How To Speak Fluently In English About Almost Anything

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I think we're actually live this time I'm Drew  Badger the founder of englishanyone.com and  
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welcome to another live video here on YouTube  and we'll see if we get this working should be  
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coming through clearly all right making sure  we're okay uh so I'll give people a moment  
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to come in we should be live and working right  now but the reason I wanted to make this video  
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is because I get really one question actually I  get a lot of questions but I get one particular  
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question over and over and over again from  students and this is how can I actually  
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speak fluently about many different kinds  of things well huddle [Laughter] yesterday
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uh so a lot of people again they can understand  a lot of English but they have trouble expressing  
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themselves and especially if the topic is new  or unfamiliar or something uh then they have  
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trouble being able to speak so I wanted to talk  about this because in a video I did a couple of  
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I think what was that last week I did on Instagram  I'd spoke with a few Learners and one of them in  
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particular was talking about how she's reading  lots of books and taking time to improve her  
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English but she doesn't feel like she's actually  becoming more fluent and so fluency again just to  
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make this very clear for people this is how  well you can communicate it's not how much  
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you know and we know this because often little  children like you know four five six year old  
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kids native English speaking kids can communicate  better than many adult English Learners and so  
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the the goal is not to just try to learn more  and more and spend more time learning what you  
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really should be doing is actually focusing  on vocabulary because this is how people get  
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fluent it's how you got fluent in your native  language it's how you develop Mastery in anything  
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uh so I had a couple of notes actually uh there  are quite a few things I want to talk about
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[Laughter]  
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all right so we got let's see here hopefully  muted issue hopefully the hopefully the uh the  
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volume is loud enough to let's see uh welcome  from Germany nice to see everybody I want to be  
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quick go through a couple of different examples  about this just to make the point about how you  
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can actually speak fluently about almost anything  uh but also just to let you know this is not like  
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an instantaneous process uh but it really actually  does happen quite quickly if you start doing the  
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right thing so that's what we'll talk about in  this video uh so I wanted to talk about this  
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again I mentioned the learner at the beginning  uh but also just because I really want to show  
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how natives are learning and remind you about  how you learned your native language so I had  
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my uh actually before I do that let me give you  a quick a quick example of something uh just to  
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kind of contrast these two ways of learning  so the typical uh we'll just call this the uh  
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the ESL approach so this is English as a second  language and then we have the efl approach  
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over here which is learning English as a first  language and what most people do is they spend  
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a lot of time trying to learn as much vocabulary  as possible so imagine each one of these is a new  
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phrase so if you spend today trying to learn 10  new phrases or 10 new words or whatever the efl  
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approach really you're trying to focus on one  thing and and learn it very deeply okay this is  
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basically the simplest contrast between these  things so children they will often be learning  
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something like a child will watch the same movie  you know a hundred times so they're they're just  
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naturally getting lots and lots of review while uh  most English Learners are trying to just and again  
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this is it's not really the fault of Learners  part of it is your brain just trying to get you to  
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learn new things and part of it is teachers that  are really not spending enough time focusing on  
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things and so they will learn something new and  they will learn another new thing and then they  
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will forget other things that uh that they thought  they knew so before I talk about uh exactly what  
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you should be doing and give you some examples  of this uh I thought it would be interesting to  
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just use a brick example to get you all thinking  about something very simple like a brick so just  
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imagine I have a brick right here I want you to  write down in the comments right now just think  
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of how many different ways you can use a brick  all right so very simple object you could do the  
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same thing with a marker or you know an eraser or  something like that but how many different things  
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could you do with a brick all right this will help  you get thinking more like a native speaker about  
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vocabulary because what we want to do is get  you focusing on something rather than trying  
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to you know we we look at one way a brick could be  used and then we go to some other object all right  
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so Arc just popping in look at that keep up  the good work here we go uh so yeah everyone  
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take your take your time and uh and give me just  any kind of use you can put it right in the chat  
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how could you use a brick all right just think  try to try to be a little bit of creative you  
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can think about this as a creativity uh  let's say you could build something okay  
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so even if we have only one brick I mean  obviously if we have many bricks we could  
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probably build a wall but yeah we could build  something we could make something that's true  
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it could be the like the first piece uh  of a wall uh we could throw it for sure  
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you could use it as a weapon if you wanted to  throw it as something yeah it could be a bridge  
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yeah maybe like even a bridge a small bridge for a  mouse or something like that so if we put I don't  
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know something under here and then we have our  brick like that it could be a little bridge over  
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some some water something like that so we could  probably think of I don't know 30 40 different  
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uses as a supporter sure so you could put  something on top of it you could sit on it that's  
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right you could use it as a chair very good so  we could also so again we could put things on top  
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of it or we could put the brick on other things  like using it as a paper weight a paperweight so  
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things maybe if it's a windy day we put the  brick on paper to stop it from blowing away  
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I don't know maybe we throw it in some water to  make a loud Splash just to hear the sound of that  
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all right I don't want to spend too much time in  the video going over all the different ways you  
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could use a brick but the point is if you think  a little bit about it you spend just a little  
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bit of time thinking you can probably think  of some pretty creative uses for a brick okay  
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and then we also have maybe there we could have  different kinds of bricks you could have like a  
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Lego brick where you're you know you got your  little pieces in there you're connecting it to  
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something or it could be uh maybe made out  of plastic or something a different kind of  
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brick or it could be a different color maybe  you just use it as a decoration or something  
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all right so why am I bringing up this example  uh the point of this is really just to show you  
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the difference between what Learners are doing  so what teachers are usually doing in classes  
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and what natives are doing all right so I was  walking uh walking my older daughter Arya to  
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school today and uh while we were walking  she said dad what does harsh mean harsh
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word harsh all right let's see do you think pay  attention at native English math can help you  
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with pronunciation yes if you obviously  if you're if you're watching what people  
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do but listening is more important and it's  better to listen to like 10 different people  
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speaking than to try to watch one person's  mouth if that makes sense so Arya my older  
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daughter asks what does harsh mean uh and  I said oh where did you hear that and she  
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said oh I was watching a show boss baby  maybe you've heard of this show boss baby
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so there are actually a lot of complicated words  and expressions it's really a show for adults but  
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because it's a cartoon kids like to watch it but  she's learning lots of interesting vocabulary and  
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so one of the words that she learned was harsh  so she's asked what's harsh mean and so I said  
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okay where did you hear that you're watching  Boss baby what's happening in the scene or in  
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the show when you hear something or someone use  the word harsh so I I think uh like one character  
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and these are I don't know babies or whatever  I I didn't I didn't see the show but but just  
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listening to her talk about it so one character  uh is is kind of like yelling at yelling at this  
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other character maybe we'll give him like an angry  face uh and the other character says like don't be  
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be so harsh so this is one example  of this so don't be so harsh  
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so what's happening here is okay if we we  imagine the scene we can think about one  
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character as being angry at another character  uh and they're saying some some harsh words
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some harsh words to the other character and you  can start to understand what harsh means or kind  
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of one one example of what harsh means but after  she she kind of understood this it's like okay  
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it's maybe kind of something maybe a little bit  mean or something difficult or something hard  
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hard to hard to deal with something hard to accept  something that's harsh like that but I didn't stop  
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here as we're walking to school I start giving  her more examples of harsh and so you might have  
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we'll just put some more examples up here and  I'll just leave this so we might have some harsh
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foreign harsh weather now if you think about it  okay we understand this meaning of harsh then if  
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we have harsh weather do you think that's like  good Pleasant weather or maybe not good Pleasant  
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weather and a child can imagine oh wow that looks  like there will be some harsh harsh weather today  
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there's a snowstorm and lots of wind so that's  what we mean by harsh weather harsh weather all  
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right so you might have a harsh storm or we could  have a harsh season again we're still talking  
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about similar kinds of things here but again the  point is that we don't stop with just one example  
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of something we really want to make sure that you  can understand that vocabulary very well so when  
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I'm teaching my own kids we spend time with the  vocabulary yeah so bad weather again harsh weather  
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the same kind of thing and you understand it from  the situation from the context rather than trying  
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to get a definition or a translation of the word  so this is why I asked my daughter like when did  
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you hear that what situation what's happening to  those characters when they say that because I want  
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her to be thinking about that when she's learning  new things again it's going to be much easier for  
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her to understand new vocabulary this way so we  got harsh weather uh harsh storm harsh conditions
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all these things they mean something that's  difficult or it's going to be bad and again  
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we already have the example of harsh words  someone might use some harsh language maybe  
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they're cursing at someone they're angry  at someone does this make sense is it is it  
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starting to be a little bit more clear what harsh  means you've probably heard this word before but  
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have you heard all these different uses of  it maybe maybe not but this is usually what  
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natives are doing so they don't learn like I I'm  actually very efficient about how I teach my kids  
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because I understand how they should be learning  but usually what children do is they will hear  
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maybe one example of something and then it could  be weeks or months later they hear another one  
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and they make that connection so I want to help  my kids make that connection as fast as possible  
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like look at that here's something harsh here's  another thing that's harsh these are all different  
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harsh examples so they understand very well  what it means okay so this is just one example  
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but I wanted to give some more especially kind of  higher level things but uh remember just because  
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the the vocabulary looks simple you might have a  word like harsh and it seems like a short simple  
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word uh like okay that's not an advanced word but  again in in a real conversation would you be able  
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to use harsh in these different ways would that  vocabulary come to your mind automatically if  
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you learn this way it does so if you can think wow  like harsh uh and and now because I have this word  
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and because I know it so well I've gone deep into  the vocabulary we're going to focus on something  
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rather than trying to learn a bunch of different  things so remember the traditional ESL approach we  
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have a lesson I try to teach you 10 or 20 words or  something but we're not going to go very deeply or  
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spend much time on them and then next week There's  No review of any of that vocabulary so you learn  
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a few things and then you don't spend time  reviewing them but with the efl approach we  
