MY STORY: how I learned English, got to C2 level and became a teacher
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2023
- This is my personal story:
How did I learn English?
How did I become a teacher?
My tips, tools and apps?
Self-study?
Things that didn't work for me?
My little trauma?
I wish someone had told me a few things before.
Find out in this video.
I honestly hope this might help someone who is going through something similar.
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Oh, there is actually one more tool I should have mentioned and I've been using it a lot. It's called Youglish and with this you can search for words to see how they were used and pronounced in real youtube videos by native speakers, just google it, I absolutely recommend this one
Dear Eva, just a small correction, Checkoslovakia was never part of the Soviet Union of Republics but was part of the socialist block of nations also known as Warsaw Pact....your brother from Africa.
Eva Yankola, thank you, I have been testing C1 and C2 on different online sites, though I have never been taught or been to any school, and still learning thanks ro today's amazing CZcams free content. Your accent is almost perfect. I have relatives and friends who studied in Checkoslovakia and they loved the country and the people...your country used to be a basketball and football I mean soccer world powerhouse...when I was a little boy I loved watching your national teams playing....all the vichs in your names...popivich, they highly talented and technical players ...once again thank you for sharing your beautiful story.
Thank you for pointing this out! Apologies, I didn't get this right, what I meant was that in practice it felt like the Soviet Union, but sure, we were only the Eastern Bloc @@vennatuniv
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in brief:
**1. Introduction and Background:**
- The speaker, Eva, is a qualified English teacher with a C2 level certification.
- She is a non-native English speaker and has never lived in an English-speaking country for an extended period.
- She shares her journey of learning English, the challenges she faced, and the strategies she employed.
**2. Early Life and Education:**
- Eva was born in Slovakia and later moved to the Czech Republic.
- She was born into a large family with five brothers.
- During her parents' generation, Russian was the primary foreign language taught due to political affiliations.
- Eva began attending English classes in a nearby town as a child.
**3. High School and Self-Study:**
- In high school, Eva developed a passion for English.
- She engaged in extensive self-study and realized the importance of practicing speaking.
- She took private lessons online with native speakers to improve her speaking skills.
**4. University and Career Choices:**
- Eva pursued translation and interpreting studies in university.
- She worked as a teacher's assistant in a British International School in Slovakia.
- Later, she pursued a Master's degree in teaching in the Czech Republic.
- She also explored other job roles, including event management and administrative roles in an exam center, before realizing her true passion for teaching.
**5. Learning Strategies and Tools:**
- Eva emphasizes the importance of consistency in language learning.
- She recommends using notebooks for vocabulary, tools like Quizlet for vocabulary games, and flashcards for revision.
- She also suggests using grammar worksheets, phonetic alphabets, and shadowing techniques for pronunciation improvement.
- Watching TV shows, especially with transcripts, helped her improve her listening and comprehension skills.
- Eva advises learners to be patient and consistent, emphasizing that it's okay not to know everything and that language learning is an ongoing journey.
**6. Conclusion:**
- Eva encourages viewers to enjoy the learning process and make it a part of their lifestyle.
- She invites viewers to share their experiences and tips for learning English.
The video serves as an inspirational guide for English learners, providing insights into the challenges and rewards of the language learning journey.
Thanks, IA 😅
Thank you 💕 you are patient
What AI did you use?
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Thank you, I feel that's the real path to master English, hard work and perseverance. There is no shortcuts.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I've been putting a lot of pressure on myself to learn English, but I think I should change my English learning method.
Your video was so helpful 🥰
Hi Eva,
Thank you for sharing your personal experience of becoming an English teacher.
It's an amazing and hopeful explanation and helps me to keep working towards my goal.
I've been working on my English skills on my own for 3 years about and I'm starting to get stuck.
I'm trying to regain my first motivation because I really want to become a better English speaker.
Thanks again and take care
Hi, Eva! Thank you so much for sharing your own experience , because everyone has his own.. I dream about having the level above B2! Unfortunately we sometimes get stuck and don’t know where and how to go further, that is why we really need the inspiration from people who were able to get over these issues! Well done!! I’d love to have a personal tutor like you! If someone is interested in it, I’ll be happy to have personal classes!!
Thanks for sharing these valuable tips and I want to greet you for taking the decision to follow your passion and chose teaching career over other jobs
Fantastic tips for improving vocabulary! Thanks for sharing them and your English journey ❤🎉
Hi Eva, I’m from Vietnam. I can’t stop watching and listening your sharing, not because your great tips but also you’re beautiful eyes. 😊
Your English is authentic. Well done.
