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

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here and then we'll get started with  today's party let me know where you're  
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from and as usual if you have any questions  as we go I will keep my eye on the chat and  
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we'll see how we do all right YouTube  let's get started all right we should  
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be going any minute now all right uh  let's see okay I think we're going now
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pardon me as we get started all right  here we are I am Drew Badger the founder  
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of englishanyone.com and the English fluency  guide welcome to another live video here on  
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YouTube today as always we're going to  be talking about fluency and I'm going  
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to be helping you understand how to do  this by reading so we're going to focus  
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specifically on reading there are lots  of different ways you can improve your  
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speaking ability but reading is a really great  one uh and the reason this is Possible Oh no
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[Laughter]
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G all right well good morning nice  to see everybody there uh do post  
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your comments let me erase the board and  we'll get started uh it's been a while so
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there all right uh so let's get started right  here at the beginning uh the I had an interesting  
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conversation with a learner and this this is a  typical thing uh it's really not just one learner  
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but many Learners uh I hear this from and the  conversation usually goes like this uh learner  
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says please teach me English and I say okay great  here's how I'm going to do it I'm actually just  
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going to speak a lot and you're going to get  fluent by understanding the language better  
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and they say no no I need to speak and I say well  aren't you trying to speak now and usually they  
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say yes or you know maybe they have uh some way to  practice online or something like that but they're  
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thinking they need to speak to become fluent but  I have to explain to them that actually the reason  
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you're not speaking now even though you could just  talk with yourself if you have nobody to speak  
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with just talk with yourself you could do that  but the reason that's not helping you get fluent  
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is because it's not helping you understand the  language better so the what I call the strangest  
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fluency secret is that you actually become fluent  by understanding the language better because  
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understanding the language helps you really feel  confident that you'll speak correctly and then you  
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speak all right so if you have any doubt that's  stopping you from communicating you need to clear  
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up those doubts and then that will allow you to  speak all right so reading is a really good way  
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to do this it's something you can do by yourself  you don't need anybody with you to to speak with  
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or anything like that the point is just to do it  systematically strategically which is what we'll  
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talk about in this video so let me just begin uh  very quickly checking uh chat make sure everybody  
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is uh live here T ni Tom is there the boss good  morning Paris is back barocco uh look at that  
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lots of lots of returning folks AA yes I hope to  improve my English good evening hello Muhammad  
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from Morocco let's see I'm I'm a good that Diana  says hi hna says Al love Vincent says from South  
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Africa hey there Globes keep keep revolutionize  the world hi there Globes teacher keep teaching  
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revize the world what Anette is back another  good morning from Anna and all right right on  
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time yes we're getting getting started a little  bit early today but hopefully uh this shouldn't  
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be that long of a video because this is not really  uh a a complicated idea but I'm going to show you  
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how I do this uh personally for my own training  to become fluent in Japanese all right and Lea  
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says hi my teacher thanks so much for uh things  you are doing for us you're the best one what my  
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pleasure Ellena nice to see you again kich you and  truck from Vietnam nice to see you there all right  
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uh let's get started it's hot so hot out here I  have the uh the air conditioning on blowing on me  
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but it's still it's still really hot all right  uh let's get into it though so I brought some  
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books here uh actually two Japanese books and one  English book because I want to again explain this  
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uh not only for you learning English but how I do  this for learning Japanese now you may have heard  
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of something called extensive re reading let  me write this up here for you e ex t n SI i v  
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e so extensive extensive is like something that  covers a wide area someone might have extensive  
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knowledge of something I think somebody brought  that up on the the chat before knowledge so  
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extensive knowledge means you have a wide range  or you know a lot about something so extensive
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reading all right uh so usually what native  English speakers are doing and when I say  
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natives like the people who are born usually  to parents who speak English fluently and these  
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would be like kids in the United States so  what they're doing when they're learning the  
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language and especially learning to read is we  have these things called graded readers graded
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readers now I I'm I'm not going to talk any uh  specifically about like one kind of grading or not  
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what I do when I'm teaching my own kids like the  grading system I use is what is the phonetic rule  
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that's being taught so we begin with something  like uh short vowel sounds like C A so we begin  
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with something very simple and then we start  moving up to more difficult things like Kate  
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all right so Kate itself is not a word but you can  learn to pronounce this correctly by understanding  
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the rules of phonics so a graded reader like  this this is where we're starting to usually  
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we begin with something simple uh especially if  we're focusing on a particular sound that we're  
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teaching and then we help students uh like our  own kids or kids in a classroom learn to read  
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in this way and so what's happening is like a  few basic things here so we're we're starting  
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uh typically we we have like kind of a a simple  stair system of very short books so even something  
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that's maybe four or five pages and that might  even have only two or three words on each page  
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so something very simple because there is a a  nice psychological effect that happens when you  
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complete something so if a child is reading a  book and even if the book only has you know two  
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pages or something uh the child can feel good that  like wow I read a book all right and so this is  
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uh again speaking specifically about how native  speakers are learning the language how how they  
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learn to read uh and you can learn to read the  same way so we created an app called Frederick  
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that does this and lets you teach yourself how to  read the same way natives do so it also helps you  
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at the same time learn to pronounce and build  vocabulary and understand grammar all of those  
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things so another thing you notice we're only  trying to teach maybe one new thing at a time so  
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we have most of like the these kinds of books that  we're using it will be something very simple maybe  
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we'll introduce only one or two new things uh and  in the case of people uh like trying to understand  
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new vocabulary this would often be maybe some  new words but you can understand those words in  
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context because the the rest of the vocabulary is  something you already know all right so in general  
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when you're trying to read and you're and you're  trying to read as a way of developing fluency in  
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a language like spoken fluency not just being  able to read something but being able to speak  
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the language well uh this is where we really  want to make sure we understand things very well  
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and if we have to spend time looking things up  in a dictionary it's going to be more frustrating  
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so often we're we're not trying to like read  something with a lot of complicated text or  
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things that maybe we we don't know most of the  words in the book so you should understand at  
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least like 80 to 90% of that some people would  say even higher than that just to make it easy  
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for you uh but this is the basic idea of extensive  reading so we want to get lots of information we  
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want to read many kinds of books uh and typically  things that are fun and at our level so whatever  
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our level is we're not trying to push ourselves  too much but the basic idea is that if we can  
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understand things by reading then that can help  us develop for fluency but I want to take this  
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idea a little bit further uh and show you the way  I do this for Japanese and then it's actually the  
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same way uh I would teach my own kids and I  do teach my kids and this is what I recommend  
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my students do for improving their fluency in  English now a lot of people uh let me erase this
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here I know probably many people watching this  video right now can read a lot of English so you  
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don't really have a problem with reading itself  and you can probably even read a uh like a thicker  
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novel so a novel like a longer book with a 100  Pages or 200 Pages something like that you could  
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probably read this and not really have a problem  understanding a lot of it now some maybe some  
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people they might struggle with this but a lot of  people who watch my videos are able to read a book  
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in English all right so even a longer book or you  know maybe even something if it's a little bit at  
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a lower level like a like a Harry Potter book or  something like that that's maybe for elementary  
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school students but it would still have uh it's  still basically a novel uh so the the problem  
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is not really trying to read uh a book or being  able to read what we want to do is use reading  
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to develop fluency so we have to be strategic and  systematic about how we do this so the reason I  
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don't really recommend people reading novels I  don't really recommend you do this is because  
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it's really difficult to review strategically  if you read a novel so you will spend a lot of  
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time like let's say let's say it took you I  don't know 5 days or a week or however long  
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it takes you to finish a book then you are not  going to want to go back and reread that book  
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again it's going to be uh much more frustrating  for you uh and and just like the again like the  
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the length of the book makes it more difficult  and it's hard to find time to go back and review  
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specific parts of the book that maybe you want to  review and so again what I'm always recommending  
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people do is start with things that are much  shorter so even this uh so this is one of my  
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uh children one of their favorite books is is  called Mouse tales and this actually has a few  
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different stories in it I'll show you the inside  of the book in a moment but you can see how thin  
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this is uh there are looks like 60 pages and the  print of the book so the print meaning the size  
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of the text and how the text looks so the print  is quite big the sentences are pretty short there  
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are some more complex sentences in here uh but  you'll notice a lot uh what I'll talk about in  
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just a moment that it really gives you a great  way to review the information and you won't get  
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tired of reviewing it so each time we're trying to  review things we want to review them in different  
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ways all right so uh if you begin with something  like a novel and you can read that a novel is good  
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for getting uh just a passive story but if we're  really trying to develop fluency we be have we  
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have to be more active about how we're practicing  with a book okay so the practice comes as we get  
