genuinely want to get better at english. This one thing will make your channel different from others. Also your connection with your youtube students will get stronger and you will def see a tremendous upsurge in your subscribers. Just a suggestion.
Hi Anna, I hope you're well. I need to ask you for some videos about you talking about animals, part of the house. War and peace. I mean different things. I hope you understand what I mean.
I love your channel.❤
That is a nice lesson.
thanks for that video that's so useful for me keep going for that videos