How To Build A Fluent English Vocabulary (Without Feeling Overwhelmed)

all right let's see if we're live

all right we should be should be good to go I am  Drew Badger the founder of englishanyone.com and  

the English fluency guide and welcome to another  live video here on YouTube today we're going to  

talk about how to build a fluent a fluent  English vocabulary without being uh without  

being overwhelmed uh pardon my poor introduction  to this let's get started uh this should be an  

entertaining video this is something I wanted  to do because I received an uh an interesting  

question from a fluent for life member and he was  talking about how do we learn all the vocabulary  

we need without feeling overwhelmed by that and  one of the specific interesting examples he gave  

is talking about uh actually put this down in  the description below this video if you'd like  

to read that but it was basically talking about  like different expressions for the same thing so  

this is something that we teach in the program  and the reason we do this is because you will  

experience that in real life so you will have  different people saying different things even  

for the same uh like the same idea or expressing  the same concept or whatever so as an example one  

word was or one phrase was to build a rapport with  someone to build a rapport let me erase this first

so we have build a rapport with  someone so when you're making a  

connection you're getting to know  someone well to build a rapport

let me know if that's not  very not very strong here  

I think we should be working just fine though okay

all right chat's working too nice to  see you all right so building a rapport  

or we could talk about making

or even building or developing a connection

with someone so to build a rapport develop a  connection uh and this learner was saying hey  

uh it's it's challenging to try to learn all of  these different ways of expressing like the same  

thing and so he also noted correctly that in his  native language usually he just has like you know  

maybe one thing that he says in a conversation and  he'll just use that again and again in different  

conversations and this is correct and this  is exactly what native English speakers are  

doing well as well but the reason we teach this is  because you don't know who you're going to meet in  

a conversation so uh the basic idea for this and  this is the kind of naturally varied review where  

you're learning different ways of expressing the  same thing so you could say like ah it's really  

hot or it's crazy hot or it's stifling hot or  it's hot as hell in this room okay so there  

are different ways you could say that and there  are also many different ways that other people  

will say that too so really what we're doing  when we're building a vocabulary I'll go into  

this into more detail in a moment but what you're  really doing when you're building a vocabulary is  

you're finding words that fit well for you but  also building a large enough vocabulary that  

you can understand what other people are saying  so you don't have to really like have a really  

strong word or something like knowing all these  things equally you can pick one that you like  

and then use that but you will also be prepared  for what other people are saying in conversations  

so I want to talk about how this works like the  the actual process of building a vocabulary but  

making sure chat is going on okay there we  go nice to see everybody there Adriana let's  

learn English from the best English teacher on  YouTube glad to hear it nice to see everybody  

out there uh yes if you do have questions let  me know I will do my best to work through the  

chat after I go through this it shouldn't be  that long of a lesson but hopefully you enjoy  

this all right so the basic problem is we have  different ways of expressing something and it's  

hard to build a vocabulary because there's  so many things to learn all right so let  

me show you how this works not only for your  native language but also for learning English

now if anyone out there has ever played like  a role-playing game or some kind of video game  

where you have a character so you start out at  the beginning of the game here is your character  

uh you are basically very weak you don't know  anything uh you don't have very good equipment  

so you don't have a good weapon or Shield or  you know like your armor or anything like that  

but by the end of the game usually you have you  know like a like a really strong you know armor  

and you got like a big sword and a shield and  uh you know other like kind of powerful things  

like that that make you a better character all  right now I'm going to show you we do the exact  

same thing with language learning and this  will help you to kind of organize the things  

that you learn as you learn them all right so  yes uh most people have uh this is just a very  

simple curve of vocabulary that you would use  in in your day so most of the vocabulary you  

have like if we have let's say you only know 100  words so this is like from one to 100 over here  

and all these markers are fading out on me they're  they're disappearing so the like the top words  

that you will use most frequently things like the  or uh or an or you know whatever the the things  

you use in your daily life you're going to use  those words very frequently so this is how often  

you use them and many words you know them but you  just won't use them very frequently all right so  

it's the same thing in your native language  and it's the same thing in English there are  

many many words in the language but most people  don't use most of them and people have a much  

