How To Improve English Speaking Skills By Reading - Strategic Reading For Fluency

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pardon me as we get started all right  here we are I am Drew Badger the founder  

of englishanyone.com and the English fluency  guide welcome to another live video here on  

YouTube today as always we're going to  be talking about fluency and I'm going  

to be helping you understand how to do  this by reading so we're going to focus  

specifically on reading there are lots  of different ways you can improve your  

speaking ability but reading is a really great  one uh and the reason this is Possible Oh no

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G all right well good morning nice  to see everybody there uh do post  

your comments let me erase the board and  we'll get started uh it's been a while so

there all right uh so let's get started right  here at the beginning uh the I had an interesting  

conversation with a learner and this this is a  typical thing uh it's really not just one learner  

but many Learners uh I hear this from and the  conversation usually goes like this uh learner  

says please teach me English and I say okay great  here's how I'm going to do it I'm actually just  

going to speak a lot and you're going to get  fluent by understanding the language better  

and they say no no I need to speak and I say well  aren't you trying to speak now and usually they  

say yes or you know maybe they have uh some way to  practice online or something like that but they're  

thinking they need to speak to become fluent but  I have to explain to them that actually the reason  

you're not speaking now even though you could just  talk with yourself if you have nobody to speak  

with just talk with yourself you could do that  but the reason that's not helping you get fluent  

is because it's not helping you understand the  language better so the what I call the strangest  

fluency secret is that you actually become fluent  by understanding the language better because  

understanding the language helps you really feel  confident that you'll speak correctly and then you  

speak all right so if you have any doubt that's  stopping you from communicating you need to clear  

up those doubts and then that will allow you to  speak all right so reading is a really good way  

to do this it's something you can do by yourself  you don't need anybody with you to to speak with  

or anything like that the point is just to do it  systematically strategically which is what we'll  

talk about in this video so let me just begin uh  very quickly checking uh chat make sure everybody  

is uh live here T ni Tom is there the boss good  morning Paris is back barocco uh look at that  

lots of lots of returning folks AA yes I hope to  improve my English good evening hello Muhammad  

from Morocco let's see I'm I'm a good that Diana  says hi hna says Al love Vincent says from South  

Africa hey there Globes keep keep revolutionize  the world hi there Globes teacher keep teaching  

revize the world what Anette is back another  good morning from Anna and all right right on  

time yes we're getting getting started a little  bit early today but hopefully uh this shouldn't  

be that long of a video because this is not really  uh a a complicated idea but I'm going to show you  

how I do this uh personally for my own training  to become fluent in Japanese all right and Lea  

says hi my teacher thanks so much for uh things  you are doing for us you're the best one what my  

pleasure Ellena nice to see you again kich you and  truck from Vietnam nice to see you there all right  

uh let's get started it's hot so hot out here I  have the uh the air conditioning on blowing on me  

but it's still it's still really hot all right  uh let's get into it though so I brought some  

books here uh actually two Japanese books and one  English book because I want to again explain this  

uh not only for you learning English but how I do  this for learning Japanese now you may have heard  

of something called extensive re reading let  me write this up here for you e ex t n SI i v  

e so extensive extensive is like something that  covers a wide area someone might have extensive  

knowledge of something I think somebody brought  that up on the the chat before knowledge so  

extensive knowledge means you have a wide range  or you know a lot about something so extensive

reading all right uh so usually what native  English speakers are doing and when I say  

natives like the people who are born usually  to parents who speak English fluently and these  

would be like kids in the United States so  what they're doing when they're learning the  

language and especially learning to read is we  have these things called graded readers graded

readers now I I'm I'm not going to talk any uh  specifically about like one kind of grading or not  

what I do when I'm teaching my own kids like the  grading system I use is what is the phonetic rule  

that's being taught so we begin with something  like uh short vowel sounds like C A so we begin  

with something very simple and then we start  moving up to more difficult things like Kate  

all right so Kate itself is not a word but you can  learn to pronounce this correctly by understanding  

the rules of phonics so a graded reader like  this this is where we're starting to usually  

we begin with something simple uh especially if  we're focusing on a particular sound that we're  

teaching and then we help students uh like our  own kids or kids in a classroom learn to read  

in this way and so what's happening is like a  few basic things here so we're we're starting  

uh typically we we have like kind of a a simple  stair system of very short books so even something  

that's maybe four or five pages and that might  even have only two or three words on each page  

so something very simple because there is a a  nice psychological effect that happens when you  

complete something so if a child is reading a  book and even if the book only has you know two  

pages or something uh the child can feel good that  like wow I read a book all right and so this is  

uh again speaking specifically about how native  speakers are learning the language how how they  

learn to read uh and you can learn to read the  same way so we created an app called Frederick  

that does this and lets you teach yourself how to  read the same way natives do so it also helps you  

at the same time learn to pronounce and build  vocabulary and understand grammar all of those  

things so another thing you notice we're only  trying to teach maybe one new thing at a time so  

we have most of like the these kinds of books that  we're using it will be something very simple maybe  

we'll introduce only one or two new things uh and  in the case of people uh like trying to understand  

new vocabulary this would often be maybe some  new words but you can understand those words in  

context because the the rest of the vocabulary is  something you already know all right so in general  

when you're trying to read and you're and you're  trying to read as a way of developing fluency in  

a language like spoken fluency not just being  able to read something but being able to speak  

the language well uh this is where we really  want to make sure we understand things very well  

and if we have to spend time looking things up  in a dictionary it's going to be more frustrating  

so often we're we're not trying to like read  something with a lot of complicated text or  

things that maybe we we don't know most of the  words in the book so you should understand at  

least like 80 to 90% of that some people would  say even higher than that just to make it easy  

for you uh but this is the basic idea of extensive  reading so we want to get lots of information we  

want to read many kinds of books uh and typically  things that are fun and at our level so whatever  

our level is we're not trying to push ourselves  too much but the basic idea is that if we can  

understand things by reading then that can help  us develop for fluency but I want to take this  

idea a little bit further uh and show you the way  I do this for Japanese and then it's actually the  

same way uh I would teach my own kids and I  do teach my kids and this is what I recommend  

my students do for improving their fluency in  English now a lot of people uh let me erase this

here I know probably many people watching this  video right now can read a lot of English so you  

don't really have a problem with reading itself  and you can probably even read a uh like a thicker  

novel so a novel like a longer book with a 100  Pages or 200 Pages something like that you could  

probably read this and not really have a problem  understanding a lot of it now some maybe some  

people they might struggle with this but a lot of  people who watch my videos are able to read a book  

in English all right so even a longer book or you  know maybe even something if it's a little bit at  

a lower level like a like a Harry Potter book or  something like that that's maybe for elementary  

school students but it would still have uh it's  still basically a novel uh so the the problem  

is not really trying to read uh a book or being  able to read what we want to do is use reading  

to develop fluency so we have to be strategic and  systematic about how we do this so the reason I  

don't really recommend people reading novels I  don't really recommend you do this is because  

it's really difficult to review strategically  if you read a novel so you will spend a lot of  

time like let's say let's say it took you I  don't know 5 days or a week or however long  

it takes you to finish a book then you are not  going to want to go back and reread that book  

again it's going to be uh much more frustrating  for you uh and and just like the again like the  

the length of the book makes it more difficult  and it's hard to find time to go back and review  

specific parts of the book that maybe you want to  review and so again what I'm always recommending  

people do is start with things that are much  shorter so even this uh so this is one of my  

uh children one of their favorite books is is  called Mouse tales and this actually has a few  

different stories in it I'll show you the inside  of the book in a moment but you can see how thin  

this is uh there are looks like 60 pages and the  print of the book so the print meaning the size  

of the text and how the text looks so the print  is quite big the sentences are pretty short there  

are some more complex sentences in here uh but  you'll notice a lot uh what I'll talk about in  

just a moment that it really gives you a great  way to review the information and you won't get  

tired of reviewing it so each time we're trying to  review things we want to review them in different  

ways all right so uh if you begin with something  like a novel and you can read that a novel is good  

for getting uh just a passive story but if we're  really trying to develop fluency we be have we  

have to be more active about how we're practicing  with a book okay so the practice comes as we get  

more review and we review things in different ways  so let me just give you an example of something  

I do uh with Japanese and uh again the the first  part part of this is really the selection of the  

reading material so I already mentioned things  that are short uh and again the reason to do  

something uh short is because number one you're  going to feel good when you finish it like yay  

