3 THINGS YOU MUST DO Every Day to Improve Your English

you know this week I had a conversation with one of my favorite students and he asked me a question that I'm sure you have asked yourself many times he said TIFF you know I've been studying English for a long time I I listen to a lot of things and I read a lot of books but I don't seem to be improving he said that when he listens to different audio clips or watches of drama and tries to understand what they're saying he may understand but later on he's not able to use what he learned and he said it's frustrating so I want to ask you have you ever experienced that you know like you put a lot of effort and time into studying English and you see things on TV you hear things in various conversations but you just can't seem to use the expressions and vocabulary words like a native English speaker and it's frustrating you know I told this student I said you know what I understand what you're going through I went through the exact same thing when I was studying Korean Korean is not an easy language to learn it's a beautiful language but it's not easy and I help them to understand that I also experienced the same frustrations but in the midst of our conversation I let him know three things three things that will transform his English journey and I want to teach you those three things today I'm teacher Tiffany let's jump right in [Music] all right just like the student I mentioned there are three things I told him to do three things that must be done you see you want to know how to take in new pieces of information how to process the new pieces of information and how to remember and use the new pieces of information so here we go step number one learn a new word expression or idiom and maybe you're like teacher we kind of already know that oh no no no stay along I'm gonna explain it to you so here's the thing when it comes to learning a new expression idiom or vocabulary word how can you do this first you need to learn it from a video a blog a conversation and English book or any other natural English source now notice I said natural and why am I saying it's important to find these words and expressions from a natural source you see as an English Learner I'm sure you have been to many different Institute's you've had many other amazing English teachers and you've looked at many English textbooks but you've also noticed that sometimes what you learn in a textbook is not always what native English speakers use now don't get me wrong the textbooks are important they are your foundation but you make it to a point where you experienced the frustration my student experienced because he's not able to use the natural expressions that we as Americans or native English speakers use that's why the natural English resources or the sources they're so important all right so how do you do it from a video blog conversation or English book or any other natural source now why always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will I love this quote from Vernon Howard and it kind of realises the fact that your English language studies are part of a journey not to a specific nation this journey is gonna be throughout the rest of your life think about it I'm still learning new things in English and I mentioned last week I've mentioned in the previous video young people are still teaching me new expressions new slang terms and I'm happy to learn them but again I'm a native English speaker and my journey is still continuing so just like Vernon says remember walk through life and be excited to learn so first again learn a new English expression idiom or vocabulary word this is everyday now what will the results be here we go you will develop the ability to use real English in other words your English will start to sound more natural and I hear something funny last week I talked GU Chee right I mentioned that I taught that also on my Instagram page looking for my phone looking for my phone guys oh well I'll just tell you anyway so I mentioned that on my Instagram channel that I explained Gucci now that's a slang term and some of you actually sent me messages some in the comment section and some of the Academy students said teacher on ask Gucci and immediately my feeling changed a little bit because you used something that's naturally used in America by Americans and my feeling changed in a good way so it helps you to sound more natural when you get English from natural English sources alright okay so let's see exactly how this can be done let's say for example like I mentioned Gucci this is a screenshot from last week's video alright so I talk gu Chi now this term naturally came up during a Q&A with teacher tiff episode so you learn some new English slang again like I mentioned from a natural source in a natural conversation right hold on one second I'm not sick don't worry guys all right so again first thing learn a new vocabulary word expression or idiom now after you do that this step is important so important teach it to three other people immediately this is the step right here that's the key and I told my student I said here's the deal you're learning so many things but you feel frustrated because you're not able to use them and you feel like your English isn't improving well the middle step that's missing is you have to teach somebody else and maybe you're asking yourself teacher I'm not a teacher I'm a student learning from you that is true but when you learn something or when you see something exciting what do you naturally do you share it with somebody else basically a viral video is that something you see on TV or something you see on the internet like this is so funny oh my goodness my friend would love this too and you share it with your friend so you're actually teaching your friend about this video so it's a natural habit of ours to tell other people something that's important to us funny to us or interesting to us do the same thing when it comes to English so let's look at this a little bit closer alright so again teach it to three other people so you see this young man right here find three friends or other English learners you are connected to and tell them what you learned and explain it now again you're not worrying about your grammar right now like oh I can't explain it properly with the full sentence it's okay I taught you guys Gucci right explain that to a friend it's something funny and something interesting explain it in your own words all right now why this is because when a student spends