Hey Naturals, what's up? I'm so thrilled to be here with you today
We're going to have a very special conversation
With my friend, Karina hi guys. I'm so happy to be here. It's a pleasure. Thanks for inviting me
Thank you for being here actually we're in your house, so they could be could you have something for inviting me?
We have a real treat today because you may actually recognize Karina from her channel English in Brazil
Yeah, maybe only if they are brazilians right everybody
Brazilian or few speak Portuguese
And I'm in Brazil so this is Gabi in Brazil in English in Brazil
How can you know learned English because you are your native language is Portuguese correct
Yes, and now she has an amazing channel English in Brazil actually. I'm a fan. Okay. No, I'm serious
That's how I'm here because they're chickens well
Thank you, so I thought it would be interesting for you guys to know about how could he not learn English?
And how she overcame some fears of speaking a second language. I think we've all been there. Yeah, yeah
Actually, we were talking about how
I'm really afraid of speaking Portuguese, and you know we all have this fear of
Speaking another language like Oh. What are people gonna think and they're gonna make a mistake. Oh my gosh
Have you ever felt that way you can say in the comments comments if you've ever felt afraid to speak English
So I want to ask you let you talk a little bit. How how did you start with English?
I mean why did you choose to learn English, and how did you start?
okay, well I think I've always had contact with the language because you know English is everywhere so since I was a kid I I
Used to listen to some songs and they were in English and I knew it was a second another language
Yeah, but I didn't know which language
It was and I didn't understand it thing because I I was raised in a monolingual family
So nobody speaks English in my family not my sister does she became a teacher to look good
I mean my parents spoke only Portuguese at home, and then when I was about 12. I started to love a band called Henson
And so I started to feel that I needed to learn what they were saying I wanted to understand what they were
singing and so I started reading some songs and
Singing to myself singing those songs to myself that's amazing that that's how you started with English
Yeah Your love of music with music and I did understand what they were saying what I was still trying to pronounce the words correctly
Yeah, just sing you know and then I always said in a public schools
I don't know if you know, but what do you know about this school system in Brazil?
I mean, I don't know very much, actually. I know there's public private, but it's yeah. Tell me a little bit, yeah
Worse than the private one okay, so I mean the quality of education?
So that's why I always mentioned that I've always studied in public schools because at least in my case
My classes were pretty much focused on grammars
No, I knew a lot about grammar, but it couldn't speak the language
But these classes gave me an opportunity to learn a little bit about verb tenses tenses
sorry and about making sentences affirmative sentences and
Interrogative sentences so I have it like a basis of the language okay, that's really cool
You know something that I love about your channel and your kind of showing
English is that you travel a lot. I saw some of your videos you went to Ireland in the United States
And you go to these places and do you feel like?
Okay, is there a big difference between what you learned in public school English class and actually going to the United States and speaking English?
But I've been traveling a lot now because my first trip my first international trip was with it was about 22
I think 22, then it took me six years to travel again. I've been traveling because of my channel because
That's awesome, so things are these haven't have been happening now. You know
I-i've learned English in Brazil. That's why my channel is called English in Brazil
You know because I used to practice a lot
So I used to read up loud I used to speak to myself because I didn't know if you guys know
People who are not from Brazil how many people speak English in Brazil so that's the motto we can't find anybody to talk with
You know so that's one of the problems. I have nobody to talk to you know
This is a really good point because a lot of you guys
Natural is you've been asking me. Okay? Well how do I learn English?
If there's no one to talk to me around in my city
Or I don't have any friends who speak English so you have some really good tips for that like you were just saying you know
Talking to yourself. Okay sounds a little crazy like honey. I'm not crazy. It's just what you gonna do if
Talking to yourself preparing. We're talking about like how to not be nervous when you're speaking another language
Whether it's you know English or Portuguese for me
Preparing in advance right so you were talking about your experience heater in some conferences right yeah
So I had to talk about your business, and you wasn't open again. Gisle are just in conversation. You know not like a
Speech or anything, but just in conversation. I had to explain what I do which is a very common topic right you say hi
What's your name? What you do so I had to learn how to explain this and it's really hard at first
But but now I'm learning how to do that so I think that's a really good piece of advice for getting over your fear
Yes, you need to practice and I know that we are always afraid of exposing ourselves
It's very hard sometimes. I was telling her. I'm nervous to be on your channel
But you know I am trying to overcome this fear right here with you guys because
Lots of people not only from Brazil but lots of people from all over the world are going to watch this video now
Yeah, and maybe you might be judging me. Oh my gosh
She's a teacher, and she made this small pronunciation mistake, maybe because people judge people you know people judge
But people I think I like to believe that
Most people want the best most people are positive most people want you to do well
They're cheering you on so if you want to say in the comments like don't Karina. You're awesome
You can leave a positive comment - that would be really nicely
Even though like my Portuguese is good enough to have a conversation like I and people say like I have good Portuguese
I need some maize if you're taking it
Actually, if you if you want to hear me speaking Portuguese I might speak Portuguese on cleaners channel you can check out the video
But I still get really nervous
I still get afraid what will people think are they gonna think that I'm dumb or something if I make a mistake
But I mean really in reality. What's the worst that can happen like?
Nothing, yeah, it's gonna be okay right if someone makes a mistake in English of course
I'm not gonna think oh, they're there don't like no. It's it happens to everyone. I make mistakes all the time
It's interesting because we as teachers we always try to encourage our students come on speak up y'all be afraid
But then we have our fears as well
You know we understand you guys yeah
But we wouldn't be speaking English in my case and Portuguese in your days, and if we didn't try if we didn't make mistakes
It's absolutely normal, so you should just try to relax and speak because that's the way we learn yeah absolutely
We'll have to speak and don't give up just keep going, okay going
What's so good to have you here? Enjoy natural English? Yeah, it's amazing
Thank you so much, and I hope this video helps. I hope you guys feel encouraged to
Learn English as well so as I said my first contact with the lang was when it was very young with around 12
But I started to really learn the language when I was about 16 17
So it wasn't that young you know and I could still learn the language
Because it was motivating English learn English was fun. You know it has to be fun. It shouldn't be like
Painfully, oh my god. I hate you know it can be very fun. It is fun. We're having so much fun
And and then a whole new world is going to open for you because you're going to understand movies
You're learning understand your favorite music and you're gonna read books like the original words that the author used
so it's in it absolutely and make new friends and
Words and and be in feeling confident when you travel so it's amazing
it's amazing as I said a whole new world is going to open to you absolutely so don't stop and
Come check out our video together on penis Channel. We'll see you there. Yeah. Thank you