Your Mistake Recovery Plan

Build these habits to handle mistakes like a pro:

• Practice recovery phrases until they are automatic: "What I meant was" and "Let me rephrase"
• Learn your personal danger words — the false friends and tricky sounds from your native language
• Focus on meaning-changing mistakes and let cosmetic errors slide
• Avoid apologizing repeatedly for any single mistake
• Shadow a short clip daily — replay a 30-second podcast line and repeat it aloud to train your recovery reflex.