How To Study English Vocabulary For Fast Recall And Fluent Speech

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hi there I am Drew Badger the founder of  englishanyone.com and the English fluency  

guide and today we're going to talk about how  to study English words so you speak fluently  

you have rapid recall you feel confident in  conversations we're going to talk about all this  

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go work on my phone again  rather than on on the computer

so as usual I will have the kind  of the lesson at the beginning and  

then I will stay and answer questions if  people have them see if chat is working

and I think yes it is working all right fantastic  okay well hello everyone if you do have questions  

nice to see everybody there and uh do click the  like button it's going to be an awesome video but  

if you like the video do click the like button uh  just to tell you YouTube to send more people my  

way so I can help more people improve uh so the  reason I wanted to make this video is because I  

had a uh just a question from a learner one of  our Learners named Shang and he was asking how  

exactly do we study because he he enjoys what  I talk about about naturally varied review and  

the way we should be reviewing vocabulary but I  wanted to speak very specifically about this and  

I know the word study doesn't sound uh very fun  people don't really like that idea but the point  

of this is more like an adventure where you're  actually learning more about vocabulary and you're  

developing fluency as you do it rather than what  people typically do with studying which is just  

repeating something again and again so you don't  really like if you think about studying for a test  

it's usually trying to memorize some information  that you just use on the test but the kind of  

studying I'm talking about is like where you study  something you're interested in you continue to  

learn more about it and you're enjoying things  as you learn and you're learning a lot more and  

actually building fluency so nice to see everybody  there uh I don't know how long this video will be  

or at least the lesson part of it but I want to  get started I'll come back and answer questions  

in a moment if people have them but let's get  right into this so I know some people are going  

to be new to learning with me to learning as  or learning English as a first language so  

let me speak briefly before I talk about studying  specifically about the three things that you must  

get in order to build fluency so the first one of  these is going to be real speech so you have to be  

learning the actual vocabulary that natives learn  you do learn some of this in traditional English  

classes but a lot of it you do not so you need  to get slang and idioms and all of those other  

things and not only the specific vocabulary but  the kinds of speech that natives will use so they  

will have faster speech and they will blend the  sounds of their words together so faster than  

the way I'm speaking less clear than the way I'm  speaking right now but you really need real speech

so the same vocabulary way of speaking again  the natives are using the second thing you need  

is you need to get understandable messages so you  need to actually understand this information like  

a native and I'm going to show you how to do  that uh the second and third thing we're going  

to really go deep into in this video because  really the goal is fluency so you can learn  

this information I can try to study like get a  list of idioms or something like that and try to  

review it again and again but that's not really  going to build my fluency if I don't understand  

it like a native so I need to get understandable  messages this means again learning things the same  

way natives do so you're learning English as a  first language rather than trying to translate  

it through your native language okay and this  is possible to do at any level you really just  

need to get content that's appropriate for your  level so if I'm trying to read a book for example  

if I want to read something in Chinese or or  whatever a different language I need to read  

something that I can understand most of like  80 to 90 percent of that information so that  

any new vocabulary I can understand that  from Context okay so we have understandable

understandable messages

understandable again in English so you  can understand everything in English  

rather than you using translations or  trying to get definitions of things and  

then the third thing as I mentioned  earlier is naturally varied review

and we're going to talk uh actually a lot about  naturally varied review in this video because it's  

it's something I talk about a lot but maybe some  people still don't understand it so it means I'm  

not explaining it well enough but I want to talk  about two different ways of doing this there are  

many but the point of the way of learning like  a native speaker is that natives are actually  

getting lots of varied input so they're hearing  things from different people in different times  

like it could be like the past the present the  future they're learning these natural tense  

natural tenses and different ways of learning the  language in the same way that you would learn your  

your native language so you're hearing your mom  and your dad say things to you or you hear your  

you know your teacher or something like that  uh and all of these things combined give you  

lots of the input that you need in order to build  fluency so we're going to talk about two of these  

kinds of things specifically in this video  so Shang he was talking about or asking me uh  

what we do with trying to learn he was trying to  understand how naturally varied review works and  

he likes the idea he understands how important it  is to go deep into the vocabulary you're learning  

because if you just learn something maybe hear  it one time you might remember it you might hear  

it and understand it in a conversation but  you probably won't feel very confident about  

using that vocabulary so I wanted to talk about  two different ways of doing this specifically  

naturally varied review so you can actually study  things by yourself so when you're learning new  

vocabulary you can review it the right way  and actually build fluency and fast recall  

uh before I mention this though uh it's really  important to remember that as a as like a a  

native English speaker or you can think about  this even in your native language as you speak  

um you're not really thinking about vocabulary  you're thinking about situations and because  

you're learning that way you're not getting just  one example you don't learn just one word for  

money or one word for snow or something like that  you actually get lots of different examples so  

this is part of that naturally varied review I'll  explain a little bit more about this in detail but  

it's really important to understand that when you  learn vocabulary if you only focus on vocabulary  

and you just get translations and definitions  it will be really difficult for you to recall  

things in conversations because if you forget  that one word or translation or something then  

you will get stuck so we really want to give you  the mind of a native speaker the mind of a fluid  

speaker and this means you're able to just think  about the situation and lots of different ways  

of expressing yourself will come to mind so if  I'm thinking like what's a good word for money  

I could say like I don't know cash or dollars or  greenbacks or frog skins or you know there are  

lots of other words I could use for money like if  I'm talking about paper currency American dollars  

all right but the point is because I know all  those if I forget one word or I can't think of one  

I can easily switch to another and this is really  important if you want to speak fluently all right  

so in shang's question he was giving the specific  example of stake so like learning the word stake

actually let me erase this  make this a little bit clearer

so in his example he had the word stake and then  he had maybe like two or three different examples  

of it plus there was uh some translations there  were some Tran translations in Chinese which I  

don't like seeing but I understand some people  have to you know it's it's hard for them to stop  

using translations because they've done it for  a long time uh but I want to show you these two  

different ways of studying vocabulary when you  learn something new so this was his example he  

actually sent me a picture of uh just like a page  from a notebook that had this on it so we have the  

word stake and then we have a couple of different  examples of when we might use this now even before  

we get to the word stake where if you imagine  you're a child like a native English-speaking  

Child Learning the language if you hear the  word stake you actually could have even more  

uses of the word because steak can mean different  things it can actually have different spellings  

s-t-e-a-k so this version of steak here this is  like the steak that you eat but this steak over  

here the pronunciation is exactly the same this  EA and this a e both of those make the same long  

a sound so steak and steak it's exactly the same  but again it depends on the context so you might  

even misspell it in a conversation or I guess in  your writing but it's important to understand when  

you're learning a new word to to really go deep  into things like that to understand what you're  

learning and then think about getting different  examples of it so the two like primary or core  

ways of learning vocabulary we're going  to use the example of stake over here and  

do that I'm going to show you these two things  here so let's say we begin with the word stake  

and he gave me this spelling here so we're  talking about different kinds of steaks you  

could have like there's like the steak like an  oak steak or something where you're it's almost  

looking like a little thing that you hit into  the ground like that like a tent stake or you  

could have an oak steak this is like where you  like stab a vampire with it like like the oak  

steak maybe if you've seen that in movies  but then we also have things like Stakes  

where you have like a piece of something or  if we're talking about like uh like a high  

high stakes high stakes uh like high here let  me write this a bit more clearly high stakes  

Pope so steaks meaning like what are we risking  for that like we have like in in a movie uh maybe  

if I don't save my wife or my children and I  don't defeat the bad guy than my whole family  

dies or something like that so there's a high  stakes so high stakes in poker would mean I'm  

playing for a lot of money so not like low stakes  it's high stakes so when we're learning something  

like this uh it's important I'm just going  to give these kind of two different ways of  

looking at this but we can imagine we start  with a word like steak and then we want to  

look at different meanings of this because we  don't want to just write down like 10 different  

meanings of it we really want to make sure uh we  focus on one and then get lots of examples of that  

thing so if we're talking about steak like the  physical stake like this this is pretty easy to  

understand and it does have the same spelling  mistake but so we can just look at physical  

examples and that's pretty easy to understand  yes so as Alex says it depends on the context  

but it's important here that we want to think  about it like a native because if we ask a native  

and we say what does the word stake mean a native  is going to say it depends on the context what do  

you mean where are you talking about so are you  talking about this kind of stake are you talking  

about like high Stakes or what are the stakes  of something so I could have like a stake in a  

company like I could own a position of that or  own a part of that like having a uh like shares  

of a company it works the same way so there are  different ways of doing this and what you want  

to do is for each kind of example of something  you want to get enough examples so it could be  

different words like again the oak stake or a  tent steak this is pretty easy to understand so  

Oak so Oak meaning it's made from the wood of an  oak tree so Oak is a strong wood and we want to  

use that to kill the vampire so an oak steak or a  tent steak same idea so a tent stake just like we  

have our tent over here and then we have maybe  some strings or something that go down and we  

use a little stake to go into the ground so that  we hold the tent down and the tent doesn't blow  

away so we can easily get the idea of this and  what we're looking for is what I call the aha  

moment where we really understand it's like ah I  got it now so now I understand this usage of steak  

all right so I could have like uh this usage of  steak over here and now I have just this one but I  

understand it quite well okay a steak so yes it's  kind of like a like a big nail basically like you  

can it's it basically looks like this so a tent  stake looks like this it's just a little thing  

with a pointy end because it holds into the ground  and I can hammer it down like that and it stays  

into the ground so to stake something down to  stake something down yes and so you can also talk  

about like like the physical Stakes like how much  money you're spending or you can talk about like  

um like what was that someone just had that  question yes like the things that can be  

gained or lost as Aaron says so we can have uh  different meanings of this and what you want to  

do is make sure you get enough examples that  you really understand it all right for each  

one of these things so some words might have  just one example like if we have the word cat  

you know there's there's not like a lot of  meanings of that not really it's really just  

like the like the animal and we have a pretty good  idea of what that means and we can also understand  

very quickly what the word means so there's not  a lot of like worry or uh ambiguity so ambiguity  

means we're uncertain about exactly or precisely  what something means so it's ambiguous ambiguous  

but a word like stake you might hear that and like  someone says like you just hear the one example  

like I'm out camping with my friends and they say  hey could you give me one of the stakes over there  

so hand me a steak and I think like okay like I'm  just listening I'm not seeing it written down but  

