Not Fluent? Are You Getting Multiple Streams Of English Input?

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are enjoying your day wherever you happen to be  we'll give this a second it looks like we're all  

all right I am Drew Badger the founder of  englishanyone.com and the English fluency  

guide welcome to another live video on YouTube uh  today I'm going to try and weave a few different  

ideas together but hopefully this makes sense uh  and should help people understand more about how  

to learn how to practice and how to become fluent  faster so I talk about a lot of the same kinds of  

things on the channel but I like to express them  in different ways and that's actually the theme  

of what this video is talking about multiple  streams of input all right so let's start from  

the beginning if we can uh I will go through the  kind of lesson portion of this nice to see you  

there trim uh and we will see if people have any  questions as I go I'm working on an update to my  

uh original guides to fluency that I made years  ago and I thought well it's been 20 years and  

I wanted to do a uh a remake kind of just I've  gotten better at explaining things I've learned  

more and I want to make things uh even easier for  people to understand so I thought this would be  

a good time to actually talk about these things  with people uh so if you do have questions as we  

go about this or whatever I'll be keeping an eye  on comments but I'll try to get through the lesson  

portion uh of this video first and then go back  and answer any questions that are maybe unrelated  

all right uh so I wanted to talk about this video  or I wanted to talk about the the topic uh of this  

video uh because I was thinking about business  and also thinking about how people become good  

at doing something and when people think about  becoming better typically it's about uh practicing  

something like if I'm trying to prepare for a  speech and I have my script and I want to read  

this speech and really get good at saying it  in a particular way that's a typical kind of  

practice but the difference between that kind of  practice and the practicing that you need to do  

for developing fluency in a language is that the  the output of that thing uh there is a difference  

between reading a speech so you're controlling  that you have a specific thing you're reading  

and no one is talking with you you're just saying  something uh and the opposite of that obviously  

is actual actual communication and so you need  to be prepared for dynamic responses you need  

to be prepared for what people might say the  lots of unexpected things and the and the kind  

of communication is is often very varied uh so  you'll have lots of different people you might  

be speaking with or maybe you watch a movie  or something but it's all a great variety  

uh of speech and so the typical kind of practice  where you repeat things things again and again is  

going to be less effective number one because it's  boring number two because it doesn't really help  

you retain information better uh and it doesn't  help you retain information better because it's  

not really helping you learn anything new but what  does help you learn is getting multiple streams  

so different sources uh of input or what I call  naturally varied review so I just thought about  

like a business example of this uh many years ago  when I was first getting interested in business  

you know thinking about even when I'm a kid doing  stuff at school or having a lemonade stand or you  

know even little things like that if you look at  uh just like one example uh of let's say this is  

you know person we'll just say this is person  X over here and person X has a business and  

let's say they sell so they sell ice cream and  they're pretty successful at what they do they  

have let's just see if we're going to describe  them physically they' got glasses and they've  

got a beard and maybe some other things like that  now if you look at this person and try to figure  

out why that person is successful it's a lot  more difficult if you're just looking at one  

person but if you have multiple people to look at  so we look at like person uh Z over here uh person  

a over here person B over here you can see that  there are many things that maybe they're a little  

bit helpful to to that person's success but this  part in the middle that everyone is doing that's  

probably the thing you should really be focusing  on all right so the the lesson here is like maybe  

this thing is selling what people want so even  if like this guy has a beard this guy does not  

this lady over here has I don't know long hair  and whatever you have lots of different people  

and there are lots of different ways you could  describe that person or that person's business but  

the the main thing here that everybody is doing  and if you do not do this thing you do not find  

success in business is selling something people  are interested in like a service or whatever so  

the the point here is that you can learn a lot by  studying one person but you can learn uh much more  

by getting exposed to lots of different people  even a little bit of in of input and so this input  

you can think about is just a different example  of another person running a business so if you  

talk with 10 different people who are all running  businesses you might find what we call here the  

like the common denominator so this is the thing  that everybody does or everybody like if you do  

this thing you'll probably be more likely to  be successful so even if there might be some  

things that are unique to these individuals like  oh look at that guy like this guy is like very  

strong and this guy he doesn't look like he goes  to the gym at all or this other lady I don't know  

takes care of cats or you know whatever whatever  that the thing happens to be that that might be  

a part of that person but not essential for the  actual running of a business all right so when I  

was thinking about this and especially when I was  younger and getting different examples just as you  

get older you get more examples of people doing  a particular thing and this works in exactly the  

same way for developing fluency all right so if  we contrast this way of learning with the typical  

thing that people do which is really trying to  get one example of something so maybe uh you do  

you could learn something or get a translation  of a word or phrase but if you only get that one  

thing and listen to that again and again it's not  going to be as helpful as getting many different  

examples of that same thing which really help  you understand that vocabulary very well so as  

an example uh rather than just hearing only me  speak you also hear a few other people talking  

about the same activity or uh even just using it  could be the exact same speech like I'm reading  

a speech but you're hearing it from different  people all right so this idea here of getting  

multiple sources of a particular thing that's what  really is going to enable you to get fluent faster  

uh primarily because it actually mirrors what's  happening in real communication all right so let  

me take a step back from this for just a moment  I wanted to start with this example but I really  

want to make it clear why this is so important uh  and that it's much easier this way than trying to  

do what what people typically do when they  think about practicing and so when we talk  

about like how to practice p r a c t i c e I can't  I can't read and spell and talk at the same time  

p r a c t i c practice so when people think about  practice they they typically think of learning as  

as like a separate activity so you learn and  then you practice so you go to a classroom and  

your teacher gives you some kind of example or  whatever they're teaching you some vocabulary and  

then it's your turn to practice what you learn  and then this practice is typically split into  

two different things there is a self- practice and  this is where you could be either just looking at  

flashcards things like that you're trying to talk  with yourself or you could be speaking speak with  

other people all right and and that's basically  it and so usually what happens with this is if  

you're learning by yourself like this again could  be split really as I just mentioned uh as like  

studying so study or review like the flashcard  example or you're trying to talk to yourself  

like self-talking and then this one again it's  it's just trying to speak with other people now  

this one it can be really difficult because as  I mentioned at the beginning of this video this  

kind of repetition is very boring so typically  when people are studying something they're just  

repeating it they're they're reviewing the same  thing in the same way over and over and over  

again and some students are good at that but uh  obviously it's more difficult for people if they  

don't really understand something and they're just  trying to repeat it and hopefully they understand  

it better but usually that doesn't work because  you're not actually learning anything new when you  

repeat information uh and the same thing with  talking to yourself uh so if you're if you're  

talking to yourself again it's typically using  things you already know and uh you're not maybe  

