Speak Advanced English With These Simple Words

should be coming very soon if you can  see anything in uh chat say hello all

right it always takes a bit to get going but it  

looks like people are here so hello nice  to see everyone give one more try over

here all right I think we can have people in  chat and we're working all right I think we  

are hello again I am Drew Badger the founder  of englishanyone.com and the English fluency  

guide make sure we're working here uh hopefully  everyone is doing well today I want to talk about  

uh as I usually do how to speak more fluently  uh especially talking about Advanced ideas or  

expressing things in more detail but I want to  show you how to do this with simple vocabulary uh  

the main point of this video is that you do  not need to know a lot of difficult words in  

order to express yourself in more advanced way  really being Advanced just means you're able  

to communicate correctly uh and also talk about  things that are more detailed or more specific or  

you know more interesting whatever it is you want  to explain but you don't need to use Advanced uh  

lot of difficult vocabulary to do that all right  uh it oh nice to see you there good morning Ohio  

and Annette over there in Wisconsin uh I think  I saw Olympia over there as well nice to see  

everybody there uh we're starting a little bit  earlier today hopefully everyone is doing well  

out there uh today we're actually talking about  lots of vocabulary uh so hopefully you're excited  

for that I know people are always interested  in learning more vocabulary but really what  

we want to do is help you understand the value  of the vocabulary you already have uh that way  

you can communicate more fluently using using  the words you already know and even expressing  

more intricate or detailed ideas nice to see you  there George uh so what we're going to do is go  

through a bunch of very useful words and I'll  give you lots of examples for each one of those  

and I'm sure the chat will provide us with even  more uh so just to give you a very quick example  

of what we're going to do uh in Thailand oh look  at that en Tha I'm like thinking and reading the  

the comments at the same time I can't see your  name though if your name is not in well Japanese  

or English I probably can't read it so if it's in  Thai or cilic or something please if you'd like  

me to know your name uh Victor I nice to see  you there this is my fourth live lesson from  

Brooklyn nice to see you there Victor hopefully  you're enjoying the shows all right uh so as an  

example let's say we take uh a word like improve  now this is a a very common word uh but if you  

think about how natives learn the Lang language  especially as little kids learn the language  

improve is a more advanced word for their level uh  it's a very useful word it is very commonly used  

but uh it could be more advanced in the way we're  going to describe it in this video because there  

are typically ways to express things with less uh  or smaller or maybe one or two simple words uh in  

this video I'm not really going to go into detail  about phrasal verbs I talk about that a lot so I  

want to talk about other ways of expressing things  uh but these work basically like phrasal verbs so  

we want to take a few specific or uh excuse me  simple words combine them in different ways and  

then that way you can multiply your vocabulary  and that just means you're able to talk about  

more things using the same vocabulary Isn't that  cool all right uh so a child typically a parent  

like like for a little child we would not use  the word improve we would say simply get better

so this is a simpler way typically a way uh a  child would learn the uh the way of expressing  

this uh to improve to get better uh and that way  a child can understand what's happening even if  

they don't know this more difficult vocabulary  okay hopefully that makes sense so we're going  

to cover a bunch of these very simple words like  get uh and a lot of this vocabulary is probably  

words that you already know but hopefully  uh this will provide you with more insight  

it will help you understand the vocabulary  better you will feel more confident about  

using it so you will speak more fluently all  right pretty simple let me check chat before  

we get started our first word will be get all  right so we're going to talk about getting

things and we'll get started in just a moment all  right let me look at chat here make sure everybody  

is doing all right all right let's see Lauren good  evening Evangelina good let's see hello from San  

Diego all right we got people in the states so I'm  a little bit earlier today F hello from Morocco  

thank you kitty love Samar free Palestine I see  I think you spelled Palestine incorrectly uh sha  

I'm from Saudi Arabia we're still at night nice  to see you there stab says what's up bro teach  

me English well here we go uh CA again look at  that the manager at the very beginning nice to  

see you there call all your friends let's get  started Sam Croc says hi there first time to  

watch you live glad to hear verushka hello guys  from India Algeria look at that and Wellington  

in sou Pao Brazil and zener one high from Korea  all right let's get started uh so we're going to  

talk about a whole bunch of very simple words  and I want to really help you understand what  

these words mean uh and before we begin I want to  make something very clear many people are probably  

already familiar with with me and what I do but  the basic idea is that when you're learning a  

language rather than take a word like get uh what  we'll call the English uh as a second language  

approach you take a word like get and maybe you  get a translation so you get a translation of  

it uh or maybe you get a definition so you get  a definition of the word uh but the problem is  

that typically when people learn a word like this  they don't really learn all of the very uses and  

they don't get a lot of good examples that help  them understand the word and so they will learn  

a word like get again through a translation or  a definition and then just repeat the word and  

maybe they will get a few they will get you notice  I'm using this word get a lot because it is very  

very commonly used and I also want to highlight uh  the word in this video but we talk about getting  

something so rather than the ESL way which is kind  of getting repetition so you're going to repeat  

something again and again I want to do the English  as a first language approach which is where where  

we really help you understand many different  ways of talking about get just like we do for any  

vocabulary and this will help you understand it  better feel more confident about it so we want to  

eliminate the doubt and that's what stops you from  speaking so if you eliminate the doubt then we  

feel much more confident and we speak so we take  a word like get we begin with the same word but we  

try to learn it in a different way we really  want to understand lots of different ways of  

using using get uh with lots of different examples  now you might not get all of these examples at the  

same time uh but typically you will get as you  learn different uh different examples different  

ways of using it in different situations and  that's how you will get fluent all right all  

right now I'm going to explicitly give you some  different uh some examples of it right now uh but  

this is the general idea so we don't want to just  get a word we don't want to learn a word and then  

repeat it again and again we want to hear lots of  varied examples and that's what's going to help  

you improve all right now if you can think of some  ways of expressing more difficult things using the  

word get and other simple words you can post them  in the chat right now uh but let's get started  

with our examples so as I said we will get started  with get now I have lots of examples uh hopefully  

I won't uh I won't take too long with each one of  them but I really want to make sure you understand  

what's happening here all right so the basic idea  of get we are receiving something or something is  

moving from one place to another so this is me for  example and I'm getting something uh I could be  

like receiving a present uh or I could be uh like  transferring or moving from one place to another  

so uh for example I could go uh from home to  work so I'm getting to work to get to work or  

I could be moving from one situation to another  like I'm getting older all right so when we hear  

the word get try to imagine uh like a a broader  understanding of the word of like moving from one  

place to another or uh transfer the the title of  the or here I am again reading trying to read the  

trans while I'm or reading the comment as I'm  explaining this uh but typically get is we're  

talking about like taking a new position or moving  from one place to another uh but in general it's  

a transfer of some sort okay something is moving  or changing from one thing to another all right  

so let's look at a bunch of examples I'm sure you  will think of some in the chat please post them  

below if you do all right uh so we already had get  get better so we're talking about uh first we want  

to like improve in some way uh so we can talk  about getting better uh we can also talk about  

getting well so if you are sick imagine being in  this like in this position here you're not feeling  

well oh no I'm sick here's a like a little ice  bag on my head over here oh know here's a like  

a thermometer in my mouth that kind of looks like  cigarette I guess it's a it's like a thermometer  

so I'm I'm in the in the sick condition over  here and I want to I want to get well I want to  

get better all right so rather than saying like  uh I want to uh like overcome this sickness or  

