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"Learning a language is one of the most difficult things that you will ever try to do as an adult.It's the equivalent of conquering a mountain.But it's not a mountain that you're supposed to CARRY it's a mountain that you're supposed to CLIMB." This reasoning is perfect an true! Thank you Christian.

You're not only an English teacher, but first and foremost a very wisdom person. As usual I enjoyed your speech.

Another weird thing about language exams is that usually it requires from you a number of skills that you don't really use. For example, the listening part where they test your skills in the so-called active listening where you need to search for specific information that you were previously told to find. The only time I personally use it in my native language is when I try to understand what station is being announced through broken speakers whenever I have to use a train. A friend of mine tried to pass her Chinese exam, she had a task where she needed to repeat out loud everything that she heard (this is not a language skill that everyone uses on a daily basis either). Idk all those exams just seem really absurd to me.

I'm in the run up to my DELE B2 exam Spanish and to be honest i feel so frustrated. Moved to Spain last year and i'm planning to become a tourist guide. At least B2 level is required for obtaining the official tour guide card. My focus is on the speaking part. I should be able to tell interesting stories and entertain my clients. Does it make sense that they ask me to write a report about a new diet and recommend it to other people. I'm not a scientist. So it is my believe that exams should be designed to your personal goals. I fully agree with your statement that language learners do not need equal abilities in every part of the language.

Exactly! That's why I never tried to pass any language exams. All I wanted is to read news, watch TV series and KZfaq videos, play games and make short conversations. And I don't care about how good (or bad) I am in terms of A1-C2 levels. I understood every single word you just said and nothing else matters.

I still feel bad bc I was one point below a C1 certification. It had to be 180 and my score was 179. But this video helps me remember that this standards are not the most important thing in my language learning journey. Superb as usual!

The most inspiring language blogger I've seen so far in about 5 years. Thank you so much.

You are so interesting to listen to, Christian! Wish you all the best, keep going! I got my C1 CAE diploma more than 15 years ago and yes, that involved a LOT of traditional studying. But now I have a pleasure to forget all that stuff I was taught and just enjoy watching movies, communicating to people, and even making mistakes, which is not a problem anymore))

Absolutely agree, we were discussing this idea at the class with my students recently. I've been in teaching for more than 40 years. Trying many ways of teaching I worked out my own methodology which gives better results compared to the standard ways of teaching. Thank you a million for this video. I really like your ideas and share them.

Incredible, although my poor compreension in English language, I am able to understand almost words and phrases that this guy said. Thank you a lot to provide me confidence to follow my studies.

As always, well done! Thanks very much indeed, Christian! Keep up the good job and have a great day!

Cristian, you are always inspiring me to be like you - "The Great Researcher"! Thank You!

Always enjoy videos on this channel. Thanks, Teacher!

Thank you very much. I even haven't heard that such document exists. You are absolutely right in every word you said.

You are the most encouraging teacher that I've ever seen in my life. God be with you.😊❤

Thanks a lot for this amazing reflection! Thanks for casting light on such widespread misconceptions. Many other teachers should learn from your honesty and commitment.

I agree with you, that exam does not shows your authentic language level. But... this titulation is that you need for applying for some jobs or public oppositions. Like an universitary titulation. Some times (like in my case) we want and need only learn a language. Some times we need only a paper with the exam result. And, we can accept, someone who achive C1 knows a little bit more Languages that someone only can achive B2. The language they need? Well, probably not.

Wow! I completely agree with you! I will immediately share this video with all my students who are struggling with achieving their desired level. It doesn't mean that you don't need to study but it means that you should realise what you are studying for. Thank you so much!

Hats off to you sir. I love your videos. This one in particular is solid gold in my book. Kudos and thanks. 🙏🙌

Great explanation dear colleague..! That’s very straightforward to the main point

Yeah, well said! Christian said about one of the reason of issue: people and companies which want to get money from the learners. But there are more hidden issues, I think. First, it is the tendency for superficial view on everything (look deeper into EC documents? What for?). And second, it is, so to say, "hunger" of standardization for everything (even if it is not necessary). "We need a standard, well CEFR made such thing, great!" Because without standardization, we don't know how to make the exams (they say the idea is not for exams, but who cares).