uh feeling as confident when you're in a real  conversation because you're not being judged or  

uh or you you would be more worried about being  judged in a regular conversation rather than  

speaking to yourself but again it's really just  using things you already know so I'm I'm trying  

to repeat something I learn phrase and I say it  to myself again and again and then the same thing  

happens when you try to speak obviously this can  be difficult for a number of reasons maybe it's  

difficult to find people to practice with or even  if you do have people to practice with you don't  

feel very confident about speaking and when you  do speak it's really just saying things that you  

already feel comfortable saying all right so  most of the practice or the Improvement that  

comes from speaking is actually what you hear  from other people and that's why it is a really  

good idea to get speaking practice if you can but  the the real value of speaking practice or really  

the majority of it is coming from what other  people say so maybe you hear a different way to  

use some vocabulary you already know or you hear  even some uh some new vocabulary and you're just  

able to understand it in the moment that's how you  actually develop fluency and feel more confident  

about what you're learning all right so uh this is  the the typical way like this this whole thing is  

we can just uh when I talk about learning English  as a second language this is basically the idea  

so you spend some time learning and then you try  to practice what you're doing but the practice is  

typically for a number of reasons quite difficult  to do so even if you have people to speak with  

maybe you don't feel so confident or comfortable  speaking with them uh or you're not really feeling  

very confident about the vocabulary you use so  you still only say simple things and this is why a  

lot of people compl plain that they're not making  more progress even if they try to speak all right  

they maybe say the same things again and again  and don't really feel very confident about that  

don't really feel like they're learning more or or  or kind of eliminating the doubt that stops them  

from using more interesting things or different  vocabulary whatever so people get stuck in this  

way uh and that's why I mention the opposite of  this is just getting multiple streams of input or  

what I call naturally varied review and so instead  of trying to repeat repeat the same thing again  

and again I really want to hear different people  saying things hearing people uh Express things in  

different ways it could be like a child saying  something or an adult talking about that same  

thing I gave an example I think in my last video  about going to uh going to a library it looks like  

taku just mentioned is it effective for adults  to read picture books absolutely so I'll just  

mention this very briefly uh I was at a bookstore  so I live in Nagasaki Japan I was at a Japanese  

or I guess they're all Japanese stores really uh  but this was a Japanese uh bookstore uh and it  

was I guess cuz cuz we're in summer right now so  there were a bunch of books about uh kabutomushi  

so these are uh Japanese rhinoceros Beatles And  so I could read just one book so the same kind of  

idea instead of drawing my V diagram of uh of like  circles we can use books for this same idea so if  

I read one book about something I could probably  learn quite a bit from that maybe I could read it  

again and again so I really understand that thing  but if I oh no I got I got to sneeze oh no it left  

me it's going to come back for sure so if I if  I read one book yes it's going to be helpful for  

me I will kind of plateau I will I will basically  learn like the learning process is like this and  

then I and then I stop learning because I'm not  really getting any new information from that book  

at some point so I I first start reading it wow  I'm learning a lot and then I stop so to to not  

plateau in this way I need to get another book so  another book that's also talking about the same  

kind of thing and so in my example I do read a lot  of Japanese books for kids which have pictures in  

them which make it easy for people to understand  that's the whole point of a picture book so when  

children are learning a language uh it's when  people talk about like should I listen to the  

language and I can improve by just listening  I say well the goal is not is not to listen to  

the language the goal is to destroy the doubt that  stops you from speaking and if I'm trying to learn  

a language I wouldn't just cover my eyes for no  reason I want to I want to learn with my eyes or  

my hands or my ears or however else I can connect  with the information to really understand that and  

destroy the doubt all right so of course uh kids  books or any book with pictures in it just like  

a movie is going to be helpful as well because you  can see something and connect the situation in the  

book or the movie with that vocabulary so even  very simple things I have a a daughter uh like  

I have two daughters and my younger daughter she  likes this book uh called big bear small bear I  

think is the name of it uh but it just contrasts a  bunch of examples like a big bear with a small hat  

and a small hat or or a small bear with a big hat  and so you can look at these examples if I only  

said that that it would be much more difficult  to understand what's happening but because you  

can see the picture and hear the explanation of it  then wow you're going to feel a lot more confident  

about them so that's why I do recommend uh  children's books and I made a video specifically  

I think it's called these books get you fluent  in English but it's talking about the same basic  

idea so number one yes uh you you really want to  be getting uh lots of input like that but it's the  

multiple streams of input that allow you to really  understand something even if you're learning by  

yourself all right and that's the most important  thing so when when people talk about uh like like  

people will ask me how many words do I need to  know to speak fluently or how long do I have  

to learn and I I really want to make it clear for  people that the amount of time is not so important  

what is important is how quickly you destroy  the doubt about particular words or phras es or  

pronunciation or whatever so if I'm spending let's  say I have uh my timeline here if I spend a year  

so this is one year uh if I spend one year trying  to study something but I don't really understand  

it very well even if I repeat that thing again and  again every day I'm trying to read something but  

I still don't get it I don't really understand  uh I could spend a year doing that and I'm not  

really improving even though I spend a year doing  something but I could if I spent that same year I  

was getting all these different moments of of oh  I actually understand that thing now I can move  

on to the next thing all right so the the point  is not like instead of trying to take one thing  

and it takes me a whole year to understand that I  want to get lots of these points of understanding  

where I really feel like I'm I'm understanding  something well and I'm destroying the doubt that  

stops me from using that thing so if I have any  kind of doubt about pronunciation or whatever then  

that will stop me from speaking all right and so  rather than trying to repeat something um or get  

lessons that you don't really understand that  don't destroy the doubt it's much easier that's  

why we get these multiple streams of input all  right so not just getting one example of something  

it's usually like the third or fourth example  that really helps you understand the essence  

of that thing so if I'm teaching some vocabulary  typically I will give a few examples of something  

so that people really understand ah okay like the  first time I might not understand it very well the  

second time I might not understand it either but  alt together the variety of them lets your brain  

understand that thing very clearly all right and  one last thing to point out about this before I  

answer some questions uh and that is it doesn't  really matter what order you get these things  

in the point is more that together it's all of the  input together that helps you understand all right  

now let me go back and check but that's the uh the  basic idea it's a pretty simple idea but I thought  

it would be uh interesting to try to explain it in  this way so rather than the typical things you do  

by yourself like trying to practice by repeating  something in a textbook again and again it's much  

better if you don't understand something right  away move to something else all right like if I'm  

not making the language clear then find someone  else to make the language clear but you need to  

find someone to do that if you're unable to  do it yourself all right but that's the whole  

point so how quickly can you understand something  eliminate the doubt and if you can eliminate doubt  