larger vocabulary than what they use in everyday  conversations so you might know a lot of words  

but you don't actually use them all right so what  you're doing uh when you're learning the the kind  

of core idea here is that you want to build up  your your English speaking character in the same  

way so you again you begin with basically nothing  but as you learn more you're getting to improve  

your character over time and what's interesting I  use this as a as an analogy because the character  

in each one of these things is a different piece  you can think about these like different uh  

grammar points or phrases or something like that  where you have each one of these things that you  

can you can kind of change so you can have maybe  a really strong sword but a really weak Shield all  

right or you might have like a really good you  know like top piece of your armor like a chest  

plate but maybe the leg armor is not very good all  right so your goal is to make all of these things  

strong but I just want to make the point that  each one of these is strong individually all right  

so what what we're doing when we're building  a vocabulary we're really doing uh two things  

and it's important to understand how we build  a vocabulary and why we want to do this the  

same way natives do all right so usually if we  if we imagine man these markers oh my goodness  

must be I'm going to have to describe this in a  better way so usually we begin you can see that  

there imagine you're you're learning a brand new  language for the first time and you just learn  

your first word in that language now there are two  ways of doing that the first way of learning the  

language is you get a translation all right so  the teacher just says this word means this and  

they're just telling you what the the meaning of  that word is and then that way okay you can kind  

of understand what's happening you didn't really  discover the meaning of that for yourself so you  

don't really understand but usually the the first  few words in a language are pretty easy to learn  

all right so I just tell you you know the names of  colors or adjectives or simple nouns like you know  

marker or shirt or eye things like that all right  so you can either learn this as a first language  

where you're actually understanding what it means  so I can hold up something like this and give you  

a lesson in Japanese about like what this thing  is like Maka Akai Maka aoimaka like I often do  

all right so here I'm teaching you the language  in the language all right so there again these  

when we're when we're First Learning the language  we're trying to learn two different things uh and  

you can choose which one of these you're doing but  I always recommend people learn English as a first  

language because you really want to understand  it in English the same way natives are doing all  

right because when you're building a language uh  you're you're actually taking again these these  

different pieces of vocabulary and putting  them together all right so as you learn uh  

you're you're you basically have like it's almost  like different categories or different slots in  

the same way that you would have a character like  here's a slot for uh your hat or here's a slot for  

you know like your your helmet or here's one for  your Shield or something like that it's the same  

thing with your uh with your vocabulary for the  world around you so you see uh like an eraser you  

see this object and you have to think what is  the word I use for that so if you're learning  

it in in Japanese like you know this would be  like it is you know something like that so if  

I'm trying to teach you the language I can teach  you in Japanese or I can give you a translation  

through your native language and teach you this  all right now what happens when you're you're  

going through and and building your vocabulary  with these different slots they're two different  

things that you're doing as you're building the  vocabulary so the first one is you're kind of  

filling in slots that you understand so like you  can see this you can understand what it means and  

you look at it and think okay there's a vocabulary  word connected with this all right now this is  

a basic noun it's a physical thing and it works  the same way if you have even like you know more  

complicated things so you might have something  like I don't know like an idea like a Justice or  

truth or something and you're still learning that  either in English or you're learning a translation  

from your native language all right let me make  sure everybody is following me so far all right  

hopefully I think this makes sense I'll go back  and check the chat a little bit more in a bit  

but ah these markers is really is  really pissing me off over here that  

I I didn't I brought these markers  a while back it should have got more  

um so anyway as you go up you basically have  this like your vocabulary is uh it's like forking  

so you learn more words you learn new things  okay you get more vocabulary that's coming in  

and then you basically have to choose what you're  learning when you learn a new thing all right so  

let's look at an example like uh the one that we  got from uh from the fluent for life member which  

is like having Rapport in a conversation and so if  you you learn like that first word again or that  

phrase either you learn it in your native language  or you learn it uh or learn it through your native  

language or you learn it all in English you can  basically you get one thing as you learn it and  

then you can choose when you learn something new  do you want to replace that older thing or do you  

want to keep using the the thing you just learned  all right so as an example for me uh learning  

