Take responsibility for your English

20 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Hadar Shemesh delivers a short, direct message urging learners to take personal responsibility for their English progress. She acknowledges real external obstacles (first language, schooling, limited practice) but argues these are not the decisive factors—the decisive factor is what learners decide to do and whether they take action to change their circumstances.

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I'm going to share a little bit of tough love, but I'm doing it out of love because I know it's going to help you. Responsibility means that whatever you're seeing right now in your life, wherever you're at in your English journey, is your responsibility. When people think about why their English is not where they want it to be, I hear things like my first language makes it impossible. I did not learn in school, I don't have a lot of opportunities to practice. So all of these things, they're true, but they're not the reason why you're not where you want to be. Because if you can see people who share the same experience yet they were able to reach a fluency and English breakthrough, then it means that it's not about these facts, it's about what you decided to do about it and whether or not you realize that you have the power to take responsibility and to change those circumstances.