February 17, 2025 • 11 mins
Learning English rules will only make you less smart. The real key is creating a strategic and useful presentation that people want to listen to and want to engage with. Learn why people keep hanging up the phone on you or making you feel like they are not listening to you.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
So have you ever been into a casino. That's what
it feels like when you're trying to learn English and
you're trying to learn how to play the games. You see,
if you walk into a casino and you don't know
how to play the games, you're not gonna win any money.
(00:26):
I'm Matt Pierce, and you know this is really funny.
You can know the rules of blackjack but not know
the strategy of black jack, and you'll lose every time.
Now I am convinced that blackjack is a winnable game.
(00:50):
I'm also convinced that slots are a losable game, even
though they say that slots pay out the most. Black
is a winnable game because the rules are fairly simple,
but the strategy is more complicated. And that, my friends,
(01:13):
is the difference between winning and losing it blackjack knowing
the strategy. It's the same way with your English. If
you don't know the strategy of using English, all of
the rules, do you absolutely know good? Whatsoever? None? Now
(01:38):
I know that some people will disagree with me because
by teaching you the rules and keeping you convinced that
you need to know all these endless English rules, they're
keeping you subscribed to their learning program for longer. That's
a guaranteed paycheck. But the reality of it is is
(02:03):
you don't need to know all of these endless rules.
You need to know strategy. How do you develop strategy?
The strategy that you're going to develop is pretty easy,
far easier than memorizing a bunch of endless, complicated rules.
(02:28):
The strategy is learning how to speak correctly. I like
strong coffee, not I like powerful coffee. You see, that's
the difference. How many times have I, of a native speaker,
(02:52):
hung up the phone because somebody calls me ado Nito
speak at domat Well. The strategy here is is I'm
going to hang up the phone because now I'm not
taking you seriously. It's not because you said at all
I needed don't speak it with Matt. That's not why
(03:15):
I'm hanging up on you. Why I'm hanging up on
you is because immediately I've established I'm not going to
have a conversation with you because I'm working too hard
to understand you. If you answer the phone or call
(03:35):
me and I answer the phone and it's like adah,
I need to speak to Matt, then I'm likely to
have a conversation with you. The strategy is getting over
pronouncing it. Speak instead of speaking. This is going to
(04:01):
get you hung up on. This is going to get
you rejected. Let's have a harsh conversation here. I hear
this all the time. People come to me for a
consult right and they say, hey, Matt, I need you
(04:22):
to help me with my accent. My accent is bad.
I don't care what your accent is, and neither does
one of the world out there. What people care about
more is whether or not you can communicate. Look, America
(04:47):
racist pigs, much like they are in other parts of
the world. I'm not saying we're any different than Poland, which,
by the way, i'm learning and be a pretty racist place.
I'm not saying that we're any different. But most people
(05:09):
on the global scale will forgive you for an accent.
This is the absolute truth. Most people will forgive you
for an accent. Fewer people will forgive you for mispronunciation.
You don't need to go out there and and try
(05:36):
to fake an accent. Okay, you don't need to. I'm
gonna give you a conversation here, and in this conversation,
I want you to engage with me Okay, have you
ever been to a casino? Wife that. I went to
(06:01):
Las Vegas back back in December, and oh my gosh, man,
we went to a casino. It was the circus Circus casino.
Oh my gosh. It was truly a circus. Yeah, it
was a circus. I mean, there were lights, it was loud,
(06:23):
it was obnoxious, it was in your face, It was uncomfortable.
People there trying to sell you timeshares every ten feet.
I mean, it was absolutely disgusting. Have you ever been
to something like that? Now, think about this, Have a
(06:44):
conversation with that. You and I are on a flight somewhere.
You sit down next to me, okay, and you open
your mouth to have a conversation, And in this conversation,
within the first ten seconds, I am going to make
(07:08):
a judgment call whether or not this is going to
be a hell of a long flight listening to you rattle,
or whether or not this is going to be an
interesting flight and I can have somebody to talk to,
maybe make a new friend. This is what we call prejudice.
(07:34):
This is what we call prejudice. People are prejudice people. Now,
if I go to Bengalaru, okay and I'm sitting there
and I'm going into to Bengalaru. Most people don't expect
me to adapt an accent. They expect me to adapt
(07:59):
to the comfort, to be able to say some words properly.
This is expected. I want to give you a good example.
I've dealt with a lot of world leaders in my
day who are wonderful world leaders, that they're great world leaders.
(08:24):
And these world leaders all have accents. They all have accents.
What they don't have is bad conversation skills. When I
work with clients from the airline industry, okay, I want
(08:48):
us to think about the airline industry as a whole,
pilots specifically. Okay, accent doesn't create the problem. Sometimes it
can make it more difficult over a radio. You know,
when they're sitting there and they're saying lion I tube
clif Roway number three, five thirty seven, number one. You
(09:13):
know this is a problem, right sometimes but not all
the time. The big problem is bad communication. So what
did they do to fix this? They created simplified technical English.
Where above means above, below means below. You see, they're
(09:38):
all speaking off the same playbook. Microsoft is using this,
Samsung is using this, Apple is using this. All the
big companies are using simplified Technical English. If you need
help with that, send me an email Matt at bat
Pierce Blog and I'll answer your questions on Simplified Technical English.
(10:01):
But this is the truth. You need to know how
to communicate, and you need to have a strategy on
how to communicate and how to communicate effectively. If you're
not communicating effectively, then you're not communicating at all, period one.
(10:25):
So I want you to think about this. How do
you communicate and how do you communicate effectively? The strategy
is clear. Don't worry about your accent, worry about pronunciation,
worry about just getting the word in the ballpark. All right,
(10:47):
we'll see you in the next one. I hope you've enjoyed this.