I want to improve something this is just a very  simple way of talking about going from one place  

to another all right or one condition or state to  another so I'm bad here I'm good over here and I  

want to get here all right pretty simple so I want  to go through uh these examples another one let's

see in order to prepare for something to prepare  for something or to uh make sure we are ready we

get we get ready again it's that same idea of  being in one state or one position and going to  

another one so here we are not ready and over here  we get ready all right so anytime we're trying to  

prepare for something we're going to get  we're going to move from one situation to  

another get all right is everybody getting this  so here I'm I'm trying to give you something  

all right so I'm teaching you something I'm  explaining something it's coming from me to  

you all right so you are getting it so another  way of just talking about like to get something  

is simply to understand that thing all  right so do you get it do you get what  

I'm saying do you get it all right uh another  idea here we have also get going so get going  

is a basic simple way of saying to begin so  we can also here as I mentioned before to get

started so you can excuse me you can make lots  of more complicated ways of saying these things  

like uh get started you could say commence let me  commence the the beginning of something I want to  

commence my speech uh or commence uh whatever  a job interview or something but a very casual  

conversational way of saying this and this is  perfectly fine is just to get started or to  

get going so I wake up in the morning and it's  time to get going time to get started okay all  

right let's see I'm trying to think of some  other ones that we think uh similar if we  

want to talk about as opposed to saying arrive  all right to arrive we can talk about to get

there to get there often uh you'll see in movies  or little kids are asking are we there yet are we  

there yet well we're we're getting there we're  getting there so maybe we're in in the process  

of moving like we are uh moving something or we  are in motion right now we are getting there all  

right if we already arrived you can just say we  got we got there we got there yes Carlos we'll  

talk about keep in a moment we'll talk about keep  in a moment all right so again get when we think  

of it I'm trying to give different examples here  so you start to think more about the word like  

a native speaker all right so to get going to get  ready to get well to get better we're moving from  

one state or position or place to something  else that's what we mean all right so like  

I this marker is just sitting over here or this  eraser is on the board now I I get the Eraser so  

I have got it I got the Eraser all right so it's  moving from over here to me controlling that thing  

all right transfering all right let me think of  some more uh another example let me erase some of

these instead of saying something more complicated  like Advance you can say get ahead again simple  

vocabulary expresses more complex ideas all right  you don't need to use difficult words to express  

difficult things all right so get ready get  ahead get started get anywhere like anytime  

you're moving from one place to another these are  all different examples of that it's that same idea  

all right now we could also think like let's  say we want to get uh get smart about something  

I use this with my kids that think okay you guys  need to get smart about this we need to get smart  

about this so we need to think in a creative or  intelligent way so do something intelligently  

that's a more complicated way to express it  or we going to say Get Smart we need to get  

smart about this so maybe a company is planning  something they're thinking about a project uh but  

they they're not doing very well it's not being  very successful so they think we need we need  

to change our thinking we need to get smart about  this all right so we need to behave or think more  

intelligently but it's much faster and easier  to say Get Smart all right everybody getting  

this everybody getting the idea pretty simple all  right let me go back through chat uh and make sure  

people are following me with this I think people  are though all right uh let's see so I get to work  

by bus y same idea so you are at home and then you  are at work and how do you get there so how do you  

transfer how do you move same idea yes very good  example all right good morning says uh musack and  

stab mik you're welcome all right let's see Adrian  says uh I'm able to understand everything in this  

video session but I'm unable to speak what uh do  what I need to do I need your help says Adriano uh  

basically uh the reason most people know English  but they can't speak is that they don't really  

know the language as well as they think they do  in other words words they still have some kind  

of doubt that's stopping them from speaking that's  the real issue so when people especially if you've  

been learning English for a long time maybe you  live in an English-speaking country many people  

I help they're actually n uh married to native  English speakers and yet they still struggle and  

the reason uh most likely the number the number  one reason is just that they have doubt about the  

vocabulary so they're uncertain uh about certain  things or they they worry about pronunciation or  

in their mind they're asking questions am I  saying this right is my pronunciation okay  

there are lots of uh really worries and doubts  that people have and so that creates fear and  

you feel nervous about expressing yourself uh so  you don't speak all right so you might understand  

a lot of English but when you come to speak when  it's your turn then maybe you're still worried  

about something and that's what stopped you so  the point of the videos I make like this one you  

see we're focusing on just one word right now  to really help you get what it means all right  

to really help you understand what it means so  as you feel more confident as you eliminate the  

doubt that's when you start speaking all right so  if you know a lot of English but still struggle to  

speak it means you just don't know it that well  uh you should watch uh a video I forget the name  

of the video I made uh but the basic idea is that  there are different levels of understanding okay  

so you might uh like recognize something or  hear it when natives are talking but there's  

still some kind of doubt that's stopping you from  using that vocabulary fluently you don't really  

own the vocabulary yet so your job is really to  get to the ownership level of the vocabulary and  

that's when you start speaking fluently okay  so that that's pretty I repeat this in every  

video because we always get new people coming  and uh you know people think their problem is  

they don't speak enough or they don't have  you know a like a practice partner or they  

don't study enough or whatever the real reason  uh it's not how many times you repeat this so  

you could study this word get but until you get  lots of examples and you notice I'm using the  

word get again and again in slightly different  ways U as you get more examples that's where you  

really start feeling more confident about the  vocabulary so as you learn more you will feel  

better about speaking that's how you get fluent  so please please please don't just learn more  

vocabulary notice this isn't new this is not new  information okay what I'm trying to do is help you  

uh just feel more confident about the vocabulary  you already know that way you can use uh use this  

vocabulary in more interesting ways all right so  I'd rather have like one tool that I could talk  

about 20 different things rather than like one  word that doesn't really help me Express much  

okay so I could learn the word commence or I could  learn the word get now both of those words are  

valuable but the word get is much more valuable  because it's way more frequently used okay so  

hopefully this makes sense I'm going to try to  be quick over here so I can keep going through  

comments and make sure I go through examples all  right hello everyone Sandra again getting used to  

something yes that's another example to get used  to I didn't want to cover uh like phrasal verbs  

in that specific example uh because I thought n  people know that one already let me just cover  

some other things like this that you might not  be so familiar with but yes you're correct to get  

used to it's the same idea you're in one place  so you have one condition like you're not good  

at something but then you get used to it or you  become more familiar that's the idea very good all  

right hello Drew Yoba Drew from Nicaragua I like  your videos I've learned a lot from them glad to  

hear uh if you know other people we can help send  them my way all right Mike uh stab okay there we  

go all right uh look at you you guys getting a  little feisty in the comments over there let be  

I got uh is get going also to continue get going  usually means to start something so imagine you

begin uh like you start uh a project this is the  the start of it uh or you could be in the middle  

of a project uh and but it's not going very well  or you don't really know what you're doing so  

you're trying to get people excited and motivated  again so either you start something where you get  

going or you're over here here and you get  going it just means like you're again you're  

transferring from not doing something to doing  something so not moving to moving you're getting  

that thing so now we were here now we are here  or we are moving in that way okay so it doesn't  

really matter where you are uh at that time it's  just think about the idea of of we were doing this  

now we're doing this that's the idea of get all  right so there's some kind of change or transfer  

happening uh all right it looks like we got quite  a few uh let's see Ros says when is it wrong to  

use get well that would be that's more that's  a more difficult lesson to cover uh give me an  

example if you have an example where you think  you might use get but you don't feel confident  

about it let me know all right this week I went  to the barber shop to get my haircut yes that's  

correct so you can go from one place to another  and you can change your hair from one situation to  

another so you get a haircut all right Juan Carlos  hopefully you can learn something hopefully you  

do greetings from the Philippines is Darwin how do  you use the word sake are you trying you mean sake  

what do you mean uh like for the sake of something  I'm not covering that in this video but I would  

Google that and try applying the same thing I'm  doing here jph says uh get yourself a decent  

haircut mate you're going to the races uh is this  correct yes uh you I mean you could you could say  

that uh depending depending on who you're like  I wouldn't say that to your boss or something  

it could be a little bit offensive to some people  uh do I need to speak English every day in order  

to get 100% fluent or not I'm a foreign learner  no you do not uh again as I explained earlier you  

become fluent as you understand the language  better I don't spend all day trying to speak  

