What To Do Next To Become A Fluent English Speaker FAST

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Hi there, I'm Drew Badger, the founder of englishanyone.com and it is a pleasure to
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welcome you to another video. This is another one specifically for new people to my channel.
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I have over 500 free videos here and I've been helping people online for wow, 10 years
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I think, something like that. So I've been teaching for longer than that but actually
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on YouTube for that long. And so it's amazing to think almost a million subscribers at that
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point, whenever this video is released. But because we have new people joining us all
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the time, I wanted to answer just a really big question that people have and that's how
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to get started, especially if you're learning right here on YouTube.
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Now, a lot of people, I'm sure you already know lots of English and that's why you can
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understand what I'm saying right now, but you struggle to express yourself and the reason
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for that is because of how you learned. And it wasn't your fault, it was just that this
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is how everybody teaches the language. Everybody in regular schools, they are basically trying
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to tell you that you need to learn English as a second language. When you think about
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something as a second language, that means you have to learn it differently. When you
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learn your native language, you just listen to people speaking and you copy what they
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do. You see what people say in certain situations and you copy that. Oh, my dad hurt his thumb
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and he said, "Ouch." So whenever I hurt my thumb or I get hurt, I say ouch also.
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This is a funny thing you notice when you're learning a different language, so if I'm as
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a Japanese learner, I see someone get hurt and they say, " [foreign language 00:01:36],"
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Like [foreign language 00:01:38] meaning something got hurt, like ouch that was painful. [foreign
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language 00:01:41], I mean, they don't say [foreign language 00:01:43], they say [foreign
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language 00:01:43], depending on how painful it was. So I could say ouch. Or I could say,
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shit, something that was really painful for me. But when you watch people, what you're
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really doing as a native speaker learning a native language is you're copying that and
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you're taking the situation and you're connecting it to vocabulary. But what you're doing as
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a learner of a second language is you're trying to take your language and then connect it
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with some kind of translation in the language rather than with just the situation.
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So for me, I am I think the only person in the world maybe who does not believe in the
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idea of a second language. I think that's stupid. I think even if it is true that there's
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such a thing as a second language, you should not be thinking that way about learning because
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all that's going to do is tell you, okay, I have to translate and then I have to study
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grammar rules and I have to do all these other things that don't actually help you learn.
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So you can study and that will help prepare you for a test, but it's not actually going
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to help you become a confident speaker. Does that make sense? So all this is just saying
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it's not your fault. So it's just because of how you learned, but now you have the opportunity
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to learn and do something different. So if you were here just watching videos,
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there's lots of great content to learn with and this is not only people like me that actually
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help people understand the language, to teach them culture and specific phrases that native
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people are the native speakers use, but also just all the great content on YouTube made
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for native speakers that I encourage you to watch. So if you like learning about cars
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or gardening or baking or whatever, even something very specific, some super tiny niche like
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candle making or how to raise baby rabbits or something like that, there are all kinds
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of things like that, that you could just learn in English and actually learn just a really
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lot of great information about that. So I learned about things like that in the same
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way I watch children's programming for just Japanese kids. That's how I learn a lot of
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like songs and grammar and other things like that just by learning the same way natives
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do. But I know a lot of people, they come to my
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channel or other channels here and right now in 2020 when this video is released, there's
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so much content available, people might be feeling lost. So if you're struggling to find
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what should you be focusing on, maybe you're watching more videos on YouTube and you think
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like, okay, I've just watched 10 videos, but I don't really feel more fluent. I don't actually
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feel like I'm improving and it's really important to me and for my channel and for what I do
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that you should be feeling your improvement with every video. So you should be learning
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something either that's teaching you some useful vocabulary or you're changing the way
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you think, so you think more like a speaker, like a native speaker, and that you're also
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feeling more confident. So I want you to be listening to these things
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that I'm saying, but also just like really soaking this in a and feeling more confident
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about learning because I'm going to give you some direction right now. So right now, again,
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the YouTube, it's like an ocean and you're kind of dropping into the middle of that or
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even if you've already been watching some useful videos on YouTube, you still might
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be feeling a little bit maybe confused, what should I be focusing on, because there's so
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much information. So the thing that I can use or try to tell you, this is what I used
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for myself, but also for my personal students, and this is the idea of the 7 English Fluency
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Habits. Now I mentioned a little bit earlier about
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the negative habits that you develop because you learn the traditional way in school. So
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first we have this idea of a second language. Because of that, you have to learn in a certain
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way. That means studying grammar rules, translating things in your head, and you're not actually
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developing fluency. You're really just learning the more formal written English that you would
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use in a test or in a more professional situation for writing rather than actual conversations
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with people. So because you learn this way, it creates
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all these negative habits that actually stop you from speaking. So this is why you think
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and translate in your head. So we want to correct that. We want to stop those things
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and replace them with positive habits, with good habits that actually have you just communicating
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naturally without thinking and getting stuck and losing your words and conversations. So
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again, there's a really obvious train of how this happened, so a series of events you had
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to learn the traditional way that created these negative habits. That's why you struggle
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in conversations. So what you have to do now is change the way you learn to actually just
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recreate or create new habits that help you communicate successfully. So this idea of
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the 7 English Fluency Habits, I'm not going to talk about all of them. You can learn more
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about that on my website and even just other videos. If you type in seven English fluency
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habits into my YouTube channel, you can learn more about that.