Hey, Thank you for sharing your story. It really felt engaging. I'm currently new to English because i recently started paying attention to it but before that i just didn't show any interest in it. My english is not that good, i always feel like I'm lacking somewhere but dont know the exact place where I'm lacking. But after knowing u also urge for knowing English completely. But you just cant, its getting more advance day by day. I think I'll never be able to cope up with that. Its a reality i need to accept.
I love the way that you talk english, almost like a native. Thanks for sharing your history❤
Thank you so much, you gave some advices i never heard them before, i will try yo use them for my english learning.
I really enjoyed your journey of learning english and becoming fluent like that and i promise to follow your steps to reach the level i am dreaming of. I watched a lot of videos on CZcams searching for an any new process or an idea to help me improve my skills after failing hundred of times and i think i found what i was looking for.. Thanks.. A new subscriber to your useful channel ❤
I really like your modern neutral accent
This is an inspiration to me. I'm at Brit who used to teach English and my son is half Japanese and speaks both languages. But for me its more impressive when someone learns as an adult without having much exposure as a child. I'm currently doing French and would love to be your level.
I rally admire your relentless efforts and dedication to understand the English language . My problem is understanding the structure of the language in general. I read news paper,books and extensively watch movies and still I am straggling when it comes to understanding . I am proud of your achievement . I was in your home town Prague last September and I love the city and the architecture. I am planning to come back some time in the future if God willing !
Thank you. All I needed to hear!
Thank you for the useful tips 💗
Top tier content ! Thanks a lot
Thank you teacher for your encouragement!
Great, thanks for this!
Thank you for the video. Good to see sharing your experiences.
Thank you for sharing your story. It makes me more motivation
Thanks a lot for the explanation of the frustration moment in learning English. Now I feel exactly the same. You re-invigorated me!
Keep going and listen to many Native speakers and slow down the speed at first if that helps. I love that people are motivated by others who also learned too. ❤
Hello friend, So happy to know you and happy you learned English language so well, completed C2 level and became an English teacher
Hi Eva. I have newly found this channel while watching English learning videos. Thanks for sharing.
Bravo, Eva! 👍
Wow you are amazing. Thanks a bunch for sharing useful tips. 👍
Thanks for sharing your story. It was very inspiring. ❤️
My native languages are from the slavic group of languages as yours. (So listening to you is a big pleasure to me as everything sounds so clear!)
I started to learn English only at the age of 12 at school.
And now I came up with an idea to use youtube as a tool for learning language not only being a student and listener, but also a content creator 😅 And if somebody is reading it, I really can say, that it is an incredibly effective tool: when you force yourself to create in English but not only absorb, it pushes you to the next level!
I fully agree:)
Are you from Slovakia? I am from China, I was born in 1993, and I started learning English at the age of 12 when I was in secondary school. Chinese English has almost only input, no output, and in Chinese it is dumb English. Like you said,we should force ourself to create in English but not only absorb.
@@charleneyang6370 No, I'm from Ukraine. But when I declared that I'm just learning English in my 1st video, some people decided I am from Slovakia as you thought.
But some new viewers think I am native (which is tooooo kind). I say it trying to inspire you to create some content in English, as feedback from people can be helpful and motivational 😊
Good luck to you!
Hi Eva. Congratulations for your CZcams channel. I´m a brazilian guy and I´m trying to learn more english teaching my own son ( just to practice ) and following some people on the CZcams that speak about personal development because I love it. In my opinion is more easy learn english this way because it is become a pleasure and not a sacrifice. I´m setting new english goals. One of than is getting KET ( Key English Test ) on the next year because I´m a beginner ( A1 ) yet. Good luck for you !!!
Hi Eva, I really enjoyed your video. I think one thing english-language "lovers" have in common (and I include myself in that group) is that above and beyond anything we see it as a hobby, there's an intrinsical motivation that for some reason we share... Just like there are a lot of things I'm not interested in and many people are, such as soccer... and I see the passion they feel for it when watching games, when playing and it just doesn't ring my bell at all. And they see me learning languages and teaching and how it really makes me happy and they don't get it lol... So I agree that for people that don't particularly like learning English but they have to, try and find some motivation... even though you cut it into small "pieces of motivation" or small goals so that they can feel they're making some progress and they don't feel discouraged. Once again thank you for your video! Hopefully one day I'll also get the C1-level.
