- What is the intermediate plateau?
Hello, hello, hello,
ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls!
I'm Julian Northbrook from DoingEnlish.com
here with another quick two-minute
English learning tip for you.
Two minutes on the timer.
Hit it.
What is the intermediate plateau?
This is a rather frustrating period
in any language learner's life
that we inevitably hit and that many,
it has to be said, fail to ever overcome.
You may be stuck there right now.
But essentially as a beginner
we improved fast
and this English learning,
English improvement luck
seemed like it was a piece of cake.
We just kept going forward and forward,
getting better and better and better,
and things felt amazing.
Until suddenly one day (clap)
bam, everything changed.
Suddenly you stop making progress,
you hit around and no matter what you do,
you don't seem to be able to get out of it.
You are in English learner limbo
unable to push yourself past that level
to get to the higher proficiency levels,
always stuck at a fairly mediocre,
a level that you are able to do
kind of the things that you need to do
but not smoothly, not efficiently, not well.
You are stuck making mistakes,
using embarrassingly slow English
and you frustrate your co-workers
with you inability to articulate yourself
and to express ideas clearly.
The problem here is that you are still doing
the things that you did
when you were a beginner.
You see, as soon as you hit
the intermediate level, things change.
Being a high-level English learner
is not the same as being a beginner.
When you were a beginner
you only knew a few words
and a few phrases of English
and learning just one or two more
was enough to make quite a big impact
to the amount of English
that you had and could use.
Well, once you get to a higher level,
first of all, people don't give you
the same kind of treatment
as they did as a beginner.
They no longer look at you and think,
"Oh, he's just a beginner, he's trying.
"Let's make things easy for them."
No, now they look at you and think,
"Well, you've got this far.
"It's about bloody time
"you started doing things properly."
They don't give you the same kind of
benefit of the doubt as they used to.
Not only that but the methods
that you used previously are simply
ineffective at that level.
Simply put, you've got to change
what you are doing
in order to get different results.
Keep doing the same thing
and you will keep on getting the same results.
Change them and you will change
the results that you get.
Get it?
Great.
Well, if you head over
to DoingEnglish.com/FreeTraining,
I teach you my rocket launch method
and the five key changes that you need to make
to your English learning and English using routine
in order to break past that plateau
and go into the higher proficiency levels.
Again, that's DoingEnglish.com/FreeTraining.
This is me, Julian Northbrook,
signing out from another video.
See you in the next one.
Buh-bye!
(bright music)
