819. What does it really mean to be good at English?

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

I hope you enjoy the episode and it helps you think about your own level of English and what to focus on when studying. The link for the PDF is in the description (no need for your email address or anything). 🫖

[@leonilsonsilva5937]

Bom dia, sou brasileiro e estou na luta pra aprender inglês e caí no seu canal. 🇧🇷

[@leonilsonsilva5937]

Bom dia 😀

[@abderahmanmauritani1433]

But your introduction is so long . I think it'll be better to make it shorter.

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

@@abderahmanmauritani1433 sorry I don’t understand

[@abderahmanmauritani1433]

@@LukesEnglishPodcast I'm sorry sir . I meant when you want to talk about a specific topict it's better to go direct without a long introduction . That's all. I hope you understand.

[@EnglishSpeakingSuccess]

How did I end up spending one and a half hours of my Saturday morning listening to this? Amazing Luke, thanks for this video. Your delivery is totally absorbing (as is your humour) and I found the topic and opinions fascinating. I actually skipped breakfast and now have to go straight to lunch!

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Hello Keith! How nice to get a comment from you. Enjoy your lunch mate, unless you skip that and listen to episode 820 instead 😃

[@speakEnglishFluentlySEF]

I love you both of you so much. I love your accent, pronunciation and admire your hard work sir. Lovely, continue good work.

[@mishararoshani9290]

I also respect both of you Mr. Luke and Mr. Kieth.

[@mehmet.albyrk]

I agree to Keith ❤ His way of telling is absorbing

[@gilvanbernardino432]

The type of content that I've been looking for on the whole internet

[@GavinLennonH]

Don't worry about the critics I'm an English learner watching your show is my daily routine when I take the bus and do other things it's your show that keeps me company your updates and your voice is important to me

[@dilhocam4681]

You are perfect tutor! I am an English teacher in Turkey and every day I improve both my grammer and pronunciation, thanks for all your help!

[@josebenito15]

Sometimes I've been stressed out thinking of my English level.. But not anymore. English has become a daily routine. Reading, listening and even sometimes dreaming in English. Now I know I won't ever be a "total bilingual person" (I began studying English when I was an adult) and knowing that put me in the right place to keeping me on learning everyday a little more. Thanks so much for uploading this Video. It was very helpful.. As usual🙏

[@NayraVlogs.297]

One of my former teacher said once l will make sure you learned English and until you fart English and you blood will turn into English

[@josebenito15]

@@NayraVlogs.297 Your English Teacher was "a little dramatic in his opinion"..Shall we say, but it is also truth you never finish learning.. And I have to confess that I never thought it would be... So long 🎗️

[@slkv5972]

The same !

[@NayraVlogs.297]

@@josebenito15 yes he encouraged me to improve my English and I'm grateful for that

[@atheamarcosamir5633]

You need to say "totally" bilingual, not "total" bilingual.

[@jjing6548]

Natural speech is full of errors, false starts, inaccuracies... so learners should not be deterred by the requirement of "perfect speech", which should not be the goal

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Exactly. Hopefully I show this in my podcasts in which I sometimes make mistakes, start sentences again and struggle to find the right words.

[@AmitKarpe-qs5sq]

I admit it and admire your comment.

[@damaryssolo8747]

​@@LukesEnglishPodcast😅y 2:17 2:20 2:24 2:25 oyogwiee

[@damaryssolo8747]

​@@LukesEnglishPodcast7

[@drevovidnaya]

That was just absolutely cool comment thank you

[@jaroslavkuchta4317]

Luke, You are so fantastic as usual.Thank you for your slogan that "learning English is a game".So no stress,no effort and burning brain but loving heart.❤👍

[@peperiday]

I think it is really encouraging to listen to non-native speak successfully using English. In an actual work environment, you listen a wide of accent anyway.

[@gulbakhorkalandarova]

Hi Luke! In fact English is not the only lessons you teach people, but you give us life lessons too. Your sincerity, empathy, patience, sense of humour and sarcasm make your podsact a unic and curative place. Your remarks about accents reminded me a case from my tour guiding past. Once I was guiding a big group from UK,and their tour leader tried to make a joke on my accent, addressing to the group: " Well, miss Certain provided us with quite comprehensive and interesting information, all was perfect except her accent". Immediately an old gentlman from the group asked her for a microphone and turned to me: " Excuse me miss Certain, I was wondering how many laguages do you speak? ". I replied " 2 mother tounges and 2 foreign languages with accent". Then he asked her: " Dear Dorothy , what languages do you speak?". She answered: " As you know English is my mother tounge which is enough to feel comfortable everywhere". Then he turned to the group: " Oh,bravissimo! Ladies and gents,let' s applaud our British tour leader for speaking her mother tounge and only language with no accent!"😅

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Very good! (P.s. it’s spelled “accent”)

[@gulbakhorkalandarova]

Thank you, Luke, for helping me ascent up to unreachable peaks of English❤.

