Café Grand Orient, Prague.
A few years ago.
I sat down with a new student and asked her about her English.
“Do you do any listening?” I asked.
“Yes,” she said.
“Great,” I said. “What?”
“Business English videos,” she said.
“Hmm, not so great,” I said.
“Why?” she asked.
And that is the exact moment when I invented…
THE YOUTUBE GAME
Here’s how you play:
STEP ONE: watch a Talking Dictionary on youtube (this is any English “teacher” who simply explains what words mean)
STEP TWO: wait 24 hours
STEP THREE: ask yourself “What is one word that I learned yesterday from The Talking Teacher?”
If you can remember zero words the next day…
AND you keep watching these videos…
Then you lose.
But…
If you stop watching these talking dictionaries and schedule a Fluency Audit and vocab lesson with me…
You win.