Interactive English Speaking Practice: Follow The Red Car

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I think we're up and we are all right I am Drew  Badger the founder of englishanyone.com and the  

English fluency guide welcome to another live  video here on YouTube today we're going to be  

talking as always about fluency but I know  people are always interested in uh speaking  

more uh so obviously the goal is speaking but uh  I try to do this and help people understand this  

in a different way which is that you don't start  by speaking you actually start by getting lots  

of input and as you feel more confident  as you destroy the doubts that stop you  

from speaking that's when you actually start  feeling comfortable and you open your mouth  

so of course we got a a fire truck here or an  ambulance or whatever like usual uh Tom nice  

to see you there uh well let's get started  make sure this is working here all right

and we're ready to go okay um so I  wanted to uh do this lesson because  

I was uh sitting and listening to something  with my daughter I don't remember what it  

was like a TV show or something uh but  in that TV show let me erase the board

first so we were listening and arya's  listening is getting quite good uh so  

this is my older daughter who is now  8 years old she will be nine in August  

so about two months uh and uh we were  listening to something and she heard the

phrase Circle back Circle back and so as as she's  listening we we weren't talking or anything while  

she was while she was doing that but she said hey  Dad what is circle back mean what does Circle back  

mean uh and so today we're going to be talking  about this expression but I want to teach this  

in a way that shows you how to get interactive  speaking practice because the point is not really  

just to listen to someone it's to control what  you're listening to so you can control that uh  

and I have this basic idea of following the red  car so if you think about uh just before we get  

into the uh what this means and some examples of  this um whatever you're thinking about or focusing  

on you tend to notice that thing in real life so  if you are thinking about buying a new car for  

example you will see that car more frequently so  that that car has been around or other people are  

driving that car but before you were thinking  about buying one maybe you weren't you know it  

just wasn't like conscious for you so you weren't  really thinking about it but as soon as you start  

thinking about that you notice that car like  white cars or a particular van or whatever  

you're looking for uh you notice that thing a  lot more frequently so it's usually there like  

it's always been there but as soon as you start  thinking about that thing you tend to notice it  

more so the first part about getting good speaking  practice where we get a lot of input we want is to  

focus on a particular thing so usually it's like  a situation uh or it could be some vocabulary but  

remember that the vocabulary also comes from a  particular situation so circle like this could  

mean many different things and back could mean  something else and so it might seem like an idiom  

or uh in this case like a phrasal verb um so we  can actually have like to Circle meaning to move  

in a particular way but when you hear something  like this as soon as you're getting exposed to  

it so my daughter was exposed to this phrase  for the first time so this is where she's just  

getting uh again what I call these three levels  of understanding that actually help you become a  

fluent speaker so the lowest one is exposure  where you're just hearing the vocabulary the  

second one is awareness so once you recognize the  vocabulary you're looking for it you're you're  

putting that in your brain and you're telling  your brain to look for that vocabulary uh and  

as you get enough examples you feel very confident  about using it that's where you get the ownership  

level of understanding so remember even if you  might recognize something it doesn't mean you can  

use it fluently you really need to get as many  examples as you can or as many examples as you  

need to understand something well enough that you  can use it fluently okay so if you know a lot of  

vocabulary but you still don't feel very confident  saying it it means you don't really have that  

ownership level of vocabulary yet so hopefully  that that idea makes sense uh and I want to  

just cover that uh using speaking practice as an  idea about about getting the right kind of input  

that you need for your life so maybe you need to  use English for professional reasons or you just  

need to speak with your child's teacher at school  whatever the the situation is or you need to speak  

with your you know your boyfriend or girlfriend  or husband or wife or whatever uh you can focus  

on the particular vocabulary by looking at the  situations when you would speak so if I don't know  

let's say you do have like a fight so you have  an argument so if you're watching movies and you  

start noticing or you're again recognizing that  same idea with the red car where if you're paying  

attention for that thing you start to notice it  you'll see lots of examples so it's much easier  

to find the vocabulary you need if you tell your  brain what you're looking for okay but sometimes  

you just hear something and now okay this I've  been exposed to some vocabulary I'm interested in  

learning more about this so let's go into that so  my daughter heard this word or this phrase excuse  

me and she asked me what does that mean uh and so  the first thing I want to do when I'm helping her  

and I'm when I'm helping you understand something  uh is understanding where a phrase like this comes  

from because if we can understand what it means  uh then you know it's much easier to understand  

and to feel ownership of that word so in the  context of the situation someone was talking  

about having a meeting and uh they said well  we're going to talk about this thing and then  

someone else asked about a different subject and  the the person running the meeting they said oh  

that's a good idea we'll Circle back to that thing  we'll Circle back to that thing so again we begin  

with the situation we're not just thinking about  the word Circle or the word back we're thinking  

about what is the uh the particular context for  that situation or context for that vocabulary  

excuse me uh and so again I'll just tell this  very quickly the situation is someone is having  

a meeting someone else says hey can we talk about  this thing and then the person running the meeting  

said oh uh we'll Circle back to that thing and  uh again we're not going to talk about it now  

but we'll Circle back to that thing so even if you  don't know exactly what this means or you know the  

origin of it you know for this situation what do  you think Circle back means okay now probably some  

of you know what this means already but just from  the little story the little context you have you  

should be able to understand the the general idea  of what Circle back means so this is what I was  

explaining to my daughter first I just wanted her  to understand when people were using that so we're  

