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Talking about...myths and false claims about learning English

Confident Business English

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Introduction

Today we're going to debunk some of those myths around learning English. I think it's important for us to put realistic messages out there. We need a little bit of aspiration. Otherwise, how do we stay motivated? But it also needs to be realistic. It takes something like 10,000 hours to be an expert in something. If you speak English for an hour a day that will take you 27 years. The one is from the same thing: Learn English in 30 minutes. You can't learn all the basics in thirty minutes. In fact, I have a master program called VON which teaches language intensively over five months. And at the end of they teach my students, I

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