Why You’re Not Getting More Fluent In English

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and if you have questions uh feel free to post  them and I will do my best to answer those for  

you uh and we'll see oh looks like YouTube is  live so welcome I am Drew Badger the founder  

of englishanyone.com and welcome to another  live video here on YouTube today the English  

fluency guide that's me I'm going to help you  understand uh more really what I've seen as  

the number one thing that has stopped the  people I've worked with uh over 20 years so  

helping people get flu for 20 years wow  more than 20 years that's a long time I  

did not think I would be doing this many  years ago but uh I've enjoyed it so much  

I've just continued to do it well nice to see  you there George all right uh making sure we  

are working here we should be all right okay  uh let me erase the board and then we'll get

started I wanted to make this video because I had  an interesting conversation with a learner um they  

were asking me about some vocabulary and how to  improve their vocabulary uh and I recommended one  

of my videos and they said oh well that video is I  don't know it's like a few years old or something  

like that and I said well like it doesn't matter  if the like if the video is uh is old or not  

the point is does the vocabulary or the lesson  actually help you improve uh and so often like  

I will get you know comments like that maybe not  so often a lot of people I think they understand  

this you might have an old book for example  that's still a great story but maybe it was  

just made many years ago and the interesting thing  is that this learner who was uh talking with me uh  

their their use of the language they were using  so like they were not using it correctly so when  

when people say to me like oh I I don't want to  learn that thing because it's older it's like well  

you're you're not communicating correctly so why  not like what is your goal here do you want to  

become a confident uh correct speaker or do you  care I mean does it does it matter uh and so again  

I I thought that was just an interesting thing  uh because really what I found is the number one  

thing that stops people from from getting fluent  is the review uh so even if people get what I  

would call bad lessons like the the lessons just  aren't very good uh and what I mean by that is uh  

well here let me let me draw this very quickly I  talked about the the fluency triangle in the last  

video but I think it's important just to mention  it here since we always have new people joining us  

uh but you can look at uh individual lessons and  actually judge whether the lessons are helpful or  

not at getting you more fluent based on what the  lessons are doing uh so I'll just put here ft uh  

for fluency triangle and the basic idea of the  fluency triangle is there are three things you  

need to become a fluent speaker the first one is  you need to have real English so you actually need  

to learn the real vocabulary natives are using  or you won't understand people or communicate  

confidently I think that's pretty obvious for  most people uh but the second thing and this is  

a little bit trickier this is that you need to  learn that as a first language so you need to  

not learn it uh through your like through your  native language through translations or getting  

definitions you actually have to understand the  language like a native and I'll give you some  

examples of that later in this video uh and then  the third thing uh is the review part which we'll  

be talking about specifically in this video uh  which is what I call naturally varied review and  

so naturally varied review is a way of reviewing  the content and actually developing fluency  

because even if you learn some real English and  you learn it the same way a native does you might  

forget that information pretty quickly or you  might not be prepared if people say something  

different or pronounce things differently or maybe  they don't pronounce things very C very clear  

so there are lots of good reasons to review  and the important thing is to review things in  

different ways all right and so I contrast the  fluency triangle with basically what you could  

call the test prep triangle so the test prep  triangle instead of learning real vocabulary  

you will learn some of that but a lot of it is  just formal English used for writing and this  

is why often people will say oh I understand what  the teacher tells me but I don't understand what  

people in real life or movies or whatever are  saying so it's actually a different English now  

just to make it very clear uh if we've got real  English over here and formal English over here  

obviously there is some some overlap between  those two so native speakers are using some  

textbook English or whatever it's not that big of  a deal but the the the problem is it's not just  

the vocabulary it's also the way people speak it's  usually less clear or natives are blending their  

sounds together or they're speaking with a more  difficult accent than like how I'm speaking now  

which is a very clear easy to understand English  okay so I'm giving you more of this but you still  

need to get this if you want to understand  natives okay so they're also getting things  

they're learning English as a second language  usually they're learning through their native  

language they're just getting textbook definitions  of things or translations they're trying to study  

rules and they probably understand a lot of  rules uh maybe they could take a test and pass  

that so really that's the point of the test prep  triangle here uh and then the review over here  

is really trying to get lots of speaking and you  really try to just repeat things to yourself if  

you don't have people to practice with maybe you  use flashcards or you talk to yourself but that's  

basically the repetition right there for review  so see how these things are they're related but  

they're actually quite different and so natives  are learning the language this way and non-natives  

are typically learning the language this way and  this is really what I found is like the biggest  

problem for people people because let's say  you could go right here on YouTube and actually  

find lots of vocabulary videos that are actually  teaching you the way people really speak you'll  

find lots of those here uh but the more difficult  the more uh much more difficult thing to find  

on YouTube is actually getting naturally varied  review because you need to actually use different  

videos in order to do that uh it's pretty rare to  find a video that would give you enough naturally  

varied review within that video so you need to  get lots of different native speakers and you  

need to hear them at different speeds and you need  to hear things in different tenses there's lots of  

different variety that you need to prepare for and  the whole point of this this fluency triangle here  

is to prepare you for real communication because  you don't know what people are going to say so in  

a test you usually know what the teacher is going  to say the teacher says this and then I have to  

respond with this thing over here so it's a very  uh specific thing there's usually one answer like  

a correct answer for a test uh but there are  many answers that could be correct in read  

communication okay so obviously these things are  related and there will be some overlap between  

these two so some of the test kind of things that  you will learn in class and the real things that  

natives will learn in the same way but there will  be some overlap there but this point here um again  

even if you get bad lessons so even if you learn  lots of uh like formal English or textbook English  

uh you probably aren't learning it like a native  does you don't really understand it like a native  

does you probably have a good a good sense for  some basic things but natives really know how to  

use the language very well um but this part over  here the two main reasons that people don't get  

enough review are number one because it's boring  so I'll just put this up here for for the people  

who know a lot of English but still have trouble  speaking it's really because they're not getting  

enough review uh and the review they need to  be getting is actually naturally varied review  

not just more repetition because if you don't  know something fluently already then knowing  

it again by repeating it more is probably not  going to help you all right so we need to have  

more examples but again the reasons people don't  get this number one is it's boring this is why  

people are always interested in new information  so English Learners are always looking for new  

information and it's even if they know I don't  know they've they've seen something and they they  

haven't really learned it well enough they're  still looking for more new information anyway  

all right uh and then the second reason over here  this is this is a trickier one but this is because  

they think they know that vocabulary already all  right so some people they're they're even happy  

to review but they think oh like I know that word  I know what that means so I'm not going to review  

that word more all right and so like maybe I think  of a better way to express this uh like they they

think so they think they know the vocabulary  all right now in for me learning Japanese this  

happens to me all the time when I will know a  word and then I will be surprised when I hear  

it used in some new way and I think oh wow isn't  that interesting that I thought I knew that word  

but really I'm I'm still learning it I'm I'm  still getting more fluent and as I get more  

examples and more varied examples that's what's  going to get me fluent uh in using that word okay  

hopefully that makes sense let me know if you  have any questions about this uh but I wanted  

to review this for people just very quickly again  the the the reason native speakers become native  

speakers they're not born native but they become  native is because they're learning this way so  

they are learning the real language and they are  understanding it like U actually just directly  

in the language without needing translations or  explanations about grammar rules that kind of  

thing and they're getting lots of varied review so  their parents will tell them something and their  

friends will tell them something like that so it's  very simple but you need all three of these things  

if you want to get fluent and often what happens  is people do maybe like a mix of both of these so  

some people who are learning like watching videos  here on YouTube they will get some real English  

but then they will learn it like a non-native  speaker and this basically means they're usually  

getting a translation like it's a video about uh  here are some interesting phrases but a Spanish  

speaker is teaching that through Spanish  and so they're giving a Spanish explanation  

uh or Portuguese or Chinese or whatever and so  this is the way most people learn so even if  

you get that real vocabulary if you don't  understand it like a native and you don't  

review it like a native then you're not going to  speak like a native all right but it's important  

to remember natives are not born they are made  okay so anybody could become a native if you just  

switch from really learning this way to learning  that way all right now before I give a bunch of  

examples of this uh let me go check comments see  if anybody has any questions I think this should  

be a pretty easy thing to understand but let me  know I want to make sure this is clear but you  

have to be very careful about this as a learner  even myself I have to remind myself like if I know  

so humans in general are bored by things if we see  the same thing over and over again because we just  

don't really care about it we already know about  that thing I want to know what's new that's why we  

ask people what's new when we see them hey how's  it going what's new we're asking people uh has  

anything changed in your life what's new so that's  a good greeting as well what's new so when we  

meet people we don't say what's old we say what's  new so we want to know what's what's a new thing  

happening in your life or the news so what is some  new information that we can get because we don't  

care about old information we already know old  information or we think we know okay so if we know  

things are going to be boring for us then that  means we have to vary the review okay so we have  

to trick our mind into reviewing things by giving  the the A variation of that thing to make it new  

for our mind okay that's why we have naturally  varied review and that's why people naturally  

get fluent that way when they get lots of examples  from different people all right so even if they  

think they know that they usually don't and so  we have to be very careful about that as Learners  

so whatever language you're learning you have to  remember that maybe I don't know this as well as  

I think I do I should be open to uh to reviewing  things and learning things in a new way or hearing  

different people say those things or hearing it  at a different speed or something like that so  

if you can overcome these two challenges you will  easily become fluent and you actually have a good  

chance even if you learn the traditional way so  even if you learn uh textbook English and you're  

still learning it through your native language if  you get lots of naturally varied review uh that's  

really going to help you a lot more so even if  you're trying to learn through translations which  