listening to something she hears the phrase Circle  back that kind of jumps out at her she says oh  

that that sounds like an interesting thing I don't  know what that means or I don't understand excuse  

me why they would be saying that uh so they hear  Circle back and again the situation is a person is  

let me just have the this is like the manager or  whatever standing up over here we'll put a tie on  

them uh and another person says uh hey can we talk  about uh like subject B over here so the manager  

right now is talking about topic a and this other  person says hey uh can we talk about subject B  

and the manager says oh that's a good idea but  we'll Circle back to that thing we'll Circle back  

to that thing so from the context you're not  trying to think about what does the what does  

the word circle mean and what does the word  back mean you're just trying to understand as  

one unit we'll Circle back to something we'll  Circle back to that thing now let me see if I  

don't know if anybody okay nobody put an answer  to that but I'll just give you the answer maybe  

you guys are I don't know a little bit lazy today  but uh hopefully you guys should get the idea that  

we're going to talk about something we're going to  come back to something of again all right so very  

simple so when these two people are talking about  something right now we're talking about a and uh  

this person says why don't we talk about B and  the manager says oh that's a good idea but we will  

Circle back to that later okay so we'll Circle  back we'll come back to that thing all right  

now let's talk about again just understanding the  situation it can often be a little bit tricky to  

understand new vocabulary when you hear it because  you might understand okay in this situation  

they say Circle back but why and especially as  uh adults we want to understand like why would  

you say that I mean there could be different  ways like we could return to that I'll talk a  

little bit more about other ways to express this  same situation and this is a very common thing  

not just in business meanings but anytime you're  speaking with anyone and someone says oh like what  

about this thing and I say oh that that's good  or you know whatever we will Circle back to that  

thing again or we will come back to that thing  again uh after or in a moment or later or another  

day or something like that so understanding  this you will hear something you want to try  

to understand it from the context before you get  a translation or a definition of the word uh and

then we want to think about maybe where that word  came from so I'm telling this to my daughter uh  

the idea of circling back comes from ships so if  if you imagine you have a like a boat like this so  

a boat can't if if it wants to you know a boat is  moving forward but a boat can't really just turn  

around so if you imagine you're looking at the  boat from above looking down here down this way uh  

at the ship so I'll erase this one so if we have  a ship here we imagine this is a boat and the boat  

is moving forward and maybe let's say somebody  falls off the ship oh no so now there's a person  

in the water over here help help oh my goodness  so the boat is still moving forward this guy fell  

into the water the boat can't just like reverse  easily boats don't really work like that I mean  

I guess maybe some of them could but typically  a boat has to go and circle back to get to the  

person okay so the boat is moving in a particular  direction and then we get the circle as we come  

back to get the person so this is why we get  the idea of circle back and like most vocabulary  

there's some usual practical simple basic reason  why we say something but then the vocabulary is  

applied in other situations okay so I can talk  about even if I'm hiking with a friend of mine uh  

so we're we're on a like he and I are walking on a  hiking path and I say oh like look at that there's  

some beautiful I don't know flowers or something  over here or look at this there's a lovely view uh  

but my friend is really hungry and he says okay  well we'll Circle back to that uh but over here  

I want to I want to eat lunch first so in this  example maybe we we're walking in a straight line  

or we're walking on a path and we just walk back  the same way so it might not be an actual physical  

Loop but uh we can think about it in the same way  where we're just returning to something else but  

the origin of this is that kind of idea of a ship  that can't really just turn around immediately it  

has to Circle back to that thing okay so from this  idea we get the very simple meaning of returning  

to something and so I could return physically I  could Circle back to a location so I could be here  

and then we go here and when we come back to that  place and even if I just walk on the path and then  

I walk back on the same path it's the same thing  so I don't need to physically go around like that  

it just means hey I'm circling back I will come  back to that thing all right so from this physical  

idea we get the figurative example of coming back  to a conversation topic or you know whatever some  

other thing like I'm talking about one thing  we want to talk about another one or if I  

have a meeting and we're discussing one thing and  somebody else wants to talk about something else  

uh we'll Circle back to that thing and we can also  use this when we're talking about uh maybe having  

a meeting or meeting someone again like I'll you  know like we'll Circle back about a particular  

Topic at our next meeting okay so there are lots  of different uh very useful reasons or very useful  

ful situations when we can use this vocabulary so  I'll Circle back to something uh and I've given  

you a bunch of examples of this in the comment  section or excuse me they will be in the comment  

section later they are in the description below  this video right now just to give you some example  

sentences so the point of this video is really  to show you that whether you get some vocabulary  

uh like in life either you're just exposed to  something so you hear it for the first time maybe  

it's surprising to you or you you're already aware  of the vocabulary but you don't really feel very  

confident the first thing you're doing is telling  your brain hey we should focus on this vocabulary  

this is interesting or I want to know more about  this and your brain will naturally find more  

examples of that so you will you will actually  hear them uh this happens all the time with me  

just learning Japanese whenever I learn something  new I tend to hear it more in other people's  

conversations and the truth is it was there the  whole time so people are always using something  

uh typically it's not rare vocabulary but I'm just  not listening for it but once I tell my brain oh I  

