I will teach you to become a confident English speaker without schools and rules
A reader wrote with this question:
“I have learned English for many years. I known about grammar, but I can’t speak. My mouth can not open when I want to talk. I think about everything in my brain. However, I can’t make a sentence. What do I do?”
This reminded me of a famous quote by the American baseball player and coach Yogi Berra:
Have you ever looked up a word in the dictionary and then forgotten it a few minutes later?
I know I have.
So what’s going on?
“What happened to your leg?”
I was walking with a limp and I guess my friend noticed.
“A clown was chasing me with a chainsaw and I whacked it hard against an operating table.”
Do you believe humans can learn languages naturally?
Or do you believe someone has to teach us languages?
I believe how you answer this question will predict if you will become fluent or stay stuck at intermediate.
I was having lunch with a Romanian friend.
I said “The waiter’s a knucklehead.”
She said, “What does that mean?”
-Mr. Vig“Your head hurts…it’s harder to breathe… And there is no lion. There’s no shark. There’s not even a zombie. Not one zombie. But you have theses terrible nervous feelings just because you have to speak English.”
Some people like to quote Churchill or Gandi or Shakespeare.
Pht! That’s so predictable!
Starting your own business so you can have more time is like having a baby so you can get more sleep.
That’s why last Monday, during a national holiday, when normal people were relaxing in the park, I was working in the park.
I was shooting videos for my new youtube channel.
How many hours of video were just uploaded to youtube?
The answer: 300.
And that’s not 300 hours yesterday.
“I took some classes at a language school and now I speak fluent English”…
is a sentence I have never, ever, never, ever heard one person say.
Not once.
That means I can see a lot of rooftops and a lot of pigeons.
Whenever I need to think, I like to look out my windows at the pigeons.
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