Is Your English Learning Salmon or Sailboat?

Are You Learning With Your Heart?

Are you ‘banking’ confident, carefree English moments in your heart – or just the actual language words/structures in your head?

If your English isn’t flowing from a happy place, the language-learning you are doing can feel like swimming upstream. 

Even as hard as a salmon’s journey upstream.

 

What’s Wrong with Feeling ‘Salmon’

Salmon are capable of incredible power, and determination, and their migratory journey is remarkable on every level, but most salmon don’t complete their journey.

Obstacles stop them at every part of the way.

Above all, they are trapped in a binary success/fail, right way/wrong way scenario.

Feeling salmon means:

 

You could be having fun instead of feeling frustrated, silenced, and miserable.

Ask yourself, is this you with English?

 

The Solution

Collect many varied confident, carefree English moments in your heart.

This is a long-term project to change how you feel about your English, which is as important as ‘working on your English’ in a traditional sense.

All English teachers have worked with clients who have spent years getting their English ‘ready’ to use – without ever having the pleasurable experiences/successes that are the point of language learning.

Is this you?

The goal is to feel like a sailboat riding over the waves, completely free of limits and stress – your English taking you wherever you need to go.

Really, even picturing your sailboat will help!

Ask yourself, right now, are you more salmon or sailboat?

If you are a salmon, how are you going to change?

The One Thing Your English Needs

My single biggest tip for learning English is to find your own ways to make English practice something to look forward to – and even love.

That’s personal: from cooking to crosswords, English coaching to travelling – what you do have is a whole world of online and offline options.

Remember: everyone is different. You don’t need to do what others are doing, you need to do the things that will get YOU showing up.

My single biggest skill as an English coach is to help you do this, to help you find your ‘click’.

What’s Going to Change You from Salmon to Sailboat?

One way of speeding up this transition is to take an English immersion vacation.

Taking an English immersion vacation offers so much more than improving your technical level. When you choose a course with activities and experiences that you will love doing, English skills will follow.

Don’t expect a miracle.

You won’t learn 1000 new words in a week. That’s not possible in the time frame and I hope you are beginning to realise – it’s not even the biggest change most learners need.

What a good English immersion vacation can offer is the transition from salmon to sailboat.

An English immersion vacation will fill your heart with happy, carefree English experiences, from which confident language skills will grow.

That’s the foundation you are investing in with an English immersion vacation.

And it is the secret of success.

Wherever your English takes you in the future – it’s yours.

Arrive as a salmon – and leave as a sailboat.