The 1 Thing You Haven't Tried That Guarantees English Fluency

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we'll load up in a moment and then we can  get started with the party uh this should  

be an entertaining video I'm excited to be here  and hopefully all right looks like we're live I  

am Drew Badger the founder of EnglishAnyone.com  the English fluency guide and welcome to another  

live video here on YouTube today we are going  to talk about the one thing you haven't tried  

that guarantees English fluency and this will  probably be uh a really good review for people  

who have been with me for a while who have been  learning with me for a while but especially  

new Learners uh who have struggled to speak  they often have doubts uh and worries about  

communication that stop them from speaking and  especially if they've been learning for a long  

time and they finally want to become fluent  speakers we're going to talk all about that  

in this video so in my whatas says Ohio  from Yokohama Ohio goas good morning out  

there in Japan and wherever people happen  to be all right this should be an exciting

video in my last live video what was that last  Friday I think uh I asked people what they wanted  

to learn about for this video and someone said  tips about speaking uh and understanding better  

look at Tom [Laughter] I know people need to come  up with something better I don't even think I look  

like Tom Hanks it just shows how how like you you  don't know but yes people people I get a lot of  

that the comment about people saying I look like  Tom Hanks I should do an actual video with Tom  

Hanks uh just to show that we don't really look  that similar uh nice to see you there everybody  

though I want to get right into the meat of this  if you do have questions I will keep my eye uh on  

comments uh so anyway this video uh the one on  Friday this was the just a learner asking about  

tips for fluency uh so I'd like to do something  even better which is really just share one thing  

that you really need in order to speak fluently  I want to keep this very simple and help people  

understand what you really need and what you don't  need uh and hopefully this video should answer a  

lot of questions for people pardon me if there's  a little bit I think there should be uh maybe some  

construction or there is some construction going  on around here uh but hopefully uh we do just fine  

all right uh so there's really just one idea  and I really want to make this very simple and  

if you look at all of the videos so there are  over 600 videos on my channel I've been doing  

this on YouTube for over 10 years now and all of  the videos uh they really have one theme and so  

I'm going to talk about that in this video uh and  again this should really be a great way to answer  

a lot of questions people have about the issues  that people struggle with I'll talk about those  

uh but we start with the idea about inside your  brain there's basically a fluent communication  

switch uh and this was found by linguists but you  can or language researchers really uh but you can  

discover this for yourself anytime you're trying  to speak and you're unable to speak it feels like  

your mind goes blank all right so the reason  for this is basically you haven't been able  

to flip the communication switch in your brain  and I want to talk about how you do that very  

simply in this video all right so I want to help  you imagine this I haven't really talked uh very  

deeply about the fluent communication switch  uh in a while or actually really in in any of  

my videos I think maybe there are only one or  two that I talk about this because I want to  

make this very concrete very easy to understand  very simple for people but let's imagine like  

in your brain I'm going to draw this is like  the bottom part of your brain over here so  

we have some space to work with but within your  brain bra uh there is a uh what you might call a  

fluent communication switch for each of the uh  language learning units it could be vocabulary  

or grammar or pronunciation anything like that  that you're trying to learn uh and we know this  

is true because you probably feel confident and  fluent or you can communicate fluently about some  

things but other things you cannot so I want to  explain why that is but it's just important to  

understand you don't really become fluent in the  entire language at one time what you do is you  

become fluent in individual words and phrases  or you learn to pronounce things correctly or  

you understand more about culture one thing  at a time so as you understand something you  

could actually have a a group of things you  understand at one time but as you understand  

something very well that's when you're able to  communicate about it all right so let's imagine  

this switch here just like a regular a regular  light switch you know on on your on your wall  

so we have inside the brain and remember this  is for individual words and phrases so you can  

kind of imagine there's a little switch like  this for each of the things you're learning so  

each word or phrase gr grammar Point anything  like that so it's a simple uh light switch and  

it just moves like this it's like either it's on  we'll just say it's off over here or we move to  

the on position over here very simple all right  now usually what happens uh is that people are  

trying to learn languages by pushing the switch  from off to on and the way they're trying to do  

that is maybe they are like studying uh they're  studying rules we'll just put some very like brief  

writing uh just examples up here so you might be  trying to memorize some rules uh or you have some

translations or you're studying something  whatever that vocabulary is so more more  

studying so you're studying something uh and  you're trying to basically push if you can  

imagine all of these things are trying to flip  the switch that way so they're trying to turn  

it on so you're able to speak all right now here's  the big problem that most people don't talk about  

that you probably not heard about before but  you recognize it and you feel it every day or  

at least every time you try to communicate uh  and that is over here there's actually like a  

small block if I can if I can draw something like  this so the communication switch is prevented it's  

actually prevented from moving over it doesn't  really matter how much you do this by any kind  

of doubt or worry or concern or question you have  okay so we'll just put this block right here and  

this block prevents the switch from moving  over all right so very simple idea so we'll  

just say these are doubts draw this more clear  clearly so doubts oops so doubts or questions or

worries really any kind of uncertainty at all  if you have any kind of uncertainty here you  

will not be able to flip this switch okay so  this is the situation that most people are in  

who are learning a language it's i' speak  about learning uh English on this channel  

obviously uh but the same thing is working for  everyone and this is for native speakers as well  

so when you're trying to learn something  maybe you're studying or translating you  

could be repeating I'll just put repetition  over here so you could be repeating things  

again and again all of these things are really  trying to push over here but the real problem  

is over here all right so instead of trying  to do these things if you can eliminate the  

doubt and pardon me as we get a a brief  siren over here I'll use that as a water

break all right it should be going away so the  basic idea is that instead of trying to force  

your way to become a better speaker you're trying  to basically force your things oh my goodness  

it got louder that's crazy uh and I'll even put  over here since a lot of people think they need  

to speak in order to become a better speaker I'll  just put speaking over here uh and speaking really  

it's it's basically part of repetition because you  learn something and you repeat that thing either  

to yourself or you're repeating it to other  people all right but none of these things are  

really dealing with the real problem I really want  to make this very clear for everyone over here  

because if you understand this simple idea then  learning becomes very easy all right so if the  

real problem is we have doubts and questions and  worries or any kind of uncertainty and remember  

this could be uncertainty about pronunciation or  grammar or vocabulary maybe you you remember a  

phrase you can recognize something so often this  stuff over here you've studied something a lot and  

you recognize vocabulary but you just don't have  the confidence to use it that's over here so you  

have some kind of doubt or block that's stopping  you from having the confidence to express yourself  

okay so pretty simple idea so instead of doing  more of this we actually need to attack this  

problem over here and we need to remove the doubt  from the situation about this particular word or  

phrase or whatever that is all right so instead of  doing the traditional things where we're learning  

uh these are the typical things like learning  English as a second language that you would do  

some kind of exercises or drills or anything else  that's trying to push on this and you've probably  

been told you really need to have uh like lots of  time or maybe spending even many years or spend  

even lots of hours trying to repeat things but  again until you actually solve this problem over  

here you're not going to be able to communicate  because this is what's really stopping you from  

speaking it's not really that you know some  information a little bit it's if you lack the  

confidence you won't be able to express yourself  okay that's the basic idea so how do we remove  

this uh I I want to give you an example of  this so This is actually what I call so if  

we're trying to delete this we want to destroy the  doubt that's really the goal of language learning  

like this and this is what I call if we want to  use it this way uh we'll just call it a fluency

trigger so rather than getting more of this over  here we really need something that can remove the  

doubt as we remove the doubt or we replace  the doubt with confidence and Clarity and  

understanding that's when the switch automatically  flips okay so the you you already want to speak  

there are already things you want to express but  you don't because you lack confidence about that  

but as soon as you replace that that doubt or  that uncertainty with certainty and confidence  

the switch flips and you're able to express  that thing all right hopefully everybody gets  

this idea now I this is kind of theoretical  here I want to show you how this works with  

one one of my favorite examples uh this is not uh  an englishlearning one but hopefully this should  

make sense I'll clear a little bit of space over  here but this is one of my favorite examples that  

