Keep repeating yourself? How To Get A Diverse English Vocabulary

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go all right hopefully all right looks like  we're looking looking good I am Drew Badger  

the founder of englishanyone.com and welcome to  another live video here on YouTube this should  

be an entertaining one uh especially if you have  a limited vocabulary or you feel like you always  

say the same uh usually simple things again it  again so we' like to expand your vocabulary and  

make you feel more confident about using it  we'll give uh people a few moments to file in  

and let's see if we can erase the board and  get started well I have an interesting story  

for you guys today uh yesterday I did  a recording for a TV show here in Japan  

oh no oh know YouTube changed their comments  again why do they do that I got to reset the  

app again so that it used to have like a black  background for the comments now it becomes more

difficult well that's just dumb oh my goodness so  now I got to like put something on the like on the  

back of the the Whiteboard just so I can see it  got do something creative let me see what what I  

can do with this have to like hang up put a jacket  up there post some comments so I can see where  

they are why do they do that they like change  the interface again all right well let me see

here no it doesn't help me either all right well  we'll just have to have to I'll kind of stand over  

here so I can watch it because I have a black  shirt on all right uh so just a quick story for  

you I was recording a TV show here in Japan in  Nagasaki uh with du oshiba you probably don't  

know who that is this is a like a famous comedian  here uh but they invited me to be on the show uh  

and so we did a recording here and went out  to a restaurant and I was introducing them to  

some Japanese food uh but part of the lesson they  wanted to interview me because I've got a bunch  

of subscribers on YouTube uh and they wanted to  know why so it's you know I'm like I I I think  

there are there are people in Nagasaki who do  do to YouTube but I'm probably the biggest one I  

guess but uh most people don't know who I am which  is nice I can still like go out and nobody knows  

who I am uh anyway so I wanted to give a uh give  the lesson that I gave yesterday uh just because  

it's a really good example of how you should be  learning if you want to expand your vocabulary  

and also use it more confidently so I was uh the  the video yesterday yesterday that we recorded for  

the TV show this was all in Japanese U but I gave  like an English lesson and I did it in English the  

same way I would do it on a video like this uh and  so here's the lesson that I gave them uh I will  

like even before I do that though I did explain  a little bit about how people should be learning  

and and why a lot of people struggle to speak uh  just to say that very quickly especially here in  

Japan most people are learning English through ja  Japanese so they're learning English as a second  

language and that's why because of how they learn  when they want to say something they think first  

in Japanese translate something in their head and  then speak uh and so this is a common thing that a  

lot of people will get uh like just normally when  people are usually any time especially if Japanese  

people are not like at a drinking party that's  a kind of problem they will have but this is not  

just Japanese people lots of people all over the  world struggle with the same issue because they  

learn learn English as a second language anyway  uh so because I was explaining that uh you have  

to not do that you have to instead learn English  as a first language and I was just showing them  

an example of how to do that so I'll give you  that quick lesson first and then we'll talk a  

little bit more about our topic for today so I  was explaining uh this is not such a good a good  

picture but uh this this is a tree we'll call this  a tree this is a tree here uh and I'll put a cloud  

up here so this is a tree and this is a cloud  now if I start from here and go up this tree  

is tall so a tall a tall tree but from here wh  there's nothing here so this is a high Cloud now  

the reason I wanted to give an example of this is  because in Japanese the word Tak is used for both  

of these things and so you would have like K Tak  Kum Tak so something is high up or something is  

tall but when you understand it like a native  this is showing you oh there's a connection  

between the ground and the height of that thing so  we're talking about oh like how high is something  

so this is a tall tree and this is a high Cloud  a high Cloud so we don't say the cloud is tall  

now if we wanted to say that we would actually be  talking about the height of the cloud itself okay  

so how tall something is we're talking about from  the ground or from the bottom of that thing to the  

top but here we're talking about the distance  from the ground to the object okay so as an  

example I might have just draw a a mountain over  here similar to our tree so if we talk about again  

same idea from the bottom we have a tall Mountain  because we're talking about the height from the  

bottom to the top a tall mountain a tall mountain  but if we want to talk about just a specific area  

and that's a space between here and there this is  a high peak so the top of the mountain is called  

the peak the peak of the mountain all right so  very simple lesson and this is the same kind  

of thing that a native child would use to learn  the differences between tall and high and so we  

can take this a little bit further we did actually  they had some interesting questions so they heard  

the some of them like they're Japanese actually do  osias San's uh English is is okay uh and some of  

his staff knew a little bit of English as well uh  but they like the idea of something going up and  

ah look at that that's the peak of something so  you could have the peak uh like the highest point  

of a story where it's the most exciting point  so that's the peak of the uh the story or the  

peak of the excitement or the peak of some kind  of music or the peak of your career okay so we  

can take all these things and then we can talk  about again how high is that thing or how low  

so I was giving you could also give the example  here again with uh tall and then we have short  

so we're going to compare these two things you  might have a tall tree and here's a short Tree  

by comparison so we have tall and short and then  high and then something down here maybe this uh  

there's like a cloud down here that would be low  so tall and short high and low and then we can  

take this idea so once you understand this when  we're talking about prices in English so we're  

talking about prices we don't have a tall price  because it's just something either up here or  

down here so we have a high price or a low price  a high price or a low price so the difference is  

are we starting here we're talking about like the  height or the length of the whole thing or are we  

talking about the distance how far something is  away from something else so an airplane we draw  

an airplane up here so an airplane would be high  or tall high or tall this airplane would be high  

up in the air now remember if we want to talk  about a tall airplane we're talking about the  

height of the actual airplane so a tall airplane  would be how tall like how high how high does the  

airplane Go the actual length of the airplane so  uh the moral or the lesson of this story is that  

if I learn this as a Japanese person uh through  Japanese then I will be thinking like takai and  

it's always the same thing in Japanese you could  have like nanga taka like a high price uh or we  

could talk about like a person is high like a  person is like in Japanese takai Sega Tak like  

the same thing but in English it's different and  so you have to understand it in English if you  

want to use it quickly confidently and correctly  all right hopefully that makes sense all right I'm  

going to check comments because I can't see them  on the phone but I can look at them over here all  

right so pardon me all right as I stand there I'll  have to pick up the computer follow along this

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here you have to adapt in the middle of  a live show there's always some kind of  

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all right let's start back at the top of these  comments up here but it looks like everybody  

can see me it should be all right all right this  chair has wheels on it too make sure it doesn't  

fall down all right good morning nice to see  everybody there good morning good morning I'm  

going to be quick going through these and make  sure I don't just spend a lot of time looking at  

the side of my screen over here all right uh nice  to see everybody there let's see areas is I think  

the first approach to learning new language has to  be as a second language for example if I want to  

learn Italian I have to search words and grammar  rules through my native language isn't it uh no  

that wouldn't be correct uh you you of course you  can learn a language like that and this is the way  

most people do learn another language so you can  these are two different approaches that people  

use there is the second language approach where  people use their first language or their native  

language to learn something new and so they learn  through translations but as I just shown uh just  

showed you here uh the opposite way is to learn  it as a first language and so if you're learning  

a new language for the example here like let's  say I'm trying to learn Italian um I would start  

with a very basic level a very basic understanding  that children would be getting I would be learning  

color and shapes and prepositions things like  that uh and as I understand those things then  

I can I can build on that to start learning more  within Italian but I don't need to use my native  

language in order to do that hopefully that makes  sense so everything I'm doing for this video and  

all really all the videos I make is showing you  how you can learn English as a first language and  

so if you let's say if I had a meeting let's  say I had to go to like uh turkey tomorrow or  

after to go to Brazil or some other country and  I don't speak the language at all then I might  

learn a few translations because that's just the  fastest thing I need I'm not trying to learn the  

language I'm just learning a few phrases and I  might get a translation there but if I actually  

want to speak confidently if I learn through my  native language I will think through my native  

language and translate in my head when I speak  okay so that's why we don't want to do that so  

if your goal is really to be a confident speaker  like me so I was on this TV show yesterday I had  

no idea really what they were going to talk  about and in the in the TV show they're just  

like asking me questions or we're going to you  know talk about this or whatever and I just have  

to be ready for whatever and if I'm thinking  in English while I do that I'm really going  

to struggle to speak but my Japanese is fine  uh I should have a YouTube video of it maybe  

