Get Fluent In The English Word "Set"

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

to as always help you get more fluent but I  wanted to focus on just one word and help you  

really understand it very well like a native  and hopefully this should give you a really  

good example of how to understand a language  uh and that we really actually become fluent  

by understanding a language better not by just  taking a word and repeating it again and again  

uh let me erase the board uh nice to see everybody  out there hopefully you're enjoying your well it's  

Monday morning for me I guess Sunday evening if  you're uh in the states or on that side of the  

world uh make sure we're I think we're looking I  think we're looking good all right I will keep my  

eye on chat if anybody has any question questions  uh as usual uh but let's get into it so uh I know  

we always have new people uh who join us so  I wanted to make very clear the beginning the  

difference between what we do on this channel and  what people typically do for helping people learn  

languages U and this is uh us learning English  uh as a first language and so I'm just going to  

contrast this very quickly and then I'll just give  you this whole video will be an example of that uh  

so the typical way the typical way excuse me uh  the typical way that people learn a language is  

learning it through their native language and if  they have any uh questions about that usually they  

just ask and they talk with the teacher in that  native language and try to get lots of examples  

of it um but if you can you should be learning  everything in English uh and I'm going to give  

you an example of that with just one word in this  video uh and so another thing I'd like to prove  

uh is that we actually get fluent uh one thing  at a time as we understand it better and this is  

why you might understand and feel confident  speaking about some things but not feeling  

confident about others so that's the English as  a second language way and what we do here uh is  

learning English as a first language and so we  really want to understand things the same way  

natives do and that means understanding English  all in English all right it's pretty simple uh  

so we'll give you an example of that uh in this  video So today we're talking about the word set  

I just wanted to give a very simple word just to  show you how simple and easy this is but also to  

show you that you really can go deep with your  understanding of a word even if it's something  

simple like this so even if you think you know  the word or you've learned it before whatever uh  

hopefully I'll give you some examples that really  help you understand it better uh the last thing  

I'll explain before we get into this lesson  talking about the word um is that there are  

different levels of understanding vocabulary so as  an example um you can begin by getting exposed to  

a language and that just means you're listening  to it a little bit uh maybe you don't quite  

understand what's happening but you're hearing  the language somewhere like you're at an airport  

or something you just hear some people using the  language but maybe it's not very clear you know  

it's English or whatever that language but you're  not really feeling very confident about it uh the  

next level up from that is awareness uh and this  means you actually recognize the information but  

maybe you don't feel very confident using it and  then obviously we have ownership at the top level  

and that means you really understand something  without a doubt and the doubt is really the thing  

that as we as we destroy that doubt that's what  enables us to speak so if you still feel nervous  

or you have any kind of doubt about communication  uh whether it's just understanding a word or how  

to use it or the pronunciation of that word uh  that's what's going to stop you from speaking so  

as you understand a word better you naturally  remove the doubt and you start wanting to use  

the word because you feel confident about saying  it all right hopefully that makes sense uh but  

this I want to give an example of how this works  uh in the video so again uh efl is helping you  

understand the language in the language and ESL  is typically taking uh like a word whatever that  

word is in your native language and then we have  the word in English like set but with the English  

as a fluent or excuse me as a first language way  we really want to give you lots of examples so you  

understand what I call a core meaning of a word  and a word even a word like set might have various  

meanings so we might have probably you know like  Sunset like something is going down uh which is  

a little bit different from maybe a meaning of  set like we have a set of markers so I have maybe  

uh like blue red and black so this is a set of  markers together so this is just one marker but  

here we have a group of them together and there's  some connection between those things so you will  

uh find times where we have uh a word actually  many times we have a word and it might have  

different core meanings and so it's important  to focus on one really understand that and then  

maybe you hear other meanings and and that way  you can uh easily understand different meanings  

of a word but the point is not to turn not to  uh take a word and then learn every use of it  

it's more to understand that particular use for a  particular situation that's the same way natives  

learn the language and again that's why we call it  learning English as a first language so uh here we  

have like the the kind of word whatever that is  in your native language and then you learn the  

English word for that um maybe you get a again a  TR translation or a definition and you get some  

maybe examples of the word but we want to do this  in kind of the opposite way when we're learning  

English as a first language because typically  again you hear something you get exposed to the  

language and then we want to become more aware  we really want to recognize and feel confident  

and then finally we own that word when we really  know we can use that thing confidently without a  

doubt all right so you can kind of Imagine uh that  like the core meaning is here and as we get more  

examples of a word that really helps us understand  the core meaning and we really discover the  

meaning of the word that way all right so I just  gave you an example before something very simple  

we have a set so I'll just put this example make  sure we can fit this over here uh like a set of

markers so here we have a set of markers uh and  we want to you can actually see this difference  

here like one marker by itself versus a set of  these things or I could have a set of really  

anything where we have uh maybe a set of uh like  a set of clothes so it's not not just a hat or  

just a a shirt or whatever I have a whole set  all right so a hat and a uh like the pants or  

whatever and the shirt that's a set together  and so as you see as you get more examples of  

that you start to understand okay like a set  is like a group of something we put something  

together all right so it's uh you can think  about a set of food in the same way so maybe  

we we go to a restaurant and they have a set  menu a set menu so we have maybe like a drink  

uh and then we have some kind of dish and  that comes with this uh extra thing over here  

so that's a set Al together so it doesn't just  mean like three of the same thing it's a group  

of something where there's a connection between  that thing okay so children understand this is  

a very basic uh understanding of the word Set uh  but we can take this to a higher level as we get  

more examples so so far we've got this uh kind  of one example here of a few different things get  

okay so we have a set of something a set  of something so when you think about what  

a set is it's like something chosen something uh  that that people picked or there's a connection  

between those things in some way again I'm  trying to give you some varied examples just  

so you understand it's not just like three random  things together like here's a marker and here's a  

bottle and here's an eraser there's a there's  some kind of connection uh that we're deciding  

about that so okay look it's a set of markers  or a set of food or a set of silverware so

silverware so silverware would be maybe these  aren't the exact things but a spoon a knife  

and a fork so that's a set or we might have a  place setting so a place set where we're going  

to have your sitting at a table you have  your spoon or your let's see like a fork  

and a spoon and a knife over here I'm going to  draw these really badly you get the idea uh but  

we have a plate and this is one person's  setting a setting like that like a place

setting okay so we have a place setting place  setting and all of these it's the same basic  

idea of there's something we we understand like  what is the connection between all these things  

they're working together for kind of one purpose  or whatever all right so let's look at some other  

examples of Set uh and maybe you can write some  of these in the chat if you think about them as  

well some other ways that you've heard set maybe  in your daily life I'm sure you've heard of many  

of [Music] them even if you don't recall them  all uh I've got some hints in the comment section  

below this video or actually in the description  below this video it will be in the comment section  

later uh but you can see these so set down it's  a little bit yeah it's a different and set like a  

phrasal verb yes so that so we're going to get  to maybe phrasal verbs in a moment I'm trying  

to take this one step at a time the same way  children would understand this uh so we could have  

something like set an alarm to set an alarm or to  set a watch or to set a time now here uh it's a  

kind of similar idea of having a group of three  things or a group of four things or something  

we're deciding on something and typically prep  preparing it for something else and so you can see  

there's a little bit of a connection there that  helps us understand this core meaning of setting  

something as well so here we have a physical Set  uh but we also have a set like oh I'm going to set  

something so I'm going to prepare it or I'm going  to put it where I want it to uh so that it's going  

to be prepared for some purpose so the same thing  if I want to set an alarm so maybe before I go to  

sleep at night I set my alarm alarm to make sure  tomorrow or the next day I wake up at 6:00 in the  

morning to set my alarm I can also set a watch  so again I'm taking something like I'm going to  

set a watch and set it to where it should be and  maybe it's not the correct time and I want to turn  

the hands of the clock or I need to do it with a  maybe pushing buttons on a digital clock and set  

the time that way so if I have like uh if I buy a  new clock it has no batteries in it uh then I can  

have a collection of of that in the same way okay  so we have a set something uh and then we can also  

talk about how we set something so we have a uh  setting an alarm setting a watch setting a time  

okay set a Target set aside yes we've got some  interesting examples in the chat very good all  

right and you see as we get these we're trying  to think more like a native which is how do we  

how do we connect these different things in  our mind and they might not all be connected  

again uh you can have many core meanings of a  particular verb or a particular word whatever  

uh but typically if you think more like a native  you will get more examples of things uh where you  

think of oh there's actually a connection  between these things and when you make a  

connection in English by realizing or discovering  or just you know seeing that connection between  

these things that makes you more fluent in  the word okay setting a goal another good

example okay and so all of these when you think  about setting something we're thinking about  

preparing it or choosing something deciding  something so there is a connection between a  

set of markers and setting an alarm okay hopefully  you guys are getting this let me go back and check  

chat make sure we're all on the same page here uh  and again I do have in the uh description below  

this video you can look at some more examples I  might not have time to get through all of them  

but uh making sure we're uh getting all these  here so I'll keep these up here and check chat  

let's see all right uh I think I I did see some  good examples over here let me take a look all  

right so we did have some good mornings I'm going  to uh skip over those I want to get right to the  

lesson but it's nice to see everybody here all  right uh and Olympia says forgive me and it says  

good morning over there nice to see you and aravan  from uh India as well hello uh I love Indian music  

