How To Speak English More Fluently Without Studying More Words

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Drew Badger the founder of englishanyone.com and  the English fluency guide and today we're going  

to talk about one of my favorite topics how to  speak more fluently without studying more words or  

grammar or really anything else uh so I actually  it should be an interesting video uh I do talk  

about quite a few different ways to improve your  vocabulary without learning more or studying more  

uh certainly like uh spending more time trying  to get more vocabulary or learning more things  

like that uh but really the goal is actually to  help you understand the vocabulary you already  

have because that vocabulary is going to be a lot  more powerful uh than trying to learn more words  

so I'll begin uh nice to see everybody there I'll  begin with a quick story uh many years ago I had a  

friend he is actually still a friend of mine uh  but he used to come to visit his dad in Chicago  

and when I was living back in Chicago so he would  come to visit his dad sometimes and I would go  

to uh play at his house you know we were just  little kids and because his dad didn't have many  

toys or anything uh we just played with this one  little it was a we call it a blowup ball so you  

like an inflatable thing so you can take it  and you know it's got little like little valve  

on it so a little opening can blow it up so it  was just a tiny little plastic inflatable ball  

that he had uh and that was one of the main toys  that we played with and we just created all these  

different games so we had one toy and we made all  these different games we would play basketball or  

try to hide it somewhere or do something but the  point is uh because we only had that one thing we  

were able to be creative about it we had to be  creative about it uh now on the other side we  

have like my daughters or actually most kids that  have maybe more than one toy in their house so my  

daughters you know they'll have some Legos or some  uh little dolls or a dollhouse or something like  

that they've got quite a few different toys they  can play with but often they will say dad like you  

know what can we do and so it's interesting like  it's this is is often the way of people learning  

the language where they it's almost like they  get bored of all of the vocabulary they have  

and so they go looking for new vocabulary but  then they can't speak so one of the reasons  

people actually can't speak even though they know  a lot of words is that they actually don't know  

the vocabulary as well as they think they do and  they might know usually one definition or one or  

two uses of a word but maybe they think that's  enough or they just don't know their other ones  

or maybe some other reason uh but then they just  keep looking for new words and then not being able  

to get fluent in the vocabulary they already  have that's what's really stopping them from  

getting fluent so before we talk more about that  uh in this video let me just check chat see if  

there any questions nice to see everybody there  Usama Alejandro Diana uh Dion let's see look at  

that are there two oh it's okay I thought there  were two alejandros at the same time amazing Eden  

nice to see you there Leonardo uh jerma na gilvin  Zoe Abdul ABD I can't read that properly abdull  

Raman uh welcome to my fave number one teacher  oh you're too kind School of greatness hi Drew  

urkin hello George nice to see you there aayu  Khan from usbekistan and Val de7 there's some  

interesting names here nice to see everybody there  in some Korea which I can't I can't read the huru  

uh School of greatness I can't keep watching this  live until the end because it's so late for me and  

the time to sleep it's okay we always save these  lives so you can watch them later okay so let's  

get into it uh I talk a lot about different  ways especially I have a program called speak  

like me which actually walks you through a bunch  of different ways to improve your speech without  

learning anything new but today I want to talk  specifically about using vocabulary better uh  

so let's just look at a bunch of examples I will  give you some and then if you have more maybe some  

things that you would like to learn more about  or you have questions about vocabulary you can  

let me know and I will cover some more examples uh  Shin says where are you mis do you mean physically  

located I'm in Nagasaki Japan currently all right  uh so let's take a look just some very basic  

words that people already know and we'll try to  understand these through some situations and help  

you use that vocabulary more fluently by basically  extending the kinds of patterns that you can use  

uh so I talk about this frequently about the goal  of fluency is really pattern recognition so you  

can recognize patterns when you hear them and  what this really means is that when natives are  

in a situation they say this vocabulary so when  this happens people say this all right so that's  

the more important thing rather than trying to  study grammar we want to know what do people say  

in different situations so when this happens what  do people say when this happens what do people  

say so let's take uh let's take we could use the  word take actually we use I'll use use the word

make now everyone watching this video probably  knows what this word means but we're going to try  

to extend it to make some more interesting uses  out of the word uh but really try to help you  

understand this like a native all right so let's  say what's something I could make uh just to give  

you a little bit of use of your English out there  just tell me something I could make something  

simple something easy to draw so I don't want  to try to make you know some complicated thing  

it's something simple or easy I could make I could  make if you can't think of anything in 10 seconds  

I will just think of something myself make a try  well I couldn't really I can't draw that very well  

take make a friend yes give me give me something  like physical like I could make a marker something  

like that I could make a pizza I could make a book  I could make uh make a sandwich you know something  

like that so we want to take yes I I don't want  to go into like all the broader meanings of make  

we can cover that uh but this right now I just  want to start with something very simple uh so  

everybody can understand this at the most basic  level okay we got make a pizza make a cake we'll  

use the cake uh example make a meal so cake uh  even simpler and it's very easy to draw so here  

we go look at that I got my circle uh look like  very simple look at that I made a cake I made a  

cake all right so we're going to draw a situation  here so we have let's say uh a person uh we're  

going to put a little chef hat just make that kind  of that looks a little bad over there see if we  

can fix that there okay so this is a chef hat uh  and this person is making uh a cake all right so  

to make a cake all right so very simple to make  a cake now uh if we take this situation by by  

itself uh let's say we're just going to put this  this like in a in a bubble as one situation so  

this person right now is making a cake and we can  just put this very simply as make a cake or we can  

even call this too make a cake so if we have this  in a dictionary we have like a list of different  

things like that to make a cake now let's say we  want to make him do that thing so uh imagine let  

me draw let's see where can I fit this so here's  another guy here's a like a just draw this is kind  

of like a bad guy over here he's got a mask on and  he's holding a gun uh at this guy over here and he  

says I want you to make me a cake okay so he's  holding a gun to this guy and now the situation  

is different so we have this situation and this  situation here so if we imagine the whole thing  

together so this guy let's see we'll just call  him I don't know like the bad guy so the bad guy

so the bad guy makes he's trying to make this  situation so the the chef right here is making  

the cake that's just this situation by itself but  this guy is trying to make this whole situation  

all right so let me write this whole thing down  for you so the bad guy makes the chef make a cake  

all right so now we got a longer more complicated  sentence and the point is just to understand what  

the situation is so what's happening here at  first we're just looking at this we have a very  

simple sentence make a cake or this isn't even a  sentence it's just like a little phrase to make a  

cake uh or we could have the chef let's see the  Chef makes a cake so here's the first situation  

the Chef makes a cake but now we want to talk  about someone else creating this situation all  

right so the chef is creating the cake and now  this bad guy is creating this whole situation  

so let's say the chef is you know he's sitting  there relaxing he doesn't maybe he doesn't want  

to make the cake uh but he's going to make  the cake anyway because this guy is holding  

a gun and saying you have to make that cake so  the robber or the bad guy he just says make me  

a cake like make a cake for me so make me a  cake all right so there are different ways to  

talk about this but just at the beginning uh  we're taking again some very basic vocabulary  

especially something like make and we're trying  to extend this extend our usage of it so we can  

actually make a more interesting complex  sentence so the the chef again is making a  

cake and now this bad guy is making him make a  cake okay now we've got two uh makes over here  

but you could use this really for anything so  we could change this situation let's say it's  

not a chef let's say it is uh let's just  say let's say here's a guy uh reading a

book okay so instead of make a cake the situation  for this guy right here is read a book very simple  

every everybody should know this vocabulary  already to read a book but now we are going  

to force this person or convince him or do  something in some way uh I'm using this as  

a gun because it's just an obvious very clear  example of what's Happening Here this person is  

causing this person to do something and we just  say in a very simple way you're making someone  

do something okay so someone is doing something  and we can create we can cause that situation  

okay so this guy is making him read a book all  right so the bad guy makes the student read a book  

same kind of idea and as you get more examples  of this you start to recognize oh look at that I  

can take this same word like make uh or any other  we'll do some more examples of this uh but I want  

to see if you guys can make a similar sentence in  the chat just to practice using this so we have  

a situation any any situation you like so make a  book plan a dinner uh go shopping do anything like  

that but then we can take this bad guy and force  that other person to do that thing okay so right  

now this guy is making a cake just by itself but  the whole situation this guy is making this guy  

make a cake isn't that interesting so we're  taking the same vocabulary without learning  

anything new we're trying to extend our use of the  Vo vocabulary so we can create more interesting or  

more detailed or slightly different sentences so  right now in the comments see if you can comment  

just make anything like a similar sentence like  this uh where you're talking about someone making  

someone else do something I can make some more  examples but right now see right now I can't  

make you do this but I'm asking you to okay so I  recommend you give it a try the more examples you  

get uh the easier easier it will be to remember  this and you will recognize these patterns all  

right so now Vincent says Drew makes me learn  English all right let me get rid of this too  

over here so if you look at the look at the  sentence again when we're trying to practice  

something like this we want to get the same  kind of sentence so keep the sentence the same  

but maybe change one or two pieces of this so if  we want to change [Applause] this so we have the  

bad guy we just say drew so Drew and then makes  and then the chef is you so Drew makes me learn

