How I Get People Fluent In English

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think we should be lurking working I am Drew  badger the founder of EnglishAnyone.com and I  

am back for another live video uh I was sick for  like over a week uh had the flu my whole family  

had the flu but now I am back uh so I'm still not  feeling perfect and my mind is a little bit foggy  

so I might not be as sharp as I usually am and  hopefully I don't cough or do anything in the  

in the video but uh this time being sick it gave  me a lot of time to be or a lot of time to think  

and so I thought I would make a video this about  all the the things that I have learned over 20  

years of helping people get fluent and explain  uh yeah pardon me we'll see we'll see how this  

goes I think you YouTube is working though uh  but if you have any questions as usual please  

post them in the chat I will keep my eye on those  but I wanted to get through this first uh all  

right so it is chat is working nice to see over  there Arturo Bruno uh sillo and let's see Bears  

it's working are my teacher Brazil from Vincent  English with SLE hello Drew get wello nice to see  

you there get some sleep it's too late for you  all right well let's get started uh this should  

be an interesting video just because uh if you  have followed my channel for a while this will be  

both for Learners and for teachers I know a lot of  teachers follow me as well uh and what I'm going  

to talk about in this video is applicable for any  language so it doesn't matter what language you're  

learning obviously this channel focuses on helping  people learn English but if you're a teacher and  

just trying to get people fluent uh if the goal  is not just to help them learn the language for  

a test to remember certain things but actually to  communicate then you will appreciate this video  

I think all right uh so I've been helping people  get fluent for over 20 years this YouTube channel  

is I think 13 or 14 how old is this channel now  10 years old exactly I don't remember exactly  

yeah I think it's like something like that like  13 years maybe um and over this whole time that  

I've been helping people learn uh especially on  YouTube I haven't really changed what I do as far  

as teaching and it's interesting like this whole  time uh and I'll talk a little bit about that that  

history um like for me coming to Japan still not  uh being able to speak not like not being able to  

speak Japanese not knowing anything about um like  how to teach really so when I came to Japan in  

2003 uh so that was 20 years ago uh I had had  already failed to learn a couple of different  

languages and I even failed to learn Japanese in  Japan uh so immersion was not the thing that got  

me fluent uh and it's not really what helps a  lot of other people get fluent either so I will  

explain what does get you fluent in this video  uh but the interesting thing is if you can if  

you I'll just kind of I'm going to I'm going to  explain this in two ways I'll try to explain this  

in two ways uh this top line here uh where we we  have like the goal we're trying to get closer and  

closer to this point over here which is where you  speak so people actually want to like the people I  

help they're not just trying to learn the language  so they can pass a test they actually want to  

communicate they want to understand what people  are saying they want to follow conversations or  

movies or TV shows or whatever but also Express  themselves and so this is really the important  

thing here the thing I've been focusing on for  so long and trying trying to explain to people  

how exactly this happens all right so how do  you go from not knowing a language at all to  

actually communicating to being able to speak so  we'll talk about kind of getting closer and closer  

to this point uh and I also want to show this in  terms of uh like a Target where we want to try to  

get to the middle here uh and as my understanding  improved over 20 years of of thinking about this  

and helping people learn and also being a learner  myself I got closer and closer and finally hit the  

bullseye in the middle uh where okay I understand  now like what I'm doing so hopefully this is clear  

but basically I've spent uh the past 20 years  once I understood like what I needed to do to get  

fluent uh and how to help other people get fluent  then it was really just a process of explaining  

what that is okay and I know that sounds difficult  but I I I think it will make more sense as I  

go through explaining this my journey uh from  actually not knowing anything about teaching to  

now understanding really what people need in order  to speak so uh as I mentioned before I I just want  

to start uh when I came to Japan and I began  teaching I didn't know anything about language  

teaching uh as far as like how we actually get  people to speak I just knew you had to tell people  

rules and they had to remember those rules and so  that's what I did I was basically team teaching  

at that point I was uh it was me with a Japanese  teacher of English and that Japanese teacher would  

just tell people rules and this is for junior high  school students in Japan so the Japanese teacher  

would give them some rules to memorize and then  maybe I would play some games or give them proper  

pronunciation but that's really all I was doing in  the classroom so over here I'm just going to call  

this uh teaching English so teaching English now  the reason I'm going to put teaching English over  

here it's basically off of the target completely  uh because you can teach English without people  

actually being able to speak and we see this all  the time lots of people are teaching English or  

learning English so if you are the student  uh whether you're learning with a teacher or  

you're learning by yourself you can be teaching or  learning English this is just the general category  

of the the thing that you're doing where you're  trying to memorize rules or understand things but  

you're still very far off from the target here  or this target here which is speaking so if we  

if we put teaching English like on this same line  over here we're trying to get closer and closer  

to this point but we're still very far away where  we're just talking about teaching people English  

and so when I first came to Japan this is what I  was doing and lots of people are still doing this  

today they're teaching the Lang language uh but  students are not actually becoming good speakers  

and so if that is your goal then we have to we  have to do better basically uh than just teaching  

English and so the the first like real shift for  me uh the thing that changed my way of thinking uh  

not only as a teacher but also as a student uh is  when I went to a park so I was in a park not far  

from where I am recording this right now um and I  saw Japanese kids speaking with their parents and  

I realized like well they're completely doing uh  the opposite of what I was doing so for me trying  

to memorize rules or trying to learn through  translations uh or really anything you could think  

of at that time we had like listening practice  CDs most people I don't know maybe just use uh  

like listening online or through YouTube videos  or something but I actually had like CDs or mini  

discs out in Japan um and so people are learning  you're you're basically doing the opposite of  

what people are doing uh and this is where the  the first really big change for me came when I  

was again learning to teach uh but also trying to  get fluent in Japanese myself because I had been  

out in Japan for about a year and was not able  to speak so I was learning the language in the  

same way I was teaching the language but I wasn't  actually getting closer to this point over here  

getting closer to this point where you're actually  able to speak and so this first big shift uh it  

occurred to me that instead of learning English  or or teaching English or me learning Japanese  

um doing the traditional way that I should be  learning so we're going to we're going to get  

ourselves a little bit closer over here we're  going to put this point here uh to learn like a

native so now we're getting a little bit closer  over here so we've got learn like a native and  

that's going to be just better than uh learning  for like we're just going to uh teach you rules  

but we want to learn uh learn the language  like a native rather than learn uh like a  

typical student uh but uh it occurred to me at  the time that even though I I kind of understood  

what this means it's really difficult for me  to explain it because if I tell you hey just  

learn the language like a native speaker like  it's true and it will help you speak but what  

does that really mean uh and so of course  I was still frustrated because I'm not I'm  

not at like exactly really helping people  understand what they need to speak so yes  

it's true that you should learn like a native  but that's not like saying anything it's like  

if I'm giving someone business advice  and I say oh just build a a profitable

business and so if I if I just tell you that like  oh well just make a like a business that makes  