Professor do you know how much meaning has set so  again like there there are different meanings of  

the word set and what I mentioned at the beginning  of this video is that I don't want you to take a  

word and try to remember every meaning of that  word we want to focus on a particular use and  

so instead of do doing like the typical way  where people would learn a second language  

where they get a word in their native language  anguage and then translate that into the word  

in English we really want to understand the word  in English so we can feel more confident about  

using it all right and we become confident about  meanings of words and even though there might be  

different meanings of words we focus on one at a  time we really try to understand that thing well  

and that way we can learn even if we have a new  thing like oh sun set like the sun is going down  

it's a little bit different from setting a watch  or setting a time or setting a goal all right  

so uh I I don't want you to feel surprised  about that it's a natural thing for words to  

have multiple meanings so people will often ask  me you know how we should be learning words and  

I want to be clear you should be getting lots of  examples of words but these should all have the  

same kind of meaning all right you don't want to  confuse Yourself by looking at too many different  

meanings of a word at the same time so we just  want to understand how these different things are  

all connected in the same way so we might have a  set of markers in the same way that we have a set  

like a goal like that so we're choosing something  and we can imagine more uh what that core meaning  

of a word might be but there could be many core  meanings of a word all right so just to be clear  

uh about that but uh good examples so far that I'm  seeing from people uh and you guys are even going  

faster than I am all right let's see uh and yes  speak in that particular situation helps to get  

fluent yes that's the whole point uh so what does  it mean ESL and efl you should go back Dena and  

watch the beginning of this but basically the  uh simple idea is learning English as a second  

language or learning English as a first language  so what we do in these videos is we learn English  

as a first language that means you're learning  it all in English and you're trying to learn the  

words the same way a native would rather than  trying to study rules or memorize explanations  

or definitions all right so a typically a native  child would get examples like like oh like I have  

a set of markers or a set of sheets so I have like  a a pillowcase and the sheets and the blanket it's  

one set they all have the same I don't know Star  Wars characters or something on them or whatever  

uh but they get the idea like it's not just a  pillowcase by itself it's part of something else  

and so we can take that same idea and we see how  there is a connection between look at that like  

I'm setting alarm or setting a watch or setting a  time I'm making something uh kind of preparing it  

to be used for something and it becomes a part of  something else in that way all right all right uh  

let's see here but again if you're if you guys  I know some people are always excited about uh  

like jumping ahead you can look in the description  below this video and and see more examples already  

all right uh let's see sit down yeah so another  another similar kind of thing if we have like  

to put something down we can set something down  as well so when we think about setting something  

down it's the same kind of idea so to set down  so I'm taking something and I'm preparing it for  

something else or I could I could set something  like in a a like set something in a box or  

set something in a different way uh where we're  talking about more um you know whatever that thing  

is I could set something in something else I could  set something on something else but I'm preparing  

it just like I'm setting a watch or setting a time  or setting a goal all right so I'm doing something  

getting it ready typically for something else to  set something like that and so a place setting  

we're getting that ready for the person who would  eat there or we have a set of markers so maybe we  

can you know use those for writing or whatever but  that's the general meaning of of this core meaning  

of set all right uh let's see we have a set of  numbers yep same same idea set aside set a Target  

so the same thing we could set down uh another  idea here set set aside so if I have something  

here physically I could like I don't want to use  the marker or or I don't want to use this eraser  

right now I'm going to set it aside for now so  I'll put it to the side I'm going to put it in  

a different place to set something aside now I  could also do the same thing with money let's  

say I have we can imagine instead of markers I'm  holding some money over here uh so let's just I  

make this clear for people well let's say I've  got some money here uh and I have a little bit  

of extra money but I don't want to use that now so  I'm going to set that money aside to use it later  

maybe I put it in a bank or something like that  I put it in a shoe box at home I'm going to set  

that aside so again the same idea all these things  is set an alarm set a watch Set time uh set a goal  

to make sure we're doing something typically  for what whatever that is we're preparing  

for something in the future like that okay lots  of good examples all right uh and set set like  

set your phone you can talk about like setting  up as a similar kind of thing set up uh but this  

is where you're again like preparing something  but you're trying to fix it I can so we we don't  

say set up an alarm we just say set alarm and if  you buy a phone usually the first time you use  

it you have to set up the phone that means it's  a little bit different like you're kind of uh  

putting it with the the maybe the controls or the  settings that you would like to have okay so it's  

similar idea uh but again not every use of set is  going to have this like particular core meaning  

all right look at that lots of lots of good uh  questions over here lots of good so again we have  

set of numbers to set someone free yes that's  the same same kind of idea uh set a meeting  

room so that one if we want to like choose a  particular place where people will uh have a  

meeting or set the table very good uh I haven't  captions yes so this is a live video you're not  

going to get captions uh automatically by Google  but usually they are available a day later so  

after the video is up you can get the uh captions  later BR says chocolate getting in the bottom of  

my belly uh Brazil setting on this live yes so we  have lots of people from Brazil usually we have  

quite a few Brazilians deir good for you teacher  where are you teaching from I'm in Nagasaki Japan  

uh we can say word set is a collection of items  like a set of tools set of books set of rules yes  

so again we take that same meaning of a set of  something and we can also talk about preparing  

something in a similar way all right I'm trying  to get you to to think about the word more like  

a native by giving you all of these examples  which is different from just taking a word and  

then Translating that from your native language  so you're you're you're you're basically trying  

to give your brain so many examples that it just  has to understand it in English and that's how you  

develop fluency all right so you develop fluency  as you understand something better okay all right  

uh let's continue here uh let's see VNC please  bring more live lessons like that don't just  

talk about how to study correctly uh so we have  lots of those videos already uh and I try to like  

even in videos where I'm explaining what efl is  uh and again we have lots of new people who join  

us all the time so I like to give a little bit  of explanation at least about what it is uh but  

if you find this kind of video helpful where I  do like a deep dive into understanding things uh  

maybe I will do more of them so it's really  up to you what people are interested in if  

lots of people watch this I will probably make  more of these all right good evening greetings  

from Colombia uh let's see state of R I'm a huge  fan of this teacher how about you welcome to the  

program hi Drew I set up my new phone or computer  yeah this say the same kind of idea thank God am  

here to learn to overcome my fears in front of  multitudes yes so typically when people have  

fears about speaking English it's because they're  uncertain they have doubts about the pronunciation  

or the vocabulary or whatever so as you get more  examples as you understand the language better  

you really feel more confident about using it okay  so we don't want to try to learn a whole bunch of  

words and not understand them very well we want to  really take take something understand it well and  

then as we do that then we can really accelerate  our learning because we can take one thing that we  

understand well and then we can start using that  to understand other things even faster all right  

uh let's I'm a teacher of English for the oil  and gas industry well that's interesting hello uh  

author is pretty cool speaking in London language  let's see set a girl I don't know what that would  

mean I mean like to set a girl uh it's not British  English yes I don't know if you're talking about  

me or whatever uh but no I speak American English  I can kind of pretend to have a British accent  

but I am not British like to get a set up in  my personal computer yes that's same kind of  

idea so I set that girl I don't know what you're  talking about you set that girl uh deir says you  

are the best let's see uh the beautiful ones  settling in here there you go uh [ __ ] says  

hi G thanks uh thank you so much for your efforts  in fact the multitude meanings of a word are huge  

challenges is to understand uh the native speakers  uh are there any books that can help well it's not  

really the the way a book like that would work and  I don't know if there are books like this but you  

would you would have to have it would be a really  it would be like a dictionary but it would have  

tons of actual examples of all of that different  vocabulary so if you go to Google and you just  

say like what is the definition of set it's going  to give you a whole bunch of different uses and  

some of them won't have any connection at all  or or it doesn't seem like there's an obvious  

connection between those and when you're trying to  learn like all of the definitions a child doesn't  