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really want to take something and go deep into  that vocabulary so we learned the word harsh  
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and then we want to hear lots of different  examples of how the word might be used and  
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it's all of these examples that really make you  fluent in that vocabulary all right now here's the  
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amazing part about this now that you do this with  one word you can use this word when you're talking  
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about other things like don't judge me so harshly  so people are being critical they are criticizing  
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you hey like you know this is a bad presentation  or something like wow don't don't be so harsh  
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please give me some kind helpful feedback okay so  again it's another example of like harsh feedback  
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harsh words harsh language and this is just one  example okay so when I'm teaching my kids this  
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is what I'm trying to do I don't want to give  them a definition of the word I want to help  
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them understand really what it means by covering  lots of different things does this make sense let  
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me know in the comments if this is like yeah  so rough another idea and these are all kind  
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of similar because often words don't have maybe  one definition or the definition might be broad  
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so it could cover many different things but in  this way my daughter Arya now understands ah okay  
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harsh means something difficult wow that test was  really harsh well that was a difficult a difficult  
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thing okay so the point here is uh if you want to  be able to speak fluently about almost anything  
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the the you actually should do the opposite of  what most people think so the English as a second  
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language approach says uh if we try to learn all  these different vocabulary words let's say we have  
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like a thousand thousand word vocabulary uh and  if we if we try to learn a whole bunch of words  
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or try to learn more words than that then we can  talk about anything but what happens is that they  
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don't actually know very well the vocabulary and  so they actually can't have conversations about  
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anything they can have a very limited conversation  about some things but the uh the efl approach the  
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English has a first language approach what we're  doing is really trying to help you understand  
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something very well and then you can move on to  the next thing so once you feel confident about  
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this then you move on to the next word or phrase  or whatever but because you know this so well now  
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you can use it when talking about everything you  can use it when talking about relationships or  
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going to the doctor or whatever you now know that  vocabulary and you can use it when you're talking  
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about almost anything okay so the point is not  to know every word the point is to know like  
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the vocabulary that you have very well and the  better you know it this is how you do it so you're  
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getting lots more examples you're really trying  to understand something very well hopefully this  
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is making sense let me know in the in the comments  if everybody is getting this uh before I move on  
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to some additional vocabulary for this all right  yes you could have some harsh parents that's true  
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uh let's see Alfonso that's so I just want to know  if it is possible uh so who is fluent in English  
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be able to express one's thought on all topics  yeah but do you see how this works so now that  
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I know the word harsh I understand how I can  apply it in different topics okay so if I  
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just learn the word harsh and a definition maybe  I'm only thinking about harsh weather all right  
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but actually harsh doesn't it doesn't only mean  weather that's not harsh does it mean that it's  
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meaning like as you look at all these different  examples you can understand that what that means
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eh
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yeah me and that kid on there
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yes use your English though  use your English got his own
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I was just watching that this morning
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that's from a Japanese TV show called  hanakapa uh if I'm talking about the same  
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if we're talking about the same thing uh but yes  that's kind of a harsh name over there all right
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all right hopefully this makes sense though uh  so the idea again is to focus on something to  
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understand it very well and that's how you can  use it to talk about lots of different topics  
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so you can use this vocabulary and other things  all right let me give you two more examples uh  
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of something so this is just a single word but I  thought I would also give you uh two other ones  
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I know Learners love phrasal verbs so  we will talk about that very quickly
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phrasal verbs are things that young kids  learn when they're trying to understand uh  
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more complicated things than just a single verb  like stand we might have stand up or we might  
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have sit down or sit up so again we're not just  we're not just looking at sit because we have sit  
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we might have sit down and we also have to sit  up so sitting down just means to sit down in a  
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chair but sit up means actually to have correct  posture when you're sitting all right to sit up  
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uh but let's just give another example of bring up
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now usually when kids are learning these things  for the first time they will hear somebody using  
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a physical visual example of something so if  I say oh I might bring up like if I bring up  
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a marker I'm going to raise something up so if  I'm maybe walking from uh the first floor in  
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my house we're going to draw a house here it's  got two floors in it and here's some stairs so  
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if I walk from here up to the second floor and I'm  carrying something with me I'm bringing up a like  
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a thing I might bring up a marker from the first  floor all right to bring something up all right  
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yes all right we're getting there we're getting  there very good Nina uh but again this this same  
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idea we begin with something physical that you can  see and this is how kids are able to understand  
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the vocabulary without using translations  all right so we're going to physically  
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bring something so pull it from one place to  another to bring it up bring it up all right  
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and so we might have another  thing so we've got another example  
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if we imagine a conversation two people are  talking about something so here's one person  
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and another person talking and the first one  says oh like I had an idea about something uh  
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and they're they're just introducing that in  the conversation so that person might bring up
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bring up a topic so again you're kind of imagining  if it's like inside your head and you you bring it  
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up to the to the topic you know bring it up to  the conversation it's a similar idea of carrying  
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something from one lower level to a higher level  so if you bring up a conversation oh my friend  
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just brought that up in the conversation so we're  talking about something and my friend brought up  
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I don't know some idea about that what we kind  of mean is they're bringing something maybe from  
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their mind or from the inside of their head  and now they're making it uh obvious okay  
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bring up your date yes and so another  example another uh very common one is  
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like to bring up a child to bring up a child
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so if you bring up a child same kind of idea  on August you're gonna sneeze uh oh no it went  
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away maybe it'll come back so if we bring up a  child we can think about that child physically  
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getting bigger over time so they're bringing we're  bringing them up we're trying to raise them up  
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trying to help them grow to bring up a child all  right so all of these examples the ESL approach  
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would be okay we're going to bring up and then  maybe they would learn one example of something  
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but the efl approach is really to help you  understand the vocabulary very well all  
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right does that make sense so the the thing that's  really stopping people from communicating it's not  
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their vocabulary again you might have uh like a  child that knows 100 words and an adult that knows  
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1 000 words but the better Communicator will be  the one who knows that vocabulary really well all  
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right so me speaking Japanese in the same way like  my my Japanese vocabulary is I don't know how many  
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words I know in Japanese I know actually I can't  even count how many words that would be but I have  
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no trouble communicating in different situations  about different topics okay so confidence is a key  
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factor yes confidence is key but confidence comes  from your understanding of vocabulary so you don't  
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you don't just magically become confident for no  reason you become confident because you think ah  
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okay now I get it now I really understand what's  happening I really understand the vocabulary  
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okay I'll go back take a look at a few  comments and I'll give a final example here uh
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all right Chris says I like your way  of teaching from India glad to hear it  
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uh why native people use this like going  doing it's just to be faster so they're  
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speaking uh faster English Shihan says where  are you from I'm from the United States uh  
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that makes sense means I heard in lots  of movies yeah so that makes sense
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to make sense means to be understood so if I say  oh am I am I being understood do you understand  
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what I'm saying I can say does that make sense so  am I am I talking something up yeah bringing up  
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a ball so that usually like if you're like  playing basketball or something it's again  
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bringing something like forward down the court  to bring something up all right but again the  
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point is that you're spending more time with fewer  words so it's it's like you're learning less okay  
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I know people are they really want to learn more  and like here's how to have a massive vocabulary  
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but you don't get there uh for speaking unless  you actually spend time with the vocabulary but  
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it's it's new for your mind as you're learning  these different examples just like we talked  
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about with harsh all right so I'm going to teach  a new phrase maybe some people know this already  
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maybe some people do not uh but this is the same  way I would explain it to my own kids and again  
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this is important really want to help people  understand it the same way natives do all right  
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Zora says uh bring up something that happened in  the past yeah exactly so something in the past  
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you might bring that up as well all right and  as you feel more confident about the vocabulary  
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then you will feel much more comfortable in  a conversation using it all right so we're  
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going to draw a tree here for this last expression  then I'll take more questions uh if we have them  
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so here's uh my this is supposed to be a tree  I can draw a tree okay and so each one of these  
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things we can call this a branch or a limb this  is a silent bee a limb so a branch of a tree or  
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a limb of a tree now if you look at this if I  climb up some of these branches are going to be  
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stronger than others so maybe I will uh I could  if I stand like on a on a very strong Branch up  
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here I know I am safe I will be supported  but if I'm out here if I try to stand up  
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out here you think that's that's is that safe or  not safe and again this is the same way I would  
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teach it to my own kids just to make sure it's  understandable so if I'm standing up here on  
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a very strong big limb then it will probably be  pretty safe I will not fall from there but if I  
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try to stand out here do you think that would be  safe or not now forgive me if this seems like an  
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easy question but I'm trying to get you to think  like a native as I do this so let me know in the  
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comments all right bring down is that possible yes  so that's another example you can bring something  
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down as well so you bring something up you bring  something down and you'd also learn different  
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expressions like uh like another person is uh  maybe you make them feel bad so if I'm depressed  
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and I'm talking with my friend like I can bring  him down too I can bring him down to my level
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yeah you you can improve your English if you  understand what I'm saying you can you can improve
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all right so I can't create a sentence  while speaking what should I do so yes  
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this is the point the point is about getting  lots of input to help you really understand  
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uh the vocabulary so we have the person  up here it's the very strong Branch or  
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strong limb and out here very weak because  uh the person is too heavy maybe they will  
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fall fall down all right so here's where  we get the expression to go out on a limb  
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what do you think that means to go out on a live  so to go out on a limb what do you think that  
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means try to think about it like a native English  speaker to go out on a limb I'll give you a moment  
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to try to give me even a simple explanation  of what that means not safe okay [Music]  
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anyone else just post it right here in  the comments uh is it possible to improve  
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my English by listening to something that I  don't even understand uh probably not I would  
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not I don't know if you don't if you're just  listening to something you can't understand at  
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all you're probably wasting your time other than  hearing maybe how the sound of the language is  