quickly then you can start speaking all right  so you don't need to spend years practicing or  

doing whatever the whole point is just to to  be able to do that thing very quickly uh and  

again trying to understand something trying to  deliver uh deliver understanding to your brain  

all right uh let's take a look at uh chat over  here if anybody has any questions about this or  

anything else uh I'm happy to answer those  let's see Anna says hi and pencil says hey  

good night now this is a thing about vocabulary  here if you watch uh like 10 different native  

speakers right before they go to sleep what do  they say they would say good night good night  

good night good night good night so in that  particular situation right before I'm going to

bed like uh a typical a typical English lesson  would maybe you might get like a picture of  

something like this this so here's a uh here's  a person uh they're kind of lying down I'm going  

to draw this this is their they're in bed so  this is let me I got that looks kind of funny  

see if I can make that a nicer picture here so  there's a person lying down we got a here's a  

here's the moon over there so what do we say  in this situation oh it's a good night now over  

here we have a different situation maybe it's a  uh here's a guy I'll put a little tie on him uh  

and a shirt and it's it's kind of night time  but he's still awake maybe he's outside doing  

something he says good evening now in a typical  lesson I can just tell you oh before you go to  

bed you say good night and if you're still in the  evening but you're saying hello good evening like  

good evening I'm not saying good night to people  good night is you say at the end of a at the end  

of something or right before you go to sleep  so in the in the evening but rather than just  

telling you these things if you get to watch a  bunch of different people right before they go  

to sleep you see some some lady she turns off the  light in her room and she says good night good  

night like there's a book I read to my kids often  called Good Night Gorilla and there are actually  

many books about good night something something  good good night Moon good Night Gorilla um and  

as you see all those you're actually getting that  again that same idea multiple streams look at that  

we get multiple streams of the input all right  so uh this is why typically when people make a  

mistake something like this like if they if they  see me in the evening and they say good night I  

think oh like you're leaving already like no good  evening is what we say but rather than just kind  

of making it clear what your mind is it's it's  the the varied review that really makes you feel  

confident helps you remember the vocabulary so you  use it fluently all right uh so again this is why  

I'm always recommending rather than uh you trying  to uh learn something uh just like from One Source  

or from one textbook or whatever the point is to  get lots of examples all right so I just wanted to  

make that clear I've seen this before I'm guessing  uh either either you're like the the time to say  

good night on a chat like this would be if you're  about to go to sleep so maybe you're you're just  

saying very like good evening or whatever is  when you're joining the chat it's at night time  

for you uh but if you are about to go to sleep  you're leaving the chat before that you would  

say well good night and then everyone would think  you're leaving because good night is something we  

say when we say goodbye the end of something all  right in the evening all right uh so good example  

though all right and Mera says hi and Ben Wong  comprehensible input yes and so I want to be clear  

about comprehensible input the point like that you  can understand what's happening so I I'm getting  

some some information and maybe I understand it  perfectly maybe I don't uh but typically when  

people hear things the first time they might not  understand that perfectly and they still might not  

feel confident about using that thing and that's  why you need to get review but rather than just  

repeating the same thing again you should get  these multiple streams of input these different  

varied examples the naturally varied review that  helps you understand the vocabulary so you use it  

fluently all right so this is why often natives  like without speaking reminding reminding you  

here you don't need to speak to do this you can  just watch other people watch what other people  

say in different situations so right before people  go to bed what do they all say they say good night  

good night good night good night but if they're  still awake and they're uh greeting someone like  

after work or something like that they say good  evening good evening so you watch the like news  

show at night they're going to say good evening  before they say good night and they probably won't  

say good night uh either all right sorry I didn't  want to spend too much time on that but let's see  

uh Nick says how did you build your brand as a  teacher uh well I I don't know I I didn't really  

think like consciously about about like the brand  idea um the the only part of that I did think  

about was was creating this idea of an English  English fluency guide which is different from a  

teacher and that's the only kind of like branding  term but as as far as the um like everyday things  

that I do it's just trying to make the language  understandable and eliminate doubt that that like  

is my branding I guess so I'm not like you notice  I don't wear a a suit and a tie I'm very casual  

and I'm trying to make people feel uh confident  and comfortable and that they can just understand  

the language and speak well and so that's I don't  know I probably should spend more time thinking  

about that I guess but uh ultimately when I think  about uh solutions to problems I have I just want  

the solution I don't really care if like the  person wears a suit or whatever I'm just like  

hey can you solve my problem or can you not and  so that's why I don't know maybe I should have a  

nicer looking video that might improve my my brand  or whatever but the uh the most important thing  

for me is just destroying the doubt that people  have about the language so they speak fluently so  

that's a good question I I should probably think  more about that though uh Med says hello there my  

favorite teacher this uh me said I think it's  is that s I'm guessing uh and I'm so happy to  

be here and the interesting thing was that I was  watching a live from October uh 2022 and then they  

sent me a notification well that's great well  you can go back and watch that one after we're  

done Ben W says I feel watching live stream on  YouTube is a good way to get comprehensible input  

there are a lot of American streamers y there are  so you can watch live video uh or even people just  

making unscripted content of some kind now it's  not a bad thing to get scripted content but it's  

important to see how people really communicate  and that's the reason I do these live videos  

so I could make a video I could write a script  and I could I could plan it out very carefully  

but interestingly those videos are typically  less popular than me just talking and for me  

uh even watching like for learning Japanese uh  I like just watching unscripted people talking  

about things because that actually shows me how  to communicate all right so it's a different thing  

like I mentioned at the beginning of this video  about reading a script or something rather than  

uh trying to uh be able to think quickly and  respond automatically uh let's see did I get  

uh oh and let's see kazav says Hey VI France tar  says Nick I would guess hard work is the main part  

of it along with establishing your credibility  uh brid says hello dear teacher uh just just a  

quick note about that tar like I mean hard hard  work I don't know I I I think that like the The  

credibility part of doing something is more can  you consistently deliver value and are you able to  