I don't recommend uh just makes it more difficult  for you but uh if you had to have one of these  

pieces the naturally varied review is the thing  that's going to help you the most because a lot  

of people they learn their their kind of textbook  English but they still don't review it very much  

and that's because either it's boring to review  it they don't want to repeat that again and again  

where they think they know it but they really  don't so I started this video talking about a  

learner who was asking me about something and uh  I said oh you should watch this video and he said  

I I don't want to watch that video cuz it's older  uh and I said well but you're you're like the the  

language you're using is incorrect that means  that even even this vocabulary here that's old  

vocabulary for you you don't know it so why are  you trying to learn new vocabulary before you  

understand the other vocabulary now most of the  vocabulary I'm using right now I learned this I  

don't know 30 years ago this is not like lots of  new vocabulary I'm using a lot of it is basic uh  

and helping people understand the language you can  see I'm communicating even if I don't use a lot of  

difficult vocabulary but it's because I know how  to use the vocabulary I knew how to kind of fight  

this to fight the uh the boredom and making sure  I know things by getting lots of naturally varied  

review so that's how I got fluent in English so  I wasn't born a native speaker I became a native  

speaker because I learned this way and that means  you can do the same thing all right now before I  

give a bunch of examples let me go back uh look  at chat if you have any questions uh about this or  

anything else but I'm going to give you some  examples of naturally varied review all right  

uh Louis nice to see you there George again  and I can't read the Arabic unfortunately but  

it looks like a sad face uh this is sometimes my  feeling your theme of your class sometimes I feel  

confident sometimes I feel bad yes and so like  this will happen as you learn the when you're  

trying to learn a new language because it does  take some time like you're you're going to feel  

like this like hopefully over time it's trending  up uh a lot of people it's kind of trending like  

this where where it's just they're not actually  improving even though they're learning more um  

but yeah there will be some days for me I feel  like wow my Japanese was really good today and  

other days I'm just like I don't know I forgot  some simple word yesterday actually I I forgot  

some English word I knew the Japanese but I had  forgotten the English I still don't remember the  

English for uh like so my daughter went to the  dentist and she had some teeth pulled uh and this  

means like she's you know her she had like some  just I don't know crowding or something like that  

but she had two teeth pulled uh and then she got  some like in Japanese we say masui uh and this is  

like the uh like now I can't remember the English  but it's it's what numbs your your gums or your  

mouth or whatever so you could call it novacaine  but I think that's a brand name and not like a  

kind of thing but anyway uh so you there will  be sometimes where you feel good and sometimes  

where you not or you don't feel so good um and  that's okay but if you're learning the right way  

if you trust the plan you trust the system uh you  should be tending up over time uh Amnesia is when  

you forget things that's close though Amnesia  yeah am Amnesia is like you you wake up like  

oh no I I forget I forget who I am that's Amnesia  you're thinking of like ah now I forget what's the  

somebody look somebody looked that up for me yeah  anesthesia that's right yes like an anesthesia and  

am Amnesia is similar but yes it sounds similar  but it's a different word anyway uh Lewis do not  

feel bad about that hopefully over time you should  be feeling better if you focus on this you will  

absolutely improve guaranteed because it's really  what other people are doing to you that gets you  

fluent now you you'll notice from this example um  I haven't talked about this in a while but I think  

maybe it's good to review it anyway um getting  fluent in a language is actually quite different  

than exercising in a gym so if I am a Gym trainer  I will go to the gym with someone and I can tell  

them what to do I say okay take this weight and  move it like this or like that or whatever uh  

but then you have to lift the weight all right you  actually have to do the work and it's going to the  

gym can be quite boring and because you have that  repetition you're just moving some weight again  

and again uh so you can see why a lot of people do  not like going to the gym but with getting fluent  

it's actually something that other people do to  you especially uh other people teaching young  

children so young children are not talking to  themselves in the mirror they're not studying  

flashcards they're not reading grammar books  they're just getting all of these examples from  

other people that make the language understandable  and so that's why I spend a lot of time uh giving  

these kinds of lessons and reminding you that it's  not like something you have to do by yourself to  

try to understand the language you only have to  do that if you're learning by yourself but if you  

have someone to help you then all of this stuff  is really doing the hard work for you to get you  

fluent all right so I'll give you an example of  this uh in just a moment uh Olympia nice to see  

you there dear teacher and Diana says hello xemma  says teacher I pretty understand American English  

you would say I pretty yeah you could say maybe  I pretty much understand uh the American American  

accent but I don't understand anything when I hear  British accent sounds like another language to me  

uh yes so if you have more experience listening to  British English then you will understand it better  

and even in America there are various accents uh  so you just need to get more experience with that  

accent if you want to understand it and even you  know within Britain you will have a variety of  

accents as well n says hello from Morocco icr says  hello from Saudi Arabia hello my uncle that's my  

that's my uh my nephew maybe or more my niece  I can't tell uh let's see uh Joseph says what  

can I do if I have ADHD I can't stay focused  um I guess it depends like if you have like a  

a specific issue I mean I probably have ADHD you  know I'm always looking at new things and trying  

to figure things out um but I would look for uh a  particular thing that you are interested in so I  

know like recently maybe the past 20 years or  something more have uh ADHD d and or you know  

whatever kind of you know diseases or or some  mental problem where they can't focus in school  

uh I don't know if that's true or if that's really  happening or not it's not really the point but uh  

typically even if you have a child who maybe has  ADHD or has some kind of issue there is something  

that they can focus on and if you look at what  they are enjoying like they can sit and you know  

paint or something for for a long time so my older  daughter Arya is a good example of this uh like  

you could look at her she loves to run around  and and you know jump and play and she'll jump  

in the house uh and you could think wow this this  little girl has a lot of energy but maybe she has  

ADHD or something but if you sit her down and say  oh would you like to draw something she can draw  

for an hour so the the issue is not like does a  child have a problem or I mean even you know you  

with with whatever that is uh I would look for a  particular thing in your life that you are able  

to focus on so if you're not able to focus on  anything at all like you can't even watch a TV  

show for a little bit or you can't read a book or  you can't whatever your interest is uh then you  

might have an actual problem and I'm not the best  advice for that but if you do have something uh  

that you're interested in I would start there this  actually reminds me of a comic uh I was it was  

just a comedian I was listening to uh and he was  uh he was talking with his like his little nephew  

and this little kid was holding some Pokemon cards  and he and he started showing his uncle all these  

Pokemon cards and he said oh look this Pokemon  does this and it has all these cool little you  

know things or these powers or something and  this Pokemon does this and his uncle was just  

like oh wow that's really cool and after after the  child had explained all of that the uncle took the  

child into the bathroom and he said this is my  shampoo this shampoo does this it has all this  

cool stuff and after I use the shampoo then I use  this conditioner uh and this conditioner does this  

stuff and then I have a special soap and this does  this and obviously the child looked very bored so  

the child didn't care about that but it's exactly  the same thing so if we look at a child and say  

well that child is you know they have ADHD or you  know they don't care about whatever you know the  

the particular subject is they're probably is  something they can focus on so I would focus on  

that uh think about something that you do like or  enjoy or are able to focus on and then use that  

and connect that with the English so if you like  learning about whatever do that thing in English  

that's that's how I would do it uh teacher what  should I do to be a good interpreter it's hard  

for me to hear and translate at the same time  oh oh that's that's a tricky one uh I would I  

mean I would really get very good if you can at  learning English as a first language and and so  

that's the kind of thing that I teach here so  if you learn things [Music] and I don't I don't  

do professional interpreting and I'm not like a  whispering interpreter which I think is really  

cool uh but I do do some translating or whatever  like my mother will be in town uh this coming week  

and uh I will probably do a lot of interpreting  uh having you know being able to speak Japanese  

and English with you know her and other people uh  but the the tricky thing often for people who are  

trying to translate uh is if you're learning  so like this is your your native language and  

then you're learning another language over here  and then you have a third language that you're  

trying to learn uh if you learn if you learn the  languages through each other like that so this  

is like the first one you learn and the second one  you learn um it's much more difficult and you will  

be much slower uh you will think more slowly and  and be able to express yourself more slowly if you  

learn this way but if instead you're able to learn  both languages as a first language then you should  

be able to uh communicate and respond much faster  so I would focus on that anytime you're trying to  

learn things you really want to understand it  the same way a native does and then all you're  

really doing because it's all a native language  to you at that point uh so if you're learning  

like if I'm learning Japanese even if my native  language is English if I'm learning Japanese  

like a native speaker then it becomes a native  language for me also so I have a native Japanese  

and native English uh but if I try to learn learn  a different language through a translation then  

it will be more difficult for me all right so what  I'm going to show you uh in this video is actually  

an example of this but it's all in English and  that will be uh some naturally varied review but  

it's taking one situation and giving you lots  of different ways to say that and so what we're  

doing when we interpret something we're not we're  not really trying to like translate one thing to  

another it's more like here's what I want to say  and here's how I might say that in one language  

and how I might say that in another language just  like how I might you know say one thing in in many  

different ways in English so I'll give you an  example of that in just a moment but that's how  

I would do it so I'm not trying to really like  learn these things through each other I'm just  

understanding all of them directly so I can make  that connection very quickly and it doesn't really  

seem like translating uh even though that's that's  basically what you would be doing all right so  

it's it's kind of it seems like it's translating  but it's not because you're going Direct  

ly uh from your your just natural understanding of  the language so Pedro says I can understand almost  

everything you say as long as I speak fluently  hail to Brazil so Olympia says thank you George  

S oh you got that answer already cam says good  morning nice to see you there uh Marcel from  

Brazil thanks for the class not a lot of Brazilian  a lot of Brazilian Flags over Mr stranger says you  

have been older yes I get older every day every  day there wasn't there wasn't a single day in  

my life where I got younger one day I wish it  happened that would be so cool if I if there  

were some days I woke up and I was younger that  would be awesome but no it happens this way uh  

