You might have fluency in English, but is your speaking clear, orderly, and natural?

If not, don’t worry: I’ll show you how to fix your messy English.

Speaking English well means a balance of three things: fluency in English, confidence with using it in the real world, and naturalness when speaking.

If you’ve got only one or two of these things, your English will be imbalanced.

In this article, we’re going to look at what happens if you skip the “naturalness” stage, and just “talk talk talk” your way to fluency.

The Problem with “Talk Talk Talking” your way to fluency

Generally, people who learn this way have a lot of confidence: they are outgoing and extroverted.

And yes, having a lot of confidence in English is a good thing.

But it can also be a double-edged sword.

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On the one hand, this confidence is very much a good thing.

A confident person will make use of the opportunities that come their way, and improve as a result. People who have no confidence won’t (and if that’s you, there’s an article here). On the other hand, someone who’s very confident won’t care much about their mistakes and messy English enough to fix it. They go out there, throw themselves into speaking English and do an OK job… but as a result, they get stuck at a weird level where they’re able to communicate very well, and fluently. But never go past that.

Yes, they tend to build fluency in English pretty well.

But the naturalness side of things lags far behind, and they end up speaking fast, but very messy and chaotic English that is hard for people to understand.

The Solution

Improving in English in a balanced way requires two things to happen:

1. Focused learning using high-quality materials.
2. Extensive relaxed “doing”.

True mastery is always going to come from BOTH of these things happening again and again.

If you don’t know how to do this, I’ve got a free training here that can help.

Best,
Julian Northbrook

Something discussed in a member’s Group Coaching Call last week got me thinking: tesults from MEFA thus far have been astounding.

But why?

Part of it is that the course is totally different from what you may have done before.

Most courses focus on the same old crap. More words, more grammar… studying dialogues with neither aim nor direction. Blah. Blah. Blah.

MEFA goes much deeper and takes a whole-life view of English.

Of course, developing language skills is a big part of it. But that isn’t enough (and it’s where most typical classes fail).

So I spent today (almost the whole day) scribbling on my iPad.

And this is the what I came up with:

The Doing English Accelerator Model

MEFA is a 12-week course, but over those 12-weeks there are essentially 9 key ‘accelerators’ that my guys implement. I’ll talk about those in this “Crash Course”, but first let’s step back and look at the model as a whole.

Mastery in English comes from three areas.

Building fluency, re-structuring your English to be natural and native-like (not just grammatical). And building real-world confidence with your speaking.

If you have fluency and confidence, you’ll have speed: but without naturalness, your English will be messy and badly organised (very common in naturally confident, outgoing people). If you just speak fluently and naturally, you’ll speak with refinement; but your brain and habits will be against you and you’ll constantly doubt yourself and fail to make an impact in the world with your English. And if you speak naturally and confidently, but lack fluency, you’ll speak with eloquence… but your English will be like an elephant; graceful in its own way, but heavy and slow (which is exhausting for the listener).

Mastery requires all three areas in balance

Now, I’m still not sure “confidence” is the right word: it runs much, much deeper than that. It’s perfectly possible to be confident in your native language, but not in English, for example.

But don’t worry.

We’re going to talk about each of the three areas in detail over the next few lessons.

To go straight to the next one, click here:

Part 2 – Fix Your Messy English

Best,
Dr Julian Northbrook