Elite English Listening - How This English Teacher Really Speaks

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okay we are working okay I am Drew Badger the  English fluency guide and as always welcome  

to another live video here on YouTube today we're  going to help you become more fluent specifically  

by working on your listening practice I get lots  of students uh especially viewers of my YouTube  

videos asking me uh is this the way I normally  speak and it's kind of true but it's kind of not  

and I actually speak in different ways depending  on the person I'm speaking with so we're going to  

talk about that uh in this video and I'm going  to give you some examples just for some what I  

call Elite listening practice uh but before we  do that uh you can let me know if you have any

questions I will keep my eye on the chat as  usual uh and we'll see how we go all right  

uh so first of all I I just want to make  something clear for people uh typically  

when you watch videos like this you know  people teaching a language they're going  

to be speaking more clearly they're going to be  speaking slower uh and usually the vocabulary  

is going to be different so I want to compare  these different ways of speaking so they're  

basically these again three things I'll just  list them up here um and I want to show you  

this in two different ways just to make sure  it's very clear for people so we have the vocab  

so the actual words that people are using will  be different so I'm the way I speak in these  

videos I have to speak to be understood uh so  if I use a quote or something from a movie or  

I use some other expression that people  aren't familiar with uh it's going to be  

more difficult for people to understand so  that's why I have to uh make sure I'm using  

vocabulary that's clear and understandable by  most people uh and then we have we'll just call  

this like the pro for pronunciation so this  could be accent the way I'm blending sounds  

or how clearly I'm speaking so right now you can  hear most of the words I'm saying or pretty much  

all of them hopefully you should hear them and  even though I'm blending a little bit uh the  

sounds of my voice um or the sounds of words uh  the basic idea is that you can still understand  

what I'm saying and of course the last thing  is speed uh this is the speed of my speech  

so usually what happens since we we can take these  three variables or these three different elements  

of speech uh we can look at the different kinds of  speech that native speakers use and just to make  

it clear for people typically uh if we imagine  like a regular English lesson it's going to have  

kind of like a low level of all of these things  or an easier level of these things but a native  

speaker it's it's actually going to be at like a  whole different level so native speech will be up  

here and it's it's very difficult for people  to so English Learners who study English in  

a classroom it's much more difficult for them to  go from this directly up here okay and the reason  

is because well the vocabulary is different the  pronunciation is different the speed is usually  

different as well often it's much faster one  of the the big differences though is the accent  

and the the clarity of the speech so Clarity just  means how clear the speech is so you can hear me  

I'm pronouncing words clearly you can understand  what I'm saying even though there's some sound  

blending there um but I can give some examples of  that but again the the main idea here is that I  

don't want you to feel bad if you don't understand  natives or if you have trouble communicating at  

that level if you mostly are learning down here  okay so you need to go from here up to this level  

and this this is just an example of that just to  show the difference in the kind of speech so what  

we do in programs like fluent for life or on this  channel what we're trying to do is get you up like  

this so getting you more used to the vocabulary  the pronunciation and a lot of different accents  

so getting you used to different accents and then  getting you used to faster speech okay so if you  

can get used to all of these things then it's  much easier to understand native speakers but  

you can see excuse me it's much easier if you  try to do this in steps rather than trying to  

jump directly from up here so if you're watching  a regular English class and then you try to have  

a conversation with a native uh usually the  native speaker is going to pay attention to  

your speaking level uh and they will know that  by your accent or the kinds of vocabulary you  

use or even just the way you carry yourself  so the way you look so it's very interesting  

like if I'm speaking with you know as an example  just some Japanese people here in Japan uh and I'm  

trying to speak English with them uh then I will  pay attention to how they speak and if I'm hearing  

some errors in grammar or pronunciation then I  will usually lower my speaking speed or my my kind  

of General speech to their level so it's easier  for me to lower my speech to that level so I can  

communicate rather than trying to just bring them  up to my level okay so hopefully that makes sense  

so all these things are happening in pronunciation  and vocabulary and speed as we're going through uh  

differences in the way people communicate uh but  again it's just much easier if you try to work on  

these things individually to get from one level  to the next okay uh so as an example if let's  

say you can understand my speech then maybe watch  this video again at two times the speed so you're  

you're trying to control for one very iable you're  still listening to my speech but you're making it  

faster okay so that's and you can do this with  any video not just mine uh but anytime you take  

some speech just to practice making it faster or  if you can hear a person saying it more quickly  

uh that's going to prepare you better for actual  native speech okay but uh in general it's better  

to hear an actual faster version rather than just  like a sped up like a like an act like someone  

actually reading something more quickly or saying  something more quickly as I'll show you in this  

video okay but if you're trying to improve and  you notice you have trouble listening to let's  

say particular accents so people who might I  don't know they they come from a particular  

place or they speak in a particular way whatever  that is if you have trouble with that then spend  

more time with those people so if you live in  the UK or America wherever you live and there  

are different groups of people maybe they speak  in an accent you're not from familiar with then  

as you spend more time with those people you will  become used to the way they speak okay all right  

so let me check questions very quickly to see if  there are any comments and then we will get going  

with just a few examples hopefully this video will  not be too long we'll see what kind of questions  

people have looks like we just have some greetings  over there Arturo nice to see you there hater uh  

or if I'm if I'm pronouncing that correctly  everything's okay we got some looks like uh  

some tie there good morning teacher Miss official  hi teach hello everyone and HHS hello Nicholas hi  

Kos say Good morning George nice to see you there  hater again how can I learn any language with  

the correct beginning oh that's an interesting  question maybe we'll come back to that um this  

video is really about kind of the higher level for  people that that have been learning English for a  

long time the traditional way so they already  know a lot of English or they can understand  

me but they still have trouble understanding some  natives again the the actual language is different  

so the speed is different the pronunciation is  different the vocabulary is usually different  

so as you get more exposure to those things  faster speech different accents a variety of  

speakers uh it will it will naturally you will  it's it's like a guarantee you will improve your  

listening as you do those things all right just  like you would learn your native language uh and  

get exposed to lots of different speakers in your  language so the same thing uh usually when parents  

are teaching teaching children they will give  examples of things that are nice and slow and  

easy but if they're talking to their friends  kids are listening to that so kids are hearing  

the examples of how their parents are talking to  maybe friends or teachers or something like that  

and that's how they learn so they're getting all  this exposure and the more you get the faster you  

can improve your level of listening and you'll  notice here also uh as you get examples of these  

different pronunciations your your pronunciation  improves as well so the listening pronunciation  

are linked uh and as you get more examples of  that you will hear and get more used to that  

and start sounding more like that yourself all  right uh so as far as the the best way to start  

learning any language I guess I'll just answer  this very quickly uh the basic idea is you should  

be learning like a native speaker so you have to  learn the language as a first language if you can  

get someone to teach it to you that way uh and  if you can't then you just have to find content  

on YouTube or wherever that's appropriate for your  level and I could go into lots of detail about how  

to teach languages from the beginning uh but if  you look at my playlist so I have a a beginning  

English grammar it's like best beginning English  grammar playlist um here on YouTube if you look  

at that you will see how I teach English from  from absolute beginner so using all English to  

teach people who don't speak any English so if  I was dropped in a jungle somewhere and had to  

teach some people or if I was just in a different  country and I couldn't I couldn't use translations  

or anything to teach it's like those like movies  where you see uh like enemy mind is a good

movie Enemy Mine so enemy mind is a good movie  that has an example of this where you have two  

people or kind of one alien and a and a guy  I guess they're both aliens to each other  

uh but you're you're seeing that example of  how people or you know different aliens are  

trying to communicate with each other uh  and another example of this is a 13th uh

Warrior if you have seen either of these two  movies I think both of the both of these are  

based off of books I think uh 13th Warrior  is based on a book called Eaters of the dead  

but it's interesting how they show uh there's a  character Antonio Banderas uh is like traveling  

with some Vikings I think I I don't it's been a  long time since I've seen it but they show how  

he's listening and he's trying to learn their  language uh without actually like being able to  

communicate with them and so they're they're  sitting there and they say how did you learn  

our language and he said I listened you know and  he's paying attention to them uh but again these  

are examples of how you do it but you when you're  learning a different language you don't want to  

translate because that's basically teaching you to  translate when you speak so how you learn is how  

you speak uh anyway watch that beginning grammar  playlist and you will see examples of how I teach  

that that way so teaching English all in English  all right uh good question though P says hi Fidel  

says hello good morning remember to hit the like  button says K has good idea or says good evening  

here marcelian from I don't know where you're  from says hello teacher Manuel good night from  

Colombia Unice hello everyone nice to see you  again the toy greetings from Brazil and Aziz  

hello o Lopez hi everybody Bridget nice to see  you there Maria NAIA or n nla uh do you know the  

American Professor AJ hog I learn with him yes  well I don't know him personally but I know who  

he is yeah for sure uh Mo says hello good morning  from changma and as he says how can we understand  

natives quite easily I sometimes get confused  when they speak uh that's what we're going to  

be talking about in this video and then solar  says good morning Emanuel as well from Nigeria  

