You've studied English for years why do you still freeze

If you'VE been learning and speaking English for years yet you still freeze in meetings and daily conversation keep watching my name's Michael Anton on the founder of English at the ready and our focus is helping professionals who live and work in English improve their communication skills if you'VE been learning English for ten or fifteen years you are not a beginner you're very likely at the intermediate or advanced level but a lot of the advice and tips you'LL receive online are geared to beginners that's why today's video is for you if you're a professional who's been learning English for five ten even fifteen years yet you still feel stuck by the end of the video I'm going to give you a simple three step strategy you can use to stop feeling stuck in English first of all imagine this you're in a room and two native speakers start talking to each other at full speed one makes a joke and the other one laughs you follow along you smile you. Nod and maybe you laugh as well but in your head you know you could have never made the same joke in the same natural way a native speaker would there's a difference between understanding English and using English in real time understanding English is the skill you'VE spend ten fifteen twenty years building it's reading writing and listening using English in real time is a totally different skill producing the right phrase at the right speed at the right time with a real human waiting for you to finish your sentence