The educational system of most European countries is charged with the task of giving each pupil a CEFR B2 English Level certificate at 18 years of age, at the moment of high-school "diploma". A CEFR B2 Level means that you are able to *read* and *understand* an article - or even a book - using a dictionary and that you are able to *understand* a simple "talk" with English subtitles (like TED Talks). From a CEFR B2 Level to C2 (the "fluent" level where you are at the moment), it usually takes a couple of years of *professional-level* study: at least a couple of hours per day, at least five days per week. So, it is not surprising you reached this level in this amount of time. Rather, it is surprising you found the *motivation* to do it and - most important! - that you were able to do it *alone*, from *home*. Such a performance is usually reserved for university students who *have* to do so and who do it by working in a group, working with professors and traveling. So, congratulations!
Thanks for helping me understand the process 😊 I've started listening nearly 4 months (of course just like you, I had a long time to learn EL at school but I was struggled to listen and speak), now I can watch more videos without EL subtitles but I still find it a little hard to express my thoughts, so sometimes I doubt myself if I could speak EL fluently. I think your're right, be patient! It's a long-life journey.
Wow! I am an American who loves learning languages, but am not very good at any yet. My family and I are living in Europe, do we have a great opportunity to finally be able to practice these languages. It is very easy to hear just one or two words when a person walks by me here and from even one word, I can know that they're American. Almost ALL foreigners in America and abroad have noticeable accents. You DON'T!!! You have ever SO slight an accent, it's amazing and inspiring. GOOD FOR YOU!!! People should listen to you and your advice. Also, people should appreciate how much you put into it. You have amazed, impressed, and inspired me!
I've been listening every single stuff in English for 4 months, and I am already feeling Confident, and 80% of the time I don't need subtitle to understand fast, connected speech, but when I watch movies then I need to use subtitle, but I believe that 7 months is enough to build anyone's listening skill. I guess I will not have to use subtitle very soon
I struggle with movie dialogues all the time but I stopped being worry and perfectionist with my process. I am personally too lazy to become fluent, what I really enjoy is listening!
@@azertyssement1 Don't watch movies to improve listening skills, you should watch sitcom at the beginning, by watching sitcoms you get to interact with daily life conversation, how to question someone, how to answer it, get to know new vocabularies, I personally suggest you to start watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S | Turn on your subtitle but try to not look on subtitle too much, try to focus on their face, mouth movement when they talks, try to trick your brain that you can understand everything, start meditating daily, by doing meditation daily you can easily focus on everything, just feel the present then you won't have to struggle with this. ❤️
Same. I dont have any struggle when watching podcast, interview, and news. But when it comes to movies and tv series, somehow its really difficult to understand everything. I just understand around 60-70%.
sorry, did you try to work at that time, or you had only been listening and that's all. As for me, I have to work and speak my native language. if I could afford myself to lying in for 6 months listening to English I would highly likely have been fluent for sure
I feel relieved to hear that many people struggle like me to improve in english. I am a shy person, and thats why sometimes is hard for me to speak in english, but I have been practicing so much this last months, and I feel that is helping me a lot. May be is harder when our native language is spanish, or portuguese, francés etc, but we can do it.
Hello Anna ,what people must not have believed in you is your extremely fabulous fluency , and i totally agree to some point that the feast you achieved is really extraordinary. I am trying to follow your prints so someday may be I could be much better than now ,but we will be requiring you go on moving ahead ,so keep blind to negative comments and continue moving forward ,learn new things and let us follow ,you are a inspiration ..
There are people who simply suck. As you’re sweet and polite, I’ll say that for you. Your channel and videos are remarkable, kudos to you. We got your back, dear teacher, just ignore these ridiculous viewers. Anyway, even this video of yours turned out to be awesome. Love from Brazil.
I like so much your channel 'cause I feel that I can understand what you say , I'm English beginner and it's difficult for me understand English, especially Listening it's so difficult for me...but I love English, I don't want to give up
Your Channel is amazing,the content of this channel is amazing, you is amazing , I've been learning for about a year and 8 months, I didn't even know your channel and I can assure you, it works, 7 months is not a BULLSHIT, it does work.. Thank you so much from Brazil....
Thanks Anna for your inspiring tip. I am so amazed the way you speak. I wish my speaking skill same like your accent and never stuck vocabulary the way I explained. Keep sharing and keep motivating how to achieve the English fluency journey. Keep safe and have a blessed day.
I like this and like another videos after. Because i fallow yours videos and progress day after day, thank you very much Anna. I want to continus yours videos still end world. 😀 thank you for all.
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!
Hello Hanna, all your lessons are helpful for all levels of students, please just forget those who say time for unnecessary comments, please keep up your good work.
@kanyaw Wshyar Yep ,for sure. It was many times. You need to go through it. Who is the real champion? It is the one who overcome himself(or herself) first! Do it, coz you are capable! Maybe you need a way to relax in between sets of hard studying. For me works listening nice song, but in English. So I decided to kill to birds with one stone - relax and don't stop in the same time.