I'm guessing they mean that because for this  context uh yes like we're trying to get this  

specific thing I understand what the person  is talking about but if I'm in like a business  

meeting and they're talking about uh like the  stakes of launching this new product are very  

high so if we do badly if the new product doesn't  do well then maybe the company goes bankrupt so  

the stakes are very high okay so hopefully that  makes sense so the point is like we want to get  

as many examples for each meaning as we need to  understand something so I remember a teacher asked  

me uh many years ago or not even that long I  think it was like last year or something so  

they were asking like how long or how much review  do you need like how much studying do you need to  

understand something and it really depends on you  as the learner so if the learner you are getting  

a lot of good examples like okay an oak stake  and then a tent steak maybe at least like two  

or three examples especially if it's something  simple like a physical object that you can see  

and touch it's easy to understand like a cat uh  but if maybe something is a little a little more  

difficult it's like whoa like like high Stakes or  low stakes uh or I'm talking about getting a steak  

in a company like that so I do I have a very low  stake in that company or I have a low like stake  

in this in this argument I don't really care so  much about it it's not very important to me so I'm  

getting these different examples and I might need  to get maybe more for like something a bit more  

difficult or more for something else maybe more or  less all right so I don't want you to think about  

like we need a hundred examples for each word the  point is not to get a lot of examples it's really  

just to get to the point of understanding okay  is Oak stake like the end of a wooden Arrow or  

something no an oak stake is like a physical thing  like does Google Oak steak and you will see like  

people it just looks like this like you can have  like it's a steak made of oak made out of oak wood  

like that so usually it's like a kind of bigger  thing maybe you've seen this in a vampire movie or  

something where you're trying to stab the heart of  a vampire and so that's where we get an oak steak  

but a tent steak where we could have a metal like  made out of metal m-e-t-a-l so metal steak like  

this it just has kind of a little hook on the end  of it and it's just a like a curved piece of metal  

and that sticks into the ground and this little  hook here it's the same thing we can use for  

this so we could put a rope or a string around  this maybe plastic stake or it could be made  

of wood or it could be made of metal it doesn't  really matter but the idea is that you can like  

stake something into something else yeah so it's  like the same thing as as a pig for this example  

for this example yeah so if we're talking about  steaks like cooking steaks like s t e 8K that's  

a different thing all right but that's why it's  important to understand this where you notice  

we're just spending time talking about one word  okay so this example this is it's kind of like you  

you start with one word and then we're looking  at different meanings of it and then we might  

get different examples until we really understand  something so that's the that's the the whole point  

of getting the varied review so the the opposite  of this is where we take a word like stake and  

we just repeat the word again and again or I try  to get a translation or a definition of the word  

but the point is really to understand it like  a native so now it's like oh look at that like  

here's an oak stake or maybe I'm out camping and  I don't have any Stakes with me so I take a tree  

branch so if I I'll try to draw a nicer picture  for you here so here's like let's say uh like a  

piece of a tree that I that I've like break off  so this was a piece of a tree but now like look  

at this I can use it as a steak so I break the  tree off here it's got a little hook right here I  

can tie my string around that and then this part  goes into the ground so I hammer it in and then  

that sticks into the ground so my tent doesn't  blow away okay so we can also use this as a verb  

to stake something all right so it's the same word  two steak so here we have steak like the physical  

thing or we could have uh using it as a verb as  well like to stake something to stake something  

yes I'm trying to look briefly at comments uh  but I wanted to get through this before I give  

uh go back and answer anything else yes so we're  we're talking about movement like I am staking  

something all right and so just like this we have  like high stakes oh no I guess I gotta sneeze I  

held it in oh my goodness all right pardon me that  happens that's one of the the magic of live video  

so I could say I have like a high stake in  something uh or like a low stake I don't really  

mind I don't care so much but is everybody getting  this bless you thank you very much all right

I don't want to mess up the camera you like sneeze  all over you that would be very impolite all right  

is everybody getting this hopefully this  makes sense so the first way that we can  

study vocabulary is we actually go deep into  that by looking at different examples of the  

vocabulary yeah much pollen uh I I think I'm kind  of allergic to dust I guess I don't know if this  

room is particularly Dusty who knows it's not  it's not a very it's not super bad but I'm okay  

all right so again just to make this very  clear we're looking at different examples  

of this and and you as a learner you want to go  through and get as many examples as you need to  

understand something when you're like ah  now I get it then you can move on to the  

next word or another example or something  like that okay uh can we use Frederick to  

learn a particular word yes Kyoshi so uh so  Frederick Works in a similar way like this  

so what you will get in Frederick like let's say  we have a word like a more a more difficult word

what's a more difficult word so there are over  2 000 words in Frederick and the way we do uh  

like learning vocabulary you will have a word  but we will give you a few different images  

to understand what that means so the whole  point it's again giving you naturally varied  

review but we're just using visual examples so  it could be an animation or it could be a picture  

so Frederick you can click on the link in the  description below this video this is uh the  

app I created to help people learn English as  a first language all in English and so this is  

teaching you vocabulary pronunciation all of that  stuff uh you could have like a stake in a wall  

but like typically a smaller thing that would be  more like a nail what is the longest English word  

well there's like there's the joke answer and  then there's probably like some answer but like  

when so little kids I'll answer this question  quickly the longest English word is smiles

because there's a mile between the S's this is  a kid's joke so what's the longest English word  

Smiles because there's a mile between the S's yes  even Sam Walton thought that was funny yes so this  

is like adults this is like a dad joke or whatever  is a microstate can that be a splinter uh that's  

an interesting way of thinking about it like  typically a splinter and this is an interesting  

thing about about like going deep into vocabulary  this is why I like doing these live videos because  

people always have some interesting questions  a splinter typically it kind of usually looks  

like some if we if we magnify it so if we blow  it up make it look bigger uh it's kind of like  

this but it's a steak is more usually it has  some kind of hook on the end of it like that  

okay so that way we can because you want to  stake something down and then usually like  

attach something else but you could have a stake  like like the act like the vampire stake it just  

looks like this it's just the thicker thing like  like that so it doesn't really have a hook on  

it it's just like to hold something down but in  the case of this kind of steak if we're holding  

something down usually you put the stake in at  an angle like this so it's not straight into the  

ground it would be like this and then your rope  or something would be hooked around that side  

okay so if we're staking something into the  ground so very quickly uh just answering kyoshi's  

question about Frederick so we're going to give  you like different different pictures of of cats  

and a cat is a pretty easy thing to understand  so here's just like the face of a cat and here's  

like the whole you know body with the tail and I'm  not going to draw these very well but the point is  

that we want to give you different examples of  that and so some of them will be pictures some  

of them will be animations but if you'd like  to get Frederick you can click on the link in  

the description below this video and this is the  app uh that I was that I was talking about before  

so yes like so splinters are going to be a little  bit different from a steak all right I wouldn't  

say like I got a micro stake in my hand people  might think like I meant like like the eating  

steak in that way so if it's just a piece of  wood you could have like a metal you could  

have a metal Splinter as well but usually  like it's just a wood a piece of wood okay  

hopefully that makes sense so it's rather than me  showing you this here if you click on the link you  

can download the app for free if you'd like to  upgrade then you can get the whole thing but you  

can play around with with Frederick and see how  it works okay all right so we just talked about  

the example of going deeper into  vocabulary so I'm just going to  

show this visually like this so we have one  word like steak and we're going to go into it  

and we want to get as many examples of each  of the meanings of these things as we have so  

we gave some examples of that like a physical  stake the verb stake we could talk about high  

stakes low stakes where something is important  or we have a high share or amount of something  

actually I don't know if that's the longest word  or not I think there are longer words than that  

yeah so steak and eggs is like there there's  like it's like there's you and this is like a  

way of learning the vocabulary but if you have  some eggs here's my egg right here and there's  

the actual steak so that's like steak steak  and eggs but if we have this one where it's  

like here's the egg and here's the like a oak  steak on it like that like that so this is steak  

so steak and eggs over here depending on the  spelling steak and eggs but isn't this fun  

isn't this entertaining so this is a lot better  than just taking a word like steak and trying  

to repeat the word again and again or try to get  a translation or look at a flash card again and  

again the point is to go deep into the vocabulary  and understand all of the meanings maybe some  

words have one meaning other words only have you  know like 10 or whatever it could be so even like  

even short words we could have something like  in or on or at those can actually have lots of  

meanings and so usually what natives are doing  they're not trying to study like all of the  

meanings at the same time they really just want to  understand the situation when do we use that word  

okay so here's this is one way of doing this we're  kind of going deeper into the vocabulary the other  

way of doing this is we're going laterally where  we're learning different ways of expressing that  

same situation so I used stake for this example  because that's what Shang had asked me about uh  

but this one let's say I just hear a phrase from  someone like uh I don't have time so someone says  

to me I don't have time now I don't really need  to like go deeper into that I understand what it  

means it's a phrase someone is is busy or whatever  they don't have much time but rather than trying  

to just repeat this I also want to focus on the  situation and hear different examples of that  

same thing so what are other ways of expressing  that so another way you could say like I'm busy

or let's see so I don't have  time or I don't have much time

I don't have much time so I'm busy I'm in a  rush I'm in a rush I'm in a rush I'm in a hurry

sorry

no time or you could say sorry no time to chat  or no time to do whatever so it's this specific  

situation maybe I'm talking with someone right  now uh but I have to go I'm sorry I have to go  

