"The Strangest Fluency Secret" - Drew Badger

let's erase the board and get started I am  Drew Badger the founder of Englishanyone.com  

and today we're going to talk about the  strangest fluency secret I mention this  

occasionally on my videos but I wanted to just  give uh an introduction to this because it will  

be the introduction to my book so here we  are uh but if you can understand this one  

simple idea about learning it will help you  get fluent much faster let's make sure we're  

live here on YouTube as well okay I think we are  working all right we are all right let me make

sure get the board erased over here I'll give  YouTube a moment to notify people but it looks  

like it is working all right uh I will keep my  uh eye on the chat but I want to get through this  

this should not be a very long video if you're  watching this and the like the length of the video  

is more than an hour or something it's really just  uh the beginning part of this and then I'll be  

answering questions after that uh but nice to see  everybody there I think subasa said it's raining  

in uh Fula it's raining here in Nagasaki too kind  of on and off all right uh so as I mentioned uh I  

will be releasing my book pretty soon I'm working  on it and who knows exactly how long it will take  

things always take longer than you expect but  I wanted to just uh talk with this and really  

make sure people understand this idea because if  I can't explain this in a video there's really  

no point in me releasing a book uh because again  the point is not to just make a book but to have  

something that really explains everything so that  anybody could read this and really understand how  

to become fluent all right uh let's get started  uh so I want to I want to kind of uh go through  

the introduction to the book and explain uh the  main problem people have with learning and then  

a different way to think about getting fluent  so hopefully this makes sense but I want to go  

through this step by step to make sure everybody  understands so if I seem like I'm being a little  

bit basic here or covering things too simply  it's just to make sure everybody is on the same  

page that's a great expression to be on the same  page just like a book so everybody understands  

everybody's following along here uh so the first  thing here is just understanding the goal so the  

main people uh I help they you know my teachers  might be watching my videos as well but the main  

people I help are people who know a lot of English  but struggle to speak and so the goal is to speak  

fluent English confidently that's the goal uh if  anybody is here for some other goal let me know  

but I think it let me know if this is correct so  as I go through this I want to make sure everybody  

is on the right page I'm speaking to the right  people about this uh and that I'm solving the  

right problem here so uh basically the goal is to  speak fluent flu there supposed to be f o u e n t

English speak fluent English confidently so this  is the goal let me know if uh that is not your  

goal but hopefully that makes sense so if you  do want to speak English confidently you can  

understand what I'm saying right now but you're  not yet a confident speaker this is the goal and  

this is the purpose of the book so what I want  to go through here is now talk about why people  

struggle to speak now you can put your own uh  put your own comments here just so again we're  

on the same page but again we have the goal this  is the place people would like to be they're they  

want to get to this uh but they are unable to  speak for a variety of reasons so let me know  

if this is you just posted comment let me know  exactly what your like your struggle point is  

what is the thing that's stopping you from  getting fluent now I'm going to to seed this  

a little bit to to kind of prepare people for  this but I'll be looking at comments if anybody  

has any particular uh pains or any reasons why  you think you might not be able to reach this  

goal or something that's preventing you from  getting it now so I've been helping people get  

fluent for over 20 years and these are the four  main buckets we call this like a like a regular  

bucket so kind of a group of things and there are  four main reasons why people are unable to speak  

these are the things I've heard from people  and pretty much every reason I get will fit  

into one of these four buckets but if you have  a specific reason I'd love to hear what it is  

just post that in the comments now so you want to  speak fluently but you're unable to speak because  

and then we've got these four main buckets over  here so let's cover those here's my Eraser I'll  

just go through these one at a time but let me  know if you have any comments or uh any specific  

issues that I don't list or any questions about  this so we've got four main things here the first  

one is just a natural uh introversion so maybe if  you were just like shy or introvert introverted

to be intro like inside facing introverted means  you're you don't really like speaking with people  

or you're a little bit shy uh and I mention this  specifically because some people are introverted  

or shy even speaking their native language  so some people are just naturally shy it's  

not like a language issue but people might be  shy um but like they're they're unable to just  

like in a group situation they don't feel very  comfortable speaking so it's not NE necessarily  

a language problem although it could be uh but the  the main thing here is that you just have natural  

shyness or or introversion for whatever reason I I  don't want to talk this video is not really about  

overcoming that although I do talk about that  sometimes but I just want to talk about it as a  

reason people give all right uh the second reason  people give and and probably the most common  

one uh is actual uh a lack of confidence with  communication so we'll just put here lack uh of

confidence so a lack of confidence for

communication pardon me as my head gets in the  way a little bit uh so again you want to speak  

fluently but you're unable to speak because either  you're shy or introverted or you have a lack of  

confidence in communication and by this I mean uh  this is really the whole uh whole group of things  

like uh let's see here if we've got some uh some  specific let's see examples over here uh abish  

says I know many words and their meaning but I  can't bring them to mind when I want to speak  

English and uh in a quick how to improve myself  okay so that's falling under this category here  

uh so you might have specific problems like you  forget your words or you have trouble with your  

pronunciation or you're not sure about grammar  whatever those things are uh that that leads to  

a lack of confidence about English Okay so  any problem you could think of dealing with  

communication whether it's listening or  trying to speak or anything in between uh  

that's all falling under this category here  okay so anything you might think of like in  

the moment of communication what actually stops  you so if you're in a conversation with someone  

you can't keep the conversation flowing or  you forget your words or you can't think of  

the right thing or you you worry in the back of  your mind are are people judging you those kinds  

of things that's all uh leading to a lack of  confidence in communication okay hopefully that  

makes sense again I want to make sure everybody  understands each of these pieces and everybody  

watching this video should uh if you have one  of these problems uh you should be fitting into  

at least one of these categories so next one uh  and this is an interesting one I kind of put it  

off uh by itself even though it's it's related  to be over here uh but this one is a lack of

vocabulary now this is specifically for people  who they like to study English and they continue  

to learn more and they feel that they're unable  to speak fluently because they don't know enough  

words okay so maybe they you know whatever  this could be different numbers of words for  

different numbers of people like whatever that  is like you know a thousand words or 10,000  

words there are always people who are continuing  to learn more uh and they hope that at some  

point they learn a number of words that whatever  that number is for them like 10,000 or something  

whatever their number is that at that point they  will speak fluently but what I usually say to  

people who mention this uh kind of complaint or  this reason specifically why they're unable to  

speak is if you can understand what I'm saying  right now but you don't feel confidence speaking  

how would more words help you how would learning  more words make you fluent if the vocabulary you  