Japanese when I was well is it maybe like a few  weeks ago I have been using like the word like  

percent so it's the same thing in Japanese you can  say like non-passen for like how much percent of  

something and then I heard someone else say like  non-wati as like the same thing like what percent  

and I said oh wow that's a much cooler uh more  interesting faster easier and it just like had  

all the better it was like better armor like  a better piece of equipment for that slot so  

when describing percentages like this like talking  about like the percent of something that was just  

a much better way of describing it and so I said  oh look at that like I will replace uh the word  

percent with Woody and so in that same way you're  learning as you learn new vocabulary you don't  

have to have all of like the all of the vocabulary  you know at the same level so you don't have to  

put pressure on yourself to try to remember  everything equally the point is to get better  

armor better equipment as you go through learning  the language and so you might have like the kind  

of passive vocabulary I mean you can still use the  words if you if you want to but really you still  

have your kind of like one word or phrase that  you use most frequently it's the same thing with  

grammar so there are different ways of expressing  something and then you can pick which one is most  

comfortable for you and yet then your job is like  to try to try to improve that thing as you learn  

more all right so we begin with something like  percent so I learned like like how many percent  

what percent of people are doing something all  right but then I say then I hear from someone  

else like not Wadi and it's like oh that's that's  a cooler like I went from like a level you know  

one sword to a level three sword so I said I'm  going to stop using this other one I mean I still  

remember it you can hear me I use both uh and  remember them but there there's one that I kind  

of equip in the same way like a character in  a video game uh that I'm trying to show like  

this is the one I will use most frequently so  I still have all the older equipment here in  

my inventory all right so hopefully there's some  video game players out there that understand what  

I'm talking about uh the basic idea again  is that you begin with basically nothing  

and you have to and you have to start collecting  equipment for the for the individual like words  

and phrases and grammar points and things you want  to express so the real question is will you learn  

those things as a native so learning them like uh  learning English as a first language or will you  

try to learn them through your native language and  usually the the problems that people have about  

like forgetting words or having trouble expressing  themselves in conversations it's because they're  

learning through their native language and not  really making a strong connection with the the  

actual English because they don't they don't  learn it through English so they're trying to  

study maybe some vocabulary rules or they're  looking at maybe like grammar constructions  

that they don't quite understand and not getting  many examples of the actual grammar they want to  

use and so that's what causes a lot of the trouble  so as you're learning new words and phrases number  

one you should be doing that all in English and  then number two what you're doing is you're trying  

to you're trying to learn new words and understand  and them and replace things that you didn't really  

like you kind of learned earlier and now you  say something different you found a better more  

interesting or more colorful way whatever you find  is good for your life it's not like you have to  

use one word or another it's just what you feel  comfortable with and this is why you will find  

lots of native speakers that speak differently  so I might say oh it's crazy hot over here and  

someone else says it's incredibly hot over here  we're both talking about the same thing we're just  

expressing it in a different way but one person  they might say it's like oh it's crazy hot or it's  

crazy cold or crazy something that's just a word  that they use frequently and it's easy for them  

and it keeps the conversation flowing okay so I  don't want you to try to remember all these things  

equally we don't want you to wear like all the  armor and all the all the weapons and everything  

all at the same time you don't have to try to  collect everything and try to recall everything  

and use it just try to relax understand things  like a native and then that's where you're going  

to start using things much more confidently and  fluently because you're not worrying about like oh  

no I've got all these different things and I and I  don't understand exactly what they mean all right  

so again I really want to make this point clear  if you start learning things through your native  

language it becomes more difficult to do this  because a big problem you will have is worrying  

if you're if you're really using the right word  for the situation but if you're learning like a  

native you're always connecting situations with  vocabulary you're not trying to connect a uh like  

a translation in your language with English you're  trying to connect English with the situation  

and so when you hear someone else like I just use  that like from placent to to Wadi so if I'm using  

that and I learn that expression again I think oh  wow this is just a much easier way of doing that  

it sounds more native and natural I will use  that so I've gotten my new piece of equipment  

that helps me communicate all right let me check  the chat making sure everybody is okay all right  

uh let's see nice to see everybody George over  there Fabio Yin good morning how's the weather  

in Japan yeah it's it's actually it's nice we're  kind of getting to the end of the rainy season  

