how I learned English by myself in a lazy way without studying (advice from a polyglot)

good afternoon guys so the thing is I have  never attended an international school nor have I ever lived in an English-speaking  country but by learning English on my own in a lazy way I managed to achieve a pretty good  level in English I would say and I actually also completed my bachelor and master's degree  which were instructed in English I already did two videos regarding language learning advices  in general this one and this one so if you are interested the links are in the description b

ox  below but today I wanna share with you guys more specifically about how I learned English by  myself in a fun and lazy way without so let's get right in! First Step watch YouTube videos or  any other medias that you preferred and watch it without English subtitles first for at least  I would say 30 minutes a day for about a week you might be wondering why Why without English  subtitles because personally I find it much less stressful to watch videos in the beginning without  subtitles becaus

e it can be overwhelming sometimes with so many subtitles so many new vocabulary  and so on and remember we are here to have fun right we are here to enjoy language learning  process and to enjoy our life so that's not overwhelm ourselves in the first week of learning  this language and another important reason I believe to watch videos without subtitle is to  try to develop your language sense from day one so when you are watching the videos try to focus  on how this language is spoken by peopl

e you know the tones the Rhythm and also how people speak  English their facial expression their mouth their body languages and so on and so on have you ever  heard of a statement saying that our personalities shift when speaking a different language I  find this statement so interesting and so true so anyway in first week of learning English just  try to get a sense of how this language function and you will be good step number two so after  watching videos without subtitles for about a week no

w it's time to turn on your subtitles  and watch it with English subtitles so I usually prefer to watch videos that are less than 10  minutes long otherwise I find it quite easy to get overwhelmed as a beginner and also as  a beginner my go-to videos to watch are always always travel vlogs because I find it not only  very entertaining to watch it also contains many changing scenes so it's gonna help me a lot  to navigate what he or she is talking about and to guess the meaning of sentences and w

ords  additionally I would also prioritize watching videos that contains a familiar topics places  or products, etc. For example I'm pretty familiar with Japan as I used to live there before so my  go-to video to watch as a beginner would be Japan travel vlogs because even without knowing the  language a familiar topic like this would help me immensely in understanding the context and also  in guessing the meaning of the sentences and words third step pick a shorter video that you love  watching

and repeat after each sentence of what the speaker said with EMOTION as if you were  the speaker yourself this is very important and you might wonder why with emotion because  based on my personal experience I find myself improved much faster especially in speaking when  I involve my emotion in Reading English out loud like mimicking their tones their rhythms their  facial expressions and even their hand gestures I remember when I was a teenager I love watching  Nigahiga's contents to an extent

that I even memorized the whole scripts of some of my favorite  videos and acted out myself yeah just involve your emotion in reading the English sentences and it is also much more interesting and fun to do that at least that's what I felt you might be also  wondering do I look up the words that I don't know when watching videos well yes sometimes I  do but only when I feel like doing it and only when I'm like curious about a certain word I've  never followed any rules like you have to write do

wn all the new words that you don't know and  look it up later or you have to write down at least 10 words each day in order to memorize it  etc etc I just do what I feel like doing and just have fun now moving on to the fourth step talk to  yourself it's time to talk to yourself so to be honest you can talk about anything you want like  anything whether it's about your day or about the videos or articles that you watch that you read  that day but personally I find it super useful to talk to you

rself when you experience some  sort of emotion like when you are excited you are happy or you are angry sad confused etc etc  I find it very funny because whenever I run into some shitty things shitty situations that just  made me really angry and want to complain a lot I usually like all of a sudden become really good  at English speaking when complaining about things. Surprised!!! lol but I guess it's a good thing so I think in  general just involve your emotions when you speak and learn Engl

ish is very helpful and  effective in improving your English skill in general ah nice step number five congratulations  and have reached this stage after you have been doing step one to four for at least one hour a  day for approximately six months well it depends on how much time you spend on English each day  so it could be longer than six months or shorter than six months but anyway if you have reached  this stage you can start incorporating reading English novels in your English learning rou

tine  so just pick one novel that you like and that you could understand at least 60 percent otherwise  it wouldn't be fun to read and I would recommend reading fiction over non-fiction like novels  because books in general have very few pictures right so as a language learner it can be quite  difficult to digest sometimes and and it can even be a bit boring but usually novels will keep  you engaged with the story at least that's what I find to be quite effective in helping me to stay  focused i

f you are already in or about to join an academic environment that would require you  to use English I would highly suggest to read more English books as I find it very helpful in  improving my grammar and writing skills I think the foundations I built through Reading English  books helped me significantly in writing English essays and also my graduation thesis back then  for both my bachelor and master program yeah last but probably the most challenging step are you ready yes I'm ready so to pu

t yourself  in an environment or situation that will require you to use English for example I decided to  join a bachelor program that used English as an instructional language of course you don't need  to do a program like this in order to improve your English you can for example join an online course  with a subject that you are interested in that is instructed in English or you can find a language  exchange partner whom you can talk casual things with using English or you could join a Meetup 

where everyone's are required to speak only in English or if you are working in your work you  can try to seek any opportunities you could to interact with English speaking clients whether  is via email or video chat or you can do like me filming videos in English and post it online I find  myself improve the fastest when I intentionally put myself in this kind of environment it's  like a game! in order to complete your task you have no choice but to figure out how to apply  how to use English

while keep on improving it that's all for today thank you so much for  watching if you came all~~~~ this far yayyy I hope this video is helpful and remember just remember just  to have fun you know enjoy the learning process and enjoy your life you know for me there's really  no such things as you have to do this do that in order to learn a language just do whatever you  feel like doing and just play around with it and just have fun I would say if there's any magic  when it comes to language lea

rning it would be to learn to have fun while learning the language so  I wish you best of luck in learning English and later I'm gonna share a bit about my motivation  of learning English if you're interested feel free to stay with me for a few more minutes and  if you're not I'm gonna say goodbye to you here goodbye and see you in the next video bye  it's always really funny whenever I recall the reason back then, when I was still a teenager,  that motivated me to start learning English so I re

member I was around 12 years old back then  and one day on the streets I saw two strangers near my neighborhood speaking fluent English  and I still remember vividly that at that moment I literally couldn't take my eyes off them because that was for me so so so freaking cool to be able to speak English like that and yes guys  that's THE day that I made up my mind that in the future I'm just gonna be just as cool as them  you know like walking on the streets and speak fluent English so that motiv

ated me to start  learning English back then and this simple "I just want to be cooler by speaking fluent English"  goal has brought my English so so so far till today so yes that's my motivation back then anyway  thank you so much for watching this video again and I'll see you oh I just hit my  lamp again I'll see you in the next video bye bye bye I'll give you two hearts bye