I finished a book and then number two it's going  to be easy to review all right and then typically  

these shorter books are usually made for kids or  you know beginning readers and so when we have  

something like this for kids often there's a lot  of good repetition in the book but it's what I  

call naturally varied review so like the story of  The Three Little Pigs is a really good example of  

this and this is in Japanese as well so I have  actually three different versions of this same  

book I only brought two of them um but I can find  more copies of them online or different versions  

of them or different stories uh and as I read  these different things I'm getting lots of review  

from all the various versions of it and really  learning how to tell that kind of story and with  

really my my own words rather than only trying  to memorize I'm not trying to read these books  

and memorize them I'm trying to read for a couple  of different things and I'll go through those uh  

in just a second but the point is I'm taking  something uh looking for material to practice  

that's short so it's typically going to be for  kids it's usually got pictures in it which can  

help you understand the the like the content  whatever that is I'll look open this one so  

I think this is a this is a British translated  version here uh this one is a Japanese original  

version so it's actually a slightly different  story uh in this one uh the wolf actually gets  

killed but in this one the wolf does not so it's  interesting even you can see different versions of  

how people uh how people tell the story but what's  uh kind of interesting about this is we're trying  

to get the practice to mirror how people really  communicate so each of the people you will meet  

in your daily life or at work or you know seeing  people online or whatever uh each of them will  

speak in a different way so you really need  to get exposure to lots of different versions  

of books in the same way so if I only take one  book and I just read it one time I can probably  

understand that but it's a much better idea  if I review the content and then I'm going to  

maybe check different versions of the book see how  other people might tell the story and then really  

focus on particular passages of the book so that  I can understand those so when I first get a book  

like this uh you know whatever the book is I'm I'm  just FOC fusing on this one I have a few different  

uh kind of collections of things like this that I  read uh and again you don't need to buy books you  

can find most copies of things uh online as well  excuse me uh and also have uh like the the video  

of people maybe reading the book so that's another  part of this I I'll I'll just mention that right  

now since I'm talking about it um but but another  thing I do as I'm reading I will also listen to  

other people reading this book so I can find this  same book right here on YouTube and actually hear  

a a few different people telling the story so  I've listened to uh like there was a little boy  

I think if you can actually search for this book  on uh YouTube and you can find um different people  

so one was like a a woman telling a story uh or  or reading a different version another version  

that I have but there was a little boy telling the  story or reading the story and so I can hear how  

he reads it and this is improving my pronunciation  improving my listening and helping me kind of go  

through the book at the same time so you notice  I'm trying to get all this strategic review of the  

book I'm trying to get this from many different  ways rather than just taking one novel reading it  

once and then not really being able to remember  much of the information in it okay so even if  

I do again the point is to really understand  specific passages of books and really understand  

how they work so I will take a book like this  the first thing I'm doing uh once I've selected  

some material and again you want to look at  something short books pretty easy to read and  

the when I talk about graded readers it could  be things that like you as an English learner  

you're probably more uh looking for specific  language patterns rather than specific maybe  

phonics rules or something like that um but so I  might read something like this and I'm looking for  

I I'll show you the English version in a second  uh but when I'm reading something like this I'm  

looking at like what are the specific language  patterns and then how can I review those so that I  

can understand that and start using that fluently  again the point is not to remember the book it's  

to it's to really understand what the patterns  are so I can start using those myself all right  

I don't want to just have passive understanding  I need to eliminate any doubt I have uh so let's  

look at Mouse tales and see if I can find some  interesting passages in here uh that give you  

a bit more example of this so we have uh the  contents over here you can take a look at that  

uh and this is actually uh so like part of a kind  of graded reader series here uh so this is reading  

with help and they have a few different levels  here this is I don't I'm not really a big fan of  

this like kind of specific reading level because  when I look at it often the way uh English books  

are are kind of graded the the grading is not  really done by how how the phonics are so it's  

not really working through the the levels uh  that the English is taught uh or English should  

be taught normally and it becomes more difficult  for some readers to like a like a younger child  

uh could maybe read this book with help but they  would probably have trouble because there are many  

difficult phonetic rules that are taught or used  in this book all right so even here like here is  

some chewing gum so gum over here this is a very  simple word like like cat that we had before so a  

short vowel sound like G gum so lots of beginning  readers would be able to get this but chew the the  

ew here this long u this uh the cheing so that  sound we've got like a diagraph and then we've  

got the ing in there as well and so something like  that would be a bit more difficult so again this  

is speaking about graded readers for people who  are learning how to read like learning the uh  

the actual sounds of the words and how they work  but uh more specifically for you as an English  

learner who probably can read a lot already this  is really about understanding language patterns  

and focusing on those specific specific things uh  that maybe uh maybe you you you kind of understand  

you have a passive like you can recognize it but  you wouldn't feel very confident about using it  

so anytime you're reading something like that you  want to look through as you're going through the  

book and think like okay if I'm reading something  could I use that myself would I feel comfortable  

using that and if you don't then that's something  you should go back and review so you actually take  

your time and and and think uh strategically and  actively about what you would review if you need  

to review something or not so if you were reading  a book like let's say we uh like there was a mouse  

who wanted to visit his mother so something like  this like this is actually a fairly complicated uh  

sentence uh especially for English learners but  let's just say like we we would take something  

like this and then break it down into smaller  pieces and make sure we understand each one and  

then we put them back together to make sure you  can understand everything and use it fluently so  

if you're looking for something like this like  even just this first sentence of the story here  

there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother  so the first thing we would do we actually start  

with the end of the sentence and we've got visit  his mother or we could even have just something  

very simple like just understanding the idea  of mother all right so we take one word like  

this we start at the end of the sentence  and work back forward so mother okay like  

I understand that idea pretty easy I could use  that I feel confident about using that all right  

so we go back another letter here or another uh  another word his mother so we're talking about a  

person's mother do I understand how to use that  do I feel confident about using that these are  

just you know questions you can ask yourself but  you would normally feel do I feel confident about  

saying something or not all right so probably you  feel confident with something like this this just  

very quick uh two-word combination here so his  mother then could you take this and use it in a  

different context like you have uh his father or  his mother or his dog or whatever so if you feel  

confident about doing that then you can again go  back further into the sentence and then look for  

maybe longer pieces that maybe you might have  trouble with so here we have visit his mother  

again we're just taking a step back pretty easy  to do so visit his mother pretty easy idea if  

you feel confident about that it's a person or in  this case a mouse going to visit his own mother  

so visit his mother you don't have to think about  a sentence as as a whole thing we have to think  

about the the units of information or the ideas  in a sentence to understand the whole thing so  

we have visit his mother all right pretty easy and  then if we go back a little bit further wanted to  

to visit his mother all right so here we have okay  want to visit his mother I have a pretty good idea  

of how to say this uh maybe I have like I want to  do something so we understand want to like want to  

visit you can even focus on that as a particular  thing to uh just just to look at that can I take  

that can I can I change it a little bit like want  to go want to play here we're talking about the  

past so he wanted to do something again I want to  focus on things and really spend time reviewing  

it looking at things in different ways to clear  up any doubt that I have about that all right and  

as we move back through the sentence it becomes  easier if we look at the little pieces so the the  

kind of chain of each of these things the sentence  becomes easier to understand if you understand the  

little pieces of it so we have wanted to visit  his mother all right and so now we have who like  

who wanted this who here is actually connecting  the these two parts of the sentence so the first  

one is there was a mouse that's it like that's a  pretty simple idea One Thing by itself so there  

was a mouse and we could actually make this as two  different sentences if we wanted to so there was  

a mouse the mouse wanted to visit his mother so  when we understand that idea okay this is a way  

of connecting those two ideas in one sentence so  there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother  

all right and remember as we're reviewing things  we try to take them play with them say them in  

different ways and again in this case we could  just make two different sentences so if we wanted  

to make the book even simpler for people there  was a mouse that's it or even simpler than that  

although not a sentence is just a mouse all right  so we're just having a picture like that and again  

when we have just a picture of something it's just  very easy there was a mouse and then what did the  

mouse do well he want wanted to visit his mother  there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother  

all right so once I'm feeling confident about that  I'll know I'm able to say that in a conversation  

if I have no doubt if I could make maybe some  different sentences all right so we want to take  

something just like we're we're taking this like  we we talked about the steps of of trying to read  

