Video Content:
Hello and thanks for watching this video. Welcome back to CB English my name is Charlie and my goal is to make you fluent!
Main Topic: Start Creating & Stop Deliberating
Script: This Series of Videos will help you become aware of the Psychological Barriers that might be slowing you down in your language learning journey. This episode is called “Start Creating & Stop Deliberating” and I am going to talk about two learning styles that can hinder you when learning English. I’m then going to go over the idea of mistakes and reframe them in your brain! Followed up with a summary of what I’ve told you and then end with an action list for you to do today. So let’s get going!
Support Point 1: Inactive vs Active Learning
Script:
Are you inactive or active? Don’t know what I mean, well Do you watch Movies in English? Do you listen to audiobooks? Do you tune in to the BBC ever? If you said yes to any of these questions then you might indeed be an inactive learner!
Inactive vs Active is describing the way in which you interact with the language. An inactive learner will spend a lot more time “learning” but not progressing in the speaking aspect of the language. When one is inactively learning they are involved in listening or reading exercises and while they get good at learning how to recognise sounds and words they still are not improving their speaking ability. Active learning is the steroid to language learning. To be active you need to be creating. Be it speaking or writing.
It is indeed very simple. Practice what you want to be good at.
If you want to get good at breaking down what someone said to you and understanding the grammar behind their sentence then get those grammar books out but if you want to be able to reply to the person then start creating spoken English!
Disclaimer: The listening and reading aspects of English are real and grammar can occasionally help. Do not burn your grammar books, throw your TV out the window or eat your iPod we want to continue watching, listening, reading and observing as you do need balance. But the majority of what you need now is to start creating English!
Support Point 2: Inductive vs Deductive Learning
Script:
When I started to learn Spanish I was always wanting to learn the rules first and then apply some examples to it and then go out and practice this.
Unfortunately this was one of my biggest downfalls because it was time consuming, boring and I was rarely satisfied. What I was doing was called deductive learning. It is robotic and unnatural in language acquisition.
The remedy is to learn inductively. That is to be exposed to the language, practice it yourself and then naturally and gradually come to a general understanding of the rules.
To me its as devastating as being told the punch line of a joke before the beginning. It reduces the enjoyment of the entire experience simply due to the order.
The simple answer is to try to create English before learning the rule book!
Support Point 3: Mistakes release the learning brakes
Transcript:
You are probably thinking that this method encourages you to make a mistake. You are totally right. I am not going to say it doesn’t because it does! However I will say that over the last 2 years I have met on average 1 new English learner a day and I have asked every single one of them “what advice would you give to another English learner”. And can you guess THE most repeated answer??? That’s right they say…”don’t feel embarrassed about making a mistake”.
If we look at young children they have this inability to understand embarrassment, which is in fact a secret to their success in learning. They just try and try until they succeed. But the older we get the more we fear failure! We do this for a number of reasons. Partly because schools are designed to punish failure and reward success. Grr! Another reason is because we develop higher expectations of ourselves. We think we should know everything and if we don’t then that is our fault for not knowing it yet, which is crazy!
Now I don’t want you to avoid all matured levels of embarrassment as running around in the back garden naked is a little odd over the age of adulthood, so the aim is to keep your clothes on but let go of the embarrassment attached to making a mistake.
Think of a mistake as your fast track pass to fluency. The more you make a mistake the more you learn. We can even change the phrase from a mistake to a miss take. That’s it just a miss take and then next take will be better.
Go out there and honestly try to make mistakes. My best Skype classes are full of them. The worst lessons are the one’s when my student doesn’t try to speak. They don’t try because they are concerned about making a mistake. So go into a conversation trying to make a miss take. The worst that will happen is that you will make someone else feel clever because they can correct you.
You can even associate you doing a miss take in English as a good deed to the world because you are making your listener feel clever!
Wow okay, I think I have said enough new information for episode one!
Summary:
So today you learned how to learn! Get active with the language, take it on in an inductive way and finally make a mistake everyday to ensure you learn!
Now remember to use this information and not loose it. I want you to apply this to yourself TODAY.
Call To Action: Create English Regularly by:
1: Recording Yourself Answer these questions (link to IELTS questions
2: Write your own summary of fascinating talks of your own interest from www.ted.com
3: Connect with an English Teacher Online
Hello and thanks for watching this video. Welcome back to CB English my name is Charlie and my goal is to make you fluent!
