The Best Way To Learn English Vocabulary For Fluency

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okay here we go all right as you can see  today we are talking about the best way to  
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learn English vocabulary for fluency all right I  think we are live I am Drew Badger the founder of  
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englishanyone.com, and I know a lot of people  want to learn a lot of vocabulary so I want to  
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talk about in this video how to do it the right  way well I know I I like to say the right way a  
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lot of people might have different methods but  this is the thing that has worked best for me  
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and many of my students so  hopefully you enjoy this
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all right let me know in the chat if you are  here just type something so I can know that  
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the chat is working we should be okay and we  should be ready to go uh this video actually  
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should not take too long all right student Hello  nice to see you there okay Chad is working all  
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right uh so this video actually should not take  too long it's a pretty quick explanation I don't  
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want to make it complicated for people because  really fluency actually is very simple uh if you  
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learn things the right way so I want to talk about  actually the four different levels of vocabulary  
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learning in this video what normally uh people  do in a traditional lesson and then how natives  
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are doing this as well so hopefully this should  be exciting and interesting for people I want to  
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get right into it and I will as always stay around  for a little bit to answer questions anybody has  
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but hopefully this should be entertaining so the  goal again is to develop a vocabulary for fluency  
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that's really the important thing about this video  so this is not about studying for a test and you  
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need to learn a bunch of things as quickly as  possible and you can forget them after the test  
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so the point is how do we learn something and  then actually remember that information so we're  
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going to talk about techniques for doing things  and we're also going to talk about a little bit  
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of psychology as well I love to talk about that  because how you think is very important to how  
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you get fluent all right so I'm going to do these  in reverse order if we can imagine this uh like a  
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staircase almost uh so very simply we've got  about uh four levels and you might have some  
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kind of intermediate steps but these are the main  things here uh so if we begin uh we're gonna put  
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like one two three and four down here and we'll  cover all four starting with the lowest level the  
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thing that's really going to get you fluent uh uh  probably not ever but it could help you learn a  
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lot of the language and that's the first level  which is translations I'll put this down here
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so the first level of vocabulary learning where  you're trying to get some information as quickly  
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as possible is just to get a translation of that  information so if I'm trying to learn Japanese  
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I get I don't know what a word is I just go in  an English Japanese dictionary and look up the  
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translation of that that's going to be the fastest  way for me to get that information the problem  
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is that I will likely forget that information  later so if you're learning a language through  
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translations you will use those translations when  you speak you will be thinking okay do I have the  
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right translation for that word and often when  you're learning through translations in this  
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way you have a one-to-one connection between the  vocabulary in your language and the language like  
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English you're trying to learn so we don't want to  do that we're going to talk about creating a web  
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rather than that but we'll just put these little  kind of glasses symbol down here to just talk  
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about translations so I learned the word snow in  English and I or I know the word snow in English  
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I'm trying to learn Thai or Chinese or something  and I learn just the definition of that thing  
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or the translation of that so again if you're  learning through translations this is a quick  
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way to learn a language especially for a test but  it's really going to make it much more difficult  
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if you're trying to communicate fluently the next  level up here we're going to have definitions
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and so if I go into a dictionary I might even  do this in English so I'm getting an English  
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to English dictionary definition of some word  so if I'm an English learner it doesn't matter  
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what my native language is but my I'm trying  to just get a definition of something this  
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is another quick way to learn the you know the  definition of a word you want to know what it  
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means but it's not really sticking with you  often people you will see these in lessons  
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where a typical language lesson you will get  maybe a definition of something maybe some  
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examples and that's it but you're not really  learning a lot of the history or maybe the  
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culture behind something or depending on the  vocabulary why we might use something so as  
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an example like if I get the definition of a  word if I'm trying to tell my my children like  
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I'm teaching them just the the native English  language the way I would teach them normally  
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I could give them a definition if I asked them  to turn on the light so as an example I turn on
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the light so if I tell them turn on the light  and they say oh no what does turn on mean and  
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I just say oh where you you know you move the  switch up like that to turn on the light but  
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the interesting thing about this word is we  have this vocabulary this is a phrasal verb  
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here to turn something on we have this because  years ago you would have machines with a switch  
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that was a dial like this so we would turn that  thing on like an old television set usually it  
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had a dial like this and you would kind of turn  it to maybe like off and then turn it to on and  
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then it would have a few different channels on it  today's televisions have I don't know thousands of  
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channels or digital whatever but years ago there  were only like three or four channels on the TV  
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it's pretty pretty funny to think about it now so  if you get a little bit more understanding about  
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that ah now I realize why we use turn on even  though we might be pushing a button or sliding  
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something on a phone something like that so when  you get a definition again that's better than a  
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translation especially if you're learning it  in English but it's still not as high as the  
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the other things we're going to talk about now all  right hopefully that makes sense let me just check  
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uh chat before I continue here make sure people  are listening that I'm coming in clearly over here  
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all right well it's good to see everybody here  hello from uh Canada all right people from  
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California Dubai listening to you keenly very  good uh Paulina from Poland uh Karachi Pakistan  
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how are you I'm from Algeria look at that guys  it's like one person from every country amazing  
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Zeta says uh Drew I'm glad I can learn a lot from  you thanks so much I'm watching the old videos  
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they're still so useful yes so I try to make  content that is Evergreen Evergreen it's another  
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good vocabulary word for you all right so this  is if I give you a definition here's a perfect  
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example of this uh of this like of like what  I'm teaching you right now so the word Evergreen
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what does that mean can anybody Post in the chat  I'll look down through a few more comments but  
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this is a really good example of of a vocabulary  lesson right here uh that's something natives  
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would use that a lot of non-natives do not so  if you know what this means let me know in the  
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chat but I'll teach a quick lesson about that  just for this this example here um but yeah  
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all the content is is designed to to be learned  it doesn't matter when you're learning it so I  
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might have a few things I don't know I made some  silly video about like the president election in  
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2016 I think but most of it is uh Evergreen all  right so if you have an idea about whatever green  
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is post that in the chat all right hello from  Africa Tanzania nice to see you there Max is uh  
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Mr English Mr English I watched your videos uh  on and off since 2015 you're awesome well thank  
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you very much Muhammad from Iraq nice to see you  Brett I've been watching your videos for weeks I  
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can say that your way of teaching English is  just awesome glad to hear it hi let's see uh
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Hello nice to see you there uh yeah I'm from  India go Brazil greetings from Mexico Canada  
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over green trees greeting from Congo do you have  Japanese students who learn with you in Loco uh  
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no I do not I do not have uh regular live class  in uh I'm saying I'm I combine a lot a lesson in  
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class at the same the same word so no live lessons  I don't have a classroom that I teach sometimes  
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I will help with friends of mine if they are  teaching something I might go to their class and  
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I did that a friend of mine was sick and I taught  his class in his place that was a lot of fun we  
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just you know it's good to to meet and talk with  students that's another reason why I do these live  
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videos I really enjoy teaching and because I don't  have a class I can work with people like this  
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so I can talk with you all here Evergreen  is something that lasts forever yes that's  
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correct why all right so this is the difference  here all right so let's begin if we have the  
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word Evergreen which is a really useful word I  recommend you or remember it and I'm going to  
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help you remember it with this lesson right now  so Evergreen means if I'm just going to give you  
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a definition of it it means something that lasts  forever so if I give you the definition so ever
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so equals if I'm just going to give a  definition like very simply it lasts  
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forever or another way to  describe that might be timeless
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so something that's Timeless it's  it's great anytime so it doesn't  
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matter if it's old or new Evergreen Melodies yep  
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so if I give you a translation of that I might  just say Okay this means like Timeless and I'm  
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giving you that in your native language that's  not really going to help you remember it it  
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would it would kind of okay I understand  what that means but it would not make it  
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very memorable to help you develop fluency which  is the point of the video all right definitions  
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again I'm just going to give that but if we go  to the next level up this is a native lesson
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now a native Lesson by native lesson I mean  lessons that parents are trying to really  
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help their children typically understand  something and it's not just to teach them  
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a definition because parents will be lazy  you know so that kids often ask what does  
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this mean and a parent will just say oh that  means this they're just giving their kids a  
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definition so native speakers do this too all  right but you're doing a disservice to your  
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kids by just giving them a definition when it's  much better to give them a native lesson and by  
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that I mean you're actually taking time to  explain why like I mentioned before about a  
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little bit of the history of something why we  actually do things so in the case of Evergreen  
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we have evergreen trees evergreen trees so this  kind of tree is actually called an evergreen so  
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ever like Always Forever it's always green so any  any season it could be spring summer winter fall  
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it's always got the green leaves on it so this is  like a pine tree and there are different kinds of  
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trees like this but they're always green all year  round all right so we have other kinds of trees  
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uh the technical term I think is deciduous  deciduous for this kind of tree and these are  
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the trees that lose their leaves in the fall all  right so we have evergreen trees these are pine  
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trees that kind of thing but the point is we can  take this vocabulary and then apply it to other  
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things like I might have Evergreen lessons or I  want to have Evergreen content meaning that it  
