Experto En Idiomas: "¡Deja de Traducir! Haz Esto Para Pensar En Inglés y Hablarlo con fluidez"

0:00Today's guest is a polyglot who speaks

0:02more than 10 languages and is here to

0:03dispel the myths of the education

0:05system .

0:05In other words , knowing vocabulary

0:06doesn't allow you to speak a language .

0:08You need to know the verbal structure

0:09of that language .

0:10Why is English taught this way ? I

0:12have no idea why this happens , but it

0:13happens throughout the education system

0:15, because it doesn't just happen with

0:16languages .

0:16He studied civil engineering , one of

0:18the most complex and demanding degrees .

0:20However , after finishing it , he

0:21realized that his true passion wasn't

0:23in structures , but in languages . Today ,

0:25after deciphering the code that

0:26connects all languages , he dedicates

0:28himself to teaching others to speak

0:29English and other languages freely . If

0:31someone wants to learn English from

0:32scratch , what's the best advice you

0:33could give them ?

0:33Learn Spanish from scratch . We speak it

0:35, but we don't know how . If you don't

0:37know how to speak your own native

0:38language , your goal is to first learn

0:40what you already know .

0:41In this episode , we'll explain why the

0:42traditional education system fails . We

0:44will examine the psychological traps

0:46that block your English fluency . We

0:47will investigate the definitive method

0:49to master any language using the

0:51structure of your own language . What do

0:53you think is the mistake that most

0:54people make when they start learning

0:55English ?

0:56Do they memorize phrases or work with

0:57applications that give them incorrect

0:59translations , that are not didactic ,

1:00that do not help ?

1:01Why do they force us to cram endless

1:03lists if we do not even use them in our

1:05daily lives ? No ,

1:06in my opinion , because it is easy . Hey ,

1:07how do I prepare for tomorrow's class ?

1:09I print out 80 lists here , I send the

1:11students and I tell them that tomorrow

1:12there is an exam .

1:13How do we have to put subtitles on if

1:14we have watched a series or a movie ?

1:16Never in any life . Never . Okay , I hope

1:18it has been made clear that you should

1:20never put subtitles in Spanish because

1:22it ruins the functioning of the brain .

1:24How can we pronounce English or any

1:25other language correctly ?

1:35Today Pablo Vázquez has come to have

1:37coffee with history .

1:39Hello , it was a pleasure ,

1:40welcome , man . Hey there , dude .

1:42Thanks for coming over and

1:44inviting me .

1:44Pablo , who do you think should stay and

1:46listen to this podcast ? Well , I could

1:49tell you the typical people , the ones

1:51who have been learning English their

1:52whole life , right ? Anyone who wants to

1:55raise their standards and quality of

1:57life should listen to this , whether

1:59they're a manager , a businessperson , an

2:01employee , a company employee , even

2:03someone who wants to travel , anyone who

2:05wants to raise their status .

2:07Come on , yeah . Well , Pablo , you know

2:09that this podcast is about inspiring

2:10people to achieve their goals , each one

2:11with their own . And I think you have a

2:14very inspiring story because , damn , in

2:16the end you studied civil engineering

2:20and you talk more about

2:21languages

2:22and after studying a degree as

2:24difficult as civil engineering , you

2:26dedicate yourself to teaching other

2:28people to learn English , French ,

2:30Italian , German , languages , although

2:33you put more emphasis on English , but

2:35in the end they are languages . Exactly .

2:38Well ,

2:38for what you said before , right ? For

2:40better job opportunities , traveling

2:44abroad ,

2:44well , for a lot of things , right ? Which

2:46you'll tell us about now .

2:46Yes . Professionally , personally . That's

2:48how someone ends up dedicating

2:52themselves to this and teaching others

2:54to do it . And not only that , but you

2:56also speak more than 10 languages .

2:59How is all this possible , man ? I got to

3:01the point where I lost count . There

3:03came a point where I said , " I don't

3:04know anymore , but because they're all

3:05the same . Later , if you want , we can

3:07see why they're all the same . "

3:08But how did someone end up like that ?

3:09Well , really , no one knows . I mean ,

3:12you've had guests here who've told you

3:13that things happen and you don't know

3:15when , but they end up happening because

3:17for whatever reason the stars align and

3:19they arrive .

3:20And well , I followed a routine life ,

3:22the typical one where you first study

3:24at school , at university , and I

3:25realized that I didn't like that , that

3:27I liked something else . Languages .

3:29Languages . Mm .

3:30And that's where I ended up , in short ,

3:34how is it possible to end up speaking

3:37more than 10 languages ?

3:39Okay , you just

3:40said it , all languages are the same .

3:42Exactly . That's where the key lies .

3:44And starting with understanding how you

3:46speak

3:47your own native language . That's

3:49the key . Because understanding , let's

3:52just accept it now to start with , that

3:54all languages are the same . If you

3:56understand how you speak yours ,

3:57logically , you're going to find a

3:59relationship with any other language

4:02that's not your native one .

4:04And that's the key .

4:05Okay ? It would be great if as we talk

4:07about all this we could give examples

4:09to help people realize all this that

4:12for you is very obvious , but surely for

4:14many of the people listening to us it's

4:16something completely unknown .

4:18Okay , that sounds great to me . If you

4:19want , we can start now . Hey , go ahead .

4:21I can put a simpler sentence at first ,

4:22in quotes , maybe it's a sentence that

4:24you don't see until the third year of a

4:25typical English academy , and then we'll

4:27make it more complicated .

4:28We'll also talk about the educational

4:29system .

4:30Exactly . Okay , that sounds good to me .

4:31Okay , great . Okay ,

4:33because you say that all languages are

4:34the same . Let's check it out .

4:36Exactly . If you want , we can make the

4:38simplest comparison in the world , which

4:40is our native language and English . For

4:42example , if I tell you ,

4:43if I had a good teacher , I would learn

4:47English ,

4:49okay ? Let's take it one step at a time .

4:51If I had a good teacher , that's it .

4:53What's your analysis of this ? I mean ,

4:55how would you say it in English ? It's ,

4:57uh , if . If I had a good teacher , okay ?

5:01If I would have . Okay . Okay .

5:03A teacher .

5:05Okay , let's stop there .

5:06Okay .

5:06I would have . You said if I would have .

5:09And if I tell you that what you just

5:11said is if I would have a good teacher .

5:14No , no , I said if I had a good teacher .

5:16Okay .

5:16And this is perfect for checking that

5:18we learn languages by memorizing

5:20without reasoning what's behind it .

5:22Completely . What's

5:23more , if I would have is also said by a

5:25native speaker many times incorrectly .

5:28That's not if I had .

5:30What is if I had ? What is that " had " in

5:33Spanish without putting labels ? Would

5:36you be able to say it now ?

5:38What is that " had " ? It's the future ,

5:41right ? Or well , it's the future . Keep

5:42saying options because that's how you

5:44get to the ... I'm

5:44not going to say conditional , but the

5:45word doesn't come to me right now . It's

5:47not , no , no , it's not , man , the word

5:50doesn't come to me , but

5:51okay . Why ? Because you're looking for

5:53the label .

5:53Yes .

5:54Well , " had " , " had " , " comiera " , " comiese

5:56" , " viviera " , " viviese " . All that is

5:58past ,

5:59okay ? It's

6:00past

6:00and you have to know it exactly as it

6:02is . It's past . I could tell you that

6:04that's an imperfect subjunctive , I

6:05don't know what . I don't know if I'm

6:07even saying it right , uh , I don't

6:08remember it . It's past , period . " had " ,

6:10" had " , " comiera " , " comiese " .

6:12Okay .

6:13The first thing you have to know is

6:14that that's a past in our language .

6:15Note that we haven't even gotten into

6:17the problem with English yet , it's a

6:18problem with Spanish , of not

6:19understanding it .

6:20Okay , Tenía , is a past tense . What

6:23further analysis do you have for me on

6:24that ?

6:25If I Tenía , well , it's a hypothetical

6:29situation . Okay , let's get out of that

6:32context , let's just stick with the form

6:33of the word and that we already know

6:35that it's a past tense . How do we use

6:36it now ? That works to our advantage .

6:38It's a past tense , right ? Let's focus

6:40on the verbs . Now we'll see which words

6:42are more important than others , because

6:43indeed there are some that are more

6:44important than others , okay ?

6:46Tuviera , first we've already seen that

6:47it's a past tense , okay ? We just

6:48learned it , let's stick with it . What

6:50is the verb in its basic form ?

6:52Tener .

6:53Tener . Okay , that's the next analysis

6:55we have to do . Then all this comes out

6:57of nowhere , but at first we have to

6:58think about it .

6:59Present , past , future . We know it's

7:00past .

7:01Exactly . Exactly . And now we've found

7:03out what the verb is . That's the verb

7:05to have , right ? How do you say to have

7:06in English ?

7:07Have .

7:08Have . Perfect . But we've said it's a

7:11past tense . Hat .

7:13H. We already have it .

7:14Okay .

7:15How do you say it ? If I had , that's it .

7:17If I had .

7:18If I had . End of story . Okay , what this

7:23shows is that our problem isn't in the

7:25target language , our problem is in the

7:28native source language .

7:30In the native one . Why ? Because we've

7:32learned it by memorizing it . We'll talk

7:33about this properly now . And when you

7:35memorize it , you haven't understood it .

7:37When you want to switch to another

7:38language , you don't know what you're

7:40saying . Of course . If I would have , if

7:42I would have , there are people who say

7:44it like that , natives who say , " If I

7:45would have , a great pronunciation . "

7:47We'll talk about pronunciation later

7:48too . It's wrong . If I would have a good

7:52teacher . No , no . If I had , Perfect . If

7:55I had a good teacher .

7:56Okay .

7:57And now I would learn English . What's

8:00that ?

8:01I would learn is a conditional .

8:03Okay , we don't care about the label ,

8:05right ? Note that we haven't talked

8:06about learning the future .

8:07Aprendería is not the future .

8:09Aprendería ,

8:10because if it is the future , it is the

8:11same . It is the same as estaba . It is

8:13the same . It is past . So it

8:14is the same . Note , uh , where is the

8:16problem ? This is great because you

8:18speak English , which is the funny thing

8:19. It is great

8:20that you are a hick . Sure . Let's see .

8:22No , it is great because you already

8:24speak English in a normal everyday

8:26situation , but you have it memorized

8:27there . The moment you manage to

8:29understand it , it will come out much

8:31more fluently . Tuviera , tuviere has

8:33nothing to do with aprendería . What

8:35would be the equivalent in the verb

8:37aprender of Tenía or Tuviere ? The same

8:41verb form . Teníam

8:46aprendiera .

8:47Exactly . Aprendiera , aprendese . Now we

8:50have located the form , we already know

8:52what it is .

