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In some sense, power has to do with perception, and not learning from mistakes undermines power.

В некотором смысле, власть должна обладать интуицией, а не учиться на ошибках подрывающих ее могущество.

One cannot say that Putin is not learning from mistakes.

Mistake #11: Not Learning From Your Mistakes

Not fixing your mistake, and not learning from your mistake, that’s a bad thing.

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• #1

Is it correct to say learn by your mistakes instead of from ?

• #2

I don’t think “correct” is a useful category here, as it is a matter of convention and style. The word “by” has meanings that fit; but I would normally say learn from one’s mistake(s).

• #3

I don’t think “correct” is a useful category here, as it is a matter of convention and style. The word “by” has meanings that fit; but I would normally say learn from one’s mistake(s).

maybe there is some nuance I can’t hear between learn from / by mistakes?

• #4

«By» is used for the method. If you travel by car, you use the car in order to travel. If you learn by your mistakes, you have to make mistakes in order to learn. It seems like you won’t learn anything unless you make a mistake. If you learn using other methods, you can learn from any mistakes you might make.

• #5

I would say «from» as in «from the results of your mistakes». You would not say «by the results of your mistakes».

My dad used to tell me, «Don’t learn from your mistakes; learn from other peoples’ mistakes.»

There too, we would not say «learn by other peoples’ mistakes».

Even a dog can learn not to jump up on a stove after he gets burned. But we are smarter than dogs.

You might say, «learn by observing other peoples’ mistakes» but that seems like a stretch to me.

• #6

thanks a lot

I would say «from» as in «from the results of your mistakes». You would not say «by the results of your mistakes».

My dad used to tell me, «Don’t learn from your mistakes; learn from other peoples’ mistakes.»

There too, we would not say «learn by other peoples’ mistakes».

Even a dog can learn not to jump up on a stove after he gets burned. But we are smarter than dogs.

You might say, «learn by observing other peoples’ mistakes» but that seems like a stretch to me.

• #7

thanks. So if I say «Learn by mistakes it is implied that it is you who makes mistakes. If I say learn from mistakes, it means that mistakes may have been made by either you or anybody else.Please comment. Thanks

«By» is used for the method. If you travel by car, you use the car in order to travel. If you learn by your mistakes, you have to make mistakes in order to learn. It seems like you won’t learn anything unless you make a mistake. If you learn using other methods, you can learn from any mistakes you might make.

• #8

thanks. So if I say «Learn by mistakes it is implied that it is you who makes mistakes. If I say learn from mistakes, it means that mistakes may have been made by either you or anybody else.Please comment. Thanks

I didn’t say anything about other people’s mistakes. Sometimes you learn something by reading a book. Reading a book is your method of learning. I learned to paint by reading «How to Paint.» Sometimes you learn something from reading a book. I read «The Life of da Vinci» and learned how to paint a Mona Lisa smile. I learned it from reading a book.

Предложения с «learn from mistakes»