English all right so if I'm talking about making  you do something I'm holding a gun to your head  

or I'm forcing you to do something I'm saying well  you can't go outside if you don't do your work so  

often parents will make their kids do something  like that or the government is like hey you need  

to pay your bills good example over there all  right so we we want to again when you're when  

you're looking at a sentence like this if it's  especially a new structure for you just try to  

take and maybe change one word in that sentence  and that will be easier for you to understand and  

and try to play with the language so the bad guy  makes the chef make a cake or so if we have like  

the bad guy we'll just say I'm the bad guy here  here and then makes and then me is the chef and  

here is the thing that you're doing so learning  English so we don't have the chef or Drew makes  

me to learn English we don't say that we just  say drew makes me learn English my mom makes  

me make my bed so I don't want to make my bed  but my mom makes me make my bed okay all right  

looks like we've got some good examples before I  continue let me check chat and see if people are  

are are getting this over here all right uh let's  see mustus a mustafiz excuse me from Bangladesh  

Diana uh how can I know with the last letters if  it is a noun or a verb etc for example an Le well  

you this one of those things that you get just  by recognizing patterns in words and typically  

like if you have something like Lee that would be  an adverb uh like I do something happily so I am  

doing something happily I'm and you you will  get this just by uh recognizing the patterns  

so it's it's best not to try to learn like like  the the reverse is I'm going to going to get like  

a list of all these words and I can try to see  what the pattern is uh but typically you learn  

the opposite way where you start hearing things  in situations and you recognize what the word  

mean and then oh that's interesting a lot of  these words have a similar pattern okay so it  

is possible to take the words you get a list of  them and learn like that but it's not terribly  

memorable so it's not terribly memorable not  very good uh for for memor uh for remembering  

uh but it is possible to do that uh also if  you look in Frederick you will see examples  

of things like that so we have different  word Parts like Tio n or ENT uh other like  

the pieces that you have you will see those  examples and as you recognize those examples  

and understand the situations in the app then you  will learn those things all right but it's it's  

not really a big a big problem to learn this you  will come to understand those patterns naturally  

but if you'd like to actually get a list of that  and see how it works then you can get Frederick  

by clicking on the link in the description below  this video uh won says hello from the Philippines  

make a try okay we got those examples over there  yeah so you in this example I really just wanted  

to take something very simple that you're  physically making uh and then we can go on  

to something like make a friend or make a I  don't know like make a make an announcement  

there are lots of things you can make so we can  really extend that vocabulary that's another way  

to improve your use of the vocabulary without  learning more words you're just going deeper  

into the vocabulary to understand it better and  again this just means you're understanding when  

we can use that thing and of course when we have  a video we always have have a a fire truck or an  

ambulance or something like that all right uh  Adriana says don't forget to like yes you can  

make them yeah I wish I could make you like the  video now that's another thing we can extend  

extend this even further we'll we'll check on that  in a moment but uh but thank you Menace says I  

make my bed every morning yes so maybe you could  make your bed you could you're when we talk about  

making a bed after you get up in the morning  maybe the covers are you know off the bed or  

something so you make it nice and clean to make  it clean you make the bed but maybe your mother  

oh no or some bad guy is making you make your bed  okay so he is making me make my bed all right now  

another thing I'm not going into a lot of detail  about different tenses but this part like in a  

in a thing like this so let's say we're talking  about the past just as an example the bad guy

that was a sneeze try to hold it in the bad  guy made me or the bad guy made the chef make  

a cake so the only thing that changes in this  sentence is this so we don't have to make this  

past and make this past it's only just this  one thing and rather than trying to remember  

the rules this is why it's important to get lots  of varied examples so you get some in the past or  

some in the future you can imagine like if we're  talking about something happening tomorrow what  

do we get the bad guy will make the chef make a  cake okay so the only thing we need to change is  

this everything else stays the same the bad guy  will make the chef make a cake I know this is a  

little bit more confusing because we have make  here but I wanted to just give you an example  

with the same word and show you how we really can  extend this to make a more interesting sentence  

now I could even go further with this I could make  a whole situation with this and have another bad  

guy pointing at this bad guy and say like bad  guy a makes bad guy B make him make a cake all  

right so you can see you could grow this out  infinitely about people making other people  

do things okay but again I'm just trying to give  you lots of examples so you feel more confident  

about using that looks like we did get a few  let me just check those in all right uh so my  

mom makes me make by bed yes excellent example  hi from Venezuela Leonard make my daughter do  

her homework every day is not easy yes so in this  example we're changing it slightly you would say  

uh like talking about just the action itself so  we would say making my daughter do her homework  

all right so making my daughter like doing this  thing in general is hard to do so the sentence is  

correct except for make so we would say making  my daughter do her homework is difficult all  

right another way we could say this is it's  difficult to make my daughter do her homework  

it's difficult to make my daughter do her homework  but very good example uh Jesus or Jesus from Los  

angelist tell someone makes me pay my bills  another excellent example so someone does that  

uh here it says how about when it's relative  to lying when someone is making something up  

yes so in this way we're we're not talking about  causing anything or forcing anyone to do something  

we're just talking about a different use of make  so this video I I didn't want to spend a lot of  

time talking about all the various things you can  make but that's another way to go deeper into the  

vocabulary so typically when people think of make  they might think about something physical that's  

why I wanted to start with an example so maybe  a factory made this marker so like a machine put  

the pieces together and now we have this marker so  to physically make something but you could make up  

a story you could make up a lie you could make up  uh lots of other things we could have uh different  

phrasal verbs uh with make or we could make  something non-physical we could make uh make a  

goal you could make a friend you could make amends  with someone amends with someone let me see if I

can to make amends this means to uh kind of  reconnect with someone or after there's a  

fight you apologize and you become friends  again to make amend I know we don't really  

pronounce it like that it sounds more like make  amends make amends okay so when you make amends  

with someone I had an argument with my friend but  we made amends so we we need to make amends about  

something so you'll notice that sometimes the the  grammar or the tense or the way we structure the  

sentence it can change and that might change the  the tense but typically this is uh the important  

thing is to understand what's happening in this  in this situation so this situation just by itself  

make a cake that's it or we could even say who  is making the cake just to have a full sentence  

so the Chef makes a cake the Chef makes a cake  or the boy reads the student reads all right but  

now we want to talk about the kind of bigger  situation of why this is happening so this  

guy is making that happen so to make something  happen all right so what are you trying to do  

I'm trying to cause something else to happen  maybe I can't do that thing but I want it to  

happen and someone else will do that so I'm trying  to make some something happen to make something

happen all right all right I think we got  some more let's see examples here Sergio  

from Venezuela and I think I did I skip that one  uh let's see all right uh C again I am about to  

college you mean go to school right now like  you have class or something so I can't watch  

this but I'll let's see I but I have a  question about take back like I'll take  

the cake back back to the store y take equals  receive no in that case you're you're you're  

moving something from one place to another so  it's at your house and you take it with you so  

you are going and you carry it back to the Cake  store so if you take something back like if you  

buy something at a store I buy a new uh shirt or  some toys or something like that so I am holding  

those things and I bring them back oh like  here's this thing it's at my house now but now  

