Waching daily Oct 28 2018

hi is it better to speak a language perfectly or is it sufficient just to

communicate well the answer to that seems pretty obvious however do you

allow yourself to make mistakes this is Susan Brodar from SPEAK

Languages & TRAVEL the World here to help you improve your English with

minimum effort maximum benefit and the reason I'm bringing up the subject is

because nowadays people have difficulty when they learn a language in speaking

particularly because they're afraid of making mistakes now let me tell you a

story when I was living in England I then when I was about 15 had the

opportunity to move to Germany with my family and subsequently when I'd

finished international high school I chose to go to German University now I

was criticized by my great aunt for this choice because she said you don't speak

German well enough yet and that way you're neither speak German well nor

English well in the sense that I'd be missing out on academic English and I

thought about what she said but I carried on and carried my choice through

and I went to university I studied for five years rather than four because the

professor's said they had to practically judge me on the same basis as they would

judge my peers so they couldn't make allowances for language differences but

I was very satisfied with my result and I learnt a new language now I thought

about this carefully and this is the answer that I'd also given my great aunt

I prefer to be able to speak two languages at 90% rather than one

language 100% and I am really grateful for this opportunity that I had because

it made me learn a language much better in in great detail just because I was

able to go to university there and so now I speak various languages and

I feel comfortable in them and this is because I've had the opportunity to go

to various countries and to study the language is quite well

but that doesn't mean I'm perfect in the languages for example I'm self-taught in

Spanish and I know I have a lot of studying still to do but when it was

necessary after only a few months I needed to communicate over the phone

with authorities in Spanish and I managed I managed to understand them and

they managed to understand me so we communicated and that was the most

important thing now now that I know the language better I realize how many

horrendous mistakes I made but that's not the point the point was I was

managing to communicate and that was the most important goal for me in those days

so I myself suffer from this point where you need to be able to allow yourself to

make mistakes and all of us the more we study the more detail we go into our

studies the more we realize how we make mistakes and the more embarrassed we are

to speak and that's absolutely wrong learning a language means being able to

make mistakes just like learning anything means being able to miss make

mistakes we all learn from our mistakes so the advice I give you is forget what

people think just throw yourself out there speak allow yourself to make

mistakes and you'll necessarily improve because some people will correct -

others may not but you'll still be able to hear the language and improve

actually it's a good idea to ask people to correct you but not everyone will

allow that because they feel embarrassed to correct you but that doesn't matter

just speaking and speaking reading and then trying to watch podcasts and

repeating a lot repeating not in the sense of rote memorization but what I do

is I take podcasts and I listen to a sentence to stop it and try

repeated with the same intonation same pronunciation same let's say highs and

lows that the speaker has been using and that's the kind of repetition you need

so that your mouth can practice the pronunciation of the language and you'll

get better and better at it so that's the kind of repetition when we say

repeat not so much just memorizing and repeating it off by heart but allow

yourself to make mistakes that's my advice and I hope this was useful to you

and see you in the next video bye