I should be listening for this now now I've gone  from exposure to awareness I'm actually paying  

attention for the vocabulary and I recognize  it more and I feel more confident because I  

understand it better okay so we get something like  this and uh whether you hear something or you read  

it or you see it or whatever however you hear that  information or if it's just something you want to  

know uh know more about out you want to understand  it better you're telling your brain first that  

you're doing that and then the next thing you  want you want to try to understand where the word  

came from like the origin of it or just trying  to understand it uh if you already hopefully  

understand it from the context uh you should maybe  be able to get some kind of better information  

about where the word came from uh and I can do  this with chat gbt I actually made a prompt uh for  

you to do this so if you checked uh maybe three  or four videos ago uh I I made a chat GPT prompt  

specifically specifically to help you do this okay  so if you go watch that video in the description  

of that video you will find the prompt you can  put that in chat GPT uh when you learn some new  

vocabulary like this and if there is some kind of  origin it will help you understand that through a  

story like I've just done here and it will help  you also give you a bunch of examples all right  

so we've we've got some kind of vocabulary we want  to understand it better uh and then when we have  

uh more examples of that particular thing the  other thing the next thing really the last thing  

we want to do uh just to make sure we understand  something well as is to hear other vocabulary  

that we also might use in the same situation all  right so we have the the same meeting situation  

a manager is talking uh and they want to talk  about this thing and another person says hey  

can we talk about this other topic over here and  the manager said that's great we'll ser Circle  

back to that thing we'll Circle back but what are  some other things that a manager might say in that  

same situation I'll just put these up on the board  I'll put some of them I've also got other examples  

of these in the description below this video uh  just to make it very easy for you but so if we  

have Circle back some other things we could use in  this same situation maybe we could just say come

back so we can come back to something we  don't necessarily need to think about like  

circling back but that's the same kind  of idea so we'll come back we'll Circle  

back if you can think of any put them in the  chat and I'll uh see if those are correct or  

something that we would naturally use but you can  probably think of a few more yourself maybe we

use revisit revisit so you might revisit a topic  revisit something or revisit a location so if I'm  

traveling again the same idea I'm walking on a  path with a friend of mine and maybe we notice  

something oh uh that looks very interesting we  don't have time to see it now but maybe we will  

revisit maybe we will come back to that thing  maybe we will have uh maybe we will Circle back  

to that kind of thing all right so Tom says  Circle back never heard of it uh so yes this  

is actually a very common expression amongst  uh Native conversational English speakers uh  

but again you might not hear that because as I  always say people can use different expression  

expressions in the same situation and this is why  it's important to understand this way to get this  

kind of interactive vocabulary training uh where  you're actually understanding the language better  

and that's what helps you speak okay so as you  hear lots of examples of circle back and you  

hear lots of examples of other vocabulary you  might use in the same situation you will feel  

more confident about using it okay so we might  Circle back to something so maybe someone let's  

just say someone asked me a question right  now I'm talking about this and the question  

is about something unrelated I can say oh that's  a good question we'll Circle back to that okay or  

we'll come back to that or we'll revisit that  in a moment all right we could say get back to  

something we could get back to something as well  so the same kind of idea we'll Circle back come  

back revisit get back to these are all different  ways of saying the same thing now when you are  

speaking maybe you just pick one and you have a  particular thing that you use it's simple you feel  

comfortable and confident when you use it yeah  we'll Circle back to that but it's important to  

understand and be prepared for all of the other  ways that other people might use because other  

people say different things okay so we'll Circle  back we'll come back get back to you could say

return we could return to so again C Circle  back to something or come back to something  

revisit get back to return to all right yes  you can Google amongst and among you will  

hear people use both of those among  but yes they're basically the same

thing uh and then I've I've actually put  a few uh additional ones in the uh in  

the description below this video  uh but you might like reconsider

reconsider can be used in this way where we're  going to talk about something again like we can  

literally consider it again we can talk about  that again but reconsider can also mean to  

think about something in a different way so maybe  I choose to do one thing but now I change my mind  

I'm reconsidering I think maybe I should not  do something or I should do something else to  

reconsider something all right so you notice like  this is teaching you a lot of varied vocabulary  

this is naturally varied review but it's really  just talking about one situation yeah you could  

address something again the same idea so you could  address something and then address something again  

same idea so we'll talk about something or we can  talk about that later uh so Evo says what is this  

class about read the description uh to know more  about what this class is about but this is about  

understanding how you actually develop speaking  so uh in a typical speaking class class like what  

people would do is they would give you a word  like Circle back and now we're going to repeat  

this word after me you certainly can it's helpful  to repeat the word just so you can hear yourself  

saying it try to pronounce it like I do but it's  actually more important to get lots of examples to  

really understand that thing first because if  you don't understand it repeating isn't going  

to help you okay so I don't really uh want to  take time to have you just say something after  

me you can easily take time doing that anytime  with the video uh but the more important thing  

is understanding how to learn and if you want to  get examples of vocabulary if you hear something  

from a movie or TV show you should go deeper into  that thing to make sure you understand it I spent  

maybe two hours yesterday uh learning one thing  in Japanese uh just because I was very curious  

about it and I still couldn't understand it as I  was getting more examples and I trying to really  

understand that thing uh and it's still not 100%  clear so I will probably review it again but uh  

the point is I don't I don't just repeat something  like I'll I'll see a YouTube video about a topic  

and it will give me one example and I will think  okay I kind of get it I guess but if I don't feel  