I share with Learners to understand this idea of  a fluency trigger and all of these other things  

and why they often stop people from communicating  so this is a a language learning lesson but we're  

going to imagine we're learning an alien language  because I don't know what language you speak I  

don't want to use Japanese or some other language  that you might already know so it's a little bit  

easier to understand uh if you know this example  already because you've seen me Teach it before  

don't say anything don't ruin it for people uh  who are new who would be learning this but this  

really is a fantastic example that demonstrates  this point about how most people are language or  

learning languages and the things they try to do  when instead if you just use a fluency trigger it  

will be a lot faster and easier okay so you don't  have to spend a lot of time language learning the  

point is is to actually use a trigger that makes  it a lot easier I know pardon me as we have a  

little bit more still some more construction going  on hopefully you can hear me let me know can can  

everybody hear me well there's like a little bit  of sound in the background just give me like a  

thumbs up or something if you can follow what I'm  saying hopefully everybody should be okay over  

here all right I'm going to go uh just continue  with my example but I think everyone should be  

able to hear me all right so I'm going to give you  some numbers over here okay everybody's working

make sure those fit on there okay so this is  teaching you a new language it's an alien language  

and I'm going to teach you uh the numbers and so  typically what people do when they're teaching a  

language is they will give you some information  like this they will give you some new words and  

they will probably give you a trans translation  of that all right so I'm going to give you a  

translation of this so this is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7  8 9 so in a typical language lesson again I  

have the new language I'm trying to teach you  and then this is me teaching you that language  

like basically as a second language what usually  people are doing so I'm giving you a translation  

over here and then I'll just tell you because  there really isn't much more I can do with this  

this I just say okay you have to remember this  so go home make some flash cards and like write  

these characters okay this is one one one one  you know two two two I'm going to write these  

things over and over again and hopefully I  remember them hopefully I remember them so  

this is a typical language lesson all right it's  actually typical for a lot of education but it  

particularly in language learning you see how I'm  just giving you these basic things over here so I  

haven't really done anything to flip a switch  in your mind that really helps you understand  

these things I'm just giving you information and  telling you to memorize it okay hopefully any any  

questions I think everybody understands this so  what I'd like to do is give you I'll give you I  

I'll be kind of a bad teacher here and just  give you about 10 seconds I'm going to give  

you a quiz I'm going to erase these numbers  over here and I'm going to give you a quiz so  

take a few seconds see if you can memorize these  things and then I will erase them all and then  

we'll give you a quiz all right so just take  a moment see if you can remember them whatever  

you have to do in your mind to try to remember  these things that's on you as the learner not  

me on as the teacher uh so this is you as  the student having to figure this out all

right we got five four 3 2 one all right  it's quiz time let's see how many you get

correct so now just like in a regular lesson so I  gave you the lesson I gave you some information I  

gave you translations I told you to go home and  make flash cards and then a few days later we're  

just imagining this but just like a typical lesson  so you would repeat something maybe you would try  

writing them again and again uh but again all  of these typical things here you don't really  

feel anything in your brain at this point it's  probably kind of frustrating for you maybe you've  

already forgotten them but let me give you a quiz  and you can test yourself and see how many you

remember okay so you can just type in the chat  let's see how many we have here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7  

8 9 10 11 12 numbers can you write those what  did I write can you translate that from the  

alien language here into Roman numerals or I mean  excuse me Arabic numerals uh regular 1 2 3 4 5 6  

789 can anybody do that can anybody translate  these back uh into the into the numbers I'll  

give you a moment as I go back and check chat  see if anybody can figure that out try not to  

cover that up for for you all all right so nice  to see everybody I won't go back through and uh  

say good morning but thank you all for joining  me it's nice to see everybody here all right  

let's see here what C is back nice to see you  there Juan yes uh please friends give drew some  

likes yes CED is back uh the the like manager  all right ilder says yes drew it is like flip  

the switch when you speak with one UK buddy for  the first time uh he says that understood me and  

gives me confidence I was surprised with myself  yeah fantastic glad to hear yeah this works for  

everybody it's the way we all learn languages  and really I'm speaking specifically about  

language learning here but this is really for any  kind of learning if you don't really understand  

something then you probably won't feel confident  about talking about it or doing that thing like  

someone could explain to me about fixing a car  but I don't really understand you know I I could  

I could maybe learn to fix a little bit but I  probably could not rebuild build an engine or  

something very quickly so any learning this is  the same process that happens for all of us but  

the point is there are faster ways to learn and  we really want to get not we don't we don't just  

want to get translations or study or something  the real heart of this thing is eliminating the  

doubt okay I really want to make this clear  I've have said this again and again in all my  

videos and emails and things like that uh but  the point here is to eliminate the doubt that  

people have about language learn all right  so let's go back and see if we can translate  

this let's see if I remember you know I'm the  teacher I have to be the good person seeing if  

I can remember this all right let's see we can  remember here eight anyone get the first one  

anyone remember that let's see three 4 2 9 uh  let's see seven some people might have thought  

oh look seven kind of looks like seven like that  maybe you remember or you used some kind of way  

of thinking like that trying to give yourself a  kind of fluency trigger now let's see two three  

four six and then we got nine again and one did  anyone get all of that was anyone able to do

that now the interesting question is how was I  able to do that am I just like very smart I have  

a really good memory or something did I do that do  I have some magic power for learning languages or  

did I do something different did I give myself  a fluency trigger all right was anyone able to  

do this it's okay if you were not don't feel bad  about that the point of this exercise is to show  

you what a bad lesson looks like and by bad lesson  I just mean something that doesn't destroy the  

doubt so I just taught you a new language and  I made it more difficult really and I mean you  

already kind of know the letters or the numbers  in this case uh but it's more difficult for you to  

understand well Elena Elena figured it out I think  Elena knows the answer already you've been with me  

for a while so especially for new people this will  be uh most enlightening you will enjoy this the  

most when I give you the fluency trigger all right  so now that I've given you the bad lesson let's  

go back we'll put our numbers back up here so  everyone can uh can see whoops excuse me there we

go actually wrote this uh in  yeah I didn't even put five up

there okay all right so we've got our  numbers up here I'm going to put this  

back up here 1 2 3 4 five 6 7 8 and nine and I  actually wrote this incorrectly I should have  

wrote number five I wrote that wrong the  first time I did it uh but anyway so this  

is how we're going through uh and looking at  these numbers over here so we got number one  

over here we got one over here two over  here two over here all right pretty easy  

Once I give you the translation over here  but the difficulty comes when you want to  

use it later if you don't actually remember it  it's more difficult to remember what everything

is all right so now I'm going to give you a better  

lesson what I would call a fluency  trigger and this is very simply

all right now if you look at these over here  see number one is over here number two is  

over here number three is over here number  four is over here so I've taken something  

that you've already seen many times it's on  your phone or on your computer something like  

that uh and helps you it helps you make  a connection with the information which  

makes it easy to remember all right so what  I've done now if I give you another quiz if  

I put a bunch of these characters up here  you would very easily be able to do this

because I've eliminated the doubt  all right and once I do that the  

switch automatically we can just  have it move over here like this

it flips to on and now you can use this language  okay so you'll notice like it is possible to take  

the rules or translations or study or repeat  something or we're not you're learning any any  

speaking over here uh but you could you can  really force yourself to to do this over here  

so you can some people do actually I guess many  people uh do get fluent learning this way but  

most people do not and the reason they don't is  because we haven't actually dealt with the real  

problem of removing the doubt so there are two  ways to try to do this you can try to do all of  

these things over here you're trying to force your  way to understanding something and trying to force  

your way to remove the doubt but it's much easier  uh instead of just trying to push over here until  

you've gotten rid of all the doubt just remove  the doubt okay and this is what a fluency trigger  

gives you so if you look at all of my videos what  I'm really doing is trying to give uh examples of  

things that are fluency triggers and it might be  something simple like this like a a visual way of  

understanding something uh or it could be maybe  a series of lessons or maybe even a story that  

helps you understand something but the whole  goal everything I'm doing the all the fluency  

triggers that I give you it's just to eliminate  doubt when you eliminate doubt speaking becomes  

automatic and remember this is for individual  words and phrases as you learn them and it could  

be for pronunciation or culture or anything else  but anytime you have doubt about something don't  

try to study it more or repeat that thing over  and over again if you take this home and I don't  

give you a fluency trigger for it if I just give  you these things if it's just a list and this is  

again uh it's just a lesson with numbers because  anybody can understand this in any language but if  

I'm teaching you some new English if I just give  you a list of words and then a translation in your  

native language or I just tell you to repeat that  thing or just study it get a definition you're not  

really not likely going to become a fluent speaker  and if you do it's going to take you a very long  

time okay so all of these things again are pushing  on the switch this way when the much easier thing  

is simply to remove the doubt and the switch flips  automatically all right I'll take a moment for uh  

next siren over here to go through uh hopefully  everybody's getting this though hopefully this  

makes sense for people all right so I gave you  again the the basic lesson here notice how it's  

not really a lesson at all I didn't teach you  anything I didn't help you understand anything  

