Hello! Today's video is gonna be in English and I'm gonna teach you how you can learn English by yourself.
So,
To tell you how you can learn English by yourself
I'm first gonna tell you how I learned English. And why am I gonna tell you how I learned English?
Because I've learned
Most of what I know about English by myself.
I had no other teacher teaching me for a very long period of my life.
So I started learning English when I was like 11 or 12. I'm 31 now, so it's been a while and
I've started by translating Alanis Morissette's songs
because I was a
Super fan of hers. And as you have seen I'm old and
By being old, the internet was and what the internet is today, you know, so what happened?
I've started translating the songs because I couldn't find any
reliable translation and I really wanted to know what the songs were talking about. And
By doing that I've learned
lots of English, I mean lots!
Because after that, I got into a school and
I got into the upper intermediate stage already
So it was pretty awesome for me, because I've saved my my father some bucks, you know
Other than that, like, I mean, I saved time and etc. And then I went on and became a teacher when I was 17.
So it's
been a, been a very nice while that I know, and speak, and
learn, and teach English
and
What can I tell you by my experience on how you can learn English better by yourself without
Spending lots and lots and lots and lots of money?
So, first step is: you need to be
Virtually surrounded by English. What do I mean by being virtually surrounded by English? The more
Contact you have with English the better. And why is that? Because this way your brain gets used
To English, to the sounds of English, and all this kind of stuff. That is very
important, like, I mean, very
important for you to learn.
So
How do you surround yourself with English? First of all, you
Change your cell phone to English, change your computer to English if you can, change
like every interface possible to English, like for real and
When you have fun, have fun in English: watch movies in English, watch
Series in English, watch
YouTube in English
I don't know if you know but down there. There is a CC button that I hope you have clicked here
Because if you're learning English, you're pretty I - I don't think you you can understand what I'm saying
Like maybe one word here one word there, but not really the whole idea
So, if you haven't turned to closed captions on please do it now, because the captions are in Portuguese
So, and you can do that to pretty much
any video in English that there is on YouTube and
Why is that?
Why is that important? Why is that interesting?
Because what happens: YouTube has this
amazing feature that
Like, I don't know what magic Google did there, you know?
But they like - the audio input
something gets whatever people say in their videos and
they transform it into text and it's
Getting better and better, you know, like a couple of years ago it wasn't so good. But now it's like amazing
so you have the whole YouTube as
Material for you to study and how do you study? You check the captions,
You check the audio, you check the words you don't know on the dictionary,
you know, you do all this kind of stuff and the more
Contact you have the better.
Always!
Nowadays, your life is easier than mine was because I had to be keeping
Translating songs forever and ever. I mean like there wasn't
any other
Thing. I mean probably there was but I was young, and I didn't know so there you know
There wasn't as much material as there is now because the internet got this, you know,
Like, got huge and got amazing. And nowadays you can learn using your cell phone
I've lost my cell phone and on my cell phone is here
You can learn using your cell phone. Probably the device you're watching this video right now
You can study using your your cell phone and
You can study using YouTube. Another amazing thing for you to learn English is TED
I don't know if you know TED, but if you don't you should because TED is amazing. TED is this
Amazing conference. I don't know if I can call it a conference, but it's something like that
where many people go there and they talk about their fields so
There are people talking about engineering. There are people talking about science. There are people talking about
Medical stuff, you know, like, there
Probably is
Something you like in there. And why is it important to be something you like?
because if it's not something you like you're going to be bored and
learning and
Boredom don't match. I mean they do because teachers make it boring
But it doesn't need to be. This is my point. When you study a language
if you do that with
some
Subject that you already like, that you already have interest
It's going to be so much fun!
I mean for real, it's going to be super fun because you're not going to be learning only one thing
You know, you're not going to learn only English. You're going to learn English and
whatever that thing is that you're studying
So it's amazing because, like, you get the time to study one thing and your study two! And you know
It's great! I
Still really like to study with music. So for, example nowadays,
I keep my English, my conversational English,
By talking to people of course, but also by singing along with the songs, you know
Because it helps the motor part of my mouth
To be in contact with those movements that I need to make. So it's really, really nice.