100% confident I'm not going to use that in my  conversations I might recognize it so other people  

might say that and I'll understand what they're  saying but I still don't feel confident all  

right until I get that aha moment where I really  feel like ah now I got it then I won't feel like  

uh I probably can't use this very well so the  purpose here is to get the the actual practice  

that builds your speaking ability is how well  you understand something so you should get lots  

of examples of things to really understand them  and also to be prepared for what other people  

might say in conversations okay so I don't  need to cover all of these things uh and you  

could even take these and you know like if we we  revisit something you can hear oh revisit can be  

used in this situation but maybe it can be used in  other situations as well the point is to focus on  

something to really understand the vocabulary and  how it's used in a particular situation because  

this is how natives understand the vocabulary okay  so we don't take something and try to learn every  

use of it we're trying to connect the vocabulary  with a situation okay hopefully this makes sense  

I'm going to go back and check comments but uh  this really uh look at that 23 minutes amazing  

uh we didn't need to take a long time this is  just again a quick story and showing you how  

to get this kind of training uh and you can do  it yourself obviously this is the kind of thing  

we do in fluent for life where we give you lots  and lots of examples different people speaking so  

you're not just listening to one speaker you get  to hear different people speaking and hearing the  

vocabulary said in different ways in different  tenses in different speeds you really start to  

feel very confident about how to say things and  after you feel confident that's when you start  

speaking all right so hopefully uh especially  for new people who watch the Channel I really  

want to make it clear that if you want to speak  more then you actually close your mouth and get  

more examples to understand something better  first all right you can if you want to even if  

you don't maybe feel so confident or comfortable  you can just start speaking if you like but it's  

a much better idea if you actually oh I should  just understand this thing better and then I'll  

feel more confident about speaking okay so really  spend uh spend time uh focusing on a particular  

thing I like to just cover this in different  ways in these different videos but today we're  

focusing on this I'll go back and check chat now  and see if anybody had any questions about this so  

nice to see everybody there I'll go pretty quickly  through these nice to see everybody from let's see  

we've got South Africa India Morocco representing  uh Argentina from Thailand and of course Brazil  

hello from Georgia USA I am so and it's a pleasure  to be here well welcome to the party uh pelb says  

uh hello teacher thank you for taking your time to  teach us God's blessing you well I'm happy to be  

here uh I enjoy teaching and that's why I'm here  it's fun fun to help people understand things so I  

like that feeling when I understand something like  ah now I got it and I like to see other people I  

can't see your face but usually I can tell from  the comments when people understand something or  

when they do not but when I can see someone or  they tell me oh I really understand something  

then I know like that good feeling will will make  you feel more confident about speaking all right  

nice to meet you I'm from Argentina based in  Canada I'm learning a lot with you glad to hear  

it and J says good evening brid says uh children  learn to speak effortlessly so what happens along  

the way for them to get into difficulty well  I often the thing about teaching kids is that  

when they're young they learn in a natural way  in in this same way that I'm teaching you here  

so they're try trying to connect vocabulary  with situations so they're paying very close  

attention and they're getting lots of examples  so Mom says wash your hands and dad says wash  

your hands and your teacher says wash your hands  and you get ah okay I'm learning the vocabulary  

and I'm also learning the sentence patterns and  grammar structures that help me use something  

so maybe in a different situation I could hear  wash my hands and now maybe I'm washing my face  

or washing my hair or washing some vegetables or  something like that and the vocabulary becomes  

uh it's it's a lot easier to understand that way  but often kids get into trouble when they start  

going to school even in their native language  because then they're having to learn things  

like okay now we're going to diagram sentences  and make sure we say them correctly there are  

better ways to teach that uh but often like  in a school environment that's where they get  

a little bit stuck uh but the more you can help  people understand things naturally the better um  

uh let's see where do we get stuck over here okay  so Wes is the best teacher in the world well I  

don't know about that but uh it's my pleasure to  help you all Martin says good evening Nicholas  

hello Sebastian says uh to investigate even  further so you could investigate further or  

you could actually not be talking about that  thing and then come back to it later so we're  

talking about one thing and then we will Circle  back to something else so even if you're not  

already talking about it I mean in in this in  the situation you kind of mention something so  

we're we introduce it hey let's talk about so  if I'm having a meeting talking about topic a  

which is skateboards or something and then someone  else says let's talk about alligators I say okay  

well we mentioned alligators so we we we have  that introduction although it's very short and  

we Circle back to that thing so we're not really  talking about it like further at the moment but we  

will maybe talk about it more or uh like learn  more about that thing B says Ohio gas uh what  

means let's call it a date so whenever people  ask me questions like that I try to get them  

thinking in this same situation where did you hear  that and what was happening in that situation so  

where did you hear it what was happening in this  situation if you just look at random vocabulary  

that it could mean different things depending on  the situation but typically that expression is  

used when people are maybe they're finishing with  something thing uh it's at the end of a work day  

so they said well let's just say uh we're we're  finished for today and it could be even something  

you're working on yourself maybe I'm studying  by myself and I'm working by myself or I'm you  

know I'm doing something like I'm I'm building a  cabinet and I'm feeling kind of tired and hungry  

let's call it a day so let's finish here and  then we will come back to that thing later we  

will Circle back on on a different day all right  so we'll come back to something later so that's a  

good good example of uh of of this situation here  where you hear vocabulary try to think about where  

you heard that what was the situation so that  will help you understand the vocabulary from  

