Episode 153 How To Be More Deliberate When You Speak English

A while ago I made a short as part of the Escape the Plateau series on the YouTube channel, giving you tips to help you get unstuck with your English. The short where I talked about being more deliberate when you speak got a lot of feedback, but everyone was confused about how to go about it. So in this episode we'll think about what steps you can take to be more deliberate about your English. This will help you steadily improve your English. The first step is to identify your mistakes or problems, and then I'll give you some tips to work on solving those problems. Steps To Fixing Your Mistakes Identify what your mistakes are Work out a learning plan to help you identify the correction, practise it and start to implement it every day Practise Practise Practise! Once you've done this it will be much easier to notice the problem. Don't give up! Keep practising, keep trying to catch it in the moment, eventually it will get easier and better. How To Use Your Learning Journal To Help With Mistakes Write your mistakes in a special area in your learning journal. Make sure you write down every mistake you notice it and you should continue to add to this over time. Do the above action for every mistake. Don't work on all your mistakes at the same time. Just pick one or two and don't move on until you're satisfied that you've almost or completely solved the problem. Keep some sort of measurement next to each problem, it could be a progress scale or a traffic light, whatever works for you. It should be easy for you to see at a glance which problems you're working on, which are complete and which you haven't started. Vocabulary Comes on the back of - idiom - used when we see one thing following another, or two problems or points that are connected Deliberate - to do something with purpose Mispronounce - When you say something the wrong way Persistent - to not stop doing something just because it's hard or takes a long time, to keep going. One Off - idiom - used when this is the only time something will happen Once you've tackled these two - idiom - tackled meaning dealt with