it might maybe still rain some more uh but we'll  see uh as a gamer I can relate with analogy best  

analogy to understand this is dram okay glad to  hear somebody understands what I'm talking about  

yes there I mean there are different ways you are  doing this like uh I could try to think up like I  

don't know like what would be a good example for I  don't know like I mean really anybody so whatever  

you do usually people begin doing something like  you start a new hobby or you start uh you're like  

training to do whatever you're always beginning  with something basic and over time you level up  

your individual skills in that thing and this is  what I'm trying to show with like the video game  

example because again each one of these pieces  is different all right when people talk about  

their overall fluency it's like how good your  overall character is but you might have like  

a really good vocabulary but maybe you know some  grammar point you use is not very good all right  

so the the first thing I talked about is is having  these like kind of slots like a vocabulary slot  

the next thing I want to mention very quickly  is that you might increase your slots as you  

become come kind of deeper in the language as  you as you get more nuanced something like that  

uh so I'll just give you a quick example this  was uh from a commercial you can actually watch  

this on YouTube uh if I can remember the name  of it uh it was a like a toothpaste commercial  

uh there were it was a bunch of children with  a teacher in a classroom and the teacher was  

saying what color is the sky and all the kids  raised their hand they said blue blue the sky  

is blue and then she said what color is the grass  and the kids are all excited it's green the grass  

is green and then she says what color are my  teeth and the little kids like you each you  

hear all these different responses from the kids  they say like off-white mother of pearl stucco  

so it's making a joke about how like the  the answer the teacher is looking for is  

white so my teeth are white but like you know the  commercial is about her having not like perfectly  

white tea so what's interesting here is like  as a child you learn the word white but as you  

get older and you get more nuanced about like  the different uh like levels or the different  

shades of of vocabulary you start increasing your  slots so we don't just have white like you could  

look at something that's white and maybe white  actually has a couple of different color names  

for it and that's the thing that you learn as you  as you improve in the vocabulary so when you're  

learning a new language you usually learn in the  same way the teacher will show you something red  

it's like this is blue but then maybe you learn  light blue and dark blue where you learn about  

different shades of blue like turquoise or uh  like sea green blue or like a bluish you know  

bluish purple or something so you start to learn  all these different shades and each one of these  

things is like a new slot for your armor so  it becomes a much more interesting thing but  

the point is that you should be learning it as a  native so you're learning to connect like you hear  

something you're connecting a situation with the  vocabulary rather than trying to take something in  

your native language and learn it through that all  right so if I'm teaching you like color names I  

don't T I don't really want to take take like your  native language and teach you something because  

maybe your brain doesn't really know what color  name I'm talking about like we can guess like okay  

I'm talking about blue in general but maybe this  is like a very specific blue color or even this  

one is this like what kind of red color is this  is this like reddish orange or maybe blood red  

and you can learn these different things as you as  you get deeper into the language but that's really  

what it means to build a vocabulary all right so  when we talk about building a vocabulary again  

pardon me with these bad markers I will have some  better ones next time uh but the again the the  

idea when people think about like how many words  do they need to know to speak fluently you can  

see from this example that like you could have a  character like let's say you you're just starting  

and then you I don't know you learn some like  really interesting word that gives you like a  

really strong sword so this is like you know  maybe you I don't know you learned something  

about cars or baking or whatever you're interested  in and so you begin like wow this is like a really  

great it's like a really great sword now the  English idea is that it's maybe some phrase  

or something that's really impressive to natives  but you can't like the rest of your vocabulary is  

not very good all right so your overall fluency  is not very good but maybe you're fluent you're  

fluent with this particular thing and that's okay  all right so the goal is to become fluent in all  

of these individual pieces and then as you get  them together it levels up your whole vocabulary  

all right so this is what I mean about building a  vocabulary so just to recap before I go back and  

look at the chat here the main idea uh always is  that you should be learning through English you  

should be learning things in English and really  trying to understand it from the situation so if  

you watch somebody ordering food what do they  say when they're ordering food so if I go to  

like Starbucks or McDonald's or a restaurant  or whatever it doesn't matter where I am I'm  

there and I could listen to 10 different  people order food and each one of them is  

