3 THINGS YOU MUST DO Every Day to Improve Your English

you know this week I had a conversation

with one of my favorite students and he

asked me a question that I’m sure you

have asked yourself many times he said

TIFF you know I’ve been studying English

for a long time I I listen to a lot of

things and I read a lot of books but I

don’t seem to be improving he said that

when he listens to different audio clips

or watches of drama and tries to

understand what they’re saying he may

understand but later on he’s not able to

use what he learned and he said it’s

frustrating so I want to ask you have

you ever experienced that you know like

you put a lot of effort and time into

studying English and you see things on

TV you hear things in various

conversations but you just can’t seem to

use the expressions and vocabulary words

like a native English speaker and it’s

frustrating you know I told this student

I said you know what I understand what

you’re going through I went through the

exact same thing when I was studying

Korean Korean is not an easy language to

learn it’s a beautiful language but it’s

not easy and I help them to understand

that I also experienced the same

frustrations but in the midst of our

conversation I let him know three things

three things that will transform his

English journey and I want to teach you

those three things today I’m teacher

Tiffany let’s jump right in

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all right just like the student I

mentioned there are three things I told

him to do three things that must be done

you see you want to know how to take in

new pieces of information how to process

the new pieces of information and how to

remember and use the new pieces of

information so here we go step number

one learn a new word expression or idiom

and maybe you’re like teacher we kind of

already know that

oh no no no stay along I’m gonna explain

it to you so here’s the thing when it

comes to learning a new expression idiom

or vocabulary word how can you do this

first you need to learn it from a video

a blog a conversation and English book

or any other natural English source now

notice I said natural and why am I

saying it’s important to find these

words and expressions from a natural

source you see as an English Learner I’m

sure you have been to many different

Institute’s you’ve had many other

amazing English teachers and you’ve

looked at many English textbooks but

you’ve also noticed that sometimes what

you learn in a textbook is not always

what native English speakers use now

don’t get me wrong the textbooks are

important they are your foundation but

you make it to a point where you

experienced the frustration my student

experienced because he’s not able to use

the natural expressions that we as

Americans or native English speakers use

that’s why the natural English resources

or the sources they’re so important all

right so how do you do it from a video

blog conversation or English book or any

other natural source now why always walk

through life as if you have something

new to learn and you will I love this

quote from Vernon Howard and it kind of

realises the fact that your English

language studies are part of a journey

not to a specific

nation this journey is gonna be

throughout the rest of your life think

about it I’m still learning new things

in English and I mentioned last week

I’ve mentioned in the previous video

young people are still teaching me new

expressions new slang terms and I’m

happy to learn them but again I’m a

native English speaker and my journey is

still continuing so just like Vernon

says remember walk through life and be

excited to learn so first again learn a

new English expression idiom or

vocabulary word this is everyday now

what will the results be here we go you

will develop the ability to use real

English in other words your English will

start to sound more natural and I hear

something funny

last week I talked GU Chee right I

mentioned that I taught that also on my

Instagram page looking for my phone

looking for my phone guys oh well I’ll

just tell you anyway so I mentioned that

on my Instagram channel that I explained

Gucci now that’s a slang term and some

of you actually sent me messages some in

the comment section and some of the

Academy students said teacher on ask

Gucci and immediately my feeling changed

a little bit because you used something

that’s naturally used in America by

Americans and my feeling changed in a

good way so it helps you to sound more

natural when you get English from

natural English sources alright okay so

let’s see exactly how this can be done

let’s say for example like I mentioned

Gucci this is a screenshot from last

week’s video alright so I talk gu Chi

now this term naturally came up during a

Q&A with teacher tiff episode so you

learn some new English slang again like

I mentioned from a natural source in a

natural conversation right hold on one

second I’m not sick don’t worry guys all

right so again first thing learn a new

vocabulary word expression or idiom now

after you do that this step is important

so important teach it to three other

people

immediately this is the step right here

that’s the key and I told my student I

said here’s the deal you’re learning so

many things but you feel frustrated

because you’re not able to use them and

you feel like your English isn’t

improving well the middle step that’s

missing is you have to teach somebody

else and maybe you’re asking yourself

teacher I’m not a teacher I’m a student

learning from you that is true but when

you learn something or when you see

something exciting

what do you naturally do you share it

with somebody else basically a viral

video is that something you see on TV or

something you see on the internet like

this is so funny oh my goodness my

friend would love this too and you share

it with your friend so you’re actually

teaching your friend about this video so

it’s a natural habit of ours to tell

other people something that’s important

to us funny to us or interesting to us

do the same thing when it comes to

English so let’s look at this a little

bit closer alright so again teach it to

three other people so you see this young

man right here find three friends or

other English learners you are connected

to and tell them what you learned and

explain it now again you’re not worrying

about your grammar right now like oh I

can’t explain it properly with the full

sentence it’s okay I taught you guys

Gucci right explain that to a friend

it’s something funny and something

interesting explain it in your own words