already have is not something you feel confident  using Okay so let's say you know uh like this many  

words over here this is like a thousand English  words and you can understand everything I'm saying  

even if you only understand 80 or 90% of what I'm  saying right now but you have a good number of uh  

of words in your vocabulary you can understand  things well at what point do you think you would  

become a confident speaker how many more words do  you need in order to finally develop fluency and  

uh what I'd like you to see for people who have  this particular reason why they're not fluent is  

if you're not already fluent here you don't become  fluent simply by learning more because if you're  

not fluent in this why would you get fluent by  learning more words okay fluency doesn't mean  

you just you continue to to add words and oh look  at that now you get to like 1,1 and suddenly you  

can speak fluently so learning this word over here  doesn't magically help you learn all of these okay  

so just wanting to make that clear uh so a lack  of vocabulary it's related to this so you're you  

people don't usually think about it that way but  what they're really saying is I'm not confident  

in the vocabulary I have so I'm waiting to become  confident until I learn a few more words but they  

don't know exactly what that is or or they  couldn't tell you how many words they need  

to know they just have an uncertain feeling that  they don't have enough okay so that's why I put  

this as its own category over here all right and  the last bucket so reasons again why people are  

unable to speak they don't have anyone to speak  with so no speaking uh we'll just say Partners or  

chances or opport unities you don't necessarily  need a speaking partner like a classroom or a  

lesson kind of thing but just people to talk with  all right so no speaking [Music] partner uh and  

this this bucket here anyone fitting in this  bucket this would be people who don't live in  

an English-speaking country or even people who  do live in an englishspeaking country but they  

don't have anyone to speak with so let's say you  live in America but you live in some small town  

and it's mostly I don't know like let's say you  you live in a place where you don't get chances  

to speak with uh with native speakers uh again  even if you are in the United States uh or maybe  

you are not married to a native or you don't have  a boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever uh or you  

don't have any friends or even just people who  don't speak English now it's quite difficult to  

live on planet Earth and not have some kind of  chance to speak especially with the internet so  

if you can watch this video right now you can  probably find um people to talk with and again  

like chat gbt another example that just came up  right there there are plenty of opportunities to  

speak if if this is like you know if if this  is an issue for you but the more interesting  

thing about this is even people who do live in  English-speaking countries who do uh actually  

have lots of opportunities to speak who even are  married to native speakers and they know a lot of  

words they still struggle with fluency okay isn't  that interesting so a lots of people will like if  

you're living on a mountain by yourself in a small  house somewhere and you don't actually have any  

chances to speak with natives at all maybe you  have no internet connection and I don't know how  

you would see this video but let's say someone  shares the video by putting it on a disc and  

sending it to you uh if you have like absolutely  no chances of speak you don't really encounter  

these problems over here um but that that's the  the basic thing is even people who have all of  

these advantages many of them still struggle to  speak so a lot of the people I help these are  

people in English-speaking countries especially  who feel that they just can't live life the way  

they want to because of how they communicate  so because of their poor English they're not  

able to interact with people they can't have  good conversations or better relationships  

and this could be professional relationships  or personal relationships whatever even just  

speaking to people in the neighborhood uh so even  me living here in Japan I know plenty of people  

who are married to Japanese natives so Japanese  native speakers they've been living in Japan a  

long time and they still can't speak very well  okay so being in the English speaking country  

or the native country whatever living with natives  even being married to a native doesn't necessarily  

guarantee fluency so some people again maybe  have no speaking practice partner but uh the  

real problem is more like when they get into  conversations they probably hit one of these  

things up here so they have a lack of confidence  because of how they're actually speaking all right  

let me know if I missed anybody or if anybody  has some additional reason why they would not be  

able to speak I want to make sure I hit everybody  because there might be somebody who just says well  

actually I'm a space alien and uh like I have like  a problem with my mouth or something like that all  

right so just making sure I'm covering everything  uh that might uh that might come up here but I  

think this is it in my 20 plus years of teaching  these are the four main things that I hear from  

people as they're struggling to speak did I miss  anything I want to make sure I cover everybody let  

me know uh that way everybody is again on the  same page as I go through this all right let  

me know I'll check comments right quick uh looks  like we're doing all right I'll answer looks like  

these two right here by says lack of practice or  get less scope of talking with people not using  

the opportunity to speak much okay so again that  that you you could have a combination of maybe  

more of these like two or three of them or I mean  maybe all four uh some people they have no chance  

to speak and they're introverted anyway uh or you  again you could have uh maybe you feel you don't  

know enough words but also in conversations when  you try to speak uh maybe you forget your words  

or you struggle to say the right thing you're  not sure about maybe I should use this word in  

this situation you don't know what sounds natural  or how to pronounce things the way a native would  

say them uh so all of those issues like they could  come from from various pieces of this but that's  

the general idea and if speaking becomes difficult  because of these reasons most people either can't  

do it or they just ignore it or they try to uh  avoid speaking because they don't want to because  

it could be frustrating or they don't want to be  judged or whatever but I really want to make sure  

uh this is clear uh lefter says hi my teacher how  are you doing thanks a lot my friend I appreciate  

your hard work though if it we try to improve  our language uh through of though through of it  

okay uh you're understanding uh let's see and God  bless you from New York all right glad to hear it  

thank you very much all right uh but glad to  hear it looks like nobody else has anything  

additional to add to this um and so again I want  you to think about these things like the problem  

seems like you should be able to speak and and  people have probably heard the term practice makes

perfect practice makes perfect have you heard that  expression before practice makes perfect so the  

more you practice something the better you become  at doing that thing so if I speak a lot I should  

become a more confident speaker all right that's  how it should work and so that's why people spend  

a lot of time thinking about how they can speak  or being frustrated that they cannot speak like  

they don't have speaking opportunities or they  just don't feel confident about the vocabulary  

they know but I'd like you to try to think about  this in a different way and that's the purpose of  

the introduction but also the the general idea  uh of my book uh but before I get into that I'd  

like to tell you a quick story and hopefully it  should make more sense uh why these things over  

here they don't need to be frustrating for you  and there's actually a different way a better way  

to get fluent so this story very quickly uh I was  visiting a uh then girlfriend uh and her family we  

were staying at a kind of cabin uh in a summer it  was like a summer vacation house we rented and it  

was in the woods and it was around I'll just draw  this very quickly it was on a lake so the house  

was over here uh but there was a restaurant on  the other side of the lake and we wanted to go  

get I think they had pizza or something like that  uh and so we got in my uh girlfriend's car and  