Thank you so much,I'm studying by myself and its really hard to schedule an English study routine, sometimes I feel lost, mainly cause I don't realise I'm improving in it.
My dream is to become an English teacher one day❤
As long as you study consistently, improving four skills and learning new words, your English will improve gradually.
I've been studying English for three years. Recently, I've looked at my very first writings, and I was like, "Wow!" because they were full of grammar mistakes and wrong words, and I laughed at myself.
Each native language is going to have similar mistakes in grammar and pronunciation when speaking English so find those mistakes others make and correct them early so you don’t keep making the mistakes yourself and that can become a bad habit. I think it’s Russian speakers who do not use “the” when they should for example. If you find something like that from your native language work on it until the mistake disappears and you can be a great example for others to learn from what you have done like Eva is a great example. ❤
All of possible ways that you mentioned are also mentioned by my teacher. Thank you for sharing this helpful and valuable experiences. I think all of them could work for us, as long as we keep consistency.
Very inspiring story of yours ..loved it 👍
that is an inspiring story..greetings from Houston Tx…
Hi, Eva. Tanks you so much for sharing your history. A huge from Colombia
It's good enough to talk in the life, I will keep studying like you , thanks for your video.
Thanks for sharing your experience:) I really like listening you 🌷
I like your story very much, which is very new to me.
😮 OMG thank you so much
I really appreciated it
I have been learning English for I while you really inspire me to just keep up
Thank you so much love you❤❤❤❤
Thanks for sharing your story with us.
We will support your Channel..
Thanks a lot for share.. I'm 44 years old, I love this languaje and I learn it hearing histories like yours❤❤
I liked this a lot. it is so helpful, and you are very honest🌹🌹🌹 thank you
I love ur tone ❤❤
You are so good with the language
Dear Eva, very glad to meet you. I want to become an english teacher as well, I'm brazilian, but I think that I'll never earn enough to live abroad for a while. Your humble words made me feel that even not living in a english speaking country, I can be a good english teacher, Thanks!
So happy to hear that:)
That's a good video teacher we benfits a lot , thank you for your efforts.
Amazing ❤
She is a wonderful teacher
Thank so much for share you experiences about how you had learning english
Excellent thanks so much
Thank you so much! 💖💖
Thanks you for your story! It was interesting) Me like you early, listen and understand, but can't say a few santences)
And it's realy take a lot of time to lern English.
Despite what Eva says, Czechoslovakia was definitely NOT part of the Soviet Union! It was just in its sphere of influence, like some other countries (East Germany, for example).
Yes, thanks for pointing this out, I didn't get this right, what I meant was it felt like being a part of the USSR with all that influence here but sure, we were the Eastern Bloc, correction
Thank you for correction! Although it wasn't "just" a sphere of influence but a so-called satellite country
@@Julia-db2wc what's difference for living there? To live in Czechoslovakia was much different than to live in USSR. It was a big deal come to Czechoslovakia for Soviet people and especially to take something from Czechoslovakia back for example
Does it really matter? We are dealing with English learning here, not geography or geopolitics learning!
@@carlosferreira1686it kind of does matter to those who lived in Czechoslovakia during "dark ages". Like myself.
Same here. I got a C2 5 years ago. That being said, I still need to revise my English consistently since I'm not living in an English-speaking country. Furthermore, any language including English continues to evolve. I've been thinking to take the test again, but I don't know the latest CAE format.Maybe, you could give some tips on how to obtain a C2 in CAE.
Thanks for yours tips!! I´m from Argentine and I get it!!!
Thank you for this inspiring video:-)🤗
Really interesting and informative,I really appreciate your time thanks 🙏
Actually I would like to ask how did you acquire advanced words. As we know advanced words,expressions,idioms whatever we try to learn something which are not common is completely an harsh time. I still forget lots of words that I have learned through the day.
1-did you use to go over every night what you learned and test yourself weekly?
-do you believe in acquiring words without really learning them but just by immersion or it’s much better to go over to reinforce them ?
3-did you limit your words you learned? Not to get overwhelmed
I’m currently working on becoming an English homework assistant and the TEFL that I wanna to past they acquire to have C1 level ? I’m concerned because i almost finish my English training and I’m not on C1 level at all , I would say B1 because my speaking is still low even if I expand my vocabulary.
Have you ever pass TEFL exam?
And when I googled online company they always require native English speakers so I’m on the fence and I’m fairly lost.
Could you please give me some advice?