I'm I'm at my house that that's actually  a good uh just let me I'll erase this

here just so people understand this is why it's  important to think about the situation and not  

just the vocabulary so when do people do things  so just using this very simple example here is a  

house uh and here is a store we just put some  windows on here so right now there is a like  

a present over here let's just say an eraser  because this is easier I don't need to I don't  

need to draw it I can just keep it here so there  is an eraser at the store and I am over here this  

is me and so I buy the Eraser and I carry it  home with me so now I'm back at my house all  

right so the Eraser is at my house now so I was  at the store and then I took the Eraser back home  

so when you take something you're holding  it and then bringing it with you to take  

something okay that's one use of take so  I'm taking something I'm carrying it I'm  

holding it and I'm going from the store  back to my house okay so now if I'm at my

house and I have the Eraser in my hand but  I don't like the Eraser I want to return the  

Eraser I can take it back so maybe I I physically  am holding the Eraser and I walk back to the store  

with it so I'm taking it back all right now a  different thing maybe let's say I I stay at my  

house so I'm not going anywhere I could send  it back so if I take the Eraser back so take  

back take back means I'm physically carrying it  you know I'm moving it in some way but if I send  

it back maybe I I put it in the mail or someone  else a delivery person comes and and then takes  

that back so the delivery person would take the uh  eraser back but I'm just sending it back because  

I'm not moving anywhere okay so when you have  take the point is the thing is kind of stuck to  

you it's with you so if I take my daughter to  school I'm walking with her I'm taking her to  

school but if I send my daughter to school then  I'm I'm either putting her on a bus or or I'm  

just telling her okay you you can walk now okay  you see the difference I'm sending something or  

I'm taking something so it doesn't matter what the  thing is uh it's just what is the situation so are  

you moving with the object or the thing or are  you sending it or giving it to someone else all  

right all right hopefully that makes sense let  me know again if you have questions the point  

of all these videos is to help you remove any  doubt you have about the language because when  

you remove the doubt you can speak all right uh  let's see all right I think I answered okay I  

answered that one already all right uh y says  the government makes me pay a lot of taxes yes  

so you would say the government makes me all  right so the government makes you remember that  

when we when we talk about this like if we have  one Robber here like he so he made makes them  

do something or if we have you know two or more  as a bunch of guys over here then then we would  

say they they make so the robbers or the bad  guys or just they they make the chef make a

cake all right so good examples here let's see I  see you every day on YouTube ads glad to hear it  

you l I don't know if that's a good thing or not  but welcome you can see how I teach see how we can  

actually be helpful for you all right my mother  makes me uh oh here you would say my mother makes  

me mop the floor so again it's the same structure  make a cake clean my room mop a floor or mop the  

floor so remember when you're trying to make  new sentences if you want to change the verb  

or the action whatever is happening try to keep  everything else the same so the bad guys make me  

wash the floor or or mop the floor or clean the  floor whatever okay so we really want to make  

sure uh and this is why again a lot of people will  know they will understand basic English or even  

more advanced English but they still have trouble  remembering the patterns and using them fluently  

because again they just don't really spend enough  time with the vocabulary so that's why we can take  

look it's we're we're spending how long have we  been talking half an hour just talking about the  

word word make all right but it's important as  you go deeper you actually learn a lot more so  

I know it might sound like you're not focusing on  anything else but you do learn a lot more as you  

focus on something and the more important part is  that you actually develop fluency in that thing  

so what we're really trying to do is remove the  doubt you have and that's what makes you speak  

so to make you speak right like the doubt is  stopping you from speaking so if you remove the  

doubt that's what will actually make you speak  or let you speak in that example all right hit  

the like button says Seth uh thank you very much  let's see Fabiano nice to see you there what's  

up my man this is Fabiano you are making uh you  make an amazing job helping people get fluent I  

appreciate glad to hear it all right let's see the  wheelchair hello everyone my mother makes me mop  

the floor let's see is this live or pre now this  is live unless you're watching later when it's a  

recording uh Bridget nice to see you there F how  can I change any verb into a now well if you're  

if you're talking about you want to talk about a  situation like we just mentioned before uh I could  

just talk about like the the situation of making  making a cake all right so there you go turn a  

verb into a noun all right uh let's see rids onean  hello sir and everyone said again the Supreme  

Court ruled in favor of the baker he doesn't  have to make a cake for the bad guy well look  

at that that's some excellent English I I think  you you might be above the level of this video  

all right uh UD says hello again hey guys uh give  a like in this video to help him oh that's a very  

kind of you pensil B says hello or uh oh excuse me  bti lat on Drew makes me understand that correct  

that the correct form is making my daughter do  something and not make my daughter do something  

yes so if you're talking about just just the  situation by itself a situation could be a thing  

like this marker or my hand or you could talk  about an activity like teaching or playing or  

something like that so let's say I want to say  uh like I like I like blue so we have this blue  

color here I like blue very simple sentence we  can talk about a color or a thing or a person or  

an animal or an activity so I like uh let's see  uh eating lots of people like eating there we go  

I like eating now sometimes I don't want to make  this a long video about like to eat rather than  

eating but in general we can just take something  if we want to talk about an activity and that's  

the like thing you know we're doing something I  like eating I like playing sitting going watching  

anything like that and then we can make it  longer I like eating uh pasta I like eating pasta  

that uh this guy made the chef make so I can  get even more detailed and complex but again  

very simply we always want to start simple  make sure you understand the simple thing  

at each level so you feel confident about using  it all right so very simple uh it just ideally  

if you want to talk about an activity just  put that ining on there my children make me  

cooking now remember so looking at the example  over here uh half Sunny if I'm pronouncing that  

correctly what would be the correct sentence  here my children make me cook my children make  

me cook my children make me cook okay very  good though all right lots of smiley faces  

over there Leonard and make me understand that  it is also possible to say it's difficult to  

make my daughter do something yes that's correct  so anytime we can talk about a physical activity  

or or anything like uh it's it's difficult to  draw okay let me just write these up here for

you so let's I'll make it even shorter uh so  it's easy to uh let's see easy to draw even  

though I'm not a very good artist over here  it's easy to draw we can change this and give  

it the exact same meaning the same situation  we're just changing or excuse me easy pardon  

me just wrote East over there my writing is so  bad okay it's easy to draw we change this to

drawing is easy same thing so we can say either  of these it means the exact same thing it's easy  

to draw drawing is easy now we can make this a  bit more complicated it's easy to draw uh let's  

just say uh draw draw cakes so we could erase  that and when we say draw cakes we could say  

draw pictures of cakes so it's easy to draw cakes  or you could say something like drawing cakes is

easy you could also actually say  cake drawing is easy but that  

sounds a little bit weird people might not  understand what you mean so drawing picture  

of cakes is easy drawing pictures of cakes is

easy all right and okay I think I think I got it  all right uh Mr Drew makes me copy his English  

accent well I'm not making you do anything I'm  uh giving you an example and you can copy that  

if you like so you are able to copy my example but  I'm not making you do it fot says how can I change  

any verb into a noun okay answer that one already  I thought make was the easiest word to learn all  

right it could be for lots of people all right but  hopefully that makes sense so the point is like I  

often say makes sense does that make sense another  use of uh make so let's uh move on to a different  

example just to extend this same idea but I think  people are getting it the point here is if we take  

some time and spend a little bit more time talking  about a particular word you want to learn more  

examples of this thing the more time you put into  it the more fluency you will get because you're  

getting better understanding and the understanding  is what gives you the confidence to speak so we  

don't become fluent by just repeating the word  make okay I don't I don't learn the word make  

in a dictionary and then say make make make make  make make that doesn't really help me become a  

more confident speaker what does help me become  confident is understanding all of the different  

uses of the word make all right so I don't need  to sit and and try to memorize all those but the  

point is that as I learn more of them that's  when I start feeling more confident about

speaking so it's easy to do this by yourself  as well you can search you know anytime you're  