I didn't remove the doubt so the job of the  teacher is to remove the doubt if you are in a  

lesson and you still feel confused about something  especially with me you can just ask me oh I didn't  

understand something please help me understand  it so the goal ultimately is just to remove the  

doubt when you remove the doubt you become able  to speak automatically all right and this is for  

anything so any word or phrase or grammar Point  uh the fluency trigger you need it might be one  

thing or a couple of like a series of something  I'll give you a different kind of fluency trigger  

uh with English in just a moment but I'll just let  me see if anybody has any questions or comments in  

chat all right uh let's see yes uh let's see Lois  says Brazilian has the most yes there are quite  

a few fans in Brazil nice to see everybody there  uh let's see yes a lot of yes certainly a lot of  

Brazilians are are interested in learning English  all right so just going back and looking at the  

comments I think most people had a difficult time  doing this and I want to let you know it's not  

your fault I'm showing you this is it's actually  difficult because this is not really an efficient  

good helpful fast way of learning all right  does everybody understand this idea you have  

a fluent switch in your brain and imagine even if  there's not like a fluency switch you can you you  

recognize you understand that if you don't feel  confident about something you won't speak this is  

the number one complaint I receive from Learners  they talk about forgetting words uh or they feel  

unconfident in conversations or they don't know  whether whether a grammar point is this word or  

that word something like that everyone has these  issues and it's all coming from this one idea  

okay but the simple thing is once you get the  fluency trigger for that particular thing then  

it's very easy to do this all right all right  I'll keep going here make sure I go through  

these quickly and then I'll give you a quick uh an  additional example in English and if you go back  

like understanding this idea of a fluency trigger  if you go back and watch really any of my other  

videos you will see that's all I'm doing I'm I'm  telling you like I'm kind of revealing the secret  

here telling you what I'm doing but the point is  I'm trying to give you something that triggers  

this over here so I want to eliminate the doubt  I want to destroy the doubt or worry or anything  

where you feel unsure about maybe pronunciation  grammar vocabulary anything so that the switch  

flips automatically and you feel confident about  learning so this example here when you discover  

this for the first time you should be like wow  that feeling it just that's the feeling of what  

you get when you have a fluency trick okay all  right let me see here anybody else all right I  

think people are getting it though all right yes  most people were not able to remember but they  

figured it out once they got the fluency trigger  and that's really this is an example how quickly  

this can happen you can do these other things  over here for hours and hours but this it really  

takes one second for this example all right so  that's how quickly this can happen when you focus  

on the fluency trigger when you really focus on  eliminating the doubt rather than just trying to  

repeat things and say things to yourself or other  people things like that uh Ellena says do you live  

next to a hospital or what's the reason for the  ambulances uh there's a fire station about three  

or four blocks away but and there are a lot of old  people in Japan so you put those together and you  

know we're going to have some uh some fireworks  all right David says can you apply this fluency  

trigger to a practical English lesson yes I'll  give you one in one moment key says how to find  

thus magic and efficient Rule and Method again  like if you if instead of focusing on this and  

this is what I do as a teacher so I'm here to help  you really do this this is why I don't tell you  

just okay repeat the same thing again and again I  want to help you understand things better um and  

even for members of Like programs like fluent for  life we're always trying to get naturally varied  

review or different examples of things that really  help you understand something because we want to  

eliminate the doubt that's what really stops you  from speaking so we want to eliminate the doubt  

uh let's see so danis says I'm so happy to be here  glad to see you uh and how to get the trigger says  

Ryan I'll answer that in a second uh you're the  best teacher that I have never seen before well  

I'm glad to hear Blue Sky uh we can only be  fluent when we are sure about everything yes  

but remember this is for individual words and  phrases so you probably already feel confident  

and fluent about some things I'm sure you can say  hello and maybe what's your name and you could  

talk about like if you use English professionally  you can talk about your job but maybe if someone  

asks you about something outside of your job  like what did you do over the weekend or did  

you see a movie or something like that uh this  is when you might strug because you don't have  

the confidence over here about that particular  vocabulary okay so you don't need to be fluent  

in everything you don't need to have complete  confidence about everything it's the same thing  

with me for learning Japanese so I'm like I don't  know the entire vocabulary that's impossible and  

even native Japanese speakers don't know all the  vocabulary or even all of the Kani those are the  

written characters uh borrowed from Chinese so  there are lots of lots of things in the language  

most people even native speakers they're only  using like on average about 2% of the language  

so 2% of all the vocabulary this small portion  over here is really the thing that most people  

know so you really should be focusing on this and  trying to get as many fluency triggers as possible  

because the more fluency triggers you get and  the faster you get them the faster you get fluent  

all right so you are unlikely to become a fluent  speaker simply by studying more or repeating more  

or even getting more speaking practice and this  is why lots of people live in English-speaking  

countries for years and still don't become fluent  speakers all right does everybody understand this  

idea I really want to make this very clear for  people because if you continue to do more of this  

you can feel it's very frustrating when you're  trying to learn something just by studying it  

and repeating it and hoping you remember it uh  when it's much easier just to get some kind of  

trigger that helps you understand the vocabulary  so you feel confident about using it all right  

uh anybody else here don't be afraid to make a  mistake when speaking says M well I actually I  

don't I don't recommend this this isn't the kind  of advice that I give to Learners so a a typical  

teacher will will try to do all of this stuff  and they will make you repeat things and study  

and they will just say just go out and and try to  speak don't don't worry about making mistakes but  

me as like an English fluency guide I know that  I need to eliminate the doubt that's actually  

my job so it's not my job to just give you a  translation that's not teaching you anything  

if I give you a translation and just tell you  to go home and study this and then okay if you  

don't use it correctly that's on you that's not  my fault that's your fault so that's the typical  

way people are learning languages and the typical  advice then is it's okay if you make mistakes but  

people don't want to make mistakes they want to  communicate correctly it's embarrassing if they  

don't communicate correctly so obviously the real  the real problem is over here it's not this stuff  

over here it's you need to eliminate the doubt so  the job of the teacher is to find creative ways  

to eliminate the doubt for vocabulary or grammar  or whatever okay so if you're trying to do any of  

this stuff over here trying to push on the fluent  communication switch in your brain it's going to  

be much more difficult for you to do that so this  is why uh again I don't I don't bother telling  

people like don't be afraid or whatever it's  my job to make sure you are certain all right  

of course like you can try using things you might  not feel perfectly confident all the time that's  

fine uh but as best you can you really should  be feeling certain about your vocabulary all  

right estabon says I've been working on that since  last week and I actually had a full conversation  

with one of my neighbors last night glad to  hear it Taco says should I put on subtitles  

if I can't keep up with speaking speed if you're  talking about in general yes then feel free to  

use subtitles for these videos the subtitles are  usually released about a day after the video is  

done so I don't have the subtitles available and  there are no captions in these videos uh because  

they're live and Google doesn't just automatically  caption things um but that's how you're going to  

get it after the video is done so if you want  to come back and watch this video again uh  

tomorrow when the captions are available you can  certainly do that uh I so I think the best way to  

be confident is to acquire language listening and  reading so remember like I you could put listening  

over here or reading or watching it doesn't it  doesn't really matter what you're doing if you  

don't remove the doubt so you can do all of this  and you you can some people can become fluent uh  

by putting immense pressure on their brain to try  to remember things but most people do not do that  

that and I'm telling you you don't have to do  that all right if you just instead of pushing  

this way just remove the doubt remove whatever  that is by getting a fluency trigger anything  

that helps you understand the vocabulary better uh  right uh key says when you share these efficient  

methods I think you have a deep understanding  of psychology and how the brain works don't you  

well I'm I'm interested in that for many reasons  but you know I studied psychology uh philosophy  

uh but yeah I mean anybody who's teaching should  understand how the brain works and how the brain  

wants to learn your your brain wants to speak you  were born to speak everybody on the planet is able  

to speak I mean maybe there are a few people  maybe they don't have a mouth or they have some  

difficulty or something but almost everyone  is able to speak and we all learn to speak so  

learning to read and write those are things that  take more time but really speaking it comes very  

naturally for people because we're getting lots  of examples and really uh fluency triggers that  

help us understand understand the language we're  learning so it doesn't matter if it's Chinese or  