time teaching what they have learned they eventually start to understand the information more and remember it isn't that amazing the way your brain works is awesome so when you literally take the time to okay I learned this new expression from teacher Tiffany let me tell my friend your brain starts operating in a different way because now you have to take in the information process it and then regurgitate or produce it again your brain is amazing that's why this is so important to teach three people and you all know how much I love the rules up three right so three people again you're gonna teach the first person baby you're a little nervous the second person okay I'm a little bit more comfortable by the third person a let me tell you about this word I learned from teacher Tiff's make sense all right now what are the results going to be here we go the result you will remember more information feel more confident in your English speaking ability and be able to use what you learn faster in real conversations think about it you learn something right and usually like the student that I was talking to you learn it and you're by yourself maybe you write it down but it stops but if you learn it share it with three people that's four times your brain has had the opportunity to process it so when you come to a situation that requires that expression or word you're like oh man I'm already comfortable with this expression of vocabulary word and they will come out in a natural way so let's see again how this is gonna work how can you actually share it with three people so again back to the example this student learned guchi from me last week the student goes to his three friends and says hey guys guess what I just learned have you ever heard someone say guchi it's actually an English slang term that means good or nice so I can say that new-car is Gucci man I love this slang now I have seen students do this actually well they learn something from me and be so excited that they'll share it with someone else naturally and the students that do that are the students that remember the slang and use it later so you may say teacher I don't have friends that I can actually share it with well what I noticed was students that are in my Academy this is these are some screenshots of our private group we have a family group just for students in my Academy and they share things with each other on a regular basis they tell each other what they're studying they give each other advice for the IELTS exam well advice for how to learn cavalieri words and when they learn something new they post it to the group and say hey guys have you ever heard of this it's pretty awesome and then other students asked them questions and they immediately have to teach their friends and other students so I've seen it work in our family group again if you're not a part of my Academy and you're not a part of our family hopefully you can join today click the link right in the description or you can go to let's jump right in comm but again part two or step two is you must teach it to three other people three people who are learning English just like you all right now so we have learn something new teach it to three people what's the third step what did I tell my student or what should you do here we go now the third step is also very important you need to write it in your notebook now looking at this right here how can you do that you need to write the word or expression the meaning and describe where and how you learned it you see how I'm very specific I didn't just say write the word write the definition no you need to also connect it to the situation connect it to the place where you saw the word where you heard the word or where someone used it around you you see because that will create a trigger for your brain for example the students that heard me say Gucci right they remember I said Gucci during my video the last video where I talked about my personal information about being married about learning new things and learning a new language being a journey so they have this kind of trigger in their brain and even if you don't recognize it your brain woo is awesome so you need to put these three pieces of information inside of your notebook the word or expression the meaning and then where you learned it all right now why is this so important here's the quote when you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them hola booth so by writing things down you actually tell your brain hey write this right here is important I need you to remember it your brain says okay we can remember this information and then you say oh by the way brain here's a trigger I learned it from teacher Tiffany's video where she talked about why she's not married yet if you haven't seen that video you can check it out but again you're giving your brain these triggers and it will help you to remember the information that you're learning all right now what will the result be here we go you will be able to track your progress as you study English and you will also be able to review what you learn each day so again it's important to track your progress I think I've mentioned it to you before many of you have seen all of my youtube videos and I'm so happy however sometimes you may watch the videos not take notes and not put into practice what I've talked it's not important to just sit and watch something or read a book you have to go to the next level you have to teach what you learn and then write it down that's how your brain is able to connect and actually help you to start using what you learn all right so let's see what my notebook would look like ok here we go going back to my screen so for example again learned Gucci student spread it to three different friends this student here then he went to his notebook and wrote wrote Gucci the meaning good well or nice the source I learned it while watching an episode of QA with teacher TIFF now what's gonna happen for this student as he goes back and reviews his notes he may say oh man I can't remember how to use Gucci properly I I mean I know the meaning but how did she use it well since he wrote down the source he can go right back and then provide visual triggers to help him remember the word later on the slang term later on kind of makes sense all right so again now this is something I want you to do in part I go into more detail and I give you a 7-day worksheet I tell you some videos blogs and podcasts to listen to and I explain it even more again part two is always