Start SPOKEN ENGLISH with your ears not your mouth.

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Hello, Lulu. You have learned English language for 10 years or 20 years or probably more than 30 years. But you cannot speak English.

[00:00:14]You cannot speak the language.

[00:00:17]Yeah. When you try to speak, you freeze.

[00:00:23]You shut down.

[00:00:25]Oh, you think the problem is your knowledge.

[00:00:30]English grammar also. No, that is not the problem.

[00:00:36]Grammar is not your problem. Your knowledge is not your problem. Your problem is you have no idea. Your problem is your ears.

[00:00:49][snorts] Yeah. Shall we see?

[00:00:53]Okay.

[00:00:55]If you don't train your ears, your mouth cannot speak.

[00:01:02]Your mouth cannot speak. If you don't train your ears, Yeah. The problem is ears.

[00:01:10]Yeah. Just think about babies.

[00:01:13]Small babies.

[00:01:15]They first they listen and listen and listen and listen and finally they speak after a few months.

[00:01:24]First they listen and then they speak.

[00:01:26]So what you should understand is listening comes before speaking.

[00:01:34]Listening comes before speaking. That is the thing. Yeah.

[00:01:42]The babies listen and they speak. What do we do?

[00:01:47]We learn grammar. Grammar, grammar and um we memorize rules the in if closes if comes first so on rules we may memorize rules and we read books but we do not go for listening. No listening for us we don't listen to things that is a problem. Yeah.

[00:02:16]So what you should understand is speaking is result of listening.

[00:02:25]Speaking is the result of listening.

[00:02:31]If there is no listening, no speaking.

[00:02:33]That is it. I'm going to talk about that.

[00:02:38]Just think about um real spoken language. when people speak uh in a good way I mean English language we don't understand we think that it is too fast what you're doing what you are doing also we think it is too fast no it is not too fast in real spoken language we think that it is really really fast no it is not that fast the problem is our ears are not used to that used to sound English sound patterns.

[00:03:22]Spoken language is sort of a sound system of sound.

[00:03:30]If our ears are not used to, if the sound patterns are not familiar to your ears, if it is not in your brain, you don't understand what other people say, what they're talking about.

[00:03:46]That is the thing. So therefore, if you are not going to listen to English language, you cannot speak.

[00:03:56]When people speak the language, as I have told you, you freeze, you shut down. Why is that?

[00:04:06]You try to translate.

[00:04:08]When people speak English language, you try to translate. When you try to translate, you miss the next part, the second sentence or what he is talking about. You miss why? You you're you're translating. When you're translating, he's talking about something. So you miss that part.

[00:04:30]So not connected, you don't understand what he's talking about. Why? You're translating translating. Translating. Yeah. So then you panic. You shut down.

[00:04:44]That is what is happening. That is really really really bad.

[00:04:50]Really what happens is you're not slow.

[00:04:54]You're not slow. Your language is good.

[00:04:57]But your brain is overloaded.

[00:05:00]Yeah. Short-term memory. Overloading short-term memory. In psychology, we say so that that that is that is your problem. You cannot think about the language because you are thinking about grammar. You're thinking about patterns.

[00:05:14]You are thinking about the meanings of the words and so on.

[00:05:21]Another very important thing is you cannot say what you have never heard of.

[00:05:29]First you have to hear listen to something and then you can speak. You cannot speak you cannot produce as a sort of a sound system or a voice something you have never heard of. So for example we would say amma.

[00:05:47]How can [snorts] we sayma? Because we have heard of that particular word.

[00:05:54]We have listened to that word for a number of times, hundreds of time, thousands of time. So that we can remember that when we are listening to that automatically it is fixed in your brain. So therefore listening goes first. Speaking is a result of listening.

[00:06:13]So what is your problem?

[00:06:16]Your problem is not enough listening exposure exposure. You are not exposed to listening that is your problem.

[00:06:25]So people think um grammar is communication. If you learn grammar you can communicate. No no you cannot do that. Grammar is not sort of communication. Spoken language is something really really different from written language. We can talk about several factors, several things, good number of things about spoken language, how it differs from uh written.

[00:06:52]So some features of spoken language is really important. So spoken language is basically connected and it is it is it is really um reduced and it is fast.

[00:07:08]One example I would say No, not that. Not I would ask you in single I mean so no not so if somebody's learning sing you would find it really difficult to understand what you say.

[00:08:01]So connected and we drop sounds some sounds e no no no no e sound in gini. Yeah. So therefore spoken language is always connected and it is it is reduced that is we drop things and it is fast in a way not so it is really fast so therefore if you are not really exposed to English language if you are not going to tune your ears you can't understand the language so you you cannot speak because communication is between set of people at least two. So to talk to somebody to make a conversation you should understand what other people say that is said. So therefore it is it is really critical. So if you want to speak English language first you should listen to English language. So therefore make it a point start here and every day just listen to English language at least for 10 minutes that is quite enough 10 minutes. Make it a habit to listen to English language. That is it.

[00:09:29]When you train your ears it is you would find that it is really easy to speak the language.

[00:09:37]And uh yeah so if you want to speak the language English language don't start with your mouth start with your ears clear people do understand all these things that the reason why learning English for 10 years 30 years 40 years maybe or 50 years after 60 people won't be able to speak the language if they are not listening to things. So therefore listen and listen and listen and listen.

[00:10:12]So I think you know you you understood the facts that really essential for speaking the language English language.

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[00:10:32]That's it. Bye.