Context uh this is especially helpful for idioms  because you might not understand what something  

means like why do we say Circle back uh when you  understand the origin oh like a a ship actually  

turning around and coming back in a circle shape  you you understand a little bit better but from  

just the situation by itself you should be able  to connect the vocabulary with a situation okay  

uh and that's the most important part but then  you should get more examples to really help you  

understand that thing very well all right  and where did we let's see okay Elaine says  

uh you're the best teacher I really appreciate  to learn with you uh very good it's my pleasure  

here you would say I really appreciate learning  with you I really appreciate learning with you  

so Nicholas says let's call it a a means to finish  means to finish but again like the very quick  

example of this vocabulary means this you can  do that but it's just not very memorable and it  

doesn't really help people understand something  well enough to use it fluently so someone might  

think like finish like finish what what do you  mean like like when can I call something a day  

can any time I finish something I call it a  day or is it really just used like when we're  

finishing something like a work day or we're just  going to stop doing something for today and then  

maybe we will come back or continue doing that  thing another day so it's important when you're  

teaching someone like you can uh just give someone  a definition but it's much better to really help  

them understand that thing with lots of examples  all right uh teacher I suggest that e should have  

a group chat or Whatsapp or telegram uh there  are already lots of people do chat groups and  

telegrams and things like that uh for me there I  I don't use any of that to learn Japanese and I  

don't really recommend people use those things to  learn English because often it's just uh a waste  

of your time uh instead you should just be doing  this just find the particular things that you have  

uh some kind of uncertainty about so whenever  you have doubt that is the target of the thing  

you should be doing so I I hear this word or this  phrase or whatever and I'm oh that's interesting  

I don't quite understand it so I probably won't  remember it or be able to use it fluently so  

maybe I should get some more examples to really  understand what that means so that's how you do  

it so I don't go into a chat and and kind of spend  my time talking about things I already know how to  

talk about I want to expand my ability to speak by  learning more and learning new things but really  

understanding them well all right so if you're  looking for people to speak with you certainly  

can do that but for the people who know a lot  of English but they don't speak very well it's  

not really a good use of your time so especially  many people have done this for years they they try  

to speak a little bit and it's usually just using  vocabulary they already feel comfortable with it's  

very rare when they might like learn something new  uh unless you're talking with more native speakers  

but you don't need to have a actual native speaker  there to speak with you you just like you could  

watch a movie I could watch two people talking in  a movie and learn a lot from that like oh look in  

this situation this is what people say or this is  one thing that people might say in that situation  

okay so if I watch a couple of different movies  about something where I watch uh just a few short  

videos about a situation like about explaining  something like even watching something for little  

kids like how to tie your shoes or basic cooking  or something so I watch a show in the morning uh  

in Japanese about cooking for little kids uh so  I watch watch this with my daughters uh and it  

teaches me a lot about cooking and measurements  and other things like that and it's again I don't  

need to have a complicated show to do that I just  need to see lots of examples of how things work  

so this automatically builds my memory my fluency  my confidence and then I can start saying things  

so people wonder like oh do I like I live in Japan  do I spend all my time speaking with other people  

usually I don't I'm actually not like I spend more  time speaking English like this in my day than  

speaking Japanese uh but I I spend a lot of time  getting input to help me understand the language  

better and you can do this like this what I'm  calling uh interactive speaking practice because  

I'm choosing what I learn with and as I get more  examples of things then I feel more confident  

about talking about them all right uh let's see  I think uh okay ilder says how's it going Drew  

nice to hear you this morning thanks no and is  my pleasure and adri says I have one question  

interest firstly greets from Brazil uh let's  see do you know if native speakers understand  

a sentence grammatically incorrect although the  sentence is on a scale from 0 to 100 and the same  

sentence is 40% compreh compressible or do you  mean comprehensible do you know if native speakers  

understand a sentence grammatically incorrect  although the sentence is on a scale from 0 to 100  

in the same sense is 40% com you probably mean  comprehensible there but if you're asking me  

like do native speakers understand incorrect  sentences yes usually they do and again like  

the the native speaker is listening to someone  maybe who doesn't speak very well or they just  

don't maybe their grammar isn't very good uh but  we can kind of get the the get the idea usually  

from the context or some of the words in a  sentence so if someone comes to me and says  

bathroom where like I'm not going to just say well  I have no idea what this person is talking about  

it's like ba bathroom where like I can get it oh  okay they probably need to go to the bathroom and  

they're asking where is the bathroom all right  so if I said that like in Spanish I'm like

El and and I don't really know how to speak  Spanish if I just say some words like that  

people would probably understand what I mean okay  so yes uh like ative speakers will usually make  

some kind of effort to understand but again that's  like if they're being friendly with someone and  

trying to have a good relationship with them  but if you go to an interview for a job and  

you speak like that you're probably not going to  get the job all right so you have the context is  

important for for how you speak uh let's see  and adrea again says do you think I should  

worry about this while I'm practicing my English  well again uh in this situation you're basically  

practicing by yourself so you're getting lots  of examples but you can control what examples  

you get so you really understand something well  so you don't have to worry about making mistakes  

in front of other people it's just let me make  sure I understand the vocabulary well and then  