I was just speaking a little bit faster there all  right so let's look at some examples just from my  

real life uh about the way I speak with Natives  and I'm not going to uh probably the the thing  

that gets most confusing for people is casual  speech because typically in a business setting  

uh people will speak a bit more clearly they might  still have more difficult vocabulary uh and you  

will hear casual vocabulary in professional  situations in English and there are a lot of  

phrasal verbs used as well um but you don't need  to have U like a lot of knowledge of like movies  

and things like that in order to do that and  people will generally be speaking more quickly  

but casual everyday conversation can often be the  most difficult for people because people are just  

very relaxed about their speech so let's say we  have uh two natives over here so two natives are  

talking to each other and uh we have a third  here's the English learner is trying to listen  

to these two natives talking with each other  all right so they're talking back and forth uh  

and typically again as I mentioned earlier in the  video if we only have a native with a non-native  

the native will try to bring their level down  to make sure they can communicate uh but when  

you hear natives talking to each other it's  like they're speaking a different language so  

just as an example uh I'm trying to think about a  conversation I had so over the weekend I was uh I  

had a phone call with a friend of mine uh and he  was and basically he said like what did he say uh  

uh oh he said he said uh weren't you going to go  shopping yesterday and I and I was like I didn't  

really have time I wanted to go shopping but I  didn't have time all right let me let me say that  

again slowly so I'm I'm kind of doing reported  speech so I'm talking about what I did but I'm  

explaining it like I would tell it to a native so  he he said uh what like weren't you going to go  

shopping I thought you were going to go shopping  and I was like I didn't really have time okay so  

let me write this down and I'm going to I I  really said that quickly I can repeat it for  

for you a few times just to hear the difference  um but the vocabulary is going to be a little bit  

different and the speed and the blending is is  quite different as well all right so let me just  

say that again I'll I'll try to say it exactly I  don't remember the exact quote I should write I  

should write it down uh so Unice says uh I thought  you GNA go shopping yes so basically that that's  

that's what he was saying so he said I thought you  were going to go shopping and I was like uh yeah  

thought I was going to go shopping but I ain't  had time I thought I was going to go shopping  

but I didn't have time I thought I was going to  go shopping but I didn't have time so he said  

weren't you going to go shopping and I was like  yeah I thought I was going to go shopping but I  

didn't have time okay all right let me write this  down and we'll we'll kind of break we'll break  

this down but but be careful we want to make sure  we still I'm still speaking correctly even though  

I'm speaking fast all right so the basic idea here  let's take a look at this so he said so he said  

something like this and I don't remember  the exact quote it's just I'm trying to  

think about real conversations so he said uh  W let's see weren't weren't you going to go

shopping so he said weren't you  going to go shopping and I was like  

uh what did I say exactly I was going to go was

going to go but I didn't have time all right so  notice a couple of uh a couple of things here so  

he said I'm talking about what he said but when  I'm talking about myself I use the very common  

very casual was like so instead of saying and  I said so it's the same thing but this is very  

casual very common especially you will hear young  people talking about this and I was like all right  

now I was like uh is a very like a very and you  could and it depends on the people so so he was  

like she was like or we were like they were  like but this is very useful because you can  

describe speech or you can describe some kind of  action so I was like this and he was like you know  

we're we're I'm describing some kind of action  like I was doing this and then he was doing that  

all right but we just say and I was like and I was  like okay so the speech is a little bit different  

we've got the different vocabulary here but notice  how I blend it together so eyes like all right so  

it sounds like and eyes like eyes like so eyes  like so instead of I was like I could pronounce  

it more clearly so you can hear what I'm saying  but because the native spir the native friend  

understands my English I don't need to speak so  clearly I can communicate faster and explain the  

information I want um so when I'm talking with  the person uh right now I'm telling you but I'm  

explaining this as if or like I would be telling  it to another friend so if a friend of mine says  

hey uh what did you do yesterday I said oh well  uh a friend of mine asked me like oh weren't  

you going to go shopping weren't you going to go  shopping weren't you going to go shopping and I  

was like H I was going to go but I didn't have  time and I was like and I like and I like and  

I like I was going to go all right so instead of  going to go this becomes going to so I was going  

to go but notice this here becomes more like eyes  going to and I get very relaxed very casual when  

I speak especially with good friends of mine so  I was going to go but I I didn't have time so I  

GNA go but I didn't so I we don't I don't even  say I didn't I I have time I have time I didn't  

have time all right so he said weren't you going  to go so he's also using GNA weren't you going to  

go shopping so the same going to here weren't  you going to go shopping and I was like and I  

like so eyes eyes like again the same thing eyes  eyes like eyes again and I'm saying this quite  

quickly uh and I was like yeah I was going to  go but I didn't have time I didn't have time uh  

I didn't have time okay so notice how this Blends  together uh and I was like I was going to go but  

I didn't have time so if I'm just talking if I'm  just speaking directly to him I don't have this  

this is me telling the story to you okay but if  I'm just talking with him so someone says to me  

weren't you going to go shopping oh uh I was  going to go so I had a plan to do that I was  

going to go but I didn't have time all right I  was going to go but I didn't have time all right  

so yes uh Bridget says yes Drew you're speaking  a different language yes so notice again when  

when we think about different languages if we had  to describe different languages we're describing  

different words probably different speeches  like different ways of speaking different  

pronunciations different accents and different  speeds so we're really describing two different  

languages and remember I don't always speak like  this I change my speech depending on the person  

I'm speaking with so if I'm speaking with people  uh who might not understand lots of faster English  

or Blended speech like this then I will not use  that faster English but if I'm speaking with  

people who do know that so natives or anyone who  just is fluent in the language that can understand  

this speech then I will use that because I speak  quickly often and I I have like a lot of things  

I want to say and I start speaking faster so even  in these videos sometimes I want to start speaking  

a lot and I start talking about many things but I  have to control myself and make sure uh I I'm not  

being confusing or or hard to understand all right  so let's go through this again I'll just read this  

a few times uh I'm going to get a I I'll try this  in a different way just reading it normally and  

then we'll get a little bit faster here so he  said weren't you going to go shopping he said  

weren't you going to go shopping and I was like I  was going to go but I didn't have time and I was  

like I was going to go but I didn't have time so  he said weren't you going to go shopping he said  

weren't you going to go shopping and I was like I  was going to go but I didn't have time I was going  

to go but I didn't have time all right a little  bit faster now he said weren't you going to go  

shopping so now we're we're switching from weren't  you going to go shopping to weren't you going  

to go shopping weren't you going to go shopping  you've probably heard this lesson many times like  

using the word gonna or W to or have to so he said  weren't you going to go shopping and I was like I  

was going to go shopping or I was going to go but  I didn't have time I was going to go eyes going to  

go like eyes eyes I was going to go I was going to  go shopping but I didn't have time I was going to  

go so we already know like we're talking about  shopping so I don't have to say that so I was  

going to go but I didn't have time but I didn't  have time okay now in a regular conversation there  

are many ways to say this I could just say uh oh  he said weren't you going to go shopping and I  

was like I didn't have time I could just say that  that's fine I don't have to say like I was going  

to go but I didn't have time I could say that but  there are many ways to say this but this is just  

it's basically what I said in the conversation so  he said weren't you going to go shopping weren't  

you going to go shopping weren't you going to go  shopping weren't you going to go shopping so even  

if I say it slowly it still sounds like native  Blended smooth speech weren't you going to go  

shopping weren't you g to go shopping and I was  like I was gonna go I was gonna go but I a have  

time but I ain't have time I ain't have time I  ain't have time so it's a little bit different  

from I ain't a i well a i n t so a let me write  this more clearly for you A I N I ain't I ain't  

have time I ain't have time so it kind of sounds  like that but it's more like I didn't I I I I a  

have time so instead of I ain't I ain't have time  usually if you hear people with the ain't the a  

is it's much more it's more obvious it's Stronger  Yeah I I ain't I ain't have time I ain't have time  

I ain't have time for that I ain't have time for  that but I didn't say ain't I said yeah I ain't  

have time I ain't have time I didn't have time I  didn't have time I ain't have time okay but notice  

again even the t is basically disappeared it's  basically gone I have time I have time I have time  

all right so if we write this out as one thing  I have time I have time i' have time now I don't  

want you to to listen to this and and then try to  sound exactly like me with these particular sounds  

this is not how native speakers learn the language  now remember that when natives are learning they  

begin with speech and then they learn writing so  young children are speaking a lot and they they  

only learn later actually how to say things or  write them correctly so like a child might say  

like yeah I didn't have time I didn't have time  so they might say that but they they don't learn  

until they start writing the language like oh  I didn't have time that that's like how you  

actually say that okay so I a have time I a have  time I a have time I have time I didn't have time  

I have time I have time okay before I go on to  another example uh let me know if you have any  

questions about this I will check chat here okay  uh let's see I think okay I got those already K  

says but in my case I inevitably avoid English  that is uncomfortable for me yes uh that's a  

common thing for many people many people and not  just English people avoid things they don't like  

that makes sense all right n thank you for your  advice I appreciate your efforts with us yes  

it's my pleasure Joe D says High deserve from Hong  Kong thank you for Patiently teaching us it's my  

pleasure so I know what it's like to learn I don't  really have a teacher for Japanese I kind of I've  

seen some YouTube videos about different things  but there's a lot of uh I guess I I haven't really  

found anything I really like that the teaches the  way I teach um but if if if I can find someone  

who teaches but basically I just watch actual  Japanese content for Japanese people to learn  

the language so I'm getting getting some things  but it's mostly like lots of exposure to this  

so if I hear lots of examples of native Japanese  then I will get used to Native Japanese and I will  

my pronunciation will improve my listening will  improve all right so I thought you were going to  

go shopping yes I think people people get it good  work unit sair says I'm watching your videos from  

last two months is the first time watching live  welcome to the program tiberias I drew greetings  

from Honduras my father and I have been watching  your videos for four years wow well hello to your  

dad uh hopefully you're enjoying and improving all  right JMA says hi and again I do make sentences  

says s using uncomplete you would mean incomplete  phrases it's a good way to get fluent right for  

example as a result and the sentence is I told you  to study and you didn't uh as a result you failed  

in the exam uh you mean you're learning you're  learning like in like phrases yes I mean if you  

you're you're basically learning the pieces of  conversational speech and yes you would you would  

learn it that way you would kind of understand  how these pieces work and then you can start  

using them in different things so as a result you  should improve your English Okay so as a result of  

learning this way you should improve your English  all right BR said audre you're speaking different  

language glad that K says I'd like to use polite  English as an adult but sometimes I use childish  

and very rude English even if I don't mean to  that's my problem yeah I know that that happens  

sometimes like for me when I'm speaking Japanese  I can be kind of too casual with my Japanese as  

well I have to remember like but it will come out  like I I remember speaking years ago with like uh  

