How To Learn English Or ANY Language (EASY 7 Step Process)

1. Welcome to the Course: Lot of people want to learn a language to a very high level, but they never succeed. This is normally because they don't follow a process. They just learn in a very random and unorganized way. Hi, everyone. I'm Shane. I studied law at university, but now I'm currently an English teacher. During the past few years, I have learned to speak Thai to a high level. So I did a gap M pop gap Cohena Wani Lao gama Kui Lang, Kani and Pasaa A question I get asked a lot is Shane. How did you learn a language so fast, and how did you learn to speak it so clearly? Well, for me, learning a language is not hard at all, so that's why I decided to make this course. In this course, I'm going to teach you my seven step method for learning any language. But I'm specifically going to apply the steps to learning English. This method is the LS WPGU method. In this course, I'm going to show you exactly what to do at each step of the language learning process. So you can start learning to speak a language like a native speaker. There's nothing special about me at all. I'm just a normal person, just like you. But I followed a specific method which allowed me to easily learn a language, and this method can be used with any language. So if you take this course, then you, too, will know how to learn a language in a very effective and efficient way, so you won't have to struggle anymore. Many people learn languages for years and years and years, but they still can't communicate in that language. The best thing about this method is that it's simple easy to follow and anybody can do it. Learning a language can actually save you money when you go traveling, but I'll tell you a little bit about that later in the course. So if you're ready to start learning English or any other language, I'll see you inside the course. 2. The Right Attitude: Before you start learning anything, especially a language, you need to have the right attitude. You need to have the right thoughts in your head, because if you don't have the right attitude, you're probably going to struggle with language learning. So in this video, I'm going to share with you the most important attitudes that you need to be successful in learning a language. Let's get into it. Now the first one is language learning is not hard. Yes, it's true. You need to put that thought into your mind. Now, we normally think things are difficult if we don't understand them. For example, with language learning, if you don't understand a language, then you're going to think it's hard. Ask any native speaker about their native language. Is it hard for them to speak it? No, because they understand it. They've been doing it correctly for many, many years, if not decades. So, you need to change your mindset from the very start. When you start learning a language, have the mindset. The language learning is not hard. It's just that at the moment, you don't understand the language. Number two, learn right from the start. When you start learning a language, learn to speak like a native speaker. Don't learn to speak not like a native speaker because this is going to make communication very hard for you and it's going to make listening to your speech very hard for the person you are speaking to. So to do this, learn the phrases that native speakers, the phrases and words that native speakers do use. Don't learn the phrases and words they do not use. Again, you want to sound like a native speaker, so learn right from the start. Why? Why is this important? Well, like I said before, you want to be easily understood and be able to communicate in that language very easily. If you learn language that native speakers don't use, this will make your speech sound strange and maybe even awkward. Number three, you must want it, need it, and have a reason. If you don't have a reason for learning, you probably won't be able to come back every day and keep learning. And if you can't come back every day and keep learning, this is a problem because consistency and repetition is one of the most important things when you're learning any language. You can't just expect to practice a few words in a few sentences once or twice, and then expect to be fluent. Doesn't work like that, you need to repeat, repeat, repeat four. Don't make excuses or complain. Just accept it. Anguage learning takes time, effort, and consistency. It's not hard. It just takes time. Accept it. This is the way it is and start learning. If you spend all of your time making excuses or complaining, then this is time that you have wasted, and you could have used that time to learn the language you're learning. Alright, number five. Don't move on, so don't go to the next step until you are 100% ready. If you move on before you understand something, the next stage will be even more difficult. You need to master the basics first. For example, if you try to speak a language fluently and you can't make the basic sounds of the language, how are you going to communicate like a native speaker? How are you going to speak that language clearly? Well, it will be impossible because you can't pronounce the sounds, and that is one of the most basic things you need to know when you're learning a language. For example, with English, if you try to speak English and you can't pronounce the basic sounds like CH, SH, L and R, how are native speakers going to understand you? How will they know if you said cheep or sheep? How will they know if you said lock or rock? So don't be quick to go through these stages. Only move on when you're 100% ready. Take your time, and eventually you will master the language. So think about these five attitudes that I just shared with you, and I think the most important one is that language learning is not hard. You just need to follow a process. So change your mindset and you can do anything. