Polyglot Shares How To Become Fluent Faster
Summary
TLDRLuca Lampariello comparte consejos para aprender inglés. Explica que el cambio de mentalidad es más importante que la técnica. Recomienda enfocarse en la comunicación en lugar del rendimiento. Aconseja encontrar un hablante nativo amigable para practicar y sentir menos estrés y ansiedad. También recomienda preparar un tema de conversación que te apasione. Explica que es normal que tu mente se quede en blanco al hablar, pero esto mejorará con la práctica. El consejo final es enfocarse en la alegría de aprender en lugar de verlo como una obligación.
Takeaways
- 😊 Aprender un idioma requiere cambiar la mentalidad, no solo la técnica
- 👍 Practicar conversaciones amigables ayuda a superar el miedo a hablar
- 💡 Enfocarse en comunicar, no en la gramática, mejora la fluidez
- 😎 Nunca es demasiado tarde para aprender un idioma
- 🤔 El miedo a equivocarse bloquea la habilidad de recordar vocabulario
- 🧠 Entender cómo funciona el cerebro ayuda a mejorar el aprendizaje de idiomas
- 💪 Tener experiencias reales conversando da confianza para seguir intentando
- 🙂 Empezar conversaciones amigables en ambientes cómodos reduce el estrés
- ☺️ El entusiasmo por aprender es más importante que la técnica perfecta
- 😃 ¡Enfocarse en la alegría de aprender idiomas hace una gran diferencia!
Q & A
¿Cuántos idiomas habla Luca con fluidez para mantener una conversación?
-Luca dice que puede mantener una conversación fluida en 10 o 11 idiomas de los 15 que ha estado aprendiendo.
¿Cuál fue el momento clave que cambió la perspectiva de Luca sobre el aprendizaje del inglés?
-El momento clave fue cuando empezó a tomar clases con una tutora americana llamada Susan a los 12 años. Ella le enseñó de una manera más entretenida y significativa que lo motivó a seguir aprendiendo por su cuenta.
Según Luca, ¿importa más dónde vives o cómo vives para aprender un idioma?
-Para Luca, importa más cómo vives, es decir, cómo usas tu tiempo para involucrarte con el idioma, que dónde vives físicamente.
¿Por qué mucha gente que vive en países de habla inglesa aún no habla inglés fluido?
-Según Luca, hay tres razones principales: 1) Creencias limitantes sobre sus capacidades, 2) No escuchan ni hablan lo suficiente, 3) Siguen usando las mismas técnicas ineficientes de antes.
¿Cómo podemos vencer el miedo a equivocarnos al hablar con un nativo?
-Luca recomienda empezar hablando con un tutor amigable en un ambiente protegido, enfocarse en la comunicación y no en la perfección, y preparar temas de conversación que te entusiasmen.
¿Por qué se nos olvidan las palabras o nos quedamos en blanco al hablar con un nativo?
-Pasa porque distintas partes del cerebro compiten: la parte racional trata de recordar vocabulario y gramática, mientras que la parte emocional bloquea esto si hay ansiedad o estrés.
¿Cómo sugiere Luca manejar cuando nos quedamos sin palabras al hablar?
-Recomienda ser honesto y decir que no recuerdas la palabra, o pedir ayuda para decirla. Lo importante es seguir la conversación sin bloquearse.
¿Dónde podemos encontrar más consejos de Luca sobre aprendizaje de idiomas?
-Podemos encontrar mucho contenido útil en el canal de YouTube de Luca que se llama "Luca Lampariello" o "Luca Languages".
¿Cuál es el consejo final de Luca para mejorar nuestro inglés esta semana?
-Nos recomienda enfocarnos en disfrutar cualquier actividad relacionada con el inglés que hagamos, ya sea hablando, escuchando o leyendo. Este cambio de mentalidad es clave.
¿Por qué los niños no tienen tanto miedo a equivocarse hablando un idioma como los adultos?
-Según Luca, es porque los niños se enfocan en comunicar y divertirse, sin pensar tanto en ser evaluados o juzgados como les pasa a los adultos debido a su experiencia escolar.