Let me learn from mistakes .	Я буду учиться на своих ошибках .
Then we do activities designed for improvement, concentrating on what we haven’t mastered yet, which means we have to expect to make mistakes , knowing that we will learn from them.	Когда мы предпринимаем действия, направленные на саморазвитие, концентрируясь на том, что ещё не освоили, нам следует принять неизбежность ошибок , понять, что мы можем на них учиться .
We’ll learn from your mistakes !	Мы будем учиться на твоих ошибках !
But they learn that mistakes are undesirable inadvertently when teachers or parents are eager to hear just correct answers and reject mistakes rather than welcome and examine them to learn from them.	Они усваивают, что совершать ошибки нежелательно, когда учителя или родители ждут только правильных ответов, и отрицают ошибки , а не приветствуют и изучают их, чтобы учиться на них.
And I learn from life, take something from students, their parents and learn on their mistakes and mistakes of children.	И я учусь у жизни, у времени, у своих учеников, у их родителей, учусь на своих ошибках и ошибках детей.
We follow the charts generally and learn where the mistakes are.	Обычно мы руководствуемся этими картами в общем и исправляем их, когда обнаруживаем ошибки .
Because I learn from my mistakes .	Потому что я извлекаю урок из своих ошибок .
Because apparently, you never learn from your mistakes .	Потому что очевидно, что ты никогда не учишься на своих ошибках .
The ability of the agencies to identify and address risk factors and learn from past mistakes is critical to good security management.	Способность учреждений выявлять и устранять факторы риска и учиться на ошибках имеет принципиальное значение для эффективного обеспечения безопасности.
The Committee should learn from that and avoid making the same mistake at its next session.	Комитет должен сделать из этого выводы и на следующей сессии избежать повторения этой ошибки .
At the same time, we must learn from our mistakes .	В то же время мы должны извлечь уроки из наших ошибок .
Governing bodies of the conventions should learn from past mistakes and apply the Kiev Guidelines in their future work.	Руководящим органам конвенций следует извлечь уроки из допущенных в прошлом ошибок и применять Киевские руководящие принципы в своей будущей работе.
You learn from your mistakes , and you continuously improve.	Вы учитесь на своих ошибках и постоянно исправляетесь.
The German chancellor and her Minister of Finance must now quickly learn from their mistakes of recent weeks.	Канцлер и министр финансов Германии должны быстро вынести уроки из своих ошибок за последние недели.
I’d like to believe we learn from our mistakes .	Мне хотелось бы верить, что мы учимся на своих ошибках .
We will learn from our experience and learn from our mistakes .	Мы будем извлекать уроки из своего опыта и учиться на своих ошибках .
It is important that the United States learn from these mistakes and seek a better outcome for Ukraine.	Соединенные Штаты должны вынести урок из этих ошибок и найти для Украины лучший выход.
As a result, they can’t improve on others’ ideas or learn from others’ mistakes — benefit from others’ wisdom.	В результате, они не умеют развивать идеи других или учиться на чужих ошибках — воспользоваться чужой мудростью.
Georgians must learn from their past mistakes , and realize that Saakashvili’s obsession with his standing in Western capitals will get them nowhere.	Грузия должна извлечь уроки из своих прошлых ошибок и понять, что одержимость Саакашвили мнением западных столиц ни к чему полезному не приводит.
Hopefully, Ukrainians will continue to hold their ground, the West will learn from its previous mistakes , and 2016 will see Putin falter.	Будем надеяться, украинцы продолжат стоять на своем, Запад извлечет уроки из своих прежних ошибок , а Путин в 2016 году потерпит неудачу.
Although it is impossible to compensate Serbia’s people for a wasted, brutal decade, there are advantages in reforming late: Serbs can learn from the mistakes of others.	И хотя компенсировать полное жестокости и фактически потерянное десятилетие жителям Сербии не представляется возможным, более позднее по сравнению с другими странами начало реформ имеет свои преимущества: сербы смогут извлечь уроки из чужих ошибок .
The German government should learn from its past mistakes , while continuing to step up as a leader for Europe.	Немецкое правительство должно сделать выводы из своих прошлых ошибок , одновременно продолжая выдвигаться на роль лидера для Европы.
As Marshall noted, it also consists in leaders’ capacity to learn from their mistakes and to prepare themselves and those around them for important decisions.	Как отметил Маршалл, он также состоит в способности лидеров учиться на своих ошибках , и готовить себя и свое окружение к принятию важных решений.
For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with the Power to learn from past mistakes .	Ибо секрет владычества в том, чтобы вера в свою непогрешимость сочеталась с умением учитья на прошлых ошибках .
I’ve been asked to learn whether or not these so-called experts made honest mistakes or whether they were paid to vouch for fake booze.	Меня попросили выяснить, могли эти так называемые эксперты честно заблуждаться, или же им заплатили за их имя под липовой выпивкой.