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uh let's see so dangerous
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awful very good very good and how to motivate  low Achievers to speak English well you just  
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make the language easy that's it if you make  the language difficult people don't want  
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to learn if you make the language easy then  people want to learn it's really that simple  
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all right something that's not saved do  you think shadowing is a good way to learn  
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a new language uh it's not really the best  use of your time not reliable yeah foreign
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very sloppily here not reliable all right so yes  the idea here to go out on a limb really it means  
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to do something risky that's not safe yes it could  put you in a dangerous position all right but you  
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can understand physically how this works so you  can imagine a person again this is the same way  
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I would teach my own kids I would actually draw  something like this if they say Dad what does it  
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mean to go out on a limb to go out on a limb so I  have to explain what a limb is and talking about  
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their their kind of like going out further and  further so they're not just standing here next  
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to the tree where it's safe they're really going  out and going much much further they're going out  
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on a limb all right so you can understand what  this means from the picture all right and that's  
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why people have given some good examples over  here of what it means Okay so we've got something  
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that's not safe dangerous not reliable yes there's  probably going to be some issue or something wrong  
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that will happen it's risky okay so where do you  think we might use this expression now so we take  
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a physical thing like this we understand what it  means as many Expressions can be understood this  
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way when do you think someone might use this  so yes visual visual examples are key if you  
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can understand them especially if you understand  okay what is a limb so often if you if you begin  
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with trying to teach people an expression like  this if you just translate this whole thing into  
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somebody somebody else's language you're  not really teaching them anything you're  
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not actually helping them understand the language  like a native speaker so that's why again in the  
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English as a first language approach we really  want to help you understand everything so you  
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can really feel confident using it a newbie  does it literally mean a beginner yes like a  
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new person who's doing something yeah so an unsafe  situation like what be specific mean a very good  
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so think about uh when you might use this when  might someone go out on a limb all right uh do  
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you have more videos about minimal pairs actually  uh I don't think I have I have some videos that  
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cover that but I would recommend if you just if  you want to compare different sounds in that way  
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uh get Frederick so you can click on the link  in the description below this video but rather  
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than having a video of that you can actually  go back and test that out oh adiaginkio foreign
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we're going to go back to that  kind of stuff in a minute all right  
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do you have some vids about pronunciation yes  again uh if you if you just search our YouTube  
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channel for pronunciation and also get Frederick  as well that will improve your pronunciation as  
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well all right so if we imagine this situation  everybody understands this is something risky a  
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person is doing something maybe they should not  do for themselves so maybe I go out on a limb  
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uh I'll see if I can fit all  this in here so I went out
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so I went out on a limb to help someone so again  I did something risky to help somebody else now  
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I'm not actually in a tree uh in the example uh  maybe I went out uh I don't know like I had to  
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I had to go out and swim in some some shark  infested water so sharks lots of sharks in  
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the water and I had to go out and try to save  somebody so I went out on a limb to help them  
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or I went out on a limb uh to create a new uh  like try to create a new product at work so it  
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was a risky thing to do maybe maybe not many  people will buy the product or something wrong  
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will happen to it it's risky all right to go out  on a limb all right now watch we're going to take  
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it to an even higher level but I want to make sure  everybody understands this as it is all right it's  
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just another way of saying to do something  risky to do something dangerous do something  
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that maybe uh like if I'm if I if I'm talking  about like a friend of mine at work and I say  
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some good things about him even though he maybe  did something I don't know not so good at work or  
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something like that so I'm going out on a limb to  say something nice about that guy so I could get  
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in trouble for that or I could lose my job or  something all right so I'm going out on a limb  
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all right yeah so you could you could like  to to talk about like investing in a stock  
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or something so I I went out on a limb to  to try to try doing something like that  
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to try uh investing in something all right  and so it could mean something that's like  
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actually dangerous uh or it just means like a  kind of risk in a in a certain way like this  
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is this session devoted just for teaching  idioms now this is this is one one example  
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this isn't I mean you really wouldn't call this  an idiom it's really just like and and an idiom  
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is typically something that you can't understand  from the words this is usually like this is to go  
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out on a limb is a thing that you can usually  understand like natives would understand what  
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that means uh physically in this way but some  things are more difficult to understand uh so  
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some people might call this an idiom but this  is an easier one but the point is I want to  
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show that number one you should be understanding  it and spending more time with it as a native uh  
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so in the same way that we don't want to just  get a definition or a translation of the word  
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we really want to help you understand it like a  native so you feel confident about using it all  
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right and that means you're getting lots and lots  of examples of something you really understand it  
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well and again that's how you become fluent  and and when you become fluent in this like  
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if I know how to use uh to go out on a limb  then I can start talking about that in lots of  
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different situations so if we take it to an even  higher level let's imagine uh uh we have a kid
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so he's got he's got like a hat on  backwards uh actually and I just  
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drew a face on his hat put his face  on his face uh he's got some kind of  
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baggy clothes here uh and he's uh I  don't know some baggy baggy pants and
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he looks like he has a picture of a skateboard  
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on a shirt now I might say when I meet  this kid I like I'll go out on a limb like  
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I might be going out on a limb but do you  like skateboarding all right so I'm going
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or you could say I'll I'll go out on a limb as an  even even easier way to think about this so I'll  
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go out on a limb
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and say
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like skateboarding
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so I'll go out on a limb and say or I'll go  out on a limb and guess you like skateboarding  
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so here I'm using the expression ironically so  there's I'm not actually talking about risk at  
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all because like I can look at him and and guess  like it's probably you know like he probably likes  
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skateboarding he looks like a skateboarder  has a skateboarding shirt on maybe he's at  
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a skate park and I say oh like I'll go out on  a limb and say you probably like skateboarding  
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all right so I'm I'm using the expression in an  ironic way all right and so I if I if I mean it  
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in a serious way I might say I'm gonna go out  on a limb but I bet you like Stock Investing  
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so there I'm actually I'm saying something that  like it's not really risky like for my personal  
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health or something but it sounds like a there's  there's no no real reason why it should be true  
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just looking at him so if I say I'll go out on  a limb I'll go out on a limb and say uh you look  
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like you invest in stocks and so it's a funny  thing to look at that and think maybe he does  
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maybe this kid likes investing in stocks but  judging by the way he looks like he doesn't you  
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know he should have like you know maybe uh like  a stock like ticker or something on his shirt and  
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then you know maybe maybe some other things like  that he's got a tie on uh he's carrying I don't  
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know a briefcase he's got some charts in his hand  something like that all right so whenever you have  
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a situation like this where you're you want to use  it in an ironic way you can use it in the same way  
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all right now I don't expect you to remember all  of this and try to use it confidently today the  
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point is that if you spend time with vocabulary  and maybe the next day you review this again and  
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another day you review it again and you hear  it in different ways that's when you start  
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feeling confident and then you can use that  expression in lots of different ways all right  
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let's see so uh Brahim yeah so we have a whole a  whole app about about it covers everything about  
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phonics just get Frederick it's already done and  waiting for you so you don't need a video about  
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phonics uh we have a video series on YouTube about  that already uh and yeah just get Frederick by  
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clicking on the link in the description below this  video all right so we've covered a few different  
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things in this video and each of them are examples  of how you spend more time learning something so  
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you really understand it and then that's how you  can use it in different situations I'll give you  
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an example in Japanese uh so for me like uh a joke  that I learned like something I use all the time  
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and I have to remember like did I use that joke in  front of this person or I can't say it in front of  
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my wife because she's already heard me use it so  many times but in different situations I will say
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I bet
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all right so this is just the English translation  of uh the Japanese is like shine waribiki which  
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is like an employee discount so let's say I see  a friend of mine uh this happened to me a couple  
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of days ago so this friend of mine is a doctor  and he has he had like a like a cut on his eye  
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uh and I said oh like but it's you know  you don't have to pay for medical bills  
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like because you're a doctor you know like  I bet I bet you get an employee discount  
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uh or like a friend of mine another friend of  mine he was uh I think he was like cutting his  
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own kids hair so he's a barber but he's cutting  his own child's hair at home and I was like oh  
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like that child gets an employee discount all  right but I can use this because I'm like very  
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confident about this particular expression I  can use that in lots of different situations  
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and pretty much any time I could be speaking  about anything and would would be able to find  
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a way to use that all right so I I didn't just  like memorize this I really understood what it  
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means and then I can use it in a fluent way in  different situations all right so this video is  
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not about how to learn like one word uh and now  you can speak fluently about everything the point  
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is that you will build up very quickly uh the  ability to communicate if you learn in this way  
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all right all right so let me go back answer  questions uh it's been about 40 minutes let's  
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see here if I missed anybody yes I went out  on a limb and spent all my money yes so that  
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would be like going out on a serious limb right  there and you will learn uh very good Mina also  
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um you will learn the nuances of expressions like  this as you hear more people use them all right  
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so to go out on a limb and you also improve your  understanding of tenses because you're learning  
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like to go out on a limb or she went out on a  limb or she would be going out on a limb that  
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kind of thing as you're hearing these different  examples this is all just naturally varied review  
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uh what does it mean to come out of the woodwork  what does it mean to come out of the woodwork all  
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right we'll give one more example Alfonso because  uh that's a good one and that goes along with what  
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we're talking about here so if we use that last  expression here uh to come out of the woodwork
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all right so if we imagine like a piece of you  know wood or something like that the woodwork  
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usually refers to uh like the pieces of wood  or you might have a door or you know some nice  
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like design something like that uh I don't want  to move the camera because it's going to mess  
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up the video but let's say we have like a lovely  piece of I don't know there's like a column with  
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little little other I don't know fancy Spirals  and things like that so this is the woodwork  
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uh in a building or in a room the woodwork and  so we talk about like things are coming out of  
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the woodwork imagine if there's like a design of I  don't know like a person or some kind of animal we  
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have I don't know like a a dog or something like  that so if we have pictures of things that are  