I'll feel confident when I'm actually speaking in  front of other people uh let's see and kadam says  

what time is it in Japan I don't know check Google  uh Tom says you just said a yeah I answered that  

one already stat says hello for the first time  for you in Poland on my way to work well enjoy  

the program all right teacher what uh okay answer  that question is about what is a fracus really  

easy H that is a Frack a fraus I don't know what  what do you really easy to understand I don't know  

what that means Tom says Evo every class from  Drew teacher Drew is a new knowledge yes you  

would say you gain or you get new knowledge or new  information I think I'm understanding those are  

resources for a conversation for example I might  say can you repeat it uh so to repeat something is  

a little bit different from this uh and again  it's these are good questions to help uh help  

you really understand something so if we imagine  I'll keep Circle back if we imagine we're talking  

about topic a so let's say I'm talking about uh  I don't know uh tape there we go so tape like you  

know like like this kind of here's a like a little  tape uh dispenser thing piece you know piece of  

tape like sticky tape so if I'm talking about  tape uh and then someone says could you repeat  

that then I'm going to repeat talking about the  same thing immediately so could you repeat that  

but if I Circle back to something it means we're  going to talk about tape and then we're going to  

talk about I don't know boxes and then after boxes  we Circle back to talk about tape again all right  

so if I'm just repeating something I might just  say the same thing in that moment or right after  

that thing but and then we're going to talk about  something else and then oh like and then maybe  

someone says oh can we talk about tape again so we  Circle back to talking about tape and you see like  

we get that nice little little circle round motion  here talking about something that's the idea all  

right all right and uh let's see Kenneth says what  do you think about i i a to learn English Oh you  

mean AI like artificial intelligent yeah I think  it's very useful um but I also found like in using  

it that it often needs to be corrected and I've  talked about that I talked about that in the uh my  

video about AI you should watch that also to get  the prompt in there that will help you understand  

uh it will basically tell AI how to teach you like  a native speaker so if you watch that video uh but  

I think it's useful but you have to you you should  know something about what you're talking about cuz  

AI can make mistakes or or do things that like  it's not I I I've I've found it it's it's like  

if it's like if I'm trying to ride on the back  of an elephant and tell the elephant where to  

go and so the elephant is very powerful and if  I I'm I'm saying like no no no go go that way  

but the elephant is still moving in a different  direction so it can be hard to control and you  

have to you have to work with the AI to to give it  what uh what you need uh and jorel says greetings  

YoYo from India hello for the oh I got that one  already let's see thanks from Morocco Colombia I  

see Tom this is my second class I'm a beginner in  this language and I'm fascinated greetings from  

Argentina yes th this this these live videos that  I do are not really for beginners you could listen  

to that but you would probably have trouble uh  understanding understand ing some things so this  

is more for intermediate or Advanced Learners who  already know a lot of English but they just don't  

know it well enough to speak confidently so that's  why we're here and so I like to give examples of  

where we're learning something and we really focus  on it for a while to really understand that thing  

so uh maybe we even learn this word and then in  another video we Circle back to cover something  

again so I I tend to Circle back to the same ideas  but try to teach them in different ways how can I  

become fluent in English and got the level to  teach this language well that's another thing  

we're talking about here you need to understand  the language like a native in order to speak it  

fluently and that means you need to think about  it uh where you have no doubt about what you want  

to say so if I keep hearing examples of things I'm  going to feel more confident about that uh rather  

than trying to learn something very quickly I  learn a whole bunch of words but don't really know  

them very well so natives are not doing that uh of  course natives might hear some vocab ulary or know  

some things but not really know them very well and  then probably not use those or if they do use them  

maybe use them in correctly in conversations but  it's more important to uh to really eliminate the  

doubt that stops you from speaking that's what we  want to do all right hello from Brazil uh let's  

call it a night is used too yes you can call it  say let's call it a night let's call it a day uh  

typically depends on when you're using something  so if I'm in the middle of the day I work from  

9:00 in the morning until mid like midday like  12:00 I could say something like let's call it a  

day and just we're just going to finish here and  I'll go do something else so in that situation  

I wouldn't say let's call it a night because it's  not night time yet so the point is like like well  

let's just end it here let's stop here let's  call it a day so there are different ways that  

you might Express something but just be careful  that we're not in the middle of the day and like  

oh let's call it a night and people are like well  what do you mean it's not night time all right so  

let's call it a day uh you could use that anytime  day or night because it just means like the end of  

the work day or the whatever that thing is that  you're doing all right uh constant says I have  

a good reserve of words in English but I like to  use a variety of words during a conversation but  

can't remember them at the time so the words  I say are not rich uh yeah I I see here's an  

example of using vocabulary that like it's not  really a correct usage but I understand what  

what the what the person is saying so yes this is  a uh it's it's really the most common problem that  

people have where they get to that awareness  level so they recognize a lot of information  

but they just don't know it well enough to  speak so they still have doubts it could  

be the pronunciation or whatever but that's  typically the reason why that happens so if  

you have doubts about things don't try to learn  a thousand new words focus on the vocabulary you  

already have learn to use it better understand  it better and then you will use it more frequ  

quently uh and confidently uh let's see and Tom  says totally agree with you teacher Drew glad  

to hear it angel with a cat phas over there from  Brazil BTO I don't want to learn English anymore  

so difficult oh well it's more about how you  learn than you know than the than the language  

itself English isn't isn't kind of difficult  by itself it's just mostly people are learning  

the language in a way that makes it difficult  because the the lessons are not helping people  

really understand the language well they're  usually moving too quickly they're not spending  

enough time understanding the vocabulary  and that's why they have trouble speaking  

all right all right let's see K says Hi teacher  unfortunately I'm commuting right now Zan I'll go  

back to this video and study later yes Yoku me  yes I will I will drink some water yes hi from  

