(Not) Learning English

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1. (Not) Learning English -
   overcoming fear
   BaySide Tech Nite
   OKURA Masafumi, 2023-05-19
   

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2. Me
   • Name: OKURA Masafumi
   
   
   • Work: Freelance web developer (Ruby/Rails)
   
   
   • Activities: The creator of Alba gem, the chief organizer of Kaigi on
   Rails, a LT speaker of RubyKaigi 2023
   

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3. #kaigieffect
   

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5. I’ve not
   • lived abroad
   
   
   • worked abroad
   
   
   • used English in my day job
   
   
   • spent any money on Eikaiwa school
   

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6. I haven’t “learnt”
   
   
   English for a
   while
   

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7. Why?
   

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8. Mimic
   

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9. I just mimicked other people
   • I mimicked the pronunciation of native speakers with English
   program from NHK
   
   
   • I mimicked some useful phrases from GitHub users
   
   
   • I mimicked tempo and rhythm in real conversations
   

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10. What things
    
    
    have I learnt?
    

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11. Grammar
    
    
    and
    
    
    vocabulary
    

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12. Why do I have to learn grammar and vocabulary
    • Because it’s too fundamental
    
    
    • In real conversations, they must bubble up in milliseconds
    
    
    • If you talk with completely broken grammar, it’s hard for them to
    follow and understand
    
    
    • High school level is just enough, no worries about dif
    fi
    cult grammars
    and vocabularies that only appears in newspapers and novels
    

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13. -FBSO /PUMFBSO
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    7PWBCVMBSZ -JTUFOJOH
    'MVFOU
    DPOWFSTBUJPO
    

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14. Don’t care about
    
    
    pronunciation
    

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15. Japanese-
    English is
    fi
    ne
    

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16. The most
    important thing
    is:
    

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17. Overcoming fear
    

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18. Just talk to them
    • Rubyists are nice
    
    
    • Rubyists don’t laugh at your English
    
    
    • Rubyists patiently listen to you
    
    
    • Rubyists might speak to you slowly
    

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19. Recommendations
    • Make Rubyist friends (#rubyfriends)
    
    
    • Find opportunities to talk with them
    
    
    • Get some feedback
    

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20. Thank you,
    
    
    MINASWAN
    

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