How To Speak Fluent English Today

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YouTube all right we're rolling I am Drew Badger  the founder of EnglishAnyone.com and the English  

fluency guide and today we're going to talk about  my favorite subject which is how to speak fluently  

all right uh I wanted to give really a lot more  examples today this uh oh subasa look at that  

right there at the beginning Ohio do you not  have I aren't you in college I can't really see  

from your picture uh if that's you or maybe you  should be working right now are you on a spring

vacation all right uh so if you do have questions  as we go like usual I want to go through this uh  

it's actually probably not that long of a video  today we'll see how it goes uh but this was or  

it will be an answer to a question that I've  had uh but this one is specifically from one  

of our members uh so I wanted to go over it in a  little bit more detail uh so nice to see everybody  

there oh uh let's see NN Anette there Ceda oh the  man manager is here nice to see you right at the  

beginning uh Manisha nice to see you there uh R  nice to see you there I'm going to guess that is  

that is that Ana I don't know how to read that  cilic I need to learn how to read cilic so I can  

I can I can read that but nice to see you from  uh Ukraine Ukraine Maggie Tom nice to see you  

there Ray uh jerma look at that welcome everyone  nice to see everybody well a whole bunch of people  

difference between have and own well you could  have something but not own it like uh as just an  

example and this is something we'll talk about  in this video where we want to give your brain  

uh lots of naturally varied review we want to  compare different things to help you understand  

things within English so just a quick example  right at the beginning of this video which is  

very nice very helpful uh the difference between  having something and owning something so I could  

have something uh like I could have this marker  but this isn't my marker I don't own this marker  

I just kind of controlling it or using it  right now so you could have something and  

not necessarily own it uh I also like have short  hair or green eyes or a purple shirt I guess I do  

own the purple shirt because it is mine uh but  I wouldn't really say I own my eyes I mean you  

kind of can but uh typically we use the word own  for property uh so have is uh you can imagine have  

is like a kind of bigger a bigger like a a wider  range of situations and then own would be in here  

like that so there are many things you could have  but not necessarily own like I have a wife but I  

don't own my wife all right hopefully that makes  sense so that's just a very quick example of how  

to understand something in English the same  way a native would and this is the the kind  

of thing that I would explain to my kids when I'm  teaching that so today's video actually I want to  

talk about phrasal verbs I get a lot of questions  about this and people enjoy learning them and for  

good reason phrasal verbs are incredibly important  for you to learn uh because they're so common uh  

so commonly used in everyday speech and in really  any situation so you could be learning them in uh  

or using them in business or in personal everyday  communication while you write or while you listen  

or speak anything anytime really uh phrasal verbs  are being used and so this was a a question from  

a learner uh where uh he was concerned about let's  say uh it's a pretty simple phrasal verb but just  

to understand this thing uh to run off so uh again  a phrasal verb just if you're not familiar with  

these it's really like a verb with a preposition  usually just one of these each sometimes you will  

have like an additional one like runoff with is  a different uh slightly different word a slightly  

different phrase phrase uh but the idea just  just so you really understand uh phrasal verbs  

the the idea of them is how can we take some  simple vocabulary some very easy words and put  

them together uh run and then off and then instead  of using something like uh let's say a word like

Escape so if we imagine uh there could be  a meaning where now this isn't always true  

sometimes people are running off but they're not  escaping but the the point of this is is just to  

show you we can take uh like two simple words and  use them to mean some longer more complex thing  

and this is why uh especially for people learning  the language if you can really understand these  

simple words then you can put them together in  different ways to make uh lots of different things  

that are more complicated but you don't really  need to know all that complicated vocabulary  

hopefully that makes sense so this is a big reason  why native English speaking children also know and  

use lots of phrasal verbs because they're trying  to explain things that are more difficult uh but  

they just don't know that vocabulary yet so I say  oh someone someone ran off like uh someone maybe  

stole something and they ran off like it means  like they escaped as an example okay so runoff  

could mean different things and I want to help  you understand uh how natives think about phrasal  

verbs um just as an example for how to learn  to speak fluently all right now before before  

we start uh I do want to say this video will  not teach you how to use everything about the  

language uh in one day fluently so even native  speakers don't know how to do that really the  

point of this video is just to show you how you  can take something specific and learn to use it  

fluently and the way you're able to do this is by  understanding that vocabulary very well and this  

just means you're really eliminating any doubt  that you have about the vocabulary all right so if  

you have doubts about the pronun iation or the use  of something that will stop you from using it and  

so this is for words or grammar or anything else  so the point is to really understand something  

very well which is what I'll help you do in this  video and that's how you start speaking fluently  

all right hopefully everybody's excited uh before  we begin let me just quick uh quickly check chat  

uh see if I missed anyone Jesus zero or maybe  Jesus from La nice to see you there serious  

mode activated nice to see there with a uh a silly  face uh mathematic oh that's an interesting name  

have a good lesson yeah that's the plan yo coo  says Tom hello greetings from Tennessee happy to  

catch this live says Juan bonsoir Mr professor  says chuo uh hi from South Korea nice to see  

you there RM oh I was pretty close I think I  said like Ana but in cilic in Ukraine yes uh  

Mustafa says hello how are you I hope all f are  fine all please friends let's give Drew lots of  

likes it helps the channel yes CA uh thank you  as usual khabib says hello lovely teacher I'm  

watching your videos from the saddest country  Afghanistan really is I don't think Afghan it's  

like a pretty it's like a pretty cool place I hear  uh it's like a shame what's what's happened to it  

over the years but I think the the people there  are like pretty strong from what I hear doesn't  

sound doesn't sound like a sad Place Jonathan  says hi sir D ISS from Indonesia all right look  

look at we're getting like too many comments to go  through let's get right into it all right so this  

learner had asked about the word run off and it  was just talking about I'll give you the example

sentence the

players and of course we get an ambulance or a  firet truck or something like that the players  

