Have trouble speaking English fluently? STOP learning more words!

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okay I think we're live hello out there I'm Drew  Badger the founder of englishanyone.com and the  

English fluency guide and in this video we're  going to talk about what you should be doing  

if you are learning more words but not becoming  a more fluent speaker this is something I talk  

about quite frequently because people need  reminders about it let's see how we're doing

though the reason I wanted to make this video is  because I often get questions from Learners where  

they're asking me what Learners or what words they  should learn let me read this town so what words

what words should I learn

speak fluently

so that's question one I often get  asked this so what words should I  

learn to get fluent or to speak fluently  and a related question is how many words

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quickly with my doctor Dr writing over here so  first question is what words should I learn to  

speak fluently and number two is how many words  do I need to speak fluently so what words and  

how many all right so just to get this started  I want to answer both of these questions very  

quickly and tell you what to do instead because  both of these questions don't really help you get  

fluent and they're not really getting to the heart  getting to the the core of actually how you become  

a fluent speaker in a second language and so when  you're talking about what words should I learn it  

actually doesn't matter what words you learn  because you get fluent word by word or phrase  

by phrase as you learn more about that particular  vocabulary and I'll explain more about that in a  

moment uh and then the second thing is how many  words do I need to speak fluently and the answer  

to that is one so if you if you remember that like  you don't really get fluent in in a language you  

get fluent in pieces of that language so even  me as a native English speaker there are many  

English words that I don't know there are many  English topics that I can't speak fluently about  

because I don't know the vocabulary so I couldn't  get into a I don't know like advanced math class  

and uh talk about I don't know String Theory  or you know a lot of other things that again  

I just don't know the vocabulary for that so  for answering these things instead of looking  

for specific words and the things you should be  looking for are the ones that are most important  

for your life specifically so there are obviously  some common words that you probably know already  

but the things that you're needing most for your  life it really depends on what your life is so  

you have to think about that rather than you  know asking someone what word words you should  

learn it's like if you're a doctor then you should  probably learn that medical vocabulary and what to  

talk about with patients that kind of thing so  it's the same thing with me even throughout my  

life learning Japanese for the past I don't know  however many years it's been like 20 years almost  

I think so for me learning I learn the vocabulary  I need when I need it so it's like just in time  

learning so when my wife is having a baby I learn  about the vocabulary for having babies that kind  

of thing so I don't spend a lot of time studying  things in anticipation of that it's just What's  

the vocabulary I need to know and so in this  video I'd like to talk about what you should  

be doing if you're not getting more fluent so  if you continue to learn more words because you  

think you need to know more words to get fluent  or if you keep looking for like a certain word  

like maybe you don't know some words and that's  why you can't speak neither of these are real  

problems that people have so they think they have  these problems but these are not the real problems  

people have let me see if chat is working right  here post something I think uh yeah just let me  

know where you are where you're from want to  make sure chat is working I had to reinstall  

YouTube on like just the YouTube app because  it takes up a whole bunch of space on my phone  

I don't know why it does that doesn't allow  you to clear all that maybe I couldn't figure  

out how to do that but anyway hopefully chat  is working uh and it looks like I might have  

the opportunity to allow other people on the  video with me the way Instagram does so I may  

do that as well but post something in the chat  let me see if I can actually post something here  

Chad is working uh let's see so where is so it  should be I think the live chat should be working  

yeah post something let me know if you have any  questions about this but this is especially if  

you've been learning English for a long time if  you continue to learn more words but you're not  

speaking more fluently that's what we're going  to talk about in this video so remember just  

to start the video with this what words should  you learn to speak fluently really it depends  

on the words that you need for your life whatever  those are think about the particular situations  

you need to speak in and also really both of  these questions it's about getting fluent word  

by word so you don't become fluent by having a  lot of words in your vocabulary you get fluent  

by how well you know that vocabulary and you get  fluent word by word as you learn more things so  

I'll demonstrate that in this video all right  so another reason I wanted to make this video  

is my older daughter Arya just started learning  uh karate so she's now taking karate lessons  

and it's fun as we we pronounce it like karate  at home and like karate like the way you know  

Japanese people would say but we say like karate  at home also and so one thing I noticed when  

she's she's just started karate and she has a  few different like other kids in the class as  

well some of them are just beginning like she is  and others our older kids who have been doing it  

for a while so it's a little bit more difficult  for the teachers to to try to help all of these  

different kids at different levels but one thing I  keep reminding Arya is that like you should focus  

on one thing at a time until you really understand  that until you can really do it well and then try  

to do something else so maybe I'm reading a book  and she comes to me and she says Dad I want to  

like practice kicking or something like that and  I say oh well uh why do you want to do that we  

really should practice like how you're standing  because you're still not standing very well so I  

said okay stand up in front of me uh just how you  would be standing in a normal you know like you're  

about to do something like punch somebody and then  I try to push her over and I say look like because  

of the way you're standing it's very easy to knock  you down all right so we have to practice the like  

the actual footwork the position how you're  standing I can't really show you here but the  

basic athletic stance where you've got your legs a  little bit wide and you're squatting down a little  

bit so I say watch the the like the coaches the  the actual teachers in the class and watch what  

they do and even if they're they're telling you  to do many things try to focus on one thing and  

really do that well all right now the reason I  wanted to share that story is because this is  

really the thing that a lot of English Learners  are trying to do so they don't actually have a  

good foundation of the vocabulary already so the  words they already know but they're still trying  

to add more vocabulary on top of that all right  so it's kind of like it's like making a building  

uh but like the foundation is very weak I think  I talked about this in the previous video but  

you continue to build more things like on top  of it and after a while like the the building  

is not strong enough to hold like these higher  level vocabulary words all right so you want  

to use something more difficult or you're in a  conversation and you're you're uh struggling to  

remember what I want to say so I just use basic  vocabulary this is the problem down here it's the  

foundation itself that won't let you build up  something higher all right now hopefully Chad  

is working there must be something wrong with  chat because I'm not able to let's see oh man  

messages are visible let's see and I don't know  if I can go in and do anything with that or not  