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more review and we review things in different ways  so let me just give you an example of something  
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I do uh with Japanese and uh again the the first  part part of this is really the selection of the  
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reading material so I already mentioned things  that are short uh and again the reason to do  
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something uh short is because number one you're  going to feel good when you finish it like yay  
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I finished a book and then number two it's going  to be easy to review all right and then typically  
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these shorter books are usually made for kids or  you know beginning readers and so when we have  
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something like this for kids often there's a lot  of good repetition in the book but it's what I  
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call naturally varied review so like the story of  The Three Little Pigs is a really good example of  
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this and this is in Japanese as well so I have  actually three different versions of this same  
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book I only brought two of them um but I can find  more copies of them online or different versions  
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of them or different stories uh and as I read  these different things I'm getting lots of review  
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from all the various versions of it and really  learning how to tell that kind of story and with  
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really my my own words rather than only trying  to memorize I'm not trying to read these books  
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and memorize them I'm trying to read for a couple  of different things and I'll go through those uh  
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in just a second but the point is I'm taking  something uh looking for material to practice  
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that's short so it's typically going to be for  kids it's usually got pictures in it which can  
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help you understand the the like the content  whatever that is I'll look open this one so  
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I think this is a this is a British translated  version here uh this one is a Japanese original  
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version so it's actually a slightly different  story uh in this one uh the wolf actually gets  
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killed but in this one the wolf does not so it's  interesting even you can see different versions of  
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how people uh how people tell the story but what's  uh kind of interesting about this is we're trying  
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to get the practice to mirror how people really  communicate so each of the people you will meet  
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in your daily life or at work or you know seeing  people online or whatever uh each of them will  
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speak in a different way so you really need  to get exposure to lots of different versions  
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of books in the same way so if I only take one  book and I just read it one time I can probably  
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understand that but it's a much better idea  if I review the content and then I'm going to  
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maybe check different versions of the book see how  other people might tell the story and then really  
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focus on particular passages of the book so that  I can understand those so when I first get a book  
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like this uh you know whatever the book is I'm I'm  just FOC fusing on this one I have a few different  
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uh kind of collections of things like this that I  read uh and again you don't need to buy books you  
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can find most copies of things uh online as well  excuse me uh and also have uh like the the video  
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of people maybe reading the book so that's another  part of this I I'll I'll just mention that right  
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now since I'm talking about it um but but another  thing I do as I'm reading I will also listen to  
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other people reading this book so I can find this  same book right here on YouTube and actually hear  
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a a few different people telling the story so  I've listened to uh like there was a little boy  
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I think if you can actually search for this book  on uh YouTube and you can find um different people  
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so one was like a a woman telling a story uh or  or reading a different version another version  
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that I have but there was a little boy telling the  story or reading the story and so I can hear how  
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he reads it and this is improving my pronunciation  improving my listening and helping me kind of go  
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through the book at the same time so you notice  I'm trying to get all this strategic review of the  
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book I'm trying to get this from many different  ways rather than just taking one novel reading it  
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once and then not really being able to remember  much of the information in it okay so even if  
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I do again the point is to really understand  specific passages of books and really understand  
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how they work so I will take a book like this  the first thing I'm doing uh once I've selected  
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some material and again you want to look at  something short books pretty easy to read and  
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the when I talk about graded readers it could  be things that like you as an English learner  
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you're probably more uh looking for specific  language patterns rather than specific maybe  
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phonics rules or something like that um but so I  might read something like this and I'm looking for  
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I I'll show you the English version in a second  uh but when I'm reading something like this I'm  
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looking at like what are the specific language  patterns and then how can I review those so that I  
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can understand that and start using that fluently  again the point is not to remember the book it's  
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to it's to really understand what the patterns  are so I can start using those myself all right  
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I don't want to just have passive understanding  I need to eliminate any doubt I have uh so let's  
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look at Mouse tales and see if I can find some  interesting passages in here uh that give you  
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a bit more example of this so we have uh the  contents over here you can take a look at that  
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uh and this is actually uh so like part of a kind  of graded reader series here uh so this is reading  
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with help and they have a few different levels  here this is I don't I'm not really a big fan of  
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this like kind of specific reading level because  when I look at it often the way uh English books  
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are are kind of graded the the grading is not  really done by how how the phonics are so it's  
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not really working through the the levels uh  that the English is taught uh or English should  
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be taught normally and it becomes more difficult  for some readers to like a like a younger child  
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uh could maybe read this book with help but they  would probably have trouble because there are many  
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difficult phonetic rules that are taught or used  in this book all right so even here like here is  
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some chewing gum so gum over here this is a very  simple word like like cat that we had before so a  
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short vowel sound like G gum so lots of beginning  readers would be able to get this but chew the the  
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ew here this long u this uh the cheing so that  sound we've got like a diagraph and then we've  
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got the ing in there as well and so something like  that would be a bit more difficult so again this  
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is speaking about graded readers for people who  are learning how to read like learning the uh  
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the actual sounds of the words and how they work  but uh more specifically for you as an English  
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learner who probably can read a lot already this  is really about understanding language patterns  
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and focusing on those specific specific things uh  that maybe uh maybe you you you kind of understand  
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you have a passive like you can recognize it but  you wouldn't feel very confident about using it  
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so anytime you're reading something like that you  want to look through as you're going through the  
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book and think like okay if I'm reading something  could I use that myself would I feel comfortable  
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using that and if you don't then that's something  you should go back and review so you actually take  
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your time and and and think uh strategically and  actively about what you would review if you need  
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to review something or not so if you were reading  a book like let's say we uh like there was a mouse  
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who wanted to visit his mother so something like  this like this is actually a fairly complicated uh  
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sentence uh especially for English learners but  let's just say like we we would take something  
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like this and then break it down into smaller  pieces and make sure we understand each one and  
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then we put them back together to make sure you  can understand everything and use it fluently so  
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if you're looking for something like this like  even just this first sentence of the story here  
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there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother  so the first thing we would do we actually start  
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with the end of the sentence and we've got visit  his mother or we could even have just something  
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very simple like just understanding the idea  of mother all right so we take one word like  
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this we start at the end of the sentence  and work back forward so mother okay like  
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I understand that idea pretty easy I could use  that I feel confident about using that all right  
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so we go back another letter here or another uh  another word his mother so we're talking about a  
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person's mother do I understand how to use that  do I feel confident about using that these are  
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just you know questions you can ask yourself but  you would normally feel do I feel confident about  
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saying something or not all right so probably you  feel confident with something like this this just  
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very quick uh two-word combination here so his  mother then could you take this and use it in a  
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different context like you have uh his father or  his mother or his dog or whatever so if you feel  
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confident about doing that then you can again go  back further into the sentence and then look for  
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maybe longer pieces that maybe you might have  trouble with so here we have visit his mother  
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again we're just taking a step back pretty easy  to do so visit his mother pretty easy idea if  
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you feel confident about that it's a person or in  this case a mouse going to visit his own mother  
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so visit his mother you don't have to think about  a sentence as as a whole thing we have to think  
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about the the units of information or the ideas  in a sentence to understand the whole thing so  
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we have visit his mother all right pretty easy and  then if we go back a little bit further wanted to  
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to visit his mother all right so here we have okay  want to visit his mother I have a pretty good idea  
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of how to say this uh maybe I have like I want to  do something so we understand want to like want to  
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visit you can even focus on that as a particular  thing to uh just just to look at that can I take  
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that can I can I change it a little bit like want  to go want to play here we're talking about the  
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past so he wanted to do something again I want to  focus on things and really spend time reviewing  
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it looking at things in different ways to clear  up any doubt that I have about that all right and  
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as we move back through the sentence it becomes  easier if we look at the little pieces so the the  
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kind of chain of each of these things the sentence  becomes easier to understand if you understand the  
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little pieces of it so we have wanted to visit  his mother all right and so now we have who like  
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who wanted this who here is actually connecting  the these two parts of the sentence so the first  
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one is there was a mouse that's it like that's a  pretty simple idea One Thing by itself so there  
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was a mouse and we could actually make this as two  different sentences if we wanted to so there was  
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a mouse the mouse wanted to visit his mother so  when we understand that idea okay this is a way  
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of connecting those two ideas in one sentence so  there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother  
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all right and remember as we're reviewing things  we try to take them play with them say them in  