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doesn't matter when people go and watch that all  right so you'll notice obviously the difference  
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here moving from definitions to the native lesson  is I'm spending more time so it takes more time  
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it takes more energy but the the reward for  that is that the student actually remembers  
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the word and then they can use it later and so  again if you're learning this way Evergreen now  
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you can start using that in many different many  different situations so when you really understand  
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vocabulary well this is how you become fluent in  that vocabulary so notice a few things again like  
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we're moving up here uh it's a little bit it gets  a little bit slower as we move up but it actually  
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builds speed over time uh as you're learning and  building building fluency so the more words that  
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you learn higher up uh like these level three and  level four things these are the going to be the  
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things that get you fluent fastest okay so even  though it might be a definition is the fastest  
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thing you can get immediately if you're taking  time getting native lessons and the next thing  
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I'm going to teach the highest level uh really the  best thing you can do to get fluent these are the  
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things that will get you fluent the fastest okay  so Evergreen very good uh usage very good word  
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here so something can be Evergreen like a food  could be Evergreen a speech could be Evergreen if  
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it doesn't matter when people use it okay it's  Timeless all right so the next level up again  
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we're moving along here we've only been about  uh like wow like 13 minutes this is going to be  
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really fast video I think so Evergreen uh Melodies  I'll answer a few more questions before uh so  
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Dr Fatima can you give us practical example of  definition translation applying on a word okay  
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so this one is pretty easy and there's there's not  really a lot to explain about giving translations  
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or giving a definition it's just really uh like  a one to one let me erase Evergreen up here
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so if I give you a definition of something  it just means I'm going to take something in  
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your language and tell you that same word  in English all right so if I say like uh  
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I don't know like like rest or whatever it  is pick a word in your native language and  
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just say what is the English word for that you  can get a translation in your native language  
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okay Evergreen appearance yeah so lots of things  and you could look for many different examples  
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of this but each one you would think oh wow  like that's Evergreen so it's an evergreen  
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usage of something Evergreen is actually Evergreen  vocabulary because you can use it really anytime  
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all right so when we have a translation it's  just going from your language to English it  
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doesn't matter like you take one word and  translate it into another language so there's  
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not really a lot to explain for this and this  is why translations uh are really the thing  
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that people use in most classes and you'll see  a lot of people teaching online they will give  
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translations of words because it's fast okay  all right say car we translate sayara oh okay  
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so like the word car is translated into sayara  if I'm pronouncing that correctly so I just the  
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Japanese example this so if I'm going to say like  you're a you're a Japanese person learning the  
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word car this is the target word and I'm trying  to teach you that it's like okay this is cool
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so the Japanese word kuruma is car all right  but if I teach you this way you are probably  
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going to forget really the way most people  remember this is because they've heard it  
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so many times from Yokohama is back nice to see  you there hello all right good to see some more  
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uh more people joining us all right let's see  here from Somalia Sri Lanka could we use this  
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word in a negative uh yep yep yep so spoken  English official says uh could we use this  
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word in a negative or with a negative connotation  that's true or in a negative situation so yes it  
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could have a uh a a a an evergreen problem  typically it's more for positive things but  
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you could say that you could talk about  a perennial problem uh so something uh or  
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like a constant problem if you if you just  need something more simple but yes so you  
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can't have Evergreen like an evergreen issue an  evergreen problem but typically we use it more for  
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um for positive things but very good question so  this as you see when we go kind of deeper when  
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you get a native lesson the point is to is to  answer questions that you have because it's the  
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doubts you have that stop you from speaking all  right so if you learn a new word and you're like  
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well I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right  like kuduma could mean something else maybe I  
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don't know exactly what I'm trying to say what  kind of car am I talking about we don't really  
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know so this is why translations are useful  again for learning something very quickly but  
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if we're thinking long term about you being able  to communicate we don't want to use them and so  
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definitions are the same thing it's just usually  a definition in the language so you might like  
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think okay definition of uh like car I would I  would give you a like an explanation of that word  
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but I might not share the history or why we use  that word or really try to help you understand it  
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like a native okay so remember that even natives  will give definitions to kids as I explained a  
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little bit ago so parents maybe they're they're  busy and their children like my kids they ask me  
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words all the time hey what does this mean what  does that mean and so I'd rather not give them a  
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definition I want to give them a native lesson and  really help them understand that thing okay so I  
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really want to make it clear what something  means all right nice to see everybody here  
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all right so we got more okay more it's a little  blurry though Avril and hello Drew from India  
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hello my nice all right well everybody get this so  far pretty easy all right so we had our our native  
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lesson with Evergreen I'll talk a little bit more  about uh we'll give some more examples uh but  
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let's move on to the highest level now for this  one I want to see if anybody knows what this is  
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so just put this in the chat this will be a little  quiz for people uh if you've been learning with me  
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for a while you might have heard me talking about  this already but this should be a very interesting  
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thing this is kind of the highest level of the  psychology uh and language learning and if you  
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can use this if you can take advantage of this uh  then you can actually learn more words much faster  
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you will make great connections in your mind uh  notice again as we're as we're working up here  
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the the goal is to create more Connections in your  mind and the the learning the more connections you  
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have the easier it is for you to learn things  so again we begin with translations I'll just  
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put a t here and an e here for English and then  we have another again one to one thing but it's  
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English into English so typically we would have  a translation and then we have the like I'm just  
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going to give you a definition of a word and then  the native lesson really we're trying to give you  
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trying to give you almost building building a  network here of a couple of different things  
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even a simple thing like I did with the example of  Evergreen okay so we begin with the word Evergreen  
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so we have the word Evergreen I won't write it  in here it won't fit but we're trying to help  
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you make a connection between different things and  show that oh look at that here's the origin of the  
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word it comes from evergreen trees and so we can  use that oh look at that the trees are green all  
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year round that's why we talk about Evergreen it's  always green but we also have you know Evergreen  
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stories we could have Evergreen music Evergreen  lessons other things like that where we have  
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content that is timeless so the point is we can  take this and this is how people create language  
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so they take words and they use those meanings to  describe something else say oh wow that's that's  
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like a like you might have a beautiful dress for  a wedding or something that's that many people  
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have used for years it's Evergreen everybody  likes to use that style it never goes out of  
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style so clothing fashion you might have different  things that go out of style over time so they're  
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in style for a while and they go out of style so  notice I'm building more and more connections with  
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the word with other words to help you make it very  memorable and that's how you can use it fluently  
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all right let's see if anybody got the answer for  number four so I'll go back and check the chat  
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right quick all right uh but anyway uh even even  if you only get native lessons these are fantastic  
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you will naturally get the the highest one uh over  here but let's see if anybody got what that is  
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imitation says magaly magli pronounce I can't read  that properly Maggie Loom if I'm pronouncing that  
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correctly or incorrectly imitation no we are not  uh we are not just imitating people Elena again  
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konichiwa I'm so happy to see you nice to see  you there uh here for the first time so always  
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green Evergreen great great sample yes fantastic  well the shark is back all right any idea any idea  
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no one no idea you guys are probably doing this  already without without uh not thinking about it  
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all right all right here we go I'm gonna  write the word here now you might be  
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surprised when you see this but I'll explain  a little bit more about what this is [Music]  
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discovery now here's why this is so important  when we discover something for ourselves this  
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is like a very deep uh psychological idea about  how people learn you will see it everywhere  
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around the world this is not just about language  learning this is really about having beliefs uh  
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and really how strongly we believe in something  is usually based on whether uh we discovered  
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that thing for ourselves or somebody else  told us a particular belief okay so here's  
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how this works usually I'll just give you a  quick story to explain this uh but you should  
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discover how it's working for yourself so if you  I don't remember maybe it was a few months ago  
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my two daughters so I have two daughters a  seven-year-old and a four-year-old and they  
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were watching a TV show and they came into my  room and they said Dad what's space [Music]  
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what's space so they're asking me for a word  what does that mean okay now I could give them  
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like a translation in Japanese because they maybe  understand that they probably it's probably better  
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just to teach it in English because they're  my children and I'm teaching them English in  
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English but it's possible to do that so I could  give them if they already know you know whether  
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they're children or not if they already know a  word in one language it's easy to just tell them  
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the translation of a word or I could give them  a definition and say just like oh space is it's  
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like look like here's some space right here  it's you know just like an area of something  
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but I want to give them a native lesson and  really lead them to this higher level which  
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is Discovery all right so by beginning with  the native lesson this is where I'm starting  
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again I'll draw this again here I'm trying  to make different connections from things  
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so that they can begin discovering things for  themselves and this is how the learning really  
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accelerates so again translations are fastest  first but Discovery and Native lessons are the  
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things that will really get you to fluency much  faster okay so we begin making these I'm like oh  
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okay space and I say where did you hear that where  did you hear that and they tell me oh it's from a  
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TV show and they're they're talking about uh you  know they have a rocket here's my bad rocket and  