Korean or Spanish or Italian whatever the language  is If you eliminate the doubt then you'll be able  

to use it all right uh Dan says teacher I got a  question for you I understand you very well but  

one day I was listening to Obama's speech and I  didn't understand him very well could you tell me  

what happens again Obama is speaking differently  than I do his pronunciation is different he's  

probably speaking faster and using some vocabulary  that you don't know so you have doubt okay if you  

don't understand what somebody says you've got  doubt about that so you need someone to help  

you understand what the vocabulary is and help  you understand and remember it help you remove  

the doubt about that vocabulary so that's my job  that's what I do all right uh so M says please  

please teach me how to do it sir all right David  says I think you can do everything you want on  

your life you'd say in your life uh it's just  not giving up most people stop on difficulties  

and get afraid of moving on uh yes that's true a  lot of people a lot of people uh quit before they  

should but this is an example of a lot of people  will try learning languages and quit because this  

is what they've been told to do so it's not their  fault it's not that they're stupid or can't learn  

languages or something and that's something I  used to believe about myself I used to think I  

was too stupid as I failed to learn many different  languages but then I discovered this and it's like  

oh okay this is much easier so the problem is  how can I understand something well and it's much  

easier when you have someone to help you learn all  right David says to learn English or any language  

takes years not hours and months you can do it  never give up again uh hopefully this example  

again I'm going to give you a uh an an English  example in just a moment but hopefully this shows  

you how quickly you can do it so you just learn  10 new or nine I guess uh 10 new numbers nine new  

numbers in an alien language in almost a second  it was almost instant once you understood this so  

that changed the way you thought and that gave  you a way to eliminate the doubt about that so  

you could start writing these you could write a  thousand of these characters and probably do it  

perfectly now just because you got this fluency  trigger over here all right uh if you don't use  

it you lose it that's correct just like from our  video last week and Keith says I wonder why you  

can react so quickly and confidently when there  is a sudden question so amazing well I've been  

doing this a long time so again like I'm I'm  able to I'm able to do this fluently because  

I've I've done it for a long time uh but I've  also studied like these ideas and I've spent  

over 20 years trying to make this very simple  for people uh and I continue to refine the way  

I teach but I think probably the fastest simplest  easiest way to explain what I do is to give you a  

fluency trigger okay just that idea by it itself  once you start getting those everything becomes  

a lot easier so let me give you one of these in  English since we are here to learn the English  

language again I will contrast uh kind of the bad  way of teaching with the fluency trigger way of  

teaching that I do uh so the bad way of teaching  I'm going to teach you two phrasal verbs phrasal

verb all right so phrasal verb these are  I'm just going to give you like a quick  

definition of this uh just combinations  of words that let you express things in  

a simple way uh that you could also Express  in a more difficult way typically with more  

advanced vocabulary so we're going to take some  simple words put them together that you can use  

to express some more complex ideas all right so  the first one let's see we will do let's do fall

down and then fall over now if this is a typical  lesson in a classroom and especially a lot of  

people are uh learning English through their  native language so I would just tell you the  

translation of these things whatever your  language is I would just say oh fall down  

means this uh and fall over means that and then  I just give you maybe a few example sentences  

like look at that like the leaf is falling down  uh or the building fell over or something like  

that okay so I could explain it to you I could  give you some definitions and then I say okay  

go home and I want you to remember that so go  home make some flash cards repeat these things  

again and again maybe try listening to them or  reading them or speaking whatever you think you  

need to do to actually remember that but will  it flip your flu uh your fluent communication  

switch will it eliminate the doubt you have about  using these ones which do you use okay so you see  

somebody fall down or somebody fall over do you  know which one do you feel confident about that  

do you have absolute certainty that you would  use it correctly okay so that's kind of the bad  

lesson the bad lesson so again the bad lesson  is where I give you information and I tell you  

to learn it I tell you to remember that thing  rather than me finding a way to eliminate the  

doubt so let me just show you how this works  nice and easily uh this fluency trigger is  

really a simple visual example so the last one  I gave it's another kind of visual example but  

this is a similar thing I can take this marker  and I watch as the marker falls down fall down  

fall down so you see it's moving just straight  down like this it's falling so up here of course  

I I'm holding it in my hand I drop the marker  and then the marker falls down falls down now  

watch this this is a little bit different I'm  going to put the the marker in my hand and I'm  

going to let go I will let go of the marker so  that's another good phrasal verb for you to let

go watch what happens to the marker wh did you  see that it fell over fall down fall over fall  

over okay so here uh you might need maybe a  few more examples of seeing something like  

some leaves are falling down or a tree when you  cut it falls over but you should just by seeing  

this this is the same way native children learn  these examples and this is why phrasal verbs are  

actually quite easy they're much easier than most  people think it's just how you learn them okay so  

the marker falls down it's just taking something  and you know dropping straight down or something  

Falls over so you can imagine a person like a  person falling down or if a person falls over  

to the side like that okay so the fluency trigger  here is the physical just showing you an example  

by contrasting these two things and showing you  how they work so once you see it okay we we've  

got fall but there's there's different kinds of  falling okay I might have like a hole or something  

here and look the marker like wh it falls into  the hole falls into or I could have another hole  

or some kind of you know container or something  like a tunnel and the marker falls through that  

thing falling through okay and now we can take  these ideas and we can build on them even more  

we can extend the fluency trigger and we can take  something like well we got fall through the marker  

is falling through this space here it's like  falling through the air and then we can talk about  

maybe a contract fell through or my job offer fell  through so something where I thought something was  

going to happen but it didn't all right it fell  through unfortunately uh I had a new job offer but  

I didn't get that thing it fell through the job  opportunity fell through it fell through okay so  

anytime I can give you a visual example or a story  or something the goal here for me as the teacher  

is to eliminate the doubt and you might need a  few examples maybe you come back tomorrow and we  

give you some more examples but that's really the  goal to get as many fluency triggers as fast as  

possible so you can get fluent as fast as possible  okay so the only thing stopping you from getting  

fluent is removing the doubt you can try to do  all of these things over here study more rules  

and translations you can try to repeat things even  trying to speak to yourself or others but remember  

if you don't feel more confident if you don't  feel certain that you will communicate correctly  

the stuff is probably going to waste your time  it's good to repeat things but you really want to  

repeat things after you already have some strong  understanding of that so like if I'm studying  

some Japanese and I learn some new vocabulary  and I I figure out like oh that's like a very  

good like oh the fluency trigger really helped me  understand this and this is for anything it's for  

learning any language really learning anything  by fluent it just means means you can do that  

thing automatically so without thinking without  taking time to hesitate or translate anything in  

my head you can see how this would solve a lot of  problems okay oh no now I need a fluency trigger  

for these Sirens over here I need a way to way to  stop all those but let me see if anybody has any  

questions about this but hopefully uh this makes  sense uh let's see yes she says hi I'm studying  

English uh as a second language my problem a lot  of spelling errors how can I improve that and also  

have problems with my grammar please give me  your advice I'm writing thanks okay so again  

you're studying the like all of these things over  here if I can does this fit over here I'll put  

this over here these are all uh learning English  English I'll just say here learning English as a  

second language so all of these things over  here these are what people typically do and  

it's because you're learning English as a second  language that you have trouble remembering things  

or that you're not understanding grammar rules or  vocabulary or forgetting things uh it's because  

the there these things over here don't actually  remove the doubt you could just repeat something  

I can teach you a new word and repeat it over  and over again and you might remember it but  

you don't really understand it you probably still  have some kind of doubt about that thing so until  

you remove the doubt until you really understand  that thing that's that's where you will continue  

to have trouble all right so the goal is not to  like just to continue doing more of these things  

so the best advice I can give you is to stop  learning English as a second language all right  

so if you watch my videos like go back and watch  any of my videos uh I'm I'm basically just giving  

lots of fluency triggers so even uh in fluent for  life so this is my actual fluency program fluent  

for life it's really just like thousands of these  fluency triggers so I'm giving you lessons they're  

all organized so you can decide what you want to  learn about and then you just start getting these  

I just like give you them like over and over and  over and over again so giving you lots of them and  

the point is again to remove the doubt that stops  you from speaking so answering your question uh  

about Frederick or about uh remembering spelling  rules Frederick is the other tool that I made for  

Learners like you who want to to understand  spelling f r e d e r i c k you can click on  

the links in the description below this video to  learn about both of those but Frederick will teach  

you these same rules it will basically give you  a bunch of fluency triggers and help you discover  

what these rules are so learning how to spell  Frederick is going to teach you that and then if  

you want to become a fluent speaker for learning  grammar rules and all the vocabulary you need to  

speak that's what fluent for life is for all right  but does everybody get this idea so you can like  

you can find fluency triggers yourself it's really  anytime you can make a connection where you get a  

lesson or an example or see something or hear  a story where you think oh like I get it now  

the point is to get clarity and understanding  to remove the doubt so you replace doubt with  

certainty and when you do that then you can use  that thing you feel very confident about speaking  

all right I think everybody's getting it though  if you if you have any questions about that please  

let me know all right uh iller says raindrops  falling on my head that's right so they drop you  

so they both Drop Like Rain Drops we call it like  a drop all like the cloud is dropping the rain and  

then it's falling through the air okay again using  graph and scene to remember something is really  

efficient yes and so this is just one example but  I'm trying to remind you also how you learned as  

a child so your parents were probably not doing  these things you definitely did not learn your  

native language through translations because you  didn't have another language already you're just  

trying to learn your first language so the only  way you can do that is for parents to give good  

examples so this this same idea of a fluency  trigger it's for non-natives and for natives  

it's for everybody all right this is not just for  people trying to learn English if you already know  

a different language this is for anybody so even  children uh you can see that like like let's say  

we all have kids at the same level you know if  we can rank them the students who get the more  

or students who get like more and faster fluency  triggers will become better speakers faster okay  