you're learning a new word especially a very  common word you might ask yourself when else  

do we use this all right I have a video talking  about the Five Laws of uh remembering words so  

the Five Laws of speaking without translating uh  so your brain is naturally trying to understand  

the vocabulary and if you give your brain good  information it will help your brain and you will  

kind of solve the puzzle for these things all  right let's take another simple word and I bet  

we could extend this in the same way I'll check  comments right before we do so though all right  

uh let's see J his says Drew could you use phrasal  verb what like a specific phrasal verb about what  

let me know my child makes me nervous there you go  so you can talk about someone else doing something  

to you all right my child makes me nervous very  good so could you explain the word certain and  

how to use it in a sentence certain uh what What's  the what's your what's your concern about certain  

certain it just means really you have like 100%  confidence about something so I am certain that  

uh it will rain today so I look at the weather  I I know for sure it will rain 100% I am certain  

okay so you are sure about something or you  know something will happen so did I get the  

right answer like oh yes like I am certain all  right now be careful cuz you can get a word like  

certain uh and it it kind of sounds like a curtain  you know like different different word this is  

another thing we cover in Frederick to help you  understand the difference now there's a rule for  

this and rather than me telling you the rule you  understand this as you get more examples so look  

at that like both of these begin with a c but  this one is a soft C certain and this is a hard  

C curtain curtain and the reason this happens  I'll give you a hint here it's The Vow okay  

so when you when we have a c typically we have  a soft C and if we have a CU we have a heart  

se but rather than trying to just remember that  it's better to get more examples that's what we  

do in Frederick another of the things that we do  in Frederick uh if you'd like to learn more about  

these spelling rules and how to understand  and pronounce and and hear these words well  

uh get Frederick just click on the link in the  description below this video all right uh let's  

see did I miss somebody here okay all right uh  Estella says I hope someday you could teach or  

elaborate on the grammar hypothetical situation  with wood because the live lesson why would you  

do that is really amazing and you're really good  at explaining wait did I did I what you want but  

you want to know ah like you you want to know  more about wood are you a member of fluent for  

life I think we cover that in uh um influent  for life I'm pretty sure we do uh but yeah but  

so the the basic idea is that like if we're  we're we're trying to think about why someone  

would do something just to talk about that that uh  specific example again I don't remember what what  

video was that that was a few I don't remember  what video that was uh but if it's if you think  

about a hypothetical situation in the same way  if we have a time period uh let's say this is now  

and somebody does something that we don't like  or we don't agree with or we don't we just don't  

understand why they they did that thing uh in that  case if we have some kind of doubt we usually say  

why uh like why would it's it's basically a  hypothetical situation all the time because  

you're not really you're asking the person but  you're more asking the universe in general like  

why would anyone do that all right so it's just  another another another way of saying I would not  

do that so why would anyone else do that thing all  right so uh like a guy let's just say a guy on the  

street uh kicked a dog all right just for example  so there's a guy uh and there's a dog walking over  

here oh man that's a bad that's a bad dog uh so  this guy so he he kicks the dog and I see that  

and I think oh my goodness why why would anyone  so I'm talking about anyone it doesn't really  

matter just in general like why would anyone even  if I'm talking to that guy specifically so I might  

I might say to him why would you do that all right  but I really just mean why would anyone kick kick  

a dog all right and so this is the same thing for  for like it could be a hypothetical situation but  

it it just means it's happening at any time time  so it doesn't matter when it happens or who does  

that thing like for this situation why would  anyone do that thing why would anyone kick a  

dog at any time okay maybe sometime it is good  to kick a dog like if a dog is attacking you and  

you need to fight the dog off or something then  yeah maybe it's a good idea to kick the dog okay  

but if you just see a person kick a a dog for no  reason or you you don't know what the information  

is so that's usually when we would use why would  anyone kick a dog all right so it's it it already  

is like it's it's basically always a hypothetical  situation even if something actually happens so  

the guy kicked the dog at this time it was just  one activity at this time on this day but it's the  

question is really for any time for anyone all  right so for me I don't understand why someone  

would do that maybe another person thinks yeah  it's like a great idea to just kick dogs randomly  

okay you know something like that but it's always  hypothetical in this way because it could happen  

at any time in the past or the future any so  anytime so why would anyone kick a dog same kind  

of idea all right so it's basically always like  again usually there's a a situation that triggers  

that so somebody did something at this time and  it makes you think wow why would anyone do that  

all right so that's another one like uh jff says  why would anyone hug a lion you know I actually I  

years ago I went to a safari park with my wife  and and we were holding a baby lion so that's  

maybe one reason why someone would hug a lion all  right it was a pretty it was just a baby lion but  

I don't know where they got the baby lion probably  from the mother or something I guess we gave it  

back though I didn't I didn't I didn't uh take the  lion home uh so yes why would anyone do something  

so again this question like and and this is It's  why it's so important that we don't want to just  

look at a word and think like you get a list of  grammar examples we use W in the hypothetical  

we use W when talking about the past or use W  when like we don't think about it like that as  

a native speaker so a fluent speaker to use the  language fluently you don't want to understand  

the sentence like that we want to think oh like  in in general what are we what do we really mean  

by this so what is what is this situation when  we use uh this word what are we talking about  

and this is the basic idea so why would someone do  that like why would anyone uh learn English it's  

like well you know there could be a good reason  for that but you can ask that maybe you don't know  

a good reason but maybe there is a good reason  and someone answers that for you all right so  

usually there's a particular thing that happens to  trigger that but it's it's really asking about any  

time for anyone so it could be like way in the far  past as well same kind of thing all right uh but  

if you want like lots more examples of all kinds  of grammar points that's what we do in fluent for  

Life the whole point is to give you really good  explanations of things show you how they work  

give you examples lots of examples especially from  different native speakers all right and then show  

you uh how native speakers are actually using  those things in real conversations so we cover  

everything all right uh uh let's see hopefully  that but uh Estella if you're still watching let  

me know if that makes sense for you uh edenel says  thank you so much glad to hear it all right uh a  

says hi coach from Peru your classes are amazing  glad to hear can you use sure instead yes uh as  

a as opposed to certain you can talk about sure  and you some people even say I'm 100% sure even  

though sure or certain means 100% but they're just  adding some extra emphasis to that Willington says  

hello Professor from Brazil and says new here  welcome Nicholas says I'm late again it's all  

right better late than never Louis says I'm doing  fluent for Life what uh should I get Frederick as  

well so Frederick is it's it's complimentary to  that program it's really for people who struggle  

to to understand um like the the right way to  pronounce things so if they have trouble with  

spelling or pronunciation or with their accent  then Frederick can help you work on the specific  

pieces of that so usually like people people will  say uh like a general like I have a bad accent or  

something but what they really mean is there's  there's probably just you know some part maybe  

they pronounce 90% of words correctly but there's  a small portion that they have trouble with all  

right so what Frederick does is it it lets you  basically test all the different sounds of English  

different letter combinations and then you can  see where your problem areas are and then the  

app will fix them for you as you just go through  and play with it so it's very simple so you don't  

have to get the app uh you'll get lots and lots  of examples influent for life but again the app  

is just for people who want to specifically focus  on spelling and pronunciation uh and listening to  

things like that so if you're interested in that  if you'd like help improving your accent whatever  

then I would recommend all right uh [Applause] uh  let's see I'm late again all right uh Wellington  

could you please explain about how to use  hang on okay uh very quickly this is a phrasal

verb now we always want to understand a phrasal  verb physically first if we can because it's  

just easier to understand it that way uh here's a  let's say we have a tree up here uh this is like  

a pretty high tree and there was a a kid who was  climbing up in the tree and he fell down and he's  

he's holding on or he's hanging on over here to  a like to a branch look at he's kind of hanging  

he's like help me help me so if he falls down it's  a little too high for him uh and I walk up and I  

say oh no look there's a little kid hanging from a  tree I say hang on hang on so I'm actually telling  

him to physically hold on to the tree I could  also say hold on same idea I'm basically telling  

him wait don't move stay where you are same  kind of idea all right so I'm going to get a  

ladder where I will come and help you or I will  climb or do something like that so wait that's  