I don't know in a month or something I'll see  if they give me anything but the show will be  

on probably next month anyway uh so I gave them  this lesson and this is an example of how you  

would do it because if you're trying to think in  Japanese you will know what you want to say like  

but you don't know like does that mean high  price or tall price and those doubts that you  

have are what really stop you from speaking so  you already are taking time and hesitating to  

translate and think about things in your head uh  before you speak but in addition to that you might  

also be thinking well is that correct am I saying  the right thing am I you know you have all these  

questions and doubts that stop you from speaking  so instead of that you just learn something as  

a first language all right so very simple so  this is an example of how you do that uh and  

the reason and kind of bringing it back to the  particular topic today uh the reason I'm talking  

about this is because there are there are really  two issues about developing a native vocabulary  

so let me erase some of this and let's talk  about getting a more diverse or more interesting

vocabulary so as I just mentioned the the goal  of learning English as a first language or really  

learning any language as a first language uh  is so you don't have to to struggle to think  

about things through your native language when  you speak and so if we're going to give let's  

see I'll just split it this way so we'll do the  English as a second language approach up here in  

the English as a first language approach down  here now with that example I just gave about  

tall I'll give you the like the Japanese example  here so taka so this is the uh the way I would  

write this in Japanese uh I won't give you the  kanji but is just as just so you can learn it  

very quickly this is just a translation or how you  would say it uh so in English we might have like a  

tall person uh and then we're going to take the  Japanese and translate that into English so you  

would just learn oh like a person is tall so we  learn tall person but then if you hear the word  

takai again and you're talking about prices we  don't know what to do but when we're learning  

English as a first language we actually begin  with the situation itself like I showed you so  

we're not starting with a translation we start  with the situation we have like a tall object  

over here and maybe a short object so this one  is tall and this one is short but then we have  

something like uh let's see a bird flying down  here I'm not I'm not going to draw this very  

well I can never draw birds I couldn't draw a  bird very well in that video either I'll draw  

a bird this kind of looks like a bird I guess  let's just pretend that's a bird imagine that's  

a bird and then we'll draw one up here I'll draw  it a little bit different okay imagine that's a  

bird so if we have you can see the connection  here look at that we start here and we go down  

here so that's a tall thing and we're going to  compare it with a short thing over here but if  

we have something here this thing is low and this  thing is high so here we are learning English as a  

first language and you're seeing the difference  by comparing these things within English itself  

rather than trying to learn something and get  a translation like this so this is much more  

difficult to remember much more difficult to  use automatically correctly and confidently in  

a conversation but this once you understand it and  you get a few examples and you think okay here's a  

nice physical example we can move on to something  like prices so we might have like oh this is uh  

$110,000 over here and this is uh just $1 so we  have a low price and a high price same idea all  

right so this is how natives are learning the  language they begin by getting an understanding  

usually some physical thing something they can  see and understand pretty quickly and then they  

can take that and use it to learn something a bit  more figurative or something that's more difficult  

to understand okay so hopefully that makes sense  so this is why I did that uh so this is the first  

part of how we want to develop a a really a  diverse vocabulary because if you learn this  

way it really just gives you one thing to say  and then you always say that one thing because  

it's comfortable and easy for you and you say  like oh like that's a high price so that's maybe  

you would say expensive something like that but if  you're learning English as a first language you're  

getting the situation and then we're also hearing  different ways of expressing that so remember I'm  

not focusing on the the word in the translation  I'm focusing on the situation itself like The Tall  

Tree or the short tree and then I'm learning lots  of different ways of expressing that and this is  

where you actually get the diverse vocabulary from  so there are two parts of this you can see uh one  

is the actual number of ways you could express  something so I could talk about something being  

let's say say like expensive so that's just the  idea I have like an expensive suit an expensive  

shirt how could I describe that in different  ways so I could say wow that's like uh that's  

like uh we could just say that's super high priced  just as an example just one way of saying this so  

super high priced I could just say uh let's see  like I could give a longer expression for it like

that's going to hurt as an example so I could look  at something like I'm about to pay $10,000 for a  

new watch but I don't have very much money and  I say ooh that's going to hurt that's going to  

hurt all right so that's just a way of talking  about something being really expensive so like  

that's going to hurt my wallet it's going to hurt  me and so you see learning from uh the native way  

the the first language way we're not trying to  get a translation and then and then remember  

one thing in English we want to pay attention to  different ways that people are responding to the  

same kind of situation so if I'm going shopping  I might watch other people like talking about  

stuff like expensive is just a very simple there's  nothing wrong with that there's nothing wrong with  

using this word but for people who want to have  more diverse and interesting things to say this  

is how you do that so we have the understanding  of something and then we have the different ways  

of saying it okay I'll check comments in just a  minute but I want to make sure people understand  

the difference here so you are you are far  less likely to have something interesting to  

say if you learn through translations because  you're really just making a single connection  

here between your native language and English  but here we've got lots of different ways of  

expressing something and we might feel more  comfortable about one rather than another it  

doesn't really matter but this will help you have  more things to say and you will be more prepared  

for what other people are saying because people  respond to the same situation in different ways  

okay so we notice two things here uh the first  one is how we learn and then that makes us feel  

more confident about something so how confident  do we feel and then the second thing is how many  

different words could we apply that confidence  too all right so here we've got maybe one thing  

one way of expressing something and we're not  really very confident about that so even if we  

could say it correctly we will probably not be  prepared for other ways that people might say  

that so natives will use something different in a  conversation and we will feel less prepared about  

that but here we can feel pretty confident or even  very confident about something and then we become  

confident in each one of these things as we learn  it better so this is how you build that much more  

confident vocabulary and a diverse vocabulary as  well so the whole point this is to feel better  

about the vocabulary you know because you know  it well so you learned it as a first language you  

understand that you're connecting this there's  like a story or some kind of explanation that  

helps you understand that thing and then we're  just applying that to each of these different  

things as we learn them all right now before I  continue there's a little bit more I can explain  

about this but I want to check chat make sure  everybody is still following me here all right  

and of course it skips me down all right let's see  fly high that's right Ed all right so I'm going  

back let's see uh is also fun and useful to study  the opposite words yes that's correct so you can  

that's another way we could express something uh  and I talk about this in a program I have called  

speak like me uh these are the kind of general  principles that natives are doing when they're  

speaking so that they are thinking about something  at the same time I I call this it's really like  

laying track as you're driving the train so you're  continuing to talk and you're thinking about what  

to say and that's how you keep the conversation  flowing so a lot of Learners they can't think of  

what to say next or they get stuck and so the  the conversation stops all right so if you if  

you're thinking about something another very easy  way to change that is simply to say the opposite  

so I could say something uh is expensive where  I could say ooh that's not cheap oh that's not  

cheap so I'm looking at some expensive watch  or something and I'm saying if like let's say  

I forget the word expensive for some reason and I  think Oh that's oh that's not cheap that's not oh  

that's not cheap that's not cheap okay it's just  another way uh another we could say that's like  

a like an arrow in your quiver so this uh when  you see people like I think someone mentioned  

maybe like Robin Hood somebody mentioned Robin  Hood I think or something like that uh quiver  

is the little uh little bag that holds your arrows  so you can think about your vocabulary in the same  

way so this is your ability to hold lots of  different words that you can use in different  

situations okay so another arrow in your quiver  another arrow in your quiver all right but yes uh  

good idea so if you can't think of the word you  can usually think of the opposite especially if  

you're thinking like a verb uh or an adjective  uh so those are good ways let's see uh let's  

see Hamza is asking are there other options for  for paying on the site without a card if you're  

talking about joining our programs uh we accept  Paypal as well but a lot of people if they don't  

have access to paying with cards uh they just ask  someone they know to pay for them and then they  

pay that person back in cash and then everybody's  happy all right let's see here uh good morning  