Japanese but I do spend a lot of time actually  learning more Japanese hearing different examples  

listening to people uh and what I'm really doing  it's not just like is it's not just getting input  

it's it's getting specific uh it's answering  specific questions that remove doubt so if I  

am unsure if I want to say something but I feel  nervous about saying that then I should I should  

go into that thing and and use it or learn it  so I really understand that thing all right so  

that's really how you become fluent you remove the  doubt you have about individual words and phrases  

so remember we get fluent in individual words and  phrases you don't get fluent in the whole language  

you get fluent in pieces of it as you learn those  things so for example you might feel confident  

about the word get but you don't feel confident  about you know like sake or whatever that word  

was okay so if you don't feel confident if you  have questions about it then get those questions  

answered okay that's how you get fluent so you  move from not being fluent to getting all right  

uh let's see did I skip all those let's see we're  at 24 minutes and we got quite a few more minutes  

left to go all right uh get around transfer or  move yes it's still the same idea uh for God's  

sake you don't know how to use sake that would be  for God's sake Nicholas for God's sake for God's  

sake morning uh just in time to listen to you get  ready to speak or get yourself a ball to speak get  

yourself a ball to speak please help me use the  word sake yeah I don't know I I wonder why people  

are asking asking about sake just Google that and  get some different examples of it again uh rather  

than just getting a definition of it you want  to learn lots of different examples he different  

people using it so the uh when you feel confident  that you understand it that's when you will say it  

fluently all right FY says I had years of study uh  but still have some struggles I can't get better  

in it I feel like I'm staying in the same place  can you please tell me why okay everyone is asking  

basically the same question all right let me make  this very clear if you don't feel confident about  

something now don't don't think about the language  think about specific parts of the language like a  

specific word or a specific phrase or a grammar  Point all right if you don't feel confident  

talking about that if you feel like you you want  to express something but I don't remember the word  

or I don't uh the pronunciation I'm nervous about  something like that uh those are all questions  

or worries or doubts that stop you from speaking  so you need to stop don't try to learn something  

new focus on that vocabulary that's what we're  doing right here all right so I'm not trying to  

teach you a bunch of advanced words I'm trying  to help you use uh get in a more advanced way  

all right and native speakers this is how they  get fluent all right all right and hopefully  

people are figuring that out all right uh hello  from Rio let's see all right I answer that one uh  

Renos says that Japanese is completely different  from English uh well yes but uh children all over  

the world learn different languages and they learn  them at basically the same rate so there's nothing  

uh intrinsically Difficult about English there's  nothing like it's not like English specifically  

is difficult and Chinese is easy or Chinese is  difficult and English is easy it's just look at  

all the children all over the world how do they  all learn these different languages at the same  

rate all right if the if the language itself was  actually difficult you wouldn't be able to do that  

but you see little kids 2 years old three years  old and they're just speaking obviously some kids  

are maybe better than others in a in a particular  place uh but that that's what we're that's what  

we're talking about okay so we we want to  really understand the language and there's  

there's nothing there's nothing different like  specifically about about English or uh or Japanese  

that makes it a hard language it's just how people  learn so the the real problem people have is let's  

say a Japanese speaker so a native Japanese person  is trying to learn English the the difficulty  

comes from them trying to learn Japanese through  Japanese or they're or excuse me they're trying  

to learn English through Japanese that's what  creates the problems so the the difficulty  

comes when you try to learn one language through  another language so this is learning English as  

a second language or whatever the language is uh  you're you're talking about okay so that's a basic

idea all right yeah there's no there's nothing  different uh nothing different about about like  

the language in and of itself how to eliminate  recurring mistakes like I learned words the  

wrong way and now it's hard to erase that  says Caleb yeah it's a good question uh so  

that's what we're doing here uh as an example  I'm learning uh Japanese characters right now  

and some some of them are easy to remember some of  them are not so some of them I still get confused  

and it just means I don't know them well enough  so I need to spend some more time or try to get  

smart about learning that uh about that like  the character whatever it is I'm learning and  

so vocabulary works the same way uh where where  you're trying to trying to understand something  

not by like repeating it you're trying to get  different examples uh and that's what's going  

to help you understand the vocabulary better so  however you whatever the word is you should be  

trying to get more example so think about a  specific word I can help you do that in this  

video If you have a specific word or or phrase  or something uh like whatever that whatever  

that example is uh let me know but I can give  you a better example of that this is actually  

what we're doing right now with this though  all right uh let's see all right it's using  

is correct to pronounce the r using your throat  like roaming it's the it's the vibration of it if  

you're talking about the pronunciation of that yes  the sound you can put your hand over here and feel

it all right uh if you'd like to learn more about  pronunciation this is what we do in Frederick and  

comparing the different sounds will help  you understand what we use uh like what  

pronunciation comes from what sounds all right  or what pronunciation comes from what letters  

excuse me uh and one tricky thing about English  is that yes we do have uh like letters that have  

different pronunciation but Japanese works in the  same way uh if you're talking specifically about  

Japanese where you have a like a Japanese  character it could have different readings  

depending on what it is okay I was actually just  at my uh my daughter's school uh and they were  

talking about this this specific thing uh what  example did they give I think they gave let's

see so they were saying what is this character  and how do you read it and asking the kids and the  

kids are like oh it's like it could be like Assa  or it could be Cho depending on what we're talking  

about all right so this works in the same way  English does where we have something uh so this  

means like for you nonlearners out there this is  basically morning um in Japanese I don't know what  

this maybe it's similar or something in Chinese  I don't know uh but the Japanese meaning is is  

morning uh and so when we when we're learning  something we want to get more examples to really  

understand what it means because like a child  will learn this and then they'll learn oh like  

Assa like good morning or whatever Assa Gohan like  having breakfast but then they learn chos which  

is like the same it's the same thing but we're  using different characters for that so when you're  

learning something and and you get more examples  that's what really it it it creates a much uh deep  

ER more interesting more connected web a  network in your head that helps you understand  

the vocabulary okay so each language has its  own unique you know things or whatever but if  

you learn the language in the language that's  going to help you understand it much better  

okay so don't learn it through your language you  need to learn it in the language you're learning  

so if I'm learning Japanese I should learn it in  Japanese all right uh Japanese is very difficult  

because you use a letter left side of your brain  uh I don't know if that's true or not uh but yeah  

there's nothing intrinsic about about Japanese  it's just how you learning all right uh let's  

see get to know something yes that's another good  example yes you are right it's the worries that  

stop us from getting fluent uh speaking language  I am studying Korean but I am not getting uh  

anywhere because of these worries yes uh and so  again when you're listening to people that you you  

don't have anything to worry about unless you have  to respond to those people so if I'm listening  

to a speech or watching a movie or something it's  very easy maybe I don't understand everything but  

I can generally understand something all right  but when I have to speak then you have to be  

correct if you want to express yourself and have  people understand you all right so that that's  

the difference when we're we're talking about  different levels of understanding so you can know  

something but how well do you know it do you know  it well enough to feel confident saying it that's  

the real test okay uh let's see uh wh B is back  teacher I want to know your thoughts on the fact  

why people lose their ability to speak or speak  clearly after not using it by speaking for example  

being in a cell or inhabit an island although  let's see um well it it's like any any kind of  

skill where if you don't use it you will you will  lose it over time but it's like like riding a bike  

where maybe I I don't ride a bike for a long time  and then the next time I ride a bike I'm maybe a  

little bit unsure but very quickly I I remember  how to write it again so it's possible to forget  

the language but people typically are thinking  in a language in their head all right so they're  

they're not they don't really like lose the  language but you know it's it's just a it's a  

skill like anything else where uh if you practice  it if you exercise that uh you will feel more  

confident about using it all right but yes you can  uh kind of like lose it over time if you if you  

don't use it at all uh let's see all right I think  I answered that other question must I woke up one  

hour early today in order to get ready to listen  to your live video glad to hear it uh remember you  

can watch these anytime so I save all these videos  you don't need to watch them live uh the the live  

part is just me being able to answer questions for  people all right uh Rano again says the Japanese  

alphabet is different like Chi chatsu Ka Etc not  ABC D yes but it's again I don't want to spend too  

much time talking about the differences between  English and Japanese uh the important thing is  

just that you that you should learn English in  English if you're going to learn it so if you're  

Japanese and you're trying to learn English and  you're learning English through Japanese which is  

what most people do in school so I remember when  I was teaching Japanese uh Japanese students in  

in element school or even adults um most people  are learning Japanese excuse me they're learning  

[ __ ] they're learning English through Japanese  okay so they like a a Japanese Elementary School  

student a native Japanese child trying to learn  English most of the classes in Japanese even most  

of the English learning TV shows are in Japanese  it's like it's mostly Japanese so they will give  

you a Japanese word explain it in English give  you a translation and this is this is all over  

the world I'm just using the Japanese example but  this is everywhere most people are learning the  

language through their native language because  they they they're not getting good lessons that  

actually help them understand the language and  that's why they struggle to speak so if you learn  