basically the idea and so once you understand  this physical idea the situation we're basically  

talking about waiting for someone so oh hold on  hang on stop wait that's the situation that's  

what we're talking about so when do we say  this when we're telling someone to wait and  

so we might also use this in a conversation  or if I'm on the phone I'm talking like let's  

say I'm talking with a friend of mine oh hey  how's it going and what are you doing today  

but my child comes up and they start asking me  some questions I will say hey hang on a second  

okay I'm just saying wait all right hopefully  that makes sense so typically phrasal verbs  

will come from a situation like this and then we  extend that into more you know whatever figurative  

situations where we're just saying hey could you  wait for a moment all right so wait hang on hold

on uh let's see uh okay uh hang on wait yes so  again without like you can give a a definition  

of a phrasal verb but isn't this a lot better  again like this is a what I call fluency trigger  

which is a story or a picture or anything that  really helps you your brain understand oh that's  

what that means now get it so if you just go from  uh word to definition oh okay hang on means wait  

that's not really helping people learn because  you're just okay well they gave me the answer  

but why we always want to answer the question  of why if we can so that's what helps people  

build fluency when they understand why like oh  I get it now so when you tell someone to wait  

that's what you're saying so we can use weight  in other situations in the same way so if I go  

to a restaurant uh I waiting for someone or I I am  at a I am like I am the waiter and I'm talking to  

my guests I say oh could you please hold on  for a second or hang on for a second it's a  

quite casual expression but it just means wait  in a more casual way and often that's the the  

purpose of phrasal verbs is to express things in  a casual way without having to to say something  

just like wait which sounds a little bit kind of  abrupt or strict or almost like too harsh like if  

I just say wait but it sounds better if I say  oh like could you wait or could you hang on or  

hold on for a minute all right uh one day the  dog will bite the boy yes that's true why would  

anyone hug a lion uh Eliot says why would I eat a  knuckle sandwich that's a good question why would  

somebody eat dog in the world that's another good  question you know some people eat whale maybe some  

people think that's a bad idea other people think  it's tasty you know it just depends some people  

eat cows other people do not you know uh jph says  hugging a lion might put your life in uh danger  

you would say in a dangerous situation why would  you still hug a line is this correct Professor  

yes so you would put your life in a dangerous  situation or you could say put your life in  

danger all right you don't need to say situation  that's understood from the context uh would you  

still want to hug a lion yes Andrew nice to see  you again but here nice to see you there Armando  

hello everybody cated back the manager better late  than never that's true I'm around and but she says  

I am more into your accent and right now I am uh  now the following question hit me is there any  

accent in any area of the US that you as a native  speaker find hard to understand so very good that  

was a good sentence you would just say find hard  to understand all right and so is like is there  

anything you find hard to understand uh I don't  think I've been I've been all over the United  

States uh and I I don't think I've ever had a  had trouble with people in America uh maybe like  

a really thick like cun like a creole accent or  something where where it's also people are using  

different words so that's more a problem so if you  go to different places in the US you will have uh  

like uh like like Coca-Cola some some people  call like any kind of drink like that a Coke  

some people say it's a soda some people say pop  for the same thing so the the vocabulary changing  

is more of an issue than accent uh but I do get  like like a like a thick Scottish accent so maybe  

in a different country like parts of England or  something might be more difficult than the us but  

in anything like that it's just how familiar you  are with that so if you grow up listening to it  

or you get lots of examples you will feel more  confident about it again that's why we put all  

those different accents in fluent for life so if  you only listen to me you're going to understand  

me very well or if you get a private teacher  or something but often if you get a private  

teacher that's going to help you understand that  teacher so we really want to help you prepare  

yourself for real communication and that means  you need to hear lots of different accents uh  

Madson says have you ever heard this expression  a Boy the kid I've been living in Ireland for 2  

years basically means that expression well done a  Boy the kid I don't know if you're you mean like  

attab boy attab boy is like good work I guess  but I I don't know if that's a different thing  

in Ireland if that's what it means uh Jawad  says a thanks uh Ed says hi there everyone

Sal okay let's see J say h Professor can you  give us three connected Advanced English words  

that we can use in Daily conversation no  that's not why we're here in this video and  

you could easily put that into Google if you  just want more vocabulary the whole point of  

this video is to say don't do that don't just  get like some random vocabulary whatever take  

something you already know but maybe you don't  think you know very well or you you hear it in  

a new situation in or in in a different way and  you're surprised by that you think oh wow that's  

interesting somebody used this vocabulary  differently that's the kind of thing uh  

uh that's actually going to help your fluency so  I know people want to get lots of new vocabulary  

but it's not a really good use of your time you  will spend a lot of people actually spend years  

just studying more vocabulary but then they can't  speak so the whole point is how can we understand  

the vocabulary better and look even just in  this video we've well we've covered a couple  

of different things but the focus of the video  is really just understanding some simple things  

and we've only covered make so I knew we're we're  basically going at an already all right uh says  

hello Drew glad to see you this morning nice to  see you there uh K nice to see you hi sir Robin  

good morning what's the difference between barely  and hardly a barely well you wrote barly there do  

you mean do you mean like barely like barely there  like almost it's it's basically the same thing  

uh and again uh it's important to think about  something for a particular situation so whenever  

you look at vocabulary uh don't just get one  example we should look at that you can actually  

I mean even something like that you can put that  into Google and get lots of different examples of  

both of those words but in general it's the same  thing all right so there are lots of different  

ways of expressing the same thing sometimes a  word can have the same meaning as another word  

yet not have that same meaning in other situations  so it's better to really understand that from the  

situation all right Stella says I got it thank you  for your explanation glad to hear and Al says hi  

there everyone all right now I don't want this  video to go too long I think people get the idea  

but let's cover one more thing that's similar  to the example of make get rid of these other  

examples of here uh but yeah that that wood video  if I can remember what it is that's a good video  

so again the whole point is to eliminate the  doubt that people have about things like that  

and that's really what gets you speaking so you  don't become fluent just by repeating words over  

and over again you get fluent by ah eliminate  the doubt now I understand what something means  

and I feel confident using it all right so let's  look at another example want I think I started  

to write that before uh so I want I'll try to go  through this a little bit faster uh so I want a

cookie very simple I want a cookie now you can  want anything just like we had for make you can  

actually create many different sentences uh  with talking about lots of different things  

like we could make something physical like  this marker or I could make uh like make a  

choice about something again lots of different  things in the same way uh want is also very very  

common and so I want a cookie so here is uh me  I'm going to draw some big eyes over there who  

looking at this here's a plate with a lovely  chocolate chip cookie on it when he says woo  

look at that all right so I want oh no the eyes  are kind of let me fix that here I'm going to  

draw okay that looks a little bit better it's  supposed to be a wide eyed person looking at a  

cookie over there just so you understand so  when you want something there are different  

levels different strengths of want so maybe  you want something just a little bit or you  

really strongly want that you desire that  thing highly uh but just so you understand  

the grammer I want a cookie now just like  we had for uh the make example we have this  

situation here so I want a cookie but now let's  see uh we could change this a little bit uh here's  

a person maybe they're just kind of thinking about  this situation uh and they think I want to want a

cookie I want to want a cookie all right so  someone is thinking about that now this might  

be a little bit a little bit confusing uh just  with the example here uh so let's we're going  

to change this slightly but I I want to just  show you how simple it is I want to want a  

cookie all right but all we're doing is like  we're taking this situation I want a cookie  

and we're talking about I want to want a cookie  all right I'll come back to this in a second but  

let me change the example first uh just to take  something else uh that might be a little bit  

more easy to understand so let's say I want we're  going to take instead of a thing we want to talk  

about uh an action to study so I want to study  uh instead of he's looking at the uh cookie we  

have maybe a stack of books over here so here are  some some interesting books uh about let's just  

say English or something as an example so I want  to study wow that's a great thing I want to stud  

study all right so instead of I want to want  a cookie we can change this example I want to

want to study now what does that mean what's  actually happening in this situation over here  

what's happening is that this guy who's thinking  about this situation he doesn't really want to  