Edson says are you in Japan yes I'm in Japan tall  is something that you were able to measure well  

you can you can measure the height of something  as well so we have to be careful about defining  

words just like in the example I gave before we're  talking about like the distance if I measure the  

distance of something like the height of this  marker I'm talking about like how tall is the  

marker itself but if I'm talking about the marker  in relation to something else like the ground how  

high is the marker so is it is it high or getting  lower lower lower now it's touching the ground or  

touching my hand in this case uh Bruno is back hey  Drew a long time no see nice to see you there no  

my buddy let's see uh in Japanese the word high  is used to mean expensive is that right yes so I  

mean I I wouldn't say like the word expensive  is the word high but in Japanese like they use  

that for for both things uh so saying something is  ah so they got Tu High n so that's expensive but  

I can also say like a person is Tua like person  is tall the point is if I'm learning it through  

Japanese then I will think through Japanese and I  will have doubts about which word should I use is  

it high price or tall price but if I'm learning  it in English I can see the difference oh look  

at that like we're talking we're going to measure  a thing how tall is the thing is it is it tall or  

short but if we're measuring like a relationship  between like zero or the ground and some other  

thing we can talk about the the distance how  far away it is so is this high or is this low  

and then you can take that so a high mountain uh  we can talk about even if we have a mountain for  

example like the high peak all right so we're  talking that's still uh the difference between  

the ground and up here so there's space between  the the the tippy top part of the mountain here  

and the ground so it's a high peak on a tall  mountain now conversationally people will also  

talk about like wow that's a high mountain so you  could say that but the the the slight difference  

and Nuance here is that we're talking about the  height of it compared to the ground rather than  

like the full distance of the mountain so it's  basically the same thing but you can see how  

natives would be thinking about that so I look up  at a mountain if I'm standing down here trying to  

look up at it and I say wow that's that's really  high I could also say wow that's really tall so  

it's the same idea uh but the Nuance is slightly  different and you come to understand these nuances  

when you learn like a native okay when you learn  English as a first language rather than trying  

to think about grammar rules and translations in  your head before you speak all right uh let's see  

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have uh links where you can join the programs all  right greetings from the Moon says Tony Stark oh  

my goodness Iron Man Fantastic look at that big  damage t-shirt says ildar all right uh than says  

uh you are the best by the way well glad to hear  uh Marcia hello teacher I'm Marcia from Brazil  

Bridget nice to see you there Aziz well let's see  here uh Hy Drew please explain in and nutshell  

what's the difference between number granny is  the kitchen versus there's granny in what between  

number granny is in the kitchen and there's granny  in the kitchen one which one is oh those mean the  

same thing they they don't it's just again just  like the the example I'm giving here let's say the  

situation is uh here's so we will erase expensive  and here's a we'll imagine this is a kitchen and  

here's a a granny I guess I'll put a little dress  on granny a little hair up there there's granny in  

the kitchen uh we can describe this in different  ways so I can say o granny is in the kitchen or I  

could say grandmother is in the kitchen so I could  change that word or I could say uh there's granny  

in the kitchen so I'm usually the the slight  difference and Nuance comes from the focus in  

the in the sentence like what word I'm trying  to focus on so the the tone or the emphasis on  

a word if I say oh there's granny in the kitchen  so I'm talk like granny becomes the focus of that  

so maybe I'm talking about uh there's some person  in the kitchen or someone is in the kitchen and  

I don't know who that is and I would say oh it's  Granny in the kitchen so the focus is Granny uh or  

someone might ask me where is Granny and I'd say  oh granny is in the kitchen so the focus becomes  

kitchen because someone is asking me where she  is all right so it depends on there's and this  

is why when you're when you're continuing to  think from a from a translation perspective  

or a translation point of view learning English  as a second language this is when you you you  

try to think about what's the one right answer but  typically there are many ways to do that so as you  

said it's a good question like what is the what  is a good way to express this but usually those  

are correct and you might have many more ways you  could express that but within the conversation  

itself it's not really a grammar point it's often  a point of emphasis so is Granny in the kitchen  

or is Granny in the kitchen or not in the kitchen  or is Granny somewhere else or is Gran in the the  

bathroom or some other place okay so don't worry  so much about like a particular way that you might  

say that because you will get stuck okay now I I  can't think of exactly uh how to express something  

or I I worry if I'm saying something in one way  rather than something else remember that natives  

will Express things in different ways okay so it's  good to understand these nuances but typically uh  

they're not they're not so important natives will  use these things without really think about it  

and most people just use the language because they  understand it so well because they've used it for  

so long so they've heard so many examples and they  understand and they just have something they feel  

comfortable with and they use that so natives do  this and Learners are doing this as well all right  

uh Mark say as an English language learner it is  necessary to make them own technique associations  

is one yes like you could especially if you're  trying to remember vocabulary have having some  

kind of uh memory aid or whatever what I'm doing  with this is just trying to show it visually how  

often there will be different ways of expressing  something uh but it would be the same way you're  

learning something new in your native language  as well so if it's a completely new word like if  

you go to college and you study some new subject  like biology and there are all these different  

biology words and you have to learn all that  you still have to do the same thing so that's  

just a problem of memory uh let so a problem  of language learning all right Nicholas says  

my first class of you nice to see you there all  right good morning good Channel let's see may I  

say this the prices which will give anyone a  heart attack yep you can say that as well so  

like the price like if we're talking about prices  again like like are you trying to give me a heart  

attack with that price you could give me a heart  attack with that price so there are different  

ways of expressing that and you will hear lots  of ways like often another expression is what

the

damage the damage so what's the damage if we're  talking about someone being or something being  

very expensive how much do we have to pay for  that so let's say my daughter she comes to me  

and says Dad I want to take a trip to Mexico  uh with my friend and I say uh okay what's the  

damage like how much is that going to cost me uh  and so I'm asking like because it's going to hurt  

me or reduce the amount of money I have in my bank  account uh what's the damage so we typically use  

this like in a joking way or if we're having to  pay a fine or something like that I mean you could  

use it like if I have to buy a suit or something  but if I'm going to uh I don't know I'm at like  

a nice store I I probably would not tell the  salesperson what's the damage but if I'm talking  

with my friend about something or talking with my  family in a casual way I could use something like  

that all right so yeah good question uh let's see  uh hi Z from India says iswar and international  

relations hello good teacher good to see you again  all right let's see if the chat is still working  

over here uh Zak Keen if I'm pronouncing that  correctly hi Drew love your classes I just want to  

know why some people learn more fast or you would  certain you would say learn faster or learn more  

quickly than others where is the problem is there  a right way to learn uh and Nils is here too Drew  

I am late but I am here that is true all right  uh yes to answer your question uh the this is the  

reason why some people are faster and some people  are slower that's really it and even within this  

like you can become fluent by learning English as  a second language it just takes way longer and for  

most people it's a very frustrating way to learn  there are always some people who could do this  

like I'm I went to regular uh French Classes  Spanish classes even Japanese classes Latin  

classes uh that taught this way and some people  learned to speak and I know they were spending a  

lot of time studying and practicing and trying to  review things uh but this is the way we actually  

all get fluent so I'm when I'm thinking as a  teacher what's a way for me to teach uh I don't  

want to choose a method that only some people  or really a very small number of people would  

be able to benefit from so only a few people can  really get fluent this way uh because it requires  

a lot of work for the student but this way it  really requires a lot of work for me to make  

sure you understand the language so another thing  I explained in yesterday's uh meeting or that in  

video the uh the TV show episode we were recording  uh was about because how people learn this way  

uh the truth is that you actually don't become a  better speaker by by speaking you become a better  

speaker by uh understanding the language better  so if you understand the language better that's  

when you become a better speaker so in the ESL way  the traditional way typically people have to study  

or memorize things and you just have to review  it again and again and hopefully you figure it  

out but it's on you as the learner to understand  these things and start using them fluently but  

here it's my job to get you fluent okay if I'm  a bad teacher if I don't make something clear  

and easy to understand then that's my fault and  you struggle because of that all right and this  

is the same way a parent even though parents don't  really think about it like it's the parent job to  

help their children learn the language because  you can't just give your child a bunch of you  

know books or something and say hey read this  like they don't know how to learn anything you  

have to explain things to them and and teach them  and that's why everybody teaches their children  

the same way so you can just do the the same thing  as an adult learning the language so again there  

could be uh some people who learn more quickly  or some people who learn more slowly using the  

typical English as a second language method uh but  I've found with English as a first language most  

humans are you know people that can understand  something if you make it understandable everybody  

learns at basically the same rate because either  you understand something or you do not and that's  

really the fault of the teacher now some people  might make connections faster maybe they're just  