I don't have time I'm busy I don't have much  time I'm in a rush I'm in a hurry sorry no time  

okay so there are different ways of doing this  and what we're doing so it's you notice it's  

it's different vocabulary so here we're talking  about the same vocabulary and we're looking at  

different meanings of it but over here it's  actually different vocabulary there might  

be something similar but the point is native  English speakers are focusing on the situation  

and they're learning all these different ways of  saying that so when you are in a conversation you  

can use any one of these and you don't have to  have to try uh like to perfectly remember them  

all there might be some things where you  remember it like very easily and you use  

that so most people will have like a what  I call like their go-to phrase so a go-to

Springs so a go-to phrase or something  like that and yes and so you will learn  

like how do we say this casually how do we  say this professionally and you will learn  

these like these kind of nuances come from  understanding the situation so we we focus  

on on understanding the situation rather  than trying to focus on the vocabulary so  

who says I don't have time when do they say  that and how do we say it so we're not going  

to be impolite like if I'm talking with  my friend I could just say hey I gotta go  

I gotta go so sorry apologies but I  gotta go I gotta go so I so I have to go

or I gotta go it's just different ways of of  watching the same or getting the same uh situation  

so when when you're learning from the traditional  way with English as a second language usually what  

you do is you would learn something like this and  you would get a translation of that but instead  

of thinking about the vocabulary I want you to  really just think about the situation and what  

might other people say in that situation so yeah  like take a rain check that's a good one see you  

later alligator so that's another thing you might  say that to like a little a little kid like see  

you later alligator and the little kid says after  a while crocodile if you've heard that before  

but these are all things that you learn and it's  and it's really getting you to think more like a  

native speaker and a native speaker is thinking of  situations they're not thinking about vocabulary  

okay they're thinking about situations so in  this situation what can I say and they're able  

to process this very quickly because they have  all these different examples and as a learner  

you might hear like you know these same kinds of  things like I'm busy I don't have much time I'm  

in a rush and you can just think of one because  maybe you don't remember all of them and that's  

fine you don't have to know all of these but  as you learn them you will be prepared when  

other people say them and you will be able to use  them yourself you will at least have one of these  

things that comes to mind okay so see you later  alligator after a while after a while crocodile  

all right so these are the two when you're  thinking about studying vocabulary yourself this  

is not really about like taking a translation  so we'll put translation or a definition  

we're thinking about what is the word if we  want to focus on the vocabulary so maybe you  

heard something from somebody else from a movie  or you read something uh take your time and try  

to go deep into that word I know it's it's kind  of a pain to do this yourself that's why the  

you know the nice thing about having a teacher  who can actually go through it and explain all  

these things and make sure you understand  it but it is possible to do by yourself  

so if you're ever you're when you when you're  learning something you can feel if you don't  

really understand it or not if you hear something  and you're like yeah I kind of understand what  

they mean like that's a high stakes poker match  like high stakes I don't know what that means  

and then you can contrast that with low stakes  and then you start learning more about what what  

the stakes mean like you're you're like putting  you're investing something into something else so  

if my family is going to be killed if I don't if  I don't save my town that's a pretty high stakes  

so like the steak I'm like gambling or or putting  something into a position like that where it could  

be hurt or I could lose it I could take it that's  why we call that like the stakes of something  

and so as you get more examples of those  things within each one of these situations  

so remember there's like steak  and then we've got the different  

meanings of it so you might get more  examples for each one of these things  

okay is this making sense and the other way to do  this is again where I'm looking at the situation  

itself so someone said I don't have time but  maybe someone else says I have to go I'm busy  

I'm sorry I can't speak right now I have to get  going and you hear all these different examples  

and we could also go even further with this where  we hear different people saying the same thing or  

different people talking in that situation so  my mother says one thing my dad says something  

else so I have no time yep I have no time so you  can say I don't and and this is another amazing  

thing about vocabulary where people they  really think about like a grammar structure  

uh I'll leave these up here so if they they're  thinking like I don't have so don't have time  

so I don't have time if they hear that they're  really thinking about the grammar structure okay  

it's like the subject and then like do nod and  then have and like instead of thinking about that  

it's like in this situation what is what does a  person mean what are they talking about because  

there are different ways of saying this and even  this grammar like you could you could not use the  

contraction so I could say I do not have time and  that makes it a little bit more polite so I do not  

have time or you could even make it shorter  I have no time I have no time or I haven't

I haven't time so instead of thinking about  the grammar we're thinking about what is the  

person say what is the context what is the  situation and there are different ways of  

saying this so you don't have to be putting  lots of pressure on yourself to to use only  

one way of saying this because natives even  this like if you can't remember some grammar  

construction just say something different  yeah I got no time you could say that as  

well it's very casual very conversational  uh it would sound a little bit better if you  

say I've I've got no time or you can just  say sorry no time sorry no time all right

hopefully that makes sense everybody getting  this can we say I haven't time yes you can

so I haven't time or I haven't any time this  sounds like it's a little bit more educated  

sounding you could say that sorry another  time yep you could Running Out of Time  

yep everybody's getting it everybody's  getting it okay everybody understands  

so when you're thinking about doing this by  yourself I'll go back and check chat now make sure  

I'm answering questions but I don't I don't want  to give you too much to think about but the point  

is when you think about the word study I want you  to think about just going deeper and getting more  

information but doing it in an interesting way  that's actually teaching you something so you  

don't really learn anything new by just repeating  information if I tell you the word stake and I  

give you like a Japanese or Chinese or whatever  translation of it and then you just repeat that  

again and again I'm not giving you an actual  lesson I'm just giving you information to repeat  

but here the whole point is to actually help  you learn something and you will feel confident  

with at least some of this so maybe one phrase  like I'm busy anybody can remember that I'm busy  

and just to make it like a little bit more  polite you can just say I'm sorry I'm busy  

okay or sorry but I'm busy so Tom asks what's the  difference between steak and steak you have to go  

back and watch the beginning of this video and  you can learn that all right or uh kind of one  

last thing I'll leave you with this is if you're  checking the different spelling of something so  

we do this in Frederick where we're teaching  you the difference between like steak like  

the physical food stake uh or so we look we like  the difference between like l-e-e-k and l-e-a-k  

so you actually learn that in Frederick and you  can see the difference between what these are  

so I haven't enough time okay so I don't have  or I have not okay same idea so I have not I  

have not time to teach you now you know like we  can we can uh give you a kind of more elevated  

uh educated way of sounding it uh does your app  have phonics yes so it covers phonics sight words  

sentences it covers everything so you will not  find if you want to learn phonics and you want  

to learn the pronunciations of words the same  way natives do uh then that's how you do it

yes so learning vocabulary in a horizontal way  focusing on yes so again like it's it's easier  

especially for a non-native speaker but the the  reason I I give this example also is because you  

might be in uh it doesn't cover the IPA because  you don't need to know the IPA to learn the sounds  

the IPA is is useful if you're trying to learn  many different languages but if you're just trying  

to learn how to pronounce English you should just  hear it the same way natives do okay so if you're  

like if you hear the word stake and you only hear  you will usually hear one example of that like the  

first time you hear it so if you're out camping  you will hear okay someone says stake and now  

you learn the word stake and you understand this  meaning of it but then you will be surprised when  

you hear someone else they're talking about  stakes in poker and you don't understand like  

wait a minute I thought I thought stake meant  this so the whole point is like it's not really  

to take something and then like to try to force  yourself to study all these different examples but  

the more the idea is like that you're prepared  for these things and that you're open when you  

do hear new examples of things that it's it's  actually the same word but a different meaning  

okay so yes uh this example this really comes  from you paying attention to native speakers  

in context and so you might be watching a  movie and someone says I don't have time  

or you might have a conversation with someone  and they say oh I'm busy I'm sorry right now  

uh or you might be yeah so camping could be about  steak or it could be about steak either steak  

all right but be be open for this and the point  is you're I'm really trying to get you to think  

about it like a native uh rather than think  about it like like a student all right that's  

that's really the point of this lesson all right  so thinking about the situation and then you have  

the vocabulary here and each one of these really  is a situation okay so like the physical stake the  

the verb to stake something high stakes low stakes  in poker stake in a company that kind of thing  

so as you learn something in a conversation  you might hear a really quick sentence but  

maybe some word sticks out at you it's like  ah okay like that's interesting I got uh  

like I heard that new word maybe I will take that  and if I don't quite understand it I will take it  

and and focus on that later all right but as  you I most of the people I help um they will  

like they've been learning the traditional way  for so many years uh that it's it's difficult to  

get them to kind of switch their mind to thinking  like this but if you do this at first it will be  

a little bit tricky but after a while it will  be become very easy and very natural for you  

so horizontal stake or vertical  stake yeah I mean you could  

I don't know physically it doesn't matter you  could put the stake horizontally or put it in  

vertically I guess all right hopefully that makes  sense let me go back and answer questions maybe  

make sure uh uh these do make sense looks  like a lot of a lot of comments over here  

uh I'm gonna start from actually  let me just go back to the top here

but people are people are getting it I see  looking very quickly over the comments here  

now if I go through and I don't read your  comment it's probably just because I'm  

skipping through things just ask it again just  to make sure I I get everybody here uh okay

oh my goodness a lot of comments today nice work  everybody all right so yes good uh good morning  

hello so apologies if I don't go back and and I  don't have much time I'm busy I don't have much  

time to go back and read everybody's like welcome  but thank you it's great to see everybody here  

all right uh uh let's see so having high shares  in the market can be also having high stakes in  

the market yes so Alex answering that question  from before and no steak is not a nail okay  

all right yes so again like you can learn like  even short words like steak or something that  

it's just lots of new words for you and when  people play Frederick it will actually teach  

you lots of new words as well uh so I did you you  are so excellent well thank you very much I can't  

read the Chinese but thank you so hand me a steak  let's see the bright side of it is up to us yes  

is Aaron always with the positive attitude Eunice  hello teacher Drew nice to see you there Marcella  

says I've been learning a lot from your videos  for a long time thank you so much for everything  

big hug from Sao Paulo Brazil nice to see you  thank you very much uh and I think I answered  

those other questions tendo I couldn't see that  comment maybe I missed that just post that again  