8:53So , it is not past . It is

8:54not past . We already know that . It is

8:56another verb form . That's what we need

8:58to know , that this is called a

8:59conditional . It doesn't matter to me ,

9:01it doesn't help me . I

9:02would learn , I would eat , I would live ,

9:04I would drink , all that as expressed in

9:06English . And I don't need labels . What

9:09do I have to put in front ?

9:10Will . No , it's the future . I will learn

9:12. You will learn . I will eat . No , I

9:15wouldn't learn . I

9:16would eat .

9:17W. No ,

9:17w . Now the W does appear .

9:19Yes .

9:20And we haven't called this a

9:21conditional because it's of no use to

9:23me . Now I would learn English . How do

9:26you say it ?

9:27I would learn . I would learn English .

9:31There you go . And you speak English .

9:34Well , imagine .

9:35Let's say I spoke . Okay , but you can

9:37hold your own , right ?

9:39And even so , you're not clear on ... look

9:41at these apparently simple concepts ,

9:43but which no one is clear about , and I

9:45wasn't either in my day .

9:47And how can we use this to our

9:49advantage ?

9:51Literal translation of one structure

9:54and another , mind you , not

9:55word-for-word translation , but

9:57translation at the level of

9:59equivalences . Like I do , I would learn ,

10:01I would learn or it would be learned by

10:03putting the word in front of the verb ,

10:05I would have , I would have , I would eat

10:07, I would eat , I know it is a past

10:09tense , I use the past tense . Had , in

10:11the case of had , equivalencies and

10:13word-by-word translation . If you want ,

10:15we can overwrite it later and put it .

10:17If I had a good teacher , tell me if

10:18that is not literal . If , yes , I , me .

10:22Had , had . E , a good , good teacher ,

10:26professor .

10:28That is the key . Translating word by

10:31word , because at a basic structural

10:33level it is very easy to speak any

10:35language . And then I would learn

10:39English . What is the difference between

10:41I would learn and aprendería between

10:43one language and another ? The

10:45construction , but the equivalence is

10:47the same .

10:48In Spanish we have verb conjugations ,

10:51that complicates our language a lot ,

10:53but in English putting a word in front

10:56of the for a past suffix .

10:58How do I say it ? I will learn . I will .

11:00I will learn . I will learn and he will

11:02learn . He will learn . We have a crazy

11:04language and there are others that are

11:06like that too , but in English you just

11:08put a little particle in front of the

11:09verb

11:10and that's it . And why do you think

11:12English is taught like this ? I don't

11:15know .

11:15How do you think English is taught ? I

11:17have no idea why this happens , but it

11:19happens with the entire educational

11:20system . We talked about it before . What

11:23happens ? People have a hard time

11:24changing . Imagine if one person had a

11:27hard time changing themselves . It's

11:29like changing an entire educational

11:31system , because this doesn't just

11:33happen with languages , this happens

11:35with any subject .

11:36Well , you are already aware of what we

11:37dedicate ourselves to when discussing

11:39history . Memorize thousands of dates ,

11:40thousands of names , thousands of

11:42characters from events that you're

11:43going to forget when you finish the

11:45exam . It's completely absurd . The same

11:47thing happens with English , right ?

11:48Because what you've

11:49always said , my memory is that in

11:51school you had to learn the present

11:53continuous , the simple future , the

11:55compound future , the past , the ... I mean

11:57, of

11:57course ,

11:58grammar is ultimately useful if we want

12:00to learn English . That's grammar , what

12:02you've said .

12:03Sure .

12:03And I'm passionate about grammar ,

12:06but because I already have that

12:07background and baggage behind me to say

12:08, " Okay , I understand what each thing

12:10is ,

12:10but it's not useful for learning .

12:12And I understand that the average

12:14person isn't prepared to memorize all

12:16those labels that don't go anywhere . Of

12:19what ? What is that ? Of the future

12:20compound , of the past perfect or of the

12:22present continuous . If all I want to

12:23know how to say is , I'm playing . Do I

12:25need to know that this is called the

12:27present continuous ? No , I'm playing .

12:31I'm playing . Literal translation into

12:32English . What is it like ? I am playing .

12:35I am playing . Verb to be . No , the test

12:38is for you to tell me what the verb is

12:40and conjugate it for me . I don't want

12:41to know that . I want to know how to use

12:43the verb chip in context . Well , just

12:45like it's used in Spanish . When do I

12:47use the verb chip ? When do I use the

12:49verb ser or estar in Spanish ? In most

12:51cases , of course , there are exceptions .

12:53But if what we want is to talk in a

12:55short time , Oh , [ __ ] , just keep it

12:57simple . Oh . And playing and we have a

13:00literal translation again .

13:01Mm , that's it .

13:03For someone who is starting from

13:04scratch

13:04or who wants to learn a language from

13:06scratch , in this case English , which is

13:08the one we are using as an example , if

13:09someone wants to learn English from

13:11scratch ,

13:12what is the best advice you could give

13:13them ?

13:14The best advice , learn Spanish from

13:16scratch . Exactly . Learn Spanish from

13:20scratch . We speak it , but we don't know

13:23how . If you don't know how to speak

13:26your own native language , as we have

13:28seen with two examples that we have

13:30just seen , they are 90 % identical , your

13:33goal is to first learn or understand

13:35what you already know so that you can

13:37then extrapolate it to something that

13:40is supposed to be new . Then you see

13:42that no , it is the same . You don't

13:44learn to multiply and divide before you

13:46learn to add and subtract , right ? It is

13:49impossible to learn English before

13:51learning Spanish . You can memorize it .

13:53Yes . Spend 30 , 40 years living in the

13:55country and in the end you speak it .

13:57Who has ? that time these days ? Nobody .

14:02Nobody . You're lost if you want to do

14:05that . That's where the frustration

14:06comes from , that you don't make any

14:06progress , you don't make any progress ,

14:07you don't make any progress . That's the

14:09problem .

14:10And instead , what do you think is the

14:11mistake that most people make when they

14:13start learning English ? That they

14:15memorize phrases . They memorize phrases

14:17or work with applications that give

14:19them incorrect translations , that

14:20aren't didactic and that don't help .

14:22Then we can also see some examples of

14:24this . Very specific examples , uh , of

14:26how a word is written in one way in one

14:28language , how you translate it to

14:30another and how that burns the brain .

14:33Because it burns it . If you don't give

14:36it a way to learn logic , which is how

14:38this works , by logic and reasoning ,

14:40you're lost .

14:41And above all , what happens to me

14:42sometimes is that I have to be thinking

14:44about what I want to say .

14:45Of course .

14:46So that exercise of , I mean , in the end

14:47it's very complicated to have a

14:49conversation like that because you

14:50spend more time thinking than talking .

14:52Exactly . You aren't

14:53listening to what the person is telling

14:54you , you're focused on what you'll

14:55You're going to answer . That's very

14:56difficult .

14:57But why do you spend so much time

14:59thinking ? That's the key question . Why

15:01do you think you spend so much time

15:03thinking in English , for example ? I

15:07don't

15:07know . In the end , when I'm speaking in

15:09English , you used the example before ,

15:11and I was thinking about ... I wasn't

15:12thinking about ... I mean , I was really

15:14just remembering how it was done .

15:16There we are . That's the question . You

15:18try to recall

15:20things that are lying around in some

15:22lost drawer

15:23and you bring them here , pa , and paste

15:24them .

15:25Instead of saying to yourself , " Okay ,

15:27what does " tiene " or " tibese " mean ?

15:28What does " aprendera " mean ? " When you

15:30think about it and think about it , it

15:32just comes out . Tell me now . If I had a

15:34good teacher , I would learn English .

15:36If I had a good teacher ,

15:37I would learn English . You're putting

15:39it here in a compromising way , man .

15:40No ,

15:40if I had , you know what

15:41if

15:43we said is past tense . So it's if I had

15:46if I had a good teacher .

15:48If I had a good teacher ,

15:49I would learn English . I will . I would

15:52learn English . Okay ,

15:55obviously you're saying again , " Wow ,

15:57such and such , " but you already have it

15:59,

15:59but you reconsider right away . "

16:00The reasoning is , damn it , tell him to

16:02wait .

16:03Speak slowly .

16:05Okay , let me think . That's all you need

16:08, time . And once you've thought and

16:10reasoned that , three , four , five times ,

16:12it comes to you on its own . But if you

16:14bring memorized things out of the

16:16drawer that you don't understand ,

16:18you're not going to be fluent in life .

16:20But in life it's impossible . It's

16:22possible . I mean , what do you think is

16:24the first change of mindset

16:26that we have to make when we want to

16:27learn English ? We've said it . And it's

16:29not to not remember , not to try to

16:31search for memory , but simply to

16:33translate .

16:33Exactly . Exactly . I

16:35mean , literally translating English

16:36into Spanish

16:37and using these little tricks that

16:38you've told us ,

16:39because I'd like us to go into more

16:41depth here . I mean , we're clear on the

16:42first step , which is to identify the

16:44verb . In this case , we haven't said

16:46which tenses are past , present , and

16:47future .

16:48From here ,

16:50how do we continue ? If it's future ,

16:52we've said that it has the will .

16:54Exactly .

16:56If it's past , For example , we haven't

16:58covered this yet .

16:58Okay , let's talk about the past . Now

17:00the future is will . We've already

17:02covered that before . Now the past . I'll

17:03tell you something even more important ,

17:05okay ? But the past . Fantastic . Let's

17:07focus now . Here we are on verbs . How is

17:10the past represented in English ? At a

17:12regular level . We haven't gone into

17:14irregularities because I'm not

17:16interested in exceptions and

17:17irregularities at first . How is the

17:19past represented in English ? You add

17:20the LD . That's

17:22a form , okay ? It's a form . It's two

17:25letters that are added there ,

17:26okay ? If I want to say I play , I say I

17:28play . If I want to say I played , what

17:31do I say ?

17:32I play it .

17:33I play it . Okay , then that D is

17:35pronounced however you want . Later

17:36we'll also talk about pronunciation

17:38because it's a hodgepodge and there are

17:40three fundamental parts that we'll

17:41review and revise later . An ed that you

17:43put at the end . However , in Spanish ,

17:46what ? I play , you go on . Did you

17:48play ?

17:49He .

17:49played .

17:50Keep going , keep going .

17:51We play , uh , I played . Uh , we play , we

17:53play , which also coincides with the

17:54present .

17:55Sure , sure , sure .

17:56You played ,

17:57you played , they played . It's really

17:58complicated .

17:59It's torture for a foreigner ,

18:00especially an Englishman

18:02who lacks all of this .

18:03I played , you played , he played , played

18:05.

18:05Much easier .

18:05Everything is the same . The past tense

18:07is already identified . Fantastic .

