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0:01 Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Easy English Podcast. 0:06 In your native language, you might be quick, you might be funny, and you probably feel like you have a strong 0:14 personality. Why in English is it so much harder to be ourselves? I'm Oliver, your host, and today 0:23 we are going to be talking about having different personalities in different languages. Do you have a different 0:34 personality when you speak English? 0:37 Let's take a look at this topic today and as always, we are going to learn some key vocabulary for today's episode. 0:47 And I actually have a brand new section at the end of today's episode called our comprehension section. 0:56 So I'm going to actually ask you questions about today's topic and episode to see if you understood and if you were 1:06 listening. So stay until the end and I will give you a little test at the end of each episode to see if you understood the content in English. 1:18 So perhaps whenever you switch to speaking in the English language, you might feel like a different person. 1:26 Perhaps you're suddenly more serious, maybe you're more funny, perhaps you are more polite. 1:36 You might even feel like a simpler version of yourself and you're not imagining it. This is a real psychological 1:47 phenomenon. And today we are going to explore that and we're going to look about how to bring those 1:56 two personalities, your native language and English language personality, closer together. So let's take a look first at 2:05 our key vocabulary for today's episode. 2:09 But first, it's been a long time since I have asked this, but it really, really helps with growing the show. 2:17 And I would like to ask you, if you haven't already, to rate the podcast on whatever platform you're listening. 2:25 If you're listening on Spotify, all you have to do is click on to the podcast. So go to the easy English 2:32 podcast page and rate 5 stars. So you want to click and give us a five star rating. If you're on Apple Podcasts, you 2:42 can go on to the podcast page, Scroll down and leave a review with five stars as well. And if you're on YouTube, of 2:51 course, you can like the video and you can share it and make sure you're subscribed as well. The reason I ask is because 3:00 particularly on Spotify, this really helps with the promotion of your show and helping other people to find it. 3:08 So thank you very much for helping out. 3:10 Let's look. Take a look at our key vocabulary. Our first word today is a very keyword for today's topic, one that's going to be very 3:20 important, and that is persona. Persona. 3:26 What is a persona? A persona is the aspect of someone's character that is presented to others or is 3:37 perceived seen by others. It's a little bit like a personality, but what people see. 3:46 So you have different personas in different languages and you might even have different personas in different contexts like at work or wherever you are. 4:00 Our second word today for today's episode is inhibited. 4:05 Inhibited. This is an adjective. 4:07 It's definitely more of an upper intermediate to advanced adjective, but I wanted to teach you it today. 4:14 Inhibited means unable to act in a relaxed and natural way. 4:20 Usually shy and or maybe self-conscious as well. 4:27 You might say I feel much more inhibited when I have to talk to people that I don't know. Our third word today is 4:39 assertive, assertive, and assertive is an adjective, and it means having or showing a confident and forceful 4:49 personality, but usually it's positive. 4:52 We've had this word before, but I think it's a very good adjective to describe this type of personality. 5:00 And it means so much more than just being confident. 5:03 It means being able to sort of push and get what you want. 5:07 Our fourth word for today's episode is wit. 5:11 Wit. And what is wit? 5:14 Wit is the ability to say things that are clever and funny. 5:20 And we use the adjective to describe someone and the adjective is witty. If someone is witty, they are 5:28 clever or funny. And finally, our last piece of key vocabulary for today's episode is the verb to to shrink 5:38 rather. So to shrink is our words, and to shrink means to become or feel smaller, slash less 5:49 significant. This doesn't mean literally to become smaller, it means more to feel small. 5:57 So when you shrink away, you feel a little bit, maybe shy, a little bit less important. You have that feeling. 6:08 OK, Those are our keywords for today. 6:10 Listen out for them in the main episode. 6:13 And remember, I'm going to be testing you at the end of the episode about the content that we're about to discuss. 6:23 And if you want to learn those vocabulary words better, remember you can sign up for the Easy English Patreon and get 6:30 access to our vocabulary flip cards with each episode, as well as bonus episodes and content every single week. 6:40 So on to personality. The most common reason for a personality shift or change is quite simple. 6:50 You have an adult brain, but maybe a childish vocabulary. 6:55 So a very small or limited vocabulary, because of course you're still learning, you're developing. 7:03 You can't expect to be able to speak in English the exact same way that you can speak in your native language. 