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Are You Bad at English? My English is Bad

The Real Problem: Why You’re Stuck and Not Fluent in English 🤯

Let me lay it out straight for you. You’re working hard, right? Memorizing vocabulary, going through endless lists of words 📝.

You feel like you’re making progress. But here’s what happens next...

You go to your English class 📚, and the listening exercise is on a completely different topic. None of the words you memorized show up. 😤

Then, you’re asked to do a reading on that same topic. And what do you get? 1-3% of the vocabulary from the listening exercise overlaps with the reading 🧐.

So now your brain is juggling all these new words that have no connection to what you just studied.

But wait, there’s more.

You go home, watch a movie or a YouTube video 🎥… and NONE of the vocabulary you’ve been trying to remember shows up. Instead, you’re bombarded with even more new, random words. 🤦‍♂️

Then, it’s time to actually talk to someone in English 💬, and you feel completely stuck. You can only think of the random words you memorized last week, but they’re useless in this conversation.

Your brain is drowning in disconnected information 🌀, and you can’t form the right links between what you’ve learned and what you need to say.

And to top it off, next week your school moves on to another topic without ever revisiting the words you just tried so hard to memorize. All that effort? Gone. Wasted. 😔

Your Brain is Stuck in Stage 1 and 2 🧠⛔

Here’s the truth: you’re not stupid, and you’re not bad at learning languages. The problem is the system you’re using—it’s working against how your brain actually learns.

Let’s talk about the four stages your brain needs to go through to learn vocabulary:

Unconscious Incompetence: You don’t even know what you don’t know. 🤷‍♂️
Conscious Incompetence: Now you realize what you don’t know, and it’s frustrating. 😬
Conscious Competence: You can use the words, but it takes effort and focus. 💡
Unconscious Competence: You can use the words without thinking—it’s automatic. 🏆

Most students are stuck between Stage 1 and Stage 2.

You memorize the words, but they don’t stick because there’s no repetition or connection.

It feels like you’re making some progress, but you’re not really getting anywhere.

And here’s why: traditional systems ignore how your brain learns.

They don’t give you the repetition or variety your brain needs to lock in the vocabulary.

Why the Smooth Fluency System is Different 🌊

Now let’s talk about how my system—the Smooth Fluency System—gets you through all four stages until you’re confident and fluent 💬.

Unlike traditional methods, where the material is disconnected, the Smooth Fluency System integrates everything. You’ll hear, see, and use the same vocabulary across listening, reading, speaking, and writing 🔄.

That means your brain isn’t overloaded with random information. Instead, you’re hearing the same vocabulary in multiple formats and contexts, over and over again.

Why is this so important?

Because your brain needs repetition. And not just any repetition, but connected repetition. You need to see and hear the same words used in different ways to form those pathways in your brain that allow you to recall them without thinking.

That’s why with this system, you’ll find yourself moving through the stages much faster.

You’ll go from conscious effort to automatic fluency, where speaking English feels as natural as your native language.

The Real Cost of Not Using This System 💸

Here’s where things get real.

Let’s talk about the time you’re wasting.

The average student needs 180-260 hours to move from a band 4 to 5.5 or 6 in IELTS.

If you study 2.5 hours a day, that’s 12 weeks of work to hit 180 hours.

But if your method isn’t working, you’re not just wasting time—you’re delaying your fluency by months, or even years ⏳.

How many hours a week are you spending memorizing vocab lists or watching random YouTube videos? 🎬

It’s not moving you forward.

The cost of doing nothing is huge—think about where you could be a year from now if you had a system that actually worked. 😲

Why Most Methods Fail (And Why You Don’t Have To) 🚫

Most students spend their time memorizing vocabulary, then go to a class where the listening is on a completely different topic.

Next, they do a reading on that topic, and maybe 1-3% of the words overlap. Then, they watch a movie or a show, and none of the vocabulary they’ve been learning is used at all! 🎥

Finally, when they try to speak, they get stuck or blocked because their brain can’t find the connections between the vocabulary they’ve memorized and what they want to say. It’s a mess.

And then, to make things worse, the next week, they move on to a new topic without reviewing what you’ve just learned. 😤

This constant churn leaves your brain in a permanent state of Stage 1 and 2.

You feel like you’re never improving, and it’s frustrating. But it’s not your fault.

The traditional education system has ignored modern brain science. Your brain needs repeated experiences of words across different formats, and it needs training to recall and retrieve that information under pressure.

The Smooth Fluency Solution 🌊🚀

Unlike traditional methods, my system takes your brain through these stages carefully and strategically. With the Smooth Fluency System, you’ll review material consistently, use the same vocabulary across listening, reading, and speaking, and most importantly, train your brain to recall it in real conversations.

Your brain needs more than just random vocabulary lists—it needs structured stimulation.

Build your English surfboard 🏄‍♂️ and start riding the waves of fluency with a system that’s designed to work with your brain, not against it.

So are you ready to stop drowning in disconnected material and start surfing toward fluency? 🌊💬

The Smooth Fluency System is your answer.

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