007 was is the first time to join you okay  it's like learning ouch in context yes so  

you want to be learning everything in context  the same way natives do so when I talk about  

how to think like a native this is how  you train yourself to think like a native  

so you can if you're trying to study something  you actually just want to get more information and  

even going to Google like Google like just tell  you all these different definitions but rather  

than just get the definition spend time with them  until you really understand it and when you feel  

confident then you will start speaking it fluently  that's how you become fluent uh 100 days language  

Journey High I'm from Korea nice to see you there  uh can we use Frederick to learn a particular word  

yes so I don't have a we don't have like a search  function in there but if you know what the word  

is you you should be able to go like if you know  what the phonics are you can do that but rather  

than you should just get into the app and see how  it works he always says I've been watching your  

videos lately to learn your methods and improve  my listening skills glad to hear it trances in  

the U.S when you sneeze they say bless you in  my country you sneeze they stay away from you  

how long usually the lives stay on so here we'd  say like how long do they last or how long do  

they continue how long are we on for it depends so  this video has been going for 46 minutes it just  

depends on how the chat is going if people have  questions or not um glad to hear Tom over there  

enjoying Frederick yes do share the app and also  if you have not already please leave us a review  

of the app so it helps us grow over there okay  so I tendo answered what is the longest word  

all right uh okay I answered that one too  how about Davis there are Miles Ahead of it

yes if you if you know if you know what that is I  looked at them on really interesting pictures okay  

all right so like another easy thing you can  do just like how we do in Frederick if you  

do a Google image search for something so type  in the word stake like s-t-e-a-k then you will  

get like a different actually I should have put  s-t-a-k-e steak state for this so you can look  

for the actual definitions by just looking at the  picture so you understand it like a native okay

do you teach me pronunciation the word  supercalifragilisticexpialidocious you  

should just watch this song If you want to learn  that pronunciation can we call a bee sting a steak  

no you I mean you you maybe you could I mean I  suppose but not people we could just call that  

like a stinger lean meat tons of fun here we go I  heard about steak and kidney pie is that a famous  

food in Britain I think steak and kidney pie is a  thing but in America I don't think it's so popular  

all right I'm running out of time I make up  an excuse yes so if you want to go back check  

back with me later very good Paul lots of good  examples Rachel trying to find Frederica just  

click on the link in the description below this  video and it will take you right there read more  

about the app and get the links to both Apple  and Google for it uh you always says shouldn't  

I watch the same episode and video on Netflix  and YouTube to touch on different situations uh  

uh so like a way of doing this like like I did in  the I made a video about how to make espresso and  

in that video it's it's four different people  making espresso so there are different ways you  

can get naturally varied review one of those is to  focus on a particular situation and then get lots  

of examples of that so we have a person making a  cake or a person changing a tire on their car or  

a person planting flowers or something like that  so you will find uh some similarities some of the  

same vocabulary will be used in other vocabulary  will be a little bit different but the point is  

that you're understanding it like a native so  you can get this not only from video you can  

read a blog post talking about how to change a  tire also and it might even be helpful to read  

that first and then watch a YouTube video about  how to change a tire but this is what natives  

are doing as they learn so you might see someone  physically doing it you you're on a TV show or  

something like watching that or you're reading it  in a book or you're listening to it on the radio  

so there are different TV shows or radio programs  or something that talk about those things so the  

point is to get you want to get enough information  until you understand something where you're like  

ah now I got it so once you understand something  that really you don't really need much review  

after that like the and this is why you can  become more fluent by yourself because you  

the point is not to just repeat things over and  over or to say them over and over to other people  

or to try to repeat them to yourself it's to get  enough information that you understand something  

so if I like if I'm if I'm a little child and  I see there's a lot of stuff on the screen here  

if I am a small child and I'm  just learning my native language

like I might see uh like would  you just put this up here

that's my my cat image but a small child if  if a parent just says like you know they're  

like blah and I'm just putting some lines  up here because the child doesn't know what  

anything means they're just learning that  the first time they hear that the the child  

doesn't really know for sure what the parent  means so that the parent says oh blah blah  

like if I'm teaching you an alien language  it's the same thing it's only after they hear  

uh like see more pictures of cats or more  actual cats that you that you get it okay  

Alex being polite as usual all right kind of looks  yeah so anyway as a child as you're learning this  

you don't know if I'm talking about animal or the  color of the thing or do I mean elephant you know  

if I'm a bad drawer whatever and so it's again  you need enough examples until like the third or  

fourth example now your brain is like okay I got  it I can understand what it means all right uh  

tomoko says can I use a present perfect someone  passed away three years ago what's your what's  

your instead of thinking about the vocabulary uh  or thinking about the name of a grammar Point what  

are you trying to express so think think about  the situation what are you trying to express  

and that's why I don't spend a lot of video time  talking about like here is the present perfect  

or the past perfect or whatever it's more like  trying to help you understand it like a native  

because natives aren't thinking about present  perfect or past perfect or whatever they're  

just thinking about like what the situation is  uh okay I think I got through those all right uh

see here jubert says you're so amazing teacher  now here you would say you're such an amazing  

teacher you're such an amazing teacher or you  can just say you're so amazing or you could say  

you're so amazing at teaching like you're good  at teaching you're amazing at teaching something  

like that so there are again many ways to express  the same thing uh to get going is useful yeah we  

yeah like you could you could say that like I  have to get going but like it's a it's kind of  

a fast way if you're if you're saying that uh  yes if I'm talking on the phone or you're busy  

or something like that Mom it says sorry to  interrupt but how can I create a situation to  

connect the language patterns chunks to my brain  to recall them when this situation happens again  

so that I don't need to translate in my mind so  like the examples that I gave uh Muhammad those  

are the things that you're doing if you're  let's say you're in a situation and you hear  

some vocabulary think about what is the context  or the situation for that thing so if my mother  

tells me to wash my hands she's talking about that  specific situation talking about washing hands and  

someone else might tell me to wash my hands or  they might tell me to wash something else like  

hey wash your car or right now I'm washing the  windows and as you get those different examples  

like when you first it's the same thing like  this cat example if you hear wash your hands  

and if you're new to the language you might just  tear wash your hands it's like I don't really know  

what these words mean just okay wash my hands so  I see somebody doing something so imagine like  

you know these words like so if I give it to you  in Japanese it's like so if I give you that like  

you don't know what part like but if I can I can  give you like a like a good like it will give you  

like a quick quiz I know there's some Japanese  people watching this already so don't answer the  

question for them but if I give a few different  examples then you actually understand like what  

the word means so I'm going to write it down in  English to make it a little bit easier for you

so let's just say uh like Taylor

tail what out

uh let's see [Music]

it's hard to write it in English

uh I'll change it a little bit uh

foreign let's see uh Keynote cow

okay so

now which one of these words do you  think means wash so you hear me I'm  

talking about like Teo Otto or  if I have like kuruma kurumo

arau orata

harada so if you hear those and you're just  

learning the language it's  like oh look at that like

we have these variations of the word I  have no clue what you're talking about yeah  

yeah so this is part of the point of learning  as a first language what I'm trying to do is  

remind you of what it was like when you  were first learning your native language  

so when you were young you would just hear  like a sentence like that and and you don't  

really understand like what that means but maybe  you see somebody doing something tail what out

foreign

so people don't understand so like a child hears  this like Taylor out and they see an adult washing  

their hands and over time it's because they get  these different examples of the word that they  

understand like oh like this is the actual  word that means washing this is meaning hand  

and this is like okay we're understanding  this is the object of the sentence yeah

so you hear like like so here we have like these  three examples are connected together so I could  

have like tail I don't know I could do I could  do something else with my hand it's it's the same  

thing we were talking about earlier in this video  about getting the naturally varied review so each  

one of these things each time you hear it it's  helping you understand the vocabulary the context  

is a little bit different but if all these other  words are different and this one is the same okay  

then this is probably the situation we understand  what we're talking about here well ah yogine  

Yogi Productions yes there are like some people  actually uh who are not Japanese and know some  

Japanese on the chat or in the chat all right so  when you're when you're learning this way uh at  

first it's like wow like all this information is  coming to you at one time and it feels a little  

bit overwhelming uh but children like you'll  notice lots of times parents will say things  

to kids and kids actually don't know they don't  actually understand what they're talking about  

my magic is too weak you mean my magic marker the  magic marker or my like physical magic my magic  

is too weak yes so like a magic we would like a in  English we would call this a magic marker or just  

like a whiteboard marker unless you're talking  about my magic all right yeah I'm getting a  

little a little deep into this but it's the point  is to remind you of how you learned your native  

language so you didn't understand everything  all at one time you usually understand things  

in pieces as you get more examples and I'm saying  that you should be doing the same thing in English  

and my job is really to make it easy for you to  understand with different examples so it's not  

like too complicated but this is just an example  of Japanese where you're listening to things

foreign

all right so I'm not going to go into detail  about like what these mean exactly but you you  

get a sense for what these words mean that's the  whole point so if it's like okay like if you if  

you got to hear me like repeat these 10 times and  I get to show you exactly what I'm doing you would  

start learning Japanese so I've done that like  the marker examples that I give it's the same idea  

all right let's get some more comments over  here but I think that answers that question from  