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the rocket is going up into space and I say oh  like outer space so we have like here's the Earth  
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or whatever and we got you know a rocket going  up like that into space in this space up here  
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space so we have uh in this example I'm trying to  talk about just not by giving them a definition of  
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it but again the native lesson where we're really  taking time uh to help them really understand the  
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word because it doesn't matter if I give them a  translation or a definition if they forget that  
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that doesn't help them all right so again we're  giving them some different definitions I say  
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look if I if I have my hands like this I close my  hands there's space in my hands now if I flatten  
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my hands there's no space actually I still have  a marker cap here but if I take this I close my  
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hands together whoop there's no space in there but  now I've got some space okay so no space now some  
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space there's even some space inside this marker  cap look at that just a little bit of space there  
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okay so yes visual aids this is an again one way  of helping them understand even something like  
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this but space like I could be I could have some  space in my head you know maybe I'm not thinking  
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very clearly I'm feeling Spacey like spaced out  it's another Advanced phrasal verb to be based
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so you can imagine like a rocket going out  into space I might oh I'm feeling a little  
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bit Spacey I'm kind of spaced out right now  meaning I'm I'm not focusing on the here and  
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now I'm thinking about something else all right  so someone who is easily thinking about other  
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things or they get distracted easily they can  be a little bit Spacey or they get spaced up  
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okay so again the the point where we're moving  it's not just like getting examples we're trying  
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to help people build a network with various  ideas so I at least want to get like one two  
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three things in there hopefully more depending  on how much time I have but this is the way I'm  
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teaching my kids all right so how does Discovery  come into this all right so with enough native  
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lessons that really help you understand something  we begin now oh there's a different thing that  
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you can make uh like the discovery yourself  about and you feel very excited about when  
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that happens so as I'm explaining this to my  daughters my younger daughter she says oh like  
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uh actually or maybe that was Ari I forget which  one it was but she said oh that's like a space  
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spaceship she said oh like a spaceship so  she had heard the word spaceship before  
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so it was in her passive vocabulary she had heard  this word maybe just you know like she didn't  
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really understand what it was some people were  talking about oh like a spaceship or something  
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I don't know where she heard the word but it's in  her vocabulary but suddenly after she understands  
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this the connection is made that's where the  discovery happens and that's where you're  
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like ah like I got it you made the discovery  yourself okay and she will never forget that  
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so the things that you discover by yourself  become really the foundation of the things  
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that that make it very easy for you to  feel confident about things so notice  
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again the the confidence increases  as we learn in these different ways  
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so if you can learn through Discovery and really  these top two things they work together and as  
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you learn more things and you build your network  that's when you really develop something that you  
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can use fluently without hesitating or feeling  uh like maybe you're worried about am I using  
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the word the right way or something you won't be  because you've heard all these different examples  
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all right does this make sense so again the idea  is if you want speed immediately you need to learn  
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something right now so if someone asks me hey Drew  how can I learn something for a test just get some  
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translations of it if that's what you want to  do so again it's just for the test tomorrow  
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you don't care about using anything fluently just  get the translation or the definition okay so but  
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the ideal thing this is the way I teach because I  want to have just like my children at home I want  
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to help you learn the same way because the goal  is not just to learn the vocabulary and forget  
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it you want to learn the vocabulary and have this  network and the network becomes very very powerful  
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okay it's the same idea as a spider web is not  going to be the best picture of a spider web but
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so the strength of the spider web comes from all  these different connections it's all of these  
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individual connections and each time you make  another connection it becomes stronger because  
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if you lose one let's say I forget that word it  doesn't matter I can easily switch to a different  
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one in my mind okay so I might know Evergreen I  might know Timeless I might know uh I don't know  
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what's another good word for that like I could  I could think of maybe a few different ways to  
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express that all right it's Everlasting another  word all right so when when we're trying to learn  
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vocabulary if you get these it's useful in the  short term but it will hurt you long term all  
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right but the more of this you get the more native  lessons the more Discovery you get this is what  
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really leads you to being able to communicate all  right any questions about that hopefully there are  
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not uh the whole idea of Discovery this is what  we do in Frederick this is why the app is designed  
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for you to play with the language and actually  discover how it works for yourself because when  
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you do that you actually remember how the word how  like the words work and the the words for sounds  
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or the rules for sounds and you build fluency much  faster okay so let me go back uh let's see check  
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any uh questions over here but that's basically  the lesson look at that half hour amazing so I  
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will take the rest of the time to answer questions  but this is it Discovery is the number one best  
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way to learn because just like in Persuasion or  you're trying to teach people or get people to  
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believe something if you can get people to believe  it themselves like they convince themselves it's  
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their idea it's very difficult to unconvince  them of that all right if that makes any sense  
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so this is the most powerful thing if that we  we most strongly believe the ideas we discover  
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ourselves okay so this is true for sales it's true  for anything like that so like really strong uh  
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people in sales or persuasion this is what they're  going for so companies or whatever they're trying  
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to get you to believe that something is is  so is so fantastic that it was your idea  
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okay that it came from you you discovered that  all right so when we try to tell other people  
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like hey your belief in this religion or whatever  is wrong people they won't listen to that because  
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they they discovered something for themselves and  that's what they want to believe the interesting  
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thing is it doesn't really matter if you're right  or wrong it's just this is a very powerful part of  
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psychology that will help you learn languages much  faster okay so you really drive this uh it's it's  
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difficult to kind of discover something I guess  you can Discover it like from very beginning if  
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you have a way of learning like we do in Frederick  so Frederick we designed it so that even a an  
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absolute beginner can go through the language  and teach themselves like like very quickly  
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work up through the steps from the alphabet and  go up to like a difficult word like cataclysm  
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cataclysm all right but you can teach that and  you discover how it works yourself and so this  
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is like I remember uh recently so I get articles  my mom sends me articles about you know the new  
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from The New York Times or whatever about people  teaching reading so in the United States there's a  
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big problem with illiteracy so this means people  are unable to read like a very large portion of  
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the population is unable to read and people argue  about should we do teaching with phonics which is  
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teaching the sound rules of the language or  should we do it with whole word which is like  
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like trying to remember or memorize words by  their shape or maybe something else so there  
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could be people arguing over different approaches  when the truth is you actually need a mix of  
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different things but the discovery is the key so  what stops people from becoming good readers is  
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actually when we're we're trying to take them  and force them to memorize rules that's what  
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we're doing down excuse me down here at the lowest  level of teaching so when we have translations or  
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definitions this is what we're trying to do when  we teach people grammar rules all right so this  
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works not just for vocabulary learning but for  grammar pronunciation everything else the point  
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is to lead the student like if I'm speaking as  a teacher to other teachers watching the point  
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is to lead the student to the point of discovery  okay so this is how you do it again for grammar  
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pronunciation everything but the point is to get  the student to think like ah they have their aha  
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moment when they really discover something  okay I can give another example of this uh in  
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a moment if people like but hopefully everyone  uh understands what I'm talking about here and  
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this makes sense all right let me go back and  uh answer some more questions here Suresh how  
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can I clear the IELTS exam on my own sir uh I  don't focus on particular tests I would look for  
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people who do I focus on conversational fluency  which obviously will help you on any test but  
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if you're looking for specific tips for specific  tests I would look for people who focus on that  
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uh let's see so Claudia I thought Evergreen were  used only for tree purpose thanks you thanks for  
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that yes so again this is the interesting thing  about you like when you understand the language  
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like this you understand the language at a native  level that's why I call it a native lesson so it  
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doesn't mean a native person is teaching it means  it helps you understand like a native all right  
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that's really the goal so when you learn something  like that like I might learn something I'm trying  
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trying to think uh when I like let's there was  a time I maybe last year I think or two years  
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ago I made a joke in Japanese uh where I was I  was kind of using a word for a different like a  
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different purpose so in the same way that you can  use Evergreen for talking about something else so  
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this was uh this was a friend of mine he was uh I  think he was he was smoking so there's a Japanese  
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guy he was smoking some cigarettes uh and I said  oh like you you shouldn't you shouldn't smoke and  
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he was like oh while I'm paying taxes and I said  Ah that's true it's like and the Japanese word  
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for kind of improving the community as much as a  goody so like when he's saying like much he like  
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the town or the area to to make the town better  machizukuri so I made that joke and I'm using it  
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and he laughed about that because he's like I  I took a word like Evergreen and used it in a  
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different way but it's similar so what happens  when you have a native level understanding of  
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vocabulary is you can take words and use them  in a new way like that and people will still  
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think like oh like I understand what you mean  okay even if it's not like even if no one had  
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ever used Evergreen in that way I could take the  word and create it in that way and use it that  
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way and people would understand me all right  so this is again another great thing this is  
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what separates the the people who are stuck down  here still translating and looking at definitions  
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and the people who are really commanding  the language all right so you want to have  
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ownership that's why I call it ownership of the  language because you can actually control it you  