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can't can't 3. Step 1: Okay. All right, now it's time to jump into the seven step process for learning any language. Step number one is L. L means language. Step number one is learn about the language. So why should you do this? Well, like I talked about before, when you understand something, you don't think it's hard. If you don't understand something, you think that thing is hard. Because if you know a little bit about the language, you'll understand it more and you understand how the language works. And you also know what you need to learn and what to expect when you're learning the language. So for example, with English, if you learn a little bit about English, you'll know that we have conjugations. For example, verbs change when we're using different tenses. For example, I saw, I see, and I have seen. Now, all of these words saw, see, and seen have the same meaning, they mean to see. But if you understand the language of English, for example, you'll know that we have to change verbs when we're using different tensors. So, what are the things that you can learn about? Well, you can learn about what family the language is from. For example, is it a European language like French or Spanish? Is it an Asian language like Chinese or Thai? You can find out if the language is tonal. For example, the language of Thai is tonal. So that means when a word is spoken with a different tone, it has a completely different meaning. You can learn how many letters are in the alphabet. Does the language have an alphabet or does it use pictograms like Chinese? You can learn about how many sounds the language has, not how many letters, but how many sounds the language has. You can learn a little bit about the basic grammar, like we talked about, you can look to see if the language has conjugations. You can find out if the language has feminine and masculine words. Learning all of these little things will help you to understand the language better, like I've said many times already, once you understand something, that thing is not hard. 4. Step 2: Alright, let's talk about step number two. Step number two is S. S stands for sounds. Learn the sounds of the language. This is one of the most important steps if you want to speak a language like a native speaker. And it's actually something that most students don't do. I can't remember the last time I saw a student learning the sounds of English, for example, but it's one of the most important things you can do if you want to speak a language really well. Because if you can't make the sounds, you will always have problems with pronunciation. For example, if you try to make a certain sound and you don't know where to put your tongue or what to do with your lips and your mouth when you're making that sound, you will only know how to do it if you learn and practice. But most students start learning a language and they don't learn anything about pronunciation. That's a huge problem. Because when they're speaking the language they're learning, they're probably using the sounds from their own language. And that's a big problem. You should never use the sounds of your language when speaking the language that you are learning. Why? Because they are different languages. One example I can think of is when a lot of Thai students call this in English, a copuur. But in English, we don't have that the sound. We say computer. Computer. So that's why it's very important to learn the sounds of the language that you're learning because you'll be able to pronounce words clearly and correctly. So how can you do this? How can you learn the sounds of the language? Well, you need to learn all of the sounds of the language, not just the letters. For example, in English, we have 44 sounds, but we only have 26 letters. So if you learn the 26 letters, but you don't learn the 44 sounds, then you won't know how to make all of the sounds of the language, and if you don't know how to make the sounds of the language, you won't be able to pronounce words correctly and clearly. Now, you can learn the sounds by copying native speakers. Listen to native speakers and see how they make the sounds and copy them. Practice making the sounds hundreds of times until you can say them exactly like a native speaker. Make sure you think about your mouth position, your tongue position, and if the sound is voiced, that means your throat vibrates and if the sound is unvoiced, that means your throat doesn't vibrate. Now, repetition is super important. You need to practice making the sounds correctly, hundreds and hundreds of times so that you can say them automatically without even thinking about it. Think about your own native language right now. Do you have to think about it when you're making the sounds of your language? No, you don't because you've repeated it hundreds, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of times. So in English, some of the main problem sounds are that sound, CH, and the sound, the SH sound. And. We've also got and now remember, only move to the next step when you can pronounce every sound like a native speaker. And yes, you can pronounce every sound like a native speaker. You just need to practice, and you need to use the correct mouth and tongue position. Guys, make sure you focus on pronunciation. Spend a lot of time on pronunciation. For example, a lot of people who are learning English don't speak English very clearly because they haven't learned English pronunciation. They haven't learned about the English sounds. Do what most people aren't doing to be able to do things that most people can't do. Learn pronunciation, learn the sounds. 