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

@@gulbakhorkalandarova *ascend 😉

[@ivyyang7219]

Very encouraging comment ❤hopefully the story ended up with a funny and warm joke!😂😂😂

[@dalmacsergo2930]

Despite the fact that I have an IELTS level 7 certificate, listening to your videos (especially short stories) can help me further develop my English skills. That is why I have bought LEP premium. Thank you for your help , Luke! ☺👌

[@gloriachiu7155]

That is a perfect interview. Especially for me as a migration first generation, I am what I am, not native speaking. Gain confidence to present in English and no hiding, accent is part of my identity. Your sample of different favors of crisps is very beautiful,❤❤❤ very encouraging interview. Thank you very much for both of you.

[@werayutsapso2764]

She has work all the day teacher ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😊😊😊 good job thanks ☕️☕️☕️🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

[@MustafaKhan-ji9op]

Hello sir luke its mustafa from Pakistan i have been listening to you for last couple of years and much thanks to you for improving my English listening and speaking aswell.

[@miper5498]

I love listening to you ! Incredibly I can understand what you say, not all but most of all. And I love stories too. So It's a perfect combination. Thank you for your precious work, Luke!

[@glumraidh]

Absolutely love this episode! I'm an English communications coach here in Taiwan and everything you've said here is what I tell my clients as well, especially those who are new. Most of them come to me after years of learning (not including the 9 years in schools) and still couldn't communicate effectively in English. Most of the common issues are as you've mentioned e.g., they have very high scores in TOEIC (Listening & Reading) but couldn't speak and write coherently. They typically use rare or inappropriate words and confusing sentence structures. Some are too tied up with having "perfect" pronunciation or grammar that they're afraid to speak. Many also have issues understanding non-American accents; Taiwan education promotes American English as "good" English, so much so that many professionals couldn't deal with clients and partners who speak other Englishes. Accents, overall, is the least important; Fluency & Coherency is the primary key in communications - if the content is not logically structured or the ideas aren't linked, no amount of "high level" vocabulary, "perfect" grammar, pronunciation or accent could make the communications effective. Of course, as you've said, that's not to say vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation aren't important, but they don't need to be perfect to achieve effectiveness.

[@heesoolee8357]

I'm a middle aged Korean woman who came to the UK in 2006 and I took an IELTS exam for my course. Got overall 7.0 in academic module. My speaking was 6.0 and my reading 8.0 and listening and writing 7.0. I have not been confident in speaking English and I have always tried not to make mistakes. It is almost impossible for a person who only started learning to speak English at the age of 39. I still feel nervous when speaking to some British people thinking I'd be judged as a dumb person. When I express this feeling to native speakers, they tell me not to worry as they understand everything I say. They tell me to watch a lot of British native speakers on TV making mistakes and talking in an inarticulate way. Your podcast has given me the ideas about where and how I can improve my English. Thanks ❤

[@ramzihedimay1179]

Many thanks. I always enjoy listening to your podcasts

[@Ava-br6qw]

This is my first time listening to your podcast and I would like to thank you because this includes lots of useful information that I wanted to know. I'll also listen to the episode with Santi to improve my perseverance and positivity in learning English.

[@musicmc6929]

Hi Luke, listening to your podcast is already part of my ritual on a sat morning, thx heaps! your daughter 's recording melt my heart, she s so sweeeeet!!! plsssss get her on more in the future

[@Regina-ei3dq]

Don’t mind them!!! They are just envious of Santi’s success!!! I truly appreciate Santi taking the time to come to your podcast!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@Bwalde]

Just few minutes into the recording and loving it already. Will surely recommend this to many. Thank you.

[@christinalemieshonok4978]

You're awesome, thank you so much for what you're doing 🙌

[@giulianamit]

I loved all your passionate discussion while listening to this episode, first on podcast and then on KZbin. I think I caught your mood: you were like a knight with a great banner of justice to defend a just cause. You didn't talk about real English and related direct ways to achieve the language learning goal (not only); your words were prompted by a strong inner desire to stand up for something you believe in. Thanks for this passion Thank you for all your always very lucid, rational and effective advice, not just for learning English. Thank you

[@dawa4706]

since I found this channel,I’have been hooked for British English language learning,I love your culture,you are awesome teacher Luke and I like ,Michael from Level up English.