Muhammad about like getting like the different  the different language patterns they come from  

focusing on the situation and paying attention  to what native speakers do so what does a native  

speaker say in this situation if you are busy  or you are hungry or you have to go or you are  

crying or you are sad or happy what do you say  okay so how do we how do we use like uh how do  

we use all these different examples he doesn't  have all day very good Muhammad that's true  

yes so you can see there are lots of different  ways for people to express something like I don't  

have time so hey I don't have all day but notice  like I'm not going to say that to my boss so if my  

I'm waiting for my boss to do something so I'm I'm  in the office and my boss is taking some time to  

to do something it would be very impolite for me  to go to my boss and say hey I don't have all day  

he would probably get angry at me or she would you  know say something to me but like like you work  

for me what do you mean you don't have all day you  have all day if I say you have all day you know so  

you're not going to be impolite about that but you  learn all of these subtle nuances of okay we want  

to be uh polite and say we don't have time but we  want to say it in a way that's appropriate for the  

situation but you learn that as you pay attention  to what native speakers do that's the whole point  

all right and I think uh all right so let me  know if that if that doesn't it's compulsory  

to learn each other all the time guys think about  the situation look at the situation yes so a point  

like again think about how you learn new things  in your native language if you hear something  

new it's like oh look there's a new word I don't  quite know what that means and maybe you hear it  

a couple of different times and now you understand  it all right okay so it's more informal way to say  

that God yeah and again like without you you your  your brain will process all of this automatically  

without you thinking about it if you focus on what  people are saying because you will recognize like  

oh look at that like to a child I might say this  but I would not say that same thing to an adult  

all right so I might I might say to my kids  like hey hurry up let's go we're on the clock  

we're burning daylight we don't have  much time I might say that but to my  

my co-workers or whatever I would say hey  I know we don't have much time we should  

we should get moving then I'm going to  going to pronounce things a little bit  

more clearly nicely and and communicate  in a slightly different way all right uh

so I think I got that so Kirsten learning  vocabulary in a horizontal way and focusing  

oh I think I answered that one it looks easy to  me yes so it is a little bit easier to do that  

and you will get examples like in fluent for life  we we cover things like that and what you will see  

as you watch different conversations it's like  oh that's interesting one person said this and  

another person said this like talking about the  same situation or in the same situation like if  

I'm interrupting someone I might say oh sorry uh  sorry for interrupting but or if someone else says  

like if I can let me just say this or something so  there are different ways again there are lots of  

different ways of expressing yourself all right  uh sin still says hola hola question could I be  

able to get fluent in English just listening  English 24 7. I'm so lazy to do any homework  

yes so you could like what I'm doing now is just  a small example of what we do in fluent for life  

but the point of fluent for life is to help you  understand English like a native and we do this by  

giving you lots of like this kind of input so you  hear lessons like this you see different people  

saying the vocabulary you hear it in different  situations and just by listening and so you're  

obviously doing some listening some watching  you might read something but it doesn't feel  

like work I mean it's the same way you would learn  new things in your native language but it's more  

about learning things that you're interested  in in a deeper way and so you develop fluency  

automatically without you having to speak with  anybody else without needing a practice partner  

or anything so you're not like sitting and doing  homework you're not studying did this lesson feel  

like studying if if not that's what the lessons  are like so some of it is like me actually  

teaching you things about vocabulary or culture  or something and part of it is also just hearing  

lots of other people so getting lots of examples  and then also hearing it in real conversations  

so yes you can get fluent uh like just by  listening to a lot of it but it's not you  

don't want to just listen to random English  you need to study it systematically that's  

what's going to get you fluent much faster  all right got it about the app says Rachel  

uh uh let's see startup now can we create a  situation to connect I think answer that one  

already all right let me know Muhammad if if I  did not yeah uh yoga says hello my teach it's a  

teacher my question is what is the most important  part about grammar vocabulary which we're learning  

first well grammar grammar is vocabulary you  can't have grammar without vocabulary you can't  

have vocabulary without grammar like there's  all there's always some there's always some  

connection uh between these things it's like you  can't have vocabulary without pronunciation you  

have pronunciation with vocabulary because you  say a word you can hear me pronouncing words as  

you learn so all these things rather than thinking  about them like a student a native doesn't think  

about vocabulary and grammar and pronunciation as  different things it's all connected as one thing  

uh let's see any books would you suggest to  encounter these kinds of words well get get  

Frederick for sure um but it just if you if you  want to go deeper like to learn new words what you  

really want to do is go deeper into the particular  subject so if I learn about cats just to give a  

very simple example so you probably know the word  cat already but maybe you don't know the word  

like feline or we don't know other words that are  related to cats or talking about cats or something  

like that so there are lots of different things  as you go deeper and this is what I mean talking  

in this video about studying so if I want to study  more about cats I want to read more like what do I  

learn about them like how do they hunt how do  they eat how do they live how do they I don't  

know make baby cats or whatever so these are all  things that I can learn more about and get and get  

lots more examples and that will actually help me  get deeper into the vocabulary and teach me lots  

of new words that I have not anticipated  so it's the same thing like if you learn  

uh uh like if I just learn about camping as  an English as a second language lesson like  

so here's like let's say I learned like the  Chinese were I don't know what the Chinese  

word for camping is uh but let's say I'm  just gonna uh like we'll just say Chinese  

and then have uh like the English word over here  so English so there's like some word in Chinese  

some word for Camp like the word camping in  English but if I go deeper into that there  

are lots of different things about camping what  kind of camping do I do am I doing camping with  

a tent am I sleeping outside just in a sleeping  bag do I have a camper like one of those like a  

camping vehicle uh there are lots of different  things you can get as you go deeper into that  

and this is why I tell people look at that like  around with a survival video so that's a whole  

topic that you can go deeper into and it's it's  fractal this is a great word for you all fractal

so a fractal is like something you can zoom into  it and it it remains like the same shape so it's  

better to Google that but if you Google this word  fractal you can see a picture of what a fractal  

is but if you zoom in to a fractal it doesn't  change it's like the same kind of shape or pattern  

so as you zoom in on vocabulary or subjects  or whatever you will learn more about these  

particular things you zoom into this one you  learn even more you zoom into that one and  

that's how you get more interested and how  you like actually study fracturial maybe you  

mean factorial but you can Google those and  see what see what they mean uh uh all right

all right so yeah so like if you're if you're  trying to learn new vocabulary that's how I  

would do it rather than you would be focusing on  a topic and go deeper into that that's why I know  

I know like a lot of words about gardening things  in Japanese that like other Japanese people don't  

even know because they don't you know like they  don't they don't get that deep into the topic  

uh let's see I think both are truly important to  know the same time guys please don't forget to hit  

the like button yes it was a bit of psychology  for you it's better to say remember to hit  

the like button rather than don't forget we want  people thinking about remembering to do something  

phrasal verb go through I don't know if that's  a question or not not to mention that some words  

are used in metaphorical Expressions that's true  foreign it's 10 38 p.m here in Brazil is there a  

difference between go through and go over yeah  sure but remember this is a specific example in  

this situation remember we want to focus on the  situation itself so if I've got like a tunnel or  

something I can go through the tunnel like that to  go through something or I can go over it so that's  

this one specific situation so you understand  go through or go over something all right but  

if I go over something in uh like in a meeting  I'm talking about different topics so I'm going  

over like almost like it's it's a similar idea of  like physically moving over something but like I'm  

putting my eyes over something like that so I'm  going over it first we will do this thing then  

this thing then this thing then this thing like  that I'm going over that all right but I could  

also go down a list I could go I could also like  go through the things we're doing in a meeting  

in the same way so it's important to really focus  on the situation uh rather than just look at the  

um like just looking at the vocabulary by itself  all right so you alligators all right anybody  

if any books for me to improve my oral spoken  language yes I would just get more uh get more  

examples of native speakers speaking that's  how you do it so if you like reading reading  

is going to teach you more but you have to watch  actual people speaking that's why in fluent for  

life we have people speaking so we give you  if you see lots of examples it's like when I  

first came to Japan uh if I just listened to  my like listening CD lesson or whatever it's  

much different than how people actually speak  so I need to get lots of examples of how other  

people speak and then I will feel comfortable  okay this is kind of generally what people say  

Abraham says hi from Morocco the first time I  catch you on live I saw a lot of your videos  

many thanks for aware us on learning English as a  first language yes you can say like or making us  

aware or just teaching us about something uh let's  see Marzia says I'm Iranian nice to see you there  

uh jobber is that Joe Burton Joe bear from Haiti  apple pies let's see uh it's for the first time  