really learn the language that way I think  I'll make a video about more about the kind  

of puzzle way that a child learns the language  uh but a child will take a word and they just  

learn the word set for example when they talk  about a set of markers or a set of silverware  

or a set of baseball cards or something a set of  clothes so maybe someone's mother says yes like uh  

your clothes I have a set of clothes for you it's  a hat and uh a shirt and pants so maybe that's  

like a uniform so you have a set of clothing that  you wear so as a child hears all of those examples  

they understand oh a set is like a group of  something but then they also start hearing  

examples like setting something by using it as a  verb where we have we're going to take something  

and like put these things together so I can like  set these together using this excuse me as a verb  

right but but typically when children are learning  these examples they don't hear the word set and  

then ask their parents for every use of the word  set all right so I I want you like as a as an  

adult learner this is typically what people want  and they this is why most videos about uh like  

learning languages will have this kind of content  in it uh they will say okay here's every use of  

the word set but you don't really remember what  you learned from those videos they're typically  

not uh giving you enough examples to help you  feel confident about all of those uh so it's  

much better to focus on one understand it well and  then you move on to something else okay so that  

was kind of a long explanation but the basic idea  is that children don't learn their native language  

by trying to get every example of something and  they they start piecing it together as they get  

more examples of a related thing and then if they  hear a different usage of the word then they think  

oh I can actually use this word also to talk about  something else okay so we're not talking about  

just one one word and having only one meaning  because maybe some words have different meanings  

in different situations and it's important to try  to relax uh without without trying to learn every  

use of a word because you're not going to remember  it anyway it's not a very natural way to learn you  

would have to really spend like what I'm talking  about here so far we've been talking about maybe  

25 minutes about one word uh and even one use of  one word and so we have a like an example of a of  

a set of something and then we talk about setting  an alarm so putting these things in the right  

place getting them prepared for for something  like that so as you get all of these examples you  

have this idea of the word set and you should be  feeling more confident about using it in that way  

all right uh but again there will be other like  if we talk about Sunset that's a different idea  

than like setting a watch all right but uh the  point is not to try to get every uh use of the  

word set it's more just to relax and listen to a  whole bunch of different examples and then really  

you can notice you go from exposure to awareness  to ownership where you really feel confident about  

it so a set of rules another good example of that  like we can have a physical thing like this a set  

of markers or we can have also a set of numbers a  set of rules the same kind of thing okay so don't  

feel bad if you learn a word and someone uses  a different meaning of that word it that will  

happen sometimes it's okay but you should think  oh here here's a new use of that word and now to  

make sure I understand it I should probably get  even more examples of that use of the same word  

all right all right good questions I'll make sure  I get all of these and I'll give you a few more  

examples uh this video probably won't take that  long but I wanted to just give you an example of  

how this works uh let's see set the jelly yeah  that's a that's another kind of thing where we  

talk about something like hardening uh so we  can talk about in a similar way like to set  

like concrete c r oops c r e t eat concrete  so setting concrete or setting jelly the same  

kind of thing where something hardens all right  so we're talking about like we're we're turning  

the hands of a watch to set that watch and now  oh we we get it right where we want it the same  

kind of thing as like setting some concrete all  right so we're we're letting something get hard  

or we want to set something like we want to set  expectations all right so I want to tell people  

what they should be expecting for something to  set uh expectations all right same kind of idea  

but all of these things like you can see we're  we're trying to take something in prepare it  

in some way uh making that thing hard making  making sure everybody understands what that  

thing is okay so we do all of these things in  the same way like if I set an alarm it would  

be that same alarm for everybody listening to  that alarm clock all right uh let's see here

search of sounds of American English uh like I get  to set up in my personal computer yeah you got the  

idea so I still don't know what set the girl  is but let me know what specifically uh you're  

talking about all right could you compare set  and stuff uh so oh yeah actually a good example  

of set and stuff like if I just look at let's say  I have a uh just a here's a tray with some things  

in it so here is just some stuff in a tray and  when I call it stuff it's because to me there's  

no real like connection between these things I  could just say well here is like a some bottle  

of uh like alcohol spray here is a paper towel  in a bag here's some instructions some magnets  

there's another marker this is the marker is not  as uh I don't know it's a little bit older than  

this other black marker I'm using here uh so to me  if I just have a bunch of random things in a and  

I could put anything in here could put like here's  another bag I put in here or some other markers or  

something like that um so that's just some stuff  but I could call this my like teaching set all  

right so again part of that is like how I think  about it and if if there's me kind of preparing  

this for something so if I take a a uh like a  container like this a little tray and I just close  

my eyes and put some different toys and things  and some money and whatever uh that's just stuff  

but if I'm doing something with the particular  uh goal so I have a goal of putting all of these  

things together uh for like some future thing that  might be my teaching set so I have my markers and  

my Eraser and whatever else this is like my set  for doing work okay so uh you could have the same  

items in a in a container and to one person it's  just stuff it's random items but to another person  

it's a set of something so part of it is how you  think about it but again it's that same idea of  

preparing something for something else okay so  I'm getting something ready this is the set I  

use uh in order to teach all right so a good  question uh so you could have some stuff like  

I mean the if I have a like three markers like  this more people would call this a set because  

it's wow it's really the same thing we've got  a couple of different colors here people would  

really think wow that's a set of markers okay like  if you go to a store and you ask for like a group  

like that so I want to buy a set of markers or  a set of pens or a set of notebooks or something  

like that people would know we're talking about  something like that but if I go to a store and  

ask for a teacher set people wouldn't really know  what I'm talking about because well what kind of  

teaching or what specific tools do you need uh but  if I could explain something well I need an eraser  

and a marker and other things like that that's my  set for teaching my set of things that I use for  

teaching teaching okay good question all right but  again hopefully people are getting this you notice  

we're spending a lot of time talking about one  word but you also get lots of other words with  

that so maybe you might think this is a little bit  slower we're just focusing on one thing but really  

by understanding something really well we can  take this and then start applying that to other  

things all right uh I'll get back to those other  questions let's see uh let's see make sure we have  

okay all right uh North Star said greeting  from China cam again good morning sorry I'm  

late don't worry about it uh set you up with my  daughter yeah so that to set someone up uh it's  

a little bit different but it's a it's a similar  similar kind of idea so to set something with with  

someone else like I want to set you up like I  want you to go out on a date with my daughter  

uh let's seea says I hope you can teach me about  English idioms uh we have a bunch of videos about  

uh idioms if you search my channel for that uh and  slang as well we have videos about that of course  

fluent for Life uh covers all of these things all  right so unit says uh reset a phone advice means  

to turn it back to its first state yes that's  correct so we want if we take something and we  

could also mess it up or put it back to the way it  was to reset something so if I take these markers  

and maybe I I use them in different places I'm  doing something with them but then I reset them  

again so so I set them and they go maybe in  different places or they get changed and now  

I reset them I'm putting them back together the  way they were very good the default settings uh PR  

says hi Drew very good morning I am watching your  live videos you're a good teacher from Sri Lanka  

yeah you could say a good teacher uh Bron says uh  BR brona excuse me your teach your articulation is  

amazing well that's a very kind of uh kind thing  to say uh n says what is the best way to gain more  

vocabulary this is it this is the best way to gain  more vocabulary because if you learn something  

the typical way I'm going to get maybe I try to  learn a 100 words in one day or something or maybe  

10 words whatever uh I I get a translation and a  definition and maybe a few examples I'm not really  

feeling very confident about that vocabulary  typically uh so the traditional English a  

second language way it seems like it's faster but  you're actually wasting your time because you're  

not really feeling very confident about what you  know and so you get the uh kind of awareness level  

of vocabulary you go from exposure to awareness  where you understand the vocabulary and this is  

where you grow your passive vocabulary that means  you can understand a lot of vocabulary but you  

don't really feel confident using a lot of it okay  so what we're trying to do here is we focus on one  

meaning of one word or we take a few connected  related meanings and we really try to understand  

that word very well and then you f you become more  fluent as you understand the vocabulary better and  

that's when you start speaking so your ability  to communicate comes from how confident you feel  

about vocabulary if you don't feel confident  about something you won't say it you'll have  

that little voice in your head that's saying oh am  I saying this the right way or is my pronunciation  

incorrect there are lots of little worries maybe  I'm worried about other people what will they  

think about my bad pronunciation or something if  I use something incorrectly so it's much better to  

spend your time focusing on something the fluency  comes from the focus and that's where you really  

start to understand things better and when you  do that you become a confident speaker uh let's  

see let's see a set of rules yes we got that one  already yes right I understand set so I can have  

the right idea set up and reset and so on ahha  moment yes you got it uh so set as a noun can  

mean a combination typically it means like yes  there there's some reason why these things are  

together so the reason for these markers being  together is maybe I can write with different  

colors at different times okay so if I just take  I could take I could really I could make a set  

out of anything if I create a connection between  those things but typically when we look at things  

that go together like a spoon a knife and a fork  those all go together naturally as things like  

tools that we would use for a situation so that's  a set of something but again just like I gave  

the example of some you know some different  things in a box I could have a set of those  

things if there's me like creating a connection  between those things or they are all tools that  

work together for some purpose all right but if  it's just some random things and and I haven't  

made any connection I didn't decide anything or  choose anything about that it's just stuff just  

random things together all right uh says set up  first time I've caught you live welcome Jimmy uh  

again remember if you don't watch the videos live  it's okay just watch them later you can watch them  

anytime set a line thanks for your effort uh could  you recommend a method to improve writing like  

remembering words I'm struggling with speaking  words simply don't come out of my tongue yes uh  

adre so this is typically the reason that people  don't remember words or they have trouble with  

writing or in conversations they forget what they  want to say so they think they know vocabulary but  

they really don't if I get it like a definition  of something like let's say I get the word free in  