I had not driven that car before but I said I'm  happy to drive and it was kind of a a long drive  

uh through the woods to get around over here uh  and I noticed as I was driving that it was it was  

really difficult like the car car felt very slow I  would kind of move forward I would have to really  

push hard on the accelerator so that's the the  gas pedal and as I'm driving through the forest  

obviously there are some turns and places I have  to slow down anyway uh but I'm I'm going through  

and it really felt like I was pressing very hard  on the accelerator as I'm trying to get through  

so when we got there I realized I looked down  and saw that the parking brake had been on the  

whole time so I'd never done that before but I  was just unfamiliar with the way my girlfriend's  

car was so the parking brake wasn't like a little  lever in the middle of the seat like between the  

driver and the front passenger seat it was like  a little push button thing uh and so when I had  

gone through there I had realized like oh like I  I wasn't like the car there was nothing wrong with  

the car but the break had been on the whole time  so I'm trying to drive and I was really pushing  

down hard but pushing down more on the accelerator  wasn't doing very much because the parking brake  

was on the whole time hopefully that makes sense  and the the point of this story is that like there  

are two sides to the driving equation the first  so so you can think about your two pedals over  

here uh you've got the gas and then you've got the  brake on the other side so there's the regular gas  

and the regular brake when you're pushing them but  there was an additional uh let's put a p here for  

a parking brake and sometimes it's a little lever  that you pull up it's usually looks like this U  

you kind of pull on that uh and it and it it's  like what you would use when you're parking the  

car so uh I was pushing down hard on the gas also  known as the accelerator but I wasn't really going  

much faster and so what you learn from this like  this taught me a very valuable lesson when I was  

thinking many years later about getting fluent uh  and that is that like the two pieces of this this  

this is all like kind of the the speaking piece  over here but what's really stopping people is the  

break part and they've essentially got the parking  Brak on while they're trying to speak and so when  

you're forcing yourself to speak it's like trying  to keep pushing down on the gas when all of these  

doubts are continuing to stop you from speaking  so if you look back at all these things being  

shy or introverted lack of confidence a lack of  vocabulary no people to speak with and even when  

those people get into speaking situations usually  they're not very confident about their English so  

the deeper problem here is not opportunities to  speak it's the doubts that are actually stopping  

you from moving the car forward all right let  me know if that doesn't make sense but I really  

want to just have a a very simple idea for people  not not only to understand uh why they're stuck  

but to give them a different way to think about  learning so that you can focus on something else  

all right so for example you might like you might  think you're you're not getting enough speaking  

opportunities but that was like me trying to just  push down harder on the gas so even if I push down  

harder on the gas I still have the parking breake  up while I'm trying to drive and that's going to  

cause the car problems I'm going to start and stop  I'm not going to enjoy the ride I'm not going to  

drive smoothly and I will again injure the car  probably all right and so that's the same thing  

that happen happens to most people when they  try to force themselves to speak so uh again  

they could be shy or introverted or they have a  lack of confidence because of you know whatever  

their speaking or communication issue is uh and  then they maybe have a lack of vocabulary but  

what that really means is they're not confident in  the vocabulary they know already so they're still  

waiting until they know a certain amount or they  keep studying more hopefully with the with the  

hope that you become fluent but again most of the  time that does not come from people uh and so not  

being able to speak at all because you don't have  anyone to speak with you don't really have much  

of a problem anyway uh but those people when they  do start speaking they often find that they have  

these kinds of problems over here so the problem  the real problem is not just pushing on the gas  

more it's not more speaking opportunities it's  actually releasing the break and so you have two  

different options for how you can try to become  a confident speaker the first one is to continue  

pushing on the gas and continue forcing yourself  to speak so you can continue looking for more  

opportunities to speak even if you don't feel very  comfortable you can just kind of power through it  

you can make yourself feel more confident about  things just by telling yourself okay I know I need  

to make make mistakes in part of the process you  can continue doing that or the much easier thing  

to do is just release the break all right so the  whole point of my book and really everything I do  

is trying to get people to understand this idea  you have these two options here these two paths  

one is to continue trying to force yourself to  speak or thinking that you maybe can't speak  

because you have no one to talk with and so now  you're just stuck you can't really do anything and  

the other option is just releasing the breakes and  that means removing the doubts that stop you from  

speaking does that make sense I really want people  uh I'm trying to make this as simple as possible  

but the basic idea again is you want to speak  fluently and so it seems logical that you should  

speak more in order to get fluent you know  practice makes perfect but people have lots of  

issues being able to communicate for these reasons  and maybe there are some others but these are the  

general four reasons I hear from people uh that  complain about not having uh either chanes chances  

to speak or when they are in conversations they're  unable to speak because they're shy or nervous or  

whatever so instead of continuing down this path  of forcing yourself to speak why not just release  

the brakes and actually erase the doubts that stop  you from speaking if you can release the brakes  

just like when I was driving in that car if I knew  the parking brake was on I could just release the  

parking brake and then I can start moving then  there's nothing wrong with the car I wasn't a bad  

driver it was just the parking brake was on and so  it's much easier just to remove the brake that's  

actually stopping you from communicating  rather than just trying to look for more  

opportunities to speak or to sit and do nothing  because you don't have anybody to speak with so  

what actually uh gets you fluent at the bottom of  this is not the speaking opportunities it's how  

well you feel about speaking it's the confidence  you have about speaking and it's much easier to  

eliminate the doubts by releasing the breakes  like what I call releasing the breakes here uh  

if you can eliminate the doubts you can do that  by yourself anywhere you like and then when you  

do have speaking opportunities you will feel much  more confident and certain so you will communicate  

much more fluently does that make sense all right  uh I really want let me know if if this idea makes  

sense I'm trying to make this very simple but the  basic idea again is you have two paths you could  

take because you have both the gas and the break  for connecting with communication the the gas is  

like the speaking opportunities it's continuing uh  to to to feel like I need to speak more in order  

to get fluent but if when you do speak you still  have all these problems then you're probably not  

going to get you're not going to get much further  or make much progress in conversations if you have  

all these problems okay so you have doubts about  whatever your lack of confidence because you can't  

think of what to say or your pronunciation or  whatever that is but if you could eliminate those  

doubts wouldn't you feel more confident speaking  wouldn't you does anyone say no to that I'm I'm  

curious uh but let me know I'll go back and check  uh comments but I really want to make it's like  

it's really this simple um but if you can change  the way you think about this where uh instead of  

focusing on the speaking part why don't we try  instead to do the much easier thing which is  

just removing the doubts because you can do that  anywhere by yourself you don't need to have a  

practice partner there to understand the language  better but then when you do speak you really will  

feel uh much more confident and certain in your  communication all right uh let me go through  

and see if I missed anybody here all says does  your program help a person reach the C2 level uh  

