Channel: Julian Northbrook

Category: Education

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Description: Julian Northbrook is on a mission to change the way people learn English for the better. Subscribe to this channel for videos about learning English and the psychology of the "Good Language Learner": doeng.co/SUBSCRIBE​ Go here to get the free training: doeng.co/FREETRAINING​ Sign up for daily email tips: doeng.co/EMAILS​ Read the Good Shadowin Guide: doeng.co/SHADOWING​ Transcript: Why do I still fail to reach fluency in English despite many years of learning? All right, let's talk about that. What up? I'm Dr. Julian Northbrook from doingenglish.com. Honestly, I've got no idea why I just said what up? I think it's because I've been watching How I Met Your Mother on Netflix and it's rubbed off on me. Whatever. So you've learned English for years and years and years, but you still failed to reach a level of fluency. It's a very common problem and one that is best talked about in terms of an analogy. If you've been following my stuff for a while, you will already know this, but I am an avid runner and I'll tell you what, I can't wait for this pandemic to be over just so I can get bank to marathon running. If you go back a few years now to the time when I was still pounding the pavements of Tokyo, I reached a point with my running where I stopped really seeing any kind of improvement in terms of distance and time. I've been running for several years and steadily getting better and better and better. And then when I reached the point where I was running about 10 kilometers a day, I now really reached that point where I didn't have any more time to run any further. It took me about an hour to run that 10 kilometers, and I thought well, if I just keep on running like this every single day, my time is going to go down and therefore, I'll be able to run further within the hour that I've got. Only my time never really did improve, I just stayed exactly as I was. I ran the same 10 kilometers every day in about the same amount of time, and this went on for probably close to a year until I got frustrated with spinning my wheels and not really improving in any kind of way. So I got some advice from a running coach and far from telling me to keep doing what I had been doing, i.e. running that 10 kilometers every day. He actually told me to stop for a while, or at least to drastically reduce the amount of time I was spending on running, and instead do other things. He told me to lift weights, to build core strength, to cross train, cycle, swim, do other things that would develop other parts of my body, and I did that. And then when I went back to running, lo and behold, my time and distance was better than it had ever been. And the point that I'm trying to make here is that if you're not improving in English, the reason is simple. It's because you're doing the wrong things. And if you keep on doing those same things again and again, and again, and again, you'll just keep on getting the same results again and again and again. But if you want to change the results that you are getting, you need to change the things that you are doing. And until you do that, you're just going to keep on spinning your wheels and not really moving forward at all. So the question is what changes should you make? Well, that's where I can help out. If you head over to doingenglish.com/freetraining, you can and should sign up for the free training that I create. It's going to teach you the five key changes that you need to make to the way that you learn and use English to see better results. Great. Hope that helps. This is me, Dr. Julian Northbrook signing out from another video. I'll speak to you soon, guys. Bye bye. #DoingEnglish #JulianNorthbrook #learnEnglish