hello and welcome go natural English
learners I'm your English teacher Gaby
here teaching you at go natural English
how to become fluent in American English
fast to build your confidence five
minutes at a time here together everyday
doing a live YouTube English tip with
you I'm really excited because today is
the first day that I'm doing this
English tip at 12 noon EST that's
Eastern Standard Time GMT minus 5
New York time and yes it's a little bit
after 12 o'clock but every day I'm going
to do our English tip at the same time
so about 12 noon New York Times so if
you're watching live look at the clock
right now and check what time is it what
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tell me what time is it for you where
you live right now here in New York it's
12:00 12:00 that's I think a good number
12 12 so what time is it for you I see
max 9 p.m. I see a lot of people saying
hello hello to you Monica 6 p.m.
Vitor it is 14:13 so must be 2:13 Maddie
Miska Miska
is 512 p.m. a lot of times are coming in
in the comments right now that's
wonderful thank you for checking your
time and I want to meet with you
consistently at the same time because
it's going to be easier for you to know
when I'm going to be here to help you to
learn English so I think it's a good
thing to do this same time every day I
know for some people maybe now is not
the best time but let me be honest it's
difficult to make this at the perfect
time for everyone so I'm gonna join you
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them all because you guys are typing so
many comments I mean I can't say
everyone's name but I'll say hi to
Danielle Ronald Raul thank you so much
for watching so let me get to our quick
tip today oh hello hello nice to see you
um so I had a question I'll share it
with you on my screen it's a question
about how to stop translating in your
native language so the question is
please give us keys about no translate
or not translating when reading or
listening to English my natural language
is Spanish
this is from Valley Palma value thank
you so much for your question or your
request to learn more about this topic
you know that I talk a lot about not
translating into your native language so
it is much better for you if you can
understand English directly without
having to translate every word you hear
or read into your native language first
that takes a lot of effort it takes a
lot of time and you're going to feel
really tired if you do this and you're
not going to really get the true direct
meaning some of the time so let me talk
about how to solve this problem we have
four steps today the answer is first of
all oh we have five steps first of all
read and listen to materials at your
level so at your level means if you are
an intermediate english learner try to
read shorter articles or listen to short
podcasts or short youtube lessons like
this one because they're going to be
easier for you to understand if you are
trying to read or listen to materials
that are too advanced then you're going
to want to translate the words that you
don't know so don't try to listen or
read to materials that are too too
advanced you're going to know if you
don't understand more than two or three
words every two or three minutes then
it's a little bit too advanced so try
reading and listening to materials that
are easy for you and materials that are
at your level listen to more go natural
English tips on youtube and then you can
try more advanced materials like news
article
magazine articles or maybe podcasts or
YouTube videos that are meant for a
native english-speaking audience and
when you come across new words right
number two now try to guess the meaning
first so imagine what that word might
mean and then you can check or just
imagine and be okay with your guests and
don't check just wait until you see or
hear that word again and you'll get an
even better idea of what it means the
second time you see it number three
learn in context so if you find a new
word try searching for it on Google
images or try finding a song with that
word in it or in a movie you might see
actions like if someone says cross the
street they're commanding you to cross
the street they might use an action now
having a visual or imagining what the
word looks like or hearing the sound or
doing an action these are all things
that can help you to learn the meaning
of a word in context
number four learn by listening to
natives reading materials by native
speakers this will help you to
understand how a word is used naturally
by native speakers of course if you're
listening or reading materials that are
by fluent English speakers that's fine
too but just make sure that you're
listening to good quality materials
finally be patient with yourself we have
to be patient and just be okay if you
don't understand every single word don't
run to your dictionary to translate
immediately don't use your dictionary
all the time it's okay to use it to
check your guesses but give yourself
time
to guess first give yourselves time to
trust your instincts think about it how
did you learn a new word the last new
word that you learned in your own
language
maybe you guessed first ah that must
mean bla bla bla because it's in this
context so I guess it means that about
and then maybe you checked in the
dictionary so you can do this with
English too okay I have a question for
you please answer this in the comments
it's a simple question today what is
your native language what is your first
language that you learned at home I'm
curious I would love to know and if you
learn more than one language at home you
can tell me all of the languages that
you learned as a child at your home in
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comm so I want to come back to tell you
thank you so much for joining me today
for our quick English tip I hope you
have a wonderful rest of the day thank
you for your comments
I love seeing all of your comments on
YouTube a lot of different languages are
represented in our community so thank
you so much for telling me
alright keep commenting and I'll see you
tomorrow at the same time bye for now