Ran So This is a past tense ran off so when  this is another thing to keep in mind about  

uh when we're talking about phrasal verbs like  we wouldn't say like run as an example run like  

try to put this in the past tense I know it seems  a little bit weird but the the verb becomes the  

past tense and nothing changes about uh the second  part of that okay okay so the players ran off the  

field let's just say uh well so the players ran  off the field um and this is you can think about  

players on like uh you know like football players  or soccer or baseball or whatever so anytime we  

have a field like this so the players ran off  the field now he was having a little bit of uh  

trouble understanding this and was thinking maybe  I should just get a translation of the word and I  

said no no no before you do that actually I want  you to try something different which is looking at  

different examples to understand how this works  all right so again there are two different ways  

to learn English I haven't really talked about  this in a while but it's a good reminder for  

everyone remember you have basically two ways of  learning there is the English as a second language  

approach which is where you would if you don't  understand something we take a translation so  

we try to learn something through a translation  the problem with that of course is that if you  

learn something through a translation you have  to think through that translation when you speak  

so it stops you from speaking all right uh and  again it's at the the very base of this it's all  

about doubt so people have some kind of doubt uh  about using the language and that's why they don't  

speak all right so if you're not confident about  a word you won't speak all right it's very simple

on the field and if they're moving quickly we're  looking at running so they're actually running off  

the field so right now they are on the field so  the players are on the field and so they run off  

the field all right so basic idea we're we're  just talking about like what kind of movement  

they're doing and maybe how they're doing it or  where they're doing it or what direction they're  

move they're moving in that's what a phrasal verb  is really trying to do it's like what happened  

where did it go or in what way how did something  happen all right so without needing to translate  

let's look at a couple of different ways the  players might leave the field okay so we can  

talk about the players leaving so the players  leave the field right now they are on the field  

and then maybe we erase that and then they go  off the field over here so they're leaving the  

field by running they are on the field now they  are off the field so that's why we talk about  

about running off they're going from here to  over here so it's just talking about leaving  

but it's a little bit more specific so if we  change the example a little bit what if the

players walked off the field so instead of running  they're just moving at a slower Pace all right so  

it's the same basic idea the players walked off  the field now maybe we get a uh an even sillier  

examp example like the players uh flew off the  field now we can talk about actual flying like  

they go up into the air or we're actually we just  mean moving really quickly like the like the dog  

just like flew across the yard so we're talking  about a dog running very very fast and we can  

describe that as fly isn't that interesting so  we can talk about leaving so some players are  

on the field and now they are off the field but  we can talk about the way in which they do that  

so how does someone go from being on the field  to off the field all right so we can talk about  

walking off the field or running off the field  or flying off the field or we can talk about even

swimming imagine some players like swimming off  the field if they you know if you could do that  

like you know we can imagine them just pretending  to do that but if someone was talking about this  

it's like oh the the players are swimming off  the field they're swimming off the field all  

right so we can take different things like this  talk about uh the way someone is doing something  

and rather than trying to translate we're just  trying to understand everything in English by  

comparing different English words all right and  this eliminates the doubt we have about things and  

then that helps us feel confident about speaking  all right so that's really where the fluency comes  

people don't get fluent by just magically living  in the United States there are lots of people who  

live in the United States or Canada or Australia  and they still can't speak fluently all right so  

being in a particular country doesn't help  you speak what actually helps you speak is  

eliminating the doubt that you have that stops you  from speaking all right so the the doubt is what  

causes you to stop speaking that's what steals  your confidence and so if you can take some more  

time instead of translating look at some different  things in English to help you understand that all  

right now let's look at another example of runoff  so we have here one example where we have players  

are on a field we might also if we imagine a roof  so we have the roof of a house and it's raining  

right now just as an example we might talk about  the water so the water is going very quickly here  

the water is the same thing running off the house  isn't that interesting so the water or we can just  

say the rain runs runs off the and we can just  say the roof or the house the roof so the rain  

runs off the roof same example so the rain is  going down it's going down wh pretty slowly or  

pretty fast depending on how we want to describe  that the water is running off the roof the water  

is running off the roof so remember right here  it's on the roof the same way these players are  

on the field and now it's going oh off the roof  all right so we're talking about how quickly or  

what kind of movement you know or is it is it  like slowly sliding off like the rain could be  

like sliding off the rain is sliding off the roof  so we talk about this same kind of motion sliding  

off we could even say the rain is flying off the  roof if we're talking about it's really coming  

down very fast and it's really uh leaving the roof  very quickly same idea so in the same way that we  

have players on a field you could have rain on a  roof and then look at that now it's leaving so the  

rain is running off the roof just like we have  the players running off the field okay so this  

is understanding uh kind of the the first part  of something simple with a phrasal verb uh and  

we can also talk about like we can we can begin to  get more examples like if we I I mentioned at the  

beginning of this video or earlier in this video  uh to run off with so if we have to run off with  

something it means I am leaving and I am carrying  something with me so I ran off with something like  

someone oh no someone stole my water they ran off  with my water so they ran off and they're holding  

my water at the same time so they ran off with  something or we could take a more or figurative  

example and think like wow some guy ran off with  my girlfriend oh no so I have a girlfriend but  

some I don't know maybe bigger stronger guy or  something came and he I don't know he took my girl  

he ran off with my girlfriend all right so as we  look at these different things we're essentially  

uh trying to build a network in your mind of  all these different examples that really help  

you understand something in English and as you  understand each time you get a new example this is  

again what I call naturally varied review we don't  want to just repeat the word runoff over and over  

and over that doesn't really help us understand  anything we want to get different examples that  

help us understand the vocabulary better all  right so we want to think okay so players are  

running off the field or the rain is running off  the water or uh like here's another idea like a  

duck so here's a duck sitting in the water like  rain is like running off running off the back of  

the duck same idea as the roof so it's running off  but it could be running off a roof or running off  

something like that and then we could even get  uh like other examples let's say we have a copy

machine and I want to quickly this is where we get  the word run we're trying to talk about something  

moving quickly so I have a copy machine here so  I need to make some copies let me me run off some  

copies uh very quickly here so I need to print a  bunch of copies 1 2 3 4 5 I'm running them off so  