all right now why this is because when a

student spends time teaching what they

have learned they eventually start to

understand the information more and

remember it isn’t that amazing the way

your brain works is awesome so when you

literally take the time to okay I

learned this new expression from teacher

Tiffany

let me tell my friend your brain starts

operating in a different way because now

you have to take in the information

process it and then regurgitate or

produce it again

your brain is amazing that’s why this is

so important to teach three people and

you all know how much I love the rules

up three right so three people again

you’re gonna teach the first person baby

you’re a little nervous the second

person okay I’m a little bit more

comfortable by the third person a let me

tell you about this word I learned from

teacher Tiff’s make sense all right now

what are the results going to be here we

go the result you will remember more

information feel more confident in your

English speaking ability and be able to

use what you learn faster in real

conversations think about it you learn

something right and usually like the

student that I was talking to you learn

it and you’re by yourself maybe you

write it down but it stops but if you

learn it share it with three people

that’s four times your brain has had the

opportunity to process it so when you

come to a situation that requires that

expression or word you’re like oh man

I’m already comfortable with this

expression of vocabulary word and they

will come out in a natural way so let’s

see again how this is gonna work how can

you actually share it with three people

so again back to the example this

student learned guchi from me last week

the student goes to his three friends

and says hey guys guess what I just

learned have you ever heard someone say

guchi it’s actually an English slang

term that means good or nice so I can

say that new-car is Gucci man I love

this slang now I have seen students do

this actually well they learn something

from me and be so excited that they’ll

share it with someone else naturally and

the students that do that are the

students that remember the slang and use

it later so you may say teacher I don’t

have friends that I can actually share

it with well what I noticed was students

that are in my Academy this is these are

some screenshots of our private group we

have a family group just for students in

my Academy and they share things with

each other on a regular basis they tell

each other what they’re studying they

give each other advice for the IELTS

exam

well advice for how to learn

cavalieri words and when they learn

something new they post it to the group

and say hey guys have you ever heard of

this it’s pretty awesome and then other

students asked them questions and they

immediately have to teach their friends

and other students so I’ve seen it work

in our family group again if you’re not

a part of my Academy and you’re not a

part of our family hopefully you can

join today click the link right in the

description or you can go to let’s jump

right in comm but again part two or step

two is you must teach it to three other

people three people who are learning

English just like you all right now so

we have learn something new

teach it to three people what’s the

third step what did I tell my student or

what should you do here we go now the

third step is also very important you

need to write it in your notebook now

looking at this right here how can you

do that you need to write the word or

expression the meaning and describe

where and how you learned it you see how

I’m very specific I didn’t just say

write the word write the definition no

you need to also connect it to the

situation connect it to the place where

you saw the word where you heard the

word or where someone used it around you

you see because that will create a

trigger for your brain for example the

students that heard me say Gucci right

they remember I said Gucci during my

video the last video where I talked

about my personal information about

being married about learning new things

and learning a new language being a

journey so they have this kind of

trigger in their brain and even if you

don’t recognize it your brain woo is

awesome so you need to put these three

pieces of information inside of your

notebook the word or expression the

meaning and then where you learned it

all right now why is this so important

here’s the quote when you write down

your ideas you automatically focus your

full attention on them

hola booth so by writing things down you

actually tell your brain hey write this

right here is important I need you to

remember it your brain says okay we can

remember this information and then you

say oh by the way brain here’s a trigger

I learned it from teacher Tiffany’s

video where she talked about why she’s

not married yet if you haven’t seen that

video you can check it out but again

you’re giving your brain these triggers

and it will help you to remember the

information that you’re learning all

right now what will the result be here

we go you will be able to track your

progress as you study English and you

will also be able to review what you

learn each day so again it’s important

to track your progress I think I’ve

mentioned it to you before many of you

have seen all of my youtube videos and

I’m so happy however sometimes you may

watch the videos not take notes and not

put into practice what I’ve talked it’s

not important to just sit and watch

something or read a book you have to go

to the next level you have to teach what

you learn and then write it down that’s

how your brain is able to connect and

actually help you to start using what

you learn all right so let’s see what my

notebook would look like ok here we go

going back to my screen so for example

again learned Gucci student spread it to

three different friends this student

here then he went to his notebook and

wrote wrote Gucci the meaning good well

or nice the source

I learned it while watching an episode

of QA with teacher TIFF now what’s gonna

happen for this student as he goes back

and reviews his notes he may say oh man

I can’t remember how to use Gucci

properly I I mean I know the meaning but

how did she use it well since he wrote

down the source he can go right back and

then provide visual triggers to help him

remember the word later on the slang

term later on kind of makes sense all

right so again now this is something I

want you to do in part

I go into more detail and I give you a

7-day worksheet I tell you some videos