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carved into the wood so into the woodwork we've  got some lots of interesting designs but suddenly  
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all of these things they become real and they  come out of the woodwork and oh now now we've  
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got like a dog here and another animal and other  things over here so things are coming out of the  
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woodwork it just means like imagine you're  in a room and suddenly you're getting lots of  
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examples of all these things something like that  so another example might be uh let's say if I'm  
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I'm in a room and there are a bunch of people  sitting and listening to me talk and I say oh  
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no I have a problem uh does anyone have uh  I I need like medical help and all of these  
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doctors start coming out of the woodwork  so people I didn't know they were doctors  
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they're just people sitting in a room and they  all are like Oh I'm a doctor I'm a doctor I'm  
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a doctor they're coming out of the woodwork  so it's if you imagine a situation where uh  
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something is it just seems like normal and and  every day and you don't really think much about  
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it but suddenly all of these things appear at  the same time so it's like they're coming out  
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of the woodwork they're coming out of the woodwork  all right let me know if that if that makes sense
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all right [Applause] so something that is  typically different from the actual word yes  
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so that's more of an idiom uh so me and you hello  sir uh it is going always I'd like to learn uh a  
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bit maybe you mean a bit about phrasal verbs thank  you drew lessons are really valuable for us glad  
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to hear Alfonso again I'm struggling to express  my expressing my thought in English would you  
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mind telling me the secret to overcoming it that's  it this is the whole the whole video is about that  
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all right so when we're we're talking about how  you become more fluent you become more fluent by  
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understanding the vocabulary better okay it's not  about practicing repeating phrases I don't become  
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fluent I would not say okay now I want you to  repeat come out of the woodwork come out of the  
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woodwork you don't get fluent in the vocabulary  by repeating it you get fluent by hearing lots  
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more examples of of how it's used so that way  you feel very confident about using it yourself  
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uh I'm a dead loss when it  comes to drawing on the board  
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yes I could probably draw nicer than this  maybe uh but I'm trying to be quick that's  
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why I'm drawing it like that uh bro I think  your drawings are not uh I think your drawings  
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are not as mine like not as good yeah maybe  not I bet I go at a limb and guess you like  
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me yes so you could say that like I could go out  a limb and guess you like me let's see let's see
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yes we um
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so just asking if I'm like not not coming  to the park uh but yes drop some vids about  
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phonics yes hey there good to hear you you're  getting old says Noel really getting older  
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but I'm I'm guessing that's what happens as time  goes by yeah we get older hopefully I'm not I'm  
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still still all right you know I'm not not too  tired all right uh diggis if I'm pronouncing that  
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correctly d d is just say my listening is very  good I can understand most of what they say but  
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when I want to speak it's hard to create sentences  what do you recommend for me for improving my  
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speaking this is it the the exact thing I'm  talking about in this video is how you get there  
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all right so you get there by uh understanding the  vocabulary better so what's great about this the  
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English as a first language approach is you don't  have to go anywhere you don't have to speak with  
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anyone you just have to get more of this input  all right so just like I'm giving you one example  
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of harsh you don't stop with one example you get  many examples of harsh and that will help you use  
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the word and remember the word so you feel very  confident about using it in your conversations
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all right so yes that is that is the whole the  whole secret here Monday morning live class  
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become a good habit thanks no end uh my pleasure  Hilda your kids are getting a teacher's discount  
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bam you got it yes my children get an employee  discount my kids get an employee discount so  
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that's a perfect usage of that same expression  very good do you think grammar is important in  
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speaking yes it's the most important thing  become alive get alive hi sir today is my  
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daughter's birthday could you call her name  she'll be very happy I'll tell her her name  
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uh in your live stream her name is Baron if  I'm pronouncing it correctly happy birthday  
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all right how to use VOC VOC in context to use  VOC yes you want to learn it in context yes  
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yes all right I'm going to be okay Mina again says  I come out of the woodwork and carved a beautiful  
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tree yeah in that case you would like unless  you are kind of like hiding somewhere like I  
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came out of the woodwork also the the idea and  and this is one of those things you get better  
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at understanding the vocabulary as you hear more  examples of it so typically things are coming out  
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of the woodwork like like lots of examples of  something at the same time all right so if we  
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have a bunch of things are hidden and they all  appear at the same time they are coming out of  
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the woodwork so it's like they were there all  the time but nobody noticed them all right so  
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in my example about having many doctors in a  room uh they're all coming out of the woodwork  
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so it wouldn't be just like we wouldn't really  talk about one thing coming out of the woodwork  
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it's usually like I mean imagine uh like something  in woodwork it would be like you know some  
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patterns of something we would have many examples  of that so it would be more than one thing  
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uh let's see yourself to more  listening and speaking yes let's see
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yeah you got food poisoning oh my goodness great  job hi everyone from Turkey greetings from Morocco  
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let's see if we got anybody else greetings  from Mexico yes we got people from all over  
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the place nice to see everybody and it's  Tsubasa there all right does this make sense  
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does everybody understand what I'm getting at  here what it what is the point of my message  
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today I want to make sure everybody understands  what I'm talking about and yes uh and then happy  
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birthday to Baron as well what's up us from  Yokohama uh let's see Future Hope a kid asks  
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his dad what's a man that does is a man is  someone who is a responsible and cares for  
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his family the kid says I hope one day  I can be a man just like Mom [Laughter]  
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yes that's something something he would  probably hear in uh in more conversations  
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uh in this day and age interestingly all right  to make this very clear and simple for people
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I'll just write it up here you get fluent
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you get fluent when you know vocabulary extremely  well extremely well and this can be a very quick  
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process so you can learn something and maybe  you understand it right away the first time  
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you hear it and then you could start using  it in your in your conversations it would be  
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very easy to do that uh and so like me as I'm  learning new Japanese this is how it is for me  
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for many things some things it takes more  time uh you know to to use that vocabulary  
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all right but you get fluent when you know  vocabulary extremely well so I notice I don't say  
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anything here about speaking practice or meeting  native speakers or chat groups or anything like  
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that you get fluent when you know vocabulary  really well so if you don't feel confident  
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about something it means you don't feel confident  about the usage or the vocabulary or it could be  
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many different things about that but the point is  you're you're not you don't feel confident enough  
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to use it and that's what's really stopping you  from communicating so it's not the amount of words  
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that you know that helps you speak it's helpful  but only if you know that vocabulary really well  
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so it's much better to learn something you  know a hundred words really well you could  
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easily have conversations about many different  things and so very quickly if you follow this  
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approach you can get fluent like in days or weeks  and then and then have a good vocabulary that you  
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can use to talk about many different things so  if you want to have conversations about lots of  
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different things quickly this is how you do it  I know it seems like okay we should we should  
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do the ESL way where we're trying to get like  you know a thousand examples in a month it's  
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not it's better to do like 10 examples in in a  month or something or is really as long as you  
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can understand exactly how they are but it should  be vocabulary you know very well oh my goodness
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let's see uh go back to
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all right I think I got all those hello I'm late  and I don't have any idea of the topic the topic  
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is how to speak fluently about almost anything and  this is how you do it so you just have to spend  
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more time reviewing things and making sure you  really understand them so anybody that's asking  
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how can I speak fluently that's that's how it  is so I mean again when I got in trouble in  
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the pool many people came out of the woodwork  to help yeah so you could say like lifeguards  
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lifeguards are coming out of the woodwork like I  didn't notice them before but wow suddenly there  
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are so many people around uh to help me right  now uh hi everyone from the uh USA I pray prep  
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I maybe appreciate appreciate you do your  teacher for your practical lab lessons glad  
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to hear greetings from Sri Lanka from Brazil  and my team loses today oh my goodness foreign
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could you recommend some American dramas for  
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beginning ESL student and  intermediate ESL student uh
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most most TV shows like that are going to be  more difficult than than kids would be able to  
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understand I would recommend actually watching  kids shows rather than trying to watch like a  
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TV drama I know it might be more interesting but  you will spend a lot of time trying to understand  
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the vocabulary and there's very little review  in that you have a story and then you go on  
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to the next story Sometimes some of the same  vocabulary will be used but often it's not so  
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it's really difficult to review in that way  so I would stay away from that even for like  
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intermediate intermediate Learners it's better  for them to really understand at least like 80  
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uh 80 to 90 percent of the vocabulary in a  TV show or a cartoon or whatever or a book uh  
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to make sure that they can learn new things in  context so you don't want to make it like okay  
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you only understand half of it imagine trying  to read a book and you only understand half of  
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the words that's going to be a very bad learning  experience you won't understand most things and  
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you'll have to look in a dictionary and it  just destroys the atmosphere of the book so  
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really you should know 80 to 90 percent because  if you have a sentence with you know five words  
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in it and you know four out of five of those you  can understand that last word pretty easily from  
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from the context of the sentence or the  the context of the paragraph or whatever  
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so I would recommend like uh stuff for kids I  don't know what's what's popular now though for  
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for English stuff I actually don't recommend even  boss baby my my own kids should not be watching  
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that show uh just because it's it's it's way too  difficult for them but they're picking up lots  
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of uh lots of interesting uh interesting phrases  uh tell us about the story when you got the scar  
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on your chin so I have if you look see here it  might be hard to see but there are two scars  
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two scars on my chin I think I told this story  maybe at least in a lesson or in another YouTube  
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video but I can tell it very quickly again that  review is important so the first one came from  
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my older sister who was holding me and she was  swinging me around uh like just I think I think  
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holding me by my hands maybe it was holding me by  my feet that seems like a little bit easier for  
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the story but she was just like swinging me around  like this turning around really fast and Swinging  
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me uh and she let me go and I went flying and  I hit like a window sill and split my chin open  
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so that's the first Scar the second scar is from  my younger sister so I was climbing out of a pool  
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and she just like pushed my head back down onto  the pool and I cracked my chin open again I split  
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it open I split my chin open all right so now I  have two scars one from each sister on my chair  
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all right so if you're listening carefully you've  learned ah you can say split open like to cut  
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something like that split it open some very good  vocabulary there all right uh me and you even if  
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I learned one important vocabulary sentence of  your class is good for me yeah again take take  
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your time there's no rush to try to learn a whole  bunch of things if you if you don't feel confident  
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in using them so every day if you could feel like  fluent if you could become fluent in one new word  