I don't know they have more uh life experience  or a higher level of intelligence or something  

like that there are different maybe some factors  that would contribute to that um but actually  

just released a an article on our site uh that's  actually two new articles one of them is talking  

about how long it takes to get fluent uh and the  other is is English difficult to learn so those  

both really answer this same uh question but  in slightly different ways hopefully this makes  

sense though so you could have have people learn  more slowly or more quickly when they're learning  

English as a second language or even if they're  learning English as a first language but generally  

this way in general again generally speaking it's  much faster and easier this way because either  

you have a good teacher that can help you make  the language or who can help make the language  

understandable or you just are getting a bunch of  rules and phrases to memorize and then it's on you  

to learn that okay all right let's continue all  right Marco SG phrasal verbs are a headache for  

us well they shouldn't be you know you don't have  to again uh a lot of the the issues that people  

have like phrasal verbs are crazy or whatever  but phrasal verbs are one of the first things  

that young Native children learn and the reason  children learn phrasal verbs is because they  

really give you a fantastic vocabulary uh it's  really it's like Lego blocks so any kind of pieces  

where you can take them we can take a few words  learn those and put them together in different  

ways and then have a much larger vocabulary really  just a way to express different things with the  

same vocabulary and it's actually quite easy to  learn them the same way kids do you just start  

by understanding them visually so if we have look  at that if I take off the cap of this marker take

off so a child would hear that and they see  the example look take off take off if I have  

a hat on then they also hear oh take off the  hat or I take off my glasses or I take off my  

shirt okay you could also have a plane so like  an airplane is on the runway and the plane what  

it's taking off same idea look at that it's like  disconnecting and so as you get more examples but  

you're learning the native way you understand  it as a first language then it really becomes  

a very simple easy thing to understand and to  apply in different situations so someone said  

oh look at that we can take something off like  look I have a this eraser I can take off the  

Eraser so something can be on something else  or can be like stuck to some kind of surface  

and I remove it so a child would probably not  know the word remove but they would learn take  

off and they learn many different things because  they hear lots of different varied examples uh  

from their parents or teachers or other people  so they learn oh take off this other thing and  

so you begin to make connections let's say  we take a similar phrasal verb like take

out so take out so you will be in class and the  teacher says take out your books so the idea is  

that the book is inside something it could be  inside your desk or inside your bag or inside  

a locker or something take out so right now  the marker is in my hand I'm taking it out  

of my hand okay and so as we're learning these  these different examples we we get a stronger  

understanding of the word take and then we  also can compare that with these different  

prepositions so we can talk about oh where is  something moving it all right and I'm talking  

about taking something like I'm I'm carrying it  or moving it it's moving in some Direction so I  

can talk about taking something or I could talk  about like a specific Direction like pull out  

so pull out something so if something is in  inside a teacher might say hey take out your  

books or pull out your books or someone else  might say get out get out your books get out  

your books or you get out of here get out so you  are in here I want you to leave leave that thing  

so get out get out get out so phrasal verbs the  again as I explained before the phrasal verb is  

not difficult in and of itself it's not difficult  by itself intrinsically it's difficult if you get  

a difficult lesson of it if you get a confusing  lesson that helps you kind of ask more questions  

about it you're like well I don't understand what  that means and especially if you're trying to  

take some kind of translation and then learn it  that way so it will make it much more difficult  

for you to understand and then you will think ah  phrasal verbs are so crazy but it's really funny  

if you look at small children like 2 years old 3  years old they're using these phrasal verbs with  

without even thinking about it so again a child  might not say remove but they would know a few  

different ways take something out get something  out pull something out okay hopefully that makes  

sense so when you think like this is difficult I'm  I'm trying to get you to see uh it's not that the  

thing is difficult it's just how you learn it and  so the ESL lessons that you've had for many years  

in school they make the language more difficult  they make communication more difficult because  

it's harder to understand the language the teacher  is not really teaching you anything they're just  

giving you information not really helping you  understand it like a native and so that's now  

it's your it's your problem to learn that thing  for the test or to become a speaker but in the  

efl way like I'm a parent if I can't teach my  my kids properly then I can't communicate with  

them that's a big problem so if if I'm trying  to make it's it's not on my kids to learn the  

language I need to teach them the language I need  to make sure they understand all right so like in  

school the teacher doesn't I won't say they don't  care but it's less important for them that you  

remember like you you let's say you have a French  like if I had a French class in high school so I  

took French for a year in high school and I can't  speak any french so uh my teacher though doesn't  

care if I if I like became a good french speaker  or not and they probably will not ask me today  

like oh how are you you know how is how is your  French no they don't nobody cares but I Care As  

a parent if my children can't learn to speak so  my children are learning uh Japanese and English  

but they're learning it as a first language  so both of them they're learning Japanese and  

English as a first language rather than trying  to learn them like through one another all right  

so this is a long explanation but hopefully uh  it makes sense there's nothing really difficult  

about phrasal verbs it's just how you learn them  so we cover this a lot actually in fluent for life  

I have a whole program the visual guide to phrasal  verbs which explains that uh if you're new you can  

search our YouTube channel for phrasal verbs and  see examples of this and how I make it very easy  

for you to understand all right Emma says why I  can understand when I listen to something but I  

but I can if I read subtitles what I don't  understand your question are you saying you  

can understand or you can't understand if you're  listening but you can understand with subtitles  

is that what you mean uh if that's what you're  saying uh typically your your mind uh and this  

is an interesting thing just about psychology and  the Brain uh is that we're not really looking for  

things unless we're prepared for them before  it's like a tricky thing like you have to know  

something to be prepared for it uh but often you  will hear things like could be music or just some  

maybe some English and you you hear the English  but you don't really understand what's being  

said and then when you read the subtitle you  understand oh that's what they're saying and  

it's much easier because you can recognize the  words they're easier to understand uh but then  

you could listen to the same thing and it becomes  more clear to you so that's just part of a weird  

part of the brain and psychology where uh like  you have to be prepared for things you have to  

be like prepared for things to recognize them it's  much easier that way uh and that's why it's easier  

to to to try to learn something with subtitles  as well uh but after a while you can get good at  

listening uh to native English and understanding  things without the subtitles uh let's see uh Ben  

next says again oh I skip one I think let's see  baras says you are an excellent teacher really  

greetings to you I'd like to speak fluently but so  difficult remember uh try to have a specific focus  

with your learning so we really get fluent in one  thing at a time like one word or phrase that we  

learn to use fluently so when you talk about  getting fluent in English that's a really big  

goal and it's not specific so it's harder for your  brain to know if you did something and because you  

can't tell you can't feel confident that you  learned something so just say hey I want to  

really get fluent in this like I gave the example  of the difference between high and Tall if you  

can just understand that you will feel confident  and then you can move on to the next thing so get  

fluent in individual words and phrases as you  come to understand them better that's how you  

develop an actual fluent vocabulary it's not by  learning more words it's by understanding exping  

the vocabulary that you're focusing on and then  you learn something else and then you begin uh  

expanding it from there uh let's see and B says  the most used phrasal verbs linked to prices and  

overall shopping experience are uh well you can  just Google that if you're looking for a list  

of like phrasal verbs talking about talking about  prices or something you can find lists uh for all  

kinds of stuff like that or chat GPT can tell  you the same thing really the the best thing I  

can do in these videos is try to help you explain  something that you don't quite understand so if  

you have a doubt about something but if you're  just looking for like lists of information use  