English and I want to translate that into Japanese  I could I could learn like mudo which is like  

doesn't cost anything or I could learn gu which  is like you know I can freely travel it's two  

different things and so rather than me trying to  understand uh Japanese through English I want to  

go directly to that word and get lots of different  examples so like where would I hear the word mudo  

like oh I go to a store and I get something free  like ooh mudo like doesn't have any uh price to it  

it's free so in that way I'm learning the specific  use of a word for that situation and that's how we  

learn things as a native rather than trying to  learn things where we take a word and then get a  

definition of it that it's just very incomplete  you could see the difference here look at all  

all of these different things that we're learning  and that helps us understand this core meaning of  

this usage of set rather than me trying to get  a word like set and then just get a definition  

or a translation in a different language okay so  the more connections we make we're trying to make  

like a set out of the word set like all of these  this is like a set of examples of the word set all  

right if that makes sense so as you're hearing  these different examples you should be thinking  

like ah I'm I'm understanding more I should feel  more confident about using this way of using set  

okay so I'm not trying to teach every use of every  meaning of set I'm just we're just focusing on  

this one thing and as people feel more confident  you can spread out or try to get other different  

examples what a student might hear well I also  heard set like Sunset say oh okay well we're kind  

of putting something down on something else it's  like it's kind of related to this you can you can  

see a little bit how the connection is made but if  you just begin with random definitions it becomes  

more difficult and you don't really remember  the word very well all right so I'm trying to  

show you how to do this systematically we want to  take the same word and the same kind of General  

meaning and then get lots of examples of that okay  and as we feel more confident we can take like a  

physical example like a set of markers and then  we can get a non-physical thing like a set of ID  

okay so maybe a government has a set of ideas  or I have a set of values these are the things  

I believe and they are all connected a set of  values in that way or I can choose something I can  

set a time to do something just like I can take  something and set it on the table so I'm preparing  

something for something else all right hopefully  hopefully the wheels are spinning in your mind  

I'm I'm trying to basically set this uh and I'll  get to anette's question uh look like now I guess  

oh actually uh okay I will so the talking about  setting concrete like if we take uh gel like jello  

jelly uh or concrete when we mix it together it's  still wet and it's not it's not hard and formed  

into a particular shape so as something hardens we  call that setting so when we uh have like a like  

a cake or something we have to let something sit  for a while to get hard and we call that setting  

so so to set something like to set concrete or we  would say the concrete is setting right now or we  

can also call that curing to cure uh the concrete  uh but that's a specific way we can use set and  

it's similar to this and we're we're trying to get  something where it's uh it's it's going from maybe  

we don't know the specific form to something that  is decided and it's decided because it gets hard  

and the concrete is not going to change so when  we begin with concrete that's why you see the  

concrete uh like a concrete truck or like a cement  is the same thing cement so a cement mixer you  

have a cement mixing I'm going to draw a this is  a cement mixing truck here usually it it kind of  

looks like a it's got kind of like a like a like  a cylinder like a thing that spins around on the  

back and then that way the the concrete can pour  out and it's kind of like a like a liquid uh so  

comes out and it could be in any shape you like  so I could put the liquid into a heart shape  

or a square shape or make it part of a a road or  something like that so right now I'm just pouring  

it in there I'm pouring the concrete uh but then  as it hardens it sets so we we we we get it to  

choose a particular shape and that's the the shape  we want it for for a particular purpose okay so  

just like we set an alarm we set concrete we set  something like that we're trying to get something  

uh that we want it in that particular shape or  form or time or whatever to set something all  

right Mama is say explain homophones Google that  nothing to do with uh today's lesson but again  

that's the kind of thing Google can answer very  quickly all right uh let me know Annette if that  

makes sense for you it was all set up yes or you  can say it was all a setup if you're talking about  

like a plan that was prepared in advance like  we're trying to catch some criminals or something  

and they come into a place and they get they get  caught like it was a setup so we set we set that  

thing up to catch those people all right the same  way we would have a set like a movie set it's a  

particular place uh that we're trying to prepare  for something so to show a movie whatever we want  

to have the characters doing things so we have a  set or a setting like the setting of a story where  

does it take place where does it happen all right  uh hopefully we got that though I said Richard  

says my issue is that when I speak I Stumble  a little bit and get flustered then my mind  

goes blank I want to speak quickly and fluently  like you yes and the way you do that Richard is  

by understanding English as a first language all  right that's as is really that simple and the if  

you stop learning English as a second language and  you start learning it as a first language like how  

I'm showing you here in this video that's where  you really feel confident and you notice that you  

become confident in individual words and phrases  as you understand them this is why you can use  

some things fluently and some things not because  maybe you still have doubts about those things so  

the fastest way to become a fluent speaker is to  remove the doubts that stop you from speaking okay  

let me say that again the fastest way to become  a fluent speaker is to remove or destroy or to  

delete whatever word you want to use I like to  say destroy because it's more powerful uh but you  

destroy the doubts that stop you from speaking so  if you hear a word like set you might think okay  

we have a set of markers but then also like set  an alarm that's it's like a little bit different  

it's kind of related I guess but as you hear  more examples you begin to make that connection  

and it's a lot easier to understand so you feel  more confident about using it you become fluent  

in this word and that's why the title of this  video is getting fluent in the word set all right  

so again I can't really cover every use of every  example uh but you should get the idea that look  

at that we can take a word understand a bunch of  different examples and really understand it like  

a native rather than just getting one example  or one definition or one translation all right  

I think people are getting it though uh let's see  unit says the wheels are spinning in my mind all  

right so you set my mind to think in English well  done yes so again the same thing so that's a very  

good example I am trying to set that in mind or  set that in your mind or set that way of thinking  

to set something in your mind in the same way  very good uh and the Portuguese over there let's  

see are you watching Euro 2024 I don't know what  that is is that is that like a soccer match or  

something uh I understand thank you okay glad to  hear it and Sam crook says my wife put a feeder a  

toy and a diaper in a handbag while I was taking  my kid to his grandma was that a set yes it could  

be so a set a set isn't just like chosen by Magic  it's people who decide what something is that's  

why when I set a watch like I'm choosing that  so I'm setting the watch it's my purpose it's  

whatever I want it to be I set an alarm for me  so I'm choosing something I'm creating it and  

I'm making it I'm kind of like making it hard you  know for that example so the the you can imagine  

the hands of a clock spinning around like this but  I said it at that time I set that all right I'm  

making it that thing I'm choosing what that is and  so I can take these markers and put them together  

as a set I can still have individual markers or  if I am a mother and I think like what is my baby  

set so maybe I need a bottle and some diapers  and and you know some wipes or whatever your  

you know your particular set is or maybe you have  a doctor set like in those uh like you go to a a  

store and there will be little little sets of  toys so little sets maybe have a doctor little  

doctor bag and inside that what are some things  you might have in a in a doctor's set you might  

have uh like a stethoscope this is the you know  that thing you put in your ears and you listen  

to like a heartbeat a stethoscope or you might  have you know that little uh like Hammer looking  

looking thing where you you can kind of you know  tap tap pe people's knees so you might have like  

little kids would get a set like this okay so  to have a collection of different things and  

another person might just see you know a bunch  of items on a table and they might not think  

anything about it it doesn't seem like a set  to them but maybe someone else does okay so I  

again I I take this so This tray of things is  a set to me okay somebody else might just say  

oh it's some random things in a in a tray but  to me it's a set all right so it's a a set of  

things I'm choosing that and I'm preparing that  for some future thing but very good yes you got  

the example correctly uh Marcela excuse  me hello I'm from Brazil so set the table  

typically we would say set the table uh this is  a good example of understanding phrasal verbs I  

know people are asking about that but let me  show you something this will be really cool  

and this will help you understand like a native  okay watch this this is going to be pretty cool  