Another thing that you can do is
Use apps on your cell phone. What kind of apps? You've probably heard about Duolingo, Duolingo
Is this really nice app that will teach you the basics of lots of languages, but this is the problem about Duolingo
it's the basics and
their
Microphone thingy to - So you can study the pronunciation and
you can practice the pronunciation is not that good
I mean because you need to speak exactly what they want and
You've been listening to my English for quite some time now and my pronunciation is okay, right? So
Even with my pronunciation being okay
I've tried Duolingo, and many times Duolingo didn't get my
Pronunciation. Even though I knew what I was saying was right. So the thing is
It's nice
You can keep in contact with the language, you can learn new things about the language
But it's not
Everything that you need. Another really nice app
that is very similar to Duolingo is Memrise. Memrise is
Usually free, but if you want some extra features, you can buy it like for five dollars a month
it's not that expensive but
The idea is to do it for free. So let's keep on the free side
Memrise is a little better than Duolingo in my experience
And why do I say that? because I've started taking Swedish in Memrise
And Swedish is a very interesting language
But at the same time it's very complicated to actually learn without a teacher. So
Memrise has helped me a little, but it doesn't really have, I don't know for English,
but for Swedish it didn't have so much grammar explanation and
explanations are important for you to understand why one thing is one way and not the other way and
Yeah, so it's kind of bad
But at the same time it's okay because when you've learned your language,
whatever language you speak, you didn't
Really
learn
With somebody saying "hey, so this happens because of this"
I mean you've got that when you went to school
but I don't know here in Brazil we go like we start learning how to write and to read
when we're six or seven and
Like, but up to then you spoke Portuguese, right? And nobody told you
"Oh, This is a verb you need to use this verb this way" the problem by doing things by yourself is
Like you are gonna need more time
why because what is the role of a teacher? The teacher should
Guide you. Tell you "hey, go this way, go that way", you know?
Because I
have made mistakes and
I can help you not to make the same mistakes that I made, you know?
So this is the thing about having a teacher: you save time.
but teachers cost money because you know, they have their time, their expertise, their
They've studied a lot to become teachers. actually some of them because yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
So,
it's like
You're gonna need to understand some concepts of grammar because English is not only Portuguese
Translated to some new words, you know? Like, it's not it's not the same structure,
it's not the same thinking, everything is different when you learn a new language and
so
The apps won't help you with the grammar. What will?
Great, there are lots and lots of websites with grammar and stuff. But there is one that I want to tell you about.
It's
BBC Learning English. It's from BBC the
network from England and
they have a pretty decent course about
English there, with expressions, grammar and all this kind of thing that is very important. So
let's review: we have
songs, movies,
Series, etc
We have TED, TED is awesome. So if you want to study by TED, don't use the
channel that they have here on YouTube. Go to their website because there they have
lots of features and lots of
tools that will help you, like, that really will help you to
Understand pronunciation, to understand linking sounds and all this kind of things
so
The
You can have all of this there, just for you to grab
but you will not learn if you don't do one thing. And this thing is very, very,
Very important. I can not stress
How Important this is. It's important
To
keep
frequency
What? Keep frequency what is that?
So, it's important for you to be in contact with the language as long as you can
It doesn't matter what you do, try to do the thing in English, you know?
Some people say like, "oh you can, you know,
Label the stuff in your house. So whoa, this is a mug. This is a monitor. This is a
Mouse" Like yeah, you can, but I don't know. It doesn't work for me, if it works for you great! Do that.
It's enough. It's a very nice way to learn vocabulary
But for me
it doesn't work because I stopped looking at the things, you know? I stop looking at what's written so I
Just don't
Get the word anymore
Another really nice way for you to learn how to speak a language is to actually talk to
Native, you know talk to a foreigner talk, to somebody who isn't Brazilian or Portuguese and why?
Because
Talking is important because it's a language you don't write you speak a language,
right?
Every language has started by speaking, not by writing and
Speaking is actually the most important thing about a language in my opinion.
Okay. So in my opinion we'll have speaking
listening and
Reading and writing. Like, this order. and why this order?
Because with writing you always, you know,
Like nowadays who writes on a paper? I don't even have papers in my house, you know, so
Every time that I write in English other than when I'm teaching I have
spellcheck
So I don't need to care about the spelling of words. And you're gonna have spellcheck everywhere
You can have a special keyboard on your phone that has
spellcheck in two different languages at the same time
That's what I use. If you don't know that and if you want to know which keyboard I use leave a comment below
Asking me that I'll answer you. Okay?
So, other than having everything in English, you can talk to foreigners and "oh,
but, Jo,
I don't know any foreigners for me to talk with! How am I gonna talk to foreigners, if I don't know foreigners?"
So, I thought you might say that and
I
Got some really nice website for you to try out
It's called Hellolingo, all the links of everything that I'm saying is gonna be down there on the description,
And on Hellolingo, it's, like, free, you can talk to foreigners who want to learn Portuguese
and that's really nice, because, you know,
They can help you and you can help them. One person helps another person. Everybody gets happy. Yay!
So this is the idea, you know
Like the more contact you have with the language,
The more contact you have with anything that you want to learn,
The better it will be for you
Like it's simple as that. To be a good speaker, to be a good listener to be a good
Whatever, you need to have contact with whatever that is that you want to learn. So, how did I become
Such a nice English speaker?
Well, by practicing.
there's really no other way and I've practiced the most I could and I still
Do. This is the thing
practice, practice, practice.
Contact, contact, contact.
The more contact you have, the more practice
you have, the better your English will be. So don't forget to like, subscribe and
Comment if you have any doubt or if you want to know the keyboard that I told you about.
Subscribe!
See ya!
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