I don't know he he was like the like a like a a  government person here in Nagasaki um and what did  

I say I was like I was like like I was just like  naturally trying to speak a bit more polite rather  

than um like son toy or whatever the way I would  say it casually but it like because I don't spend  

a lot of time speaking kind of professionally with  people then I I just that kind of casual speech  

will come out but Japanese people are usually very  kind about that so they they won't be mad at me  

they don't expect me to speak well so it's nice if  I can speak better but uh and it says hello drew  

a little bit late willing to learn something glad  to hear all right learn accuracy first and speed  

will come naturally yes so that that's a good idea  and and again like the way we structure lessons in  

in fluent for life or even what I'm doing here  uh I wanted to give you the faster speech first  

rather than tell you what it means because this  is what it's like in real life you don't know  

how people are going to communicate and uh it's  much easier if you can listen to like a teacher  

explain something first to prepare yourself for  that and then you hear it in the real world and  

it's much easier so we organize the lessons  in that way uh but again you should be paying  

attention for things like this as you listen to  a lot of native speech all right football videos  

what is your advice I have a problem in spelling  and speaking uh you should download Frederick you  

can click on the link in the description below  this video uh that's for improving your listening  

spelling uh reading uh even writing it could  improve that we don't do writing in the program  

but you will see how letters actually work and  you can create your own words in that uh but if  

you want to become a better speller and speaker  then get the app uh monic class I've heard it  

isn't true a teacher use a't is it true well some  people use ain't I mean we you wouldn't want to  

teach that but you but it's part of the language  people will hear it and so I don't I don't have  

a like I I really I teach the the kinds of things  that my students want to learn and so some people  

want to watch movies and you might hear the word  ain't you know it's it's a common word it might  

not be correct don't use that in your writing  uh like I ain't I ain't hear that or something  

like I did not hear that would be the correct  English um but in casual speech and in uh and  

in movies you'll certainly hear that sometimes  so don't feel bad about that all right uh let's  

see Abraham says I have a lot of vocabul but I  couldn't build a right sentence yes so this is  

another common issue people have and usually  the reason is because uh even if you know a  

lot of English you don't know it well enough to  combine those sentences into fluent speech so  

you can you can have a big vocabulary but not  really feel very confident typically there are  

doubts about the language and that's what stops  you from speaking okay all right uh sh from  

uh Sri Lanka sair you said once we should listen  to the same thing from different speakers how  

does it help us um well there there are different  ways this is what I call naturally varied review  

and there are many examples of it but the point is  that the uh here I'm going to I'll just eras this

okay when you learn if you if you imagine a  child born uh with one parent just imagine  

that like maybe a the boy's I don't know a child  is born a little a little boy here and only his  

mother is is is around if she speaks to him and  she is the only person to speak with that child  

then this child will start sounding a lot like  his mother he will he will think like that's how  

the language Works he might even have a higher  voice because that's how he sounds um but as  

soon as you introduce another person here that  starts giving him examples and now suddenly wow  

uh like the child is is surprised because they  hear a completely different kind of of speech  

and if if you only like if your world is only you  and one other person then it then just listen to  

that person speak but for most people like me I'd  live in Nagasaki Japan and I'm going to hear lots  

of different people some people speak clearly  some people do not some people speak fast and  

others speak slowly so I have to get used to  lots of different people speaking and so there  

are different ways that you can practice with this  so one way is to listen to the same person saying  

different things okay so an example of that is  like watching these videos with me so I don't say  

exactly the same thing in every video so you're  hearing different words but sometimes I'm saying  

the same words or it could be saying things in  a different way so that's one way to improve  

your listening just like a child here listening  each day to his mother say something different  

some things might be the same she says oh time  for dinner time for dinner time for dinner time  

for dinner she might say that same thing again and  again or she might say it in a slightly different  

way like maybe an angry way like it's time for  dinner time for dinner okay or a more positive  

way so she's saying like oh time for dinner time  for dinner okay so as you as you get more exposure  

to even one person saying something you will  improve your listening and you will get used  

to that person speaking okay but if you want  to actually hear lots of different people so  

if you want to watch movies and understand people  on television or blogs or or podcasts or whatever  

you know radio so you should be listening to lots  of different examples and again just like we can  

have one person saying different things we can  have different people say the same thing okay so  

maybe we have a band or there's a popular song  that different bands will sing and so you can  

hear how they sing that a little bit you know  in in a different way so each person's voice is  

unique but if you want to be prepared for the  way natives really sound then you need to have  

lots of exposure to different people speaking so  this is what we do in fluent for life so a regular  

like a typical English class or like a like even  watching YouTube videos like this you know people  

might have their favorite teacher that they watch  uh but I recommend you listen to lots of different  

people uh but not not many like teachers just  find actual native content that you can listen  

to that will give you exposure to real native  speakers okay so if you listen to me talking about  

something and you hear me explaining something  then you take that and then go find some actual  

natives talking about that same thing whatever  that is but this is how again uh what I call

naturally naturally varied

review naturally varied review so if you just hear  the same thing from the same person over and over  

and over again if I just repeat something one way  and I repeat that again and again and again you're  

not really improving your listening you're you're  you're getting very good at at hearing one thing  

I'm saying but if you want to be a good allaround  listener and speaker you need to get exposure to  

lots of different people okay this makes sense  like if you want to if you want to become good  

at golf you have to go to the golf I don't  know what what do they call like the driving  

range or the golf course or something you have to  spend time doing that thing okay so in language  

learning uh the thing is you don't have to spend  a lot of time speaking but you should spend a lot  

of time getting exam exles from all of these  different speakers okay I know that's kind of  

a long answer to that to that question but this  is a common question I get all right so if you  

understand some people but don't understand lots  of them or you understand English teachers but  

you have trouble understanding natives that's the  reason okay so it's a different kind of speech so  

you should if you only listen to one teacher  you're going to sound like that teacher so I  

know people here in Japan who take private lessons  with somebody for years but have can't really have  

good conversations with anybody else all right  so like remember if you if you spend time with  

one person and people ask me for one-on-one  lessons and I say you know you would probably  

learn a lot but you actually become fluent much  faster if you get exposure to different people  

so not just me lots of different people okay uh  all right let's see if we have uh all right uh C  

John if I'm pronouncing that correctly hi Drew  I want to know what the best way to learn very  

quickly as a native speaker so it's it's what I  just described so how you learn is how you speak  

that just think about it that way how you learn  is how you speak so if you spend time listening  

to Natives and you can understand what they say  Don't just listen to random English that you don't  

understand like you should understand what you're  learning uh and then you will naturally naturally  

discover that you can speak the language so as  you understand it better you will be able to  

speak about it too all right Bruce says hello  Drew glad to catch up again I still haven't I  

still have in mind fluency bits series you Chang  my way of learning glad to hear it yep we also  

cover fluency bits English fluency bits in fluent  for Life hello I am from Korea I gained confidence  

in English after taking your class thank you glad  to hear yeah it's my pleasure uh if you know other  

people we can help let them know so what I do  like I should say it works for everybody like  

people don't want to hear that but it basically  does and like if you if you listen to lots of  

understandable English of course you would improve  I don't see how you would not improve if you if  

you did that and so it's really the understanding  that gives us the confidence to speak so if you  

don't really understand something very well you  won't feel confident speaking that's the problem  

there's some kind of doubt there that stops  people from speaking but once you understand  

you feel more confident then you speak so it's a  very obvious easy thing all right Mon Mon class  

again uh thanks save says yo oh yo unit says my  reaction hearing British the first time yes so  

especially if you hear maybe only American English  or Australian English or whatever and then you go  

to a different place uh it's it can be a little  bit shocking oh that's interesting there there's  

a whole different way of speaking that different  people have Ray go again nice see you hi Drew  

does talking to yourself out loud by imagining  situations uh good method to improve my fluency so  

does talking to yourself by imagining situations  improve so you would say does does talking to  

yourself by imagining situations improve all  right there like the grammar is incorrect In  

what you're saying that's kind of tripping me up a  little bit but you're asking if you should talk to  

yourself uh you can but remember like when you I  want to make this this point clear for people as

well when you when you're listening and you're  get like right now you're just listening to me  

you're not speaking maybe you're trying to repeat  after me that's okay uh but as I'm saying things  

to you and I'm trying to explain the language and  make it understandable you're improving so as you  

listen you're you're improving now as soon as you  stop listening like The Improv the Improvement uh  

usually will stop so if if you listen to a lesson  for 5 minutes and then you stop then you're  

probably not going to make any more Improvement  because the Improvement actually comes from the  

input going into you you can think about it almost  like like a balloon that you're blowing up so if  

you keep blowing up the balloon it will it will  like continue to grow uh bigger and bigger like  

that but if you stop blowing then the balloon  stays the same length or the same size uh so  

as you try to speak now you're you're you're kind  of just at this level so you will you will learn  

something and then try to use that you can try to  repeat that thing to yourself and you'll basically  

stay at the same level until you get some more  input and then start improving some more okay  

so you can there there's not much like value in  that you you can you can practice a little bit  

like if I'm listening to something just so like  yesterday I was listening to a Japanese song  

um just hearing it a couple times and looking at  the lyrics to the song and in that case like I'm  

actually continuing to improve because I'm not I'm  not trying to sing the song or do anything uh I'm  

just spending more time improving by getting more  input um so you could speak if you want to but for  

me like if I have a certain amount of time I'd  rather just get more input I'd rather have more  

people telling me things and explaining things to  me and that's what's going to get me fluent faster  

okay so if you think about little kids sitting  in school actually like they get a lot of value  

from hearing the teacher and then hearing their  friends and of course they talk with each other  

but when you speak it's typically just information  you already know so you're kind of moving sideways  

like this you get Improvement as you learn  more and that learning usually comes from you  

understanding new information okay so that's why  we're usually interested in new information we  