I'm printing them quickly same idea all right so  it's like they are here but now they're over here  

all right same idea so something is kind of on or  in or whatever uh but now it's moving to the off  

position so when we're looking at these things  uh interestingly it's better to like to look  

at them together and then compare this with other  things and that will actually help you understand  

the individual words better so when you look at  running oh isn't that interesting so here we have  

actual legs on players as they're running off of  a field but water doesn't have any legs or copies  

don't have any legs they're still running though  it's that same idea of motion and that's why we  

call it running because we're moving at a at a  faster speed all right so I could print off like  

print and there's nothing nothing really different  between print and print off I need to print off  

some copies uh typically like the the kind of  phrasal verb or this this way of connecting  

uh a preposition with a verb it makes it sound a  little bit more natural and conversational so you  

can say it's it's perfectly fine to say I need to  print something but you also hear I need to print  

off something or I need to print something off all  right so I need to print off something or I need  

to run off some copies all right hopefully does  anybody have any questions about this the main  

idea we're we're focusing on this one phrasal verb  and trying to help you understand it more like a  

native like the same way a child would understand  it uh rather than just getting a translation of  

the word let me know if you have any questions  about this uh but it should be pretty easy to  

understand and and you should notice as you  get more examples you feel more confident about  

them so let me know uh I didn't want to take a  real long time this is actually a pretty simple  

thing to understand uh so teaching you about  the phrasal verb but more importantly how to  

think about learning when you're getting these  examples so if you don't understand something  

and you want to develop fluency in it look for  related examples or how can we compare this to  

something else so I might run off or walk off or  fly off or jog off the field so I'm not I'm not  

walking I'm not running I'm kind of I'm jogging  off the field okay and then uh we can think about  

how do we how do we change this uh maybe like  to run over something or run away or run into  

something all right so again I'm trying to take  these and build a network in your your mind that  

helps you understand these things like a needed  uh yes so if someone is like running down the

stairs we're talking about we're still we're  still like on a staircase as an example so if  

I'm moving quickly I'm running down the stairs  or I could be jumping down the stairs or I could  

be jumping up the stairs all right so we're  talking about the motion and then where are  

you going or how are you doing it okay so  let's take a look at run again if we have  

uh let's say two we're going to imagine these  are cars over here and I'm going to take these  

markers and they run into each other all right so  they're moving they're moving fast and boom Oh we  

have a car accident the cars ran into each other  okay so we have something maybe that's running  

away from something else so I'm running away or I  ran away with so we have run into or we have run

away again we're trying to take these things  and and use them to help compare with other  

things and that helps you understand it in English  understand in English rather than trying to think  

about it through your native language all right  this is how you understand in English this is  

how you can learn to think without translating so  you speak fluently okay let me go back and check  

chat uh if you like more examples of different  phrasal verbs or something completely different  

let me know uh but hopefully this idea should make  sense look at that we've been going for about 20  

minutes and I think people people are getting it  but let me know if you still have questions all  

right uh let's see uh so hello let's see I want  to go like quickly through all these pardon me  

if I don't if I don't respond to everybody I'm  just looking for specific questions but yes it  

is nice to see people from all over the world  uh look uh stoo says uh good video Bruno nice  

to see you there uh example she has run off  with yes so you would say like she ran off  

with someone so she ran off with a boy or the  something whatever she ran off with something  

and typically uh it in a figurative example and  I mean figurative like the woman might not be  

physically running with someone but maybe they  get in a car and drive away and in that case we  

might say like drive off all right but the the  the phrase to run off with someone uh typically  

like you you could do that without like breaking  up uh another relationship maybe you just very  

quickly want to get married like my let's say my  daughter runs off to Mexico to get married just  

I don't know for some reason who knows uh but  like if something like that happens we're we're  

just talking about the action even if they're  not physically running okay so this is how we  

take phrasal verbs and and then start to make the  uh examples much more interesting and then we can  

expand how we use them into other situations  that might not be physically running all right

uh let's see uh Dan says Deana says hello biggest  English teacher I don't know if I'm the biggest  

maybe I'm putting on some weight over here uh  I'm so happy to be here learning English it's  

my pleasure Kevin nice to see you there uh boot  brazila okay that's for for my Brazilian Learners  

over here I'm guessing that means good evening uh  Brazilian and the house tonight yes remember to  

like the video one example the thief ran off  when he saw the police yes so that's another  

example we have a person in some location or  they are like in a house or on some field or  

whatever it doesn't matter you could be inside  or on something and then to leave quickly to  

escape you are running off because you not on  that position anymore now you are off on off on  

off on off so I'm here and now I'm someplace  else all right I'm running off all right so  

someone is running off with my purse yes that  would be another good example so someone can  

leave you hold something oh no someone is running  off with my water someone took my water all right  

Anna says uh good night greetings from everyone  looks like lots actually people from Brazil in  

the video today greetings from Iraq from Kenya  teacher I hope you have a happy April when you  

say hello in Korea nice to see you there yeah  I don't know how do you say it's like uh an or  

Kam I think I forget uh my my Korean is pretty  bad uh Jose is me too first time on the live  

nice to see you there and the best ever sorry  I'm late uh martial from Chile uh Unis says so  

ran off can also mean like place in order  to live yes I've just seen that on Google  

so ran off can also mean a place in order to  live with well you you if again like the idea  

typically means uh if it's like a person who's  leaving uh like leaving one one place and going  

to another place but they're doing it quickly  that's the idea even if they don't physically  

run so like a thief has a physical thing and  they are physically running away or they're  

trying to trying to get away we would just call  that running off uh but if we want to talk about  

like like somebody getting married or moving to a  different location very quickly then then you can  

also talk about that as running off all right and  and typically like running off in that in that in  

that situation uh it's often like a negative  thing like people are not thinking so much  

they're not planning what they're doing someone  just ran off and did something like I ran off  

and built a house in I don't know uh like in the  middle of a river or something like that so just  

like a weird thing I I decided to do something  very quickly I ran off and did that thing I ran

off uh all right some more good questions over  here uh Arin says did you delete all of your  

videos in your website and upload them on on  YouTube no we have different videos on our site  

uh and different videos on YouTube so the all of  the videos are still here on YouTube and we have  

all of our other videos on our site uh typically  what we do in YouTube videos is explaining the  

