Hi all!
Welcome back to English with Lucy.
Today I’ve got a slightly different video.
It’s a thing I’ve recently received a lot of questions
and I’ll tell you how I achieved fluency
in foreign language.
Many of you probably already know,
but I’m sure that many do not.
that I can fluent Spanish.
If you want me to speak Spanish,
Click up here.
I made a video where I speak Spanish
and tell a different
funny mistakes I made,
when I learned the language.
The reason I tell you this story in English
and not Spanish,
It is that I think it would be a very good opportunity for you
practice in listening comprehension
and I also want you to feel more motivated
on its way language study.
Mind you,
I was in his situation very lucky.
I do not want you to think
“Oh, Lucy speaks fluently.
because she’s this and that.
And he has so lucky, and the situation was perfect. “
No, I just want to show and inspire you
and as if to demonstrate,
you can get a really good level of fluency
in a language that is not your native language.
And before we begin, I want to tell you one thing:
You can register and get a free audiobook
a 30-day free trial at Audible.com.
Link in the video description.
Such videos have subtitles
and would be very useful for you.
if you want to improve listening,
understanding and pronunciation of English.
If you want to get to the next level.
try audiobook.
It is a thing that can be very useful
and I heard a lot of praise from all
“Lucifer” who have tried it.
So I start.
My journey to fluency in Spanish.
Please note that fluency
to me does not mean 100% accuracy.
Glibness means to me,
that you can speak without thinking.
It’s almost as easy as a mother tongue.
I also have dreams in Spanish.
In its relations I spoke Spanish.
I speak Spanish joke.
Indeed it seems to me that I can fluently.
Maybe you disagree.
I know that my pronunciation of the pitfalls
as “Erre” (R sound)
I can do it,
but sometimes I put it into words
so sometimes scatterbrain “Peras” (pears)
with its “Perras” (females).
Please bear with me.
So let’s start with my journey, so to speak.
I grew up in a tiny vsničce
Bedfordshire, England.
AND
languages at school I never really hale.
Usually children English
They learn French at school
from 10 years of age
and then, they may quit,
when it is 14th
Or 13, 14th
So in fact you have to do
foreign language for three years.
It is in the public schools, not private
This is different.
I started at a public school
and then I went to four years at a private school
Špatka and turn to the state.
I learned French
and I hated it.
I love the French,
But for me it was very, very difficult.
It was in class 40th
A French had a reputation
nejnudnějšího language at all,
so I kind of accepted it.
And then when I got to another school,
once they told me that I had to learn two languages.
So I went in French
and then I could choose between Spanish and German.
I asked everyone, and I asked, what’s easier
and they told me that the Spanish.
So I gave on this subject.
There were about 25 girls, because it was a girls’ school.
I was at the bottom of the base of the class
because they already had behind him a couple of years
experience with Spanish, and I’ve never …
I at that time had never been in Spain.
So there I sat at all hours
really bored, utterly without enthusiasm.
I did not want to learn Spanish.
I could not wait to get stuck on with it.
I could not wait to do away with Spanish.
And I knew that when I’m 16, it will be possible.
I went to All we hour. I was sitting …
Just like that.
And yes!
To my surprise, I suddenly found myself
something they understand.
While some other pupils
faced with grammar,
It made sense.
But I did not want to give it meaning.
I sat bored,
But after hours of Spanish, I could not stop thinking.
Great, the present tense
He has really sense!
Oh, I’m a poet, I’m still not realized.
So I decided
maybe I could get a pretty good grade
at the annual final exam
So when I teach.
So I really went to work.
And then I found out that the students are a bit slow,
So I applied for reclassification to a higher level.
and they released me.
And finally, I have the best possible grade
test in 16 years.
But I really worked.
I remember that every evening bathed –
I do it all the time –
and just as I was in the bathroom talking to himself in Spanish.
I’d love to know
what I had said.
But then I decided that it tighten to the level A.
A level of the last two years of school, middle school,
and you have áčko,
then you can go to college.
I achieved 3 A levels:
in biology, chemistry and
in Spanish.
Since
I realized that I love Spanish
and I loved not only Spanish.
I also learned that Spanish men are
incredibly beautiful and sexy.
Indeed, they were really attractive.
So I started to (…)
I started to do very.
I really had luck in high school.
I went to public school
and I was very lucky because
nobody wanted to study languages.
I think my year was 200 people.
One study nšmčinu,
Two studied French
and three people studying Spanish.
Nobody else,
but for me it was great,
because I had a very small group
the great professor.
Her name was Mrs. Flores
and it was the Irish, even though her name was Spanish.
It was so inspiring
and propelled me forward in the right way.
