Why English Is So Hard The Solutions You Need To Finally Speak With Confidence

there are five reasons why English is so

hard five reasons why when you speak in

English you get nervous five reasons why

you can’t seem to think in English and

speak like a native English speaker but

today I’m gonna give you the solutions

I’m teacher Tiffany let’s jump right in

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reason number one it requires lots of

speaking practice but the problem is you

have no one to practice with now very

quickly you’ll notice that my voice is

kind of gone actually I was sick all

last week and I debated about recording

this video and then I thought about you

I knew that you would need this video so

I apologize for my voice but I

definitely wanted to record this video

just for you so let’s keep going now you

have no one to practice with and that’s

a big issue I’ve had a lot of students

who have spoken to me throughout the

past few months and have sent me

messages saying teacher I really want to

speak English like a native English

speaker but I have no one to speak with

I don’t have a partner I don’t have a

way to practice my English and I know

this is probably the same thing you are

experiencing but don’t worry I have a

solution for you so here’s what you need

to do first start conversations online

visit blogs Instagram accounts Facebook

groups YouTube channels and other

English sites then start commenting and

sending messages this happened last week

one of my students who is also a member

of my Academy actually had a

conversation with one of my friends

that’s right he is one of my Instagram

students as well and my friend follows

me on Instagram my friend is an American

they were talking via Instagram to each

other without me you see all you have to

do is I know I know you feel shy and I

know you may be nervous but the internet

opens up so

doors so people that you follow on

Instagram people that you follow in

Facebook groups go to those pages go to

those groups and just start commenting

and then if you see someone you want to

talk to send them a message the worst

that can happen is they don’t respond

but just like my friend she started a

conversation with my student and that

can happen to you so again going back to

my screen start conversations on line

don’t be shy you can do it next practice

with other English learners find other

English learners in the comment sections

of posts in facebook groups in YouTube

comments or other places message them

and start practicing together now I’m

gonna take a second guys you’re gonna

see me do this a lot during this video I

need to drink some water thank you for

understanding all right so again this

video alone when I upload this video and

as soon as I post it many of you start

commenting in the comment section and

I’ve noticed that some of you have said

hey I’m looking for a partner anybody

want to talk to me on whatsapp that’s

amazing I want you to do that because

you guys are all learning practice

together when I was studying Korean I

was in a class with other students

studying Korean and we practiced

together don’t worry about being alone

or being the only one in your country or

in your environment you can access the

internet in the comment section again

type hey anybody want to practice with

me and I guarantee someone will respond

okay all right now let’s move on to the

next reason here we go the second reason

is you must use real-life English now

the main problem is book English is

different now many of you have also told

me this I’ve talked to some of you and

again those of you there in my Academy

and some of you have had conversations

with me via zoom

videochat and you told me teacher I love

your classes but I realized that what I

learned in class in my own country was

different from the way that you speak

you see they realized that wait a minute

book English is not the same as spoken

English now I want to clarify book

English is very important because you

need to learn the grammar but do you

remember that video a few weeks back

where I taught you stop saying I’m fine

thank you and you if you haven’t seen it

click the link it popped on the screen

right now you see in English while I’m

fine thank you and you we say that

honestly I I don’t say that often but

students learn that in books so every

English student I’ve had in the past

when I was in Korea said I’m fine thank

you

and you how are you I’m fine thank you

and you and students start to sound like

robots

well real-life English is different and

that’s the problem you experience you

feel frustrated you’ve studied but then

when you go to speak you don’t sound

like a native English speaker don’t

worry I have a solution okay so here’s

the solution first watch programs and

write expressions what you’re going to

do is watch various television or online

English programs as you watch them write

down the new English expressions you

hear in a notebook now I want to show

this to you so for example this is one

of my favourite notebooks you can see

it’s very small but in this notebook I

can write down notes you need to get

your own notebook when you watch this

video videos that I produce where I’m

teaching you guys English during the

time while I’m teaching you I use a lot

of natural expressions because I’m

American and my first language is

English so if you hear something hey

teacher Tiffany said that but I didn’t

learn that write it down find out what

it means you can ask me in the comment

sections and then practice so again you

want to start speaking like a Native

American like an English speaker native

speaker write down the things that we

say or if you’re following me on my

Instagram now some of you don’t know

that I have an Instagram let me show it

to you guys on the screen here we go you