something we don't want to change too many things  about the sentence we just want to change maybe  

one thing just to see if we can understand the  sentence and feel feel confident about using it  

so as an example uh there was a dog who wanted to  visit his mother okay so maybe instead of a story  

about a mouse we have a story about a dog but I'm  just changing one thing about the sentence and  

then I'm still feeling confident that I understand  what's happening but this will help me get that  

naturally varied review so I eliminate the doubt  that stops me from speaking all right so there was  

a cat who wanted to visit his mother or there was  a rabbit who wanted to visit his friend or there  

was a rabbit who wanted to go to the park there  was a rabbit who wanted to go to the park now this  

might seem like wow this is we're we're kind of  like focusing a lot on something and really going  

deep into this and the point is we want to do that  because most people who struggle to speak they  

struggle because they actually don't feel very  confident about these little things they think  

know them they think they understand that but if  you ask them make this sentence into something  

different so I could ask chat GPT I could give  this this sentence to chat gbt and it could give  

me a hundred different versions of this sentence  and it would alter the words in some way so there  

was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother can  I say it quickly can I say it clearly do I feel  

confident can I change the sentence in some way  could I change the tense so maybe I could say  

there was a mouse who Maybe baby would go visit  his mother so we're talking about in the future  

even like there kind of like there was a past  thing but uh he had not gone yet uh maybe to visit  

his mother so I could change the sentence a little  bit and not really change the structure very much  

but I could talk about again a different person or  a different setting or doing a different activity  

uh but you get the idea all right so the more you  you spend time focusing on this this is what I'm  

doing when I'm reading something in Japanese I'm  not trying to read a long novel and my my Japanese  

uh speaking is is much better than my ability  to read because there are so many uh Kani to  

learn these are Japanese written the the Japanese  written language you have actually three different  

uh character sets uh in addition to some English  words that are used as well so uh let's just go  

through this again and you'll hear as as I repeat  these things but I say them in slightly different  

ways it's not boring to listen to because you  get to hear different versions of this and this  

is something you can do by yourself as you read so  there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother  

there was a dog who wanted to buy a house there  was a cat who wanted to do you know this or that  

all right hopefully that makes sense all right  let's just continue here so he bought a car and  

started to drive to his mother's house all right  now this is an interesting thing here like we're  

trying to teach uh if I'm teaching my kids about  doing something so we have so he bought a car so  

we have here's the conclusion of that and started  to drive to his mother's house he started to drive  

to his mother's house so here maybe you know like  he drove to his house but here we're learning oh  

we can make this a bit more interesting by talking  about the beginning of an activity he started  

to drive or I could use the different word he  began to drive you can use both of those in this  

sentence so so he bought a car and began to drive  to his mother's house pretty simple all right so  

as we're looking at these things the point is not  to uh just like read through it one time and then  

okay I I understood the information but did you  eliminate all the doubt would you be able to tell  

this story yourself uh if you were if someone said  okay like you read it now like tell me the story  

of what happens and so people might be like well  maybe I can and you don't have to say it exactly  

but the point is do you remember it well enough  that even uh in your own words you could tell  

that story again so I will spend time and it I  usually when I'm doing this it's maybe 15 minutes  

in my day so I will read like as an example if I'm  just you know getting a new book like this like it  

would actually take me uh some time to to get used  to it especially in Japanese because my Japanese  

reading is still really slow but you can see here  like it's a pretty simple uh well if you don't  

speak Japanese but but uh when you're looking at  something like this even if I'm reading it slowly  

like I might listen to someone else I can read  you a little Japanese here um and I learn uh like  

the patterns that we have in Japanese just like  we have patterns of speech in English so mukash

mukash see I can't can't even read

well so this is the same kind of idea like we just  read with uh the mouth so it's just like mukashi  

mukashi like a long time ago so the same kind  of thing we start these stories with in English  

uh like the name of uh you know really any any  kind of book it's like a long time ago or once  

upon a time you will learn these so so lots of  Japanese stories in the same way they begin with  

like mukashi mukashi arut so like a long time  ago there was something that whatever so uh  

again when I'm reading this uh I'm also reading  it out loud so like the other I don't know a few  

nights ago I read this story to my daughters so  usually I will read to them in English but I read  

them this book uh in Japanese but it was also a  good practice for me so if I can listen to this  

I might Listen to As I said other people telling  this same story or reading this book you can hear  

people read whole books I'm not going to read  through uh any of these books over here uh but  

I'll show you this uh the cover over here I think  someone was asking about that um the specific book  

book you read is not so important but it should  be something that you're interested in at least  

I mean these these stories are actually quite  funny and and they're good and my kids enjoy  

these uh Arnold Lobel so this is a guy who wrote  a few different books and he illustrates these as  

well and so he wrote uh like owl at home and frog  and toad our friends that series of books uh he  

actually had a uh or I guess I don't know if he's  still live or not but there was a a museum exhibit  

with his pictures which was really interesting  that came to Nagasaki not that long ago anyway  

uh so hopefully you get the idea uh we're picking  something that's short so we feel confident that  

we can understand that thing and that we will  want to review it and reviewing doesn't feel  

really boring because we're going through and  and kind of picking different things as we read  

so when we're when we're reading something  we really want to make sure that we're uh  

we're not boring ourselves so I might find  something and I'm looking like okay how many  

like can I look for a specific grammar point I'm  interested in or specific words or whatever that  

particular phrasing might be uh or am I trying  to learn how to connect longer phrases because  

often I I will hear people complaining about  how uh either they are not able to use longer  

more complex sentences or they have trouble  understanding natives or other people on movies  

or TV shows or whatever uh when they are speaking  longer so if someone is speaking continuously for  

a long time it can be difficult to follow that  information so this kind of training will allow  

you to do that so these are uh some quite lowlevel  books like even these uh this Japanese uh version  

of this this is this actually has some some  interesting phrasing in it uh some things and I  

was able to learn some new vocabulary with this as  well that I was then able to use but also uh when  

we're looking for things like this it's it's still  going through those graded readers to make sure  

okay at this level I would feel confident saying  that thing and that's the real test so it doesn't  

matter if you understand it it's how well do you  understand it so you feel confident about saying  

something okay hopefully that makes sense uh let  me see if I can find uh oh here all right here's a  

good one right here uh I will uh I'll read this  another section of this here but we can apply  

those same rules we did earlier so I'll read you  the full sentence first and then we'll go back and  

look at it piece by piece now this is also another  thing we do uh INF fluent for life so we actually  

have a whole lesson set that is about this kind  of thing where um we we look at different pieces  

of things and try to build up the sentences and  help you understand that all right so he helped  

his mother pick flowers so this little mouse here  he was uh I'll just tell you the quick story for  

some background so this mouse was out walking  so see how like I feel fluent that I could tell  

the story about this this is a story called The  Clouds there is a mouse at the beginning of the  

story he's very happy he goes out and looks up at  clouds and he sees you know a mouse and a castle  

and other things in the clouds but then the clouds  start to turn into a cat and he gets very nervous  

about that oh no and so he runs away from the cat  and then he runs down to his mother and his mother  

says okay there's nothing to worry about it's just  a cloud and look it's disappearing it doesn't look  

like a cat anymore so he goes back down and starts  helping his he was on a hill and he goes back down  

and he just starts helping his mother pick flowers  and he does not look up at the clouds again for  

the rest of the day all right so that's the that's  the basic story uh and because I'm fluent I could  

tell the story after reading it a few times  I know what the story is it's pretty easy to  

understand even if I don't remember the exact  words okay the point is not to remember it to  

memorize it but to understand what's happening so  they we can take pieces of the story or even tell  

the whole thing if we wanted to uh but now let's  look at this sentence here so he helped his mother  

pick flowers but he did not look up at the sky for  the rest of the afternoon all right so this second  

part of the sentence here but he did not look  up at the sky for the rest of the afternoon he  

did not uh look up at the sky for the rest of  the afternoon so we're we're we're connecting  

like two ideas here uh one is the thing he did  or did not do so he did not look up at the sky  

and then we put this up here for the rest of the  afternoon so if you maybe heard of something like  

this like uh hopefully now if you didn't know it  before you can say like oh that's an interesting  

uh like sentence construction here or or just a  language pattern of like the rest of something so  

if I'm if I have some kind of uh time period like  we have here maybe I uh I start doing something  

at this point so right now it's uh let's say  3:00 so I started doing something uh at 1:00  