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or phrase every day you would feel very confident  in a month you would be like wow like now I can  
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say a whole bunch of things and your improvement  it accelerates over time so it starts getting  
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faster you make progress faster as you start  learning that way so I know it seems like wow  
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it seems like you're learning a lot if you try  to learn a hundred phrases in one day it seems  
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like you're learning a lot but because you will  forget you will forget most of this vocabulary  
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so look you just spent all that time and now you  only remember one thing but you still don't feel  
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very confident about it you're thinking okay is  the pronunciation correct is the usage correct or  
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maybe the grammar or whatever and so in in these  situations you're really wasting your time it  
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seems like you're learning a lot but if you forget  all the vocabulary you're just wasting your time  
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but here we know we're learning we can actually  feel it and you don't forget the vocabulary  
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so you hear many different examples like the word  harsh earlier today so maybe today when I come  
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back home I will use I will intentionally review  the word harsh with Arya in uh in some natural  
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ways so I might say yeah it was a I was walking  home and I forgot my sunglasses the sun was really  
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harsh it's a really harsh sun on my eyes and  then like without her saying anything even if she  
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doesn't say the word she's thinking automatically  like ah like okay another example of harsh okay so  
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I was I was like washing my hands after uh after  dinner I was doing the dishes but I used the wrong  
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soap it was really harsh on my skin it was really  harsh on my skin and so it was kind of rubbing my  
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rubbing my skin badly and making my skin cracked  so I split some of my skin like split open again  
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that same split open you see what I'm doing how  I'm reviewing the vocabulary naturally in context
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mm-hmm all right so when you're thinking about  this again if your issue is you understand but  
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you don't speak I talked to another in another  recent video about the three levels of fluency  
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or the three stages of fluency how it works so  you begin by just being exposed to something  
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so my younger daughter or my older daughter Arya  hears the word uh like I don't know she hears the  
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word uh harsh okay so we use that same example  more review so she hears the word harsh in uh  
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in a TV show she's just being exposed to the word  but she doesn't really understand what that means  
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and so she asks me again Dad what does harsh mean  and so now we're moving from exposure to awareness  
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where now she can recognize the word because I've  given her some more examples of it and then when  
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she is feeling like finally confident enough  because I've given her enough examples or she  
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heard them from other places she heard harsh like  don't be so hard like be kind to people don't be  
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so harsh don't judge people so harshly or the  weather is Harsh or the sun is harsh after she  
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hears all those then she will feel very confident  about using that uh in her conversations all right  
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the meaning says I've been listening to for more  than uh 10 years wow oh my goodness hopefully  
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I've been improving your English in that time  hopefully all right let's see here all right  
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Noel again hello uh thank you I learned how to  improve my English glad here how's your daughter  
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yeah both of them are doing well uh maybe I'll get  Noel in a video that's my younger daughter I don't  
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think she has ever been in a video before thanks  for this wonderful class glad to hear it when I  
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finish my uh finish my money many friends came out  of the woodworking album yes that's a good example  
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right there so like people when I I was when I  was broke many people came out of the woodwork  
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so I was not expecting people to help me but when  people heard I had no money they came out of the  
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woodwork like people came out of the woodwork  to help me all right good usage and again don't  
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feel bad if you don't get something the first  time remember like if I just say the word harsh  
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the word harsh like vocabulary by itself doesn't  mean anything it's only when you're hearing it in  
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context connected with some kind of situation  that's why it's important to learn vocabulary  
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in context and really understand it rather  than trying to connect it with a translation  
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okay so I hear like harsh weather uh I had like  a really harsh time at school like it was really  
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like the class was really difficult all right so I  can use lots of different examples of that and as  
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you get more examples this is where you really  feel strong about that about that vocabulary  
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all right uh uh let's see here all  right how to watch movies and TV  
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shows to increase listening and speaking uh  again the the best thing to do is really to  
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to focus on something I would not I  mean I know like people want to watch  
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TV shows let me let me draw this and make  an even like easier way of explaining this
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all right so this is hopefully this will make  sense to people you hear me using this expression  
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again and again hopefully this is understandable  uh this is our English student right here so  
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someone who wants to learn the language uh  the goal over here uh let's say the goal  
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is to understand the TV shows uh and conversations  or whatever and so what people think they do we're  
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going to put a line here there's an e uh SL so  English as a second language uh they're trying to  
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go directly here they're trying to go directly uh  to this vocabulary uh and so in the ESL approach  
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we go directly let me let me draw a different line  here make this a little bit easier to understand
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so this is so we're going to contrast these two  methods here trying to get to this trying to get  
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to this goal over here so to enjoy conversations  movies TV shows or you know all of that kind of  
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stuff just regular everyday life and they want to  go there but because they try to go directly they  
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never reach this it's like this this just it's  what they what they think they're doing is like  
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they're getting to the goal but what's really  happening is they're kind of they're going like  
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around in a circle like this so it looks like  they're they're making progress but but really  
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they're just learning more vocabulary but not  actually becoming fluent in that vocabulary  
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okay and so it's for the efl approach so English  as a first language what's happening is like  
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you're you're kind of taking like a slow a slow  step each day as you build up your vocabulary  
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and you really become fluent in that so it seems  like this is like the faster way it seems like  
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it's faster uh but the problem is you're moving  faster because you keep getting like all this new  
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vocabulary but you're not actually fluent in it  all right so you can keep you just go faster and  
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faster and faster but aren't actually getting  closer to the goal but in the English as a and  
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this is the same thing natives are doing here they  spend more time learning things and and over time  
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this like it accelerates and gets much faster and  this is how you get to to understanding TV shows  
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and music and movies and having conversations that  kind of thing it's because they spend a lot of  
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time really understanding vocabulary very well  so at first it seems like a slow process so if  
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we imagine like on day one uh so the English as a  second language person has learned or I mean they  
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had a class about let's say like 10 words but the  efl approach was only just one okay on the on day  
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two they learned like 10 more and on day two over  here it's you know they're on the second word or  
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phrase so it seems like the efl approach is is  moving more slowly all right but the problem is  
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they're they're never going to get over here by  doing this approach it's only going to have them  
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just go faster and faster as they try to learn  more vocabulary the traditional way but they  
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don't actually become fluent in that so they never  reach this okay so the only way to get this is to  
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become fluent in individual words and phrases if  you don't become fluent here and here and here  
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then of course you will not be able to do this but  if you get fluent in this word and you get fluent  
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in this word and fluent in this word and this word  then of course you will have great conversations  
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okay as I as I often say like people think about  getting fluent in English or in Japanese or in  
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French or in German or whatever the language  is so they think about and they talk about  
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getting fluent in a language when what's really  happening is you're getting fluent in vocabulary  
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you get fluent in a grammar point and you really  understand pronunciation but you get all that like  
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one thing at a time and this is why like even  some ESL students like they will be fluent in  
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some things but not others so they can have a  conversation or speak maybe about work because  
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they've talked about those things so many times  so this is not about trying to watch a particular  
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movie or TV show uh instead of doing that it's  much better to find something you can focus on  
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that's like a shorter easier thing uh like you  know like watching a YouTube video about about  
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doing something you're interested in like  growing roses or something so I give these  
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examples in this one like we would watch you  know on one day we would watch four or five  
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videos just just talking about one topic like  how to how to break uh I don't know how to how  
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to make bread or something all right so here like  if we're gonna contrast these two examples again  
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the English as a second language approach is  learning about baking they're learning all this  
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like vocabulary about about baking stuff but  they're not actually getting fluent in being  
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able to talk about baking okay so the difference  here is like if you get fluent in uh in each one  
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of these things then of course you get you get  over here to the goal why wouldn't you you're  
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getting fluent if you get fluent in each of the  pieces then of course you get fluent in the hole  
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all right but I don't know Korean you have to tell  me what that tell me what that means uh hopefully  
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this makes sense though so when you're looking  for like a TV show what will happen if you watch  
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a TV show is you will learn you will get a lot  of vocabulary and then you will not be fluent in  
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most of it and so you will be able to understand  but it will not really improve your conversations  
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you really have to take time and focus on things  and that's why like what we do in fluent for life  
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is we will have one conversation you're focusing  on a single conversation for a month think about  
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that most people are like well that's crazy you  can't focus on one conversation for a whole month  
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why not think about the the opposite of that we're  going to try to learn like a whole conversation in  
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one day that seems like the ridiculous thing  to me we're gonna we're gonna try to like go  
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through a whole TV show in one day really I  would take I mean if you're going to learn  
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with a TV show at least spend like the whole day  like you know like learning about that all right  
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you need to get the review to really understand  the vocabulary if you can understand everything  
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right when you're learning it that's fantastic  most people are not able to do that because  
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the languages isn't understandable or you don't  quite understand a joke or something like that  
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so instead of trying to learn a bunch of things  and not really understand them it's much better  
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to focus on something and do that so if you want  to watch a TV show or something really take time  
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like a whole week and just focus on one episode  review it in different ways watch YouTube videos  
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of people talking about that episode you really  want to get lots of input about that same episode  
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all right I got some more good questions over  here all right whom it says you are the best  
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teacher you are too kind over there all right  uh let's see how I went to school like a year  
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ago unknown how to write or read but knew some  spoken English grammar F me up in my fluency  
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uh I'm sorry to hear that but that's typical  yes that's that's basically how most people  
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do it but now my comprehension is much better my  classmates know grammar yep thank you I understand  
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95 of your speech glad to hear Felix uh yeah and  so again their spoken English was bad and so and  
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I think that's what you mean by bab uh but yes  if you're if you're learning if you if you focus  
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on the same thing and really Mastery that's  that's why I called originally uh the name of  
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the lesson sets in fluent for life are called  Master English conversation because that was  
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the whole point it was to develop Mastery to  develop fluency about that and so many people  
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will know the rules English as a second language  students will often know the rules about something  
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but they can't actually apply those rules in real  conversations uh even I've joined the English Club  
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attended English speaking class but my English  still stuck can you help me with the good method  