Google and chat GPT for that uh good morning says  Wilson nice to see you there teacher I have a  

question is it take out or take off to pack food  ah you mean if you're if you're like working in  

a restaurant and someone gets something like take  out yeah so that we would call that like take out  

so you're you're getting something because you're  it's in the restaurant and you will remove it from  

the restaurant so it's in the restaurant now it  will be out of the restaurant so you're taking  

out you will also hear this as to go so people  if you come to a restaurant they say like is this  

for here or to go for here or to go that's kind of  the Casual everyday way uh some people a slightly  

higher way of saying this is dining in or to go  or like are you taking like taking it away so  

also uh I think British English uh typically they  will use takeway rather than take out or to go uh  

which we use in American English so depending  on where you live you will hear those examples  

if you go to a restaurant and just pay attention  and that's really uh the the the deeper message  

of this video is when you focus on situations  that's when you start getting lots of examples of  

different ways of saying things and that's how you  develop your diverse vocabulary all right so you  

don't develop a diverse vocab ulary by translating  anything because it's only giving you one way of  

saying something instead we want to focus on the  situation get lots of different examples see how  

different natives would respond to that situation  or describe something in different ways and then  

we learn quite a few things now some of these we  might feel more confident about using than others  

but typically you can learn a whole bunch of  things be prepared for when other natives or you  

know you hear them wherever the the example comes  from but you're prepared when you get those examp  

examples and then that's when you can start maybe  picking one or two things that you feel confident  

using uh but it's still more than you would  get with just translating something all right  

uh what is the best way to learn phraseology a  phrasal are you asking about like what do you  

mean phraseology like like studying phrases or  you're just trying to improve your vocabulary  

this is how you improve your vocabulary uh and  learn more phrases uh but this is really just  

it's so you can build build a large vocabulary  that you can use without thinking I'm not really  

focusing on trying to understand the language as  a linguist and that's why I don't give a bunch  

of vocabulary like technical names for things  like grammar points or kinds of vocabulary uh  

it's just not necessary when you want to speak  and natives don't really know that information  

either uh but again that's how you would do it  you want to find situations the same way natives  

do uh and so just to give you some very simple  examples or simple ways you would do that if you  

just think about something you're interested in  you can even do this right here on YouTube if you  

want to learn uh it could be something specific as  how do people respond when they're angry or uh it  

could be a a a slightly broader topic where you're  talking about uh I don't know what do people talk  

about when they're buying shoes so you can watch  YouTube channels that or YouTube videos that talk  

about that thing specifically so buying shoes like  just like if you type into YouTube like buy shoes  

like someone buying shoes I'm sure you will find  someone going to a a shoe store and buying some  

shoes watch 10 of those videos and you will learn  quite a bit about how to buy shoes and then from  

that you can also apply that vocabulary to buying  other things so if I'm asking about prices like  

how much is something so oh how much are these  shoes I would use that same thing in a different  

store how much is this dress or whatever all  right and you can also get different levels of  

the same kind of thing so I might search for  kids buying shoes you can I'm going to check  

check YouTube right now see if if that's a thing  because I bet it is so if you search on YouTube  

for for something like that let me go to YouTube  here uh and I'm going to search for kids let's see  

here so kids and you can try this yourself kids  buy shoes let's see if we get any examples for  

that all right let's see 12-year-old millionaire  sneaker shopping there we go teen bu's first ever  

pair of Jordans so that Michael Jordan uh these  kids made $20,000 selling sneakers I mean I could  

watch a couple of those videos and very quickly  know a lot about selling and buying sneakers  

okay and there could be different shoes but the I  gave the example about kids because it's like if  

you if you want to learn slightly easier English  or things that would be a little bit easier to  

understand you can just type kids or children  doing something so children talking about uh  

gardening so if I if I search for like I'll just  say kids let's see kids talking or kids talk about

gardening what do we get all right let's plant  a garden uh there's some like maybe some songs  

about that even uh here's a here's gardening  with kids a garden tour with little kids are  

talking about things and they're going to give  you very simple very easy to understand English  

and you will think oh look at that like here's  how a child would explain that and you can get  

fluent in that vocabulary and you can continue  learning more things like if a child is talking  

about roses how would an adult talk about roses  as well so an adult they're probably going to  

talk about the same thing but they will give you  more detail they will use slightly more advanced  

vocabulary that kind of thing all right so this  is how you fill in that vocabulary but you do it  

for one thing at a time just pick one thing and  focus on that so this is what we do in fluent  

for life this is the whole reason we organize the  program around really understanding vocabulary I  

don't want to just give you a list of a hundred  words and say hey go memorize this it's my job  

to give you the steps and help you understand a  lot of different things about about that topic  

or that vocabulary so you understand it well and  feel confident about using it then you speak okay  

that's how you become a good speaker so this is a  way for you to do this by yourself you don't have  

to join the program if you don't want to this is  just something uh that again anybody could easily  

do we just make it very easy because it's really  nice to have someone who actually can explain what  

things are that's the value of a good teacher all  right so hopefully this makes sense uh but again  

it really is a simple process when you stop trying  to do things the traditional way you can see how  

this would really develop your fluency rather than  the traditional way where I'm going to take one  

word or even a phrase and try to translate that  into English I don't understand the Nuance as well  

I don't really understand when I should use it or  how I should say it I'm not getting examples of  

how other people might say something so I'm I'm  really Limited in the conversation about what I  

can understand and what I can speak and that's  really going to decrease my confidence so if I  

want to feel confident uh about learning things  and feel confident in situations then I would  

learn it this way as a first language all right  let's go back uh see if people have some let's  

see all right is it morning in your country  says uh C can't read that cesarin a if I'm  

pronouncing that correctly uh yes it is uh what  time is it 10:46 uh in the morning here in Japan  

all right I understand but is difficult to speak  says yab uh how well do you understand I would I  

I always ask this to people uh because they think  they understand something but if you have trouble  

speaking then you don't understand as well as you  think you do you don't understand as well as you  

think you do so you might think you understand  but you don't really and this is because there  

are different levels of being able to understand  vocabulary so you might just get exposed we'll  

just put X to be exposed to vocabulary down  here uh here we are aware of vocabulary we can  

recognize it in conversations but up here this is  where we own vocabulary where we really understand  

it very well we understand it well enough to use  it in a conversation okay so we want you to get  

up here and most people are either here or here  so maybe they've heard some vocabulary sometimes  

or they can recognize it but if you if you are  stuck here and I have a whole video about this  

like the three levels of understanding vocabulary  it's important to recognize this because the the  

the way you understand is the way you speak all  right so this level of speech or this level of  

this level of uh communication ability or speech  comes from how well you understand so if you're at  

this level here you probably will will not be able  to speak very well you will know a lot of English  

but you won't feel confident speaking because  you don't really understand the vocabulary well  

enough and what I mean is you still have doubts  or concerns or questions or worries or something  

that's stopping you from from getting from this  level up here so when a native says something oh  

you know the native is using it correctly so a  fluent person will use the vocabulary correctly  

and you can understand when they're saying it  but you don't yet have the confidence to use it  

yourself because you still have questions or you  don't really understand or don't really remember  

that vocabulary so when people say they understand  it's important to know what that means so are you  

just kind of hearing something where you okay  I I ex I exposed myself to some uh I don't know  

some talog when I went to the Philippines so  I exposed myself I don't understand any of it  

I don't I don't understand what I'm hearing I'm  exposing myself to it I'm hearing hear in it or  

now I recognize and I and I understand at at a  level good enough to recognize what people are  

saying I can understand when people are speaking  to me but I don't really own the language so when  