5. Step 3: All right, you've learned the sounds of the language. Now it's time to learn the script. So step number three is S and S stands for script. Now, learning the script of a language, learning how to read a language and write a language can actually save you some money. Let me show you how. So this sign is a sign that is in Thailand. Now, if you look at this sign, it says foreigner, 160 bat. Now, in Thai, this says deck that means child. Now, these here Thai numbers. And in Thai, it says 60 bat. So for children, the price is 60 bat. Now, here it says Puye and Puye means adult. Now, the price here is 80 bat. So you can see here that the price for foreigners is 160 bat, but the price for Thai adults is only 80 bat. So the price is double for foreigners. Now, if you didn't know how to read Thai, then you wouldn't know this. Now, this one here is also another example. Adults, 200 bat, children, 100 bat. Now in Thai, this says Puye, that means adult and the price here says 20 bat. The Tai price is 20 bat and the foreign price is 200 bat. That's ten times the difference. Same up here, is this says deck in Thai, which means child or children. And the price written in Thai is ten bat. So again, the price is ten times higher for foreigners or people who don't read Thai. So learning a language and learning to read the script of that language can definitely save you some money. All right, so now let's talk about learning the script. So learning the script just means learn to read the language. Now, you may have already done this in the previous step. For example, when I was learning Thai, I learned the sounds, but I also learned how to write the sounds in Thai. So I was learning the sounds and the script at the same time. So why should you even bother learning the script? Well, the main reason is so you can read the language. Now, the second reason is you can know which sounds are used to produce each word. That means when you're pronouncing a word in that language, you can use the sounds from that language because you know the sounds and you know how to write the sounds. If you see a word written in that language, you will know how to pronounce that word correctly because you can read the language. You know what sound each letter makes. So for example, the word for foreigner in Thai is Falan. Falang. Now, when a non Thai speaker hears this, for example, someone who speaks English, they will probably write it down as FAANG. Now, when they look at that word later, maybe it's an American person, they'd say phalangFalang, in an American accent. But this is not how Thais say the word. So if you say phalang, then Thai people probably won't understand you because you're saying the word incorrectly because you're using the wrong sounds. Alright, so how do you learn the script? Well, again, very simple repetition, repetition, repetition. Write, write, write, practice, practice, practice. When I was learning the Thai alphabet, I wrote each letter hundreds of times, probably thousands of times, and now I will never forget it because I've done it so many times. Now, another thing you should do is learn the basic rules of writing. Here is an example in English. Now, if you understand English, you will know that this word here is pronounced line. Line. When there is a vowel, a consonant, and then an E, most of the time, the vowel will be a long sound line. Now, if we look at this word here, this word is pronounced in. Normally, if we have a vowel and then a consonant with no I, then the vowel will be a short sound. It's an sound, Lin line and N. So understand the basic rules of writing the language. Some of you might be learning languages that have pictograms like Chinese. So if you're learning something like Chinese, it's probably best to learn the most common 500 to 1,000 characters. And I know you're probably thinking, Wow, that's a lot of character. But it's really not. It's really not. You can remember them if you repeat, repeat, repeat. If you learn the first 500 to 1,000 characters, this will allow you to read a lot of the most common language. In summary, learn the script, learn how to read the language. This is very important because you will know which sounds are used to produce each word in that language. 6. Step 4: Step four W, W stands for words. Learn basic words in that language. Learning just 1,000 words can make up to 80% of language that you commonly hear and see. So you can understand 80% of the words that you commonly hear and see just by learning 1,000 words. Now, to learn these words, you can simply go to Google and type in top 1,000 words in language. For example, top 1,000 words in English, or you can just use a dictionary. So you can just look up basic words and nouns and adjectives. For example, Run, eat, sleep, hot, cold. These are very common words that you'll hear again and again and again. Now, when you learn these words, try to go a bit deeper, especially if they are more complex words like prepositions. For example, the word T O. This word has many, many, many different meanings and can be used in many different situations. But if you just learn one of the meanings, you won't fully understand the meaning and how to use that word. So find examples and look at them, see how different words are used. So if you learn the word two, for example, type two into Google. Type two examples into Google. Look at these examples and see how the word is used. Practice using that word, practice reading that word. Because again, if you want to remember something, if you want to understand something, you need repetition, repetition, repetition. This will help you never forget the most common and important words which you're going to use again and again and again. Take the time to learn these words and don't rush because these words are words that you can use in pretty much all situations. Now, many students when they're learning new vocabulary, they just learn once. They just see the word once. They look it up in a dictionary, and then they don't do anything with that word. They don't use the word. They don't look at examples. They don't see it more than once, to understand a word, to be able to use a word you need repetition, repetition, repetition, and you need to see how the word is used in context. Learn the most basic words and learn how to use them correctly. Now, just be careful. When you learn a new word, you want to know whether that word is formal or informal. If you learn a new word from somewhere or something, see how that word is used. Is it being used in a formal situation like at work? Or is it being used in an informal situation between friends and family? Because many