blogs and podcasts to listen to and I

explain it even more again part two is

always for my Academy students because I

want to take you guys to the next level

if you’re not already a member all you

have to do is click the link in the

description now part two again is gonna

be so helpful because I literally found

a podcast I found a website I found a

video that you can use and sometimes

students just like you have a hard time

knowing which videos which blogs or even

which podcasts to listen to so again if

you’re not a student click in the link

click the link right in the description

let’s jump right in comm join the

Academy and you can watch part two right

now now guys I really hope you enjoyed

this lesson remember these three things

you must do every day if you want to

take your English to the next level it’s

not just about learning new things

you must also do what teach three people

and you need a family so join the

Academy and you can join our family and

you have a group that supports you each

and every day as you study English

after you share it then you write it

down and you review it after that I’m so

happy to see you all I’m so happy that

you guys want to speak English and I’m

also so honored to be your teacher well

guys I hope you enjoyed this lesson

remember I will be back next week I will

be back next week to give you some more

tips but as you wait for me to come next

week don’t forget to speak English

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oh yeah you know what time it is it’s

story time

hey I said story time

alright so today’s story is actually

connected to my passion and love for

teaching so I’m gonna go all the way

back to when I was in university and I

think I was a sophomore so I was about

18 or 19 years old and I remember we had

a class it was a statistics class now

for pronunciation practice let’s do it

together

stuff to sticks there you go one more

time

statistics last time statistics good job

all right so it was a system it was a

statistics class even for Americans

pronunciation can be tricky so anyways

it was a statistics class and I love

math so statistics can be a little bit

tricky sometimes though so anyways we I

took the class and the class was being

given by a professor from another

University he was just coming over to

our University to teach the class and it

was a bit tricky but you know he was a

good teacher um and he told us how to

study so anyways one day I gave us an

assignment and I went back to my room

and that night and I studied hard and I

did the assignment and then I handed in

my homework and my professor he was an

older older white guy older kind of

short white guy in my memory now that

I’m thinking back he kind of reminded me

of a short Santa Clause like he had kind

of like the facial hair glasses really

nice guy

older gentleman I think at that time he

may have been about 50 and I think I

handed him my homework and it was at the

beginning of class and at the beginning

of class students started to ask him

questions like they didn’t understand

say one of the questions on the homework

assignment and I think let’s say for

example was number five and he looked at

me and he said TIFF come up to the board

and teach how to do this question now

the class was not small

there were about

30 or 40 students in the class now again

I was young I may have been 18 or 19 and

he said TIFF come to the front and I

want you to teach this problem I want

you to show us how to do it and I’d

still remember this to this day so I

walked up and you know I took at that

time we had chalk or I think we had

markers um and I looked at a question

and it was kind of like without he

wasn’t he wasn’t very talkative but I

just remember feeling like he believed

in me and he trusted me enough to teach

this class I was 18 or 19 I was 19 years

old this is the 50 year old professor he

knew his stuff very intelligent and he’s

trusting this 19 year old to teach an

entire class how to do a certain problem

and I show them what I did on my paper

and I explained how to do the problem

and I just remember him kind of looking

at me with a look of I guess like good

job like you did a great job and when I

think about my passion for teaching

that’s kind of one of the first moments

where I realized I enjoy helping people

understand difficult concepts I enjoy

seeing other students be able to gain

confidence in their ability to do

something so you know I’m an English

teacher now and you know I have a

passion for teaching you all but again

when I think about different experiences

that happen throughout my life that that

showed me that hey maybe teaching is

where I’m gonna be in the future that’s

one of the first times I think it

clicked that ah teaching is something

that I really love and I think it may be

something in my future now after that

you know I got a job at NASA and did web

development I didn’t teach after that

that was many years before I went to

Korea but I still remember that

situation and I remember how he believed

in me and gave me the opportunity even

as a young person to teach 30 or 40

other students so why am I telling you

this I’m telling you this because I want

to do the same for you right now you are

learning and I’m kind of in the

professor’s spot that I mentioned to you

in the story and though I may not be

able to

physically hand you hand you the the

Chuck or hand you the marker I want to

hand it over to you kind of

metaphorically and say start teaching

what you’re learning just like we talked

about in today’s lesson don’t feel shy

don’t feel like you’re not good enough

as you learn teach somebody else and I

guarantee it’s gonna start building up

in you a confidence you never knew you

had thank you for giving me the

opportunity to teach you but now I want

to hand it over to you and I want to see

you teach somebody else teach somebody

else what you’re learning and again let

us know you can always let us know in

the comments what you did and again if

you’re already a member of my Academy

you can let us know in our family chat

room a private chat room so again if

you’re not a part of our family please

join us I love to see all of the

conversations that happen on a regular

basis the students encouraging each

other and moving forward as they study

English so I hope you enjoy the story

guys I’ll never forget that professor

and I really appreciated his confidence

in me and yeah we’ll see what the next

ten years have in store as a teacher but

I hope I’ll be in your life for a long

time alright guys I’ll see you next week