"I'm embarrassed because I speak English so slowly..."

hi there i'm Drew Badger the world's first and number-one English Fluency

Guide and it is a pleasure to welcome you to another video here on youtube

where we're going to solve yet another problem that lots of english learners

have and this is i speak english too slowly now this happens for a lot of

reasons but it's a really frustrating thing people get into conversations and

other people maybe if you're with a native English speaker they're speaking

quite quickly but then when you start speaking i have to speak very slowly and

maybe it's because you forget your words or you feel stuck in conversations or

you know the vocabulary you want to use but it just doesn't come out and so you

feel nervous and there are actually a couple different problems that make it

more difficult for you to speak in a quick way so what we'd like to do in

this video is help you reverse that problem I hope that sounds like a good

idea anyway let's talk about that right now

so for developing your speed and speed is just one of the habits you need in

order to communicate fluently like you could just say but I'm just

communicating fluently but I'm not actually so where I'm communicating

quickly I should say but I'm not actually saying anything so it's part of

the problem here but then there are other things like your pronunciation

grammar your ability to listen all of these other things that come together

and this is why fluency can be a tricky thing I like to talk about it as a

combination lock and this just means that when you have a regular you know

like a lock with the little numbers on it so if you get all of the numbers

correct the lock opens but if you get maybe three numbers out of four you can

have everything but one number correct and then if you can't open that last

number then the lock doesn't open so even if you know a lot of words you can

understand a lot of things you still maybe if your pronunciation is like

already quite good you still can't speak fluently if you're

missing one or two pieces even just one piece of the fluency puzzle and that's

why we work on all of those on this channel and in programs like mastering

this conversation and the fluency course but in this video let's just talk about

the actual skill of communicating faster now I like to think about it in general

when you're just maybe walking down the street of like

bullying forward so when I was learning Japanese initially I would just you know

I'm trying to get faster with my speech I would just say words even though they

didn't really make sense just just to get into the habit of communicating

faster and just as another metaphor here a way of connecting this idea if you've

ever been to a sporting event for young kids like a soccer game or baseball game

something like that so I've played both of those sports when I was a little kid

but it's interesting when you're watching a lot of the parents especially

the fathers are watching their kids play and the parents always have lots of

advice they want to say like hey you should do this or you should do that

and they're giving their kids lots of advice don't make this mistake do this

thing do that other thing and it confuses the learner and like the the

sports player in that instance so what you should be doing is just picking one

thing and focusing on it and this means that you just focus on speed even if you

make mistakes while doing that thing so just like me when I was saying even

random words or even just sounds in Japanese excuse me that didn't really

make much sense so I'm just I'm saying things but just in a kind of Japanese

sounding way excuse me but the same thing actually happened to

me when I was I was maybe like 10 years old or 12 years old I think but I used

to sing in a choir and we had some Russian students that actually came and

stayed at our house that we also had another choir so there's a choir that

came and that stayed with us so lots of the families of people that were in my

choir were hosting these people in our house and I was sitting there playing

video games with these kids and I was trying to just say things that sounded

like Russian though didn't I didn't actually know any Russian and but like

they were just sitting with me and I was like yes yes you know like just trying

to say things in a way that sounded like it was Russian so I was just trying to

speak quickly and they you know they're kind of laughing at me a little bit

these are also younger kids about my age but they understand what I was doing and