I I don't really worry about particular levels  like that but if your goal is to actually have  

confident communication then yes so if that's what  your goal is like I really want you to be clear  

about not like a letter or number but what is the  actual outcome you're looking for so if you want  

to be able to speak well to understand people  to to confident to communicate confidently uh  

then that's what we do so uh again the if you're  talking about fluent for life and how we actually  

help people the the process we use in fluent for  life is the process of removing doubt so of course  

we we show you how to do that and we show you how  to meet people to practice speaking with but the  

more important thing is removing the breaks that  stop you from from expressing yourself because  

if you get into more conversations and you don't  feel confident about those conversations you're  

just going to waste those opportunities okay  it's like if you give a child a bunch of money  

and they like just spend it on stuff they're not  going to use it wisely and they just burn through  

the money but uh if you teach a child like look  this is this is how you can use it well and you  

can grow the money or whatever then you have  a much better chance of uh them having fun and  

also not just burning through all of the money  so again you have two choices about how you can  

learn and it is true that you can develop fluency  by speaking but it's just much more difficult if  

you have to force yourself to speak so if you're  in a conversation and you don't feel confident  

you're not going to feel like you're making much  progress you might learn a little bit but you're  

not really it's it's a much more inefficient way  to try to speak or try to improve I should say uh  

because you probably aren't speaking all the  time or it's hard to find people to practice  

speaking with and even when you are in speaking  conversations or speaking in conversations you've  

got lots of doubts that stop you from speaking so  wouldn't it be easier to just release the breakes  

first all right you can do that by yourself very  quickly anywhere you like you don't need to wait  

for anybody you don't need to wait for a teacher  uh or a speaking partner anything remove the  

doubts first release the breakes and then it's  much easier when you do get into conversations  

like even me um I don't have a Japanese teacher  but because I feel confident about speaking I  

talk to people all the time just when I see people  in a convenience store or I say hello to people  

walking down the street or whatever so when you're  feeling confident there are no shortage of people  

to speak with and even if I didn't live in Japan I  could still find people to practice with online if  

I wanted to uh but I would do it the native way  rather than looking for like a Japanese teacher  

a Japanese teacher would be helpful maybe to  understand some things uh if they could help  

me understand it like a native uh but for the most  part I don't really spend much of my time uh like  

trying to learn the language in the typical way I  understand the language and I try to remove doubt  

so any things I'm uncertain about I remove those  doubts and then I feel much more confident about  

speaking and it's like a a magical thing that  happens where now that I feel confident even  

when I'm walking around people can tell that I  know Japanese I actually I look different and  

I feel different to other people I remember years  ago I had a um I was standing on a train platform  

uh where I live and there were some other Japanese  people there and an old Japanese lady came up to  

me and she says what time does the train get  here I I don't remember what exactly she asked  

but something like that and I thought it was  interesting that she just she thought to ask me  

rather than all of the other Japanese people who  were standing around so I think maybe I was closer  

to her uh but when I first came to Japan and I  had a different a different atmosphere a different  

feeling so I was I was a bit more kind of shy and  closed off like that like hoping people did not  

speak with me but now I feel much more open and  I'm much more excited about speaking and so I say  

hello to people and I I get into conversations  with random people all the time I met a guy uh  

just at a coffee shop and I ended up like he  took me out to lunch just cuz I had like a nice  

conversation with him but when I first came to  Japan I was not able to do that all right so again  

uh the problem was the doubts that were stopping  me from speaking even though I lived in Japan I  

had lots of people to speak with I had chances to  speak every day but I was avoiding those speaking  

opportunities because I felt shy and embarrassed  and didn't want to make mistakes in front of other  

people all the typical problems people have so it  occurred to me why not release the breaks instead  

of trying to for for myself to speak which feels  very uncomfortable and it wasn't actually helping  

me very much so yes like I could I was able to  drive from here to the pizza place by holding down  

on the accelerator and pushing it down as hard as  I could but I was damaging the car probably uh and  

I felt pretty stupid after I got there and saw  that the parking brake was on and then I would I  

could have driven uh much more easily if I had  just removed the parking brake all right does  

that make sense so let me know uh if this idea  again let me let me kind of clear some space over

here if you are feeling shy in conversations  or you don't have anyone to speak with I'll  

make this very simple for people you can try  to speak I just say speak and this is really  

forcing yourself to speak uh even if you you  aren't confident you just try like I will try  

to say hello to people and I will try to speak  you can improve that way it is possible it's just  

really quite difficult and especially if people  have nobody or no like no chances to speak for  

whatever reason then if you if you think speaking  is the only way you're going to get fluent then  

you really can't do anything then you're just  stuck and so the other one uh is to remove down

so we got the gas over here where we got the

break and from my experience uh having gotten  fluent and having taught lots of people how to  

become fluent this way is a lot easier it's a  lot faster and you can do it by yourself it's  

much more efficient as quickly as you like you can  become a much more confident speaker this way it C  

certainly is possible to do it but for a lot of  people they hit all of these walls all of these  

problems and they get stuck and then that's the  end of the story so they spend years trying to  

do these kinds of things when if you just remove  the break you would start making progress very  

quickly all right does that make sense let let  me know I I this this is the the introduction to  

the book this is the really the whole idea of how  we do this but if you don't agree with this idea  

or you think there's a problem with my logic or  something let me know because I I really want to  

help people become fluent and maybe there is some  additional way that you could get fluent uh that  

