I am glad to welcome you to my Channel "English and German languages", and today we will talk about what prevents people from learning a foreign language.
My name is Georgiy Grankord and I have been teaching English and German for 18 years. Enough time to make some important conclusions.
So, what prevents you from mastering the language?
First: this is lack of motivation. Many people learn the language because they "have to", because "everyone learns and I don’t want to be worse", because they are forced to by someone superior, and so on. All these reasons is not motivation. You can’t learn the language this way.
Motivation is an inner state in which you would rather die than give up what you have already started.
If you have the motivation of a person who will be shot in a couple of months if he does not speak a foreign language, then you will definitely succeed.
Second: this is laziness. Where there is no motivation, laziness begins. Laziness is a consequence of the lack of discipline in a student. Discipline is formed by regular conscious exercises in what you do. That is, in order for it to form, constant practice is needed.
Third: false beliefs or stereotypes. For example: "language can be learned only in the environment", or "I only need a native teacher so that I can speak", or "grammar is not needed, we need to talk more during a lesson, or "homework is not needed, let’s do everything in class" - there are a lot of these false ideas, later I will dedicate to them a separate video.
Fourth. This is when a student believes that he/she is smarter than the teacher. This opinion is also reinforced by the axiom that whoever pays, orders the music. This is expressed, for example, in the fact that such a student ignores the teacher’s recommendations and acts in his/her own way. The teacher advises to retell the texts, but the student does not retell. The teacher advises a certain textbook or textbook, and the student chooses by himself what materials to study. Thus, the experience and knowledge of the teacher are negated, their own stupidity comes out in the first place. The result is that such a person does not learn the language, or learns and learns and there is no end in sight.
Fifth. Self-justification. I don’t have time. I’m tired. I have a lot of work. I have to go on business. I have an urgent meeting. The child got sick and so on. Such people are afraid to admit to themselves that they just have weak will and besides they do not know how to allocate time in a proper way. So, they know nothing or very little about time management.
Sixth. Lack of understanding of the need for regular classes. For example, some people are well aware that if you do not visit the gym regularly, the results of previous workouts are lost. But the same people do not want to transfer this understanding to other processes in life, in particular, to learning a foreign language. In language, as in sports: if you don’t do it, you lose what you have already learnt. While studying the language — if you have not reached the B2-C1 level yet — you can not take breaks. Some parents, either out of a desire to save money, or thinking that their child should "take a break from studying" in the summer and during other holidays, they stop classes, not realizing that a significant or large part of the money they previously paid is wasted as the child manages to have such a good rest over the summer that by September he comes to classes with a completely clean head, which has to be filled in anew. Fortunately, not everyone is like that and many understand what I have just said about. Personally, I never leave anyone, and it doesn’t matter if I’m on a trip or on vacation — I teach everywhere, the online format of classes allows it. I teach classes even on my birthday.
Seventh. It’s strange, but there are still people who seriously think that offline classes are better and more effective than online ones. This is a very big misconception. Why do you need to receive someone at home or drag yourself to someone, sit on a chair that is often uncomfortable in an environment that shackles. Wouldn’t it be easier to get comfortable in a chair, pour yourself what you love, turn on your PC monitor and get all the same information that you or your child would receive offline? No one will infect you, you do not need to treat anyone with tea, you do not need to stand in the corridor and accompany the teacher, explaining something to him although you have no desire for that…
Eighth. Wrong choice of teacher. Many people choose not according to the principle: "I need a good teacher and I understand that a good one cannot be cheap", but according to the principle of "the cheaper, the better", inventing for themselves the very argument that after all, both teachers — both conditionally "expensive" and conditionally "cheap" graduated from a university (sometimes from the the same one), they both had some experience, and generally, both are specialists, so what is the difference between them? — such people ask themselves.
People with such logic, for some reason, do not come to mind a lot of opposite facts from life, which they fully understand and share. For some reason, a queue of patients is lined up to doctor A, and they try to avoid doctor B. For some reason, both Renault and Mercedes — just released from the assembly line — cost differently, although both cars are equally new.
The quality of teaching is determined not only by the experience of the teacher, but also by the quality of his personality, his abilities as a person to convey the necessary information to his students so that it is understood and assimilated by them.
In the modern world, cheaper means worse. Worse in quality. And a reasonable person understands that he is not rich enough to pay for poor-quality service. Yes, he can save some but what he’ll get will not satisfy him.
The ninth. Lack of understanding of the real price that the person himself must pay for the desired result. I mean here not money but efforts.
To learn a language not just somehow, but well or perfectly requires a lot of work. It’s a lot of effort and time. In a good way it demands more than one year. In a serious way, it means several years of regular classes and conscientious work. The most part of this work must be done by a student outside of school hours. Nowadays people want to get everything quickly and immediately. They don’t want "to sweat", don’t want "to bother" - that’s how they seem to express themselves. It won’t work that way with a foreign language. Anyone who promises to teach you how to speak quickly and effortlessly is just a cheater.
Tenth. We live in a big market where getting benefits is a number one dominant in the behaviour of most people. Therefore, when you hear that a certain coach promises you that you will speak in a month after buying his miraculous course, you need to remember about this dominant. People want money, and in order to get it, they invent different ways, often dishonest, they create a lot of new products that are information dummies, but being wrapped in a beautiful package and promoted with the help of advertising, they turn into a tasty bait for naive and gullible people.
To play fair you need to have knowledge and will, and a lot of people do not have both of these in our time. Therefore, there is only one way of genuine success: this is a classic way of learning a language, step by step, under the guidance and supervision of an experienced teacher, studying the structure of language, grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, literature, the construction of spoken and written speech.
I invite you to my English, German and Russian classes, where you are guaranteed to learn a foreign language, naturally, trying to avoid the aforementioned mistakes in the process.
My contacts are in the description under the video. See you soon!