Johan says or Joe or Jay Joe Johan Joan you were  really helpful to me when I was still learning  

English and improved my listening I used to watch  your videos always thank you so much you're great  

glad to hear it if you do like the videos click  the like button and share the videos with other  

people and good evening teacher says estudos  cono if I'm pronouncing that correctly let's  

see and Don says that keeps happening to me every  time I understand a new word and then looking for  

its meaning in Arabic and can't remember it DOC  I think I'm losing my own mother tongue and I'm  

getting weaker in both yes sometimes it it it  happens like that like I was explaining I forgot  

I forgot anesthesia but I I never used the word  anesthesia I haven't said anesthesia in so long um  

but I mean now that I hear it I like okay it's  back again I remember it it's like riding a bike  

even if you don't ride a bike for a while you get  back on and it comes back to you so you remember  

how to do something it comes back to you so yes  there will be some days where maybe you're not  

feeling so confident or you forget some words  or something like that but in general if you're  

learning the right way you should be feeling more  fluent over time uh let's see but yes I would  

remember if you if you don't understand something  uh in English try to get a different example of  

that thing all right don't don't just quickly go  back to your native language the whole point is to  

understand something uh and so that's what I try  to do I try to help people understand things Rose  

says I need people to practice uh as I tell people  often no you don't you actually don't need I mean  

if you're practicing with me right now it's really  me helping you understand the language better so  

you don't need me physically there and you don't  need to say anything you're the one getting fluent  

because of the way I teach all right so if I can  teach you real English and help you understand it  

like a native and give you lots of naturally  varied review then you will feel much more  

confident and then you will start speaking okay  so the speaking is the result of learning with  

the fluency triangle and over here it's really  more of frustration and maybe you're prepared for  

some specific answers per tests but you will be  finding it more difficult in regular communication  

if you learn that way all right let's see oh no  I'm going to try to read this katak here let's

see what is that what is that is that I'm I'm so  bad with reading Katakana because I don't know  

what it's what it's supposed to what it's supposed  to say even even like a like a simple word like  

cakey I'm like what is that and it's like oh cake  that's what they mean cake okay uh do I live in  

the United States no I am from Chicago but I am  uh in Nagasaki Japan right now uh Rell says Hi  

teacher how have you been doing I've been doing  well ahed says I understand you very well and  

my English language is almost good I am listening  too much when I am alone my pronunciation uh it's  

like American but in public totally different  now this is always an interesting thing I get  

ver maybe uh variations on this kind of comment  where people are able to speak by themselves uh  

but when they're uh speaking with other people  then their language changes and I I found this  

um for me it's it's an interesting thing maybe I  should make a video talking about this idea but  

like I I've noticed my my Japanese is better uh  when I'm speaking with people who who don't know  

anything about me and uh if the if someone if I  have known them for a long time and they knew me  

when I could not speak Japanese then my Japanese  is not as good and I think it's because I feel uh  

I'm being judged by the person even if they're  not like actually judging me they I'm just feeling  

like well they they knew me when I was not a good  speaker and now uh like if I am a good speaker  

uh I worry about making more mistakes because I  want to show them that I can I can speak well now  

uh but for people who don't know me if I just  see someone at a hotel or on the street or in  

a store restaurant I just start speaking and my  Japanese is much better so there's an interesting  

uh psychology part um about like like how we learn  and how we communicate and part of that is is what  

we think about other people so I actually made a  video talking about that uh just search my lives  

and you will see um for let's see what was it  called it was like if you're able to speak speak  

alone but you can't speak with other people or  something like that I forget the exact title  

uh but I talk more about that specific issue uh  and often uh part of that is is that reason where  

we're we're feeling like we're being judged by  other people uh but often we're also not able to  

judge our own speaking very well so a native can  listen to our speech and tell us oh like here are  

the things that maybe sound incorrect or uh could  be better or something like that so there there  

are some interesting reasons why that happens  uh let's see leou says actually every single  

second we stay older that's true yes you know it's  like time doesn't actually move but we we kind of  

feel older it's interesting how that works uh Mr  stranger shut up he's so handsome well you can I  

can be getting older but still be handsome you  know we got that that overlap here so this is  

me getting older and this is me being handsome  and so we've got the the overlap in the middle  

there you can be you can be both we we call this  aging gracefully aging to get older gracefully  

all right let's see uh La Lomi Lomi from  Haiti thank you and Nico says a how would  

you teach pronun how hey how would you teach  pronunciation for me it's difficult to find  

difference between the Sheep uh and the eye of  ship ah uh if you if you want this the perfect  

solution the exact thing you're asking  for is what we made it's an app called

Frederick uh and you can click on the link  in the description to get it but the way it  

works is it's the first app of its kind that  actually lets you spin different wheels and  

produce different sounds that let you compare  things like that so I can listen to something  

like ship or sheep and we're continuing to  improve uh the app and design more things but  

it will take you through all of the levels  of phonics and different sounds so all the  

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to get that uh let's see see again uh why  don't you grow your hair Mr Andrew Maybe  

Sparky style spiky I don't know what that mean  you mean spiky spiky style would be awesome well  

I keep thinking about cutting cutting all of  my hair off I want to I want to shave it off  

but my wife won't let me she says no don't don't  do it don't do it Olympia uh as the good wine yes  

JP says thank you your explanations are taking my  English to the next level yes and so when people  

say that uh that's great to hear and the reason  that's happening is because you're understanding  

something better more deeply rather than just uh  only learning new information that you forget so  

why are you so beautiful see that's a good comment  right there that's a that's a great question why  

are you so beautiful I don't know you know I guess  I uh I don't know no idea but I'm glad you think  

so there you go I'm G to try to read that that  Katakana again let's see I'm gonna read it slowly

Z Death Note ah okay Death Note oh okay  I see what you're talking about now I got  

all right uh Med says hello my favorite teacher  this is me S I'm happy to be here with you welcome  

PO says Drew from Chile uh I understand what  you're saying about being an interpreter as  

a native speaker but I believe that in the end  you are somehow translating in your mind when  

interpreting do you agree no uh I don't agree  and I I'll explain like why I don't agree with  

that I gave an example of that before but I'll  give you another example in a moment about that  

I'm just going through these questions uh  Miguel says uh but I can't speak in English  

just understand when somebody is talking again  uh you're probably lacking review so you don't  

know the information as well as you think you do  and I'll show you some more examples of how that  

works uh in this video all right uh let's see  Louis says how do you say a galloza in English  

could be gray fox I don't know what gallosa  gallosa means does that mean is that gray  

fox I don't know is cza does that mean Fox and  Gallow means gray if it does then yeah that would  

that would be it and Rose says hello uh if  you need someone to practice I'm here I'm an  

intermediate English speaker all right now  remember you don't need to have someone to  

practice your English with because it's all about  input it's about getting the language and making  

sure it's understandable to you and after you feel  confident then you can speak okay if you want to  

try to improve your English by speaking with other  people you can but most likely you're just going  

to use information at your level that you already  feel comfortable with so you're probably not going  

to improve very much in order to improve you need  to stretch yourself and that means you need to  

get literally to a higher level of understanding  and you don't do that by speaking you do that by  

getting more information by understanding the  language better all right uh Alex says hi dear  

Drew let me express my gratitude to you you really  helped me to find the way to get fluency you help  

me to break a language be alfl originally from La  Lip lip liet lipet USSR welcome well that's great  

again if you have found these videos helpful do  click the like button and let other people know  

say hey come watch this guy all right now it's  interesting that we're getting this uh question  

about translating uh or being able to interpret  things but let me remind you uh in English and  

probably in your language as well you might  have a situation like something you want to  

express and you will have many different ways of  saying this okay so I could say for example uh

really big wave so the situation this is a  nice visual thing pretty easy to understand  

let's say I'm standing on the beach if you  can see that so here I am uh it's me I got  

my uh swim trunks on kind of okay oh that's  kind of a that might that's that's a little  

dangerous right there let me let me draw  this more uh cleanly there we go all right  

so that's me and my swim trunks on the beach  and I see wow look at that a giant wave now  

there are different ways I could express that  I could say wow really big wave I could say

giant giant wave or I could

say tsunami all right so wow look at that like or  the news is talking about that they say there's  

a really big wave coming this way be careful  there is a giant wave coming this way oh there  

is a tsunami coming this way all right now most  adult English speakers would know all of these  

things they would understand that and they all  mean the same thing what I'm doing right now is  

interpreting I have one thing I want to express  it's this situation right here this wave uh but  

there are different ways I could say that okay  and notice one of these things is a Japanese  

word isn't that interesting but a native a native  speaker doesn't realize that's a Japanese word  

unless they know like they they've heard that or  they understand the history of the word uh then  

you know something like that but hopefully you  guys get the idea here that to a native speaker  

the word tsunami is a native English word it  becomes an English word like it's now an English  

word in English like it's not people aren't  aren't thinking it's a Japanese word they're not  

translating in their head they're just thinking  oh look at that a tsunami all right now they might  

not even pronounce it like that they might say  like Tsunami Tsunami Tsunami uh but again this  

is the the the Japanese word they don't realize  it's a Japanese word because they learned it as  

a native speaker all right now if I take you to a  Japanese class and I say okay here is a really big  

wave and we're going to go from big wave and now  how do you say that in Japanese you say the word  

tsunami okay so here this is an example of going  from a situation to the native English to some  

Japanese word instead but we don't learn that way  instead we go from the situation to the Japanese  

word and the English word but we don't think  about it as a Japanese word it's just a different  

word in English so I can switch from any of these  things and I'm not really uh translating here I'm  

just selecting a different thing that I understand  natively so all of these things really big wave  