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different ways and again in this case we could  just make two different sentences so if we wanted  
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to make the book even simpler for people there  was a mouse that's it or even simpler than that  
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although not a sentence is just a mouse all right  so we're just having a picture like that and again  
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when we have just a picture of something it's just  very easy there was a mouse and then what did the  
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mouse do well he want wanted to visit his mother  there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother  
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all right so once I'm feeling confident about that  I'll know I'm able to say that in a conversation  
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if I have no doubt if I could make maybe some  different sentences all right so we want to take  
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something just like we're we're taking this like  we we talked about the steps of of trying to read  
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something we don't want to change too many things  about the sentence we just want to change maybe  
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one thing just to see if we can understand the  sentence and feel feel confident about using it  
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so as an example uh there was a dog who wanted to  visit his mother okay so maybe instead of a story  
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about a mouse we have a story about a dog but I'm  just changing one thing about the sentence and  
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then I'm still feeling confident that I understand  what's happening but this will help me get that  
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naturally varied review so I eliminate the doubt  that stops me from speaking all right so there was  
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a cat who wanted to visit his mother or there was  a rabbit who wanted to visit his friend or there  
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was a rabbit who wanted to go to the park there  was a rabbit who wanted to go to the park now this  
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might seem like wow this is we're we're kind of  like focusing a lot on something and really going  
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deep into this and the point is we want to do that  because most people who struggle to speak they  
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struggle because they actually don't feel very  confident about these little things they think  
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know them they think they understand that but if  you ask them make this sentence into something  
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different so I could ask chat GPT I could give  this this sentence to chat gbt and it could give  
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me a hundred different versions of this sentence  and it would alter the words in some way so there  
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was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother can  I say it quickly can I say it clearly do I feel  
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confident can I change the sentence in some way  could I change the tense so maybe I could say  
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there was a mouse who Maybe baby would go visit  his mother so we're talking about in the future  
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even like there kind of like there was a past  thing but uh he had not gone yet uh maybe to visit  
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his mother so I could change the sentence a little  bit and not really change the structure very much  
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but I could talk about again a different person or  a different setting or doing a different activity  
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uh but you get the idea all right so the more you  you spend time focusing on this this is what I'm  
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doing when I'm reading something in Japanese I'm  not trying to read a long novel and my my Japanese  
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uh speaking is is much better than my ability  to read because there are so many uh Kani to  
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learn these are Japanese written the the Japanese  written language you have actually three different  
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uh character sets uh in addition to some English  words that are used as well so uh let's just go  
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through this again and you'll hear as as I repeat  these things but I say them in slightly different  
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ways it's not boring to listen to because you  get to hear different versions of this and this  
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is something you can do by yourself as you read so  there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother  
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there was a dog who wanted to buy a house there  was a cat who wanted to do you know this or that  
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all right hopefully that makes sense all right  let's just continue here so he bought a car and  
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started to drive to his mother's house all right  now this is an interesting thing here like we're  
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trying to teach uh if I'm teaching my kids about  doing something so we have so he bought a car so  
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we have here's the conclusion of that and started  to drive to his mother's house he started to drive  
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to his mother's house so here maybe you know like  he drove to his house but here we're learning oh  
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we can make this a bit more interesting by talking  about the beginning of an activity he started  
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to drive or I could use the different word he  began to drive you can use both of those in this  
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sentence so so he bought a car and began to drive  to his mother's house pretty simple all right so  
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as we're looking at these things the point is not  to uh just like read through it one time and then  
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okay I I understood the information but did you  eliminate all the doubt would you be able to tell  
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this story yourself uh if you were if someone said  okay like you read it now like tell me the story  
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of what happens and so people might be like well  maybe I can and you don't have to say it exactly  
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but the point is do you remember it well enough  that even uh in your own words you could tell  
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that story again so I will spend time and it I  usually when I'm doing this it's maybe 15 minutes  
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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  
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would actually take me uh some time to to get used  to it especially in Japanese because my Japanese  
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reading is still really slow but you can see here  like it's a pretty simple uh well if you don't  
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speak Japanese but but uh when you're looking at  something like this even if I'm reading it slowly  
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like I might listen to someone else I can read  you a little Japanese here um and I learn uh like  
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the patterns that we have in Japanese just like  we have patterns of speech in English so mukash
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mukash see I can't can't even read
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well so this is the same kind of idea like we just  read with uh the mouth so it's just like mukashi  
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mukashi like a long time ago so the same kind  of thing we start these stories with in English  
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uh like the name of uh you know really any any  kind of book it's like a long time ago or once  
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upon a time you will learn these so so lots of  Japanese stories in the same way they begin with  
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like mukashi mukashi arut so like a long time  ago there was something that whatever so uh  
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again when I'm reading this uh I'm also reading  it out loud so like the other I don't know a few  
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nights ago I read this story to my daughters so  usually I will read to them in English but I read  
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them this book uh in Japanese but it was also a  good practice for me so if I can listen to this  
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I might Listen to As I said other people telling  this same story or reading this book you can hear  
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people read whole books I'm not going to read  through uh any of these books over here uh but  
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I'll show you this uh the cover over here I think  someone was asking about that um the specific book  
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book you read is not so important but it should  be something that you're interested in at least  
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I mean these these stories are actually quite  funny and and they're good and my kids enjoy  
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these uh Arnold Lobel so this is a guy who wrote  a few different books and he illustrates these as  
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well and so he wrote uh like owl at home and frog  and toad our friends that series of books uh he  
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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  
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with his pictures which was really interesting  that came to Nagasaki not that long ago anyway  
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uh so hopefully you get the idea uh we're picking  something that's short so we feel confident that  
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we can understand that thing and that we will  want to review it and reviewing doesn't feel  
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really boring because we're going through and  and kind of picking different things as we read  
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so when we're when we're reading something  we really want to make sure that we're uh  
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we're not boring ourselves so I might find  something and I'm looking like okay how many  
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like can I look for a specific grammar point I'm  interested in or specific words or whatever that  
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particular phrasing might be uh or am I trying  to learn how to connect longer phrases because  
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often I I will hear people complaining about  how uh either they are not able to use longer  
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more complex sentences or they have trouble  understanding natives or other people on movies  
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or TV shows or whatever uh when they are speaking  longer so if someone is speaking continuously for  
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a long time it can be difficult to follow that  information so this kind of training will allow  
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you to do that so these are uh some quite lowlevel  books like even these uh this Japanese uh version  
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of this this is this actually has some some  interesting phrasing in it uh some things and I  
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was able to learn some new vocabulary with this as  well that I was then able to use but also uh when  
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we're looking for things like this it's it's still  going through those graded readers to make sure  
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okay at this level I would feel confident saying  that thing and that's the real test so it doesn't  
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matter if you understand it it's how well do you  understand it so you feel confident about saying  
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something okay hopefully that makes sense uh let  me see if I can find uh oh here all right here's a  
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good one right here uh I will uh I'll read this  another section of this here but we can apply  
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those same rules we did earlier so I'll read you  the full sentence first and then we'll go back and  
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look at it piece by piece now this is also another  thing we do uh INF fluent for life so we actually  
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have a whole lesson set that is about this kind  of thing where um we we look at different pieces  
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of things and try to build up the sentences and  help you understand that all right so he helped  
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his mother pick flowers so this little mouse here  he was uh I'll just tell you the quick story for  
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some background so this mouse was out walking  so see how like I feel fluent that I could tell  
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the story about this this is a story called The  Clouds there is a mouse at the beginning of the  
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story he's very happy he goes out and looks up at  clouds and he sees you know a mouse and a castle  
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and other things in the clouds but then the clouds  start to turn into a cat and he gets very nervous  
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about that oh no and so he runs away from the cat  and then he runs down to his mother and his mother  
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says okay there's nothing to worry about it's just  a cloud and look it's disappearing it doesn't look  
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like a cat anymore so he goes back down and starts  helping his he was on a hill and he goes back down  
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and he just starts helping his mother pick flowers  and he does not look up at the clouds again for  
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the rest of the day all right so that's the that's  the basic story uh and because I'm fluent I could  
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tell the story after reading it a few times  I know what the story is it's pretty easy to  
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understand even if I don't remember the exact  words okay the point is not to remember it to  
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memorize it but to understand what's happening so  they we can take pieces of the story or even tell  
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the whole thing if we wanted to uh but now let's  look at this sentence here so he helped his mother  
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pick flowers but he did not look up at the sky for  the rest of the afternoon all right so this second  
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part of the sentence here but he did not look  up at the sky for the rest of the afternoon he  
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did not uh look up at the sky for the rest of  the afternoon so we're we're we're connecting  
