5 Lies You Have Been Told About Learning English 2 PDF
5 Lies You Have Been Told About Learning English 2 PDF
5 Lies You Have Been Told About Learning English 2 PDF
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I started to teach in 2002 and the way English has always been
taught here in Brazil always concerned me and then in 2008 I had the
opportunity to do a specialisation course with certification by the
University of Cambridge in teaching English to Adults in the city of
Bournemouth in England, where I met several natives and taught English
to people from all over the world and further improved my English.
When I landed in England and saw how the system worked there
and how students could learn English in a more accelerated way I found
out how much the way of teaching English in Brazil, especially for
adults, was going in the opposite direction of the world. After returning
from England in 2009 I commenced to teach and work as an interpreter
in major engineering projects in my city.
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 6
Mindset Of Adults ......................................................................................... 6
CHAPTER 1..................................................................................................... 8
LIE #1: Children Learn Faster Than Adults .................................................. 8
CHAPTER 2 .................................................................................................... 14
LIE #2: First I Need To Learn Grammar To Communicate... ...................... 14
CHAPTER 3................................................................................................... 17
LIE #3: I Need To Be Born With The 'Gift' Of Speaking English .............. 17
CHAPTER 4................................................................................................... 20
LIE #4: I Haven't Got The Money To Invest .............................................. 20
CHAPTER 5: ................................................................................................. 23
LIE #5: I’ve Got a Bad Memory ..................................................................... 23
CHAPTER 6: ................................................................................................. 29
Beware Of Dream Wreckers ............................................................................ 29
CHAPTER 7: ................................................................................................. 31
The Most Useful Tips For Learning English.................................................... 31
Mindset Of Adults
This is what I will show in this e-book that there are many
misconceptions, myths, urban legends and old lies about learning
English, most of which are spread by people who have no experience of
learning English and who have never been able to achieve fluency
because they did not have the right tools.
I'm going to cover these topics soon, but something that I will tell
you in advance, take those Preconceptions out of your head before I can
teach the techniques I use.
For now, I ask you to forget everything you have ever heard
about children learning faster than adults. Open your mind and pay
attention to the Advantages of being an adult that I will list here and
forget about the Disadvantages of being an adult compared to children:
Forget your Brazilian accent. All the effort that you make
learning English will keep your brain healthy for many years.
Not that an adult concentrates better, but adults learn fewer things
at the same time. Whereas children have to learn and focus on six or
more widely different topics (mathematics, biology, English, Portuguese,
chemistry, and geography) all at once, adults focus on learning one or
two new things they can manage better than children in school age who
are overwhelmed by multiple learning challenges
Adults know how to ask the right questions and learn the
formula and techniques to speak a language in the right way, with the
right tenses, nouns, pronouns, etc.
These are just some of the most obvious reasons for not minding
the age. With so many great possibilities available through learning
English, why would you let a lie about age and English learning hold
you back?
Check out the link from my book Forget Everything You Have
Been Told About Learning English. - where I teach you the accelerated
learning and coaching techniques I use with my clients in the English
Mentoring Programme® at The English Institute.
I have a question for you then dear reader, when you learned
Portuguese did you learn to speak and then learned the grammar or
the process was the other way around?
It's okay to expect fluency in the future and great strides in your
grammar, and this will certainly happen with diligence and hard work,
but you may begin to find the courage to try small daily doses of fluency.
This will be a great change in your attitude that will aid your
journey toward fluency. Every time you learn something without
focusing entirely on grammar itself it will be as if you were writing a
script for a play that you will act on over and over again and
consequently will have that script on the tip of the tongue when you
need to use it in a real situation.
My general advice for adults who have been on this journey when
it comes to grammar is simple: do not turn grammar into a priority,
you can study a little grammar for a while then spend some time without
visiting grammar and then gaining confidence for speaking by using the
set of learned sentences in a real context.
This lie, more than any that I have already mentioned, ends up
giving an excuse for these adults not to learn English and to stay in their
comfort zones.
In short, this lie of "I do not have the gift to learn English" is
simply the translation of the phrase "I'm afraid of failing to learn to
speak English" that dwells in your mind all the time.
These techniques and tools aligned with the right motivation can
break down any lie or excuse you dear reader have inside your head and
prevent you from living your biggest dreams.
People eager to learn English often use the idea of "traveling the
world" as part of their main messages to show that they only learned to
speak when they could have an interchange programme and live in
another country.
But in tandem with all this, there is an embedded cost that not all
people can afford.
I am a living proof that if you dedicate time and use the proper
techniques you will be able to learn English even if you live here in
Brazil and when you have an opportunity to travel to another country,
which was my case when I went to England, you will polish even more
everything you've been learning every year.
Adults can learn English from the comfort of their cities without
having to travel. That's why I have developed the English Mentoring
Programme® and written the book Forget Everything You Have Been
Told About Learning English, so you learn techniques and tools to
immerse yourself without leaving the country.
The biggest lie adults believe is that they find memory to be static
when in fact it is dynamic, with the ability to expand, strengthen and
hone it with a bit of technique and effort.
Of all the lies about having a bad memory, believing you're stuck
with a bad memory is one of the worst, because this lie keeps you from at
least trying. Do not believe this lie - you can improve your memory.
The key is to know that our mind every day chooses which
information is important to keep and which is the least important to
discard.
Let's put it this way. If you wanted to learn to play golf, drive a
car or any other skill, would you expect that there would be only one
easy way to do this activity?
a) No student had ever got the top grade in the first test;
b) All answers to the test could be found in the first seven
chapters of the textbook
Of course you will not memorize 23,000 words for a test, but his
method is a good example of how a systematic repetition coupled with
the right reasons can be used to memorize anything.
Dear reader, ask this question when the dream crushers approach
you:
BE A CHILD AGAIN
Do not wait too long before you start talking to people in English.
It is normal to feel apprehensive about speaking when you are still
starting.
By talking regularly, you will quickly build trust and this will
boost your progress!
Do not try to get a script internally for each sentence (that's not
how we speak in Portuguese). Instead, simply use what you know, or
find a way to talk about it. Do not wait for perfection! It may never
happen and as the saying goes: Better done than perfect.
The more exposed you are to English, the faster you progress and
the more things will start to make sense.
You may have heard the saying that living in the place where the
language is spoken is best for your learning. The idea is that you listen to
English every day and probably use it occasionally.
Let me suggest what you can do in your comfort and at your own
learning pace. It is best that you do this whenever possible:
With this book, you will be ready to learn and practice much of
what my customers do in the English Mentoring and get a result
greater than 95% of the Brazilian population who does not speak
English fluently. That's for sure.
To Dare is To Do!
Warm Regards
God be with you
Thiago Fernandes
English Mentor and Co-founder
The English Institute