Giant Wave tsunami it's just different examples  of ways I could express this same situation okay  

so it's the exact same thing as here's something  I want to say here's how I might say it in Italian  

here's how I might say it in Spanish here's how  I might say it in whatever and so young kids when  

they're learning languages this way they will hear  a word like tsunami and they will not think like  

oh that's wait a minute isn't that a Japanese  word they don't know they don't know what word  

came from French or German or whatever okay so  when you're trying to think about interpreting  

you can see how it's much easier to interpret  this way I can go from the situation to like ah  

like how do we say this in French or how do we  say this in Italian or or whatever all right so  

they're like songs for little kids that just teach  them like what are different words for friend and  

they say like oh Amigo or uh Amit or whatever you  know like different uh like Monami like like from  

French or Spanish or Italian or whatever and so  kids don't realize like oh that word came from  

French they're just hearing it's just another word  for friend but in a different language that they  

don't know all right but it becomes it becomes  like a native language to them all right so we  

put these categories like well this is an English  thing and this is a a what thing but what is this  

what is tsunami is it English or Japanese or both  or what okay so the point is if you're if you're  

learning the things directly it becomes much  easier to use them automatically when you speak  

and it doesn't matter uh what level you know what  what level or what excuse me uh what language it  

is you're using all right uh let see so gray fox  would be a middle-aged man with a good fit like a  

gall Sena or gray fox ah okay uh okay then there  you go is that you're saying I'm that aala yeah I  

need to get like the pronunciation down for that  what what does that kind of guy do I need like a  

like what it was the like the Spanish equivalent  I don't know like a cool like some sunglasses or  

something like that I can put some sunglasses  on I don't know I don't know what people do for  

that but peris says Hi everyone C says his pants  are bigger than his entire body yes well that's a  

you know it's just a funny picture you understand  what it means I'm I'm exaggerating uh the short uh  

my my swimsuit over here my swim trunks tell us  a short way to improve our language efficiency uh  

or efficient and efficiency without more time  and cost uh just watch more videos about the  

things you're interested in here on YouTube in  English that's it so if you don't want to spend  

any money you just like you're you're uh if if  like if money is more important to you than time  

then you should just watch more YouTube videos in  English but you have to be smart about how you do  

it don't watch random uh YouTube videos about like  language lessons you should get maybe one language  

lesson and then look for those examples in other  videos or watch different topics and focus on  

a few different videos about that topic okay so  uh we don't want to like just want watch a bunch  

of random stuff that's only English teachers  and especially like teaching you through your  

native language so if you don't want to spend any  money and your time is is maybe maybe your money  

is more important than your time for for those  people then do that just watch videos on YouTube  

about specific topics you could get fluent that  way it's just more difficult to find things and  

then try to understand everything again you're  you're really choosing between money and time  

which is more important to you so for me like  I always choose time because I I can get more  

money I'll figure out some way to get more money  but like I'm not going to get more time so I want  

to be trying to get fluent if if efficiency is  really the most important thing but you can't  

really have both you can't have like the most  efficient thing and the like the cheapest thing  

at the same time because usually you're you're  able to save uh Time by using money okay so just  

pick which one you want to do so if you want to  get fluent uh and you don't mind spending a lot  

of time doing it then then do that all right so  look for videos on YouTube about things you're  

interested in and watch a lot of those in English  all right so whatever the topic is watch 10 videos  

about that thing from different people and you  will learn more and you will feel more confident  

and then you will start being able to speak uh  because the fluency happens as you understand the  

language better all right but just pick which one  uh you'd like to do let's see and Miguel says uh  

teacher when are you coming to miico uh I was in  Mexico uh when was I in Mexico I've been to Mexico  

a few few times actually I don't know when when  are you paying for my trip then I'll think about  

coming to Mexico someone can organize a trip for  me and I'll come Rose says okay Baris what is your  

speaking L okay you guys are speaking with each  other Shang wayu says good morning Drew uh like  

you I tend to figure out new things there you go  uh and jerma says Hi teacher and Shang again as I  

keep watching your live session some thoughts pop  in my mind how can I break a situation into pieace  

let's say I am facing a new situation what do I  normally uh normally uh need to look for first  

when you say break a situation into pieces what do  you mean by that when when I give these examples  

what I'm talking about is there is something you  want to say but there are usually many ways to  

express that thing so a greeting if I meet you  for the first time or if I see you after a long  

time I could just say oh hey or hi how are you how  have you been how is your family what's up how are  

things going so these are the different ways we  might express the same situation just like here  

we have this big wave in the water and I could say  oh really big wave Giant Wave tsunami and there  

are you know maybe some uh some different ways of  expressing that okay so uh if you have more give  

me some more information if I'm not answering your  question um but let me know uh if that makes sense  

but the basic idea a for this is that we do have  different ways of expressing things and I'll give  

you an example of that now uh Zack Keen says hyre  I just want to know your dra you mean daughter uh  

D you mean daughter speaks English like a native  English speaker or she has some accent uh oh my  

daughters if you're if you're talking about them  uh when they're speaking English they sound like  

native English speakers uh their English level  is not as good as their Japanese but they their  

pronunciation is perfect uh and that's cuz they  get get lots of examples from me but also from  

television or you know radio or other native  speakers that kind of thing so I make sure  

they get lots of naturally varied review so my  daughters are living in Japan and they spend  

actually more uh more time really most of their  day uh in a Japanese environment So speaking with  

other people in Japanese so I have to be smarter I  have to be very efficient with my time about how I  

teach them so I need to make sure they're getting  lots of naturally varied review learning things  

uh that natives actually say and making sure  they understand it like a native I don't I  

don't use Japanese to teach them English all  right uh let's see and are you coming I don't  

know what those are versus do ah you mean like  well if you're if you're saying like are you  

coming like it depends on the situation like  are you like I'm I'm calling my friend and he  

should be like arriving at my house is said hey  are you coming are you coming over that's how  

you would say that hi I love your videos from  Columbia says Paul glad to hear it click the  

like button NCO says so according to your beliefs  you would say beliefs here your beliefs you agree  

with Steven crash in theory that we could reach  the fluency consuming comprehensible input uh  

whether it's from your courses or the internet uh  so yes uh crashing the basic idea about crashing  

is uh comprehensible input and I'm a big fan of  crashing he discovered the same thing I did but  

the the thing I kind of extended crashing  with was uh this so again this idea I just  

call it understandable messages because that  sounds a little bit easier to understand so

compre comprehensible input so comprehensible  input just means information that you understand  

all in the language you're learning so you  shouldn't be needing uh translations if you  

can understand things directly in the language  all right so that's what comprehensible input  

means um but when when I was learning about crash  and so after I after basically I discovered this  

the same thing independently uh I just call it  like these ideas here about learning English  

like a native um or learning English as a first  language rather than learning it as a second  

language and so that's what like this this part  here is is the comprehensible input part um and  

the the thing that like I I didn't get from  Crash and from like other teachers who were  

trying to explain that to me and they didn't seem  to understand it either was like how exactly it  

works uh and the thing I I discovered is that  like the the idea of comprehensible input is  

doubt destruction or you can call it doubt eraser  or whatever but uh the important thing here is to

destroy to destroy doubt so the point is not just  to get lots of input and random input about stuff  

the point is to use information it's it's  kind of like solving a puzzle like where  

you're getting clues to solve a a mystery in a TV  crime drama something like that U so the point is  

not to just get lots of random information but to  destroy doubt so that's how you can get fluent as  

efficiently as possible by by getting those doubts  removed so yes it is possible to get fluent by  

yourself and that's how I I got fluent in Japanese  so there is no course or a course I'm aware of  

uh that that does that does all of this uh and in  Japanese and and maybe there is but I've not heard  

of it uh I've not found a course like that uh so I  had to create my own program for learning Japanese  

in that way just by getting like because I  understand how to learn that's how I got fluent in  

Japanese so you don't have to pay to do it like I  mentioned before uh I've I've spent a lot of time  

I've wasted a lot of time and I'd rather spend  my money to get fluent in Japanese if this was  

offered as like the same thing that I created for  learning English all right so it is possible you  

could get fluent by yourself just like I'm  getting fluent in Japanese because that's  

the only option I have but I would much rather  save time and spend money to do that so if I had  

somebody organizing all of the information for  me like the organizing of stuff and making sure  

I understand it well that's really hard to do  and it's especially hard hard to do by yourself  

but it's possible so there is lots of content  available you can find lots of random videos  

but trying to find like the the specific things  you need making sure you understand the content  

making sure you understand the content like a  native it's much more difficult to do so it's  

possible but yes like if you're like if you're  if you're asking about learning with me like you  

don't have to you can continue to use just lots  of free content but again you're either spending  

time or you're spending money and you just have  to think which is more important to you so for me  

like learning Japanese like like would I spend I  don't know like a couple hundred dollars to learn  

Japanese and get fluent and if it was guaranteed  yeah absolutely why wouldn't I do that because if  

I can become fluent in Japanese well I'm already  fluent but again like for learning new things uh  

the the value of Japanese fluency to me is is like  the whole rest of my life I would be able to speak  

even better and have more opportunities  and and all of that is worth way more  

than spending some money on a course so usually  the people who join my program are people like  

we got like Executives or people in government  or other people who have companies or something  

like that like they'd much rather just get fluent  faster and have me do it for them so that's what  

you're paying for anyway uh yes it's certainly  possible to do there's lots of information but  

it just becomes more difficult as people are like  you know it's harder to find really good content  

and then making sure you understand it well uh  let's see and then oh and we got uh AKA Jin says I

Bol stop using kak see I can't if it's just  like one one long stream string of kadana  

like that it's really difficult for me to  read because I'm trying to understand I I