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like two ideas here uh one is the thing he did  or did not do so he did not look up at the sky  
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and then we put this up here for the rest of the  afternoon so if you maybe heard of something like  
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this like uh hopefully now if you didn't know it  before you can say like oh that's an interesting  
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uh like sentence construction here or or just a  language pattern of like the rest of something so  
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if I'm if I have some kind of uh time period like  we have here maybe I uh I start doing something  
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at this point so right now it's uh let's say  3:00 so I started doing something uh at 1:00  
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and then this thing ends at let's say 5:00 and so  if I start doing something from here to here this  
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is the rest the rest of the time so the rest of  the time it's the remainder what's left so there  
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are different ways of expressing this but one way  to say this is the rest of the time so when you  
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read something you should be thinking oh look  at that isn't that interesting here's here's a  
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like just an interesting uh kind of piece of the  language and if you feel confident about using  
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it then you will use that in your conversations  and you will feel more confident and fluent and  
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everything works from you understanding because  you eliminated doubt so we have something like  
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this like the rest of the time or the rest of the  day the rest of the afternoon the rest of this  
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video all right so the remaining part so not the  the the part we already finished the part that's  
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finished it's the remainder the rest of it and  just like we could have the rest of the time we  
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could also have like let's say I have a pie so I'm  eating a delicious piece of pie over here and I  
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have this amount of pie over here left so this is  the piece of pie that I ate and this is the rest  
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of the pie okay so it's the remaining part the  rest of the time the rest of the pie and this is  
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why again it's important to understand these  things and when you see something like that  
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maybe you knew this already but uh if you yes it's  supposed to be I'll draw maybe a better uh picture  
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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  
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delicious uh look at that steaming hot just out  of the oven my piece of pie so if I have I cut  
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my piece of pie out of that and the remaining  part is the rest of the pie the rest of the  
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pie so anytime we have something and we take  a piece out of it so one if we have like two  
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people over here and eight people over here two  people leave well the rest of the people the rest  
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of the people okay so uh it's really important to  understand things like this like within context so  
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we're understanding okay this is uh we're talking  about like the whole story so the mouse began he  
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was looking up at the sky and he was out with his  mother and then for the rest of the afternoon he  
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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  
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up at the sky all right yes people get hungry when  I start talking about pie you want some pie some  
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pie all right so if you're learning a language  where typically people will Begin by where's my  
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blue marker where did that go oh here it is uh  so like often you will have like let's say I'm a  
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Japanese person uh learning or not j a Japanese  person learning English for example so I would  
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begin with like a word like rest if I ask  a Japanese person who knows English even a  
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little bit I would say what does rest mean they  would probably think like yasumu like to uh like  
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to take a break or something like that like they  might know the word like like restroom going to  
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the toilet you know like the restroom you take  a rest like let me let me have a break a rest a  
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a relaxing time or something like that and the  reason they think that is because usually they  
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learn the English word through a translation so if  you're learning English the typical way learning  
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English as a second language then you would think  like oh okay rest means uh like to you know relax  
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or we're going to sit down or do something like  that but here it's a different meaning and and so  
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we're not trying to look at the word itself and  get a translation we're trying to understand how  
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it works in the sentence okay so in this sentence  it's like oh look at that the rest means the the  
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continuation or the like the Japanese translation  of this would be like no like no boom so what the  
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the remaining time or the remaining amount or  the remaining number of something so we we take  
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this when we understand the idea again uh like I  showed you before with the other example in the  
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book about playing with it so we could have the  rest of the people the rest of the book the rest  
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of the time the rest of the book you know what the  rest of the the movie or something uh and then you  
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have something now I've got this pattern that I  can use fluently in conversations okay so again  
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instead of taking something like a novel we take  something short and even you could just take one  
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short story I mean these are only a few pages  uh from a book like this but it's very easy to  
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understand and the point again like I I really  want to make this clear it's not about just  
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understanding something the point is do you  feel confident enough to say that thing in  
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a conversation if you do not then get that review  go back and make sure you really understand it you  
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could you know ask Google or chat GPT or whatever  to just explain what a what a grammar point is  
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like what's happening but for uh books like this  it's much easier to understand because you can see  
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pictures showing what's happening and okay like I  am going to go or I'm going to pick flowers said  
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mother I will stay here and watch the clouds said  the little mouse so you can see what's happening  
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like the mother is leaving and the little mouse  is talking with his mother oh okay I I understand  
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what's happening so I get the general idea I can  understand if someone said it to me but okay I  
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will stay here and watch the clouds could I take  that sentence and could I change it would I feel  
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confident saying this in a conf ation if you have  zero doubt then yes you would be able to do that  
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but if you do have a doubt about something excuse  me uh then I would spend more time looking at that  
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so when when I'm reading through a book if like  like the uh like this Japanese uh book that I'm  
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looking through you know myself the first time I  read it I'm just getting a feel for the language  
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but maybe I would read this I don't know I've  read this like I don't know 50 times or something  
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and each time I'm I'm looking for maybe something  different to focus on for that particular reading  
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so I want to make sure like I get you know maybe  good pronounciation or pronunciation one time so I  
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might uh listen to someone else read the story or  I might listen to two or three other people read  
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the story and that's why it's a really good idea  to uh to make sure I have uh I choose the right  
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content and that content means there are different  versions of that that other people might also know  
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so that's why I pick something pop popular like  The Three Little Pigs or in Japanese there are  
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other like momot or something like that that's  another kind of popular children's story uh but  
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a Japanese story so I can find lots of different  books that would give me that same information  
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even though it's in a slightly different way all  right let me go back and check chat uh I think  
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people are getting it though does this make sense  so the the point is when we're reading something  
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it's not do you understand it it's do you feel  confident about saying that thing and if you  
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if there is any kind of Gap there then spend more  time with the individual words or sentences or  
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whatever that are causing you doubt and then you  solve that doubt you end those doubts and then  
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that will enable you uh enable you to say those  things in a real conversation all right uh let me  
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go through let me know if you have any questions  but I'll go back and check make sure I answered  
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other people here all right looks like we got a  quite a few questions here all right uh Vincent  
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from okay I think I read that one already uh let's  see where did I stop re says Salam Al Alum Alum  
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uh n says guys I'm in the country of people see me  speaking out L with myself uh they would think I'm  
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crazy what about your culture is that all around  the world yes uh I don't know I suppose you could  
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talk to yourself but you don't even have to talk  to yourself to become more fluent you can see like  
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just from looking at this example that I'm showing  you with uh with these books that you get fluent  
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by understanding the language better not just by  repeating stuff to yourself if you can already  
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feel confident saying something then you already  know that thing you become more confident as you  
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introduce new things so you're kind of giving  yourself new challenges or new individual words  
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and phrases that help you understand the language  better that's the point Mike says hi all good  
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night from Colombia so you would say good evening  if it's the evening unless you are leaving the  
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conversation so I think we talked about this last  time uh let's see Carlos says I have good English  
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accent or a good English accent but when it comes  to speak uh in a conversation I struggle because  
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I want to find the right words in the English but  the good is that I don't have to translate in my  
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native language ah yeah so your you're kind of  problem Carlos is that you just need more uh you  
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need more experience with with the content and so  so when you're talking about like people Express  
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this idea of not being able to find the right  words and that's because they're they're usually  
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thinking about one way to say something but when  you look at uh like if we're comparing different  
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books like this there are different ways to tell  the same story so there's not only one version of  
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The Three Little Pigs and there are some people  tell the story where the the wolf gets killed  
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at the end some people tell the story where the  wolf runs away it kind of depends on the the kids  
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or whatever like this one this one here uh the the  the last pig eats the wolf at the end of the story  
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so it's a it's a different a different version  of that and I was explaining that to my uh to my  
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younger daughter I was saying well pigs could  actually eat wolves she was she was surprised  
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to hear about that uh but again you you get that  information as you spend more time when you when  
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you focus on something like that it's the focus  the Strategic review that gets you fluent it's not  
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just trying to sit there and and repeat things to  other people so you you do have to have some kind  
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of active role uh if you're not having someone  else do it for you so INF fluent for life we  
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take you through these steps uh where we help you  eliminate the doubt from things like this uh but  
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this is how you would do it by yourself if you're  trying to do that as well well K says hi TJ Drew  
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Ohio goas nice to see you there and Neo so says  thanks and okay thank you for free lessons yep so  
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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  
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have questions let me know and if you like what  we're doing click the like button and share the  
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videos all right I don't translate in my mind  I think in English when I try to find the right  