I give you a lesson about High versus tall I  want you to really understand that so you own  

that vocabulary and that's where you have really  no doubts about using it so you want to understand  

you want to understand as well as you can to  erase the doubts that stop you from speaking  

it's the doubts that stop you from speaking it's  not the like the knowledge of the vocabulary it's  

how well do you really know the vocabulary so as  I talked in the uh earlier part of this video it's  

the the the actual number of words that you use  is less important than how well you know that  

vocabulary okay all right uh hi from thaine says  cam nice to see you there all right uh All That  

Glitters as a nice name I live in the states  and people are very intolerant uh when I try  

to speak I'm not that fluent and that makes me  feel so frustrated I can't have a chance I have  

to practice with my kids remember you don't have  to practice with anybody the only practice thing  

you do is just getting more examples that help  you really understand something and then you  

will feel confident about speaking so you don't  have to wait for anyone you don't have to bother  

your kids about speaking with them you just get  lots of examples for the things you want to talk  

about that's how you become a fluent speaker I  know everyone thinks that you need to spend a  

lot of time speaking but what would that be like  how would you actually practice what does it mean  

to practice your vocabulary just to repeat it  over and over again is that really practicing  

anything you're not really learning anything  or understanding anything better you're just  

repeating the same thing so I could hear some  Vietnamese right now and just repeat it but  

I'm not understanding anything more about speaking  Vietnamese I'm just repeating something all right  

so you don't have to wait this is this should be  great news you should be like yes this is amazing  

I don't have to have a practice partner I don't  have to wait for anyone like a teacher or my kids  

or something like that just like I explained  earlier pick a thing you're interested in and  

learn a lot about that that's it you will get lots  of examples of wow like I understood what the what  

that person was saying and now I'm prepared for  what other people are talking about when they're  

discussing that and because I'm prepared for  that I feel confident speaking okay so first  

comes understanding then comes speech it's not  the other way around all right and especially  

if you've tried the other way where you try to  force yourself to speak or you're trying to study  

more the traditional way and that's not working  then just try this it's much easier I promise I  

promise it is all right uh let's see Lads of uh  smiley faces from Manuel pipe 99 I understand  

everything I hear but I have problems to express  my ideas in English yes that's this issue right  

here so you understand you have awareness you have  the awareness level you recognize information but  

you still have doubts and that's what's hurting  your confidence okay so you have to eliminate the  

doubts and you do that by getting more examples of  whatever the vocabulary or the grammar or whatever  

it is you're trying to learn okay that's how you  do it all right uh JC sento with the smiley face  

with the sunglasses very good Anonymous says I  do not know what it is but why kids understand  

better people that's English are not their first  language than adults well like kids when kids are  

learning a language they're typically they're  typically learning through like the same way  

uh they would learn their native language  so people think that kids are like have a  

a masterful ability to learn languages when an  adult like let's say a baby is born uh and an  

adult starts learning a language at the same  time so even for the first year the baby's not  

saying anything the baby's getting lots of input  uh but still the baby is not speaking anything but  

an adult learning if an adult begins learning at  that same time they should be way way better than  

the child at speaking because they've got lots of  advantages that the child doesn't have like being  

able to make connections or maybe controlling what  they learn there's lots of things I have a whole  

article about this why adults actually have lots  of advantages over kids uh for language learning  

uh on our website but uh there's nothing that  kids are really doing that's special other than  

learning English as a first language that's the  that's the whole point so adults are trying to  

trying to take translations and study more and  force their brain to learn things and they're  

trying to they're they're basically trying  to learn like a computer would but we don't  

get fluent that way you don't become a confident  speaker by uh trying to force yourself to remember  

things or forcing yourself to speak before  you feel comfortable you should actually be  

understanding the language better and you can do  this anytime anywhere you don't need anyone else  

uh to do that with that's why people can get  fluent with fluent for life because it's just  

helping you understand the language really well  and for anybody if you still have questions we're  

there to answer questions for people but it's  very simple all right so if you're if you like  

these these are the main problems that people have  but they really come from these two different ways  

of learning either you learn English as a second  language or you learn it as a first language all  

right uh also is shadowing a bad thing no I don't  I wouldn't say shadowing is a bad thing but I  

think like teachers and this is an interesting  thing about like business and marketing in  

general uh if students think that shadowing is  important then teachers will make videos about  

that all right so it's interesting like my like my  Approach is more like this is what's worked for me  

and I really want to share that with people and  shadowing it's not it's not something I focused  

on because I'd much rather spend time getting  examples from more like a greater variety of  

people so if I have five minutes to learn I could  try to repeat what one person says or I could try  

to get a bunch of examples of what other people  are saying and that those uh that variety should  

help me understand whatever I'm learning much  faster so it's it's important like people are  

repeating after other people that's great but  I don't make a big deal out of shadowing it's  

just repeating after other people now I'm sure  people who focus on that like they there's like  

special nuances or something that they get but  I haven't found that necessary for developing

fluency uh let's see that uh Thiago says  that you'd say that was deep where where  

you can say that's deep if you're talking  about in the present or that was deep zaken  

says Drew can I ask something about method if  I listen to a lot of material without have a  

60% of comprehensibility is it work or am  I wasting my time doing this uh listen to  

things you understand you should you should  understand at least let me leave this up here  

if I'm if I'm reading something or listening to  something I should understand like 90% like 80  

80 to 90% % we'll just say 80 to 90% if I'm  challenging myself I should understand most  

of this this is the new information here  so if I understand already most of what I  

understand or most of what I'm listening to  then this new information is much easier to  

understand from Context so if I'm listening  to someone uh like they use a word uh and  

then they they they say but and they say  something else so I know this word and I  

know what but means so I can guess like oh this  new thing is probably the opposite or something  

different from this other word they said so I  like I like this but I have a distaste I have a

distaste for something so you can probably guess  what that means because you know like I like yeah  

I like uh I like pasta but I have a distaste  for lasagna Okay so so you can guess from the  

context because you understand the rules of the  language uh oh okay like I like this but oh like  

who I like but oh here's a new more interesting  word that I've not heard before if you don't know  

what this means you can probably guess from the  situation but if I'm listening to a whole bunch of  

information and I don't understand any of it I'm  just confusing my brain so I am wasting my time  

in that situation so I know people people want  they they think they're just going to learn okay  

I only understand 50% of something and I'm trying  to expand my vocabulary faster but it doesn't work  

that way because you're you're you're trying  to learn more than you're ready for but here I  

can learn new information oo distaste wow that's  an interesting word I like this but uh I have a  

distaste for something else so you can guess what  that means it means you don't really like it very  

much all right and so you understand that from  the context and that's why it's important to to  

manage this so if you try to learn too much you  try to force too much information then you then  

you start learning English as a second language  again because you have to get the dictionary out  

you have to start thinking okay how do I translate  this and you you fall back into that of this kind  

of traditional method of thinking okay how does  how do I understand this information so your brain  

is always trying to understand and if you don't  understand you can't speak all right so again  

uh you want to make sure you understand most of  what you're learning and that's why we get lots  

of different examples of things covering that  same topic we don't want to just get one example  

of something we want to get many so we really  understand that thing uh Mariam says how does  

commute I mean means go back home well commute  it just means to travel from one place to another  

so I could commute to work like I I I live one  place and I drive or take a train or something  

to a different plane I am commuting to commute  all right and so I could like an animal could  

like commute usually we have a different word for  that we call that migrating uh but you could if  

you have a regular trip like like an animal might  go out and leave its little house or home or hole  

in the ground and look for food and then come back  that's like the daily commute for an animal same  

kind of idea is this American English yes but uh  anybody who is an English speaker would understand  

what I'm saying they could be in Australia Canada  United States England uh Dre I'm writing to hear  

from you till now says renie from Brazil my best  for you and your family well thank you very much  

uh get to know well the vocabulary yes you get  to know the vocabulary well that is the goal says  

