Os fantasmas do speaking e a arma para vencê-los.
One of the main complaints of English students in Brazil is the lack of partners to practice the language. We start taking the course in traditional schools, or on our own, learning basic structures of the language, verb to be, do, does, and so on. We arrive at a period of English acquisition that we have nowhere else to run, that is, we need to practice speaking. And for that, we need people who also want to practice with you.
Essa necessidade pode ser resolvida com professores particulares, amigos que estejam estudando também ou grupos de conversação.
Há muitos obstáculos: timidez, julgamento alheio, insegurança na pronúncia, medo de cometer erros…Enfim, os fantasmas são muitos.
But we’re never going to beat them by running from them. If we really want to evolve in English, we need to expose ourselves, and practice what we are learning. Mistakes will happen constantly, but it is from them that we learn. The errors are diminishing, but we, as natives of the Portuguese language, do not need to be so cruel and demand a perfection that does not exist. He relaxes, he continues to practice, and gradually the pronunciation and grammar errors are diminishing.
Julgamento alheio? Se formos dar atenção a isso, nós jamais sairíamos de casa. Nós, seres humanos, estamos sob constante julgamento e avaliação. Isso não tem como mudar. O que podemos mudar é a importância que damos a isso. Foca na sua mensagem, foca no assunto que está sendo discutido, seja honesto consigo mesmo, que conseguirá se expressar de forma clara e tranquila, mesmo cometendo errinhos.
If you already study English and have not yet started practicing your speaking, it’s time. Go without haste, calmly, that in a short time, you will see the evolution that only practice can provide.