I like your voice and videos.....n you are doing good work....helping people to develop their skills...what others think that's their perspective...don't worry...keep doing what you love and love to do....love you ❤
In fact, it's very individual and even circumstantial, Hanna. There are few factors, according to my observation (I am not a spring chicken, unfortunately). So: a) motivation, b) time, c) brain ability & age, d) the possibility to focus on the material every single time + some others, considered less important. I like your combination of diplomatic and sharpness, used in your comments. Well done. Thank you. Stay healthy, three of you, and hopefully your loved in Ukraine have been doing relatively well.
A great story and useful encouraging testimony regarding learning English!!Thanks a lot for your contribution because is very helpful for us!!!!.You are really amazing!!!!.As well us I wish you were our English teacher.
In contrast, your video gave me an extra motivation to stop putting off learning English. Since then, I already feel more confident using the language. Moreover, the message is very clear: you won't learn without effort, and the more you introduce English into your daily routine, the faster you will learn, for sure. It's not easy, though.
Njd, This is unbelievable. You had to explain something that is very clear. Let me try to say a phrase from Spanish to English "The good listener, less words" (Hope you can get what I want to say) When people have a good understanding, they don't need this kind of videos to understand your process. Nowadays people are so lazy and the want to get everything easy without using their Brain. I am not English speaker, Iam living in Australia, been here for more than 2 years and half. I don't consider myself as a fluent, though I can speak English with a good level. ( I would say like professional). As the same as you, I have had to practice every day whole day, even put myself away from Colombians and Spanish speakers, as I now what's my goal. You don't waste your time explain something that's easy to get from you video. Instead, thank you so much for take your time, make videos sharing advices to get a better level of English.
Hey Anna, You’re English is amazing … And in my opinion it is possible to be fluent in seven months in a language. I did the same experience. I was 13 years old when we moved from Russia to Germany. And I also didn’t spoke one German word. But I get it in six months. I know it was a completely different situation. Then I was visiting school and got friends they were native speaker. So it’s easier to catch a language. Now I’m studying English for three years by myself watching RU-vid videos and reading a lot.It is a bigger challenge. But I See me progressing step by step. I don’t sound native, but it doesn’t matter. The fun and the progress are all what counts. I love your videos, they are pretty motivated. So keep going … Have a good one
Psychology says if your really consistent, then you only need 6 months to learn any language (not fluent but at least you can communicate with people in that language). Like I said before yes, I learned English in just six months. If you don't believe that I guess that's okay. I practiced 10 hours a day (listening+reading+learning phrasal verbs+imitating actors for hours and talking to people outside (stepping out of comfort zone)). Many people won't achieve their goals :- not because lack of desire, but lack of commitment.
People keep looking a way to explain their failure by misunderstanding things on purpose. Your English is amazing and some people just don’t want to pay the price that you’re paying. 😘
I am sorry to hear you had so much trouble with people being angry. It sounds like the people themselves weren't of good enough English level themselves since they couldn't infer from what you said that it was following the 'listening'. However, even then, there are famous polyglot and teachers who claim they can teach you a language in 3 months. And with the right kind of dedication, I believe this is possible. I am learning my 4th language and if I had the kind of time to put in, I would be able to start communicating in such a short time. Not perfectly but yes communicating. I can't see how 7 months would be such a drama. So please be encouraged. I recommend to all of my students to follow you because of how valuable I find the information in your videos. You are doing great and are helping a lot of people. Thank you!
Hi Anna, You are an English Robot* In fact, no one can Speak English the Way you do, Why?. Simply, because, you are Brilliant & put alots of Efforts to speak English Fluently & too many People just think that can be a same as you do Speak, in just a Short period of Time, but guess What? They need to Study & Practice for at least 5 to 6 years & maybe more than that. To become Fluent & catch your Beauty Accent, they need to add another Two Years. The Total of Effort & time, will approximately reach around 8 years. Anna, Tell me, am I right or Wrong? I know alots of People who spend Half a Century in the USA, & Still cannot speak just the Way you do. Honestly * Congratulations & Stay Study & Confident of Yourself. A Great Self Esteem & mindset🌹🍀🍒
You were in contact with English since you were a 4 years kid. So, it's possible that you actually had an amount of "inconscient" knowledge of English in your brain, and all that you had to do is to train systematically your listening and speaking. Although that took 1.5~2 years to be achieved. Almost the same situation of most of us, coming from the traditional educational system in a non-English speaking country.
If my memory serves me right, you mentioned in one of your videos that you also hired some native English speaking tutor to help you with your pronunciation, how long and frequent did you take those lessons for? Any after-tutoring studying tips you have to share ? Thx
Learning English is a long time journey . İt takes a long time to become fluent in English . that's why Be patient and keep going to study every single day .