and then this thing ends at let's say 5:00 and so  if I start doing something from here to here this  

is the rest the rest of the time so the rest of  the time it's the remainder what's left so there  

are different ways of expressing this but one way  to say this is the rest of the time so when you  

read something you should be thinking oh look  at that isn't that interesting here's here's a  

like just an interesting uh kind of piece of the  language and if you feel confident about using  

it then you will use that in your conversations  and you will feel more confident and fluent and  

everything works from you understanding because  you eliminated doubt so we have something like  

this like the rest of the time or the rest of the  day the rest of the afternoon the rest of this  

video all right so the remaining part so not the  the the part we already finished the part that's  

finished it's the remainder the rest of it and  just like we could have the rest of the time we  

could also have like let's say I have a pie so I'm  eating a delicious piece of pie over here and I  

have this amount of pie over here left so this is  the piece of pie that I ate and this is the rest  

of the pie okay so it's the remaining part the  rest of the time the rest of the pie and this is  

why again it's important to understand these  things and when you see something like that  

maybe you knew this already but uh if you yes it's  supposed to be I'll draw maybe a better uh picture  

of a pie uh how does that look so this is looking  at it from the side now all right so this is my my  

delicious uh look at that steaming hot just out  of the oven my piece of pie so if I have I cut  

my piece of pie out of that and the remaining  part is the rest of the pie the rest of the  

pie so anytime we have something and we take  a piece out of it so one if we have like two  

people over here and eight people over here two  people leave well the rest of the people the rest  

of the people okay so uh it's really important to  understand things like this like within context so  

we're understanding okay this is uh we're talking  about like the whole story so the mouse began he  

was looking up at the sky and he was out with his  mother and then for the rest of the afternoon he  

did not look up at the pie or at the sky so he did  not for the rest of the afternoon he did not look  

up at the sky all right yes people get hungry when  I start talking about pie you want some pie some  

pie all right so if you're learning a language  where typically people will Begin by where's my  

blue marker where did that go oh here it is uh  so like often you will have like let's say I'm a  

Japanese person uh learning or not j a Japanese  person learning English for example so I would  

begin with like a word like rest if I ask  a Japanese person who knows English even a  

little bit I would say what does rest mean they  would probably think like yasumu like to uh like  

to take a break or something like that like they  might know the word like like restroom going to  

the toilet you know like the restroom you take  a rest like let me let me have a break a rest a  

a relaxing time or something like that and the  reason they think that is because usually they  

learn the English word through a translation so if  you're learning English the typical way learning  

English as a second language then you would think  like oh okay rest means uh like to you know relax  

or we're going to sit down or do something like  that but here it's a different meaning and and so  

we're not trying to look at the word itself and  get a translation we're trying to understand how  

it works in the sentence okay so in this sentence  it's like oh look at that the rest means the the  

continuation or the like the Japanese translation  of this would be like no like no boom so what the  

the remaining time or the remaining amount or  the remaining number of something so we we take  

this when we understand the idea again uh like I  showed you before with the other example in the  

book about playing with it so we could have the  rest of the people the rest of the book the rest  

of the time the rest of the book you know what the  rest of the the movie or something uh and then you  

have something now I've got this pattern that I  can use fluently in conversations okay so again  

instead of taking something like a novel we take  something short and even you could just take one  

short story I mean these are only a few pages  uh from a book like this but it's very easy to  

understand and the point again like I I really  want to make this clear it's not about just  

understanding something the point is do you  feel confident enough to say that thing in  

a conversation if you do not then get that review  go back and make sure you really understand it you  

could you know ask Google or chat GPT or whatever  to just explain what a what a grammar point is  

like what's happening but for uh books like this  it's much easier to understand because you can see  

pictures showing what's happening and okay like I  am going to go or I'm going to pick flowers said  

mother I will stay here and watch the clouds said  the little mouse so you can see what's happening  

like the mother is leaving and the little mouse  is talking with his mother oh okay I I understand  

what's happening so I get the general idea I can  understand if someone said it to me but okay I  

will stay here and watch the clouds could I take  that sentence and could I change it would I feel  

confident saying this in a conf ation if you have  zero doubt then yes you would be able to do that  

but if you do have a doubt about something excuse  me uh then I would spend more time looking at that  

so when when I'm reading through a book if like  like the uh like this Japanese uh book that I'm  

looking through you know myself the first time I  read it I'm just getting a feel for the language  

but maybe I would read this I don't know I've  read this like I don't know 50 times or something  

and each time I'm I'm looking for maybe something  different to focus on for that particular reading  

so I want to make sure like I get you know maybe  good pronounciation or pronunciation one time so I  

might uh listen to someone else read the story or  I might listen to two or three other people read  

the story and that's why it's a really good idea  to uh to make sure I have uh I choose the right  

content and that content means there are different  versions of that that other people might also know  

so that's why I pick something pop popular like  The Three Little Pigs or in Japanese there are  

other like momot or something like that that's  another kind of popular children's story uh but  

a Japanese story so I can find lots of different  books that would give me that same information  

even though it's in a slightly different way all  right let me go back and check chat uh I think  

people are getting it though does this make sense  so the the point is when we're reading something  

it's not do you understand it it's do you feel  confident about saying that thing and if you  

if there is any kind of Gap there then spend more  time with the individual words or sentences or  

whatever that are causing you doubt and then you  solve that doubt you end those doubts and then  

that will enable you uh enable you to say those  things in a real conversation all right uh let me  

go through let me know if you have any questions  but I'll go back and check make sure I answered  

other people here all right looks like we got a  quite a few questions here all right uh Vincent  

from okay I think I read that one already uh let's  see where did I stop re says Salam Al Alum Alum  

uh n says guys I'm in the country of people see me  speaking out L with myself uh they would think I'm  

crazy what about your culture is that all around  the world yes uh I don't know I suppose you could  

talk to yourself but you don't even have to talk  to yourself to become more fluent you can see like  

just from looking at this example that I'm showing  you with uh with these books that you get fluent  

by understanding the language better not just by  repeating stuff to yourself if you can already  

feel confident saying something then you already  know that thing you become more confident as you  

introduce new things so you're kind of giving  yourself new challenges or new individual words  

and phrases that help you understand the language  better that's the point Mike says hi all good  

night from Colombia so you would say good evening  if it's the evening unless you are leaving the  

conversation so I think we talked about this last  time uh let's see Carlos says I have good English  

accent or a good English accent but when it comes  to speak uh in a conversation I struggle because  

I want to find the right words in the English but  the good is that I don't have to translate in my  

native language ah yeah so your you're kind of  problem Carlos is that you just need more uh you  

need more experience with with the content and so  so when you're talking about like people Express  

this idea of not being able to find the right  words and that's because they're they're usually  

thinking about one way to say something but when  you look at uh like if we're comparing different  

books like this there are different ways to tell  the same story so there's not only one version of  

The Three Little Pigs and there are some people  tell the story where the the wolf gets killed  

at the end some people tell the story where the  wolf runs away it kind of depends on the the kids  

or whatever like this one this one here uh the the  the last pig eats the wolf at the end of the story  

so it's a it's a different a different version  of that and I was explaining that to my uh to my  

younger daughter I was saying well pigs could  actually eat wolves she was she was surprised  

to hear about that uh but again you you get that  information as you spend more time when you when  

you focus on something like that it's the focus  the Strategic review that gets you fluent it's not  

just trying to sit there and and repeat things to  other people so you you do have to have some kind  

of active role uh if you're not having someone  else do it for you so INF fluent for life we  

take you through these steps uh where we help you  eliminate the doubt from things like this uh but  

this is how you would do it by yourself if you're  trying to do that as well well K says hi TJ Drew  