going to say it in a little bit different way  their pronunciation is going to be a little  

bit different their vocabulary their accent all  of that's going to be a little bit different so  

as I'm building my vocabulary like a native I  have my vocabulary and I'm looking what can I  

change what can I level up or what can I maybe  increase if I learn something a bit more nuanced  

all right so I could go to a restaurant and  say Give me the give me like the chicken dish  

but maybe they have 10 different chicken dishes  it's the same thing like colors like do you want  

black or do you want like dark black or midnight  black or some other maybe there could be like tons  

of these things if you ever and this is especially  interesting for men uh if you go to like a women's  

uh like the makeup area in a department store  it's usually on the first floor so you walk in  

if you're a man just walk by and you will see  like it's like a hundred different red makeup  

like lipstick colors it's amazing and each one  of them has its own name even if they're like  

the eye can't even tell the difference between  what those things are but that's like really  

like adding a lot of slots to your vocabulary  specifically for that thing but it works the  

same way all right so either we're kind of like  we're building up our vocabulary as we start with  

something simple and then we go to something more  advanced when we feel more comfortable with that  

and then we still remember this other word down  here but we're we're learning something new and  

we feel more confident about using that or we're  kind of expanding the vocabulary where we we get  

more nuanced with something so again just like the  the lipstick example there's I don't I don't know  

like cherry red or uh I don't know again blood  red or uh I don't know I I wish I don't know  

much about lipstick but if you go there you will  find like that that kind of thing you will see  

you will really be surprised at how many different  colors there are and they all have different names  

and you know it's like part of the the product but  it's the same kind of thing you know like like my  

wife or whatever might look at some video game or  whatever and be like what's the difference between  

this sword and that other sword and I'm like  well this one does this amazing thing and that  

one does this and you know she doesn't care but  you get the idea the point is that you're you're  

taking individual words and phrases and as you  learn new things you're putting in kind of like  

making it making it stronger by leveling up to  that new thing so you don't have to try to carry  

all of these things at the same time you carry one  sword at a time all right so maybe you just use  

like yeah that's red and even if you know like you  could recognize like blood red and orange red and  

other things like that maybe you just use rip and  that's fine you don't need to use like you know  

the most exact specific word because you might  not even know that and maybe native speakers don't  

know that either so if I go to a makeup counter  in America and I I say like oh give me that red  

lipstick over there the the lady at the counter  will look at me like which one do you want what  

do you mean red lipstick we've got 30 different  red lipsticks over here I say okay give me the  

uh the passion passion red whatever you know I'm  just asking for for something like that but the  

point is like I can just say give me the red one  or I point to it something like that so I don't  

know the vocabulary they do they have like a much  deeper vocabulary it's much more advanced they  

have a much more nuanced look at that red lipstick  but maybe they don't know anything about you know  

whatever baking bread or car engines or flowers  or whatever all right but you understand the point  

the the basic idea is that we take something  even something as simple as a color and as we  

level up the vocabulary we're learning things and  we should be doing that all in English all right  

so you're it's going to be much more difficult  for you to do this if you're trying to learn it  

through through your native language because you  begin with something like red which is easier to  

understand but if another person says I don't know  like magenta or fuchsia or aquamarine or something  

these are all colors but it's much easier to  understand that when you see that color in English  

and you connect the color with the English word  rather than trying to learn it through your native  

language so it works the same way with vocabulary  like this if you're looking at physical things  

or if we're learning about ideas or if we're  learning grammar whatever even pronunciation  

it's the same kind of thing so I will hear  lots of different people Express something  

like again I gave an example in my previous video  about the British English version of inventory  

inventory but in American English we would say  inventory inventory so in a video game like this  

you have an inventory usually you will like often  carry all of these different weapons or something  

like that but you're only using one of them at  a time all right so don't overwhelm Yourself by  

trying to remember everything and trying to like  memorize it all perfectly what you want to do is  

find something cool and then level up get to the  next thing when you hear it and you think ah like  