Outlines
🙂 Introducing Luca and his language abilities
Jennifer introduces Luca, a polyglot who speaks 10-11 languages conversationally out of the 15 languages he has learned. His native language is Italian and he summarizes his experience learning English, including struggling at first in school before making a breakthrough with his American tutor Susan.
😊 The psychological shift behind Luca's English breakthrough
Luca explains that the key shift in learning English well was psychological and about mindset, not just technical strategies. Believing he could learn English himself through fun activities like movies made all the difference, combined with adopting better techniques.
😅 Overcoming the fear of making mistakes
Jennifer notes many students are held back by fear of making mistakes and being judged when speaking English. Luca validates this as normal, and advises gradually stepping outside your comfort zone to find friendly practice conversations that build confidence to reduce anxiety.
🤓 It's about communication, not just performance
Luca discusses how the pressure to perform well instead of simply communicating leads to overthinking grammar and vocabulary when speaking. He advises focusing on getting your message across even with mistakes, which builds real-world fluency better than perfect grammar.
🧠 Why our minds go blank and how to manage it
Luca explains how anxiety and stress can block word retrieval neural pathways in our brains. His suggestions include finding low-pressure practice situations, being honest about struggling, and building consecutive successful experiences to lower background fear.
😄 Concluding thoughts and where to find Luca
Jennifer and Luca conclude by emphasizing mindset shifts around joy, communication, and believing in your ability to learn. Luca shares his YouTube channel for more language learning content.
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Keywords
💡políglota
💡creencias limitantes
💡fluidez
💡comunicación
💡ansiedad
💡confianza
💡cerebro
💡experiencia
💡alegría
💡éxito
Highlights
Learning a language is mostly about mindset, not techniques
It doesn't matter where you live, it matters how you live when learning a language
Focus on communication over performance when speaking
Find a friendly tutor to practice conversations with
It's never too late to learn a language, even in your 60s or 80s
When your mind goes blank, be honest and ask for the word
It's normal to be anxious speaking a foreign language
Focus on topics that excite you rather than perfect grammar
Every real-life interaction in the language is a new experience to build confidence
Allow yourself to make mistakes and stay positive
Stress inhibits retrieving vocabulary and grammar
Have short, friendly conversations to build comfort speaking
Changing limiting beliefs opens doors to language learning
Lack of listening and speaking practice hinders progress
Focus on the joy of learning over perfection
Transcripts
Hello Luca, thank you so much for being here on my channel.
Hi, Jennifer.
Thank you for inviting.
Me.
Absolutely.
So you're a polyglot.
Why don't you tell everyone?
How many languages do you speak?
So when people ask me.
How many languages I?
Speak, I always reply that I've been learning 15 languages.
And I am.
Functional in 10 or 11, meaning that if you ask
me at the drop of a hat to have a conversation with you, right?
Now I would be able to.
Hold a conversation.
And more in 10 to 11 languages, but.
I've been learning.
15 in my.
Language learning career, so to speak.
Well, I know a lot of people on my channel struggle with learning
one language, so that's an amazing accomplishment.
Now, just so everyone knows, English is not your native language, is that correct?
Yes, that's correct.
My native language is Italian.
I was born and raised in Italy.
OK, can you quickly summarize your experience with learning English as a second language?
Sure.
So first, doom and gloom and desperation at school.
I started learning English when I was 10, in middle school and then.
At the ripe.
Age of 12 My.
Teachers decided to hire a an American tutor, Susan, from Chicago.
And that changed everything because until then.
I could not even.
Pronounce the word enough.
I used to say E now.
Because Italians are notoriously.
Like we.
We tend to read.
In in Italian you.
Read You speak as you, as you as you write.
So, but in English.
Which is a non.
It's not a phonetic.
Language.
It's completely different.
And then?
She changed everything because I moved from having
to do homework for school and with a relatively, let's say, unpleasant.
English teacher to.
Watching movies, having interesting and meaningful conversations with Susan,
who used to record, you know, movies for me.
Back in the day, we didn't have the Internet and I started having fun.
I started.
Realizing that I could learn.
English by myself and.
All those limiting beliefs that I had.
Both self-imposed and.
Imposed by society.
