How To Make Fewer Mistakes In English

Here’s an interesting story…

A man lost his memory.

I think he had Alzheimer’s.

When you asked him his address, he didn’t know.

But if he was outside in his neighborhood, he could always find his way home.

How was that possible?

CONSCIOUS VS UNCONSCIOUS LEARNING

Conscious learning is what you do in school.

You study a textbook.

If feels like work; it feels fast; it feels like progress.

You can answer questions, give definitions, translate and pass tests.

There are multiple problems, however:

You forget.

You forget fast.

You make mistakes.

It’s difficult to speak.

Then there’s unconscious learning.

It takes longer to learn; it doesn’t feel like you’re learning; and you can’t explain what you know.

But the advantages are:

You remember longer.

You make fewer mistakes.

You can speak.

That’s how the man was able to find his way home: he had memories of walking home which were stored in his unconscious memory.

And that’s how you’ll speak English correctly: you’ll make memories of correct English.

That’s level two on our pyramid:

Now, how do you make memories?