I guess over a long period of time show that you  can do that and just as people we are more likely  

to trust something that's been around longer so if  I go to a business for the first time and uh it's  

their first year in business I might think oh I  you know I have no idea they have no reputation it  

might be really good you know like let's say it's  an ice cream shop uh so I go to that business and  

maybe the ice cream is really good maybe it's  not I don't know it's been there for one year  

but if there's another ice cream place that's 100  years old I can guess they're probably pretty good  

at what they do so there is part of that like uh  you know establishing the uh like kind of kind of  

part of The Branding of something like that uh but  the the the important thing for me is like uh just  

actually delivering value to the people who watch  my video so if you come to my video and I can help  

you understand something better so you feel more  confident using it then I will have done my job  

all right so that's that's the best thing I can do  to establish my credibility that's why actually I  

don't have a bunch of like video testimonials we  get video you know videos from people about like  

how they've improved with our lessons but maybe  you'll believe those maybe you won't the the best  

thing I can do is just give you examples and help  you understand and if you feel more confident uh  

that's the that's the best kind of credibility I  can get uh let's see and Ben Wong again I think  

uh that learning a language is like a long  road I think that people have to experience  

a lot with the language to go through a lot of  different levels in order to acquire the language  

yeah I I I used to think that but I don't think  anymore so the again the the problem is not the  

amount of time it's how quickly you can get those  moments of understanding and often a lot of time  

I'll put my can everybody see the red marker I  guess it maybe 30 minutes into the video it's  

maybe a bad time to ask but I I think I don't know  if some people might be color blind or they're  

unable to see a particular color I don't think  anyone mentioned that yet but I'll switch to Blue  

uh just in case just to make it more interesting  for people um so here again is is our timeline  

and you improve I I'll I'll draw this like kind  of horizontally and vertically for you to to  

notice Improvement but you improve your ability  to speak as you destroy doubt and that typically  

happens in specific moments you can feel so if  I'm teaching you something or you know you're  

whatever you're learning you hear something or you  see an example that aha moment when you think oh  

I actually understand that thing that's where you  get some kind of improvement so you actually feel  

you understand understand something better what  that means is you're destroying some kind of doubt  

and you're replacing that doubt with confidence  and that's what allows you to to speak and so  

after you get that then you continue moving until  you get some other moment all right whatever that  

is and you continue moving again and sometimes you  could go a long time without getting some kind of  

improvement or you could get that Improvement  quite quickly like that Sor I didn't draw that  

very well uh but the point is as you as you look  at progress in language learning like this it's  

the moments here that are actually the thing  that gets you more fluent and makes you a faster  

speaker so the goal really is not to just spend  more time but it's to get these moments faster  

to push those closer together so a lot of time  this part here a lot of time is actually wasted  

trying to find information or find someone who  can teach you something and uh again this is why  

you could become fluent much faster if you have  someone who can explain things really quickly  

so if you know how to find information you could  do this by yourself or getting examples from  

other people or like I mentioned uh getting these  different sources of input and as you understand  

something better the ideal way would be like  having instead of this like you're actually like  

ding ding ding ding ding ding you're you're moving  up much faster like that so uh like this part here  

is is not really necessary it's just there because  maybe you're spending time looking for something  

thing or I didn't study for a week or I didn't  read anything whatever that is all right so this  

time is not necessary for learning the language  if uh you can actually do this thing where  

you're where you're getting that moment uh of  understanding all right so the faster you can you  

can uh eliminate the doubt if you can eliminate  all of this wasted space then you can get fluent  

faster all right so hopefully that that's clear  uh the the point is not is not to just spend a  

lot of time it's to spend time efficiently getting  rid of whatever doubts you have about the language  

it's just that most people like most most things  in life they they aren't like structured this  

way you have to have someone who knows how to  do it uh to give you that if you can't do it  

yourself but it's just much more difficult to  do it by yourself because you're spending time  

looking for information and and that's wasting  your time all right so uh the people who want  

to get fluent faster they just get help all  right it's basically that simple so when I was  

uh and still am getting fluent in Japanese I don't  have a particular teacher doing this for me so I  

waste a lot of time so I have to think like okay I  don't quite understand this thing I have to try to  

get some different examples or maybe see how I can  understand something uh and then when I finally  

get it oh look I I moved up a level I understood  something better all right but I wasted a whole  

bunch of time trying to get that moment it's kind  of it's almost like digging for diamonds like or  

digging for gold or something where you you spend  a lot of time digging and then you you get that  

moment where you oh I found the gold nugget look  at that I understand something better now but then  

you have to spend more time digging see for me I'd  rather just give you a bunch of gold nuggets so if  

I can if I can do that faster then I I feel very  good about my job because I can help people uh  

without spending all this time we just take the  good part and give you that one so I I took all  

the time to learn how to do it you're right now  you're getting 20 years uh of of all the time I've  

spent Del all this but you can learn it in like  half an hour all right and this is another reason  

like when you when you think about this idea you  expand it to thinking about people and culture  

in general the reason we have uh huge buildings  and uh you know traveling in airplanes and stuff  

like that is because each generation we can learn  things and and and people can learn things faster  

and more efficiently all right anyway I'll leave  that there but yes just to make it clear the point  

is not to just spend a lot of time or like work  hard or whatever it's just how quickly can you get  

these moments of Doubt uh eliminate these moments  of Doubt excuse me all right uh let's see and  

let's see tar says Drew what uh about practicing  with chat gbd so yeah practicing with chat gbd uh  

is a good idea and I do that sometimes as well uh  my only worry about chat gbt is it sometimes it's  

incorrect um and so I I I I typically use chat  G PT to give myself more examples of things uh  

that I already know but I would just like to get  more review of them so it's it's helpful for uh  

naturally varied review uh but I usually I will I  will sometimes have a conversation with chat GPT  

where I can talk about you know whatever and and  just see how it's responding to me but it's it's  

a way it's another good thing to do to get that  input uh what do you think about school language  

exchange can this school improve speaking and  understanding um I don't know about language  

exchanges I mean again if we're if we're thinking  about using time um like if I have to spend half  

of my time speaking my language and then half of  my time speaking the language I want to speak then  

I'm wasting half of my time uh and I would I you  know most people would prefer to get fluent faster  

in general I mean maybe some people would like to  get fluent slowly I I guess but uh in general the  

like the learning process is very inefficient  normally so if you could actually compress  

the amount of time or or how quickly you can get  these moments of understanding that will get you  

fluent faster and so anything that's going to make  that process slower uh even even if I have like  

a language exchange where I can talk with other  people if their language ability is all is really  

good even if they're not a like a teacher maybe  it's just a native speaker I'm speaking with just  

having conversations with people is helpful in  that way and maybe I would spend some of my time  

speaking in English to hear someone speaking in  Japanese but I'd rather just speak all in Japanese  

if I can so uh if you're if you're speaking  specifically about like spending time doing  

a a language exchange where you spend some of  your time speaking in your language uh it's again  

it's just like how much time do you want to spend  actually getting those moments of understanding so  

often people are busy they've got work or whatever  so even when I'm teaching I especially like even  

these videos on YouTube it's a uh it's a it's a  kind of longer time where I'm explaining things I  