Don't worry Anna, about the critics. They have a different agenda in their minds, so run your race. You can pour your heart and soul out trying explaining it to them, but they still gonna remain critics.
I have some problems. That i knew great many new words but I don’t know when i will use these words or those words in situations. It’s crazy when I’m speaking English but in my mind always think what this Vietnamese word will be which English word 🤯🤯🤯🤯
@@johnwick4922 It's definitely not her native language. I'm american and If you watch her early videos. She makes mistakes that tell you it isn't her native language. But in her later vids she improved dramatically. Her english is very good now. I can still tell in spots she's not native but its slight. The stresses sound slightly off sometimes. But that's if you really concentrate.
You're a very wise woman, goal oriented but still very warm. That’s why you have so many fans admiring your passion, skills and achievements. Keep being yourself to make our days more sunny.
Hello Hanna, I wanna say that your work is amazing. Keep doing this, it’s helping a lot of people. I’m an English Teacher in Brazil, and I also learn to speak English by myself. And you are an inspiration for all of us. ❤️
Discipline and consistency in practicing will help you to achieve your goal faster. Dedicate your self to learning whatever you want and you will learn it.
Hi Anna, I saw a lot of your amazing high quality videos and also my older daughter love your voice and accent. And even for her age (12 years) it was absolutely understandable what you meant before. And every serious Polyglot know that being fluent in a foreign language doesn't mean that you never make grammar mistakes or knowing all the words. I even discover new words in my native language again and again and make grammar mistakes from time to time. You did and do a great job. It's so impressive and very encouraging.
You have never been to an English-speaking country, yet your English is way better than a lot of African-Americans who have been living in the US for centuries. Absolutely unbelievable.
I believe you, I believe you are a dedicated and hard-working woman. If the fluency means to be able to express my ideas fluently then, that means I'm already fluent. 😊 It took me about a year and a half to reach this level and I'm still learning something new about English every day.
It would have been so much less misleading if it were in levels. Like “I was B1 after college and now, 5 years later, I am C1+”. Otherwise all these numbers you mention, like 25 years of learning, 2 years of learning, 7 months of listening precise are pretty vague in terms of the results. What’s really good level of English? B2, C1, C2? Intermediate, Advanced, Proficiency? How many words? 3,5,10 thousand or more? Without any precision in the language level people will constantly wonder what exactly you are talking about. If you say that you were B1 two years ago and after hard work you are C1 now- no one would feel deceived by that. It’s precise, it’s realistic. Otherwise it does sound far-fetched.
Define 'fluent'. I think you confuse fluency and full mastery. Natives make mistakes too. A different kind of mistakes but still. And a rather limited vocabulary at times. I have met a Kiwi lady that didn't know what an 'expat' was and a Britisher who'd make many spelling mistakes.
So, those of you who have learned english since elementary school, but you tought you've never been eloquent in english, you must look backward , what waste time is it just because you didn't serious to learn?!?! so please start again and don't insecure. Just keep going
I pay attention to your classes and I understand everything what you saying but I’m feel frustrated when I am watching a movie because it’s hard for me to understand I don’t know why
Honestly the first time I watched that video you're talking about I wasn't paying that much attention and I thought that you said it took you 7 months to become fluent, so I was like huh impassable but I didn't leave any comments though. I decided to watch it again 'cause I wanted that time to pay more attention after watching it I understood that you weren't actually saying that it took you 7 months to become fluent but to develop your listening skills, so yeah. And this video cleared everything even more.😂
Who, who does deslike you Next time somebody bothering you call me, only over my body, how dare they 😅 You are so cute, helpful, selfless and good learner of course. Therefore dont care about fool people. Have a nice weekend.
I'm improving my speaking skills and pronunciation by shadowing audiobooks. I do it everyday, it's been goin for 4 months. my accent massively inhanced, not to mention my listening comprehension skills. Back then my pronunciation godamn horrible, after working hard on it unbelievable happen to me I'm so proud of myself. Thanks for your video by the way, such a immaculate content to watch on.
@@akramobada I do have instagram but never hit them again since ever improving myself. anyways I'm on WhatsApp sir, I just made a group there. If you love to join us here's the link : chat.whatsapp.com/D7HOEwIE1erERIYLhIxiuF Really appreciated you brother 👍
Hello my sweet Anna.You're always kind and helpful.You always give the best of yourself to us.I really like the way you make fun of those who misunderstood you and were quick to judge....sending you my love!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Since I started watching your video to leaning English, first time I felt becomes fluent or event just improve English is very achievable things. What I did last 25 years of classic style of learning English! You changed my English life and definitely happy to knows you. Thank you X thousands times Anna:):)
I totally agree with you. I've been studying english since 2016, and after 2 years I also had a good level of english, but to date, I'm still learning a lot of stuff. It's weird cuz even after so many years I don't feel fluent at all even if I speak well and understand a lot, because I know that there is a huge field for me to learn yet.