I've taken part in this show and I'm a blissful to  be here with you guys glad to hear Duran is there  

a difference between go through and go oh I don't  care in the context of reading comments uh so  

no nah because again like I'm going I can I  can think about it logically I can picture  

that like I'm kind of going through like  a list of them or I'm kind of going over  

them like that it's it's basically  the same idea uh let's see all right  

Kennedy's president yes so I think I got to that  question already deep learning starting with a  

situation or context to learn English as a first  language all right you always says thank you much  

for your answer thank you so much I'm sorry it's  almost I didn't answer your question [Laughter]  

telling you to telling you to rephrase it  differently so what is the situation like are  

we talking about like somebody died or something  happened in the past and we're talking about it  

now what is the situation because if you can  think about the situation it's easier to think  

of the vocabulary uh let's see fangos Thanos says  when I watch movies or series I see the phrase I  

should get going is there a difference between I  should get going or I should go no and again when  

you watch natives there are lots of different  ways to express yourself so you don't and this  

is another reason why it's important to learn  with lots of different examples this is why we  

put so many different examples in fluent for life  because usually when students learn one example  

they think that's the only way to say something or  they get nervous about saying something else but  

native speakers they see all these different ways  of expressing yourself and so look I should go I  

should get going I should be leaving now I should  be on my way okay so those are just four different  

examples of how you might express the same thing  so that you're not feeling nervous about like this  

one thing and if you don't say it correctly or  perfectly then you you're messing it up and then  

you uh it just it ruins the whole conversation  all right so don't worry about a particular  

way of saying something because there are always  other ways of saying things all right uh let's see  

and yogis says have we got have we get or have  we got because I have many more questions yes  

if you have more questions let me know uh How  can I how can I do to join or what can I do  

or how can I just click on the link if you'd  like to learn more about fluent for life you  

can click on the link in the description below  this video same thing about Frederick as well  

and if you have specific questions about  fluent for life if you're a member already  

let me know or if you are also thinking about  joining the program and if you have questions  

about it I'd love to know any reason why people  are not thinking about joining but let me know  

uh Clark Zane says hello nice to see you there how  to improve our listening uh because sometimes I'm  

trying some exercise to know where is my level  of listening I watch many other English content  

on YouTube do you have any tips for us sir again  it's it's listening for something it's usually  

contextual so you might be good at Listening  to English teachers on YouTube but you're not  

good at listening to native speakers so you  need to spend more time listening to native  

speakers and again that's why we put that in  fluent for life I have to go thanks so much  

for a good lesson glad here Chinese from Tokyo  listening to your lives glad to hear it Nicole  

all right let's see how I can answer that one I'm  from India could you please wear colored t-shirts  

people are worried about my t-shirts almost every  chat people have I guess yeah I'm kind of wearing  

a gray shirt on a kind of white white background  over here can you speak Japanese fluently

yes I can speak Japanese formerly trance is  sometimes when I speak with a native I look  

at them waiting for their reaction if they got  what I said yep that I mean that happens sometimes  

and let's see we got cam says hi from Thailand  look at that boom we got to the end of the chat  

the end of the chat so we got through them uh and  again like I'm talking about getting through them  

like like look at that like there's so many I have  to like work through them all and now I finished  

all right so it looks like we've been going  for 70 some minutes 76 minutes and Counting  

but if you have any final questions do let me  know I'm going to take a quick drink over here

but if this has been valuable for you please  click the like button so click the like button  

it's been a while yes I was on uh vacation for  a little bit just spending some time with my  

family we went to uh just a local Island uh not  far from where we live and we're just there for  

a couple of days and yeah so I didn't didn't  do any live but I did release a few um like  

pieces of lives so I I will probably do more of  that so releasing like pieces of lives because  

maybe people don't have time to watch everything  but there are some good good gold nuggets it's a  

good gold nuggets uh inside these yes so it was a  good vacation with my family thank you very much  

some okay I got that one already Sandra says I  love the way you teach Drew thank God you have  

time for us good night you're too kind Sandra yes  uh I enjoyed teaching that's why I do these live  

videos it's a lot of fun to come and teach uh  so I miss like having a live class but I like  

having my freedom as well so I don't want to  have like I I might maybe I'll do something  

in the future with like a group of live people  physically in front of me sometimes I I will  

attend classes that maybe friends of mine  have you speak Japanese have a good day huh

we got to think about the situation don't  worry about the vocabulary so much uh and  

you will enjoy yourself it is a tsuyu uh well  we're we don't see to you is is so that's the  

rainy season if you're talking about that um and  that's usually before the summer time so we don't  

this is this is kind of like the second slightly  rainy uh maybe get some typhoon kind of things  

coming in but like regular to you is is earlier  in the year before summer Yogi says thank you I  

am so happy when my question was answered you're  a very good teach you'd think I think a teacher  

I think by the way I'm from Indonesia  thanks again Iran says uh yes

it's my pleasure so for me like learning Japanese  uh it took me a while because I was not doing this  

like I was still trying to learn uh Japanese  through English and that's why I had to like  

think and translate and hesitate but I don't do  that now when I speak and I learn new things in  

Japanese all the time when I speak all right uh I  keep checking on my notifications literally every  

day from you if you're on YouTube live yes again  like I I don't have a schedule for the lives and  

the reason I don't is because I you know I there's  I don't I don't need to like do a live video  

every day I mean I've got I've got so much content  already and even for the people who were in fluent  

for life there's like way more than anybody  could go through they could go through like  

a video every day and take like two years like  to try to go through everything because there's  

so much content um but yeah like and this is a  tricky thing about language learning where people  

are always trying to get more new information  when it's much better to go back and watch like  

a previous video or get more information about  those same kinds of things let's see uh let's see

if I'm pronouncing that I'm from Ukraine here in  the USA we are three years and I still don't speak  

fluent because I'm afraid to speak my children  go to school and they told me that I want to  

speak with a lot of mistakes yes so I like sorry  for laughing this is the same problem I had this  

is the same problem a lot of people have and  it's just because you don't learn English as  

a first language and that's what I'm trying to  help people do with these videos so if you learn  

English as a second language then you will make  lots of mistakes you will have your kids trying to  

correct your English or whatever and even my kids  now like I have to work harder at my Japanese just  

to make sure my kids are not like I don't know  you know like they're like saying like like my  

Japanese is bad or I make a mistake or something  so I'm like my my older daughter is learning she's  

a second year in elementary school and so I I have  to learn like the next level of kanji before she  

gets to that so I can help her and she's like  well I know that kanji but you don't know that  

kanji so I don't want to be embarrassed by my kids  but the reason I'm I'm able to do that is because  

I'm learning Japanese as a first language so I'm  not trying to learn it through translations it's  

it's really difficult to do by yourself I know  like it's like I've been doing it for a long time  

and I wish I had a teacher who knew how to teach  me the way I teach but I can only just like kind  

of teach myself that way but that's why I put so  much effort into fluent for life to make sure I  

have a program that does that for English for you  guys Angelica please could you do something about  

present past and future perfect at least please  how to do more easily with a little well what is  

that thing it's like a little blue monster kind of  thing that's pretty funny yes like uh if you give  

me a situation I can help you understand it but  if you're just thinking like if if you're already  

thinking about past perfect and present perfect  and future perfect or whatever like it will  

be more difficult for you so I know you want a  grammar example but I'm asking you for a situation  

so think like what do you want to say and then  I can help you understand it better so I have  

covered lots of things and we go into perfect  tenses like we cover all that in fluent for  

life as well but if you're looking for uh like  specific examples it's much better for you to  

think about like something that happened in  the past and then like it's not happening in  

the future or something like that and actually  I covered uh I think we did like past perfect  

in I don't know a couple of recent videos  I don't remember which one though but it's  

a it's a it's like a comment that people get yeah  uh let's see cute narrow Zach wow you were talking  

Japanese with the Japanese facial mimics as well  I guess yeah my face like I don't I don't do the  

um like the typical when people are speaking  Japanese especially foreigners who have been  

here a long time the the Japanese often don't move  their upper lip when they're talking so it's like  

it's like someone's new um like the the top  lip doesn't move as much I don't really like  

the way that sounds though I like to pronounce my  words a little bit more clearly but you will hear  

that from from some Japanese people and and like  foreigners that want to sound a little bit more  

um and like they really try to keep the upper  lip without without moving but I say oh so does  

nah you know I'm like I move move my mouth a  little bit more uh Iran says Aaron let me know  

if is your name like Iran or Aaron let me know  what that is uh we are used to making mistakes  

in English yes so that's another good thing so  if you are in the habit of making mistakes uh  

because of how people typically learn then yes you  will make more mistakes like that so the point is  

for me to help you not do that and teach you in  a different way uh my advice is move to this guy  

please change your children teacher aha just  kidding now remember uh you don't get fluent  

because you're in an English-speaking country  you get fluent if you learn English as a first  

language and that's why it doesn't matter where  you learn and you can also get fluent by yourself  

so many of the people I help they find me because  they have been living in the United States for  

10 years 20 years and they still can't speak  fluently so the issue is is really about how  

they speak because of how they learn it's not  where they learn okay so you can be in Ukraine  

and still get formed we actually have lots of  lots of members in Ukraine uh let's see Jan I  

appreciate you making these short videos from the  live stream pointing out the important things yet  

can you explain the phrase could use in different  contexts and meanings I saw a video clip using a  

phrase I could use coffee does it mean I'll have  coffee or I'll order coffee ah so in that in that  

sense like there there are two different meanings  of that so I could use something like listen  

listen to the difference in my pronunciation  because the pronunciation is also important  

here so if I say I could use so I could use some  coffee to wake me up I could use some coffee to  

wake me up all right or so so that's like in that  that meaning I could use like I could use someone  

hitting me on the head with a baseball bat to wake  me up to so I could do many things all right so I  

could do something I could like I could do this  it's a potential a possibility I could do this  

so I could I could use a coffee to do this but  I could use I could really use a coffee I could  

use a coffee like I could use a coffee right now  I could use a vacation I could use a vacation I  

could use a vacation so it's a slightly different  meaning where it's like I really want that thing  

okay so I could use something is like the  possibility or I could use I could use I could use  

all right I don't want to make a whole lesson  about it but again when you're listening for uh  

when you're hearing something really focus on what  is the situation being used so if you're talking  

about um like is it a possibility of something or  they're just saying like I really need something  

oh I could use a nap I could use a nap I could  use a nap I could use a nap right now I could  

use a vacation even after my vacation I could use  another vacation you know vacations are hard work  

so if you're taking like two little kids on a  vacation it's like not a vacation it's a lot of  

work and so my wife were talking like we need to  take another vacation another vacation after that  