18:10That's it . You don't need anything else

18:13. Then there are regularities ,

18:15fantastic . You don't say I tookd

18:16anymore , you say I took . I'll learn

18:19them later . In the end , they're such

18:21common verbs that I'm going to learn

18:23them no matter what , but I have to

18:25first understand how I'm speaking in my

18:26language and know that I'm saying I

18:28played or I took .

18:30First , know what tense I'm speaking in .

18:32Now , having said all this , speaking of

18:34the future , of the past ,

18:35I can communicate in any language by

18:37speaking in only one tense .

18:39Which one ? Present .

18:41Present . If I know how to use the

18:44present in any language , I can speak in

18:46the future using the present and speak

18:48in the past using the present .

18:51Okay ? Since

18:52you work with history in 1000 , when did

18:55Columbus discover America , remind me ,

18:59uh , 1492. In 1492 , Columbus

19:01discovered America .

19:02He discovered America , right ? What am I

19:05using there ? A context , an adverb , I

19:07don't care what you call it , a past

19:09tense and I'm using a present tense .

19:14How do I say it in the future ? I don't

19:17have to say tomorrow to London .

19:19I discover America .

19:21I discover America tomorrow after

19:22Columbus , for example , with flying . I

19:24don't have to say tomorrow I will fly

19:26to London . I can use a present tense , I

19:28will fly to London tomorrow .

19:30The same happens in English and in any

19:32other language you come across .

19:34Tomorrow I fly to London .

19:36Sure , directly .

19:37And it's present tense . That's it .

19:39Hm . No more

19:40problems . You see what a problem it is

19:43to put a well now , now .

19:44In front of a verb .

19:45Or an ide at the end .

19:46Sure . I mean , my level in English is

19:48high . I'll upload it really quickly ,

19:49really quickly , like this . But I can

19:51use the present tense .

19:54If you started learning a language from

19:56scratch , you would begin with the

19:57present tense .

19:58Exactly . The present tense . And three

20:01important verb forms , okay ? They are

20:03not conjugations . The er ir . I could

20:05tell you the infinitive , the gerund ,

20:07and participle . Okay , and I've already

20:08told you . To you , that's something like

20:10etiquette , it's

20:11useless .

20:12To feel smarter because you know

20:13grammar .

20:14Sure , to ...

20:15But to communicate , to make

20:16it cool . All I need to know is how to

20:18say it in a language . Ar , er , ir . I'm

20:21going and hearing . Those are the forms

20:25I need . That ar , er , ir . How is it

20:27represented in English ? comer , jugar ,

20:30vivir . Tu , to . That's the only

20:33difference there is . To live , to eat ,

20:35to play . It's not just live , eat , play ,

20:38no , put the che in front and that's the

20:40r . That's what people have told me many

20:42times on social media , but There are

20:43exceptions , such as , many times it's

20:44ING . Forget about exceptions . What

20:46you're asking me is how do I start

20:48speaking

20:49so that I can communicate in the

20:50shortest possible time .

20:51Yes . Then you'll learn , you'll do the

20:53tricks . But exactly , you start there .

20:55Exactly . And ando yendo , how is it

20:57represented in English ? ing playing

21:00eating

21:01going and eladoído

21:05ed

21:06ed if it's regular ed

21:08okay

21:08if it's irregular then we would enter

21:11that famous table that

21:12is used for past tense verbs that don't

21:14follow the rule fantastic . The time

21:17will come to see it . Now is not the

21:19time you

21:21need more ar ir . Andoyendo and hás

21:23escucha . Now what you need is context .

21:27When do I use ar ir ?

21:29When do I use the word vivir or jugar

21:33or comer ? When ? I mean , I need context

21:35there .

21:36Really very little , very little . There

21:40is no

21:41use . Uh , if I want to say I want to

21:43play , I'm

21:44already using jugar , right ?

21:46Okay ,

21:46let's say it in English now .

21:48I want to play . That's it . I don't say

21:50I want to play . Why do people say I

21:52want ? play because they don't

21:54understand what that R is .

21:55Sure , the R is the tú .

21:56Sure .

21:57If it's not like you would be saying , "

21:59I want to hug ,

22:00I want to hug , right ? Or I want to play

22:02. " Who knows , there's no direct

22:04translation in that case , but you're

22:06not saying it right

22:07when the translation is actually the

22:09same , it's not literal , but it is

22:11equivalent . We look for equivalencies ,

22:13that's super important ,

22:14okay ? And the ando vando , I don't go

22:17around saying I'm playing or I'm

22:19wanting , right ? How do you say it ? I am

22:21playing .

22:22Exactly . I say , I'm playing . That ando

22:25vando accompanies another verb form

22:26that's in front of it . Fantastic . You

22:29saw , right ?

22:29But it's a literal translation . The ch

22:30is a literal translation .

22:31I am playing .

22:32And the heard side . I don't go around

22:35saying , " I have played , I have lived . "

22:38What do I say ?

22:39I have lived .

22:39What is that ?

22:40The have .

22:41The have . But if I don't even know what

22:43it is in Spanish , which is the

22:45auxiliary verb haber and the label

22:46doesn't matter to me , I don't

22:48know how to translate it into English .

22:50Yo ha juego , tú has juego , él ha

22:51juego . I have played . You have played .

22:55He has played . It has its conjugation ,

22:57have , but I understand what it is . And

22:59the translation , as you can see , is

23:00word for word . I already have the

23:03context . So , how do I start ? By

23:05learning these three things and knowing

23:07how to use the present tense , to give

23:09your people the present tense here .

23:11There is only one conjugation mark in

23:13English , it only occurs in the present

23:15and in the third person . How do you say

23:16it ? He plays .

23:18He plays .

23:19What happened there ?

23:20We put an s . That's it .

23:22Just like we say yo , how do you say tú

23:24comes , come , comemos , all those verb

23:26endings ? In English there is only one

23:28that is in the third person and only in

23:30the present

23:31and end . Yes , in the past it is in the

23:34past it is the same

23:36for everyone . It's all over . And this

23:38is not grammar . Whoever says that this

23:40is grammar has a conceptual error

23:42because these are not equivalencies . We

23:44haven't

23:45talked about this , we haven't even

23:46talked about verb tenses beyond past ,

23:47present and future .

23:48Zero . That's all you need to know . Yes .

23:51Knowing how to recognize that verb form

23:53in your language so that you can

23:54automatically translate it to another .

23:56And we're talking about this in English

23:58and it's the example that we'll use

24:00throughout the interview because it's

24:02perhaps the most difficult for us

24:03Spanish speakers , of the most widely

24:05spoken , but this dynamic can really be

24:07applied to any language ,

24:08any language and in fact in many

24:10languages all this doesn't exist as

24:13such and you have to use other types of

24:15particles or words to give it that

24:17sense of saying I'm playing . For

24:20example , in Chinese you have to say , "

24:22I'm playing now

24:23in Chinese , a language that people say ,

24:25oh my goodness , the little symbols ,

24:26such and such . Then if you want we can

24:28talk about it , but it's even , but it's

24:30even easier

24:31because there's no specific ending for

24:33the language . "

24:34Exactly . Even easier

24:37than English .

24:38How interesting . And why , in the end ,

24:39of course , the question that arises for

24:41me is , why do they teach us in school ?

24:44Present continuous and the present

24:46continuous table for each verb , the

24:47lists , the endless lists of vocabulary ,

24:50because we have said that in the end ,

24:52what do we want ? I mean , we don't leave

24:54school or want to learn English to be

24:56philologists ,

24:58right ? Of the English language . In the

24:59end , what we want is , damn it , to be

25:01able to speak English , to be able to

25:02conduct conversations , to be able to do

25:04a job interview in English , to be able

25:06to talk to people in English , for work ,

25:07because we travel there , for whatever

25:09reason . So , why do they force us to

25:12cram endless lists

25:14of everything ? Vocabulary , verbs ,

25:16irregularities , etc. , which the most

25:18normal thing , as you have said , is that

25:20in most cases we don't even use them in

25:23life ,

25:23right ? It doesn't make sense , because

25:26in my opinion , because it's the easy

25:27thing to do , hey , how do I prepare for

25:29tomorrow's class ? I print out 80 lists

25:30here , give them to the students and

25:32tell them there's a test tomorrow . And

25:35that's the easy part . Now , it's not the

25:37teacher's fault . In fact , I hope many

25:39teachers watch this interview , as I've

25:41seen in others , and are aware of the

25:43sacrilege of giving a list of words to

25:45a child , and I'm not even talking about

25:48adults , to a kid so they can memorize

25:50them without further ado . I mean , just

25:52knowing vocabulary for the sake of it

25:54does not let you speak a language . You

25:57need to know the verbal structure of

25:58that language . And that's learned in

26:00the time it took us .

26:0120 minutes .

26:01Nothing . Yes .

26:02And in less . Speaking of children , the

26:05other day Sara showed me

26:07a video of her cousin's son

26:12who I think is 4 or 5 years old .

26:14Cuos .

26:15Well , he was counting the numbers , I

26:17don't want to get it wrong , but

26:19something like in English , in German ,

26:22in Indonesia

26:24and I don't know if in French or

26:25another language , okay ? Or well , in

26:26Spanish , of course , right ? But in all

26:28these languages . It's

26:30true that children learn languages

26:32faster . Yes , it's true . Okay . Now , to

26:37say that a child is more intelligent

26:39than an adult , that is not total

26:41nonsense . I mean , it's impossible for a

26:44child to be smarter than an adult by

26:45definition . How long have we been

26:47learning and knowing things ? Of course ,

26:50but even so , the dumbest adult in the

26:53world

26:54is smarter than a 4 - year-old . It's

26:57another thing for a child to have

26:58intuition . But do you know what

26:59differentiates a child from an adult ? A

27:02child is excited to learn and improve

27:06every day , and an adult

27:08is a blank slate , right ? They come with

27:10all these biases that those who have

27:11already taught us English badly ,

27:13because how they teach you English , I

27:14mean , English is taught badly . That's

27:16how it is , we're seeing it now because

27:17of how you're saying it , right ?

27:19All of us who already have these

27:22biases or a somewhat conventional way

27:24of teaching in mind , when we want to

27:25continue learning , well , in the end ,

27:27it's very difficult for us to adopt

27:29these new ways that you're talking

27:30about . You know ? Because we come with a

27:32burden and the child , in the end ,

27:34doesn't have this burden .

27:35So everything they learn ,

27:36I mean , is in a much more effective way

27:39, as you're saying .

27:41Of course , because they are open to

27:42everything and say , " Okay , look , if

27:44he's telling me this , I believe it and

27:46I'll learn it . " Not us , we come with

27:48hidden vices . This is done this way

27:50because it has to be done this way .