I I

I get does that say I bought your course is that  what you're trying to say let me know that let's  

see p says I'm fluent in many situations or  topics in English but there is always a point  

when teaching to my kids where I feel stuck  in some specific word or situation uh that  

inevitable uh I need to translate yeah and so in  like there there is always going to be something  

like that and often translating is just faster but  if the purpose is to teach someone else and to get  

them fluent and usually that's what parents are  trying to do we want to make it easy for our kids  

to communicate with us and so that's why this is  the fastest way to teach them okay so uh hopefully  

that makes sense and uh and and when when you're  learning this way uh especially if you're trying  

to help your kids learn then focus on that and  if if there's some things like you don't know  

how to express it well just get more examples  of it in English or see how other people might  

be doing that I'm first time from Korea nice  to see you there I can't read the huru but if  

you'd like me to know your name you can put that  up there uh atmosphere in the classroom and the  

uh Akida Gan says uh thank you drew your courses  are helping me a lot I bought two already awesome  

welcome to the programs if you do have questions  let us know and you should tell other people say  

hey join the program it's helpful C says can you  teach a few methods to Riz girls fluently to Riz  

girls do you mean like like when you're trying  to chat girls up or something is that what you're  

talking about like how to ask girls out on a date  or something there's already lots of content about  

that available just look for like P Pua I guess if  we're talking about the same thing Pua like pickup  

artist you know or how to date or whatever and  this is just English speakers making content for  

other English speakers so it's not not about uh  like needing a specific language class for that  

my question was it correct or to say do you coming  or are you coming I confuse yeah you you would say  

are you are you coming uh right now I wrote that  wrongly you wrote that incorrectly yes it's okay  

yes whenever I see a long string of kakana it's  still even after many years it takes me a long  

time because my my brain is trying to process  what what is like the unit of information there  

so it's just like looking at a bunch of stuff and  I can't figure out what is what is a word uh okay  

thanks teach for your answer my last out is is  the native fluency blueprint made to reach that  

fluency or what is that about thanks for the good  vibes uh Nico watch the uh the previous video so  

last what was that Monday's video IAL about that  like somebody asked me about the courses the basic  

idea is the native fluency blueprint is for people  that are are more learning independently and  

and they want to uh know how to do something and  and understand like the the kinds of things I'm  

explaining here um and it's about really helping  people understand without needing to learn anymore  

so you could you're you're basically trying to uh  get fluent or more fluent and communicate better  

using the vocabulary you already know but the uh  the the stuff we have in fluent for life that's  

really all of the step-by-step training that gets  you fluent and I do the work for you all right  

so that's really the difference like for Native  fluency blueprint we really want to show people  

hey it's actually quite easy to communicate better  here's how to improve your pronunciation here's  

how to improve this and it's lots of little  strategies that can help you improve so we  

take what natives are doing and I just share those  things that natives are doing with you all right  

so if you'd like to learn some uh some really  useful tips that can help you express yourself  

better that's what the fluency blueprint does uh  but if you'd like to just have me get you fluent  

that's what we do in fluent for life all right  let's see and hello from Mexicali Mexico Shang  

says ha thanks for the reminder there are many  ways to express a situation I guess I'm trying  

hard to build up a tendency towards logical orders  and expressions well you don't have to think about  

like logical orders and expressions it's just more  recognizing different uh ways of saying something  

because that's that's what fluency means fluency  means I want to express something but if I maybe  

can think of a better way or maybe I forget  one way I can express something differently  

so I don't need to express something all in one  particular way like there are different ways I  

can do that um and even if you only pick one  of those things then you you'll you'll still  

be prepared for what other people are saying  all right uh let's see just delete the chat  

so I won't disturb the teacher well again you  guys are traveling to each other Mohan says what  

is this ASAP it says uh or it just means as soon  as possible so if I need someone to do something  

very quickly I can say I need that ASAP as soon  as possible C says I am able to speak Japanese  

fluently and still so I'm able to speak Japanese  and still can't read uh yes so you can have like  

that's that's often my problem so my my spoken  Japanese is way better than my reading uh I'm  

like a child that way so I know a lot of a lot of  characters I know about half of the kanji so the  

the written characters needed for for everyday  ability to read but Katakana specifically like  

though like trying to read words like that is  really difficult because I'm like I can read  

the characters but trying to understand what  it's what it's saying to me so if I have a  

word like like I remember like I I was I was  at a a Starbucks yesterday and I said to a  

woman I was like um what did I say uh chocolate  cakei and she said oh strawberry cake I said no

noake and and when you look at like seeing the  word written out in Katakana it's like ch ch and  

then you're like ah okay they mean chocolate  all right so often the the pronunciation is  

different uh and like like dinosaur names is  another thing about that there like so in in  

English I'm not going to write the whole thing  but we have often this combination of p and t  

it's a ENT P like Pteranodon uh like the flying  flying dinosaur but in Japanese because the p is  

on there they put that into the Katakana  so it's like they have like the sound is

like or something like that but it like there is  no P sound so I look at that and I'm like what are  

they trying to say because I know it's a foreign  word and then like oh Pteranodon and like but but  

there's no we don't say the P the p is there but  the Japanese is translated as like they put the  

P sound on there even though we wouldn't say it  like that so it's just a challenging thing for  

me uh it's much easier and faster if I have kanji  and and things are written out normally like they  

would be but if I see a long string of Katakana  it's more difficult for me uh but in general my  

my speaking is way better uh what social media  do you like to you oh I guess you're talking to  

each other all right P says uh but how do we deal  with the fact that even though we could already  

know how to say something natively in English we  just forget that word and start feeling nonfluent  

and feel bad well I mean if you in a conversation  like native speakers will have this same problem  

where they will maybe forget a word or they will  think about maybe what's maybe that's not a good  

way to say something I should say something else  so in that moment native speakers aren't feeling  

bad that they forgot a particular word or thought  maybe there was a better way to say something they  

just easily switch to something else and so that's  what I try to do with these lessons is is helping  

you understand there are different ways to express  yourself and when you get lots of naturally varied  

review you automatically learn these things  and that way if you forget one way you can  

say something else and so the thing you should be  excited about is the ability to switch it's not  

like oh I forgot this word so I feel bad just oh I  was able to remember this other word and use that  

one and continue speaking and and so you you could  think about it like feeling bad that you forget a  

word but it's it's like a better idea uh to think  oh I actually remembered uh this other word here  

and I was able to continue speaking all right so  that's the way I think about it uh and and often  

native speakers if they forget they just you know  it's more like a joke or a funny situation to them  

like me like I was talking to my wife and I said  ah like M got the like you you know you use some  

uh anesthetic but I couldn't remember the name  of it in English and that was just kind of like I  

just thought that was kind of silly I I I couldn't  remember it but I I didn't feel bad about myself  

for that I just thought it was funny all right  so don't feel bad and start getting more examples  

of things and remember that native speakers  have those same issues so even if you have uh  

something you want to communicate but you don't  know exactly how to say it just use something  

else there's always different ways to express  yourself uh let's see C says did you prepare  

uh yourself scenario before you approach  a girl or going on a date uh prepare my  

well I don't really prepare anything I mean I  mean I I'm not going on any dates anyway now  

U but I'm always uh introducing myself or or  striking up beginning starting conversations  

with people so I will see people and I just  I just am naturally you know I like to try to  

speak with people or try to make other people  feel comfortable or whatever if I can uh and  

you know I will just say hello or notice something  I usually just notice something about a situation  

I told a story a while ago about a uh I I was I  sat down at a coffee shop with a uh a woman and  

she was with her husband and it was the only table  uh that had people sitting there so like the whole  

restaurant the whole area was open but I sat right  next to them and so it it seems like it's kind of  

an awkward situation if I walk up and sit right  next to a couple when there's lots of other seats  

available but I just wanted to sit in my seat uh  and so that that was like my usual chair I like  

it where it is you know I have my special spot  and so when I went in there I said oh they're  

making us sit together like they're making  all of us foreigners sit together and the lady  

said oh really you know and I said no no I'm just  kidding you know and but so we had a nice convers  

but I didn't I didn't plan anything before that  I just thought like oh that would be kind of a  

funny thing to say because the situation is like  the situation is I have to I have to kind of say  

something to to make it not seem weird that we're  that I'm sitting next to them when there's a whole  

restaurant full of tables available all right  so maybe I don't need to say anything at all  

but it sounds kind of weird or it feels weird if  you just if you go into somebody's space and you  

don't say anything about that so especially  like foreigners you know like we needed like  

foreigners usually have a like a wider area of  space where they feel comfortable so especially  