I would be happy to study that in a lab if it was  possible to do that uh but anyway you could take  

probably a group of kids split them in half teach  one the traditional way and then give one the like  

just a bunch of fluency triggers and that that  second group would become great speakers very  

quickly all right so native speakers can do this  and you can do this as well as we just showed in  

this video all right uh let's see yes she says  can you tell me what time and what day do you  

reach Oh you mean teach uh so these videos  are unscheduled uh like I don't I don't have  

a schedule for them um but typically they are  usually Mondays or Thursdays Japan time but so  

today is Monday in Japan time uh and then the next  video I think will be this Friday I think I think  

so I was a little bit late uh getting started  on this one because we have some construction  

in the building but we're here now all right uh  y says I think grammar is always very important  

we cannot deny or just listen and talk like a  parrot without understanding what I'm talking  

grammar in order uh also important yes and so my  point is the the idea of a fluent communication  

switch that works for everything so it works  for vocabulary it works for grammar it works  

for pronunciation the point is if you have a doubt  about something you need to focus on eliminating  

that doubt and there are different ways you  can do that so that's why all of the all of  

the lessons I give here on YouTube they're really  just different examples of fluency triggers so it  

could be a story it could be a visual example like  I did with like fall down versus fall over or fall  

into or fall through uh or it could be let's  see like when I give naturally varied review  

so as an example let's say you hear like this  right if I say phrasal verb let go but you hear  

10 different native speakers say that you're going  to hear each person speak a little bit differently  

their pronunciation their accent will be a little  bit different and so you will become more used to  

understanding natives as they speak normally and  so people who only listen to slow easy teachers  

they're not getting that naturally varied review  for pronunciation listening Improvement and that's  

why it's important when people say like why should  I join programs when you have lots of information  

on the YouTube channel because most of the stuff I  do is at an easier level to make sure more people  

can understand what I'm saying but for people  who want to understand uh at the native level  

you really need to get lots of examples from  different native speakers so that's an example  

of naturally varied review so another example  like like I gave before like a similar kind of  

naturally varied review RW I don't want to just  repeat like fall down fall down fall down I want  

to show you how it's different from fall over or  fall into or fall through and then take that and  

extend that into other uses where like oh like  I just fell into this job so I was I was walking  

down the street and I found like some guy he was  uh I don't know painting his house and I said oh  

like that's a nice house over there and he said  would you like to help me paint and I just fell  

into a job so he paid me some money to help paint  his house I fell into the job so it was like an  

accidental thing like like I'm walking and whoop I  just fell into that thing so this is a very common  

use of that phrasal verb where we take something  physical like falling into a hole like oh I just  

fell into the job so if you weren't trying to  do something it was an accident it just happened  

almost like you're walking and wh you just fall  into a hole yep fall in love is a similar idea so  

often you don't really expect that thing you just  wow I just I met this beautiful lady on a cruise  

and wow we just fell in love okay hopefully this  makes sense but you see how I'm what I'm doing is  

trying to make connections and eliminate doubt  because as soon as I teach something your brain  

is is thinking oh how can I use this can I can I  use it in this situation or that situation or how  

do I pronounce it that's why I want to continue  giving you more fluency triggers until you really  

feel confident and that's when you start speaking  so as you get more fluency triggers you find they  

connect with each other and you can become a  fluent speaker even faster okay Isn't that cool  

hopefully this is it should be like an amazing  lesson people like wow like look at that yes  

you don't have to do all these things over here  really the goal is to get a fluency trigger that  

helps you eliminate the doubt you have and then  you will speak so the funny thing here uh this  

shows that if you speak where you're trying to  repeat things if you don't feel confident first  

speaking is probably not going to help you so a  lot of students think they need to speak or they  

need to live in an English-speaking country uh or  they need to be a child or something but you can  

see over here all of this is It's really trying to  do the same thing you're trying to force yourself  

to remember something when it's much easier just  eliminate the doubt okay all right let's see here

uh all right DAV says it's really easy to learn  with fluency triggers y that's the whole point all  

right uh the visualization is really helpful to  understand the language in general yes absolutely  

so I'm trying to help you anything that really  makes it clear so when people are like wow Drew  

I really feel more confident after watching the  videos it's just because I helped you eliminated  

some doubt I helped you eliminate some doubt so  py says it's very very clear easy to understand  

phrasal verbs that's the real fluency trigger  yes so so this is another just example many  

people think phrasal verbs are difficult but it's  really because of how they learn them not because  

the phrasal verbs by themselves are really  difficult ke again says I think these are also  

really useful when we learn other things yes so  as I said this is the language learning example  

of this but the fluency trigger in general by by  fluency we're talking about language fluency but  

you can be fluent in anything I can be fluent in  fixing cars or riding a bike or anything else I'm  

trying to do it's just do I feel confident about  that another example of a fluency trigger uh I've  

told this story so this is a story example of  a fluency trigger uh but the point is to again  

eliminate doubt to help you understand something  so the idea of a fluency trigger can I remove the  

doubt I was uh walking this is a real story this  really happened to me and actually uh fluent for  

Life members can see this actually happen in uh  I think it's in the learning uh like education  

and learning lesson set but they can actually see  me uh learning a new skill by getting a fluency  

trigger it's actually like a really a really  interesting thing to see I'll just tell you  

the story very quickly so I was walking down the  street here in Nagasaki Japan not far from where  

I am now and I saw two maybe teenagers or college  kids they were riding BMX bikes BMX bikes so they  

were kind of spinning bikes around and trying to  do tricks and I and I I was there with a friend  

of mine and I had my camera and I said oh I bet  this would be a good lesson if I can learn how  

to do this can I figure out how to ride a bike  like them and do just one trick so I I I don't  

know how to like ride a BMX bike or do lots of  Tricks but I learned how to do this one and so  

that you can see the learning process happening  I'll just describe it here uh but I'm watching  

these guys and I say okay can I try that and they  were very friendly they said oh look at this guy  

you know trying to learn how to do these tricks  and so they were happy to show me how to do that  

now what was interesting is that like I tried like  the kind of bike riding idea for these things so  

like they they explained something to me I tried  to understand I tried to like do it but I kept  

falling off the bike so I was still I was doing  these things I was trying to repeat I was trying  

to copy them I was asking questions but I still  didn't really understand like I didn't move like  

the doubt I didn't really really understand how to  do that thing but then one guy gave me a fluency  

trigger and what he said was like the reason I  kept falling off the bike is because I needed to  

hold it with my legs so that the bike didn't fall  over so if you can imagine like the bike is here  

like these are the the two pedals on the side I'm  kind of just standing on it but I needed to like  

hug the bike with my legs and that way I could  control the bike and keep it from falling over  

the trick is really uh to to kick the bike up and  then spin the wheel around spin the front wheel  

and then put it back down so I wasn't able to do  that but as soon as he gave me that little trigger  

I thought ah now I've got it so that's again the  Moment of clarity the aha moment as I call it so  

the fluency trigger allowed me to do that and  now I can do the trick so if I see someone else  

with a BMX bike I could do that trick with it  all right so it seems difficult until you get  

the trigger to really understand how something  works and often uh many things are really like  

this so something seems difficult and we try to  do the typical things of just repeating something  

again and again because that's what we're told to  do but really many things are much easier than we  

might expect so that's another example of a  fluency trigger uh but just in real life all  

right uh bck says a Big [ __ ] let me let me know  if I'm pronouncing your name correctly I always  

need to get that pronunciation again hi Andrew now  after your lessons my vocabulary B book pages look  

more like spider graph uh than just list of random  words thank you for your tips it's my pleasure all  

right let's see one question when is in Japan  so it's well it's Monday morning right now I  

forget the date though uh let's see estabon says  that's true I see it now we are always learning  

to translate everything into our native language  and that becomes a problem yes so if you translate  

when you learn you will translate when you  speak so that's and the reason people translate  

is because they have doubt about what something  means but when you're certain you don't translate  

anymore you don't have to translate you just learn  it like it is in English uh let's see looks like  

we got some Hebrew there I'm a new subscriber  to this channel great lessons thank you it's my  

pleasure all right uh let's see Shiva says what  is the difference between confirm and conform oh  

that's an interesting one now those uh they sound  similar uh I'll give you a very quick definition  

of both of those but you will learn a lot more  if you just Google those because you can just  

get more definitions often people will will ask me  like what something means and I explained this in  

the last video but the reason I will answer some  questions and not answer others is if I think I  

can get it uh give basically people like a fluency  trigger and help them understand something very  

easily on a video then I will just explain the  answer uh in this example really they they're just  

two words that sound similar but they're they're  not really the same thing uh confirm means like I  

want to check something so maybe I I see someone  in the distance they're walking up to me and I I  

think that's my friend but I don't know for sure  I want to confirm that it is so I walk closer and  