Then just melted like.
Snow.
And that's the moment.
Where everything changed?
At at 12 and then.
You know, I started learning more and more by myself.
Starting reading books.
Starting watching more and more.
You know, movies.
And then I went.
Abroad to Ireland for the first time.
And I remember that people call me the American in the neighborhood and I was very
proud of that because just three years prior I could not even string a sentence together.
And then in the.
Course of the last, I would say, or the last 20-30 years.
I've been using English a lot with my.
Friends and.
You know, I've been living with the English.
Language I've been, I've been, I've been learning English and using English.
A lot so.
Now I think I speak it decently.
Oh, absolutely.
I'm sure all my students would agree.
And so for you, it seems like the moment that things change is when you went from
a language learning approach that you didn't enjoy to one that you did enjoy.
Is that how you apply the same approach to learning your your other languages?
Yeah, let's put it this way that the the shift was both.
A.
In terms of techniques, but mostly in terms of mindset,
because I suddenly realized that I could actually.
Learn English now one.
Thing that really happens with most students who've never learned another foreign language.
Successfully is that they don't actually believe that they can do.
It and this reminds.
Me.
Of the time when at the ripe age of seven.
I tried to.
I was a.
Seat of a bike and I tried to ride the bike for the first time and I remember the frustration.
I ended up in tears that day and my father telling me just be.
Patient.
And you will learn how to ride the bike.
Then when that magically happened?
After a few days of trying, I started.
Believing that I could actually.
Ride a bike.
And then I started.
Riding A.
Bike.
Same thing.
Happens when we acquire a skill like learning a language.
Until you've reached fluency in a language, there's always this.
Nagging thought that maybe.
You're not good enough that maybe you don't
you're you were not bitten by the polyglot bug or blessed by the.
Gods of the language.
Gods that you don't have talent.
So the reality is that every single person on this planet can learn a foreign language,
any foreign language for that matter, if they already speak their own native language fluently.
The problem is that unfortunately within the education.
System, the education system is kind of we have it.
Backwards, unfortunately.
So people tend to.
Learn.
In a very inefficient way, and they tend to conclude they come to the.
Conclusion that it's their fault that they're not good enough.
How many times do we have these limiting beliefs?
So I.
Think that what, really?
Changed for me.
Was the fact that I started believing like Susan brought about.
This revolution.
In terms of techniques, yes, that was important also to discover, you know,
the joy of learning, but I think the real.
Shift.
Was psychological more than technical.
So to speak, and but, but then you know the.
Combination of the psychological.
Change and the adopting techniques and strategies and activities.
That I really like.
You know this combination was.
Work wonders for me.
That's the real difference, you know?
Game changer, as they say.
I'm happy you mentioned that because I do receive a lot of comments,
emails from students and they're just frustrated.
They say, Jennifer, I've been learning English for 10 years, 15 years.
I've been living in North America for 25 years and I'm still struggling with my English.
And I can tell there's a lot of frustration in those messages I get.
So how can these students change that belief if they've had it for 1015 years or even longer?
Do you have any advice for them?
So first of all, I believe that.
We all have limiting beliefs about what we can do and we cannot.
Do but the past.
Does not have to.
Define our future in the sense.
That yes, it did.
It did happen.
Like you've maybe you.
Still finding it difficult.
To speak English, even if you.
Live in the United States or England or any.
English speaking country.
I do believe, though, that first of all, it doesn't matter where you live.
It matters how you live.
If you take for example 2.
Students one who lives in the United States and let's say a
Spanish speaking student one lives in the United States.
But always hangs around with other Spanish speaking people or when they try to learn English.
They get into the same.
Old paradigm of I'm not sure I can actually learn.
They stumble upon their words, et cetera, et cetera.
And then you take another student.
Who does not live in the United?
States or.
Any other English speaking country, but then they spend time listening to.
Podcasts or like talk.
Having.
Interesting conversations, maybe on Skype or even.
Meeting English speaking, you know, natives.
In a bar around the corner.
In a language exchange.
So first of all, it's how you live, not where.
And if if then.
How you live, you know what you do in your everyday life and on top of that.
You also live in country, so you live in the.
