Can I learn a language in 3 months?

Can I learn a language in 3 months?
Hello my friends and welcome to practice English with Paul. In today’s video I’m not going to teach you vocabulary or grammar I’m going to explain something very interesting. Many students online send my messages saying ‘Paul, is it possible to learn English in 3 months?’ I replied … what do you think? ‘No!’ Now why did I reply ‘no’? Because … emm… well I’m an experienced teacher I’m a linguist, I have my opinions. They said to me that they saw an advertisement in a local language school or an online school. They promised that they will learn English in 3 months. And I say to them that the words used in the advertisement are not true because you can’t learn English all of it in 3 months … it’s impossible. It’s absolutely… you can’t learn anything perfectly in 3 months.. you will get better you will get better but perfectly …. Forget it. But the problem is so many people fall for these lies, for these scams. Can you see this question here, #1 : ‘Why do people fall for these scams?’ That’s what I want to answer. Again, scam is like a lie, a lie, you know, that makes you spend your money on something which isn’t true. ‘Fall for’ here it ,means believe. So why do people believe these lies, why do people fall for these scams? I believe the first problem is that in today’s world we need everything today or we need it we need it yesterday. As a result lot of language school understand this and they make these false promises because most people are not linguists they learn English but they’re not linguists and so they believe this false advertising and therefore they go to these schools, they spend their money and they think they’ve learnt an entire level where in fact they have not, especially when they come to me. Some people also really believe in easy way of learning English. Now, I’ve said this in one of my previous videos I think it was ‘learning vocabulary’ emmm… many people are not looking for the best way of learning English … they are looking for the easiest way there is a big difference. The easiest way isn’t always the best. Sometimes you just need to do a lot of hard work every day. I’ll explain this a bit later. So, again language schools and online schools they know this and they say ’oh, we have some special method which can help you learn 600 words in a week’… Good luck! OK, an again I often get many students who come to me expecting the ‘magic pill’. They come to my class, not all students but some, they expect to take a special magic pill without doing homework without working hard they will speak English fantastically in 6 months and I tell them ‘that will not happen, because I will do my best but you need to do your best as well’ ‘How long does it take to learn a language?’ Well , let’s think of an example. Imagine, I can’t cook which is true, I can’t cook, but I want to cook like Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramzie these world-famous chefs, the best chefs in the world. From now until the best chef in the world do you think I can do that in 3 months? Do you think I can learn to be a professional footballer in months? Of course not. So why do you think you can learn amazing English in 3 months? It’s the same principal it’s not going to happen. You will make progress; you will get better to learn English to learn how to cook perfectly… NO! We have a wonderful expression in English – ‘how long is a piece of string?’ Quite often if somebody asks you a question ‘how to learn English?’ we say ... ‘Well, how long is a piece of string?’ it means ‘there’s no answer to this’ like there’s no limit… there’s no parameter. How long is a piece of string? So…how long does it take to learn English? How long is a piece of string? What are your obligations? Do you have free time? Do you love English enough to practice it 10 hours a day? Can you practice it 10 hours a day? Do you have a linguistic mind? There are so many factors involved that determine how quickly you will learn a language but let’s look at this what about levels? Can you learn a level in 3 months? My answer to this is YES and NO. Now, again as I just said it depends on you … do you have free time? Do you have obligations which limit your free time to learn English? I believe that you can do some intensive courses where if you work really hard really hard every day for like many hours then yes I believe you can learn a level in 3 months like pre-intermediate or intermediate or upper-intermediate but again because most of us have school or jobs or family obligations it’s very difficult to find that time to give your life to English as much as you should. So therefore most students spend like really maximum an hour every day outside the class practicing English if you practice more than that … well done! Learn more on my VK page: http://vk.com/id290352757

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