Main Topic: Start Creating & Stop Deliberating
Script: This Series of Videos will help you become aware of the Psychological Barriers that might be slowing you down in your language learning journey. This episode is called “Start Creating & Stop Deliberating” and I am going to talk about two learning styles that can hinder you when learning English. I’m then going to go over the idea of mistakes and reframe them in your brain! Followed up with a summary of what I’ve told you and then end with an action list for you to do today. So let’s get going!
Support Point 1: Inactive vs Active Learning
Script:
Are you inactive or active? Don’t know what I mean, well Do you watch Movies in English? Do you listen to audiobooks? Do you tune in to the BBC ever? If you said yes to any of these questions then you might indeed be an inactive learner!
Inactive vs Active is describing the way in which you interact with the language. An inactive learner will spend a lot more time “learning” but not progressing in the speaking aspect of the language. When one is inactively learning they are involved in listening or reading exercises and while they get good at learning how to recognise sounds and words they still are not improving their speaking ability. Active learning is the steroid to language learning. To be active you need to be creating. Be it speaking or writing.
It is indeed very simple. Practice what you want to be good at.
If you want to get good at breaking down what someone said to you and understanding the grammar behind their sentence then get those grammar books out but if you want to be able to reply to the person then start creating spoken English!
Disclaimer: The listening and reading aspects of English are real and grammar can occasionally help. Do not burn your grammar books, throw your TV out the window or eat your iPod we want to continue watching, listening, reading and observing as you do need balance. But the majority of what you need now is to start creating English!
Support Point 2: Inductive vs Deductive Learning
Script:
When I started to learn Spanish I was always wanting to learn the rules first and then apply some examples to it and then go out and practice this.
Unfortunately this was one of my biggest downfalls because it was time consuming, boring and I was rarely satisfied. What I was doing was called deductive learning. It is robotic and unnatural in language acquisition.
The remedy is to learn inductively. That is to be exposed to the language, practice it yourself and then naturally and gradually come to a general understanding of the rules.
To me its as devastating as being told the punch line of a joke before the beginning. It reduces the enjoyment of the entire experience simply due to the order.
The simple answer is to try to create English before learning the rule book!
Support Point 3: Mistakes release the learning brakes
Transcript:
You are probably thinking that this method encourages you to make a mistake. You are totally right. I am not going to say it doesn’t because it does! However I will say that over the last 2 years I have met on average 1 new English learner a day and I have asked every single one of them “what advice would you give to another English learner”. And can you guess THE most repeated answer??? That’s right they say…”don’t feel embarrassed about making a mistake”.
If we look at young children they have this inability to understand embarrassment, which is in fact a secret to their success in learning. They just try and try until they succeed. But the older we get the more we fear failure! We do this for a number of reasons. Partly because schools are designed to punish failure and reward success. Grr! Another reason is because we develop higher expectations of ourselves. We think we should know everything and if we don’t then that is our fault for not knowing it yet, which is crazy!
Now I don’t want you to avoid all matured levels of embarrassment as running around in the back garden naked is a little odd over the age of adulthood, so the aim is to keep your clothes on but let go of the embarrassment attached to making a mistake.
Think of a mistake as your fast track pass to fluency. The more you make a mistake the more you learn. We can even change the phrase from a mistake to a miss take. That’s it just a miss take and then next take will be better.
Go out there and honestly try to make mistakes. My best Skype classes are full of them. The worst lessons are the one’s when my student doesn’t try to speak. They don’t try because they are concerned about making a mistake. So go into a conversation trying to make a miss take. The worst that will happen is that you will make someone else feel clever because they can correct you.
You can even associate you doing a miss take in English as a good deed to the world because you are making your listener feel clever!
Wow okay, I think I have said enough new information for episode one!
Summary:
So today you learned how to learn! Get active with the language, take it on in an inductive way and finally make a mistake everyday to ensure you learn!
Now remember to use this information and not loose it. I want you to apply this to yourself TODAY.
Call To Action: Create English Regularly by:
1: Recording Yourself Answer these questions (link to IELTS questions
2: Write your own summary of fascinating talks of your own interest from www.ted.com
3: Connect with an English Teacher Online
