"I want to be fluent in English but my Grammar is weak" - You don't have to worry about this

hi everyone my name is alina rice today in the video we're going to talk about something that i'm sure you're facing right now there is this problem that i've observed with all the english learners i can say this generally that people focus too much on perfecting their grammar right in the beginning and their focus on grammar is so much they want to be so good at their grammar that they actually lose their focus from learning how to speak fluent english to actually perfecting their grammar i want to say something here and this is my opinion i'm sure after listening to me most of you are going to agree with me the thing is that you feel that you have to learn proper grammar in order to speak fluent english and i want to actually disagree on this i want to tell you that despite not having proper command over grammar you can still be fluent in english i've come across so many people in my life who could actually place their words right after the one one after the other while they're speaking in english and they were they were they were good with their speed they could speak fluently but of course they were making grammatical errors and i want to say something here that making a few grammatical errors here and there is not a big deal it's not a big deal probably you have made it a big deal for yourself it's not a big deal what i want to say here in short is that your focus on speaking fluent english should be more than your focus on speaking perfect grammar first of all you don't have to learn grammar grammar is not something that can be learnt um of course you will learn it with the help of your practice that will happen eventually by learning what i want to say here is that you can't just open a book and start mugging things up you can't mug them up you can't mug grammar up grammar perfection is going to happen with time it's going to happen over the years everyone makes mistakes and not just us even they i mean the people who are born with this language who are i mean who have english as their mother tongue they also do make grammatical errors the children make errors and when they grow up they of course i mean they are so exposed to that environment that eventually their mind absorbs it so that's how it happens grammar is something that your mind absorbs over time when you are exposed to a lot of english around you and um if you're not exposed to it there are some steps that you can actually take in order to expose yourself more to english so when you're exposed to english for a good amount of time your mind is so beautiful that it starts to absorb the correct and it can make out the difference between right and wrong when you continue to speak grammar will happen automatically to your brain okay and you will see that you are improving day by day okay that happens with everyone i i was born to a very middle class non-english speaking family and here i am i i do make i do i'm not saying i don't make errors with my grammar i am sure i make them and i do receive some comments often telling me ma'am this was wrong in your speech today this could have been better or not this this should have been there and you know what i learned from those comments i actually do my research i don't blindly uh just agree to them or just learn them up no whenever somebody corrects me over my english through my comment section or anywhere what i do is i always make it a point that i do my little research if somebody corrects you it's all right just thank them don't feel offended don't feel bad about somebody making a correction in your speech you should always say a thank you to them all right thank you very much for teaching me something new because if they would not have corrected you probably somebody else would have laughed at you and then you would have learned your lesson it's better that somebody's not laughing at you and teaching you something okay another thing is that we need to have a top-down approach by top-down approach i want to say that our focus is on the top and the top is that we want to have uh fluent english right we want to have fluent spoken english so that is our top focus and by lower levels i mean grammar you have structure okay so structure and grammar and sentence framing and other stuff like that so here at the bottom things will automatically start to fall in place when you're practicing okay your focus is always supposed to be on speaking english i was born to a hindi speaking family now was i taught grammar in hindi no i wasn't i wasn't taught grammar i learnt my grammar of hindi and nobody taught me even before going to school starting to go to school i was already so good in hindi how was i so good at it i was so good at it because of course because i made my mistakes and i learned from my mistakes and i saw people talking in hindi and i absorbed it i learned it in the process some of you might not have gone to an english medium school or you would not have gone to a good school maybe but that should not be a barrier that is something that you are telling yourself that is something that is acting as an excuse for you and is pulling you back just going to a good english medium school is not enough men many many students who attend an english medium school or a good school are often seen not speaking in english and they do not have good command over their grammar or the otherwise structure of english why is it so because they lacked in their practice so in my case i have been to a good english medium school and my exposure to english has been throughout my childhood okay but i'm sure you will agree with me on this that it's not just enough many students in my own school would not speak good english it was my own urge to learn the language it was my own urge to have command over this language and i understood the importance of the language and that is why i started putting in effort into learning the language and that is actually what worked in my favor i'm pretty sure that had i not been to a good school i would have still been good in english because i wanted to learn the language i i liked the language i was fascinated by it and i wanted to do it see um if you have to learn guitar okay and you're taking classes of guitar would you keep one class in september and second class in october and third class in november no you wouldn't do that when you have to learn guitar you have to keep your classes in a manner that the gaps between the classes have to be small they have to be short you can't take two classes at a gap of 10 days or 15 days or a month that is not how you learn something new that you're not good at now right same goes for the language learning also what you need to do is you need to have a structure in your life if you are actually working on learning this language you need to have a structure by structure i mean you need to put in some conscious effort some conscious efforts and some conscious actions into learning the language you need to have some online course going on for you you need to um have a journal maintained you need to have some application installed in your phone which you visit every day to learn something new you need to have a novel in your bag something that you read every day you need to have a little bit of time of speaking every single day and that is how you structure your you structure your learning what you're doing the biggest mistake that you're doing right now is you do you do not have a structure you want to learn you keep telling me that you want to learn what are you doing to learn do you have something some kind of a timetable for yourself some kind of a school for yourself somewhere some place where you can go and learn every day no if you're not doing that you are making a blunder okay please understand structure is important and there are several things and several videos we've made on this concept things that you can do to learn english start doing those things on regular basis that's how you keep in touch with your learning process and that's how you learn that's all that i had to say i am sure i've covered everything that i wanted to talk about in the video today please don't focus too much on the intricacies it's all right to make mistakes and in fact it is good to make mistakes sometimes you even gain confidence if you can confidently make a mistake i don't think there is anything more beautiful than that be confident while making a mistake let others correct you it's all right nobody's going to eat you alive just just let them correct you if they want to let them laugh if they want to okay it's all right you're learning you're bound to fall down sometimes here and there okay thank you very much that's all in the video today that i've got for you and um we'll be back with more of similar content and um bye take care

Channel: Aleena Rais Live

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Length: 9min 49sec (589 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 21 2021