money there you go like that's what you should  do now that is true and that's correct uh but it  

doesn't really explain what you should be doing  to get fluent so it's a little bit better um but  

it's still a little bit confusing for people  it's still not very clear about what exactly  

you need to do to speak all right so we're moving  closer but we're still not getting here because  

okay what does that mean what do we mean when  we say to learn English uh like a native uh and  

so I I tried to get better at explaining this  in my my next attempt uh like and and you can  

see this in my YouTube channel as I've tried  to explain this over the years uh so one of  

my like probably the most popular video on the  channel is to get fluent with one trick which  

is explaining this and of course we got a a siren  coming through again they couldn't wait I was I  

was gone for like a week and a half and and they  now they're just it's it's like I never left all  

right so we got teaching English and then a little  bit more specific learning English like a native  

which still doesn't really uh doesn't really  like get get to the idea of of what exactly  

you need to do and so this was important to me  as a learner uh but also as a as a teacher uh  

so because I wanted to help my students speak  uh especially when I was uh teaching more like  

private lessons uh and these were students that  actually wanted me to help them speak rather  

rather than just kids in a classroom that maybe  they don't really care about learning English or  

they don't think it's important they just need  to pass the test just like any other class that  

they have so again uh this this is really just  talking about my history so I began teaching  

English where I I don't really know anything  about how to get people speaking I just know  

I need to tell them some rules and maybe they  become good speakers maybe they don't but uh  

that's that's all I knew how to do but when I was  looking at Natives and contrasting what natives  

do versus what Learners are typically doing uh  it made more sense to me that oh I should do  

what Learners or what natives are doing okay so  I should learn like a native rather than learning  

like a student that made sense to me but still  trying to explain to people what exactly this  

is uh and so I got a little bit closer to this  when I explained to people that you should learn

English we'll just abbreviate this  here my my pen is fading uh learn

English as a first

language now this is getting a little bit closer  but it's still leaves people questioning how  

exactly do you do that what exactly does that  mean uh so initially I I thought about okay  

learning like a native that makes sense but a lot  of students number one uh they couldn't understand  

understand exactly what this means and number two  they thought well you can't become uh fluent like  

a native if you're not a native and so just a  another thing I learned uh as I was learning is  

that you don't really you don't Begin by uh you're  not born a native so you don't begin learning a  

language as a native the native is what happens to  you as you learn the right way so as you actually  

understand a language and you become able to speak  it you become native okay so you don't start that  

but a lot of people when I explain that to people  that oh you should just learn English like a  

native speaker just do what a native speaker does  uh and you know the kinds of things that I'm doing  

in my YouTube videos it's actually helping people  learn that way but again this is this video is  

really about explaining my my thought process uh  as a learner and a teacher and helping people get  

closer to this point over here where they really  understand uh how they need to get fluent and uh  

and what's actually going to get them speaking  and so learning English as a first language was  

my way of basically saying the same thing but  uh it it helped people I think understand uh  

they don't need to be a native in order to learn  like one so again people think they need to live  

in an englishspeaking country where they need to  like be born a certain you know you need to be  

like having native parents or something in order  to get fluent so this was a better way of doing  

it but this even uh still doesn't get us really  to the point where we're at like where we're at  

here so we're a little bit closer you need to  learn English as a first language uh but where  

where are we really going here and so that this  whole time I'm I I continue uh to to teach the  

same way but again this is all about explaining uh  what I do so now uh like very recently like within  

the past I don't know maybe like few months or  something uh I finally hit this where this was  

like the major breakthrough for me um not only  as a teacher but like and again I haven't really  

changed anything about how I'm teaching but this  is helping me uh explain to people what they need  

to do to get fluent and so what's really happening  uh when I thought about what do you really need  

what happens what is what is like this this thing  right here what is the thing that happens right  

before you're able to speak and so I thought like  for years about this question what is the what is  

the thing that's really happening right before  you speak so we hear uh from people about like  

comprehensible input uh which is where you're  getting like and its comprehensible input is  

basically these ideas here where you're learning  like a native but even that it still doesn't it  

doesn't really explain uh what exactly you do  what kind of comprehensible input you need to  

to get how much of it should you get uh what are  we really looking for and so comprehensible input  

is it's like up here too uh it's valuable and and  it's what we do but it still doesn't really make  

it clear to people what exactly is the trigger  point that allows you to speak all right and  

so I thought about like rather than just thinking  about speaking itself like what is the thing that  

stops you from speaking or what is the thing that  happens right before you speak and so this is the  

big breakthrough for me uh after 20 years of doing  this and I'm making this video because hopefully  

uh other people can watch this and then they don't  need to take 20 years and figure this out for  

themselves um so the big breakthrough here is it  really is the destruction we'll just say destroy

out and that was it uh and so if you think about  what actually stops people from speaking it's not  

where they live it's not how much they know  and it's not uh like whether they were born  

to native speaking parents or uh or I don't know  like how much maybe they study or even how much  

speaking practice they get really the thing that  stops people from speaking is doubt that was it  

uh and and so when you're trying to explain to  people about about how to actually become a fluent  

speaker the thing you need to remember is and this  is from like a teacher a teacher perspective uh is  

that if you have any doubt about uh pronunciation  or grammar or anything else like that this is the  

thing that really stops you from speaking and so  the opposite is true if you remove the doubt then  

you naturally start speaking so i' I've talked  before uh about this like fluent communication  

switch uh in your brain you can think about it  like a switch and the switch is controlled by  

doubt and so when you're listening to something  maybe you can understand that information but  

if you still feel unsure about how to use it or  you're worried about pronunciation or something  

there is whatever that doubt is that's what  actually stops you from using the language so when  

the doubt is gone and you can get this you can  like all of these things become ways to eliminate  

the doubt so if I'm trying to help you understand  like a native or give you comprehensible input or  

any of the other things that that we might talk  about as Educators uh what we're really trying  

to do is destroy doubt and so you can get this  in a number of ways you could hear a story or  

you could see a visual example something that  makes the language understandable for you that  

removes the doubt whatever that doubt is but once  you remove the doubt you naturally want to speak  

okay so that that is the like this and I know I  know it seems like a kind of simple idea uh but if  

you you like I I spent 20 years trying to figure  this out uh not only for myself but also uh like  

as a learner because I'm learning Japanese um and  I wanted to figure out like why I was able to say  

some things but I could not say other things  and it occurred to me like well I can I can  

understand these things but how well do I really  understand that information so I've talked about  

that in other videos as well where uh I have  like kind of the three levels of understanding  

information so you might be exposed to some kind  of information maybe you hear some language or  

I see you know in my case learning Japanese uh  I see like a Japanese written character but I  

don't quite understand what it means or uh there  there's still some kind of doubt there uh but I  

get to the awareness level when I can recognize it  but the difference between people who understand  

a language and people who speak are they have no  doubt okay that's really it uh and so this this  

part here like this is uh that's the last thing  you can't get any closer than that because once  

you eliminate the doubt then you speak there's  nothing else stopping you at that point so uh  

hopefully uh I just wanted to give this kind of  broad overview about my own history very quickly  