I know I get excited about this stuff cuz I  like seeing people understand but watch this  

all right I'm going to show you a difference  and again when we're understanding things like  

natives we don't want to get a translation or a  definition we want to really see the difference  

between two different things so one of these  let's do set a table and the other is set up a

table make sure you can read that okay all right  so what is the difference between to set a table  

and to set up a table I want to teach you this  because I see this example uh from students often  

and and they're they I understand what they're  trying to say but because they're using the wrong  

wrong English uh in the situation I want to help  you understand it like a native all right so when  

we have set a table the table is already there  so here's our table and we're going to put maybe  

a place setting uh for each person here I'm going  to set the table so the table is already here now  

I'm setting the table I'm putting things on here  preparing that for people coming to eat probably  

all right but if I want to set up a table I don't  even have the table yet all right maybe the table  

is in a box maybe the table is it's like one  of those uh folding tables so you have the  

little legs or something uh that are that are  kind of folded down I don't have an example of  

that with me uh but like a a folding table would  be like that let me put this down so you can see

better okay think it's that's a little better okay  so if we have like you imagine a folding table I  

need to set up the table so that means I'm going  to take the table and actually you know put the  

table where it should be I'm going to get the  legs where they should be and now I'm setting  

up the table okay so when we use set up something  this is different from setting something that's  

already finished okay so I'm going to set up  a table I want to set up something just like  

I'm setting up a phone it's like yeah like I'm  the phone is kind of like I I can't use it yet  

because uh I it hasn't been set up like I I can't  you know I don't know what my my code is or like  

some other settings about the phone so I'm setting  up my phone for the first time so you can see  

these are similar they're similar one is set like  I'm going to take something the table is already  

there but now I'm preparing things on the table or  for the table but here I have to set up the table  

itself meaning I have to unfold the table I have  to put the table where it is that is to set up  

a table set up a table all right pretty good so  the same thing like if I want to set uh like set  

maybe some things on the table that's different  from like setting up that thing so if I'm going  

camping and I have a tent which one of these am  I going to do am I going to set the tent or am I  

going to set up the tent so I'm going camping  I have this like tent in a bag which one would  

I do would I set up the tent or would I set the  tent all right I'll give people a second to uh to  

answer that but hopefully uh this explanation  makes it a bit more clear if I have a table  

already ready and now okay I'm going to put some  things on the table I am setting the table okay  

but if I have a tent or something so the tent uh  we'll just say the tent is in a bag it's kind of  

rolled up we have some little tent poles in  there as well so yes I would set up a tent  

okay same idea so to set a table we're taking  something that's already prepared and to set up  

a table now we have to get that thing ready where  it should be all right but you notice like we it's  

it's much easier to compare the difference in  English and understand it as a first language  

than to try to get some translations isn't  it it isn't it all right click that like  

button if it is if you understand what I'm saying  understand what I'm saying uh but that's the basic  

idea of understanding something like a native so  you use it fluently all right so hopefully after  

you see this the difference between setting  a table and setting up a table it should be  

more clear okay if we're taking something like  if I have something in a box if I'm going to  

a a show and I need to like build something I  am setting that thing up I'm setting it up so  

it's similar similar idea of set but I'm setting  it up I'm preparing it in some way rather than  

just like putting it there so if I set a tent it  means means I'm just going to take this tent and  

put it someplace but if I'm setting it up I have  to build that thing or make it all right lots of  

little little thumbs UPS over here uh let's see  if I had any uh another example here I wanted to  

give uh which is a more like idiomatic use of this  and again you can find these in the description  

below this video and this is like have a uh like  set in stone now make sure now I'm going to have  

to raise this up so people can see the top of the  screen again actually better yet let me just erase  

some of this so you here this is a very common  English expression to talk about something being

[Music] set set in stone all right so when  something is set in stone it means it's really  

locked in there tight the same way we would  have uh like set concrete so when people have  

a rule for their company and they say well the  rule is not set in stone it means maybe we can  

change the rule or say something different uh or  do something different with that but if something  

is set in stone like we take some like hard rock  and we're going to write the rules or chisel the  

Chisel the words you know inside that rock or  those rules are set in stone like the like the  

Ten Commandments you know that kind of thing  so if something is set in stone that means  

okay we're going to have something like it's not  going to change so it's set in stone so not just  

set but set in stone so the rules of this company  are set in stone or you can talk about something  

being a bit more flexible and saying it is not set  in stone set in stone all right looks like we have  

a few last questions here uh so set up the tent  Louis has it uh W what is the difference between  

uh the set the table and laid the table yeah  both of those are fine so you can if we talk  

about like uh asking someone to lay the table uh  it's a a slightly older expression but people will  

likely understand that especially adults so kids  typically we use set the table so again same kind  

of thing like we're going to set the table um like  if I if I'm holding a table and I don't know where  

like I'm I'm going to put it someplace I can I  can physically set the table down like or set  

the table in a particular place but usually we're  talking about setting the table as putting table  

like like a place setting on that table so we have  some chairs and uh dishes and bowls and silverware  

things like that when we're setting the table so  you can say uh please lay the table that's fine  

uh but set is much more common and when you  ever have questions like this if you search  

them in Google and see which which one gives you  more examples so if I search set the table versus  

lay the table I will probably get more hits for  uh set the table so that's a way you can check  

which is much more common but it will also show  you examples uh that again people say different  

things for the same situation so that happens  as well uh let's see and Muhammad says set out  

yes so that is another phrasal verb where we are  beginning to take a trip all right uh wesm says  

could I say don't set me up yes so you can use  this if you don't want people to trick you or you  

know they're trying to trap you in some situation  yeah so you would that's using it correctly uh so  

set out yes again that same example all right  I think people are getting it though now pay  

attention because I know we're we're focusing on  just one thing but I really want to make it clear  

we're actually getting lots of different uses  we're really feeling much more confident about  

that let me know if you are feeling more fluent  and you understand this word better now let me  

know has this video been helpful for you has it  been helpful to take one thing and just really  

understand it much better now we could continue to  go deeper there are always more examples you can  

get but hopefully this video proves that if you  spend more time and you really try to understand  

something like a native you will feel much more  confident using it all right hopefully I've made  

my point but let me know uh again I want to make  sure you understand things well uh that everybody  

is getting it all right Muhammad says explain  slowly after the video is finished you can also go  

back and watch it at a different speed set someone  up with another person like a date yes that is a  

different example uh of setting something up so if  I want to set a person up with someone else to set  

someone so set xers up with someone else like with  Y so set John up with Sally okay set someone up  

with someone else set me up so my maybe I went on  a like a blind date so a friend of mine set me up  

uh on a blind date with someone else is settlement  related to set yes so it's a similar kind of thing  

uh we also have like the settlement of people like  living in a particular place so they go and then  

they kind of choose a place and they start settle  there uh start to settle there uh but it's also  

the same kind of thing like concrete so again we  have something that could move around it's a bit  

more flexible but over time it settles and so it  it hardens into a particular thing uh let's see  

can we say set in set on or set at so can we can  we say set in well I mean these would be different  

things and it's and it's better uh rather than  just trying to give a whole bunch of explanations  

for each phrasal verb uh I would Google those and  see what see what you get but yes you can you can  

say uh particular things and you'll see what's  correct and what's not and often Google will  

even tell you like it it will give you examples  of what maybe you were trying to search for and  

what you were uh like what you're actually saying  so you can get uh both of those but like for an  

example like set in uh if I'm young I can be more  flexible and change the way I think or change the  

things I do but as I get older I become like you  can say I'm set in my ways I am set in my ways it  

just means like the things I do or the beliefs I  have it's hardened like concrete so when I'm young  

it's flexible it's easy to move around but over  time now I am set in that thing it's like I am  

set in in that particular shape all right so the  things I believe I'm set in my ways set in my ways  

all right so again lotss of good examples where  you understand things a little bit better lots  

of good questions and as you ask more questions  then again these are removing the doubt so these  

are good things as you continue to ask more  questions so if you're uh if you don't have me  

here or you're not influent for life or whatever  you can always again search Google or chat GPT  

but if you don't feel confident about something  get the answers to those questions all right make  

sure you understand whatever that thing is uh  you will feel much more confident about using  

it uh ASO says thank you for these awesome lessons  teacher Jo it's my pleasure so become H set became  

