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Today I'm gonna talk about something that I love which is speaking English.
I'm gonna tell you how I learned English without a course.
Because I couldn't afford to pay for one, or else I would've done it. But anyway...
Since I didn't have the money to pay for a course, I couldn't afford it,
I just pushed through and learned it on my own.
There's not a lot of magic or mystery.
But I'm gonna share how I learned and how I think you could learn it too if you want to.
Because you don't really need a course to become fluent.
If you can afford it, do it.
But if you can't, follow these tips that I'm about to tell you now.
Something that really helped me was music. Music helped me a lot!
The first real strong contact I had with english music, that was a whole album in English,
was Sandy and Junior International.
This CD is awesome. There are some boring songs but there are heaps of good ones too.
And in the booklet, the songs are in English but there're also all the translations.
I used to read it and be like:
Wow, so this word means this and this word means that.
So it ended up staying in my head.
So every time I listened to a song, I thought about the translation. So that really helped.
Thanks Sandy and Junior, helped me heaps!
Go girl!
Another thing that really helped was subtitled movies.
One of the first movie sagas that I was a huge fan of was Matrix.
It was love at first sight when I watched the trailer of the first Matrix.
I fell in love, I said 'what is that? I need to see that!'
My sisters and I, we used to go to the neighbour's house to watch movies.
She used to rent them because she had a VCR.
And I remember that there was a movie that she rented that had Matrix's trailer.
And when we finally bought a VCR for our house, it was when I was able to rent Matrix.
The video store that I used to go to, didn't have the dubbed tape.
Everything was subtitled. Unless it was a kids' movie or something of sorts.
So I said 'that's it, it's my chance, I'm gonna watch Matrix like that.'
And I fell in love at first sight. I had no idea what was happening.
Because with Matrix really is like that, you think
'what's happening? Are we in the Matrix? Are we not in the Matrix?'
But yeah, it helped me a lot. It was one of the first movies that I...
It was the first movie that I remember watching with subtitles.
And it opened doors, I took the little pill...
Red? Or green?
I took the red pill and I entered this world.
Another thing that helped me a lot was TV shows.
All kinds of shows. I used to watch LOST subtitled.
I'm sure that there were others but I particularly remember watching LOST with subtitles.
And when I came to Australia for the first time, someone gave me a Friends box-set.
It was in DVD, I think it was the first Friends box-set in DVD that came out.
And I started watching and so on, and since I arrived here my English has gotten much better.
Friends...
Is the best show in the world, I apologise to any other show.
Friends is the best one.
If I was to recommend a show for you to watch in order to learn English, I'd recommend Friends.
Because it's things that you'll use on a daily basis.
It's pure conversation. You'll talk to your friends, you'll say this and that.
And it's a lot of situations, that's where...
That's where the term SITCOM comes from.
COMÉDIA DE SITUAÇÃO. But it's about taste,
it's like salt in a recipe, right? It's to your liking.
So you can choose any TV show that you want. Now, you can't just...
You can't watch one episode and say 'ah, I can't do it. I'm not learning. It's too hard.'
You're not gonna become fluent overnight, okay? Nothing is like that.
It's not in a snap of fingers that you'll start saying everything, better than Joel Santana.
So yeah, it's not gonna be like that.
Another thing that helped was music in general.
What I used to do was: me and my friend Igor, we used to go to his house after school.
We used to watch movies or music videos.
For music videos, we used to play pretend that we had our own production company.
It was the ICA and DVDS, because those are our initials.
We used to make subtitles for music videos. Every song we liked we used to search for them on Shareaza.
When Shareaza was around, we searched there and on Emule too. We used to search for the songs we wanted,
trying to find the HQ videos. When we did find them, we would look up the translations and make the subtitles.
We used to do that in both languages, in English because it was the actual song, and then Portuguese.
So this kind of exercise, this kind of thing,
helps fixating in your head the meaning of those words.
And another thing that helped after I came here.
I read the entire Harry Potter series in English. What I used to do was...
I used to read it, and whilst I was reading it, I listened to the audiobook. And the guy was so good.
I listen to the american version because I like the guy's voice better than the one from the british version.
It's a matter of taste though, the story is the same, everything is the same.
He does a lot of different voices, accents and intonations. Everything. Amazing.
Reading and at the same time having someone pronouncing those words,
wow, the pronunciation and how you say things improved by 100%. And your vocabulary also.
Like, there are words in English that I don't know in Portuguese.
There are times I try to translate something and I'm like
'damn, I have no idea what this word means in Portuguese.'
But you know, you just look it up and move on.
I recommend. I recommend not only reading Harry Potter but also any book that you can.
That you are interested in. Read heaps!
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wants to learn English but isn't sure what to do, and can't afford a course.
Maybe these tips will help some people.
And it doesn't have to be just English, it could be any other language because I think
movies, books, TV shows, all of that is valid for any other language, right?
You just need to be eager, look it up and learn it.
If you have any tips on how you learned english or any other language,
comment down below. Maybe someone else can also use one of your tips.
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You're shining white, girl, look at that.
Looks like there's a soul or a ghost over there.
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