UK or the US?
That's a great combination, but first of all.
You have.
To learn how to use your time properly, that's the very first thing.
The second thing I would.
Say is that.
Again, the fact that.
You learned poorly before or inefficiently before does not mean.
That.
You have to learn poorly for the rest of your life.
There's always like what?
When is the best time?
To learn better, more efficiently.
It's now doesn't matter how old you.
Are some people say I'm all 40?
I'm.
50 You have to learn a language, a foreign language.
When you're in your teens, if you want to speak a well, it does.
It's not true.
I recently heard a story of someone who's learned
a foreign language in their 60s and learned a foreign language.
Well, within.
Three years, so recently at my language running.
Academy an 80.
Year old girl.
And sent me a message, said Luca.
Until I was.
80 I could not speak Spanish, and now I speak Spanish fluently in a.
Matter of months.
So.
It's never too old.
The third thing is I believe that the main reason why a lot of people including people who.
Live in the.
US or live?
In in the.
UK or whatever they do not speak well comes from a number of factors.
The 1st is the the belief.
That they're not good at.
Language learning or they're not.
Good at learning English.
That's the first thing, the 2nd.
Thing is that maybe they don't.
Listen or they don't speak.
Enough.
They tend to use the same techniques.
Or they tend to stick to the same paradigms of of what they used to do.
Before meaning maybe they speak.
A little bit, but they're.
A little bit timid.
They're a little bit shy.
And maybe they don't.
Listen enough.
They don't watch.
Movies they don't get.
Immersed in the language, we can talk about this a little bit more in detail,
but there's capital a very important things that people can.
Have to change if they.
Want to learn a language?
Well, the good news is.
That nowadays with the Internet you can do anything you want if.
You learn how to use the Internet correctly.
Instead of getting in like getting.
Sucked in the rabbit hole of.
You know, spending time.
Scrolling the whole.
Day you can do You can engage in meaningful activities learning English.
So these are the three important things that you have.
To take into account that explain why a lot of
people do not speak English well even if they live in.
The US was very inspiring that you mentioned that woman who's 80 years old and got amazing results.
Because I know that of course is one of the limiting beliefs students have is oh, I'm too old.
I don't have enough time.
You hear these beliefs again and again.
Now Speaking of mindset, one of the mindset factors I hear from students a lot is just fear.
This fear of making mistakes, this fear of being judged.
And it prevents them from actually going out there and using their English in the real world.
So they spend all their time studying, acquiring vocabulary,
but then they don't have the confidence to actually use it.
Have you experienced that with yourself or your students?
And what advice would you share?
So let me first tell you that this is a very.
Human being, a human thing to be.
Scared of?
You know, getting.
Out of your comforts and when we.
When we get out.
Of our comfort zone.
We're always scared.
That's the first thing.
So it's completely, completely normal to be scared or?
Slightly anxious about the.
Mere fact of having to have a conversation with a native speaker.
So that's, that's the first thing to take into account,
The second thing to take into account is that.
I I foresee like these three.
Zones you have.
The comfort zone at.
The at the beginning.
Right.
So that's where you stand where you're like sitting in the.
Corner You're learning vocabulary, but you don't want to.
Venture out there and.
Have you know?
Talk to, talk to people.
Then you have.
Out like there's another layer or zone around that zone,
which I call like it's called the Goldilocks.
Zone, so it's slightly.
Challenging, but it's not too challenging.
I'll give.
You a concrete example in a second and then you have the panic.
Zone The panic zone is where you're completely out
of your comfort zone so far that it's you panic because it's too difficult.
An example.
So your comfort zone is, let's say, whoever is listening,
if you're you know, you're you've been learning a language for a little bit.
And.
Or for a long time for that matter.
English and you still find it difficult, you know.
You still tremble at the idea of speaking to someone.
Or you're interacting.
With someone but you, you, you, you.
You know you don't.
Express yourself smoothly because.
Your mind goes blank.
And you think, Oh my God, they're.
Judging me I'm making.
Mistakes you think about Rammer.
All those.
Things that make it difficult then.
Think about this.
Your comfort zone is sitting in front of a computer.
And making maybe lists.