talk with people and we say what's new so if you  see a friend you have not seen your friend in a  

while hey what's new we don't ask them hey what's  old we say what's new we want to know what's new  

what's the new thing that's happening over here so  we are naturally attracted to more information and  

we enjoy learning new things so we want to figure  out something or watch a new TV show or learn new  

vocabulary or whatever um but you you improve more  as you understand that better so I want to make it  

clear this is not just about um trying to listen  to people a lot but you don't really understand  

the vocabulary well or you don't feel more  confident so if you just keep trying to learn more  

words but you don't really understand them that's  going to be a waste of your time also so speaking  

to yourself it can be helpful but it's just less  helpful than getting more input from people okay  

so I'm not I'm not going to really improve my  Japanese by repeating things to myself I am going  

to improve my Japanese faster if I listen to other  people teaching me new things and I am able to  

understand what they say so when I learn something  new typically a conversation I'm learning from  

what the other person says to me not me repeating  things I already know so it doesn't matter if I'm  

speaking to myself or if I'm speaking to other  people I'm not really improving I'm basically  

staying at the same level okay so just to make  this a bit more clear uh you can think about  

time like this so as you you're you you take some  time and you learn and then I'm not learning right  

here I'm just kind of trying to say something  to myself so time is passing but I'm not really  

improving very much I'm I may improve a little bit  but most of the Improvement comes as I understand  

the language better so most people like they kind  of improve in this way but the faster if you could  

spend a lot of time just getting input you would  improve really quickly and then you would just be  

able to speak speak because you understand the  language so well so me like a perfect example  

of this uh so I over the weekend I went to foka  so just another city in Japan and in my daily  

life here in Nagasaki I don't really speak much  I don't speak much English either I don't speak  

much Japanese I don't speak much English either  but I do spend a lot of time learning so I'm uh  

like listening to things like it could be some  music or maybe watching a Japanese TV show show  

or something like that or could be reading a  book uh but I'm getting lots of information and  

I'm trying to do that strategically so I really  understand something I don't care about learning  

a whole bunch of words but every day I try to  learn something a little bit better understand  

some kind of new vocabulary better uh and because  I spend a lot of my time doing this when I went  

to foka over the weekend and of course we have  our siren as we usually do when I went to foka  

and I'm I have I I went to you know restaurants  with people and I met some new people and I'm  

talking with uh like people that own restaurants  or just other people like walking around I started  

speaking a lot and it's it's kind of like the like  the balloon was just getting bigger and bigger and  

now I can just just start speaking to people  okay so I don't become like a better speaker  

by by trying to talk to myself I become a better  speaker by understanding the language better and  

and then when I have the chance to speak the words  just come out because I know them well so I don't  

feel shy about speaking because I have confidence  there's no doubt about what I'm going to say now  

I might not speak perfectly that's okay but in  general I don't really have doubts about what  

I'm what I'm saying in Japanese all right so  that's why I can go to a restaurant or a bar  

or something and talk for two hours with people  even though I don't do much talking during the day  

okay so me improving I don't have to be with  other people to improve all right it's like  

it's like you're you're kind of saving this  and you're you're building up your ability to  

speak by understanding the language better okay so  don't worry about trying to like I got to I got to  

practice just try to think about it logically like  how would that really help me if I take something  

I already know and just repeat that it's it's you  know it's like if I know how to tie my shoes like  

okay do I need to practice tying my shoes again is  that really going to help me probably not maybe I  

could get really good at tying my shoes again but  I already know how to tie my shoes I I don't need  

to do that again I want to learn something new  like here's that uh maybe I even tie my shoes in  

a different way or something I don't know but in  general we learn something we understand it and we  

don't need to practice that thing again we're  we're really trying to do something else okay  

and and again the reason we do this especially  for language learning Is that real communication  

is different from practicing a regular skill so  if I'm trying to learn to play the guitar or an  

instrument or something like that then I should  practice that thing again and again so I'm trying  

to play the music there's a song it's specific  notes at a specific time and I'm doing those  

things or if I'm learning to play a sport like  swing a golf club or something something like the  

ball is is there and it's just me and I'm trying  to get my body used to doing that thing but in  

communication I don't know what the other person  is going to say so I should be prepared for lots  

of different things so it's much better for me to  just spend all my time preparing and then when the  

conversation happens I can communicate okay so if  I spend a lot of time studying I will easily find  

ways to communicate uh I will find some way to  express something because there are usually many  

ways to express something okay I'm sorry this is a  long a long explanation about this but I I promise  

you if you spend more time uh understanding  the language you will be a better speaker you  

will surprise yourself with how much better of a  speaker you become just because you understand the  

language better so your mind will do a lot of that  work for you uh as you're as you're listening to  

more examples getting more uh exposure to Native  speech all right uh where do we get stuck here all  

right uh June to juny 2 oh my God scratch the wall  uh on scratch on the wall for studying okay I will  

enjoy Nicholas says it's really hard to understand  the structure of English all right uh Nicholas I  

would take time and focus on a particular thing so  don't think about the structure of English think  

about the structure of a particular phrase  or something and then build on that so once  

you understand how something works then make that  sentence a little bit longer or change that thing  

slightly but it's actually not very complicated  if you make the uh the problem smaller I was just  

like talking to my kids about this how do you eat  a whale how do you eat a whale how do you eat a

how do you eat a whale one piece at a time how do  you eat a whale one piece at a time so if you just  

talk about wow that's a that's a whale that's a  really big thing how can I eat all that well you  

just take one bite at a time and you will finish  that whale at some point so the same thing with  

English if you say wow English is crazy English  is confusing uh I guess but it's not confusing if  

you just pick one small thing one small piece of  it and understand that just get lots of examples  

and the language will become much more clear and  then you can build off of that so usually when I'm  

looking at these comments there are lots of more  advanced words in there but the basic vocabulary  

is often incorrect so people think they know the  language but they don't really okay so they that's  

why they lack uh lack confidence when they speak  because they're uncertain about certain things uh  

like uh is the grammar correct or whatever and  that's what causes them to struggle to speak uh  

Stephen says man my mistake more big is when read  any text or book and I don't understand one word  

I don't understand all sentences please help me  uh Stephen read something smaller and easier for  

a lower level all right if if I take uh like  a Japanese novel and try to read that before  

I know all of the like all of the characters and  all it's going to be really difficult for me to  

read that like physically read it so it's much  better if I find something that's going to be  

fun and easier for me to read and then I can uh  easily kind of level up my ability from there D  

Trin says hello sir for the last few months I  teach English for kids and Junior High School  

in my free time on Saturday could you tell me the  best method for a teenager thank you sir well I I  

don't have a different method for different people  it's more you you just try to make the language  

understandable all in English well I have a video  about how to teach English in English just watch  

that video but I teach English the same way it  doesn't matter if I'm talking with my native kids  

or members of fluent for life I'm I'm teaching  them English in English because that's what helps  

you speak uh Erin says Heiser do you have a fixed  uh be living uh live stream uh typically they are  

like Mondays and Thursdays Japan time around this  time Rocky I pronounce uh some English words with  

an American accent but for other words I do with  a British I'm not sure if I'm speaking well that's  

interesting I know some people do that but just  focus on a particular one usually people you know  

they're they're learning a particular accent like  they have to live in America or wherever but learn  

the kind of English that you use every day then is  listening good to improve without pictures or not  

uh I I don't want people to think about all right  here here's a better way to think about this idea

so people will often ask me about  different ways of learning English  

so they will say like listen uh or read  or watch or whatever like so they're  

asking me what should they do uh and the  reality so the truth is the goal is really

understanding to understand something with well  and you could understand something by listening  

both so by hearing it or by reading it or by  watching something but the point is you like like  

when I teach lessons that's why I draw stuff on  the board so people can see what I'm talking about  

or I show videos of different actions happening in  lessons so that you can see I want to give you as  

many ways to understand something as possible  so if you think about a young child learning  

their native language they get to hear things and  watch things and read things and they try to write  

something as well or draw pictures or something  uh but the goal is understanding because really we  

want to uh remove doubt so as you so this is what  what we what we mean by by understanding something  

so you're removing doubt so if you just understand  a little bit you can recognize the information  

then you still maybe have some doubt but when  all the doubt is gone and maybe you get that  

from listening or reading or watching or whatever  that's how you improve so don't think about a  

specific way of doing it just think about the goal  of understanding something and really the goal of  

this is removing doubt so when you have no doubt  that's when you speak all right that's this is  

this is the like the foundation of of everything  really to remove the doubt is when you start  

speaking so when you remove the doubt you actually  understand something like a native and what I call  

the fluent communication switch in in your brain  it flips on and you feel confident speaking all  

right but until that point usually you can hear  something you might understand it and recognize  

it but you might not feel confident about speaking  okay so yes listening is helpful and reading is  

helpful watching something is helpful but the  whole point is just to get to understanding and  

really to do that as quickly as possible okay so  that's the that's the goal focus on the goal and  

not necessarily how now you get there all right  uh let's see so Nicholas again Tony Robinson speak  

really fast but I can understand him is because  I watched almost every video of him Tony Robinson  

well yes again like that's a perfect example of  spending time with someone you will get used to  

their accent and their way of speaking all right  so seir says instead of listening to podcast I've  

decided to listen to Audi book from different  YouTubers I think it's a goodidea idea yeah so  

if you if you understand something well if it's  helping you speak better and speaking is your goal  

typically the people watching my channel are are  people who want to speak so it's not just people  

who are like learning to I don't know maybe to  pass a test or something they actually want to  

have good communication so whatever it is you're  doing you have to make sure you're understanding  

better uh and then that's what's going to allow  you to speak Lucas says what is fluency in your  

opinion well fluency really in anything just  means the ability to do something without  

trying to think and process that information  so like you brush your teeth fluently in the  

morning or Whatever Whenever you brush your teeth  usually without thinking about it so you don't  

have to think like oh my goodness you know what's  happening here I don't need to translate anything  

you just you know put the toothpaste on and start  brushing your teeth it's pretty easy uh and so  

language learning you become fluent in something  when you just understand it so well you have  

no doubt and you use it automatically okay uh  let's see and O says maybe we make mistakes when  

we talk with native speakers because teachers  don't teach or never do the comparative between  

normal and slam maybe you mean slang words why U  yes so again as I as I said at the beginning of  

this video people typically they will learn only  from an English teacher and that's why they will  

struggle to understand natives so they don't get  exposure to Native real spoken English they're  

listening to kind of fake English dialogues uh  it's just not how people naturally speak and so  

if you don't get that kind of English then of  course you're going to struggle uh or probably  

likely most likely struggle when you have uh real  people that you need to speak with or listen to  

uh let's see all right uh looks like schang hello  if I'm pronouncing that correctly that's so true  

our red goat says God you sir the other thing is  at the moment I'm able to listen and understand  