27:52Later we'll talk about a topic that has

27:54generated much controversy , and since

27:56you break the pattern , he seems foreign

27:58and scary , so I don't do it . It's our

28:00problem . The adults ' . Not the child ,

28:03the child is excited every day to be a

28:05better version of himself . Every day ,

28:06until , I don't know , 9 , 10 years old , I

28:09don't know to what point one stops

28:11saying ... That's it .

28:12Yes , yes , yes , yes . Because then , for

28:15example , Pablo , once we understand

28:17that conventional teaching methods for

28:21learning languages and many other

28:22subjects , but in this case , which is

28:24what we are dedicated to learning

28:25languages , do not work . Once we have

28:28that integrated , we have to see what

28:29verb tense is to translate literally

28:31with those little tricks that you have

28:32given us .

28:33What next step can we include to

28:35continue learning and to be able to

28:37communicate better with the aim of

28:39speaking with other people and

28:40understanding each other ?

28:42Okay , here we enter the vocabulary part

28:44.

28:45First I have detected what is going to

28:48allow me to speak , even fluently , and

28:50now what I need is to learn those key

28:53words ,

28:54okay ? that are going to allow me to

28:55have that fluency in speech , which are ,

28:58and we have already seen this before ,

29:00what words ?

29:00Verbs .

29:01Verbs . Now , 2,000 million verbs or how

29:04many , how many do you think we need

29:06verbs ? Yes .

29:07To start speaking .

29:08To start .

29:10Action verbs . Well , all verbs are

29:12action verbs by definition , but

29:13a number . Say a number . I don't

29:15know . Let's say 200 , 300. That's it .

29:19Even with less , even with 20 typical

29:22verbs , be , have , can . That's it . You

29:25could use 200. You have a whole range

29:27of things and tools to use whenever you

29:29want , because English is very easy to

29:32use . There are no conjugations , man .

29:33Yeah , I

29:34just have to learn that word , but no .

29:37At school they give me 1000 , 2000 ,

29:383000. The irregular ones , learn them

29:40already . No , man , it's much easier .

29:43Words . And here we come to the second

29:46pillar . The first one we saw is

29:47reasoning .

29:48Yes ,

29:48vital .

29:50This second one would be vocabulary , I

29:51would even put it in third place . I

29:52think the second most important pillar

29:54is pronunciation .

29:55Okay .

29:56Why would you tell me that

29:57pronunciation is important ? There are

29:59many people who don't bother to

30:00pronounce a language correctly .

30:01Well , because in the end it's like

30:04speaking a different language . If you

30:06do not pronounce it as the language

30:07demands , you will not be able to

30:09communicate with a native speaker

30:10because they will not understand .

30:11Exactly . What happens in communication ?

30:14If you don't pronounce it well , they

30:15won't understand you .

30:16Of course , that's for

30:17sure . And are you going to understand

30:19them ?

30:19Well , probably not either .

30:21How ? If you haven't taught your brain

30:23how to do this that we have here , which

30:24we'll discuss now , how that sound

30:26sounds , how that sound is reproduced ,

30:28how you expect to understand , you're

30:30speaking

30:30two different languages .

30:31Of course ,

30:32even if you're trying to speak the same

30:34language , they won't understand you .

30:36Therefore , communication is useless .

30:38Everything we've said so far , all the

30:39tricks you've mentioned ,

30:41are useless

30:42if the other person doesn't understand

30:43you .

30:43You use the same example . If instead of

30:45saying I am playing in a near-native

30:47pronunciation , you say I am playing ,

30:50the native speaker won't understand you

30:52. And if you've memorized it like this ,

30:54you've learned it like this , when the

30:55native tells you I'm playing , what

30:56you're going to hear is noise .

30:58Of course ,

30:58because there's no nasality , you're not

31:00pronouncing the consonants correctly ,

31:02you don't

31:03know what noise is coming from there .

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31:23for now . How can we pronounce English

31:25and any other language well ? By

31:27learning how to place this . You have

31:31lips and everything , teeth , tongue ,

31:34vocal cords .

31:36Any human being is capable of

31:38reproducing any sound that is generated

31:40with all these elements ,

31:42okay ?

31:42Why does a Chinese child born in China

31:44speak perfect Chinese or a German child

31:47speaks perfect in Germany or French in

31:49France ?

31:50Why do we say it's not that my

31:51pronunciation is bad ? Where does the

31:53problem really lie ? This is innate .

31:57Everyone has this . Let's put aside the

32:00problems that people may have with

32:02something here ,

32:03okay ? But the average person has all

32:05these elements . They learn how to use

32:08them , learn how to position their

32:11tongue , their teeth , how to expel air ,

32:14all that can be learned . Why don't we

32:17use it and why doesn't anyone teach us ?

32:20I don't understand it . To me it's vital

32:22. And I would leave vocabulary in third

32:24place . The first and second pillar is

32:27reasoning ,

32:28reasoning

32:29and , hand in hand , pronunciation .

32:31Because if you don't pronounce well ,

32:32reasoning is useless , you're not

32:34speaking the language .

32:35Pronunciation is more important than

32:37vocabulary . A

32:38thousand times more . I would even put

32:41pronunciation in the foreground , but of

32:43course , you need a minimum structure to

32:45start speaking .

32:46And that's reasoning .

32:48Exactly .

32:48Okay . So , how can we articulate all

32:50this that we have here ? To speak

32:52English more like a native , or so that

32:54a native can understand us better .

32:55By copying exactly the position and

32:59shape of the

33:00native speaker's mouth . There you have

33:03it .

33:03How do you say it in English ? Think .

33:05Let's be aware of this .

33:06Think .

33:07Think . Okay , that th people don't know

33:11how it works . What's going on there ?

33:13How does that Z sound ? No ,

33:15Z. Okay , and now let's go to the shape

33:18of our mouth and where each of these

33:21elements are placed . Where are they ?

33:23Okay , the teeth . Tongue and teeth .

33:26What's

33:26happening ? What's involved here ? Teeth

33:28and tongue . Okay . What's their relative

33:30position ? How are they placed ?

33:32Okay .

33:33Think .

33:33Okay .

33:34Think .

33:35Where are they ?

33:36The tongue touches the top of the

33:38denture .

33:39The top . Let's be more specific there .

33:41Think . If I say think .

33:44Think . Think ,

33:46the tongue is between the teeth , right ?

33:47Well , yes , that's the first thing . Yes ,

33:49you see it .

33:49Yes , yes .

33:50We're not aware of it and it's a simple

33:52sound .

33:53Yes ,

33:53just like Z.

33:54Z ,

33:55zebra is the same position .

33:57Why would someone have a hard time

33:58pronouncing that ? They just have to put

34:00their tongue between their teeth . Think

34:03,

34:03think . That's

34:03it .

34:05How do I say take ? People say take .

34:08It's not take in English . I would say

34:12take .

34:12Okay , now make it more native . What do

34:15they do to sound like they do ? Well ,

34:17they

34:18don't say take , they don't

34:19say take . What just happened there ? It

34:22sounds silly , but this is very powerful

34:24. I

34:25mean , you said before , the example you

34:27gave when it was wrong , ch , let's say ,

34:29shake . It's like take . That

34:31take .

34:33Stick your tongue to your roof .

34:34Something has happened there that

34:36stands out above all else . To tell me

34:38take , you say take .

34:40Take .

34:41What is it ? What phenomenon is there

34:43that just appeared ? Do you see how we

34:45are not aware ? You have seen it , put

34:46your hand in front of you and say , "

34:48Take ,

34:48take . " What happened ? You

34:49exhale , that's it . And that's the

34:52biggest difference between English and

34:54Spanish . We say take

34:57and car ,

34:58not care .

34:59Take ,

35:00take . The air comes out , do you see ?

35:02And it's silly , but since no one tells

35:04you , you've been pronouncing it wrong

35:06your whole life .

35:07And it's a ridiculous detail . Sure , you

35:10say , " Seriously , they're not going to

35:12teach you this in school . " Well , they

35:13don't teach it to you . They expect you

35:15to develop it by pure science .

35:17Well , I also studied at the British

35:22Council . I

35:23went every afternoon , two days a week ,

35:25for two or three hours . Apart from the

35:27fact that it was a total drag ,

35:29or for me it was a total drag , maybe

35:30there were people who had a good time ,

35:32which I'll never understand . For me it

35:33was a total drag . And honestly , I

35:35didn't learn . Well , let's see , I don't

35:37know if I learned much or not . I don't

35:38think so , I didn't learn much ,

35:40but because , I mean , everything you're

35:42telling me , uh ,

35:44come on , it's new to me . But how long

35:46did it take us to learn this ?

35:47No , I don't know how long it took us .

35:4825 minutes , half an hour . It's just

35:51that if we put it in less , you have it

35:53because there are four things counted

35:55and more with English because for some

35:57reason 95 % of people speak it better or

35:59worse , but they do speak it . That's

36:01because it's the easiest language in

36:03the world

36:03and that's why it's the vehicular

36:05language and the one that everyone uses

36:06.

36:06More than in Spanish , of course , with

36:07all these cases that you just mentioned

36:09, come on , it's very clear . I mean , if

36:10right now it were a foreigner who spoke

36:12Spanish , it would be much more

36:13complicated

36:14than the other way around . Of course ,

36:15now we're working on it , uh , seeing how

36:17to turn this around . Well , I would tell

36:19him that the first few days he should

36:20only use the r ,

36:22I to eat , I to go , I to live and that's

36:25it . I can't complicate his life with

36:27conjugations from the first day . He'll

36:29go crazy

36:30because the goal is to communicate , to

36:33convey what you want to say . Well ,

36:36start with the easy part ,

36:37so you are understood . And for that , as

36:39you said , reasoning is necessary .

36:40Pronunciation has been made clear . We

36:42have also seen that in the vocabulary

36:44section ,

36:45the first words we have to learn are

36:47100 , 200 verbs . That's it , even less ,

36:50but that should get you started .

36:53After the verbs , what would be the next

36:55pillar ? Would it still be vocabulary or

36:58would there be another layer ?

37:01There is a single word that can be used

37:03to represent anything and I'm already

37:05saying it . What word is it ? I want to

37:10refer to this , or this , this thing ,

37:13this thing . And then you can ask , " Hey ,

37:15how do you say this ? How do you say

37:17this in English ? " Mike , perfect ,

37:20but I don't need more . That comes from

37:23daily practice . I don't need to learn

37:26vocabulary , nouns , things , anything . Do

37:29you understand ? Yes .

37:29And like adverbs , links . There is a

37:31single two-letter word that works for

37:33everything . Elque , therefore . So ,

37:36that's it . But no , people , but why

37:42don't you need that to start ? Do it

37:44later if you want , but don't beat

37:46yourself up . You just

37:47need verbs to speak . That's it . If you

37:50press me , the subjects , because of

37:52course , since there are no conjugations

37:53in English , I need to say who I'm

37:55talking about . Ah , you , that's it . But

37:58you don't need anything else , man .