can follow me on Instagram every day I

post two lessons so Sunday to Friday I

post two lessons I teach slang and I

teach English vocabulary well a lot of

the slang a lot of the students that are

already following me are learning very

useful English slang terms so they’re

starting to sound more like a native

English speaker and it’s so funny

because I’ve actually sent my friends

messages because the students that are

following me on Instagram have started

to sound so natural that it blows my

mind I send the messages to my friends

like hey look at what my students said

it sounds so natural so again write down

the expressions that you hear or that

you see us use from different videos

okay

now the next solution here we go let me

take this off the screen for you guys

the next solution to this issue or this

problem is study body language and take

notes so while watching television or

online English programs study the body

language of the people speaking English

the facial expressions the hand gestures

etc so once again you are watching me

once again I need to get some water guys

you can kind of hear my voice hold on

one second hi my voice sound a little

bit raspy again because I was sick last

week so we say raspy the way my voice

sounds right now we say raspy in English

okay alright so again the solution I

said body language as I’m talking to you

you see that I’m using my hands I’m

doing this a lot and I naturally speak

with my hands a lot but again this is a

part of expressing yourself in English

you can start to mimic me you can start

to copy what I’m doing so for example

you can say ah when teacher Tiffany

talks about herself she normally points

to herself so again these little things

will actually help your English in

prove and help you have more confidence

when you speak in English okay all right

now let’s see the next reason why

English is so hard number three you have

to organize your thoughts but the

problem is you keep thinking in your

language now man so many of you have

messaged me about this issue teacher I

want to speak English but every time I

go to speak English I only think in my

mother tongue I only think in my native

language so let’s say for example you

are from Brazil or you’re from China or

you’re from Korea when you go to speak

in English hold on excuse me you start

thinking in Chinese or you start

thinking in Korean or you start thinking

in Portuguese and that stresses you out

I get it

I totally understand when I was learning

Korean

it was difficult because I also was

thinking in English but then I had these

solutions so here are the solutions

first practice using the five W’s method

what you’re gonna do is find images and

create stories about them you can do

this by using the five W’s method who

what when where and why now if you’ve

been following me for a long time you

already know this method but again if

you don’t you can just watch the video

the link is up in the top okay so what

you’re gonna do is what’s happening the

reason why you’re having a hard time

thinking in English is because your

brain has never been given the

opportunity to build that muscle right

so what you’re gonna do is go online

find images let’s see for example I’m

gonna find an image really quickly right

now and show you exactly how you can do

this so let’s say I go on Google really

quickly and let’s say I want to find a

picture of a puppy I don’t know if you

guys like puppies or not but puppies are

really cute right so I have my image and

this is the image I found oh I got a new

phone guys all right this is the puppy

very cute puppy right okay but I need to

find out whose dog this is what is the

dog doing when was this picture taken

where was it taken and why was it taken

again looking at that picture very cute

but I’m trying to think in English and

that’s what you’re gonna do find images

and try to creatively think about the

picture make a story about the picture

okay all right now the second thing you

can do is using the number three

practice using threes three is a good

number to remember as you practice how

to think in English you can find

questions and answer them by giving

three reasons three examples or three

details when I say this right here is

gonna help you so much the five W’s is

that’s my favorite method but the three

the number three is my second favorite

method because it will help you in so

many ways let’s say for example someone

asks you hey what’s your favorite food

and you say oh my favorite food is pizza

well they’re gonna look at you because

they want more information three reasons

you see the number three came up right

or three details tell me the type of

pizza you like cheese pizza only or do

you like vegetable pizza or do you like

potatoes on your pizza when I was in

Korea they had potatoes sweet potatoes

on their pizza it was delicious I never

had that before because in America we

don’t put sweet potatoes on pizzas but

in Korea they do and man is a delicious

but again you see I used the number

three to give you three details right or

to give you three different examples or

types of pizza okay all right so now

let’s move on to the next reason why

English is so hard here we go

reason number four you have to use a lot

of vocabulary now this is a problem

because you don’t know enough vocabulary

hey I get it I totally understand again

when I was studying Korean I would have

to get up at 4 in the morning trying to

learn hundreds of

you Larry words before our exams because

you need vocabulary in order to express

yourself so I get it so what’s the

solution I got you don’t even worry okay

so here’s the solution commit to

learning five ten or fifteen words a day

so you’re gonna choose five ten or

fifteen English vocabulary words to

learn each day now here’s the key I want

you to pay attention there’s a reason

