Stop Memorizing: How I Became Fluent in English from Zero

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☀️Timestamps:
0:00 Start here
0:53 Phase 1 of my language journey: Lots of input, not enough output
2:50 Phase 2 of my language journey: Going through a silent period
6:15 Phase 3 of my language journey: Switching to message-focused learning
10:23 Phase 4 of my language journey: befriending native speakers
11:11 Study plan

✨ Contact ✨
Instagram - @hanzhango
TikTok: @hanzhango

About Me:
🥭 How old are you? 24!
🎓 Where did you go to university? Augustana & Columbia University!
🤠 Where do you live? Texas

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[soumikjana]

Sister i found your vedio randomly and it is helpful thanks. Love from 🇮🇳

[Bitekiedits-dramaspot]

English teacher ❌
Any lecture ❌
Any app ❌
Learnt from watching dramas ✅
Learnt from reading manga ✅

[mayanksingh]

Wow video came so fasttt! Thanks Han😭💜
Missed ur small comic acts though✨️

[aaradhyasharma]

Thank you so much for uploading this video because it helped too much
Btw i am your new subscriber 🎉

[sergiotvidal]

Hi hi! Can you make a video analysing the best math books you know?

[SANDIPOLI-cgls]

You are so gorgeous HAN♥️ LOVE your every video 😀

[nikhil-]

😃 now i can think that i will become fluent in english someday until than thanks to you
😃😃

[muthukannan]

As someone who is from a third world country and first language is not English i feel like the main way i learnt to speak fluent English was from tv series and movies now im fluent and speak with a profound American accent too

[avnibhardwaj]

hey....about that notion template to track exam revision...when u will be providing it? and if provided where is it?

[subhasis]

I will try it from today
I can't speak fluently

[victoza]

Han, I know the process is gradual, but was there a "lightbulb" moment in which you said to yourself, "Hey, I just understood everything I heard" or when you noticed that you weren't struggling to speak English?

I've been learning Swedish, Norwegian, and many other languages on DuoLingo, and have learned A LOT. I do really well on the app, often placing in the Top 3. But that sort of gives me a false sense of accomplishment, and I become disheartened when I watch Norwegian and Swedish movies and TV shows in which the characters are all speaking a mile a minute or mumbling words (some of my fellow Americans mumble and it's sometimes hard to understand them!)

Your English is excellent, but if I may offer a friendly tip: Don't do what a lot of my fellow Americans do and pronounce "didn't" as "dih-dint" or "couldn't" as "cud-dint." A lot of English speakers break up the word incorrectly. First say the word "did" and let it roll off on the "n't" (I guess that would be technically called a "glottal stop"). After all, it's short for "did" and "not." Breaking it up as a lot of my fellow Americans do as "dih-dint" doesn't make sense, as neither one of those syllables is a word. ("dint, " of course, is a word, but not in this context.)

[willv]

It's good to share tips on how to improve language skills, but I wouldn't claim fluency...

[Divy]

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[michaelschmitt]

Your videos are quite good but you're editing them to heavily. The language and body movements seem unnatural because you have stitched together each and every phrase. The advertisement was much better than the real part of the video. Maybe you can trust your monolog more and edit less?