🚨Ring the Alarm! 7 Forgotten Reasons You’re Not Learning English

So, it’s now February 2021. In December 2020 and January 2021 you told yourself that you will learn English this year–Finally.

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But what happened?

It’s common to set New Year’s Resolutions, and then stop doing them just 4 weeks later.

Bummer.

But there is hope. In this podcast episode I tell you 7 ways to set your goals and keep them.

Some of these reasons teachers and students never learn or tell you.

But I will. 🚨I’m ringing the alarm on that!🚨

You can read it below. Also, did I mention I have a FREE English Course? Click here for the course? You’re totally a rockstar. Let’s get learning.

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You know, nobody ever says this. That’s why it’s the most important way or secret to setting your language goals.

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Hey everyone this is Ashley Rhone from the podcast ‘Living in English: 365 and the online Language Coach at ParadigmEnglish.com.

I’m a little bit late and I’ve been on a Hiatus… Sorry! But at any rate, I am here and guess what? I have seven ways to help you set your English language goals, okay. 7! Let’s just go ahead and dive in but before we do, go ahead and hit like & subscribe to this podcast.

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Secret #1

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OK, first, is something you already know: this is set a goal. Set a goal. When you’re setting a goal, you’re setting the direction. This is your objective that you are trying to reach. For example,

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I’m now studying German. I don’t know any German, but I want to go to Germany next year. So my goal is to be able to learn, for example, 100 vocabulary words and basic grammar, like the ‘to be’ verb or ‘have’– something like that by, say, Spring– by Easter (April 2021). That’s a goal. And a GOOD goal.

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You can’t just say, be fluent in English.’ What does that mean? Like, what does that actually mean.

So, when you’re setting a goal, be as specific as you can, and, this leads me to my next point: know your ‘why.’

Secret # 2

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Why are you learning English? Is it just to pass an exam? Is it because your girlfriend speaks english and you want to speak to her better, or her family. You have to know why. Once you know these two things, know them well. It will be a lot easier for you to keep your goal. Because you have it in your mind that it isn’t just for fun, right. It’s for a specific reason. Now, when you are learning all of this, don’t think about it in such BIG, large, grandiose steps.

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You have to take baby steps–small steps. That’s point #3: baby steps.

Secret # 3

Baby steps are ‘I want to be able to learn the alphabet in 5 days and know it very well.’ Okay, that’s a good goal, but how about this: does that mean ‘be able to say the alphabet or does that mean you want to be able to just write the alphabet?’

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Once you break them down into smaller steps like that. [Example] First, I want to be able to write all 26 letters of the alphabet. Perfect. Next, I want to be able to say each of the letters in the alphabet. That’s another baby step, okay? Once you have set a goal, know your why, and baby steps, then you will be able to go into the bigger steps.

Secret #4

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So, number 4 is ‘start with the end in sight–backwards build-up is what it is. If I know I want to be able to speak to my boyfriend’s family. I’m going to have to know all of the basic words. I’m going to have to know basic grammar, and maybe some things about them. I would need to work on my accent and my pronunciation, and of course grammar.

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And listening.Practice. Practice. You need to keep those things in mind.

Now the 4th step is kind of like all of the first steps together, but it is always good to keep all of that in mind that you start with the end in sight: backwards build-up.

Now, the next one, #5, is to change your perspective.

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Secret #5

Sometimes we have told ourselves in our mind that ‘this is so difficult.’ ‘I cannot do this.’ ‘This is impossible.’ ‘I can’t, I can’t…’ Well, your friend learned English and they’re just a human. Aren’t you just a human? Change the way you think about it. Yes, it takes practice, but it won’t always be difficult. It’s only really difficult in the early stages when you’re learning.

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Even if you are making mistakes in English. It’s okay. It means that you’re learning. Even native speakers make mistakes, we’re only human.

Secret #6

The next one is something I feel like so many students just don’t do. This is something I have done for myself since I’m now learning German. Set a time each day to study and learn your English.

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It doesn’t have to be a very long time. It’s not about quantity of time, it’s about quality of time. If you have 15 minutes and you spend 15 minutes really going over vocabulary, and saying it aloud, and shadow reading it, and going on to youglish.com, for example. I’ll post that link below. You can see how people are saying and using it.

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Then, you associate it with pictures. That 15 minutes has really developed your language and your brain. It will most likely help you learn that word a lot better and use it later on.

This also goes hand and hand with being consistent. That’s the number one reason people fail in language learning is because they are not consistent. Hey, I’ve been there before. When I was learning French, it was like that. I was not consistent.

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I didn’t develop as much as I thought I could have, in fact, I probably should have.

Secret #7

This is probably the most important step and so many people never say anything about it. This, #7, is to think about your problems and your obstacles BEFORE you get started AND write 1 or 2 ways that you will be able to overcome those obstacles.

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We’re all going to have obstacles when we’re learning–whenever we do anything, in fact. But it’s very important that we have our goals, yes, but that we know some steps and strategies to help us overcome the obstacles. Once you have your 1-2 ways that you can overcome the obstacles, it empowers you to keep that goal, yes, but to overcome all of those obstacles because you have already thought in the future about what could happen.

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What could happen–we’re not saying that it will happen, only it is possible. It’s a possibility. The thing to keep in mind is that you need to have 1-2 ways to overcome it.

And that, my friend, is exactly 7 secret ways. 7 secret ways to set your goals this year. And that’s all you have!

I’m Ashley Rhone from ParadigmEnglish.con and the podcast Living in English: 365. I have a free course available on my website at paradigmenglish.com. Check it out. Now, which of these steps do you think will be the most difficult for you? Write which one it is below in the comments. See you next time! Bye-bye.

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