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But this is basically the idea that fluency is really a collection of habits. So it just
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means the kind of things that you do automatically without thinking. That's what a habit is.
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Habit, like you get up and brush your teeth the same way every day without thinking about
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it. That's a habit. Where you walk in the same way you talk in the same way that's a
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habit. It's difficult for you to try to change that and develop a different habit. So this
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is what we help people do in programs like the Fluency Course. We get you really excited
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early by teaching you a lot of useful vocabulary, but also take time to develop your habits
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by changing the way you learn. So what I'd like you to do is focus on your
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weakest fluency habit. So this could be something like your use of grammar or it could be your
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vocabulary or it could be you're listening. It could be any of these different things.
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So the seven different things, and again, I talk more about those at my website, englishanyone.com
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but if you want to just think about the easiest way to understand that is to think about what
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you're struggling with the most. So if you know a lot of words already, you probably
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don't need to learn more vocabulary to become a better speaker. You should probably be thinking
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about your confidence or your listening or your grammar or your pronunciation. There
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are a couple of different things you can focus on, but you probably know already when you're
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in a conversation, what do you feel the least confident about?
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So if it's your pronunciation, then that's probably the thing you should be focusing
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on first. So don't spend your time watching just videos about more vocabulary because
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you don't need more vocabulary. You need videos specifically about pronunciation. So whether
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it's me or someone else, or you even just like watching movies or clips of your favorite
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actors or actresses talking in a certain way so you can copy their pronunciation, That's
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the thing that you should be focused on right now. So I know it can be every day because
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there's so much content for people to learn with. It can be really just daunting. This
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is another great word, daunting, D-A-U-N-T-I-N-G, daunting. So it can be daunting to think about,
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wow, there's so much content here. How do I learn with this? Especially without getting
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lost or feeling like you're wasting your time. So think about the thing that you struggle
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with the most and then look for content specifically about that. I cover all these different things
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on my channel right here on YouTube and especially the other programs that we offer at englishanyone.com
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but you can learn more about any of these things and just find someone that you enjoy
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learning with or find some kind of content, whether it's learning actually with a teacher
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or someone who can just enjoy talking about whatever that content is. So if they like
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making kites and you want to learn more about that, then do that. But the thing you should
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be focusing on, really the next step you should be taking right now is thinking about what
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you struggle with the most because that's what's going to get you faster, more, I guess
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fastest to fluency. Really the weakest thing that you struggle
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with, it's like a chain with multiple links in it and the chain, it's a great English
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expression, you probably have something similar in your native language, but the chain is
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only as strong as its weakest link. So if the other links in the chain are very strong,
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if that one little weak chain link is really weak and it breaks easily, then the whole
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chain breaks. So again, you have to think about what are the things that you really
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struggle with the most, whether it's your pronunciation, your grammar, listening, that
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kind of thing. Think about that and then look for information about that specific thing,
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but that's going to make you feel a lot more confident because you've got some direction.
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It's what you should be doing next, right here on YouTube or however else you'd like
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to learn. Well, that's it for me. Hopefully I didn't give you too much information.
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Again, you can learn more about me and what I do at englishanyone.com. You can also click
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on the link in the upper right of this video to learn more about the Fluency Course. This
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is our number one bestselling and really longest running program where we teach people to speak
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conversational English confidently so you can learn lots of great expressions and vocabulary.
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Learn how to improve your pronunciation, your listening, so you understand native speakers,
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and also build a confidence and fluency to have great conversations. So if you'd like
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to learn more about that, click on the link in the upper right of this video or on the
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link in the description below this video. Well, that's it for me. The last thing I'd
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like to say is if you want to continue learning right here on YouTube, do these three simple
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