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Vanessa: Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com. You don't want to waste your time, right?

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Let's talk about it. Today I have a special treat for you. I'm going to help you learn

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seven things that you should avoid if you want to be a fluent English speaker. Don't

do these seven things if you want to be fluent. If you focus on these seven things, you're

going to be wasting your time. It's not going to be efficient. Instead, you're just going

to be wasting your time. So, to talk about these seven things, I thought, "Who can help

me the most to talk about learning language?" Well, I have a special guest for you. Today,

I'm going to be talking with two brothers, Fran and Carlos, who run the YouTube channel

YouTalkTV, and they have completely learned English starting at the age of 25. It's pretty

incredible to completely learn a language as an adult. Most of us think if you're going

to be fluent, you should start as a kid, but that's not the reality for a lot of us.

For a lot of us, maybe for you too, you are starting now as an adult. You're kind of turning

a fresh page. "I don't want to learn like I did as a kid. Now, I have to start over."

Is it possible, can you really become fluent as an adult? Well, In today's lesson you're

going to learn seven things that didn't work for me in my second language, which is French,

and seven things that didn't work for Fran and Carlos, so hopefully you can avoid those

things. Instead, you can focus your time wisely. You can hear their story. Be inspired to realize,

"I can do this as an adult. I can successfully learn to speak English." I hope you'll enjoy

our conversation. Feel free to click CC to view the full subtitles

for today's lesson. That will help you to catch every word. They use a lot of great

expressions. They talk about a lot of pronunciation and linking and some specific tips. So, I

hope that the subtitles will help you as an English learner as well to catch everything

that they say. All right. Thanks so much for joining me Fran and Carlos. Let's meet them.

Hi Fran and Carlos, thank you so much for joining me today to talk about this interesting,

important topic of what to avoid, don't do these things if you want to be fluent.

Vanessa: To get started, would you like to briefly introduce yourselves? I've mentioned

you just a moment ago, but would you like to share with my audience something about

yourself? YouTalkTV: Yes, Fran and Carlos Monaj, we're

brothers. So we're from Spain, from Spain and the thing is that we're running a YouTube

channel called YouTalkTV. Mm-hmm (affirmative).

The funny thing is we both learned at age 25 or later on in life and we were self-taught.

Now what we kind of selling is if we did it, then you can do it too. Just try to follow

us. If you like the way we talk, we can take you to our level or above, its pure logic,

and that is the only thing we do, yes. Vanessa: So you bring a completely different

perspective to the table for people who are learning, they can feel inspired by you, a

role model and now you're teaching and when you teach something, you need to really know

it. So- YouTalkTV: Oh yeah, absolutely. You need to

reflect on how you learned that, what difficulties you have... Yeah, big time. We've taught over

10,000 hours each. Oh, by the way Vanessa, we have a surprise

for your audience, for your subscribers, which is-

Yeah, well the thing is that they're going to have free access to our course on YouTalkTV

plus course where they can improve your English. Yeah. We're giving away a full year for free.

And now it costs close to $300 a year. I'm saying close because I don't know the conversion.

But anyways, we're going to give it away for free and the condition is going to be that

you guys need to be subscribed to Vanessa's channel, Speak English With Vanessa, and go

ahead and subscribe to our channel- YouTalkTV. Exactly. And so it's going to be a raffle

and among those subscribers that are in both channels, then you going to have a full year

Vanessa: Thanks so much for offering that to my subscribers. Great.

Vanessa: You've done a lot of things successfully with English and I imagine there were things

that you've tried that probably didn't work over time or maybe for your students, you

see, oh no, they're focusing on this thing that isn't going to help them. So I thought

we could talk about that together. Some things that you tried, but that just didn't work

for you because nobody wants to waste their time. You don't want to waste your time. Our

students don't want to waste their time and we don't want to waste our time telling them-

YouTalkTV: Absolutely. Vanessa: You should do this. I thought today

we could talk about seven things that our students should avoid doing, so that they

can really focus on what will work. So would you like to get started with the first point

and then we can kind of share our opinions from our-

YouTalkTV: Absolutely. Yeah. Go ahead. Vanessa: Both of our experiences?

YouTalkTV: Yes. Vanessa: Cool. Well, my first tip for something

that I did wrong when I was a beginner learning French, which is the language that I successfully

learned as a second language and maybe you guys did this as well with English is, don't

dive into material that's too difficult right away. If you just start watching, I don't

know, Avatar or Titanic, something that's so long and so complex, there's so much vocabulary

that you don't know. You can just easily feel overwhelmed and frustrated and kind of want

to give up. I'm never going to do this. It's just too much. So starting small is going

to be more helpful. You can feel that small win I did it, I watched this five minute video

and I understood it. I got some new vocabulary instead of a whole 45 minute TV episode or

two hour movie. That can be so overwhelming if it's too much for you. So don't do too

much too soon. Take it slowly. YouTalkTV: Yeah. Plus it can be really frustrating

and maybe it's going to make you give up or something and that connects pretty well with

one of our other mottos, which says which says keep it simple and that's an American

saying and we love it. Just keep it simple and this year in the Spanish approach of teaching

English, they are always picking their more, the most difficult approach, the most grammar

complicated explanation. And we want to keep it simple. There is a lot of difficult approaches

to teaching grammar. And of course what you're saying, don't go for movies, songs, because

they constantly putting those sentences together like, "Hey, do you mind if I sit down?" It

is impossible for you to pick up. Don't do you mind if I sit down and they're not going

to say that. So prior to that, you may want to make sure your students know some more

simple structures or just go through easier material.

Vanessa: Yeah. When you finally, as English learners, when you finally watched a TV show

or a movie without subtitles, you'd probably been you starting smaller first and then working

up to that or maybe watching the TV show with some titles in English first. You're slowly

working up to that and not just diving in and then thinking, oh my goodness, that feeling

of dread and fear though yeah if you start small then it's going to be a lot easier to

approach and to get beyond that. YouTalkTV: Absolutely.

And especially talking about songs, songs I think they are more difficult than a real

conversation. I think so. People are very frustrated. They get very frustrated with

songs because they say, "Okay, what are they singing here? I don't understand. Oh my God,

am I learning English but I don't understand that." Songs are very difficult.

Vanessa: Yeah, songs are poetry. Poetry is tough. What about you guys? What is something

that you think doesn't work for your English students, but you see them doing anyway and

you don't want them to waste their time? YouTalkTV: Well, one of the recurrent mistakes

that people tend to make here in Spain, at least it's to just to focus a lot on degrees

and certificates and all that. It's kind of the, it's on the rates now. Like everybody

wants to have it, but that's not going to make you speak a better English. No. Most

likely you're going to get some idea but having a B1 B2 that's we call them here or even a

C1 level is not going to make you speak good English. It takes a lot more than that but