Get the words in the ballpark. That's what you gotta do.
It's really that simple. Get the words in the ballpark.
So have you ever been into a casino. That's what
it feels like when you're trying to learn English and
you're trying to learn how to play the games. You see,
if you walk into a casino and you don't know
how to play the games, you're not gonna win any money.
(00:26):
I'm Matt Pierce, and you know this is really funny.
You can know the rules of blackjack but not know
the strategy of black jack, and you'll lose every time.
Now I am convinced that blackjack is a winnable game.
(00:50):
I'm also convinced that slots are a losable game, even
though they say that slots pay out the most. Black
is a winnable game because the rules are fairly simple,
but the strategy is more complicated. And that, my friends,
(01:13):
is the difference between winning and losing it blackjack knowing
the strategy. It's the same way with your English. If
you don't know the strategy of using English, all of
the rules, do you absolutely know good? Whatsoever? None? Now
(01:38):
I know that some people will disagree with me because
by teaching you the rules and keeping you convinced that
you need to know all these endless English rules, they're
keeping you subscribed to their learning program for longer. That's
a guaranteed paycheck. But the reality of it is is
(02:03):
you don't need to know all of these endless rules.
You need to know strategy. How do you develop strategy?
The strategy that you're going to develop is pretty easy,
far easier than memorizing a bunch of endless, complicated rules.
(02:28):
The strategy is learning how to speak correctly. I like
strong coffee, not I like powerful coffee. You see, that's
the difference. How many times have I, of a native speaker,
(02:52):
hung up the phone because somebody calls me ado Nito
speak at domat Well. The strategy here is is I'm
going to hang up the phone because now I'm not
taking you seriously. It's not because you said at all
I needed don't speak it with Matt. That's not why
(03:15):
I'm hanging up on you. Why I'm hanging up on
you is because immediately I've established I'm not going to
have a conversation with you because I'm working too hard
to understand you. If you answer the phone or call
(03:35):
me and I answer the phone and it's like adah,
I need to speak to Matt, then I'm likely to
have a conversation with you. The strategy is getting over
pronouncing it. Speak instead of speaking. This is going to
(04:01):
get you hung up on. This is going to get
you rejected. Let's have a harsh conversation here. I hear
this all the time. People come to me for a
consult right and they say, hey, Matt, I need you
(04:22):
to help me with my accent. My accent is bad.
I don't care what your accent is, and neither does
one of the world out there. What people care about
more is whether or not you can communicate. Look, America
(04:47):
racist pigs, much like they are in other parts of
the world. I'm not saying we're any different than Poland, which,
by the way, i'm learning and be a pretty racist place.
I'm not saying that we're any different. But most people
(05:09):
on the global scale will forgive you for an accent.
This is the absolute truth. Most people will forgive you
for an accent. Fewer people will forgive you for mispronunciation.
You don't need to go out there and and try
(05:36):
to fake an accent. Okay, you don't need to. I'm
gonna give you a conversation here, and in this conversation,
I want you to engage with me Okay, have you
ever been to a casino? Wife that. I went to
(06:01):
Las Vegas back back in December, and oh my gosh, man,
we went to a casino. It was the circus Circus casino.
Oh my gosh. It was truly a circus. Yeah, it
was a circus. I mean, there were lights, it was loud,
(06:23):
it was obnoxious, it was in your face, It was uncomfortable.
People there trying to sell you timeshares every ten feet.
I mean, it was absolutely disgusting. Have you ever been
to something like that? Now, think about this, Have a
(06:44):
conversation with that. You and I are on a flight somewhere.
You sit down next to me, okay, and you open
your mouth to have a conversation, And in this conversation,
within the first ten seconds, I am going to make
(07:08):
a judgment call whether or not this is going to
be a hell of a long flight listening to you rattle,
or whether or not this is going to be an
interesting flight and I can have somebody to talk to,
maybe make a new friend. This is what we call prejudice.
(07:34):
This is what we call prejudice. People are prejudice people. Now,
if I go to Bengalaru, okay and I'm sitting there
and I'm going into to Bengalaru. Most people don't expect
me to adapt an accent. They expect me to adapt
(07:59):
to the comfort, to be able to say some words properly.
This is expected. I want to give you a good example.
I've dealt with a lot of world leaders in my
day who are wonderful world leaders, that they're great world leaders.
(08:24):
And these world leaders all have accents. They all have accents.
What they don't have is bad conversation skills. When I
work with clients from the airline industry, okay, I want
(08:48):
us to think about the airline industry as a whole,
pilots specifically. Okay, accent doesn't create the problem. Sometimes it
can make it more difficult over a radio. You know,
when they're sitting there and they're saying lion I tube
clif Roway number three, five thirty seven, number one. You
(09:13):
know this is a problem, right sometimes but not all
the time. The big problem is bad communication. So what
did they do to fix this? They created simplified technical English.
Where above means above, below means below. You see, they're
(09:38):
all speaking off the same playbook. Microsoft is using this,
Samsung is using this, Apple is using this. All the
big companies are using simplified Technical English. If you need
help with that, send me an email Matt at bat
Pierce Blog and I'll answer your questions on Simplified Technical English.
(10:01):
But this is the truth. You need to know how
to communicate, and you need to have a strategy on
how to communicate and how to communicate effectively. If you're
not communicating effectively, then you're not communicating at all, period one.
(10:25):
So I want you to think about this. How do
you communicate and how do you communicate effectively? The strategy
is clear. Don't worry about your accent, worry about pronunciation,
worry about just getting the word in the ballpark. All right,
(10:47):
we'll see you in the next one. I hope you've enjoyed this.
Get the words in the ballpark. That's what you gotta do.
It's really that simple. Get the words in the ballpark.
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