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words can you give me some advices to improve  that so based on the the way you're speaking  
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and and like you might have some mistakes like  advices instead of advice which is uncountable  
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um I would spend more time getting input  strategically like I'm showing you in this  
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video so that will make it if you really spend  time with something so me instead of trying to  
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read 10 books I would read this one book 10 times  and then really try to understand it and I would  
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become like oh I now I understand like ah mukashi  mukashi like I would I would know how to structure  
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that sentence in the same way like if I'm if  I'm speaking Japanese and talking about a uh  
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you know something like a long time ago something  something happened like that so I'm spending more  
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time getting review and most people just don't  do that you know for for whatever reason usually  
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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  
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to introduce some kind of variety that makes  it more interesting for you all right T says  
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sir is there any you would say off on way just  speak more slowly in situations often config as  
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high stakes I don't know what I mean are you when  you say high stakes what do you mean by that like  
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are you in a hostage situation like someone is is  holding a gun to your head or something like that  
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usually you can control conversations by either  you speaking more slowly or I would like let's say  
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someone else is speaking faster I might say like  that's an interesting point I'm I'm just kind of  
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stopping the conversation and and and controlling  the conversation in that way just to slow them  
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down uh right Roberto Roberto says what's about  people who do not has good good English well I  
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would start with very simple things that that  little kids watch just do that so if you're if  
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you're watching videos on this channel this is  really for people who already understand English  
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quite well uh but let's see I want these books  yeah you again like you don't you don't need like  
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this book specifically there are lots of good  books like this and you can either find them  
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online or go to the library and get them for free  or whatever let's see it says I bought two books  
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in Great Falls The Mouse and the motorcycle and A  Long Walk to Water I hope it is the right for me  
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you could say I hope it is right for me or they  are right for me and so we have like uh let's  
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see good evening oh from India Little Red Riding  Hood is another example mouse tails yeah uh good  
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evening from Portage Indiana all right I think  you guys are talking with each other over there  
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hello from Chile nice book can't handle the mass  amount of American idioms says Amia hii uh where  
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where you where are you getting all these idioms  so now when you'll notice I don't really use  
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idioms when I'm when I'm teaching these lessons  unless I'm specifically teaching or introducing  
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something like that U but it depends on the  the kind of content you get so I you you have  
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to control that as a learner so if you're trying  to watch something that's too difficult and you  
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feel overwhelmed by that then you probably should  not be learning with that unless you can you can  
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have a uh you know like a teacher who can help  you do that a go say says good method automatic  
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Association good evening greatest teacher well  welcome Leo uh what about Golden Books yeah Golden  
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Books are fine an easy method for training let's  see Unice says hello teacher Drew hello everyone  
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all right I'm going to go quickly through these I  remember that the mouse wanted to visit his mother  
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and that is all that's okay I didn't really tell  the whole story but I I just because this that's  
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probably my I think in this book uh as as my my  favorite story I'll just I'll just tell you this  
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uh this very quickly I won't read the whole thing  uh but so there was a mouse who wanted to visit  
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his mother and I guess he lives very far away so  he buys a car and he drives for a long time but  
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then the car breaks down look at that so the car  falls apart like until the car fell apart look  
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at that I'm learning a very useful phrasal verb  in context here and I can see it like the actual  
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pieces of the car like they fell apart so the car  fell apart and so he got some roller skates and  
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he was skating for a long time until the wheels  fell off another useful phrasal verb right here  
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that you're learning in context you can actually  see it happening like the wheels are falling off  
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because he rode so much and then at the side of  the road he met someone who was selling boots and  
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he walked and walked until the boots wore out  he got big holes in them and then he got some  
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sneakers and ran and then he took the sneakers  off and he walked on his feet and he hurt his feet  
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so bad he actually found someone who was selling  feet by the side of the road so look at that so he  
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bought some new feet and he walked all the rest of  the way to his mother's house and his mother when  
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she saw him she said you are looking fine and what  nice new feet you have so I always I enjoy reading  
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that one to my kids they like that story too but  uh but this is a a it's another uh really good  
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example of naturally varied review because we're  taking basically the same joke or the same story  
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and saying it again in a slightly different way  so he bought some shoes and then he bought this  
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and then he bought that and then he bought that  and then he bought that okay and so as you're  
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reading this like it's it's the naturally varied  review as you go through the book as well so lots  
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of good things in the story to help you feel more  confident and use the language more fluently all  
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right the whole idea is to eliminate doubt not to  sit and like practice saying things to yourself  
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you will not become a more confident speaker  sitting and saying things to yourself because  
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either you know it well already and you feel  confident or you do not that's it all right so if  
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you if you can say something confidently you don't  need to practice that because you already know how  
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to do it you now you need to go learn something  else and increase your uh your active vocabulary  
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the number of things you can use fluently all  right let me see here did I oh I think I got all  
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those all right but hopefully you enjoyed that  the advice you give us is always a spot on and  
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really helpful thank you it's my pleasure yeah so  mukashi uh is old but like mukashi mukashi is like  
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really old so you can see oh that's interesting  in Japanese it's like they they took that like  
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mukashi mukashi or some some people just say  mukashi uh but you will hear both of those  
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in U uh in Japanese stories so again like this  let's see how they introduce it in in this one  
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so this this this version actually doesn't begin  with mukashi mukashi but it's a similar kind of
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sentence so it's just like there were three  brothers you know so there were like three  
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three brother pigs that's it uh and so it doesn't  have to be in the same way but as you're reading  
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those you think oh like these are different  ways of people telling the story just like  
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people speak differently in real conversations  all right now where did we go all right people  
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talking about pi over here let's see mukashi  mukash yes see like a long time ago in a in  
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a land far away all right I'm hungry says cam it  is a very skillful book well the book is you know  
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it's it's just a regular book but if we use the  book in a skillful way then we can use that book  
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to become more fluent JD says hello from bogot  I'm Juan Carlos I was a Warner ing how long you  
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have lived in Japan and if you're ready to speak  Japanese fluently yes uh I've been in Japan for 20  
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years on and off so not continuously but I guess  maybe how many years now 16 17 years uh and yes  
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I speak Japanese fluently but basically what that  means is that like I can have good conversations  
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and talk with all different kinds of people but  there's still many things I don't know just like  
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there are many things in English I don't know all  right Muhammad says I'm watching from koala lur  
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Malaysia fabios is nice method and I'm not going  to try to pronounce it I'm going to pronounce it  
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badly I'm sure when you learn Japanese a new  word do you write down its meaning in your  
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own language English or explaining in Japanese  uh usually I don't I don't use any English to  
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learn it unless it's I don't know unless it was  like really difficult or something but in that  
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case I really want to understand things within  English or excuse me within Japanese if I can uh  
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and writing the word down is helpful but if I if I  can connect with it and eliminate the doubt then I  
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usually don't need to do that uh so hopefully  like the example I gave you before about what  
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the word rest means so it could mean you sitting  down or going to the toilet or like that kind of  
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rest but it also can mean the remainder of time  so when I'm when I'm learning new words like  
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like another uh word I learned recently was like  like down payment on a house so that's like uh a  
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uh and and like atama is like the head and I  was thinking oh isn't that interesting here's  
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another use of that same word and I understood  it within the context so I didn't need to write  
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it down so just like at the start of the month we  can call that the head of the month in Japanese  
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and so when I when I'm getting these examples I'm  basically building a network in my mind that helps  
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me understand the vocabulary so I don't need to  write them down it's nice if I do but I mean often  
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I I I don't need to do that often I will I will  try to write something if it's a sentence pattern  
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that I would like to understand and I and I want  to give myself different examples of it so I might  
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say that to myself or I will actually write down  different examples and and really that's for me  
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just getting practice with writing and reading in  Japanese because that's a different skill and it's  
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a different alphabet so if you are for example a  Spanish speaker you already know all the letters  
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in English even though the the pronunciation  might be a little bit different so you wouldn't  
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really need to write that down but for me like I  actually should practice writing the characters  
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and things like that just to get faster at doing  it uh Leo says for me Brazilian it is a much more  
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easy you would say much easier because AR rest of  the same word Resto in Portuguese yes and so you  
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have other things like that like if you have Resto  I don't know if that means uh remainder for you  
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or if it just means relaxing uh but you can see  why it's important to learn the language in the  
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language so I'm not trying to translate anything I  really want to understand it very well within the  
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language all right Tom again mouse Fabio let's see  and leelu good morning from Thailand and can can  
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great Sammy says Hi everyone from Yemen Muhammad  Ali restroom mean we have another Furniture in  
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room we need to take from in room outside house  well the English word restroom it usually just  
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means toilet because people don't want to say  toilet just like in Japanese like you could say  
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toilet or you could say like like handwashing like  washing place so that's called a euphemism it's a  
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way of saying something without saying that thing  all right times of lots of messages above yes  