easy to use now moreover the past tense is also  set yes so like this is this is one of those easy  

words where like I will set the alarm or I did  set the alarm or I am setting the alarm really  

the only thing is is just what's happening right  now uh but yes uh your set of English Les sessions  

is amazing yep another good example very good ABD  says yes it's so clear clear and understandable  

explanation here you would say now this is another  tricky thing I I won't really cover it in this  

video but if we want to say your explanation is  so clear you can say that or you can say you have  

such such such a clear explanation such a clear  explanation and uh you could probably find many  

videos about so and such uh on in YouTube like  different YouTube videos uh my channel might  

even cover them as well I think uh but we also do  this again INF fluent for life uh so I was set my  

heart on learning the English language yes so if  you want to set your heart on a particular thing  

just like you set your alar all right so you're  choosing something you're preparing that thing  

for the future in some way all right why is not  setting because of I'm why is not sitting give  

me more information Rock uh I don't know what  you're asking about but hopefully this makes  

sense uh let me see if I missed anything I think  everybody yeah I think we got through all these  

uh like and and as you get more examples we can we  we've already had many good examples from people  

like to set your heart to like my child has his  heart set on getting a dog my child has his heart  

set on getting a dog my child has his heart set  on getting a dog or her her heart her her heart  

is set on a particular thing so you can have an  alarm set or your heart set or your mind is set  

like if I set my mind to do something it means  I'm choosing it I'm like switching my mind to  

this setting so I'm not going to be lazy I'm going  to set my mind to accomplishing something so I set  

my mind to a goal all right so I set my direction  set my mind set my heart set my vision set my eyes  

on something all these uh very useful very common  examples of set same kind of thing all right but  

remember you may hear different meanings of set  like in some other situation don't get mad just  

say oh like look at that here's a different use of  set maybe I should get some more examples of that  

as well all right but this is how you build it  up like a native so you will learn something and  

then you feel confident about it and then maybe  you learn something new and you're thinking oh  

I'm a little bit surprised about this new meaning  of that word uh but that's fine that's normal and  

that's how natives will learn the language all  right so I know as a as an adult learner people  

typically want to get every use of everything  and try to understand that but then they usually  

don't remember all of the things they learn so  try not to do that try to get more examples of  

things until you really feel confident and then  start getting additional things additional uses  

or new words so be verb with Ving why is it why  is not setting well if you're if you're talking  

about doing something uh like if you're talking  about doing something at a particular time like  

I am setting my alarm I'm doing that right now  so yes it it works like a regular verb Elder  

says sub Drew long time no see uh uh let's see  nice to hear you thanks a bunch you got to put  

more punctuation in there I'm trying to read that  as one sentence nice nice to hear from me though  

uh novel says I'm so happy I can understand 90% of  your speech but I can't write and speak well it's  

okay it begins with understanding you get lots  of examples and then that will really make you  

feel more confident over time I promise you if you  get more examples if you understand the language  

better you will speak it better I promise you  all right if you just take a word like set and  

you get a definition and you try to repeat the  word Set set set set set the repetition is not  

going to help you this is going to help you over  here getting lots of examples all right uh I think  

we're almost finished teacher why these words  set get or take have many meanings English is  

difficult yes well some meanings you know they  could be coming from different languages or they  

just have you know they're so commonly used Maybe  people start using them in different ways or they  

have different meanings of them and generally  if you words have kind of fewer meaning fewer  

meanings than most people think it's just if  you learn them like a native you start to get  

the core meanings of words and it's usually  easier to understand them that way so yes it  

like Words will often have multiple meanings  and I think many languages are probably like  

that I don't know about every language uh but  typically languages like it's the same thing in  

Japanese where I'll hear a word and it could mean  different things depending on the situation and  

that's because we learn for a situation so we  learn a meaning of a word for that situation  

rather than you know just trying to memorize a  bunch of definitions or translations of something  

so yes it is uh it can be a pain in the ass uh  but it becomes a lot easier to understand things  

if you get them in a structured way like this and  really understand things and how they're connected  

all right so things are typically more connected  than people might think uh and Daisy Daisy oh  

that's interesting spelling of that how difficult  are those words that you just said in your example  

her heart of her uh well the the words are very  simple but again you notice I'm taking simple  

words but using them in a more advanced way so we  don't need to learn Advanced vocabulary to be a  

confident speaker or to express difficult things  we can just know how to to use the words really  

well all right so that's another reason why we do  this so like I'm set in my ways or like let's see

here so I have my

heart set on something so I have my heart set on  you like I'm like I'm focused on you you are the  

thing I want so my heart is set on you or I have  my heart set on getting a job in France okay so  

you you could really put anything in here where  I have my heart set on doing something you know  

like getting a job or uh I have my heart set on  uh getting this dog for Christmas or something  

all right or we could make it the past or we  could even make it the future but typically  

like it's talking about the future anyway when  we're using uh like to be your your heart set  

on something uh like I'm my my my focus is on  that thing all right now instead of using heart  

you can use mind same idea typically heart  is it's like a little bit more romantic or  

thinking about love or something like that  but you could use both so I have my heart  

set on something or My Mind Set On something and  that's why people also talk about changing their  

mind or changing their heart uh thanks D Drew  goodbye and abdulah says is reading articles  

online helpful uh for word Improvement rather than  getting uh examples well like if if you read if  

you read 10 articles online about the same thing  then that would probably be pretty helpful so that  

would give you naturally varied review where you  would get different examples of things but they  

would be in context so articles are good uh but  again you you want to be systematic about how you  

learn uh and then and yeah if you think about if  you think about how uh you would you would learn  

things to remember them if I read 10 random  articles one article is about how to raise a  

chicken another article is about how to bake bread  um there there will be fewer words that are used  

in both of those articles but if I if I read 10  articles that are about how to feed your chickens  

the right way then I I will probably feel pretty  confident about learning and and using those words  

so again focus is typically better focus uh but  getting varied review about that thing uh let's  

see and Daisy said I mean her heart for me is  almost the same pronunciation her heart her heart  

you should get Frederick uh that's an app that  will help you understand the sounds and hear these  

differences between similar things uh so that's an  app you can click on the link in the description  

in the link below this or click on the link in the  descrip description below this video so click on  

the link in the description below this video for  Frederick uh same thing for fluent for Life uh so  

if you hear her and Har as the same thing then you  need practice with your uh listening to make sure  

you can tell the difference between sounds like  that Sam crook says we bought a bike we can set  

it up at the shop uh so I can say we uh can I say  we can do the setup at home yes so that's fine so  

you can set up the bike uh at a shop or set up  the bike at home that's fine or I can take the  

bike and set it somewhere that means I'm going to  take the already completed bike and put it maybe  

on a table or you know in my garage that's where  I'm going to set something uh same my name hello I  

remember that song George Harrison Got My Mind Set  On You yes so set on set on you is the same kind  

of thing all right so here where you're getting  uh like music is kind of the last step because  

it's typically more difficult uses of words but  it's same thing so my mind is set on you I got my  

mindset yeah that's a GE George Harrison yeah uh  game money says can we use an s in singular noun  

like a singular noun like teacher and teachers  even if it's single what's the difference I don't  

understand your question you mean if you're  talking about one person or a possessive like  

it is the teacher thing like this is the teacher  marker like it's my marker so one person with a uh  

uh apostrophe s like that that would be possessive  so that's different from singular and plural uh  

