Aqueles erros que ocorrem com frequência. Esses que você deve evitar! Fluência não significa perfeição, porém há uma linda diferença entre certo e errado! =)
This statement has been true for me at times in my life and maybe for you, as well. So, what can you do when you know you should take action but you do not ?
Say, you're at home, imagine you have a small stone or whatever on the table. Now, imagine you push that thing around and notice how it does exactly what you want to do. You push it left, it moves left! Right, it moves right. It's under your control.
The difference between objects and us is that we can choose how we react! If you fall down, you can choose to sit there and cry or you can get back up.
The reason you don't take action is because you think you have no control of your life and people who believe they're in control of their lives are the ones who take action!
It's really that simple! STEP OVER THE EDGE =)
When I first started learning English, I remember suffering from burnout, you know, going to school, embarrassment and a lot of skepticism about becoming fluent in English yada yada yada. What the heck did I do ? I quit school and decided to do it on my own two. I had already learned Spanish without having to go to school but, what made me really have a think about leaving school was when I passed by a park close to my job and saw some kids playing around and they were speaking and using very little vocabulary but with confidence, MISTAKES, but hell it was CONFIDENCE! I guarantee if you want to learn a language like a baby, you WILL be fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese within 4 months. But you have to do the work. It's much easier to ''learn'' a language by going to school, spending a lot of time doing the day-to-day task, isn't it ? Yeah, I suppose. You feel comfortable and maybe in 5 years, you'll know a lot of vocabulary, grammar rules, all of those tenses but can you actually speak ? I highly doubt it. Here's the deal:
If you want to learn a new language, stop right now doing your homework and start learning like a native speaker. I'll give you a classic example: I tried to frankenstein a lot of things together so as to become fluent.
If you learn through translations, you'll see ''frankenstein'' in this sentence and you'll think: WHAT ? But, when a native speaker listens to this, almost immediately they think: Okay, frankestein monster was created by someone putting a lot of different things together, so what does that mean ? You tried to do many different things, ''I hope, like, not any shenanigans'', so as to become fluent.
Simple as that. Once you stop learning through translations and start thinking like a native speaker, you'll become fluent 10x faster.
Give it a try. 4 months. TRY TO THINK LIKE A NATIVE. Whenever you hear a phrase, pay attention to the context it's been used and try to create your own story with that. I'm not an expert but I did do, do do, have done that for over a year and whenever I talk to my friends or even some teachers here on italki, they're always amazed by my English skills.
Today, I'm still working in my skills rather than on it. MASTERY COMES WITH PRACTICE. It's not an arms race, take your time and be well-prepared because when you reach this level, YOU WILL BECOME UNSTOPPABLE.
If you need to go to the bathroom, say you're in a club, there's a bouncer at the door. You say: I need to go in there because ...
You instantaneously grab their attention. The reason why I need to do it is ...
You first have a reason and you justify it with strong emotions. Believe me, we do that all the time while speaking Portuguese! =)