I strongly admire you , your English sounds like an native speaker and it’s not yours so it’s impressive 😊keep it on 👏🏻
Greetings from Ukraine!!! I lived in Slovakia for one year and met a lot of nice people there. Thank you for your content, it was interesting and informative. Všetko najlepšie
Great journey 😃
Your story is impressive me and i love your accent❤ my goal to be confident when i talk with people but my problem is i don't have any friends and i continue say to myself you can do it because you are always alone that's makes you stronger then normal people haha i used talk to myself when i cook and my mom thought I'm crazy i don't know why something inside me that telling just keep going whatever we all must appreciate our circumstances ❤ thank you for this great video
Hello I'm from Peru South America
You're amazing Eva, these are wonderful useful tips that you mentioned here, I really apreciate your success. While I was watching you A famous saying In my country that comes to my mind. The way of being wisdom is always same everywhere. By the way I also follow Hadar really She is absolutely amazing too. Thanks for your story and advices
Inspiring story
beautiful english teacher
Amazing. Thanks
Thank YOU 🙏🙏
Thank you so much ❤
Thank U for your inspiration...
Nice to meet you!! I've liked a lot your video. Kind regards from Spain!
Hi Eva
You are really great ❤
Take care! You too
Interesting English lesson
Have a good evening from Madrid spain. ☺❤👍
The most striking and usefull thing for me was Steven Krashen idea. You don't have to learn target language you have to acquire it. It took off some much pressure from me)) Yes just live with the language daily, injoy it, go on with all up's and down's of your journey)
Very nice and inspiring
Impressive ❤
Thanks I enjoyed the video
Respect from Poland 🖐😊👍
Thanks a lot...
Hello dear professor
What you present is really interesting and crucial,i do appreciate your job,i wish you peace and happiness under the sky of prosperity,all the best.
Take care and have a good time.
Your Student from Algeria.
Thank you for your story. It's a surprise for me that you are non-native speaker. So I thought before I've read a title of your story. Your English is amazing! A lot of time and a lot of efforts are spent to get it!
Buen acento entendi todo gracias❤
thanks
Great!!!!I'm Brazilian and I struggle with speaking English
You are so cool teacher
Beautiful English with beautiful teacher,Stay strong , have fun while teaching .
true😊👍
First of all, you're very beautiful. It was not easy to stop stare at you... wish you success and stay as fabulous as you are! Secondly, I totally agree that without practicing you cannot handle with anything in this life. It is like the first job when you're worry about if you fail or mistake. But with the beggining of the process you just start to feel the real taste and then get a useful habit of improving speaking skills. Thanks!
Thanks for your very real and sincere' confessin 'about your way of learning English.I t will certainly help a lot people like me who need some support in doing it.
Lovly inglish speaking good education
I’ve been studying English since the last year and I would like to have a good pronunciation because I don’t want to speak English with a horrible accent 💔😅
my method is "immersion" , so i immerse myself in English, especially by listening to CZcams videos and extracting new vocabs , i also read article and posts in different sites on the web like quora , its preferable to listen and read about topic you are already interested for instances i am interested in self help topics, so i have been listen to these kind of videos and history as well after that i widen my listening with new video related to different subject , but its important to make it fun and related to your character specially at the beginning of the journey
Would you tell how can i listening and read articles is there any web? ❤
Beautiful English..
Hi! I'm so admired you. I'm learning English and I'm in the middle between B2 and C1 level. I'm not sure if you also open an English speaking course. I would like to enroll and have you be my speaking tutor 😄
Good class ❤️❤️from India 👍👍👍
Interesting.
thanka for your video! I am teaching another language which is not my mother language. And since years i stll make mistakes and choose wrong words or words are not common. I am not sure if the words are used or not. Have u faced thia problem? And how u can improve that?
Hi Eva, How are you? My name is 11:47 Gilberto. i am from Cuba. i have been studying english on my own for a long period of time for 10 years more or less, actually english is my passion now i am living in the USA and my english is getting better because i have much more opportunity of practicing with native english speakers and based on my experience to learn another language is actually really hard but is like you said i enjoy to learn something new everyday thank you for your tips 11:47
I can understand English, but when I need to speak it I can’t, my mind is like🤯
Welcome to Indonesia Dear...
your eyes is so beautiful and you're a stunning woman
That for this awesome video!
I am an 8th grader and I have english in school, but I improved it so much, since I‘m watching english videos and movies on netflix.
I think now I‘m good in listing and writing but I’m uncertain in speaking.
Do anyone have an idea, how I can improve it, without having someone to speak with?