study all right but he's he's like wishing that  he did all right so look at that we have even a  

a simple word like want we can make a much more  challenging and complex idea about wanting to  

want something all right so let's say your mom  says oh you you should study it's a good idea  

everybody knows a studying is a good idea you  should learn more go to school and and learn  

some information so like a good student  is someone who just says yeah I want to  

learn I like to learn I want to do that but  maybe some students don't they don't enjoy  

that and so maybe this guy this this like little  boy student he is talking with his mom and his mom  

says you should study and he says I know I want  to want to study I I I want I want this but I I  

just don't feel it okay so you can want something  or you can want to want that thing isn't that  

interesting so I want to want something all right  so I want to let's just say I want to uh I want  

to exercise so another example typically you will  hear this kind of phrase used when people are it's  

like they they want to be that kind of person  all right so here's uh exercising so I want to

exercise or I want to lose weight

I want to lose weight or I want to uh get thin all  right these are different things people might say  

in this situation all right so here's the like the  image we got the little uh exercise weights over  

here always getting uh getting strong all right so  yeah I want to exercise so usually like a person  

who feels that they just go to the gym but if  you don't feel that way maybe you're sitting at  

home and I'm just playing video games or eating  some cakes or something uh like I want to want to

exercise or I want to want to lose weight so I  want to have uh like that feeling but I don't  

okay and we can also talk about other people and  more examples like that like let's say my mom so  

instead of I want to so my mom wants me to want to  exercise so of course my mom wants me to exercise  

but she wants me to want to do it now another  situation where this happens like you will see  

this in movies a romantic movie like a guy and  his girlfriend all right so uh the girlfriend  

says oh uh did you know it's my birthday today  and he said oh uh yeah yeah I have a present for  

you in in the car and he goes out like quickly  drives somewhere to get a present or something  

uh and so like the girl is thinking like oh I want  you to want to remember my birthday all right so  

of course like she she wants me to remember that  but she wants me to want to do that thing okay so  

I know this sounds complicated but that's why we  spend more time talking about specific examples  

but again just showing you that you can take even  a basic word and learn a few more patterns spend  

a bit more time with it and you will really  understand that thing much more deeply okay  

so as and again as you get uh more examples  you understand oh it's it's typically used  

when people don't want to do something all right  and so in in these situations we have usually  

the situation like I have I have to exercise  so I don't want to but I I have to I have to  

do something all right so a lot of people don't  want to exercise but they should they feel like  

they should exercise and they they have to okay  so they maybe I I have to my doctor said I have  

to do that thing all right but most people they  they want to want to exercise okay well I won't I  

won't say that but just like as an example like if  you want to do something it's easy to do okay so  

exercising or losing weight or getting thin  or studying or whatever anything that people  

don't really like doing this is a situation  where we would use that vocabulary all right  

so I want to study yay but if you don't want  to study maybe your your mom is is telling  

you like you should want to study all right so  you should you should you should want to study

it's a good idea if you do that thing all right  so you should want to study like I'm recommending  

uh that you do think that way you should want  to study all right let me check chat just make  

sure everybody is understanding over here all  right see that again let's give drew some likes  

it helped this channel that's true I want to be  here when he reaches 2 million subscribers okay  

if you have uh like 500,000 friends tell them  to subscribe and there we go that's the job  

completed all right C says a y run into  can mean meet someone unexpectedly could  

you make it more since uh Mr Drew all  right uh so we will pause this for a

second so typically if we like let's  say I'm out uh this is me uh here's  

my shopping cart I'm at the grocery store  uh and I'm buying some some you know some  

groceries uh and then I see oh look look  at that here's my my other friend who is  

here also wow look at that uh I ran into I ran  into my friend now the typically when we talk  

about running into for this situation we're  not physically running you might actually  

be out running maybe I'm outside running and  I see I see my friend I don't physically hit  

him like that but I oh I like oh hey I ran into  my my friend today another way we can say this  

which is uh kind of reducing the speed of it  is I just bump into so just like you kind of  

touch something very lightly you bump into that  thing so hey I I bumped into my friend all right  

and even here you might not physically touch the  person but it's just an expression remember that  

uh like from that hang on or hold on example  there's a kid holding on hanging on to a tree  

uh so he doesn't fall and we can take that idea  and just apply it to other situations because it  

really just means weight all right so to run into  or bump into something it just means to connect  

with something else all right so if we're talking  about a car running into something else then we  

really have that meaning of like physically moving  fast and something like that okay so I bumped into  

my friend uh or as ildar just said like bumping  into another car something like that so you can  

have different even connecting with another  vehicle so you could bump into another car or  

you could really run into or crash into another  car it just depends on how strong of a of a crash  

or bump or connection that thing is all right  so we don't need to take that like physically  

literally what if I'm on the phone with someone  and I say hang on I don't want them to actually  

like hang on to anything I'm just telling them to  wait all right so remember uh like if I look at  

like a like a tablet a mobile device or something  so now lots of people have a mobile phone here's  

a little button on there and sometimes the button  isn't even there anymore it's just a screen but we  

still use expressions like turn up turn up turn up  the volume all right so even though I'm pushing a  

button there might be a button on the side of my  phone or I tap something on the screen to change  

the volume there might be a little little like  slider thing so I'm I'm actually sliding the  

volume control or I'm pushing a button for the  volume but we use expressions like turn up turn  

up the volume because old machines like an old  radio would have a little dial on it that you  

would turn okay so here would have the volume or  the channel and so people would say hey can you  

turn the channel what they're saying is here's  that little knob it's like a like a little thing  

like this coming out of the the radio and we turn  it like that so you turn the channel instead of  

just saying change the channel so now we can you  can use that but that's why we say that so the  

vocabulary will remain the vocabulary stays  but the situation uh it's it's basically the  

same thing but where the action might be slightly  different all right so when someone says they ran  

in into a friend at the store they're not like oh  I like hit that person or something it's just oh  

I I met them unexpectedly at the store okay so  don't think too literally about that it's just  

trying to understand the general situation that's  happening all right uh let's see and J says hi  

professor when to use have have been haveen well  we're not going to cover that I've covered that  

in in other videos uh the professor can unlock our  English thanks for the class hugs from Brazil yes  

so with a good teacher or actually specifically  a good explanation that basically triggers your  

mind to understand something that's when you can  speak all right so it is possible for a teacher  

to do that all right want eager Keen y so you can  use those uh Ed deniel says Drew Badger deserves  

a lot of Thumbs Up well feel free if you like him  uh I always appreciate that Willington thumbs up  

guys let's see and alen says from aaha oh and I I  was actually I think maybe I was I was down there  

that's in uh Mexico I think uh if I'm correct  maybe I'm talking about different place though  

I've seen uh you should want to do homework yes  so you can see that so like you should it's a good  

idea if you want to do that thing so often parents  will use this kind of expression like you should  

want to do that thing you should want to do it all  right uh and Aran says is this correct if it was  

in the past I wanted to want to ex exercise more  often y that's excellent very good so I wanted  

to do something so just like the example of make  like we only change that one one example or that  

the one part of the sentence so I want to want  to exercise so I want to want to do something  

all right let's see I'm talking about right now  that's how I feel uh but if we just change in  

for the uh the past I wanted to want to exercise  all right so the only thing that changes is this  

all right just like I made uh my son studying  as an example or I made my son uh let's see

make uh make dinner so I made excuse me I made  my son make dinner or if we're talking about  

the future I will make but that's the only thing  that changes all right very good I think you got  

it so remember as you get more examples you will  feel more confident I don't really need to spend  

time doing that in this video but if you're ever  thinking maybe the first time you you want to use  

something maybe you begin with a translation  it's okay you just don't know how to express  

something you find out what it is in English and  start getting more examples okay so you can get  

that chat GPT Google uh uish another example  I've talked about but these are all the whole  

point of this is to really feel confident that  you understand how something works okay until you  

feel confident you will feel shy and nervous and  worrying about making mistakes and that kind of  

thing so we want to uh correct those issues before  you speak uh what should I do to speak without  

getting stuck this is it the the thing that  really stops people from speaking is doubt okay  

