Summary: This is the final part of this special 3-part series where you are going to learn HOW to accelerate your English learning to reach your English goals faster.<br> Get the ALL the worksheets, audio lessons, and transcription for this special training podcast series <a href="https://realenglishconversations.com/email/deliberate-practice/">here</a>.<br> Do you love our podcast conversations? Get access to over 60 additional conversations that are exclusively available to premium members. <a href="https://realenglishconversations.com/conversations/">Get the conversations here!</a><br> <br> <br> About this episode...<br> <br> So, what was the BIGGEST mistake I made that kept me stuck as a beginner for so long?<br> <br> It wasn’t only because I was doing Naive Practice...<br> <br> But it was also because I was following the 'common' suggestions and ideas about HOW to learn a language, such as:<br> <br> "Just listen to lots of audio"<br> "Watch movies with subtitles"<br> "Take a language course"<br> "Go to a Spanish speaking country. You'll learn fast!"<br> <br> Trust me, I tried ALL of them....<br> Multiple times.<br> <br> It seemed like these ideas worked for everyone else, but they weren’t working for me.<br> <br> I thought, “Maybe I’m just bad at learning languages”.<br> And at one point, I almost gave up.<br> <br> It wasn’t until I started think about how I usually learn new skills that I realized, it’s a simple 2-step method:<br> <br> Step 1: Think about the skill I want to be able to do.<br> Step 2: Think of ways to learn and practice it.<br> <br> For Spanish, I wanted to be able to:<br> > Speak with real people and understand them<br> <br> But when I looked at what I was actually doing<br> > Memorizing random words and doing grammar drills<br> <br> Wait a minute…<br> How are grammar drills helping my speaking? Or listening?<br> <br> Oops. They don’t.<br> <br> And what type of words am I learning?<br> …Words from grammar lessons.<br> <br> Are those the words used in everyday communication?<br> Nope. Definitely not.<br> <br> This helped me realize, I was doing the wrong activities for the skills I needed.<br> <br> My next mission: Find a better way to practice speaking and listening.<br> <br> And this brought me to the ‘trial and error’ part of my learning where I spent the next two years experimenting with different ideas.<br> <br> Although most of my ideas were complete failures…<br> <br> … Eventually I found the key methods that UNLOCKED my language skills and allowed me to make rapid progress.<br> <br> Like really rapid.<br> I got up to an advanced level within 1 year.<br> <br> Although my story is ‘interesting’ because it explains HOW I figured out how to reach fluency.<br> <br> My story is also the LONG and SLOW WAY.<br> … And I don’t recommend it.<br> <br> Because there is a MUCH faster way.<br> <br> In today’s podcast, I want to share the concept of DELIBERATE PRACTICE which builds on the concept of Purposeful Practice.<br> <br> Without doubt, Deliberate Practice is the fast-track to fluency.<br> And it’s a method that can easily increase the speed you learn by 3x.<br> <br> <br> Unlock your fluency with Real Conversations with native speakers. <a href="https://realenglishconversations.com/trial">Find a lesson time and book your trial lesson now!</a>