Of words.
Or maybe watching something passively.
Right, so.
That is an.
Excuse of oh, I'm engaging with the language.
But I'm not actually.
Talking to people.
Then you have the.
Goal what I call the Goldilocks zone.
It's a good zone.
It's a good zone.
To be in and you tell yourself.
OK, I'm scared.
Fine.
Normal.
But I could have.
Maybe I could.
Hire a tutor.
A very nice and friendly person.
With whom I could have a.
Conversation.
It's a protected environment because you're paying whether you're paying.
Someone or you find.
Someone, Someone you can have a conversation with, maybe on Skype.
There is no background noise.
That person knows that you're a learner.
And then you can have a.
Conversation.
You can prepare beforehand about a topic you're interested.
In and you can have a meaningful.
Conversation.
That's a Gray.
Zone that you can get in.
A Gray zone, but a good zone to be in.
So that you can actually step out of your comfort.
Zone progressively have a conversation.
You realize, oh, that was not a big deal.
The person was nice.
I stumbled and I grumbled a little bit.
But at the end of the day, I made it.
And then you have the panic zone.
The panic zone is where you get.
Out and say.
You go and buy.
Something, let's say, you know, I don't know, maybe.
A train ticket.
You go to the.
Station, and unfortunately you come.
Across a very grumpy old lady or a guy, we're not very happy because of their own reasons.
And then they blurt out something you do not.
Understand and you find yourself in that situation.
Where, Oh my gosh, what do I do?
Do I reply that I do not understand and like, look like a fool?
Or do I nod and I?
Pretend that I understand.
These are not easy.
Situations because we think.
Oh, you just have to buy a ticket.
But in real life conversations and interactions, native speakers are not your teachers.
They go about their own business.
That's the reason.
Why?
That's a panic zone.
So my simple advice is try to.
Build your comfort zone if you're scared of speaking.
The one thing that you have to think about is to find a situation.
Where you find yourself, find some comfort.
A person who's.
Friendly.
Not necessarily competent, but friendly, let me say.
This again, because this is very important.
People tend to think that when they have to.
Prepare, prepare, or just interact with someone.
They have to find a very.
Competent person who?
Explains the English grammar in detail.
That's not true.
You need.
Someone to talk to.
That's the main point.
That person will listen to you, will possibly give you feedback for the.
Mistakes you make, but they don't have to explain.
Grammar to you in.
Detail, nowadays we have.
You can do that if you want to but the main.
Goal is to actually.
Speak to.
Have a conversation.
Fluency is not just a matter.
Of how many words you know?
How many?
Grammar rules you know or if whether your.
Pronunciation is good.
Or accurate or not, it's a degree of confidence that you build with.
Experiences that you have.
And the first experience.
You can have.
Nowadays we can, because we have the Internet is to have a.
Conversation with someone.
That you find friendly in a protected.
Environment.
That's the first thing that I would do, the second thing that I would.
Do and that's maybe even.
More important is this the reason?
Why we tend to stumble, we tend to.
Think about grammar.
Our mind goes blank.
Is due to something.
That, unfortunately, we were all subjected to think about.
Well.
You're from the United?
States and from Italy.
But all across the world, the pattern is always the same.
At school, we tend to think.
In terms of performance, not in terms of.
Communication.
Children have a great time using foreign languages because you learning their own native.
Language.
Because they communicate.
They have fun.
They just don't think.
Oh, I'll be judged.
But adults or adults, what happens is that they go to school.
They constantly think I'm getting a mark.
Am I going?
To get good mark.
Am I going to get bad mark so someone I don't know the teacher addresses you?
You're not thinking about AI Mean I want to talk.
About this because.
I'm so excited.
You're thinking, let me try to survive, you know, let me try to say whatever I can say.
But thinking I have to conjugate the verb correctly, I have.
To say this, the.
You know that's the problem and.
If you start.
Focusing on communication.
Instead of performance, it changes everything.
So here's my piece of advice.
Whenever you have a conversation, make sure that you prepare something,
a topic that you really like, and just talk about that.
Get.
Excited.
It doesn't.
Matter if you make mistakes or not, the most important thing is you get your point across.