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is that able to approve well yes so everything  I'm talking about in this video is explaining  
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about that remember uh speaking it it I know it  seems like a crazy idea it seems the opposite of  
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what you should do but speaking is not how you get  fluent all right you get fluent by understanding  
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something really well all right so you don't  have to uh like spend time meeting people or  
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going to I don't know speaking practice event or  or trying to like try to spend any of your time  
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doing that it's much better if you and I made a  whole video about this if you go to the YouTube  
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channel and look up uh if you only have 15 minutes  a day to learn English do this and the basic idea  
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of that is that it's much better to to spend  your time getting lots of examples of something  
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so you really understand it rather than trying  to learn things a traditional way all right so  
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ESL is English as a second language I'll just put  this a second some English as a second language  
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and this is English as a first first language so  we'll just put second up here and first down here  
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all right so when you're learning English as a  second language it means that you think there's  
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like a second language so we have to learn it  in a new way rather than learning it uh just  
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as like a language we would learn like our native  language and so the truth is if you learn it like  
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you learn your first language you become fluent  in that language it doesn't matter all right I  
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have another video on the channel that's talking  about uh like the truth about second languages and  
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why there's no such thing as a second language  all right so for me there is no such thing as a  
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second language there are different languages like  French and German and Italian uh but how you learn  
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them is the important thing so if you learn them  like it's a like a second language like you're  
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learning through your native language that's what  will stop you from speaking but if you learn it  
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as a first language and you understand everything  which is what this is that's how you become fluent  
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in that vocabulary all right so you don't need  to spend time speaking with people if you only  
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have 15 minutes a day just get lots of input you  will automatically feel more fluent because you  
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can you'll feel you will understand the uh the  vocabulary much better and then again your your  
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improvement accelerates I know that this is like  it looks opposite or whatever but the point is we  
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get to the goal faster over here where these uh  most English as a second language Learners they  
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can be trapped in this for years okay so they can  be stuck going around and around just learning  
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more words more words more words but they never  get closer to fluency that's why this happens  
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it's because they they're they're if each one of  these words that you learn if you're not fluent  
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in each of these things then of course you won't  be fluent over here you can't reach that goal but  
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for here like if I get fluent in one word and then  I get fluent in another word and another word in  
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another word like of course I become fluent okay  all right maybe I'm taking my ex my explanations  
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are going too long over here uh thanks for doing  class live listen streams helps me a lot glad here  
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I watch English TV shows so much in my child  when my teacher asked me uh can we tell me the  
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rules in this line I don't know what that means  I love your way uh instant visual explanation  
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and they work glad here me thanks all right all  right there's that sneeze from half an hour ago  
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all right me I've watched it  but I don't know why it happens  
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I don't know what that's referring to thanks for  the X1 explanation uh is this the same Theory as  
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Stephen crashing yes uh so he discovered the same  thing I did and before I was born so he he found  
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uh that you get fluent by getting comprehensible  input in a low stress environment so meaning that  
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like if you if you feel nervous if you're in a  classroom and your teacher is like okay stand  
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up in front of the class and repeat something then  of course your language learning will be hurt as a  
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result so what you should be doing is actually not  speaking at all and that's the same thing crash  
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and recommends so the same thing I discovered the  way I discovered it was after failing to learn  
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different languages for 15 years and then living  in Japan and then I just had a park I just started  
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paying attention to what uh kids were doing and  how they were talking with their parents so you  
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got Japanese kids speaking with their parents  uh and it's like oh look at that like they're  
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not learning Japanese through English they're  learning Japanese in Japanese it's just the  
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first language for them so if I learn Japanese as  a first language then I become fluent and that's  
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what happened and so it's the same thing that's  why I teach English as a first language rather  
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than teaching it as a second language now I could  probably be more popular on YouTube if I made  
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Japanese videos like for Japanese learners but  the problem is it would not help them speak and  
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so I like again I have to think about that as a as  a teacher like if I just want to get more clicks  
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and more views on my videos there's other things  I could do but it makes it worse for the learning  
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so I'm always trying to figure out obviously I  would love to have more people watching videos  
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but I want to make sure people can actually  benefit from them all right uh let's see here
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all right so in my experience I have enhanced my  English by learning words in context to know how  
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to use them in a phrase I still have a lot to  improve them yeah great work Henry but that's  
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what you should be doing determination motivation  is really important for learning English yes but  
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the most important thing is making sure you do  the right thing so you can feel very motivated  
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and still try to do the ESL approach and like  you're still likely going to fail at doing that  
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rustam says I usually watch YouTube about  homeless people they had interviews and you  
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can learn from their experiences and learn  a lot of vocabulary yeah so again if you  
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focus on like if I'm just watching videos  about homeless people or whatever you pick  
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a topic and you focus on that of course you're  going to become a much better speaker because  
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you will understand the language better what  should I do if I don't have anyone to talk  
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with while learning as your method yes for this  you the whole point is not to speak with people  
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I know it sounds weird people like well how  do I speak where do I speak like why are you  
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worrying about speaking if you don't really  understand what you're saying then don't talk  
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the point is just to sit and listen until  you feel like wow like I really really  
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feel very good all right I'll give you another  another like contrast these examples over here
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again we will contrast the English  as a second language approach versus  
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the English as a first language  approach and what people think  
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they're doing so in a typical class you  will spend if we uh if we just split up
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uh like understanding down here we'll put a u for  this and then uh actually that's kind of a bad  
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little here this is a bad oh my goodness I can't  even draw a little bracket looking thing all right  
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we'll just say uh here here okay and then this one  is like okay all right so in the ESL approach what  
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you're doing is like you spend very little time  trying to understand what you're learning and this  
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is why teachers are using uh like phrase books and  translations and dictionary definitions and things  
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like that explanations about grammar that make  the language more difficult all right so it's very  
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little spent time uh on understanding the rest  of it is like okay now class I want you to speak  
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it doesn't make any sense it's this is a crazy  way to teach languages because number one uh it's  
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demotivational all right you don't understand if  you don't understand why would you try to speak  
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now people like okay I gotta now I gotta try to  speak the teacher says okay like here's a here's  
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a language uh we're going to teach you like I'll  teach you a word like here's uh I don't know a  
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Japanese word uh equals this word in English  all right the teacher didn't teach anything  
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they didn't actually help you understand anything  they're just giving you a definition so this is  
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again uh understanding is like the lesson of that  and so the rest of the time it's it's just up to  
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the student like hey why don't you speak now now  go out and try to use that but the student is like  
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uh I don't understand what I'm saying and there  are lots of reasons why they struggle to speak  
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part of it is that the real language that natives  use in real conversations is different from what  
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they're learning in the classroom all right that's  just one example but the point is this is what it  
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looks like for ESL now if this is what it looks  like for ESL for English as a second language what  
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do you think it looks like for the efl student  what do you think is happening now if you've  
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been following this video it should probably  be pretty obvious we're going to do the exact  
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opposite the exact opposite look at this we're  going to spend most of our time on understanding
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and then really the fluent speech just comes out  automatically at the end all right so we don't  
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we don't want to just like help you understand  a little bit we want to really really help you  
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understand a lot just like we gave that example  of harsh so the example for ESL we learn a word  
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like harsh uh like if we do it in Japanese it's  like kibishi uh to harsh so we're gonna just like  
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translate something like that uh and we're not  going to spend much time using it in different  
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examples so if you learn this like I guarantee  you if you if you're in an English classroom uh  
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the first context that you learn that in is what  you think it is so if you learn harsh weather  
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then you will think harsh is only about weather  okay harsh weather so the teacher says harsh  
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weather wow a lot of harsh harsh weather today  okay so the student thinks okay harsh must be  
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connected to weather because they only get one  example of that they only think okay harsh it's  
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like yeah I understand maybe it's kind of bad but  in a real conversation they might hear like harsh  
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words and suddenly they're like uh what I thought  it was about weather and like after they learn  
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like no no it's not like harsh doesn't mean  weather it's just talking about something is is  
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difficult it's frustrating it's maybe like grading  on you somehow but that's what you get over here  
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so we're going to learn harsh harsh words  harsh weather harsh uh like harsh environment  
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a harsh storm harsh language if you're yelling  or cursing at someone and then by the end it's  
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just like ah you know you know harsh very  well boom it just comes out automatically  
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all right so think about it like again it's  it's the exact opposite of what people would  
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be doing in a in a regular classroom but this  is why people struggle to speak over here it's  
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because they don't understand what they're talking  about so of course they can't use it fluently all  
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right so you don't have to feel bad if like  it's like oh like why why can't I speak it's  
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because you don't understand what you're saying  okay all right hopefully that makes sense I keep  
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trying to explain this in different ways about  the different ways people are learning but what  
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this shows is like the actual speaking part is a  very small part of the language learning process  
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all right the and that's why and again uh Stephen  crash and discovered the same thing amazing right  
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like another person discovered the same  thing about this and it's pretty obvious  
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because it's how we all get fluent in our native  language so if you spend your time understanding  
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something you really feel confident then when  it's time to speak the words just come out  
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now at this point maybe yeah okay you want to like  practice your I don't know like how your mouth  
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moves or something but if you've heard a hundred  examples of something from different speakers I'm  
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pretty sure you would use something automatically  the first time you had to say it so the goal is  
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not to speak it's not to try to understand and  like and then and then like quickly start speaking  
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you want to spend a lot of time you just relax  start getting all that input and this is exactly  
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what we do in fluent for life this is why we  structure the program the way it is because we  
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really want to help people understand something  the first time you hear it you might not feel  
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very confident about it that's okay we're going  to teach it to you again you're going to hear it  
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again in a different way you're going to hear  a different speaker say it all of these things  
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and then when you start using it in conversations  you will feel a lot better about it all right but  
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you don't get there from here speaking is not  what you need it's not more speech all right