all right hopefully that makes sense all right uh  

uh explain either or and neither nor I think  I did that in a video actually uh you can look  

for those a recent video Elder says sup Drew glad  to hear you I am all ears thanks a bunch glad to  

hear tomorrow says thank you sir good Lord bless  your family tree love you all you guys are funny  

uh Alejandro cesio Brew so people call me Brew  [Laughter] what's up bro very true Diddy says  

what do you think you brought me and think about  teaching English through games activity is that  

a good idea could you give us some examples of  the best games and make students speak thank you  

um well number one like Frederick the whole reason  we made Frederick is so it would teach people it  

is a game that teaches you to speak but the reason  it's a game just to make it very clear what a game  

is it's letting you manipulate something and kind  of test yourself like a puzzle and so that that's  

the thing that makes the learning fun rather than  a teacher telling you what something means so that  

is the game but also I really want to make it  clear uh that if you if you're trying to force  

students to speak it's like hey guys let's play  a game where we where we speak to each other uh  

that's a typical thing that teachers will do in a  conversation class or even just a regular like a  

school class it's like hey like uh give this  marker to someone and say uh here's a marker  

and they pass the marker here's the marker  to someone else but it's a much better idea  

to give them lots of examples of other people  speaking so they will understand automatically  

like oh give me a marker give me this give me  that give me that give me that if they see 20  

people with examples then they're going to feel  very confident about asking someone else like can  

you give me a marker or something so rather than  like thinking about playing a game just make the  

language understandable and easy then they will  want to speak you don't have to trick students  

or get them to play a game it's kind of the same  thing with math games it's like it's not really  

like it's just taking it's taking the same boring  lesson and then and then like okay here's a point  

for you or something like that so that's not  really turning it into a game but to see how  

we do it in Frederick the whole point of the app  is that you teach yourself how the language works  

and that's why it's fun because you discover that  rather than a teacher explaining things to you  

uh uh let's see good question though Mom it says  what do they think about your accent in Japanese  

oh I mean people people think I speak just  fine so it's it's difficult to get a good  

honest reading of people in Japan because  people are very polite and I could actually  

I could speak badly and people will  think I say like what time she wear uh

so I could speak badly and people would say wow  your Japanese is really good is because they're  

very polite or if I can like use chopsticks or  whatever then people be very polite but it's  

interesting as you're you you understand Japanese  people and and the Japanese culture because  

as you get really good at speaking the language  people don't like really compliment you about the  

language they're just like having a conversation  with you so when they don't compliment you it  

means you speak well and when they do compliment  you it means you're probably not a good speaker  

so sometimes you will see that oh um

[Laughter]  

so it's it's just a funny thing about the culture  so in America it's like the opposite so you go you  

know talk with people in America and Americans  will like they'll laugh at your accent or your  

pronunciation if you make a mistake they'll be  like yeah man we why do you say it that way like  

don't say it like that some Americans are going  to be polite but it's it's a lot less polite than  

than uh Japan is for that all right let's see  here uh why all of this absence I don't know  

what that's referring to watch Robert De Niro's  midnight run for I could use a cup of coffee  

yeah so that's the same thing like I could use  I could really use a cup of coffee or you could  

say I could really go for something so I could  really I could really go for a cup of coffee if  

the logic of the grammar doesn't make sense you  can think like I could really use a cup of coffee  

to relax that's the kind of idea of it so like I  could use this to relax it just means like I would  

really like that right now that would really  be a good thing yeah and again code switching  

I've talked about that on the on the channel  before uh and how we we like speak different  

ways depending on who we're speaking with and  we even do this in our native language as well  

so HT Kim says your pronunciation or your  expression of pronunciation is so understanding  

so you would say it's so understandable it's so  understandable all right or so like understandable  

for me or it's very easy to understand all right  welcome everyone KSA all time let's say tweet says  

Hi teacher I'm from Vietnam you are making me feel  free with English so amazing yes and so what I  

try to prove with all of these videos is that you  don't need to speak to become fluent you just need  

to understand the language better and as you get  more examples and not just hearing me but lots of  

other people like other native speakers then you  will feel much more confident and you will think  

ah I can actually speak fluently I understand  the language well and I can communicate so  

it's the same thing for me as I learn more  Japanese I feel more confident every day

yes code switch okay you got that do you speak  Japanese in nagasak accent uh I can sometimes I  

was at the Nagasaki or there's a few Starbucks  in Nagasaki but I was at the uh where was that  

one it was like the Yuma Saito ten one so that's  just a mall like in downtown Nagasaki and they  

sit because they they know I like the um it's  a it's a pumpkin scone so like a little like a  

bread thing that I'll get sometimes but it's only  available in the summer or in the in the fall and  

so I was talking with one of the staff there uh  and she said like it's uh the like that scone is  

coming back very soon and I what did I say I said  like uh what did I say I don't I don't remember  

but it was like I just like used some Nagasaki  band because it was funny or whatever like I  

don't usually talk in Nagasaki Ben but I will  use it sometimes uh what did I say I was like uh  

no I don't I don't even remember what I said what  what like my exact words were that's interesting  

I can't remember but I basically said like uh  uh I was like when I say I was like something  

uh uh I was I I know I said I was like uh

and so she thought that was funny  so I was using Nagasaki basket

uh and and like trying to really say it's like  like I was really like trying to be like thick  

uh with and that's kind of local Nagasaki and  there's even like even thicker uh like like if  

if you go out like in like real like rural  places out here like my wife's grandmother  

so I'll go talk with her and it's like  it's almost impossible so I really have  

to listen carefully to pay attention  with what she's saying and she's like

um I'm just like what what did you say and I  really have to yeah I'm much better now than  

I used to be but yeah so so like yeah  like come on come on [ __ ] can't star  

or whatever like that's like yeah I can't I  can't like I was like ah like I can't wait  

but that's like like uh like there's even  uh there's a bar in Nagasaki called tatamba  

so it's like it's like you have to stand there's  like where you like you have to sit down and you  

have to stand up for the bar uh so there it's it's  kind of like a like uh like a dad joke basically  

uh but yes but when I when I'm when I'm I  don't typically use uh Nagasaki Ben but I  

will just throw like like so some like people  will ask me that sometimes and it's like a  

common joke I will use with people so they will  say like do you understand Nagasaki Ben I'm like  

well tell money walking on gas like that  and I'm like I was like yeah I understand  

but like oh walk out on cancer man  like I don't I don't understand  

it's hard to understand say Mona says so if  you try to speak in Japanese people are very  

happy yeah so of course like and and most  of the time uh people are nervous about me  

because they don't speak English and so if  I go into a taxi or I'm asking a question or  

something like I try to like uh you know  uh and like just just to let them relax  

uh and so it's it's funny to have them because  they'll if I get in the car and sometimes I  

will pretend like I don't speak Japanese and  I'll just start speaking English to people  

and some of them in that case like they their  English comes out a little bit but other people  

it is like ah like that I don't understand I don't  understand what you're saying so it's fun I've  

actually thought about doing like making making  some YouTube videos about Japan stuff that you  

don't normally see uh so I'll give you like a very  quick topic idea that I thought about doing just  

because I know like some Japanese people follow  my channel and people do ask me about that um make  

sure I got time here so uh Nagasaki is a rare City  in Japan because it has a street car like a little  

trolley that goes around the city so we have we  don't have a Subway we have regular like a regular  

train that goes into Nagasaki City but Nagasaki  is right on the coast so that's the last stop on  

the train line so around the city itself we've  got uh the streetcar or you can take buses and  

one of the things I noticed about uh Japanese like  the drivers of these vehicles is that like the the  

train driver the train conductor has the highest  voice and then the uh the the tram driver the the  

streetcar driver has like the the second highest  and then the bus drivers have the lowest for it  

and I wanted to do like an experiment  about that just to just to like find out  

um like what like if that if that was true if  other people noticed that because I've asked  

people about it like like because the like the  truck or the um like a train driver has a has like  

a quite high voice it's like it's almost like a  young like a like a teenage kid for a lot of them  

it's just like a higher a higher train voice it's  like like it's a really like kind of high and the  

tram driver is like and then and the Buster I was  like you know and so I was wondering like if there  

was a like a real pattern there and why that was  so I wanted to do like a YouTube video about that  

there's also like one other thing I will mention  about Japan this is an interesting thing and you  

notice little things like this it's it's exactly  like learning the language where you get into the  

nuances of the of the culture and this is a thing  maybe like I think a lot of Japanese people don't  

notice this either but if you go to the uh like  a train station and order some train tickets at  

the counter they have there's like an invisible  button on the on the little terminal there and I  

remember asking asking a woman about like why it  was like why she was touching that so like the  

usually they have a like a touch screen you will  say like I want to go to Tokyo or whatever and  

they have a bunch of little squares on the screen  like this and so this is the the screen here  

but they will touch the screen like this and then  they will touch up here they will touch off of  

the screen where like this is just like where the  speaker is or something like there's not anything  

actually there so they'll be like this like  touching quickly boom and I was like why are you  

touching that I said is there a button there and  she was just like no like that's just what we do  

and so I just thought that was like an  interesting and interesting you know  

thing about the about the language but but when I  find things like that that's another opportunity  

for me to have a conversation with someone  because I like to do that especially in Japan  

um like people are very like they're they can be  very robotic about their work like they just focus  

on something like they're doing their work at like  the convenience store or whatever and they don't  

have a lot of like like real human connection so  like a lot of people just come in and like they  

get their pack of cigarettes and they're just  like whatever and they they don't really have  

like a conversation but I'll come in and say hey  how are you doing today and they're like oh like  

this Foreigner is trying to speak to me so those  are again like other things like I can I can use  

those as opportunities to speak with people uh  but I notice lots of interesting little things  

like that about about Japan and nagasaka too  Drew could you tell me Alejandro says if Kudos  

is like congratulations could you please give  me more examples of the former uh well kudos  

is like it's like a like a maybe a a slightly  less amazing situation so it's like like hey I  