[@adamgeorge4148]

We all love you Never stop🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@bloodymoron21]

I’m from Japan and it is very common for people to be judgmental, which leads people unwilling to speak English in Japan. Everyone has different perspectives on language learning, but no one has the right to blame or judge others’ English. For me, even though I am trying to use correct English, I am not that fussed about being perfect as long as I can transmit what I mean.

[@valentinobitonto8195]

I definitely agree with you ! What it is good - as it is told in psychology ; just enjoy your journey and rid off thinking about the finishing line - be passionale about what you're learning and enjoy it. Then you willl be more involved to make progress and your brain will come up ideas to ameliorate yout English. Good luck !

[@yelizyilmaz1247]

I absuletly agree with you

[@eddyvideostar]

Dear Abnormal Normal: The more languages you can speak effectively, the less bothersome some petty criticism would be as you blow them out of the water with your skills and success in the sapiens' sphere.

[@hawakarshe7904]

Agree

[@manasbonik]

I started listening to your podcast recently, maybe with you, the path to achieving the goal will not be too long.❤🇧🇩🇧🇩

[@brahimaksasse2577]

Greeting from Morocco. Hi, dear Teacher Luke. Hi, dear LEP listeners. First of all, many thanks for this amazing podcast that encourages us to keep moving forward and never lose motivation. Yes, I struggle with pronunciation, but I am aware of my weakness and I will work on it. Practice, practice, and practice is the golden rule. Practice makes perfect. The ultimate goal is to communicate with people, not just to master the language as a skill

[@changxiangqi9257]

I enjoyed that episode with Stanti as a guest. And the word quixotic still stays in my mind. Language is just a tool for learning other things and communicating with others. Heart to heart connection is way more important than just being aethestic and fancy.

[@hakimelyamany4716]

Thank you a lot my teacher, we learn many thing with, not just english, we learn respect to with you, and we enjoy so much you epesodes, and finaly thank you agin.

[@SuperAlisher2017]

You are the best teacher on the world! So much information for free😮. Thank you so much, your postcards are always wonderful 😊

[@sadiyosharaf1318]

Wow 😮am so happy to night because I saw teacher Luke's face. Normally I have been listening to his audio podcast. Oh!am I now seeing teacher Luke's face it's unbelievable to me. Anyway am so happy🎉

[@عدنانالراشد-ع7م]

Thanks so much my dear teacher about everything &it's very important to me for getting the good and love the English language...my dear readers...Madman...from Iraq

[@mamonigouri172]

রাধে রাধে 🌼 হরে কৃষ্ণ হরে কৃষ্ণ কৃষ্ণ কৃষ্ণ হরে হরে হরে রাম হরে রাম রাম রাম হরে হরে 🙏🌼❤️😊 Radhe Radhe 🌼 Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Ram Hare Ram Ram Ram Hare Hare 🌼🌼🙏😊❤ রাধে রাধে 🌼🌼🙏🌼❤️

[@tamasvarga7942]

You are a professional teacher and you are doing a great job. Thanks for the help.

[@milakostrova5451]

Your pronunciation is absolutely AMAZING/AWSOME/ OUTSTANDING !!! I enjoy listening to you! With love from Moscow from a teacher of English!

[@dawa4706]

Teacher Luke , you are awesome English teacher,i’v enjoy watching your video of English teaching,l am learning a lot ,thank you a lot.

[@elizachan6114]

This episode has shed some light on my teaching job. THANKS

[@norridinabdulkarim8633]

Absolutely perfect podcast Luke!! Thanks 👍

[@nataly_newface..8676]

Спасибо вам за вашу работу. Я очень надеюсь что однажды я буду легко понимать разговорную речь. Пока мне сложно. Но я продолжаю слушать ваши видео. Чтобы мой мозг привыкал. Ваши видео бесценны. И спасибо вам за это

[@perlapotti2580]

I listened with great interest to your podcasts. You are a wonderful tutor!!🙌

[@WW-it5sw]

I enjoyed very much your episode with Stanti ,He is so much courageous for me to imitate. And this episode 819 I repeated twice times! Thank you! Luke👏

[@dawa4706]

Teacher Luke,I understood everything in this episode,i think ,i have good listening skills,only I need to improve on my speaking and writing skills.i have watched this many time,it’s enjoyable and you explained so thoroughly.thank you so much.