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all right
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[Music] okay so hopefully that answered that  question for Felix yes so don't look for people  
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to speak with just spend more time getting input  that's what you need and that [ __ ] that's easy  
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right that's all you have to do you can get input  anywhere like YouTube or whatever uh how can I do  
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to have good speaking and become fluent in  English think in advance yes Muhammad that's  
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exactly what I covered in this video watch this  video again very important and I'm explaining this  
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in different ways and make sure people understand  that doctor I I move let's say thank you so much  
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for your classes my pleasure I've watched tons  of your videos imagine become familiar with your  
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speeches my question is how you evaluate My Level  if I'm able to understand 100 of your lessons  
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uh and uh as I talk about in other videos I talk  about um the the seven fluency habits and so you  
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can you can break down your ability to communicate  or your English level uh based on different skills  
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so your understanding might be strong uh but you  could have really poor speech all right and again  
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like because we can look at these as as different  skills so some people like their pronunciation is  
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really good but they don't know many words okay so  we're not we can't really give an overall uh value  
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of your speech really the the overall fluency is  is judged by your weakest communication skill so  
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if you know a whole bunch of vocabulary but you  don't feel confident using it your confidence  
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is limiting you so you need to build that  up first before you start trying to speak  
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uh can I do that by repeating a movie again and  again um yeah so I I would recommend again a movie  
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is is really too long I would it's much better  to focus on something short like 15 minutes half  
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an hour at the most uh some movies are going to  be too long and it's going to be too difficult I  
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would I would focus on a scene from a movie if you  want to do that but really like a very good way uh  
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even better than just repetition so watching the  same movie again is helpful and you will learn  
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things from that and you will notice new things  that you didn't find before like new vocabulary  
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will be coming out of the woodwork be coming  out of the woodwork uh but the interesting thing  
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is that if instead you watch different content  about the same thing then you will learn a lot  
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more much faster so like you watch five different  YouTube videos about I don't know peeling a banana  
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even something as simple as that how do we peel  the banana if you watch 10 different people talk  
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about peeling a banana you will learn a lot  of vocabulary and you will feel very confident  
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about that and you will also be able to take that  vocabulary and use it for much more uh than just  
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peeling bananas I do need to learn with Google  Translation or images yes Google image search  
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is great uh thank you for your work Drew says uh  slager got uh glad to hear it uh can you recommend  
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any phrase book or vocabulary books uh I don't  really recommend anything because it's just really  
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finding something that you are interested in and  then focusing on that vocabulary so whatever the  
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vocabulary is for you for your life whatever you  need to focus on I listen you don't understand  
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what you say but when I listen to TV shows like  Made in Chelsea is very difficult what should  
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I do uh good question Harold so again that's the  same thing like the way I'm speaking is different  
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from the way people speak in real conversations  and most people who are trying to teach the  
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language are doing that to make make sure they're  understood so what we do in in fluent for life  
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uh so we start people down here at this level  that can understand like teacher English and  
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then we want to get you up to this level whereas  uh the natives are so it's really difficult for  
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you to just jump to like from a teacher where you  understand everything to a TV show where you don't  
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understand everything so what we do in fluent  for life is we want to take you up in steps like  
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that so that you can move from one to real actual  conversational English so that's how you basically  
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have to go uh from one step to the next to do that  all right uh do I need to learn with Google or  
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you don't need to learn with Google no the point  you should be learning with things you understand  
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I'm glad you are so patient with getting the same  questions over and over again Yes again like uh  
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uh I I it's some people they learn they get like  the uh aha the I call it the aha moment when they  
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understand how they should be doing something uh  but different people may need different examples  
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for that uh I learned 50 words each week  in my class but can't use even 10 of them  
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yes so that that is again the the whole the  whole point of this is like you know your way  
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is working like if you if you're just like I  don't know how to learn what should I be doing  
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if if you can learn one word and get fluent in  one word uh that's the method you should be using  
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but if you learn something and can't remember  it then don't do that anymore if your goal is  
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to speak and to understand and to remember the  vocabulary uh this is it so learning English as a  
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first language rather than learning it as a second  language uh why some words are hard to acquire uh  
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that's a good question it could be the vocabulary  from uh something else you already know uh like I  
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talk about this and how to remember any English  word where you're you're trying to make it a new  
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uh like a new compartment or new category in your  mind for vocabulary because like let's say I'm  
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trying to learn Japanese I already have a word  in my native native language that I know harsh  
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uh but I have to learn something and fit something  in that for Japanese as well so that's like one  
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reason why vocabulary is a little bit difficult  there's already something in there so we try  
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to create a new category for that uh and I I've  already covered that in many other videos uh but  
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some of it could be I mean the basic idea is that  you don't spend enough time with the vocabulary  
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um but yeah I mean that's for individual  vocabulary there's a couple different  
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reasons but usually it's just because you  don't you don't learn it like a native  
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uh I said movies because I like it or maybe could  watch some movies of the same topic yeah so again  
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like you you will you will find like there  is there is a little bit of sacrifice at the  
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beginning of this it's like I want to watch movies  remember the ESL way is like I quickly want to get  
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to the goal of I want to watch movies it's kind of  like a young entrepreneur like let's say like a 18  
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year old kid wants to start a business and their  goal is to make a million dollars they're like  
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wow I really want to have a million dollars uh and  so they try some different things and and within a  
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month if they don't make a million dollars they're  angry about that and it's like well you know you  
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should probably spend some more time and learn  and focus on something rather than trying five  
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different kinds of businesses or something like  that everyone knows someone in their life that's  
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like okay uh on one day they're like trying  this business and the next day they're trying  
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this business and the next day they're trying  a different thing it's like of course you're  
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not it's the same way kids are you know  like people are learning languages it's  
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like you spend one day on one word another day  on another word and another day on completely  
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different vocabulary of course you're not going to  remember it or become fluent in that so the goal  
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really is to is to spend more time on stuff  if you enjoy vocabulary or you enjoy movies  
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whatever the thing is that's great but sometimes  you need to take a step back from that and and  
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focus on something where people might be talking  about it but if you really want to watch a movie  
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uh you can go ahead but just understand it  will probably make the the overall process  
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slower but if you do watch a movie then try  to add other things into that like reading the  
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transcript of the movie just listening to the  movie sometime while you're walking around uh  
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or like watching YouTube videos giving reviews  of the movie that kind of thing so that's how  
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you're going to get get fluent in that vocabulary  but you will be spending more time doing that  
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uh it's good to listen to audio books and put on  the subtitles in English to read uh yes but again  
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uh like a movie and an audio book like those  are both really long things and it's hard to  
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review them because you're not likely to watch  them again or listen to them again but if you  
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have a five minute clip of something like a  five minute speech or a five minute you know  
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conversation between two people you can really  focus on that and then become fluent in that much  
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faster and if you do that even a few times the  next time you watch a movie you will understand  
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much more okay so I know the goal is to get movies  but you like don't go directly uh for the movie  
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you want to go kind of like in a roundabout  way but it actually gets you there faster  
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all right uh I work with many people from India  most of the time it's very hard to understand  
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them this may affect my productivity what do  you think I should do uh yeah so that's common  
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you know people are if I speak with Japanese  people who who know some English some of them  
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maybe their pronunciation will not be very good  some of them can speak very well but again yes  
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it could potentially hurt your progress I would  maybe spend more time talking with them or like  
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you know an interesting thing you could read  you could where you could an interesting thing  
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you could do is make kind of like a challenge  so if you have a few different people who are  
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around you write down a sentence in English maybe  something you've heard me speak and just say like  
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hey like this is like I'm trying to improve my  listening or something like that like don't make  
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it about them you make it about yourself and like  I'm trying to like it's like just a kind of thing  
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for you and so if you have like five different  people say that you know or read that thing  
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you will improve your pronunciation or you will  improve your your ability to hear them as well  
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oh my goodness run out of time we've already been  going for an hour and a half oh my goodness an  
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hour and a half over here uh uh say how can I  speak better English uh explain that already so  
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this whole video go back and watch it I know some  people are coming in late Joe I think your work  
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is really Advanced compared to other teachers I've  found limiting beliefs and the person's motivation  
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play a huge role in his learning process how do  you deal with this yes uh so I talk about limiting  
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beliefs as well and I don't know what you mean  about my work being Advanced uh the I'm actually  
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trying to do the opposite and really simplify what  most people think they need so Learners again they  
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will spend a lot of their time trying to get  translations or grammar rules or something like  
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that when it's really just just try to understand  it like a native that's really the whole point and  
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the the limiting beliefs that people have uh in  my experience it's more about trying to get them  
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to to learn in a new way so what's interesting  about the English as a second language approach  
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for me as a teacher uh is that even though it's  not getting students fluent they will continue to  
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do it and this is like this is like a thing that  I I spent a lot of time thinking about because  
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if I can solve that problem then I can help a lot  more students so again if you if you continue to  
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do the English as a second language approach and  it's not getting you fluent then the first thing  
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is just to stop doing that and then it's easier  to be open to to new ways of learning uh so if  
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like for your whole life you've been told you  need to speak to get fluent and then I say no  
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no like speaking is actually a very small part of  that uh people are like well that's that's crazy  
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it's like okay well if you don't believe me that's  fine uh but we know for sure that the English as a  
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second language approach is not going to help you  so it's already not helped you for years why would  
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you continue doing this and why would you not try  something different and so I recommend to people  
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that's why I try to give examples of how they how  they should be learning in in all of my videos  
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um like I did earlier but sometimes I'm  talking about you know Theory or what what  
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people should be doing as students but this is  it so the the limiting beliefs are more about  
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um about how they should be learning and what  they think they need so they think they need  
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a lot of vocabulary they think they need to  speak a lot when really they just need like  
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a smaller vocabulary and less speech so it's  it should be like a really exciting idea for  