And so, after one year of study Spanish
I decided to try to get to the next level.
After one year of study Spanish
I thought I would still not reach the level of B1
The extent to which we did, was very small.
But I decided that I want to follow through to the next level.
I worked in a restaurant
and bereft of all my money
and I managed to buy a ticket
a course in Seville.
Actually, I do not know why I chose Seville.
Perhaps because my first Spanish teacher
He said he was in Seville and it was nice.
So I thought, “Well, I’m going to Seville.”
I had no idea that in Seville have very strong
Andalusian accent.
So I went with my standard schoolboy Spanish
I did not understand a word miserable.
However, I was a week in school
called CLIC.
He is a member of International House schools.
It is really very good.
If you want to do an intensive Spanish course.
I would definitely do it there.
I lived with a host family
and met with a number of Spaniards.
Eventually, I met a couple of Spanish youths
with whom I had become friends.
It was a little crazy.
I was 17, I ran after Seville,
He rode on mopeds
and stayed out for so long.
Course I prosecute.
because I wanted to learn Spanish.
I first went there in Aug, nu
when it was very hot.
On the way back in August, I was saving all my money
and in October I went for another week.
And then I went for another week in April.
At that moment I was still 17th
And a young man with whom I had befriended some time,
I met him there again and …
basically we fell in love.
It was actually a very strong love.
We were together for four years.
I will not say his name,
because I would like to respect his privacy.
Very, I fell in love with a Spaniard
Fortunately, this man did not speak English well.
So the whole relationship was conducted in Spanish.
We were on WhatsApp days.
I went out to visit him as often as possible.
I was very close friends with his family
and finally we lived together in London.
We lived together in Seville.
We lived together again in London.
And that was the force that drove me
on my way to fluency.
I’d say that about a year living with him
I felt that I speak quite fluently.
I felt that Spanish is a language for me přirozný.
Since we lived together,
I went to work and spoke English.
but my home life has always been Spanish.
It was a huge motivation.
You might think:
“Great Lucy, that I am happy,
that you managed to find a Spanish man.
But what I do is for my learning English? “
I have a few ideas.
The first is to imitate mouth movements.
When my ex-spoke,
I always watched his mouth
and how he shaped.
And I started to realize,
the sounds and shapes are different.
In English we would say D.
But in Spanish they would say this: …
It would be such a zploštělejší shape.
And I noticed when I watched him.
Since the south of Spain,
he would say the word “estoy” instead of S
something like CH.
Instead of saying Qué es esto,
Qué eHeCHto said.
So I started to actually copy the sounds they made.
not just words.
Another thing I experienced,
It was complete immersion.
I was thrown into Spanish directly on the head.
I mean, I had to communicate,
because it was someone with whom I wanted to communicate.
When you are choosing a foreign language,
certainly you must be sure that you have the motivation.
“I want to pass the exam
I never had to learn English. “
This will help to fluency.
You have to really think:
“Why do I want to learn English?”
And then work on it.
My motivation was: I want to communicate fluently
and comfortably and to express herself against her husband.
That was my motivation
and ‘Wow, I soldiered on to reach the goal.
Another thing you can also do:
Never leave nothing to “float”.
And when I say – never let anything float
it means not to think:
“Oh, I do not know that word.
I’ll get him tomorrow. “
because it search for it.
I have a video about learning vocabulary,
which you can see right here.
But the important thing is that when I heard a friend say
phrase or expression that I did not understand,
I stopped him and asked him to explain it to me.
And when he could not,
I wrote it down and sought after.
in fact, I was meticulous.
Nepochytíte
all words and phrases
because some are idiomatic,
They do not make sense.
I remember that I had great difficulty
the word “vaya”
What does it mean?
I remember that it could not explain
and I went in search of the road to discovery.
I had to find what it is
“Vaya” and when I use it.
I finally found it:
“But!”
“Come on!”
Another thing I did:
I was afraid to ask people to repeat
And actually I found that people are very kind to me
and when I ask them to repeat it.
or when I did not understand the joke.
They slow down and explain it to me.
And they behaved unpleasantly,
I have in my life is just as needed.
Furthermore, I did that, I
always watched Spanish YouTuber.
I loved Hola Soy German
and I also loved Auron Play.
It’s very funny.
It makes funny videos
and substantially makes people laugh.
It’s too funny.
I also love El Rubius.
it is a plaything.
I had him as a sound background
and I’m still listening to his chatter.
And every morning I looked at the Spanish news.
That helped me too much.
And I read Harry Potter in Spanish
because I love Harry Potter books in English,
and it was very interesting to read in Spanish.
