hi guys what's up it's me judy i'm a first year medical student in turkey and today we're gonna be talking about how i learned english by myself without even studying it so let's get started okay so i'll mention about my english background a disclaimer about the method and pros and cons of the method everything that i mentioned will be timestamped down in the description below so that you can skip to the part that you're interested in so let's get started so let's start with my english background i went to regular private school in turkey until
i got to high school i've never attended to an english international school before high school i took english lessons as my main foreign language and when i got into high school i got german as my main foreign language in elementary and middle school i learned basic english i was like around a2 level according to cefr i got a 2 certificate in english when i was in elementary school i guess i don't know i don't remember that but i didn't try to get b1 diplom because i kind of didn't need it i was able to understand
daily conversations and explain like basic things about myself and kind of like have a basic conversation with people but i was having like kind of struggle when people speak very fast so what can you do with an a2 level in english is here if you want to read that stop the video and read it english was one of my favorite subjects back in the day until i got high school i went to serve at german turkish international high school in istanbul and we had pretty intense german lessons in prep class we had like 40 lessons
per week german and we only had like two to four lessons of english in a week at that time only thing that i cared was german so i wasn't really focusing in english lessons i was sleeping throughout the lessons all the time sorry teacher but yeah of course there are a lot of differences between german and english but i find them pretty similar to each other and i realized that whenever i study english or german after that i kind of mix up the words in these languages and like in german lessons english words pop up
to my mind in english lessons i say like and so i decided to focus on only german for a while and then maybe work on english later on by studying only german my german got better and better but the sad thing is my english got weaker and weaker i knew that i had to do something but i didn't know what to do and where to start and it's been a long time since i've studied english and all that stuff and our school was like german kind of like school and all students were focused on german
so nobody was caring much about english actually back in the day i was watching so much youtube and one day youtube recommended me a video from james charles and if you know him you know that he speaks very very very fast it was the first time i saw guy doing a makeup i was really interested in him so i really wanted to understand what he was saying but i couldn't but i was watching him anyways i decided to improve my english skills to understand james charles which is kind of like funny to me and i'll
show you guys throughout the video how i did that okay so quick disclaimer since this video is about my experience it does not contain any evidence-based tips from me so if you want some evidence-based tips then stay tuned because i will be uploading science-based language learning tips so you know wait for that video next week videos are coming so second disclaimer is if you are below a2 level i would recommend you to come at that level first because i think it helped me quite a lot okay so let's talk about the method the method itself
is very basic okay so step one choose what to watch it can be a netflix show or youtuber or tv show whatever but it has to be in english you don't need to watch every single day exactly the same video or something you can alternate between netflix youtube tv shows and all that stuff but don't forget to consume it in english okay so after deciding it we're moving to step two step two is watch them at at normal speed and put the subtitles on try to understand what they're talking about and focus on that video
don't forget you're doing it for educational purpose now for your fun all right watch every single day at least one hour of youtube netflix whatever you have chosen i was watching about like three to four hours every single day in english so yeah do that and also consume media only in english turn your phone settings into english read news in english listen english songs sing them along try to understand what they're talking about make english a part of your daily life use english when you start to understand the videos without subtitles move on to the
next step so step 3 congratulations so you have to be understanding the videos without subtitles now watch videos in english without subtitles at least one hour every single day choose something that you enjoy it's a perfect opportunity to watch on educational things without any guilt i don't know if you guys feel guilt but whenever i watch something uneducational for like fun purposes i kind of feel guilty so yeah after watching one episode or one video try to explain it to yourself in english by your own words what you have just watched and also try to
explain it without translating any words you suck at beginning and it's kinda feels weird to talk into yourself but trust me it will help you so much in the long run and you will be able to speak fluently i was talking to myself in english whenever i'm showering doing my makeup do my skincare like all the time i was basically trying to explain things in english whenever i think about something i was like trying to explain it in english to myself it's kind of weird because you're talking all the time to yourself and you kind
of feel like insane person but it's all right you know it's gonna help a lot so trust me okay so when you kind of got better at understanding videos without subs and talking to yourself move on to next step so step four is start to read in english if you don't love reading shame on you you are losing so freaking much things so um you know if you try to love reading and if you failed at it i can make a video about of it if you guys want but for now if you hate reading
books then read maybe news papers or you know news on online on apps whatever after reading one chapter or one news try to summarize it in your own words try to explain it in english to yourself it can be very basic you don't need to speak like a native speaker but try to explain it yourself every single time it will help you and don't forget to continue watching english videos as well at least one hour a day don't forget it after doing those move on to the next step you should be able to understand youtube
videos without subtitles and able to understand what you read at this point speed up the videos to 1.25 to 1.5 read more make it a habit to use english in your daily life i usually watch youtube videos at double speed um in english in germany in japanese in turkish whatever it doesn't matter but i watch all of them in double speed and i easily understand what they're talking about and all that stuff okay so next step is continue it for a year all of them like reading every single day it can be one chapter or
so on i mean you can read one news edit right so read in english listen to english songs watch youtube at least for an hour and every single time after watching something after reading something after hearing something try to explain it to yourself in your own words in english and don't use ever translator it's very important we're kind of trying to make english brain in our brain so you have to create that english brain you have to think in english and you have to express yourself in english in this process you're not gonna use any
other language than english that's very very important it took me about a year to become fluent in english at that time i was like talking very basic stuff but i got better and better with the time i'm able to speak right now about more complicated things and i'm i'm not like native speaker whatsoever but i'm kind of confident in my english i guess you can of course visit some language courses and cut that time out but i was wanting to do at home and i didn't want to spend some money on so if you're broke
that's for you okay so let's talk about the pros and cons about this method so let's start with the pros firstly it's fun i mean you if you choose something that you enjoy to watch then it's really fun i was like watching james charles jeffrey star uh mini amy way and patrick star and all that stuff and they're talking fast and i was like kind of enjoying the process because with the time i kind of started to understand them so it was very fun to me and the second pro is it doesn't cost you anything
extra if you have internet connection in youtube on your phone and if you're watching this video it does mean that you have both of them so you know if you're broke like me it's perfect for you pro three is basically you will be able to speak fluently so i mean i'm just a proof of you don't need to visit classes to learn english so i think it's very cool i think it's a huge flex when you say to people like i learned english by myself without studying it you know i don't know maybe that just
me being narcissistic but yeah so let's move on to cons so if you don't do any extra studying on grammar you will suck at english grammar like me my grammar is pretty bad in english because i just didn't study it but you know if you want to improve your grammar as well study it i don't regret it i mean i can always study english grammar but i'm not studying it i don't know why though i think i'm satisfied with it but yeah if you don't want to like me then study english grammar cons too as
i said earlier in this video if you are a totally beginner then it's not for you because you need to have a bit of information about basic knowledge in order to do my techniques so at least reach to the a2 level also third one it's not for you if you're learning english for academic purpose if you study grammar for extra for academic purpose maybe it will work for you i don't know but yeah if you're using this technique for academic purpose i don't recommend because you're not gonna be good at grammar and fourth one is
this is not a evidence-based technique so this worked for me but it might not work for you if you want some evidence-based tips then stay tuned as i said the videos are coming so stay tuned i'm gonna make a series a complete series of evidence-based language learning tips from a polyglot alright so stay tuned before ending the video let me talk about my uploading schedule every tuesday i upload a study with me video and every friday i upload a video that i'm talking about whatever i want at that time so for coming next month it's
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