37:59Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah . Anyway . For

38:01example , something I force myself to do

38:03, I used to work , I worked in an

38:05international English team . Yeah .

38:08When I left that company , my English

38:09disappeared and I started doing

38:11business , blah , blah , blah , blah , blah ,

38:12blah . And I understand English

38:14perfectly . I watch videos in English , I

38:15can watch movies in English perfectly .

38:18Um , I can read English , more slowly ,

38:20but I can read English , but when I

38:21start talking , it's much harder for me ,

38:24right ? What happens ? I say at those

38:27times , I say , well , I'll put on the

38:30series , it's

38:31harder for me , but I try to put them on

38:32in English ,

38:33okay ? Uh , here comes the

38:36issue of subtitles .

38:36Famous issue . That's

38:39how we should use subtitles if we watch

38:41a series or a movie in English .

38:42Okay . My recommendation is to always

38:45use subtitles . Alright , now , what is it

38:48that everyone does ? What is it that

38:50they always do ? Use them in what

38:52language ?

38:53In Spanish .

38:53In Spanish . And the audio ? In English ,

38:56right ? Do you think you learn that way ?

38:59I don't

39:00know . We're going to go over it

39:02quickly , okay ? And I also encourage

39:04everyone to try it . First question , and

39:06this is what we've talked about before ,

39:09since it's new , since no one has told

39:10you before , for whatever reason it

39:12scares me and I don't want to do it

39:14because I learned English the other way

39:16. Advice , never ever . Okay , I hope it

39:22is perfectly clear that you must never

39:24use Spanish subtitles because you will

39:27destroy the way your brain functions ,

39:29all right ? If you're listening to

39:31English and you don't have a good level

39:33of English and you put a subtitle below

39:36in Spanish , where's your attention

39:37going to go ? It's going to

39:39go to the subtitle .

39:39To the Spanish subtitle . You're only

39:41going to hear noise in English . Yes .

39:43Okay . Ideally , everything should be in

39:45English , audio and subtitle ,

39:47okay ? To see the direct equivalence

39:48between what I'm listening to and what

39:50I'm reading .

39:51But what if I don't have a good level

39:52of English ?

39:54How do I learn English ? The only way is

39:57to put on the audio in Spanish so that

40:00your brain is already relaxed ,

40:01understanding everything it's hearing ,

40:04but at the same time you're reading the

40:06structure of English below .

40:08English subtitle .

40:09English subtitle . In

40:11other words , subtitles .

40:12Spanish subtitle ,

40:14regardless of the language . Subtitles .

40:17In English ,

40:18regardless of the language , right ? Be

40:20careful , it depends on the target

40:21language you're learning .

40:22I mean in the case of Spanish or

40:24English ,

40:24okay ?

40:25Always English subtitles ,

40:26always .

40:27If you don't know , if you don't know ,

40:29to recap , if you don't know English and

40:30you want to learn English , apart from

40:32listening to this podcast until the end

40:33,

40:34what you have to do is subscribe ,

40:37of course , to the newsletter , because

40:39we have a little gift prepared , right ,

40:40Pablo ? Exactly . Yes , yes . The 200

40:43little words that we are talking about .

40:45I promise to ...

40:47Well , Pablo is going to give us a list

40:48there so that all those who are

40:49starting to speak English from scratch ,

40:51well , you have them there . Those who

40:52already know English also have some

40:53surprises that we haven't thought of ,

40:55so we are not going to tell you , but

40:56you also have some surprises that will

40:57be useful to you . And , of course , as

40:59you know : our newsletter , where every

41:00week I personally send you a piece of

41:02advice that will help you achieve your

41:04goals , because that's what this podcast

41:06is about . Personal advice , either from

41:08my companies or from the guests who

41:10come here , many of whom , well , all have

41:13a lot of knowledge and experience to

41:15contribute that will help you . With

41:18that aside , we were talking about

41:21subtitles . If I don't know any English

41:24and I want to start learning English ,

41:25in addition to what we've said ,

41:28what I have to do is put on the English

41:30subtitles

41:30with the Spanish audio .

41:32Exactly . In

41:33order to be able to follow along , right

41:34?

41:34In order to be able to see , to be able

41:36to see the equivalence , okay ? Mind you ,

41:38not the translation , because many

41:39people say , " But it never matches . "

41:41It's impossible ,

41:42okay ? Making what you're listening

41:44match what you're reading , the

41:45translations that are made , is another

41:47issue . Because that's a matter of

41:49voiceover and dubbing where you have to

41:51fit the mouth , the sounds match and you

41:53adapt and fix it , but the meaning , the

41:55context in the end has to be the same .

41:58Therefore , you don't need literalness

42:01between what you hear and what you read

42:02. You need the context to be the same .

42:05And your goal , and this is what we work

42:07on in class , is for you to understand

42:09the written structure of English ,

42:10okay ? You are already understanding

42:12Spanish , it is effortless , you do it

42:14naturally . Now understand what is

42:15written there in English , because most

42:18of the time it won't match , but you are

42:20seeing a native structure in English .

42:22Learn that and start looking for those

42:25equivalencies . It is possible that in

42:27the audio you are listening to a

42:29present tense and in English you are

42:31seeing a well or you hear a future

42:32tense and they put a down . Okay , the

42:34translation is not literal , but the

42:36equivalency is what will allow you to

42:38understand what you are reading and

42:40understand the structure of the

42:42language . This is vital because if you

42:45don't end up reading Spanish . There are

42:47many people who tell me , " I learned

42:49English like this , listening to English

42:51and subtitles in Spanish

42:52and I've been like this for 30 years . "

42:53It's true .

42:5430 years .

42:5530 years . Okay , of course , of course .

42:56That's where the problem lies . 30 years

42:58.

42:58Nowadays , who has 30 years to do that ?

43:01Or who has started when they were

43:02little , hey , perfect , good for you . But

43:04try this because you are going to flip

43:05out . That's how I do it , with English

43:08and any other language . I

43:09mean , the one thing that has become

43:10clear to me is that you must never ,

43:12under any circumstances , set the

43:13subtitles to be in Spanish .

43:14Never . Never in Spanish . You'll mess up

43:16the mechanics of your brain .

43:18Never do that .

43:19Funny , man . Well , look , I'm the first

43:21one , huh ? Who did it . Of course .

43:23Very good .

43:24Okay , now we have the outline , I'm

43:26having it super hard in my head .

43:28How to speak English well or how to

43:31learn a language correctly in the

43:32shortest time possible

43:34with the goal of communicating .

43:36The first thing we've already said was

43:38that reasoning along with the

43:39pronunciation that you know how to

43:41pronounce hand in hand .

43:42Vocabulary . We start with the verbs .

43:45Then , uh , thing .

43:48Yes , we start with the verbs and end

43:50with the verbs . I mean , regarding those

43:52things , I ask how do you say this in

43:54English . That's it . You ask the person

43:56how to say this , whatever you need , and

43:58you know it .

43:59How to watch series ? How to watch

44:00movies properly so as not to burden the

44:02mechanics of the brain and to

44:04effectively learn whether we are

44:05starting from scratch or if we want to

44:07improve our English ?

44:08Ex . In addition to this , I think there

44:11is another issue that worried me ,

44:13because when they are not learning and

44:16it works by contagion , and the issue of

44:18job interviews , man , because I knew

44:20that at some point in the job interview

44:23the

44:24English was going to change at any

44:25moment , you know ? Because they also

44:27warned you , hey , you know that at some

44:28point I am suddenly going to start

44:29speaking in English , so of course , here

44:31I was really freaked out because I

44:32thought , [ __ ] , what if they don't ask

44:33me what I haven't prepared for and such

44:35and such . So , for all those people

44:37listening to us who have to , well , now

44:39we'll talk about something else that

44:41I'm not going to reveal yet ,

44:43but for all those people listening to

44:44us who have an interview coming up or

44:46are looking for a job and know that

44:48they're going to be asked English

44:50because they always ask English ,

44:52what advice could you give them to

44:53prepare for this in the best possible

44:55way and above all to overcome that fear

44:57? You said it , you have to prepare .

45:01There you go . The question now is , how

45:03do I prepare for that ? What typical

45:05questions do they ask you in an

45:06interview in English ? What are they ?

45:08Hey , why do you want this job ? What are

45:11your strengths ? Uh , your weaknesses

45:13that you're good at , they're always the

45:15same . It's obvious , man . Prepare for

45:17that . Prepare for that . Now we're back

45:21to the same thing . How do I prepare for

45:23those structures or those questions ?

45:25What do I do ? Do I memorize the phrases

45:28? Would you do it like that ?

45:29No , not now .

45:30Of course , I did

45:30before . I used to do it like that ,

45:32actually ,

45:32and everyone else does it ,

45:33and that's why it scared me , because

45:35since I was relying on memory , I mean ,

45:36if someone asks me something I haven't

45:38memorized , I might mess it up .

45:39Exactly .

45:40I learn a sentence that I want to say

45:42and since I don't understand it , I've

45:43simply memorized it , how do I bring it

45:45back to my head later ? I forget . And

45:48what happens to people ? Blank paper .

45:51[ __ ] , that's it . You have to have a

45:53clear structure in your head and you

45:55can say whatever you want , whatever ,

45:57but if you don't have that clear

45:59structure , you're going to go blank and

46:01you're going to get blocked . In other

46:04words , preparing the questions that are

46:05always the same . We can also add a

46:07little humor in there if we want ,

46:08because that always relieves tension ,

46:10okay ?

46:11But hey , worry about understanding how

46:13the language works at a basic level

46:15first . We saw it today at the beginning

46:17, there are four things . Keep that

46:19clear and the tension will

46:20automatically go down from here to here

46:22. You're always going to be a little

46:23nervous .

46:23Well , that's inevitable , right ? But in

46:25the end , you gain that confidence in

46:27knowing that , no matter what they ask

46:28you , if you know this , if you know what

46:30we've covered , these keys , these , this

46:32step-by-step process that we've

46:34revealed here , it's not that

46:35complicated . Let's say ,

46:37if you want , we can also send your

46:39people a video where I explain the

46:40seven typical questions that they

46:41always ask you and how to prepare for

46:43each one of them . Go ahead , tell us

46:45some and we'll send the rest to those

46:47who subscribe .

46:48Tell us some . Well , it's just a matter

46:51of having a bit of humor too and hey ,

46:53what works for you ? Or why do you want

46:55this position ?

46:57Something as simple as that never fails

46:59. Why do you want this ? Well , that's

47:01obvious , that's obvious , but the truth

47:03is that there are many people who

47:04didn't even prepare for it or anything .