I was I was kind of like picking up a little bit of Russian at that time I

don't member any of it now but in that

instance I was thinking okay right now I'm just going to focus on speed I'm not

really trying to learn anything I just want to just try to like mimic the way

they speak so if you can do that if you can just focus on focus on the speed

without thinking about any mistakes just like right now if I'm trying to give you

a particular message I might make a mistake maybe in my speaking or if I'm

like maybe I don't express myself as eloquently or as crisply as perfectly as

I'd like to it's okay because I'm communicating the message and the

message is the most important thing that's what I'm focusing on so in the

same way just in you know try to be like that parent that's giving advice like

just one thing to their kid and I would say hey son hey daughter all I want you

to do now is just focus on watching the baseball I don't care if you make any

other mistakes you just focus on this one today and we'll worry about another

problem tomorrow because you don't have to solve all the problems in one day you

just have to focus on one thing and the people that get fluent are the ones that

just find a problem they focus on that they solve that thing and then they move

on to the next one and this is everything we do with helping people

develop the second English fluency habits and we have you start thinking

about and improving on the weakest one so whatever that is if it's confidence

if it's pronunciation it doesn't matter but you focus on the weakest one first

you just focus on that and then as you improve that it starts to improve all of

your other habits as well so when you're thinking about what's the best way to to

improve your skills and I think it's like I want to I wanted like not not

communicate in a slow way when I'm speaking just focus on the speed first

so that's what's really going to get you much more motivated and excited to speak

even if you're just speaking with other people you don't have to you know really

practice it with others if you if you don't want to but you can just you know

listen to other people in practice even you're taking a video like this and you

can shadow what I'm saying and to shadow just means you're speaking along with me

so right now as I'm communicating you can go back like maybe play this section

of the video right here like play this section of the video right here repeat

it a few times and then you can actually go back and practice with us as well

actually we have we developed an English see video player that lets people do

this all the people in the fluency course and master English conversation

get this is a special player we developed that lets you automatically go

back and loop these sections and have as much time as you need to practice after

that but you can do that right here on YouTube and what's nice is that after

you practice shadowing me just saying a couple things exactly as I do them

watching how my mouth moves so it's not trying to repeat after me it's trying to

speak along with me but after you do that use that little it's like a gear

icon on the video right here on YouTube and you can click on that and change the

speed of this video so you can make it slower if you need a little bit more

practice but you can also make it faster so try shadowing me in the same way that

I'm speaking when I'm speaking faster because you can communicate much faster

if you just practice doing it so do that same thing right here that's a really

great way just to develop the speed you can after you develop the speed you can

start thinking about how do I put more vocabulary and make sure I don't make

any grammar mistakes when I'm speaking all of those things we can help you

develop again like with the fluency course or master English conversation

but first right now just focus on your speed so that's what's going to help you

communicate much faster but you just have to practice doing it you can't

listen to a video and speak faster you have to speak along with it so click on

that little gear icon change the sound speed on this video so you can make it

maybe like 2 times faster or one and a half times faster but then you can

practice speaking with me and so you'll see it get faster and faster but you can

try speaking that over and over again so you get the kind of the flow and how I

speak and then you can start shadowing that and if you practice at a much

faster level when you get into a regular conversation that's back at normal speed

you'll find wow I'm communicating quite quickly now and now I just need to learn

more new words and phrases so I can develop a vocabulary that helps me

communicate even better but that's how you do it

so try that technique out take this video right now or pick anything else

you know whatever you enjoy listening to if you have a scene from a movie or

something like go find a movie trailer here on YouTube and then do that same

thing so watch it in a faster speed shadow it and then take it

to the slower speed and see if you can repeat that same thing again but in a

much more casual and actually comfortable and confident way well

that's it for this video do try that if you want to become a faster speaker

again it's just something you need to practice the only way you can really

improve is to practice that's how you develop the habits that make you

communicate fluently if you have enjoyed this video do click that like button and

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share this video with plenty of other people who also have the same problem if

you're at a school and you know other students that are also struggling with

communicating fluently and they can't communicate quickly and they want to be

able to speak faster tell them about the video finally if you'd like to learn

more about not only developing your all of your English fluency habits really

but you know specifically about speed or vocabulary everything else your

listening your pronunciation we can help you do all of that at English anyone

comm with our free English fluency quiz so click on the link in this video or on

the link in the description below this video to learn more about that and we

can help you solve that problem absolutely free well I look forward to

seeing you in English anyone calm and I'll see you in the next video bye-bye