I don't know we'll see uh but anyway so the  basic Point here is that if you're if you're  

trying to add more words and this is the natural  thing people want to do because they think they  

think they need to know more words in order  to speak fluently when really the truth is  

they need to have a better relationship with  the words they already know all right so they  

do they know those words well or not so the last  thing a little bit of advice I'll give you about  

this is if you are in a hole so imagine this  is a hole down here and you are standing in  

it so this is a common English expression you  might have something like this in your native  

language as well but if you see if you can fit  that on here if you are in a hole stop digging

if you were in a hole stop digging all right so  often people will kind of put themselves in a like  

a position oh no I here's my shovel and I continue  to dig myself deeper and deeper into this hole  

all right and this is what happens when you  continue to learn more words but you're not  

becoming a more confident speaker so at  some point you should be thinking wait a  

minute maybe I should stop learning more  words and do something different instead  

all right so if this is you stop digging I  know it's a natural thing to want to learn  

more words you see lots of videos on YouTube that  are going to teach you lots of words even though  

you probably don't remember them when you finish  the videos but this is the basic problem here so  

you have to stop learning these things stop trying  to learn more words and take all the words that  

you have and become fluent in that vocabulary  first all right so here's a quick test and now  

since chat I don't know if Chad is working or  not this is really weird or maybe just no one  

has any questions and I'm not able to post  anything either as well let's see how do I  

had a while let's see live chat and I don't  know how to post anything which is weird  

and I can't I can't post anything either I don't  know that's weird anyway all right well that's we  

I wonder how that's I wonder if that's happening  on YouTube as well this is going to be weird I'm  

going to go to the actual live video and see if  there's anything I'm not not seeing on the channel

that'll teach me to to try to do something new

now let's see how we're doing live right now

this might be a little bit weird oh look  all right well there is a there is a chat  

this is weird now I'm going to have to look  at like the chat on my here we go all right  

so there is a chat no I don't why can't I get  that on my phone that's really weird all right  

anyway sorry about that I might just have to  look over here so if you see me looking down  

and I'm looking down I'm seeing myself as I look  down this is crazy all right all right so there is  

a there is a chat working and I'm going to see if  I can use that uh hopefully we'll put this up here

and let's see what we can do  with this how can I do this uh

okay all right so that's maybe maybe kind of going  to work over here if I if I can not look at myself  

that's going to be a little bit weird of course  there's always some kind of issue always always  

something let me put this over here I'll put a bag  I'm gonna put a bag over my head I can't see that  

and just see if I can follow the chat all right  all right so it looks like yeah chat is kind of  

working over here and it looks like it's still  going through okay all right so yes if I if this  

might take a minute I don't know why why is that  not working YouTube come on now all right anyway  

uh pardon that so if you are in a hole then stop  digging let's talk about just learning vocabulary  

and because I can now look at the chat over here  I would like to get some feedback from you about  

specific things I'm going to show you how to maybe  correct your own mistakes or try to find find the  

area where you're really where you're really stuck  because if you feel confident using basic things  

but you don't feel confident saying more difficult  ones it really means you just don't know that  

vocabulary well enough remember that you can be  fluent in some things but not others okay that's  

part of how this works so just to give you an  example of what I mean here's a very simple word  

that everyone watching this video probably knows  and pardon me as the fire truck comes by over here

it's a word dark dark

now I'm going to plug this in

and make sure we're still  working with the chat over here

okay all right so the word dark everyone I'm  sure knows what this is but I wanted to give  

a few examples uh of some ways of using this  that either maybe you're not familiar with or  

you want to actually know these the same  way a native speaker would know them all  

right so I'm going to check the chat as I  do this which will be a little bit tricky  

again pardon me as I'm looking down because  I've got my computer down here but of course  

we have basic things when we learn the word  dark usually kids learn something like light

dark light and dark alright so very basic uh  use of the word like oh it's dark in this room  

we have a light a light in this room and we  turn the light on and the Darkness disappears  

all right so everybody should know this word not  very difficult but remember that we want to learn  

this thing and really get to know this word very  well and so what we do is use uh just a little  

bit of naturally varied review this is vocabulary  review where we're trying to learn something and  

as we review it and hear it used in different  ways this is where we start to really feel  

confident and uh more comfortable with the word  and when we really understand something we know  

it fluently so and and like the understanding  of something when when you have that level of  

understanding that's actually how you speak so  it's not by repeating the word dark to yourself  

or getting a translation and thinking you know the  understanding of it or the definition of it it's  

about really understanding the word very well  by reviewing it in different ways okay so first  

we've got like basic nouns that we can describe  as dark so we might have something like dark  

beer let's just put these in a category down here  we've got some beer or we've got maybe chocolate

thank you obviously we have a dark room like  I mentioned and so we can talk about different  

levels of Darkness like very dark or just a  little bit dark might have some dark coffee  

maybe I think people talk about that usually if  we have like coffee with no cream or no sugar  

or anything we call that black so let me have a  black coffee or I like my coffee black I'm sure  

you can think of some more let's see here yeah  so other people had some uh some some different  

ideas but this is basically the same thing Okay  so we've got dark chocolate dark room but we  

could also start getting a bit more interesting a  bit more figurative like we might have dark days

what does that mean if we talk about Dark Days  dark days are we talking about the weather are  

we talking about something else dark days now see  if the chat comes in I think the chat should be  

working uh just fine if people are commenting  again I don't know why it's not appearing on  

my phone that's really weird but when we have  yeah a dark joke that's another good example

dark joke you could have dark humor dark humor

same idea so dark days typically this means  something difficult uh like a you know a war  

is happening so we have the dark days of  war and similarly we could have dark times  

so we're experiencing something where it's  difficult or it's frustrating or maybe some  

evil there's like a new evil king or somebody  that is you know taken over the the land you  

know whatever we could describe it that way  and so I don't know we're experiencing some  

dark times or I could talk about my past  in that way like there was a dark period

so you can see these different things we're  talking about time periods we often we don't  

really talk about a dark minute or a dark hour  usually a dark thing you know it lasts longer  

than that but we'll talk about a dark period or  a dark time or dark times when some bad things  

are happening so negative things are happening in  that way and so when we talk about dark chocolate  

we don't really mean it's negative we're just  talking about how like the color of it you know  

or same as like a dark room or a dark beer  in the same way we would have a light beer  

okay so when we're looking at these things often  what what students will do is they will get like  

number one if I'm going to learn a new word and  you're starting to learn some new vocabulary in  