principles of learning so if you want to get  fluent by yourself you can do that or uh you  

can have us help you and we just take you step  by step to help you understand everything like  

a native U so you can do it by yourself uh  but we just make it a lot faster and easier  

in guaranteed fluency uh so if you'd like  to learn more about that you can click on  

the link in the description below this video uh  Jesus or Jes uh look at that lots of a couple of  

jesuses here uh after Easter Sunday let's see  teacher then we can say the roof Works to run  

off the water I mean avoid anything in the house  will suffer any damage by water yes so here like  

run can be like like something is running or I'm  helping it do something else like again like I'm  

running uh a meeting or running a business  or something like that so the water could  

be running or we could talk about the roof  like helps water run or the roof runs the  

water off all right so that's what a roof is  designed for that's why we have a sloped roof  

so anything we get snow or rain or something  and it runs off that we talk about that all

right uh let's see all right Adrian says hi  I've worked uh I've work are you see like you  

mean I am working on a contract or working at a  contact center since last December and it's been  

amazing experience and learning a lot okay uh I'm  running out of time yes that's another example to  

be running out of time uh and if this example  is a little bit more difficult to understand  

you can imagine uh like an old Hour Glass so an  hour glass or a minute glass we have uh usually  

some kind of container and it's got some sand in  the top and it goes kind of like this so we have  

like a an amount of sand over here and the sand  is going through down into the bottom and then  

we can flip it over so you might have a minute  timer or an hour something like this an hour  

glass or a minute typically we don't say like  a minute glass but an hour glass uh for these  

larger things cuz it will be made out of glass  maybe the minute the minute one is just little  

plastic thing uh but anyway like the the time is  running out so it's running from here so it's in  

this section and now it's going down into to this  one so it's running time is running out okay so  

if you need help thinking about that phrasal verb  in that way like why do we say running out this  

is a way to think about that time is running out  so we are losing time we have less time uh all

right oh no I'm getting too many too many comments  here okay let's see all right I found it again all  

right um can we say run off with mind uh I don't  know I don't think so I suppose you I mean you  

could say that but I don't know what exactly you  would mean by that like to run off run off with  

someone's mind like n we I mean we typically  wouldn't wouldn't say that uh but let me let  

me know if you have an a particular situation  you're trying to explain I can probably give  

you a better way to say it Solomon says hello uh  Mar says up from Venezuela you are my inspiration  

wow amazing well thank you uh glad to be inspiring  uh VES I just want to say huge thanks to you your  

channel was one the first that changed the way uh  to my approach to learn English and I finally got  

in uh get in the right direction glad to hear it  if you know other people we can help please send  

them our way uh English with Village guy from  India nice to see that God bless you well it's  

my pleasure Mr Badger I've watched many video on  learning fluency on YouTube but no one can teach  

like you you are the best I am getting confident  just because of you please make regular videos  

uh well yeah that's what we do so we're we have  regular videos on the channel I try to make a  

video at least once a week maybe sometimes twice a  week if I have time uh but if you want everything  

already done for you that's what we have influent  for life so you don't need to wait uh I do try to  

teach some kind of vocabulary I know people are  always trying to learn new vocabulary even even  

though this video really is an example of you  needing to focus on vocabulary more until you  

understand it and feel confident about it all  right that's really the goal and that's how  

you can become fluent today so you can become  fluent today in individual words and phrases as  

you understand them but that confidence uh comes  from understanding and then you speak that's how  

the process works add somebody asked me today uh  how I can help them if I don't have them speak  

with native speakers and I said will you know  you can go find some native speakers to speak  

with and uh let me know if that helps you get  fluent the alternative is just to understand the  

language better so you don't need to spend your  time talking because talking is it's really just  

going to repeat what you already know uh the the  way you actually improve in a conversation is by  

listening to what other people are saying all  right so that's very important and that's how  

uh you really can improve by yourself uh let's see  I'm working on an English program you are ah I see  

gotcha all right hater says I want to ask you how  can we learn English from a book well do you just  

it depends on what kind of book you're talking  about but find something you're interested in  

and and read it and hopefully the book should be  something at your level so if your level is really  

low read children's books and if you can read and  understand something higher than that then get  

more difficult books it's pretty easy uh but the  point is uh if you think think more about where  

you struggle or what specific words or phrases  give you difficulty so rather than like trying to  

get fluent in English you get fluent in something  so this video is trying to help you get fluent  

in the phrasal verb runoff but by doing this you  also learn other uses of runoff or other phrasal  

verbs okay and again we're trying to do this all  in English to make you feel much more confident  

and understand it the same way native way could  you please pick up Advanced vocabulary in your  

next video yes like I I I made videos actually  we have lots of videos uh we teach thousands of  

words influent for Life thousands of words and  phrases um but like and this is a really this  

is probably the most I don't know the trickiest  thing about what I do uh is is like people want  

to learn Advanced vocabulary but their basic  vocabulary is actually quite weak and that's  

what's really stopping them from speaking so there  there are people who want to just keep learning  

more words and it's easy to teach vocabulary but  you really should be reviewing it in the right  

way so I know it's like the tricky the trickiest  thing about what I do so the teaching is really  

easy but Learners are often less interested in  the thing they actually need to learn so if I  

say hey let's we're going to we're going to  review some basic information and people like  

well no I know that already I say well why don't  you use it fluently then why aren't you using it  

confidently and they just like well I don't know  and so it's a it's a tricky thing for for people  

but if you like I'm speaking to you out there  if you can control yourself and you can think  

okay I I don't feel maybe quite so confident  about saying this let me learn a little bit  

more about it just spend a little bit more time on  something before you move to that advanced Focus

uh like the same same idea they  run off with someone else or  

they ran away with someone else  you know that kind of thing all

right uh uh let's see Francis says Hi I watch  your videos is excellent thank you it's my  

pleasure uh Nar says what uh do you think  about grammar what's the first thing that  

an English learner should know grammar  or conversation well the the the way a  

native speaker learns a language they don't  they don't separate vocabulary and grammar  

and pronunciation as different things that you  learn you learn all of them together all right  

do I need to give my my Japanese my Japanese  lesson now that I don't have my markers I have  

uh fewer fewer things over here uh but here  let me give you a very quick lesson in in

