1.introduction跟讀筆記

hi there my name is Luke

and I'm an English teacher from America

and for the last 5 years I've been

helping English learners from all over the world

improve their English skills and become more

natural and confident

English speakers

I'm also the founder of Cloud English

and the co-founder

of a language learning platform called Joli

in this course

you're going to learn how to start thinking in English

now why do you need to do that

if you want to become

a totally fluent English speaker you absolutely have to

start thinking in English

there's no other way to do it

you cannot be

a fluent English speaker

if you're not thinking in English as you speak English

very simple this course will guide you

with exercises and different techniques

to learn how to start thinking in English

build really strong

English habits and get well on your way

to English fluency

so this course is an absolute must

for those of you who are very serious

about becoming totally fluent in English

so check out the preview of the course and sign up

see you there

2. Tips跟讀筆記

alright so in the last video the first video we just

introduced the idea of an English brain

what is it and talked about

the things that we're going to be doing

in this course

remember an English brain simply what I call

an English brain

is just your ability to think in English

and I want to in this lesson

just talk about a few things that you should remember

and a few basic tips

for this course and

after this course for all of your English studies

okay a few things to we could say keep in mind

a few things to keep in mind

let's go over a few things

the first thing to remember

is that you're going to have to work hard

if you want to be fluent

if you want to be a great English speaker

you've got to work hard

you may be asking for or wanting a very

fast little trick to become an awesome English speaker

well this depends on the students

some students can improve really quickly

but generally

I can tell you

if you want to be good

that's something you have to practice it

this is obvious

so I hope you don't think that

at the end of this course

you're going to magically be

a fluent English speaker

of course not probably

now I hope you can take the things from this course

and then practice the ideas from it

again and again

until you do become

a fluent English speaker that's the idea

so I just hope that you keep in your mind

that practice is the thing that gets you to fluency

not just learning

learning is the first step

ah I see that's how I should do it

now I'm going to take that idea

and do it many many many times

so learning something is often not enough

you have to learn it and apply it do it practice it

many times practice will

get you to where you're going

but you have to practice in the right way

now some students

say well yeah I know I should maybe

learn to think in English when I'm speaking

but that's not the only way

I can also do it another way

I can learn

by or through my own language

right

I'll think in my language and then speak in English

and then I will become fluent

both ways are okay

no you will not meet and you cannot meet

a person who

thinks in their language and at the same time

speaks in another

it doesn't happen

if there's a perfect speaker of this language

or maybe they learned that language

when they're speaking that language perfectly

they're thinking in that language

and if they change and speak in another language

maybe their own language

then they're thinking in that language

the only way

the only way there's only one road there aren't two roads

both are not okay

the only way is to learn to think in English

if you do not do it

you will not be a fluent English speaker

it's that simple

if you do not do it

if you do not learn to think in English

you will not be

a fluent English speaker I can promise you

I've asked a lot of successful students

I've talked to a lot of successful language learners

I've had a lot of experience teaching students

and the ones who succeed

the ones who do it well

are the ones who change their way of thinking

and start thinking in English

it's the only way

so both ways are not okay

another really important thing to remember is that

time does not equal success

you can spend a lot of time

doing the wrong thing doing things the wrong way

and one of the perfect examples of this

is the way to study words

now we'll be talking about that

very soon

in another lesson we'll be talking about that

the time that you put in plus

the methods that you use

together these things

can make you successful

this is a way to improve English effectively

you can spend a lot of time

learning words an incorrect way

and not see much progress

I've met students in the past who studied for years

two years studying

every day almost nothing

almost no progress

um it happens

so time is not the only thing

it's also about the way you do it

time is important

you need time

but it's not the only thing

now you see three words here play jump swim

why did I quit these three words here

all right well it's simple

um don't think of English as this very very hard thing

like science where this is this

right if you do this you will get this

and this is the only way this can be

don't think of it like this

because if you do that you won't really

challenge yourself to think creatively in English

so you have to be able to think creatively

in English to be able to um

to do well to be able to improve

so play with the language

play with it have fun with it

see if this and this works together right

if you learn two things or you learn something new

try to see if you can make it work in this way

and then maybe ask

is this right

ask someone who knows is this the right way

don't only follow what someone teaches you right

someone teaches you this is right

well that might be right but something else might

also be right

so when you learn something play with it

and by playing with it you explore more

about that thing you learn

this is a really great way to understand more

about the language

how it works and what you can do with it

also I have the word jump here

jump means not to have any reservations

that means don't be shy

don't be shy

if you have the opportunity to speak in English

speak try

you might think Oh I'm I'm not good enough right

I I don't know exactly how to say it

I don't know the right words to use

just try

the ones who improve more quickly are the ones who

just try okay

maybe you don't know the right word

is there another way to say it

can you describe it instead of saying the word

so jump into it

be more enthusiastic be energetic

use every opportunity or chance

that you have to use and practice English

and by doing this you will