why I said five ten or fifteen because

you may be too busy to learn fifteen

word today but you may have time to

learn five just five and again you have

your notebook write five words maybe a

word you heard during this class or a

word that you learned from my Instagram

page it’s up to you right but maybe you

have extra time you can choose fifteen

words what you’re gonna do is in the

morning here we go in the morning you’re

going to first write the word in your

notebook write all of the words in your

notebook then throughout the day use

each one at least once and then the

evening you’re going to review them

again now don’t worry all of these

solutions are in the PDF again the free

PDF so click the link in the description

if you want to get your free pdf so

don’t worry you can still follow along

with this lesson okay now we get in the

morning first you’re going to write the

words in your notebook then throughout

the day I want you to try to use the

words okay

figure out ways to use the words again

this is gonna help you to think in

English as well and then in the evening

come back and you’re gonna review what

you wrote down all right okay now let’s

move on to number five here we go need

to speak with confidence in English but

you feel nervous and shy it’s true

English is hard and when you get in

front of someone and you have to speak

in English and all you’re thinking about

is the mistakes that you’re gonna make

the fact that your grammar may not be

perfect you may start to shake and the

words suddenly don’t come out I get it I

understand I was the same and I

still experiences sometimes when I speak

in Korean I totally understand but I had

some solutions for you so don’t worry

all right so here’s the first solution

record yourself speaking in English pick

a topic and then video or record

yourself speaking about it for at least

one minute the first time will be

difficult but keep trying that’s right

take your phone take your camera and I

want you to hold it up and record

yourself speaking in English now you may

feel weird at first because you’re

talking to yourself but there’s

something that happens when you record

yourself and then you watch it back it

will help you to stop feeling so nervous

but the next solution is also key you

see after you record yourself you then

need to show the video to two people

what that’s right you need to show the

video to two people now you feel nervous

because you don’t want to make mistakes

in front of other people but your

confidence will grow as you show your

video clips to more and more people it’s

so true students that are in my course

to speak like a native English speaker

course have to upload videos each week

or every two weeks but they have the

opportunity every week to upload their

video in the very beginning many of them

said they were super nervous but now

they’re more comfortable because other

people are looking at them and they say

hey it is what it is if you don’t know

that one check out my Instagram page I

taught that slang term it is what it is

just means hey it’s a fact I can’t

change it so upload it once it’s

uploaded you can’t change anything but

they start to get more confident as the

week’s go on

okay so again record yourself and upload

your videos either to a group or you can

show them to your friends okay now

remember to speak English but also

remember to watch the next video lesson

I’ll see you next week

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you still there it’s story time

all right so you know that this past

week was Christmas and I want to tell

you this really quickly my dad growing

up would always kind of give us whatever

we asked for it so my mom would also

give us whatever we asked for but my

sister and I so just my sister and I and

our house growing up and I remember one

time I wanted this CD you guys may know

Mariah Carey Mariah Carey I love her

music I can’t sing for you guys today

because my voice is kind of gone but

I’ll do it for you guys next time and

Mariah Carey had a song and to this day

I love this song

and all I want for Christmas was the

song and I know you guys know that song

so anyways I wanted the CD and I asked

my mom but she said no you can’t have

that CD so I left it alone but I knew

that my dad would get it for me so

without my mom knowing I went up to my

dad said daddy you know there’s

something I really really want he said

what do you want baby girl so my dad

calls me baby girl I’m the youngest to

my family’s head baby girl what do you

want so well there’s this CD by Mariah

Carey I really like her music but I

don’t know if I can have it for

Christmas or not but I really would like

that CD I said okay I said it one time

now I know that I’m my dad’s weakness

well actually both my sister and I my

dad is he’s a very loving man and he

really took care of us really well and

again we’re his daughters so daddy’s

girls so anyways Christmas Day comes and

you know we’re all opening our gifts and

everything and there’s one more gift

under the tree my mom looks at my dad

like did you get that it was for me so I

got the gift and again it was the size

of a CD now for those that are too young

I know you’ve seen a CD before but when

I was there they had CDs so I unwrapped

the CD and oh it was a Mariah Carey’s CD

and I was so happy I ran a gave my dad a

hug

I was so happy because I love Mariah

Carey but my mom’s face really my dad’s

name is EJ

really EJ really and we got a good laugh

out of it but that’s kind of how I used

to do when I was younger you know if one

parents said no you just kind of go to

the women let’s say yes but anyway that

mom laughed about it after a while and

then I started singing the songs for

them so let me know about your Christmas

memories I hope you enjoyed this story

and I’ll talk to you next week