I didn't want to take too long of a time to do  this uh but hopefully this makes sense I'll give  

a very quick review basically when I began  teaching I didn't really know anything about  

teaching or learning for myself and that's why I  struggled as a language learner as well uh and so  

like the shift initially for me where I started  thinking okay I should be doing what natives are  

doing but explaining what that is and and all of  the actual kind of steps that get you fluent we're  

really just looking at this one thing here which  is eliminating doubt and so if you have a worry  

about pronunciation that's the thing you need to  get more examples from other people about that  

pronunciation as an example uh like I might come  to Japan or I could I could go learning this this  

applies to any language let's say I go to Thailand  uh and I hear an example of just one person trying  

to teach me some Thai so if I hear like I have a  Thai teacher who is trying to explain to me the  

language or help me learn uh I might hear a very  clear example of good morning or something like  

that um but in the real world lots of different  people will sound different they won't pronounce  

things as clearly as a teacher would and so  there's still a lot of room for doubt so the  

my job as a learner or the person trying to teach  me the language should be uh for this specific  

example is to try to give me as many examples  as I can to really understand uh like what what  

a pronunciation kind of different pronunciations  of that word might be so like the word hello for  

example uh so in English you might hear that same  word pronounced a little bit differently someone  

might say hello uh someone might say uh like hey  so they might use a different word and so if I go  

to an English classroom and the teacher tells  me hello and they're speaking very slowly very  

clearly it's going to be a very different feeling  when I get into the real world and people are  

pronouncing things differently or they're using  completely different vocabulary and this is why  

a lot of people especially language Learners  they will say well the the real language sounds  

different from what I learned in the classroom  it's because it's a different language uh but  

what's really happening is uh all of the like  the language in the classroom and the language  

in the real world they're they're all correct  it's all different examples of things but the  

the difference here when we talk about learning  like a native is that a native is getting all of  

those different examples and that naturally  removes the that natives might have because  

natives experience doubt as well and this happens  all the time it happens throughout life anytime  

you learn let's say some new vocabulary or you're  looking at children when they're learning things  

and they don't quite understand what something  means uh but you can see that look in their face  

when they don't understand and then when they  do and they think oh okay now I I got it now I  

understand uh how to do something uh and so this  feeling that you get when you solve a puzzle or  

you understand something uh that's this right  here and that's the thing that happens right  

before you're able to speak so once you feel  very confident about something that's when the  

the language begins to flow and there's there's  really no uh like thinking required at that point  

the thinking all it all comes before you start  speaking where you're really trying to eliminate  

any doubt that you have and so if you're a  teacher and you're trying to help people get  

fluent that's what your number one goal should be  it's really uh for any doubt that a learner has  

you want to eliminate that all right hopefully  that makes sense uh so I want to go back I will  

look through uh comments here hopefully this  makes sense uh but the basic idea what we're  

looking for is a destruction of Doubt uh and and  and you you you realize that when you when you  

hear it you're like oh yeah like that's it because  once you have no more doubt that's the thing that  

really stops you from speaking uh unfortunately  a lot of people think that they can't speak as  

I mentioned earlier because they don't live in  an englishspeaking country or they don't have  

people to speak with but remember lots of English  Learners do live in English speaking countries and  

they do have lots of opportunities to speak but  they still don't feel native or they still don't  

feel very fluent there's still something there um  but what what they often they feel but they can't  

really explain is that they just have doubts about  particular things uh and so this is why we get  

lots of questions and really my job as a teacher  is just to help people uh solve those questions  

answer those doubts and make that clear and so the  process of language learning becomes the process  

of Doubt elimination that's really it so it's not  just about like learning the language what does it  

mean to be learning the language it really means  uh for a particular situation can I express myself  

can I understand what other people are saying  and can I do that without a doubt do I feel feel  

confident that I can speak so people talking about  like you will sometimes hear advice from people uh  

especially that are just doing like the teaching  English part um like they will say well just like  

just have courage and get out and speak but if you  think about like doubt is is the thing that really  

stops people and people don't like making mistakes  in front of others then of course it becomes the  

job of the teacher not just to teach the language  but you act have to go all the way and remove the  

doubt especially for uh people who actually want  to speak okay so let me go back and look through  

chat hopefully this makes sense I didn't this  I'm trying to give like 20 years in 20 minutes  

here uh but hopefully this should make uh sense  to people where we're not just trying to teach  

the language uh and hopefully uh as I've as I've  gone over the years when I'm uh like explaining  

this to people about like learning like a native  or learning English as a first language this is  

correct but it's still not clear like I want  to eliminate the doubt from my own teaching  

as well uh to help people really understand so  that they feel confident that they know what  

they're doing so if you're learning the right  way and you feel more confident you understand  

the language better you feel more confident about  speaking and again that's the thing that happens  

right before you speak so if you eliminate the  doubt you naturally start expressing yourself  

all right uh let me go back and check chat if  you have any questions about this or anything  

else let me know I'm trying to trying to use  all my energy to to maintain my uh my my mind  

because it's still it's still a little bit foggy  uh I I apologize for that a yeah you can hear it  

all right uh let's see Ordo and Julio says hello  from Argentina and Colombia Daniela from Brazil  

hello from Haiti uh case says uh hello TJ good  to see you nice to see there Bruno uh talking  

to Danielle there hello from Morocco was at the  beginning of YouTube says Bruno almost yep uh  

and so you can actually go back and watch U like  the First videos I made on YouTube they're all  

still here uh and you can see that the the way  I've been teaching since I I really discovered  

this like this process of learning like a native  uh before I started teaching on YouTube but it  

took me 20 years to or not really not like not 20  years I guess from from being on YouTube but like  

from the time I started teaching professionally um  and it's funny like you can be a teacher and not  

really know what you're doing uh I like apologize  but I I I cared enough uh about my students and  

my own learning because I also wanted to speak I  don't want to just memorize some vocabulary uh I  

want to actually be able to express myself um but  that's how I got to this point over here all right  

Daniel I want to get from intermediate to advance  as soon as possible I'm moving to the US in June  

all right well again like you should whatever the  the particular vocabulary you need for your life  

is that's the the destruction of Doubt uh and  this this this destruction of doubt it really  

comes in many forms uh it could be understanding  grammar better it could be uh just understanding  

situations better where you're getting lots of  examples of different native speakers explaining  

how they might let's say uh what they say when  they're angry or what they say when they're happy  

or what they say when they're ordering food that  kind of thing so again all of these things are  

correct you should be doing these things like a  native learning the language as a first language  

not learning through translations uh but the goal  is to keep going until you eliminate that doubt  

for individual words and phrases as you learn  them so you will be fluent in some things and  

then you will not be fluent in others and it's  simply because you've got some kind of doubt  

about what those things are uh but the more  you eliminate that doubt the better speaker  

you become [Applause] uh let's see ever since  say hi Drew what's new well this is new over  

here hopefully uh people enjoy that Bridget says  a good day Drew nice to see nice to see you there  

all right welcome back let's see learning a second  language it's challenging sir yes uh but it's it  

becomes a lot easier when you're not trying  to learn it as a second language like through  