47:06Why do you want this position ? And then

47:08they often asked me , tell me about a

47:10situation , well , let's give an example ,

47:12right ? If you're applying for a

47:13managerial position ,

47:14a manager has to have leadership .

47:16Sure .

47:17If you have to manage people , and when

47:18you manage people , leadership is

47:20essential . Sure .

47:21So I remember someone asked me , " Tell

47:23me about a situation in which you

47:26showed leadership ,

47:27for example . " It's that

47:28simple . You have to have

47:29a super open-ended question at the end ,

47:30right ?

47:31Sure , but the more open-ended it is ,

47:33the better for you , because you can

47:35always go off on a tangent and answer

47:37something different or related , but it

47:40will always lead you to the same thing .

47:42You've already thought about this at

47:44home , a situation in which you've shown

47:46leadership . Well , who knows ? Well , look

47:48, I helped my friend when I don't know

47:50what . It's like , " help my friend when I

47:53was 20 years old . " It's just that I

47:56don't really

47:56need anything else ,

47:57but it's not even necessary to ask

47:59these questions because in the end ,

48:00it's as simple as applying what we're

48:01already talking about .

48:02And I'll go further . Perfect . You've

48:04prepared seven questions . Great . The

48:07moment you pronounce almost like a

48:09native , tell me what happens in that

48:11interview .

48:12They automatically assume

48:14that you already speak English and cut

48:15it off . Yes ,

48:16but if you say , " When I was young , uh ,

48:20I think it was good . " That's when it

48:22continues to impress you .

48:24Sure , sure , sure .

48:25But if you simply start with that

48:26sentence , well , it doesn't

48:28last as long as expected . That's it .

48:30Why ? Because by doing this , you're

48:32practically going to have a higher

48:34level than your interviewer , at least

48:36in terms of pronunciation . The

48:37interviewer gets scared and

48:39automatically says , " Okay , okay , let's

48:41continue . The interview in English is

48:44over and you may know 200 words , but

48:46you also pronounce that it's done .

48:49Yes , check . That's it , check .

48:52No , no , great . I want to talk about

48:55your academy , Pablo , because you also

48:56have the language and communication

48:58academy , which is Payb Learn . You have

49:01already helped hundreds of students ,

49:05let's say , thousands ,

49:06thousands , even

49:07thousands of students who have passed

49:08through your academy

49:09with a promise of fraud .

49:12Yes , yes , it's a total scam

49:14and it means you can learn English or

49:17any other language .

49:18Yeah .

49:19In 30 days . Of course , I hear this

49:21because I know you and I know that the

49:22fraud thing is a joke , obviously , and I

49:24know that's how it is ,

49:26but there are people who might hear ,

49:27learn English in 30 days and the good

49:29thing is they're going to say , " Here

49:31comes the fraud , this guy , he sells

49:32courses

49:33and he only wants my money and this is

49:34worthless , it's another internet scam .

49:36" Exactly .

49:37What would you say to all those people

49:40who might come to consider that ? And

49:42why is it legitimate for them to be

49:43considering such a thing ? Because the

49:44educational system has taught us to

49:47speak a language in a limited amount of

49:49time because you never end up speaking

49:51a language well

49:52if you only follow the educational

49:53system , but it has taught us to speak a

49:55language in a long time .

49:57So ,

49:57I completely understand someone who

49:59thinks that speaking a language in 30

50:01days is impossible . So , what would you

50:03say to people like this who might think

50:05that ?

50:05Note that you just gave the answer now .

50:07You said speaking instead of learning .

50:09Yes , but first a nuance . I have

50:12students who are 50 years old who don't

50:14speak English , I mean , they haven't

50:16even learned in 50 years . How could

50:18they not be shocked to hear a guy who

50:20just came out here and said that yes ,

50:21in 30 days , in a month , you can do it ?

50:24We just demonstrated it here today .

50:26Knowing what we saw at the beginning

50:28and understanding that , you can start

50:29speaking . And that's the difference .

50:31The first thing I tell them , because

50:33many people ask me this , is , " I didn't

50:35tell you that you're going to learn in

50:3730 days . I told you that you're going

50:39to what ? In 30 days , learn , not

50:42communicate ,

50:43speak , communicate . That's it .

50:45And that's the goal , to

50:47communicate in a language in the

50:49shortest possible time . You have your

50:51whole life to keep learning as such .

50:53I'm still learning English and other

50:55languages , but damn , if it's just

50:58speaking it , in one day I can be

51:00speaking a new language , communicating

51:03effectively to get out of any problem

51:05or situation ,

51:06because you only need those four or

51:08five little legs of the language . Of

51:11course it's possible and in less , in 30

51:13days and less , as long as you want it

51:15and have the enthusiasm of that child

51:17you once were and say , " Come on , I

51:19believe it . I'm open to everything and

51:21I learn because this is true . " Of all

51:25the people who start with you at Pable

51:28Earn ,

51:29what do you think are the mistakes or

51:32the thoughts or all those circumstances

51:37that prevented them or those blocks

51:39that they had that as soon as you

51:41removed them with whatever you told

51:43them , taught them , they immediately

51:45learned , you know ? And they accelerated

51:48their pace a lot .

51:48Mm , let them think in Spanish , everyone

51:51makes the same mistake and I tell them

51:53and I insist on it in the first class ,

51:55look at these equivalencies , use them .

51:58The mistake is that they keep bringing

51:59them from memory . Come on , let's say if

52:02I had a good teacher . If I would have I

52:04will have . You're not reasoning . You're

52:07going back to the same thing again .

52:09Think in Spanish . First learn Spanish

52:12and how you speak . Then everything

52:14flows . That's it . Then the smart guy on

52:17duty will come along and say , " No , but

52:19it's also used for I used to play . " " I

52:20don't think so , I don't need that right

52:22now . I'll learn it later . I

52:25would go , I would go . You would go , he

52:27would go . I will go , you're done .

52:29That's enough for me to start and it's

52:31not even worth putting labels on ,

52:33because I've forgotten all of them and

52:35I'm passionate about grammar , but I

52:37don't learn labels anymore . It's just

52:39that it's useless to me . If we really

52:42do this process for each language in a

52:45year , how many languages can we speak

52:47in a year ? We're

52:48not going to say , obviously , that we

52:50can speak as perfectly as a professor ,

52:51but

52:51you know , of course , you know what

52:52happens , there aren't many geeks like

52:54me , I

52:54mean , we're polyglots because we're

52:55passionate about this ,

52:56but a guy who likes languages , not like

52:59you , but who knows , someone who likes

53:01to travel and this year I'm going to

53:04London and I don't know , Germany . You

53:06go to Berlin and you have to learn the

53:08basics of German . Perfect .

53:10How long would it take me for

53:13an afternoon ? Maybe the pronunciation

53:15will take a while . A little bit more .

53:17It's okay . It's about knowing how to

53:18place this . All human beings , human

53:20beings have this . Learn how to place it

53:22and learn how to reproduce the sounds .

53:24It's going to say , " I want to drink

53:26water . " I want to drink water . You say

53:28drinken . And I'm using exactly the same

53:31thing . The order of two words has

53:32changed there . End is the same . If it's

53:36Chinese , h is over and I'm saying four

53:40things , four yes .

53:41But I don't know chen or German .

53:43Sure , then later on , but then we

53:44subtitle it and put it so that people

53:46can see in color that each thing

53:48represents exactly the same thing , only

53:50that it is represented by different

53:52symbols . Within Europe , well , we all

53:54have our alphabet , Cyrillic has its own

53:56, perfect . Chinese , Japanese , are

53:59pictographic , they are little drawings

54:01that represent concepts and that sound

54:03a certain way , but that still have the

54:05same function in the sentence . I have

54:07my subject , my verb and whatever .

54:10And everything works the same . Learn to

54:12pronounce this . Learn to place all this

54:15. If you're a human being , you can do

54:17it . If you don't , it's because you're

54:19lazy .

54:20Yes , yes , yes , yes . Well , good

54:22masterclass , uh ,

54:22in languages , no , no , completely .

54:24We need to complicate the sentence a

54:25bit . A little bit , the one before , huh ?

54:26Let's see how it goes . Remember , remind

54:28me of the time . If I had a good teacher

54:31, I would learn English .

54:37Perfect . Now you've done the

54:38translation . Could you explain it to

54:39someone who's starting from scratch in

54:41English ?

54:42Yes .

54:42Okay . How would you explain that if I

54:44had a good teacher ? You said , " If I had

54:46a

54:47good teacher . " "

54:48First I would say , " Okay , if I had a

54:49good teacher I would have . " What's the

54:50first thing ? It's the verb tense .

54:52Exactly . I'll go to the verb .

54:53Sure .

54:53First the verb had . Okay , we have the

54:56verb . To have there . I can see that

54:57it's a past tense . Great .

54:58Past . Keep going , keep going . Let's see

55:00, you know .

55:00If I , if I had , well , like in teacher ,

55:02a good teacher , this is to see the

55:03words as they say , that's it . The

55:05translation is the same , it's word for

55:06word .

55:07A good teacher , a good teacher .

55:11I would learn English , right ?

55:12Mm .

55:13I would learn . That's a

55:15conditional .

55:16Okay . Whether it's called a conditional

55:18. I don't care . I don't care . It's just

55:20that it's useless to me . The I , you

55:21know , the IA is the will .

55:23The will , the

55:24would , sorry . The would . So it's I

55:26would learn English . That's it . That's

55:29it . You add the W that replaces the

55:31conjugation . That's it . That's it . Do

55:34you want to complicate that sentence

55:35verbally ?

55:36Come on , okay .

55:36Okay .

55:37If I had a good teacher , I would have

55:40learned English . All I did was put

55:43something in there . It

55:45would have had . It's still past tense .

55:47Okay , but now , how many verbs do we

55:49have ?

55:49Two have . and had .

55:51And I have to know what those verbs are

55:53.

55:54Okay .

55:54Okay . That had is clear . We have the

55:57heard side before the verb to have .

55:59Let's see if it is or if we are facing

56:01an exception here . Now let's reason it

56:02out regularly or whatever .

56:03Here we have put the would have in

56:05front .

56:05Okay .

56:05Okay . We have complicated things . What

56:08is that would have ?

56:11It would have is the same as , that is ,

56:12it is still past tense .

56:13Okay , we detected that would have had

56:15which we don't care what it is called .

56:18I don't give a damn . I know it is past

56:19tense , but let's see what verb it is .

56:21Would have had to have to have is

56:24had , but if there had , if I can't

56:25recognize it in my language , I'm

56:27screwed .

56:27It is , that is , the tob to be

56:29to be ,

56:31that would be , would be

56:33half

56:34the to see from before . Yes , yes , yes ,

56:36yes , yes .

56:36But now , in What tense ? I'm not in the

56:38present tense anymore .

56:39The " habría " now , what tense is it ?

