From: Robby Kukurs, Contact Me | FAQ | My Video Blog
Dear Frustrated English Speaker, What you’re about to read right now will surprise you, shock you, but most importantly - finally open your eyes on what’s happening in the English teaching industry!
Have you been doing all the following: …only to discover that when it comes to speaking English with native speakers you’re next to useless? Then read on - my name is Robby and learning the English language has been my hobby for the last 20 years. And just like you I couldn’t figure out why my spoken English is so bad while my reading, writing and understanding were perfect! Well… Here’s the good news - I finally cracked the code, improved my spoken English and mastered fluent English speech thanks to finally understanding how it is possible to REALLY speak English language fluently! But first things first…
“How I Wasted Years Of My Life
Until 2002 I was living in my home country - have you ever heard of Latvia? - and considered myself a fairly good English speaker. I had started studying English on my own when I was around ten years old and to put it simply - I fell in love with the language! I was amazed at how simple the English language actually is - no difficult conjugations to learn, no grammatical genders - why wouldn't it be possible to learn the language in a few months time? During my highschool years and later on - the university - I was always among the best in the English class. But then I had an opportunity to leave my country and explore the world - and as you can probably guess it was an English speaking country I was heading for. When the plane landed and I stepped outside the airport, the cold truth instantly hit me - I couldn’t speak the English language!!!
How could me - Robby, whose biggest hobby was learning
Back then I felt like having received a cold shower. Now I know why it was happening to me - and I know that it’s most likely a big issue for you, my friend, right? Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading my website and trying to figure out how to finally break down the mental barrier and start using the English language in real life communications rather than only read, write and listen to it!
During all my years of wasted effort in pursuit of the English fluency I did learn a few very important things, though. I learnt them the hard way, but then there was no-one to guide me, to teach me about what I actually had to do to improve my English fluency and help feeling myself as a part of the English speaking society. I was following only the mainstream English studying principles that you most likely already know:
This is just a fraction of books I read trying to achieve English fluency...
My dictionaries with endless lists of new words...to be
But the following facts that slowly became clear to me, yes - these are the very things I learnt the hard way - were always concealed. Why? Because the English teaching industry doesn’t want you to know them!...
Fact #1:
Answer now this simple question - what is happening in 99% of the English classes at schools, colleges, ESL classes and adult education English classes? The scenario is something like this - the teacher stands in front of a class of 15 - 30 students. Then the teacher writes the new words on the board and you jot them down into your copybooks. Then you write down dozens of sentences as given by the teacher to use those new words and maybe also apply some new grammar rule. And then comes the speaking part. The teacher may ask you a few questions, make you pick up a conversation with another student or just tell some example sentences. And during the years you’ve probably become pretty good at ONE thing - creating English sentences applying vocabulary you know and the grammar rules you know when sitting at the desk in a classroom! But don't the people behind this educational system know that this way the real and the ONLY goal of learning the English language - to SPEAK it - is completely ignored? Yes! They do! But they’re chained by the unbreakable chains of the academic educational system for they just can’t focus only on YOU in the classroom, right? So the only viable solution for them is to teach the language by writing… And mind this - those comparatively few conversations you’re going through while attending English classes, or even using some popular English learning course on the internet contribute very little to your English fluency! But what are the basics of fluent English then - you may ask? Well - here we go…
Fact #2:
This is where we can speak about small children again… Because to understand the basics of language learning, we have to look at how it happens naturally. So - does the mother teach grammar to her child to help him start speaking? Is writing the first thing a child does before pronouncing the first words? But of course not! To cut the long story short - the secret behind learning the language naturally is to learn word combinations as they’re used in the real life conversations! A perfect example - “Pick it up!” There’s a very high probability that a child learns the world “to pick” in this exact context - when the mother or father tells him to pick something up. You see? The words “to pick”, “it” and “up” may mean very little to the child at the early stage; yet the word combination “pick it up” bears a very clear meaning! Coming from this we can similarly understand that this is the exact way of learning English for everyone - learning the world combinations like “come with me”, “I like you”, “I’m feeling fine” and so on. And while I don’t deny that it’s more or less the basics of every English teaching course, once again we have to look at the speaking part. The child hears his mother say the words, repeats them and starts using them. That’s it! Later on when he goes to school he’s taught how to put those words down on the paper, but what the non-native speakers are taught is the very opposite - first how to put words on the paper and then - how to speak them! You see - completely against the very nature of natural language speaking! While the traditional English studies help understating the language’s structure and other things to a native speaker, for us - non-native speakers - the main purpose of the language studies has to be learning to SPEAK the language! I personally believe it’s the ONLY purpose or learning any language! This having said I don’t underestimate the importance of correct grammar and writing skills and it’s completely not my point here - my point is that SPEECH always comes first - then the rest! But if this still didn’t convince you that the conventional methods of teaching the English language are highly ineffective - allow me to introduce you with the 80/20 rule - also known as Pareto principle…
Fact #3:
So what this means in the context of English learning efficiency? It means the following - MOST of the vocabulary and grammar you learn at the English class is not going to be used in the real life! For example, let’s take the English Tenses. How often will you hear sentences in the Passive Voice used in the conversations between native English speakers? Will your workmate tell you “I was being driven home by a friend of mine yesterday” or “A friend of mine gave me a lift home yesterday”? Actually, the chances are that a native English speaker will actually have difficulties with understanding the first sentence while the second one wasn’t probably even taught to you in the English class… You see - the academic English teaching process requires the teachers to give the students a certain amount of knowledge. And who cares if the biggest part of it is going to be forgotten right after the tests, right? Well, actually it’s time for you to start care about it because you are just wasting your time and money on learning things you’re not going to use instead of focusing on the vocabulary and grammar that comprises the biggest part of spoken and also written English. Did you know, for example, that the first 100 most commonly used English words make up one half of all the written English material these days? It’s a typical 80/20 rule in action - and the same can be said about grammar. Forget about grammar that is of no use in the real life! Forget about learning words that you’ll never use when speaking English! Remember - in the real life no-one cares what you KNOW... All that matters is how well you are able to COMMUNICATE with others!