Adult ESL teacher here... This was inspiring and thought provoking - thanks. Subscribed!

As usual so sobering and with a wise, flawless train of thoughts. Thanks Chrsitian.

So glad to see you again😊

Thanks for the classes, professor. I am from Brazil, and my English improved a lot after watching these fabulous videos you have made.

Firstly, thank you for your valuable information.

Absolutely!! You brought so good thoughts wisely. Thank you again! Our goal is communication! Test doesn't mean the truly about me.

Great vídeo and information! Thank you very much indeed.

Thank you so much christian This is great encouragement for me

Excellent content as always...deep and very thoughtful ❤

Congratulations! You are the best canguro english.

Always interesting! Thanks!

I really, really love your vídeos because of the reflexions you make on various interesting sides of learning English.

Thank you for your great videos, Christian!

Thank you so much for your class.

Amazing video as usual!!💪❤

Very enlightening video, thanks Christian!

I loved the video. I really enjoy learning and I particularly enjoy learning languages. I like to be able to understand and comunicate with other people and I find that It could be frustrating eather to study something that barely relates to you or to get stocked with stuff that's not relevant toy you, your live or your surroundings. Thank you for the content

Woow thanks professor! This is a big change ! Is a new point of view about the learning! Is a new philosopy meaning. Excellent video ! Thanks for share! I send a hug from México.

I always miss such content as you are unique with your perspective about learning journey as a whole.. I believe many teachers were drawn to the wrong direction of teaching which unfortunately leads to not much of progress. This is general to all learning experiences we are going through in life or academic setting. Bless you

Hi, thanks for explain. You are the best ❤

This is simply one of the best videos I've ever watched in my whole life.

I love you and enjoy listening to you Chris❤

Awsome explanation. Thanks.

Wow, I've always thought that way, and you translated really well and I learned about who created the language placement scale. Congrats!

I'm very proud because I can understand you very well, maybe my grammar isn't good, but learning a new language like English is very rewarding for me. Thank you for sharing your ideas 💡

Hello ! Love to see you again 😊

Thank you teacher

Why didn't I discover this site before! Awsome! I love your English and you!

Thank you so much 🧘😊

Thanks! Very interesting and I will take it to my life

Great explanation! It was interesting, as always.

Beautifully expressed

Thank you for the metaphorical end of your fun and interesting video.

Thanks canguro! The outsider in learn English!

The excellent motivation video , probably the best one !

Great. Thanks

THANKS GOOD TEACHER

Wow! Everyone are putting yourself in some box. It's sad, but it's really. You're a Master, thanks a lot ❤

You'r a very good teacher.

I have been telling my DELTA tutors about it. Unfortunately, some people think they know everything. Right now, I am working on a new way to represent English levels. Amazing video. Thank you. Just one thing I need to add. The more we are learning about L2 language acquisition, the more we understand that Dogme Teaching (Teaching Unplugged) was probably the best why we can teach our students.

Thank you Christian, a hug friendly from Brazil!!

Thanks so much Christian.

Thank you so much teacher

That’s all deeply philosophically true! I know many people that are afraid to engage a simple conversation or comment due the labels that companies, schools, teachers, etc would put in them for the mistakes that may will occurs. So, the core idea of the language is corrupted , and communication will not occurs. I don’t need to know all the things about a specific language to start a conversation, I just need two persons that are inclined to have a conversation .

Totally agree with you.

Thank you 🇧🇷

You are great ❤❤

very kind man. thanks a lot.

The American Accent here! Great contenta. Miss u all buddies. See ya soonnnn. Long life to Cangaroo Ecosystem

Excellent video. Although it is true one should always endeavor to reach a high proficiency in a language, it is basically true a language is, up of all, THE key to inter social communication. So, I believe one should do one’s best to improve his/her language skills, but without allowing to be intimidated by dubious standards that can act like an insurmountable barrier to spontaneity. We should all do our best to communicate, despite the pressure of understated levels of language apprenticeship. Thank you so much for sharing your video.

As usual, it is a useful video for us like bigginers, and the most thing I have liked it is to be an independent learners who can speak and communicate with others and foreigners whose have different traditions and cultures.