Thiago read more books or get to know more random  topics and see the vocabulary is used or both well  

like think about it like I'm not just going to go  to a library and open up a like a Biology book in  

Japanese for no reason that that would be that's  a waste of my time but if I if I know I'm going to  

talk with someone and they like soccer I should  probably watch some people talking about soccer  

to learn some of that vocabulary so learn the  things that you need for your life this is why  

we do in INF fluent for life you can choose the  particular topics you're interested in learning  

about so if you need something something for your  professional life you can watch or get information  

about that or if you need to have uh lessons about  you know casual conversational family things or  

friends or something you can learn about that  too so find your focus and just focus on that  

thing all right uh do you think that books are  an outdated form of learning something nowadays  

no not at all uh I I've read books all the time I  have I always have a couple different books with  

me uh and again different ways that we process  information but uh often a book is going to give  

me something and usually someone took some time  to think something out so it could be a story or  

even some non-fiction if it's explaining to me how  to do something like a business book um but it's  

someone taking time to plan their words out and  really craft something that's easier to understand  

rather than just speaking so even this live lesson  that I'm doing I could probably take some time  

organize it into to like a 20 minute lesson and  just talk about like a particular thing and and  

really I don't know just make it like very clear  and concise so there are lots of good reasons to  

read but that's a big one so you're getting  lots of information uh but typically it's in  

a well structured format uh and you can learn  with it quite quickly but you should be getting  

examples Reading Writing listening that's how you  developed fluency in your native language as well  

but there's nothing outdated about any of that and  you notice that because even if we get a new form  

of media so before we only had books actually  before that we only had stories we didn't even  

have printed words but we had stories people  would tell each other stories and then we got  

books and then we got radio and then television  and then the internet you know and who knows maybe  

we'll just be in the metaverse talking to Mark  Zuckerberg or whatever uh but all of those things  

are still around so I bet even in the metaverse  there are people sitting reading books they just  

like create some they're like sitting on a I don't  know like a lovely Mountain just reading a book in  

the metaverse so yeah books are not going anywhere  uh let's see bck says again me again my level is  

around B2 and I am a better speaker when I am calm  and everything goes my way but when stressed or  

something happens uh which I need a quick response  I get stuck your advice yeah like there's not much  

you can do about this other than preparing so if  you think about when something happens you like  

if if this typically happens like in I don't know  in any situation for most people they would get a  

little bit I don't know what to do even in your  native language you might have that experience  

especially if it's something new like if I'm  traveling I go to a different place I remember  

even I went to I was in Tokyo I was still in Japan  speaking Japanese but I went to Tokyo and I felt  

like I was in a different country um and so my  Japanese kind of escapes me for a moment if I  

get a little bit flustered or whatever and then I  just have to be like wait a minute like calm down  

I can explain this in a simple way and so if you  can first relax yourself uh that's a good way to  

to handle particular situations but if as long  as you continue learning those situations should  

decrease so the more prepared uh preparedness or  the more prepared you are the better you will be  

in those situations uh hack Wizards Army says if I  oh that's your name okay uh best think about clear  

with band 10 and IELTS please tell me briefly  explain uh I don't focus on the IELTS or any test  

in particular so I recommend you look for people  who do uh what what I am teaching you though will  

help anybody perform better on a test I just don't  focus on those tests so I can't give you the best  

advice about that uh I thought I was going to  learn how to get a divorce in English oh no boost  

up English we need to improve your vocabulary then  yes we want a diverse a diverse vocabulary so you  

can talk about uh even the same thing in many  different ways I could be prepared to respond to  

different people as that's often the case I might  talk with a friend of mine about the same topic  

and use different vocabulary with that person  whether uh instead of talking with my mom or my  

kids or something I will explain the same thing  in different ways of different people if you'd  

like to see me doing this uh there are videos I  have on the channel about me expressing things in  

different ways like at different levels so I have  a video uh talking about shoes describing shoes uh  

and I think describing a few other things as well  but watch that video or those videos I forget how  

many I made but just if you search my channel  for shoes you will find that uh just to see uh  

some examples of this uh as oppose as supposed to  commute you mean as opposed to commute no commute  

I don't know what you're saying you mean commune  commune rather than commute is that what you mean  

commune is like to like to connect with something  like I go out into the woods and I commune with  

nature I'm just kind of feeling feeling a little  bit better connecting with nature all right uh AJ  

says hello sir I'm from India CA nice to see  CA back there I am uh here although I'm late  

thanks for your awesome work it's my pleasure  and hi dear says Salam D all right one thing I  

will say for people stop using deer when you when  you like deer dear is something that's like a way  

of addressing someone like dear Drew how are you  today if I'm sending a letter to myself uh but  

we don't like we don't call someone dear that  we don't know that's like a a very that's like  

a close word for like your parents or like your  wife or something like that like oh my dear I I  

love you so much but like I hear that all the time  and I'm so stop using deer just stop using that uh  

it will it will confuse people and you will think  wow that's like a very like hello dear like your  

grandmother says that to you you know you so you  wouldn't use that with uh people you don't know  

or people that you don't know very well all right  can you tell me about subordinate clauses no you  

can Google that if you're if you're just looking  for like explanations about stuff like get go to  

Google or chat GPT for that my the best thing  the best way I can help you in these videos is  

helping you really understand things that you  don't understand so if you're just like what  

is a subordinate clause just get an example of it  and you'll see how it works all right uh yes deer  

is a formal way yes and it's like you don't call  someone deer it's like Dear somebody like hey I'm  

I'm addressing you as as you know in a formal  way so dear whatever if I'm if I'm sending a  

letter to Santa Claus Dear Santa uh please bring  me some toys Bo or something like that so Dear  

Santa but I wouldn't call Santa dear I'd say oh  dear I love you you know that's that's for like  

usually close family relations Sam says hi there  Professor quick question please when learning a  

new topic should be a thing is related to myself  or a topic I want to know more about what do you  

say yes it whatever what what are you interested  in and that's another good thing like if you  

like playing video games watch people in English  playing video games or if you like I don't know  

whatever whatever the the topic is do that thing  in English it's pretty it's pretty easy so you  

don't have to overthink this uh but connect the  English language with what you're interested in  

so you don't you don't just try to like sit and  study the language you want to really see people  

using the language so you understand how they use  it we want to connect situations with vocabulary  

to understand see uh understand vocabulary  the same way natives do all right overwhelm  

overwhelm helming overwhelmingly explain it well  those are just different I don't understand the  

question it's like it's like quick and quickly  so like rather than take a a difficult word like  

overwhelm you should take something simple and  then see how oh that's an adverb or that's an  

adjective or how we would modify something but you  can that's a that's an answer for Google or chat  

GPT all right uh it looks like we've gotten to the  end of this video fantastic I answered everybody's  

questions and I think how do we go about 70  minutes look at that all right if anybody has  

any last questions feel free to post them I think  the uh yeah the chat is still chat is still messed  

up oh my goodness all right but hopefully I think  we got everybody though all right uh just to give  

a quick recap about what we've spoken about today  the main idea is that if you want to stop saying  

the same simple things again and again you really  need to get better input okay so your output is  

the reflection of your input so if you get only  one thing maybe you're translating you're just  

getting one example of something then that's the  only thing you will be prepared for it will be the  

only thing you understand the only thing you feel  confident using but as you start paying attention  

actually I had my original thing over here so  we have a situation and we're paying attention  

for how natives talk about that thing how do  they express the same thing in different ways  

and even if they say the same thing each native  speaker will say it a little bit differently so  

one person will have a high voice or a low voice  a child might say something rather than an adult  

or even you express something in a slightly maybe  like an angry way or a kind way or you're going  

to focus on individual words by emphasizing those  like I talked before about your grandmother is in  

the kitchen or your grandmother's in the kitchen  or your grandmother is in the kitchen same idea  

so the more examples you get the more confident  you will become and then you speak all right so  

you have to get more examples of things and  that will naturally very quickly without you  

talking with anybody or asking anybody to help you  speak anything like that just find things you're  