And this is something you need to remember.
You have to be interested.
You have to have motivation.
I would read books on economics in Spanish
no not have motivated language learning
and I’d probably be with him ended.
I probably would not begun.
Choose things that you really fit.
If you like photography,
but also want to learn the language,
find someone who does lectures on photography
in English,
and we’re home.
You made your own lesson.
Now I want to talk about a few things.
I love and that I should not,
I did not speak a foreign language fluently.
The first is that I have two personalities.
Indeed, everyone says.
In English
I will not give too pithily,
… one could say.
In English I’m more professional
and I think I’m more …
… I’m a bit polite.
especially when I’m talking.
But in Spanish,
because I learned from it if someone
who swore
and used a lot of slang terms
and had a strong accent.
so it kind of shaped the personality and my Spanish.
It’s not forced.
just that I naturally,
but it is great to have something like
two sides.
The second thing that there are two kinds of humor.
And it’s great because
English jokes can not be translated into Spanish
Spanish jokes and can not be translated into English.
So English people rozesmávám wordplay,
I play with words and stuff.
A Spanish have to think of other things.
In Spanish we say more anecdotes.
We like people handing out laughing
their experiences, and so on.
This is just my interpretation.
but it is wonderful to have different stories,
I can say that different groups of people
and which are untranslatable.
Fluency in a foreign language to me too
truly open mind.
He gave me more confidence.
Now when I hear someone speaking Spanish on the train,
immediately I sit down and say,
…
And then I ask: “Jesus, where are you?”
And that would not otherwise.
And now the last thing is that
really glad I speak Spanish.
And if you can get to a level
You are enjoying talking in the language
everything “will fly”.
You will have a great time.
Yes, this is quite a long video.
I hope you little motivated
and inspired.
Yes, I had a boy who spoke the language.
I wanted to learn,
But you do not have to necessarily have.
It is probably not possible.
And you certainly do not have to look for someone
just to learn English.
I was very lucky,
but take my story of individual information
and use them in their own story,
This may be surprising.
Maybe it’s already started.
Maybe you’re close to the end.
Especially do everything possible, what can be done
in your situation and your time.
So many of today’s video.
Do not forget to register for audiobook on Audio.com
Reference is made to the label
and do not forget to contact me
on all my social media.
I have Instagram and Facebook
Good bye and at the next lesson.
Welcome back to English with Lucy.
Today I’ve got a slightly different video.
It’s a thing I’ve recently received a lot of questions
and I’ll tell you how I achieved fluency
in foreign language.
Many of you probably already know,
but I’m sure that many do not.
that I can fluent Spanish.
If you want me to speak Spanish,
Click up here.
I made a video where I speak Spanish
and tell a different
funny mistakes I made,
when I learned the language.
The reason I tell you this story in English
and not Spanish,
It is that I think it would be a very good opportunity for you
practice in listening comprehension
and I also want you to feel more motivated
on its way language study.
Mind you,
I was in his situation very lucky.
I do not want you to think
“Oh, Lucy speaks fluently.
because she’s this and that.
And he has so lucky, and the situation was perfect. “
No, I just want to show and inspire you
and as if to demonstrate,
you can get a really good level of fluency
in a language that is not your native language.
And before we begin, I want to tell you one thing:
You can register and get a free audiobook
a 30-day free trial at Audible.com.
Link in the video description.
Such videos have subtitles
and would be very useful for you.
if you want to improve listening,
understanding and pronunciation of English.
If you want to get to the next level.
try audiobook.
It is a thing that can be very useful
and I heard a lot of praise from all
“Lucifer” who have tried it.
So I start.
My journey to fluency in Spanish.
Please note that fluency
to me does not mean 100% accuracy.
Glibness means to me,
that you can speak without thinking.
It’s almost as easy as a mother tongue.
I also have dreams in Spanish.
In its relations I spoke Spanish.
I speak Spanish joke.
Indeed it seems to me that I can fluently.
Maybe you disagree.
I know that my pronunciation of the pitfalls
as “Erre” (R sound)
I can do it,
but sometimes I put it into words
so sometimes scatterbrain “Peras” (pears)
with its “Perras” (females).
Please bear with me.
So let’s start with my journey, so to speak.
I grew up in a tiny vsničce
Bedfordshire, England.
AND
languages at school I never really hale.
Usually children English
They learn French at school
from 10 years of age
and then, they may quit,
when it is 14th
Or 13, 14th
So in fact you have to do
foreign language for three years.
It is in the public schools, not private
This is different.
I started at a public school
and then I went to four years at a private school
Špatka and turn to the state.
I learned French
and I hated it.