students they look up words and they know the meaning of those words, but some words are only used in specific situations. So when you learn a new word, you also need to think about when you can use that word. When is it appropriate to use that word? 7. Revision of First Four Steps: All right, we've looked at the first four steps of how to learn any language. So let's have a quick revision of those steps and talk about them before we move on to step number five. Alright, so we start here with step one, which is, learn about the language. So that means exactly what it says. Learn about the language. Is it a tonal language? How many sounds are there? How many letters are there? What is the grammar like? Now, after you understand a little bit about the language, move on to step two, which is learn the sounds. Again, sounds means sounds. It doesn't mean learn the letters of the alphabet. Because, for example, in English, we have 26 letters, but we have 44 sounds. Now step three is also S, which means learn the script. Learn how to write the language, learn how to read the language. This is very important because when you learn to pronounce a word, you can use the script of that language to see exactly which sounds you need to use, so you don't use the sounds of your own language. All right and after that, we move on to step four, which is W. W means learn basic words. Like we talked about, 1,000 words can make up to about 80% of language that you'll commonly see in here. So, for example, you can learn basic nouns, verbs and adjectives. All right, they're the first four steps of how to learn any language. In the next few videos, we're going to talk about step five, step six, and step number seven. So let's get into it. I'll see you there. 8. Step 5: Step number five, P, P stands for phrases, learn basic phrases and their answers. So you need to learn phrases that native speakers do use. Now, this is very important this word do because a lot of people when they start to learn a language, they learn phrases and answers that native speakers don't use. They learn from a textbook, and a lot of the time textbook language is not how native speakers really use the language. Now, learn phrases that native speakers do use will help you to sound like a native speaker and to help you learn correctly from the very start. This means you'll start speaking that language like a native speaker from the start and you won't have to go back and forget phrases that you learned in the past and then learn new phrases. Now, when learning these phrases, try to copy their pronunciation. For example, the phrase in English, what are you doing? When a native speaker says this really quickly, he won't say what are you doing, he'll say, what are you doing? What are you doing? So try to listen to the pronunciation and try to copy exactly what the native speaker says, this should be pretty easy for you if you've correctly followed step two, which is learn the sounds. If you know the sounds of a language, you should be able to sound exactly like a native speaker. Another very basic example in English is that going to becomes gonna. When native speakers speak quickly, they don't say going to. They say gonna. Another example is won to becomes wana. Could have becomes Koda. There are hundreds of examples, and if you listen to native speakers very often, you will learn all of these examples. Now, this is another very important point. Don't assume that just because you say something in your language, that native speakers say it in the language that you are learning. For example, when we meet someone and we're speaking English, we normally say, How are you? But in a lot of other languages, they don't use this phrase. For example, in Thai, they don't use this phrase. And I'm sure in many, many, many other languages, they don't use this phrase. So listen to native speakers and see what they say. Don't think that you know what native speakers say. Now, after you've learned the phrases, you need to learn the answers. So if you learn the phrase, how are you? You need to learn common answers. Again, this is going to help you to sound like a native speaker. So learn the answers that native speakers do use, and again, copy the pronunciation. For example, if someone says in English, what's going on, this is a very common greeting. A common answer could be not a lot. What about you? Now, when a native speaker says this very quickly, he would say, not a lot. What about you? Not a lot, not a lot, not a lot. You see how all the words come together? What about you? What? What about you? So listen to how native speakers say these answers and these phrases and copy them. Remember, repetition is very important. Say it again and again and again. But make sure you're saying it correctly, because if you say something incorrectly again and again and again, you're not going to get better. You're going to be saying the wrong thing. So make sure you're saying it correctly. So where? How can you learn these phrases? Well, the best way is to watch native speakers and copy them. Now, you can watch native speakers in real life, if you're living in the country or you're around people who speak the language you're learning. You can watch TV. You can watch YouTube, you can watch movies. There are many different ways. Make sure you're watching how one native speaker speaks to another native speaker. Also, think about categories. So learn what to say when you greet someone, when you meet someone, learn the basic greetings. Hi, how are you? Hi, how's your day? Learn what to say when you make a phone call. Hi, I'd like to speak to. Hi, could I speak to? Think about all the different categories that you need for the reasons that you're learning the language and then learn the phrases that are relevant to these categories. This step is very important because when we communicate with people, we normally use phrases. We don't just use words. Learn the phrases that native speakers do use and learn how native speakers answer these phrases. 