Can Reading in your Head (Subvocalization) Hurt your English?! |

[@soupysoup931]

whatever the jargon word is, so yeah. Doing that is indeed a thing and I've been a survivor of that and a huge victim in the moment (when I only got learning English for my first year or so). Doing that is COMPLETELY wrong. And your "insert the jargon word" (or reading in your head as everybody calls it) is gonna improve on its own without you having to do anything. As long as you work on the accent and make it better, you start reading just like you hear. and if you say something to YOURSELF, it's usually gonna be your accent. But I've experienced and observed so many things like that. You can hear other American accents and say it just they way they did it in your head despite naturally pronouncing words differently. Aka southern accents, accents that say IH before NG, accents that say cot and caught differently etc. At the end of the day, it's what you truly hear and how you talk. That's what your brain is gonna use as a "reading" accent (in your head). So tldr: if you hear somebody speak a way, you'll narrative their accent sound in sound in your head, even though you speak differently. If it's jsut you and your thoughts, you'll speak to yourself(in your head), the way you speak normally. At the end of the day, it's all about getting the accent down and that mind accent catches up on its own. I've noticed mine evolving soooo soo many times before especially given my unique history with that. Also, yeah. you'll hate your life for having to correct each mispronounced word you learned in English with your language rules applied (aka using let's say German to try to read an English word that you never heard of it and applying German rules to that despite not ever having any sort of knowledge/experience/exposure to the language. All it does is leave you a bunch of work to do later and correct your mind and make you say the words right. But sometimes, it just overrides itself if you hear that word enough, but might not work with other words though.) my advice is that just work on the accent and it'll take care of everything.

[@soupysoup931]

perfect world: I'm all for Idahosa and Josh. START with the accent, forget the language(I mean the spelling/words, just focus on hearing the language and practicing the accent). Accent = language, and the best, fastest way to be like a native. But if it doesn't work out for oyu, it's okay! just make it as nice as possible and try to get to basic fluency so you can tag along with any instructions from people like Josh (in case you're not lucky enough to have a start using your language only).

[@soupysoup931]

anyways, this vid is the golden goose. put it in the trending, youtube. (pls)

[@danielrodrigo8503]

Hi Teacher. I have a question. I've bee listening to English audios and videos for a while, like 2 years, and I've been using your English Hacks Ear Trainer. I find it challenging when I try to catch the individual vowels sounds. Does this mean I'm not talented enough? Or Should I try something else? I'm really sad because I want to learn how to listen to English like a native.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

It has little to do with "talent". Don't worry. I'll answer this in a video. Thanks for the great question 🙂

[@danielrodrigo8503]

@@NativeEnglishHacks Ok Thank so so much

[@soupysoup931]

unpopular opinion: teaching languages in school or colleges should be banned. (it causes more harm than good. People who don't care, they don't care and find it annoying, people who care will do it anyways and will only hate how much back they've been pushed by that traditional system).

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

More unpopular opinion: teaching languages in schools should be revolutionized and not taught as an academic subject

[@soupysoup931]

@@NativeEnglishHacks true. But knowing the economy type and elite, that'll never happen lol. But I think your idea is the best