I just learned some new thing for for like a way  of expressing this it's a faster way to say it  

it's an easier way to say it it sounds cooler  it's more impressive to people whatever your  

you know whatever the idea is all right hopefully  this is making sense let me check chat and answer  

questions but this is the basic idea of how you  build a vocabulary is everybody getting this  

about like building it all right so we don't  we don't carry everything at one time we have  

it like a slot for each of these different things  we have a slot for like the color red in our mind  

all right we have the slot for the color blue  and then we even have different slots for the  

other things like that and your mind will open up  infinitely to to get all these different things it  

probably doesn't need to maybe you don't need to  know 30 different colors for red unless you work  

selling makeup or something but you know like  women would probably know more on average than  

men would for that you know that's just what  they need to know about all right uh let's see

all right Merc says uh hi there I'm  new from Yemen nice to see you there  

and let's see all right all right nice why  we can't chat sometimes says of Fabio are  

you talking to me talking to me like  about about like chatting or whatever  

um like there's there there isn't much benefit  in chatting with me that you couldn't get from  

like chat GPT or like asking a question of Google  remember that you want to be getting all the input  

all the understandable messages you can that's  how you learn as a first language so me I'm  

trying to spend as much time as possible getting  examples that are the same kinds of things that  

natives would get so I'm paying attention like  what does my wife say to our kids you know what  

does she say like if she's like hey hurry up like  come on over here I want you to do something I'm  

listening very carefully to that and then I know  oh in this situation this is what she's saying so  

I'm learning it as a native I'm learning it like  a first language I'm learning Japanese as a first  

language and that's why I teach English as a first  language I don't want you to learn it through  

your native language I don't want you to try to  study it through rules or try to memorize grammar  

textbooks that kind of thing I want you to your  your mind will do that work for you automatically  

if you give it lots of automatic like just the  kinds of lessons the uh the automatic training you  

get just from the understandable messages in real  life so just like the example I gave before about  

saying I would always say like what percent what  percent what percent but then I heard something  

cool or it's like ah like what what like what like  non-watty hey it's like oh that's a cool way of  

of saying that but you learn the nuances for those  things like maybe it's good to say what percent at  

this time and maybe it's good to say like non-wati  at this other time over here all right and it just  

depends like you learn that by learning it as  a first language it's much more difficult to  

try to get somebody to explain that to you rather  than just like seeing that you know in real life  

or getting you know from a story or watching  a TV show or something that's all in English  

all right uh let's see hammerson Mayors I used  to build my vocabulary by translating to English  

the books that I'm reading yes uh again I don't  recommend people do that translating is going  

to be much more difficult and it's going to take  you a lot longer really your mind is is done it's  

designed to discover things in your environment  because you're always looking for something new  

and you're trying to understand what's happening  and this is a natural process that's going on so  

if you watch kids as they're learning like they  are trying to figure out because there is nothing  

to translate you can't translate when you teach  a child they can only learn English or Japanese  

or French or Thai or whatever in that language  so I can't I can't use German to teach my kids  

English I have to teach them English in English  so the only thing I can do is make the language  

understandable all in English all right so if you  do the same thing you will get the same result  

new here from Canada nice to see you there slots  yes uh let's see Adriano says from Brazil and I  

see the greetings from Mexico bro and I see there  Alejandro I remember the word inventory from the  

previous stream he gave us an example of how  British and America yeah uh Drew why did you  

move to Japan's is Adriano uh I wanted to study  Japanese design culture specifically learning  

gardening so I want to learn traditional Japanese  gardening and that's why I came here I actually  

don't do anything with gardening currently though  I would like to I don't even have my own garden  

at the moment I would like to though I don't even  have a plant I don't have one plant I feel really  

bad my previous apartment I had lots of plants  in it but I would like to get more uh let's see  

San says the best way to build vocabulary is to  read books as much as you can yes reading is an  

excellent way to improve your vocabulary and one  one of the things it's lacking though is actually  

hearing the unclear and different like different  speech that you get from people in real life so  

if you're only reading books it's really easy  to read the word the words are all written very  

clearly but you're not getting a lot of the real  native speech that you need to have if you want  

to understand real natives in actual conversations  all right so reading books is an excellent idea I  

read books in Japanese as well it's the same thing  but I also want to get lots of different that  

naturally varied review that comes from different  ways so it's coming from natives it's coming from  

maybe television shows or whatever so make sure  you get a nice mix of these different things  

all right Dr fatimus is amazing with a heart nice  uh fabulous is like ice cream the same with shoes  

