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A lot of people ask me what they should be learning to say in their first few weeks of learning English. And the answer is really simple, they need their opening toolbox. What is this? Well this is a set of phrases that you can use immediately to ask about English, as you’re learning English. So it’s things like: ‘I’m sorry, I don’t understand, could you repeat that please,’ ‘how do you write that?’ ‘how do you spell that?’ ‘could you speak more slowly?’ And the reason you learn these, is that you’re going to meet that sort of situation as you speak English with someone. They’ll say something; you won’t quite catch it. So, you need to be able to say: ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t understand.’ If you jump into Chinese and say 我不听得懂，你再说一遍 but use Chinese to say that, your brain gets a message, and the message is English is not important, it’s not a communication tool. If you hear something you don’t understand, you use English to ask about it, then the brain gets the message: ah, English is a tool for communication so I better remember this and learn it and make it part of what I use to communicate. So after the first couple of weeks, you have your toolbox and you can be using that to communicate very, very broadly in English, and asking about English. So remember, your opening toolbox to get the tools you need to ask about English, in English, and to use the language to learn the language.