Japanese get some get some things  over here I don't I don't even have  

like much much stuff over here but  here we'll just use our markers like

usual ak makaa ak Maka AKA

AKA

Kur Kur Kur okay now you might not have understood  everything I just said but you're slowly getting  

it oh he's teaching grammar and vocabulary and  pronunciation at the same time okay uh Leonardo  

says English not Chinese that's Japanese actually  but uh but anyway uh the point of that example is  

to show you that a native speaker of any language  is learning that way so when people say should I  

learn grammar it's of course you should learn  grammar just like you should learn vocabulary  

and pronunciation but you how learn all this  information is really important so if you take  

information and you're learning it the traditional  way by translating or reading textbooks that don't  

really help you understand something then that's  what's going to have you uh or cause you trouble  

to speak okay so how you learn is how you speak  you've probably heard me say this many times how  

you learn is how you speak so if you learn through  translations you will think through translations  

when you speak you will think uh uh I I can't  remember H how how do I how do I say something  

and that's when you get stuck in conversations  so when people talk about I can't speak because  

I lack confidence it means they really have doubt  about the vocabulary because they're trying to  

learn through translations instead of just really  understanding something like a native okay so as  

I give you these examples you might not remember  any of those words in 5 minutes it's okay but if  

I come back tomorrow and me many people I I  I kind of give this example again and again  

so that people who have seen this before they  will remember and it will come back to them oh  

like yeah I remember what that is and a native  is just getting more of those examples faster  

so if you think about a child being at home with  Native parents they're getting all these examples  

helping people understand things over and over  and over uh and that's how they're able to to  

get fluen so quickly it's because the parents  or the teachers or other people in a child's  

life are helping them understand that vocabulary  really well I'll tell you a very quick story this  

happened uh yesterday so I was playing with my uh  with my kids at home and I think uh so my older  

daughter uh there was like a toy or something on  a table so just a a small table on the floor I'll  

draw my little table here uh so there was like a  toy or something and I was sitting over here uh  

and she was sitting by the table and I said oh  like uh did you did you where did you get that  

toy so she had she had a toy like in her hand  and it was on the table before so I said where  

did you get the toy and she said oh like uh I got  it I got it off the table [Music] so this is that  

same use of being on the table or off so I got it  off the table I got it off the table uh but at At  

first she was like not feeling so confident about  saying that so I could tell what she was going to  

say oh I got it off like oh I got it off the table  but she changed what she was going to say and she  

said something different it was in English still  but she said uh like oh it was on the table these  

are two different ways of expressing the same  thing so you have an object a toy or something  

on a table and I said oh where did you get that  and she said oh I got it off the table or it was  

on the table so she's it just there are even more  many more ways that you could express this same  

idea so as a native because she is developing  uh this network in her mind of how to express  

things she's thinking about a situation like an  object on a table and then oh there are actually  

many ways to say that and she will pick the way  that she is feeling most confident about and so  

as a a learner of English you can do the same  thing as you get these different examples and  

you feel more confident but when you translate  typically you only get one example of something  

and you don't feel very confident about using  it or if people in uh like the person you're  

speaking with doesn't use that vocabulary then  you feel stuck because oh they didn't use the  

vocabulary I learned in the textbook okay so  again this is why I give all these examples to  

really help people understand things in English  okay if you understand in English then you will  

feel much more confident and that's what actually  allows you to speak all right uh let's see here if  

I got through that all right so hopefully uh  that makes sense about like learning grammar  

so like understanding grammar is understanding  vocabulary is understanding pronunciation all  

of these things culture all of that is all  connected as one thing so the point is not  

to just study some grammar rules it's to like  really understand what's happening like we have  

like this is grammar right here to take off the  marker cap so I take off the cap all right so if  

I'm learning even like teaching you that that  the Japanese example if I say AI Maka Ki Maka  

your brain is learning the grammar naturally  your brain thinks oh that's interesting you  

have the adjective before the noun just  like it is in English all right so a blue

marker okay so I'm giving the the same example  in in Japanese and so you understand it without  

needing the translations so you're understanding  pronunciation you hear how people are using it  

you hear how the grammar works because you're  connecting the The Sounds or the words with the  

situation so th this is the situation just these  things right here K Mak Mak okay so you're able  

to to to learn this and uh and you understand  it better because I'm comparing these these two  

things just like I'm I'm comparing these different  examples over here okay hopefully that makes sense  

so we're the the goal here is to eliminate doubt  and we do that by comparing different things all  

in English until you understand something and  when you understand you will feel like ah I  

got it I got it all right I'm running out of  food it's another example yes uh so same thing  

anytime we have something and we're losing that  thing I'm running out of gas I'm running out of  

milk I'm running out of time I'm running out  of P patience okay so I'm getting I'm getting  

irritated I'm getting frustrated I'm running  out of patience so this is you can think about  

how much of this I have and I'm I'm losing it  it's draining away it's leaving okay so all of  

these things this is how we understand like  something physical like this so we have like  

let's say so this could be something physical  it could be sand in here or it could be water  

or gas or milk so we take the understanding  of something physical and then we use it for  

something not physical like time I'm running out  of time I'm running out of what something else  

I'm running out of patience uh running out of  patience I'm running out of uh willpower as an

example so if you have willpower maybe you  see some delicious cookies or chocolates or  

something something on a table at first you  think no I'm not going to eat those but oh  

no I'm I'm running out of willpower so willpower  it kind of works in the same way where like you  

you you need energy to stop yourself from  doing it okay but all these things we can  

use this is why phrasal verbs are so powerful  because they help you understand these things  

about the language and they show you that if  you understand it in English look at that we  

can apply it to something else all right so I'm  running out of time running out of running out of

energy okay does that make sense so any time we're  doing something like that we have an amount of  

something we're losing it very useful and so we  can talk about this without using a longer or  

more complicated word or that advanced vocabulary  that everybody loves uh like I could say I'm I'm  

like reducing that or it's uh I don't know like  it's decreasing over time or it's reducing like  