I've talked about this before I will make uh just  a very quick explanation about this again now you  

probably experienced this many times in everyday  life uh but most people do not want to make  

mistakes or say something embarrassing or whatever  in front of other people all right so inside  

the brain uh I I just call this uh we'll just  call this a fluent so the fluent communication

switch so just like a light switch you have  a fluent communication switch uh in your mind  

and so you can turn it on or turn it off and when  the the information or the thing you want to say  

you're not confident about that then the switch  is off and that stops you from speaking because  

you don't want to make mistakes in front of other  people okay uh that's generally why it happens  

uh but most people uh even if you're not shy you  just you don't know how to Express what you want  

to say so you can't speak all right so either  either way uh the the uncertainty is really  

what's stopping you so what most people try to  do when they're learning a language is they're  

trying to push on the switch by studying more or  reviewing more or forcing themselves to speak but  

that doesn't really help because the doubt is  the thing over here that really stops you so  

if you remove the doubt the switch automatically  flips by itself and you start speaking all right  

that's the the basic idea aidea uh and that's  why everything we do on this channel is helping  

you remove doubt all right so I don't want to  just give you a list of rules and then it's your  

job to remember that that's not me teaching  you anything I really want to help you spend  

time understanding something and sometimes  you don't need a lot of time to understand  

something if you can understand it quickly  that's great like oh I want to do something  

now you understand that pattern I want to play  I want to go I want to read I want to study okay  

but now you can think about huh I can I can think  like a meta example like me it's kind of like  

a bigger or on a different level kind of idea  so I want to want to study all right if I want  

to want to study it means yes I I really desire  that thing uh but maybe I just I actually don't  

want to study okay so that's why we do that and  that's what will help you become a more confident  

speaker so if there's anything whatever you have  doubt about that's why students ask me questions  

because they have doubt or worry or a concern or  question about something it could be vocabulary or  

pronunciation uh whatever but that will stop you  from speaking all right uh Estell says usually if  

Clause follows simple present tense to imply  future tense but the exception is if it will  

help my case I will take the test what do they  mean why do they both use a will if it well you  

you could use either one of those if you're  just talking about the future of something uh

like in the same situation I could use either of  those so if it helps or I could say if it will  

help because we're we're talking like again it's  almost like the hypothetical situation that this  

would happen or it would work for any situation  okay so let's say uh I want to give uh give  

money or someone is asking me for money for for  something uh and I say oh okay if it helps or  

if it will help I mean it's it's like are you  doing something now or slightly in the future  

it doesn't really matter it's just I can use  uh either way to express that so it's not like  

if it will help uh then I will give you money  you don't worry about that it's just like what  

are we what are we trying to say and what is the  situation and remembering that there usually are  

multiple ways to express them all right but both  of these are fine so if it helps I will give some  

money if it will help I will give some money  it doesn't so both of those are fine all right  

let me know if that maybe I did I let me see if I  got that correct of clause follows simple present  

tense to imply future tense but the exception is  if it will help my case I will take the test why  

do they both use well yeah so again like it's it  you could use either I mean often like people when  

when natives are thinking like this it's  almost like they're imagining something  

happening in the future all right so I haven't  given you you've asked me for money but I have  

not given you the money yet so if it will help I  will give you the money okay so again it's it's  

it will be more difficult for you to get fluent  if you look at that like here's a rule wait a  

minute we use the present simple to do this and  like I recommend you don't think about it like  

that look at what natives say in situations and  that will help you you kind of work backwards from  

the situation the situation is the most important  thing because it's easier to understand what's  

happening like someone is asking me for money okay  that's the situation I will give them some money  

so I I didn't give the money yet I will give the  money if it will help all right if it if it helps

okay all right uh TJ says thank you for the great  lesson sir it's my pleasure got the Brazilian flag  

got some uh Korean there which I can't read or  that I can't read but here is I learned that  

natives naturally have the feeling of ordering  adjectives categories like saying that is a thin  

Japanese dude not a Japanese thin student yes  that's correct and so that that's another thing  

you will develop a pattern for we we cover this  in fluent for life as well um but like you might  

have like a big red shirt rather than a red big  big shirt all right cuz typically we go from it's  

generally like a larger or more important or more  noticeable thing to a smaller one all right uh and  

if we're so we're talking about like like like  the japane Japanese student would be like almost  

one thing we we don't really use like in that  situation like and remember it's important to  

understand these things for specific situations so  Japanese student it's not really like Japanese is  

modifying student it is but that's not like  it's like we really think about that as one  

thing okay like a Japanese student it's not  like oh like we put Japanese onto the student  

or something like that it's just Japanese student  for this example is one thing and so if we want  

to modify that then we could say like the big uh  fat hairy red Japanese student something like that  

all right so but we're we're looking at like like  okay we like it's like look at look at that person  

over there like we want to want you to get get you  to notice somebody so there's a crowd of people  

and so if I say the student look at that student  over there like look at that uh look at that small  

student or something I want to you know look at  that I don't know some some example where um I'm  

trying to get you to notice that thing quickly so  I want to talk about the obvious things first and  

usually like body size or shape or something like  that is is like a bigger thing and so if I it's  

the same idea if I go to a clothing store I'm  going to talk about the size typically first so  

the the the store clerk will ask me about sizes  as well so usually what size do you want before  

asking about what color that kind of thing so  let me get a big red shirt rather than a red big  

shirt because like you red like like especially if  you're buying clothes and people want to know what  

size you're getting first all right so it it it's  interesting to try to think about this but again  

rather than look for a rule about it get lots of  examples and it will help you understand these  

things the same way natives do all right so that's  again uh what we're trying to do that the highest  

level of understanding is is knowing these things  without needing an explanation for it and you get  

that by getting lots of examples this is kind of  this is a this is a scary face every time I look  

at that thing uh let's see Kendall says hello uh  I wish you and again you'd say like I would like  

you to so if you say like I wish you or I want you  to do something uh like well hopefully that that  

explanation I gave worked uh but if you're asking  people to do something you would say I would like  

I would uh or you just say i' I'd like so if you  say I wish like you wouldn't say I wish you to  

do something uh or I want which sounds a bit  more uh strict like you're commanding somebody  

to do something so I'd I'd like like or I would  like you to do something all right uh hopefully  

that answers your question though all right Nan  nataniel from Brazil Kitty again I'm from Ethiopia  

this is my first time here and I feel lucky I run  into this glad to hear uh what kind of topics that  

you usually bring up in conversations especially  meet a stranger it just depends on the situation  

if you're looking for something to say to people  uh try to find something for that situation that  

you notice that's interesting uh I'll give you  a last Quick story about this if you're like I  

like just meeting new people and saying hello and  trying to find a way to have a conversation with  

people uh and so I was in a Starbucks uh and like  my I I have a a chair that I like to sit in it's  

by the window there's a plant over there so my my  usual chair uh over here and there's a little a  

plant and there's another chair next to it there  are a couple of chairs around this little plant  

area uh and I went into Starbucks one morning and  there was uh a foreign couple so like a woman uh  

and a guy were sitting at these chairs over here  it wasn't actually wasn't in my chair it was like  

the next to it chair and the one next to that  all right so around the corner there were 1 2  

3 4 5 six chairs over here and there's a window  right here so I see them sitting there and and  

usually you would not come uh and and like sit  really close next to someone so this is right  

at the beginning of of the morning there were many  tables and chairs available in the coffee shop so  

I it's it's kind of you're you're like getting  in on somebody's space if you do that but this  

my chair and I like my chair so I have to  think like what's a good way uh for me to to  

to come like sit at this chair because they  might think it's weird uh that I'm that I'm  

coming here like the whole place is open but  I'm coming to sit right next to them all right  

so I'm like literally right next to this guy's  wife which is a little bit weird so I have to  

think how can I start what can I say to them  to sit here and and make it not feel weird so  