I've not heard of uh but like if you if you really  want to like keep you know keep doing that thing  

and it's probably not going to uh get you fluent  or you're watching these videos because you still  

have all of these issues over here it really  means that you just need to remove the doubt  

all right all right let me see here if anybody had  any questions cam nice to see you there blue sky  

what is the difference between shy and modest  uh well modest is typically like you you're  

not uh maybe you you don't talk about yourself  too much or you don't maybe you dress modestly  

like you would cover up your your body rather  than having like a low cut shirt so that would  

be more an example of uh of like modesty versus  IM modesty but shy just means maybe you're you're  

worried about either being judged or you're just  quiet and there there could be some reason but uh  

typically that that's a difference like you you  can be you can be modest without being shy so  

like a person could feel like I'm going to dress  in a more conservative way like a woman who covers  

herself more uh but she might not be shy so she  could be like hey everybody how are you and she  

she's very extroverted rather than uh introverted  over here so she might go out and speak with lots  

of people uh but still be conservative or modest  in that way uh let's see Rola says we can't say no  

again yes like my my goal is not to like push you  in a certain way it's just this way is typically  

really difficult for people uh and that's because  they don't know that this way exists so I call  

this the strangest fluency secret because it's  the opposite of what most people expect they  

think they should speak more when the kind of  other thing you could do is removing the brakes  

like actually uh that are the thing that's really  stopping you from expressing yourself is the uh  

inability to uh it's the it's like the things that  stop you from speaking uh that's really what's  

going to if you if you can remove those things  and it's much easier to remove the doubt than  

it is to speak more Okay so we've seen like all  the reasons why speaking is a much more difficult  

thing to do especially if you have no one to talk  with now again it is possible to find people uh  

like online there are services to do this if you  want to do that uh or you can just find people  

who are interested in you know whatever your your  interests are and speak with them about that it's  

not that difficult to do if you think more like  a native rather than a language learner but again  

uh in general removing doubt doesn't require you  to have anyone to speak with the point is just to  

eliminate any uncertainty you have about speaking  okay so if you are let's say even just something  

very simple like uh like if I have a word like  if you read a word like that and you're not  

quite sure about how to say it like I wonder what  the pronunciation is is it C or coat or something  

like that if you don't know uh then you probably  won't say that word so you have a doubt about the  

specific pronunciation of that word and that  will stop you from using it or another example  

uh the pronunciation of this is cat cop uh but  uh another example might be even native English  

speakers they're trying to write a word and they  don't remember how to spell it so if they can't  

spell a word properly they will probably switch to  something else and again uh it's the same example  

of you having doubt about something that stops you  from using it so either you just don't use it or  

you find something else or whatever another way to  do things but again if you know the pronunciation  

of something you feel confident about using  it if you know how to spell a word you feel  

confident about writing it okay it's the same kind  of thing so if we have to think about like which  

of these two is the easier process which one is  probably going to get us to the goal faster and  

the goal being speak fluent English it seems like  removing the doubt would be the better thing to do  

okay so you can you can think about this I'll draw  one more see if I can fit one more thing on here  

the goal here we're going to put our little uh  like a gold flag up on our Mountain so the goal  

here is fluent communication and most people think  you're going to go directly there by speaking I'm  

suggesting that you actually get there kind of  indirectly you're going to take a different path  

by removing the doubt first and as you do that  you will feel much more confident about speaking  

and that's what ultimately gets you to the  top so there are two different ways of doing  

this this way is much more difficult it's like  okay I'm going to try to climb up a mountain and  

make it really difficult for myself maybe there  aren't very many people to speak with or I just  

don't have any chances or I feel shy for whatever  reason you can see there are lots of difficulties  

or reasons that would stop you from expressing  yourself okay but if you instead remove the doubts  

much faster Master much easier and it's just a  different way of getting to the top okay all right  

let me go back check comments let's see here uh  let's see Allah says I can understand everything  

you say most YouTube videos songs and even  newspapers but I find it difficult to understand  

movies why is that so that's another thing here  you have a lack of confidence about the language  

itself so that's just an understanding thing the  difficulty there is that the way I'm speaking now  

now is different than the way people would speak  in movies so in movies people are going to be  

probably faster and they're going to blend the  sounds of their words together you might hear  

some difficult accents or some uh maybe levels of  politeness that you're not used to so some people  

speaking very casually or some people very very  polite and the biggest difference is you're going  

to have lots of different kinds of English uh so  it could be slang or phrasal verbs or idioms or  

movie quotes or cultural references all of these  things are what natives would use and I do not for  

the most part use those in these videos all right  so if I'm trying to teach you specific language  

then I will use that but uh for the most part I'm  not doing that in these videos because I'm trying  

to teach you like a lesson about something and if  I am teaching you uh again we've got a fire truck  

or something as usual that's like my signature  I should have a fire truck on my my logo like  

English anyone ambulance or something like that  anyway uh so that's the reason people have trouble  

and that would be fitting into this issue over  here all right so you have a lack of confidence  

you just don't understand what you're hearing  so you can understand me but it's hard for you  

to understand the uh the natives and movies and TV  shows now the question is if you could understand  

those people would you feel more confident about  speaking if you could understand movies would you  

enjoy watching movies more yes or no any any  answer there so just think about that even  

if you don't type a response here if you could  understand movies and TV shows and you understand  

them just like you understand me would you feel  more confident would you feel more excited would  

life be a little bit easier for you probably and  so it's much easier to arrive uh at that if you  

just remove the doubt okay so rather than trying  to speak more it's going be very difficult for you  

to try to speak more and understand movies because  that's not really the problem the problem is how  

can I understand that thing better and so why  don't you just do that so th this is what occurred  

to me like this is the lesson I finally learned  after 15 years of struggling to learn different  

languages even living in Japan for a year and  still not being able to speak when I finally  

discovered oh like I'm I'm not communicating well  because I I I just lack confidence in the language  

I don't understand what I'm saying so I should  remove the doubt that stops me from speaking  

okay so anybody uh anybody who has like like a  combination of these problems looks like Al says  

I'm confident but I lack speaking practice like  that's not that's not really your issue then like  

you you don't really become a more confident  speaker by speaking I know it sounds a little  

weird um but if you have no one to talk with just  it's it's very easy to find people online like you  

could go anywhere like even commenting on YouTube  videos If you comment on a bunch of uh English  

speakers videos about some interest that you have  like let's say you like uh I don't know whatever  

like traveling to Hawaii or something or like just  traveling in general or you like cars or you like  

uh storytelling or whatever that thing is you can  find groups of people who meet online and actually  

talk about those things it's quite easy to find  people to speak with so the issue is rarely no  

speaking practice now maybe 20 years ago before  there was online video maybe that was an issue  

for people but even then the lack of uh a lack of  communication is is not really the the major issue  

it's not just having people to speak with it's not  really feeling confident about the language anyway  

so for me like I don't need to speak with people  all the time to improve my Japanese I just need  

to get lots of examples that help me understand  the language better and remove the doubt okay so  

