reasons why native speakers don't

understand you and how to change that

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videos the first reason native speakers

don't understand it is accent and

pronunciation yes guys

why because strong accents may confuse

native speakers okay many students study

listening, grammar writing

but they don't focus on pronunciation and accent

reduction consequently when they travel

abroad or when they have an opportunity

to talk to a native speaker it gets a

little hard for the native speakers to

understand you, because the truth is you

were not practing how to reduce your

accent how to improve your pronunciation

the most common problems are to stress

the wrong syllables to pronounce to

stress the wrong syllables mispronounce

words vowel sounds consonant sounds

to stress the sentences incorrectly

the intonation is wrong I don't know if

it's in if it's a question or if it's an affirmative based on the intonation

because you don't have a clear

intonation and all of these things

together will make it very difficult for native speakers to understand you

Now, what do you need to do to change that

accent and pronunciation exercises need to be on the top of your priority

list if you are having problems if native speakers are having problems to

understand you okay think about it

actors do accent reduction lessons or improve their accent I am a teacher but

I'm always doing accent and pronunciation exercises

because I want to be clear I want to

make sure that people understand me so this is a continuous exercise now

imagine if you have never done it okay so make sure to do pronunciation and

accent reduction exercises to help you become a clear English speaker okay

awesome number two the reason why native speakers don't understand you or are

having problems to understand you is because your vocabulary and your grammar

are not on point now when I say that please keep in mind

that making mistakes is alright okay I'm not saying that you have to stop making

mistakes, no you will continue making mistakes I make mistakes everybody makes

mistakes the problem is when those mistakes stop

you okay there are some mistakes that will confuse native speakers and will

stop conversation and what are they the first one that comes to mind is tense

conjugation if you are having a conversation and you're constantly

changing the tenses present past future, present past best present you will

confuse any speaker not just native speakers it'll be difficult to

understand your story if you're not clear with the tense so this is a past

story is it a present story the speaker may be a little confused this

can and will stop native speakers from understanding you one thing that I also

noticed using the wrong words before and after many students confuse that so if

you confuse this in a conversation using before or using after the native speaker

will have a very difficult time understanding what you have to say so

make sure that you're very careful with the words you choose that you really

know what they mean because they can confuse people that's why I said the

vocabulary and grammar because it's not just grammar that stops conversation but

vocabulary and most of the times it's not

it's not because you don't know a word it's because you think you know the

meaning of that word you think you know how to use that word but you don't so

make sure that you work on that before you're having a conversation because

these things combined can do a terrible damage to your conversation

with a native speaker okay now what do you need to do to improve your grammar

and vocabulary when talking about grammar the first thing you need to have

is a clear understanding of the basic tenses past present future you need to

understand this basic lessons present past future because they stop

conversations all the time so it's a basic lesson okay learning the tenses

it's a very basic lesson but if you haven't mastered yet no problems but you

need to dedicate more time to studying it okay actually for my students I make

it like a routine to study these tenses because they are so important and they

stop conversations so make sure that you study them on a continuous basis okay

now vocabulary same thing but I would recommend studying vocabulary

that is connected to things you like to talk about okay because if you just sit

down and study vocabulary me and that's gonna take a long time because

vocabulary is so general so what kind of vocabulary do you want to study or do

you need to study that's a good way to start okay and then number three reason

why native speakers don't understand you especially if you are from

spanish-speaking countries or if your country's language come from Latin okay

false friends what is a false friend a false friend is a word that you believe

has a meaning but it doesn't it means something completely different from what

you think it is this is what we call false friends and this my friend

stop conversations it can make people very confused

I am a non-native speaker and I know a lot about false friends and sometimes

when my students use them with me I get confused I need a minute or two to be

like oh you're trying to say that I'm a teacher now imagine a native speaker

they can have many problems if you're using false friends and if you're using

the wrong words it's very similar to problem or chew up vocabulary but here

it's very specific it's about false friends words that we

believe mean something but they don't they look like something the

spelling is, makes you think they are something now what can you do study it

study fast friends okay there are many lists on the internet

that you can download and and read more about because the truth is that are many

false friends so start small then go big you don't need to download a

list with 100 false friends download a small list and start becoming familiar

with that list that's the best way for you to improve your knowledge of false

friends and start changing this okay breaking this habit alright

very nice now I have a bonus for you because I'm a cool teacher ha, killer

reason why native speakers don't understand you why did they make this to

the end because only the true followers watch until the end so if you are a true

follower write in the description #truefollower because I'm

watching it to the end so #truefollower okay and the

killer reason why native speakers don't understand you is you are trying to

explain things how you would explain them in your language yes if you are

doing that it doesn't matter if you're having grammar problems vocabulary

problems intonation problems the problem is how you structure the things to

explain to native speakers and if you are doing that thinking of your language

people will not understand you okay so you need to let go of this mentality of

explaining things how you would explain them in your language that's when I talk

about translation and how they stop conversation that's what I'm trying to

show you when I make this videos about translation this is the impact of

translation when we are communicating in English it's not that you're just

translating words all the time but you're doing that automatically when you

are communicating with someone in English okay what do you need to do well

I don't have a short cake recipe to share it with you it's a process okay if

you realize that you're doing this and I know many of you are okay I receive your

emails you are my true follower remember so I get your emails I see that you guys

do that so it's the process writing can help you

okay writing can help you a lot if you make this kind of mistake okay

writing and listening watching things can help you but especially writing

because you speak what you're right it doesn't matter if people tell me all

teacher I'm an excellent writer but I'm a terrible speaker no chances are that

in 90% of the cases maybe even more if you write well you speak well if you

don't write well you don't speak well and when I say writing well and not

saying about having a good range of vocabulary creativity imagination no I'm

talking about the structure I'm talking about explaining things in writing okay

so if you have problems to explain things in writing you will have the same

problems to explain speaking because imagine when you're writing you have

time to think so if you're having problems already to write this is the

same problem you have in speaking that's why I'm always saying that everything is

connected and if you're not doing one you're not improving the other okay so

this is the killer reason why native speakers don't understand you improving

that takes time and dedication and a lot of writing very nice guys I hope you

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