English uh even in a beginning English class it's  okay here's the class uh today we're going to  

learn the word dark and then you get a uh like a  translation in uh whatever your native language is  

so if I'm going to translate that into Japanese  it'd be like kutai or something again depending  

on if I'm talking about the room or something  like that so the translation would be a little  

bit different but typically you have a word in  English that you're trying to learn and then you  

have some translation from your native language  or you get a definition of the word and people  

might try to even study the dictionary and get  lots of different different definitions of it but  

what you notice what happens with native speakers  is they're trying to learn something and they get  

lots of different examples in different contexts  and each time they learn something new they will  

they will really deepen their understanding  of that word so that they can understand all  

of these uses and they can even create their own  all right when you're at that level of language  

manipulation so you can change the word you can  create the word or create new uses that's when you  

know you're fluent all right let me check the chat  make sure uh yep in the Dark Age the same thing  

notice this is another period of time so a dark  period the Dark Age Dark Days Dark Times these  

are all related ideas and as you hear these  it's like oh yeah look at that we're talking  

about like what do we mean by the Dark Age do we  mean it's physically dark where there's maybe a  

shadow over it somehow or do we mean like a lack  of knowledge and thought what do we mean by that  

so we can often you'll often hear this like the  Dark Ages contrasted with the Age of Enlightenment  

so lighten so we've got dark versus light again  so dark meaning like in this case the Dark Ages  

like oh people don't like think about things  well or they're they're not being scientific or  

you know other things like that all right but  that's what we might mean so good examples in  

the chat down here uh yes it could be a bad  feeling a dark story yes same kind of idea  

all right the dark eye yeah dark minutes yeah  so typically we wouldn't we cut you could hear  

like dark music as well yeah so anything maybe it  makes you feel a little bit sad and and notice how  

it's it's all of these different things that come  to to Really create this meaning in your mind all  

right and so as you get this like a really strong  understanding of this word that's where you start  

using it fluently now there are different kinds  of naturally varied review this is one where  

we're trying to look at different uses of the word  so we're prepared we really understand this very  

well we also have uh like voice vocabulary uh  where we're hearing different speakers saying  

the same thing so right now you're only listening  to my voice but you might hear the voices of other  

people say this word like in British English it  would be like Doc you know we'd have we wouldn't  

have this R in there it's like Doc dark rather  than dark like the r here in American English  

all right so as you hear all of these examples and  this is why it's really important to get lots of  

different examples not only of the vocabulary used  in different ways but also from different people  

and then we also learn uh in different tenses as  well so we're talking about something was dark  

or it will be dark I don't know the looking at  the time it's getting dark it will be dark soon  

we are looking at dark days ahead so dark days  ahead looking in the future oh no there's a new  

like presidential election and the new president  is going to do something bad or whatever we  

we anticipate dark days ahead all right is  everybody getting this to go dark yep same idea

so to go dark that could be when we're  communicating with each other and then  

we stop so maybe the military would use  a phrase like this so the Army would say  

okay we're going to go dark at one o'clock and  so maybe we're talking on the radio and then  

we have radio silence so we're we're going dark  at that point okay lots of good examples though  

a dark thought yep the same thing same thing to  turn dark yeah all right so again I just wanted  

to give this is just one word notice that as  you spend more time with one word we're doing  

a few different things here so one of those is  we're trying to really understand the word all  

in English okay it's really important that you  understand the word all in English I'm not trying  

to use any translation up here I really want you  to connect with the word itself so you really  

understand the meaning of that word but notice  also remember the mind is naturally interested  

in learning new things so the mind is always like  give me new vocabulary give me new vocabulary let  

me watch that YouTube video that's teaching I  don't know like every grammar point or something  

all right and of course you don't really remember  it afterwards but the point is when you learn this  

way you you still are getting new you're getting  new vocabulary so you're combining the old with  

the new to keep your mind interested and that's  how you build fluency so you can see here how  

we can get fluent in one word even if we don't  know some other vocabulary so when I'm teaching  

my daughters I'm teaching them like this so I'm  giving them examples like I gave one in a video uh  

maybe a few months ago I think where I was talking  about the word harsh because my older daughter  

again Arya she was asking me what does that mean  harsh and rather than give her a translation or a  

definition I really want to help her understand  it with lots of different examples all right  

hopefully there are no questions about this I  think everybody is getting it though all right  

okay so what I would like to do now is answer kind  of take take maybe your level I want to see what  

you guys uh are having trouble with so if you can  post just a sentence down in the chat of maybe  

some English that you can use uh maybe you can you  can write it but you can't speak it fluently and I  

want to break down that sentence and we'll try to  figure out where exactly you get stuck all right  

I'll just do a quick example as I go through this  but let me take a moment for the chat so if you're  

again if you have trouble saying something but you  can write that go ahead and write that in the chat  

just make a sentence about whatever and we'll look  at that sentence together and then I'll help you  

use it like a native speaker so use it fluently so  just take a moment to do that I'll do one example  

up here just so people understand what I'm talking  about but this is really your chance to to figure  

out exactly where you might be struggling all  right remember it's not knowing more vocabulary if  

you can understand what I'm saying right now your  problem is not knowing enough vocabulary all right  

you have enough vocabulary already the problem  is just how well do you know that vocabulary  

can you recall it automatically without thinking  and translating or do you kind of go back to  

more simple sentences in conversations all  right so just post any any kind of thing  

I'll look at sentences I don't know if these  are actual questions or not or if they are  

specific things people want me to talk about but  we'll just look at them that way let's see here  

uh could you show us how to pronounce whole Hall  and hole okay so that's probably not asking what  

I'm asking but if you if you would like to hear  me pronounce words like that to get Frederick

it's a whole app where I answer all of those  questions so anybody answering or asking me  

questions about how to pronounce certain words or  phrases or whatever just click on the link in the  

description below this video and get Frederick  this is me pronouncing over 2 000 words and  

sentences and showing you how we pronounce these  so how you learn these things like a native  

speaker so this is a similar kind of problem  like the vocabulary problem that people have  

where they ask a teacher about some random words  like what's the difference between this and that  

and this other thing and it's much better if you  actually learn them systematically step by step  

so like the one example here is the word whole  so if you understand the rule behind this word  

it's much easier to remember the pronunciation  so we have a short word here we have the O and  

we have the silent e at the end of that all right  you can call this uh like magic e or silent e or  

boss c e so what happens in words like this is  instead of having the short vowel sound we don't  

say ha we say whole so this word or this letter  here excuse me this letter says its own name

okay so the same thing like mole mole or Pole  

pole pole and it works with the other vowels  as well so we might have let's see like cat  

this is the short vowel pronunciation and if we  put an e over here then we don't say the E and  

the a says its own name eight Kate like educate  yourself all right so if you want to learn these  

and understand the differences I cover uh all  of these things in in the app so rather than  

like listening to me just say these and then you  will probably forget them you should understand  

why we do them and this is how native speakers  learn to pronounce these things so English can  

be tricky but it's a lot easier if you learn  everything systematically so you go from Basic  

things like the alphabet all the way up to like  t-i-o-n or s-i-o-n things like that all right  

hopefully that makes sense all right let's see  if anybody has a sentence why do you think the  

hardest thing or thing so what do you think is  the hardest thing or things in learning Japanese  

easy way to say availability oh people  are asking me about vocabulary now  

let's see uh it's easy to understand  what he is saying but I'd like to  

have the same ability for speaking okay  let's look at that sentence right there

now I'm just gonna like kind of abbreviate  this so I don't take a long time writing I  