English or through your native language you should  be learning it directly in the language and the  

more you can do that the faster you become a  fluent speaker all right new learning a new  

language takes time and effort sometimes I'm too  lazy to think in English and I ended up watching  

movies and Series in my mother language yeah uh  and so the way most people teach language becomes  

a difficult and challenging thing to learn but  you didn't really have that problem with your  

native language because the whole point of it  was just to eliminate the doubt now most people  

don't think about it and like I've actually not  heard uh really anybody talk about this before I  

started talking about this um but when you're  thinking about it as a parent you're trying to  

answer the the questions that your kids have or  give them many examples and and often they don't  

get all the examples at the same time so I might  say to my child wash your hands and then you know  

like their mother says wash your hands and then  grandma says wash your hands so they're getting  

all these different examples and they're hearing  how the pronunciation is slightly different and  

that's informing their own pronunciation so  they're learning to pronounce things the same  

way as they get lots of different examples but  all these things it's it's about eliminating  

the doubt for understanding and eliminating  the doubt for pronunciation and knowing the  

right words to use uh but the point generally uh  is that language learning should be fun and it  

should be easy if you're helping people eliminate  doubt but for most language lessons it actually  

is creating more doubt for people which is why a  lot of people struggle to learn the language and  

they're just thinking well this is why am I doing  this why is this why is this so difficult and it's  

just because they're doing this they're teaching  the language without actually eliminating any of  

the doubt so if your if your lessons are giving  you more doubt then uh you should stop doing that  

all right uh Diaz says thanks for your English  learning lesson greetings from Florida nice see  

there uh brid says how did you get that idea Drew  uh I don't know which one you were referring to  

specifically uh but very quickly uh the teaching  English thing is it's pretty obvious for most  

people like this is what most people think of when  they think of learning languages where they just  

need to memorize some grammar rules uh or uh maybe  like get some vocabulary flash cards or something  

like that and hopefully if I can memorize enough  then I will become a good speaker but typically  

it doesn't happen because we've still got doubt  and most people that are learning a language like  

even if you learn through an app or something  the real world communication is much different  

than how people might you know hear things in  an app or even in a lot of language lessons so  

you must have that exposure the same way you  should be learning like a native you should be  

getting lots of different Native examples uh and  that's what actually builds your understanding  

and eliminates the doubt uh let's see all right  uh and sanen says why native speakers pronounce  

is hard to understand but my country's speaker  pronounce is easy to understand well uh I don't  

know what country you're from but typically uh  the people you are used to they sound easier  

to understand and the people you are not used  to so if you if you don't if you only watch uh  

like English teaching videos here on YouTube but  you don't actually watch lots of native speakers  

speaking then it will be more difficult and  more frustrating for you and you will think  

uh it it's just obviously more difficult to  understand because you're not used to it so  

you must get used to that in order to be prepared  for that and to and to feel confident about that  

uh Danielle says what is a breakthrough if you  can if you think about like a physical uh thing  

like if I've got like a wall or something like  that I'm trying to get through that wall and so  

for me this wall here I kept on I felt like I was  getting closer and closer to this point over here  

but I still felt very far away uh and so when  I explained to people oh like just learn like  

a native so I understood this myself but remember  as a teacher often we understand things uh and we  

continue to explain but the student doesn't really  get it and so the whole point is to eliminate the  

doubt and so the idea of a breakthrough uh you  can that you can think of this physically like  

finally I was I'm trying to get through this wall  and and finally I I break through that thing uh  

so you can use this as a a verb like when you  break through something or you can talk about  

it as a noun like having a breakthrough so if you  have a breakthrough idea like each one of these  

things I I thought was like a it was a kind of a  mini breakthrough helping me understand okay so  

we need to we need to not learn like a student we  should be learning like a native that made sense  

to me uh but it's still not very clear as like a  lesson plan kind of thing how exactly do you get  

someone fluent so if I say okay stop learning like  a student but start learning like a native then  

people will still ask well what okay what does  that mean then and what it means is that like as  

an example a native is getting lots of different  ative examples that really help them understand  

the language all right so they're not getting  one example from one teacher they're getting many  

examples like if if I go to a a store and order  some food uh like at a restaurant or a cafe or  

something I'm going to hear different people uh in  that same situation saying different things and so  

they're going to pronounce the words differently  they're going to say different vocabulary uh and  

so if I only get one example like if I have an  an English lesson about how to order coffee or  

something like that uh that's going to be less  helpful it will basically be incomplete uh  

because it will leave a lot of room for doubt but  if I instead get a bunch of different examples of  

people ordering coffee U then that will show me oh  like there actually a like a range of these things  

it's not an infinite range there's a general uh  collection of a few things that people typically  

say and once you learn those then you feel much  more confident you are prepared for those uh like  

if you're working at a cafe and you have different  people coming up to you and asking you things or  

if you're trying to order food you will get those  different uh examples from other customers or you  

could use whatever you like but uh that that way  of learning that is the way of learning leg a  

native but the whole point of it is to destroy the  doubt so you need to get more examples of things  

whatever it is you need for that situation so it  could be pronunciation or grammar or vocabulary  

something uh that ends that question in your mind  so that nervousness any nervousness you have about  

speaking it just means there's some kind of  doubt that's stopping you from speaking for  

that particular thing so uh as you you're kind  of destroying the doubt for each one of these  

individual things as you learn them so it could be  your pronunciation or your grammar or whatever but  

it's for individual words and phrases uh all right  let's see Hello teacher I have a question question  

does elevator lift mean the same thing uh I think  in British English like they use the term lift for  

elevator um but the American English is elevator  uh but yeah you could yeah typically in America we  

would say elevator Unice says hello teacher hello  Drew nice to see everybody here uh Han soya says  

destroy out yep that's it so whenever you feel  out like d that that should direct your learning  

so if you have a doubt about something then focus  on that thing clear up the doubt and then you will  

become fluent in that particular thing uh let's  see German answering that question I think little  

berries along the path nice to see you again  very true hello everyone how are yeah no doubt  

about it doubt is the problem says Unice yep uh  and you'll notice this is not just for language  

learning it's really for anything so if you have  a doubt about street signs and you're driving  

then that's going to cause you problems uh or if  you have a doubt about math or you have a doubt  

about whatever like like a doubt about what you  should be doing socially uh all of those things  

that's what causes us doubt and that's why humans  are so we're we're very attracted to certainty so  

we really want something to be certain we want  the guarantee we want to know something will  

work for sure and so that's why as a teacher I  spend so much time trying to trying to give that  

certainty to students uh King says Dear Drew do  you drink some water because I feel maybe you're  

thirsty yes I I can have some have some water  over here I'm I'm still recovering from uh from my