English through your native language then you're  going to think and translate in your head when  

you speak and that will stop you from speaking  that will give you more worries more concerns  

more questions more doubts and that's why you  struggle to speak but if you can understand  

English in English then you start speaking English  without thinking or translating the same way  

native does okay all right uh so that will that  will solve all of the questions really uh let's  

see uh Magic BoB says hello Drew could you help  me understand what flush means in this sentence  

she hung she hung beating her wings wanted to  flush the V or Mouse why flush means plain flat  

she hung beating her wings now I I don't know  exactly what you're talking about but it sounds  

like uh like a bird or something like that I  just I want to answer this question specifically  

because this isn't really something you can search  on Google because Google wouldn't really know what  

to do with that but if I imagine something like  if I I I think I don't I don't know for sure but  

I would guess uh it's like a bird we have like  the wings or something like that and a v v o l  

a v is like a small mouse or something so if we  imagine I don't know a bird here and there's a  

like a like a tunnel and the mouse is in here or  the V or whatever that thing is if you think about  

flushing a toilet you're you're clearing an area  with water but you can also blow air or something  

and flush something out so to flush flush a toilet  this meaning of the word flush it just means to uh  

kind of clear an area so typically this is a pipe  and you clear the area uh with water all right so  

we flush uh or we use the phrasal verb to flush  out something all right so if someone is hiding  

like if I'm a soldier and I'm looking for uh  some people or something like that I can flush  

them out I can get more people coming out uh by  maybe firing my weapon or something like that  

okay so that that's what I'm guessing that is uh  without getting more information about it uh all  

right lots of good questions over here all right  uh let's see all right hopefully that answers that  

though see Drew you just used an expression that  I got just some months ago in and of itself it  

took me a while to understand this chunk yes uh  it just means by itself like that that thing by  

itself without any other uh like anything else  any other support or some kind of information  

or anything else uh so like you could you could  say like something like art is Art beautiful in  

and of itself without like somebody looking at  it or something like that so by itself in and of  

itself that's that's the same way of of using  that all right uh here we go Japanese is very  

difficult yeah okay than answer that one EML says  uh yeah I don't know what that is in in Chinese  

so that would be choko in Japanese uh can you  explain what e vow in the word get uh sometimes  

I hear two different vow sounds like the E and  let in the short eye uh well yes in in American  

English the the standard pronunciation of this  this is called a short vowel a short e e the e  

sound and we go through these things in Frederick  but uh and if you'd like to learn more about that  

you can click on the link in the description below  this video for Frederick it will go through all of  

these different sound combinations uh and letter  combinations so you understand what these things  

are but uh you will have different accents sense  where like someone in the south in the United  

States they might say G where it sounds like g t  like a short vow i instead of a short vow e uh but  

that that's the idea so it should be get something  the way I'm pronouncing it clearly here that's  

the regular American pronunciation you would find  usually on the news uh now yeah like get her done  

you know like say it's like it's you would still  say like get so like lots of people in the United  

States would say like get it or get get her or get  something like that get her done get her done but  

you notice my pronunciation changes my accent is  a little bit different get get her done get her  

done all right sound like George Bush a little bit  right there get her done get her done all right  

now look at this I'm answering all these all these  questions over here and I'm not I've gone through  

one word one word get and I have a whole bunch  all right if you would like to get more examples  

we are already 40 minutes into the video I was  worried that this might happen although I am happy  

to answer questions that's why I'm here and I  enjoy doing these live videos uh but if you would  

like to get uh more uh like more examples of this  just look in the description below this video so I  

put a whole bunch of them there because I thought  we might this might happen so I'll go through some  

more but it's this is interesting going through  these different uh little questions over here  

uh let's see all right where did I go see look  at that all right all right and KO again hello  

teacher Drew I have a question again do you do  I got it and I've got it mean the same thing yes  

you can use both of those things uh I'm sometimes  confused about that uh yes so I I did a video a  

little while ago about that the only difference  in the Nuance here is when you say I got it  

it's you're talking about the the action like I  understood something at that point in the past  

but I've got it now means it's like a part of you  all right so they mean the same thing but that's  

the slight difference when you talk about got  versus have got but you will hear both of those  

all right so like I uh yesterday I got something  at the store like I got some milk all right uh but  

I have got means like I still have that thing  like it's it's part of me now uh but if we're  

talking about like a personality thing like I got  uh I don't know like uh like something I did in  

the past like I played baseball uh so that's the  same idea where like I I played I can say I played  

baseball and can talk about a particular time or  a time period in the past or I can talk about I  

have played and what I mean is that it's a part of  me that experience is a part of me now okay so I I  

did a whole video talking about that uh recently  I forget the name of it though unfortunately  

all right ARA say you look like one of those  guys who works at immigration and speak like  

them I work at immigration well I guess I I mean I  know some maybe kind of military looking folks I'm  

not in the military I just have a short haircut um  but yeah maybe I suppose that's true but I would  

imagine people who work in Immigration would try  to speak English clearly so people understand all  

right so that makes sense all right begas says  I think it's not because we know vocabulary well  

or not not well enough it affects our ability  to speak but rather we should also train it  

by Baby Steps word after word yeah but like when  people think just adding more vocabulary helps the  

only the only way that works is if is if that new  vocabulary helps you understand the old vocabulary  

or the current vocabulary better all right so just  learning more words is not is not really going to  

uh my my main point is like speaking is helpful  it's useful it's great but it's typically the goal  

that comes after you've had lots of examples with  something all right so you can force yourself to  

speak before you feel comfortable maybe I learn a  new word or a new grammar point but I don't really  

feel confident about saying it I can still try to  speak but that's not going to help me understand  

the vocabulary better it might help me slightly  improve my pronunciation but I don't really become  

better at at The Language by repeating it okay uh  but I do get better as I understand something and  

you probably have experienced this in your life  at some point uh maybe many times when you're  

learning something you don't really feel like  you know it very well and then you you get a  

trigger like what I call a fluency trigger where  you actually understand something better like you  

get a new example or you hear it in a different  context or something and you think ah now I got  

it okay that aha moment what I call the aha moment  when you understand something better uh that's  

when you actually start speaking all right so you  could like that like you don't you don't need to  

like what you're talking about like baby steps of  learning it's just how quickly can you understand  

the vocabulary okay that's the that's the idea uh  let's see all right uh F says teacher please can  

we have a video see like this this is a perfect  example like can we have a video but you wrote can  

we have a videos so this is a basic mistake in in  the language it could be just a typo I understand  

that uh but the it's little things like this that  stop people from speaking that's why they have all  

these doubts all right so most people like they  know a lot of advanced vocabulary but they make  

many basic mistakes because they're still not very  confident about what they know all right uh videos  

about Advanced grammar I really can't uh get it's  very hard to understand I read the rules but can't  

solve exams yes so you need to not learn grammar  by studying rules you need to just understand how  

it works by seeing lots of examples of that  thing all right so this is part of what we do  

INF fluent for Life uh let's see he is unique says  Olympia uh all right what uh what are your ideas  

and suggestion about IPA I or app wait what does  that say wait suggesting about app I a English do  

you mean AI you're asking about like artificial  intelligence like chat GPT uh my basic thinking  

is still that it's not really good enough to learn  without um without someone there to check it so if  

I'm looking for examples of something as a learner  I I would rather go to Google than go to chat GPT  

because chat GPT like even if I use chat GPT I  typically use it if I'm if I'm trying to think  

of a lesson idea or something uh but I'll have to  correct chat GPT a lot I notice uh so I would not  

trust it and that even it even says that at the  bottom of chat gbt it's just like chat gbt could  

be wrong you know um so it's it's potentially  helpful for getting examples but you will get more  

just by searching Google and seeing real examples  that people have provided already all right jph  

says hi professor I need to get a job all right I  want to work as a customer service but my English  

speaking isn't well enough to pass the interview  well then you need to spend more time I would  

focus more on that watch people doing interviews  and uh just focus on the parts of the language you  

would be using especially all right uh let's  see s translating words from one language to  

another will not help because every language has  its own way of organizing ideas yes all right uh  