Americans Japanese have a smaller range of space  so Japanese people could stand closer together and  

not feel uncomfortable about that but usually  native like people from America are standing a  

little bit further apart we just have a natural  you know there's like a like a border there you  

know so anyway I I felt that and I didn't think  of like like a pickup line or anything I didn't  

plan anything but when I got there I just said  oh they're making us sit together because then  

then I'm kind of messing with their their brains  a little bit because they don't they don't know  

that they think I'm they don't know if I'm being  serious or not uh but then I just say no no it's  

you know we're we're I'm just I'm just messing  around with you so uh the the point about about  

fluency is is it's the same way with meeting  women or talking to people at a random coffee  

shop or something like that the point is more to  to read the situation and then to have a good way  

of expressing something for that situation so if  I'm trying to meet a woman uh or just talk with  

her I would just say oh like we happen to be at  the same thing or I notice something interesting  

about her that maybe other people would not notice  or whatever and so that that's that's like how  

you how you begin or open the conversation  but I'm not trying to plan anything like a  

good pickup line because the the pickup line is  really uh it's a appropriate for a particular

situation all right and Alli says what is the best  way to practice English so I'm going to show you  

that now Mohan says I can speak English easily  but I want to enhance my level So reading is a  

better way to improve the point isn't just reading  or listening or watching or whatever it's just how  

do I understand the language better okay and so  you need all three of these things you need to  

learn the real language natives use or you won't  understand natives or speak fluently or you also  

need to uh understand that like a native so  that just means you're learning English as  

a first language you're able to understand it  with what people call comprehensible input and  

then you need naturally varied review because  if you just get like some examples of something  

that make it understandable from a teacher you're  still probably going to have uh errors or problems  

with native speakers in a real communication  setting so in a real conversation people don't  

speak clearly or they have an accent or they're  going to say something you weren't prepared for  

so that's why the more preparation you can get  the more examples of things the more confident  

you will feel but you don't need to do that with  other people so that's a really nice thing about  

uh discovering this way of learning it's really  what other people do to you now if you're trying  

to get fluent by yourself then you need  to be your own teacher which is actually  

quite difficult and that's what I had to do  uh and still do to get fluent in Japanese  

all right uh bck says it's 3:42 a.m. oh my  goodness in Poland well welcome B says great  

explanation thank you glad to hear Helga says  uh thanks for your lessons from Russia dni 3D in  

which part of Japan do you live I live in Nagasaki  Japan C says a person who unactive at speaking  

tends to stuck at conversations and run out of  topics yes uh but again the the point is not to

it's not to like learn a lot of information  it's to know that information well and you  

notice like if I took all of the the vocabulary  I use in these live videos it's it's probably  

not a huge number of words I'm I I can speak  for a long time and use words in different  

ways but the actual vocabulary it's not that  not that much all right so let me finally  

get to these examples so I wanted to talk  specifically about naturally varied review

and remember the two main reasons that people  don't get enough review is number one it's  

boring and number two they think they know the  information already okay so oh I know that word  

I don't need to review that again oh that's  old I don't I don't care about that then why  

are you not using it correctly why are you not  communicating fluently all right maybe you don't  

know the information as well as you think you do  maybe you don't all right so situation uh we're  

going to talk about this one is losing or missing  we'll just say lose and make sure that fits here

opportunity so uh the situation is you miss  some kind of opportunity or you miss some  

kind of chance and there are many ways we could  express this I can see if maybe you can think  

of some but here this is an example of naturally  varied review for the situation all right there  

are different kinds of naturally varied review  one of them is hearing the same English spoken  

by different people or at different speeds or  in different tenses but here we're just talking  

about actual different phrases that you could use  for this same situation all right so to lose an  

opportunity maybe I go somewhere like where since  people are talking about dating uh let's say I am  

uh there is a girl at a bar uh and or wherever  we're at a museum or something uh and she is  

she is giving me that look like everybody knows  that look is like you know like she's looking  

at me I can kind of tell she's looking at me  uh we call this dropping the handkerchief to  

drop the handkerchief so this is a it's kind of  a metaphor or an idea uh where the woman is is  

is beginning the interaction letting the man know  hey it's it's okay for you to say something to me  

or look at me or something like that so the woman  is usually giving the man some kind of indication  

like hey I'm I'm interested in you and like we  would uh in many years ago when a woman would  

have like a a towel or a handkerchief she would  drop that on the floor and the man would walk by  

and pick that up and that's how the conversation  would begin all right so that's one way of doing  

it so uh talking about uh losing an opportunity  that's one opportunity where she uh was looking  

at me there was clear uh an indicator of Interest  so she was clearly interested me in some way um  

and I could probably say something but I was too  scared so I didn't I didn't do anything and I lost  

the opportunity and maybe 20 minutes later she  left and I never saw her again all right so I  

lost the opportunity to lose an opportunity what  are some different ways that we might say that  

all right some in different ways that we might  Express that and again it's for losing really any  

kind of opportunity I'm just giving a specific  situation like a man missing an opportunity to  

speak with some woman at a at a bar or Museum  or resta restaurant or whatever all right so  

you have a chance to do something what are some  different ways can you think of different ways you  

might say that how would you express that idea  of missing an opportunity all right so one way  

we might say this is to miss the boat to miss the  boat to miss the boat now we think about this you  

can imagine yourself uh like here we are standing  on uh the dock and there is a boat waiting over  

here to take us but oh no we took too long we're  trying to run but oh no now the boat the boat has

left the boat is gone and now we missed the boat  so we missed the opportunity and you will hear  

natives talk about trains in this way too like  to miss the boat or miss the train so if I'm my  

like I I'm there with my friend and I say hey  you should go talk to that girl over there uh  

or like you know it looks like she might leave  uh you might miss the boat the train is leaving  

the station okay you better hurry you better  go or you will lose the opportunity you will  

miss the boat you will miss your chance miss your  opportunity all right now notice what I'm doing  

here you see we have all three of these things  covered at the same time so teaching you real  

vocabulary like Miss the boat the train is leaving  the station these are ways natives would actually  

Express this and then we have understanding it  like a native so I'm showing you an example I'm  

not just giving you a translation of something  I'm trying to help you understand look here's  

a dock where a boat is and maybe if you're too  late you take too long no no the boat is leaving  

and the boat left so you missed the boat or  you missed the train or you missed the bus  

you can use all of those expressions to describe  this same situation okay but notice we're also  

getting that naturally varied review hearing more  examples hearing different ways we might say that  

now you don't need to remember all of these  things or try to use all of these things in  

your conversations maybe you just remember one  but the important thing is that you are prepared  

and you understand when people are talking about  ah I missed the boat I missed the bus I miss the  

train okay so all of those things are fine so  it's like something that leaves on a schedule  

you have an opportunity right now there's a  window of opportunity a window of opportunity  

and nope the window is closed all right to  miss the boat can you think of some other  

ways to understand or how to express this I'll  give you some more I'm going to write a bunch  

of them on here let's see uh you can just say  to lose out on it's a interesting phrasal verb  

way of saying this to lose out on something  or to miss out miss out oh no don't miss out  

don't lose out don't lose out don't lose out on  a opportunity on an opportunity so don't miss out  

on an opportunity or uh like in the uh previous  video I talked about like letting something slip

through your fingers so let something  slip through your fingers let something  

slip through your fingers so I  have had a chance an opportunity  

but oh no it slipped through my  fingers it slipped through my

fingers all right or you could say to drop the  ball to drop the ball this is a uh an idea from  

sports like if I someone is you know throwing  me a football or a baseball but oh no I dropped  

it oh no I missed that opportunity so I had  the chance to do something and I missed it I  

dropped the ball I dropped the ball so all of  these things are great when you lose any kind  

of opportunity so I can drop the ball at work I  can drop the ball on a date by saying something  

stupid or missing an opportunity in some way uh  or if I'm trying to get a job and I I forget to  

wear pants to the interview oh no I missed the  boat on that one I dropped the ball on that one  

I made a mistake I lost an opportunity all right  I could go on and on uh I've actually put some  

more examples of these uh into the comments or  actually well they will be in the comments but  

they're in the description below this video so if  you want to look at some other ways that express  

the same thing I don't want to cover all of them  because you get the idea all right so you don't  

need to remember all of these things the point is  you should be prepared for things like that and  

you become better prepared when you get naturally  varied review all right so the typical way people  

people would do this in a regular classroom is you  might just say like to miss an opportunity or lose  

an opportunity and that's fine uh and then maybe  you will hear this as a translation or you get a  

definition of that rather than thinking about the  situation and the vocabulary the way a a person  

learning in their first language would do and  then you would probably just repeat that again  

and again you would say Miss uh an opportunity or  lose an opportunity now if someone else says hey  

I missed the boat you would think what where where  where is a boat I don't what are you talking about  

and that's because you're not thinking about  it like a native speaker so a native speaker  

is taking another situation and saying it's it's  like this you're losing an opportunity so just  

like missing a boat you could be missing a chance  to to date or you know talk with some person or  

whatever okay so this happens a lot in life even  you know if we uh maybe we we try to do something  

or even if it's not our fault you know sometimes  we get opportunities and they they pass Us by so  

either we we snatch those opportunities or we  do not all right I'll share one more uh that I  

just think is interesting because this is a  a native way of uh kind of playing with the

language and this is to snatch

defeat from the JW cause of

Victory now often people will hear uh the  opposite which is to snatch Victory from  

the jaws of defeat all right now it's  harder to understand if I just read  

the words out to you but if you can  think about it like uh some kind of

animal like there is a there's me over here and  there's some kind of giant animal with lots of  

teeth oh no he's he's going to eat me like this  so these are like the jaws of some creature that's  

it's trying to eat me uh but I just I get away oh  I snatched Victory so maybe I was like reaching  

reaching in here to get some I don't know like  special Prize or something like that so I reach in  

and very quickly grab it wh so I snatch something  from the from the Jaws so the Jaws are the like  

the mouth of that thing like the upper jaw and the  lower jaw so to snatch something to snatch Victory  

from the jaws of defeat so this is an example of  when maybe you were close to failing but you won  

you succeeded okay so to snatch Victory from the  jaws of defeat so instead of losing so you were  

very close to losing but you won so often movies  are like this like the character has to fight some  

kind of monster or there's a great challenge  or something uh and you almost loses but but  

he wins so he snatches Victory from the jaws of  defeat now n had taken this and they write it in  

the opposite way or they say it in the opposite  way which is to snatch defeat from the jaws of  

Victory and so this is the opposite thing like  like you should have won that it was very easy  

but you failed anyway all right so you missed  some kind of opportunity you snatched defeat  

you didn't snatch Victory you snatched defeat you  lost from the jaws of Victory so something it was  

yours to lose like you you had the opportunity  it was right there but you didn't you didn't  

make you didn't make it or you didn't uh take  advantage of the opportunity whatever that was  

all right so this is the kind of situation will  happen uh that will happen frequently in movies  

