Permission To Be Imperfect #shorts

29 Nov 2021 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Hadar Shemesh advising non-native language learners to give themselves "permission" to make mistakes. She notes that native speakers often make unnoticed pronunciation and grammar errors, argues that learners are usually their own harshest judges, and recommends changing the mindset—accepting imperfection—to enable more practice and fluency.

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I can't count on one hand and I listen to a lot of native speakers how many mistakes I pick up on right like pronunciation mistakes, things that they're not aware of mistakes, they're not mistakes because they're using them but you know, adding sounds, mispronouncing words and grammar mistakes, right? I hear it all the time. But it's okay because they're native speakers but as non native speakers we get judged for it by us mostly. So what if you change that mindset because the fear again is always about other people and other people like wanting you to be perfect but most people don't want you to be perfect and they don't even notice it. Usually the judgers are people who are not doers who haven't been there in the trenches trying to learn and speak another language and if they are they would never judge you for your mistakes. So permission, permission, permission is the key to fluency and practice.