56:41Past . So it's " had . " That's it . And

56:44that " had , " well , then " have " is not

56:46regular . I can't put " have , " I

56:49mean , it's " had " had . It's also " have . "

56:53We'll

56:53subtitle this later , okay ? So people

56:54can see it and see what it's like .

56:56If I had hat , that's it .

56:57Double " hat , " that's it . Now , now , that

57:00" hat " is the same , the first and the

57:01second . They have nothing to do with

57:03each other . An

57:04English verb where the same verb is

57:07used

57:08for both things . But I have to know how

57:10to recognize that . If I had had a good

57:13teacher . If I had had a good teacher .

57:17One " had " and the other " had " have

57:18nothing in common . They're two

57:19different verbs , but they're written

57:20the same . " habría " and " habría , " okay

57:23, I won't repeat it , " habría , " I'm

57:25already using " habría " ahead . If I had

57:27had a good teacher , I would have

57:28learned English . People are always "

57:30habría , " " habría , " " habría , " " habría . "

57:31That's a problem for English . I

57:33would have learned English like I do

57:35now . Just like before , but with have I

57:40have to admit that it would have become

57:41the auxiliary again .

57:43As I say ,

57:44have I would have learn .

57:47That would have been a good teacher . I

57:49would have a good teacher . I told you I

57:51would have learned . I would have

57:52learned . I would have learned with Ed a

57:56good teacher .

57:58And look how my neurons are here .

58:01How did you reason now ? But this is

58:03[ __ ] awesome .

58:04Yes ,

58:05because you never forget it .

58:08In life

58:09I would have I recognize that it is the

58:11truth let's see that it has the W in

58:12front would have and now he has learned

58:15yes learn

58:17the whole sentence . If I had had a good

58:18teacher I would have learned English .

58:20Tell me .

58:21If I had had a good teacher . I would

58:26have

58:28I would have learned English . Exactly .

58:32There it would be . Okay . Have and now

58:34it has been learned . It is impossible

58:36for you to forget it . Yes , impossible .

58:40And then put the subtitles in English

58:41and you'll flip out , kid .

58:42Of course , now is when I read the

58:44English . First I need that little base ,

58:46otherwise it doesn't make sense either .

58:47And now is when I start to Reading the

58:50English subtitles and recognizing all

58:52these structures is foolproof .

58:54Foolproof .

58:55Why doesn't anyone do it ? Well , because

58:57people are afraid of change ,

58:58because English is taught

58:59poorly , period .

59:02Hey , what do you think ? Because I see a

59:04lot of friends who are hooked , man ,

59:06on these apps that we're not going to

59:07advertise here because this podcast is

59:09going to reach a lot of people ,

59:11right ? But seriously , dueling and all

59:12that stuff , there are a lot of people

59:14who are addicted to those types of apps

59:15. I have friends who are into

59:16Portuguese with such and such

59:18and you really see them and say , " I

59:19haven't done doing such and such , but

59:20then really if they don't know , they

59:22don't know how to speak it , they know a

59:23word , they know loose vocabulary , but

59:24you don't care about loose vocabulary

59:25because you want to speak it and loose

59:27vocabulary is useless for speaking .

59:28What do you think of all these types of

59:29apps ? Do they really work ? Do they not

59:31work ? We've

59:31seen it before , they don't work . But

59:33even for me , who already has a command

59:35of languages , I've tried to learn

59:37languages

59:38and it's unfeasible because I don't ,

59:39the app doesn't teach me the essence of

59:41the language , it doesn't teach me the

59:43structures , it gives me translations ,

59:46equivalencies that it doesn't explain

59:47to me . It's impossible to learn like

59:49that .

59:49What happens ? These apps give you a

59:51very high dopamine level with the

59:53prizes . It's like a slot machine . Eh ,

59:55that's how it works . Hey , if you want

59:57to have a good time , it's fine . Clin

59:58clin , clin clin , prize , period , you're

1:00:00first , you're second ,

1:00:01you catch up with your friends , and so

1:00:03on . It's

1:00:03ego . You were talking to each other

1:00:05before , it's ego . So it doesn't go any

1:00:07further . You don't learn , you don't

1:00:08learn .

1:00:09One very important thing , a very

1:00:12important example of this that a

1:00:14student told me the other day , the

1:00:17sentence was salmon , okay ? I want

1:00:19salmon . You directly say , I want salmon

1:00:23, okay ? Simple , let's not complicate

1:00:26things . It said in English I'll have

1:00:31the salmon . I have the salmon ,

1:00:34right ? I will have salmon .

1:00:37And I translated it as I want the

1:00:38salmon or I want salmon . Tell me what

1:00:41the problem is automatically there .

1:00:44Well , it's not like what we've seen

1:00:45before , it's all over the place . Come

1:00:47on ,

1:00:47if you put it in English , I'm starting

1:00:49from scratch , okay ? I will have the

1:00:51salmon .

1:00:52I good .

1:00:52I will .

1:00:53Ah , I will . Okay , future . It could be I

1:00:55would . In this case , it was I will .

1:00:56Future . I will have

1:00:57future . I will have the salmon . I will

1:00:59have

1:00:59the salmon . What happens with have ?

1:01:01Which also means to take in English .

1:01:02Yes .

1:01:03Okay . So , what he's saying is I will

1:01:04take the salmon . Ah , where's

1:01:06the problem ? When I go down to the

1:01:08solution , which is where the

1:01:09seriousness of the matter lies , it says

1:01:11, " I want ,

1:01:11the salmon . "

1:01:12Of course . You're learning incorrectly .

1:01:14Why ? I mean , what's happening there at

1:01:16the level of equivalences ? You're

1:01:19telling him

1:01:19that you don't speak , you don't speak

1:01:20Spanish like that .

1:01:22But why ? What's happening at the

1:01:23structural level of verbs ? Above , what

1:01:25tense am I speaking in ?

1:01:27Future .

1:01:28I'll take it ,

1:01:29below it says I want . What tense am I

1:01:31speaking in there ?

1:01:31Present . It is not associated . Do

1:01:33you realize how life works ?

1:01:35People learn that I will have the

1:01:37salmon is I want the salmon and the

1:01:39moment they have to use each of those

1:01:41structures separately , they say , I

1:01:43mean , they can tell you not only not to

1:01:44learn English , but to learn it badly .

1:01:46Of course that is what everyone has

1:01:48done , learn it badly . Because yes ,

1:01:50memory goes up to a certain point , you

1:01:51can memorize 10 , 20 sentences . Perfect .

1:01:53Do it with the question , what is your

1:01:54name ?

1:01:55Here the problem is if you have a

1:01:56little English you don't identify it ,

1:01:57but if you learn from scratch , that's

1:01:58when they trick you .

1:01:58Of course . And even if you know English

1:02:01, uh , I will have . Okay , that's how

1:02:03it's said in English .

1:02:04Ah , okay , well now yes , such and such .

1:02:06What I should have put below in the

1:02:07Spanish translation , what would it be ?

1:02:09And this is the reverse analysis . In

1:02:11English , perfect . I will have the

1:02:12salmon . Okay . What should I have put

1:02:15below in the translation instead of I

1:02:16want the salmon ?

1:02:17To say I want the salmon . Translate

1:02:19what's in English .

1:02:20I will have the salmon .

1:02:22I'll take the salmon . That's it , man .

1:02:24Sure .

1:02:26How can you put I want there ? And it's

1:02:28supposed to be linguists who do this ,

1:02:30but then I've spoken to philosophers or

1:02:32philosophers who are philologists who

1:02:33have told me that they have a C2 in

1:02:35English and that they don't dare to say

1:02:37a word in English .

1:02:38Why is that ? Because we're not doing

1:02:41things right there . That a philologist

1:02:45who is an expert in grammar , who knows

1:02:47all the labels , tells you

1:02:49his own word , uh , I don't dare to say a

1:02:51word in English . It's very serious , huh

1:02:53? It's very serious that a person who

1:02:56doesn't know ...

1:02:57Yeah , yeah , of course , no idea . Yeah ,

1:02:58yeah ,

1:02:58imagine , imagine .

1:03:01Hey , what do you think too ? I'm curious

1:03:02because , well , now we're experiencing a

1:03:04real boom in artificial intelligence .

1:03:06How do you think this will affect

1:03:09languages ? This is more of a reflection

1:03:12of yours , because of course , there

1:03:14comes a time when , well , I've seen

1:03:16people who don't speak Spanish with

1:03:18these simultaneous translation

1:03:20earpieces , you know ?

1:03:22Uh , by artificial intelligence , where

1:03:24there's not even a translator on the

1:03:25other side translating in real time ,

1:03:27but rather the earpiece translates it

1:03:29for you directly . Do

1:03:30you think there will come a time when

1:03:32learning languages won't be necessary ?

1:03:35Learning languages , no . In no case . And

1:03:37I'll tell you why now , but the

1:03:39profession of human translator is

1:03:41really screwed up .

1:03:42Of course ,

1:03:43because you're going to need a person

1:03:45by your side who can make mistakes and

1:03:47can be slower to translate if you have

1:03:49an earpiece that does it automatically .

1:03:52I mean , that's great and unbeatable . I

1:03:55think translators will need it , maybe

1:03:56this generates a little controversy ,

1:03:57but that's what we're here for . I'm

1:03:59just making a warning . If I were a

1:04:00translator , which I thought about at

1:04:02the time and discarded for certain

1:04:04reasons , I would be even less likely to

1:04:06do something else because nowadays an

1:04:08AI ,

1:04:09for example , set up a translation

1:04:11company with AI . For example , get on

1:04:13the AI bandwagon and train it yourself ,

1:04:16and you know how to train a translation

1:04:18AI because you have that knowledge , but

1:04:21if I dedicate myself exclusively to

1:04:23translating , I am at a great

1:04:25disadvantage . If the AI sounds okay to

1:04:27you , then it is perfect for doing this .

1:04:30Great . Speaking a language is another

1:04:32matter . What happens if you talk to a

1:04:34person face to face in their language ?

1:04:36How is that different from talking with

1:04:38an earpiece ?

1:04:39Sure . The connection you generate with

1:04:41that person is incomparable .

1:04:42We are human beings , of course . I was

1:04:44in California a little while ago and

1:04:46the guy from Apple was telling me that

1:04:47there will come a time when this is

1:04:49going to be a zoo . Everyone in their

1:04:51own home , there won't be any work ,

1:04:52there won't be any doing , and

1:04:54everything will work itself out , maybe

1:04:56at that great moment , but today what we

1:04:58know is that we are social beings and

1:05:00that we need to relate to each other .

1:05:01Absolutely .

1:05:02Whoever manages to generate a

1:05:04conversation , direct communication with

1:05:07another human being , is here . Whoever

1:05:10doesn't want to do that is here . And

1:05:13each person , hey , makes their own

1:05:15decision .