[Applause] flute so even though I'm not so thirsty  I actually had an apple before I started this uh  

before I started this lot I think I knew it but  I had forgotten but thank you oh okay you guys  

are answering each other un says if I had 1% doubt  about something I wouldn't use it or say it until  

I feel 100% sure and confident yes uh and so this  is this is true for most people in most things uh  

so like the typical English teaching advice is the  teacher will give you some vocabulary or grammar  

or something to remember uh and then it's it's  basically on you as a learner to to try to review  

that until you feel confident and typically the  test of it like a language test is very different  

from the test of real life uh obviously when  you're in a a real world situation people are  

not going to do exactly what the teacher prepared  for you uh and so that becomes a very uh I guess  

a worrying or or something that can make you  feel very nervous so in real situations like  

that and so uh you could feel maybe 90% confident  or even 99% confident about something uh but most  

people will not want to speak if they feel that  all right so you could know something like really  

well but if you don't if there's still some kind  of doubt that's what that's what will stop you  

from speaking okay so that's this thing right here  so what is the thing that happens before you speak  

it is the elimination of Doubt so whatever that  thing is uh you need to eliminate that and then  

you will feel much more confident and naturally  start speaking all right let's see says hello  

from Iraq to Japan for American accent learning  yes yes I can be in Japan and still give you an  

American accent Neil said I I discovered your  podcast and love listening when I walk with my  

dog glad to hear it Nils stay warm over there  uh Wukong says quite understand what you mean  

hopefully I'm from Ukraine am I late well you're  never late uh it's good to be on time but you can  

watch these videos anytime you like so you're  never late for them everon Drew please help  

me how could I feel with more trust to speak yes  so what you're talking about Jefferson is you're  

basically saying you have doubt about something  and I'm recommending you get specific about that  

doubt so whatever like think about like maybe  you're in a particular situation you want to  

talk about something but I I can't speak and  I'm worried about something or I'm nervous or  

whatever uh but really think about that and  if you can solve that problem maybe you you  

need to get more examples or you just need to  understand something a little bit more clearly  

whatever that is the the question you have that  will will tell you the answer okay so like this  

whole process for me the question I had is is  what's really stopping people from speaking so  

it's not where you live because people get fluent  all over the place and it's not who your parents  

are because many people who have native parents  get fluent and many people who do not have native  

parents get fluent all right uh but the thing that  everybody has is they have the confidence to speak  

so if you can speak then you have no doubt about  something so it becomes uh the number one thing  

for language learning but really I mean for  anything really um if there is a question in  

your mind about something that will stop you from  expressing yourself or or going forward whatever  

that is so you need to get that certainty to move  forward all right uh let's see Joselyn salute to  

you sir Maro s from Brazil I've been watching this  channel a while thanks a lot for your dedication  

and excellence in teaching it's my pleasure yeah  I feel like I'm actually at the end of a long

journey because now that I found this I can I  just you know I continue teaching doing what  

I'm doing but like this is uh the explanation of  what I do becomes a lot easier now uh so when I  

when I actually explain to people I'll put up  another term up here for you uh that I created  

to make this a little bit easier for people to  understand this is the fluency trigger f l u e n  

c y t r i g g e r so a fluency trigger is anything  that eliminates the doubt so it could be a story  

or it could be a visual example something like  that like if I have if I'm trying to teach you  

the phrasal verb put on and take off so the same  way I would teach my own children that I'm giving  

you a visual example here so I put on the cap so  here is the cap for the marker put on the cap and  

take off the cap the same way I might actually  have a hat and I put on the hat or take off the  

hat so as you get more examples of that that thing  is triggering your mind to eliminate the doubt and  

you feel oh okay I got it now and once you feel  that uh that's when you start speaking all right

uh all right uh gur g g if I'm pronouncing  that correctly apologize uh from India aiz  

says sometimes I feel nervous for not being able  to speak fluently tell me what to do well then why  

why are you nervous what exactly are you nervous  about and it's easy to to feel nervous about  

Communication in general but what I'm telling you  is that you need to focus on particular things  

eliminating the doubt for each one of those things  as you learn them so for me like let's say I'm I'm  

trying to learn the written Japanese characters  uh and there are like thousands of these things  

uh you only really need to know maybe like 2,000  of them uh but it's still a lot and and you still  

have uh I it's basically a lot to learn and  for most like Japanese people learning them  

they spend 12 years in school learning them all  uh so I don't want to spend 12 years I actually  

want to do it much faster uh but what happens is  there are there are 12,000 of these I'll just draw  

some kind of fake characters right now but let's  say this one and there's this one and there's this  

one and that one and this one like that and so  you have all these different characters and you  

can you can you can make the problem too big for  yourself and just think like wow like it's really  

difficult to learn all of these things though  the better thing to think of is how can I just  

learn this one character and then once I learn it  and I feel confident about it and I know I could  

use it I understand it well okay I can check  that one off and I go on to the next one so  

you're actually becoming fluent in each one of  these things individually all right so you can  

enjoy uh each one of these things you can learn  it well you can really feel confident and then  

move on to the next one but the the the typical  thing people kind of make the problem to too big  

uh and they talk about like I like I can't get  fluent in English so I always remind people you  

actually become fluent in individual words and  phrases so pick one thing and then get fluent in  

that it's actually a very quick and easy process  uh when you understand it like a native when you  

basically just destroy the doubt obviously it's  more difficult if you're doing it by yourself uh  

this is why we we have like everything we have  organized INF fluent for life to help people  

understand the language uh but it is possible to  do uh but that's the whole goal here so make the  

problem uh like manageable focus on one thing at a  time and then get fluent in that so you might even  

have uh difficulty talking about one thing but  maybe there are some other things you already can  

talk about it's because you already eliminated  the doubt about those things um let's see just  

got here what did I miss well you can go back and  watch watch the rest of this live anytime uh see  

uh sadok says uh how to learn like a native gives  some examples uh so I just gave that one example  

of understanding like take off and put on uh or  I could here's another cap like take off this cap  

and put the cap back on or I take off my shirt  and put the shirt back on so that's an example  

of getting many different examples of learning  something like a native so you pick a specific  

thing and I'm trying to give you different  examples of it till you really feel oh okay I  

got it so you put something on and you think what  else might I put on like okay I could put on some  

gloves or I could put on a jacket or I could put  on something else or I could take those things off  

at the same time um and so the point is that you  feel confident about that thing whatever that is  

so the grammar or pronunciation or vocabulary uh  but you should be learning it like a native rather  

than trying to get translations of something so  that's why uh like in this video I'm not using  