9. Step 7: Alright, we've got to the final step, step seven, which is. Means use the language, start using the language. That means do all four skills unless you don't need them all. So think back to the start of this course where I asked you to think about why you are learning the language that you're learning. If you're doing it mainly to speak, then you probably should focus on speaking. If you're doing it to be able to use that language like a native speaker, then you probably need to focus on all four skills. But again, that's up to you. So let's assume you want to do all four skills. So let's start with speaking. Speak with native speakers. Listen to how they speak and which phrases they do use. And more importantly, which phrases they do not use. We've already talked about this. Learning to speak like a native speaker is very easy. You just listen to native speakers and you copy them. Now, you can do this in many different situations. You can go to the country of the language that you're learning and practice there. You can find speaking partners online. You can pay teachers online. It's up to you, be creative with it. Don't be lazy and use the language. You know what? You can even talk to yourself in that language. If you've got a smartphone, if you've got a laptop, open the camera app, start recording a video, and start speaking to yourself. When you've finished speaking, you can play back the video and you can watch yourself and you can analyze how you speak. And you can think about the three main things that make you sound not like a native speaker. After you know why you don't sound like a native speaker, you can fix those things. So this is one of the best things to do. Record yourself when you're speaking the language. Listen, listen to things that are made for native speakers. For example, the news, YouTube, radio, movies, et cetera. Again, the strategy is the same. Listen and copy. Ask yourself, which phrases do they use in different situations? So for example, when news presenters are starting a presentation, what phrases do they use? When they're finishing their presentation, what phrases do they use? When two people meet each other on the street, what phrases do they use? What words do they use? What language do they use? You've got to be very observant and pay attention to words, phrases, and patterns. Now, again, even if you're not in the country of the language that you're learning, you can still listen at home. You can watch YouTube. You can go online. If you've got the Internet, you've got no excuse because you can get access to a lot of different content. Now, read read things that again, are made for native speakers, books, newspapers, magazines, menus, et cetera. Reading is one of the best ways to learn new vocab and sentence structures. Why? Because the words are written on the page or on the screen for you. You can take your time. You can look at the patterns. You don't have to rush. You can use as much time as you like to look at the language and think about it. Again, if you've got access to the Internet, you've got no excuse for not practicing your reading in that language. You can go to websites in that language. You can download books in that language. You can read newspapers, magazines, menus, whatever. There's a ton of different content on the Internet, but it's up to you to find it. And finally, write write in the language. For example, are you going shopping? If you are, write your list in the language that you're learning. For me, whenever I go shopping, I write my shopping list in Thai. I change the language to Thai and I type my shopping list in Thai. There are so many ways to use the language, you just need to be creative. You could write letters to yourself. You could write letters to anyone. It doesn't mean you have to send could journal every morning in the language that you're learning. It doesn't matter what you do. What's important is that you are getting practice in that language and making it a habit to use the four skills. Now, like I just said, it's very important to actually use the language. Why? Because you will learn how to think and react like a native speaker of that language. So an example could be if you watch native English speakers when they get to work and they see their colleagues or they see their boss, they will normally say, Good morning. How are you? So if you actually use the language and see how the language is used, then you will learn to think and react like a native speaker. The next time you're in that situation, you will react just like a native speaker and you'll say, good morning. How are you? Like I just said, you'll see how native speakers use the language. But if you learn something from a textbook, please ask yourself one question. Have I ever heard or seen a native speaker use this word or phrase? Because like I spoke about before, a lot of the time, language that is from textbooks is not language that native speakers actually use. Why? I don't know. It's just the way it is. So be careful. If you learn something from a textbook, have a look, have a listen. Are other native speakers saying it? Are native speakers using that phrase? Are they using this word? If they are, that's great. Then you can use it. But if they're not, then you probably shouldn't use it because you will probably sound not like a native speaker. All right, that was step number seven, the final step in the language learning process. Use the language. Now, this step is a step that never really ends. For example, for me, I'm a native speaker of English. But sometimes I still learn new things about English. I still learn new words, I still learn new phrases, I still learn new idioms. So this step here is a step that never really ends because when you use the language, you keep getting better and better and better and you will learn how to sound more and more like a native speaker. Enjoy it, enjoy using the language and enjoy all of the benefits and opportunities that come from learning and being able to speak a new language. 