I see that it is my friend okay but to conform  really means I want to like fit into the shape  

of something else so if you you can think about a  physical example like if I have a bowl and I drop  

some water into it like the water even in here  here the water in this bottle actually conforms so  

con like with form like the shape of that thing so  it's with that same shape to conform to something  

so the the water in this bottle conforms to this  bottle if I take the bottle and and tip out the  

water then you will get lots of water on the table  or whatever uh and then it conforms to that so you  

can think also about conforming uh like I want to  conform with how other people think so if people  

have a belief about something maybe I share that  belief or I lie and I say I believe something too  

so those are examples of conforming to something  one is a figurative like the me changing my  

beliefs and the other is a physical example  of that like the way like this marker kind  

of conforms uh to my hand if it changes shape  or it fits into something very well to conform  

to something else but you notice like instead  of me just giving you a definition I'm trying  

to help you understand that thing and that's  just an example of a fluency trigger you see  

how this works so you don't want to just repeat  the word like if I say okay go home look up a  

definition and repeat confirm confirm confirm and  conform conform conform you know that's not going  

to help you learn much but if you get some quick  fluency triggers it's much faster and you become  

fluent and you feel confident about using that  thing all right let's see visualization helps a  

lot understanding the meaning of it yep and again  this is how natives so like young babies and kids  

are learning English this way and then they start  taking what they learn just like I did with the uh  

conform example so we we start with something like  physically conforming to something else but then  

we can build on that as I've done earlier in this  video as well so young children are learning the  

same thing oh uh happy yes Happy Chinese uh New  Year over there let's see uh let's see ah intimacy  

if you're you're talking about like remember to  be to be intimate to be intimate with something  

means like you have a a close connection with that  thing so you can say I have intimate knowledge of  

something that's one example like I have intimate  knowledge uh of how language learning works  

because I've been learning and studying this  for like and even just been even just teaching  

alone over 20 years of doing that so I've have  intimate knowledge uh but intimacy also again  

it just means like a close connection to that  thing use English though you know some English  

use your English in your questions all right uh  hello sir uh I guess yes says Gore uh all right  

I answer that question already do I need another  course after your fluency course well no if you're  

if you're talking about like becoming fluent like  one once you go through fluent for life and people  

who buy the program uh they don't they don't have  to go through all of the lesson sets like you you  

kind of get a bunch of fluency triggers for the  individual things you're interested in like the  

grammar that you struggle with or anything you  like to know about but the program actually it's  

it's designed to graduate you from learning like  languages the way people normally learn to being  

able to learn like a native and so after you go  through the program then you're just learning  

in the real world the same way natives do and and  you understand how to learn like a native so it's  

I mean it's basically the last program you would  need to get um if you're trying to understand the  

same way natives do and you want to get basically  a lot of like thousands of fluency triggers so if  

you like when I'm learning Japanese I have to  kind of create these things for myself or find  

examples or get little like I remember my U so  my I got a perfect example uh yesterday so my  

my my wife was talking about like like an angel  is I'm going to draw kind of a bad picture of  

an Angel up here so there an angel uh and and  she was saying like she used the Japanese word  

for this uh and she and I think it's a Wakka  uh and and that was the first time I'd heard  

that but again when I hear something like that  I'm just like it it it kind of goes into my ear  

and then I forget it so I'm not really learning  anything remember like someone just tells you  

what something is like oh like WKA all right uh I  think that's what it is and but then she continued  

she actually gave me a fluency trigger which was  oh like a ring like wow you know and I was like  

ah at that moment ah when you feel it like oh now  the doubt is gone I remember the word uh and then  

I taught her the English if you don't know what  this is this is a Halo where's uh our our video  

game player out there might know this game as well  Halo so the the little ring around an angel uh is  

called Halo but this was an example of me getting  a fluency trigger in Japanese and I remember the  

word forever it's like ah WKA okay uh let's see  here uh all right do I uh okay I answer that one  

I mean is it comprehensive yes it's like the most  comprehensive course ever I can't I can't really  

think of anything more comprehensive than that  plus we we answer lots of questions uh anytime  

people are there so anything we still don't answer  even though there are thousands and thousands of  

words that you could learn uh we'll we'll still  be there to help you if there's anything else  

uh how can we use the word would that's that's  kind of a long explanation Google that or check  

my channel for more information on that Elena says  uh what do you think learning with writing would  

people be fluent again looking at this list  over here I'll make this a bit clearer w r i  

t i n g writing so all of the things that people  talk about you can get fluent with these so just  

like I've given you a visual example or you see  something in writing something like that the point  

is to eliminate the doubt so you can ignore all  of these things and just focus on this so if go

minute look at that we got interrupted over here  as I'm doing a live video uh so the point of uh  

having a like a fluency trigger like is is when  you have when you understand what you need then  

you can use okay I know I need to like maybe  get some different examples I could write or  

I could read to get those examples but the point  is you just need to eliminate the doubt that's  

that's the number one thing you need to focus on  it's really the only thing and you could get that  

in a number of ways okay all right make sure I  got plenty of time over here all right uh gor  

says I want to speak like a native well if you  want to speak like a native you have to learn  

like one and get lots of fluency triggers that's  how it works Lucas says how to pronounce without  

sound ass how to pronounce without sound ass you  mean like without sounding like an ass is that  

what you mean if that's what you mean get uh  Frederick it will teach you how to pronounce  

words like a native I understand it needs practice  remember like like I'll put practice over here as

well what do you mean by practice what like people  don't even teachers don't even explain what this  

means like they just they just say these things  like well you need practice like practice practice  

what so I could does it does practice mean I  repeat something over and over again remember  

fluency is not it's not like uh like like shooting  a basketball or something where I where I need to  

get like a physical motion I really just need  to understand something well and then I feel  

confident about using it so I don't become more  confident just by repeating things so when people  

say like if they give you anything off of this  list over here studying rules getting translations  

repeating things it could be speaking listening  Reading Writing or practice whatever that means  

U just say really the goal is to eliminate the  doubt so repeating repetition is typically not a  

good way to eliminate the doubt because it doesn't  teach you anything new all right let me say that  

again repetition is usually not a good way to  eliminate doubt because because it doesn't teach  

you anything new okay you need to get different  examples if I just give you one example over and  

over again and you don't really understand that  then a smart teacher should give you a different  

example try something else okay so we want to  come at things from different angles this is  

what I call naturally varied review but the point  is how can I trigger this how can I trigger your  

ability to speak by eliminating doubt and that's  why I call them fluency triggers okay all right  

let's see here uh I answer that one all right all  right let's see p says can I have the explanation  

of jump in the bandwagon oh jump on the bandwagon  well B bandwagon is like like people cheering for  

something so if there's a a sports team or  somebody doing well other people will get on  

that so people generally like supporting a winning  team so if you live in a city like in Chicago when  

I was young that was a time when Michael Jordan  was playing basketball for the Bulls uh and at  

that time everybody had Bulls hats and Bulls you  know jerseys and things everybody was on the band  

wagon so everyone was there like you can think  about a band like a physically like people playing  

music in a little wagon you know a bandwagon so  everybody wants to participate in that because  

it's a lot of fun you know but when the Bulls  are losing then everyone takes off their their  

bulls gear you know their Bulls hats and things  like that so they're getting off the bandwagon at  

that point so people generally are like following  what's popular or what's winning or something like  

that that's to be on a band wagon oh it's Biga  okay all right I think I can remember that now now  

after your tips and tricks I've learned uh I feel  myself more confident can speak without stopping  

for 3 minutes although before I just spoke by one  sentence is only thanks again glad to hear it bega  

bega all right glad to hear it yes so again th  this works for everybody it's it's not only for  

some people or some languages or whatever it works  for really learning anything but I just focus on  

explaining how it works for learning English uh  kids entertainment look at that uh I'm from India  

you're such a perfect English teacher thanks a lot  for your teaching my pleasure how to pronounce I  

and I it's the same pronunciation again if you  want to learn like we cover differences like that  

in in Frederick just get the app click on the  link in the description below this video to get  

the app hey there I'm learning so much thanks you  greetings from Panama nice to see you there thanks  

for all the life lessons says Mr Mo Joan says I'm  reading Captain Marvel Comics and came across the  

word halt so I'm using eish to understand  the usage of that word instead of looking  

for the meaning and dictionary yes excellent so  you're trying to give yourself you're trying to  

uh eliminate the doubt and give yourself examples  Hal stop all right so you can hear again different  

people using it in different situations or even  other people using like wait or stop or don't  

move you know all right uh but very good eston  says I moved to the US when I was 15 I graduated  

from high school four or five years ago and you're  absolutely right those ESL classes really don't  

give you fluency triggers yes so like there's  there's teaching but it's not really teaching  

you anything me giving you uh words and then just  saying well go home and remember that now that's  

a bad teacher and that's unfortunately uh a lot  of a lot of education and why a lot of people um  

a lot of people struggle to speak unfortunately I  just saw a huge uh jump in my English level only  

by listening from one to two hours a day yep  so it's probably you're giving yourself some  

fluency triggers even if you don't realize it uh  and you're understanding the language and you feel  

more confident and that's how it works so you  don't you don't really need to speak in order  

to become uh a a good speaker I know this sounds  it sounds weird it sounds wrong but you just need  

to understand and feel confident about something  so you can do it quickly and you can really do  

it just by getting more examples Andrea how to  pronounce so without sounding Soul well try to  

pronounce it more slowly so if I say so and then  I say soul I'm trying to over pronounce it uh this  

is how you would Practice Things like that but  this is the kind of thing we do in fluent for Life  