Wes says I set English learning up with my joy  feeling to remove my doubt and fear yeah that's a  

more I understand what you're trying to say uh you  would you can yeah it's kind of you it's better to  

begin especially when you're making some sentences  using something like that take an example that I'm  

already giving you and change it just a little bit  all right so I'm set on something uh you can use  

that like I'm set on learning English or set on uh  you know understanding things very well so to be  

set on and doing something hello everyone uh how  to be advanced in English I think I'm good on it  

but sometimes when I podcast about different topic  I can't understand all conversation yes so based  

on the errors in your English I would say uh you  need to understand the basics better by getting  

more examples of things if you watch my videos  a lot you will hear this comment again and again  

because it's it's like the number one thing that  people must do but they don't want to do it and I  

don't know why they don't want to do it I I mean  like the main reason people don't want to do it  

is they think they understand something but they  don't realize that they don't understand it well  

enough they still have some kind of doubt about  that thing all right so so try to understand the  

language better and if you have lots of errors in  your writing you probably have lots of errors in  

your spoken communication as well uh we often get  you know questions from Learners they're like well  

look it's set like that's an easy word all right  well do you feel confident using it in all these  

different ways that I've just taught you if you do  then great you probably don't need any lessons but  

if you don't then you should focus more on the  word and even if you know this word there are  

probably other ones you don't know so the goal is  really to spend a lot of time understanding things  

well and that's what's going to help you become  a confident speaker all right you are always  

on my mind yes same idea so you can think about  something like that uh you're always on my mind  

uh people will T typically talk about being on my  mind or in my heart all right we don't really talk  

about being like in in like on my heart if you're  on my heart it's more like you're like sitting on  

my chest or something like that so you're in my  heart and on my mind all right even though you're  

not sitting on my head either that's how we think  about it Rocky uh do you say I will put my mind  

set on learning English no you would just say uh  like I will I will set my mind to learning English  

or you could say I set my mind on learning English  as well both of those are fine hey teacher are you  

still living in Japan yes I am uh set a date yes  you got that same example yes I meant articles  

about the same topic like robotic surgery yes  if you read a bunch of articles about that it's  

going to help you uh but you should also listen  to videos about people doing robotic surgery so  

you need to hear different examples as well uh and  that will be a bit more challenging but that will  

also help you become more fluent I meant setup can  be a noun well yes it would be like a setup set up  

usually like it it'll have like a dash there uh  like a like a compound word like a phrasal noun  

or whatever a game money for example the teachers  has the best ability to explain lessons better  

while if you're remove the S does the meaning  change well you wouldn't say the teachers has  

you would just say the teacher has there's nothing  possessive about that so the teacher has uh remind  

remind all time no smoking thank you says Blanca  and let's see good morning from India where are  

you now I'm in Nagasaki Japan and helping people  understand the word set if this video has been  

useful for you do click the like button and let  other people know I know people might think they  

already know a word so you are uh I'm encouraging  you to be the kind of learner that spends more  

time with vocabulary you want to make it really a  good friend of yours you want to own that word not  

just to know it a little bit or have a translation  of the word if you don't feel confident spend more  

time with the vocabulary and I promise you will  become a more confident speaker so you don't  

need to spend a lot of time practicing with other  people or finding a practice partner or talking  

online or whatever ever spend your time getting  many more examples of things uh how to start to  

learn Japanese nowadays I'm doing Duolingo uh I  don't recommend dualingo I don't really know much  

about it but I'm not familiar with anybody who's  become fluent using dual lingo but if you if you  

just want to get some examples my my problem with  dual lingo is the whole point of it is like it's  

like duo lingo like you have two languages and  that implies uh translation and so it's typically  

like the like the app could be a good format for  that but it needs to give you more control like we  

do in Frederick to really help you understand how  to how to combine words in different ways um but  

uh but I don't know if if dualingo is helpful  for you then uh then use it but i' I've not I  

from the little I've played around with it uh  it hasn't been useful for me game money uh is  

possessive important in statement well yes I mean  in general like using the possessive yes uh EST  

says my friend set me up with my boss for for  getting late uh he blamed me for getting late  

ah you you you could say like my my friend set me  up uh to to be late or my friend set me up to be  

late if you say my friend set me up with my boss  it sounds like you're going out on a date with  

your boss so my friend set me up to be late uh the  toy says dual Lango is a waste of time okay there  

you go so I don't know for sure I I haven't  spend like a lot uh a lot of time with it uh  

uh give me the reason why I understand all you  say in this live but when I listen to different  

videos or live I want to uh I can't understand  some words uh it's because I'm explaining myself  

clearly and with simpler vocabulary and I'm not  using movie quotes or other things like that so  

I'm intentionally being understandable to get you  to that that first level of learning English as a  

first language but if you spend more time you  need to get examples also with native speakers  

who don't speak as clearly as I do all right so  this is what we do in fluent for life so it's  

a it's a series of steps where the first one is  just understanding things making sure you can hear  

it clearly then we start giving you different  examples uh or different situations different  

vocabulary different speakers different speeds and  all of this what I call naturally varied review is  

what's going to get you fluent all right so if you  can understand me but not understand other people  

then you need to start you need to either join us  or figure out just a way to do that by yourself  

uh and I've explained some ways already to do that  all right might says I have an issue although my  

English is good when it comes to getting very  important messages I have to translate them  

into my language what do you call this is a lack  of confidence yes so you have some kind of doubt  

about the vocabulary or you think okay I don't  want to mess this up this is an important thing  

to say let me get a translation of this so yes  it it means you have some kind of doubt about  

that thing uh noad says if you give me one tip  to learn Japanese language what would it be it  

would be same thing I'm doing in English learn  Japanese as a first language learn Japanese as  

a first language so the reason I'm teaching  English as a first language now to people is  

because I got fluent in Japanese when I started  learning Japanese as a first language all right  

uh thanks very much big teacher uh I don't think  it's kind of uh okay you're talking about the um  

dual lingo give me some plan to learn uh Germany  or you mean German by a Smart Way same thing learn  

German in German that's what you should do uh  can you recommend some books to learn English or  

Japanese anything article just to give it just  watch the videos on my channel it'll explain  

everything if you can understand me and what I'm  saying right now you don't need uh special books  

or anything just watch my videos and you will  become more confident in English because I'm  

making the language more understandable now if  you want to take that to the next level where  

you can really have good conversations with people  you still need to get lots of examples of native  

actually speaking and so natives talking to  other natives uh getting those good examples  

of natives really speaking that's what's going  to help you become uh a really confident speaker  

but you need to get those examples from somewhere  how's the weather in Japan uh we just started the  

rainy season hi from Canada my first language is  Portuguese I'm uh and I'm going to mine fluency in  

English all right do you think bartender is a good  career option in Japan I guess if you can get one  

uh I mean if if nothing else it's a good way to  talk with people that's if I was if I was doing  

that what's your reason for learning Japanese  I came to Japan to study Japanese gardening uh  

and I wanted to be able to speak the language  because I couldn't talk with anybody uh who was  

doing gardening so I I needed to do it uh that's  why I learned Japanese can R be pronounced uh  

as as in wabbit uh badly it could be you know if  you're if you're if you're like Elmer fud chasing  

chasing wabbits but you know some people unless  they have a like a speech problem and they can't  

can't pronounce it uh correctly that way but you  wouldn't normally pronounce the word r like that  

uh ni Homer says please what's the best method to  learn English just watch this video again I just  

explain it give my regards to my friend uh and  say to her you will be better in this language  

Japanese language has so many words sir it's hard  to learn well English has a lot of words also you  

focus on something get fluent in that and then you  take another step we say how do you eat a whale  

how do you eat a whale you know a whale like if  I have this giant you know a giant uh this a bad  

picture of a whale here's a whale it's supposed  to be a whale I don't know why I drew it like that  

but yes this is a whale so how do you eat a whale  one bite at a time one bite at a time time so you  

you can't just eat the whole thing of course  the whale is is giant uh but you do what you  

can with what you have so you just start and keep  going that's how you do it all right uh and R ranv  

J says nice game money that's pretty how you're  doing so far in Japanese oh Zio y I can speak just  

fine thoughts on Stephen Pinker uh I don't know  so much about Steven Pinker and learning language  

but I don't know if he if he's talking if he's  talking about what I'm talking about then he he  

sounds like a smart guy but I don't know no idea  oh and Suba back with the DAP there you go uh  

studos says teacher are you from New York because  I guess your accent sounds like someone from New  

York actually it doesn't really sound like a New  York accent but no I'm from Chicago uh when are  

you going to start teaching Japanese language sir  now I wouldn't teach Japanese there are already  

plenty of people teaching Japanese I don't know  who teaches it like I teach English but uh there  

are certainly plenty of people who teach Japanese  uh and you don't even need really teachers I mean  

you you just get lots of examples the same way uh  children are are learning all right and look at  

that Annette yes my my whale whale picture my my  drawing is really not this bad uh but I'm trying  

to be uh very quick for these all right wesm says  my mind set me up you are Tom hanks's brother  

because you also have the same have the same sound  you can say you can say my mind like my mind my

mind my mind is set you can say my mind is set  or my mind is fixed you sound like Tom hanks's  

brother you you could say that uh how did you  shift so you you'd say how did you shift your  

mind to first language learning well uh it was  an easy decision because learning Japanese as  

a second language was not working for me so I  said I can continue to do this or I can stop  

and do something much easier so I spent 15 years  failing to learn different languages so I had to  

try to learn Latin and then uh Spanish and French  actually it was a French and then Spanish and then  