Hood talks where I find it the hardest English  to catch but I understand the most of it is that  

a good approach yeah like just think about are  you getting closer to your goal by doing whatever  

technique you think about so me personally  when I think about improving it's like if I try  

doing something I should notice some improvement  pretty quickly so is something like a good idea  

um like if I have to look at two different methods  or or think about what is a good use of my time I  

just think what is the result I get from doing  something so as an example me learning Japanese  

characters I've given this I've given this  example uh before but as I continue to study more  

uh Kani so this is uh like like Japanese Japanese  characters if I take a if I take a word like let's  

say I'm just going to teach you like a kind of  some basic basic coni like this so if I take this  

and just say okay I want you to repeat this again  and again I'm going to tell you what it means uh  

it's easier if I can find some kind of story or  some way to help you connect with this information  

uh especially because with writing you can take  time to to read something or write something so  

this is the the Japanese character for tree uh and  so you can imagine It Like These are you know this  

could be like the branches of a tree something  like that U and you can imagine you know kind  

of a pictograph like this and it becomes easier to  understand and when you get that it's like oh like  

ah that aha moment that comes from understanding  something better and if I can teach something well  

it just means I'm able to eliminate the doubt  faster so I could teach you by just saying like  

Okay this is the Japanese character for something  just like write it again and again and again and  

hopefully you understand it but it's much better  if I actually try to help you understand something  

well so what whatever you are doing if you're  thinking about a particular method or something  

like should I use music or should I read a book  or something is it actually helping you understand  

the language better so you speak okay and you  should be able to feel that with whatever you're  

reading okay or listening to or something like  that so for me like I don't really listen to a  

lot of podcasts or things like that in Japanese I  guess I could do that but I'm usually very focused  

about something I'm trying to learn so maybe I  hear an example on the news or a different TV  

show about something I'm trying to think about  a like a recent new word I learned uh what did  

I learn I don't remember exactly but typically  I hear something like and often I will hear a  

different way to use vocabulary I already know and  in that case I I think o that's interesting here's  

like like I know what this word means but here's  a different way of using it something like that so  

uh typically I will focus on that or try to look  for more examples of of the way uh people might  

use vocabulary but when this is for everybody  watching this video If you're trying to learn in  

a particular way you should feel Improvement by  knowing that you understand something better if  

you feel confused you should probably stop doing  that thing okay so whatever it is you're thinking  

about if you try something and it's not really  helping you then don't continue doing that uh  

Lucas says it's necessary to speak to because you  have to exercise the muscles in your mouth just  

listening you will improve only listening skills  speaking you improve the way you speak uh yeah  

this is a kind of general idea people have about  about how like you have to exercise your muscles  

or or make your mouth move in a certain way like  kind of but if I could take two people so if we  

could do a test just like a science experiment I  take two people so one person repeats information  

and and speaks a lot like they just try to  say things I give them words like here repeat  

the word bird again and again like bird bird bird  okay I get used to saying that and I take another  

person and like I'm not trying to stop them from  speaking but I would say you don't have to speak  

just listen to all of this information and try to  understand the language better so it's not just  

about listening the point is to understand the  language better and if I take those two people  

I guarantee you the person who was practicing  something something will probably not become a  

really good communicator they might be able to say  some words well but the person who understands the  

language better will be able to communicate much  better they will be able to use the language well  

if they get stuck on one thing they can easily  switch to something else that's what a good  

communicator can do and a good communicator is  someone who understands the language well so yes  

like and I often talk about this there is uh like  if we think about all the the time that people  

spend for language learning the what most people  try to do is they learn they learn everything like  

to a very shallow degree so they might learn some  new vocabulary they repeat it once or twice and  

then move on to the next thing and then they think  okay so like this is like kind of learning so  

learning down here and now this is going to to be  speaking time okay but what I do with my Learners  

is the opposite I want them to spend most of their  time really understanding and then the speaking is  

just very easy after that so yes there's a little  bit of like mouth movement training or something  

like that but if you were going to start teaching  me a different language if I had to learn Arabic  

or Chinese or something and I'm just spending most  of my time really understanding the language like  

I will I will I will quickly become a much better  speaker speaker okay so you can try to spend more  

time speaking but I'm I'm saying uh most of your  time should be really understanding the language  

better because the goal is to remove the doubt  if you don't remove the doubt if you still have  

questions and concerns or worries that's what's  going to make you shy and stop speaking okay so  

you can try to practice by yourself speaking to  yourself the same kind of thing just like like I  

can speak to myself and and review something I  already know but that's not really teaching me  

anything new okay so I should be spending more  time down here and it's the exact opposite of  

what most people do for language learning okay  so if you want to speak don't speak I know this  

s it's like the opposite of of what people say you  should do like well of course if you want to speak  

a language you should speak and I say okay show  me show me how that works and then they will say  

well you learn something and then try to repeat  it again and again it's like uh okay like if if  

that's helping you but I I have I have yet to  meet a person who who followed that strategy  

and was a good speaker but I meet you know quite  a few people actually who do this where they they  

spend a lot of time just understanding the  language well maybe they they don't realize  

what they're doing they're just oh I like watching  English movies or you know I read a lot of English  

books or something and H okay so they're doing  this they don't spend all of their time talking  

they're spending all their time understanding  the language better I want to start clapping  

understand the language better okay I promise you  if you understand the language better you will  

speak and it's a much faster process okay many  people they spend years how many how many years  

have people watching this video been learning  English put your hand up if you've been learning  

for 10 years or more I bet a lot of people have so  people will watch these videos and I'm trying to  

save them that trouble stop learning that way and  just spend more time on one thing just to prove  

that I'm correct about this if you focus on one  grammar point or one phrase or something and just  

get lots of exposure to that thing with naturally  varied review so you don't just repeat it over  

and over you hear different people using it in  different ways you will naturally get used to  

saying that and you will feel very confident about  using it okay that's how it works so yes speaking  

is there but it's a lot less important than people  think all right and I I promise you if you if you  

experiment with this by yourself pick one thing  just any anything like pick one phrase or one  

grammar point and spend a day trying to learn  more get more examples like your your mind will be  

looking for more examples or you can use chat GPT  or Google or whatever uh but get more examples of  

that thing and you will feel very confident about  using it okay I've got like tons of examples of  

how this has happened to me in my own language  learning process for learning Japanese and I've  

told many stories about this in these videos uh  but it's basically the same process spend your  

time trying to understand the language better and  it doesn't matter how you understand it maybe you  

like watching TV shows or something whatever makes  you understand the language better but you should  

feel that as you're learning so here is when will  the next Live start uh Monday I guess what day is  

it today Thursday I think Carlos says thank you  for the explanation PO says hi Drew how to deal  

with the fact that even though you can natively  learn new words or Expressions you could forget  

them easily if you don't use them for some period  of time uh well you don't have to use the language  

in order to remember it you can just continue to  get examples of it you know uh and typically we if  

we know something really well we don't forget  it that easily so even uh I don't know words  

like English words I might like forget something  sometimes but most of the time um I can remember  

words I learned um but yeah like you don't have to  speak in order to do that just get more examples  

of that same vocabulary if you feel like you're  you're you're kind of losing that information  

all right Ian says nice and Twan says I come from  Vietnam can you recommend a source to listen like  

you natural English uh it's right here on YouTube  just pick a specific topic you're interested in  

and watch a bunch of different content about that  I made a video specifically showing how this works  

uh on my channel it's called what's the name of  the video like learn how to make espresso so I  

picked that topic because I don't know anything  about coffee really I'm not really a coffee  

drinker and I don't know anything about espresso  uh so I made a video about that and the video just  

gives examples of different people explaining how  to make espresso and I promise you if you watch  

that video you will learn more about espresso even  if you don't know anything about uh espresso all  

right we're getting it I'm not being going to be  able to give my my other examples over here all  

right uh let's see I'll try to get through these  quickly over here how many hours should I practice  

English every day well as much as you can but you  don't like when I talk about practicing English it  

just means getting lots of lots of input so people  who are members of fluent for life like if they  

have lots of time they can get many more examples  in the in a like in a shorter amount of time uh or  

faster uh let's see all right I think I got that  one okay I got that one yeah so any like anytime  

you're you're learning something you can you know  you're basically improving but you'll feel it as  

you learn something you're like ah I got it like  when you understand something that's when you can  

start using it all right Roy says does fluency  include reasoning for example I often get stuck  

with expressing my thoughts both in English or  or Japanese my first language um well typically  

yes like if you're if you're if you're able to  communicate quickly then you know you can like  

that would be communicating fluently but if you  get stuck because you can't think about how to  

explain something in a rational or reasonable way  then yeah that would certainly hurt your ability  

to speak so you might still be a fluent speaker  like if you're reading something you could read  

it fluently but maybe you just and that's not a  problem with learning a language especially if you  

have the same problem in your native language um  but yeah so that like it's your ability to speak  

is is many different things working together  uh so if I know a lot of English but I I don't  

have a tongue and I can't open my mouth and  that's going to be a problem for me even if I  

can understand what people are saying so yes  like you you could have uh you know specific  

issues that stop you from expressing yourself  uh are Americans learning words using root and  

prefix yes so Americans do do that any advice for  a speaking test uh I would get uh specific advice  

for particular tests uh I focus on communication  and conversational fluency speaking confidence  

uh but if you're looking for specific test prep I  recommend you look more for that all right s says  