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people like wow I can learn less and uh and and  I don't have to speak I can actually improve my  
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fluency without speaking yes that's the idea  and it just it just sounds unbelievable to  
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people because they have been learning the  traditional way for so long uh so when you  
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actually start learning this way you really  don't have many troubles uh with limiting  
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beliefs because it's just easy to understand  so you can understand the vocabulary and  
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you start using it and so you don't have lots of  problems with confidence or other things like that  
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all of those problems come from learning English  as a second language all right yes so try efl so  
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again like think about how you learn your native  language that's the exact same thing you're doing  
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all right uh what are your thoughts  on writing yeah writing is a good idea  
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uh could it support and improve your speech  and skills in any way yes exactly and this is  
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why influence for life people do some writing  writing is good for slowing the language down  
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so when you really write something out you can  actually feel it like I recommend using uh like  
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a pen or pencil and paper so you're actually  writing down I can give you let me see here
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just to show you like I practice what  I preach so this is a look at this so  
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this is this is a notebook of mine where I'm  just practicing this writing down kanji and  
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I've got some uh like examples of uh like  it's kind of hard to read over here but  
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just writing down sentences just for  the practice all right uh let's see
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Drew my name is Diego from Venezuela is teaching  English to a new learner helpful to learn more  
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oneself well I don't quite understand the  question is teaching English to a new learner  
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helpful to learn more English oneself ah okay  so like if you were teaching other people yeah  
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I think well if you if you feel very confident  about what you're teaching then yes you will  
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you will learn more about it I think more of  the uh the the responsibility you feel as a  
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teacher it motivates you to learn more you  know like me if I want to teach something I  
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want I want to make sure I understand it very  well uh so that's a good way to do that uh how  
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to understand vocabulary without translating  so that just means you understand something go  
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back and watch this video again you'll learn more  about how to do that I hate ESL I just follow uh  
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uh their book every word they want you to use as  they teach you the same meaning I notice native  
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speakers use a lot of rising tone when speaking  can you please expand a bit on that topic it  
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would depend really on the situation I don't know  exactly what you're talking about but most of the  
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time it's in a situation and it's better to look  for that pay attention for those kind of things  
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why English people invent phrasal verb it makes  English hard now it's they're they're actually  
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inventing phrasal verbs that make the language  easier but you have to think like a native  
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speaker if go watch my my phrasal verb videos on  my YouTube channel and you will see how easy it is  
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uh Hassan says when I tried to listen to people  talk I understand most anything but when I try to  
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talk to people I'm slow in a response most of the  time I say the wrong thing then realize that what  
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is your suggestion yeah learn English as a first  language that's my answer to basically everybody  
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and and again it's it's it it it's true in many  different ways about listening and speaking and  
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improving your pronunciation all of that uh as  you understand better you will communicate better  
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Harold says do you have video about how to use  prepositions uh yes you could search the YouTube  
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channel and also in uh fluent for life if you  click on the link in the description below  
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this video um it will it will explain more  about that we have whole whole lesson sets  
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on prepositions Adrian says I just watched  the movie and if I hear a new vocabulary I  
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pause the movie and use the subtitles to see  the word or phrase but only in that case I  
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will use subtitles yeah there's nothing wrong  with using subtitles I think subtitles are good  
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as long as you're not translating that if you  can to try to learn it all in English is ideal
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try efl more instead of ESL Drew are you uh you  are should be you are awesome I started from  
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scratch glad to hear it uh the batter traditional  English class that they instead of helping you to  
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understand they teach you teach you rules so  you need to learn rules as the professional  
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that goes to the university yes and again like  there's very little that you understand for  
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using it in an actual conversation it actually  it actually hurts your ability to communicate  
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how to start teaching speaking with beginning  Learners uh let's see watch my number one download  
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Frederick so this is like a full like efl uh  approach so English as a first language it's  
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an app that people can use to teach themselves  the language all in English so they'll learn  
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vocabulary grammar pronunciation without studying  rules so you can get that by clicking on the link  
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in the description below this video but if you'd  like to see videos of me actually doing this so  
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teaching English to uh to non-natives all in  English go to the uh the playlist on my channel  
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it's called the best beginning English playlist  or something like that but it's a series that goes  
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from absolute beginner to higher level uh like  phrasal verbs and adverbs and things like that  
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I think to communicate you don't need to focus  learning grammar rules as a professional student  
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yes so the the whole idea is that like you want  to understand how to use the vocabulary but you  
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don't need to know like grammatical terms so if  I go to a native speaker and I say can you give  
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me an example of like the past simple and it's  like okay it should like most people would not be  
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able to do that actually they know noun verb and  adjective maybe adjective most people know noun  
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and verb and that's it all right in their native  language uh uh let's see why are you learning  
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Japanese I think that language is so difficult  yeah I mean again like I don't think about  
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anything as like a second language I don't rank  Languages by their difficulty either uh I talked  
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about this in another video where if you look at  children children learn to speak their language at  
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basically the same age all over the world whatever  the language is so it that means that there isn't  
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like one language it's more difficult than another  it's just how people teach that's that's the whole  
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the whole difference here so I learned Japanese  as a first language just like Japanese kids  
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learn Japanese as a first language that's same  thing uh so yes I live in Japan that's correct  
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uh can I recommend any website for efl uh we'll  just watch watch more videos on my channel because  
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I'm basically the only person who talks about  this uh with lessons specifically for learners  
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so everybody else is teaching English as a  second language so you will probably not even  
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find much we're trying to get more information  on our site right now about that uh just to help  
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people understand English as a first language  but if you watch all of the recent videos on  
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my on my even well even older videos on my  channel you will find lots of information  
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about it but it's really a very simple process  I think maybe next week I will do a video would  
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that be helpful uh like how to teach English as a  first language would that be helpful let me know  
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um I think the best way to improve English is  a more listening more phrases don't focus on  
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grammar yes again like the point is not to think  about grammar or phrases or whatever because these  
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are all things that naturally come together in the  language so you're if you're learning English as a  
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first language then you don't have to worry about  like okay I'm studying grammar rules or something  
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like that the point is you just understand  it automatically naturally my students have  
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the Translating habit I don't know how to fix  that issue yes uh get send us an email at info  
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at English anyone if you have questions info at  English anyone.com but definitely try Frederick  
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with them and show them that beginning English  playlist you will see how I'm how I'm teaching  
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people that don't know in English uh Judy do  you think it's okay to learn two languages  
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or is it better to finish or getting a high  level with one example English and Portuguese  
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um I think if you can understand that thing it's  it's the same thing as like learning English and  
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learning to code for a computer they're both  languages that you're trying to learn and so  
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if you learn them the differences like um in if  you're trying to learn uh like for for coding  
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or something you would try to learn it I mean I'm  not even going to go into how to teach coding but  
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it should work the same way that you're learning  this so you're kind of learning coding as a first  
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language kind of like the ideal way for learning  code is like you have a split screen computer  
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you type something in and then something changes  on this side of the screen so you can see like  
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this thing does that you know you can see the the  opposite thing there but it works the same way  
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for learning English all right Felix again I feel  more confident since I focused on your videos like  
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one month ago I'm using your method since that  day glad to hear it uh demonio says hello from  
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Brazil please put translations on Portuguese well  this is just a live video we won't even have uh  
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uh subtitles for a few days I think but yes if  you I I don't make translations for any of these  
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videos but uh maybe I could maybe in the future  we will do something all right I'm running out  
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of time uh but hopefully people have enjoyed this  video and it looks like people have I recommend  
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you go back and watch it again for the examples I  try to do examples of things when you're learning  
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um at the beginning how would you approach  unfamiliar sounds unfamiliar sounds  
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uh I don't have time to talk about sound  transitioning but if you want to listen for  
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different sounds get uh get Frederick just click  on the link in the description so you will find  
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information about fluent for life and uh and  Frederick below below the uh below this video  
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uh thanks a lot for your time yes uh so send us  an info send us a mail at info English anyone.com  
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if you have any questions but we had another uh we  had some some people some teachers in Vietnam who  
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are using Frederick and they said that was like  the best thing they had ever tried for teaching  
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phonics and pronunciation and things like that  so give it a try last year a company recruiter  
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told me or evaluated B2 but honestly I feel like  I'm between B1 that makes me feel hesitant likely  
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you're probably good at some things and maybe less  good than others that's how that works uh so I  
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don't know about the live stream uh yes I want  to say thank you yes I know you are commenting  
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on a lot of our videos and I know I don't know if  pawar is that your first name or your last name  
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uh Power but yes thank you for for spending time  and learning with us and supporting what we do  
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thank you for the topic uh interesting topic  the way you have shown us have a good day so  
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efl can you repeat teacher I don't hire exactly  what you're explaining Yes again the point is to  
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learn English the same way natives do and you can  actually just get lots of input and that will help  
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you become a fluent speaker rather than trying to  learn lots of rules and vocabulary and speak when  
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you don't actually feel confident all right that's  the basic idea but I think maybe next week I will  
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do a video um if that would be helpful People for  People do you have intonation videos on YouTube uh  
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yes you can look for so anything you want to look  for like just search our channel for pronunciation  
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or intonation or whatever um uh all right but  I think that's it I have to go now that's the  
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end of the video but again thank you for joining  me I'm glad you all have enjoyed this if you're  
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just getting late uh to the video I recommend you  go back and watch this again or at least you will  
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learn a couple different examples of how this  works but I think maybe next time I will make  
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a video specifically about like the principles of  English as a first language so people have that oh  
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no please sir one last question please sir please  Suresh go ahead what you got for me hurry up  
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don't type don't tape what do you got here  which English what should we do for for  
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learning English go back and watch the video  it explains that and it answers your question  
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all right so go back I know you're probably  late to the party over here go back and watch  
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the video and it will make sure I explain it  a couple different times in different ways  
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have a fantastic day and I'll  see you guys in the next video
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