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can decide what you want to do or how you use the  language and you still use it correctly all right
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he laughed pretty hard about that uh let's see  so interesting last tool yes if you're talking  
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about discovery of fear yes this is really the the  fastest way and the most powerful thing you can do  
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all right let's see book reviewer can you  explain the thought process behind making  
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sentences what should we be thinking while  making it how important tenses are while  
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making a sentence and how to memorize tenses  all right so I I do not recommend you try  
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to memorize anything really like memorizing  is again it's it's this kind of lower level  
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um for for learning anything it's useful if you  need to pass a test I just need to memorize this  
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information in my short term very quick memory  so I can recall it for a test but I will probably  
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forget it later and so if you're talking about  making sentences the sentences come like you can  
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you can see me I'm using sentences and phrases  when I'm teaching right now so I'm doing the  
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same thing and as you listen to more of those  examples you can start building these sentences  
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yourself and this is how children are learning  the language so children typically they begin uh  
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like parents are just teaching them very simple  words and phrases and this is another reason why  
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phrasal verbs are a good thing to learn because  they're giving you not just a single word but it's  
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the beginning like almost the first phrases  that a child would learn so I tell my child  
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uh sit up so that my my daughter is you know  she's sitting in her chair we're having dinner  
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uh but she's kind of like leaning over the  table or what if she's got her arms up on the  
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table and and she's lean she's kind of leaning  like that on the table and I say hey sit up  
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and I show her an example like instead of  me leaning on the table I sit up like this  
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so you can see my back is straight I have good  posture I'm sitting up all right so sit up on  
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the table okay now she can sit there and  it's much different than leaning forward  
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on the table like that all right so here I'm  even using this is like a very simple kind of  
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first sentence so sit up is a sentence even by  itself sit up sit up stand up uh move whatever  
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and so as as children are learning these examples  they start learning to attach more things to them  
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and this is how we get sentences so I can  say sit up or I can say sit up please or I  
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can say like using another phrasal verb  I could say clean up so clean up your
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clean up your toys clean up your toys clean  up your toys if I make this a full sentence  
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I could just say clean up or I could be more  specific clean up your toys or I could say  
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clean up the toys you played with and as they  get these examples again this is the the native  
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lesson with the discovery this is the natural way  that kids are learning to understand the language  
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all right and so when you're starting first you  kind of understand something like I am wearing  
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a black shirt so my children know that oh I am  wearing a black shirt right now I'm wearing a  
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black shirt what color shirt are you wearing what  are you wearing right now so I'm wearing a black  
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shirt but yesterday I wore so let's let's  just make this very simple so I am wearing  
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so I am wearing a black shirt and so they  learned the past tense not by memorizing that  
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but by understanding the situation all right  so the situation is not today but yesterday  
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and like they're thinking to themselves oh that's  interesting we don't say I am wearing a shirt like  
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I am doing something that's only for right now  so they they recognize that naturally they won't  
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tell you like oh that's present continuous so the  past perfect or whatever they won't be talking  
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about specific grammar rules all right they're  thinking about situations and connecting that  
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with vocabulary so they hear in the past like oh  so I was wearing something and so oh look at that  
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so I am wearing it right now I was wearing it  yesterday and as they get more examples of it  
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again the the point here is building this network  the network in the mind the spider web in the mind  
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and that's what helps you speak okay so it's  not trying to memorize rules it's not trying  
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to practice sentences like that you really  want to get lots of different examples and  
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you can do this very efficiently by focusing on  a particular thing but it should be getting lots  
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of different examples from different speakers  so you don't only hear me like my children here  
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me and my wife and people on TV and someone in  a game or on the radio or something like that  
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so she has or both of my daughters have lots  of different examples of that all right so  
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it's not it's not one thing like a translation  or definition one time it's a continuous process  
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of more native lessons so lessons that help you  understand like a native leading to Discovery so  
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as you begin discovering things by yourself you're  like oh wow look at that like now I'm able to to  
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do all kinds of things and so for me now when I  was first learning Japanese I was doing this I was  
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translating and trying to get definitions of words  and then I would forget them but once I started  
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doing this that's when I became fluent all right  and fluency it wasn't a process that took a long  
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time like you can see even learning a new usage of  the word Evergreen you become fluent in that word  
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so each time you learn a new word or phrase and  you understand it like a native that means you've  
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become fluent in that word all right so the whole  point of this video is how do we what's the best  
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way to learn vocabulary for fluency so how do we  learn words quickly how do we learn them easily  
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and actually remember them and understand them  like a native so that way we can speak all right  
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all right looks like uh let's see if I  can if I go back some of these are in here  
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but hopefully that makes sense all right  uh dribble says how's it going it's going  
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well my teacher if I could know the root of  the word yes so sometimes like uh spaced out  
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like Dazed or disoriented yes you also  there's also that meaning that's right  
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uh shark says I am now work teacher another day I  will comment here or comment more by a good night  
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so learn the concept through examples yes okay  I think we got all that now so it would help to  
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remember words yes so you notice how Native  lesson like the the lesson that helps you  
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understand like a native and Discovery those are  really the fastest way to remember words because  
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they become Unforgettable in that moment so when  a child is like ah foreign or anybody an adult  
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does the same thing like when when you learn  like Evergreen means a tree but we can take  
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that idea of something being green all the time  and apply that to something else like ah I got  
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it okay so the point is to is to help you with  a native lesson so that you discover something  
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because when you discover that thing you really  remember it all right this is why it's the highest  
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level of vocabulary learning now I think maybe  the only thing faster than that would be the  
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Matrix where they plug a wire into the back of  your brain or something like that I don't know  
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we're not at that level yet but Discovery is  going to get you the fastest way there so far  
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uh all right so Evergreen Timeless Everlasting  Drew is the best yes I wish I was Evergreen  
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I will I will not be Evergreen at some point  I'm thinking all right Dr Fatima amazing lesson  
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I really love it may God bless you okay glad  to hear it all right so people are people are  
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understanding I wanted to make this pretty easy  really it's just the things that most people do  
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if you focus on these top two you're going  to get fluent much faster all right so this  
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is what we do in Frederick it's also what  we do uh in fluent for life if you'd like  
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to learn more about those you can click on  the link in the description below this video  
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all right Lewis is uh we are here with you here  in Chicago oh that's right yes in Chicago yeah  
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it's been a while since I've been back in Chicago  Johann I speak in an American accent and people  
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around me doesn't understand so another basic  example here people don't understand people  
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don't understand and I'm kind of feeling like  my speaking skills are slowly going down so  
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what should I do to get my speaking skills  back up I would hear Johann lots of examples  
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of native speakers so if you're you say you speak  in an American accent but I does that mean like  
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are you in America right now are you are you  speaking to other people who don't understand  
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an American accent I don't know what the specific  issue is but the the really the solution to any  
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problem like this is more native lessons and so  you would get more I didn't even write it on the  
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board today I'm so used to talking about this but  this is naturally varied so naturally very review  
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let me write this more clearly or I will get  people in the comments yelling at me I'm sure  
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naturally varied
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review on ew so this means you're hearing lots  of different examples of whatever the vocabulary  
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is or you're hearing different speakers so you're  hearing lots of different Native examples if it's  
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from America then listen to American speakers  and even in America there are different accents  
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so we might have a Texas person versus a  Florida or Vermont or you know California  
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people speak a little bit differently and  the vocabulary can be different as well
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uh let's see our next question uh hello how can  I know how to pronounce long words where should  
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I stress the word always get it wrong uh what's  it what's an example of a long word typically  
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if you if you learn the same way natives learn  pronunciation this is what we do in Frederick
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does anyone have the app already let me know  if you do and if you like it uh so Frederick  
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teaches you step by step how to make all of  these sounds and how to go from the alphabet  
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to pronouncing a long word like apocalypse  okay so words like what's a what's a longer  
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word we have there like education uh it's a word  in the app I think uh but lots of uh or decision  
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other things again longer words but I don't  know how long of a word you're talking about  
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complication like even longer than that there  are specific rules for how you pronounce these  
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and so we teach them step by step in the app so if  you'd like to learn that rather than trying to to  
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study random words and remember that way again  the goal is to build a network in your mind  
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so you build a like pronunciation  Network in the same way all right
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uh okay I got that one okay Maya says how about  I learn vocabulary or we put on a flash card come  
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can be helpful for the to remember or not well  flash cards are going to be down here so a flash  
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card is going to give you a definition it's  like a one-to-one correspondence of something  
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like that so a flash card is helpful as part  of a network but you really need the whole the  
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whole thing so you should be hearing the word  in different ways seeing it in different places  
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uh that's that's how you're going to help um or  go and teach yourself or get yourself to remember  
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the word much faster so again flash cards are  useful but one example is less powerful than  
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many examples basically all right and Sada says  I can understand everything you say but I can't  
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speak English I hope your video lessons help me  to do that thanks for sharing your knowledge with  
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us yeah so uh the the problem people have often  is that they uh they do understand a lot they  
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have a passive vocabulary but they they don't  they don't have the ownership level so this is  