I appreciate you are the best what you recommend  for B one level uh the same thing I recommend for  

every level just get appropriate uh context  uh or context un understandable information  

for your level basically that's how you would  do it so pick something focus on it make sure  

you understand that thing really well and then do  the next thing you know you just do one thing at  

a time like that ricar says hey it's a pleasure to  see you again after a couple years it's nice glad  

to hear I'm from Colombia I used to see all the  time years ago learning was successful listening  

to you glad to hear it if you know other people I  can help send them my way all right Manuel with a  

hand over there and Nal says as natives you're  always thinking in local language and then you  

speak English but if you think in English and  start speaking in English please comment thanks  

I don't understand what you're saying exactly like  I I I learn in the language or I speak and think  

in the language that I'm communicating in so when  I'm speaking in Japanese I'm thinking in Japanese  

uh and that's because I learn English or excuse me  I learn Japanese I learn Japanese in Japanese just  

like I learn English in English if I translate  when I learn I will translate when I speak okay  

but if I don't translate when I learn I don't have  to translate when I speak that's the magic all  

right Lucas says thanks K says I wonder it's good  practice to imitate what you were saying in these  

lessons because you don't read a script now do you  you are speaking your own thoughts naturally yes  

so the reason I do these live videos number one  uh is because I can answer questions for people  

but number two it's also to to give you lots  of examples of how someone speaks naturally so  

you can uh repeat after me uh but more think about  like the pieces of the language I'm using so often  

people that have been following me for a long time  they understand many of the patterns I use and  

some of the vocabulary and the ways I speak like  I could probably make a video about like what do I  

say when I'm surprised or if I'm trying to explain  something or if I have to think about a different  

way of EXP expressing something but I'm trying to  give you an example of what fluent speech looks  

like so if you're in a conversation with someone  I don't have time to write a script and plan  

what I want to say I just have to follow you and  then continue to express myself so if I give you  

examples of this it's another good reason why I  don't have a script for these videos I have maybe  

a general plan for what I want to talk about like  in this video I wanted to give more examples of me  

speaking but now we're going for 70 minutes uh me  just answering random questions for people but I  

that's just kind of how these videos go so just  like in a real conversation you might plan for  

something but you need to really be prepared to  communicate for whatever the situation demands and  

that's again the difference between communication  and practicing something like an instrument so the  

instrument or the song it's going to be the same  way it's going to be the same way it's going to be  

the same way every time uh but in a conversation  just like these live videos it's different every  

time but you'll notice uh I often get the same  kinds of questions from different people and so  

I I like to answer those just to give another  example of how I might respond to something so  

often people will say is it a good idea to do  this and I will say well and I explain like how  

something is a good idea or not a good idea or  whatever um but if you watch many of my videos  

or even watch the same video a few times you  will learn new do things each time you do it I  

promise you but most people again they only do  that shallow level of learning so they have a  

shallow level of speaking okay if you have a deep  level of learning you have a very deep command  

of the language so that when you do have a chance  to speak you express yourself fluently now people  

should be excited about this like I know I was  excited when I discovered this because I thought  

oh I can get fluent by myself I don't need to go  find a practice partner or spend a lot of time  

talking with anybody I just kind of really get  deep into the language really understand things  

well and then I feel confident about speaking and  then when I have the chance to speak I use the  

vocabulary fluently because I'm excited to speak  all right if you're shy it means you're not yet  

understanding spend more time with the language so  pick something it could be a phrase or a grammar  

Point whatever something maybe you heard but you  didn't quite understand what it you know maybe you  

didn't understand it very well spend more time  with that and then you will feel more confident  

using it all right uh let's see uh is practicing  speaking with chat gp4 worth like speaking with a  

native uh I've never tried speaking with chat GPT  for but uh I can type things with it and i' I've  

just found chat GPT uh to be incorrect about some  things and so I don't really trust chat GPT to  

to give me like good communication um there's some  basic things it can do but uh if you're doing that  

pay attention to what it's saying to you uh and  ask for more details and more examples about like  

hey chat gbt could you could you tell me something  in a different way like explain how something  

works now explain it again in a slightly different  way or explain it again to like a fourth grader  

or explain it again to a college student and and  I would I would spend with chat GPT in that way  

just the only thing is I wouldn't know if it was  correct so I would still feel a little bit you  

know nervous about am I learning the right thing  and that's why uh I would prefer to use something  

like a bunch of examples in YouTube talking about  something so how to make lemonade okay just take  

something very simple or how to plant a tree and  you type that in English and you will get a bunch  

of videos where people are talking about that  and you get to see it's even better than chat  

GPT number one it's real speech real variety okay  you're getting that naturally varied review it's  

preparing you for how people really speak and I  can listen to like how to plant a tree in England  

or if if I'm looking for like British English  how to plant a tree and then American English  

how to plant a tree I will get those different  examples from people so chat GPT is another thing  

where it's kind of like getting examples from one  teacher or One Source all right so you want to  

make sure like chat gbt is just it's it's another  way of getting some practice uh all right let's  

see ready go again interesting so at the level of  understanding most of what I hear you recommend me  

to go through what I want to know specifically  for example how to talk about Secrets uh or a  

day off in English yes but I like I would just  watch people just watch natives doing that like  

don't go looking for English lessons about that  like actually watch a video of somebody talking  

about that like if you and YouTube is filled with  lots of videos about that kind of thing okay so  

uh like there like right there I just gave you  an example of some native English just as like  

an example it's like YouTube is filled with lots  of examples like it just means there are a lot of  

those things in that um and so when you're when  you're learning something and you see lots of  

different examples of that like like what did I  do today day or describing my day so you can get  

people talking about what they do you know and  just see what they do and how they do that like  

well I got up at this time but another person  says well I woke up at this time another person  

says I got out of bed at this time or you know  whatever they explain things in different ways but  

as you get all of these different things you will  naturally feel yourself understanding more feeling  

more confident and able to use those things in  your conversations all right uh let's see hi  

from Turkmenistan absolutely great I personally  noticed that when in bars I have conversations  

with ends in 25 minutes I feel so exhausted and  bored of speaking Because by the end of it I  

consume all my vocabulary yes and so like a native  speaker you could actually have a challenge if it  

were possible you could actually simulate this  with chat GPT but if I give chat GPT a list and  

I say here are 100 words like write me a story  using only those 100 Words and chat GPT because  

it knows the language well I mean it's basically  like programmed to do that but because chat GPT  

knows the language well it can take those words  and and turn that into all kinds of different  

stories or it could you know talk for hours about  something okay so it's not the number of words you  

know it's how well do you use that vocabulary  and people who know the vocabulary very well  

can use that vocabulary very well okay so I can  take a word and express something in a different  

way or I can make a pun like a joke uh because  I know one expression and then I am able to use  

that same word for a different context or with a  different speaker or something like that okay so  

the size of your vocabulary is not very important  it's how well do you know that vocabulary okay I  

will repeat this over and over and over for as  long as I teach and again this is that same kind  

of thing so people have a large vocabulary but  don't know it very well so they try to practice  

speaking by themselves and they don't really feel  confident so they don't get into conversations  

okay that's usually what happens to people the  opposite is to get something even a few words  

really know them well and then you will feel very  confident about using them when the opportunity  

happens okay so when you have the chance to speak  you'll feel confident about using the language  

okay let me see if I can I'm trying to get through  these all right Zam says hi thank you so much for  

answering all the questions patiently could  you please explain a little bit about fluent  

for Life how does it work uh sure so very quickly  for people uh like people often ask me what the  

difference is between fluent for life and these  YouTube videos uh usually what I'm doing in these  

videos is I I assume there will be new people  watching each one of these videos so I don't  

know a lot of people do watch them again and again  but the basic idea is to to welcome new people and  

to explain to people how they should be getting  fluent so it's understanding the principles of  

fluency and I give examples of vocabulary uh to  help you understand things uh but most of it is  

just like here's things that you might believe  about fluency I'm going to tell you a different  

way to think about fluency and you can try that  experiment with that yourself and see if I'm right  

I think I am I'm I've proven that many times but  I always want people to prove that for themselves  

don't just believe what I'm saying go actually try  it um but anyway the the basic difference there  

again uh what these YouTube videos are it's kind  of teaching the principles about fluency or how  

to get fluent faster and then YouTube uh or excuse  me fluent for life actually takes you through the  

like the training of of making you understand  the language very well so we remove the doubt  

that's the whole point of the program to make you  speak all right so if you if you like some people  

they don't join the program and they just use my  training or my ideas and and just get fluent by  

themselves and that's fine if you want to do that  like you don't have to do that uh it's like if I  

have a cooking show um I'm teaching people how to  make certain ingredients or make certain dishes  

or something but if you just want to come to my  restaurant I'll just cook it for you and so you  

have like the delicious meal all there and I just  get you fluent automatically without you having to  

go and search for lots of content and organizing  it the right way and get lots of examples of  

different people speaking and all of those things  that you need to speak so if you just want that  

already done for you fluent for right fluent for  life is really for people who care more about time  

than money so it's not a free program and it's  not really a cheap I mean I guess it depends  

it's actually a very valuable program for people  who need to speak for their life that's the whole  

point it's called fluent for life like because  being able to communicate uh it usually is a very  

important thing especially if you need English  for communication in professional life so there's  

actually like a dollar value there if you can get  a like a higher paying job or whatever because  

you speak and then you just continue to get the  benefits of fluency for the rest of your life um  

but that's the basic idea so if you want to take  the ideas like you can you see people commenting  

about how they you know either joined my programs  or did not but they still benefited from what I'm  

doing because I'm just helping them understand the  language better all right so if you want to have  

someone do that for you like you just know every  day I'm going to do this there's a specific thing  

you do it's very easy you're either like listening  to something or watching or whatever but the point  

is to understand the language better and then  you start Naturally Speaking better that's how  

it works all right so you don't need to spend  a lot of time practicing we do show you how  

to do that in the program like how to meet native  speakers uh if you want to do that but most of the  

program is this it's just helping you understand  the vocabulary better so you speak fluently okay  

pretty simple all right but but if you have a more  specific questions you can always send us a mail  

at [email protected] or just comment down  below here but typically people uh if you click on  

the link in the description below this video you  will learn more about the program but the basic  

idea is just we're Jo we're trying to eliminate  doubt uh you have about speaking so that you feel  

confident and express yourself all right uh let's  see Ricardo G Hydra always recommend friends of  

mine to see your YouTube channel is the best  glad to hear it and H yes is good morning from  

