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If you don't speak English, no problem
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but if you speak English indeed
I really hope you won't need the English subtitles
what's up, guys, I'm SoToSendoCadu
and today I'm speaking in English
I'll make this video about English for two reasons
reason number one is to cheer up
that ones who are learning English and
well, give some pieces of advice
reason number two I told myself I would learn French, but
my level of effort on it is
really low
so let's see if doing this video
speaking how I learned English
will help me to remember my difficulties
and see if I put effort learning French
someday you will be able
to speak in French with me maybe I'll
do a video saying
and
so it goes, so goes on
when I was younger, I used to really enjoy watching the
bonus features that came in dvds of my
favorite movies and yes I was a weird kid
well, I still a weird person so whatever
most of the cases the features in those
dvds were not dubbed in Portuguese
so most of the time I used to watch the
bonus features listening to it in English
and reading the subtitles in Portuguese
I also got more in touch with music in English
as I was growing up
I always was curious about English about learning
English and in 2009 I started taking
English classes
yeah I really enjoyed it
I really had fun learning English
it didn't feel like a chore to do
I really enjoyed having classes and
trying to speak English and trying to learn to
listen to English that probably was
the hardest part for me and I didn't use
to review the lessons while I was at home
unless it was near to doing a test
and honestly I don't recommend doing
this to anyone
however I always delivered
my homework on times
I don't remember not delivering it on time
and something that I think helped me a lot
was that I wasn't ashamed of speaking or
trying to speak in English at class
I remember I saw a lot of people there were
a little bit ashamed of speaking in class
in front of the others or
kinda embarassed of trying
and honestly don't
don't do that
don't feel bad because your
pronunciation is not good because
we only learn a new language if we let
ourselves trying
but I think the magic of learning English
is what I used to do at home
I always tried to
keep in touch with the language
at the time I used to try to watch some
parodies on YouTube
some videos also on youtube
I was always trying to get in touch with the language
and nowadays even I have finished my English course
Most of the content that I watch on youtube in English
a lot of things that I search
for college are in English
because I'm a computer scientist so there're a lot of things
that you won't find in Portuguese or if
when your find it's not well-developed
so I'd rather search for things for my college in English
and I still listen a lot of songs in English too
as well I try to always watch Netflix in English
so even I've finished my English course
I still try constantly to get in touch with the language
I think that's my whole story with English
and there are two tips for you are
still learning or to you who wants to
improve your English that are:
so first of all try: to get in touch with English
the more you can
if you only get in touch with the language at the moment
and later you forget you won't let
yourself to develop that knowledge, that vocabulary
maybe the most important
no, I think it's as important as the first one
is: do not translate
please I'm begging you
because, believe me, it may seens
a little bit abstract but try only to understand the words
try only to understand the meaning around it
if you're always trying to find any word
in your mother language to associate with
that words you are learning, you have just learned
you won't let yourself to
fully understand a new language
you'll always depend on your mother language
and that's not what learning a new language is about
believe me, translating only makes the things harder
I think we're done
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I hope I helped you with this video
or didn't make things worse
so see you next time and
don't forget to be nice with your mates
bye