Japan hi ancient look at that I'm glad to see you  guys are connecting let's Circle back to tape yes  

so you could do that so let's Circle back to this  thing let's Circle back to that particular topic  

or let's come back or we will come back or let's  return to that let's revisit that later Nar says  

hi my feelings is not good so you would say I'm  not feeling well if that's what you mean uh I work  

as a teacher in school but sometimes I could not  speak very well I forgot what I wanted to say in  

English are you an English teacher you're teaching  English maybe it depends on the the level but if  

you say like my feelings first you would say my  feelings because this is subject verb agreement  

we want to make sure my feelings are or my feeling  is uh but this is different like when we use the  

word like I'm feeling something you could talk  about how you physically feel like my stomach  

hurts or you could talk about the way you mentally  feel about something as well uh but just reading  

your example here and looking at your uh sad faces  I don't want to laugh at that but I can tell you  

need more time with the language and I would focus  on particular things make sure you understand them  

really well before you're teaching other people  uh especially if you're teaching English uh how  

a non-native will know if he is fluent in English  well if you know the language without a doubt and  

you can communicate with other people and you  can understand it's the same way you you know  

if you're fluent in your own language or not so  English is not it's not like a special mysterious  

thing it's it's just just the tool you use to  communicate and so we know if communication is  

working because we get what we want or we get what  we ask for or we're able to do what other people  

are asking and you know if if somebody tells me  something in Turkish and I don't know Turkish then  

I know I'm not fluent because I don't understand  what they're saying to me all right so in those  

cases the point is to understand something really  well and remember your native language you will  

learn new things in your native language all the  time and you become fluent in those new things as  

you understand them better so culture changes or  now we have the internet when I was a very young  

kid the internet was not a thing so if I walked  around talking about hey the internet or if I use  

like websites and things that people like what are  you talking about so they're not fluent in that  

vocabulary because they don't know what that is  and again it's the same thing so you become fluent  

in your native language in the same way that you  become fluent in English all right all right let's  

Okay got that one all right Don says Hey draw  it's Drew draw would be the past tense I want  

to thank you about this video you make it lately  about how to make espresso while you were pausing  

explaining phrasal verbs that they are using that  was a very helpful video and I made a delicious  

copy thank you uh and you made more uh cause  it was you you were really helpful glad to hear  

yes uh if you've not seen that video this is an  example of naturally varied review and it's the  

same kind of thing I'm talking about in this  video so that video uh don is talking about uh  

it's where I'm uh I it's a video breaking down  different conversations or or really different  

people explaining how to make espresso so I found  some different videos of people doing that like  

you could do this yourself as a learner uh it's  just a little bit more difficult without having  

a teacher to explain things but this is basically  the idea so you could do this by yourself or you  

know we do this for you influent for life and have  everything all organized uh just so you can go  

through it much faster and understand things much  faster and then speak much faster uh but that's  

the basic idea so as you get more examples uh like  we want to make sure that people have a strong  

understanding of the vocabulary uh Silvana says  please anyone buy a microphone from gift teacher  

you're saying you don't like my microphone my  M I have a it's a regular blue microphone the  

problem is it's just in front of me so I try to  make sure I'm speaking at the microphone but the  

sound should be fine it's the same sound level  in every video and most people can hear what  

I'm saying so turn your volume up kadam says  I just want to ask you about accent sometime  

I feel that I can understand English if it's  basic and sometimes when see other accent I  

feel I don't even know Basics especially a British  well it sounds like you're talking about a couple  

of different things here so one is how people  sound and the other is the actual understanding  

the vocabulary uh but as I recommend like pick  something and focus on it so if you if you don't  

even know what kind of English you're listening to  so it's like if I go to China and I hear you know  

people speaking Cantonese or mandrin or whatever  and I don't know anything about Chinese I should  

probably get information first about what I'm  listening to so if I know all of the people who  

live in this town speak mandrin or whatever  uh then I should okay now I understand that  

particular accent and I'm learning that particular  thing so if you want to learn British English then  

listen to people who speak British English but  it's pretty easy to tell the difference especially  

if you watch a video that says British English or  American English or something like that so it's  

much easier to get good examples uh although  uh we do recommend people should get lots of  

examples even from people who do speak differently  uh because you will uh like hear them in different  

countries or in different TV shows or movies or  whatever it's not only American English speakers  

and American movies for example all right guia if  I'm pronouncing that correctly I was very good at  

English now I don't much contact how to keep good  English that's a good question um again you you  

don't need to be physically with people like right  now you're not physically with me no one else is  

in this room with me but you're able to learn  from me and you can do that with anything at any  

time so at any time there's never been a better  time to learn English or really anything because  

the information is it's it's all around you is  actually more than enough information there's  

too much information uh way more information than  anybody needs to get fluent or to learn how to do  

anything so the uh just like I'm talking about in  this video you should focus on particular things  

you're interested in and get l lots of examples  of those that's really the best way that's the  

same way natives learn like if I'm if I'm uh  if I want to learn about I don't know painting  

nails for example um then I should watch lots  of YouTube videos about how to paint nails or  

nail art or whatever I don't know anything about  painting nails I don't know anything about that  

but if I wanted to learn then that's what I would  do okay so you want to think about the particular  

things you're interested in and even if you're  not physically with people you don't need to be  

physically with people to improve because your  improvement comes as you understand the language  

better not as you repeat things okay so speaking  is something you do after you really understand  

the language well you can try to force yourself to  say things before you feel comfortable uh but it's  

it's usually pretty tricky to to have you need to  have a good relationship with maybe a teacher who  

can help you understand things in that way so if  I'm just learning uh French for example from from  

very begin and I don't know anyone at all I can't  really have a conversation about that so most of  

that lesson is going to be a person saying things  to me they're showing me things and saying things  

in French and helping me understand the language  in context so I'd be learning French as a first  

language in that situation all right so when  you're doing that same thing uh for learning  

