Just Stop Trying to Speak English Perfectly

The biggest thing stopping your English fluency is not grammar, it's not vocabulary, it's not even English listening practice. It's something much deeper, something deep inside of you. Today I'm going to share some ideas with one of the, from one of the greatest thinkers in human history. And the secrets you learn will transform your English more than any course.

Stay with me. This is different than any English video you've ever watched before. This is the only one listening show with AJ Hulk. Funny, ladies, don't ask.

Your English breakthrough starts now. Yeah. Okay, what's the problem, right? Okay, years of study.

Zero fluency. see. Still feel frustrated with your English speaking. I get it. When students come to me, they are all frustrated from years and years and years of study, but they just can't speak, naturally, fluently, conversationaly, confidently, powerfully. They feel bad because they make the

same mistakes over and over grammar mistakes pronunciation mistakes getting confused about vocabulary it's all very normal and then you also compare yourself to other people you see someone who speaks English better than you you start feeling bad ah they they speak fluently maybe at your job other people get credit you know sometimes other people get credit for your ideas you're in a meeting you've

You've got a great idea. Maybe you've kind of talked about it with people. But then in the meeting, you know, your English is not good.

You kind of shrink down. You become a mouse in English. You're a lion at home. But in English, you're a mouse.

And then other people, voice your ideas, or say your ideas, maybe a pause or something. And they get the credit. Right?

Common, common. Happens all the time. And so, so, so, so many people. Maybe you.

are perfectionists and you know on one hand that's good you have high standards you want to speak fluently you want to be like a near native speaker but that perfection and especially the focus on perfect grammar is also a trap that can kill your confidence and grammar kills your speaking it kills your fluency this

is the problem. And when I say that, I mean trying to memorize grammar rules and trying to be perfect all the time. And a lot of times, you know, you hide, you know, you shrink down. It's time to use English. And then, ah, you don't feel confident. And you don't speak up. Or when you speak, you don't sound confident. Right? It's all, all, all, all, very common. And it has one root cause.

Today we're going into kind of a deep topic. Really it's a spiritual topic and that deep cause is pride. Pride. It's not about grammar, it's not about vocabulary, it's not about method. Pride. Right? Because you say, I must not look bad. That's what you're thinking, right?

Deep down that's what's happening. Your thing I must not look bad. I must not appear weak. I must not fail. Right? That's pride. That's pride. The opposite of pride is humility. And that's where we get into our great teacher, our great mind, our great philosopher,

the Imam Al-Gazali. Imam Al-Gazali. Hey mom, all Gazzali. I think all Muslims know him. He's a very famous Islamic scholar and writer and teacher. And he wrote extensively about Kibir.

I'm probably pronouncing that terribly. I'm sorry. In Arabic, but pride. Pride is a disease. Pride as a disease. A disease that affects us in all parts of our lives.

And this is a paradox we call in English. Paradox. It's a good vocabulary word. Paradox. Paradox is when two opposite things seem to be true at the same time. We're seem to be good at the same time.

So this is a paradox because on one hand, you want to feel strong and confident when you speak English, right? You want to be a lion in English. Not a mouse. But on the other hand, pride actually destroys our confidence, right? So we went confidence, but not pride.

This is a deep topic and we need to think deeply about this and how we can develop confidence, so you can speak confidently, be your best, be a lion in English, not a mouse. But to do that, we actually have to have humility. Let's discuss the ideas of Eman Malgazali on this topic.

And how it actually connects to English learning and truth, it connects to all parts of your life. So I'm gonna read a few things. Okay, he taught pride hides itself.

You do not know you have it, right? We all think we're humble, but it's a little boy's as deep inside that pride comes from. It disguises itself as being high standards

or being careful or I'm not ready yet. The root of that is pride, right? Because you don't want to look foolish, right? That's what it all comes down to. I don't want to look bad. And Imam Augustale describes the levels of humility from kind of the surface level. You know, you say, oh, I'm humble. Everybody kind of does that, right? To be polite.

But inside, we all have ego. We do. It's natural. It's human nature. Okay. Imam Al-Gazali also taught that true knowledge. When you really, really, really understand, when you have true knowledge, humility naturally comes

because the more you learn, the more you realize you're quite small. The more you learn, the more you realize your own limitations and weaknesses and have to accept them. That's true humility. True humility.

By the way Andrew Murray, one of my favorite Christian writers, wrote about this same idea. He said, humility is not thinking less of yourself, not thinking I'm a horrible person. Although if that's true, then you have to be honest about it and change it. He said, it is thinking of yourself less.

So it's not focusing on yourself so much and me, me, me, me, me. And of course, both Ima Malgazzali and Andrew Murray taught and believed that that the focus should be on God, on the highest. Not our selves, always ourselves, me, me, me.

Right, the desire to appear great in the eyes of others is the root of much human suffering. Much human suffering. True humility means being so focused on serving,

on knowledge, on learning. that you forget about yourself, you forget about your image, you forget about how people