0:00 there are many amazing non-native English speakers on YouTube when I was watching their videos my draw was literally on the floor it's been a long time since I recorded a video um and I figured this time I'll just do it on my computer hey guys I've been told that these make me look professorial so it's the right week to wear them isn't she a NY speaker so it made me think really hard how are they able to reach to that level and many of us has been learning English for like over a decades still barely able to speak what the heck is going on so a long time ago I studied over 10 YouTubers just like these two that I just showed you trying to figure out what they actually share in common hoping that if we can do the same maybe we can also reach to their level
0:47 hopefully so what are they sh in common well the number one commentary is material selection they do actually vary a bit from person to person for example some enjoy reading books I became very passionate about studying spirituality and philosophy and started devouring thought-provoking books and literature some I into YouTube videos some like watching American TV shows I just watch a lot of TV and movies in English some learned English before the internet became a thing news week or something like that like a magazine from America or maybe from another English speaking country but with all this being said they do share something in common all of these materials that they selected they suit their personal interests and needs Vicki for example enjoys philosophical
1:35 and spiritual books Stacy Maria kala they all mentioned they enjoy watching American TV shows Judy on the other hand enjoys watching YouTube videos so they all love what they consume and all of these materials actually cater for native speakers so that they are authentic they are not texture book materials made for second language Learners and no one even mentioned the texture books and some of the emphasizes the important of comprehensibility you don't have to understand the entire thing if you're just reading and you don't know one word doesn't really matter comment number two is a sufficient amount of input Stacy for example according to her watched pretty much all these new movies read a lot of children's books the whole series of Twilight Harry Potter and tons of
2:20 English novels and I read them all in English and I was actually really fun I couldn't stop reading those at first it was watching lots of American TV shows and just nonstop but then I was reading Maria she studied to watch watching TV in English from the age of 13 and Judy immersed herself in English I was watching about like 3 to four hours every single day in English that's a lot of input so they've all received tremendous amount of English input commentary number three they all prioritize input they all emphasize the importance of input instead of output YK for example suggests you should all practice speaking when you're familiar with the content Judy actually says something that's very similar after watching one episode or one video try to
3:06 explain it to yourself in English by your own words what you have just watched and a huge chunk of their videos focus on input instead of output with only one exception Kaa in her video half a effect she focuses on talking about how she benefited from chatting with English boy named Adam talk very very very frequently almost every day at some point like four five hours of Sky straight and that's where I started to talk without even knowing what I was going to say and not preparing my thoughts and just talking you know just like this without having to translate what I was going to say but their chance is actually consistent it's a long term it's is something that they do very
3:51 frequently so I would like to argue her success actually could be due to the amount of input that Adam provided to her so while chatting with Adam she actually get to hear how native speakers speak English in an authentic way so half of her success probably comes from this amount of input that she get from Adam so all of this that is mentioned align with Steven crush's comprehensible input hypothesis very well which basically States language acquisition does not come from output so you can speak all the way to fluency language acquisition actually comes from input Stacy actually has a perfect story to illustrate this point she acquired a lot
4:36 of vocabularies that weren't even taught as SCH by reading picture books Snow White or Peter Pan Little Mermaid and Lion King I watched all of those first in English and then in Russian many people ask me Stacy how did you watch these cartoons you didn't even speak English then and how did you understand it all I don't know even though I didn't know l of those words I kind of memorized them in a way I can't really say how but when I went to school and then learned those words there I somehow knew them beforehand if you go over some new vocabulary and I just go I know these words and I know where I learned them but it's they were just in my head already like a built-in vocabulary however for input to work he needs to
5:22 follow the following principles number one authentic it's got to be authentic because garbage in garbage out if you consume and study texture book you're going to sound like a texture book because that's all you know that's what you learned but if you pick up The Language by watching American TV shows reading novels that's written for native speakers you're also going to pick up the way that they use the language you're going to sound more like than native like or authentic whatever you would like to call it number two comprehensible comprehensible is important because if it's not comprehensible it's just going to be a memor izing process you know this word and you know what it means that's it but if it's comprehensible very likely the word the structure will be acquired
