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There are many people who speak Spanish fluently, even when they make many mistakes. And I personally prefer to speak with a person who speaks fluently, who speaks in a fast way, who is not constantly hesitating about what words to say, what tenses to use. Someone who jumps in and speaks, who communicates. I prefer that, even if they speak with errors, over speaking with a person who speaks very well, but is very slow, who pauses after every word, who searches for the correct words. Speaking with someone who is constantly thinking about the correct verb form, about the preposition they have to use. They are not in the conversation, they are not really participating in the conversation, they are not enjoying the conversation, they are thinking about grammar, man. They have to use the subjunctive, they have to use this preposition or that one. That's a drag, really, that's a drag. A language is learned to communicate with other people. Language is an instrument of communication. The important thing is to communicate, even, even if you make mistakes, the most important thing is to communicate. You have to seek not perfection, but communication. But, but, but wait a moment, wait a moment, it doesn't end there, the story doesn't end there. The story doesn't end there. No, no, no, it's not that easy, it's not that easy to speak fluently is very important, but you have to speak well, man. There are people, there are people who think, well, eh, what does it matter? It doesn't matter if I say, "I am tired," or "I love it a lot," or "thanks for" if I make many many mistakes, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. People will understand me. People will understand me. The important thing, the important thing is to communicate. Em, yes, the important thing is to communicate. The problem is that if you make many mistakes, hm, if you make many mistakes, the conversation becomes complicated, difficult for the other person, for the person listening to you, because they have to constantly try to understand what you want to say. You are putting the burden, the burden of communication, the burden of the conversation on the other person. Ah, well, I can, I can say whatever I want, I can say, thanks for, I am, I am, I am tired. I can say anything, the other person will understand me. If you say waiter, paella, waiter paella, the waiter will bring you a paella. They will bring you the paella. Of course. But man, man, it's normal to make mistakes. It's normal to make mistakes and you have to speak despite, despite the mistakes, but you also, you also shouldn't go to the other extreme and say that it doesn't matter, that it doesn't matter to make mistakes, that, well, that they will understand you, that they will understand you. Yes, they understand you, they understand you, but talking with you is a, it's a, excuse me. It can be a, talking with a person who is constantly using expressions that don't sound natural, with grammar errors, confusing prepositions, verb tenses. It is difficult, it is difficult to talk with you and it is also unfair. It is unfair to the other person, because the other person, a native, someone from Spain, for example, has to constantly be thinking, interpreting what you want to say, they cannot enjoy the conversation. Conversations are for enjoying, for having a good time. If I am in a cafe having coffee with you and instead of talking about what we are going to do on the weekend or what we did on our last vacation, if instead of that I have to be thinking about what you mean because I don't understand you, it's not pleasant, it's not pleasant to converse that way. That's why many times natives speak to you in English. Many, many students complain that when they go to Spain, people speak English with them. Of course, because they don't feel like constantly interpreting what you want to say, okay? It's just that if you speak like that, if you speak making so many mistakes and you don't care about grammar at all, then you will end up speaking like Tarzan, like Tarzan of the apes, right? I, I tired, I, I hungry, I yesterday go hunt. Uh, that's not good either, man. That's not good either. You have to, in short, you have to speak well, man. You have to speak well. That doesn't mean you have to study grammar like they used to in schools. Not necessarily, you don't necessarily have to memorize grammatical rules, right? You don't have to analyze everything, you don't have to, you don't have to overthink it, you don't have to always ask yourself, "And why this preposition? And why this tense? And why this pronoun?" Analyzing everything and overthinking grammar can create more confusion. What often happens is that when you are in a conversation, instead of thinking about the topic of the conversation, you are thinking about the grammar you are using, the tense you should use, what is the verb tense, the imperfect, the subjunctive, what preposition, what pronoun. And that, that leads you to make more mistakes, to speak with more pauses, right? You are always hesitating. That is not the best way to correct errors. And it's also not very useful for someone to correct you all the time. There are many students who want others, the teacher or their friends or people they know, to correct their errors. And that also, that also doesn't really work because look, if someone corrects you all the time, the problem is that firstly, it's not very useful, it's not, it's not very effective for correcting errors, because many errors are automatic, it's something automated that you have in your brain and when you speak it comes out like a reflex, like an automatic reflex. It's something you can't avoid. Yes. Someone tells you, "No, you don't say it like that, you say it another way." And at that moment, yes, yes, yes, it's true, it's true, sorry, sorry, yes, you're right, but 2 minutes later you make the same mistake again and the next day you make the same mistake again. Furthermore, if someone corrects you all the time, what happens is that when you speak, you are very worried about making mistakes. That creates, it creates fear in you and in the end, what it does is it blocks you, it doesn't, you're not afraid of speaking, you're afraid of making mistakes because, eh, eh, eh, someone is judging you, they are observing you, they are paying attention not to what you say, but to how you say it, if it's the correct preposition, if you are using the appropriate pronoun, in short, that is not the best way to correct errors. In short, guys, that's my point of view. You have to jump in and speak as fluently as possible, even if it's with errors, even if it's with errors, but you also shouldn't resign yourself to making mistakes. You have to try little by little to improve those errors without obsessing over grammar, without constantly thinking about the logic of the language, about why this preposition is used, memorizing grammar rules, doing exercises, without needing to analyze everything. There are other ways, I think they are more natural ways to correct errors. We will talk, we will talk in other videos about these topics because I think they are quite interesting. In short, guys, that's my point of view. Below, below the video, you can write your comments, your opinions, telling me if you think I'm right, if I'm wrong. If not, if you have nothing to tell me, you can tell me I'm handsome. I always like that. I always like that. Okay. Come on, guys.