I want to go into detail about how learning works  but when I do lessons like if you watch a lesson  

of mine like like uh like the phrase Builder or  fluency Corner lessons for example so that's just  

like it's like one after the other of all these  like boom boom boom boom we really want want  

to help you understand something really quickly  and then you go to the next lesson and you hear  

it again in a different way then you hear it uh  how it sounds in a conversation so you're getting  

that uh naturally varied review but I'm trying  to make it as efficient as possible so that's  

another reason why the this format on YouTube I'm  taking time to answer questions or whatever but  

I'm spending more time that that like doesn't give  you as many of those aha moments really quickly  

all right all let me let me know if I'm if I'm  not making sense uh about any of this though and  

okay Ben again says basically I don't speak that  much but I'm improving my English every day by  

getting lots of inputs every day yeah that's the  idea so you don't the the again the point the the  

point where you improve is where you understand  something better and you don't need to speak to do  

that in fact when you speak it's it's typically  saying things you already know so you're not  

really improving when you speak you're improving  when you understand you unlock that understanding  

of something and that's what makes you feel more  confident hiker fan is back nice to see you there  

hello everybody I cherish learning English glad  to hear uh Ben again says I was exposed to English  

when I was a little kid and the English class is  a regular subject in primary school middle school  

high school Etc yeah uh the best is to be insides  I don't know what that means uh let's see I can't  

read the cerlic but it says hello uh you are  powerful I need to I need to learn some cerlic or  

some other languages here at least a written one  so I can I can try to sound that out uh the good  

point is the news they have 200 words yes it is  clear glad here all right Mino says good morning

[Laughter] uh all let's see uh uh I'm trying to  read this whenever I'm reading something it's  

like a long thing Kazar if I'm pronouncing that  correctly if that's your name but yeah yes you  

would say good evening or good night if you're  leaving tuck says how long does it take to get  

comfortable when you listen to Japanese uh  it depends on what I'm listening to but just  

people typically talking I live in Nagasaki and  some older people like even my wife's dad I have  

to listen quite carefully to catch what he's  saying because he'll he he doesn't say full  

sentences and he's just like it's like and  I'm like wait what did he what did he just  

say and so and so he's he's not speaking very  clearly it's kind of like a like a country way of  

speaking out here uh but that has helped me it's  trained me a lot it's another kind of speech that  

I listen to good evening and Richard says I found  that I'm a bit sluggish at learning however I keep  

going until I speak fluently because learning is a  journey not a destination you're correct hopefully  

this this diagram makes it clear that actually  learning is like little Journeys and destinations  

at the same time time so the journey is kind of  like the time you spend searching for something  

and the destination is when you understand it  and then you begin a New Journey of trying to  

understand the next new thing all right so if  you can be efficient about how you do that and  

most people are not I mean even me like trying to  teach myself a language it's like all right well  

what do I learn next and how do I go do something  I have to figure all that out because I don't have  

a specific teacher that's telling me how to  do anything uh I can't read Tai unfortunately  

but hopefully that's a nice comment let's see ingr  says your videos are really useful to me thank you  

glad to hear it the toy greetings from Brazil  and Jack says what does it and when to use it  

thanks you mean the word it oh my good that's  that's like a whole video but in general it's  

just like an an undefined thing and we're not  talking about like he or she so we just say  

it is a marker all right without going into a  long example uh I recommend you watch my series  

on beginning English grammar I think it's called  like the best beginning English grammar playlist  

or something like that but watch that series here  on YouTube and we cover it along with other basic  

things like that uh sometime in some moment I know  what people say but I can't remember I don't know  

how to use that sentence wait are you giving me  an example of a sentence sometime in some moment  

I know what people say but I can't remember  I don't know how to use that sentence let me  

know I don't quite understand what you're saying  rephrase that if you would R says it also takes  

time to consolidate all together in the mind um  yeah I mean like as I mentioned before like part  

of the learning process is is getting different  examples until you understand something so you you  

can't you can't like completely Escape spending  time doing the learning part but you should be  

uh much more efficient than usual so we could  imagine if we if we look at let's say an hour  

of time and I spend or here's like five minutes  I I spend just like I don't know thinking about  

whatever I'm I'm beginning to start studying you  know how people kind of waste a little bit of time  

now you could be perfectly efficient most people  are not same kind of thing at maybe the end of  

that so I'm losing a little bit of time there  uh and maybe I'm now I'm kind of opening my  

book and I'm reading through but I don't really  understand something and then let me let me try  

something else so I try this other thing okay now  I I think I got it let me get another example okay  

now I got it over here all right now probably like  this moment over here that you that you understood  

something you you you got some of that maybe  from from all of these but it probably could  

have been more efficient so it's like okay here's  that lesson I don't understand here's another  

one and here's this other one and now within  this much shorter period of time uh then I'm  

I'm able to understand something much faster all  right and you know also when you're learning you  

might be thinking like what am I getting for lunch  or something like that your mind is drifting off  

there lots of lots of reasons where learning  becomes uh it's it's not as efficient as we  

would like it to be uh let's see Atomic says but  Drew it's impossible to be as perfect as natives  

even if you learn English the native way people  uh still can tell you're not a natural speaker uh  

uh not necessarily I've I've certainly met people  who have who have surprised and impressed me uh  

that they were able to speak and they were not  Natives and I I I thought they were but they  

were not uh but again if you if you imagine how  natives learn like natives have the same problems  

that that non-natives do and uh to look look at  this same example about time versus Improvement  

and again the goal is really to be just efficient  but if we have our our period of time over here  

and then this is how much improvement so we'll  put an i over here for improvement and a t over  

here for time uh I'll have the blue here in  natives uh so native Native person like a baby  

or whatever they're getting lots of things you  know they're getting these kind of examples over  

here and yeah I mean they could be making quite  a lot of progress uh but there are also a lot of  

times where people are not making any progress  at all or they're not learning something new uh  

or they don't quite understand it so for example  uh a child might hear uh like some vocabulary but  

then not really understand it for another three or  four years you know that's just you you will get  

exposed to language all the time and and nobody is  being very efficient about about really teaching  

kids unless you're thinking about that so for me  I have to be very efficient about how I teach my  

own kids because they spend most of their time  learning Japanese so they go to Japanese school  

and they're they're at home speaking Japanese but  with me uh I get to practice with them and I have  

to be very efficient make sure they can understand  something very quickly all right so uh when you  

say like you're you're learning uh faster than  a native or more slowly the point is really uh  

remembering that natives especially young children  when they're learning their learning is is really  

dep dependent on the teacher or the parent and if  the parent isn't really talking with them a lot  

or they they're not really trying to make the  language understandable they're not destroying  

doubt then children learn more slowly and so as a  uh as a nonnative trying to learn like you could  