I don't use like Japanese to teach Japanese  speakers English I teach English to everybody  

the same way because we all get fluent the same  way if we eliminate the doubt all right I think  

people are getting it though let's see here I'm  trying to go through uh quickly here uh uh let's  

see is there any difference between American  English and Canadian English uh there's some  

differences but again like be be specific about  like I gave an example before about lift in the  

UK versus uh elevator in the United States  so some things are going to be similar or the  

same and other things will be different like the  pronunciation or the vocabulary uh are breaks in  

learning English so bad or should I take little  break sometime well you're uh if if you're if if  

the language learning isn't fun then you should  probably stop doing like learning the way you're  

learning what whatever that is so I mean like  if you're doing something that you enjoy you  

usually don't need to take a break from doing it  um but what you will find with language learning  

is that sometimes you get an example uh like  I've I've told stories like this before about uh  

like what's one example uh like a JP just another  Japanese example uh just let's say I I learn uh a

word make sure this fits over here so I I I  think I've told this story or different stories  

with different examples like this uh but let's  say this is a like fiveyear uh time span here  

so I learn a word I hear a word uh for the first  time over here uh what was that example uh Shiki  

so here's an example of a Japanese I've told  this story before so my two daughters they go  

to kindergarten where my my older daughter used  to go to kindergarten uh and they have a little  

attendance book uh where they would uh just  you get a sticker for each day that you're in  

class uh and they call it a a shado uh and when  I first heard that so this is I don't know five  

years ago or something I first heard Shiki um and  and I thought okay like I understand what they're  

talking about they're just like shui just means  this little card that they have uh but then like  

5 years later I hear an example about like shudu  about attending a meeting and then it suddenly  

clicked in my mind oh like Shi means to attend  something okay now I understand what that means  

and I learned this in Japanese I didn't get an  example or a translation or something through  

English so there were the first example I got and  the second example I got that really like I needed  

both of those examples to make something clear all  right now sometimes you can understand something  

immediately like that's what I'm trying to help  you see like here's a physical example like put  

on or take off uh but with this example sh sicki  uh I hear it but then I don't really understand  

what it means I I like I'm like okay I don't  know it's a school card or something I don't  

really know what that word shicky means though um  but when I hear that example again and finally I  

got it now the goal of a teacher is to take these  two examples and put them as close together as  

possible all right so a good teacher will make it  clear to you uh how you can understand something  

with different Native examples and that way we  we don't need to use any translations to teach  

you because I'm helping you understand it all in  English all right so a good teacher should do this  

um but my my point in answering that question  about me uh people needing to take break uh it  

it seems like it took a long time for me to learn  this and it might have been frustrating for me if  

I just keep repeating the word over and over again  so that's when you might need to take a break but  

typically you just need to keep getting examples  but you should be getting different examples and  

it should feel fun if you eliminate the doubt  because your brain likes puzzles and your brain  

wants to solve this puzzle so it can communicate  it's a it's like a fun and cool thing to to speak  

to people in a different language um and it just  means you solve the puzzle uh and and so like  

rather than like people just giving you the same  example over and over again like if I hear like  

sh sh shado whatever like that that vocabulary  again and again I'm I'm trying to force myself to  

remember something but I don't really understand  it well I haven't eliminated the doubt but as soon  

as I get that second example that's when the doubt  is gone all right for this example and so uh if  

you can learn like this you want to put these  two examples as close together as possible and  

it should feel fun as you learn because you're  trying to solve a puzzle your brain wants to  

do that already uh and and when you feel that  you know you're doing the right thing uh hello  

from Texas it took me one year to understand  Sri Lankan English two years for my friend to  

understand Indian English I see make this note  don't become a victim of yourself that's true uh  

let's see I pr practice speaking every single day  by speaking to my husband online uh but basically  

the same subjects I hate learning grammar rules I  can reach the fluency just listening and speaking  

and reading well just like you need to you need  to get more examples for the particular things  

you want to learn about that's how you do it so if  you already know how to talk about something then  

talk about something different or if you already  know how to express it in one way then use like  

a different example so like you don't I don't want  you to think about like trying to memorize grammar  

points the point is really in what situation do  we say something so I might say yesterday I played  

baseball and I know how to talk about the simple  past just say here's the thing I did yesterday  

but maybe I want to talk about that as a part of  my personality so I I don't say like oh I played  

baseball yesterday I can say oh I have played all  right so we can talk about this as like oh that's  

the present perfect or whatever um but rather than  trying to think about it like a grammar rule you  

think about what is the what is the situation  here what are we trying to express and so when  

we eliminate the doubt we think oh like the  present perfect it's is really talking about  

uh like who you are as a person and I can have  green eyes or I can have a brown shirt or I can  

have short hair but I can also have experiences  so I can talk about like I have been teaching oh  

here's the present continuous like like I have  been doing something uh for a while or present  

perfect continuous excuse me uh but but you get  the point so it's not about learning grammar rules  

or trying to focus on that you just think like oh  what's what's a a different way I could express  

something all right because natives don't know  the names of all these grammar points and they  

couldn't give you an example if you asked for one  but they can use the grammar correctly and that's  

the point and so you you should be wored working  uh to get that same level of understanding it's  

just the elimination of doubt that gets you there  uh all right let's see here uh but I will make it  

again clear that you don't even have to speak to  do this you just need to get lots of examples uh  

that help you understand it so you don't need to  be speaking every day to do that thing uh madex  

says uh you are the best from in Turkey nice  to see you there thank you very much how can  

I start learning well you're learning right now  now live just started feel disappointed oh no  

well you know just watch it again Y and what  do you recommend uh for me if I want to take  

one of those International exams well I would  recommend uh I don't know talk talk to someone  

who who focuses on that I don't I don't have a  particular focus on IELTS or any of those tests  

so if you want specific information for that look  for people who uh focus on that Mar says thanks  

for a great job Big Love from Armenia uh oh don't  worry about remember like the these lives are all  

saved so you can watch them later Tong says hello  sir do we need completely maintain do we need to  

completely maintain the structure of sentences  when speaking what do you mean by that you mean  

you need to speak correctly it's recommended that  you do if if that's what you're asking for um but  

yes try to try to be be simple make sure you can  explain something and remember there are many ways  

to explain things often you can take something  that's difficult and explain it in a simple way  

so if you don't feel confident about some grammar  then you can go back to something easier unit says  

to be or not to be that is the question you need  to ask the right questions to get certainty uh  

to get the problem solved yes so remember like  that that's that's for like me as a learner then  

