What to do if you think your English is bad

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So you think your English is bad.

You’ve been learning English (the wrong way) for a really long time. And finally, it got to the point where you said to
yourself, “My English sucks. There’s nothing I can do about it. I can’t improve my English.”

But wait a minute. Is that really true, though?

Can you absolutely know that you can’t improve your English?

While I can’t answer that question for you, I can tell you this: whether you think you can or you think you can’t…you’re
right.

(That’s a quote from Henry Ford, by the way.)

Now there’s something I’d like you to do…

Full Transcript
Hi everybody. I have a quick question for you.

What do think about your spoken English?

Do you think your English is bad?

A lot of people who want to speak English think this way. Because when they speak, they have trouble
coming up with words. They make a lot of mistakes. And their sentence structure is just wrong. They
believe that they’re just bad at speaking English. And there’s nothing they can do about it.

Now If you are one of those people–if you think there’s no way to improve your English, then I have
something to tell you…

You’re wrong! You are just plain wrong.

And In this video, I’m going to tell you why.

Now I want you to think about experts and top performers in any field. Think about world class
athletes like Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan.

Here’s my question for you:

How good do you think they were in the beginning? Do you think they were excellent right from the
start?

No, of course not.

They were terrible in the beginning. Tiger Woods was bad at golf when he began. Michael Jordan was
bad at basketball when he began.

The bottle line is this: when you start out something new, you’re going to suck…really suck. You’re
going to make mistakes. You’re going to look stupid.

And the only way to get better is to keep doing it. And you’ll get better over time. This is the truth. And
it applies to everybody.

But here’s the most important question:

If everybody sucks in the beginning, then what separates

successful people from unsuccessful people?
How is it possible that there can be English learners who are similar to each others–I mean they have
the same level of intelligence, the have to same resources, but some of them managed to become good
at spoken English while others cannot speak English at all?

What’s the difference?

The answer is one word: Action.

Successful people suck in the beginning just like anybody else, but they keep taking action.

They keep learning. They keep practicing.

Because they know that even though they are not good at speaking today, they’re going to get better if
they keep learning and practicing. So they take massive action.

Unsuccessful people, on the other hand, don’t take action very much. They try to speak English a little
bit. They try to practice a little bit. But they quit very quickly. They start speaking and they start
having trouble. They start making mistakes. And then they say “Oh….English is just not for me. It’s
too difficult. I’m just not good at language.” And then they quit. They just give up immediately.

So here’s my challenge to you:

After you watch this video, I want you talk about anything in English.
And you just do it by yourself. You don’t need to find someone to do it with to you. You can talk about
anything you want. You can talk about yourself. You can talk about what happened yesterday. Or
maybe you can talk about what you’ve learned from this video.
It doesn’t matter what you talk about. What matters is that you take action. And when you do that, I
want you to keep two things in mind.

Number one…

You’re going to suck.

Just keep in mind that you’re going make mistakes. You’re going to say something confusing. Maybe
you won’t be able to speak at all.

But be OK with that. That’s normal. Everybody has to go through that. I mean this is my first Youtube
video and as you can see, my drawing sucks. It’s terrible. But I’m OK with that. I accept it. And you
should be OK with your speaking as well.
The second thing I want you to keep in mind is to…

keep taking action

Just keep learning–keep practicing. Because it doesn’t matter if you suck today. The present does not
equal the future. Just because you’re bad at speaking now doesn’t mean that you will always be bad at
speaking. If you keep taking action, I guarantee that you will improve. You will get better.

I mean the same is true for my drawing. It sucks today. But if I keep drawing–if I keep practicing, I’m
going to get better.

OK. So that’s my challenge to you. And we’ve come to the the end of this video. Now one last thing, if
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