I don't think in my native language and translate  in English I speak in English and think in English  

I'm not a native English speaker yes so you can  do that again like I I think and speak in Japanese  

without being a native Japanese speaker the I  mean the only thing that you're nobody is born  

a native speaker you become a native speaker it's  just really your your level of using the language  

all right but yes like you don't have to be like  like I don't have to look Japanese to think in  

Japanese all right M says I've been watching this  video live only because to prove that you are been  

watching almost everywhere in the world all right  thanks uh says ca is great when we get a word or  

expression the feeling is amazing yes so when  you get something when you understand it that  

feeling of like yes you solved the puzzle that's  when you actually become more fluent you feel  

that actually happening at that moment all right  when you understand something that's the feeling  

of fluency improving all right so you don't get  fluent I can repeat a word 100 times or I could  

get maybe one or two or three good examples  that help me understand the word really well  

and that's when I start using it okay so the  goal is not just to repeat it or for me to talk  

to a mirror or to try to repeat things to other  people it's only helpful those things are only  

really helpful if you can understand and improve  the way you're thinking about the vocabulary do  

you feel more confident about it or not or do  you feel doubt about the word all right oh my  

goodness I'm I'm going through all these I'm  trying you guys are just too fast over here  

all right I'm going to see how quickly I can do  these Lewis says I've been studying English for  

a long time but still have a lot of difficulty  writing reading listening and speaking what did  

uh what did he do wrote this text using Google  translator uh what all right so I guess you're  

you're talking about yourself I guess uh but yeah  so typically you just don't know the language as  

well as you think you do that's it what I've been  explaining all I mean it says speaking of advanced  

English you actually remind of a good video  series you used to make called English fluency  

bits like the phrase be that as it may thanks  yeah everybody remembers that phrase be that as  

it may yeah we talk about English fluency bits uh  in I have a whole lesson set about that in fluent  

for Life uh but maybe I'll make another video  about it uh but yes these are these are kind of  

little phrases you can add uh and when you hear  people using them you feel like oh like I I really  

got what that's uh what that's saying yes it means  breakfast yes I know what that means uh Olympia  

says time to drink some water I speak Chinese  hello biggest English teacher I am so happy to  

be here learning glad to hear it uh love this  level of explanation says Nicholas glad to hear  

it what Ohio let's see all right well welcome good  morning Salvador says how's it going great to drop  

a line and stop by and it says could you please  tell us what is the best way to teach English uh  

teach kids English thank you in advance uh so two  things first one is Frederick click on the link  

in the description below this video I know some  adults think it's an app only for kids but it's  

not it's just a way of learning English all in  English so you you want to start teaching kids the  

same way a native speaker would teach their kids  so me as a native speaker or a fluent speaker of  

English I don't want to teach my kids uh English  through Chinese okay because they don't know what  

the Chinese is either all right they want to  be able to understand everything in English all  

right I haven't given my my like marker should  I give my Japanese lesson marker marker lesson  

I haven't done this in a while all right uh so  let me give you I'm going to teach you some very  

basic Japanese all in Japanese so you understand  what I'm talking about okay MAA MAA MAA oh oh

all right that's very simple uh very  basic explanation uh but I'm not using  

any translations I'm not trying to explain  anything what I'm doing is comparing different  

things which lets your brain understand  these things automatically okay that's a  

basic idea so if you're trying to teach kids  as I mentioned the first thing get Frederick  

it will show them how to do that and also we  have a uh an example playlist on our Channel  

about uh like basically going through all  the beginning grammar but it shows you how  

to learn it in English rather than using your  native language all right uhar how to pronounce  

whole I hear Americans saying like a GLE like a  g before it uh that's interesting get Frederick  

it gives you all these pronunciations of words  that you're asking for just go to the link in  

the description below the video all right K  says thank you I got it do I say this right  

yes you could say do I say this right or did I say  this right did I say this right I'll have a look  

uh or you just have a look at your video or you'll  watch the video so to have a look at something all  

right greetings from aeran Wellington listening  is important in the beginning I didn't understand  

you now I can understand almost all around 90% yes  so you'll notice you become used to you get used  

to my pronunciation as you listen to me more and  more all right and again says my 18-month-old boy  

yesterday said quite clearly Apple in pure English  adding one one more English word to his vocabulary  

I have him watch cartoons in English as you once  told me to do yeah so again oh no I got I gotta

sneeze look at that you get it live amazing I  don't want to sneeze all over the camera all right  

uh so we've gone through one word in 50 minutes  but I got through all the comments all right I'm  

going to give you some more and hopefully try to  make this uh make this quick again if you would  

like more examples of these click on the links  uh or just click on the uh the description and  

that will pop out for you and you can see some  different examples uh another one we mentioned

before is keep all right so to keep when we talk  about keep this is a very simple very common very  

useful word where we're talking about continuing  to do something to talk about continuing all  

right so you can think anytime you want to keep  something like I want to keep this marker like  

it will stay with me okay thank you Anette all  right so keep so you can think of different ways  

of continuing to do something and continue is a  longer word but typically kids when they learn it  

they think keep okay so keep uh so keep uh keep  [Music] going all right so we had the example  

before of get going so get going going and you  notice how we can understand these things better  

by comparing them so you get going uh means to  start but now we're going to keep going we are  

going to continue all right so basic words that  can express more complicated ideas all right  

pretty simple all right another one to keep silent  or to keep quiet all right remember I'm I'm in a  

state I can continue doing that thing especially  some kind of action uh like I can keep going keep  

moving keep playing keep doing something so kids  will typically want to keep doing something okay  

so get going keep going keep quiet keep silent  same thing all right I'll give you one more  

example for this just so we can move on to keep  an eye on something all right so to keep an eye  

on something if I'm watching something this  is a very complicated uh it's kind of like a  

a more complicated way to like continue watching  something or I can just say to keep an eye on at  

least like one eye so if I'm watching my kids and  maybe trying to do something else at the same time  

I'm cooking uh or doing some work I'm also trying  to watch my kids so we keep an eye on them that's  

why we use the Expression an eye so at least  one eye where I'm watching something all right  

now notice how we use this like I keep going or  I will keep going uh like keep since keep means  

like continuing we wouldn't say like I am keeping  going we don't say that because keep it already  

means you're you're kind of doing something  already all right so I will keep going or uh  

in the past like I kept this is an irregular verb  so kept going okay again look in the chat or the  

description excuse me uh below this video for more  examples all right let's see another one uh let's

see we will do make another very common word oh  keep out that was another good example to make  

all right so make means to create something so we  don't have something and then we do all right so  

to make like you could make someone we talked  about this in uh in my last video I had like a  

long and detailed video about this like to make  someone something like to make someone happy or  

to make someone uh cry so I can talk about how  they feel or what they do all right if you if  

you want to learn more about this uh yes but we  don't want to translate we don't want to turn it  

into Spanish and then and then try to remember  it that way the point is to learn it in English  

to understand it in English all right so as you  get more examples all right so this is a bit more  

complicated but it's still basic vocabulary to  make someone do something so I want to make my  

mother happy all right I don't want to make my  mother cry as an example okay so we could make

trouble all right so like to cause a problem  that's a bit more complicated way of expressing  

this but often parents will talk about children  making trouble all right so to cause trouble or  

cause some kind of difficulty to make trouble  all right to make trouble we can also have make  

time all right so maybe you are busy you have  a like a full day of work over here you are  

working the whole time but I need to make  some time for a meeting or like time with  

my children so during you know this period  right here I'm making some time so right  

here I will I will have some time for my  for my kids okay to make time to make time  

make money there you go I thought someone might  bring that one up to make make money make money  

all right all right let me go back through chat  and we'll cover a few more a few more words here

excuse me pardon me all right uh let's see coach  Dan says uh loved your video about removing the  

doubt it's a solid principle and applies to every  level yes uh when working I used uh did you took  

that uh and such sounds natural to me but it feels  wrong afterwards the doubt yes so sometimes the  

doubt the doubt comes after you say something uh  and like especially now this is a tricky thing for  

me as a learner of Japanese being in Japan so  I could say the wrong thing and uh and people  

will be very polite and not say anything about it  but maybe I discover later like oh no I said the  

wrong thing but I learned you know from the from  the lesson there uh and so we don't like making  

mistakes in front of other people and it's really  the doubt that stops people from speaking and so  

when you remove the doubt uh and and that  process it usually takes a few examples so  

as you learn something the first time you hear it  maybe you don't hear it clearly or you don't know  

exactly what it means but as you remove the doubt  as you get more examples you feel more fluent all  

right so it really happens it's a real thing  you can feel it as it happens because that's  

the understanding and that's why people do puzzles  or play games or other things like that for fun  

because it feels good to get that that feeling  when you when you learn something all right uh  

uh let's see SAR say why are you so handsome  are you single uh well that's debatable you  

know maybe some people think I am some people  don't I don't know you can ask my parents they  

made me uh are you single no I am married uh  begas says you keep me watching your videos yes  

excellent usage of that Sandra again uh thanks  for this awesome class Drew keep up the good  

work another good usage of keep nice work uh  how to use the participle for get in American  