I love the French,
But for me it was very, very difficult.
It was in class 40th
A French had a reputation
nejnudnějšího language at all,
so I kind of accepted it.
And then when I got to another school,
once they told me that I had to learn two languages.
So I went in French
and then I could choose between Spanish and German.
I asked everyone, and I asked, what’s easier
and they told me that the Spanish.
So I gave on this subject.
There were about 25 girls, because it was a girls’ school.
I was at the bottom of the base of the class
because they already had behind him a couple of years
experience with Spanish, and I’ve never …
I at that time had never been in Spain.
So there I sat at all hours
really bored, utterly without enthusiasm.
I did not want to learn Spanish.
I could not wait to get stuck on with it.
I could not wait to do away with Spanish.
And I knew that when I’m 16, it will be possible.
I went to All we hour. I was sitting …
Just like that.
And yes!
To my surprise, I suddenly found myself
something they understand.
While some other pupils
faced with grammar,
It made sense.
But I did not want to give it meaning.
I sat bored,
But after hours of Spanish, I could not stop thinking.
Great, the present tense
He has really sense!
Oh, I’m a poet, I’m still not realized.
So I decided
maybe I could get a pretty good grade
at the annual final exam
So when I teach.
So I really went to work.
And then I found out that the students are a bit slow,
So I applied for reclassification to a higher level.
and they released me.
And finally, I have the best possible grade
test in 16 years.
But I really worked.
I remember that every evening bathed –
I do it all the time –
and just as I was in the bathroom talking to himself in Spanish.
I’d love to know
what I had said.
But then I decided that it tighten to the level A.
A level of the last two years of school, middle school,
and you have áčko,
then you can go to college.
I achieved 3 A levels:
in biology, chemistry and
in Spanish.
Since
I realized that I love Spanish
and I loved not only Spanish.
I also learned that Spanish men are
incredibly beautiful and sexy.
Indeed, they were really attractive.
So I started to (…)
I started to do very.
I really had luck in high school.
I went to public school
and I was very lucky because
nobody wanted to study languages.
I think my year was 200 people.
One study nšmčinu,
Two studied French
and three people studying Spanish.
Nobody else,
but for me it was great,
because I had a very small group
the great professor.
Her name was Mrs. Flores
and it was the Irish, even though her name was Spanish.
It was so inspiring
and propelled me forward in the right way.
And so, after one year of study Spanish
I decided to try to get to the next level.
After one year of study Spanish
I thought I would still not reach the level of B1
The extent to which we did, was very small.
But I decided that I want to follow through to the next level.
I worked in a restaurant
and bereft of all my money
and I managed to buy a ticket
a course in Seville.
Actually, I do not know why I chose Seville.
Perhaps because my first Spanish teacher
He said he was in Seville and it was nice.
So I thought, “Well, I’m going to Seville.”
I had no idea that in Seville have very strong
Andalusian accent.
So I went with my standard schoolboy Spanish
I did not understand a word miserable.
However, I was a week in school
called CLIC.
He is a member of International House schools.
It is really very good.
If you want to do an intensive Spanish course.
I would definitely do it there.
I lived with a host family
and met with a number of Spaniards.
Eventually, I met a couple of Spanish youths
with whom I had become friends.
It was a little crazy.
I was 17, I ran after Seville,
He rode on mopeds
and stayed out for so long.
Course I prosecute.
because I wanted to learn Spanish.
I first went there in Aug, nu
when it was very hot.
On the way back in August, I was saving all my money
and in October I went for another week.
And then I went for another week in April.
At that moment I was still 17th
And a young man with whom I had befriended some time,
I met him there again and …
basically we fell in love.
It was actually a very strong love.
We were together for four years.
I will not say his name,
because I would like to respect his privacy.
Very, I fell in love with a Spaniard
Fortunately, this man did not speak English well.
So the whole relationship was conducted in Spanish.
We were on WhatsApp days.
I went out to visit him as often as possible.
I was very close friends with his family
and finally we lived together in London.
We lived together in Seville.
We lived together again in London.
And that was the force that drove me
on my way to fluency.
I’d say that about a year living with him
I felt that I speak quite fluently.
I felt that Spanish is a language for me přirozný.
Since we lived together,
I went to work and spoke English.
but my home life has always been Spanish.
It was a huge motivation.
You might think:
“Great Lucy, that I am happy,
that you managed to find a Spanish man.
But what I do is for my learning English? “
I have a few ideas.
The first is to imitate mouth movements.
When my ex-spoke,
I always watched his mouth
and how he shaped.
And I started to realize,
the sounds and shapes are different.
In English we would say D.
