hello everyone and welcome to my new video today I'm going to talk about why you can't speak English sometimes and why I can't speak English sometimes either because I'm a non-native speaker too I know I hear you and I understand sometimes it's just so frustrating when you can't speak English you've been learning English for so long and when the time comes you're like yes my name is Veronica and that's it that's all I can say thank you very much thank you very much good night so yeah let's dive in and explore all the reasons behind
this difficulty okay first English is a very complex language we have to agree with that my native language is Russian which is completely different from English Russian is a Slavic language and English is a Latin language from what I remember so that creates a lot of problems we have a big problem sir and even if your native language which is Spanish for example something that is closer to English than Russian it is still hard because the grammar in English is complicated there's so many words in English that you don't really know how to translate your
native language and also homophones there are a lot of words that sound the same but mean different things a couple of days ago I saw the sentence in English I ate eight eggs for breakfast in the morning and I was like I ate eight eggs eight eight I don't even know what that means we all understand guys from the context that it means I ate eight eggs for breakfast in the morning because the words eight and eight sound exactly the same but they mean really different things so these are homophones in English also English grammar
is so complicated if you feel like you know everything usually you don't because sometimes even native speakers yeah guys I was talking to a native speaking friend of mine he is from the United States you know a native speaker and he said I would have ate and I was like you would have eaten you mean and he was like yeah I would have ate and I was like dude this is wrong according to English grammar you have to say you would have eaten and not you would have ate but guys can you imagine I decided
to go to euglish a website that I recommend to use if you want to check you know something in English pronunciation for example or whether or not people use a certain phrase in English and there are so many native speakers who say I would have ate I was like okay pretty good interesting the you know when if you would have just ate the the chocolate brownie and like appreciated it and savored it and look obviously guys the fact that a lot of people say I would have ate doesn't make it right still according to English
grammar it's correct to say I would have eaten and if you're preparing for exams or tests you have to know about that because it is a mistake after all that monster defeating me alive but the reason why I decided to mention here is that when you will be interacting with native speakers and if you notice that they make a mistake it's fine don't worry about it because they make mistakes you make mistakes the most important thing is connection you want to be able to talk to this person and kind of share your ideas your thoughts
and your emotions and honestly a lot of people don't really care if you make mistakes in English or if you don't so basically I want you guys to feel okay about it to feel okay about making mistakes it's fine don't stress about it too much and here is where we reach the second reason why so many people can speak English fear first of all a lot of English Learners feel judged judged you they feel that everyone is judging them the moment they start speaking English they think everyone is just sitting there and you know inside
their heads writing down their mistakes which is not really how it works obviously that can lead to anxiety and the feeling of self-consciousness and I don't want you guys to feel this way I know that you're super excited to hear me talk about another mistake that a lot of people make so this mistake is connected to comparative adjectives for example when you're saying living in this city is safer than living in that City so you're comparing these two cities and you have to say safer but a lot of native speakers would say more safer and
this is wrong again I can't say much safer it is correct you can say a bit safer but you cannot say more safer but again if we go to euglish and if we check there are going to be a lot of people who say more safer that communities are going to be more safer in the future so they're a lot more safer than your car you might say so guys my message here is don't be afraid if you do make a mistake in English don't feel scared it should not stop you from doing what you
want if you want to get a job in English don't feel ashamed that you make mistakes it's totally fine I can tell you another story a couple of days ago I was talking to tick tock representatives and a lot of people who work from Tech talk are not native speakers and they live in the United States and they were making mistakes while talking to me even if they did make them if they didn't make them honestly I don't care because for me the most important thing was connecting with them I wanted to discuss Tick Tock
things I wanted to talk about short videos and creators economy and monetization and the topic of oh I think this is wrong I think you should probably not say it this way a was not even on my mind okay now let's talk about one thing that people hate about English pronunciation I know guys pronunciation is crazy in English because there are rules but sometimes you know certain words they don't really follow the rules or their words with silent letters and you're thinking why is this letter even there for example I have a very important question
to ask you guys why do we say bread but steel but steak all of these words have these two vowels EA why is it that in every single word this combination of letters is pronounced differently also of course our favorite silent letters right like why do we have to say I land and not Iceland or Eastland for example and also why do we have to say castle and not cast Leia like what's wrong with that right so I I hear you pronunciation in English can be quite complex and the only way you can really learn
the correct pronunciation is check how native speakers pronounce certain words but again it all depends on their accent for example or where they're from like which part of the United States for example they're from because maybe they're gonna pronounce certain words a little bit differently now let's move on to cultural differences we're all different and when we speak English we don't want to offend anyone obviously and that's why sometimes people can't speak English or they feel you know insecure shy afraid to speak English just because they're afraid to offend people because of the cultural differences
and it's normal and I understand when I moved to Mexico I didn't really speak Spanish like at all zero my Spanish was estas like I couldn't even say that but I fell in love with the culture and that's exactly why I wanted to stay in Mexico and improve my Spanish here so we'll go back to talking about English a very good example of like cultural things is jokes and cultural references in English so I found this joke online and I really want to read it why did the tomato turn red because it saw the salad
dressing foreign if you think this joke is corny I am sorry but I think it's hilarious just because it helps us learn English the Tomato turned red because it saw the salad dressing I feel like it's time for me to stop filming this video otherwise you're just gonna stop watching it because of all my corny jokes sorry about that I'm not sorry but here are basically all the reasons why you can't speak English and again I wanted to make this video to make you feel better I am a non-native speaker too and I'm sharing my
English Journey with you on YouTube like all the things that helped me maybe some of the things are not gonna help you maybe you will find other ways to improve your English which is fine we're all different and different study methods or different strategies work for different people however usually we all struggle with the same things and that's why I decided to make this video thank you so much for watching this video as usual if you like this video make sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel and I'll see you
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