He’s denying his brother the opportunity to take responsibility and learn from his own mistakes .	Он отказывает брату в возможности взять ответственность на себя и учиться на своих ошибках
Living with our mistakes and endeavoring to learn from them, to be better men because of them.	Жить с собственными ошибками и стремление учиться на них, чтобы стать достойным человеком.
It’s better they learn their mistakes now rather than risk their souls in the hereafter.	Лучше если они осознают свои ошибки сейчас, чем рискуют своими душами на том свете.
If you’re lucky, they learn from your mistakes and turn out better.	Если повезет, они будут учиться на ваших ошибках и станут гораздо лучше.
And if you wanna go against everything we stand for, learn from our mistakes , then we should probably not dispose of that evidence.	И если ты хочешь пойти против всего, за что мы боролись, учась на наших ошибках , тогда нам вероятно не стоит избавляться от этих доказательств.
Hard to learn from your mistakes without consequences.	Трудно учиться на своих ошибках без ощущения последствий на себе.
They do say, you learn by your mistakes .	И еще говорят, что на ошибках учишься.
You know, I don’t wanna come off like the wise old fairy godmother but maybe you could learn from my mistakes .	Ты знаешь, я не хочу показаться мудрой крёстной феей… но может быть, ты научишься на моих ошибках .
The difference between me and my opponent is that I learn from my mistakes and try to do better, while she just keeps pulling from the same bag of tricks.	Разница между мной и моим оппонентом в том, что я учусь на своих ошибках и пытаюсь быть лучше, в то время как она продолжает использовать одни и те же хитрые приемы.
Now we are not gonna make our deadline, and the company will learn that pushing people too hard leads to mistakes .	Так что мы не сможем сдать проект в срок, и компания поймет что если слишком давить на людей, совершается много ошибок .
Kelly, you can learn from your mistakes , and when your heart is ready to love again, love fully and with no hesitations.	Келли, ты можешь вынести урок из своих ошибок , и когда ты будешь готова полюбить снова, люби всем сердцем, безо всяких колебаний.
The new reviewer would learn more about reviewing without getting bitten, since the nominator would be less annoyed by his mistakes .	Новый рецензент узнает больше о рецензировании, не будучи укушенным, так как номинатор будет меньше раздражен его ошибками .
Without having shame people would never be able to learn a lesson and never be able to grow from their mistakes .	Не имея стыда, люди никогда не смогут извлечь урок и никогда не смогут вырасти из своих ошибок .
This was in large part because the Prussian General Staff was created to study previous Prussian operations and learn to avoid mistakes .	Во многом это объяснялось тем, что Прусский Генеральный штаб был создан для изучения предыдущих прусских операций и для того, чтобы научиться избегать ошибок .
For one thing, it allows us to look back and learn on the mistakes of our ancestors.	Во — первых, это позволяет нам оглядываться назад и учиться на ошибках наших предков.
She would punish her sons by making them learn a hundred lines of Latin verse by heart, and further punish any mistakes by depriving them of meals.	Она наказывала своих сыновей, заставляя их выучить наизусть сотню строк латинских стихов, и еще больше наказывала за любые ошибки , лишая их еды.
A further mistake was to learn the Portuguese language accidentally, rather than Spanish.	Еще одной ошибкой было случайно выучить португальский язык, а не испанский.
It is a common mantra for one to learn from their past mistakes , so leaders should take advantage of their failures for their benefit.	Это обычная мантра для тех, кто учится на своих прошлых ошибках , поэтому лидеры должны использовать свои неудачи в своих интересах.
How can we help limit the damage caused by poor reviews, while helping new reviewers learn from their mistakes instead of biting them?	Как мы можем помочь ограничить ущерб, причиняемый плохими отзывами, помогая новым рецензентам учиться на своих ошибках , а не кусать их?
Teach yourself by your own mistakes ; people learn only by error.	Учитесь на собственных ошибках ; люди учатся только на ошибках .
We also learn that Janet was a ‘late baby’ whose mother always told her she was a ‘mistake’.	Мы также узнаем, что Джанет была поздним ребенком, чья мать всегда говорила ей, что она была ошибкой .
For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with the power to learn from past mistakes .	Ибо секрет власти состоит в том, чтобы сочетать веру в собственную непогрешимость с силой учиться на прошлых ошибках .
In the retcon we learn that Hollis Mason, mistakenly believing him to be Muller, attacked Hooded Justice and snapped his neck, killing him.	В ретконе мы узнаем, что Холлис Мейсон, ошибочно полагая, что это Мюллер, напал на Джастиса в капюшоне и сломал ему шею, убив его.
Still, as said I would be interested to learn about my mistake .	И все же, как уже было сказано, мне было бы интересно узнать о своей ошибке .