Ohio goas nice to see you there and Neo so says  thanks and okay thank you for free lessons yep so  

go out and enjoy be sure to use what I'm learning  and if you or use what I'm teaching uh and if you  

have questions let me know and if you like what  we're doing click the like button and share the  

videos all right I don't translate in my mind  I think in English when I try to find the right  

words can you give me some advices to improve  that so based on the the way you're speaking  

and and like you might have some mistakes like  advices instead of advice which is uncountable  

um I would spend more time getting input  strategically like I'm showing you in this  

video so that will make it if you really spend  time with something so me instead of trying to  

read 10 books I would read this one book 10 times  and then really try to understand it and I would  

become like oh I now I understand like ah mukashi  mukashi like I would I would know how to structure  

that sentence in the same way like if I'm if  I'm speaking Japanese and talking about a uh  

you know something like a long time ago something  something happened like that so I'm spending more  

time getting review and most people just don't  do that you know for for whatever reason usually  

because it's it it's it's boring to to try to just  read the same book over and over again so you have  

to introduce some kind of variety that makes  it more interesting for you all right T says  

sir is there any you would say off on way just  speak more slowly in situations often config as  

high stakes I don't know what I mean are you when  you say high stakes what do you mean by that like  

are you in a hostage situation like someone is is  holding a gun to your head or something like that  

usually you can control conversations by either  you speaking more slowly or I would like let's say  

someone else is speaking faster I might say like  that's an interesting point I'm I'm just kind of  

stopping the conversation and and and controlling  the conversation in that way just to slow them  

down uh right Roberto Roberto says what's about  people who do not has good good English well I  

would start with very simple things that that  little kids watch just do that so if you're if  

you're watching videos on this channel this is  really for people who already understand English  

quite well uh but let's see I want these books  yeah you again like you don't you don't need like  

this book specifically there are lots of good  books like this and you can either find them  

online or go to the library and get them for free  or whatever let's see it says I bought two books  

in Great Falls The Mouse and the motorcycle and A  Long Walk to Water I hope it is the right for me  

you could say I hope it is right for me or they  are right for me and so we have like uh let's  

see good evening oh from India Little Red Riding  Hood is another example mouse tails yeah uh good  

evening from Portage Indiana all right I think  you guys are talking with each other over there  

hello from Chile nice book can't handle the mass  amount of American idioms says Amia hii uh where  

where you where are you getting all these idioms  so now when you'll notice I don't really use  

idioms when I'm when I'm teaching these lessons  unless I'm specifically teaching or introducing  

something like that U but it depends on the  the kind of content you get so I you you have  

to control that as a learner so if you're trying  to watch something that's too difficult and you  

feel overwhelmed by that then you probably should  not be learning with that unless you can you can  

have a uh you know like a teacher who can help  you do that a go say says good method automatic  

Association good evening greatest teacher well  welcome Leo uh what about Golden Books yeah Golden  

Books are fine an easy method for training let's  see Unice says hello teacher Drew hello everyone  

all right I'm going to go quickly through these I  remember that the mouse wanted to visit his mother  

and that is all that's okay I didn't really tell  the whole story but I I just because this that's  

probably my I think in this book uh as as my my  favorite story I'll just I'll just tell you this  

uh this very quickly I won't read the whole thing  uh but so there was a mouse who wanted to visit  

his mother and I guess he lives very far away so  he buys a car and he drives for a long time but  

then the car breaks down look at that so the car  falls apart like until the car fell apart look  

at that I'm learning a very useful phrasal verb  in context here and I can see it like the actual  

pieces of the car like they fell apart so the car  fell apart and so he got some roller skates and  

he was skating for a long time until the wheels  fell off another useful phrasal verb right here  

that you're learning in context you can actually  see it happening like the wheels are falling off  

because he rode so much and then at the side of  the road he met someone who was selling boots and  

he walked and walked until the boots wore out  he got big holes in them and then he got some  

sneakers and ran and then he took the sneakers  off and he walked on his feet and he hurt his feet  

so bad he actually found someone who was selling  feet by the side of the road so look at that so he  

bought some new feet and he walked all the rest of  the way to his mother's house and his mother when  

she saw him she said you are looking fine and what  nice new feet you have so I always I enjoy reading  

that one to my kids they like that story too but  uh but this is a a it's another uh really good  

example of naturally varied review because we're  taking basically the same joke or the same story  

and saying it again in a slightly different way  so he bought some shoes and then he bought this  

and then he bought that and then he bought that  and then he bought that okay and so as you're  

reading this like it's it's the naturally varied  review as you go through the book as well so lots  

of good things in the story to help you feel more  confident and use the language more fluently all  

right the whole idea is to eliminate doubt not to  sit and like practice saying things to yourself  

you will not become a more confident speaker  sitting and saying things to yourself because  

either you know it well already and you feel  confident or you do not that's it all right so if  

you if you can say something confidently you don't  need to practice that because you already know how  

to do it you now you need to go learn something  else and increase your uh your active vocabulary  

the number of things you can use fluently all  right let me see here did I oh I think I got all  

those all right but hopefully you enjoyed that  the advice you give us is always a spot on and  

really helpful thank you it's my pleasure yeah so  mukashi uh is old but like mukashi mukashi is like  

really old so you can see oh that's interesting  in Japanese it's like they they took that like  

mukashi mukashi or some some people just say  mukashi uh but you will hear both of those  

in U uh in Japanese stories so again like this  let's see how they introduce it in in this one  

so this this this version actually doesn't begin  with mukashi mukashi but it's a similar kind of

sentence so it's just like there were three  brothers you know so there were like three  

three brother pigs that's it uh and so it doesn't  have to be in the same way but as you're reading  

those you think oh like these are different  ways of people telling the story just like  

people speak differently in real conversations  all right now where did we go all right people  

talking about pi over here let's see mukashi  mukash yes see like a long time ago in a in  

a land far away all right I'm hungry says cam it  is a very skillful book well the book is you know  

it's it's just a regular book but if we use the  book in a skillful way then we can use that book  

to become more fluent JD says hello from bogot  I'm Juan Carlos I was a Warner ing how long you  

have lived in Japan and if you're ready to speak  Japanese fluently yes uh I've been in Japan for 20  

years on and off so not continuously but I guess  maybe how many years now 16 17 years uh and yes  

I speak Japanese fluently but basically what that  means is that like I can have good conversations  

and talk with all different kinds of people but  there's still many things I don't know just like  

there are many things in English I don't know all  right Muhammad says I'm watching from koala lur  

Malaysia fabios is nice method and I'm not going  to try to pronounce it I'm going to pronounce it  

badly I'm sure when you learn Japanese a new  word do you write down its meaning in your  

own language English or explaining in Japanese  uh usually I don't I don't use any English to  

learn it unless it's I don't know unless it was  like really difficult or something but in that  

case I really want to understand things within  English or excuse me within Japanese if I can uh  

and writing the word down is helpful but if I if I  can connect with it and eliminate the doubt then I  

usually don't need to do that uh so hopefully  like the example I gave you before about what  

the word rest means so it could mean you sitting  down or going to the toilet or like that kind of  

rest but it also can mean the remainder of time  so when I'm when I'm learning new words like  

like another uh word I learned recently was like  like down payment on a house so that's like uh a  

uh and and like atama is like the head and I  was thinking oh isn't that interesting here's  

another use of that same word and I understood  it within the context so I didn't need to write  

it down so just like at the start of the month we  can call that the head of the month in Japanese  

and so when I when I'm getting these examples I'm  basically building a network in my mind that helps  

me understand the vocabulary so I don't need to  write them down it's nice if I do but I mean often  

I I I don't need to do that often I will I will  try to write something if it's a sentence pattern  

that I would like to understand and I and I want  to give myself different examples of it so I might  

say that to myself or I will actually write down  different examples and and really that's for me  

just getting practice with writing and reading in  Japanese because that's a different skill and it's  

a different alphabet so if you are for example a  Spanish speaker you already know all the letters  

in English even though the the pronunciation  might be a little bit different so you wouldn't  

really need to write that down but for me like I  actually should practice writing the characters  

and things like that just to get faster at doing  it uh Leo says for me Brazilian it is a much more  

easy you would say much easier because AR rest of  the same word Resto in Portuguese yes and so you  

have other things like that like if you have Resto  I don't know if that means uh remainder for you  

or if it just means relaxing uh but you can see  why it's important to learn the language in the  

language so I'm not trying to translate anything I  really want to understand it very well within the  

language all right Tom again mouse Fabio let's see  and leelu good morning from Thailand and can can  

great Sammy says Hi everyone from Yemen Muhammad  Ali restroom mean we have another Furniture in  

room we need to take from in room outside house  well the English word restroom it usually just  

means toilet because people don't want to say  toilet just like in Japanese like you could say  

toilet or you could say like like handwashing like  washing place so that's called a euphemism it's a  

way of saying something without saying that thing  all right times of lots of messages above yes  