But in Spanish they would say this: …
It would be such a zploštělejší shape.
And I noticed when I watched him.
Since the south of Spain,
he would say the word “estoy” instead of S
something like CH.
Instead of saying Qué es esto,
Qué eHeCHto said.
So I started to actually copy the sounds they made.
not just words.
Another thing I experienced,
It was complete immersion.
I was thrown into Spanish directly on the head.
I mean, I had to communicate,
because it was someone with whom I wanted to communicate.
When you are choosing a foreign language,
certainly you must be sure that you have the motivation.
“I want to pass the exam
I never had to learn English. “
This will help to fluency.
You have to really think:
“Why do I want to learn English?”
And then work on it.
My motivation was: I want to communicate fluently
and comfortably and to express herself against her husband.
That was my motivation
and ‘Wow, I soldiered on to reach the goal.
Another thing you can also do:
Never leave nothing to “float”.
And when I say – never let anything float
it means not to think:
“Oh, I do not know that word.
I’ll get him tomorrow. “
because it search for it.
I have a video about learning vocabulary,
which you can see right here.
But the important thing is that when I heard a friend say
phrase or expression that I did not understand,
I stopped him and asked him to explain it to me.
And when he could not,
I wrote it down and sought after.
in fact, I was meticulous.
Nepochytíte
all words and phrases
because some are idiomatic,
They do not make sense.
I remember that I had great difficulty
the word “vaya”
What does it mean?
I remember that it could not explain
and I went in search of the road to discovery.
I had to find what it is
“Vaya” and when I use it.
I finally found it:
“But!”
“Come on!”
Another thing I did:
I was afraid to ask people to repeat
And actually I found that people are very kind to me
and when I ask them to repeat it.
or when I did not understand the joke.
They slow down and explain it to me.
And they behaved unpleasantly,
I have in my life is just as needed.
Furthermore, I did that, I
always watched Spanish YouTuber.
I loved Hola Soy German
and I also loved Auron Play.
It’s very funny.
It makes funny videos
and substantially makes people laugh.
It’s too funny.
I also love El Rubius.
it is a plaything.
I had him as a sound background
and I’m still listening to his chatter.
And every morning I looked at the Spanish news.
That helped me too much.
And I read Harry Potter in Spanish
because I love Harry Potter books in English,
and it was very interesting to read in Spanish.
And this is something you need to remember.
You have to be interested.
You have to have motivation.
I would read books on economics in Spanish
no not have motivated language learning
and I’d probably be with him ended.
I probably would not begun.
Choose things that you really fit.
If you like photography,
but also want to learn the language,
find someone who does lectures on photography
in English,
and we’re home.
You made your own lesson.
Now I want to talk about a few things.
I love and that I should not,
I did not speak a foreign language fluently.
The first is that I have two personalities.
Indeed, everyone says.
In English
I will not give too pithily,
… one could say.
In English I’m more professional
and I think I’m more …
… I’m a bit polite.
especially when I’m talking.
But in Spanish,
because I learned from it if someone
who swore
and used a lot of slang terms
and had a strong accent.
so it kind of shaped the personality and my Spanish.
It’s not forced.
just that I naturally,
but it is great to have something like
two sides.
The second thing that there are two kinds of humor.
And it’s great because
English jokes can not be translated into Spanish
Spanish jokes and can not be translated into English.
So English people rozesmávám wordplay,
I play with words and stuff.
A Spanish have to think of other things.
In Spanish we say more anecdotes.
We like people handing out laughing
their experiences, and so on.
This is just my interpretation.
but it is wonderful to have different stories,
I can say that different groups of people
and which are untranslatable.
Fluency in a foreign language to me too
truly open mind.
He gave me more confidence.
Now when I hear someone speaking Spanish on the train,
immediately I sit down and say,
…
And then I ask: “Jesus, where are you?”
And that would not otherwise.
And now the last thing is that
really glad I speak Spanish.
And if you can get to a level
You are enjoying talking in the language
everything “will fly”.
You will have a great time.
Yes, this is quite a long video.
I hope you little motivated
and inspired.
Yes, I had a boy who spoke the language.
I wanted to learn,
But you do not have to necessarily have.
It is probably not possible.
And you certainly do not have to look for someone
just to learn English.
I was very lucky,
but take my story of individual information
and use them in their own story,
This may be surprising.
Maybe it’s already started.
Maybe you’re close to the end.
Especially do everything possible, what can be done
in your situation and your time.
So many of today’s video.
Do not forget to register for audiobook on Audio.com
Reference is made to the label
and do not forget to contact me
on all my social media.
I have Instagram and Facebook
Good bye and at the next lesson.
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