Why Talking to AI Never Fixes Your English (Do This Instead)

I hate speaking with AI. It doesn't understand me while speaking. Hello awesome people! If you're trying to speak English with AI but find yourself going always through the same problems, let me tell you what's really going on. It's not because you're bad at English and it's not even because AI is stupid, maybe a little bit, but it's because the tool you're using is not teaching you English. And so give me 60 seconds and I'll give you a free tool that does something a little different. I'm gonna turn Claude, which is a free AI, into a private English coach. Three steps, two minutes to set up. Let's go! All right, step one is trick your brain into the future. The same method I use with my private students. The one that turns silent, scared speakers into people who speak without fear. And to do this, first of all, you're gonna click the three lines and then find your name down at the bottom and then find profile. Once you're inside, you're gonna read what personal preferences should Claude consider in responses. This is simply a fussy way to say how should Claude interact with you. And so basically here you want to introduce yourself. You want to say who you are. Here's the trick. Type the job you want after you become a fluent speaker. Because now every example Claude gives you matches the life you're building, not the one you're stuck in. Warehouse worker today? How about I'm a marketing manager. Now let's make it even better. Yeah, I'm a business founder. I've always loved the idea of opening my own business. So I'm gonna write down this. Step two, ceiling settings. Right after what you just wrote, add this. I'm learning English. Use simple words and short sentences. This is very important. You don't want your AI to give you infinite responses with a lot of very strange words. If I make a mistake, correct me gently. Explain why this is important. You don't want your eyes to simply tell you you're wrong. No, it needs to tell you why. And do that in easy terms, which means in a very easy way. Don't, this is important, don't use idioms unless you are teaching me one on purpose. One on, I can make it purpose. No, I can't. That's it. One paragraph. This way, if you save preferences, Claude adjusts to you, not the other way around. Now you're going to find the same prompt down here. All you have to do is to click on the first comments, copy the prompt, paste it into Claude, and you're good to go. And then if you want to drop a comment to say, thank you very much. I really appreciate that. Now this next part is the secret sauce. It's what I use when I'm probing students. Just copy this prompt down here. You see it in the same comment. Let's play a word chunk ping pong game to help me think in English. Here is how it works. Just copy and paste it, right? You give me a two word chunk with a short, simple explanation of what it means. You start by using it in a short example sentence. I reply with my own sentence using the same chunk. When I say chunk, I mean words that naturally stay together, naturally link together. For example, like looking for, looking at, all of these are called chunks in English. And it's what basically trains your brain to think directly in English without going through your native language. If my sentence sounds unnatural, awkward, or has a mistake, gently correct me and explain why in simple terms. Finally, keep your sentences short and simple so they're easy for me to follow. Let's begin. Now that we created this prompt, it's time to actually try this out together. All right, as you can see, I've pasted the same prompt into Claude and it already replied. Great idea. Let's play. Chunk one. Set up. Meaning to start a business or system. My sentence, I want to set up a company. Now you try. Make your own sentence with set up. I want to set up a simple conversation. Perfect. That works well. Set up a conversation is natural and correct. Your turn again with set up. She will set up the meeting tomorrow. Go. It actually dives exactly what I say. And this is, by the way, awesome. You can see on the screen everything that you are saying and everything that it says. This is absolutely great. In fact, now I'm going to continue with the game. Hopefully, Claude will understand that this is just me explaining the game. So, here I am. I will set up my computer right now. Great. I will set up my computer right now. Is perfect English, Albert. Your sentence is natural and correct. Now my turn. They set up the office last week. Your turn. They set up a new store right here. Excellent. They set up a new store right here. Is perfect. My turn. We need to set up the meeting. Your turn. I need to set up some wire. Good question. I need to set up some wire. Sounds awkward. Here's why. Set up usually means to build or start something complete. A desk is complete, but wire by itself is just material. It's not finished yet. Better. I need to set up the wiring or I need to install some wire. Does that make sense? Oh, yeah. I need to set up the wiring. Perfect. I need to set up the wiring. Is correct. Now let's move to a new chunk. Chunk two. Now let me tell you why this game works when others don't. Your brain can't learn set up by reading why it's formed. It needs to learn it in a practical environment. Our brains learn like that. They learn by doing, not by theory. And the more they are under pressure, the better they perform. When you're speaking with AI, you want to take everything. You want to soak everything like you're a sponge. As you can see here, it made an example. I need to set up the wiring. And so I just repeated it. I need to set up the wiring. So the moment AI tells you something that you can use yourself, do it. This actually rewires your brain to speak better, more fluent English. Now here is the best part. You don't need an hour every day, 10 minutes, one chunk, maybe two. Try it right now. As I said in the first comment, you find all the prompts. You just leave a nice comment. I read every single one of them. And if you're ready for more tricks to stop translating in your head once and for all, this other video shows you three strategies that make you stop in the next 10 minutes. I catch you there. Cheers.