10. Extra Tips and Tricks: In this bonus lecture, I'm going to share with you ten tips and tricks that you can use to help you learn a language and to keep learning a language. Let's get into it. Step number one is make your environment constantly teach you. So we all have busy lives. We all have things to do. And sometimes we don't have enough time or as much time as we would like to learn and study a language. So this tip is very important. This means do things that will teach you the language without you having to spend time on learning. For example, turn the radio on in the language that you're learning. Always be listening to the language. Turn the TV on in the language that you're learning. This will help you to always be listening and always be hearing the language. Do your hobbies in the language that you're learning. So don't use your first language to do your hobbies. Use the language that you're learning because you already speak your first language. You already know how to speak it. Instead, use that time to practice using your target language. Another thing you can do is think in the language. This is something that we do every day, right? Thinking. So don't use your first language, use your target language. Doing these things will help you to learn without even thinking about it. Tip number two, stop making excuses and just do it. Don't say language learning is hard. Don't say you don't have time. You can make time. When you don't have any excuses left, the only thing you have left to do is take action. So if you want to learn a language, if you really want to do it, stop complaining. Stop making excuses and just do it. If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't can't Tip number three, follow your learning style and learn what you need to learn. This means if you learn best by seeing, well, learn by seeing, learn by watching. If you learn best by listening, well, learn by listening, follow your learning style so that you learn in the most efficient and effective way possible. Also, learn what you need to learn. Everyone is different. Everyone is learning a language for a different reason. So if you're learning a language to be able to study at university, you'll probably have to learn more academic vocabulary. So learn that vocabulary. Learn what you need to learn. Tip number four, try to think in the language. We just talked about this before. If you want to be a native speaker of a language, you need to know how to think in that language. So start thinking in that language, start training yourself to think in the language and use the language like a native speaker. Number five, when you learn a new word, see how it's used. So if you learn a new word from a dictionary or from a textbook, and there's no real context, there's no example sentences. You need to see the word in an example sentence. You need to see how it's used. If you don't see how it's used, then you probably won't know how to use it correctly, especially for more complicated vocabulary and especially for prepositions. Just because you know the word two doesn't mean you'll be able to use it correctly. So look for examples, see how it's used. Number six, this is very important. Don't move on until you're 100 100% ready. I already talked about this towards the start of the course. But if you don't understand the basics, you won't be able to speak like a native speaker. The example I always use, if you don't know basic pronunciation, how can you speak the language clearly? You can't focus on the basics, learn the basics. Take time on the basics. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Do things many times until you can say it correctly, until you can do it correctly, until you can use it correctly. And then when you can do that, move on to the next step because you'll be ready. But if you move on too quickly, you're going to make your language learning journey very difficult. Seven, try to make friends with native speakers of the language. This one doesn't really need any explanation. If you have friends who speak the language you're learning, then you can practice with them. You can have conversations with them, and they can teach you things while you're just having a conversation or while you're chatting to them on applications on your phone. Eight, study consistently, repeat, repeat, repeat. I know I've probably said this 50 or 100 times in this course so far, but that's because it's so important. If you do something once, you're probably not going to remember how to do it. You're probably not going to be good at it. Repeat, repeat, repeat, and then you'll never forget. But when you're repeating, make sure you're doing it correctly. Again, like I've talked about, if you keep doing the same thing incorrectly, you're going to ingrain bad habits, and just because you do something again and again and again doesn't mean you know how to do it correctly. So when you're speaking, when you're using, when you're writing, reading, doing whatever with the language, make sure you're doing it correctly. Nine, making mistakes is okay, and it's good. Let me say that again. Making mistakes is okay and it's good. Yes, it's good because if you make a mistake and someone corrects you, now you know what you said is wrong. Now you know you can fix it. But if you don't know what's wrong, how can you fix it? How can you get better? You probably can't right. Stop being afraid to make mistakes, make mistakes, learn from them, and don't worry about it. Everyone makes mistakes, even native speakers of languages, they make mistakes sometimes. So make mistakes, learn from them, and move on. Tip number ten. Try to make language learning fun and something you enjoy. This is very simple and self explanatory. If you enjoy something, you probably want to do it again and again and again. But if you don't enjoy it, then you probably won't come back. So when you're learning a language, do something that you enjoy. Read about a topic you enjoy, speak about a topic you enjoy. Watch a movie in a topic that you enjoy. Do something that helps you enjoy the language. Alright, they are some of my top tips and tricks for language learning. I hope they were helpful for you. In the next video, we're going to do a quick revision of the seven step language learning process. 