How To Remember English Words So You Speak Fluently

Hi, there. I'm Drew Badger, also known as the English Fluency Guide, and I am the founder

of EnglishAnyone.com. It is a pleasure to welcome you to another video. This is just

an interesting thought I had that I would share with you all today because one of the

things I like to do is explaining to people, number one, stories, so helping them to connect

different ideas and certainly learn English through stories rather than just giving them

lists of vocabulary or grammar rules or things like that to memorize, but I also help people

make connections. This is really important for you when you're

trying to especially remember a new language, you want to remember words in a new language,

you want to communicate without forgetting words or feeling nervous and your mind just

going blank in the middle of conversations, which I've had happened to me many times,

especially when I was just learning to speak Japanese. But I had a conversation... Actually,

I did a presentation yesterday, two presentations where I was talking about our app Frederick,

and explaining to people why they should be using it, why the education system actually

makes them just struggle with their speaking. I was explaining all these things, and I was

talking to someone there about business. This is just an interesting thing. Again, we have

these connections. I had not planned on talking about that, but I was talking to some people

about that. One of the things that I was explaining, because this person was interested in both

language learning and business, I was making this interesting connection I thought you

might like to know about. Now, in business, what you're trying to do

is make a connection with a customer, so this is... or a client or a patient if you're a

doctor, a hospital, that kind of thing. It doesn't matter. Basically, you're trying to

get some person to be in your universe so they can learn more about what you do, and

then you're able to provide some service or courses or whatever that thing happens to

be. Now, what often people are trying to do in

a business, and most people don't really do this very well. This is why a lot of businesses

fail, but trying to have a focus on new customers all the time. Many businesses, they're always

thinking about new customers, how can we get new customers, and they spend a lot of their

time and energy on that. But the smart businesses, they, of course, are thinking about how to

get new customers, but they're spending a lot more energy on how to retain and get more

out of those particular customers that they already have, so whether these are clients,

again, customers, patients doesn't matter. What I was explaining to this person... so

we were talking about that and just talking about business in general and language learning,

and I was saying the same thing that these business owners are doing where they're thinking

more about trying to find new people, they're spending lots of energy on that but very little

on, well, what did you do with the people you already have because the most difficult

thing to do in business is to get a customer, and it becomes a lot easier when you already

have someone who knows, likes, and trusts you and you're able to help them and they

know that you can help them. All of the selling, all of that, providing

of the goods or services becomes much easier once you have that relationship already. It's

much more difficult to get a new customer. You spend all of your money trying to get

a new customer if you're advertising, whatever that thing is, but once you have that customer,

that's where the real value can develop, the real strong relationship that you can have,

and you start getting really great results with people from there.

While most people are spending their time trying to get new customers, language learners

in the same way are trying to spend their time learning new words. What they should

be doing is trying to have a better relationship with the words they already know. Does this

make sense? It's kind of an interesting idea, but while I was talking about these two different

things, it just seemed like an interesting thing and an interesting connection that I

had not heard before, but you'll notice in life it doesn't really matter. People are

mostly the same, and doesn't matter if you're teaching a language or teaching piano or teaching

whatever, other things. People mostly struggle with the same kinds of problems. If you find

those connections or if you see a solution to something in one area, you can often apply

it somewhere else. As a kind of interesting business idea connected

with this, Henry Ford, who created the Ford motor company and he created the assembly

line, so he was thinking about how can we mass produce the automobile, how can we make

many cars for many people and do so cheaply and efficiently? The assembly line idea's

you basically have like a car body. The thing is moving down like this, and then somebody

comes up and takes a piece off of it or puts a piece on or fixes something or does something

like that. Each person along the line, the assembly line does something different, and

then by the end, they've created a car, so each person can focus on their own particular

task. Now, a lot of this is done by machines, but it's the same basic idea.

Now, he got this originally from looking at meat processing plants. In that case, you

take a cow, and you're moving that cow through the same kind of thing, but one person cuts

off the legs, another person cuts off the whatever, however it works. I've never been

in one before, but this is a de-assembly or a disassembly plant. He took that same idea,

and instead of having people move to different cars, he would have the car move to different

stations where people were working, so instead of a disassembly line, you have an assembly

line. He was thinking it's almost like you put the cow back together over time.

Here he is. He's taking an interesting connection from one thing and applying it someplace else,

and it's the same idea for learning something. It's really hard for you to try to learn a

new word. You notice that? Whenever you learn a new word, you learn it once, and then you

forget it a little bit. Then you say, "Ah, I got to go back and remember this word again."

If you're diligent, if you really try, if you spend some energy to do this, usually,

you can remember things. I actually spend a lot of time helping people with memory.

I have a whole course about this called How to Remember Any English Word. It's with the

Fluency course. It's also with Fluent For Life if you're in that program as well. But

this is where I show people how to make, again, interesting connections that help them make

words much more memorable. Anyway, this idea about focusing on new words,

trying to grow your vocabulary more and more all the time, it's really wasteful. You're

wasting your energy when you can develop fluency with the words you already know. This is one

of the most exciting things that I explain to people when I'm talking to them about fluency

is you can actually become fluent without learning any new words or grammar if you just

spend more time with the words you already know.

Does that make sense? In the same way, many businesses could actually stop looking for

new customers or just spend a lot less time doing that and spend a lot more time focusing

on the customers they already have, and they would probably make a lot more money, so that's

actually what I do for English Anyone. I spend a lot less time trying to bring in new people

and a lot more time trying to really help the people I have and develop a much better

relationship with them. The people I can help get fantastic results. They tell more people,

and my process of getting new customers becomes a lot more, really, just easier as a result.

Does this make sense? The main idea here, spend less time trying

to learn new stuff and more time focusing on the things you already know. Develop a

better relationship with the words you know. Don't look at something and think, "Well,

I already know that word." Do you really know that word? If you're forgetting that word,

maybe you don't really know that word. Remember these ideas, and if this has been interesting

for you, and hopefully you have found this valuable, click that Like button and leave

a comment down below letting me know if you have any similar ideas or if you've made some

kind of connection in your own life or your own learning, especially with your English

that's been helpful, and maybe other people can benefit from discoveries you have made.

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