[@jenik6210]

Thank you for your work ❤

[@zulemaacevey6805]

you're brilliant! having the script on the screen I so helpful on many levels. thank u so much

[@manishsarki4083]

Wonderful, brilliant eloquent speaker, you speak very well like Theresa may and rishi sunak, the chancellor. Carry-on, thanks.

[@vivianamassy6962]

Merci beaucoup pour toutes tes vidéos Luke. Je t'écoute tous les jours.Tu as une très, très jolie voix

[@Raspakovo4kaUpakovo4ki]

Thank you so much for everything!!! 🙏🙏🙏 I am from Russia.

[@okci8273]

Thank you Luke. After 8 years of interruption, you've just given me a push to regain my English. How not and i am starting soon to be a teacher again. I lost much of my fleuency but after listening to you, i think It won't be hard to make a success. Have a nice day Okba

[@nataliaselivanova9229]

Thank you so much, Luke! I adore your LEP😍 You’re great teacher 👏

[@greysonleigh]

The video is fabulous, telling us that task completion and the communicative function should be the most important concern but not the pursuit of perfect English accent and grammatical accuracy. Thanks for this fabulous A++ video.

[@andreamoreiraschwandt1877]

Dear teacher!!! I love your podcast, I love your accent or British accent. I´m learning a lot and havin fun. Lots of hugs from Brazil!

[@gilbertorodriguez4724]

This Podcast is absolutely amazing!!! Thanks so much.

[@dawa4706]

You are great English teacher,thank you teacher Luke.

[@LoveYouEnglishLessons]

Just go with the flow. Don't be afraid of making mistakes.

[@Aloy0]

A very funny and interesting episode. I go on learning English almost 5 months and I proud of my results. Thanks to your podcast I improve my listening skills every day and it's a great feeling. I'm grateful to you for your huge hard work. I wish you all the best. P. S. Hi from Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@fatemehashemi5554]

You are a good person, I really enjoyed to listen this podcast, and I will listen again one more time, God bless you and Thank you so much❤

[@haubanh1939]

Very..Very. very good Luke. I liked the way you expressing.

[@englishclouds05]

You've just made my day, since you gave me a charm view of the level assessement and how crucial to keep work on your weaknesses

[@Classy_1706]

Hi Luke , excellent episode , well done job as U always do. Correct remarks from your side regarding the comments made by listeners " Its not a compition" as you said. Please, keep going !!! You are the best teacher! 🎉🎉🎉ever.! !!

[@vgygvg9865]

Hello Luke,my name is Marianna Ho. I am from Hong Kong. I have migrated to Belgium for 3 years. I love to listen to your Podcast. It is very lively and you use different elements to teach us English. To be your audience, apart from improving my English, it also enrich my knowledge about the world. Thank you!

[@Eng-p8c]

This is the type of video I've been looking for. I love it

[@theswede303]

Love this man’s ”rambling”. Always entertaining and funny. Thank you Luke 🙋🏼‍♀️

[@marina24136]

Thanks for your working from South Korea. We, Including East asians, were learning English as Foreign language perfectly which doesn't related verbally and culturally with our language and your works help improve natural English skills of ourselves.

[@emersonrocha2656]

Teacher Luke has helped lots of leaarners improve in learning. English. God bless you! 🙌

[@helenliu2371]

Very good episode, right time for preparing English test，thank you so much!

[@enriquegonzalez2844]

Huge, great and exceptional advice. I became a good English speaker in a lesson of Spanish linguistics. They said that a kid handles less than thousand words and still they communicate well. So, I applied that principle in English I just speak, so far it's worked fine. THANKS for your advice. May the force be with you. I like that expression a lot..

[@noob_nerd]

thank you very much from Italy for your beautiful shared lessons

[@МаринаЛизина]

I understood that my best skill is listening because I listen to English a lot every day

[@bardhaen739]

Hello I hope you are doing great with all your loved ones. my English isn't well at all but I think I understand you well. Thank you very much dear teacher. Have a nice day and week-end

[@jesusmarin3533]

Hi Luke! How’s it going?. I want to thank you for the amazing videos/podcast . You do help me a lot. You rock and blessing for the new family’s member.🎉❤

[@robuinoyr1371]

Nice and Great podcast, i'm really enjoy watching it. Thanks.

[@Tartariga72]

You are a paramount teacher Luke, I am rooting for you !

[@wuttipong.m]

Non-native English speaker always get blaming about the correct accent from native English speaker, but at least we can speak two languages even though it isn't well enough.

[@IvonneMer]

Totally agree with you ;)

[@e.m9162]

Not from English people, they're very kind.

[@elamelam153]

I love to learn English from your podcast sir,so clear true.