7:12 In your native tongue, you have the nuance, you have the vocabulary, you have the sentence structures, and you don't even think about it. You're able to just speak. 7:24 But in English, usually at the beginning, you only have the essential vocabulary to be direct and to communicate maybe in a simpler version, what you want or what you're trying to 7:36 convey or say. And this creates what we call a proficiency gap. And I'll explain this a little bit. So we'll look at the feeling 7:46 that you might have. The feeling that you have is that you want to explain something maybe a little bit 7:52 more complicated or complex, and you end up saying, you know, a very simple version. So for example, you might have a 8:03 complicated emotion and you express it like I feel sad or I feel good, but in reality it's not exactly how you feel. 8:13 It's more complicated and the result is you feel like a dumbed down version of yourself in English. 8:23 And you might start to feel that your English self is more simple or not as intelligent as your native self. 8:32 And this is totally normal. And it's really normal to start to feel limited in your English persona, your English self. 8:42 But the reality is your personality hasn't actually changed. The tools that you're using have, so the vocabulary, the grammar and the way that you're 8:52 speaking. So you really can't blame yourself here. You just have to understand that 9:01 at the moment your tools are limited and your ability to use those tools is developing. You can't expect to, you know, 9:10 be an expert like you are in your own language because you were born with it. Another key point here, when we 9:18 talk about different personas in different languages is how languages act as a social software for us. 9:28 They aren't simply just a collection of words. 9:31 You can think of them like a software, or maybe better to say an operating system for your brain. 9:38 So think like Windows or Mac or Linux, different operating systems that are on your computers or maybe your phone, 9:48 just like that. Languages work in this way for your brain. It's a way for your brain to express itself with that language. 9:58 And each language has different cultural values associated with it and all of the complexities and little details about that 10:06 language as well. And this can actually affect how we think and how we express. Some languages are more direct, 10:15 as we've discussed before, and some languages are much more indirect as well. So this, all of this effects how we feel when we speak the language. 10:28 And if your language is your native language is more high context. So for example, you speak a lot more indirectly and perhaps English might feel strange. 10:40 Or on the other side, if you have a very direct native language, speaking in English might make you feel very 10:48 indirect and weird when you speak it not like yourself, because you're more direct in your native language. 10:57 This is a natural way to have a different personality in English. And in this case, you don't need to worry. You're not losing your culture. 11:05 You're downloading this new operating system and you're learning how to operate with it. So instead of trying to fight 11:15 this personality change in a different language, what should we do? Let's find out after our listener Spotlight. If you've been listening to the 11:25 show for a while, you know that every week I ask you guys a question and I ask you to answer it in the comments of the episode. And I pick a couple of comments 11:37 every week and read them out on the show. 11:41 Now, last week there wasn't too many comments answering the question. So what I would rather do instead is I'm going to ask you a very good question for this 11:51 week, and I want you to tell me, and I want as many of you as possible to try this is to comment on this video or this 12:00 episode wherever you can. If you don't have somewhere to comment where you're listening, you can just write it down yourself. And I want you to answer. 12:09 What are you like in English? Do you notice a difference? 12:13 Is your personality different in English? 12:16 I want you to let me know and tell me in the comments, essentially, how do you feel when you speak English? 12:26 I think it would be really interesting to see because when I talk to students in the past or people I know who are are not native speakers, there's a very big difference in this. 12:38 Some people feel more confident when they speak English. 12:42 Some people actually feel less confident and more shy. 12:46 So it's very different from person to person. 12:50 So I'm very excited to see your answers and I will read out some of these in the next week's episode. 12:57 I love reading each and every one of your comments, so please do. And it's great practice for your English writing as well. OK, So what do we do instead of 13:08 fighting this change in personality when we speak another language? And when you speak English specifically, what happens if you simply embrace it? 13:19 You just accept it. And many of the most successful English speakers, the most successful second language speakers, they call something that we call or they use 13:31 something that we call an alter ego. 13:34 And this is a fine way to do it. You can think about yourself in English as being slightly different and it's not always a bad thing. For example, you can say, you 13:44 know, if you're shy in your native language, or maybe you're you feel a little bit inhibited. You could use your English 13:53 persona as a brave character. So you can say, oh, actually when I speak English, I'm more brave, I'm more direct. 