If I told you for example.
In English I tomorrow.
School you will understand perfectly.
I.
Tomorrow to go to school you will understand perfectly, even if.
It's not grammatically accurate, but it's.
Better to say something and.
Make a mistake rather.
Than not saying anything but this again you have.
To you have to understand and be aware of the fact.
That the outcome.
Police it's like.
Oh, you made a.
Mistake is there.
If you change this.
If you have experienced.
This mind shift.
Not performance, but.
Communication.
It changes everything.
One last thing, I know I'm rambling a little bit.
But I love this.
I love this topic.
There is a beautiful Ted talk which is called.
Teaching English without teaching English.
I think I I wrote it this year.
Somewhere it's.
By Roberto Guzman.
He's a Mexican guy who's teaching Mexican kids to.
Learn to.
To speak English.
Beautiful.
It talks about.
All the stuff in his own.
His own way.
You know and and I think some.
These are universal principles.
Focus.
On communication and not outcome.
You raised so many points.
I hope everyone is paying attention because Luca has given you all such amazing advice
and this is something I've seen with my students.
They well, they think that when they're communicating with a native speaker,
it's the same as communicating with their teacher.
They expect to be assessed, judged, corrected.
They think it's an appropriate time to think about grammar, correct their mistakes, ask for feedback.
When really you're just having a conversation, it's not the appropriate time to do that.
So I'm so glad that you raised all their those points.
And everyone watch that Ted talk as well.
I will watch it myself.
I don't believe I have and you to talk specifically about when students forget their
words or their mind goes blank, it's because they're entering out of that comfort zone.
So it's just more of a natural thing.
But I wanted to know if you could expand on that at all or give any
more specific advice because this is one thing that my students ask a lot about.
I I know the words, I studied this, I know it.
But then when I'm in the situation, I open my mouth and it it just goes.
Do you have any practical strategies to help them remember their words when they need them?
Absolutely so.
This happens to me as well and to.
To go back to your previous.
Question when you will.
Ask me, does this happen to you as well?
Did you get?
Scared of speaking?
Yes.
Every single time and.
Learn a new language.
I am terrified when the moment.
Comes of speaking.
Even after all, so many years because.
In my subconscious mind.
Unfortunately.
The, the, the, you know, the the influence that school had on me when I was a little.
Kid is still there in the subconscious part of my mind.
So now to answer.
Your question we're not going to talk delve into neuroscience,
although I'm really passionate about how the brain works.
And if you understand how the brain works, it gives you an incredible.
Insight into why?
We have these problems when speaking a foreign language or our even our own native.
Language for that matter.
But to make it simple, this is the reason.
Why all this works?
All this happens?
Sorry.
In our mind we.
Process language learning when we.
Still do not.
Speak a language well, so we're not talking about our native language,
we're talking about foreign language.
We use what is called what this part of the brain, which is called prefrontal cortex.
This is our like this is.
How we think consciously, how we plan things.
When we try to retrieve words when we try to.
Think about grammar.
Etcetera, etcetera.
Then we have another part of the brain.
Which is called the limbic system that has to do with, let's say, emotions.
This is a.
An.
An.
Oversimplification of how this?
Works, but just to to show you a metaphor of how like there you have.
Two competing, let's say.
Parts of the brain.
One is trying to process to think.
About words, to arrange them together to think.
About grammar.
And the other part.
Which is the emotional.
Part.
Fights against this part.
So if you're tense.
And subconsciously we.
Walk into a conversation, whether it's with a tutor or with people outside,
there's a level of tension.
That.
Unfortunately, where the amygdala is involved in not only the.
Amygdala that keeps this.
Part of the brain, let's say, keeps it from.
Communicating well with other.
Parts of the brain.
So imagine that.
This part of the brain wants to grab a word somewhere,
fetch a word with a mechanical arm, but the other part just keeps it from doing that.
If you're stressed, if you're anxious.
If you walk into.
Any conversation with the idea that you're going to be judged?
And.
Everything.
You know all.
The negative things that you think.
Concerning a conversation.
This is bound to happen.
This has happened to me.
A number.
Of times.