know some people are only listening to this  and they're not watching me write things but  

let's see what does that sense again it's easy  to understand what he is saying but I'd like to  

have the same ability for speaking okay so it's  it's easy to understand you what he is saying

comma but let's see so it's easy to  understand what he is saying but I'd  

like to have the same ability for speaking  okay but I like to have the same ability

for speaking

okay again pardon the uh doctor writing over  here but you can see it right in the chat as  

well so it's easy to understand what he  is saying but I'd like to have the same  

ability for speaking okay now let's  imagine that uh like obviously he can  

write this or she can write this and see  who's who wrote that let's see uh yeah I  

can't tell it's a it's a handle I can't  understand so it's easy to understand

I wanted to look at each one of these things  let's use a different color here we'll use  

red so it's easy to understand  uh let's see so what he is saying  

and we can even have this is just like he is he  is saying is one thing so I'd like to and then  

we also have I'd like to have and then I'd like  to have one so I'd like to have the same ability  

for speaking all right now what I'm doing here  is just looking at the different pieces of this  

and making sure that you can use these things  individually all right remember that a long if  

you want to make a long sentence this is I mean  this is good English it's correct English so  

it's easy to understand what he is saying  but I'd like to have the same ability for  

speaking it's a little bit longer than we need  to you can you can take this and shorten it but  

if you want to try to say something like this I  want to make sure uh like for you personally the  

the commenter here and for anybody else looking  at these longer sentences you have look at these  

things individually carefully and see what  you struggle with to say can you remember this  

like easy to understand all right just this one  particular grammar Point like this is a thing I  

practice with my younger daughter Noel so she is  practicing right now like easy to do hard to do  

fun to do and and different examples like that and  so like we practice that and like and I think you  

know just ask her different questions just to make  sure she understands this grammar Point by itself  

all right so you you need to do a little bit of  analyzing to look where where like the the spots  

that you have in your own speech uh where you  where you can write something but you can't speak  

so if you can write something  like I like I like water  

this is a very easy sentence if you can say this  and you can and you can say it without thinking  

if someone says what drink do you like oh I like  water if you can say this easily then you don't  

need to analyze this even more but we can start  making it making it longer like I like water  

uh from my link so now we're talking about more  specific what kind of water are you talking about  

all right but if you can say I like water then you  can start you know adding adding more things and  

making sure you can combine these in different  ways but it's it's the individual words and  

phrases that let you make these longer sentences  all right so it's not trying to trying to think of  

like a really long sentence but you but you  get stuck so you can't actually communicate  

like that if you can understand each one of  these things individually then you can start  

combining them and then you will easily build  up your fluency that way all right but notice  

that I'm not trying to teach you more new words  we're trying to really understand and like we  

take these things so I noticed this about myself  you know for learning Japanese it's the same thing  

where like I'll try to say something and I'm  like wait a minute I don't know how to make  

that construction like I want to say something  but I don't know what the grammar for that is or  

something so I might have to have to look it  up and spend some time getting more examples  

and really feeling confident about it but then  I notice I start using it in my conversations  

much more fluently I feel more relaxed about it  because I know I'm saying something correctly  

so the goal is not to try to just make  a long sentence and you can't use that  

thing you should be able to use all of these  things individually and then you can start  

putting them together so it's the the process  of building these sentences even if you speak  

slowly and notice here I'm I'm basically taking  phrases and just putting them together all right  

but I'm not using difficult speech so notice I'm  not putting any idioms or phrasal verbs I might  

have a few phrasal verbs in my sentences  but typically I'm not using any slang or  

movie references or quotes or things like  that except for Nils is dead I use that one  

where's Nils Nils around I didn't see the chat all  right so it's easy to understand what he is saying  

so it's easy to understand this is the same kind  of idea I like water from my Lake can you say that  

can you say that without thinking and this is  just a question for you personally when you  

look at the kinds of things you can write this  is a simple exercise you can do when you try to  

write something down and ask yourself could I say  that do I feel confident saying that and if you  

don't look at where the problem is so maybe you  feel confidence like using this like you really  

know that well it's easy to do something you  know watching a movie is fun it's it's fun to  

watch a movie so it's fun to watch a movie it's  easy to do something it's great to see you again  

so again we're taking a particular construction  and can you use that can you manipulate that can  

you change it in different ways that's the goal  and this is again something very simple you can  

do by yourself because I know a lot of people  have this this problem where they they want to  

say something they can write that but they can't  say it so look at the specific pieces of that and  

think about where you would feel uncomfortable  saying that thing all right let me check the  

chat see if this makes any sense over here uh uh  and again it's it's okay like to have particular  

problems with these things once you know what the  problem is they're easy to fix because most things  

it's just a simple thing that we're building  on top of that and this is why I mentioned at  

the beginning of this video about having like a  tower so if we're going to build a building if the  

foundation is weak or it's too narrow we're not  going to make something very tall so we need to  

have a wide strong Foundation that way we can have  a much more a much more interesting conversation  

with someone by using more interesting or  longer phrases and sentences that kind of thing  

all right but that's basically how this works and  so when I'm trying to do this in Japanese as well  

I'm looking at something like okay this this part  makes sense but I don't quite understand what this  

means remember that there are different levels of  understanding so I might recognize something but  

not be able to use it fluently I'm not at that  ownership level of you know the the fluency the  

understanding of something so just like we did  with the word dark we want to take one thing  

even if you only do one phrase a day just one  thing take 10 minutes or five minutes it might be  

a quick and easy thing to do with a few examples  but we want to take something so it's easy to  

understand it's fun to do and then we could make  that even bigger like it's a lot of fun to do  

something it's great to see you again it's good  to practice this way it's the same construction  

it's good too and then we're talking about some  kind of verb all right so if you know how to use  

this think about where the particular thing is  now I think somebody just mentioned uh let's see  

so if you have a particular let's see what did we  do here for I think someone mentioned like adverbs  

or maybe what was that where do they say that so  now I'm trying to follow the chat it's even more  

difficult to follow the chat down here uh uh let's  see easy way to say availability availability

free when are you free there  you go when are you free or

when are you open what times do you have available  so you could say instead of saying available you  

could say free or you could say open so this is a  slightly different thing where we're we're looking  

at like uh an easier way to express something  that's a different thing that's a different  

skill you learn as you start copying more of what  natives do so the more time you spend watching  

natives the easier it is for you to watch that  this is why we put so many Native conversations  

in fluent for life because we want people to see  how natives really say something for an example  

this it's easy to understand what he is saying  but I'd like to have the same ability for speaking  

it's just a really long way that I mean it's  correct English but natives would probably not  

speak that like a very simple way to say this is  like I understand you but I can't speak like you  

