Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2546, Why Repetition is Key, with Hadar Shemesh. Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. We believe in connection, not perfection. With your American host, Aubrey Carter, and today's featured guest coming to you from Arizona, USA.
And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. Today, Hadar Shemesh from the Influency Podcast joins us to share why repetition is the key to improving both fluency and confidence in English. Herr Budjettiminister, kuinka neuvottelut sujuivat? Kiteytän lopputuloksen kahteen sanaan. Suk C. Voitteko hieman tarkentaa?
Suk C, sau, va, mo, no. Mitä nyt hiihtämiseen tarvitaan? Sitä, että toimittaja on hyvä ja suk C siitä putkesporttiin. Sieltä saa kaikki hiihtovermeet nyt liikuttavan halvalla. Welcome, everyone, and welcome to Hadar. I am so excited to have you join us. How are you today? I'm amazing. So happy to be here and to talk to you. Thank you so much. Yes, welcome back.
I know you've been on the podcast before and our listeners always love your episodes, so we're so excited to chat with you again. If you, by chance, haven't heard of Hadar, which I know is unlikely, I'll give a quick intro here. Hadar is an online entrepreneur, teacher, and content creator with over 4 million followers across all content platforms.
She's trained teams in large global organizations such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, basically the biggest companies. And you've also worked with leading actors, singers, politicians, and public speakers in Israel, which is amazing. And this is exciting. Hadar has helped Google develop and design its pronunciation search tool that now serves millions of people around the world.
I know we all use that. So this is amazing. And Hadar today is going to share three tips for why repetition is important and why building speaking habits, how to make sure your practice is effective, which I know everyone out there listening, you are busy working individuals. You don't have a lot of time. You need to make sure every minute you're practicing is effective.
So I'm so excited for these tips today, Hadar. Well, first of all, thank you so much. And thank you again for inviting me to speak. Definitely my favorite podcast to be on. And yes, so I want to talk about repetition.
So even though I actually come from pronunciation, right, and that is the field that I teach and coach, what I'm going to share today is definitely relevant for every aspect of English, building grammar, building vocabulary, building fluency, and definitely pronunciation skills. I've learned it through the pronunciation work that I have done myself and that I've been teaching my students.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of repetition in language learning?
And here is the thing about repetitions. And when people hear it, it feels like, yeah, like something that I need to do or something that might feel a little boring. But here is why it is so incredibly important. First, when we think about speaking, especially when we talk about pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, it's important to remember that we are talking about building speaking habits.
Habits are things that you do automatically without thinking about it. So when we think about our first language, when we think about words, we don't think about words before saying them. We don't think about grammatical structures before we use them. And this is why it's automatic. It's a habit.
And when we learn a second language, we want to build the same habits so we wouldn't have to think about the grammatical structure or the words that we want to use and definitely not the sounds because once we start thinking about it, it kills fluency. There's no time for that, right?
You're having a conversation with someone, you can't just sit and think of the grammar you want to use, the vocabulary you want to use. You're so right. And it takes you away from the conversation, you know, especially if you're in a test or you are in an important conversation. You don't want to be occupied with thinking about what to say. You want to be present.
You want to respond to the other person. Exactly. And this is why we want to build those habits. Now, when we think about habits in real life, right, how do you develop habits? How do you develop habits? Yeah, repetition, right? What is it that's like after four days, six days, what is it? Something becomes a habit. Maybe it takes a little longer. But if you do it once, it will never be a habit.
Exactly, right? If you want to start going to the gym regularly, you can't just do it once and expect yourself to wake up the next day and be like, okay, I'm, you know, I work out. I have this healthy habit now. I wish it were that easy, but it's not. So you have to do it again and again and again.
And a lot of times it's really tedious and kind of like harder at the beginning until you turn it into a habit. So that concept needs to be adopted to this idea of building speaking habits and repetition helps you build those habits. So words become more automatic. Your grammar becomes more automatic. and your pronunciation becomes automatic. And that has to happen through repetition.
So that is the first reason why repetition is important. Yeah, it's so true. It really makes sense when it comes to any habit. But as language learners ourselves, we have seen this, right? Nothing becomes part of our true active vocabulary unless we've repeated it multiple times and we've used it and we start becoming confident. Then we can immediately add it to our conversations. Yes, exactly.
And that is why it's so important. And that leads me to the second thing that I want to say is that when it comes to practicing and you and I both know that it's, you know, like we live in such a busy life and our students don't have a lot of time to practice. They have very limited time, sometimes no time at all, and they still need to make progress.
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Chapter 3: How can building speaking habits enhance fluency?
This could make the difference for them to realize, I'm not really doing repetition with my vocabulary, my grammar, the things that I'm learning. I'm not being really proactive about that. And maybe that's what's missing. Yeah. And you learn a lot. So people learn, they get the passive knowledge, they don't turn it into active knowledge.
So again, when you put it into practice and you learn a new word and you don't just keep it to yourself, but you just say it in different ways. example sentences, then this is something that allows you to... It makes it stick a lot longer than just trying to remember it. You build that up. Absolutely. And just once won't be enough. Just one sprint wouldn't be enough for a runner.
It's going to be multiple times. And it's different for everyone. It might be more than you expect. But if you stick with it, don't give up on the word until you're using it in conversations really naturally and confidently, then you know it's part of your active vocabulary. Yeah, exactly. Which leads me to the third tip that I want to share about repetitions.
And that is, it's a huge confidence builder. Because after all, we are creatures that are not just like, we don't just have a brain that is a machine and that's it, right? We have feelings, we have emotions, we have, you know, thoughts about ourselves as humans. speakers of English as a second language.
And a huge part, a huge component of speaking freely and of fluency is confidence, is the feeling that you can do something. And a lot of times we feel confident in things that we've already done, like that we know how to do them. So for example, we have this list of words that we know how to say again and again, dog, house, yes, no, right? Like the very, very popular, basic vocabulary.
We're super confident about those. No issues about those words. But then when it comes to more advanced grammar, more advanced vocabulary, more advanced pronunciation, we don't have the confidence because we don't have a lot of experience using it. Again, it's because we're just learning it. We don't have a lot of experience practicing it.
So the repetitions help you build confidence as if you've said it, you know, 10, 20 times already. So it makes you feel more comfortable using these new words. It makes you feel more confident knowing that you'll be able to say it because you've already proved to yourself that you can, right?
Saying those sentences in the past perfect tense, in 10 of those sentences, and then you're like, oh, something's clicking. Maybe I can try saying it when speaking spontaneously, because you have experienced saying it. You know that your mouth can produce those sensations. sentences, especially if it's new words or new sounds that we usually feel very embarrassed about saying that.
So the repetitions is just like, oh, it's not just in my head. I know how it feels. I know how to say it. I've said it. I can do it. It's just like one step further to trying and expanding in your English and your fluency and what you're capable of saying and doing. So I think that it's a huge confidence builder and it's a lot of fun because it's not too demanding, right?
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