be starting in the same place but maybe you're  you're starting over here at like age 20 instead  

of age zero but as children are Lear like if you  can learn really efficiently you can you can cross  

their ability at some point it just depends on  how quickly you could do that but there's nothing  

stopping you from from getting to that point  so natives are just getting specific examples  

and that's what's erasing their doubt and if you  get the same examples but more efficiently then  

you would erase that doubt faster so you would  be learning your own language and you would be  

learning uh English or whatever other language you  want to learn but the point is how quickly can you  

eliminate the doubt and so a Child Learning has a  lot less control over their learning uh than you  

do so you can choose like okay I'm going to get  a course or I'm going to find a teacher or I'm  

going to be be very uh very specific about how  I learn and try to be as efficient as possible  

so a lot of people like they're watching YouTube  videos either for lessons or for things about how  

to learn all right and in general like there are  lots of both of those things but the core idea  

is just how quickly can you destroy the doubt  that stops you from speaking and So the faster  

you can do that the faster you speak so don't  feel bad like yes natives they started before  

you do but you can you can pass natives all right  again most people like they're they're they kind  

of get to a certain point and then they don't  maybe they don't think as much after uh going  

to to school or whatever they're not learning  as much but you can spend your time during that  

so me like I can know some some Japanese words  that maybe Japanese people don't know because  

I'm just spending my time studying things that  maybe they don't know you know so it's not like  

I'm I'm you know I I could I could never really  maybe become a native but I could be talking on  

the phone and surprise some people and they think  oh like maybe my pronunciation is a little bit  

different just because the way my like my nose and  my uh mouth sound different than a Japanese person  

but uh in general I can communicate just fine  and so don't don't feel bad about natives you  

know being able to have a head start on you it's  just spend your time learning as efficiently as

possible uh ah it's Maria okay yeah I was trying  to I'm I'm always trying to think like uh what  

what particular if I can because I can read some  of that yeah the p is like an r and then the yeah  

okay Maria glad to hear well thank you very much  does it is that the same pronunciation as well  

is that is that uh are you maybe uh is that like  Russian Ukrainian let me know something uh let's  

see and so David says isn't there an earthquake  problem yet be careful uh not not that I know  

of I mean there are earthquakes all the time at  least certain small ones and we had an earthquake  

I think a couple of days ago but nothing that was  that was bad here uh let's see San Martino wait  

Sam martiniano okay uh hello from Argentina tiarra  Del fuo I think you guys get uh some earthquakes  

down there too sunson says are you in Japan beware  of earthquakes yes well I can't you know I I do  

what I can I guess I I try to stand in the in  the doorway you know so that so nothing falls  

on my head but I've been okay so far Nagasaki in  general is pretty good for earthquakes we don't  

really get strong ones here Tom says late again  sorry morning TJ Drew it's my pleasure and Anna  

there let's see can you explain what what does  it means thinking in English uh like what does  

it mean to to think in English uh it just means  if you're just like I'm speaking in English right  

now I can talk with myself in my head in English  as well instead of trying to think through one  

language and then translate into another so some  people uh if you're unable to communicate fluently  

in a language you have to think about what you  want to say first in your language and then try  

to translate that in your head and you organize  sentences and then you speak uh and so the the  

thinking in English part it's a natural process  that happens as you understand English like a  

native so when you eliminate the doubt usually  people who have doubts about the language they  

have to translate and they do that because they  learned through translations all right hopefully  

that makes sense but let it's a pretty simple  idea it's just thinking in English like talking  

in my like I could think in in Japanese if I if  I wanted to do you can't really I guess you can't  

hear that I I could like talk out loud I suppose  but yeah it's it's it's basically the same thing  

as uh talking to yourself but it's just in that  language R says nice explanation typle says I'm in  

the car on a parking lot uh you would say you were  in a parking lot here everyone else is working I'm  

like what am I doing now but anyway your live  lesson is really useful what do you do what's  

your job uh let's see and Marcel says hello I'm  from brail n can you explain about the cond minium  

flat and apartment may be sometime confusing for  understanding thanks for your assistance Tai FC  

always support you uh yes let's see um well to  be very quick about this if you have a like a

building and we have different different units  in that building if you rent that that is your  

apartment okay if you own that thing you own that  then it is like a condominium that's typically  

what what people refer to so you rent an apartment  and you own a condo all right now uh in in the UK  

they call that a flat so you can think about like  what what floor are you living on what particular  

unit of this that is a flat but I actually  don't know if that applies to like renting a  

flat or owning a flat also so I I just don't know  what that is in the UK but UK is is referring to  

something like that I just don't know uh if it's  you could rent or own something like that but in  

general uh this is kind of the the definition of  it but you will hear people just say hey like come  

back to my apartment or let's go to my apartment  even though they own it right maybe people don't  

say like condo specifically but in general in the  United States that's that's what we're talking  

about but ask a British person or check Google  if you'd like to know more about what they say uh  

in the UK uh and let's see M PK pinga pya that's  an is that is that a name or is that like a just  

a your handle on YouTube let me know sometimes  I understand what people are saying in English  

but I have trouble remembering it and using it  myself yes uh I'll mention this very quickly

uh let's

see so just to make this very simple for people  uh this is the information you know so it could  

be even things that you don't know really well  but you have maybe at least a passive vocabulary  

so you know something about particular  words or grammar points or whatever and  

this is the information you're able to use uh  this space in between here this is what I call  

the fluency [Music] Gap as the British say Mine  The Gap Mine The Gap watch out for that space so  

there is a space between what you know and what  you're able to use and your goal is to destroy  

the doubt so we can close the gap all right so you  need to bring your knowledge up to your ability to  

use like that all right so you could think about  this as like crossing the Gap but it's more more  

like closing the Gap where we're trying to bring  uh the information we have up to this level here  

where we want to make sure that the information we  know is actually able to be used that way so often  

what Learners have is they know things but they're  unable to put that information together and really  

the way we we we close the gap is getting those  multiple sources of input so if you you have to  

you have to remember that the the information  that you know or the things that you learn the  

the learning and practice process it should be  like the actual communication process so if I if  

