This is the final part of this special 3-part series where you are going to learn HOW to accelerate your English learning to reach your English goals faster.
About this episode...
So what was the BIGGEST mistake I made that kept me stuck as a beginner for so long?
It wasn’t only because I was doing Naive Practice...
But it was also because I was following the 'common' suggestions and ideas about HOW to learn a language, such as:
"Just listen to lots of audio""Watch movies with subtitles" "Take a language course""Go to a Spanish speaking country. You'll learn fast!"
Trust me, I tried ALL of them....Multiple times.
It seemed like these ideas worked for everyone else, but they weren’t working for me.
I thought, “Maybe I’m just bad at learning languages”. And at one point, I almost gave up.
It wasn’t until I started think about how I usually learn new skills that I realized, it’s a simple 2-step method:
Step 1: Think about the skill I want to be able to do.Step 2: Think of ways to learn and practice it.
For Spanish, I wanted to be able to:> Speak with real people and understand them
But when I looked at what I was actually doing > Memorizing random words and doing grammar drills
Wait a minute…How are grammar drills helping my speaking? Or listening?
Oops. They don’t.
And what type of words am I learning? …Words from grammar lessons.
Are those the words used in everyday communication?Nope. Definitely not.
This helped me realize, I was doing the wrong activities for the skills I needed.
My next mission: Find a better way to practice speaking and listening.
And this brought me to the ‘trial and error’ part of my learning where I spent the next two years experimenting with different ideas.
Although most of my ideas were complete failures…
… Eventually I found the key methods that UNLOCKED my language skills and allowed me to make rapid progress.
Like really rapid. I got up to an advanced level within 1 year.
Although my story is ‘interesting’ because it explains HOW I figured out how to reach fluency.
My story is also the LONG and SLOW WAY. … And I don’t recommend it.
Because there is a MUCH faster way.
In today’s podcast, I want to share the concept of DELIBERATE PRACTICE which builds on the concept of Purposeful Practice.
Without doubt, Deliberate Practice is the fast-track to fluency. And it’s a method that can easily increase the speed you learn by 3x.
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