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Christian says I am new here greetings all from  El Salvador advice is uncountable yes uh and if  
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you think about it like you can't you can't really  count advice you just like you can't count water  
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but you could count one piece of advice or word  of advice or a you know a like some some advice  
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you could you could you could count that so I  think I made a a video before about uh talking  
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about the like the container that something is  in so this water the water itself is uncountable  
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but if I I could take that water and put it into  different containers like I could have uh a drop  
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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  
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all right so the water itself is uncountable and  instead of having water I could have air or pasta  
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or advice I could have like a drop of advice or  a cup of advice same kind of thing okay uh let's
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see okay look at that all right yber says I from  Colombia Bridget hello T Drew I am following  
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your advice on staying on one subject until I  get the understanding it is working thank you  
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yes look at that people listening and achieving  very good very good jungle boy says thanks a  
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lot Drew by the way which is better for learning  English physical or ebooks uh it does it depends  
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on you as a person I like having physical books  maybe that's just because I'm getting older or  
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something but I like a physical book uh it helps  me remember like where maybe where a page is in  
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a book or I can uh write something down easily  I can feel the words it's just a different kind  
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of thing than uh than having a digital version but  it depends on you some people like I don't I don't  
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like e-readers I don't like reading on a screen  really I can do it on a phone for a little bit  
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but I would not want to read a digital Book on a  phone like that uh but it depends on you let's see  
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an experience hair specialist that's a great name  uh this is my first time being live with you well  
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welcome Muhammad Ali says I can understand English  language but can't speak English what can I do uh  
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the point is that you understand well enough  to recognize things but you don't understand  
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well enough because you still have doubts about  the language that's it so until you solve those  
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doubts you will still have trouble speaking so if  you if if you uh like I've shown you one way to  
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do that using books and a specific kind of book  a specific kind of practice like systematic uh  
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like systematic reading where we're we're really  trying to focus on something and really understand  
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it well to eliminate any doubt we have that's  the whole goal and so if I have no doubt about  
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whatever I want to say then I will speak fluently  like right now I have no doubt about what I'm  
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saying so I have no trouble speaking but often  Learners like they could understand me but they  
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can't speak as well as I do because they still  have doubts about various you know some phrases  
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or some grammar or whatever the the thing is so if  you want to eliminate the doubt then focus on that  
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particular thing and really understand it well  I've just I've shown you one way to do that with  
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books but uh other videos I have we uh show you  different ways to do this and you know you it's  
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it is possible to do this by yourself it just  takes a lot more time and it's more frustrating  
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because the the amount of time you spend trying  to figure something out you waste a lot of time  
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with that that's the that's the biggest kind  of time wasting part of learning a language  
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so what I discovered as I got fluent was the  actual fluency develops in those specific moments  
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where you understand something better the rest  of the time is just like finding information or  
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organizing information or asking people questions  other things like that so most of the time is  
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wasted so if you have someone who can just tell  you what everything is you can understand it very  
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quickly you eliminate the doubt and you feel more  confident about speaking okay so you can do it  
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yourself it just wastes a lot of time uh but yes  there are different ways to do that and I would  
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recommend just watching the other videos we have  on the channel and I show you different ways to do  
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that uh let's see all right Richard says thank  you for sharing ever since I learned from your  
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channel I can rest assure that I will be able to  speak fluently as soon as possible yeah so you  
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focus on particular things you get fluent in those  things and then you move on to the next thing and  
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that's how it works so that's all I'm doing in  Japanese like I just f focus on this one book  
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for a little bit and I learn a lot and I become  more fluent and I can use things like like uh  
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like he it's like to start a fire and then I could  use that like in a different situation and talk  
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about starting a fire somewhere else and so when  I understand that it's like oh okay I understand  
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what that means I feel confident there's no doubt  now I can use that in my conversations and that's  
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exactly what happens uh so here's here's a perfect  example of that so I was uh I was reading so at  
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this at this point in the story and I mean I knew  I knew this like this uh this grammar already uh  
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or this just like a verb so right now the the the  pig is putting the uh the well the wolf anyway let  
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me tell you the rest of the story so the wolf is  up here and he goes down the chimney if you don't  
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if you don't know what this is this is called a  chimney a chimney and so this is where the smoke  
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from the fire comes up out of a house and the and  the W goes down and so the wolf is very quickly  
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he's going to light a fire so I understand you  know what this means in Japanese I understand the  
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situation and it's like oh look at that so this is  the actual Japanese here you get a Kani character  
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he osima so he he lit a fire this would be the  past tense of that and so uh like just like I knew  
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what that was already but I hear this uh again in  the book and then I don't know I think like 2 days  
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later after I was reading this my mother-in-law  she had a uh like a paper towel roll or something  
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like that and she was um and this is like a common  thing in Japan like little massage kind of little  
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massage tools people buy these a lot and you know  people you will see Japanese people like with like  
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little little stuff like this and they're just  like like giving themselves massages or like  
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rubbing the tops of their heads or something  like that and so she was uh she was taking this  
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and like rubbing the like the inside of her foot  you know kind of like a like a pressure point for  
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a massage thing and I was like be careful you're  going to start a fire I was like Kil get to heal  
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course and she started laughing about that and so  I took the the Japanese I had learned in context  
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and was able to use it in a funny way in that  situation and she thought that was funny and  
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my wife thought that was funny too so here we are  like when I understand something you feel oh like  
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I get it the doubt disappears I can understand  something I feel confident about saying it then I  
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speak all right that's the biggest advice again  like I call this the strangest fluency secret  
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because everybody thinks you're supposed to speak  before you start you know like like before you  
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become fluent like speech is the way you become  fluent but it's actually the opposite speech is  
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the result of understanding the language well all  right so you don't need to spend a lot of time  
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trying to speak with people to get fluent you just  need to understand the language better all right  
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all right C got that I think anyway so like my you  know she's always using like a little like a you  
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know some kind of massage tool or something and  like you know something like that especially like  
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older Japanese people do that a lot um but I don't  maybe it's a good idea I should start doing that  
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as well uh but anyway I I just thought that was  very funny because I'm I'm able to take something  
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I understand it well so I can use it fluently  that's how it works okay so before like and I had  
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like learned that word before but uh it kind of It  kind of finally made sense to me I could feel that  
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trigger uh like the switch in my brain flipping  because I understood it well it's like oh look  
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at that like he kosim like the the the pig lit of  fire and like I understood what he was doing and  
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then I could take that same thing and like you  know my mother-in-law is doing this on her foot  
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and I was like be careful you're going to start a  fire over there and she you know so I was able to  
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take something understand it and use it fluently  all right so the fluency actually develops as you  
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understand the language better all right mud says  hi I just moved to the US and my main problem is  
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listening I have no idea how I can deal with  native speakers then you need to you need to  
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focus on particular things just like we're doing  with this book so I need to remind myself if I'm  
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uh focusing on something like this if there's  something else outside of this book that I don't  
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understand it's okay my only job right now is to  focus on this one thing and make sure I understand  
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understand that that is the world I can control  okay so you will find lots of things I might go  
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watch a movie or hear somebody speaking some  Japanese and not understand what they say  
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that's okay like I you know he would maybe go  through that same process to try to understand  
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them better but there will be lots of times I'll  hear some Japanese and not know what it is just  
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like I might hear some English and not know what  people are talking about like if it's I don't know  
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some subject I don't know much about but uh if I  focus on something that that is the thing for me  
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to work on and I I don't need to worry about  everything else that I have trouble with so  
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even if you can't understand everybody just work  on on solving the problem one piece at a time uh  
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let's see I'm frustrated with learning English  study for 24 years and nothing nothing nothing  
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well you probably have a pretty good understanding  but you've developed a large passive vocabulary so  
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you can understand some things but the way you're  learning is probably still like everybody learns  
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in school it's basically learning uh English  as a second language instead of understanding  
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the language directly so I'm giving you examples  of that and in today's video we're just talking  
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about uh how to do this with books all right where  did we go here let's Louis say welcome is welcome  
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I got you all right Persona says hi Drew how are  you nice to see you on live uh I have been waiting  
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for a long time waiting for long time you to come  you could see I have been waiting for a long time  
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I am happy to see you here and Manuel from Brazil  all right let's see my I just oh I got answer that  
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one already let's see you says you can throw a  like here and make a wish to improve your you'll  
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improve it for sure I promise very good Yes  actually that's a great idea you know there's  
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another story uh in Mouse Tales called the wishing  well and this is a this is a story about a mouse  
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who uh tries to put money into a wishing well and  the wishing well says ouch it's actually painful  
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for the well and so the mouse has to think of a  solution to that problem so speaking of wishes  
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speaking of wishes uh let's see in English AOS is  a let's see how can I learn spoken English through  