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really the same kind of idea about developing  owner developing ownership of the language and  
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so what people are often doing is they're either  learning through translations or definitions uh  
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and even if they learn in English they're  not really learning it to understand like a  
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native and they don't really discover a lot they  they're often surprised by usages and they're not  
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like oh like I see how that could work also  which is what natives are thinking when they  
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learn new vocabulary and so if you understand  the language but you don't speak it's because  
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you haven't been spending enough time with the  language you're not getting enough naturally  
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varied review and you don't understand it like  a native and so there could be different reasons  
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why why like why you stop yourself from speaking  like you forget words or you don't feel very  
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confident about the vocabulary you worry about  pronunciation or making a mistake something like  
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that again it means that you didn't really  understand the vocabulary so the easy way to  
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solve that is get more naturally varied review  more native lessons all right so this is what  
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we do in fluent for life and Frederick for for  simply learning vocabulary and grammar all right
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and next one let's say Raphael says Hi  teacher for the first time I can watch  
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you during a live I only want to thank  you for your despots despun despunability
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never heard that word I don't know I don't know if  that's a word or not but yes I'm guessing that's  
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maybe maybe saying thank you okay but I got you  all right Ramesh uh it's talking to somebody else  
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here Ramesh okay we're talking we got a whole  separate conversation about Ramesh all right  
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hello sis hello teacher mag and I understand  English very well okay I answered that already  
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do you recommend using Anki app and do sentence  mining I don't know what sentence mining is uh  
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uh but Anki again it's going to be that  people talk about spaced repetition so you  
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would use a a flash card system like this  but it's much faster to build a network  
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of things because the network each time  you add uh let me erase some of this here
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and this is another bit of psychology powerful  psychology for you so in addition to Discovery  
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the mind gets very difficult or it gets very bored  by remembering vocabulary which is why seeing a  
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flash card uh over and over again it doesn't  work so it doesn't work for like a number of  
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reasons and you have to put a lot of pressure  on yourself to do that so if you're a really  
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good student okay today I will look at this flash  card 10 times and then tomorrow I will look at it  
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10 more times and each day you're looking at the  same thing it's possible but it's much faster and  
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easier to look at 10 different flash cards where  we got all different uh like examples of something  
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so depending on how how you're using Anki  uh like I don't I don't use that to learn  
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anything I know some people do if that's  helpful for them that's good but I would  
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imagine that's because they don't know about  this but in learning your native language this  
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is what you're doing so you're not using  flash cards to learn your native language  
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so it doesn't make much sense to learn them  or use them for learning English all right  
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so that's my my basic thinking about that so if  I'm not using flashcards to learn English words  
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uh I mean I could it's possible but if I can  actually spend more time building my network  
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in my mind that's the thing that's going to help  me remember and use that vocabulary much faster
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all right
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uh okay I think I got that one all right so El  Dorado says what's the difference between dangle  
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and hang hmm I think it's basically the same  thing I mean dangle is almost if you think about  
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I I can imagine more movement in something that's  dangling so as an example this is uh you could you  
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could talk about and this is another way to  teach yourself vocabulary so when you learn  
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new things like this if I can give you more  of a native lesson about hang versus dangle  
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so let's just say uh if we talk about  something like if I'm going to hang  
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I'm going to hang a picture so that picture  the picture is hanging on the wall like this  
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or I could be hanging like if I'm you know got  like doing a pull-up or something like that so  
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I'm hanging on the wall dangling is almost like  you've got something much much smaller maybe you  
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got something heavier at the bottom of it and it's  swinging a little bit so you might see a woman uh  
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or somebody you know it has like some big uh hoop  earrings so we draw draw the face over here here's  
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the ear and a big hoop earring that's dangling  from her ear all right so when natives are  
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thinking about what's the difference between this  and this word this is how they're thinking they're  
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trying to imagine situations where we might have  something so dangling usually like it's it seems  
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almost like it could fall easily uh but it's it's  like a lighter thing or maybe we've got something  
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that it moves around a lot more so hanging seems  a little bit stronger so if I'm if I'm dangling  
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by by uh by like one hand or one finger from  a tree that might be dangling all right but if  
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I'm hanging it's a little bit stronger so you  can imagine like in in in in like dangle is a  
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is like a sub word within hanging words like  that does that make sense so you like a thing  
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that is dangling is also hanging it's like within  that same group of vocabulary so this earring is  
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hanging from the ear but we talk about it dangling  because it's it's kind of liked and it might move  
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around does that make sense all right so look  for examples that's the that's the best way to  
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to to to try to find out what exactly something  means and to contrast it with other things but you  
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again you notice what I'm doing here I'm looking  at different examples like does an earring dangle  
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would we say like a wrecking ball you know  hanging hanging from a crane like yeah  
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maybe you could call that you could call that  hanging or you could say it's kind of dangling  
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it probably isn't going to blow in the breeze  because it's so heavy but it's a similar idea  
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all right so look for examples of words and when  they're used to help you remember them all right
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so thank you for answering my questions  his book review at my pleasure  
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all right what do you think about shadowing uh  I think uh it's I don't know it's it's useful  
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to do but it's not as useful as learning a lot  more vocabulary and building your network so  
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shadowing is typically you're getting one example  of something and focusing on that one example so  
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anytime you spend a lot of time focusing on one  example your time is better spent getting many  
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more examples so it's the it's the individual  single connection versus many so me personally  
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I would rather hear 10 different speakers  say something than try to Shadow one speaker  
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and the reason is because if I'm just listening  to One teacher like if I'm learning Japanese and  
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I hear one teacher's example I'm going to really  uh like over correct so meaning I'm going to think  
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about it too much and and really try to focus on  sounding exactly like that person but if I hear a  
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bunch of native examples and each one is different  then it will it will relax me because I know  
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okay my pronunciation is going to be a little bit  different from everyone else's I don't have to try  
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to sound like one person so the the point here is  the the listening is connected with the speaking  
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and so if I hear lots of different examples that  will naturally make me more confident it will  
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improve my pronunciation as well so you can Shadow  but most people aren't really thinking about this  
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uh from the naturally review perspective but this  is exactly how they learn their native language  
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all right so all of the things that I teach like  all of this stuff here it's not really a new idea  
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you're doing it already you know I'm just making  it clear what it is you're doing in your native  
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language and saying you should do that in English  also all right all right let's keep going I think  
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we're getting to the end over here could be  the end did you recommend you oh okay all right  
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uh answer that one by teacher it was a pleasure  listening to you once in a lifetime well I'm not  
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dying or are you dying hopefully hopefully you're  not that you're not dying over there come back  
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come back sometime I really want to learn a new  language English but sometime I feel shy uh why  
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I need to learn how ever sometime I ask myself you  should learn I know that weird I want advice okay  
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let me clear that up a little bit it sounds like  you want to learn English but you feel shy about  
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learning English or you feel shy about speaking  the language I think that's what you're saying  
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um and asked my ask myself if you're asking  like learn how how I should how I should learn  
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I'm guessing you mean how you should learn but  that's what this is now the great thing about this  
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is you don't need to feel shy about it because  you don't have to speak all of the things that  
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I've taught you like even just one example with  Evergreen you you if you understand that you're  
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thinking oh like this this music I'm listening  to is Evergreen I can listen to it anytime or  
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even 20 years from now it will still be popular  it's Evergreen and so when you hear something  
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like that it doesn't you don't need to practice  saying the word you just understand it all right  
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that's the power of Discovery so when you learn  something and you really understand it it's like  
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ah okay I don't need to like practice speaking  that word I just know the word and I can use  
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it in a conversation all right so the more you  can learn like this so getting lessons that help  
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you understand like a native and then helping  you discover more so the like good teaching is  
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giving you a lot of native lessons which leads to  a lot more discovery yeah all right and soon you  
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don't even need like lessons anymore because  you just understand everything by yourself
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um
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all right geribo says how can we use word  of account in a sentence different ways  
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well that depends on what like account could  mean different things I could have a savings  
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account uh or I could have like an advertising  like account executive it just depends on what  
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you're learning and so you have to remember  uh rather than learning a word like that you  
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have to learn the word for a particular  situation that's how natives do it and  
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that's the point of having the network so  if I learn a word like account I could hear  
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maybe how there's like different different  uses of that particular word but some words  
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they might have it could be a homonym  where it's the same sound like Knight
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k-n-i-g-h-t-k-n-i-g-h-t and Knight and so again  you want to compare different situations but if  
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it's the same meaning uh hopefully that that  should make it a little bit easier so you want  
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to take one thing and focus on it to really  understand that and once you understand that  
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word then you can notice how it makes connections  with other words or different meanings of that  
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same word but focus on one thing at a time all  right areas I installed Frederick but couldn't  
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pass level one I figure out lately how do you  I'll figure out later how to use it properly  
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it's pretty easy you just scroll the wheel all  right if you look on uh look on our channel for  
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Frederick uh just search like I have a video  about learning pronunciation like a native I  
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forget the name of it but if you just click on  the link in the description uh below this and  
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it will explain a little bit more all right uh  all right I think I answer that wait a minute  