English uh if your level is a bit higher then  you can just search for the information you're  

interested in like what I'm talking about here  for getting this interactive speaking practice  

so the interaction is you really controlling what  you learn rather than you having a conversation  

so if you become confident about vocabulary  then you can easily find people to speak with  

all right that's a subject of a different video  uh but more people need uh actually to know the  

language better rather than trying to uh to  look for people to practice with uh let's see  

here and Richard says normally when I read a story  sometimes I come across new words I look them up  

in add iary and jot them down in a book after  a couple weeks I Circle back and review them  

again yes excellent uh so it's very good English  and that's a very good way to review and you can  

spend even more time reviewing things uh I I don't  want you to waste your time reviewing something  

if you understand what something means and you  feel confident using it for that situation then  

great move on to the next thing go to the next  thing but if you don't feel confident stay with  

it all right so even me like I'm I'm spending I  don't know two hours yesterday trying to trying  

to understand this one thing in Japanese it was  just like I was like how does this work and like  

I was I was getting a little bit confused and  uh I wanted to spend more time with it and I  

will probably go back I will Circle back to that  thing later today and review it again because I  

really want to make sure I understand I still  don't have that like aha like I kind of get it  

but not not enough to feel confident using it in  conversations okay so typically I would I would  

probably find like a different way to express  something and just do that uh Blanca says thank  

you and Le says Drew is the same character name in  Discovery home and health TV show Drew is the same  

character name ah well Drew I mean Andrew is is a  common common English name Elder says a break uh  

s leg with English learning you mean break a leg  break a leg uh batter says is there a difference  

between convicted of a crime and guilty of a crime  uh well you could be found guilty of a crime like  

if you if you if guilty is like a particular I  guess well both of these things are are legal  

terms so if you're in a court uh you could be  found guilty or you could be convicted like  

usually you are found guilty and then like we we  give you like a particular punishment for that so  

it's it's basically the same thing and you would  hear those around the same time but if you're  

interested in vocabulary like that learn more go  like go into more detail like watch some I don't  

know watch like Judge Judy so like some like TV  like Court Court TV shows of [Music] Judge Judy  

or a Judy Jud d y uh but there are lots of things  like that and probably even people talking about  

that on uh YouTube uh about you know things  like and then they would say you were guilty  

or you were innocent or you be convicted of a  particular crime whatever that is uh telescope  

says or maybe scope says hi from Chicago 10 years  in USA I know English but not the way I want to I  

can talk different topics but not enough feel not  comfortable sometimes what can you recommend I'm a  

truck driver oh if you're a truck driver I would  listen to lots of lots of examples so you you  

have like all day just you're sitting in a truck  and you get to listen to things so I would get a  

like a mix of different things like this is  what we do in uh in fluent for life so you're  

like listening to different people saying the same  thing or or watching different people uh I guess  

when you're driving a truck you can still listen  it's a little less difficult uh if you can see  

people at the same time so probably while you're  driving the truck don't do that but I would I  

would recommend you listening to lots of different  people talking about the same topic that's the  

easiest thing to do uh if you have to drive or  you're or while you're working or something like  

that but you should be giving your brain lots of  different examples of things the point is really  

to understand the language well and then you will  feel confident using it uh ill says guilty I am  

in love Ashi says I make spelling mistakes so how  can I overcome this uh get Frederick f r e d e r i  

c k down in the description below this video and  it will teach you how to spell and pronounce and  

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not make spelling mistakes when you uh when you  use English you should get that it will teach you  

uh how to how to say that or how to spell things  correctly says White Snake David Coverdale song I  

see uh Rich says normally when I read a story  sometimes I come across new words I look them  

up ah okay yep you got that again yes uh so very  good everyone looks like they're getting it and  

look at that less than an hour for today amazing  very good all right uh so hopefully just to give  

you a quick recap of this video the point when  you're trying to improve your speaking is actually  

not to speak I would really recommend you spend  more time really trying to get input because  

even if you are talking with someone it's what  the other person says to you that really helps  

you understand the vocabulary better all right  especially if you have a good teacher who can  

explain things to you but if you don't really  understand understand and you're just trying to  

repeat things that you don't really know very  well you don't feel very confident then you're  

probably going to struggle so it's much faster  much easier to become a confident speaker simply  

by controlling what you learn and you just think  about what things you are struggling with or what  

doubts you have about vocabulary like me if I'm  if I'm if I'm unsure about how to say something  

or the pronunciation then that's the thing I  want to focus on so it's quite easy I get more  

information and I just stay with that thing until  I get that aha moment sometimes that happens very  

quickly other times it might take a little bit  longer but if you don't give up if you don't  

quit you will usually get what you want all right  well that's it for this video uh this is again  

just a nice quick one for today but hopefully  this gives a good example helps you understand  

some vocabulary uh maybe we will Circle back uh  to this thing again but especially if you want  

to become a confident speaker take more time with  the vocabulary you don't need to learn new things  

go back to the vocabulary you already have have  learn to use it well and you will become a more  

confident speaker have a fantastic day click on  the links in the description below this video  

to learn more about Frederick and fluent for  life and I'll see you in the next video byebye