Hey guys what's up Stefanie the English coach here from englishfulltime.com
and in this video we are going to talk about how to handle people that make fun
of your English okay so first of all as if language learning wasn't hard enough
now here come people sometimes to laugh at you and laugh at your English and
this happens all the time it's happened to me with Spanish it and I've actually
seen this happen to my husband with his English his friends tease him all the
time and you know what I don't know if it's just a guy thing or I honestly
don't know what because my friends never teased me as much as his friends tease
him but maybe my friends never saw me speak Spanish I don't know but actually
no they did but still regardless of what's going on the problem is with
people that make fun of you or tease you for your English it's like you cannot
win with them if you have a bad accent they tease you because your English is
bad they're like oh my gosh look your English is horrible is how you speak
English no way close your mouth and then if your English is good they make fun of
you and they go look at this guy over here trying to sound like a native
English speaker oh he thinks he's so cool he thinks his English is so good
and so it's like really stupid because again if your English is bad they make
fun of you if your English is really good they make fun of you and who knows
for what reasons people enjoy teasing in this way but really you just can't let
it affect you you're not learning English to be able to impress your
friends or whatever it is and people might make fun of you maybe they already
do actually I'd love to know in the comments if you've experienced any of
this but yeah sometimes people are going to make fun of you they'll tease you if
your English is good or if your English is bad but at the end of the day you
just have to say screw it like to everyone who is going to make fun of
your English or say something negative or give you an unsolicited opinion about
your English or whatever just tell them to F off like you don't actually have to
tell them that but that needs to be your mentality you cannot sit here and care
about what other people think about your English because you are learning English
for you you're learning English for your future you're trying to
improve your English and yeah you should want to sound like a native speaker
because you know it's just going to help you speak more confidently and if you're
constantly listening to all these people around you that are making fun of your
English skills or whatever that is going to destroy your confidence so whether
you know you just have to tune it out automatically or actually tell them look
like I didn't ask for your opinion and I really don't care what you think so
don't talk to me about this anymore or whatever it is I mean I don't know with
my husband and his friends he doesn't really care he takes it lightly he's
just like whatever that's the way they are it doesn't bother him
but for other people you know I know that those kinds of comments could
really really bother them and hurt them and just make them lose their confidence
and you guys I'm here for you and I'm here to tell you you can't let
it you can't care about those kinds of comments you can't even pay attention to
them don't feed them don't let them you know create any kind of emotional
response in you just get away from it do whatever you have to do to get away from
that kind of negativity especially if it really bothers you okay so I hope this
tip was helpful you guys I'm sorry this is just a part of the language learning
process people aren't always going to be supportive and your family and friends
even though we try to rely on them the most normally they're not always going
to be supportive so we just have to understand this and then have a solution
ready to go and the solution is just simply not to care and not to pay
attention to that so anyhow let me know in the comments if this has ever
happened to you and what you do to handle it I don't think you should
resort to just being mean and nasty and retaliating and fighting back because
you don't have time for that you're busy with other things more important things
okay no time to that but anyhow let me know in the comments what you guys think
and I'll see you in another video talk soon bye hey guys thanks so much
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