Japanese when I came to Japan and I failed all  four times because I was trying to learn the same  

way and once I once I looked at kids and saw oh  the kids are just learning Japanese in Japanese I  

should try that too and then I I thought okay let  me try that I know like the thing I'm doing now is  

not working I'm not becoming a confident speaker  I'm learning a little bit I'm understanding a  

little bit but I I don't feel confident at all  having conversations and so once I changed the  

way I learned it was an easy decision to do  that uh and the learning is much more fun and  

enjoyable and I uh you know have lots of fun it's  just lots of fun now that I can have conversation  

with people um like I went to I was at an October  Fest here in Nagasaki over the weekend and went  

with a friend of mine and we're talking with  just different random people over there and I  

can have fine conversations and make jokes and  all kinds of things like that in Japanese uh  

without worrying about it but I was not able to  do that before uh when I was learning Japanese as  

a second language uh what do you think a Readers  Digest is a good magazine for learning English uh  

I think reader digest is a little bit easier but  if it's helpful for you the the important thing  

is do you enjoy the content and is it at a good  level for you you should understand at least 80  

to 90% of what you read that way you're not trying  to look in a dictionary or get translations of  

things you can understand new information within  the context of what you're reading um but yeah  

if you enjoy reader digest like there are lots of  ways to get fluent but the point is it's the same  

way you would learn things in your native language  so if you like learning about pets then you  

probably watch YouTube videos about pets or you  watch I don't know TV shows about pets in your  

native language just do that in English that's  how you do it all right and the more systematic  

you can be about it the better I mean that that's  that's going to get you uh going to get you fluent  

faster uh do you teach English classes other than  other than YouTube so yes like the the things that  

we do on YouTube is really just explaining the  principles about Lang language learning and we  

get new people coming to the Channel all the time  so it's important for me to repeat these lessons  

even the the veterans of the channel will hear me  repeat these things again and again uh but fluent  

for life is where we have everything uh laid out  for people who want to get fluent systematically  

so I get you fluent in in in fluent for life just  by the way the information is presented the same  

way I'm uh kind of doing things here but we we  go into a lot more detail and we actually show  

you how native speakers are using these things in  different situations um so that's the the actual  

program uh if you'd like to learn more about that  so you it is possible for you to do these things  

by yourself but for people who don't want to waste  time trying to find good content and organize the  

content that's what we do in fluent for life so  if you want to get fluent faster for your career  

or life or whatever uh that's what we'll do we  can help you with that uh when are you going to  

use us how to or teach us how to use git I did I  made a video about that already check the YouTube  

channel for get I I think I have a few videos  about get solo T what do you think is the best  

way to teach someone English if they have really  basic level and you want them to acquire the  

language rather than learn it through grammar  well you just make the examples very simple  

uh if you if you look at the best beginning  English grammar playlist on our channel so I  

made this years ago because that was one of the  first things I wanted to make for the channel uh  

which is an actual series that shows people how to  learn English in English and so the first thing I  

do the very first lesson is like I eyes ear ears  and it's it's teaching you automatically oh look  

in English we have like we put a little s sound if  we're talking about more than one finger fingers  

so without using explanations I do have maybe some  uh like like grammar rules in there for people who  

just want to know what those are but the actual  video will just teach you everything in English  

so if you want to see how to do that this same  way a native would teach just watch that series  

uh nomer if I'm pronouncing that correctly nomer  uh you are my inspiration for my thesis that I'm  

working on you'll be working on here in Venezuela  uh God bless you all my students listen all your  

videos oh are you an English teacher you're um  like your inspiration for your thesis what what  

is the thesis is about uh Sam crook says thanks  million now I can use set loudly and proudly very  

good and LOM says what will be your best advice to  speak English like a native it's the same thing I  

say all the time learn English as a first language  that's how you want to do it so if you the the  

most basic understanding is how you learn is how  you speak so if you have trouble understanding and  

you're spending time with translations and you're  studying rules but you don't really understand  

them very well then of course you will struggle to  speak because how you learn is how you speak but  

if you understand something then like you will be  able to use it fluently okay so I can speak well  

about this topic because I know about this topic  I can't speak well about how to make I don't even  

know how to make ice cream I couldn't I couldn't  do like a lesson about that but if I watched a  

bunch of videos about that particular topic I  would I would get pretty good about that uh let's  

see abdulah again could you recommend a method for  learning English with Spanish without forgetting  

or confusing I don't understand learning English  with Spanish you mean well I would just learn them  

learn them uh separately so learn Spanish and  Spanish if that's what you mean uh and learn  

English in English what city uh are you in right  now uh you mean which city are you in right now  

I am in Nagasaki person says hi Drew you are very  handsome now from from Sri Lanka glad to hear it  

yes always happy to be handsome uh love from India  sir finger fingers yep so that again when you're  

teaching children you don't sit and say well today  we're going to do singular and plural and try to  

explain all that you just say finger fingers ear  ears I and then you're asking them like what do  

you think it's going to be and then they're  like oh they anticipate the pattern they say  

it correctly and they feel confident about using  it like oh I got it now sometimes there there will  

be cases where the rule is broken but you know  most of the time the rules work and so it's easy  

for them to get an understanding of how the rules  work and then they can start learning things that  

break the rules rules okay so if we have like Ed  words like talk talked walk walked but go and then  

the child says go and we say no no it's actually  went and they're like what why why would you do  

that you know so even native speakers are you know  they might be uh I don't know angry or frustrated  

with some of the weird things about English um  but usually they can learn it pretty easily but  

it's much much faster and easier to learn it  if you learn it in English all right I've been  

and is reading the only way to improve English no  why why would why would people think that like I  

mean think about think about language learning 200  years ago or 400 years ago or a thousand years ago  

so like people have been learning and speaking  languages since before there was any reading or  

books or anything like that so those things are  helpful but they're certainly not necessary and  

and you know many people can be able to speak a  language but not be able to read a language all  

right so it I mean like books and things like that  are helpful but I don't I don't see why people  

would think like that's the only way to to read or  the only way to to learn a language because that's  

that has not been true for most of History so  being able to read is like a new thing relatively  

uh but yes so you should be Reading Writing  listening speaking like all all of those things  

uh Dano says you are the best man greetings from  Argentina glad to hear it I want to learn Advanced  

learning sir no focus on the B Basics stop doing  that advanced stuff I know I know people think  

they want that but actually the more advanced  thing is to understand more difficult uses of  

basic vocabulary all right the time with you is  great glad to hear it uh beside teaching what  

would you do sir what do you mean like what do I  do with my time or whatever uh I can't agree with  

him he said that it is okay to translate the word  when you're reading books yes if you if you are  

reading something and you have to get translations  you probably don't know that information very well  

you should go back to reading something at a  lower level that you can understand what's your  

favorite English book uh my favorite English book  you mean just like a book in English um I don't  

know I I guess I have like a few different books I  enjoy but I've talked about let's see what have I  

talked about on this channel though well I talked  about the Cat in the Hat I talked about that I  

talked about uh the richest man in Babylon that's  a that's a great book I recommend I meant learning  

two languages separately at the same time yes you  could do that but uh it it might be a little bit  

tricky for you uh teacher why why people pronounce  Chicago like Chicago instead of Chicago like the  

CH Chicago uh cck chck ah uh well that's just the  way the pronunciation is now so I think the old  

like the old pronun iation came from the English  or it was like a some Indian word like a Native  

American word like uh onion chicagu that was the  and I don't know if that's true I've heard that's  

the story of where the name came from so CH like  Chicago means Wild Onion uh so I don't know if  

that's true or not you can Google that but I think  that pronunciation of that was actually uh chicagu  

uh but it became Chicago uh how toes speak like  Ben Shapiro well I know just that's watch watch  

Ben Shapiro you know that's how he speaks if you  like pay attention to how he speaks you can start  

speaking like him just like mean most people you  know I'm not doing a very good impression of them  

uh but if you want to speak like somebody spend  a lot of time watching them and try to mimic the  

way they sound there you go so I'm 22 year old uh  can I learn Japanese or German fluently sure why  

not I'm 40 how old am I 43 uh and yeah so I'm  I'm still learning I'm learning new things all  

the time all right well I'll leave it here it's  been oh my goodness like 90 90 minutes I didn't  

think look at that we spent 90 minutes uh talking  a lot about the word set but hopefully people  

uh are understanding uh are you know you would  say do you know Allison no I I don't know there  

are lots of Allison no idea but anyway hopefully  people have enjoyed this if you have click on that  

like button do share the video let other people  know uh that you should be watching this if you  

want to learn English and speak English more more  confidently so get something focus on it clear the  

doubt destroy the doubt and that's what's going  to help you become a confident speaker much faster  

all right I will see you in the next video have  a great day if you'd like to learn more you can  

also click on the links in the description below  this video and we'll see you next time bye-bye