I'll see what like can anybody guess what I said  I've told this story before I think maybe a while  

ago when it happened but if you can think before  I'll check chat again for a moment but if you can  

think what did I say in this situation or what  would you say to start a conversation and make  

it kind of not weird that you're sitting right  next to someone else even though there are lots  

of other chairs available I'll answer that in  a qu uh in a moment after I check chat uh let's

see uh all right kitty say okay I got that one  right see says what kind of topics that usually  

bring up in okay that that's the question we're  kind of talking about right now Shang says hrew  

thank you for the lesson can you explain  what the main point means of a sentence  

I wonder if it's coming from the verb well I  mean the the idea of a sentence is just it's  

just what's happening what's the situation of  something so if we talk about like like I am I am

exercising I am exercising what's the main point  of this sentence it's just telling you what's  

happening that's it so I am exercising now there  might be a specific like if a teacher is saying  

like what is the most important word or something  like in I don't know in in in this there you need  

all three of these things to get that information  and unless you you have a specific like English  

language lesson question about that maybe that's  useful to know but typically the main point is  

just what is the situation that that that's being  described here so I am exercising uh like if we  

go back to this story that I just told like what  is the main point of this story the main point is  

how do you say something to people uh what what is  like a good way to open a conversation or to say  

something when when you're in this situation that  is the main point or the main idea of that all  

right so if you have like a longer uh situation or  a longer sentence than maybe you have a main point  

and you have um like a subo so yesterday I went to  school and it was hot so the main the main point  

like it's basically I went to school and here's  some extra information and it was hot all right so  

if if you have a sentence it's a bit more complex  there might be different parts of the sentence and  

some parts are more important than others but it  just depends I might need more information that  

sounds like the kind of thing that comes from an  English question but in general we're just trying  

to understand what's happening in a situation  really nobody has any idea what would you say  

what would you say to someone remember you have  a whole Cafe of tables and really no one is there  

and then I go sit right next to them just because  I want to sit at my spot all right I like my spot  

it's a comfortable chair uh all right thanks  for helping Hello My Teacher all right all right  

nobody had anything to say I'm going to drink a  little bit look at this I got a new bottle a new

bottle all right Katie says I would  probably say hello yes you could say

hello do you mind if I sit here yep that's  that's something you could say do you mind if I  

sit here but remember I'm I'm trying to create the  situation for you this is like a puzzle what would  

you say uh if I say do you mind if I sit here they  might be wondering well why do you want to sit  

here all right so that again like I could say that  that's a correct thing that's a very good thing to  

say do you mind if I sit here but typically that's  like if you have lots of other people already in  

the uh like in the in the restaurant or whatever  then it seems a little bit more I don't know it's  

it's weird that you would and just sit right down  next to someone like I'm like right next to that  

person all right so it's a couple like a man and  his and his wife I guess um and I just I want to  

sit in my chair though and so it's it's kind of  a it could be awkward all right it could be a  

little bit you know embarrassing or something like  that like cuz maybe maybe they don't want anyone  

sitting there you know they can't really stop me  from doing that but that's the situation uh let's  

see Dragon says hello everyone from Morocco all  right uh let's see but here says to break the ice  

you might start the conversation with something  like this chair isn't stable it might fall down  

any moment you know especially for two people  well that it the the chair is just fine like there  

are six individual chairs it's not like a sofa or  something like that uh so this chair is open then  

there's a chair next to it where the the woman  actually so I was going to sit down next to this  

guy wife all right now that that could be like  for some men that's like wait a minute you're not  

you're like usually you would sit like you know if  you had to he would sit next to the guy just kind  

of like out of respect for the woman or whatever  uh but I I'd sat down here right next to his wife  

so I I didn't care about like what they were doing  but I just wanted to sit in my chair all right and  

nobody think of anything nobody has any other  ideas that's a good thing though but I mean if  

I just say like well this chair is going to break  or something uh I wouldn't really say that about  

my chair uh or I and I I probably wouldn't unless  I'm trying to tell them to move I would say oh be  

careful those chairs are broken then then they  might think oh like they have to move for some  

reason uh but no that's not what I said so yes you  you can just try to be polite and just say do you  

mind if I sit here do you mind if I sit here you  could but that's not what I said uh dlin says it's  

Friday morning here in Indonesia do you usually do  the streaming on Thursday why Friday uh yes so yes  

I usually do uh I was not able to come yesterday  uh but I'm here today uh and I wasn't able to do  

it Monday either but next week it should be I'm  guessing Monday and Thursday all right well let  

me just give you the answer uh now the chair has  a new owner now remember there there's nobody in  

this chair now I'm not making them move all right  let me draw this picture a little bit better I'll  

draw it I'll draw it from above as you're you're  looking down on it all right so here here is a  

box uh and we're looking at this from the top  looking down on it there's a plant in here and  

there are six chairs around this and there's a  window over here there is a we'll just put W for  

woman over here uh and man over here no one else  is sitting here uh in the rest of the cafe lots  

of other tables lots of other chairs available  able but I come and sit over here uh we'll just  

say d for me for Drew uh I'll say it's the best  spot to sit here for this view yes uh you could  

you could say that again when you're coming there  you want to give a reason okay so that's a good  

example uh like I I like the view you could just  say oh like uh excuse me just to say hey like I'm  

I'm acknowledging those people uh I say oh I I see  you are you were sitting sitting over here uh but  

this is I really like this view so that could be  something you say and then they will think okay  

he's he's not like this guy is thinking wait a  minute he's he's is he trying to talk to my wife  

or something and I'm just say oh uh sorry to to  sit here uh but I really like this view so that's  

a good a good thing to say all right but it's not  nice view I probably uh should seat you would say  

I would sit here all right well let me tell you  what I did say to that I'll write it down for

you because it ties back uh to the beginning  

of this lesson are you ready for this  isn't this cool they are making us sit

together they are making us sit together all right  so I walk over there and I'll understand like this  

is a cafe in Japan so this is Nagasaki Japan  and these people are both foreigners they're  

they're from the United States I actually had a  nice conversation I spoke with them for about 30  

minutes about Nagasaki and their family and stuff  you know it was a nice uh nice conversation but  

I walk over and I and and I kind of lean in I  say they're making us sit together so I'm kind  

of joking with them but the lady said really  like they're made I basically said like the  

the staff at Starbucks is making us like making  us foreigners all sit in the same place and then  

I said no no I'm just kidding all right but look  they are making me or making us do something all  

right just like we talked about so uh just  like we talked about before like like I can  

make you do something the the staff at Starbucks  is making me sit here so they are making all of us  

sit together and I was just using that now like  I've kind of scrambled their brain a little bit  

you know I could say like oh nice to meet you or  something it's still weird if I sit over here uh  

so I didn't need to explain about I like the view  or I like the chair or something I just kind of  

making a joke and starting the conversation and  then we'd sit and talk for 30 minutes so I I  

did not anticipate that I had a book I was just  going to sit and read like usual but again like  

the the question see it asked is like what do  you say when you start a conversation you can  

say hello or you can say may I have this may  I sit here or something like that but if you  

can think about what's an interesting way uh  to connect with the situation like oh like I  

noticed this thing or something like that and  obviously this skill is good if you want to be  

able to talk to women or something uh or just meet  people in general but I just thought that was an  

interesting example because I Ed the grammar  point that we just covered in this video all  

right so they are making us sit together they  are making us sit together all right and so  

the lady says oh really wow and I said no no no  it's a and then we just had a nice conversation  

all right I think that's enough though we've  gone for 96 Minutes oh my goodness what time  

is it 11:19 here in Japan uh so the next video uh  should likely be uh Monday my time Japan time so  

next Monday and Thursday I think uh we should  have um uh classes about this uh but if you  

don't like waiting and you want to just get  a whole bunch of great lessons that have me  

explaining lots of things you can learn exactly  what you want to learn and answer the questions  

you have that stop you from speaking this is  what we do influent for life and you can learn  

more about that by clicking on the link in the  description below this video all right uh well  

hopefully hopefully you all will let me leave  so I can enjoy my day and get some more work  

done but have a fantastic day over there I  think look at that all right I share your  

class thank you glad to hear it thank you very  much uh nataniel and Alejandro greetings from  

Mexico nice to see you there glad to hear it all  right share no that it was uh that was very nice  

thank you for that all right have a fantastic  day and we'll see you in the next video byebye