Why you can understand English but can't speak.

why can so many students understand English but they can't speak this is a problem that honestly most of my students in my club face and to explain why this happens and how you can fix this I want to give you an analogy imagine you go to the gym four times a week and at the gym you only train your arms you never train your legs you just train your arms what's going to happen after a few months you're going to have very strong arms but your legs probably won't be that strong and it's the same

with speaking if you don't speak if you just listen to English speakers but you never speak obviously your speaking is going to be weak so that's the that's the source of this problem that's where it comes from and the solution is quite obvious the solution is to speak more it's just like training a muscle at the gym it's just like training your legs or your arms the more you do it the stronger it will become so if you're facing this problem if you're having problems speaking even though you can understand native speakers then I want

you to make an effort to speak even if you feel nervous to speak even if you feel like people are judging you you still need to speak language or English rather is a language and languages need to be spoken if you don't speak a language you're never going to become fluent so if there's just one thing that you change one thing that you do to overcome this problem it needs to be speaking communicating having conversations with people I'm going to give you the analogy of the gym I mentioned this earlier right going to the gym

training your muscles becoming stronger honestly it's the same when you learn a language when you first go to the gym you're probably going to feel weak you might even feel self-conscious you might feel like you don't know what you're doing but after time as time goes by the more you do it the stronger you will become the more confident you will feel and the more you will improve it's the same with learning English when you first have a conversation with somebody maybe you're at A1 you're at A2 you're not very Advanced you're going to feel

nervous you're going to struggle to find the right words to say it's completely normal but if you stick with it if you keep speaking even if you don't feel like it eventually you're going to feel more confident eventually you're going to feel more comfortable speaking and eventually you're going to become more fluent it's very very simple uh so this is something that I recommend to my students all the time you need to speak just speak don't over complicate things you don't need to make it more difficult than it should be English is a language languages

need to be spoken now a lot of students feel like native speakers are judging them when they speak they're worried that people are going to think less of them maybe because they make a mistake they forget a word they use something incorrectly and I understand your fear because honestly I thought the same when I was learning German when I was studying Italian I was scared to speak especially with native speakers because I was worried they were judging me I expected that I had to be perfect that was something that I struggled with I'm a perfectionist

I always want to be perfect but you have to keep in mind that most native speakers aren't judging you when you speak English seriously most native speakers are not judging you and if you don't believe me I want you to ask yourself this question would you judge somebody learning your language if you're like most people you wouldn't you'd actually be impressed you'd be proud of them you'd want to encourage them and English speakers are no different Native English speakers appreciate it when you make an effort to learn English now obviously there are some people who

will judge you that's the case anywhere in life and you have to do your best to ignore these people okay you should not let them discourage you they're just negative people right I'm sure you've experienced people like this maybe English speakers but maybe speakers of your own language so again those are a very small minority of people if you can ignore them if you can forget about them then then that's really going to help you but 99.9% of English speakers are not judging you for making mistakes and honestly English speakers make mistakes speaking English this

is something I see all the time maybe you've seen native speakers use double negatives for example I don't know nothing I don't know nothing this is wrong in English we have to say I don't know anything okay native speakers get this wrong all the time so just because somebody is a native English speaker doesn't mean they speak perfectly if you're a perfectionist if you always want to speak perfectly I completely understand you because I'm the exact same way but you have to try to let this go because being a perfectionist is going to prevent you

from improving it's going to prevent you from speaking and if you don't speak as we talked about earlier you're never going to become fluent so live in the moment when you're in a conversation with somebody when you're talking to a friend or a native speaker don't think about grammar don't think about conjugations just open your mouth and speak you can worry about grammar later but in the moment in the conversation your priority should be speaking just opening your mouth and speaking that's the key remember the purpose of language is communication it's not Perfection it's communication

so if you can express your ideas if you can communicate what you want to say you're doing fine and if you keep doing this if you keep getting into conversation with people in English eventually you will improve eventually you will become fluent it's a slow process you have to be patient but it is possible we are human beings we are designed to learn language so don't worry if you feel discouraged if you feel unmotivated it's completely normal it happened to me when I was learning German when I was learning Italian but stick with it trust

the process believe in yourself and keep speaking eventually you will improve eventually you will become fluent now I hope you found this video helpful I hope I was able to motivate you a little bit and help you get out of your comfort zone help help encourage you to speak which is super important as we've seen if you want to support the channel make sure to subscribe here on YouTube uh leave a like if you found this video helpful let me know in the comments and if you want to study with me if you want to

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