English I have got or I have gotten ah all right  I'm not going to go into like detail about that  

I have a video about get uh I think I cover that  uh but maybe I'll make another video about that in  

the future it's a good question though all right  R says can you please say more about flu for Life  

how it works exactly I am going to know what to  am I going to know what to start from for example  

chronological wise uh so very quickly about fluent  for life for anybody asking about that like rata  

you can learn more about that by clicking on the  link for the program below this video uh but the  

basic idea is that as I mentioned you have trouble  speaking if you have doubt and that's typically  

not your fault it's just most people teach  English through their native language or even  

if they're teaching it in English you still like  you can watch YouTube videos where people are just  

explaining things they're giving you definitions  or grammar tables or something like today we're  

going to go through every uh every grammar point  in one hour or something and then people at the  

end of that video don't really know how to use  those grammar points more fluently uh so there's  

a difference between knowing the knowing the rule  and being able to apply the rule and so what we do  

is actually remove the doubt that you have by by  retraining your brain so we take uh like a series  

of lessons that basically retrain your brain by  removing the doubt you have so you get a lot more  

uh examples like this like what we're doing and  you see natives actually using these things so  

you hear how natives use it you feel much more  confident uh and you understand how it works all  

right so the way we get you fluent in in fluent  for life is that process but you get to choose  

what you learn with so you start the program and  you've got all these different lesson sets you  

can choose from you can learn about different  grammar points or if you want to hear from  

different speakers so like an Australian speaker  or an American or British or whatever um and then  

you can you can go through the lesson set and it  will get you fluent in that particular thing and  

then you choose another lesson set and it gets  you fluent in that particular thing so whatever  

your interests are uh we can help you get fluent  in those things and so you learn you know whatever  

you want to learn about business or technology or  sports or culture or cooking or whatever family  

or you know we got lots of different topics there  uh but it's all organized to help you understand  

English as a first language that's the point so  you eliminate the doubt so most people again they  

think uh they become fluent by repeating things  or or finding people to practice with but speaking  

practice doesn't help you if it doesn't make you  feel more confident okay so if it doesn't if it  

doesn't help you understand the language better  then you're wasting your time all right and that  

doesn't matter if you're speaking with other  people uh or speaking to yourself but typically  

the fastest way to get fluent is to understand  the language uh understand the language well as  

quickly as possible so that's what we help you  do all right uh dragon says hi from Morocco I  

can understand your teacher but for me the secret  to learn language is a repetition good luck for  

all Yes uh so you can continue to repeat things  but I promise you you will get fluent Faster by  

understanding the language better and that's  usually not from repetition it's what I call  

naturally varied review where're like this we're  not trying to just I don't just give you the word  

make and say okay class everybody repeat the  word make after me what we're going to do is  

go through lots of different examples that help  you understand it more like a native all right  

I am keep going understand English so you can say  I will keep going I will keep going all right keep  

your hands to yourself Drew yes excellent usage  keep your hands to yourself so I'm not going to  

like you know touch some other people I have to  keep them so where they are keep them where they  

are all right dead and that okay thank you for  correcting me that's very helpful for me glad  

to hear it all right uh let's see keep off keep  going in uh doing something or keep on on doing  

something yes you would keep on doing something  to continue doing something uh we don't we don't  

really say uh you would you would say here let's  just look at this this is another another good uh  

example where we compare different things to  understand them lag and Native now if we say

keep keep on going you might hear  like keep on going in some Direction  

all right so like keep on going in in this  direction or I just say keep on going straight  

if I'm if I'm trying to explain something like  that uh but you would typically just say like  

keep uh keep on uh you could you could say keep  on doing something d o iing g keep keep on doing  

something you can say that also uh or you can just  say keep going or keep doing all right so often  

we'll have a phrase verb like this where it just  sounds a little bit more casual and conversational  

just keep on keep on going keep on going it's  like it's like to stay on this position stay on  

this way that you're moving okay but you don't  have to add that often natives will add these  

extra prepositions here just because it sounds  more casual all right so if I say like he made a  

story it's like okay like yeah he he did make make  a story but it just sounds more casual like oh he  

made something up he just like thought about that  it's still really the same idea okay yes another  

good example keep left and keep right uh let's see  make a wish what make is your car well that's a  

different that's a different use of make but yes  very good I make a wish I always try to make the  

most of this lessons you do teacher Drew very good  so you would say make the most of these lessons  

so this is another be careful basic mistake so  you've you've expressed a more complex idea but  

there's a basic mistake in there so watch out for  those things I promise you you will feel much more  

confident and fluent if you solve uh those those  basic errors that you make and it's it's just a  

huge problem it's really I I don't know if it's  the number one problem because some people don't  

have that but a lot of people do coach Dan again  thanks I work in an English-speaking country some  

colleagues provide instant feedback nicely but  I keep messing tenses yeah so you would say like  

messing up tenses right there uh when speaking  which sometimes is frustrating and just slows  

communication yes uh and so again this is the  same thing like my own children have to learn  

this process too but as you learn it in English by  getting lots of examples that will make you feel  

much more confident about it so like my children  like this this common example like I uh did uh  

played so sometimes my kids so these are like my  own children as they're learning the language they  

will say something like they're talking about the  past and I understand what they mean but they will  

say this incorrectly so I have to remind them like  oh look like did that's explaining everything like  

I did it all right so I did and then I just give  them a bunch of examples like I did go I did play  

I did eat I did walk I did Run Okay so the did is  the only thing that changes okay yes did is the  

past tense of do so children will often make this  mistake where they where they they're thinking  

like like I played or they add they add this but  you only need one one thing to make it the past  

so you don't need to make it the past twice so  I did play I did go I did learn I did eat I did  

watch okay all right let's see keep on keeping  on yes that's true all right I understand when  

I hear but I don't talk fluent yes so go back and  watch this video again it will explain more about  

that these lessons are in the morning I don't  know if I can make it is this grammar correct  

yes that's correct so you would think like  these lessons are and then they are in the  

morning so it doesn't matter uh if you can  make the lesson live or not you can watch  

it later we just save these and make them  available all right keep right keep left  

keep them on keep them going uh teacher  you're keeping up with the comments well  

yes I'm trying okay all right I'm going to do  let's see maybe one more cuz we're already at  

70 minutes oh my goodness all right let's see  I'm just going to read I'm going to read like a  

bunch of these to you guys I should just hold up  my computer over here all right uh so next very

quickly going to put all of these  up here at the same time so we've  

got let's see give take uh let's see and  I had what did I have did I have live here  

let's see what do we do oh we had light so we've  covered some uh and we won't do any more verbs  

you guys got those already again just look in  the description below this video to find many  

more examples so we can think about words with  life all right you could have like a LIF style  

or a life coach or A Life Lesson A Life Lesson  is where you learn something like a life lesson  

where you learn something it helps you oh like I  discovered something that's important for my life  

or good information for me to know A Life Lesson  all right so you could have a lifestyle as well  

and so you could have a life [Music] Journey j  o u r excuse me r n life Journey or you could  

have a life and typically like a life goal like  what you want to do with your life same idea

or you could have a

way a way of life a way of life is a way  of Behaving it it could be a way of doing  

something like you always uh like you live by  fishing that's my way of life all right again  

get and I have uh in the description I have  like what what the the kind of more complex  

way of saying these things is also so it's a  pretty simple list of these in the description  

uh all right K again says I'm just I'm just keep  on doing this yes so you will just say I remember  

we don't we don't use am like I am keep we just  say I I keep CU keep means it means continue  

already I keep you could say like I am keeping on  something but it's like it's it's too much you say  