Fact #4:
This can be best explained by the following example. Let’s say, today you have to learn 6 new English words. How do you do it? You write them down in your notebook with a translation in your own language or you’re using a flashcard. After a few repetitions you can perfectly remember the words and the job’s done, isn’t it? Well, well, let’s have a look now how you accomplished the goal! You were looking at the written word, read it out loud or slightly whispered it to yourself. Then, by covering the word you brought up its meaning from your short-term memory. Nice! Given you’ll repeat these words over and over again - just like I used to do - on a daily basis, you’ll be able to settle them in your permanent memory. But have you ever thought about what part of memory you’re using when hammering new English words in your head? It’s the visual memory! Yes, EVERY time you’re looking at the corresponding translations your mind unmistakably finds the corresponding entry in its records. But what happens when you have to use vocabulary acquired in such way in real-life conversations? You just have to keep on digging in your memory bringing up the words, translating them from your own language and sticking them together using the grammar rules and regulations! And is the resulting speech a live, fluent English language? Nope!... You see - the biggest mistake made by the conventional English study methods’ creators is the following. They’ve assumed that for acquiring the English language it is enough to train your mind through written exercises! However, they’ve forgotten the most important part of a successful - and the ONLY natural way - of language learning… CONSTANT feedback between your mind, hearing and SPEAKING! Yes, your tongue has to be constantly trained the very same way you’re training your mind, visual memory and speech recognition through hearing! All these things have to work in unison…
Fact #5:
First I want to ask you - what is English grammar for? It’s used to bind the words together, determine their place in the sentence so that we know how to create sentences in English language. Well - given that if you learn the English language the natural way - through speaking, and repeating the sentences the way they’re spoken by native speakers - do you have to study the grammar rules seperately? You see - the English grammar isn’t some abstract thing on its own - it’s unbreakably interconnected with a live English speech so that if you learn natural spoken English you’ll acquire all the necessary grammar rules without actually knowing them and drilling them into your mind! Most likely - if you’ve been anything like me during the past years - you know the academic knowledge of English grammar pretty well. But unless you’re a language specialist requiring this knowledge for language studies and analysis - what’s the use of knowing the grammar rules as they stand in a book? And here’s the kicker - it takes by far less time to learn English grammar by speaking the language than if you learn the grammar rules seperately and then apply them on your speech EVERY time you’re trying to speak! To make this all more understandable I’ll use analogy with a car driving. Learning the English language the conventional way is like learning everything ABOUT the car except - actually driving… You can know every single rule of the road, detail of the car, driving techniques and so on and on. But when you sit in a driver’s seat for the first time - this is when you have to start learning again! So back to the English language --
And the same thing applies if you - like me - have spent years on English studies the traditional way and your reading, writing and understanding of the language is perfect but the spoken English needs a great deal of improvement… So do you still want to stubbornly keep on making the same mistakes and waste even more time on studying English and trying to improve the fluency the traditional way? Please don’t repeat my mistakes! Don’t spend countless hours on perfecting the academic knowledge of English because apart from passing tests it will be USELESS! Tell me honestly now - why you want to speak fluent English in the first place? To be able to tell a native English speaker all the occasions when, let’s say, a definite article is used in the English language OR to be able to actually speak with him? The chances are - and I believe it’s the only reason why one actually should study a foreign language - you need the English language to speak to other people! But look at what’s it all become - we learn to read, understand and write perfectly and our teachers are proud of the work they’re done. And to be honest - who can blame them? Do they have enough time to spend on each student in the class for speaking the language? Of course not! And I think you understand it very well that those few conversations you have in the English class are waaay too few to make any impact on perfecting your spoken English! So what do you think I eventually did to master the English fluency? Yes, you’re right. I just started speaking it! "Wait Robby, wait!" - you’re probably saying now. What are you talking about! Did you not have to use the English language on a daily basis? Was it not absolutely enough for practicing? Well, you’re right. I had to use it everyday. But then I was always under immense mental pressure firstly because I KNEW that my spoken English was bad and secondly - I was ALWAYS trying to form the language constructions based on the grammar rules I knew. But it’s all wrong and unnecessary. Any language is built of chunks of words that can be mastered in one tenth of the time in takes to learn the word-binding rules separately and apply them every time you’re speaking!
And mind - it took me more than a year of countless hours of conversations with myself and re-building the English language from the ground up to understand the simple truth - speaking and repeating grammatically correct English sentences is the KEY to a really Fluent English language!
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hammering English grammar into your brain;
I couldn’t pronounce words normally - it seemed that my tongue got twisted!
EVERY time you’re learning a new English word - it has to be learned in some context - in a way it’s used naturally. Otherwise there’s no point of learning the new words if your mind and tongue won’t know how to use them in a natural speech!
I spent countless hours on speaking with myself.