I don't spend all my time trying to speak even  though I'm surrounded by Japanese people but  

when I have opportunities when I see people I  I try to begin a conversation if I can but the  

interesting thing is uh the difference between  me now and me years ago is years ago I felt shy  

because I was worried about making mistakes and  the usual kinds of things but now I don't worry  

about that I feel much more confident because I  know how to use the language so I can get into a  

conversation with a random stranger and I don't  know what we're going to speak about and I still  

feel confident about that can you feel confident  in that situation would you say hello to somebody  

you don't know and begin a conversation with  them if you have like 100% confidence about the  

language you don't really need to watch videos on  on learning English you should just watch native  

content and just enjoy life like you you don't if  you if you don't have anybody to speak with just  

watch the stuff that natives watch and spend your  time doing that but if you have doubt and that's  

most of the people I help like they might have  some confidence about a few things like feeling  

confident about talking about work so they hear  all of those examples about their profession all  

the time if you are an accountant or you work  in a factory or something like that people will  

use that same vocabulary again and again and you  will have no doubt probably talking about things  

at work but if someone asks you hey what did  you do over the weekend then you're thinking  

oh no I'm not confident about speaking about this  because I don't know I I have lots of doubts how  

do I talk about this or what what is the correct  vocabulary all of those different things it's  

the doubts that have that stop you from speaking  it's not the speaking opportunities especially now  

2024 2025 with the internet like it's very  easy to find people if you feel confident  

okay so I wouldn't worry about that uh if your  issue is uh like you feel 100% confident but  

you just don't talk with anybody why not what  is what is the reason uh you're unable to to  

speak with people online it's very easy  to find people uh let's see axis says I  

prefer to use the break as you advise yes and  again like it's not like using the break it's  

it's releasing the breake so there's a parking  breake on the car and then there's the regular  

brake and gas pedal so I'm trying to make this  clear like if you release the actual brake the  

parking brake is something you put on uh after a  car has already stopped and usually you're just  

parking you don't want the car to move anywhere  so you put the extra parking brake on it this is  

also known as an emergency breake uh but the so  it's not just about like pushing down on the gas  

or the brake pedal I'm talking about actually  releasing the brakes because the brake is the  

thing that's really stopping you from speaking  you can continue to push on the gas looking for  

more speaking opportunities but it's probably  not going to help you if you still have doubts  

when you speak okay so we should probably uh it  would make more sense to do that so that's what I  

teach that's what I recommend and I have not found  anything faster or more efficient than this uh so  

if you find something let me know uh but for the  past 20 years this is what I've been doing because  

it works uh let's see cam says I'm an introvert  yes and that's interesting I I don't really know  

much like I'm fairly uh like extroverted I like  to say hello and talk with people but I noticed  

I became introverted uh in Japanese when I was  not feeling confident about speaking so it kind  

of made me more introverted and I had more of an  introverted uh posture but I like communicating  

with people and so when I became able to do  that I started doing it more and it made me  

more extroverted in Japanese so if you if you were  kind of uh introverted about all things in life or  

even in your native language that's probably a  subject for another video uh but again if you're  

just introverted in English because you don't  feel confident wouldn't you feel more confident  

if you eliminated the doubt so when someone says  hello how was your weekend you can say oh it was  

awesome we did this and that and you can have a  great conversation about that wouldn't that feel  

great that's like that's my life over here now so  it was not like that before when I struggled to  

communicate but now people can people can ask me  random questions about whatever like yesterday I  

had uh some air conditioners so it's a kind of a  air conditioner and heater installed in my house  

and I was talking to the workers that came uh and  I was curious about how uh like there there is a  

a wall outlet uh so this is called an outlet uh  like in Japanese like Kento but the uh the like  

an English uh you might have different kind of  plugs you know depending on your work what country  

you're in but it's it's called an outlet outlet  like the power outlet where the power comes out um  

so we had to install uh some the air conditioning  units to plug into the wall but the wall was set  

up for 200 uh or 200 Watts or something I forget  no 200 volt 200 volts I think V TS if I'm correct  

I'm not an an expert on uh on electrical systems  but uh anyway they were 200 volts and they needed  

to be converted to 100 volt so we had to change  the actual Outlet like the physical plug and we  

also had to change the the power from 200 to 100  now I was able to have a conversation with the  

staff about that and I said oh can you teach  me how do you do that I'm curious like how do  

you actually turn an outlet from 200 into 100  or 100 into 200 because I thought there was  

actually something like behind the outlet itself  that you had to switch or Flip or something like  

that to to change it so I thought oh okay you put  a different plug in there like not not something  

that looks like this but it looks I don't know  like a different it has like a different shape  

to it or something like that so uh I thought okay  you just change this but he said oh yeah I'm happy  

to show you how that works and so he took me uh  back where yeah so like took yeah it's like 110  

or whatever it is so it depends on the uh on the  country so countries have different uh different  

voltage and different plugs as well so in Japan  uh it was 200 to 100 H and so when I was uh when  

he was explaining that to me I got a lesson on  how to change an outlet from this to that and I  

I don't know anything about that I hadn't ever  studyed that in Japanese but now I know and so  

what happened was he took me back to the breaker  so the breaker this is like the the little box  

with all the switches on it where the the power  controls uh each of those uh little switches for  

the the various outlets in the walls and he said  oh look we've got these wires over here we got  

a red wire and a white wire and a black one and  depending on their combination we can make uh a  

specific switch over here uh 200 or 100 so it was  very easy to switch it from one to the other he  

said look I just like remove this wire over here  and now we have a 100v outlet and so the breaker  

is connected to the outlet and now we can put the  right thing in there and he said if we just put  

the uh like the 200 if we put like a 100 uh like  air conditioner 100 volt air conditioner into a  

200 volt socket it would explode so I said oh  well thank you it's a good idea we switch uh  

the outlets but again this was me able to  learn some new Japanese just like just by  

having a conversation with him I had not studied  anything about that but I had the confidence to  

get into that conversation okay I was able to say  oh like that's really interesting can you teach me  

about that so here was another example I had not  prepared for that the conversation was unexpected  