Indonesia C John again I had a question what  should I do to practice pronunciations to get  

better again uh listen to lots of examples  of how natives speak so pick a particular  

sound or word or something and listen to lots of  people saying that I've recommended this before

ug.com so yish

docomo by different people so it's good UGL is  good if you already know what you're looking  

for or if you want to hear the pronunciation of  a particular word but from different speakers  

and that's always a good way to improve your  pronunciation so remember like you might like  

the sound of my voice or somebody else like  you want to sound like an actor or somebody  

famous or whatever uh but each person has their  own unique speaking voice so I want you to find  

that for yourself in English so everybody has  a unique English speaking voice and your like  

your voice and your mouth or you know you know  it's it's going to be different from mine so if  

you listen to many different people you will find  that natural speaking voice for yourself all right  

so you will not just listen to me but listen to  many different people again this is what we do in  

fluent for life we're trying to give you exposure  to lots of different people uh also if you want to  

learn the other part of that uh is learning the  individual pieces of English words so if we take  

a word like cat you learn the individual sounds  of these this is what we teach in Frederick so  

that's the app we have if you click on the link in  the description below this video you can get that  

as well so we teach you the individual basically  you teach yourself you discover how these sounds  

work the same way native English children do so  C cat so you're learning the pronunciation and  

then you learn oh if I have a different letter  over here like e a and that's a silent E Kate  

so you learn the rules for pronunciation uh  by understanding how the rules of the letters  

work all right so that's what we teach you in  Frederick all right Lucas again what about if I  

want to become an interpreter translator I have to  learn the word translating to my native language  

right uh not necessarily you you would become a  good translator if you understand something like  

I'm kind of learning these things independently  so if I know what the word is like if I if I have  

like you know this word here and I learn it in  English as marker I know what that is and then  

in [ __ ] Japanese I'm I I'm in a class or I see  someone talking about it and they say MAA oh okay  

like it's similar you know it's like marker and  MAA then I I just like I can translate that easily  

I'm not learning the Japanese through the English  though I'm just I'm learning it directly in both  

cases all right just to be clear about that so  this is me and I'm learning like the English word  

for an object and then I'm uh like learning the  Japanese way to express that as well okay so then  

in my mind it's very easy to use both because I  know both fluently uh so I don't need to translate  

from one to the other I can just use one or the  other okay so typically when you're translating  

people who are really good at both languages it's  it's very easy to do the kind of translation that  

way but you didn't learn through the translation  so that's the important part so it's not like one  

is really better than the other you're just  learning it in that language all right uh and  

that's the way I'm learning translations memorize  because when I'm reading the word appears that I  

don't know and I underline these words at the  end I check the translation my native language  

yes I recommend you do not do that again if you  learn through translations it's going to slow you  

down even if you want to be a translator because  you're you're you're kind of giving yourself an  

extra step of thinking instead of just learning  the word like here's here's the word for like  

snow or something so I know the word for snow in  English and then like oh I come to Japan and I  

hear like oh like that same thing is Yuki and  I oh okay that's interesting like I I see it I  

didn't learn it through a translation so I'm  not going like this to this and then that's  

an extra step when I have to think about it  it's just I can do that thing directly okay  

uh so remember how you learn is how you speak we  want to spend uh more time trying to understand  

the things in the language itself all right Tom  again you're late oh no it's all right Nal is  

I correct my comment now as local people when  you speak first you must think in English and  

speak English yes so probably like um like if you  say I correct my comment now you should say like I  

corrected my comment now so that's another example  of a basic error like even though you have uh like  

higher level vocabulary like a child wouldn't make  that mistake all right so that's I'm not saying  

there's anything bad about you this is just the  way most people learn teachers teachers are really  

trying to prepare you for tests as quickly as  possible so they just say okay we're going to  

try to learn a lot of information you won't really  remember it or be able to use it you won't be able  

to use it fluently in communication but you  can probably remember it for a test so that's  

why most people teach this way so this way this  what I'm talking about it's not like I call it a  

secret because like most students don't know about  it and they don't really know it's possible to  

learn English in English or to learn Japanese in  Japanese or whatever because most people are are  

learning languages in school as kids like this  okay but it is possible to do it it's actually  

quite easy uh with help all right uh mod says  I see you are speaking about anything with uh  

little few words without using any advanced  or sophisticated words how can I achieve that  

like you again that so that's a that's like a  perfect uh a perfect question for this video  

that's your answer right there okay so he's saying  wow like Drew is able to speak using a lot of  

basically simple words without trying to express  anything in a complicated way and that's because  

I know the words well okay I can take a limited  vocabulary and weave that together to make lots  

of interesting things I could tell a story about  anything in a simple way or in a complicated way  

or with like Advanced vocabulary or what whatever  but the point is I know that vocabulary very well  

so I'm able to use that vocabulary well all  right it's not a secret what I'm doing uh but  

like I try to keep everything very simple so you  can understand what I say but I'm just and again  

like the the point of these videos is to show you  to give you an actual example of someone speaking  

fluently when you watch a lot of English like  learning videos it's just it's like a prepared  

video that people don't really speak like that  so I want to give you the bigger picture of  

how people really speak okay uh let's see Are  we almost finished I wanted to give you like  

another we gone for it 90 minutes oh my goodness  all right uh let's see uh w w Drew 100% okay Keo  

says you are always helpful in answering my  questions thank you very much was my English  

polite today yes uh very good how to crack o e t  I don't know what that means uh could you make us  

part of your videos to read us stories and explain  to us in your way well just that's already done  

you you can go right here on YouTube and find  people reading stories or talking about that to  

kids you don't need me for this my my the my goal  and my purpose here is to help you understand how  

language learning really works because most of the  ideas that people have about learning are stopping  

them from speaking people think I need need to  spend a lot of time learning as much as I can and  

then I need to try to force myself to speak that's  what people think they need to do because everyone  

says that everyone says you have to speak okay  that's how we get fluent and I'm telling you no  

it's actually like this and you can test this for  yourself most of the people who've been watching  

my videos they find my content because they've  already been trying this for years and they still  

can't speak but once they start doing this like oh  wow I can actually understand what I'm saying the  

the language makes sense to me I feel confident  using it so that's how you do it so I don't spend  

a lot of my time trying to teach people a lot of  advanced vocabulary even though that's what most  

people want to do now this is probably why my  channel is like not I mean it's I guess it's a  

little bit popular but not as popular as as other  channels that just teach a lot of vocabulary so I  

am focused on this specific problem of how to  help people speak all right and you speak when  

you understand something really well all right  it's really that simple and you you understand  

things when you when you've like reviewed them  many times you heard a lot of people talking  

about them you really feel confident that you'll  express yourself well that's when you speak uh  

let's see an MI Chen says why it's more difficult  to speak without translation but it's more easy to  

listen without translation uh because speaking  is more difficult than than listening as a  

basic idea so you you when you're learning things  it's very easy to get exposed to lots of different  

language and you can understand things to a a  lower level uh but when you speak you have to  

understand them better so you feel confident  about using them okay so that's the that's the  

difference that's why you can typically speak uh  or understand better than you can speak and lots  

of people make videos people are still making  videos about this problem but it's it's just  

like like your level of understanding is here  when you listen but your level of understanding  

needs to be up here uh watch my there's a a short  video I released maybe last week on the channel  

about this specific idea about removing doubt  and understanding the language better that's  

why people don't speak uh let's see hello test  hello Alan could you explain naturally vared  

review again how does one practice it to become  fluent speaker in English U so again the idea of  

naturally varied review means you're getting uh  instead of just repeating something or hearing  

one person say the same thing again and again the  whole goal of the whole goal of understanding a  

language uh is really that you feel confident that  you know it really well not just that you kind  

of recognize it so you need to really understand  something well and I'll give you one example I've  

given you if you go back and watch this video  you will see more examples of naturally varied  

um but this is a a simple example that I gave  to a friend of mine who is a native speaker and  

I was explaining to him this idea of naturally  varied review so if you have seen this before  

uh don't tell the answer all right but this is  the example I gave to him so I said I'm going  

to teach you a new language uh or teach you  like a new word this is not an English word  

I'm just going to make up a word uh and here  we go so I'm going to teach you so the the  

word is uh we'll just say Blu so the word  is Blu this is not a real word in English  

but I'm going to teach you a word in we'll just  call this an alien language all right here we

go all right so this is Blu I show you  this picture and I say blah now what do  

you think that means what is a Blu just  post in the comment whatever you think  

a blah is I want to do this quickly let  me take a drink of water I didn't think  

we would be going this long today oh  my goodness almost 100 minutes oh my

goodness an ice skate yes and this is also like a  kind of it's not not really the clearest picture  

so part of the a ski shoe yeah so I mean it could  you can't really tell looks like some kind of so  

talking about skiing or ice skating or something  like that you don't really know for sure or winter  

I could be talking about something else you don't  really know okay so if I if I teach you this and  