Christian says I am new here greetings all from  El Salvador advice is uncountable yes uh and if  

you think about it like you can't you can't really  count advice you just like you can't count water  

but you could count one piece of advice or word  of advice or a you know a like some some advice  

you could you could you could count that so I  think I made a a video before about uh talking  

about the like the container that something is  in so this water the water itself is uncountable  

but if I I could take that water and put it into  different containers like I could have uh a drop  

so this is a drop of water or I could have a cup  of water or a bowl of water or a lake of water  

all right so the water itself is uncountable and  instead of having water I could have air or pasta  

or advice I could have like a drop of advice or  a cup of advice same kind of thing okay uh let's

see okay look at that all right yber says I from  Colombia Bridget hello T Drew I am following  

your advice on staying on one subject until I  get the understanding it is working thank you  

yes look at that people listening and achieving  very good very good jungle boy says thanks a  

lot Drew by the way which is better for learning  English physical or ebooks uh it does it depends  

on you as a person I like having physical books  maybe that's just because I'm getting older or  

something but I like a physical book uh it helps  me remember like where maybe where a page is in  

a book or I can uh write something down easily  I can feel the words it's just a different kind  

of thing than uh than having a digital version but  it depends on you some people like I don't I don't  

like e-readers I don't like reading on a screen  really I can do it on a phone for a little bit  

but I would not want to read a digital Book on a  phone like that uh but it depends on you let's see  

an experience hair specialist that's a great name  uh this is my first time being live with you well  

welcome Muhammad Ali says I can understand English  language but can't speak English what can I do uh  

the point is that you understand well enough  to recognize things but you don't understand  

well enough because you still have doubts about  the language that's it so until you solve those  

doubts you will still have trouble speaking so if  you if if you uh like I've shown you one way to  

do that using books and a specific kind of book  a specific kind of practice like systematic uh  

like systematic reading where we're we're really  trying to focus on something and really understand  

it well to eliminate any doubt we have that's  the whole goal and so if I have no doubt about  

whatever I want to say then I will speak fluently  like right now I have no doubt about what I'm  

saying so I have no trouble speaking but often  Learners like they could understand me but they  

can't speak as well as I do because they still  have doubts about various you know some phrases  

or some grammar or whatever the the thing is so if  you want to eliminate the doubt then focus on that  

particular thing and really understand it well  I've just I've shown you one way to do that with  

books but uh other videos I have we uh show you  different ways to do this and you know you it's  

it is possible to do this by yourself it just  takes a lot more time and it's more frustrating  

because the the amount of time you spend trying  to figure something out you waste a lot of time  

with that that's the that's the biggest kind  of time wasting part of learning a language  

so what I discovered as I got fluent was the  actual fluency develops in those specific moments  

where you understand something better the rest  of the time is just like finding information or  

organizing information or asking people questions  other things like that so most of the time is  

wasted so if you have someone who can just tell  you what everything is you can understand it very  

quickly you eliminate the doubt and you feel more  confident about speaking okay so you can do it  

yourself it just wastes a lot of time uh but yes  there are different ways to do that and I would  

recommend just watching the other videos we have  on the channel and I show you different ways to do  

that uh let's see all right Richard says thank  you for sharing ever since I learned from your  

channel I can rest assure that I will be able to  speak fluently as soon as possible yeah so you  

focus on particular things you get fluent in those  things and then you move on to the next thing and  

that's how it works so that's all I'm doing in  Japanese like I just f focus on this one book  

for a little bit and I learn a lot and I become  more fluent and I can use things like like uh  

like he it's like to start a fire and then I could  use that like in a different situation and talk  

about starting a fire somewhere else and so when  I understand that it's like oh okay I understand  

what that means I feel confident there's no doubt  now I can use that in my conversations and that's  

exactly what happens uh so here's here's a perfect  example of that so I was uh I was reading so at  

this at this point in the story and I mean I knew  I knew this like this uh this grammar already uh  

or this just like a verb so right now the the the  pig is putting the uh the well the wolf anyway let  

me tell you the rest of the story so the wolf is  up here and he goes down the chimney if you don't  

if you don't know what this is this is called a  chimney a chimney and so this is where the smoke  

from the fire comes up out of a house and the and  the W goes down and so the wolf is very quickly  

he's going to light a fire so I understand you  know what this means in Japanese I understand the  

situation and it's like oh look at that so this is  the actual Japanese here you get a Kani character  

he osima so he he lit a fire this would be the  past tense of that and so uh like just like I knew  

what that was already but I hear this uh again in  the book and then I don't know I think like 2 days  

later after I was reading this my mother-in-law  she had a uh like a paper towel roll or something  

like that and she was um and this is like a common  thing in Japan like little massage kind of little  

massage tools people buy these a lot and you know  people you will see Japanese people like with like  

little little stuff like this and they're just  like like giving themselves massages or like  

rubbing the tops of their heads or something  like that and so she was uh she was taking this  

and like rubbing the like the inside of her foot  you know kind of like a like a pressure point for  

a massage thing and I was like be careful you're  going to start a fire I was like Kil get to heal  

course and she started laughing about that and so  I took the the Japanese I had learned in context  

and was able to use it in a funny way in that  situation and she thought that was funny and  

my wife thought that was funny too so here we are  like when I understand something you feel oh like  

I get it the doubt disappears I can understand  something I feel confident about saying it then I  

speak all right that's the biggest advice again  like I call this the strangest fluency secret  

because everybody thinks you're supposed to speak  before you start you know like like before you  

become fluent like speech is the way you become  fluent but it's actually the opposite speech is  

the result of understanding the language well all  right so you don't need to spend a lot of time  

trying to speak with people to get fluent you just  need to understand the language better all right  

all right C got that I think anyway so like my you  know she's always using like a little like a you  

know some kind of massage tool or something and  like you know something like that especially like  

older Japanese people do that a lot um but I don't  maybe it's a good idea I should start doing that  

as well uh but anyway I I just thought that was  very funny because I'm I'm able to take something  

I understand it well so I can use it fluently  that's how it works okay so before like and I had  

like learned that word before but uh it kind of It  kind of finally made sense to me I could feel that  

trigger uh like the switch in my brain flipping  because I understood it well it's like oh look  

at that like he kosim like the the the pig lit of  fire and like I understood what he was doing and  

then I could take that same thing and like you  know my mother-in-law is doing this on her foot  

and I was like be careful you're going to start a  fire over there and she you know so I was able to  

take something understand it and use it fluently  all right so the fluency actually develops as you  

understand the language better all right mud says  hi I just moved to the US and my main problem is  

listening I have no idea how I can deal with  native speakers then you need to you need to  

focus on particular things just like we're doing  with this book so I need to remind myself if I'm  

uh focusing on something like this if there's  something else outside of this book that I don't  

understand it's okay my only job right now is to  focus on this one thing and make sure I understand  

understand that that is the world I can control  okay so you will find lots of things I might go  

watch a movie or hear somebody speaking some  Japanese and not understand what they say  

that's okay like I you know he would maybe go  through that same process to try to understand  

them better but there will be lots of times I'll  hear some Japanese and not know what it is just  

like I might hear some English and not know what  people are talking about like if it's I don't know  

some subject I don't know much about but uh if I  focus on something that that is the thing for me  

to work on and I I don't need to worry about  everything else that I have trouble with so  

even if you can't understand everybody just work  on on solving the problem one piece at a time uh  

let's see I'm frustrated with learning English  study for 24 years and nothing nothing nothing  

well you probably have a pretty good understanding  but you've developed a large passive vocabulary so  

you can understand some things but the way you're  learning is probably still like everybody learns  

in school it's basically learning uh English  as a second language instead of understanding  

the language directly so I'm giving you examples  of that and in today's video we're just talking  

about uh how to do this with books all right where  did we go here let's Louis say welcome is welcome  

I got you all right Persona says hi Drew how are  you nice to see you on live uh I have been waiting  

for a long time waiting for long time you to come  you could see I have been waiting for a long time  

