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You know. The three things you
need to do to boost and keep your

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confidence in English are one, keep
a positive attitude about English, two practice

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using English every day and three read
more let's discuss. Welcome to another Happy

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English podcast, coming to you from
New York City, and here's your English

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teacher, Michael. All right,
thank you John, and thanks everyone.

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It's Michael here from Happy English and
I help people speak English better. And

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this is Happy English Podcast, Episode
six ninety three. Confidence you got this.

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In this podcast English Lesson, I'm
going to show you three reasons you

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don't feel confident using English and three
things you can do to get more confident.

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First of all, you got to
stop saying that you don't have confidence

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using English. Everything that you say
your brain hears and believes to be true,

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and then those thoughts can affect or
influence what happens. Think about that

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for a minute. Psychologists call that
a self fulfilling prophecy. Let's say,

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for example, you have a job
interview. If you walk into that interview

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thinking, oh, I'm going to
get nervous, Oh I'm going to mess

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up. Guess what's going to happen. You're probably going to get nervous and

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mess up because you told your brain
that you decided you were going to get

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nervous and mess up, and your
brain said, oh, okay, if

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that's what you want, I'll help
you do that. Your brain is a

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good listener, isn't it. Regardless
of whether you give your brain negative messages

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or positive messages, your brain is
always available to help you out to reach

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your goals. When you believe something
strongly, it can influence your behavior and

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actions in a way that makes that
belief come true, whether it's positive or

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negative. That's the self fulfilling prophecy. So think positive when it comes to

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using English. If you believe you
can succeed in learning English, and you

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approach your learning with determination, you're
going to be more likely to put in

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the effort that you need to improve, which can lead to better language skills.

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And guess what a higher level of
confidence this idea has to do with

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practice. Recently, I've noticed that
some English learners tell me that they study

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a lot, but that they are
not improving as much as they thought they

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would. The more you study,
the more you improve, right, Maybe

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not. That's because studying is more
of a passive activity compared to actually using

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it. Practicing and using your English
is one of the most effective ways to

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improve your confidence. Confidence often comes
from familiarity and experience. I'll say that

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again. Confidence often comes from familiarity
and experience. Here's how it works.

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Did you know Practice builds proficiency.
If you want to be better at kicking

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soccer ball or playing a song on
the piano, you need practice. You

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need to develop that muscle memory so
that you can become proficient at kicking a

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soccer ball or playing the piano.
And it's the same with English. The

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more you practice speaking and the more
you use English, the more proficient you

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will become. And as you get
better at it, your confidence will grow.

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One way to practice English is with
shadowing. And I've got just the

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thing to help you do that.
It's the All Ears English Podcast. This

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award winning podcast is downloaded eight million
times a month. Wow. And there

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you can hang out with my friends
Lindsey, Michelle and Aubrey and try shadowing

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their lovely voices. They have fun, un energetic and natural English conversations about

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a variety of topics. Recently,
in episode twenty eighty five, they talk

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about grammar and politeness, and in
episode twenty eighty two, they show you

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how to respond with personality in English. With four new episodes a week,

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there's always something good cooking there,
so you totally won't want to miss one

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episode of the All Years English podcast. All you have to do is open

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your search bar, type in All
Ears English and hit follow. And if

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you find yourself in a situation where
there's nobody around you that you can practice

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speaking with, then you're going to
have to be creative and practice with yourself.

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That could be by reading something out
loud, narrating your day with your

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voice, or chat out using text
messaging with someone. And if none of

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those are an option for you,
then set yourself up with a free account

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with chat gpt, tell chat gpt
that you would like it to be your

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English conversation partner, and start having
conversations with your new AI partner. And

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here's the third point. Have you
ever found yourself in front of a basketball

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net and you throw the ball but
it doesn't go in the basket. Have

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you ever tried to cook something and
it burned? Have you ever tried to

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go somewhere new and gotten lost?
Mistakes like these are part of life,

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right If you get lost, are
you never going to go out of your

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house again. If you burn something
in the kitchen, are you never going

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to cook again? Mistakes are also
part of the learning process. When you're

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trying to conquer a second language,
you need to look at mistakes as opportunities

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for growth. Remember, your last
mistake is your best teacher, and when

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you can learn from your mistakes,
you'll become more confident in your ability to

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use English. And speaking of practice
and building up your skills, one of

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the things that you definitely need to
build up in order to improve your confidence

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is your vocabulary. Have you ever
found yourself in an English conversation getting stuck

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because you didn't have the vocabulary to
either understand what someone else has said or

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to express yourself the way you want
to. I can tell you from my

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own experience with my second language that
it's happened to me, and it happens

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all the time. That's why these
days I am driven to improve my vocationebulary

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in my second language, which is
Japanese. Having a limited vocabulary can make

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you feel less confident when you want
to express yourself. How do you increase

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your vocabulary? You got to read, my friend, you gotta read Oh,

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but Michael, I'm not interested in
reading, and I don't like reading,

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and I don't even read in my
own native language. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, I've heard that all before, and I've even heard myself say

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that. But the reality is you
need to read more, and that's how

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you're going to build your vocabulary.
Reading is a super essential part of keeping

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your English vocabulary alive. Reading is
the best review of all the vocabulary you've

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ever learned, whether that's words you
often use or words that you hardly ever

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use. Plus, reading is a
great way to pick up new vocabulary in

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context, because, as you know, context is king and context is the

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best teacher for vocabulary. So let's
sum up the three things you need to

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do to boost your confidence in English
and to keep yourself confident in English are

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keep a positive attitude about English,
practice using English every day and not just

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studying it, And read more read
read. Keep in mind, if you'd

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like to get more practice using your
English, why don't you join my podcast

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Learner's Study Group. There you can
build your confidence while you make new international

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friends. Join me for live group
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ninety three. Remember, learning another language

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is not easy, but it's not
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