I just say okay I want you to go home and repeat  this word again and again you have your flash card  

and we will repeat blah blah blah blah but when  we get into a conversation you probably won't  

feel confident using it because you're not really  100% sure that you know what I'm talking about  

all right so just because my my my image  is not very clear that's also part of the  

problem uh but that's why when I'm  teaching we give multiple examples  

we want to give naturally varied review  we want to give you different examples of  

things to really help you understand what  vocabulary means so again going to use  

the same word because I'm still teaching  you the meaning of only one word okay BL

okay now what does Blu mean what do you think

Blu blur blur blur what do you think a shirt BL  

what does that word mean I really  don't know I'll give you another

example blood

blah blah give you another

example let's see

here BL blur

blah blah blah but you notice as I'm giving you  more and more examples you feel a little bit more  

confident that I'm talking about clo okay so if my  pictures are better it would help you understand  

things it's like but people start getting the  idea if I just show you one thing you probably  

won't really understand what I'm talking about  but as you get more examples oh look at that  

now it's a bit more clear so Blu it just means  clothing Bermuda so this is not this is not an  

actual English word this is just an example of how  the mind is trying to understand language and if  

you don't understand well you won't feel confident  speaking okay so yes like there's a different word  

for each one of these things but if if I'm showing  them all together and I'm using the same word for  

all of these things then it feels okay now I  understand what we're talking about so we have  

like in English a tie a baseball cap or just a cap  we got a boot is supposed to be a shoe it kind of  

looks like an ice skate or something a shirt and  some pants or shorts over here all right but that  

when you think about teaching a new language to  someone this is what naturally varied review is  

so you're you're trying to understand something  by getting more and varied examples of it the same  

way you would get that naturally this why I call  it naturally varied review but this is why you  

get these examples uh in real conversations from  people okay so my mother says Blu and my father  

says BL and my sister says Blu and my teacher says  Blu and like after I get all those examples now I  

feel very confident ah BL means clothes or cloth  or something you wear or whatever so I don't draw  

a person in here uh but the point is that now you  you understand we're talking about clothing or you  

have a pretty good idea and your your ability to  understand gets better as you get more examples  

okay so this is the the opposite of this is  trying to take one word and repeating that thing  

or saying that thing to yourself so do you see how  repeating something like saying something doesn't  

make you more fluent getting more examples of it  does make you fluent because you're understanding  

the word better okay does that make sense so  the goal is to is to spend more time uh if you  

if you really understand uh something well then  you'll be able to use it and so that that's the  

goal of what I do with these videos or especially  with uh fluent for life all right let me go back  

think I got everybody let's see uh uh let's see  okay the only let's see Tom says if only we had  

live classes from teach J every day well you  don't need live classes that's what that's what  

fluent for life is fluent for life is like it's  like class with me every day and not just me but  

with lots of different native speakers all right  uh well I'm already going like way too long but  

I wanted to give you uh so two more very quick  examples is at the end of this so just some more  

more examples of how the the native language can  be different from what natives uh or from uh what  

you might learn in a textbook so if we have uh  something like like I was talking with a friend  

of mine uh and he said uh like I took my car to  a to a mechanic but like he's not a very good  

mechanic and so I said why did you take him there  and he said oh like he's the only game in town

so I was asking a friend of mine why did he take  

his car to this mechanic If the  mechanic is not very good so a

mechanic a mechanic so a car mechanic like a car  someone who can fix your car I said why did you  

take him to the car why did you take him to that  mechanic if he's not very good and my friend said  

well he's the only game in town he's the only game  in town and so this is an example of something  

that I would probably not use in a lesson unless  I'm teaching it so I want to make it clear again  

the whole point is to be understandable but yeah  so like he's the only game in town this is like  

an idea of where people go like okay this is  like maybe a fun thing to do or it's the only  

example of something even if it's not very good  so typically people will use this like well he's  

the only mechanic he could say that so A like  very correct it would be fine English to say  

well he's the only mechanic in town or he's the  only mechanic in town but this now you sound much  

more like a casual confident native speaker oh  he's the only game in town or it's the only game  

in town okay and so you can hear as you get more  examples of this like you hear more people using  

this like uh I'm kind I'm dating this girl I live  in a small town and I'm dating I'm dating a girl  

but I don't really like her very much oh why aren  you why are you dating her then well she's the  

only game in town you know yes the only game the  only game in town the only game in town so it's  

like you can think about a game like a baseball  game or some sporting event or something like that  

like people will go to something even if it's  not very good just because it's the best thing  

available okay so maybe in my small town there  are no women because it's like a small fishing  

town or something people don't you whatever  women aren't really living there uh so I found a  

girlfriend but I don't really like her very much  but I date her because she's the only game in  

town you know so we can use this expression in the  same way so it doesn't mean he's an expert like it  

means wow that's the best available even if it's  not very good it's the only game in town uh this  

is offensive uh not necessarily I mean I typically  we we would talk about like saying something is  

the only only game in town about something else so  I probably wouldn't use that directly so if the if  

the girl says to me Drew like you don't it doesn't  seem like you like me very much why are you dating  

me I would I would probably not say oh you're the  only game in town so I wouldn't I wouldn't say  

that to her directly but we talk about that often  people will talk about something else it like  

well it's okay we don't have any other options  you know so like I go to a like I go to a hair  

cutting place a barber and there's only one barber  in my town but he's awful he's a really bad Barber  

but I need a haircut and he's the only game in  town okay so he's the only game in town that's so  

that's an example and you notice as you get more  examples of it so not just the same thing so yes  

he is the only mechanic in town or she is the only  woman I could date in town but it sounds much more  

casual much more native more natural if I say well  he's the only game in town I'm showing people that  

I speak their language okay that's part of what  communication is so that's why we change the way  

we speak depending on the person we're speaking  with so I if I go to some people and like I can  

sound like they do or I know their vocabulary  like I will have a better relationship with those  

people I know their language okay it's not just  about English it's like the specific language that  

young people use or that old older people use or  people in a particular industry use to know their  

language okay so if a friend of mine says yes well  he's the only game in town uh like I understand  

what he means by that and like he's a little he's  kind of using just a silly kind of uh expressive  

expressive way of saying that he's the only game  in town so if you think about like people teaching  

languages on YouTube I Am Not The Only Game in  Town there's lots of games you could go to in that  

same way okay so you could say she is the only  game in town she is the only game in town okay  

yes so it maybe if I'm the only person teaching  English on YouTube then I am the only game in  

town but you would only say that if I'm bad at  what I do so if I'm the only one and I'm not very  

good at it then it's like well you know we have  to go there because he's the only game in town  

like I want to learn some English he's not a very  good teacher but he's the only game in town all

right all right let's see here uh Le yes why am I  watching it because you are the only game in town  

yes but you got it exactly very good so yes so  I always appreciate people coming to watch but  

hopefully I'm teaching you something and you don't  think of me as like you know he's yeah he's just  

the only game in town you know so I think I'll  save this example for every yes uh what about he's  

a new kid in town new mechanic so if someone is  new uh like it it doesn't really matter if they're  

New or Old it's just how many of them are there if  there's only one mechanic or one girl or one you  

know like place to go maybe there's one restaurant  in your town and the restaurant is not very good  

but people go there because it's the only game  in town it's the only game in town okay so as you  

understand the language better you will feel more  confident using it you will think ah when I hear  

I I understand like ah now I'm speaking their  language I understand what they're saying all  

right let me check the time over here oh my  goodness 11:30 this is like the longest video  

ever 110 minutes oh my goodness all right I'll  give you one more example though because I'm  

such a good guy uh wa let's see yes so you could  think about like if if nobody else is live right  

now you could say oh he's the only game in town  right now so if I'm if you're looking for live  

lessons I'm the only game in town maybe I don't  know who else is doing a live video right now  

probably somebody all right this next one is  uh so I was talking to a different friend of  

mine and like uh he was supposed to pick me  up from the airport but he forgot so I was  

kind of mad at him I said why did you do that  he said oh I'm sorry man I dropped I whoops I

dropped the ball this is another kind of sports  uh phrase so if you think about a person with a  

football they're running and then oh no they  drop the ball they they fumble the ball so I  

dropped the ball this is anytime you're talking  about making a mistake or you did something and  

you're kind of apologizing for it so I'm sorry  I dropped the ball I drop the ball on that or I  

dro the ball in general I drop the ball so if  I forget to like if you miss a meeting or you  

were trying to give a report but you didn't  study well and you didn't prepare it very  

well and you're apologizing yes I'm sorry I  dropped the ball on that okay I dropped the  

ball on the report all right so you didn't like  drop a ball on the report you're talking about I  

dropped the ball on the thing I was supposed to  be doing so I should have prepared better or I  

should have done something else but I dropped the  ball okay so if you come here to learn something  

about English and I don't teach you anything  then I've dropped the ball on this education  

so hopefully I don't drop the ball uh as I teach  people so I hope hopefully you are understanding  

things well and because I know I'm not the only  game in town I have to do a good job and not drop  

the ball okay all right but right now I'm going  to drop uh just like pass out uh if I don't get  

some water and I need to get some food too  so we've been going an hour and 12 minutes

ah all right anyway well uh hopefully you have  enjoyed this I don't want to just pass out in  

front of people I do have some more work to do but  again hopefully you have enjoyed this uh if you  

have do like the video click the like button it  does help the channel and it tells YouTube hey you  

should tell other people about this guy uh he's  not the only game in town you know but uh people  

should come watch him because he's good all right  uh if you would like to learn more uh if you have  

been enjoying this and you want me to actually  lead you step by step to become fluent as quickly  

as possible to basically guarantee fluency for you  uh and if you care more about your time than your  

money then click on the link in the description  below this video uh if not you can still take  

these same principles and go use them and become  fluent by yourself it's just a little bit more of  

a pain in the ass and a little bit uh probably  a longer process uh but again if you'd like  

help clip on click on the link in the description  and I will see you you in the next video bye-bye