I am happy to see you here and Manuel from Brazil  all right let's see my I just oh I got answer that  

one already let's see you says you can throw a  like here and make a wish to improve your you'll  

improve it for sure I promise very good Yes  actually that's a great idea you know there's  

another story uh in Mouse Tales called the wishing  well and this is a this is a story about a mouse  

who uh tries to put money into a wishing well and  the wishing well says ouch it's actually painful  

for the well and so the mouse has to think of a  solution to that problem so speaking of wishes  

speaking of wishes uh let's see in English AOS is  a let's see how can I learn spoken English through  

well just like I showed you in this video or like  I showed you in in all my videos the whole point  

is to understand the language without a doubt and  most people do not they understand the language a  

little bit so they can hear it and maybe recognize  some things but they stop there so they're always  

trying to learn new information but not really  become fluent in the information they already  

know so if you know a lot of English but you can't  speak fluently stop learning new information focus  

on the stuff you already know and make sure you  understand it really well uh uh let's see and  

lwis says okay with a kind of sad face B well the  point is not to just like study more it's not like  

go study it's like the point is to understand the  language well just why you you should watch more  

of my videos where I talk about this you will hear  me explain this same idea in many different ways  

today we're just talking about it with reading  specifically all right uh Leo says much easier  

and don't uh much more easy let's see I wrote  wrong before thank you for correct you would  

say thank you for correcting me Bobby says Drew  send to my Kindle please well I don't go go get  

it yourself go to Amazon and and put it on your  Kindle all right H says I don't get why the word  

vocal is countable like her vocals are excellent  uh people often say so just hearing a single song  

she sings well they're talking about like the way  the way she sings the vocals so it could be like I  

don't know I mean even like if you're if you want  to be technical about that maybe they're talking  

about I don't know stereo channels or whatever but  like we wouldn't say like her vocal it's it's just  

in general like when we're talking about um uh  sounds like that but that's it's an interesting  

thing maybe it'll be easier to remember that way  let's see Tom says Lewis uh let's read some mouse  

books there you uh let's see I teacher thanks  for what you do greetings from columia glad  

here Gabrielle says hello Drew is it possible to  speak like a native sure all right the only like  

nobody is born native I had to become a native  just like anybody else could become a native too  

so if I could learn if I could listen to a bunch  of Japanese people read these stories like if I  

hear some Japanese people read this book then  I'm going to start sounding more like a native  

okay all right well it looks like we're getting  to the end over here 71 minutes all right and th  

coins I don't know what those referring to hello  and duck Oz is auna sp when you're learning in  

the wrong way so you could just say learning  the wrong way also uh Tom Leo ala don't know  

that advice yes well now you know there you go  and the English is back since I started watching  

your videos my English got to the next level thank  you so much Drew glad to hear it if you know other  

people we can help then send them to the channel  say hey come get the get these videos this guy  

will take your English communication skills to  the next level and the way we do that I like to  

actually explain how this works is eliminating the  doubt that you have about the language that's how  

it works it's pretty easy all right leou says  what do you recommend me or you what do you  

recommend for remembering new words um you should  search my channel for that but we actually have a  

program called how to remember any English word  and that's with uh fluent for Life members get  

that uh and you can also add that if you're in  the native fluency blueprint let's see hi sir how  

can I improve my English uh just watch my videos  that's how you do it so my I try to make this this  

idea very simple and I repeat the same idea again  and again but you'll notice I do this in different  

ways so I'm also giving you different vocabulary  as we go uh through like you know the different  

things like maybe we talk about the word rest in  this video but I talk about different words or use  

uh other vocabulary in other videos but the basic  idea is that when you're learning something and I  

think this answers uh let's see Moo's uh question  what is the way to learning English it's just all  

you have to do is solve the particular doubt you  have for for learning the language uh I I'll give  

this like a very quick review I haven't done  this in a while uh but you seem very passionate  

especially if you have been struggling for a long  time to solve this problem for yourself now what  

happens in the brain when we're learning we're  unable to speak about something until we actually  

get that thing until we feel confident that we  will say something correctly so most people they  

will feel nervous about using a word or a grammar  point or saying anything if they don't think they  

will say it correctly because people don't like  making mistakes in front of other people you know  

that's uh kind of an obvious thing so just to  give you a uh let's see like a quick let me see  

see here I'm going to draw my usual little flash  card flash card let me see here okay one two three  

so I'll give you some flash cards I'm going to  give you a word in an alien language and this word  

is uh uh atis this is an alien language word this  is not an English word but it will prove a point  

about how we learn languages so I'm teaching you  a word called tis and now I'm going to give you  

some examples of what that word means and show  you why uh typically when people are if we're  

back post the comment if you can see this live or  not I think we are all right I think we're back I  

don't know why that was that was weird anyway uh  so I show you this and the word is TI tis what  

does that mean what do you think tis means all  right Anette is there that was weird all right you  

were back all right sorry to scare people let's  continue this all right so hopefully I I really  

want to make the point about how people learn  languages and usually what happens is because  

it's difficult to just understand something with  one example people usually just get a translation  

of whatever that thing is so this is not an  English word I'm just telling you I'm using  

like a madeup word like tis what do you think that  means anybody just post in the comment what do you  

think it means all right Anette says I anyone else  what do you think tis means in this alien language  

I I don't know what happened like my internet just  cut out for a second which was really weird but  

but I think we're I think we're okay I guess it  looks like it's still cuz it's still showing me  

live and it's still uh transmitting over here but  that's weird maybe cuz I walk to the other side  

of the screen I don't know anyway uh so anybody  else we are okay go ahead post your comment let  

me know what you think this means TI all right let  me get a drink of water while this is loading over

here no one else so Muno says what is  TI well I'm asking you I'm teaching  

you a word right now what do you think it  means so cam says I another person says I I

lash all right so maybe maybe I could just tell  you what it means but usually what happens or it  

means look good idea could mean look uh let's  see kich is Marcelo con with the W on the end  

open could mean open all right let me give you  another one to stare well that's interesting  

stare that fit in there stare all right so  you don't really know for sure I'm just giving  

you a word and and this could happen in real  life anytime where you hear a word and maybe  

you think you have a good idea of what it means  but maybe not all right let me give you another

example all right now what do you  think tis means tis TI what does tis

mean so tis means eye and it means mouth you think  

is this is this mean are these like the  same thing is that what tis means you

think oh look at that Tom

part of the body senses  that's another good [Music]

one tis tis tis

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t all right so as you get more examples of  the same thing you're thinking well I mean  

like it could be the senses I give  you even more examples like here's a

tis as I continue to give you more examples  it's those examples that clear up the doubt  

that you have about whatever some word  means and in this case TI means body

part okay so uh the idea for language  learning is that you want to eliminate  

the doubt as quickly as possible and you do that  by getting lots of varied examples to help you  

understand something okay and so this works  not just with language learning but like for  

anything in life so i' I've told this story before  about how I was at a cafe and I saw a guy looking  

at a like a tablet so he looking at his screen and  he was wiping or kind of waving his hand in front  

of the tablet like that and uh I said oh like is  that uh is that like a fly or something like I was  

I was saying that to myself or or like you know I  had no idea what he was doing but I thought maybe  

it was like a motion control for the tablet so  I said oh wow that's really cool like he can he  

can do a motion control on his tablet without  touching the screen and then I was I continued  

to watch him and I saw finally like oh he's  not uh he's not using motion controls it just  

there's just a fly buzzing around the screen he's  trying to wave the fly away like that and so and  

that was like I'm getting more examples of seeing  something and then when I finally understand the  

the real thing and the the real thing is the the  fly flying around the screen and then that guy  

left and now the fly was flying around me at that  point in the story but anyway the point is I'm  

seeing uh as I get more information I feel more  confident that I understand something all right  

so the first time you hear something like you  hear a word and then you see something or maybe  

you make a connection but you don't really know  for sure and that's that's going to stop you from  

saying something so you might say the word but  you've said it incorrectly like I might say oh  

like tis and then like uh like I also think like  I point to some other thing that I think is an  

I also but like that the word I is not TS it's a  different word all right but all of these together  

like it just means a body part all right and so  as you're learning a language what most people do  

is they just get one example and a translation  of something so they don't really understand  

that thing very well in English or whatever word  they're learning so when I'm learning Japanese  

I don't want to get just one example and try to  translate something I want to hear many different  

examples to really understand what something  means and when I really understand it when I  

understand something completely that means that I  have no doubt about using something okay so that  

that's the basic idea of uh how we get fluent in a  language and this works with uh with everything so  

it wouldn't be like parts of the phas cuz this is  my foot so that is not a part of my face but you  

get the idea that's why as a teacher I need to  give many different examples to really help you  

understand something well all right and even my  my drawings are not very good but you know if I'm  

if this were like a real lesson I would probably  have some better pictures of of you know whatever  

the thing is I'm trying to teach like I do in  Frederick so we actually have good drawings in  