I just said so both of those examples are fine but  it's much easier and faster and even a child can  

understand look at that running out of something  okay so if you're running out of something you're  

talking about losing it and you're talking  about how quickly you're losing it's like wow  

we're running out of time oh no we we like time  is it's like going by faster so you hear this in  

movies like we're talking about running out of  time then the the characters are oh no they're  

really they get really excited or they're really  worried about something because wh you're really  

draining this thing quickly so it yes like going  back to that question about learning Advanced  

vocabulary like I I think maybe I'll just do a  video about Advanced vocabulary and how to say  

it uh like a native I'll do a video about that  so I can teach Advanced vocabulary but actually  

show people what what people would regularly say  about that uh right let's see where we go here  

see yeah my patience is beginning to run out yes  that's true so thanks let's see Rob robat nice to  

see you there well Olympia nice to see you there  Adrian again I've been working in a call center  

Ah that's what you mean call center since last  December it's been amazing experience I learned  

a lot of thing getting exposed to the language  besides the frustration is the best way to learn  

and watch think your videos help me a lot review  some topics and continue to increase my knowledge  

glad to hear it yes uh and so you'll notice  like uh I I remember speaking with a Japanese  

woman a few years ago I think I've told this  story before uh this is a woman who worked I  

don't know if she still works but she worked at  that time at a hotel and she was asking me about  

improving her English and I said oh well you work  at the front desk of a hotel and so when you get  

foreign speaking tourists or foreign guests uh or  just English-speaking guests in your hotel that's  

your chance to to practice whatever some specific  thing until you get it right and so you can review  

things or hear different ways that natives Express  things and this is why you can watch a YouTube  

video there' be lots of YouTube videos about  like here's how to order food at a restaurant or  

something but not everybody talks like that might  one person might say that but 10 other people  

might say something different so you really need  to get more more examples of how people are doing  

those things all right uh let's see for example  my car ran out of gas while I was driving on the  

highway yes so that's what we're talking about  uh if something is running through your mind  

you cannot stop thinking about it yes so if you  can imagine your brain so this is your your head  

over here we imagine the brain up here it's like  an idea is like running through your head around  

over and over and over again that idea moving  quickly all right running so we're talking about  

the speed running through your brain oh that song  has been running through my head all day running

through uh let's see can I say ran I ran out of  options yes same idea so if we have options it's  

another thing over here like maybe I I thought  I could do this and that but really I can't so  

I have no options now I am all out I'm all  out of options so I'm running out of options  

receiver says I was for half an hour what are we  talking about today we're talking about becoming  

fluent by understanding vocabulary very well all  right and it doesn't I'm I'm spending more time  

on this it doesn't really take a long time it's  a it's a personal thing for each word or phrase  

you are learning so you don't need to spend a lot  of time reviewing something it's just get enough  

examples that you feel confident about the way to  use it or the grammar or the pronunciation that's  

how you feel confident when you feel confident  that you will say something in a conversation  

then you would be able to use it confidently all  right so that's when you you really start speaking  

so it's it's not by just repeating things again  and again the point is to understand things well  

uh let's see teacher is democratical I don't know  what that's referring to though uh have you heard  

about passive and active vocabulary speaking with  natives or not natives is just a practice what do  

you think about that um so your passive vocabulary  you can it's it's easy to think about this as um  

like the vocabulary you know pretty well and you  can understand that uh and your active vocabulary  

so we'll put like passive vocabulary is here and  your active vocabulary is a smaller group within  

that these are the words that you actually feel  confident about saying all right and what this  

teaches us is that there are actually different  levels of understanding so I've talked about this  

in other videos I go specifically into detail  about uh like what I call the three levels so  

there's kind of the lowest level and then the  highest level up here so the lowest level down  

here uh is when you you're you're basically  exposed I call it exposure so you might hear  

some vocabulary but you don't understand what it  means or if I draw some random Japanese character  

up here you're being exposed to Japanese but  you don't really understand it at all uh and  

then next we have awareness where we recognize it  so awareness is here where we're in the passive  

vocabulary so you can think about level three  is like out here maybe like it's you're at the  

airport and you hear somebody talking but you  don't really understand what they say uh so as  

we get closer to the active vocabulary it really  just means we understand something very well so  

this is where we own we own that vocabulary I  think somebody mentioned at the beginning of  

this video about the difference between own own  something and have it when we talk about owning  

vocabulary it means you really feel confident  you really understand that you have no doubt  

all right so when you have no doubt that's where  you move things from the passive vocabulary into  

the active vocabulary all right now we can also  talk about passive and active as just like maybe  

you do actually feel confident but you just don't  use that vocabulary very much so that's okay but  

I I think it's more important for a learner  to understand it this way where we're we're  

moving up here as you get more examples as you  understand something better and the goal is to  

eliminate the doubt that you have about vocabulary  and that's when you start to speak okay so that's  

what we're that's what we're going with with that  I think there was a second part to that um let's

see uh So speaking with natives or not natives  is just practice or what do you think about  

that uh so again connected with this the idea of  practicing something it just means getting more  

examples and understanding something better so you  could understand something with just one example  

but typically you would not all right so if I just  if I hold up like just to give you a this is kind  

of a bad lesson in Japanese but just to give  you an example of how this works if I just say  

Murasaki Murasaki you don't really know for sure  what I mean so I'm exposing you at level three I'm  

exposing you to the language Murasaki Murasaki I  could say it slowly I could have you repeat the  

word again and again you could try to write the  word down Murasaki Murasaki U so if I do that I'm  

still not really helping you understand what the  word means all right because you don't know if  

I'm talking about maybe the fabric or I'm talking  about the color or I'm talking about the object  

maybe this do I mean shirt what do I mean by  Murasaki all right so this is why when when people  

are learning new vocabulary they usually just get  translations so they hear the word in English they  

get a translation of that word in their native  language and then that's it but like I gave with  

the marker example the reason I give this marker  example is because it helps you compare these  

different things if I just show you one thing it's  probably not very helpful for you okay okay so I  

could just give you a translation like wh AKA  Murasaki AKA Murasaki Murasaki now that might  

mean a little bit maybe he's talking about ah like  I think I I get it a little bit more because maybe  

if you understand something about colors already  I'm taking an idea you already know like I'll