6:08 through the context so you will know how a word or a structure is actually used in what context so in the future where you actually need to use this word structure you know how to use it because that's how you learn it number three intriguing you got to enjoy what to consume you got to love what to do because if you do you want to come back for more and more and we all know that when it comes to second language acquisition consistency is key if you don't love what you do you're not going to come back for more and there will no way you improve if you don't do it right so in trigging Insurance you want to come back for more and more you are willing to learn out of pure joy you learn not because you have to or you are aware beforehand of the external
6:54 advantages you'll get out of it but mostly because you love it so much because with it you can Savor the life to the fullest as I said earlier with English I can better explore my curiosity and creativity and that add so much color into my life not only that I get to meet and connect with more people in a more intimate level and talk about more deep hilarious and interesting things so that's how I get to stay inspired to keep up with English which is essential when it comes to English improv a sufficient amount of input so the amount of input that you need to receive to reach to that level it needs to be huge a lot of it a lot of it and a
7:42 lot of us only consume very limited amount of English input when I was still studying at school we have like two text books every single year combine like everything together the exposure that I get in a year is probably less than maybe 10,000 English words yeah that's very little compared to all of those successful Learners that they received in a single year another thing that I notice to watching their videos is Passion so when they talk about and sharing their learning experiences you can actually feel they enjoy what they do like Stacy's a lot for Twilight Maria's obsession with American TV shows and Vick's passion for philosophical and spiritual books they all love what they do they all enjoy what they consume and
8:28 I think this is really important Vicky put it in a really beautiful way think the progress becomes the fastest if you forget about even making the progress and focus on entirely on the work itself however frustrating it feels at times work on it like that day by day and there will come a day when you will find yourself having improved so much and you'll go like wao did I just say that wow did I just write that so yeah there's going to be a lot of struggles and frustration but learn to enjoy and embrace the process and have fun with it your English will never be perfect and it doesn't have to be and that's the best part because that lifts so much burden off of your should when you enjoy the process and stop caring so much about
9:15 result it's actually when you improve the most I couldn't agree more because it's only when you love what you do you will keep on doing it consistently and it's only when you are consistent there is a chance you will get suff ient amount of a comprehensible authentic and intriguing input if you're not consistent you're not going to do this long term and you will not have this chance to reach to that level you probably give up here or there so you have to be consistent if you want to be consistent you definitely would like to enjoy what you do imagine you don't enjoy what you do and you have to spend 4 hours on it every day that's like spending 4 hours being unhappy every day that's a torture nobody would like to do it nobody will be able to hang on it for
10:01 long fure passion in English learning I've been saying a lot of nice things about the comprehensible input but in fact I have a lot of problems with that I actually think it might be the reason why your English get stuck truth be told a large number of probably the majority of the practitioners of comprehensible input to Theory are yet to see any results that's close to to those successful Learners we just talked about not even close probably a lot of them have already given up so something has gone wrong what is it that's a very important question and hopefully we can find this out in the next video and I'll see you guys in the
10:47 next one bye I'm super excited my language course is now open for enrollment it doesn't teach grammar vabra whatever that didn't work then it's not going to work now the reason why you guess Stu with your language learning it's not because you aren't working hard enough it's actually because you're working way too hard the wrong way forcing your brain to do things you doesn't like to do memorizing vocabulary grammar whatever of course you get stuck stop doing that learn how your brain process language remember things Master skills learn in the way that your brain operates and enjoys you supercharge your learning efficiency this is what the course is all about to make your learning easy and fun so that you want to come back for more and more
11:32 every single day you literally get addicted to learning Isn't that cool it's super cool if you are tired of English getting in the way of living the best possible life that you deserve to live if you don't want to waste any more time now your chance I'll see you there l