Frederick all right so that's the app that will  teach you things like this and we actually do  

this in Frederick so when you're playing Frederick  if you learn a new word you can actually scroll  

through different images that show you what  the word means because if we just give you  

one image it's more difficult to understand okay  so the whole language learning process works in  

this way it works this way not just for language  learning but for any kind of learning the point is  

to eliminate doubt that's it and so when you feel  no doubt the like oh okay I really understand tis  

means body part I will feel very confident saying  that all right let's see here all right we'll go  

through last questions here but I think that makes  makes sense for people I think everybody got that  

though uh let's see all right so uh mono hopefully  you understand now the way to learn English is  

to eliminate doubt is quickly as possible that's  how I do it so as I explain to people the fastest  

way to become a fluent speaker is to eliminate  the doubts that stop you from speaking that's  

it all right so I'm trying for many many many  ways but it's typically all the same kinds of  

ways that don't eliminate doubt and that's why  people struggle to speak even if they learn for  

a long time or continue to study they still have  doubts that stop them from speaking that's just  

that's the that's the basic reason uh so you don't  need to find other people people to speak with you  

just need to eliminate the doubt I'm marelo I've  been learning English since 2013 and nowadays I'm  

able to understand people and to be understood  clearly you helped me a lot thanks glad to hear  

it click that like button and share the video all  right uh Tom Leo Drew is an amazing teacher yes  

I'm just trying to eliminate doubt that's all I'm  doing here English my battery is running down and  

I think I'll rewatch live in the morning that's  all right TI a new word yes no Tom don't remember  

this is not an English word all right Denny says  I love this topic then you would probably enjoy uh  

Frederick a lot it's kind of like a game like this  all right uh yes Anette says you are back okay  

like that was weird let's see I agree let's see I  open all right you guys are getting it everybody  

understands and duck off says if you're wondering  how to improve your English well as long as you're  

watching this live you already got your answer  yes all right but it's interesting the the differ  

uh the different meanings that you thought the  word meant like does tis mean eye or does it mean  

mouth or or a sense or a body part something like  that there there lots of things that it could mean  

and that's what the brain is trying to do it's  trying to connect the meaning of something with  

the the word itself and like what what does  something mean and if we don't really know  

what something means then we have doubt and and  humans don't do very good or don't do very well  

with doubt so if we feel doubt about something  we usually don't act and that means we also don't  

speak all right so eliminate the doubt and this is  something you can easily do by yourself all right  

Keo says I'm sorry I have to go again I'll take  my leave for today uh demo no yes you can you can  

take your leave that's fine uh this has been very  informative glad to hear it let's see English is  

the S ears okay you guys are some members of the  body organs all right everybody got it let's see

so okay well we'll see you again I thought  it was tissue yes so this is not I'm just  

trying to think of a you know like an alien  word that is not a word in English so Anette  

likes my drawing all right let's see uh but  everybody I think uh everybody got it all  

right uh I only have one right arm and you ah  well I have I have two I mean I have two arms  

I only have one right arm I guess but but uh  and by the way Frederick is much better than  

dual lingo guys you should try it well thank  you very much Tom you are our uh our manager  

for I think you can you can join our other  manager you're you're the the app manager so  

go ahead and recommend it look at it uh let's see  how many hours we need to study English every day  

uh I don't know five minutes 15 minutes however  much time you can spend but the point is your  

time should be spent in the actual learning the  actual learning learning time so if you are not  

if you are trying to teach yourself how to get  fluent you will spend a lot of your time just  

finding information and trying to understand  what it means okay so if you have like uh like  

an hour of something in your day and you need  to learn something and you're trying to teach  

yourself there will be like a lot of time is  spent just like finding information or maybe  

you don't quite understand it so you have  to spend time looking things up and addtion  

AR or whatever uh and then like maybe you  understand something there's a moment of  

understanding where you feel okay I understand  something I feel more confident and then you  

go back to like searching you know looking for  more stuff and then maybe you get another moment  

of understanding here all right so the benefit of  having someone teach you is we eliminate all this  

stuff and just give you these moments so if you  have only five minutes in your day and you can  

just get those moments then you will get fluent  faster all right so you don't need to spend the  

amount of time you spend is not important it's how  quickly do you get the actual moments of learning  

where you understand something better so if you  can eliminate the doubt that's what helps you

speak uh let's see English says your amazing  teaching strategies are the best in the whole  

world Barone well glad to hear it remember  you would say your like uh let's see your  

amazing teaching strategies are the best in the  whole world oh you did that I'm I'm reading that  

incorrectly yes you said that correctly uh  Elder says sup Drew nice to hear you this  

morning welcome uh tuckier says sir is there any  video tutorial on how to use the Frederick app  

uh you can search our YouTube channel for that  and Leonardo is back knowledge all right uh yes  

so uh tar if you search our YouTube channel for  Frederick it shows you how to do it but basically  

you just play with the app and and the point of  it is to actually discover how to use it yourself  

so I'm still trying to think what's the best way  to to organize the information in the app but if  

you're looking for a video that shows you how to  do it then uh search our YouTube channel uh let's  

see and Zeo says hello my teacher I am following  you would say I'm following you from Egypt your  

video about efl and ESL was incredible I'mma start  this technique as soon as possible well welcome to  

the party over here and look at that LS with some  uh nice uh Spanish uh emojis over there I like  

that heart one after having dinner I spent the  rest of the day learning English very good you  

use that correctly to spend the rest of the time  or you could spend the rest of your money or the  

rest of your time or something like that the rest  very good T I got eight out of 10 in the first  

lesson but was unable to progress beyond that  thank you teacher you are answering all of my  

questions thank you do you understand hopefully  let me know if there's anything unclear about  

this because many people learn for many many  years and they still can't speak because the  

typical ways that people learn they only give you  part of the lesson they don't give you complete  

understanding which is why people struggle to  speak all right so let me know I I really want  

to make sure you understand this because if  you understand this whether you learn with me  

or not this is what you should be doing and so I  just make it easier I'm basically like enabling  

people to learn much faster because I did all  the hard work of organizing things and making  

it easy to understand all R said says Hey sir I'm  understanding what you're teaching in your videos  

but during speaking I'm getting stuck because  of pronunciation of words get Frederick click  

on the link in the description below this  video and get Frederick it will teach you  

how to do that all right yes Tom knows what I'm  talking about Marcelo the secret for me was when  

I stopped questioning the rules and comparing to  Portuguese I just accepted the language the way it  

is and I learned to fast yes so if you like part  of that is like like kids they just kind of accept  

uh the language and Z says how can I improve my  f phonetics without learn A and E is well like  

there there is no way to understand phonics  without actually looking at words so I don't  

know how you would do that but we make it very  easy in Frederick so if you click on the link  

in the description below this video get the app  and it will show you how to do that but it will  

make it fun as you learn because the point is to  discover how the language Works rather than just  

have a teacher like telling you stuff so you get  to figure it out yourself and when you do that you  

explore you feel a lot more excited because you  discovered something rather than a teacher telling  

you what something means all right hopefully that  makes sense uh just a a very quick recap at the  

end of this video when you're trying to learn  uh a language and like you guys are trying to  

learn English or I'm trying to learn Japanese the  point is to focus on something strategically so  

that we can learn it and really understand it to  eliminate any doubt we have about that thing so  

we're not trying to learn a lot of information  quickly we're trying to really take time uh as  

quickly as I can to um to make sure like that we  understand something very well all right so it's  

not about trying to like uh like like learn as  many words as quickly as possible I would rather  

know one word really well that I very that I  I feel no doubt at all about using that so if  

you can do that then you you've shown yourself how  to how to get fluent uent all right so if you can  

get fluent in one word then you can get fluent in  as many words as you like all right so that's the  

focus that's the secret the strangest fluency  secret again and it's strange because people  

think they need to speak to get fluent when the  truth is you really need to eliminate the doubt  

that's already stopping you from speaking so  if you want to speak but you don't feel able  

to because you feel doubt then eliminate the doubt  don't worry about finding people to practice with  

just solve the actual problem that's stopping  you from speaking and then you will speak if  

you'd like me to do this for you you can click on  the link in the description to learn more about  

fluent for Life uh and Frederick as well which  I've talked about in this video but uh everything  

I do in these videos is really explaining how  to get fluent and showing you examples of that  

and then if you'd like help uh you can either  do it yourself or you can do it with me and  

get fluent a lot faster so click on the links  and I will see you in the next video bye-bye