14:01 I can. I'm not afraid to make mistakes. 14:06 And you can use English as a way to basically change your personality in that way when you speak it. 14:12 Or you can use English in a context. 14:15 If you mainly use English for work, you can associate it with your work personality, or if you use it for travelling, you can 14:24 associate it as you know your travelling personality. 14:28 It's fine to think about it as you know, being slightly different from what you're like when you speak your native language. There's no reason to stress. 14:38 You might feel like you have a better wit in English or in your native language, and that's fine too. 14:44 You can associate it with those things. 14:47 It's positive, it's good, it's not a bad thing. 14:50 But the most important I would say, to get over this is to accept that your English self is going to be a simpler version of 14:59 you for a while until you develop. 15:03 And as your English is continuing to improve, your English of course, is going to be a simpler version of you. 15:13 But as your vocabulary grows, as your fluency increases, your personality will naturally expand into your English 15:22 language operating system. So really, in conclusion, learning English doesn't replace your identity. 15:32 It doesn't even completely change it. 15:35 It adds a new layer on top of it, and you aren't losing yourself. You're not losing your real personality. You're discovering a new version 15:46 or part, an aspect of yourself. That's one good way to think about this. You can think about it as unlocking a new part of yourself that you never would have 15:57 experienced or seen if you didn't learn English, if you didn't start to speak it, you would never know what you're 16:05 like in that language. So I think that's quite a beautiful, amazing thing that you can also explore and learn more about yourself in another language. 16:17 And you might actually surprise yourself with the things that you discover along the way, what you're capable of, maybe 16:25 different aspects or moods or elements of your personality that you don't actually have in your native language that you will unlock and find in this new language. 16:38 OK, so now we have our new section of today's episode, and that is our comprehension check. This is brand new and I want to 16:48 test it out today as someone suggested it in last week's episode. And I thought I will give it a go for you and see if this helps. 16:57 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask 4 questions I think I have in total, yeah, 4 questions about the content of 17:06 this episode and I want you to try and answer them. 17:10 Don't worry if you don't know the answer, I'm going to pause and I want you to pause the podcast and then after a couple of seconds, I will read the answer to you. 17:21 The first question I have is what causes the proficiency gap? 17:28 What causes the proficiency gap? Having a complex adult brain but a limited vocabulary to express it. 17:39 Question two, What is language considered for your brain? 17:45 Language for your brain is considered to be a software that you express yourself through. Think about it like an operating 17:54 system. Why is it OK to feel like a different person or a different personality in English? 18:03 OK, this is quite a broad one, but it's OK because you are using a different operating software, like we said, and you 18:12 are learning more about different aspects of yourself. 18:17 You might be less confident because you don't have the vocabulary that you have and ultimately it is unlocking a 18:26 different aspect of yourself. So if you used any of those answers or something similar, that's a good answer to that question. And question 4, if you feel 18:38 inhibited in English, how do you feel? 18:42 Well, if you feel inhibited, you might feel shy and self-conscious while you're speaking. 18:49 And finally, question 5, What is wit? 18:54 What is wit? Wit is the ability to say clever or funny things. So if you have wit in English, 19:03 you might feel like you're funnier or more clever, and it could be that way in your native language too. 19:10 Quite difficult questions today for our comprehension, but don't worry if you didn't get them. It's sometimes quite hard to summarize the content of certain episodes. 19:21 OK, so that's today's deep dive into personalities in different languages. Remember to answer today's question about how you feel when you speak English. 19:32 What's your English personality like? 19:35 And if you enjoyed this, do me a favour, tell one person today about Easy English and you can direct them to this podcast if you think it helps them. Thank you very much for 19:46 listening and I will see you in next weeks episode or this week in a bonus episode on the Easy English Patreon. 19:54 Goodbye.
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