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well just like I showed you in this video or like  I showed you in in all my videos the whole point  
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is to understand the language without a doubt and  most people do not they understand the language a  
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little bit so they can hear it and maybe recognize  some things but they stop there so they're always  
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trying to learn new information but not really  become fluent in the information they already  
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know so if you know a lot of English but you can't  speak fluently stop learning new information focus  
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on the stuff you already know and make sure you  understand it really well uh uh let's see and  
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lwis says okay with a kind of sad face B well the  point is not to just like study more it's not like  
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go study it's like the point is to understand the  language well just why you you should watch more  
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of my videos where I talk about this you will hear  me explain this same idea in many different ways  
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today we're just talking about it with reading  specifically all right uh Leo says much easier  
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and don't uh much more easy let's see I wrote  wrong before thank you for correct you would  
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say thank you for correcting me Bobby says Drew  send to my Kindle please well I don't go go get  
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it yourself go to Amazon and and put it on your  Kindle all right H says I don't get why the word  
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vocal is countable like her vocals are excellent  uh people often say so just hearing a single song  
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she sings well they're talking about like the way  the way she sings the vocals so it could be like I  
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don't know I mean even like if you're if you want  to be technical about that maybe they're talking  
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about I don't know stereo channels or whatever but  like we wouldn't say like her vocal it's it's just  
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in general like when we're talking about um uh  sounds like that but that's it's an interesting  
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thing maybe it'll be easier to remember that way  let's see Tom says Lewis uh let's read some mouse  
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books there you uh let's see I teacher thanks  for what you do greetings from columia glad  
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here Gabrielle says hello Drew is it possible to  speak like a native sure all right the only like  
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nobody is born native I had to become a native  just like anybody else could become a native too  
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so if I could learn if I could listen to a bunch  of Japanese people read these stories like if I  
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hear some Japanese people read this book then  I'm going to start sounding more like a native  
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okay all right well it looks like we're getting  to the end over here 71 minutes all right and th  
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coins I don't know what those referring to hello  and duck Oz is auna sp when you're learning in  
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the wrong way so you could just say learning  the wrong way also uh Tom Leo ala don't know  
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that advice yes well now you know there you go  and the English is back since I started watching  
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your videos my English got to the next level thank  you so much Drew glad to hear it if you know other  
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people we can help then send them to the channel  say hey come get the get these videos this guy  
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will take your English communication skills to  the next level and the way we do that I like to  
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actually explain how this works is eliminating the  doubt that you have about the language that's how  
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it works it's pretty easy all right leou says  what do you recommend me or you what do you  
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recommend for remembering new words um you should  search my channel for that but we actually have a  
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program called how to remember any English word  and that's with uh fluent for Life members get  
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that uh and you can also add that if you're in  the native fluency blueprint let's see hi sir how  
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can I improve my English uh just watch my videos  that's how you do it so my I try to make this this  
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idea very simple and I repeat the same idea again  and again but you'll notice I do this in different  
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ways so I'm also giving you different vocabulary  as we go uh through like you know the different  
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things like maybe we talk about the word rest in  this video but I talk about different words or use  
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uh other vocabulary in other videos but the basic  idea is that when you're learning something and I  
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think this answers uh let's see Moo's uh question  what is the way to learning English it's just all  
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you have to do is solve the particular doubt you  have for for learning the language uh I I'll give  
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this like a very quick review I haven't done  this in a while uh but you seem very passionate  
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especially if you have been struggling for a long  time to solve this problem for yourself now what  
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happens in the brain when we're learning we're  unable to speak about something until we actually  
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get that thing until we feel confident that we  will say something correctly so most people they  
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will feel nervous about using a word or a grammar  point or saying anything if they don't think they  
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will say it correctly because people don't like  making mistakes in front of other people you know  
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that's uh kind of an obvious thing so just to  give you a uh let's see like a quick let me see  
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see here I'm going to draw my usual little flash  card flash card let me see here okay one two three  
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so I'll give you some flash cards I'm going to  give you a word in an alien language and this word  
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is uh uh atis this is an alien language word this  is not an English word but it will prove a point  
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about how we learn languages so I'm teaching you  a word called tis and now I'm going to give you  
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some examples of what that word means and show  you why uh typically when people are if we're  
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back post the comment if you can see this live or  not I think we are all right I think we're back I  
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don't know why that was that was weird anyway uh  so I show you this and the word is TI tis what  
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does that mean what do you think tis means all  right Anette is there that was weird all right you  
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were back all right sorry to scare people let's  continue this all right so hopefully I I really  
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want to make the point about how people learn  languages and usually what happens is because  
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it's difficult to just understand something with  one example people usually just get a translation  
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of whatever that thing is so this is not an  English word I'm just telling you I'm using  
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like a madeup word like tis what do you think that  means anybody just post in the comment what do you  
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think it means all right Anette says I anyone else  what do you think tis means in this alien language  
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I I don't know what happened like my internet just  cut out for a second which was really weird but  
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but I think we're I think we're okay I guess it  looks like it's still cuz it's still showing me  
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live and it's still uh transmitting over here but  that's weird maybe cuz I walk to the other side  
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of the screen I don't know anyway uh so anybody  else we are okay go ahead post your comment let  
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me know what you think this means TI all right let  me get a drink of water while this is loading over
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here no one else so Muno says what is  TI well I'm asking you I'm teaching  
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you a word right now what do you think it  means so cam says I another person says I I
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lash all right so maybe maybe I could just tell  you what it means but usually what happens or it  
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means look good idea could mean look uh let's  see kich is Marcelo con with the W on the end  
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open could mean open all right let me give you  another one to stare well that's interesting  
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stare that fit in there stare all right so  you don't really know for sure I'm just giving  
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you a word and and this could happen in real  life anytime where you hear a word and maybe  
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you think you have a good idea of what it means  but maybe not all right let me give you another
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example all right now what do you  think tis means tis TI what does tis
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mean so tis means eye and it means mouth you think  
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is this is this mean are these like the  same thing is that what tis means you
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think oh look at that Tom
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part of the body senses  that's another good [Music]
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one tis tis tis
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tis t
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t t
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t all right so as you get more examples of  the same thing you're thinking well I mean  
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like it could be the senses I give  you even more examples like here's a
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tis as I continue to give you more examples  it's those examples that clear up the doubt  
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that you have about whatever some word  means and in this case TI means body
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part okay so uh the idea for language  learning is that you want to eliminate  
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the doubt as quickly as possible and you do that  by getting lots of varied examples to help you  
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understand something okay and so this works  not just with language learning but like for  
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anything in life so i' I've told this story before  about how I was at a cafe and I saw a guy looking  
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at a like a tablet so he looking at his screen and  he was wiping or kind of waving his hand in front  
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of the tablet like that and uh I said oh like is  that uh is that like a fly or something like I was  
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I was saying that to myself or or like you know I  had no idea what he was doing but I thought maybe  
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it was like a motion control for the tablet so  I said oh wow that's really cool like he can he  
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can do a motion control on his tablet without  touching the screen and then I was I continued  
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to watch him and I saw finally like oh he's  not uh he's not using motion controls it just  
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there's just a fly buzzing around the screen he's  trying to wave the fly away like that and so and  
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that was like I'm getting more examples of seeing  something and then when I finally understand the  
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the real thing and the the real thing is the the  fly flying around the screen and then that guy  
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left and now the fly was flying around me at that  point in the story but anyway the point is I'm  
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seeing uh as I get more information I feel more  confident that I understand something all right  
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so the first time you hear something like you  hear a word and then you see something or maybe  
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you make a connection but you don't really know  for sure and that's that's going to stop you from  
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saying something so you might say the word but  you've said it incorrectly like I might say oh  
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like tis and then like uh like I also think like  I point to some other thing that I think is an  
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I also but like that the word I is not TS it's a  different word all right but all of these together  
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like it just means a body part all right and so  as you're learning a language what most people do  
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is they just get one example and a translation  of something so they don't really understand  
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that thing very well in English or whatever word  they're learning so when I'm learning Japanese  
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I don't want to get just one example and try to  translate something I want to hear many different  
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examples to really understand what something  means and when I really understand it when I  
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understand something completely that means that I  have no doubt about using something okay so that  
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that's the basic idea of uh how we get fluent in a  language and this works with uh with everything so  
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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  
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get the idea that's why as a teacher I need to  give many different examples to really help you  
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understand something well all right and even my  my drawings are not very good but you know if I'm  