Dear Christian, you are 💎 100%

Many thanks

I like you and I like what you said when you told...we should suppose the mountains not Cary it❤

Thanks Christ was a very nice lesson

Instant subscribe. Than you sir

Great Video and clearly articulated. Would you like to discuss the ESOL/TEFL economic models?

that is the excelent for to describe a lsngusje how try to learn some lenguaje dont matter then importsnt is your level only important is your comunicación skills

Excellent! Thanks for your videos! But, How to change the sytem?

Very interesting point🤔

Hello Christian, you just mastered it ❤

I wish you strong health to produce more videos🤩🤩😘😘

You are the best!

Perfect 👏

I love it’s ❤thanks again 😊

Mindblowing and makes for interesting food for thought. Like most things, they get highjacked by businesses and organisations who see only opportunity to make money. The marketing is aimed at selling the "language learning benefits", so they need to refer to something; but that's as far as it goes. After that, it's all about the money.

Excellent

well emotiveness at the end of the präsentation

It should be obvious that you cannot definitively separate fluency levels by such a general approach. Language is, at least from my experience, mostly acquired through exposure. And as it so happens, one can't expose oneself to every subject at the same level. So, variation of fluency across different subjects is nothing but natural. Great video! Thank you for showing people how to properly use the CEFR scale.

I share your approach to both language learning and teaching. Language is about what you can or can't do YET in a specific context of communication. Unfortunately, as teachers and coaches, our clients constantly ask us to enforce some sort of standard measured against time vs money invested in the process. Language learning becomes an almost impossible and stressful task for many in order to advance. And we teachers, become gatekeepers.

I love your stories

In my opinion is impossible acquire A1 to B2 in three months.

Hi Christian. How are you doing? I am José from canary islands. We are going to go to La Coruña, and l was wondering if we can meet you. We follow you on KZfaq. I really like the way you express yourself with the English language. You are a great teacher. I hope l will meet you. Please, let me know if we can meet. We are going to be there from April 11th until April 14th. Thank you.

I agree, Mr. It's an excellent reflection. Its like trying to put a big elephant in the small box. It is a harmful illusion. Thank you!

A big Hello from Morocco🇲🇦

At some point I understood that all those times in my teens when English native speakers told me my English was better than theirs what they really told me was that my English sounded unnatural and too stiff. And I did not even get a proper school education before conversing on the internet (I remember painfully well that all I had when I was about 12 were the simple present and simple past in terms of tenses and it really bothered me how I couldn't talk about the future). When I resumed learning at school, the way the language was presented and taught felt unnatural to me, as the interpretation was more linguistic as practiced in all those exam courses. And yet, I continued to attempt learning other languages this way. And also, despite being the only one who could have a comfortable conversation in English, my grades did not reflect that as I could not describe what I was doing or how the language was actually structured. When taking courses guided by this step by step interpretation of the CEFR, people pointed out how they were lacking certain skills depending on the courses they took. Some lacked conversation, some lacked writing, some lacked the understanding of grammar... And people do address that eventually. I think tests are a good way to get an understanding of what you can focus on if you just take them for yourself. I never got an English certificate but I feel like I need some feedback sometimes. People rarely point out mistakes you make once they seem minor, not to mention that my spelling and choice of words is not always lining up with one type of English and I don't always get the hint when people seemingly have a heavy dialect. I am not sure how bothered others could be by this inconsistency. Also we tend to be harsh with mistakes we make in other languages while we also make a bunch of mistakes in our native languages at any given day. In any way, language and how comfortable you feel about it and others feel about conversing with you are probably the most important key to becoming part of a group. If someone is hard to converse with, people try to avoid having to talk to them. And "knowing a language" without applying it doesn't bring any satisfaction. I still do enjoy the way you can use the CEFR to give people a general idea of what you are capable of. I am also used to people describing their own abilities as something along the lines of "B2 written B1 conversation". But as with any category we place ourselves in, we shouldn't be just about that term. Although in this case, people at least won't try to be A1 for the rest of their lifes like we see with other terms.

Totally agree

So true and meaningful, However this world is so cruel and ranking oriented. Thank you for retaining the rest of the beauty of the language.