Juan says I just joined your course but I feel  lazy to study any tip to get focused well just  

think about what you're what you're interested in  remember like you you don't want to force yourself  

like to learn anything but more think about like  uh the thing you're interested in so what is the  

goal why are you learning English like if you  want to impress a girl or get a job or whatever  

think about that uh and then focus on that and  and you'll see like with my with my lessons uh  

it's not like a pain to learn because it's me  doing all the hard work of making stuff easy and  

understandable all right so pick something you're  interested in and get started all right uh let's  

see here where did we go just like jump down  does your fluency course start from the basics  

uh I would watch my videos on YouTube here if you  if you don't know basic English already um but uh  

uh it's much better uh really the fluent for life  is for people who know a lot of English already if  

you click on the link in the description below the  video you will learn more about the program uh and  

if you can read and understand that then you're  ready for the program so if you're if you're  

understanding me in this video you're you're  not a basic learner uh but the program is not  

for beginners uh let's see yes Lucas again get uh  get Frederick you can just listen to me prounce  

all these different words uh so it goes up to an  advanced level yes so that when I say Advanced  

what we're really doing is taking you from no  confidence to complete confidence that's the goal  

so we want to we want to flip your communication  switch for many many many words and phrases and  

grammar points things like that so as you as you  begin the program like you'll start learning and  

you begin learning new words and phrases and also  feeling more confident about the vocabulary you  

already know okay so we're going to take all of  that and we want to remove the doubt basically so  

the whole program is about removing doubt making  you feel more confident and then that's when you  

start speaking okay so we don't we don't give  you like studying and and the typical kinds of  

stuff it's me doing the hard work of this uh and  then you just really go through the content in  

different ways so you might watch something then  listen to it then read it and then you go through  

a different lesson that changes the vocabulary a  little bit and and teaches you in different ways  

so it's it's kind of simulating uh like getting  fluency triggers in a native environment that's  

basically the idea uh let's see see says Google if  someone jumps or climbs on the B okay you're just  

giving an example Familia yes and and also like  when you get examples if you just use a dictionary  

it's probably not going to feel very emotional for  you so I try to give an example like imagine like  

actually imagine like a wagon like an old for many  years years ago like a wagon there's a horse you  

know pulling pulling the wagon and there's like  guys with instruments in here playing that's the  

bandwagon right there and it looks like fun wow  look at all those guys playing I want to get on  

that bandwagon too and that's the idea so people  are having fun they're enjoying something when  

the team is doing well and it's not just for  sports that's an obvious example but uh but  

that's the I'm trying to show you like when I when  I give explanations I I draw a little pictures and  

things like that because it's easier it makes it  a bit more emotional for you you want to use your  

imaginative memory not just get a definition you  want to try to again trigger this uh as quickly  

as possible and so use whatever resources you can  uh thank you always from Korea yeah let me know if  

your if your name is not written in English and  you'd like me to know your name let me know uh D  

says hello from usbekistan I'm doosa which is  correct often with a te or without you'll hear  

both uh and it gets says in what situation as to  as preposition Jaren form to no that's that's Way  

Way Beyond the uh the subject of this but I have  gone into videos like that and especially uh INF  

fluent for life we cover we cover all that stuff  uh what is the best way to get rid of doubt it's  

like just to get more examples or to really see  something uh it's to just really understand that  

thing very well so it can be very quick like I  gave the example at the beginning of this video  

with the different kinds of numbers in the alien  language uh but it could be a visual example or  

maybe you make a it's it's something that allows  your brain to make a connection so you can imagine  

like your brain your brain is getting these  things and it's it's like there's something in  

your brain and there's the new information you  have to find a way to connect that information  

with something you already have all right so  that you have to integrate that information  

into your brain and as you learn more you create  a network of all these different things they're  

all connected in your brain that's why your brain  looks like a kind of tangle of all these different

things uh like let's see all right Mr Mo I have  experienced something a bit strange I feel comfy  

with native speakers more than foreign speakers  how could you explain that well I would imagine  

uh maybe they're you're more used to the way they  speak rather than foreigners who might have a  

different pronunciation or accent or something  that's usually how it is uh lcas says is it  

normal to be home in times of Carnival I don't  know that's that's for your country I guess no  

no Carnival over here uh wow 101 likes uh thanks  friends Drew deserves it well thank you guys thank  

you all uh how can we enrich our speaking skills  you you eliminate doubt that's it that's that's  

really the the number one idea from this video  is you must eliminate doubt in order to become a  

confident speaker because remember that the fluent  the fluency or the fluent communication switch in  

your brain it only flips if you feel confident  that's why if you don't feel confident you won't  

say anything okay so you might feel confident  about one thing but not something else okay  

and you might know this word or that word and  you feel confident about saying those but you  

don't feel confident about saying anything else  and that's why you would struggle to speak all  

right uh let's see big again say say Andrew you  are extremely popular and I'm sure you have some  

money why don't you travel around the world with  your presentations it would be cool if you visit  

my country one day which is Turkmenistan well  I I don't need to travel anywhere this is it my  

my videos are traveling for me I have done that  though I mean if if somebody wanted to invite me  

like let's say a university or whatever wanted to  like pay me to fly out there just like have a fun  

trip and teach a bunch of people that would be fun  but it like the power of video means don't I don't  

need to get on a boat or a plane or do anything  I can teach people all over the world right now  

just like this all right uh let's see Lucas says  he deserves because he's a hard worker I try but  

I'm also trying to be efficient like even for me I  don't want to just like work hard I want to think  

like what's the what's the best way to explain  this to people so they feel confident and then  

they understand what I'm saying here uh eson says  you probably answer this already but how often do  

you make live videos I downloaded Frederick 2  weeks ago by the way yeah if you like Frederick  

uh do leave a review hopefully you're enjoying  it uh but live videos are maybe once or twice a  

week it just depends on when I can do them but  remember you don't need to watch them live to  

get the benefit of them many people actually many  more people just watch the replay later and that  

the replay will have uh uh transcript uh subtitles  or whatever uh usually a day later Mr uh ridan I  

think I get it it's like visualize or remember  other closed example of a word meaning that we  

want to use yeah it doesn't need to be a visual  example it can be a story also but you'll notice  

when you hear a story you often can kind of see  the story in your mind and so like many lessons  

in life even in your native language it's not  like language learning people will tell you a  

story to try to teach you something we use stories  to teach our children okay so we're like trying to  

teach them uh like the story of Little Red Rider  hood or snow white or like any little story like  

that so we're using a story even if they don't see  something we're using that story to help people  

make uh make a connection to understand something  because the goal is to eliminate doubt that's  

really it so it's not just to study more don't try  to force yourself to learn anything uh just get  

more examples or any kind of like fluency trigger  it's it's possible to do it by yourself it's a lot  

easier when you have someone else who can help you  do it but it is possible that's what you should  

be doing though see again uh Drew do you know  yish it helps a lot when you're in doubt about  

the usage of word yes I do recommend yish uish is  helpful if you already know what the word is uh  

but if you don't obviously it's more difficult  you don't really know what you're looking for  

that's another reason why a teacher is helpful  when you're trying to learn good morning uh 8:  

a.m. let's see and also a heart from Jihad all  right I think look at that I think we've got  

through everybody how do long we're 84 minutes it  looks like all right I'll give a quick recap as  