AKA Murasaki Murasaki Murasaki okay and now  you're thinking ah like ah so that feeling  

that you get as I make the example more clear  again I'm doing this it's not English I'm just  

doing it in Japanese but the point is when you're  when you're trying to learn like this we want to  

help the brain understand things in the language  you're learning not trying to learn it through  

some other language so just to make this very  quick Murasaki means purple okay but hopefully  

I can help you understand that and you discover  that for yourself if you discover that when you  

feel like oh I got it that's much better for  your brain for your memory for your confidence  

for your motivation than if I just gave you a a  list of words and translations of them okay so  

all of these things are very important how you do  it uh and that's why I teach the way I do because  

I want to help you uh like discover things and  arrive at that conclusion yourself if I just  

give you the answer then you you probably won't  remember it okay all right the chat got kind of  

quiet hopefully uh hopefully that that example uh  makes sense to people but that's why I do uh teach  

the way I do all right let's see here all right um  so oh the last point I'll mention this kind of a  

long response to this but it's important the last  thing I'll mention about talking with natives is  

again like the practice I'm giving you that helps  you understand something or these examples that  

we're talking about here you don't need to speak  to do that what you need is examples and speech  

from other people who know the language well and  who can teach the language well all right so when  

you're in a conversation you don't get better by  speaking more you may be improve like a tiny bit  

just maybe feeling a bit more confident but  you actually improve much more from getting  

examples and things you understand from other  people in the conversation so that's when it's  

useful to talk with a native but unfortunately a  lot of people are trying to talk before they feel  

confident about what they know so if you are not  confident if you have doubts about vocabulary you  

won't use that vocabulary so it doesn't matter  if you have natives to speak with or not it's  

not going to help you instead you can improve  very quickly by yourself but just by getting  

more examples of things all right so you want to  get uh enough varied examples that you understand  

something and feel very confident about it that's  the goal uh let's see receiver says hi again good  

morning let's see in if you have a question  about that English now oh I answered that one  

already uh let's see Azure says I'm now learning  English in the efl way but it seems that I have  

trouble building sentences quickly uh well just  make sure you understand the individual pieces  

of whatever whatever you're learning like if  you have trouble building sentences it means  

you have trouble understanding words or grammar  or something like that so get smaller try to get  

to the the smallest thing you need to understand  it could be a word that you're struggling with or  

a grammar point or something focus on that all  right so this is why we we break down lessons  

in fluent for life in that way uh Drew from  the United States but he also speaks English  

uh Japanese that's true yep so ow ow uh let's see  should I learn Japanese like that I just started  

to learn it by myself cuz I know like 20 words  in Japanese is it how to learn a language from  

zero without notes papers Etc um yes if you if  you think about how Japanese children get fluent  

it's the same way English-speaking children get  fluent we all get fluent in our native language  

the same way as we get lots of examples that  help us understand and eliminate the doubt that  

we have because even children uh if if they feel  unsure about vocabulary they will probably say  

something else just like that example I gave with  my daughter so she wanted to say something but  

she thought maybe I'm not saying this correctly  I'm going to say something different all right  

so she did the process was very quick but I I  pay attention to things like that because I'm  

like always teaching them things and helping them  understand things all right but yes uh you would  

still like like I'm learning uh like Japanese  kanji so that's the written char characters uh  

and I do actually take time to write it down it's  helpful for me to understand the vocabulary uh  

and actually remember it and and write it down so  it's not like well I don't use papers or whatever  

uh that's the benefit of being an adult we can  actually learn faster than children because we  

have more ability to focus uh maybe we have better  times or scheduling or we can choose how we want  

to learn so we have lots of advantages over  children and that's why we can get faster than  

them if we want to but that means you have to be  focusing not on learning Japanese or English or  

whatever the language is you got to be learning it  all in that language so that's how you understand

it uh let's see J says I would like to learn  Japanese but for me how Spanish speaker maybe  

it's a bit difficult but I grew up watching anime  I know a few Expressions G comp yeah yeah so again  

like if you're if you're getting those examples  from like you probably understood those things  

it's like ah comp by you know and then we we  drink and you can get from the situation oh  

compai probably means cheers or salute or you  know whatever it is in your native language so  

as you're when you learn things like that you're  learning it like in the the N the natural way all  

right so the learning it as a first language  rather than learning it through your native  

language but if you try to take a longer sentence  and translate that that's where it becomes much  

more complicated and difficult for you because  it's it's too much information for your brain  

to understand but you could do it and there's  there's no there's no like logical difference  

between any of the languages in their difficulty  the difficulty comes more from the writing so  

going from learning uh like knowing English and  the English alphabet to learning Japanese it's  

it's there are three different written scripts for  Japanese and they actually still use uh English  

characters as well so it's technically four um  but that's the tricky thing but children again  

they learn different languages all over the world  at basically the same rate all right I don't think  

there's a country uh or a language where children  learn much faster than any other I'm not aware of

that uh let's see there's an internet problem or  there's a network problem or something else uh are  

is that a question your examples are great glad to  hear it uh I would like to learn uh Arabic yeah so  

however you're trying to learn get the same kind  of thing I already have watched all of your videos  

on YouTube but I think to be sure I need to revise  them you've watched all of the videos there's like  