I'm learning something and I just read a textbook  that textbook is going to be very different from  

how people actually communicate it's going to  be less clear maybe it's faster maybe people  

say things that aren't in the textbook and so  when we're getting those multiple uh sources  

of input the multiple the the natural varied  review the different examples of things that's  

what helps you close that Gap so this is what  I discovered for myself uh when I was getting  

fluent in Japanese and I'm still applying this  today because you get fluent in new words and  

phrases as you understand them uh but the point  is to close this Gap by by actually learning in  

a way that helps you understand the vocabulary and  and it's typically uh like getting those multiple  

examples because if I just repeat something I'm  I'm not learning more I'm not destroying much  

doubt I need to destroy doubt about how words are  connected with each other all right so whenever  

you're thinking about how to learn or if you have  this specific problem where you know things and  

you can't really use them then you're you're  stuck in this or you you have this kind of gap  

between what you know and what you can use the  way to close that is to make your learning more  

like real communication so if uh if some people  are more difficult to listen to than you should  

be listening to those those kinds of people as  you speak all right so this is why we organize  

uh fluent for life in this way so we want to it's  not just like me telling you something you hear me  

tell it but you also hear other people say it the  same way maybe they say it faster maybe you hear  

it used in a different context here's a different  conversation where maybe that conversation that  

like specific vocabulary is used as well and  so as you're getting all of this variety it  

naturally helps you see the connections between  these different things I'll give you just one  

more quick example about this because this this  really is like the core problem people have for  

language learning so they know information uh but  they can't use it very well so they're in or they  

have this gap between between these two things so  to close the gap like a typical way of learning an  

expression maybe you would learn like uh I've  given this example before uh let's see I got

uh or I I let's just say I hit I hit a home I hit  a home run a home it's like x a home run so I when  

I if you learn this a native speaker will learn  this usually from a specific context like playing  

baseball and to hit a home run means you hit the  ball physically outside of the playing area and so  

you get you know one run or one point for that or  you could even get more if there are other people  

on the bases I won't explain a lot about that but  the important thing here is if you only see this  

and you only hear it one time maybe you see in a  textbook like you're just learning about baseball  

and the player says oh I hit a home run so you  you recognize oh a home run means hitting the ball  

outside of the park or outside of the playing  area so here's a for people who don't know uh  

baseball diamond looks like this so the like the  players are standing out here uh and if you hit  

the ball outside of this like you hit it really  far somewhere in this area that's a home run and  

so you get like a point because of that you get  to run around the bases and come back and so if  

you if you don't know anything about baseball and  I just told you that story you probably understand  

what a home run means all right so that's a basic  lesson of something so like if we're talking about  

our uh multiple streams or multiple sources of  input I've given you your first example here now  

if you stop right here then you'll understand what  a home run is but usually natives are going to get  

many many examples of what that means so another  example in a different context would be like like  

uh I was going out on uh a date with a girl uh and  we've been dating for a long time and now we're  

married I feel like I really hit a home run with  this girl all right so in that case a home run  

really means something special something great  like a great achievement that you did cuz it's  

pretty hard if you if you know anything about  baseball you have a like it's it's one of the  

most difficult things to do in sports because you  have a pitcher who's trying to throw a ball really  

quickly so you don't hit it and so even really  good players maybe three out of 10 times they  

might hit the ball that's it and most of the time  they don't like they might hit the ball but they  

don't they don't successfully get get on base  so uh hitting a home run is a great achievement  

so we can apply that to other situations like I  just got a new job or I uh maybe was able to do  

my presentation at work very good very well and  people say wow Drew like you hit a home run with  

that presentation all right and so each time you  hear an example of that you think oh wow wow look  

at that like multiple examples all right so I'm  not just giving you one and telling you to reread  

that story about baseball you're actually hearing  it in different ways and and realizing oh maybe  

it came from baseball but now I could apply it  in these other situations okay so this is what I  

mean uh it's just one example of this about these  multiple streams or sources of input all right so  

it could be hearing different people say this or  it could be hearing it in different contexts but  

notice how quickly I'm able to deliver these so  if you heard like today you heard the baseball  

example and tomorrow you hear the dating example  and next day you hear the business example it took  

you 3 days to get that but if you can get  them all at the same time wow like you just  

understood and now you have a great phrase you  can use when anybody does a good job at something  

okay hopefully that makes sense so this is the  idea about like understanding things the way  

people would use them in uh in a real conversation  so if you make the learning like the practice so  

there lots of people will use this phrase  to hit a home run in different ways in real  

conversations so if you learn like the way people  are actually speaking then you close the gap all  

right hopefully that makes sense to so to destroy  that uh this was like the the biggest insight for  

me for even if I learn the right vocabulary and I  can and I can understand it very well I still have  

trouble like okay I know a phrase like hit a home  run but it it's still wait a minute like somebody  

said hitting a home run but they're talking about  business and that doesn't have anything to do  

with baseball or does it okay so as you're you're  learning you think oh wow these things actually do  

have connections and since most regular learning  is about just getting one example or getting the  

one correct answer rather than hearing like  multiple ways that people might respond to  

something then then you're going to struggle and  you're going to have this fluency Gap because the  

learning is different from the way people actually  speak all right hopefully that makes sense and uh  

answers that question uh let's see if I'll just  repeat that though sometimes I understand what  

people are saying in English but I have trouble  remembering it and using it myself yes so that  

that specific problem that's the fluency Gap and  that's caused by how you learn and it's not your  

fault it's just that's the way most people learn  languages because they don't they're not really  

thinking about um learning a language that mirrors  the way real communication works all right so in  

a re in real life there's not only one way to  say something in a classroom there usually is  

so the teacher says hello and everyone says hello  to the teacher okay but in the real world someone  

might say hello and I say ha hey hello how's it  going so there are different ways I can respond  

to that so the way you learn needs to mirror the  way people actually speak uh let's see hopefully  

I didn't skip anybody here uh let's see okay it um  says I'm pretty excited since I met you on YouTube  

if I try to pronounce an English word today is  because of you I am Greatful for that glad to hear  

it uh for anyone else who would like to improve  their pronunciation if you would like to sound  

not only like more like me specifically but  just to understand how natives uh especially  

American English speakers are pronouncing words  you can get Frederick just click on the link in  

the description below uh this video to download  that app and start messing around with that it  

will teach you uh not only the sounds of English  but also show you how to pronounce them and learn  

them like a native Leo says now I'm going to have  my dinner all right glad to hear let's see R says  

it would be awesome it would be awesome a  teacher like you teaching Japanese yes uh  

I would if you know anybody who does that would  be great um for me trying to learn Japanese I have  

not yet found uh there there there seems to be  a a wide range of people doing stuff in Japanese  

but the things that I've found most helpful  for me personally uh are Street interviews and  

this is because it's getting these this naturally  varied review so a person will ask a question and  

you hear different people responding to that same  question so it's like oh okay like it's like how  

old are you just as a as a basic basic question  so you might hear like like 26 32 or I'm 57 or  