I keep doing something or I I keep on I keep  on doing something to keep on keep on keeping  

on all right like Nicholas's example over there  all right uh aiz says what is the English level  

to re what's the English level is required so  you would say what English level is required  

what English level is required uh to make a couple  conversations with native English speakers and how  

much time will it take me to achieve it with my  B1 level um I can't really answer that uh without  

actually hearing you speak but I will say uh you  need a lot less vocabulary than most people think  

uh like many like fewer words uh the point is  do you know the vocabulary well so it's not how  

many words you know it's how well you know the  vocabulary okay so rather than trying to learn  

more words and thinking about how long that will  take you it's just how can I how can I get fluent  

one word and now how can I do that again with  more vocabulary so that's what we try to do uh  

in our videos so we really want to help you  understand things really well so you feel  

confident about using them and that's what  you should be thinking about uh but as you  

do this the the process accelerates so it gets  faster so I used a more complex word accelerate

accelerate Accel rate uh or I could just say to  get faster to get faster all right so as you learn  

in in this way that we're doing here like we're  just covering a few words but as you do that as  

you feel more confident about these you should  feel more like oh like I understand and now I  

can talk more fluently about that so that should  be the goal all right what's the difference screen  

get something over the line and get something out  the door uh well you actually could use those in  

in in like the same sentence uh but typically  to get something out the door means you need  

to like sell it or ship it or something so if  you have a factory and you make whatever that  

thing is inside it to get it out the door like  now we're going to send that to the customer or  

something that's typically where you hear uh that  that's where the expression comes from so to get  

something out the door uh to get something over  the line just means whatever your goal is all  

right so you imagine people playing like rugby  or football here 's the ball over here we need  

to get the ball over the line from here to here  okay so it's it's a slightly different uh example  

slightly different origin for what these things  are so getting something over the line it's like  

from not doing something to doing it or from  failure to success or whatever so maybe like  

to get something over the line you could have  different lines in a process like you have a  

you think about an idea we draw the idea we make  a model of the idea we start to sell the idea  

something like that so there could be lines and  all of those things okay all right so if we want  

to get something out the door usually we're trying  to make something like a product and then we begin  

selling it so lots of people might they might  keep the product inside the factory or they're  

just continuing to talk about it but some people  say hey we need to get this out the door we need  

to start selling this thing like enough don't  put any more features in the product just ship  

it now and see how it does okay so that's where  you're trying to get something out the door all  

right you could also be like physically trying to  get out the door yourself all right uh all right  

hopefully that makes sense why LM says why and you  would say why do many Americans always say things  

like you was and there a plural as sometimes it  even feels weird to say it different yes uh again  

there like just like the example before about get  and get you will have people that pronounce the  

words differently or even say them like I will use  incorrect grammar sometimes uh as well so I will  

say uh like there's there's two people over there  there's two people over there so that's your your  

example like that uh so sometimes people will use  incorrect grammar because it's just easier to say  

like the word a't I had I had like a lesson about  this a't so is not like a real word but people use  

it all right so the correct thing would be I am  not uh but people will use a't like I I ain't got  

time for that I ain't got time for that I ain't  got time for that all right uh let's see yes a  

Lifeline another good example Lifeline uh G says  hey I G from Brazil just want to say thank you  

for sharing your knowledge with us my pleasure all  right all right I'm keep on doing no you would say  

I keep on I keep on doing something I keep on  all right keep is an action word Lifeline many  

greetings from Turkey thank you very much systems  and blueprints okay thank you again why is so  

difficult to understand songs and movies as well  uh asked jono because the the language is very  

different from the English you learn in school  all right that's the that's the the real reason  

all right so you learn in class you have a teacher  who's probably speaking very clearly very slowly  

using very simple English and then a movie or  especially a song is going to be very difficult  

because it will have cultural references and slang  and the pronunciation might be different it's like  

a different language all right so you have to  learn to go from you have to go or you have to  

get from where you are to where you want to be  in steps that's what we do in fluent for life to  

help people understand these things uh says how to  speak like you I'm still in trouble yeah we have a  

whole program called speak like me that shows you  how to do that uh but again what I'm trying to do  

is help you remove any doubt that you have about  the language and that's how you speak so just  

think about things that you make mistakes with if  you're trying to learn by yourself that's how you  

do it all right so that's how I do it for Japanese  I don't have any Japanese classes I just listen to  

people uh and learn oh okay you say this in this  situation it's pretty pretty simple all right so  

when you stop trying to learn the traditional  way and you start understanding English like a  

native that's how you become fluent uh let's see  often hear the word lol from many Americans what  

does it mean uh well LOL means laugh out loud and  this is short internet slang because people are  

too lazy to type laugh out loud but that's what  that mean like LOL so people might say like lol  

like in person or whatever usually younger people  uh but yeah like older people like and I guess  

I'm like an older person now so I don't say LOL  but younger people would all right uh let's see  

and K says that makes so you would say that that  makes sense that makes sense that's the that's the  

spelling you're looking for all right Joseph here  oh I got that already uh was here that's right so  

people will write things uh and and in general uh  the the language is getting more corrupted over  

time so it gets worse there again to get corrupt  or get worse over time uh and it just means people  

don't spell very well or I mean even look at my  handwriting I'm like a doctor basically uh but  

yes like it's the language gets worse especially  younger people speaking could you tell me the  

difference between few and a few well if we're  talking about like like few like a a percentage  

of people or a percentage of something versus  like kind of being able to count uh another thing  

I don't want to go into like a long uh explanation  of that because it's not really based on the topic  

here and you can find more information about that  on Google as well ain't isn't a word I ain't G to  

use it there you go hello teacher my name is Paulo  from Brazil from Columbia excuse me uh I'm used to  

being I used to be what's the difference I made  a video about that as well look at that one uh  

uh makes and sense as well all right uh let me  see if I had any more that I wanted to go through  

because we're already at 80 minutes oh my goodness  all right I will encourage you to look through uh  

the rest of the examples so there are 10 different  words uh that you can look for in the description  

below this video and there are examples as well so  50 I think 50 different examples I have uh there  

five for each of those words and it will help you  understand those a little bit better all right  

but remember in general as you're trying to  learn the language you don't need to learn a  

bunch of advanced vocabulary you need to become  Advanced about the vocabulary you already know  

okay that's how you get fluent that's the that's  the real difference between a native speaker and  

a non-native speaker a native speaker has an  advanced understanding of simple vocabulary  

they also know more difficult words but in general  like a young child a 10-year-old child can speak  

better uh like a 10-year-old native child can  speak English better than an adult who's 40  

years old even if they've been learning English  for 10 years like both of them have been learning  

