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1. 0:00Hi, my name is James Simmonds and I’m an English teacher based in Germany with over 20 years of experience.
2. 0:06And this is We Need to Talk About.
3. 0:10We need to talk about things that will help you improve your English,
4. 0:13but maybe we can start by talking about a few things that really won’t work.
5. 0:21So to start with, we need to differentiate between passive understanding and active learning.
6. 0:29A lot of students tell me that they watch English films or TV series, and you know, that’s great.
7. 0:35But osmosis, or soaking in a warm bath of English dialogue with the subtitles on,
8. 0:43isn’t gonna help you present the latest figures to your multinational team on Monday morning.
9. 0:48Remember, the brain is not a sponge, it’s a muscle, and it needs exercising.
10. 1:00I did actually play that, even though you can’t see my fingers.
11. 1:06Magical thinking. We need to talk about magical thinking because magical thinking is actually going to
12. 1:13stop you from learning.
13. 1:16Magical thinking is this strange belief that somehow it’ll all happen by itself.
14. 1:23One day you’ll wake up and there’ll be a click and all of a sudden you’ll understand English.
15. 1:28You’ll be able to speak it properly and it’ll just be absolutely amazing.
16. 1:32We’ll just be in the middle of it and it’ll all be happening.
17. 1:35It doesn’t work like that.
18. 1:37It’s a messy, cumulative, long-term process that requires effort to memorise information.
19. 1:47Which brings me to point number three.
20. 1:50Magical thinking’s evil twin.
21. 1:54Bauchgefühl. Intuition.
22. 1:59Wir sehen uns nächste Woche.
23. 2:01We’ll see each other next week.
24. 2:03We see each other next week.
25. 2:05We see us next week.
26. 2:07We’ll see us next week.
27. 2:12Which one feels right to you?
28. 2:15And did you make a party or have a party at the weekend?
29. 2:18Will we look forward to hear from you, or will we look forward to hearing from you?
30. 2:25What feels right? You need to memorise this information.
31. 2:31Your poor English teacher will no doubt have told you a thousand times over that they look forward to seeing you next week.
32. 2:40We’ll see each other next week, and that they had the most wonderful party at the weekend.
33. 2:48Have you managed to remember it?
34. 2:51If in any of those cases there’s even a tiny little bit of uncertainty there,
35. 2:58how is Bauchgefühl going to help you?
36. 3:03It won’t. Let me summarise.
37. 3:07Passive understanding is different than active learning and remembering.
38. 3:13Osmosis is not a technique.
39. 3:18Magical thinking, the click will never happen.
40. 3:23Bauchgefühl doesn’t really work either.
41. 3:27Either you memorise something correctly and you know it, or you’re uncertain and you don’t.