be around English more

and you will find out where your problems are

ah I tried this it didn't work

they didn't understand that

so next time maybe I'll try this way

ah that worked

okay I got it

but if you never tried

if you just sat back and say well

I'm not good enough

I don't know the right words

you'll never know this wasn't right

you'll never know this was weird right

being wrong sometimes sounding strange sometimes

sounding incorrect or being incorrect sometimes

that's okay that is okay

by making mistakes

by jumping in and making mistakes you will

actually improve

so don't be afraid

don't be shy just try

don't be afraid

don't be shy

just try huh

it rhymes good

swim

swimming basically what I mean is immerse yourself

immerse yourself means to surround yourself

with the language if you want to learn a language

how could you learn it just by looking at

little pieces of the language

say English from your own language

if you learn English through your language only

and you learn the meaning of that word

with your language rather than that language

yeah maybe okay you might learn something but

it won't be very deep

and you won't be able to really

really get a feeling for it

right and it also might be a little bit slow

and it certainly won't help you to think in English

which is what this course is about

so immerse yourself

be around English as much as you can

the best way to do this is to go to

an English speaking country and live there

but not everybody can do that right

so there are many ways to surround yourself

with English and I'm sure you know some of those

movies TV radio reading

right articles literature poetry

um listening to to a lot of different things

all of these are ways to immerse yourself

to swim in English okay

don't be afraid to

surround yourself

with the language you're trying to learn

that's called an immersion

and if you do it

you're more likely to improve more quickly

and you're more likely to be able to think

in English

and you're more likely to be able to get a feeling

for English okay so

play jump swim

I have a 30-minute rule for anything you want to learn

you can't just do it sometimes and not others

you need to do it regularly

right

just like if you want to be strong

you want to build muscle

you won't be able to build muscle

if you go to the gym once every two weeks

you'll maybe build a little muscle

and then lose the muscle

and then you go back to the gym 2 weeks later

you build a little muscle

you won't see much improvement

what's the same for English

so you need to make clear rules for yourself

I mentioned that you need to spend time

but I want to be a little more specific now

every day you have to practice English

you have to keep English in your mind every day

and I have a limit about how much that should be

at least 30 minutes

okay so you have to spend at least 30 minutes

7 days a week

for as long as it takes to become really good at English

okay it's not asking a lot

24 hours in a day

30 minutes is not that much

I think spending more

than 30 minutes is better of course

but no less than 30 minutes

okay at least challenge yourself

30 minutes a day

make time if you're serious about it

you will okay so

30 minutes a day

and get into the habit

of practicing or doing something with English

30 minutes a day and you will see results

if you want to be good at something

it's often difficult to see what your own problems are

so you need some kind of feedback

now this is really the reason that teachers exist

right teachers exist

mainly to give you feedback

about what you do to help you improve

whether you're at the gym

with your personal trainer

or whether you're in a class with a teacher

so the teacher is there to guide you

this is one way to do it

you need some kind of feedback

so taking a class is good

as long as you can get feedback

so you can know what you're doing right

what you're doing wrong

which direction you should be going

if you can't get a teacher

there are other ways to get some feedback

you might um find a forum

or a place where you can

ask questions and get answers to your questions

okay now

there are many different places where you can do this

but this is another idea

there are other ways

maybe your friends are also learning English

and you can use them as a way to get some feedback

about what you might be doing right

what you might be doing wrong

could form a group

and practice together and give each other feedback

this is a good way as well

it's not bad so

in any case

it's important to have some kind of feedback

some way to find out how you're doing

right because you might be doing something really

really wrong

and then you make that wrong thing a bad habit

and then it will be really difficult to change

that bad habit

so some kind of feedback is pretty important

some way to ask questions at least

at least now the first of these is okay

most people can handle that idea

the second is a little more difficult for some

the first is to make English a part of your lifestyle

I had mentioned

that you should spend 30 minutes a day at least

doing something with English

doing some of the things that

we'll be talking about in the rest of this course

um so

make it a habit that's making it part of your lifestyle

right but another aspect of that lifestyle thing

is that you don't really think about

right now it's time for me to study English

now it's time for me to spend 30 minutes which I hate

uh practicing English

so this um

isn't the best

way of doing it

this I wouldn't consider really lifestyle

lifestyle English means you just do it

and it's part of your routine

and you don't hate it

it's just something that's there

and actually it's better if you can enjoy it

so the next part is to try to enjoy

the process of learning English

and trying to become more fluent

the students who are most successful

usually are the ones who really

really enjoy learning English

actually like learning English

if you like doing something

you're much more likely to be successful at it

if you hate doing something

it is less likely that you will be good at doing that

so

try to find something about the language that you enjoy

you can still improve

you can still get better if you don't really like it

but it's certainly ideal

if you can find something

about it that you really like

that is the best situation

okay so try to enjoy it

make it part of your lifestyle

okay and that's uh that's really important

so in the next lesson we're going to be talking about

how we can learn and practice by reading

the importance of reading

and how we can read in the right way

to develop our English brain

so I will see you in the next lesson

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