for my Academy students because I want to take you guys to the next level if you're not already a member all you have to do is click the link in the description now part two again is gonna be so helpful because I literally found a podcast I found a website I found a video that you can use and sometimes students just like you have a hard time knowing which videos which blogs or even which podcasts to listen to so again if you're not a student click in the link click the link right in the description let's jump right in comm join the Academy and you can watch part two right now now guys I really hope you enjoyed this lesson remember these three things you must do every day if you want to take your English to the next level it's not just about learning new things you must also do what teach three people and you need a family so join the Academy and you can join our family and you have a group that supports you each and every day as you study English after you share it then you write it down and you review it after that I'm so happy to see you all I'm so happy that you guys want to speak English and I'm also so honored to be your teacher well guys I hope you enjoyed this lesson remember I will be back next week I will be back next week to give you some more tips but as you wait for me to come next week don't forget to speak English [Music] oh yeah you know what time it is it's story time hey I said story time alright so today's story is actually connected to my passion and love for teaching so I'm gonna go all the way back to when I was in university and I think I was a sophomore so I was about 18 or 19 years old and I remember we had a class it was a statistics class now for pronunciation practice let's do it together stuff to sticks there you go one more time statistics last time statistics good job all right so it was a system it was a statistics class even for Americans pronunciation can be tricky so anyways it was a statistics class and I love math so statistics can be a little bit tricky sometimes though so anyways we I took the class and the class was being given by a professor from another University he was just coming over to our University to teach the class and it was a bit tricky but you know he was a good teacher um and he told us how to study so anyways one day I gave us an assignment and I went back to my room and that night and I studied hard and I did the assignment and then I handed in my homework and my professor he was an older older white guy older kind of short white guy in my memory now that I'm thinking back he kind of reminded me of a short Santa Clause like he had kind of like the facial hair glasses really nice guy older gentleman I think at that time he may have been about 50 and I think I handed him my homework and it was at the beginning of class and at the beginning of class students started to ask him questions like they didn't understand say one of the questions on the homework assignment and I think let's say for example was number five and he looked at me and he said TIFF come up to the board and teach how to do this question now the class was not small there were about 30 or 40 students in the class now again I was young I may have been 18 or 19 and he said TIFF come to the front and I want you to teach this problem I want you to show us how to do it and I'd still remember this to this day so I walked up and you know I took at that time we had chalk or I think we had markers um and I looked at a question and it was kind of like without he wasn't he wasn't very talkative but I just remember feeling like he believed in me and he trusted me enough to teach this class I was 18 or 19 I was 19 years old this is the 50 year old professor he knew his stuff very intelligent and he's trusting this 19 year old to teach an entire class how to do a certain problem and I show them what I did on my paper and I explained how to do the problem and I just remember him kind of looking at me with a look of I guess like good job like you did a great job and when I think about my passion for teaching that's kind of one of the first moments where I realized I enjoy helping people understand difficult concepts I enjoy seeing other students be able to gain confidence in their ability to do something so you know I'm an English teacher now and you know I have a passion for teaching you all but again when I think about different experiences that happen throughout my life that that showed me that hey maybe teaching is where I'm gonna be in the future that's one of the first times I think it clicked that ah teaching is something that I really love and I think it may be something in my future now after that you know I got a job at NASA and did web development I didn't teach after that that was many years before I went to Korea but I still remember that situation and I remember how he believed in me and gave me the opportunity even as a young person to teach 30 or 40 other students so why am I telling you this I'm telling you this because I want to do the same for you right now you are learning and I'm kind of in the professor's spot that I mentioned to you in the story and though I may not be able to physically hand you hand you the the Chuck or hand you the marker I want to hand it over to you kind of metaphorically and say start teaching what you're learning just like we talked about in today's lesson don't feel shy don't feel like you're not good enough as you learn teach somebody else and I guarantee it's gonna start building up in you a confidence you never knew you had thank you for giving me the opportunity to teach you but now I want to hand it over to you and I want to see you teach somebody else teach somebody else what you're learning and again let us know you can always let us know in the comments what you did and again if you're already a member of my Academy you can let us know in our family chat room a private chat room so again if you're not a part of our family please join us I love to see all of the conversations that happen on a regular basis the students encouraging each other and moving forward as they study English so I hope you enjoy the story guys I'll never forget that professor and I really appreciated his confidence in me and yeah we'll see what the next ten years have in store as a teacher but I hope I'll be in your life for a long time alright guys I'll see you next week

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Length: 22min 27sec (1347 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 26 2020