TV shows everyday conversations everyday life when  you know maybe you have a chance to do something  

but then you don't or you you thought you could do  something but maybe you didn't really or it wasn't  

your fault but uh it's the same kind of idea all  right and so there are lots of different ways to  

express that so if you understand them you try  to think about it more like a native you can even  

just pick one or two that you like to use so I say  like oh I miss the boat okay but I understand if  

someone says oh no you snatched defeat from the  jaws of Victory it's like you should have won but  

you you found a way to to to lose that all right  it's like the the girl was clearly interested in  

you why didn't you go talk with her I was too shy  or whatever all right so you snatched defeat from  

the jaws of Victory all right so again when you're  learning whether you're learning by yourself or  

you're learning with someone like me who makes  it easy for you you have to get these things you  

have to understand the real language you have to  understand it the way a native would understand it  

so all as a a first language like in English and  then you have to get lots of review varied review  

not just repeating things again and again so you  have to understand it like a native and review it  

in different ways the same way a native does if  you can do this even if you don't have a speaking  

practice partner you will become a confident  speaker because you will understand the language  

better and then when you have an opportunity  to speak you will feel much more confident in  

that situation okay so again the typical way that  people would be learning they try to uh they try  

to speak a lot because they think that speaking  makes you fluent but speaking doesn't make you  

fluent because uh if you're speaking when you  speak you're not actually learning anything new  

you're just repeating what you already know  and it's probably something you already feel  

comfortable with so you're not going to feel  more confident try to use like additional uh  

like additional vocabulary or learn something  new now in a conversation uh you will uh find  

especially if you speak with people who are  better speakers or native speakers you will  

listen to what they say and then you will learn  things there so that's how conversations are good  

but actually you speaking is not as helpful as  people think it is all right so if you already  

feel comfortable then go ahead and speak but  you're probably not going to learn much more  

from yourself from the words you say all right  it's always what other people are saying to you  

that's how you develop that fluency because the  whole point is to destroy doubt if you have doubt  

about something you won't use it in conversations  all right check last couple of comments here and I

think

uh let's see someone says missed the boat missed  the train yep George missed the Rocket Ride to  

Sky High ah yes that's right yeah you might  you like you'll hear this this same kind of  

thing uh especially used with stocks it's  like oh no you missed you missed the Rocket  

Ride or you missed the elevator or you  you know whatever that kind of metaphor  

about something Rising going up like that so  NCO says if I understand you think that it's  

not necessary to talk to reach fluency but if  you don't practice talking all my vocabularies  

is in my passive vocabulary it would be  like a child uh if a child doesn't speak  

uh in in the uh last video I talked about  this as well imagine someone who's mute so

mute so a mute person cannot speak all right but  they could still be fluent if you spoke to them  

they would understand the language uh and and  the the idea about passive vocabulary usually  

it just means you don't know that vocabulary very  well it's not about uh like like if I I if I know  

something would I feel confident saying that if I  don't feel confident then that's where we have the  

the passive vocabulary uh rather than something  that you would feel confident using like in an  

active way this will be our last point for today  but Nico has some good questions so we should  

review this the basic idea is that when you are  learning new vocabulary you go through different  

stages of understanding so the first time let's  say this is like 0% understanding and this is  

understanding like perfect understanding you  know how to use something or say something  

correctly confidently fluently pronunciation  is great uh so there is there's a wide range  

where your understanding level might be so  when you first hear something we call that

exposure so that's here so this like you hear  a word or phrase and maybe I don't know what it  

means but I've heard it I've been exposed to that  I don't feel confident about using it because all  

of this over here so if this is understanding  this is doubt all right and as we get more  

understanding we destroy more doubt we feel  more confident now we get up here which is like

awareness and this is where people have a  passive vocabulary so they can understand  

something when other people speak I can watch a  movie and follow the movie movie but I wouldn't  

feel confident saying that all right so I can I  I could watch lots of movies and not speak at all  

and even learn new vocabulary um like as just me  the the person not like like a learner or whatever  

um but I'm talk just talking about in English  like I might learn some new vocabulary that way  

uh and not use it but if I'm 100% confident that I  understand what the vocabulary is or maybe I hear  

like something like missing the boat or missing  the train so a young child will hear miss the  

train and you think literally like oh no there's  like a physical train and the train left and we  

didn't get that train all right so the child is  not really applying that in a figurative way to  

other situations that there's no actual train  there it just means losing an opportunity or a  

chance all right so as you get older you hear  someone that they the the situation is they  

lost an opportunity and someone else says oh you  missed the boat on that one you missed the boat  

and the child thinks wait a minute like there's  no boat there what are they talking about but  

like they understand they make that connection  naturally ah okay I I understand the situation  

so you you're doing all of this even if you  don't speak all right but the point when you  

really understand something you get that uh what  I call an aha moment where your understanding  

gets really B really uh really good really  clear and you think ah now I really understand  

something well and I feel confident using that  all right that's where you get to the ownership

level the ownership level excuse me uh with your  vocabulary and that's for individual words and  

phrases as you understand them better all right  so you begin with exposure you go to awareness  

and this is where most people get stuck and the  reason they get stuck they have this passive  

vocabulary it's because they still have some kind  of doubt about pronunciation grammar vocabulary  

usage whatever that thing is that's stops them  from using that vocabulary okay so you could you  

could actually know something very well and never  speak just like a mute person that's physically  

it's physically impossible for them to speak all  right or you're born with no mouth or something  

like that so you can still become fluent and  understand the language and when people are  

talking or maybe you write instead of communicate  like speaking uh but you move through these same  

phases uh for for anything like this with language  so you get exposed you finally have awareness  

level when you feel okay now I recognize that  information it's not just some some noise or  

sound I understand what that is and then I get  ownership where I control the word now now I  

really feel like it's part of me I understand that  and I might not say the word but if I did say it I  

would feel confident about using it like I missed  the boat all right so if I'm in a situation where  

uh somebody is like forgotten something or they  lost an opportunity or whatever I could say ah  

you missed the boat all right and I would use that  correctly it's like okay I see people using that  

in a movie I'm getting naturally varied review  I'm seeing lots of different examples of people  

talking about missing the boat about a girl or  missing the boat about a job or missing the boat  

about some other thing like that so they had a  chance to do something but they did not do it  

or they couldn't do it or whatever they missed the  boat they missed their chance all right and so the  

point is uh if you don't feel 100% confident it's  because there's some kind of Doubt so you need to  

destroy that doubt to get ownership of the word  and when you do feel that ownership level even if  

you don't speak you are fluent in that vocabulary  so fluency is something that happens independently  

of whether you speak or not and speaking is not  what really like allows you to to retain the  

vocabulary I mean I could read books or whatever  and still be trying like keeping that active in  

my mind like uh somebody else I see them on a  TV show talking about missing the boat that's  

refreshing my mind with more naturally varied  review okay so the point is not like speaking  

developing fluency it's fluency developing speech  because if you don't feel confident if you don't  

destroy the doubt how are you going to speak how  would you do that basically you would just be  

speaking and saying things that you don't really  feel confident about which you could do but it's  

not really helping you it's it's actually making  you feel worse and if you talk about crashing like  

going back to that like he recognized that  same thing and even children they go through  

the same thing this basically quiet period where  they're just learning things and I see this with  

my kids all the time like they're just watching a  movie or they're listening to me talking you know  

like or whatever some people talking and then  suddenly they say the word and it's because  

they went through these phases where they heard  something they understood something and they  

destroyed the doubt and that's where they really  felt confident about saying something okay so you  

don't have to have a lot of people with you to  to practice speaking the point is can you get  

the doubt destroyed can either you you do that  by yourself or you get somebody like me to do  

that for you okay but that's how you do it and  so again like I I don't become a better Japanese  

speaker simply by speaking Japanese I get better  by understanding the language better okay so it's  

not just comprehensible input the point is doubt  destruction that's the goal because it's the doubt  

that stops you from speaking all right hopefully  that makes sense over there but uh these are all  

good questions and I'm glad uh hopefully these  are making more sense let's see I think I did I  

skip some things over here let's see DSi great  explanation Salvador says Salvador mate from  

mosambique love the explanation glad to hear it  thank you for the lesson from China see again just  

imagine if I were your son and going on a date uh  I was so nervous and I told you what are you going  

to say to me I would say hey just relax as there  are plenty of fish in the sea there are plenty of  

fish in the sea lots of ladies out there uh and  you know you don't want to put the lady up on a  

pedestal because that's actually going to make  her like you less so just go and enjoy yourself  

and and see if you're actually interested in her  or not let's see Miss the boat okay I got those  

already okay uh slip through your fingers sounds  like fall through the cracks yep there you go so  

if you're remembering that's more naturally varied  review for you so these are different like that  

opportunity uh kind of slipped past me all right  so fell through the cracks or something like slip  

past is typically used more uh for when we like  lose an opportunity like it slipped through my  

fingers so it's the kind of the kind of expression  where uh like I had some kind of control and  

I couldn't I couldn't close the deal or I  couldn't I couldn't finish something or or get  

the opportunity uh let's see miss my lover well I  guess you're talking about somebody else let's see  

good all right nice explanation hello Sensei says  Koo good tip uh let's see argentinia snatches the  

snatches Victory from the jaws of mbapp there  you go and again says I know you speak slower  

than usual for your students but how do you speak  English in in your real life do you use different  

vocabulary your English is so understandable  I wish movies were like that yes so the the  

way I speak it's the same way if I'm talking to a  woman I'm going to change the way I speak for for  

the appropriate situation so I know more people  are not going to understand my my normal speaking  

uh usually it's because I'm using things like  missing the boat or whatever like I I use more  

kind of idioms and phrases and uh and things like  that uh because I'm I'm I'm trying to connect with  

the person I'm I'm speaking with so I'm not um I'm  not trying to like speak one way with everybody  