600 of them you you've seen them all amazing uh  let's see again and if you know other people who  

would enjoy them do recommend the channel uh  let's seeo says great unit until you get the  

aha moment the phone battery is running out yes so  again we're we're looking for that moment where we  

really understand something well and that's when  we start speaking now are songs helpful to improve  

our pronunciation or be more fluently or fluent  what kind of song would you recommend well songs  

that you enjoy and understand that's that's what  you look for I actually learn a lot of Japanese  

from children's music because I watch children's  TV shows with my kids and I'm learning that same  

vocabul while they're learning it uh Den says  hey Drew how's it going excellent class could you  

speak more about take uh we know that it is very  confusing how get how get take and get uh I've  

actually made a video about both of those I think  to search the channel uh but maybe I'll I'll cover  

those um in a future lesson uh after learning the  word I am trying to learn I form five examples  

using the word at least for practice is ma yeah  again it it it doesn't matter you could understand  

something and feel confident and remember the word  with one example the point is not just to get lots  

of examples but uh you should just get different  examples until you really understand something so  

keep trying to approach something from different  perspectives until you get it all right it's like  

my uh like even me as a teacher I will continue  to to try to help people understand something but  

if I see they don't understand one way I have to  do it in a different way but the I just like keep  

going from different angles to help you understand  something so acquisition versus understanding  

acquisition is understanding thoroughly yes  understanding in order to feel confident using a  

language yeah I I don't really I don't worry about  like you should acquire the language rather than  

learn it like those those kind of distinctions uh  is less helpful for students just trying to get  

fluent like people don't care about all that it's  that's more the way linguists would talk about  

it and some subtle difference in like learning or  being taught versus acquiring the language but the  

goal is just eliminating doubt that's that's the  main idea so that's that's all I really explain to  

people or the best way I can think of to explain  that to people so you must eliminate the doubt  

that's what stops you from speaking so however you  do that it could be listening to songs or playing  

games or reading books or whatever but eliminate  the doubt all right that that's the same thing  

that applies to everyone uh let's see uh and says  I can understand you 100% but can't speak can you  

please rate my English level well your I would say  your understanding level is okay for my level of  

English that's all I can say I mean just looking  at a comment like that so I I know people want  

like a rating for themselves but the the truth  is you can rate your own English when you're in  

a conversation and either you understand people  or you do not and if you do not then it means  

you're you're not probably learning the same kind  of English that they're actually using I should  

talk about that in a future video as well aha  moment required to change the phone battery I  

feel the same thing or charge the phone battery  excuse me uh make lives about inal conversation  

public spaces well I've done you can see actual  conversation videos I have right on the Channel  

It's Already Done Sergio says thank you for your  classroom it's my pleasure thank you for your time  

thank you for the lesson glad to be here oh it's  400 a.m. oh my goodness have a nice rest of your  

day yes and it is what time is it here it's like  uh 11 o'clock time for me to end this lesson I  

think we got through all the comments so thank you  all for joining us look at that we took an hour to  

go through this uh but hopefully this makes sense  you can actually speak fluently today that's the  

main lesson here if you take something and focus  on it until you really understand it and it could  

go through it could take you 1 minute or five  minutes or longer than that but if you get some  

good examples to really help you understand  something that's where you will eliminate the  

doubt you have and that's what will help you feel  confident okay so as you it's like you you have  

let's say 100% doubt when you don't understand  anything like I put you in a room full of uh  

Chinese speakers and you don't speak Chinese at  all you would have 100% doubt but over time you  

would feel a little bit more confident because you  would understand a little bit and again if you're  

getting lots of good examples that really help  you understand something the process goes much  

faster all right so it is possible to do this by  yourself but if you would like help that's what  

we do influent for life all right thank you  and let's see uh summer is asking about the  

pronunciation wa could you please explain how to  pronounce is there is that what you mean is there  

uh also if you'd like to hear me pronounce words  uh just get Frederick you can click on the link  

in the description below this video and uh and  you can start hearing me pronounce all of these  

different words XL nice to see you there want to  start a video maker career but got to reach the  

eligibility criteria for ypp uh I have a trouble  I understand almost all that you were talking in  

the video but I can't speak as cool as I can hear  yes uh there there are lots of reasons for this  

but the number one reason is you just have lots of  Doubt because of how you were taught the language  

so most people are taught English as a second  language and it creates a lot more doubt and  

worries and questions about the language and it  also another really big problem is that it's not  

teaching you the real language that natives use  in conversations so it's slower and it's easier  

usually more clear and the vocabulary is just  easier to understand because people are using  

using simpler vocabulary so that's what I'm doing  in these videos I'm giving you simple vocabulary  

but I'm speaking a little bit faster than uh I'm  not it's it's not my my like normal speaking speed  

but when I'm speaking with non-natives that's  how I speak all right so I want to make sure I'm  

understood so I can anticipate usually what words  you would know and then I'm I'm just using those  

so rather than putting a whole bunch of idioms  or slang or phrasal verbs that you don't know  

I would just use regular uh vocabulary that you  do know so if you want to if you understand what  

I'm saying but you still have trouble speaking  we solve that problem influent for life that's  

the whole the whole point of that program is  to solve that problem uh your lives are only on  

Sundays uh sometimes uh they're on Thursdays as  well so this week I should have one on Thursday  

probably my Thursday there is an apple is there  an Apple there you go thanks for your class see  

you thank you for the amazing content when usually  stream uh so typically it is around this time on  

Mondays and Thursday so I think this month that's  that that should be the schedule maybe two times a  

week we'll see uh if I'm not here then maybe there  is just some problem or something maybe not a big  

deal uh but typically Mondays and Thursdays Japan  time so right now it's it's Monday morning here  

in Japan Doo says Drew can we have a conversation  in English without the use of phrasal verbs it's  

possible sure you could some you don't need to  use phrasal verbs but it's it's very easy if you  

do and most of the vocabulary you would use like  if you any any basic preposition any basic verb  

like run go play Walk speak all of those are  like to in on at so if you know th those those  

words you would be able to probably understand  that phrasal verb using a combination of those  

things all right uh thank you says uh Unice take  care and disis says hello teacher I remember one  

day uh I told you that I did not understand  Obama but now I have no problem I can get him  

well glad to hear it you probably focused on  getting more examples of of him speaking all  

right so if you do find someone you'd like to  listen to get more examples of that person all  

right so people who watch my videos a lot they  come to understand me very well and then I add  

little individual you know new phrases or things  like that uh because they understand everything  

else uh that I'm saying rece said need kind of  reloading perfect thanks Drew all right well I  

will end it there thank you all for joining me if  you would like help getting fluent again you can  

do it by yourself but if you'd like to do it much  easier uh and just have a more enjoyable time then  

click on the links in the description below this  video all right we'll leave it with a net thanks  

a lot and happy Easter Happy Easter everybody out  there enjoy date I'll see you next time Murasaki