Name: 你不需要特地前往一個國家來提升自己的語言流利（You Needn't Travel to the Country to Achieve Fluency | Chat with @English with Veronika Mark）
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Today, I'm gonna talk with  Veronika Mark of Moscow about just how much can you

learn on your own in a place where the language you're learning is not spoken.

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We are going to speak in English because Veronika's English is amazing.

Veronika has a website, a YouTube channel called English with Veronika

And we just had a conversation in English, and her English is,

Now, would I say I would mistake her for a native speaker?

And the use of words, the way you put words together is completely native

There's just very few little things that give you away.

But what I find very interesting with Veronika is you have basically

I lived in a different city until I was, uh, 17 and then I moved to Moscow.

So we often hear people say, you know, to learn the language really

well, you have to move to the country where the language is spoken.

And so, and you are living proof that that's not necessary.

So how did you go about achieving such a high level of English

Uh, when I was in school, like in Russia, it's mandatory for every

student, for every kid to start learning English at school as a,

And, uh, obviously when I was a kid, like I was eight years old, I didn't really

And for me it was just another subject that I didn't like.

And I feel like the moment that I realized that I actually really enjoy English was

when I was, it was my, uh, yeah, I think I was in high school, my junior year in

high school, and I was just so excited to learn, to start learning English.

And first of all, I only focused on the input

I was just listening to something, reading books, just...

first, I started with some stupid books for kids, because for me it

was really entertaining and they were actually really interesting.

And, uh, I had a, I had an English teacher, she was Russian.

So, but she had a very good level of English and she helped me a lot.

She was always motivating me and she, she was just amazing

And, uh, then there was time when I had to prepare to go to college.

I had to take some tests and exams, and I decided to take English as my

Um, so, and then the, that is when I really had to prepare well, and,

but obviously when you prepare for a test, it's a little bit different

than what you actually need, like to communicate with people or to

And when I moved to Moscow, this is when I realized that

I had a lot of things that I didn't know, like culture wise and just vocabulary,

And, uh, one of my professors, English professors told me that I should really

look into accents and think about because my English was already pretty good.

And there was one thing that she said could be better,

Uh, because sometimes I mixed up accents, I would say something in

a British accent and then another word would be an American accent.

Then my Russian accent obviously would be also there.

And this is when I was like, okay, now I need to really think about

improving my accent and I try to focus more on the American accent.

And this is when I learned all those rules of connected speech.

Um, yeah, all of those different sounds in the American English.

And obviously still every single day I focused on the input because

Intermediate, sometimes when I practice more upper intermediate.

And so basically when you were very young, you weren't that interested.

And then at the age of 16, you become, you, you became very interested?

A lot of parents, they want their kids to learn languages, English in many cases.

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