I need to get certain about like I I try to get  better about asking questions uh for the things  

that I'm learning like learning those Japanese  characters um so if I have a question about that  

that or or I'm uncertain about something that I  know I don't know it well enough yet so that's  

the thing I need to focus on take off also means  buy yes and so this is where you're starting to  

learn more examples like if I like okay I have to  take off in the same way like an airplane might  

take off and as you get more examples then your  brain is like oh like wow that's very cool like  

now I can can understand that thing even better so  that's how children are learning the language so  

they're learning it in English and they're getting  more examples that deepen their understanding of  

something so I learn a basic thing like take off  the marker or take off the cap and put on the  

cap and I can also talk about an airplane taking  off like the airplane is also leaving you know we  

we understand uh in a similar way take off means  like to leave in that way and I also need to take  

off so I need to go uh away myself and so as you  get these different examples you feel much more  

confident about the meaning of take off and so  you can understand it more easily and you use it  

with greater confidence uh let's see K again says  hello teacher Drew hello again uh Bruno hey I'm  

glad to be here change the way you learn English  if you don't enjoy it yes and change the way you  

teach teach I know some people get stuck U but  if your goal is to actually help people speak  

then you need to eliminate the doubt that's it  Harin says uh I opened using this word where I  

love read close every time I don't confident when  I use this word can you help me understand open  

using this word where what what what word exactly  are you are you are you struggling with I don't  

understand from the from the comment I love read  clothes every time yeah I don't understand what  

what what is the specific word mama says I'm  trying to pick out some information from what  

is left on the board ah I know it's like a puzzle  isn't it well basically this is my my own Journey  

from getting to the uh the center of the bullseye  the center of the target over here uh and this is  

another way of expressing that but basically I I  talked about going from teaching English which is  

not really even on the target at all because you  can do lots of teaching and still never become uh  

or as a as a learner you can learn English and  never become a fluent speaker all right so what  

do you really need to become a fluent speaker  well you need to understand the language like  

a native uh or learn English as a first language  but really uh the thing you need to do is destroy  

any doubt that stops you from speaking that's it  and so what I do what I've really been doing for  

many years is giving people fluency triggers  which is uh these it could be little stories  

or physical examples or something like that  that helps you understand the language like a  

native and so when you feel confident that you  understand something that's when you speak all

right [Applause] uh let's see N I need to thank  you for what you're doing giving your time and I  

learned many things actually from you glad to hear  it J says I teacher Kevin look at that ni you see  

that big smack blue thing um Danielle says thank  you very much for answering me good night it's  

my pleasure Tong says thanks sir El said says  are C lessons useful to increase my knowledge  

and improve my accent uh I can't really speak to  lessons from any particular place but uh th this  

this lesson is or this video is really to help  people understand how they should be learning uh  

or even as a teacher if you're teaching uh but the  with most even private lessons like you could go  

to camp or whatever it is uh the way that people  teach and even even me right now the way I'm  

speaking is different from how natives will often  speak normally uh and even me my native speaking  

voice is different from the way I speak in a video  like this because I want to be understood so I'm  

trying to be intentionally clearer uh and slower  using simpler vocabulary making it easier for  

people to understand so what I do in fluent for  life is I give you a combination of both things  

where you're getting uh kind of lessons that help  you understand things but you're also seeing lots  

of examples of how natives really speak so if  you're getting it doesn't matter if you're getting  

private lessons or like online or in person  whatever if you're only getting simple easy  

to understand lessons you are not likely going to  be prepared for actual communication and so you  

need to get those examples if you want to become  uh a confident speaker so it doesn't matter like  

where you go to get those U but typically uh most  people don't like even as English teachers they  

don't understand this or they don't they don't  really think about it like like they will teach  

one way in a lesson and then when they're finished  with the lesson they will speak differently and  

not think about it uh and so again like you have  to think about what your goal is if your goal is  

to speak or if your goal is just to like learn  some language maybe to pass a test or maybe to  

understand something uh where can I buy a material  to achieve B2 level without extra information C1  

or C2 uh well again like you could be B level or C  Level in particular like you could be able to talk  

about certain things and not talk about others I  would recommend fluent for life actually uh but  

again for people who fluent for life is really  for people who want to uh go from understanding  

English so they can understand my video those  here but they still have trouble understanding  

people and speaking confidently uh and so that's  what I would recommend and then you can focus on  

the particular things you need for for your life  whatever that is so you don't I mean you could  

continue to to get more lesson sets um and go  through more of the program and and continue to  

improve and work up through these kind of fluency  levels like A1 and B and C that kind of thing um  

but you you actually focus on getting fluent in  particular topics so you learn how to talk about  

specific things or use particular grammar points  to describe kinds of things uh but fluent for life  

would work for you uh gun says uh is this example  is oh you'd say does this sentence make sense for  

example I have lunch prepared versus I have  prepared lunch um well they would mean these  

actually would mean two different things this  is an interesting example um like I have lunch  

prepared wait I have before that disappears I  have a lunch prepared versus I have prepared  

lunch like I have prepared lunch means like I did  something uh but that could also mean like I had  

someone else do it for me so without getting more  information you you would need to know um like  

it's it's a little bit vague so they don't mean  exactly the same thing they could mean something  

similar depending on what exactly you mean excuse  me um let's see but yeah that's an interesting  

thing like to I have I have lunch prepared means  like like I I did it already or it could mean  

someone else did it for you all right so without  more examples or more information it's hard to  

tell Nicholas said you are the best teacher or  you're too kind if you know other people I can  

help please send them my way Mars says I've been  learning English for already five years for me  

the key was listening to much I have found your  account when I was a beginner it was stressful  

cuz I wasn't getting what you was yeah if your  if your level was not at at like a good enough  

level for for what I do I do have some content  for beginners on the channel as well but most  

of it is for people who already understand English  but have trouble speaking uh V says hello sir I'm  

from India it has been days since I watched you  online thanks is it good to learn two languages  

at one time uh in my case English B one Japanese  uh if you can keep them separate in your mind and  

learn them in like if you can learn Japanese in  Japanese and you learn English in English it's  

possible to do that I mean think about taking  taking classes at a uh at a school like you  

might have five or six different classes you're  teing you're taking at the same time so you might  

be learning science and economics and something  else like it's the same kind of thing the point  

is to kind of keep them separate though uh talking  but now even though you do speak understandable  

for us but even fast speech is clear to me yeah  because you become used to my accent over time  

uh Katrine says [Music] civilities the only T I  don't know what that means Min for woman let's

see well that's good uh if you if you don't  understand then you can you can ask but use  

your English use your use your English all right  uh harder El car let's see K I don't know what  

you're talking about let's see thank you so much  for being here and teaching us a lot of things  

it's my pleasure let's see far says hello sir what  are your tips for studying for job entrance tests  

like toook Center because there are some several  topics that are different from regular studying  

again I I I don't want to give any advice about  tests because that's not my focus and you should  

get good advice for that so like I'm not a baker  I can't give you advice about baking um I can help  

you become a confident speaker that's what I focus  on and that will improve your test scores as well  