English for 10 years but the child uh has a much  stronger command of the language so they really  

understand what's happening they know how to use  the vocabulary very fluently they have an advanced  

understanding of the language rather than just  like an advanced knowledge of of lots of different  

words okay so if you want to speak fluently spend  a bit more time getting to know your vocabulary  

and you have to remove the doubt so if you have  any doubts about your vocabulary that's when you  

start speaking all right uh I think that should  be it Sim says I keep on following your lessons as  

much as I can I keep on learning new things from  your lessons thank you so much very good excellent  

uses of those and yes l o laughing my ass off is  another thing you will hear as well laugh my ass  

off l a l m a o l m m says if people keep on using  abbreviations we have a different language in the  

future yes that's correct so if you think about  languages in general they change over time and so  

people have to try to preserve the language so it  doesn't get worse because this is I'll write this  

word up for you guys here you probably know what  this is uh actually I'll give you one Advanced  

word Advanced word for today since we're covering  many simple ones this is e n t r o p y entropy  

entropy entropy entropy is like something gets  worse over time uh or it gets weaker or something  

just in general okay so over time if you don't  maintain your house it will start to collapse you  

know you will you will get cracks in your house  or you need to repaint it or something uh but this  

is just entropy so it's the process of something  getting weaker or older or whatever over time all  

right we build something but there's there are  forces that are attacking that thing or forces  

that are trying to make it uh weaker all the  time entropy entropy so even if we do nothing it  

will start to break down over time entropy so the  language does that too uh and you have people like  

me who are trying to like hold the language up a  little bit all right yes deteriorate is a word but  

it's not only for uh like the like yeah it's I I  guess it's a it's a similar a similar thing but  

you can you can think about like a moving object  we can continue to move and then you know there's  

some friction that stops IT from moving uh it's  the same idea as uh as entropy all right so things  

get things kind of uh collapse or yes you could  say deteriorate over time uh could you please  

explain about addition uh like sense Sensen and  senseless what do you mean ah you well that's a  

different topic if you're talking about uh using  prefixes or suffixes or changing words like that  

uh but if you get more examples of something like  if you have something something less if you hear  

this like hear this prefix enough you think oh  like less it's reducing something in some way  

okay so as you get more examples you don't want to  just get a definition you want to hear oh look at  

that like it's painless like something with pain  oh but it's painless so we have no pain in that  

thing so if we put Less on the end of a word well  look at that we reduce something or we remove it  

in some way all right I think we're at the  end here and Vincent says hi Drew is Vincent  

from South Africa how to learn phrasal verbs and  understand them in context uh we actually have  

a whole program about that influent for life  it's called the visual guide to phrasal verbs  

uh teaches hundreds of phrasal verbs and helps  you understand them like a native uh but you can  

find samples of that on our YouTube channel just  search phrasal verbs and it will show you how to  

do that but the basic idea is like everything else  understanding it like a native rather than trying  

to get definitions or translations all right  uh Olympia did it my way I did it my way that's  

right Sinatra's hit that's right I did it my way  uh and F say leaves a heart out is an adjective um  

oh are you're asking about the word uh well it's  like it's I I don't want to tell you like what  

something is because a word can change depending  on how you use it so out is a preposition like I  

could be like going out uh in some way or I could  be like doing something in like an out kind of  

like an out way so I it could be an adverb uh but  yeah I I would again I would look for a bunch of  

different examples of that rather than try to get  a definition about about what a word means because  

the meaning of words change all right so they like  it changes depending on the situation all right  

all right thanks says Areno so you're are you in  are you in Brazil like you are you like you're  

you're are you native Japanese or Japanese because  you have that's an interesting last name that's  

not a Japanese last name the first name is though  all right teacher it's time to drink water yes uh  

do you watch anime if so what's your favorite  what's my favorite uh I don't really I mean I  

see it sometimes I don't uh I don't really watch  anything recently the only anime I see actually  

is um kids shows so my my daughters they watch  they watch a couple different anime but like their  

favorite is osid tante osid tante is H is it's  like I I guess the English is the butt detective  

so it's a it's a it's like a detective kind of  crime show for kids and the the main character  

is a he's a he's a butt he has like a butt I  can't I don't even know how to draw him well  

but he has a he's has like a hat and a and a and  a coat that's a very bad picture of him but it's  

so it's he is the butt detective like butt so oh  shitty tante I'll write in Japanese oi so you can  

look that up oi tante so tante is detective all  right uh so I don't really watch anime uh but  

years ago when I watched it like the first animes  I saw probably ninja scroll I enjoyed that movie  

uh Ghost in the Shell uh I don't think I ever saw  uh AKA uh yeah I don't I don't really like watch  

watch so much anime any I yeah I just all right  uh let's see uh Ellen says thank you so much for  

what you do for us love it I'm from Dominican  Republic glad to hear welcome to the program  

all right yes I will drink some water let's  see all right so what am uh so am I what part  

of the country are you oh you guys talking to it  t all right uh yes I will have some water I have  

my look at that I I don't know if I showed  you guys bam look at that I got a 2 lit uh  

heavy uh like steel water container over here  look at that oh I got my delicious mint water

yes I don't really like to to take a break  in the middle because if people don't hear  

anything they're thinking something's wrong with  the video or whatever all right uh but thank you  

all it's been a pleasure thank you for answering  uh I was just curious looks like an Iran missile  

yes well it's just uh it's pretty heavy but  I wanted I didn't want a plastic bottle an  

American using leaders yes uh I've been in  Japan long enough I because that's all the  

you can't really buy a gallon of something  here unless you go to Costco uh but yes so  

I I use I still talk about my my height uh like  in feet unless I'm talking with Japanese people  

um but then I use uh meters or centimeters or  whatever and I it's interesting trying to teach  

my kids about that too all right Nicholas says  thank you for the live uh let's see oh D trein  

nice to see you again how teaching us so that we  can speak fluently although I no I will never be  

fluent like you cuz we have a different tongue  well remember you you you don't get fluent in  

the whole language there is still lots of the  language that I don't know I don't there like  

again let me destroy the uh the butt detective  very quickly here if you think about the whole  

language imagine this is all of the words in  English you need about 2% and this is this is  

even larger than 2% but just so you can see it  over here uh 2% of the language is what you need  

to understand most TV shows newspapers uh movies  conversations that that's it it's just this so  

there there are lots of words I don't know many  many many words I don't know so I am not fluent  

in those words I could probably learn them but uh  again it's how I learn the language that gets me  

fluent so I'm not just trying to study a bunch of  words because I want to actually use them fluent  

uh but if I can understand something well and  I focus on the important words that people use  

every day so even the word the this is the most  common word in English so you will find this  

everywhere I think even the word the' is like  7% of of text so if you look at a newspaper or  

something you will see the word like the all over  the place all right so you don't need to know a  

lot of the language to have a conversation you  just need to know that well all right so even me  

having conversations with people in Japan uh when  I started to get fluent because I started learning  

the way Japanese people learn the language I could  have conversations with people even with simple  

vocabulary so now I can explain more things I know  more words but I I don't need to know a lot okay  

so it's not about me like I look at a Japanese  person and think like wow like they can speak  

way better than I can it's just yeah they they  spent more time and they learned the language  

better than I learned it but now I'm learning  the same way they are but I actually know like  

a few tricks that can get me fluent faster so as  an example like learning Japanese uh kanji like  

the written characters there are I think 2,136  of them in the uh for what little kids learn  

or when I say little kids like uh from elementary  school up to High School uh but I can learn those  

in a few months all right so instead of taking  12 years I can learn that much faster okay so  

these are things that adults have that little  kids do not remember that just because we are  

adults doesn't mean like oh like I'm slow or I'm  worse at learning languages there are advantages  

that we have also I actually have a whole article  about that uh on our site but again the important  

thing is to focus on the things that you need for  your life not to learn random words but then to  

learn them well to understand them really well  all right all right I think uh that should be it  

but nice to see uh everybody here thank you for  joining me if you'd like to learn more about how  

to how to do this uh again you apply these ideas  on your own and become a fluent speaker that way  

it's just much faster and easier if you have  someone like me to help you do that all right  

hello from slina slow SL slow slowenia slowenia  okay pardon me all right uh but you can click on  

the links in the description below this video  uh if you have questions about that all right  

Dro again last comment here are you speaking in a  slow way in order to be understood right yes that  

is correct uh I understand everything you say uh  uh but what do you suggest for us to understand  

people speak at normal Pace uh you just need  to listen to more people speaking at a normal  

Pace that's the answer so this is what we do in  fluent for life so we have part of the lessons  

are me explaining things and uh other things over  here uh are like things that maybe a native would  

say uh or it would be in a faster way like actual  natives speaking with each other so they're not  

trying to be uh more easy to understand all right  so you get all of those examples that's what do  

in the program but if you're trying to do it by  yourself that's how you would do it all right K  

says uh thank you very much teacher Drew I was  able to attend your lesson for the first time  

in a while again grammar is correct yes I'm still  not confident in my writing I'm glad you had water  

thank you for your concern yes uh what words  don't you know that's an interesting question  

I guess if I could answer that I would know  those words thank you drew uh may I come speak  

English but I can't read may I come speak English  thanks for your classes thanks for coming have a  

nice day and thanks all right have a fantastic  day and we'll see you in the next video byebye