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Life is like a river, flowing with its own pace. Like when a drop of water in the river once meets the ocean, there is no way to retrieve the river drop from the ocean, in the same way a moment of life gone is gone forever. We may witness a river’s beauty and we may adore how magnificent it is, but neither can we stop it nor can we reverse the flow of the water, just like life. And in the flow of life, we sometimes make mistakes. Some mistakes are amendable but some are not. But in both the cases, the important aspect is to learn from the mistakes. So here are some thoughtful Learning from Mistakes Quotes for you that will help you to make life lessons out of your life mistakes.

Whenever we encounter a tough time in life, we turn to the elders, why? Because they have lived longer than us and have probably made more mistakes than us so they have more experience on what to do and how to tackle problems. So always remember, instead of mourning on your mistakes, learn from them so that you prepare well for the future because no one is immune to errors in life.

So here are the best Learning from Your Mistakes Quotes that will make Learning from Mistakes easy breezy for you:

Learning from Mistakes Quotes

• “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates

• “We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We’re meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.” – Yehuda Berg
• “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
• “It’s okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers – they help us to learn.” – John Bradshaw
• “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” – John Dewey
• “There is no sense in punishing your future for the mistakes of your past. Forgive yourself, grow from it, and then let it go.” – Melanie Koulouris

• “By seeking and blundering we learn.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.” – Gary Marshall
• “Your mistake does not define who you are…you are your possibilities.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.” – Phyllis Theroux
• “You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.” – Stella Adler
• “A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” -Alexander Pope
• “Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. ” – Weston H. Agor
• “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” – Henry C. Link
• “The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.” – Nelson Boswell

• “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one” – Elbert Hubbard
• “Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!” – Alfred Adler
• “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson
• “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw
• “Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don’t, it hurts even more.” – Aretha Franklin
• “There is no mistake; there has been no mistake, and there shall be no mistake.” -Arthur Wellesley
• “We learn from failure, not from success!” – Bram Stoker

• “Avoiding situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.” – Peter McWilliams
• “Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.” – Brandon Mull
• “Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee
• “A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
• “Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching, I’ve learned from making mistakes.” – Rick Pitino
• “No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow your progress, you’re still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” – Tony Robbins
• “Don’t confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!” – Steve Maraboli

• “We have to make mistakes, it’s how we learn compassion for others.” – Curtis Sittenfeld
• “Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually, we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.” -Richelle E. Goodrich
• “An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” -Grenville Kleiser
• “By your stumbling, the world is perfected.”
• “There is no original truth, only original error.” -Gaston Bachelard
• “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.” – Neil Gaiman
• “Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.” – Denis Waitley

• “Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” – Franklin P. Jones
• “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” -Napoleon Hill
• “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” -John Powell
• “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” -Oscar Wilde
• “Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.” -Henry Haskins
• “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Samuel Levenson
• “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ” – James Joyce
• “All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.” -Winston Churchill

• “An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” – Orlando Batista
• “Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?” – Peter McWilliams
• “Good people are good because they have come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success.” -William Saroyan
• “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way” – Dale Carnegie
• “Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.” – H. Stanley Judd
• “There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.” – Richard Bach
• “Any married man should forget his mistakes – no use two people remembering the same thing.” – Duane Dewel
• “Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.” – James Russell Lowell
• “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. ” – Mary Tyler Moore

• “An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.” -Niels Bohr
• “A mistake should be your teacher, not your attacker. A mistake is a lesson, not a loss. It is a temporary, necessary detour, not a dead end.”  -Anonymous
• “Many great people have experience some kind of failure. They build on the lessons from failing to become great” – Lailah Gifty Akita
• “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren

Remember guys, no mistakes means no learning. Moreover, sometimes we need answers on what not to do rather on what to do. And only the people who kept learning from their mistakes can answer this. So keep living, keep learning and keep growing.

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Is your fear of making mistakes holding back your progress?

Do you feel nervous or tense when you know you’re about to engage in an English conversation.

Does that anxiety intensify when you know the person you’re about to speak to is a native-English speaker?

Twice this week I have heard students say that they don’t practice speaking English as much as they know they should because they are afraid of making mistakes.    photo credit: kazvorpal

This is absolutely CRAZY!                                                 

Are Your Fears & Insecurities Holding You Back?

One student, a girl in her late teens, told me this week that she hates speaking up in class because she feels that her classmates will laugh at her and probably think that she’s useless.

She really wants to improve and her spoken English is actually very good, but her fears and her insecurities are holding her back.

Another student, a Chinese man, really wants to improve his English so that he can communicate better with the many westerners he encounters in his job.

Strangely enough, he admits to avoiding contact with English speakers because he is afraid of making mistakes. He explains that he is afraid of not fully understanding everything they say or concerned that they simply won’t understand what he is saying. His fears and insecurities are holding him back!

He has been my student for about a week and his level of English is actually quite good. I understand everything he says and when he has trouble finding the right words, obviously, as his English teacher I help him.

His grammar is by no means perfect and nor is his pronunciation – and yes, he does make mistakes.

The point is, however, I understand him fully. He is an intelligent man who’s led a varied and fascinating life. He is interesting, witty and has an opinion on most subjects. Yet, he avoids speaking to the very people he wants to speak to for fear of making mistakes – for fear of looking foolish. Again, his fears are holding him back!

If you can relate to this in any way, I’ll advise you just as I advised both my students:

Stop it! Get over yourself! You are slowing down your progress. You are just holding yourself back! 

