Learning a language? Speak it like you’re playing a video game | Marianna Pascal | TEDxPenangRoad

Marianna Pascal shows how the secret to speaking a new language with confidence is all about attitude, not ability.

Marianna Pascal helps professionals achieve greater success in life by communicating effectively in English. Marianna began her career as an actor and performed across her native Canada in film television and on stage for 15 years. Today, Marianna improves the way employees relate to their bosses, clients, colleagues and other key stakeholders. Marianna is also the Official Communication Trainer for Miss Malaysia World.
An award-wining speaker, Marianna is known for her humorous speech on Youtube titled "Local English or Standard English" which has been seen by over a million people worldwide. Marianna is also the author of the best-selling book series English Fast & Easy. The most recent was #2 on Borders' Best-Selling List for non-fiction.

[mariannapascal]

I just wanted to say thank you to all of you for your awesome messages! The main reason I wanted to do this talk was to help you and others like you all around the world to feel the confidence you deserve to feel. I know that you've spend years and years studying English at school, and all you really wanted to do was speak, communicate, listen and understand and have others understand you. TED gave me this opportunity to tell you just trust yourself, whatever your level is, because with the right attitude you have what it takes right now. Please feel free to reach out to me if you need more support. Thank you again for watching.

[closeopen]

"Don't focus on yourself, focus on the results you want to achieve". It's a really good advice

[shakirhusain]

1. "Don't focus on yourself, focus on result that's you want to achieve."
2."English not art to be masterd, English just a tool to use to get result."
These are best advice for me to changing my English learning life.
Thanks.

[bnsxeom]

Language is for using, not for being perfect. Mistakes make perfect. Keep trying.

[andrecastanhare]

"English is not an art to be mastered; it's just a tool to use to get a result." Perfect!

[nguyenhien]

10:07
"This language belongs to you. It's not an art to master, it's just a tool for you to get the result." Amazinggg!! This idea actually changes my mindset in my journey to learn languages.

[Emma_duhoke]

English is not an art to be mastered, it’s a tool to be used . Well said 👏🏻

[xrystal]

Most people aren't even perfect in their native language but for some reason, we think we should be perfect in another one.

[Ocean_Strategy]

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending"

[thuythanh]

Iam a non-native English speaker and I am in English learning process. And this is my first video of TED helps me relize that t can fully understand without subtitle ♥️. Thanks a lot.

[DRPALAK-snkw]

"English is not a art to master but a tool to use to get result "...👏real and true meaning of English is clearly explained..quite impressive speech ..

[thirishweyee]

She is really right. Many people focus on their pronunciation and grammar. They don't focus on the listeners.
Languages are to communicate not need to be flawless.

[charliestudio]

awesome .. "here's the one thing you can do, when you speak, don't focus on yourself, focus on the other person and the result you want to archive"

[anamakesthings]

I really love the message of this talk. That being said, I think it's also worth mentioning that there's a segment of the population for whom doing anything they're bad at is very very hard. To use the video game analogy: if they had been playing this game for a while and they keep being bad at it, they will stop because they don't have the capacity or the tools to deal with failure. If your self-worth is *wrongly* tied with what you produce, you will feel terrible being bad at a video game or speaking a language. Unless this is addressed or, at least, acknowledged, no amount of uplifting ted talks will make someone change their attitude towards long-term progress vs. chasing the instant gratification of doing something right this one time.

[timuribrashev]

This gave me lots of confidence. Language is not about perfection, it's about communication and there's no such a thing as right language or wrong, it's all about acceptable or unacceptable.

[saifonsow]

" English is not an art to be mastered, it's just a tool to use to get results "
Thank you so much for this quote !

[tuantony.nnguyenquoc]

"When speaking, don't focus on yourself, focus on another person" -> Thanks for your advice :)

[hcsrtlg]

I can totally relate to what you say! You just blew my mind! ‘English is not an art to be mastered, it’s just a tool to get a result’, this is so powerful. I need the confidence like Faizal has, and I’ll try to do my best working on it. Thank you for sharing!

[FayazAlamKhan-ibri]

"Language is not an art to be master, it's a tool to use to get result, that tool belongs to you."..we studied in linguistic that language is a means or tool of communication we express our emotions, feelings, and thoughts through it.

[SUNGSTRSS]

I learned English by myself because I liked it, I didn't care about grammar or being perfect I just talked and talked until I learned it...I'm learning Korean now 😄 trust yourself I'm sure you can do it