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if this were like a real lesson I would probably  have some better pictures of of you know whatever  
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the thing is I'm trying to teach like I do in  Frederick so we actually have good drawings in  
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Frederick all right so that's the app that will  teach you things like this and we actually do  
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this in Frederick so when you're playing Frederick  if you learn a new word you can actually scroll  
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through different images that show you what  the word means because if we just give you  
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one image it's more difficult to understand okay  so the whole language learning process works in  
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this way it works this way not just for language  learning but for any kind of learning the point is  
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to eliminate doubt that's it and so when you feel  no doubt the like oh okay I really understand tis  
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means body part I will feel very confident saying  that all right let's see here all right we'll go  
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through last questions here but I think that makes  makes sense for people I think everybody got that  
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though uh let's see all right so uh mono hopefully  you understand now the way to learn English is  
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to eliminate doubt is quickly as possible that's  how I do it so as I explain to people the fastest  
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way to become a fluent speaker is to eliminate  the doubts that stop you from speaking that's  
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it all right so I'm trying for many many many  ways but it's typically all the same kinds of  
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ways that don't eliminate doubt and that's why  people struggle to speak even if they learn for  
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a long time or continue to study they still have  doubts that stop them from speaking that's just  
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that's the that's the basic reason uh so you don't  need to find other people people to speak with you  
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just need to eliminate the doubt I'm marelo I've  been learning English since 2013 and nowadays I'm  
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able to understand people and to be understood  clearly you helped me a lot thanks glad to hear  
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it click that like button and share the video all  right uh Tom Leo Drew is an amazing teacher yes  
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I'm just trying to eliminate doubt that's all I'm  doing here English my battery is running down and  
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I think I'll rewatch live in the morning that's  all right TI a new word yes no Tom don't remember  
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this is not an English word all right Denny says  I love this topic then you would probably enjoy uh  
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Frederick a lot it's kind of like a game like this  all right uh yes Anette says you are back okay  
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like that was weird let's see I agree let's see I  open all right you guys are getting it everybody  
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understands and duck off says if you're wondering  how to improve your English well as long as you're  
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watching this live you already got your answer  yes all right but it's interesting the the differ  
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uh the different meanings that you thought the  word meant like does tis mean eye or does it mean  
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mouth or or a sense or a body part something like  that there there lots of things that it could mean  
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and that's what the brain is trying to do it's  trying to connect the meaning of something with  
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the the word itself and like what what does  something mean and if we don't really know  
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what something means then we have doubt and and  humans don't do very good or don't do very well  
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with doubt so if we feel doubt about something  we usually don't act and that means we also don't  
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speak all right so eliminate the doubt and this is  something you can easily do by yourself all right  
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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  
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take your leave that's fine uh this has been very  informative glad to hear it let's see English is  
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the S ears okay you guys are some members of the  body organs all right everybody got it let's see
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so okay well we'll see you again I thought  it was tissue yes so this is not I'm just  
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trying to think of a you know like an alien  word that is not a word in English so Anette  
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likes my drawing all right let's see uh but  everybody I think uh everybody got it all  
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right uh I only have one right arm and you ah  well I have I have two I mean I have two arms  
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I only have one right arm I guess but but uh  and by the way Frederick is much better than  
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dual lingo guys you should try it well thank  you very much Tom you are our uh our manager  
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for I think you can you can join our other  manager you're you're the the app manager so  
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go ahead and recommend it look at it uh let's see  how many hours we need to study English every day  
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uh I don't know five minutes 15 minutes however  much time you can spend but the point is your  
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time should be spent in the actual learning the  actual learning learning time so if you are not  
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if you are trying to teach yourself how to get  fluent you will spend a lot of your time just  
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finding information and trying to understand  what it means okay so if you have like uh like  
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an hour of something in your day and you need  to learn something and you're trying to teach  
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yourself there will be like a lot of time is  spent just like finding information or maybe  
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you don't quite understand it so you have  to spend time looking things up and addtion  
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AR or whatever uh and then like maybe you  understand something there's a moment of  
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understanding where you feel okay I understand  something I feel more confident and then you  
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go back to like searching you know looking for  more stuff and then maybe you get another moment  
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of understanding here all right so the benefit of  having someone teach you is we eliminate all this  
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stuff and just give you these moments so if you  have only five minutes in your day and you can  
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just get those moments then you will get fluent  faster all right so you don't need to spend the  
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amount of time you spend is not important it's how  quickly do you get the actual moments of learning  
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where you understand something better so if you  can eliminate the doubt that's what helps you
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speak uh let's see English says your amazing  teaching strategies are the best in the whole  
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world Barone well glad to hear it remember  you would say your like uh let's see your  
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amazing teaching strategies are the best in the  whole world oh you did that I'm I'm reading that  
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incorrectly yes you said that correctly uh  Elder says sup Drew nice to hear you this  
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morning welcome uh tuckier says sir is there any  video tutorial on how to use the Frederick app  
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uh you can search our YouTube channel for that  and Leonardo is back knowledge all right uh yes  
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so uh tar if you search our YouTube channel for  Frederick it shows you how to do it but basically  
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you just play with the app and and the point of  it is to actually discover how to use it yourself  
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so I'm still trying to think what's the best way  to to organize the information in the app but if  
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you're looking for a video that shows you how to  do it then uh search our YouTube channel uh let's  
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see and Zeo says hello my teacher I am following  you would say I'm following you from Egypt your  
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video about efl and ESL was incredible I'mma start  this technique as soon as possible well welcome to  
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the party over here and look at that LS with some  uh nice uh Spanish uh emojis over there I like  
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that heart one after having dinner I spent the  rest of the day learning English very good you  
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use that correctly to spend the rest of the time  or you could spend the rest of your money or the  
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rest of your time or something like that the rest  very good T I got eight out of 10 in the first  
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lesson but was unable to progress beyond that  thank you teacher you are answering all of my  
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questions thank you do you understand hopefully  let me know if there's anything unclear about  
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this because many people learn for many many  years and they still can't speak because the  
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typical ways that people learn they only give you  part of the lesson they don't give you complete  
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understanding which is why people struggle to  speak all right so let me know I I really want  
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to make sure you understand this because if  you understand this whether you learn with me  
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or not this is what you should be doing and so I  just make it easier I'm basically like enabling  
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people to learn much faster because I did all  the hard work of organizing things and making  
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it easy to understand all R said says Hey sir I'm  understanding what you're teaching in your videos  
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but during speaking I'm getting stuck because  of pronunciation of words get Frederick click  
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on the link in the description below this  video and get Frederick it will teach you  
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how to do that all right yes Tom knows what I'm  talking about Marcelo the secret for me was when  
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I stopped questioning the rules and comparing to  Portuguese I just accepted the language the way it  
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is and I learned to fast yes so if you like part  of that is like like kids they just kind of accept  
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uh the language and Z says how can I improve my  f phonetics without learn A and E is well like  
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there there is no way to understand phonics  without actually looking at words so I don't  
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know how you would do that but we make it very  easy in Frederick so if you click on the link  
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in the description below this video get the app  and it will show you how to do that but it will  
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make it fun as you learn because the point is to  discover how the language Works rather than just  
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have a teacher like telling you stuff so you get  to figure it out yourself and when you do that you  
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explore you feel a lot more excited because you  discovered something rather than a teacher telling  
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you what something means all right hopefully that  makes sense uh just a a very quick recap at the  
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end of this video when you're trying to learn  uh a language and like you guys are trying to  
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learn English or I'm trying to learn Japanese the  point is to focus on something strategically so  
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that we can learn it and really understand it to  eliminate any doubt we have about that thing so  
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we're not trying to learn a lot of information  quickly we're trying to really take time uh as  
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quickly as I can to um to make sure like that we  understand something very well all right so it's  
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not about trying to like uh like like learn as  many words as quickly as possible I would rather  
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know one word really well that I very that I  I feel no doubt at all about using that so if  
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you can do that then you you've shown yourself how  to how to get fluent uent all right so if you can  
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get fluent in one word then you can get fluent in  as many words as you like all right so that's the  
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focus that's the secret the strangest fluency  secret again and it's strange because people  
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think they need to speak to get fluent when the  truth is you really need to eliminate the doubt  
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that's already stopping you from speaking so  if you want to speak but you don't feel able  
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to because you feel doubt then eliminate the doubt  don't worry about finding people to practice with  
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just solve the actual problem that's stopping  you from speaking and then you will speak if  
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you'd like me to do this for you you can click on  the link in the description to learn more about  
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fluent for Life uh and Frederick as well which  I've talked about in this video but uh everything  
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I do in these videos is really explaining how  to get fluent and showing you examples of that  
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and then if you'd like help uh you can either  do it yourself or you can do it with me and  
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get fluent a lot faster so click on the links  and I will see you in the next video bye-bye
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