Making Mistakes When Learning English is Good!

Making mistakes is a natural part of learning English and they are only bad if you allow them to be – and if you don’t learn by them.

It doesn’t matter if your vocabulary is limited. It doesn’t matter if your pronunciation isn’t flawless. And it certainly doesn’t matter if your grammar isn’t perfect.

What does matter is that you adopt a bold attitude and open your mouth and speak if you really do want to improve your English fluency.

If you keep your mouth shut and run from every possible chance to practice speaking English, you will certainly avoid making mistakes. However, you will not improve.

Learning from your mistakes is an essential skill that will help you to move forward and stay stay positive. The person who recognises, accepts and learns from their mistake is the one who will make the fastest progress.

Read more here about foreign language anxiety.

Most English Speakers Are Happy to Help

Before becoming an English teacher, I had met many people with varying degrees of English fluency and was always happy to correct them or help them with their English if they asked me to. I believe that most English speakers are the same.

Most English speakers are only too happy to help you as long as you are trying and as long as you are asking them for help.

When I first met my French girlfriend (now wife) her English was pretty good but certainly not perfect by any means and certainly not as good as it is today.

She carried a small notebook with her wherever she went and was constantly asking me to explain certain words or phrases that came out during our conversations.

Anything she learned would immediately be scribbled into her notebook for reference later.

She was happy for me to pick her up on pronunciation and grammar mistakes, which I would do occasionally. Without going over the top and without being annoying, she did the same with my friends and the same with her English speaking colleagues.

And even though her pronunciation was far from perfect, (it still is to this day), she would boldly engage in English conversations whenever and wherever she could.

Similarly, her vocabulary was limited. However, that did not stop her trying to express herself in English. Her conversation was littered with grammar mistakes but that didn’t matter at all because everyone understood what she was trying to communicate.

Asking For Help

The most important thing was that she was TRYING!

She was PRACTICING!

She was IMPROVING!

She was asking for help, taking notes (physical as well as mental) of new words, of new phrases and of corrections to her pronunciation and grammatical errors.

She would learn and practice and ask for help whenever and wherever she could.

Do you think she felt foolish whenever she made a mistake?

Do you think she ever felt like keeping her mouth shut?

Do you think she wanted to remain silent because it was less hassle and far more comfortable to do so?

The answer all these questions is a resounding YES, of course she did! The point was that she really wanted to master the English language to the best of her ability and she was not going to let her insecurities and self doubt get in the way.

What was more important to her than fear of embarrassment, fear of ridicule or fear of failure was learning to speak English like a native speaker.

These days, she works at a British international school and communicates on a daily basis with professional, native-English speakers. Her level of English (both written and spoken) is of a very high standard!

Her success is not down to her natural ability with languages nor is it because she is particularly clever. She mastered the English language because she had the courage and the determination to speak up. She knew to ask for help and was never afraid of making mistakes.

Or rather, she never let her fear of making mistakes get in the way of her end goal. She new that mistakes was a natural part of the learning process. She knew that mistakes were good as long as she was not afraid to make them and as long as she learned from them.

My English is Not Very Good

Try to avoid looking down on your own abilities. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard non-native English speakers say, “My English is not very good”!

Invariably, they then proceed to hold a perfectly good conversation – in English!

The opposite is true for me! When I say to my wife’s friends and family that my French is not very good I really do mean it. What I actually mean is that my French is basically non-existent! In fact, it is limited to about 20 words and five sentences. And even those I get wrong more often than not.

Realise and take comfort from the fact that most native English speakers have never properly learned another language, so you do actually have one up on many of us.

  If you really want to be able to speak English,

 you really must practice speaking at every given opportunity.

If you really want to be able to speak English, understand that you really must practice speaking at every given opportunity.

Don’t wait for the opportunities to speak English to come to you. Instead, proactively seek the opportunities.

Eliminate your fears, do away with your doubts and put an end to your insecurities.

Make it a habit to embrace your mistakes, laugh off your inaccuracies and never be afraid to fail.

The most important thing is that you adopt a bold attitude towards your English studies. Don’t worry that you might get it wrong some of the time. Likewise, try not to be too concerned with what others may think of you.

A Final Word From Michael Jordan.

Whilst successfully mastering the English language and becoming a world famous basketball player may seem miles a part, the two do share certain commonalities. Michael Jordan once famously said:

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

Adapt and apply Michael Jordan’s principles to your English studies and you will succeed.



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