so I understand you but I can't speak like  you or if you're describing a hope like I  

wish I could speak like you and that's where  we get these constructions like I wish I could  

do this I wish I could do that or I would like  to all right so it's it's a couple of different  

things here either where we're looking at this  and how to get these different constructions in  

here but also yes we can learn how to just make  shorter easier more natural sentences so often  

the things you want to say you can just Express  less and it's a lot easier but that's a skill you  

develop by watching natives because you have to  look at what natives say in different situations  

so when you watch little kids like oh I wish I  had a like a pony I wish I had and so you see that  

oh I wish I had where they're they like they want  something they're thinking oh I really would like  

something I wish I had and if you hear that enough  times then you can use the same construction so I  

wish I had I wish I had a new car I wish I didn't  have uh I don't know I wish I didn't have tons of  

student debt I wish I didn't have something so  we can use both of these things but again you  

can look at your own thing I'm trying to help you  diagnose so find the specific problems you have  

with your own speech all right so let's go back  uh could you show us how to pronounce okay we did  

that one already all right I would like to improve  my speaking what do you think is the hardest thing  

or things in learning Japanese is Rocky uh  uh I'd say for me probably the most difficult  

thing is like learning to read Japanese which I'm  still doing there's lots of Japanese characters I  

don't know but I have uh and this is a this is  a psychology problem that happens with language  

learning and so if you if you're trying to learn  how to read uh and you're trying to learn how to  

read in a new language it's it's it's like twice  as difficult because part of what you do when  

you read like if you're if you're trying to as an  adult learn to read English and you already know  

English then uh like you're if you're a native  English speaker but you don't know how to read  

so like many adults in the United States don't  know how to read well or they have a low reading  

level so if you're trying to learn as an adult you  already know how the language Works you're just  

needing to learn the characters for that language  and so you can anticipate what might happen in a  

story or or certain phrases or things like that  but when you're learning and new language you're  

trying to learn the characters and anticipate what  will happen when you read and so for me I'm trying  

to read something and often it's like a word I  can't even see it very well like I'm like what  

is what is that and then it takes me a while  to figure that out so that's probably the most  

difficult thing when I'm just in conversations  and and communicating with people it's much easier  

all right let's see if we have all right so I  think somebody said so my uh let's see my pen  

pals usually tell me I am fluent but now I have  had time keeping in my mind new vocabulary slang  

idioms or phrasal verbs I carry on using my simple  words what should I do this is what you should do  

all right so anybody who tells you you're fluent  in writing it's yes you can be fluent in writing  

you can write very well but if you can't speak  this is the problem it really just means there  

are certain pieces of this it's like if we build  uh a bridge it's a good way to explain this

so imagine if I'm trying to build a bridge  I have like the top of the bridge over here  

and this other side of the bridge now I can  have a bridge this very simple piece of wood  

or something but if there's a crack in that  bridge this is going to be the the real issue  

over here that will stop the bridge it's not  it's not the quality of the wood or like how  

long it is or anything else the real problem  is this the real problem is the crack in the  

bridge so the crack in this wood so I know that  once you know like people start walking on it  

this is going to be the first thing that breaks so  this is we call this the point of failure if a i l

the point of failure so where or if if it hasn't  broken yet the point of potential failure or a  

potential point of failure so most systems like  this and this is a system as well so this is a  

it's a collection of different things working  together and so usually there are some phrases  

you can't say well and other phrases that you can  and so it's up to you to look at these different  

things and then to find okay if I if I have  trouble saying this like it's easy to understand  

if I have trouble saying that then I need  to go back and review this and the way I  

review it is with different versions of  this same construction so again it's good  

to understand so I only change one word first  thing I do when I'm looking at this it's good  

to understand it's nice it's nice to understand  it's fun to understand it's useful to understand  

okay so when I'm looking at these I I just  this is Again Naturally varied review where  

we're changing the sentence just a little bit  maybe even just changing one word so we really  

feel confident about using something this is the  goal it's not just to learn more vocabulary you  

can't really say you know that vocabulary until  you really use it fluently in a conversation  

so it's nice to know it's good to know  and now we can start changing it into  

something else so it's easy or nice or good to go

it's nice to go it's good to go go where it's  nice to go to the park it's nice to go to the  

park it's fun to go to the park it's relaxing to  watch something else so we get fluent as we really  

feel comfortable with this by reviewing  it and manipulating it in different ways  

all right so you have to look at the particular  thing if you know English like you do but you  

still have trouble speaking you have to look  at the particular things that you struggle  

with and then just you know you can either  like get that information from me or you  

can try to figure it out by yourself but just  try to take something and get lots of examples  

it's usually a lack of examples that causes  people to to not understand something well enough

all right uh let's see my okay I read that one  already uh so practice with movies it's the best  

way can you teach the noun possession can I teach  a noun possession I'm sure that like so something  

like that would already be covered in lots of  YouTube videos anyway if you're looking for  

a specific grammar point I'm not 100 sure how  to use fair share of something I hear it many  

times but this is something I can never use in my  speaking all right perfect this is a great example  

all right so let's look at this and  this is a shorter example of something

so when we learn a new word or phrase we're  looking we want to manipulate that enough  

until we get that aha moment of like ah now I got  it now I got it all right as I erase this click  

that like button too there's not enough likes  on this video click that like button all right

so let's look at this uh simpler example so let's  see what was the specific one uh let's see here uh

uh okay so fair share of something

all right so as I just mentioned if we have  a phrase like this like fair share this isn't  

a period on here so fair share of something  so we want to look at all of these words and  

make sure that we understand what they mean  all right so first one something you probably  

know what that is we're just talking about  something in general uh like we don't know  

like this marker is something the microphone I  have in front of me is something all the things  

in here this this whiteboard is something  also okay most people know what this is and  

of we're talking about well like maybe like one  of something like a part of some kind of group  

so one of these markers is red so I have two  markers a group of two things one of them is  

red all right you probably know of also so  fair share becomes something like what does  

that mean a fair share so first like to share  something means I'm going to give you some of  

that so this is the verb to to share so I want to  share something with you let me share some advice  

let me share a story let me share my markers  so I give you one of my markers let me share  

some of my food with you all right so that's  a now or this is the verb here so we have to  

share something but we can also have the noun  where we have shares like pieces of something

so just like we have uh shares of a company  so you might call this like the particular  

stock but we can also call this the shares of a  company so your portion or how much you have what  

percentage of this so if I have something  and I cut it in half then your share is  

fifty percent so you have let's say a fifty  percent share of of a particular company so  

fifty percent ownership of that so maybe other  people own different pieces of that but you own  

fifty percent so your share of something is fifty  percent now a fair share of something means like  