I did not know who I would be speaking with or  what we would talk about exactly but that was the  

situation okay so I didn't have any doubt about  asking him to teach me that and I didn't have any  

doubt as he was explaining it and I could ask him  questions and I was able to learn more Japanese  

as a result okay so my problem was not like  preparing to speak about about this stuff like I  

didn't study I wasn't trying to learn more about  Outlets or electricity in Japanese or anything  

like that I just didn't have any doubt about being  in that conversation with him okay and because I  

didn't have any doubt we had a good conversation  he could teach me that and yeah it was very uh  

very interesting anyway maybe you don't care about  Outlets but there probably are things you do care  

about that you would like to be able to speak  about and if you have no doubt you would enjoy  

that more I think all right uh let me go through  answer these uh last couple of questions over here  

uh let's see a say again I have enough vocabulary  but sometimes I struggle using grammar verb tenses  

past perfect Etc any advice uh number one it's  just advice we would say any advice rather than  

advices because it's uncountable uh but number two  again this is a question about lack of confidence  

about particular parts of the language or usage  like grammar or whatever so I would spend more  

time trying to learn about those particular  grammar points get more examples of them but  

get those examples in different angles so not  just getting like similar examples but try to  

learn about these things in different ways uh  this is what I call naturally varied review  

and it's one of the three things I talk about in  the book uh that removes your doubt so again if  

you if you understand like the path is we're going  to go down the removing doubt path um rather than  

speaking path then then that's where you start  learning real language and you start getting  

fluency triggers to really understand the language  well and you get naturally varied review to really  

understand things and see how natives use the  language usually what happens in conversations  

uh like another big lack of confidence Ence  issue here during communication this is when  

people don't know the right thing to say for the  situation so something happens and they don't know  

what's the best way to express that how should  I speak about this situation and the other part  

is being able to connect situations or connect  sentences fluently so if you if you feel a lack of  

confidence about that it's much better to see lots  of examples that remove your doubt so if I see  

lots of Japanese people talking about something  like if I see a bunch of people ordering food if  

I watch 10 examples of that I'm going to feel much  more confident about using the language because  

look like that's how we learn we see a bunch of  uh varied examples so not the same thing just  

repeated but slight differences so I hear a little  bit difference uh in pronunciation or speed or  

level of politeness or whatever but as I hear all  of those together they really help me understand  

the language very well so they remove the doubt  that stops me from speaking so when next time like  

I go to order some food I'm going to feel more  confident about doing that okay so I don't need  

to practice speaking I'm not trying to step on the  gas or look for more speaking opportunities let's  

just remove the brake okay it's like remove the  brake very simple like stepping on the gas while  

you have a an Emergency break on if you've ever  driven like that before you know how frustrating  

that is and and I was I was so dumb because I  didn't realize that there was like a problem  

with the car while I was driving it but then I I  got to the end and saw oh like the parking brake  

is on it's been on this whole time and I guess  my my girlfriend didn't notice it either cuz we  

there were some places around that that road where  uh look at that like we we don't we don't realize  

like oh no the parking brake is actually on  because we're moving quite slowly in some places  

uh let's see all right uh says I live in a country  where English isn't spoken but I made my fourar  

old daughters speak only English by following  your advice thank you teacher glad to hear it  

uh and I made my daughter watch videos in English  yeah and so that's the same thing I do with my own  

kids I get to speak with them but I'm not forcing  them to speak yeah yeah uh so it's it's not like  

consent it's like that's like the like the word  for Outlet in Japanese uh but it's usually it's  

written in katak kind of like that I don't know  what that's from like it's I don't think it's  

English like it might be coming from I don't know  some language that has a word like that for Outlet  

maybe uh French German maybe I don't know uh but  yeah we I mean you might hear I think I've heard  

Japanese people say like Alto maybe like the  like using the English word Outlet uh Zoe says  

I can understand you for every sentences but when  I want to express like your expression I couldn't  

find the way to start the sentence and start to  translate from my head how could I solve this so  

uh like number one Zoe I see lots of I understand  what you're trying to say so I I I get the general  

idea but I see lots of Errors uh in your  grammar and that tells me that you've got  

a lack of confidence about using those particular  things and that's why you translate in your head  

before you speak so if you could remove that if  you didn't have to translate in your head before  

you speak uh because you actually feel confident  and you know the grammar and you know the words  

really well before you speak wouldn't you feel  more confident about speaking wouldn't you so if  

your issue is like I know some vocabulary I can  understand what other people are saying to me  

but they're still struggling to express themselves  the problem is they've still got doubt so instead  

of trying to speak more why not just remove the  doubt if you knew that grammar well if you knew  

the vocabulary well if you were not worried about  pronunciation wouldn't you speak well what would  

stop you from speaking still what would be the  issue if I know something really well like even  

in my native language right now I can speak well  about language learning because I know a lot about  

it but if I try to speak about fixing cars I  don't know much about that I mean even stuff  

about electricity I'm like 200 Watts or volts  like that's actually completely different thing  

and that's why I don't have a YouTube channel  about teaching electricity stuff all right so  

it's the same thing in your native language that  it would be in English if you don't feel confident  

about what you're saying you're probably not  going to use it all right but if you do feel  

confident you don't need to practice a lot like  speaking a lot to develop that confidence the  

point is just to remove the doubt so we've got  these two different ways of learning a language  

we can try to speak more and usually this is like  looking for speaking opportunities or practicing  

saying things even if I don't really feel very  confident about them so that's forcing yourself  

to speak speaking when you're uncomfortable okay  you could do that and some people do get fluent  

by doing that but it's less uh efficient because  you have to wait for people to speak with even  

if you speak well and that's how you're trying to  learn you still have to wait for people to speak  

with so the much faster and easier way to do it  is just removing the doubt by yourself okay as  

long as you get examples specific examples that  eliminate specific doubts so I don't just mean  

doubt generally usually you know what you have  uncertainty about so if you can say one thing but  

you can't say this other thing over here that's  the doubt focus on destroying the doubt for that  

thing like using a particular grammar point or  understanding what a word means or something like  

that okay so that's a basic idea uh if we have any  other questions about that let me know but this is  

the strangest fluency secret so most people assume  you should be speaking more you step on the gas to  

become fluent when I'm recommending instead just  remove the doubt because that's the thing that's  

actually holding you back in conversations okay  the perfect network engineer I'm glad to have  

a network engineer with us today bless me for  fluency in English remember you don't even need a  

blessing for this it's just just remove the doubt  I'm not I'm not like praying every day that I  

become fluent it's just what is my issue how can I  solve that and then that's the thing all right now  

uh having gone through all this I I haven't really  explained much specifically about how we remove  

doubts that's the focus of the book and this video  would be much longer but uh if you're curious  

about that I recommend you watch the previous live  video when I talk about the three questions I get  

from Learners like the three general questions uh  which cover all the things like like we have these  

kind of buckets here uh for the different problems  people have there are three main buckets about the  

kinds of issues people have with speaking so if  you're uncertain about uh vocabulary like why  

do I understand teachers but I don't understand  movies so I get that question every video uh and  

so I'm making the book so it's like look just read  this book and you will understand everything about  

it or you know you can certainly watch my videos  as well but I'm trying to make this as fast and  

simple as easy as easy as I can and the most basic  way I can express it is like this you've got two  

choices you've got speaking more or you've got  removing the doubt this one is going to be much  

more difficult because you have to find people  to do it with and maybe you don't feel confident  