Recently, just to give you a very concrete example, I've been learning Serbian for two years.
I had a.
Conversation with my colleague who's.
American, Serbian, American, and I've been learning the language for two years.
I understand it pretty well.
We recorded a conversation for YouTube.
I could not say the simplest things.
Like he asked me, Are you ready?
I was like, I couldn't.
Even say yes, I am in Serbian and I.
Realized.
How is that possible and because the knowledge?
Is there but.
It's blocked, so it's something that happens all.
The time our mind goes blank because we are anxious and we are in this mode, in this.
Very negative mode.
My suggestion is once again.
What I said before is that.
To establish if you're.
Anxious about having a conversation with a native speaker?
Find one person, a friendly person, not necessarily competent a friendly person.
You are really excited.
You know, you you think, oh, I'm going to talk to.
Jennifer or Luca?
Or Mark about?
Whatever excites you.
And when that happens.
When you focus more on the communication than the performance, your level of stress is going to go.
Down and and then.
Your mind will.
Go blank because it's.
This is inevitable.
It's a background noise that you're.
Not going to eliminate, but it's going to.
It's going to happen less and less when you're.
Talking with that person, If that happens, there's another simple thing you can do Is like.
You can just say I I'm.
Trying to say this word if the other person speaks your Spanish, for example.
You can.
You know, either say I don't remember how to say this word and be very honest or.
Smile or look?
It.
On, on, on.
You know, on the fly.
But just be.
Honest first with yourself and then with the other person.
Once you establish.
With one person again.
A friendly communication like a collaboration then.
Your stress levels will.
Go down and you will be able to manage this.
Conversation much better.
And that is going to give.
You confidence.
With that confidence, you're going to walk into
another conversation and then another conversation.
Remember every time you have another experience in a foreign language.
So every time that.
You walk into a grocery store to ask something, or you buy a train ticket.
That's a new experience.
It's old because you lived it in your own.
Native language, but it's new because you've.
Never done it in your foreign language.
So a.
Little bit of a level like the the level of stress is going to be there you're going to.
Think, Oh my God, I'm just going to mess this up.
It's going to be a.
Disaster once you do.
It you realize, no big deal.
And then your confidence is going to grow.
Step by step.
Well, you shared a lot there.
But I think for my students, just understanding that it's it's how
their brain works, it's normal, it's natural and thank you for sharing that.
You still have that experience even today.
I'm sure that made all my students feel more confident and it's just building up
those successes, getting those successes in a in an A comfortable environment that
will allow them to build their confidence slowly over time.
Great advice.
Thank you.
And I feel like we could talk for so long about these topics,
especially diving into how our brain works.
That's so interesting.
And I know you have more videos on your YouTube channel, so why
don't you just share with my students where they can find you on YouTube?
What's your YouTube channel?
Sure thing.
My.
YouTube channel is just Luca Lampariella which is just by.
Name.
So if you write Luca Lampariello or Luca languages on YouTube, you.
Will find my channel.
It's all about learning how to learn.
I do have some videos where I speak multiple languages
or other languages in just one video, but.
It mainly it's about.
How to Learn How to Use your Brain to learn more.
Efficiently and to show you that that is possible.
And then everyone can do it.
I'll put the YouTube channel in the description as well so everyone can follow you.
Get those language learning tips and advice.
Final question for you before we wrap up.
If my students were to do only one thing this week to improve their English,
what would you recommend that they do?
I would say to focus on the joy of actually whatever they're doing,
whether they're speaking, whether we're writing, whether we're reading,
whether they're listening, whether they're watching a YouTube.
Video like this one to have.
Joy to to think.
About.
The joy.
Of learning instead of.
I have to do this because I have.
To learn it's more like I.
Want to do this?
I think that once again, yes, techniques and strategies.
They're important, but this?
Mindset shift that you need to have in order to take things.
For further, is the one of the most powerful things and factors.
When it comes to success in learning.
English or?
Any other?
Language for that matter.
What an amazing way to end our conversation.
Focus on joy.
You heard it everyone.
Focus on joy.
Thank you so much for being here, Luca, and sharing these amazing tips and advice.
My pleasure.
Bye, bye.
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