I'm not getting too much so let's say I I have a  I have a pizza uh so let me draw my pizza up here  

again nice round example uh so we get a pizza so  I pay uh let's see I pay ten dollars and then you  

also pay ten dollars so we paid the same amount  but I'm going to take this amount and you're going  

to take this amount is that fair is that equal is  that just is that right is that correct all right  

so is this a fair share did I take a fair share  or did I take like an unfair share of something  

now this is an example with uh like something  like pizza but you can do the same thing at  

work so maybe I have I'm at an office let's just  imagine getting too many too many pictures over  

here if I have if I'm at an office and there  are two people it and this guy does a 10 of  

the work I do 90 of the work and maybe we  both get paid the same amount is that fair  

did we both do our fair share of the work  did we both do our fair share of the work  

well he only did 10 percent I did 90 but we got  paid the same amount is that fair that's not fair  

all right so this is what we mean by by  like being like fair share of something  

so you can have your fair share of work or  your fair share of fun or your fair share of  

you know whatever like a physical thing like a  pizza or a company so if I'm getting something  

uh and we can again contrast that with an unfair  unfair share of something see if that makes sense  

all right Nils is here glad to see it all right  hopefully this makes sense uh let me know if if  

uh if people are are getting this or not getting  it but notice how I spend a lot of time on just  

one phrase because if you feel confident about  this then it's like yes I got it now I can use  

this in my conversations too all right so as an  example we might use this like something like  

like if you're talking to your your boss  or something you can say I don't feel

so I don't feel like I'm getting

my fair share

so I don't feel like I'm getting my fair  share and it could be fair share of you  

know revenue or something like that all right  I don't feel like I'm getting my fair share  

so when you think share in this way it's like  fair amount Fair portion of something so you  

have a hole and then you're going to take a  piece of that that's your share of that thing  

so maybe some thieves get together and they  steal something but then they they give out  

pieces of that to the the thieves and the Gang  and so maybe some of them like they still give  

a fair share to each other you know so if they  steal something these are these are some jewels  

and they're going to kid it like maybe the  maybe the boss he gets 25 because he's the  

boss that's his fair share and other people get  I don't know maybe like 10 or something like that  

and if everybody if everyone thinks that's  fair then that's your fair share but if you  

don't feel it's on if it's fair that's unfair all  right so that's not not a fair share of something  

all right let me know if that makes sense  though all right let's see uh if we have anybody  

all right so sayudi let me know let's see all  right well I've just installed Frederick glad to  

hear it yes so do install the app if you'd like to  not only learn the pronunciation of uh words but  

also build your vocabulary and start understanding  grammar the same way natives do so if you go back  

and review these Basics I promise you will  feel much more confident in your conversations  

all right uh let's see so preposition somebody  else mentioned yeah that's the same thing so  

if you're if you're using prepositions and you  and you don't know what is the correct word to  

use that's a really simple thing you can go  back and and just check that specific thing  

like do I understand like on or or in like I was  asking my wife uh it's similar to a preposition  

these are called particles in Japanese but I was  like do you do you like hang your your laundry  

like out or do you and I was asking about like  which which particle was the correct one so I  

was trying to remember because often like there  you understand a pattern for something and then  

there's an exception to the rule all right so  sometimes you need to review that but this is why  

even me I love to go back and review basic things  in Japanese because I might even go back to some  

textbook I had like five years ago just to look at  it and see like how much my Japanese has improved  

like how much faster I can read through it or  other things things just to check those examples  

all right but let me know if that makes sense  all right nice to see everybody again from uh  

let's see Brazil people over here uh merci uh  thanks for your advices yeah pardon me is my  

French pronunciation is not very good I did fail  French uh in high school all right let's see I was  

watching your last live video and I realized  you were live again look at that I watch your  

videos and use your tips in the acquisition of  other languages and I'm learning very helpful  

uh says uh Matthias if I'm pronouncing that yeah  again like the things that I'm talking about  

for learning English are just as valuable for  learning any language because we all get fluent  

in any language in the same way all right pretty  easy all right let's see if anybody had let's see  

I think everybody gets it though all right  if there are any other questions let's see  

what time is it too all right we've been going  for an hour almost all right let me erase this  

but is everybody getting this so the if you  are trying to get fluent and you don't feel  

fluent already or you feel fluent in some  things but not others then focus on those  

things that you need help with so I can  answer any questions now about things  

like that so just like sayudi was asking about  this particular grammar point or this phrase  

and so if anybody has any questions you  can feel free to post them down below  

all right let's see thank you I understand  it better now glad to hear it yeah so each  

time you go through it and if you're still not  100 then go look for more examples of that so  

you would go to Google for example and look up  like uh like whatever the whatever the phrase  

is so like I like a fair share of so put that in  quotes So write like quote fair share of whatever  

the particular thing is we're going to put quote  and then the sentence or uh like the phrase or  

word and quote around that and just search that  in Google and it will give you examples of that  

thing and so you will probably find lots of like  companies or people complaining about something  

or talking about their fair share so people love  to be fair uh and they want to make sure they're  

not getting some unfair portion of this and this  is like and again this is like a very common thing  

you will see in life which is why this is a good  phrase to know and as you mentioned it's something  

you see frequently you know this is just a quick  story about this but I was watching a video it  

was like a psychology video about a woman so this  woman uh she was I think like a like a she wasn't  

a zookeeper but she was training monkeys or doing  an experiment with monkeys so she had two cages  

so this is the the lady standing here and she had  uh two cages of monkeys to put the I'm not going  

to draw this very well so imagine uh these are two  monkeys over here and so she gave uh like a grape  

a delicious looking grape to this monkey over  here and then to this monkey she gave a rock so  

this monkey gets a great and this monkey can see  what the other monkey is doing so they're right  

next to each other so this monkey gets a grape  and he's very happy he eats the grape and this  

monkey sees that and then she hands him a rock and  you know what he did he threw the rock back at her  

so he took the Rock and actually threw it he was  like I'm not getting like where's my fair share  

let me just say that I want my fair share  I want my fair share where's my fair share  

okay so this monkey did not get his fair share he  

didn't want to rock he wanted a grape and  he expressed his displeasure at this lady  

but I think you can find this video on YouTube  still it's pretty entertaining though all right uh  

let's see here yes I got it uh Eunice is a perfect  explanation all right so remember it's okay to  

spend more time with that it's much better if you  don't if you don't feel you really got it go back  

and review it again just try to make a different  sentence find a different way to review something  

this is what we do like in fluent for life we  really want to have people understand things and  

we want to go through things again and again so  often we will imagine like a situation so someone  

talking about being frustrated or someone talking  about being in love or whatever how do we talk  

about that and how do different people describe  that same situation and as you see more and more  

examples of this it will naturally develop your  ability to speak because you understand I should  

say this in this situation and you feel more  confident about that all right uh let's see  

hi thanks for your videos what's the best English  test I don't really focus on English tests if you  

mean something like the toeic or TOEFL or whatever  but if you need a particular test for your job  

or life or whatever then focus on I don't know  whatever that test is but I'm not a like a test  

expert so I would look for more people that focus  on that I focus on conversational fluency and  

actually a lot of people find my videos and join  my courses after they have taken tests so they do  

well on a test but they actually can't speak very  well and so that's again what I focus on but there  