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all right so I've seen how high there did I skip  something interesting I love your classes thank  
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you so much hopefully I can get your fluency yep  so I I had to get fluency myself I'm a native  
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speaker but native just means I learned in the  native way that's it so it doesn't matter it's  
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not where I'm from it's just how I learned and  so other people can do the same thing it doesn't  
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matter where you live you can become fluent in  anything just like you've got fluent in even  
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one usage of something like how to use Evergreen  like a native all right I think I answered that  
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question about shadowing already Steven says  so I need uh to focus only on one word for a  
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week getting naturally varied review right well  I mean the the point is to learn something until  
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you understand it so you don't have to just like  review it infinitely you would focus on one thing  
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and and even if you don't understand something  immediately you will you will kind of keep that  
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in your mind and maybe come back to it later  all right so you don't focus on a word for a  
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week I mean you again you could learn something  very quickly just like I gave the example of of  
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Evergreen you wouldn't really need many more  examples you you could get more examples but  
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you wouldn't really need them the point is is to  get to like the fluent understanding of it where  
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you feel confident using it that's the goal and  then if you can get more examples that's great  
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but that probably won't improve your fluency much  it will help you a little bit but just for using  
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the word so you don't need to spend that much  time on it but I would spend more time like in  
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fluent for life we spend a month focusing on  a whole like a whole collection of vocabulary  
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and grammar because it's about one conversation so  even one conversation there's a lot of information  
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in there and taking we could even spend a whole  year on one conversation because there's a lot  
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of information but we want to take really the most  important things the most common things and really  
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focus on those because some of the information you  will hear it again and again anyway but we spend  
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that much time because there's a lot to learn  and we break it into different pieces so we're  
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going to talk about vocabulary or pronunciation  or grammar or other things and then you see how  
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all of that works together in the conversation so  the goal don't think about like a specific amount  
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of time it's just more like how how many examples  of something do you need to to really understand  
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it so typically we get a few different examples  just to understand the vocabulary and what it  
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means like I'm doing in the with a native lesson  but we want to have also hearing it from different  
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speakers so we want to hear different speakers  saying that vocabulary like I might say something  
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and then my sister might say something also so  you're getting to hear more than one person use it  
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so don't try not to think about it as like as as  how much time it's just how well do you understand  
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that information and it could be it could be a  minute it could be a day it could take longer  
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than that good question though uh right uh so  so alio thank you for answering my question yeah  
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it's my pleasure do you teach 101 no I do not  uh and as I just explained the reason I do not  
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teach one-on-one lessons is because you really  should be learning with many different people  
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so you the reason we designed uh Master English  conversation or what became fluent for life the  
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way it is is because we really want to have  people getting lots of different examples so  
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you shouldn't only have one teacher you should  have many different teachers one like a teacher  
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is nice for being able to explain things but  it's often difficult yet to if you have a good  
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teacher who can give you native lessons and help  you discover things that's great but really you  
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need to go even higher than that to get to the  native level of understanding which means getting  
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lots of different examples so you need to have  more than one teacher so I don't it's all it'd  
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also be like incredibly expensive if I tried to  offer one-on-one lessons as a child Julian says  
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I struggled to understand English in school due  to an english-only teacher but later learned from  
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a Spanish English grammar textbook improving my  comprehension and ability to communicate why I'm  
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able to understand you now yeah so you I mean it's  possible like you can learn that way it just takes  
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it just takes a lot longer and I would bet that  there's a lot of information that you retain from  
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your teacher that later you you got some kind  of lessons about that and it made more sense to  
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you so that can happen as well so I might watch a  Japanese TV show and hear some vocabulary and not  
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understand it like oh I don't I just don't know  the words but then I hear it in another example  
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later and it makes sense so again this is the the  idea of the network and so it's it's not like you  
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textbooks aren't aren't evil like you could use  a textbook and even I will refer to a textbook  
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sometimes just like you know for thinking about  oh like how did how do these people teach this  
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or whatever but if if if it's just another point  in this network that you're building that's okay  
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it shouldn't be only the textbook because that's  really going to make it more difficult for you so  
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you can think about it logically but being able  to communicate you really need to be able to uh  
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to do that without spending a lot of time thinking  and hesitating or translating in your head so if  
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it works for you that's great but it doesn't work  for a lot of people foreign let's see Dean says uh  
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the way I learn English that I will summarize  all the things I heard or watch and when I do  
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something like cook or makeup I will talk to  myself step by step what I need to do yeah you  
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don't you don't need to even sit and talk to  yourself just listen to other people talking  
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about a particular thing whatever that is so like  you can watch them or read them doing that this is  
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what we do in fluent for life so you're getting  reading and writing you're getting listening and  
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you can even try speaking if you want but that's  less important than people think it is really you  
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need to again get a lot of a lot more examples  of things that's the thing that that stops a lot  
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of people from speaking so they might they might  think like oh I know that vocabulary already but  
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then they can't use it in a conversation so it  means they don't really know the vocabulary as  
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well as they think they do so trying to repeat  words again and again is not going to improve  
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your fluency if you're not already fluent but  getting more examples of something will improve  
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your fluency because it's the it's the network  that delivers the fluency all right so if I take  
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a word like if I if I have two different lessons  here and I'm going to learn the word Evergreen
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foreign
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again and again and again because I'm building  that what network in your mind so even if you  
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don't speak I'm building that Network for you so  if I hear the word Evergreen I have two options  
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I have I guess many options but the two main  options are number one I try to repeat that  
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word again and again Evergreen Evergreen  Evergreen Evergreen Evergreen I look at  
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a flash card it says Evergreen Evergreen  Evergreen okay so that's one thing I could  
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do the other thing I could do over here option  two is to hear different people talking about  
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it to read it in in like a comic book see it  on a TV show so you're getting lots of those  
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different examples of whatever green means  is much faster that's what's really going  
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to build my fluency all right so I might have  a like maybe a trouble pronouncing the word  
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or something that might be an issue but if I  hear it again and again with all these examples  
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that's going to be much faster all right so you  don't you don't have to spend time repeating stuff  
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like shadowing in that way it like it again  there are lots of things that can be helpful  
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but if you're trying to get fluent as quickly  as possible you want to be efficient with your  
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learning you want to be systematic so we want to  take something like okay let's learn Evergreen  
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like a native so we want to have a native lesson  of that so we can discover more examples of that  
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when we hear them in conversations okay so  don't put pressure on yourself uh to do a  
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lot it's really just getting the various  information the naturally varied review
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uh all right I answered that one too all right  mom says unfortunately I was late would you please  
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summarize what you said it's right here these  are the four different levels for understanding  
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vocabulary you can get a translation which  is quick but it's not going to help you very  
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much you can get a definition which is also quick  but it's not going to help you very much because  
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you will likely forget it the best things you  can do are native lessons and by this I mean  
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understanding something like a native where  you're getting naturally varied review you're  
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learning lots of new examples understanding new  things just by getting lots of different examples  
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of that all right and you're able to discover  new things in context so as an example let's  
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say I was I was talking with my mom yesterday  so I was driving her car and I crashed her car  
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I was driving her car and I crashed my I  crashed her car this is not a real story  
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I'm just making an example so I was driving her  car I crashed the car and I was going to tell her  
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and I thought she would be mad about that so  I thought she would be like a little bit mad  
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but she was actually like much much  angrier than I thought she was going  
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to be she was practically frothing at  the mouth she was practically frothing
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the
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frothing at the mouth now this is a native  expression that you might hear maybe you've  
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heard this before maybe you have not but the idea  you can imagine I'm telling a story so I I think  
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my mother is going to be angry  
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so if I can imagine like her anger her anger  level from one all the way up here to to  
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maximum like level 10 angry so I'm expecting  her to be a little bit angry you know it's  
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okay I I crashed her car you know she should  be angry about that but she was much angrier  
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than I expected she was practically frothing  at the mouth all right she was that angry  
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now when you hear a word like that frothing  at the mouth or you hear a phrase you might  
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be thinking like okay I'm trying to understand  like frothing at the mouth what does that mean  
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does anybody understand what that phrase means  so in this example you're hearing uh probably  
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some new vocabulary to be frothing at the mouth  and in the situation the first thing is okay I'm  
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connecting this vocabulary with the situation so  frothing at the mouth must mean somebody is really  
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really angry okay now again I'm this is if you're  just like listening to something you just hear  
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some new vocabulary by yourself the point you're  you're getting not really like a native lesson  
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you're kind of discovering a little bit about  something you're learning something in context  
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so you hear the situation is describing someone  who's very angry they're practically frothing at  
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the mouth frothing at the mouth but then later  maybe another day you're kind of thinking about  
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the vocabulary you remember it a little bit  and then you see a dog you see a dog outside  
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and it's there's like a it's in a fight or you  know there's like two people walking their dogs
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so one person has their their dog over here  pardon my dog pictures another person has  
