[Part 3] Use Deliberate Practice to Fast-Track Your Fluency!

<p>This is the final part of thsi special 3-part series where you are going to learn HOW to accelerate your English learning to reach your English goals faster in 2022.</p> <p><a href='https://realenglishconversations.com/email/deliberate-practice/'>Get the ALL the worksheets, audio lessons, and transcription for this special training podcast series here</a></p> <p> </p> <p>About this episode...</p> <p>So what was the BIGGEST mistake I made that kept me stuck as a beginner for so long? It wasn’t only because I was doing Naive Practice... But it was also because I was following the 'common' suggestions and ideas about HOW to learn a language, such as: "Just listen to lots of audio" "Watch movies with subtitles"  "Take a language course" "Go to a Spanish speaking country. You'll learn fast!" Trust me, I tried ALL of them.... Multiple times. </p> <p>It seemed like these ideas worked for everyone else, but they weren’t working for me.  I thought, “Maybe I’m just bad at learning languages”.  And at one point, I almost gave up.</p> <p>It wasn’t until I started think about how I usually learn new skills that I realized, it’s a simple 2-step method: Step 1: Think about the skill I want to be able to do. Step 2: Think of ways to learn and practice it.  For Spanish, I wanted to be able to: > Speak with real people and understand them  But when I looked at what I was actually doing  > Memorizing random words and doing grammar drills</p> <p>Wait a minute… How are grammar drills helping my speaking? Or listening? Oops. They don’t. And what type of words am I learning?  …Words from grammar lessons.</p> <p>Are those the words used in everyday communication? Nope. Definitely not.  This helped me realize, I was doing the wrong activities for the skills I needed.  My next mission: Find a better way to practice speaking and listening. </p> <p>And this brought me to the ‘trial and error’ part of my learning where I spent the next two years experimenting with different