I'm sure there are lots of people that do that  let's see uh to know the English level thinks as  

a fast cars a sexy well that's an interesting  handle all right uh let's see Rocky I think  

English native speakers tend to have lower voices  than Japanese yeah so part of that is you know our  

our bodies are physically different our voices  are going to be a little bit different too and  

so you can also hear native English speakers like  different ethnicities will sound different and so  

usually you can tell like oh like even that's uh  like I used to work at a a Japanese restaurant  

and I could tell like I could close my eyes and  tell the difference between like even a native  

fluent English speaker who is an Asian rather than  like a white person or something like that you can  

usually tell the difference so people will have  a natural speaking voice and don't feel bad if  

you don't sound exactly like somebody else like  my voice is not going to sound like I don't know  

like there's some things I could try to mimic that  but there's a natural this is a natural speaking  

voice for me so everyone will find that in English  and it's even okay if you have a like an accent or  

something often that's kind of a personal thing  that that a lot of people enjoy having grammar is  

really the most important thing because you need  to communicate correctly but this is how you do  

it so if you write something well and you want  to go back and review it that's how you would  

do it you would find a particular grammar point  you struggle with and then you want to get lots  

of examples of that so use Google or chat GPT or  whatever but get examples of that particular thing  

you want to have them be different all right  Xavier says uh excellent tips but if I get it I  

have to write all new words or sentences and build  them up in my training notebook are you showing  

us more over repeat this sent them every single  day uh really the goal is just to understand the  

vocabulary well now that can happen instantly if  I like teach you something or you learn something  

somewhere else and you get a really good example  and you get that aha moment where you think ah  

okay I understand what people are saying so it's  it's not like it has to take lots of repetition or  

you have to do something every day the point is  just to get to the understanding where you feel  

confident using something if you do not feel  confident then go back to the drawing board  

over here now you don't personally have to write  down lots of examples it's helpful if you do but  

I like to get to the understanding level first  and this means I will look for many examples of  

something like I mentioned using chat GPT or  Google so if I say like I want some like give  

me some sentences that are similar to this but  only change one word or whatever so I can create  

my own naturally varied review that way uh with  you know particular grammar constructions so  

usually what happens in a textbook is you will  get one or two examples rather than 50 examples  

and you don't need 50 examples but the point is  again to understand something really well so you  

might need different examples or something in a  different context I've told many stories about  

this in my videos like one of them was a c like I  talked about coso in uh in Japanese I'm not even  

going to write that my Japanese writing is even  worse but I had trouble like understanding what  

that was until one day when like uh like maybe a  week ago or two weeks ago my wife was I don't know  

complaining about me or something she was like  like antacoso so she's like it's like it's you who  

did that thing it's your fault and I was like ah I  was happy because now I understand what that meant  

so I've heard it used a lot like for many many  years but I never really got it and because I  

didn't really get it and like I didn't I I don't  have anyone to teach me Japanese even my own wife  

is like I don't have time for that you know she's  like raising two kids and cooking dinner and stuff  

she doesn't have time to teach me anything so I  have to be very quick and sometimes I even ask my  

kids I say which is correct you know if you're if  you're trying to teach me something so it's hard  

to get those correct examples but if you can you  can probably find them in Google or chat GPT or  

whatever but it's much easier to to understand  something through lots of examples rather than  

trying to understand it logically by looking at  the grammar point so again in a grammar textbook  

it might it might explain a grammar rule like  especially like Japanese grammar textbooks are  

horrible for this because they will say it's  like okay you've got like like you got the  

noun and then you got the no and then like plus  this and then like add this other thing and it's  

like a math problem and you look at that you're  just like what like what like that doesn't help  

me understand this thing at all it just makes  it more difficult but instead of doing this  

if I look at a lot of examples and I and I build  something up like very simply like I want to  

understand uh like if I'm teaching you Japanese  and I say look adjectives come before nouns uh in  

Japanese the same way it is in English now I can  tell you that but it's much easier if I just give  

you some examples like I'm teaching you like look  red marker black marker and if I'm teaching you  

English like you know that's a marker and you  know that's red okay like the adjective comes  

before the noun so without me explaining that to  you the point is to help you understand that and  

you get that through many more examples than you  do from trying to understand a rule logically all  

right so if you're having trouble using anything  don't try to get the grammar explanation of it or  

don't try to get a translation of that thing just  look for more examples of that and so you don't  

need to have 50 or 100 examples it might take  that for some things if you really like have  

trouble with it some things like maybe you know if  if you have like really good teaching and this is  

why I spend so much time like building lessons  for fluent for life so I spent like I'll take  

like a whole month and think about how to make  something so that it's understandable all right  

and even then someone might still be like I  still don't get it you know and so we have  

to go back and help with answering questions  or whatever but most people can understand  

what I'm teaching because I think a lot about  how to help people understand it easily all  

right so you don't need a lot of examples but  often when you're learning by yourself you do  

all right uh let's see hot slee says I have  to go thank you so much I'll watch the replay  

glad to hear it uh let's see wishes only used  with past tense I wish I had I wish I could  

no you can you're talking about that like in the  in the future as well like I wish I had something  

it's it's just another way of saying I'd like  to have and this is again another reason why we  

don't worry about specific grammar rules and say  like well that word is for the past or whatever  

like there is no like meaning of a word other than  the meaning in a situation so if I'm talking about  

something that happened in the past I can use  that as well so let's say yesterday I was in a  

car crash like oh I wish I had not been driving  with my eyes closed you know like I'm talking  

about a regret so I wish I had done something all  right but right now like I'm I'm in a uh in a boat  

and I'm in the middle of the  ocean I wish I had some water  

it's happening right now in the  present I wish I had some water  

or I could talk about in the future like like you  know I wish I had you know like a you know it's  

it's it's basically talking about the present  but the point is it's not talking about the  

past so I want to like I wish I had a new house  I wish I had a new car I wish I had all right so  

if you listen to the examples of those things  rather than looking at the grammar point then  

you will see okay when can natives use this and  then you will feel more confident about using it  

all right uh let's see all right let's see  Eunice says uh this sentence got me confused  

when I heard it the first time I felt I feel like  pizza I feel like pizza can you explain this to me  

please okay another good example of how vocabulary  means different things in different situations  

all right so excellent example

all right remember the the reason that we  don't want to translate something so let's  

say we take the word feel and we get uh okay  here's a translation of that or we get like  

a definition of the word feel then it's it's  stopping you it basically closes your mind off  

from all of the other examples of vocabulary  that natives would know all right so remember  

that natives they connect vocabulary to situations  and you might have a word like feel and there are  

different situations but related to that just  like we covered uh earlier in this video with  

the word dark so here we have feeling and  your specific phrase was like I feel like