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their dog over here and the dogs don't like each  other very much and so they're kind of like and  
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you know when dogs they get really really angry  they like you see the the spit the saliva is  
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like it's a little bit a little bit bad to kind  of do this on camera but he's like yeah you can  
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see stuff little Bubbles and things coming out  of their mouth they're frothing at the mouth  
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so the froth so if I have a a cold a glass of  beer or something like that with some bubbles  
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on the top that's the froth up there so froth  so they're frothing at the mouth so you might  
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the first time you hear it you don't really  understand what's happening you can get it  
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a sense for it probably means to be very angry  but as you see another example or here you get  
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a native lesson so this was a native lesson  trying to help you understand the vocabulary  
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all right so when you talk about someone frothing  at the mouth it's like a dog that's really angry  
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you know and they like is there and now you  will not forget the word for the expression in  
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this case all right so when you're learning new  vocabulary I'm trying to answer a few different  
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questions at the same time but the basic idea uh  is that even if you you're learning something by  
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yourself you might not understand it perfectly at  first but when you continue to get more examples  
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of it then it would make sense and that's where  you're trying to get to the Discovery level  
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like ah now I really understand the vocabulary  okay all right let's see here I think time for  
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a few more questions all right uh oh I think we  got the last one here so Julian says chat GPT gave  
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this example after the controversial decision was  announced the coach was seen frothing at the mouth  
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screaming at the referee and accusing him of bias  yeah so again if you put like you can use chat GPT  
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or just Google I mean even if you don't have chat  GPT it's like frothing at the mouth now if you do  
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a Google image search for frothing at the mouth  I bet you will see some pictures of dogs like you  
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know like the little bubbles are coming out you  know the the spit the saliva that's the name of  
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that um coming out of their mouth but again that's  how you would get more examples of that thing and  
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it's it's more examples not not just like reading  the word again and again or reading the phrase  
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again and again all right so if I have a flash  card and I write frothing add the mouth and I  
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repeat that again and again so which is going to  be more helpful repeating the same exact thing or  
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getting more examples of related things that help  me like actually use it fluently and understand  
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that thing all right the point is to improve my  understanding with every example and when you just  
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repeat something you're not doing that so this  is why I don't recommend just using flash cards  
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if you're using flash cards with something else  maybe there's a picture on that and you're also  
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getting lots of other examples that's great all  right but just using flashcards by itself is going  
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to be less helpful most likely all right look  at that we got through all of the questions and  
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that's good because I'm you can hear me losing my  voice over here pardon me for a quick sip of water
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oh I'm trying to froth at the mouth a little  bit all right but you get it hopefully you  
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should not forget that word if you think  about frothing of the mouth you talk about  
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froth in a beer glass like that it becomes  more memorable each time you're getting a  
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related example so not the exact same thing  but a related one all right Google that do a  
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Google image search for frothing at the mouth  I'm gonna do that right now see what I get  
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should be pretty simple go to Google and  just type in we'll go to do an image search
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so if I just type in frothing at it comes  up as an autocomplete I go to images
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and there we go yep so we get some people  brushing their teeth and they're like  
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you know you see the froth coming out from from  brushing your teeth same thing another example  
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so now we've got the froth and the beer glass we  got the froth from brushing your teeth the froth  
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from you being angry like that okay so you can do  these things yourself it's much better obviously  
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it takes more time if you're trying to do  it by yourself to get varied examples this  
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is why we take care of all this hard work for  you in uh fluent for life so all this is done  
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for you you just get to enjoy native lessons  and discover more for yourself and that's how  
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you feel more fluent all right well it looks  like we got no more questions which is great  
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everybody understood and I can end the lesson  all right well hopefully remember we're trying  
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to get naturally varied review the point is to  go from translating and getting definitions for  
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things to actually understanding things like a  native so you discover more of the language all  
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by yourself when you do that each time you do  that you will feel the learning happening and  
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you will feel much more excited about speaking  all right of course we get one more question  
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all right Maggie says uh by different examples  do you mean highlighting new words in different  
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contexts I mean the same word or the same phrase  you want to attack something from as many angles  
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as possible until you understand it it could  be one example maybe you really understand  
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something from a very good example and you just  understand it like if I hold up the color blue  
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and the color black and the color red like  here you don't need a thousand examples of  
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colors because you just understand what I'm  talking about you might need to hear it a few  
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times like oh it's a red marker or a red truck  or something in order to remember the vocabulary  
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but that's how you're going to become much more  fluent where you're learning related examples  
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about a particular thing all right so we want  to hear the same word or the same phrase but  
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we might hear it in different ways different  contexts different examples different speakers  
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uh let's see so yuvan says I can understand  while watching your videos and many other  
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YouTubers but sometimes I can't even  catch a word when I watch a movie yep  
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and again like this is what we do in uh in  fluent for life because we want to take you  
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from understanding as uh as a learner and I'm  speaking intentionally more clearly uh and I'm  
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not you notice I don't use any like extra phrasal  verbs or idioms or slang or any of that in the  
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same way that I would speak with someone so I  might use like a cultural reference or a movie  
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quote or something like that when I'm speaking  with other people so people who understand that  
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so you want to match the the level of English for  the people you're speaking with all right so if  
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you're trying to understand movies and things  like that you need just more naturally buried  
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review and more examples like we do in fluent  for life where we're leading you from this kind  
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of slower easier English to understanding Natives  and then you can enjoy movies and things like that
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uh let's see I do not have discipline although  I know very well that I will benefit me in  
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the future do you have any advice yeah that's a  good question so for people who lack discipline  
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so discipline meaning like the the ability to  continue doing something uh even if you don't  
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want to do it uh what I would recommend is  that language learning should actually be fun  
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if you're learning it like you're learning your  native language and rather than having discipline  
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to try to sit and memorize vocabulary or  read grammar books that aren't actually  
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helping you uh think about the things that you  actually enjoy doing so usually what happens is  
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a person will have an interest in something  so who just made that comment let's see uh
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if I'm pronouncing that it's like a like  an interesting script you got there so if  
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you if you have an interest so let's  say you enjoy like me I enjoy I don't  
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know fishing or gardening or whatever you will  naturally want to learn more about that thing  
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uh I remember kind of a funny joke a comedian  was talking uh about how he had it like he's I  
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know this comedian who was maybe 20 years old and  a younger cousin of his was coming to visit his  
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house and this little kid brought his uh Pokemon  cards so the little you know cards with characters  
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on them uh and the kid was like look at this like  this Pokemon does this and it's like all this you  
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know it's got like lightning and this level  of health and he's explaining all this stuff  
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and the the older guy is just he's sitting there  he doesn't care really what like what he's just  
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listening to the kid right and so after the kid  was finished then he said oh come here like the  
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adult says this to the kid he says come here I  want you to I want you to like check this out  
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with me and he brings him into the bathroom and  he shows them a bunch of like hair care products  
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and so he's having a little bit of fun with the  kid but he's like look at this like this hair care  
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product this one like you wash your hair two times  with this and it makes your hair stronger and you  
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know he's basically comparing these uh these like  hair care things to to Pokemon or whatever and  
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the truth is like both of them are meaningless but  both of them are also interesting it just depends  
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on on who the person is so you you likely have  things that you enjoy doing and you don't require  
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any discipline to do that so what I'm saying is  that you should do the same thing for learning  
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English so what we do in fluent for life is you  pick a particular thing you're interested in and  
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learn about that so if you like learning about  I don't know the military or you like learning  
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about family life or you like learning about I  don't know makeup or you know whatever anything  
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like that that's the thing that you would focus on  so you you become fluent in that vocabulary which  
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you can then use to talk about other things  so if you if you feel like you're putting  
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pressure on yourself like you require discipline  to do something you're probably not doing it the  
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right way it should be fun it should be easy and  interesting for you the same way it is for you  
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learning things in your native language so that's  a good question honest question but remember if  
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you're feeling like you're putting pressure on  yourself you should be relaxing and actually  
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enjoying the process all right so hopefully people  are watching like when when people watch my videos  
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does it take discipline to sit and watch my video  are you like man I don't want to watch this video  
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why am I watching this you know it should be fun  because I'm helping you learn things and and you  
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actually understand the information if it's not  fun you should not be watching the video nobody  
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is forcing you to do this but that's how you  should be thinking about language learning so  
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find things you're interested in and learn about  those uh all right let's see and all right so  
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Muhammad says how should the sound after T sound  in this that sentence at the mouth at the mouth  
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the mouth the mouth the mouth if you'd like to  hear me pronouncing over 2 000 words and sentences  
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get Frederick you can listen to me and learn  the same pronunciation the same way my kids do  
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Julian says I appreciate your guidance Professor  just let you know I am not a professor I know  
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people people use that term I think it means  like teacher in other languages like Spanish  
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but yes just to let you know like I didn't like  I I I interesting uh uh yeah like think when  
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when people people call me that like I'm like  no no I'm not a perfect I I don't want you to  
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think about me like I'm like I'm a professor  think about me more as like like a parent  
