We are not machines

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The idea that we can learn a profound discipline without concentrated study time, practice, and training is misinformed, an escape.

If we try to get around the work of learning a language, by using a hack of some kind, we’ll end up with a hack version of it. Hack means mediocre. Yes, it may be a clever trick to get around or get entry to something difficult - to make it easy. But it has no depth, no strength, little to build on or grow upon. It's unremarkable. It’s amateur.

Hacks may be wrong, too. Lots of people have gotten comfortable using bad grammar - because they learned a hack ???? They think they really hit on gold when, in reality, it's a poor trick. And it shows.

If you shortcut your learning, you'll get the shortcut version.

When I moved to Brazil 35 years ago, talking with people of both intermediate and advanced English in Brazil, I never noticed incorrect grammar. Never. They may have been missing vocabulary or used the wrong word or expression, but the grammar was always right.?

It’s not like that anymore.?

People are trying to get everything too quickly, in short bursts taking in loads of information flipping through apps and other random, unconnected information. How to digest it? How to assimilate it? How to apply it? They get distracted by the shiny new stuff - trying an easy way to sound like a local, picking up slangs and expressions to sound like they fit in, thinking that getting more and more and more will make them so,?and they end up missing what’s fundamentally important.?

The learner going the DIY route is in a big hurry, frantically adding more and more and more, not slowing down to assess if the learning is right or wrong. Because they want it quick and easy.

It’s a modern problem due to racing technology and the illusion that we can do the same, that we can be like the technology.?

But we are not machines.

We need time to process in language learning.

It may not be the most fun thing in the world to study but we all know that serious learning involves focus and practice.?

It may not be the easiest thing to stop, carve out time, sit yourself down and concentrate on growing and refining your skills. But if you want to get good at something you need to take the time to study, to work the skill, to practice it, to train it.?

You need this focus and effort.?

And as you grow and improve your skills, you grow and build your confidence.

There are no shortcuts to profound learning. To truly master a language, to know it, and use it well takes time.

Mastering a new language can revolutionize your life. It is a dedicated endeavor.?

You can take control of your English. I help you cut through the info overload to teach you what truly makes the difference.

My Keynote: Use English Like a Pro reveals how to do it to be an expert user of the language.

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