11. Top Things to Remember: O. Let me ask you a question. If you don't know where you're going, how can you get there? You probably can't get there right. Now, once we know where you're going, we can make a plan for you to get there. Language learning is not hard. Yes, it's true. You need to put that thought into your mind. Now, we normally think things are difficult if we don't understand them. For example, with language learning, if you don't understand a language, then you're going to think it's hard. Learn the phrases that native speakers, the phrases and words that native speakers do use. Don't learn the phrases and words they do not use. So don't go to the next step until you are 100% ready. If you move on before you understand something, the next stage will be even more difficult. You need to master the basics first. Step number one is learn about the language. Why should you do this? Well, like I talked about before, when you understand something, you don't think it's hard. All right, let's talk about step number two. Step number two is S. S stands for sounds. Learn the sounds of the language. This is one of the most important steps if you want to speak a language like a native speaker. And it's actually something that most students don't do. I can't remember the last time I saw a student learning the sounds of English, for example, but it's one of the most important things you can do if you want to speak a language really well. Because if you can't make the sounds, you will always have problems with pronunciation. So how can you do this? Well, you need to learn all of the sounds of the language, not just the letters. Now, you can learn the sounds by copying native speakers. Practice making the sounds hundreds of times until you can say them exactly like a native speaker. Make sure you think about your mouth position, your tongue position. Now, the second reason is you can know which sounds are used to produce each word. That means when you're pronouncing a word in that language, you can use the sounds from that language because you know the sounds and you know how to write the sounds. Learning just 1,000 words can make up to 80% of language that you commonly hear and see. Now, to learn these words, you can simply go to Google and type in top 1,000 words in language. For example, top 1,000 words in English. Find examples and look at see how different words are used. You need to learn phrases that native speakers do use. They learn phrases and answers that native speakers don't use. They learn from a textbook and a lot of the time textbook language is not how native speakers really use the language. When learning these phrases, try to copy their pronunciation. This is another very important point. Don't assume that just because you say something in your language, that native speakers say it in the language that you are learning. When I say learn the basics of grammar, that does not mean learn and memorize grammar rules, notice patterns. Now, a pattern is the way something is done. You also need to learn the differences between basic sentences. An example in English is, I went and I go. Start recording a video and start speaking to yourself. When you finished speaking, you can play back the video and you can watch yourself and you can analyze how you speak and you can think about the three main things that make you sound not like a native speaker. After you know why you don't sound like a native speaker, you can fix those things. It's very important to actually use the language. Why? Because you will learn how to think and react like a native speaker of that language. But if you learn something from a textbook, please ask yourself one question. Have I ever heard or seen a native speaker use this word or phrase. If they are, that's great. Then you can use it. But if they're not, then you probably shouldn't use it because you will probably sound not like a native speaker. Making mistakes is okay, and it's good. Let me say that again. Making mistakes is okay, and it's good. Yes, it's good because if you make a mistake and someone corrects you, now you know what you said is wrong. Now you know you can fix it. But if you don't know it's wrong, how can you fix it? How can you get better? You probably can't right. Tip number two, stop making excuses and just do it. Don't say language learning is hard. Don't say you don't have time. You can make time. When you don't have any excuses left, the only thing you have left to do is take action. 12. Most Common Mistake: If you can't make the sounds, you will always have problems with pronunciation. For example, if you try to make a certain sound and you don't know where to put your tongue or what to do with your lips and your mouth when you're making that sound, you will only know how to do it if you learn and practice. But most students start learning a language and they don't learn anything about pronunciation, and that's a huge problem. Because when they're speaking the language they're learning, they're probably using the sounds from their own language. And that's a big problem. You should never use the sounds of your language when speaking the language that you are learning. Why? Because they are different languages. One example I can think of is when a lot of Thai students call this in English, a compuur. But in English, we don't have that the sound. We say computer. Computer. That's why it's very important to learn the sounds of the language that you're learning because you'll be able to pronounce words clearly and correctly. So guys, make sure you focus on pronunciation. Spend a lot of time on pronunciation. For example, a lot of people who are learning English don't speak English very clearly because they haven't learned English pronunciation. They haven't learned about the English sounds. So do what most people aren't doing to be able to do things that most people can't do. Learn pronunciation, learn the sounds.