I passed my test like Kudos you know we got good  work you know it's like a I mean you could say uh  

congratulations or whatever but like it's it's  kind of a it's like a it's like a more reserved  

way of saying that it's just uh good work you  know so like if you if you got married I wouldn't  

say Kudos I would say congratulations because  it's like a more interesting uh important thing  

and again it's like good to pay attention to  what uh what people are saying uh like for that  

situation all right uh let's see hi from Vietnam  one again says uh maybe it's not the politeness  

I think not many people or Gaijin do not even try  to speak the language like my grandma yes so like  

a lot of foreigners even foreigners could live out  in Japan for a long time and still not speak also  

so like Japanese will know a lot of the language  so like I help many people from Japan uh because  

they know a lot of Japan or they know a lot of  English but they can't speak very well and that's  

because they studied the language so it's like  what we're talking about today like the typical  

Japanese studying is they're going to learn a  translation and repeat that rather than learning  

like I'm showing in this video so they should  be learning English like a like a fur uh as a  

first language but usually they don't so how long  will you stay this live probably not much longer  

I don't have much more time I don't have much  more time tomoko song says my son-in-law doesn't  

speak at all even though he has been in Japan  for five years yeah so that's common you know  

maybe so I guess your daughter so your daughter  is married to a foreigner uh and well so maybe  

he can he can teach you some English dude where  do you live you live in Tokyo where do you live  

uh so if you try to speak in Japanese  oh I think I read that whenever uh

all right injured I love I really like that name  injured I hope you're okay I think you've been  

injured for a while hopefully you're okay you  should you should change your screen name to  

like I'm I'm doing better now I'm okay uh when I  speak English some words I can't say them unless  

in my native language here can I translate uh the  words from my mind uh it's better to think of a  

way to express something so if any any time you  think you can't say something because there's not  

an exact translation there's usually some way to  do that like like multini in Japanese is like it's  

like such a waste and there are there are lots of  little phrases like that where you might not get a  

perfect exact translation but you can communicate  it in some way and if you use that opportunity to  

to push yourself a little bit to think about a  way to explain something then usually you can  

but if you just think about a translation then  you were kind of slowing your progress more  

my nose nice let's see Adrian I watched your video  pranking the radio host making them believe that  

you didn't know how to speak Japanese yes that  was a lot of fun they were really impressed with  

how you were their reaction was so genuine yeah I  don't I don't mean and that's another thing maybe  

they were just being good actors but we didn't we  didn't really tell them very much about what what  

we were gonna do and and I didn't speak like the  whole time I was in there before that radio show  

I didn't speak any Japanese I was just like hello  you know like being very like loud and American  

so try like just and that's it like you know part  of part of the problem of Americans is we think  

everybody needs to speak English or whatever so  we go around like hey how are you and like people  

just start speaking so whenever there's a cruise  ship in town sometimes I will be at a Starbucks  

or whatever and like foreigners will come in and  the staff will try to like they will do their best  

um speaking with them in in English but Muriel  says I love Starbucks yes it's great to it's  

great how you catch The Melody of a language yeah  and that's another thing you you get as you as  

you just like listen to people listen to people  speaking so especially kids like I like I like  

listening to little kids and how they speak and  then watching the differences between like like  

when people are expressing something and how they  do it that's again like when you focus on learning  

as a first language that's where you really start  getting uh the nuances and other things like that  

rather than trying to get it through through  English High says I can't read that uh the  

Chinese there let's see how mune cat in KSA now  I don't know what that means good morning teacher  

good morning why is that chat cut off that's weird  first of all thank you I can about what you were  

saying well but my English I get stuck with a  lot of grammar yeah just keep focusing I can't  

read the whole chat for some reason I don't know  why it's formatted like that the chat is cut off  

um but yes if you uh if you learn like a native as  I'm giving you examples uh like I'm doing in this  

video then you're going to learn more and start  speaking more like a native that's how it works  

could you please tell us about your program  might I would be joining this please tell us  

please tell us the price well if you  click on the link in the description  

you will you will see the price you will  see all about it but if you have more  

questions the basic idea of the program  is that you don't get fluent by learning  

um as a second language you get fluent in English  by learning English as a first language and you  

do that by getting real examples and having  understandable messages meaning I'm teaching  

you in an understandable way all in English  and then you're getting lots of review that  

really helps you understand things and as you  do that it's it's the opposite of pretty much  

everything you would do in a typical language  class so I'm not trying to make you speak I'm  

trying to make the language understandable so you  feel comfortable about speaking so we don't begin  

with speaking we just give you lots and lots  of input about the things you are interested  

in talking about uh but you just do that all  by yourself so you're listening you're reading  

you're watching you're even writing a little bit  just to help you understand things a little bit  

more but you learn the same way you learned your  native language and that's how it works so it's  

it's actually a lot more I don't even say it's  really learning like a native because it's more  

efficient than learning like a native because  even as as a native speaker most people are not  

very systematic about their learning and that's  why like if I could if I could take someone like  

a baby and an adult and like teach them like I  could get them much faster or fluent much faster

nice to see you there

sound hierarchies around uh let's see but  yes if you have specific questions about  

the program let me know uh Rocky do you feel  like you are not true yourself when you were  

speaking Japanese I do when I am in English I  am Japanese uh I think like you get closer to  

the like the true self but I feel like I am I am  basically that now I noticed my personality is a  

little bit different but I don't feel like I'm  not like expressing myself so it's I'm I'm now  

at that point with my ability to speak that I  feel uh confident and I'm able to communicate  

with people and it doesn't it doesn't matter like  who I'm speaking with I don't I don't feel like  

I'm a different person so I'm still like having  fun and and telling jokes and other things like  

that that I do and I can get away with that in  Japan because I'm a foreigner I remember I was  

being introduced I was at like a business dinner  uh with just some local business owners and it  

was like just like like just a dinner a couple  of years ago um and I was being introduced so  

it was me uh and and like just 10 Japanese  business owners or local community people  

and and I was introduced by another like the host  of the event and he was like this is Drew and he's  

doing this all in in Japanese but this is Drew  he's from Japan or he's from America and I quickly  

I was like so I said like oh they found out like  I'm not Japanese so that's a joke where like they  

can look at me and tell I'm not Japanese but if  it's like oh they found out like they discovered  

in like and they laughed they thought that was  very funny so that's a kind of joke where like  

I I know the language and I know myself and  I'm able to to put those two things together  

so when I first came to Japan I knew myself but  I didn't know the language so like I would want  

to say something but I couldn't because I I didn't  know how to how to like connect those two things  

um but yeah so that's like learning Japanese  as a as a first language and so that's that's  

the whole point of me uh it's it's so much  fun to be able to go anywhere and I can talk  

to anybody and like I'm uh very comfortable  going around and even if I don't know some  

vocabulary it's easy for me to learn that from  people in the in the context in the situation

uh right Reading Writing grammar let's see you  know Drew my main problem of speaking English is  

that I'm a fast speaker in my native language and  not being able to speak in English it drives me  

crazy uh I speak with shortcuts mainly any advice  so any advice rather than advice is remember  

advice is not countable we can talk about pieces  of advice or bits of advice or just some advice  

but advice itself is not countable but the I would  I would just get again like the the way I speak I  

actually speak a little bit faster in Japanese  than I do in English it's like I don't I'm not  

like a terribly fast speaker in English anyway but  I notice like I speak like my Japanese it likes  

to come out faster now but for your situation I  think it's like um an easier thing to do if you  

just focus on on trying to be like correct and  just try to communicate what you are at a slower  

Pace just kind of like slow yourself down just  to get good at doing the thing and then you get  

faster over time as you as you practice doing it  more but get lots more input and the input will  

make it a much easier thing like the more input  the more systematic input and the systematic  

part is really important there because if you're  just getting like random English then you're not  

really going to improve very much but if you  get systematic input that will help you a lot  

all right Mom it says what is the difference  between what about you and how about you  

uh in in that situation what about you it's like  what do you think and how about you you can use  

both of those the same way yeah so I understood  what you mean about not being able to speak  

quickly in English so if you're naturally fast in  your native language but not so fast in English  

then just it's okay try to slow yourself down  it's okay to to relax about that get better at  

speaking and then you will he will naturally start  speaking more and have a faster speech as well  

I mainly learn English from listening I understand  100 of what someone said in English but it's hard  

for me to speak English it's like opening a  book full of verbs and don't know uh which  

word is applicable to say yeah so again depending  on how you learn most people are learning English  

as a second language and that means that they're  they're usually getting like one or two examples  

of something and they're not really trying to  understand situations and what natives would say  

in situations so the more you learn English as a  first language and this is what we teach in fluent  

for life and all the videos on YouTube as well  if you can go back to my like very first YouTube  

video and we're talking about the same thing uh  let's see hi teacher how are you I'm doing well  

uh let's see how you noticed your mistake  how can I learning English you'd say how can  

I learn English you learn English the same way  you learned your native language that's how you  

do it that's the whole secret all right well I'm  losing my voice over here I think I got through  

everything I wanted to say remember just to recap  everything we've got these two basic core ways of  

learning vocabulary if you learn a new word you  can go deeper into that thing just like you can  

go deeper into a subject itself and learn the  different aspects or pieces of it or another  

thing is if you're focusing on a situation you  can pay attention for the different ways that  

natives speak and so what's a different expression  or phrase or something that you could use and even  

it's the same thing with vocabulary or grammar  so you could like I showed before like I don't  

have time or I haven't time so it's the same  thing they mean the same thing but I'm using  

different words in order to do that transist  thank you it's nice to see you back yes and I  

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