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And I think that it's true to a large extent with any language.

Uh, when I was learning Portuguese or Spanish, uh, I would listen to

Portuguese from Europe, Portuguese from Brazil, because my goal is

comprehension but then if I'm...

I find that when we are learning another language, we're very easily influenced.

Like our own, our accent in our own language is not gonna change.

I can live in the UK for 20 years, I'll still speak the way I speak now.

But if I'm in France, if I'm in Southern France, if I'm in Quebec, if

I'm in Brazil, I find that the, these languages that I have learned I'm

easily influenced by the people around me so that okay, my accent will kind

of, you know, adapt to the environment, but, but the key is, is pronunciation.

I agree.

Excuse me, is comprehension.

Uh, we've gotta be able to understand.

So I think people should listen to all kinds of different accents.

Getting back to this phrasal verbs that always comes up.

So do you have a special technique for people or you just say, you know, just

expose yourself to a lot of the language and you'll eventually get used to them?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I have, I actually have a, a challenge that I run, um, a couple of times a year.

And it's a 30 day challenge where I'll teach 300 phrasal verbs in 30

days, and the method is quite simple.

It's a 30 days of immersing yourself.

So you have to give at least 20 to 30 minutes.

Most of my students who do it, do about an hour a day, and it doesn't

matter if you miss a day, you, it is...

all the material's there.

You can catch up but it's, it, it, the method that I use is to just use the

vocabulary at least four or five times.

So every phrasal verb you'll be introduced to in different

ways, you'll have to write it.

There'll be quizzes with it.

There'll be, um, a number of monologues that you have to listen to, sketches.

Um, I'll...

when I do my live lessons, I'll use those.

I'll use them in emails to my students across the 30 days.

And so they'll see each phrasal verb at least four or five times and what I find,

what I find with the students who do that challenge is they suddenly become...

like they take the blinkers off and they see that language then in the wider world.

And they would come back to me and say, I didn't realize but I was just

having, I was at this lecture and they used this phrasal verb and that

phrasal verb and I was reading this book a second time and I realized, this

is the phrasal verb that means this.

And now I get it.

It means something different.

And so it's just, it's just that repetition, but in a very natural way,

not saying we are going to sit and learn this list, but here's an interesting

story I'm going to tell you, here's some tasks going to do, and by the end

of it, you won't have realized, but you would've learned this many phrasal verbs.

You know, it's very interesting.

And, uh, maybe we'll close on this, like phrasal verbs is just part of

usage uh, in English, part of the usage of the language, normal usage,

we use a lot of phrasal verbs.

Grammar is a form of usage.

I find that, you know, maybe with your students, when they are, they

do this phrasal verb challenge.

In many cases, if they've had a lot of exposure to the language, have done

a lot of listening and reading, they already have heard these phrasal verbs.

And so on the, you know, based on having that experience, you know,

having heard these phrasal verbs, but not really paid enough attention to

them, if they then go and do these deliberate exercises, they're gonna

have a better chance at retaining them.

If you try to introduce frail verbs from scratch to people who have not

had any exposure to the language, I think it's very tough to remember them.

And I think that's, that's kind of the way languages work.

You need that combination of exposure, some deliberate learning,

back to more exposure and gradually things start to stick in your brain.

Absolutely.

Hopefully, hopefully . Anyway, sounds very interesting.

I, I I'm sure we could go on for quite a while here.

I, I think my listeners, uh, those who are learning English

should go off to learn like...

English Like a Native

English Like a Native.

English Like a Native with Anna and work on phrasal verbs

or all of the other things.

I looked at your channel, you have a lot of things on vocabulary, on different

aspects of, of, of English pronunciation.

I think it can be very helpful to them.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for talking with me and hopefully this

is helpful to my viewers.

Thank you for having me.