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mmmEnglish swaps more studying for more talking

Emma's new lesson separates understanding English from producing it, with simple words and repeat attempts at the center.

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You Can Understand English, but You Can't Speak It. Why?

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1:10Listening and reading are receptive skills; speaking and writing require producing language.
3:33Practice speaking aloud daily by describing your routines or surroundings.
4:43When a word disappears, describe the idea using simpler words instead of stopping.
5:33Practice phrases and sentence chunks that give you thinking time during conversation.
7:09Repeat a two-minute talk on the same topic to build fluency through familiarity.
8:23Real conversations provide speaking experience; a promotion for Emma's Hey Lady! community follows.

Following a movie in English and finding your own words are different assignments. Emma makes that distinction the heart of "You Can Understand English, but You Can't Speak It. Why?", the busiest of mmmEnglish's two new uploads, with about 29,000 views.

"But the solution to this problem is not to learn more English," she says. Her point is that listening and reading train receptive skills, while speaking needs practice of its own. Instead of sending learners back to another vocabulary list, she suggests talking aloud about everyday surroundings, describing a forgotten word in simpler terms, and practicing whole phrases rather than isolated words.

The particularly useful twist is repetition: speak about the same topic for two minutes, then try again. The subject doesn't need to become more interesting. The task is to make producing the language more familiar. The lesson also includes a promotion for Emma's own women's conversation community, Hey Lady!

Viewers bring recognizable sticking points into the comments: embarrassment when words won't come, the difficulty of speaking compared with other skills, and the usefulness of ready-made word chunks. One describes a language-center conversation that wandered from jobs to cats and dogs, with missing words along the way.

The second upload, "Why can't you speak English (yet)?", reinforces the distinction between memorizing language and training speech. Both new videos are the channel's most active uploads right now, followed by the earlier speaking-affirmations lesson. Subscribers were unchanged over the week, while daily viewing is close to its usual level. After last week's focus on nerves, Emma has given that conversation a practical next step: keep talking, even before the perfect word arrives.

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What viewers say

This happens to me sometimes and when it happens I feel so embarrassed. Thanks for this breakthrough 🤗
@Mummylove007See it on YouTube
Dear Emma, fabulous suggestions about keeping a talk using chunks of words! 😇
@teresaavalos6588See it on YouTube
Ms Emma today we talked about a lot of topics in the language center. They were really good my friends spoke and I spoke we talked about free topics from jobs to stories from dogs to cats and from big dogs to so many things but sometimes we didn't get the right word for the thing we wanted to explain and I think it's natural.
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Reducing anxiety and creating a positive atmosphere may well help
@aboubaraa80See it on YouTube
I'm totally agree with you, speaking is the hardest skill of all.
@evgeniygaluzinskiy9456See it on YouTube
This video is exactly what I needed! Thank you, Emma, for making me feel better about my English. You explained this common struggle so beautifully. Keep up the great work! 🙏❤
@vladfurs8891See it on YouTube
I really needed this video 😊 thank you so much Emma
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