I usually do uh but if you have any questions  very quickly let me know remember the typical  

things that people try to do even speaking even  speaking it's not going to help you if you don't  

feel confident about what you're going to say so  trying to study more repeating things trying to  

study more getting definitions or translations  it's most likely not going to help you speak  

instead focus on this side remember you have  this little switch here it begins off so there  

are things you want to express and you're trying  to kind of push it this way and you're okay let  

me get a translation or make a flash card and  study something again and again try to try to  

push it to on but you're you're you're it's like  you're trying to work against the doubt you have  

instead of just removing the doubt so like like if  you have a uh another good way to understand this  

is a door stop so I have a a door stop in my room  so here's the door if we put the little like so a  

door stop it's just like a little wedge like this  that fits uh under the door so if I put a door  

stop like behind the door to stop it from opening  then it's it's you can you can you can keep trying  

to push on the door but it's going to be very  difficult to open the door because the door stop  

is there but if you just ask hey could you remove  the door stop and yes okay now you can open the  

door very easily all right so the same idea you  need to remove this this this is the thing that's  

really stopping you it's not this stuff over here  all right so the more fluency triggers you can get  

the faster you will become a fluence speaker I  guarantee it I've just shown you in this video  

how it works uh and understanding this idea of a  fluency trigger if you go back and watch any of  

my other like any live videos uh you'll see the  same thing I will be sharing stories or visual  

examples of something anything I can do to trigger  that fluency in your mind so it's something I do  

that's why I tell people I'm getting them fluent  obviously you can do this by yourself but the  

point is you know it's what I do I enjoy getting  people fluent I I like I can't like see your face  

out there but I can tell when people understand  something like ah now I got it I like to see that  

expression on people's faces all right but that's  the basic idea So the faster you get these fluency  

triggers the faster you speak all right do you  think just listening uh is improved my English  

or not remember like any if you can make that  question for any of these things over here do you  

think studying will help me improve my English do  you think repetition do you think speaking do you  

think listening do you think reading or writing or  anything else will improve my fluency or language  

learning ability it that's not really the right  question the question is how do I remove the doubt  

because the doubt is the thing that really stops  you from speaking once you understand that there  

could be many ways that you remove the doubt just  like I've shown or you I've got even some listed  

in the description below this video so different  ways you would remove doubts you can do this by  

yourself uh or you can have someone like me help  you do that but the point is the focus is on here  

so it's not about like which one of these things  you do you could do all of those things but it's  

more important to eliminate the doubt and think  about what's the best way to uh to understand  

this particular idea all right so to eliminate the  doubt you have uh about you know whatever the the  

vocabulary or the grammar or the pronunciation  if you do that then you become a good speaker uh  

D says when you start teaching writing skills and  what strategies can you suggest can you start from  

beginner is it possible how uh what do you mean  teaching writing skills like actually teaching the  

letters and spelling or are you talking about how  to write essays or something like that if you're  

talking about actually how to write and remember  spelling that's what we do in Frederick um but  

for teaching people how to write well I would  I would read good writing and and write by hand  

like physically write by hand what other people  are writing for that for that kind of writing so  

if you're writing uh essays then you would find  people who have good essays and just actually  

take a pencil or pen and paper and write that by  hand so just to get a good example and it's it's  

something you do with a pencil uh or pen and paper  rather than using it on the computer because that  

slows down the language a bit more for you to give  you time to think about what you're writing uh  

but that will help you do that as well so it just  depends on what you're uh specifically interested  

in doing all right and thank you from Russia look  at that the final word of the day with the looks  

like sunflower oh another question here s says hi  from Bangkok Thailand want to improve my listening  

skill I can't watch Netflix without subtitles  please advise go back and watch this video again  

go back and watch this video again watch this  video again remember this is I I I always say  

my videos are like important and helpful but  this idea of the fluency trigger is probably  

the most I don't know I would say that's the best  idea I've ever had for explaining how this works  

okay so it's even it's even better than like  comprehensible input uh or learning English as  

a first language or learning English like a native  speaker because it really gets to the heart like  

even when I when I explain to people you should be  learning English as a first language rather than  

learning English as a second language like this  um it's important I really want to understand like  

what are you trying to do where does the fluency  actually come from and so even a native speaker  

does some of this okay so you could be you could  be like a native speaker is is still trying to  

study from a book because they have bad teachers  just like language Learners have bad teachers too  

and and I don't even want to you know talk about  like saying bad teachers it's just a lot of people  

don't know this is possible and they don't know  they should be focusing on this they just learn  

like as a teacher okay like this is what everybody  does and they just do that same thing but once  

you understand this uh the idea of a fluency  trigger it's really what can I do what Insight  

or story or visual example or something can I do  to eliminate the doubt so if you have a question  

about the language answer the question that's  how it works if you have a worry about something  

you need to destroy that worry by feeling more  confident usually it could be with more examples  

or something but you you will actually feel the  example you will feel when the trigger happens you  

feel it you like ah I understand that now that's  what you're going for so if you're doing it by  

yourself just answer the questions you have about  the language you think okay here's a grammar point  

I want to learn I don't feel very confident about  using this word why do I not feel confident about  

that maybe it's because you like don't know the  vocabulary well enough or whatever but you need  

answer that question for yourself if you're doing  this by yourself all right uh and JC sento says  

that's a great idea Mr Shaw says how to improve  fluency in non-native country where we don't have  

anyone to practice with remember uh it doesn't  matter where you live it doesn't matter uh you  

could be in a box but you have the internet right  now and you can get all the information you need  

to eliminate any doubt you have that's why lots  of people people in fluent for Life over here they  

don't live in english- speaking countries some  of them live I there's like a few people I think  

that are just they're in various places like up  in a Mountain Village or something and they don't  

have any native speakers to speak with but they  still improve because I'm eliminating the doubt  

that's how it works okay so if you eliminate  the doubt it doesn't matter where you live uh  

but we also show you in the program how to meet  people to practice with online if you want to do  

that but it's important like you don't start with  speaking you start with eliminating the doubt and  

then you speak all right so you should really  like reverse these kinds of things so try to  

eliminate the doubt as fast as possible and then  you can like do the practice of the language like  

using it in in your uh your daily life Dan says  teacher it is a problem if I use my first language  

to learn other language yes if you're using your  your native language again translations is over  

here if you're using translations it means you  still have doubts about the English so so you  

need to eliminate those doubts so you don't so  you don't think uh through your native language  

if you learn through translations you will speak  through translations also and you will continue  

to struggle when you speak everyone will have  that same problem all right Mr Shaw is taking  

a bunch of sentences and repeating them a 100  times that can improve my accent and fluency uh  

probably not you see repetition over here as well  so just repeating something is not likely to help  

you but if you get varied viw it's so naturally  varied review as I call it is when I'm hearing  

like other people say something that will improve  my accent much faster than me trying to say it  

over and over again myself I need to hear other  people speaking it's how I eliminate the doubt  

you don't you remember if you repeat something I'm  not learning anything new so it's unlikely that I  

will eliminate any doubt I will I will stay in the  same place because I'm doing the same thing so I  

have to change that in some way I need to get  a different example like hearing somebody else  

say that word uh gor says my target is ESL ban  n or I Els excuse me band n i and speak like a  

native I enrolled in busu memorize and planed join  P English or ABA English well good luck with those  

uh if if they don't give you fluency triggers  then I wouldn't do any of that um but you know  

give it a try I guess lcas says uh the translation  of fantastic in Portuguese it is a fantastic go  

yeah and that's why it's some of those things you  learn uh like translation things like that it's  

the same thing um in English as well uh let's see  G says I understand everything you're saying but  

I lack fluency I want a course that will help me  become super fluent so that I can speak without  

uh On Any Given topic without hesitation that's  what this is so if you'd like to do that click on  

the link in the description to learn more about  the program but uh unless unless a program is  

actually eliminating the doubt then they're just  teaching you more the traditional way and you are  

unlikely to get fluent I can't comment on those  other programs because I don't know what they are  

but this is what you should look for whether you  learn with me or by yourself or somebody else it  

doesn't matter but this is the thing here that's  what you must do if you want to speak all right  

so you can try to read or right like those things  are a little bit easier to do but when you need to  

communicate quickly confident without hesitation  you need to say the right thing at the right time  

you need to eliminate the doubt so if you'd like  help doing that like getting thousands of fluency  

triggers about the things you're interested in  for your life that's what we do influent for  

life all right well if you have any questions you  can send us an email at info@ English anyone.com  

but definitely check out Frederick and fluent for  Life uh if especially Frederick has been helpful  

for you leave us a review let other people know  that the program is helpful and it's helped you  

and tell other people about it and then I will  see you in the next video uh it should be Friday  

I think but remember try to get those triggers  you got to flip that fluent communication switch  

in your brain if you want to speak the  faster you get those the faster you speak

byebye