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trying to help help people help kids and our  interactions have helped me gain confidence in  
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speaking but I'm glad to hear it uh Dancy says I  like UFC so I did what you teach us and took some  
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words and phrases that they repeat and learn those  expressions there you go perfect and then you can  
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use that information likely to talk about other  things see how easy that is all right Nelson's  
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the best way to learn vocabulary to be fluent is  to read definition in English and then in context  
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phrases now I like ignore ignore I mean you  can get the definition if you want to but the  
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definition comes as as part of the discovery as  you get more examples of that thing that's how  
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you should be learning it so it's not trying to  stay and like focus on the definition of something  
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can I say something about the discipline to  study English in my personal I'm lazy and I  
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don't have the discipline as well I try to change  my environment uh around me in English and it's  
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helped a lot yeah so some people do that too but  you shouldn't need to trick yourself think about  
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most people if they say like oh that person  lacks discipline they probably have discipline  
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for something they enjoy doing so if you look at  children like some children don't want to sit and  
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do this thing but they will sit and do this other  thing over here so it's not a discipline problem  
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it's more like an alignment problem about people  doing something that either in in a way that they  
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don't like doing it or they're they're doing it  with a subject they don't like but it's possible  
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to make a connection between language and what  you do like because that's how you do it in your  
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native language so like the UFC example if you you  probably watch UFC maybe you listen to announcers  
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in a different language you can listen to them in  English and again UFC is great because it's going  
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to give you naturally varied review you're going  to get example after example of different fights  
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oh he really punched that guy or he kicked that  guy or did something like that you'll hear these  
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different announcers and you will hear lots of  different examples so it's a great way to get  
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that get that review aclius says why don't  you focus on few words in one video and try  
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to utilize them for several contexts so we can  wrap our head around them well that's what I do  
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so you noticed uh I spent like my goodness over an  hour and just focusing on a few things so we have  
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the word Evergreen and the point is to build a uh  build a network in your head of different examples  
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but this I mean these kinds of videos that I do  on YouTube also there are ways for me to answer  
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questions so I'm not like I was just talking  about different ways of learning vocabulary at the  
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beginning of the video and then people had a bunch  of questions for me so that's why I'm staying to  
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answer those but typically like in an actual  lesson like I do in fluent for life or whatever  
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or the visual guide to phrasal verbs that's what  that's what we're doing so it's it's focusing on a  
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particular thing and getting a lot of naturally  varied review without me spending time like  
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talking about stuff but yes it's part of it so if  you're not a teacher or a professor how would you  
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call what you do for all of us I'm the English  fluency guide I created my own term because I  
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didn't really like what other people were using  and I thought this was the best way to describe it  
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uh so you're a great teacher and father I believe  remind me of Henry Higgins from Pygmalion such  
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an Innovative way of learning a language you  have yes remember though it's not innovative  
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I'm not being Innovative at all the thing I'm  doing is reminding people that this is how they  
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got fluent in their native language and they  should probably apply that to learning English  
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that's it because the most of the the education  instruction you know whatever you want to call  
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it is in the traditional way where we're doing  this stuff down here translations and definitions  
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but in your native language you learn a lot  and you're learning more every day by getting  
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lessons that help you understand like a native  and you discover a lot more by yourself all right  
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so thank you I appreciate the compliments uh  but really I haven't haven't done anything  
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uh different that other people hadn't  already found out and that everybody  
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isn't doing already it's just that most  people don't think to do it for English
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all right does that apply uh on the language  chunks or only applies in words it applies to  
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everything so just like the UFC example that's  like Ultimate Fighting Championship I think  
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um so you can learn about a topic so if you go to  our YouTube channel go to the go to the espresso  
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video and that's one example of naturally varied  review where we're focusing on a topic rather than  
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a particular word or phrase so when you focus on  a topic you will hear phrases used again and again  
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like in making espresso if I show four different  people making espresso they will use a lot of the  
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same vocabulary and as you hear these different  things you will feel more confident about using  
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the vocabulary too uh I find it easy to understand  concrete nouns because I can associate them with  
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an image or object however I struggle when it  comes to intangible nouns such as uh solidarity  
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sure yeah Julian we had a we had an interesting  time with this when building Frederick so there  
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are a lot of things that are figurative or like  how do we how do we do like captive how do we do  
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that so like one of the the icons that we have  in there we have icons for every word in the app  
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and so it took a while to think about someone I  think we did like I think we did like a 95 job on  
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that there are probably some things we could  do better but like one example uh like let's  
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say we have the word Freedom you know so you  could have and and we and another thing that's  
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important for Frederick and for learning again is  we want to give you different multiple examples  
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so we don't just give you one icon we give you  four icons for each word so we went back and did  
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like thousands of extra icons just to help people  understand the vocabulary uh so if you have like  
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you know imagine like you know something  we have a like a fish bowl over here  
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so imagine that's a fish  but we removed the Fishbowl
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and we just have the fish by itself and we're like  okay it's this example so this is like this one is  
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this fish is free this fish is captive or whatever  and so we can we can do that and it's like you you  
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could maybe think of other examples for what that  might mean but that's why we want to give you more  
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examples of other like Freedom or other things  like that what what that what might uh that mean  
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so yeah it's a common problem but uh as you as  you get to the higher level for Native lessons  
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and Discovery that's where you really feel much  more confident uh and you get more more examples  
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in real life about things like that uh and it  will help you understand that so getting just one  
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example would be difficult but you can get a lot  more it's useful to read a book in my language and  
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read it in English yes you could do that that's  the kind of form of translating but again if you  
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get lessons that you understand you can learn  everything all in English the same way kids do  
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all right so Ed you were still learning new  things in your native language all the time  
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without needing to translate anything all right  do you think a person uh Nancy says who English  
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isn't his native language can teach students  in this particular way yeah I don't see why now  
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I can teach you Japanese and and not be a native  Japanese speaker and I still teach you the same  
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way so I've done this before I haven't done this  lesson in a while but Maca Maca maca mock is
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foreign
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foreign
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pretty easy so even if my maybe my I know  someone could say well I just pronunciation  
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is right it's like even native Japanese speakers  like some people speak more clearly some people  
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do not speak as clearly you know but this is  again how you can teach someone the language  
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and it's much better for you than trying to do it  the traditional way but I'm not a native Japanese  
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speaker I can still give you a native Japanese  lesson all right but that's a good note to end  
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on I think we've got all the questions there  before I lose my voice completely but thank  
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you for joining me it's been a pleasure hoping  uh hopefully you have improved a little bit I'm  
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trying to give you more examples each time and  the more lessons you watch the more you will  
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get more naturally varied review and feel a lot  more confident about I love watching video games  
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but how can I learn from it watch people talking  about video games so watch watch like let's play  
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videos about people playing video games all  right pretty easy but you can figure it out  
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there's lots of things you can read information  about what's it says I love your Japanese
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foreign
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do you think pronunciation is also related  to confidence yeah all these things nice to  
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see you there Charles so of course if you if  you don't feel confident about something uh  
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if you will of course feel you know whether  that's your pronunciation or your grammar or  
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whatever of course you will you'll feel a  little bit nervous about speaking so me if  
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I'm like if I'm trying to speak Japanese  if I have a lot of confidence maybe it  
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doesn't matter if my pronunciation is so good I  could say uh konichiwa akonichiwa watashiwa uh
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Desu so if I'm speaking badly speaking  bad Japanese like maybe I have a lot  
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of confidence and the nice thing about  Japan is people won't say anything to me  
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they will say something later about me  they will see man his Japanese like he's  
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he spoke correctly but his pronunciation was  pretty bad all right but most Japanese people  
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would not say anything like in person to me  like that but in English like people might
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I apologize for that but yes English speakers  like if you're in America and people like you're  
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you're saying something and and you don't  pronounce it correctly it's like what did  
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you say can you say that again and people get a  little not angry but they might be a little bit  
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annoyed by that but many people will still be  nice though but again yes uh pronunciation if  
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you have poor pronunciation or poor grammar or  whatever uh that's going to hurt your confidence  
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and your ability to speak but you don't have to  feel nervous if you just get more examples all  
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right Audrey you're doing a great job thanks for  all hello my best teacher how are you doing today  
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I'm Yousef from Morocco nice to meet you nice to  see you there all right now it's really time to  
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end this time is it yes I gotta get going anyway  you guys is stealing all my time like a like time  
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vampires time vampires I'd say that's another good  phrase you can you can remember a time Vampire  
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I don't feel bad I really enjoy teaching  but it does it does a job on my voice I'll  
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have to get some I don't know some honey or  something after this all right so euglish will  
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be so helpful and in line of what you say yes  English is a good thing you can use to listen  
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to lots of different examples of things but  remember uh to read them write them listen to  
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them just find them in different ways and  and the more examples you get the better  
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so again this is the kind of thing we have both in  Frederick and in fluent for life and we have links  
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to both of those below this video have a fantastic  day and I'll see you in the next video bye-bye
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