when you do it but removing doubt is much easier  and you can do it anytime you like even if you  

have no one to speak with so you can get fluent  much faster so fluency really develops as you  

remove doubt that's what learning means if I learn  more about something I feel more confident about  

speaking about it okay so uh remove the doubt and  you will become more confident speaker faster all  

right right if you'd like to learn more about that  again I recommend you watch the previous video so  

the one right before this one uh on YouTube the  YouTube live uh and you can also click on the  

links in the description to learn more about  fluent for life this is actually how we take  

people through this process but the whole point is  to remove the doubts that stop you from speaking  

rather than just trying to force yourself putting  a lot of pressure on yourself to speak especially  

if speaking chances are difficult for you does  anybody have any questions about this anything  

that's not clear or now I'll open this up we've  been talking for about an hour so far uh I have  

a little bit of time left but if you have some  random questions or anything else but you can  

see the kinds of questions we get like from people  why do I understand things but not uh speak well  

that's here because you have doubt you have doubt  about that particular thing you're uncertain about  

it or like like just don't have anybody to speak  with at all you don't then that's not really  

an issue either you do find people to speak with  because you are confident uh or if you're watching  

videos like this it probably means you'd like to  know more uh more about the language itself like  

you you you probably still do have some doubts  so even if you do get into conversations with  

people even if you are talking you still might  have things that you struggle with all right so  

most of these problems they come back to doubt  it's like having that parking brake activated on  

your car it's slowing you down it's causing you to  hesitate and struggle and not enjoy conversations  

so if you can release the bre break then you can  start enjoying things again you will learn much  

faster you will feel much more confident and  you will communicate fluently all right well  

looks like we've got no more questions so either I  explained that perfectly or uh maybe I don't know  

people are doing something else so I'll give you  one more minute uh as I wrap this up I'll erase  

the board usually I erase the board after I'm done  uh but just in case anybody has any questions or  

if you have any uh counterarguments or you think  uh maybe this doesn't make any sense I'm really  

here to make sure you understand this idea this is  the one idea that can change everything about how  

you speak and change everything about uh your life  really if you really need English for your career  

or just to have good conversations with people  in your everyday uh business or your community  

or whatever wherever you use English and so I have  uh my main goal is to get people fluent and until  

I I find something better this will be the thing  I continue doing all right so it makes sense it's  

nice and easy to do you can do it anywhere you  like by yourself and that's how it works all  

right looks like we have no more questions so  if you would like to learn more about this if  

this idea makes sense uh do watch the uh like the  previous video if you have uh any questions about  

like how removing the doubts work because I go  through that uh in that video as well but this  

is the core idea right here uh George Chan with a  nice hand up there Juan Carlos says so that means  

I have doubt about almost everything well probably  not like what you just wrote was correct did you  

have a doubt about that so there probably are  some things that you have doubt about but a lot  

of things you do not and it's a personal thing  so maybe you are uh like you do feel doubt about  

some things but there's certain things you do  not feel doubt about but you know that yourself  

you can feel if you're uncertain about something  so it's very easy to think about what to study  

next so like INF fluent for life if you know  how to talk about one kind of subject then you  

can choose a lesson set that gives you something  you'd like to talk about but you don't feel very  

confident about that all right but uh you don't  don't like put pressure on yourself to speak or  

feel that like oh no I have doubt about everything  like the issue is probably just specific doubts  

about pronunciation or grammar or whatever and  my point is even with one example if you can  

feel more confident talking about something uh or  even if you know how to spell a word correctly or  

whatever like I remember uh teaching the word  extraordinary to a friend of mine years ago  

and she told me the story like I remember how you  taught me the word extraordinary when we were kids  

and you just said oh it's extra and ordinary which  like she knew how to write and she like remembered  

that lesson and and it just it it just shows you  like even something like one word if you learn  

a word and you understand it without a doubt you  will use that thing confidently and fluently so if  

you can apply that from one word and think about  how that works with the language as a whole that's  

how you can become fluent much faster so you  don't need to keep forcing yourself to speak  

just remove the doubt all right of course you  can do this and people do get fluent that way  

but it's just a lot easier and it's a lot  faster to do it this way because you don't  

have to wait for other people to do it with all  right so if you'd like to learn more uh let's see

yeah so like you you want to you want to like make  sure if you if you if you are not confident let me  

just translate that for people like confidence is  important because if if you don't have confidence  

you're not going to want to to speak with people  and this is not just about language learning it's  

about anything if I if someone brought me to  play like I don't know like a different sport  

like Cricket or something and I don't know how to  play and they just say hey go play on this team  

and start playing I I would have no confidence in  doing that because I don't understand the rules I  

don't know how to play the game I I I don't  know what's like a good thing or a bad thing  

and so anytime we lack confidence because we don't  understand things like that that's a thing that  

you need to become fluent because how else would  you speak and this is just it's a tricky thing  

about humans where we are unlikely to do things if  we if we think other people will will like judge  

us or um or they will they will they will like  laugh at our mistakes or something like that  

so we will notice those issues ourselves uh but  if other people notice that that's particularly  

embarrassing for us and speaking is a thing that  we usually think about like as an adult speaking  

your native language most people are very good at  uh at speaking their own language by themselves uh  

and like their native language doesn't give them  any issue but when you try to learn a different  

language suddenly you are like a baby again and  you can't speak and you don't know how to express  

yourself uh and so those are the typical problems  that come up but it's typically doubt and so if  

you lack confidence about something like you don't  have that uh like Jing that self-belief uh like  

the the comment I just got like if you don't  have that like rather than kind of waiting for  

that you can you can just remove the doubt and the  confidence uh gets gets it it just erases itself  

automatically as a result all right I'm going to  get going but hopefully uh that makes sense can  

you explain why English of the students is respon  each of the students is responsible for their own  

work is correct each of the students yeah I'm not  going to take time to explain that I do that in  

chat GPT that's the kind of question that chat  gbt can help you with anyway uh I got to go it  

looks like I got some trouble at home potentially  uh I think AR my my uh oldest daughter might be  

sick right now we'll find out anyway uh have to  go but that's the kind of question like you can  

get that in chat GPT it will explain that uh  perfectly for you but have a fantastic day if  

you'd like to learn more about all of this again  it's a very basic idea if you feel no confidence  

about what you're doing it's going to be much more  difficult for you to communicate so just release  

your breakes all right focus on that rather  than trying to push yourself to speak more you  

can click on the uh break uh excuse me the links  in the description below um and I will have uh  

some more questions for people next time have  a fantastic day and I'll see you then bye bye