[@kiki.t2094]

Your podcast has become a drug for me. Thank you for the inspiration you give to learning the language. Part of the Beatles, lol😂😂😂

[@زانجلودوسدو]

Well, I am coming from the future. I just want to say I have repeated the conclusion many times. I like the way how you encourage us to learn thanks Luck.

[@marisouza2629]

Luke, I love watching your Podcast. My listening and reading skills have improved a lot since I started following your channel. You a are brilliant, teacher! Thank you for your guidance. 💙🇧🇷/

[@UnconditionalHappiness]

Just keep going! Don't need to hesitate!

[@adejolaolivera9910]

Thank for your job, thank to PDF. congratulations best regard fom Uruguay

[@user-Tatiana.17]

Thanks for such an interesting helpful and enjoyable episode!

[@בשמתתלמי]

I listened with great pleasure and interest to the podcast, I especially liked the authentic, convincing and clear manner of presentation. I heard a few more stories that you analyzed in other videos and I was so interested because of the content, the way of presentation, the examples that I just kept listening and learning. Hope to improve in conversation and writing through this way of learning

[@lorenzojaviertorressaavedr3900]

Thank you very much Luke for another one of you great podcast.

[@ЛарисаКоста]

❤ciao Good day! Your English is so wonderful and sometimes I admire listening your voice and that is important you are one of the clever and excellent teachers of English. Thank you much!

[@muahmmadsodiqabdumannobov8988]

Hello Luke it is a really stunning,and natural speech thank you buddy. I wish you luck

[@tm75_88]

Thank you, Luke Great content Great English, clear pronunciation and presentation perfectly fitting with our needings in learning

[@erikgardetemps]

Hi Luke, nice to meet you! I'm a new subscriber at your channel. My english is still so basic because I've been learning it for only a month. I can't understand much of what you say. However I like your channel because it helps me to learn English ("learn English with short stories" is awesome!) Thanks for sharing your job. Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭👍

[@SudeysiAli-i7p]

i am glad to listen your podcast and today i know my level of English if i will preserve your podcast i will hope to became Fulency much apperciate luke

[@ВиталийСлонов-ч4ъ]

Thanks for your work. Much appreciated.

[@ahmedbaqali8171]

Hi,am Ahmed from moroco,especially from north Tétouan,you are a great help to me,thank you so much.

[@ErrorMods1]

It was a very helpful Podcast. As an English learner, this just encouraged me to still improving and enhancing mi skills. I practice English every single day, and I don't see that as a task, but as a part of my daily routine, without pressure, and I'm sure and learning faster. Thank you.

[@missrhoma9104]

We shouldn't focus on perfection, because no one is perfect. However we should pay attention to clearness in speech and fluency

[@paoladebelgica]

Excellent podcast, thanks

[@Jellycatdontliketoeat]

Very cheerful video for a person who is struggling with ielts test. Thanks Luke😊

[@ЕленаКиселева-к2ь]

You are the best Teacher! Thank you very much!

[@andreaalves6797]

Thansk a lot Luke.

[@teacheralemelo]

Although he has a strong Spanish accent, this does not mean he speaks English poorly. He communicates quite accurately and coherently. Furthermore, he could take an accent reduction course to improve his pronunciation. Moreover, he possesses the skills necessary to work at such a renowned institution. In fact, his bilingualism could be an asset to the institution, as he can communicate effectively with Spanish-speaking colleagues and clients. Additionally, his diverse background and perspective may bring a unique contribution to the team and enhance the organization's inclusivity efforts.

[@Sportingalagrieska]

The Spanish speaking market is massive after all...

[@TeacherZdenek]

Why does he need an accent reduction course??? What's the point if he communicates effectively and it's 100% intelligible? Accent reduction is a BS concept. It's negative, unimportant, and simply wrong. Would you say that Luke's wife needs an accent reduction course, too?

[@YoelMonsalve]

​@@Sportingalagrieska That's true. It's a 500+ million people market.

[@liborsupcik7195]

A renowned place employee, recently accepted into affluent class, is quite likely to afford and order an online or a 101 mentor, trickling down to EFL business.

[@hawakarshe7904]

Agree

[@thomasv.a.392]

I am an Indian living in Kerala State, India. Malayalam is my mother tongue. I love English and want to learn it. Through your videos I think I can learn English, especially the spoken one. Nobody speaks English here. Everybody speaks Malayalam only. Your videos are the only source I can rely on to learn English. Thanks for your nice videos Thomas V. A. from Kerala State, India.

[@lorenzojaviertorressaavedr3900]

Thank you so much Luke for another one of your great podcast.