I I speak in different ways with different people  so I can speak more formally if I need to or I can  

speak more casually but usually I'm trying to make  a connection with the person I'm speaking with uh  

or with with the person the person I'm I'm like  try not trying to use with too many times uh in  

the sentence there uh but the point is I change  the way I speak and if I'm speaking casually with  

my friends like I will often use movie quotes  and references and things like that because  

they know that so I'm I'm basing my communication  uh on on how they or like the the vocabulary they  

know uh but you can see if you look at um like  conversation videos here on YouTube that that  

I'm in um just on our Channel you can find that  like examples of uh conversations from fluent for  

life but it's it's a different way you'll see me  speaking differently there Lake says uh hello from  

Korea I really appreciate your helpful videos and  love your accents glad to hear it and americ says  

everything first in my mind is Chinese instead of  English and yes if if that's how you how you were  

thinking about English it's because that's how you  learned so don't feel bad about that it's not your  

fault but now you can change the way you learn you  can start learning English as a first language and  

then you will start speaking English as a first  language it's pretty easy how that works so you  

can see like if you learn this way then of course  you will have trouble communicating but if you  

uh if you think how can I learn and understand  like a native then you will understand and speak  

more like a native and you will feel much more  confident about that all right since I have a  

question is it really bad to mix American English  and British English I've been told it won't help  

me improve so well I mean it it depends like uh I  think the the only thing is more there are certain  

there are certain uh pronunciations that are  different and certain words that are different  

like if if I say uh like he's taking the piss like  you take you taking a piss you taking a piss it's  

like if if I if I say that in in British English  it means like am I kind of joking with someone but  

in American English it means I'm actually taking a  piss like I'm at the toilet so there there's some  

things that have a different meaning like that  uh and it would be kind of like if I was if I was  

speaking like like oaka Ben and Nagasaki Ben and  and mixing them together and I was like like like

like and I started speaking like oaka Ben I  switched Nagasaki Ben it's like Mo and and and  

and people might hear that and they might think  like that's interesting he's he's like you know  

speaking with two different like two different  dialects uh or or my pronunciation is a little bit  

different or or I'm sounding a little bit weird  um but in general you should be getting a mix of  

different things uh if you're maybe dealing with  uh different kinds of speakers or if you need to  

watch movies and you have uh different kinds of  speakers those movies so as I usually recommend  

if I'm living somewhere like I live in Nagasaki  so I'm going to hear a lot of Nagasaki band you  

know that makes sense like if I'm in Texas I'm  going to hear a lot of people speaking you know  

with it like a southern Texas accent and so if  you if your everyday life is in that then you  

should focus on that but if you like watching  movies about British dramas or something then  

you can learn that vocabulary too so I I wouldn't  I I wouldn't worry too much about like mixing that  

stuff up but people might notice that like if I'm  in Texas and I like watching British I don't know  

British TV shows and I and I say hello to people  I'm like well top of the morning to you you know  

like like say something like that like in like  they would think like that's kind of weird you  

know so I me it might be kind of funny but I  wouldn't I wouldn't worry about it too much but  

you know like I I could do that just as a joke  like say that say that to people I I talk with  

so I have a few different friends in Nagasaki that  are that are foreigners from different places like  

a a New Zealander so he's a kiwi and another  friend who's an Australian and we we kind of  

uh so there's a uh there's a bug like a large it's  like a large cricket um what would be the Japanese  

equivalent like a uh like a cogi no not like a  cogi it's like a um uh I forget the name of it  

but just just like like it's it's like a large  bug called a wi so like the the Japanese or the  

the New Zealand pronunciation is is a little bit  different from how I would pronounce it in English  

so I would say like a WETA like WETA like but the  New Zealand pronunciation is like wit wit wit wit  

so we were talking about that in like this uh you  know just just comparing the different accents  

and if you mix them together uh it just sounds  a little bit funny but I wouldn't worry too much  

about that but it is nice like all usually  the like the Japanese uh speakers I meet who  

have lived abroad they they sound like like the  country they were living in so obviously like if  

a Japanese woman goes to New Zealand or Australia  she's going to start speaking that kind of English  

or if you have people who are you know like from  China living in Australia or something they're  

they're going to be sounding more uh they're going  to have that Australian accent so it's okay uh  

says why do you have to burst into these kinds of  examples of missing the opportunity to talk about  

a girl that previous day I saw a foreign girl who  needed help understanding what local people were  

trying to say and I could help her and at the same  time taking advantage of improving my English and  

pick up myself a girl a very beautiful one but  I didn't have the guts to take the step honestly  

doc I felt shame it's okay but you learned from  that now I I've been in that situation before I  

remember when I was in high school uh and I I had  like there was this chance I blew an opportunity  

it was like like I blew it I blew it you know I  like it it blew up in my hand like I I I let it  

slip through my fingers I was sitting with a  girl we were on a walk and we were at a park  

it was like kind of like a nature walk and just  sitting at a uh like on a log and we were the only  

people there and she was clearly like waiting  for me to kiss her or whatever and I I didn't  

do it so so you know we we've all been there and  this this is this is another good expression as

well when you are telling a story  or showing empathy empathy like  

you you show other people that I  understand how you feel uh you can  

say we've all been there so this is  another way of saying I know how you

feel or I understand

stand or I

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know so all of these different things again  this is more naturally varied review but when  

someone tells a situation like that or describes  a situation so I know what that's like or I know  

what it's like we've all been there we've all been  there so we have all had that opportunity or that  

chance or we've like you know uh whether it's a  a girl or whatever uh but you miss some kind of  

opportunity we've all been there we've all been  there so we've all had that experience I know how  

you feel or just I understand I understand all  right so there different ways you can express  

this but these are the kinds of things you will  see in movies like yes I can relate another good  

example very good I can relate so I can relate is  like when you when you think about um like uh like  

I can relate is a little bit less strong because  it's like like a similar thing happened to me but  

if you want to say like I know exactly how you  feel so I know how you feel or I know exactly  

how you feel because I had the exact same thing  happened to me okay so if you can say like I can  

relate you can also use that to talk about  missing a different kind of opportunity so  

if your son is saying he felt bad because he he  missed a chance with some girl you can say well  

uh I can relate I missed a chance with my you know  boss or something like that like I missed some  

opportunity or something like that so I can relate  is a little bit less strong because it's not the  

exact same situation and people like typically  when you're empathizing with someone like if you  

can say well I've had the exact same thing happen  to me okay so I understand I understand perfectly  

I understand completely okay I feel for you yeah  so I feel for you is like when you are when you're  

talking about their situation and even though I  like I maybe I've never been I've never lost an  

opportunity with a girl let's imagine that so  I've never never missed an opportunity but I  

understand you know maybe somebody else has so I  understand how you feel I feel for you all right  

so I feel bad uh that you have that situation  I feel for you all right I think everybody's  

getting it though what time is it all right we're  winding down here but I think people are getting  

it let's see but don't feel bad about that there  will be plenty of opportunities but like use that  

shame that bad feeling to remind yourself next  time you will uh take that chance next time you  

will I would tell another story about that but  this video doesn't need to continue longer than  

it is let's see pure mind edu or Edie or edu or  something like that why the acccident movie is  

not easy to understand because it's just how  native speakers are are talking and native  

speakers understand each other just fine because  they've had lots of examples of native English  

that's it so the reason it's difficult for most  Learners is because they don't learn real English  

that's like the fundamental thing they're not  learning the real examples the real vocabulary  

the real uh you know the real expressions like the  kinds of things I'm telling you here all right so  

even if you learn those things in YouTube videos  you will find this is the most common thing you  

Find in YouTube here is some real vocabulary for  this but most people don't remember what they  

learned because they don't learn it like a native  they don't learn it as a first language and they  

certainly don't get much review okay so you have  to correct that problem for yourself especially  

if you're learning by yourself or you just have  someone like me do the hard work for you so all  

this stuff is already done it's all waiting it's  all ready all you have to do is just relax and go  

through the program and it will get you fluent  automatically so that's what fluent for life is  

if you'd like to learn more about that you can  click on the link in the description below this  

video all right uh last couple of questions  over here KO says W glad to hear it British  

accon give me a bottle of water very funny yes so  that a bottle of water a bottle of water and we  

you know we kind of make fun of that uh and and  British people make fun of our accent as well  

it's all in good fun you know all right thank  you so much says kcko and says I've been there  

we did that one already J Joo the Beast and so  this is almost like a Katakana word where I'm  

I'm trying to figure out where the is it like  Noth Bist like like J Noth jist or it could be  

J no or something hey guys hey everyone says  Johnny how are you I feel for you and Chris  

says British accent be like AR that's right AR  you know and so they they have they have those  

the letters but they just don't use them you know  all right uh are you going on vacation next week  

yes uh so next week there will be no live videos  but again it's an an excellent time to review go  

back and actually review the things that maybe  you have not seen yet or something but continue  

to review and you will feel more uh so I think  there will be maybe some short videos released all  

right so help me to be fluent again go back and  watch this video uh and you will enjoy that so no  

there will be no live videos next week but go back  you don't need a live video to get fluent there  

probably other videos I have many of them that you  have not seen go watch those all right that's why  

they're here don't wait for like the exact live  video that it's I'm often talking about the same  

things anyway I'm just trying to give people more  review I'm trying to trick you into getting fluent  

all right in Chile we don't pronounce the s ah  okay where are you going uh I'll be in Okinawa  

for a few days I I just won't be here during my  us us recording times but have a fantastic day if  

you'd like to learn more about fluent for Life  uh or especially Frederick for improving your  

pronunciation you can click on the links in the  description for that uh and I will see you uh I  

guess in like over a week I guess about a week  and have a fantastic day see you then bye-bye