Fluência com Inglês Nu E Cru (beginners follow-up)

"Hello. Hello. Hey, sweet people, and welcome to another episode of English. My name is Foster. And as always, I am here with Alexia. Hi, everyone.

Happy Sunday foster. Happy Sunday. We are recording this on a Sunday. That does not mean that you are necessarily listening to this on a Sunday. But happy Sunday, Alexis. Happy Sunday rain is not falling. Actually, it's very, very hot.

Here today in Portugal, and I'm happy to be here. Was that a reference to maroon 5? Yes. Okay, guys. Let's get serious. Let's get down to business. We talked about Alexia and I had a I don't wanna say long conversation.

But we had a conversation about what it means to be a beginner when you're learning a new language. So in this episode, I was thinking we could just give you all of the good stuff In one short episode.

Yes. I think that it's like a checklist of things that you need to be aware. If you are a beginner in English and you want to make the most of it, Yeah.

Essentially, if I if someone comes to me, if a Brazilian, let's, Brazilian, Jose. Comes to me and says, foster. I wanna learn English. What should I do? These are the things we would tell him. Okay. So go ahead, teacher.

Okay. So the first question that I would ask, all of our students is why are you learning English in the first place? And I think that is such an important question because it really makes you consider your motivations.

And it also lets you realize how big of an investment this is going to be. It is a life changing decision to learn a new language. Okay. So when you talk about, like, goals and motivation.

I completely understand what you're saying. Uh-huh. If it's like for job, for your professional life, for your private life, for travel, but when you call when you talk about investment, what are you talking about?

I I am talking about the investment of time energy, the sacrifices you were going to have to make.

I'm not really talking about a financial investment. You can learn English for free on YouTube, or you can listen to thousands of our podcast. You can also pay a teacher or sign up for one of our courses. That definitely helps.

The process go a lot faster, but what I'm really referring to is the amount of energy and time that you are going to have to spend studying and practicing English. Yeah. Yeah. Especially When you are an adult already.

Yes. So just to close this question, Alexia, I believe one of the first episodes ever that we recorded, like, 7 years ago. I recorded in the bathroom of an Airbnb, and the episode title was, are you in or are you out?

Do you see the It sits out down? I don't know. Yeah. That's the question you first question you have to answer. If you're in, good. Let's go. We can keep talking. If you're out, that's cool.

Learning languages is not for everyone, and that is totally fine. Yeah. So in order for us to make progress here. So the first thing that, Someone that is starting with English should know or should think about is No.

The second thing is to understand How much of investment, energy, mental, physical, whatever it is. Time investment. It will be. And is there a third one? The third?

I don't know if this is a question as much as a a very polite suggestion. But my suggestion would be you already said these questions are especially true for adults. And the suggestion is kind of like, leave your ego at the door.

That's a mean way to say it. But the nicer way to say it is accept the reality that you are a complete beginner, and you are going to sound silly. You're going to have to learn how to make new movements with mouth, create new sounds.

So it's much easier to I think the way that everyone should approach learning a new language It's much more similar to, like, learning how to play a new sport or learning how to play a musical instrument.

For example, Alexia, right now, you are learning how to do ceramics. And I suck right now. I think she's pretty good already. Very proud of myself, but right now, I suck compared to the other people in my class.

Yeah. And that's okay. And you have to embrace that and fall in love with the process of being a beginner Because if not, it's just not going to be fun, and it's not gonna work.

Yeah. That's true. So with the serial checklist, was, he was, on to the bank, it give us a shot of. That may do. Yeah. They shall That's it. I think Very well said. Yeah. I think that's awesome, Foster.

Thank you so much. Of course. I think with those kind of 3 tips or principles or questions, whatever you want to call them. No. I was thinking, I wanna say more. If you cannot answer these 3 questions or statements.

I have no idea. I don't think that you will be able to move forward. I think that you have to have that pretty clear in your life so you can start with English. These are the minimum requirements. Yeah.

There are a lot more things we could add. But imagine I want to learn how to play football. I'm talking about soccer, but not American football. I am not good with my feet. I would have to learn how to kick a ball. That would be step 1.

That would be humiliating. And then I would have to, like, get a coach, and then I would have to start practicing kicking balls every day, and it would be a really long process. So, really, that's the idea is Are you in?

Are you out? This is going to be a big time investment. You kind of need to have some humility And there was one more point. Embrace. Embrace the inner child of being a beginner. And the time investments. Yeah.

You said it all. It's all good. There we go. Okay, guys. So, really, no matter what level you are currently at with your English learning. I think those are always good questions to revisit. Anything else you'd like to add, Alexia?

No. All good. Thank you so much. Teacher Foster. You are welcome, student, Alexia. Please don't call me, teacher, Foster. I think it's kinda weird. Thank you. As always, keep up the good fight. And lose well. Bye