U but if you uh if you're looking for specific  test information I would focus on that so find  

someone who does that and get that information Z  CH said well cool is this a live stream I love you  

so much yes it is and welcome I appreciate the  love uh but also remember we make these videos  

available for people to watch later so even if you  can't catch them live it's okay mama says I think  

people need to feel uh them when they express  themselves so we can keep communicating with  

us don't you I think people need to feel them  when they express themselves so that we keep  

them communicating with us I don't know quite  what you mean but if you're talking about like  

understanding people yeah that's that's if that's  what you mean that's part of the uh the goal of of  

communication you want to express yourself you  know and you want to hear the other person and  

and talk with them and it's an amazing thing when  you can do this in a different language um and so  

remember you focus on um I've I've talked kind  of very generally about fluency in this video uh  

but remember that you should be thinking about  specific issues or specific problems specific  

times when you struggle to speak so during those  moments uh think about like oh I I I I notice  

I have trouble talking about this then focus on  that thing like that that's the thing you should  

you should lean into that that's a good phrasal  verb for you there to lean into so here we have a  

like I'm leaning into the camera like to lean like  that I'm leaning into the camera but I'm leaning  

into that thing I'm I'm kind of putting my energy  into that thing even though I might feel nervous  

about that thing I actually want to lean into that  thing like not try to move away from it I want to  

move closer to it so if I have a a grammar point  or something that I'm struggling with I I want  

to attack that thing I want to remove the doubt  especially if I'm trying to do this by myself if I  

have a teacher so I don't really have a Japanese  teacher uh and I I can't really ask my wife  

because she gets mad at me she's like I don't have  time now to answer my questions about Japanese uh  

so often I have to figure these things out all  right many what's got it over there okay look  

at that good English all right how can we have  access to videos fluent for life I'm from Iran  

uh I don't know if we we might have like members  from Iran in the program uh but they probably get  

someone else outside of Iran to join for them so  often if people can't uh like if you can't use a  

credit card or PayPal or something like that uh  people will just have someone else pay for them  

and then they pay them back in cash or however  they do that but that's how we welcome people  

to the program I know not everybody can join uh  that's why I try to make videos for people here on  

YouTube as well but if you can find a way I hope  we can welcome you uh Joseph says as a beginner  

can I be fluent speaker in one year well you're  probably not a beginner if you're watching my  

videos but remember yes you can like if you learn  the right way you can become fluent very quickly  

uh but remember you get fluent in individual words  and phrases as you come to eliminate any doubt you  

have about them so So the faster you can do that  just like I gave this example over here like me  

learning Japanese by myself it took me 5 years to  understand one word okay uh and I wasn't trying  

to study it it's not like I've been studying it  for that long but it was this amount of time it  

took me to understand something so if I had a good  teacher that knows how to teach I could probably  

learn that same thing in one minute all right I  gave a lesson about this like I think it's called  

how fast you want to get fluent but I talked  about like kind of like folding time so like  

if you you have a piece of paper like this and you  you fold uh the the paper you can bring these two  

things that it seems like they're far apart but  they don't have to be uh far apart you can bring  

them together basically instantly and this is  why like you notice me when I'm giving examples  

in these lessons I'm trying to give you multiple  things that really help you understand something  

because I know I need to eliminate the de okay  all right uh let's see but yes you can definitely  

become fluent like especially people like if you  already understand a lot and you join fluent for  

Life uh people are speaking better in the first  month that they're in the program and then you  

just continue to do it for as long as you like uh  and you will continue to improve a lot I'm Chinese  

thank you teacher good job it's my pleasure uh  har says it just piped in uh in this stream how  

much time is left before you wrap this is up well  I think we're done we got through all the comments  

unless you have a particular question here you are  let's see uh you would say like like in this this  

use of the phrasal verb you would talk about like  piping piping up to pipe up is is a little bit uh  

like piping up also means like you've been uh like  sitting and watching something for a while and  

then you finally say something so if you just join  us that that uh example is a little bit different  

but that would be like someone like piped up in  a in a meeting or something like that so if I'm  

talking there are a couple of people sitting and  listening and one guy is very quiet he's sitting  

there for 20 minutes and finally he pipes up with  some kind of information so he says something  

oh okay I have a question I don't understand  like oh he's piping up at that point to pipe

up pipe in is different uh pipe in is when  you actually you take something and you like  

transport it kind of like with a pipe so if I  if I have a building and I and I move like I  

don't know like some let's say I don't know some  water I can pipe in water it just means moving  

that that water with a pipe to pipe something  in pipe something in so piping up piping up  

and piping in two different things and that's why  it's important to get lots of uh lots of examples  

all right uh greetings from Saudi Arabia I love  the way you teach glad to hear yes and usually  

when people talk about like enjoying the way I  teach I know everybody like every teacher has  

that you know on YouTube videos but uh the goal  it just should be like you you should feel like  

oh I got it now that's my goal to eliminate the  doubt uh and that's when you start uh when you  

start speaking all right nil says get well  soon Drew well thank you very much for the  

well wishes mom says I wonder if I can teach  Arabic to American people the same way you do  

you think I should try yep uh everybody learns  English or Arabic or whatever the language is  

the same way uh and again if you can eliminate  the doubt and you can actually teach people so  

I've given this example uh like uh my my marker  my Japanese uh marker example over here and I  

can just teach you Japanese in Japanese  without using any English so MAA MAA MAA

ma Kuro Kuro siiu now you might not remember  everything I taught you there but your starting  

to understand Japanese the same way a Japanese  child does and if you could continue to get more  

examples and you would just you're still learning  like a native but I'm helping you eliminate the  

doubt and so you feel very confident about what  something means you're like oh look at that like  

Kudo means black and a means blue okay so it's  not uh I really like I know people might think  

it's a long process but actually it's not uh just  like this example here like you could say it took  

you five years to learn this like to learn this  one word but it's it it's not it didn't actually  

take me five years I only got the two examples  five years apart but if I got the the examples  

at the same time so in one lesson if I could  get a couple of different examples that help  

me understand something like a native then  I would become fluent very quickly all right  

so the goal is uh to remove all of the doubt  and so if you remove the doubt quickly you get  

fluent quickly it's not like it doesn't to be  a long and difficult process okay so remember  

uh if you want to get fluent it is possible to  do that's what we do in fluent for life and we  

get fluent people we get people fluent quickly  because we just eliminate the doubt the point  

is to eliminate it as quickly as possible uh  let's see goddess is from Egypt nice to see  

you there just start to improve my English uh I'm  an Arabic teacher by the way here in Morocco well  

if you can teach Arabic in Arabic you can help  anybody in the world who wants to learn and I'm  

sure there are many people who do learning English  is a long process all right well I just answered  

that question hopefully that makes sense though  that language uh like English learning language  

learning in general it doesn't have to be a long  or difficult process but if you have good teaching  

a good teaching is really just something that  eliminates the doubt so either you are trying  

to do this by yourself or you can get it done much  faster with help like we have in fluent for life  

but hopefully uh you have enjoyed this video uh do  go back and watch it if you late for the show uh  

but I will take a rest uh rest my voice and my my  my mind a little bit I think I need to take a nap  

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oh thank you so much teacher uh bought your course  but I haven't used it yet David why not what are  

you waiting for join the program get into the  program I know like the first step is just like  

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