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Since the beginning of my career

I have always cherished the idea of learning a language

just like children.

But for most of you guys,

while studying your textbooks in a class-based method,

hearing this sounds a little off.

Today we’ll talk about it.

Let’s start with this.

Studies have shown that learning a language

at a native-like level is more possible

before the age of twenty.

This being said, let me clarify

why most people struggle to achieve this level of mastery

after the age of 20.

We still have the same brain,

we still have a lot of potential to learn

especially in this era of technology,

and now as an adult

we have more tools and capacity

to learn a language faster than a child.

Like the ability of reading

To make it as simple as possible

let me break this down into three main areas:

our problems are:

Limiting beliefs

Psychological obstacles

and 3.

Life circumstances

Let’s start with the first one

Limiting beliefs.

How many times have you postponed speaking the language

because you lacked self-confidence?

Children simply don’t give a damn.

If they use the wrong verb,

they still continue speaking the language.

Because unlike us, adults

they are massively focused on communication

rather than looking cool or perfect.

Thanks to school and the grading system

we have been turned into judgy people.

And all of these bad beliefs

will slow us down.

Thank god we as adults

still can undo all of these if we want.

From now on focus on the communication, not perfection.

Number 2

Psychological obstacles

Most of you use vocab lists to learn new vocabulary.

Most of you

don’t even want to try learning a language through context

because for whatever reason you feel like it’s crap

or a huge waste of time.

Or maybe you say I’m old,

or I’m not smart enough

or I’m not rich enough to buy this amazing course…

or you name it.

We can go on and on and on…

and talk about all of these excuses

which are rooted in your ego.

You don’t want to feel or sound stupid making mistakes.

So you end up taking the easiest path possible.

It’s easy to memorize vocabulary through vocab lists,

it’s easy to study textbooks in a classroom with a teacher.

Because it’s easy for you to blame that person

or that thing for your failure.

These are the obstacles we have in our brains.

Everyone should be able to learn independently

through real and authentic context.

I’m not just saying this,

this is actually how your brain works.

Have these methods you’ve been using for so long worked?

No.

or at least they haven’t been as effective

as you wanted them to be.

Why?

Because your brains won’t learn this way.

Number three – Life circumstances.

Those lucky children,

they don’t have to work or pay the bills or drive a car,

or take care of the family or whatever.

They are free as hell

So yeah, I get it.

These lucky monsters can learn much easier than us.

Indeed they don’t have a choice…

They have to learn the language otherwise they can’t survive.

We have to work and take responsibilities for our lives.

And we are not forced to learn a language,

that is why we procrastinate learning it.

Those lucky monsters

have another advantage over us

and that is TIME.

Let me break it down for you

let’s assume to reach fluency in English

you need 500 hours of focused studding.

If we do the math

we will see it takes more than 500 days

which is equivalent of almost a year and a half

to learn the freaking English.

But the child sleeps 8 hours a day

and has 16 hours to immerse himself to the language.

And let’s say this immersion continues to the age of 18.

These little cute monsters, can:

16h multiply by 365days multiply by 18 years

equal to 105,120h of language immersion.

So this is why they are the master of that language

yeah

comparing ourselves to them is stupid

so again let me ask you this

Can adults learn a language like children?

the answer is: of course they can

If they maintain positive, consistent

and of course optimistic.

The method children are using is to immerse themselves

into the language.

Can you immerse yourself into the language?

Yes, you can.

If you are living in America

or any other English speaking country

you have the environment

so you can immerse yourself into the language

and learn like children.

But if you are not living in these countries

which I’m sure most of you aren’t

you can still simulate that environment for yourself.

Of course it’s not going to be exactly

like living in those countries

but it’s going to be enough to get you fluent in English.

Start reading books, listening to podcasts, watching movies,

speaking with your partners and so on.

And I gotta mention

you can find all of these in Zabanshenas.

Books, podcasts, movies, courses

anything you want you can find in Zabanshenas.

Check out the link in bio or this link.

Until next time.

cheers!