I will be 37 tomorrow okay so even these slight  variations in hearing people talk about their age  

it makes you feel more confident because you're  like oh look at that there isn't just one way to  

answer that there could be many different ways  to answer that and your learning has to mirror  

the way we're we're the way we actually speak so  if there are various responses in the real world  

then you should have various responses in your  learning as well that's how you close the gap  

so you need to make the learning more like the  uh more like the actual communication all right  

if your teacher says there's only one way to say  something but then you hear something different  

in the real world uh you hit the fluency  Gap real hard right there you're like oh  

wait there are different ways to say that  yes there are different ways to to express  

something uh let's see M says yes my dear  DJ it's uh s uh in Arab which means happy  

oh that's interesting oh S I didn't know that uh  by the way my teacher about vocabulary situations  

how can I search on YouTube for a situation for  creep up as an example um if you're looking for  

specific vocabulary I would use yish for that  y o u g l i.com uh I think that's still around  

uh but use yish for looking uh at specific  vocabulary but if you uh instead like let me

erase there are a few ways to get this naturally  varied review and let's say we have something

so creep up so I could if I already understand  this and know what it means maybe I I just  

listen to different people saying that word  and it doesn't need to be in context I could  

just hear people using it and using something  like uish would be a good way to do that but if  

I think about if I if I understand what  creep up means but I'd like to get more  

examples a different way of this is like  actually watching somebody like if I can  

um like you could probably even search  on YouTube for like someone someone

creeping I don't know like to creep up on  something else and then you would probably  

see some videos of of people like sneaking up on  something else and so you would get to learn it  

that way so there are different situations where  like one person or one animal might be creeping  

up like a lion is creeping up on some uh you know  like antelope or whatever some some animal to eat  

um or you could hear about a person sneaking  up on someone else or you could even hear a  

more figurative version of that or figurative  use of that where like like my uh I don't know  

like the my last day of school is creeping up  on me or the the due date for my uh my paper at  

school or my present my presentation at work or  whatever uh is creeping up on me so it's kind of  

it's like a date or something is getting closer  and closer little by little like that all right  

so again there are different ways you can think  about that but this this is what we mean about  

naturally varied review so this is the kind of  thing I do influent for life like I already know  

you should be learning this way and that's why I  teach this way so I want to make try to give you  

many examples of things so you are more prepared  for them in real life and so you should be doing  

that if you're learning by yourself then think  about that if I want to if I want to know how  

to sound like a native or if I want to know  how to pronounce something I should hear many  

different people saying the words like creep  up but if I maybe don't understand the actual  

grammar or the meaning of the vocabulary then I  should get more examples of of what's physically  

happening here or some situation where I  can uh see it and understand it in some

way uh let's see and adult say I'm guessing uh  Hy Dre greetings from Mexico it's the first time  

from me having the chance to join your live lesson  since I started to follow your channel it's been  

it's a pleasure for me to listen to you glad to  hear it if you know other people who I can help  

then do click the like button and tell them about  us thank you very much Errol says I understand  

you very well but I need a teacher to teach  real English native English the student have  

problem understand natives yes and again like  as I mentioned before about the fluency Gap if  

all of your teachers are clear speakers then you  will hit that fluency Gap you will not be able to  

close that fluency Gap so your learning also needs  to have clear speakers okay so uh hopefully that  

makes sense like if if you're if you personally  are learning uh the language and you you have a  

hard time understanding people uh in real life or  movies or conversations then it's probably because  

you're not getting a lot of those examples  as you learn all right so how you learn is  

how you speak and so you should be making that  making that connection to to close the fluency

got uh High says your example is practical and  excellent glad to hear it let's see and Cloud  

says hi greetings from Poland it is my first  time here I assume it will be helpful for me  

well hopefully it will be uh let's see wisley says  hello Mr Drew what is the topic about today I just  

joined live uh it's just talking about how to get  uh fluent and speaking I kind of introduced it at  

the end there about closing the fluency Gap uh  but this is making your learning more like uh  

or kind of your learning and your practice more  like the uh more like the real world and you do  

that by getting naturally varied review so you  need to get these various sources of vocabulary  

or hearing different people pronounce things that  way you can actually become a fluent speaker much  

faster all right so you have to make the learning  like the real communication all right so getting  

fluent in a language is not like practicing an  instrument where I I try to do something uh by  

myself and and make sure like people can uh like I  don't know like I can kind of understand something  

a little bit but that's that's a different story  in in real communication all right so I really  

want to make sure I understand something well  and it's much easier to do that if I get a lot  

of varied uh responses or a lot of varied examples  well and Rocky there kich or that says a con kicha  

from Kagawa Japan I'm learning Spanish now well uh  enjoy uh will it be good idea a good idea to speak  

uh Spanish with English grammatical knowledge um  I don't know enough about Spanish to say that but  

in general I would say uh learn the language you  are learning in that language uh wisley says can  

you do a recap please uh let's see just watch  the video again the basic idea actually I just  

did a recap I just explained what I talked about  soie says can uh someone learn English from AI  

you can but it's a lot more difficult because you  don't know like how to control that learning so i'  

I've I've experimented with this uh in learning  Japanese and uh it takes a while to control that  

but I did make a video about this uh and there is  a prompt uh I give you that you can use in your  

or learning with chat GPT or whatever uh whatever  it is you're learning I gotta be satosi Nakamoto  

isn't that the is that is that the the Bitcoin guy  uh it's definitely not me uh let's see blut says  

something in huru which hopefully means something  good I don't know I can't read it scary man says  

hi how many time how many years do I need to speak  clearly and fluently if I learn English if I learn  

English not systematically well I mean you could  learn for the rest of your life and not become  

fluent if it's not systematic uh but yeah go like  go back and watch the video again there are some  

good good nuggets of where I explain things  and why they work but I'll be releasing a an  

upcoming uh or an update to my guide to fluency  and I'll be talking about these ideas and so  

I'll put this all in one place for people Taco  again says getting the same words in different  

situations to the point where you feel comfortable  about uh confident and comfortable without doubts  

right yes and so it's getting it's getting  examples of of how you might hear something  

how different natives would say something and and  any any of these different examples of variety  

where it could be here's a situation and how did  different people say that uh like ordering food at  

a restaurant how did different people order food  and all of them could be correct uh but that makes  

you feel more confident that there's not just like  one thing I have to remember because really there  

are many things uh and they're they're really like  an infinite number of ways that you could express  

a particular thing all right well looks like we've  gotten to the end of the video hopefully everyone  

has enjoyed this if you have do click the like  button and if you'd like to learn most of the  

stuff I do in videos like this is just helping  you understand how to learn so you can then either  

apply those in your own learning or just have me  do the work for you and try to get you those uh  

aha moments as quickly as possible that's what we  do in fluent for life well have a fantastic day uh  

click on the links in the description below this  video for more and I'll see you next time bye-bye