I feel like pizza feel like pizza so if someone  asks you what would you like for dinner you can  

answer that question in different ways so the  situation is someone asking you what would you  

like for dinner I can say oh I feel like pizza  all right so it's the same thing as like I think  

I would like or I want these are different  ways of saying the same thing so we have  

a situation describing what you want for  dinner so I feel like this so often feel  

like you will you will notice this when  you speak with different people how they  

use certain words because of like part of  this is maybe how they think or the like the  

vocabulary they use so some people like to use  visual words where they say like it looks like

uh or maybe like I'm like I see something  they're using visual words other people  

use like auditory so they're talking  about sound like it's like I hear you

so instead of saying I understand they might say  I hear you and so the same thing is like I feel  

so I have a friend who is like he uses words like  that like I feel I feel like we should do this I  

feel like we should do this so I feel like we  should do this so instead of saying in like a  

logical way like here is a specific reason so  I think we should do this he's saying I feel  

like this feels good to me all right so you  can again describe wanting food or something  

in a different way but when you say like I feel  like pizza it doesn't mean you are like a pizza  

where you like where you feel sick or you feel  sad it just means like I want that kind of thing  

so what do you like what would you like for for  dinner other people in a related like question  

way for this are like what do you feel like  for dinner so what do you feel like for dinner  

what do you feel like for dinner that's  me like asking a kind of feeling question  

I can also just say what would you like for  dinner so what do you feel like for dinner  

what do you feel like for vacation what do you  feel like doing what do you feel like doing so  

it's again it's a kind of softer way and a a  less logical way of expressing something that  

because maybe you don't have a reason you just  want some pizza I feel like pizza tonight all  

right I think there was a there was a uh like  a like a food thing called like chicken tonight  

so if you can actually go on YouTube and like  type in I feel like chicken tonight and there's  

like a whole song about that it's like I feel  like chicken tonight it's just a commercial for  

I don't know like some chicken I've never had  chicken tonight but like that's the commercial  

I feel like chicken and I search that but it's the  same kind of thing so when we get more examples of  

something rather than just like look at that  one example you're getting lots of different  

examples and it will help you understand so  it might take one example or ten examples or  

something but if you if you stay with it if you  stick with the vocabulary that's how you get to  

practice with the vocabulary so you notice doing  this you don't need to speak you just need to get  

more examples this is how you can get fluent by  yourself because you're not trying to learn just  

a hundred new words you really want to understand  a few words and then you can use those in your  

conversations fluently all right hopefully  that makes sense let's see here uh all right

let's see so I feel like yeah so I get like uh  Matthias also also answering that so I feel like  

ice cream yeah so language aside which country  is easier to live uh between the U.S and Japan uh

uh I don't know I like living in Japan it's it's  fun and easy for me it's like it's a nice place  

and there are certainly nice places in America  as well but I'm happy to be in Japan right now  

all right I think everyone got that though but  hopefully does this make sense let me know if if  

anything I'm talking about is uh is like it sounds  weird or you don't quite get it the basic idea is  

that we don't want to just learn one word uh and  then and then get a translation or a definition  

of that and then move on to the next word all  right I'll draw my my special fluency graph  

up here for people you've probably seen this  many times if you've been following my videos  

but the basic idea is it when you are learning  new vocabulary so let's just say this is  

like uh we'll just call this like fluency  level so fluency level uh and this is time  

uh as you learn more more vocabulary like usually  natives they're learning like this like they they  

get fluent in individual words and phrases and  each time they feel a little bit more fluent and  

very quickly obviously like the first maybe two or  three years when you were born you're not really  

speaking very much you're spending a lot of time  listening but children usually understand their  

parents very well even if they don't speak  back to their parents but when they do start  

speaking wow like the the ability to speak really  goes up very quickly but uh non-native speakers  

they're they're they're kind of starting out at a  higher level up here but they just continue going  

along this level here so they continue to learn  more words but they're not becoming more fluent  

and the reason is they don't actually know that  vocabulary well enough that's it so if you like  

I mentioned at the beginning of this video if  you know a lot of English so if you were if  

you were in this hole over here like this hole  of knowing English and you got your shovel here  

and you continue to dig down I'm looking  for more words and more words more words  

the answer is not more words it's actually  getting fluent in this stuff that's already  

pardon me in the stuff you already know all  right it's really nice all right let's see if  

we have any final questions here I think chat just  disconnected please wait while we reconnect you  

oh no now it's looking like Chad is not working  but the actual video itself I think is anyway  

uh we will finish the video there I think that's  a good uh spot to finish but hopefully everyone  

understands the messaging here remember go  back and if you if you spend more time and  

you think about what you actually struggle with  in conversations if you can write something but  

you can't use it look at that specific thing look  at the specific uh pieces of that sentence or the  

words even even down to an individual word where  like uh like your fair share of something so even  

an individual word if you don't really understand  that then go deep into that thing and that's how  

you become a fluent speaker all right hopefully  that makes sense so it looks like the chat is  

stuck hopefully this is actually still recording  I think it is let's see if it is yes I think we're  

still moving around over here uh but anyway  I hope you have enjoyed this uh do like this  

video and share it with anybody else who might  be learning a lot but still struggling to speak  

because really this is it if you want to get up  to this level here where you start communicating  

fluently then stop trying to learn more words  you don't don't force yourself to do that  

and stop trying to force yourself to speak you  really just need to get more examples of things  

until you really feel confident and then the the  vocabulary will just start flowing out naturally  

all right that'll be it for this video if you'd  like to learn more about Frederick for learning  

vocabulary basic things especially a lot of people  really should go back and review all the basics  

especially if you have trouble using things like  prepositions or basic verbs or you want to learn  

a lot more vocabulary but in a native way and get  lots of review that's what we do in Frederick so  

you can click on the link in the description below  this video and the same thing for uh fluent for  

life so if you'd like to learn more about actually  the step-by-step process we use for helping people  

get fluent that's what we do and if you have  any questions send us the just the questions  

at info englishanyone.com I'm excited to help  you get fluent and have a fantastic day bye-bye