interested in if you'd like this all done for  you this is what we offer in fluent for life but  

you're certainly welcome to do it yourself uh the  only thing that's really difficult is organizing  

the content and then understanding anything that  maybe is a little bit more challenging for you  

it's possible that's how I got fluent in Japanese  it just takes a lot more time all right we'll see  

if we have any more final questions over here  uh Andre says is it better to learn one word in  

different situations or different words in one  situation well you will learn both uh so you  

will you will learn you you will notice how it's  like a a web a network of connections and so you  

might begin with a word and hear how different  people use it in different situations and then  

maybe you learn some other word and that takes  you over here and over here and you begin making  

these Connections in your mind so you don't  have to be very strict about that but again  

if we if we focus on a particular topic we're  going to get many different ways of expressing  

things and we could be we could get more specific  so let's say I'm talking about cars so that's a  

really big broad topic just cars in general so  I might pick something like car maintenance or  

car sales or car painting and then I could learn  even more specifically like how do we paint the  

inside of a car or how do we do you know again  you can see how this would get more specific but  

you can get whatever level of focus you want it  could be even a particular word uh but just let  

let the let this kind of kind of take you around  like you're on a river and you're getting lots of  

explanations about something so as you feel like  oh that's an interesting word uh and we learn a  

different way of saying something maybe you get  you get pulled in different direction directions  

and want to learn about other things okay so don't  be so strict about it uh it's a good question but  

you don't have to worry about it so much how  to understand watching a movie in English uh  

that's a more challenging one because that's  a really a long thing that you have to spend a  

lot of time on understanding the various parts of  that you really just need someone to explain that  

for you uh I would before doing that find smaller  pieces of content even like 5 minutes 20 minutes  

30 minutes uh and then focus on those rather than  trying to watch a whole movie CU it really is a  

lot of a lot of work to try to understand that  if you don't already understand a lot remember  

you should be uh trying to focus on things that  you understand like 80 to 90% of so if you can  

do that with a movie that's great uh but often  people are watching things and it's more like it's  

like a lot of new information makes it much more  difficult for you to understand without having  

a teacher there to explain things so focus on  something simple uh Daniel send says so basically  

the secret is to learn the variety of uses of  a word in different context right yes so again  

the the idea is understanding something and so you  could get one example of something that helps you  

understand it well enough like black blue black  so if I if I showed you like 10 examples of black  

things and blue things you would recognize that  and you would remember those words so I don't need  

to make it very complicated the point is how many  examples do you need for you to feel confident  

about saying something so if you you control this  learning if you have a doubt about something get  

more examples but if you don't have a doubt then  you feel confident using it move on to the next  

thing all right uh like austo says Bora Bora  all right uh kunan says hello from Nepal your  

presentation is very touchy ah you would say uh  touching touching so again we have to be careful  

so touchy is more like that's a sensitive topic  like I don't want to talk to my sister about I  

don't know like maybe like let's say my sister is  like really really I don't know fat or something  

like that's a touchy subject for her I don't want  to talk about that with her because she might get  

upset if I say hey you should lose some weight  or something or you know like maybe you're eating  

too much or whatever you know so as an example  that's a touchy subject but something that's

touching touching is like oh wow that really makes  me feel good so I watch a movie about a boy and  

his dog and their relationship or whatever like  oh that's a very touching movie like it touches  

me all right so this is another example of where  you might hear a word and you think you know it  

but then you use it and you're like oh no I said  the wrong thing like I said something similar so  

again I'm just using this as a good example not  to make anyone feel bad about vocabulary uh but  

this is where you would think oh now I need to  I need to get more examples of something so I  

really feel confident uh that I'll understand and  say this at the right time in the right situation  

uh let's see Salud says I've been watching your  videos for a long time so I couldn't call you dear  

yes well you nobody should be calling me dear  anyway all right I want to buy your class how  

beneficial is compared to your YouTube videos  and what class has more verbal communication  

practice thank you says cter uh usually what  we do on YouTube like this kind of video it's  

explaining the principles of how you should get  fluent and I do this so if you want to learn by  

yourself you can and you certainly can just like  I got fluent it was just it was a pain because I  

had to teach myself the language so I still had to  do like a little bit of Lear learning Japanese as  

a second language while I'm trying to do that  uh because nobody could teach me really I had  

to just get lots of good examples and sometimes  I don't understand something because no one was  

there to explain it to me uh so it's much more  challenging to do it by yourself it certainly is  

possible uh but uh most of the the videos that  I have on the channel are just giving examples  

of principles for learning so talking about  learning English as a first language or I'm  

giving you some examples of that process like uh  the High versus tall example so that's what we do  

on YouTube so there's a lot of content on YouTube  and I will continue making content on YouTube but  

fluent for life is the actual structured lessons  that help you and really train you to get get you  

fluent automatically so it's like having me  sitting there with you and you say drew I'd  

really like to improve my career and have better  conversations and meetings I say all right great  

uh we're going to go into this lesson and I'll  explain to you how to do this and actually get  

you fluent in the vocabulary and make you feel  confident so that you can speak in those meetings  

that's the whole point of the program so people  get to choose what they're interested in some  

people want to learn for professional reasons uh  other people just need it for casual communication  

but whenever or wherever you're using English we  cover everything in the program plus we're there  

to answer questions so the biggest really the  biggest benefit is having all the information  

organized in the way you should learn it  and having people who are there to help you  

understand it like a native that's the whole  point uh so yes there is a lot of content on  

YouTube but it's basically tips and examples of  how you would learn the language like a native  

all right but if you're looking for actual help  step-by-step training that's what we do in the  

program see if I answered all of that ah uh and  does it have more verbal communication practice  

again uh the point of the program like we don't  we don't speak with you because you don't need  

to spend your time speaking to become fluent you  need to understand the language really well so  

you know if you're using something fluently or  not because if you have doubts it means you're  

not fluent in that vocabulary so we really are  there to help people to make sure we answer all  

their questions and usually the lessons do a very  good job of that so it took me like a long time  

planning exactly how we're going to teach things  and make them understandable because it's my fault  

if you don't get fluent okay so uh if you want  someone to help you uh and without worrying about  

meeting people to speak with because what are  you going to do if you have people to speak with  

you're just going to repeat things you already  know and you don't become a better speaker by  

repeating things you already know all right you  certainly don't become more fluent uh you might  

just get good at saying particular things but it's  not really helping you understand the language  

better and understanding is the secret to fluency  all right so if you'd like to learn more if you  

have questions about any of the programs you can  also uh mail us at info@ English anyone.com all  

right uh what is pronunciation VOC vocabulary  says hack Wizards Army I don't understand what  

that means you're talking about pronouncing words  like is that what you mean also if you'd like to  

learn about pronounciation you can click on the  link for Frederick uh below this video get that  

link and you can start sounding like me and that  will give you actually uh interactive lessons that  

can improve your listening and pronunciation all  right uh Nomar says I love you I'm from Venezuela  

oh my goodness lots of love out there today well  I appreciate all the love and uh Joselyn says uh  

I will have a PT exam soon and I am struggling  with my fluency what can you suggest well uh I  

don't know by pte you mean like is that like  for the military or some other thing whatever  

that means just get more information about that  like if I if I have a particular test let's say  

I want to become a ski instructor I should watch  a lot of YouTube videos about people talking about  

that or you know like teaching people how to ski  all right so there are examples of really anything  

you would want to learn on YouTube you want  to learn how to be a pilot watch videos about  

people being pilots on YouTube it's pretty simple  uh how this works all right uh Dave says hi Drew  

I think that's it for the comments look at that  we got through everybody again if you have more  

questions uh feel free to leave them in the  comments below this video or just send us a  

mail or join any of our programs where we actually  go through all the lessons and training that get  

you this all right we want to make you really  understand the language so you feel confident  

about speaking that's how you get fluent all right  have a fantastic day and I'll see you in the next  

video should be uh I think a week from today so  probably not on Monday uh but next Thursday byebye