1:05:15No , no , 100 % . Pablo , let's go to a

1:05:18section that we always have in the

1:05:20podcast , which if you've seen some and

1:05:21I know you have , you know it , is the

1:05:23one about myths and truths .

1:05:24Myths and truths .

1:05:25Okay , I'm going to tell you statements

1:05:28and you have to argue whether it's a

1:05:29myth

1:05:30or a truth . Okay ,

1:05:32interesting . Okay ,

1:05:34so let's go with the first one . Pablo ,

1:05:37English is taught badly ,

1:05:39very badly , right ? Right ? English and

1:05:41everything and maths and physics ,

1:05:43everything .

1:05:43Yes , yes , yes . I agree . I mean , the

1:05:45entire episode argues that this is the

1:05:47case .

1:05:48It's proven .

1:05:50Pablo , the most important thing if you

1:05:51want to learn English or any language

1:05:53is grammar .

1:05:55Define grammar . If grammar is what we

1:05:58just did with equivalencies , it's vital

1:06:01. If grammar is learning that the

1:06:03adjective goes before the noun , that

1:06:04this is called the conditional , that

1:06:05this is the past perfect , that this I

1:06:07don't know what else . Okay , do it

1:06:09yourself if you want . That's not how

1:06:11you learn .

1:06:11No , we've already seen that it's not

1:06:13either .

1:06:15To learn a language , the best thing is

1:06:17to go and live in a foreign country for

1:06:19a while .

1:06:22I mean to learn from scratch , yes . Or

1:06:26well , even if you have a foundation .

1:06:27What happens when you go to a foreign

1:06:29country ? The first group of friends you

1:06:31make are Spanish .

1:06:34And if you're English , your first group

1:06:35will be English . And if you're German ,

1:06:37your first group will be German . What

1:06:39do you end up speaking ? German , English

1:06:41, Spanish .

1:06:43Unless you isolate yourself and go to a

1:06:46place where you can only ...

1:06:48You just mentioned being a social human

1:06:50being , and that's not going to happen

1:06:51in 99 % of cases . Of course . It's

1:06:52not going to happen . If that's not

1:06:53going to happen , you won't learn a

1:06:54language that way . It's not necessary .

1:06:56I learn them from the comfort of my own

1:06:57home . No , directly . It just doesn't

1:07:02make sense . Unless you isolate yourself

1:07:04, right ? And you have no other choice .

1:07:05Fantastic , you can try , but it's going

1:07:08to be much harder .

1:07:10And what do you think , or is there a

1:07:13specific point in the life of a person

1:07:15who wants to learn English when it

1:07:17would be a good time to go to work or

1:07:19to learn or to improve , let's say ,

1:07:21English ?

1:07:22Well , that's very important . When you

1:07:24have a clear motivation , you obviously

1:07:26find the strength . If you're like , well

1:07:28, yeah , I have to learn . That's what

1:07:31people tell me the most , that they

1:07:32really don't have any intention . It's a

1:07:34pending subject , forget about it .

1:07:38Pending subjects will continue to be

1:07:41pending subjects . You really need it ,

1:07:43you really want to learn it . It has to

1:07:45be because you've been hired abroad ,

1:07:48because you have a very important trip .

1:07:51You need motivation , man . If not , it's

1:07:53too much trouble .

1:07:53Absolutely . And well , we have a

1:07:55surprise for you .

1:07:57For me . Sara , please come in here .

1:08:03Today is Pablo's birthday , so since you

1:08:07came to ...

1:08:08How great , thank you .

1:08:09Since you've come here , well , hey , we

1:08:11want to do something nice for you , so

1:08:12blow .

1:08:13But I'll blow out the candle , man . Sure

1:08:15.

1:08:18Thanks , guys .

1:08:20Anyway , we're finishing up . Now we'll

1:08:21eat later .

1:08:22Come on , if you take it now . And

1:08:24another myth that is true , you have to

1:08:27tell me that the most important thing

1:08:29in any language is to pronounce it

1:08:31correctly .

1:08:32Mm , well , I would say yes . The most

1:08:34important thing , along with reasoning ,

1:08:36okay ? They go hand in hand . Both things

1:08:37are extremely important . We've

1:08:39seen it and we've talked about it at

1:08:40length .

1:08:42100 % agree .

1:08:42Especially because of what you generate

1:08:44by pronouncing it correctly , I mean ,

1:08:45the feeling of saying , damn , this guy

1:08:46is a pilot . And above all , I believe

1:08:49that when you speak to a native speaker

1:08:50, you also convey to the person that

1:08:52you are making an effort to speak their

1:08:54language . It also makes them more

1:08:56receptive to what you want to say . It's

1:08:58a very practical example . I'm

1:09:01playing , okay ? I'm playing

1:09:03with a guy , a native speaker , an

1:09:05English speaker , an American speaker

1:09:07who says , " I'm playing . " Okay , he

1:09:09hasn't learned to pronounce Spanish , he

1:09:12says , " I'm playing . " And he's

1:09:13pronouncing it perfectly , right ? I mean

1:09:15, excuse me , he's conjugating it ,

1:09:16perfectly , but what sounds better in

1:09:18pronunciation ? I'm playing or I'm

1:09:21playing . I'm

1:09:23playing now . The native speaker talks

1:09:25to you and says , " I play now . " You

1:09:26sound

1:09:26like Yoda . Yeah , yeah , yeah ,

1:09:27of course , I sound like Yoda , but what

1:09:28effect has the pronunciation had on you

1:09:30?

1:09:30Yeah , you say , " Well , I'm trying . "

1:09:31[ __ ] , I'm playing now like that , uh ,

1:09:34perfect native speaker . I'm playing .

1:09:37The second is correct , but look how

1:09:39your professional quality , so to speak ,

1:09:42goes down , okay ? Also personal , but

1:09:44well , more on a professional level .

1:09:45Yes , absolutely

1:09:47the pronunciation , man .

1:09:49And now we say goodbye

1:09:51and we do it as always with a

1:09:53recommendation of a book that has

1:09:55taught you a lot . The first thing you

1:09:57want to recommend to the audience .

1:09:59M , I have no doubts about this . And

1:10:00being from the entrepreneurship sector ,

1:10:02I'm sure you know it . Stop being

1:10:05yourself .

1:10:06The one that changes my life .

1:10:08Absolutely . Yes , because it talks about

1:10:10this that we were discussing with

1:10:12Ángeles in another podcast where

1:10:14quantum physics really dominates the

1:10:16world . That the electrons there that

1:10:18are revolving around the atom , just

1:10:20like the planets revolve around the sun

1:10:22, but that it is a probability of

1:10:23existence . Well , that doesn't mean

1:10:26anything can happen . Everything is

1:10:28happening at once . You choose what you

1:10:29want to happen to you . And when you

1:10:32realize that , that you are the master

1:10:34of your destiny ,

1:10:37when I read that , I freaked out , man .

1:10:39Totally ,

1:10:39totally . And I would recommend a second

1:10:41one . I write , can you swear ?

1:10:43Yeah , sure .

1:10:44And Rabo , my mentor and my reference ,

1:10:47par excellence , I write to [ __ ] . The

1:10:50title has nothing to do with what's

1:10:52inside ,

1:10:52but it wasn't to make money .

1:10:53That was the first one . That

1:10:55was the first one that I've also read

1:10:56and the second one is better . Very good

1:10:58,

1:10:58very good in terms of mentality and

1:11:00sales .

1:11:01Writing persuasively and especially

1:11:03what you said , the mentality to write

1:11:05persuasively , which is almost more

1:11:07important , I mean ,

1:11:08the mentality to write is already

1:11:10persuasive in itself . So , if you write

1:11:12with the right mentality you'll be

1:11:14totally persuasive .

1:11:16And a phrase that you would also like

1:11:18to share that inspires you in your day

1:11:19to day .

1:11:20Okay , we'll do it in English , we'll

1:11:22translate it into English . I'm going to

1:11:24try to give it to you perfectly so that

1:11:25it's a literal translation . Okay ,

1:11:27Albert Einstein or Einstein , if you

1:11:28pronounce it into your hand . Einstein .

1:11:30Okay ,

1:11:30come on .

1:11:31I think it was him . If anyone tells you

1:11:33otherwise , well ,

1:11:33let me know in the comments .

1:11:34He says , " If you can't explain it

1:11:38simply or just up to there . How would

1:11:41that be in English ?

1:11:42If you can't explain it

1:11:45simply . Perfect . If you can't explain

1:11:48it simply ,

1:11:48teacher . That's it . But you've seen the

1:11:50literal translation , right ? I mean , it

1:11:51seems like a lie , but this is not

1:11:52teaching English , it's teaching Spanish

1:11:54. If you can't explain something simply

1:12:01, you don't understand it well enough .

1:12:05Okay . Well enough . You don't understand

1:12:08it . You don't understand well enough .

1:12:11You don't understand it . You don't

1:12:13understand it . The whole sentence . You

1:12:16can't explain it . If you can't explain

1:12:19it simply , simply . That's it . Let it

1:12:21out . In English , the air comes out

1:12:23simply . You don't understand it .

1:12:26You don't understand it enough . You

1:12:28don't understand it . Well enough .

1:12:33C1 . Yeah , kid .

1:12:34Very good . C1 C2 . And the better you

1:12:36pronounce it , the better your

1:12:37pronunciation is . Instead of saying

1:12:39IU .

1:12:40Yes , yes , yes . You automatically move

1:12:42on from here because you're already

1:12:43awesome here . that you are above 99.9 %

1:12:46of people .

1:12:48Awesome , man .

1:12:49And finally , who do you invite to come

1:12:52and have a coffee with a story here on

1:12:54the podcast ? You know that the

1:12:56requirement we set is that they really

1:12:58have an inspiring story to tell .

1:13:00Inspiring to tell .

1:13:01What is this about ? Well , look , I would

1:13:02invite Irra Bravo , who I met the other

1:13:04day , but we don't trust each other

1:13:05enough and he says that selling and

1:13:07living are the same thing . I invite my

1:13:10colleague Alfonso and my colleague

1:13:12Cristian here to come and give you a

1:13:15good talk about how to sell honestly in

1:13:18this life .

1:13:19Well , Irra , Alfonso and Cristian ,

1:13:22triple invitation , huh ? Well , we're

1:13:24delighted that you come here sometime

1:13:26to have a coffee with a story .

1:13:27Well , Pablito , man , thank you very much

1:13:29for coming on your birthday , also , it

1:13:30was

1:13:30a pleasure , kid . Yeah , yeah , you took

1:13:32away my family's meal , man . I hope he

1:13:34pays . We'll close

1:13:35later , we'll close later .

1:13:36I hope that pays well .

1:13:37Thanks a lot , man .

1:13:39Thanks , kid .