Niels is back yes uh so so like and this is  another perfect example of that about like the  

the spacing out of slots so a man typically like  me I have like I have maybe two or three pairs of  

shoes I've got some black dress shoes some brown  kind of nice or you know they could be dress  

shoes they could be casual and then I've got some  sneakers just for walking around but women they  

will have like shoes for the beach on Tuesday in  France it's like that specific or they might have  

like you know shoes for this or that or whatever  and that that's you know people have their their  

thing like men you go into like a man's uh garage  or whatever and they've got all these different  

tools it's like look at this tool this tool does  this thing and here's like another tool that it's  

like slightly smaller but it basically looks the  same you know but but people need that it's like  

no it's like a tool for this we need to you know  and people have their reasons for for getting that  

specific stuff but it works exactly the same in  in vocabulary and grammar and everything else  

all right Sam Walton uh what does make no mistake  mean uh this just means like don't confuse  

anything so like like let's say I look I look very  tired I'm kind of sleepy over here but make no  

mistake I could jump up and and like knock you out  right now okay make no mistake so don't confuse  

this uh you will hear this a lot in uh like movies  where people are trying to tell someone like like  

be careful uh don't don't misunderstand something  or don't don't confuse something or like you you  

look at another team playing some Sport and they  look very small and very weak but make no mistake  

so don't confuse it don't don't misunderstand  don't don't uh don't kind of like see things  

uh the way they they really aren't so make no  mistake they actually are very good at what they  

do so like you see a like a basketball team it's  all really short guys and you come in and you're  

kind of laughing like oh look at those short  basketball players they can't do anything and then  

and then you lose the game because they're all  like super fast and they can run around and even  

they can jump pretty well all right so make no  mistake they're short but they're actually quite  

good all right so pay attention for when you hear  these kind of things whenever I get questions from  

Learners about like what does this mean you should  take a word or phrase put it into Google and get  

a bunch of examples and then look at all of the  examples and think like what is the what is the  

common theme Here what is that what is the idea I  promise you if you learn it that way this is the  

same way natives look up words so a native hears a  new word and they're like okay what does that mean  

so I wanted to look up like some like different  examples of that and it's the different examples  

that all have like a kind of like thread between  them so what is the the general meaning of the  

word as I look through those different  things it's much better to do that than  

getting a translation a similar thing you can do  if it's like a physical thing even if it's not a  

physical thing it might still work is to do a  Google image search so if I go to Google and I  

want to know like like even we just talked about  colors before like put in the color red and do an  

image search and I guarantee you you will find  lots of different shades of red all right but  

if I want to know what something means like I  don't know something like make no mistake like  

I could probably find some images about that but  I'll definitely find some text examples as well  

all right uh let's see the same with shoes  Indiana says yes it's true I have many lipsticks  

all right well done let's see Emerson uh agree  but one of the problems I see about learning new  

words like this way is most of the new words  in wrote in structures I don't understand  

uh if you're talking about so when you're  learning something new like uh in the way  

I'm recommending you do now we obviously do this  in fluent for life so we help people understand  

uh like lots of different vocabulary but help  you build your vocabulary in the same way so  

you're learning something and you think oh wow  this is like a really cool way of saying this so  

often Learners they learn one way they get the  textbook so Learners often have like the most  

basic equipment so they have like a textbook  way of doing something all right uh like they  

might say like don't confuse something or like  this is not how it really is but then the native  

says like make no mistake make no mistake so I  look old but make no mistake I'm still a good  

fighter make no mistake so don't confuse this  or like don't don't do something stupid where  

you try to make a mistake and try to fight me  like that so make no mistake don't make any  

mistakes and that's something where you learn  that in the situation and then that's how you  

level up your vocabulary because you took that  vocabulary and now it's part of you because you  

understand it like a native all right and it's the  same thing like with colors or grammar or whatever  

hmm uh thank you for your classes I want to buy  Frederick is monthly payment or just one payment  

says Yamaguchi song uh it's just one payment  right now so you can get the whole thing just  

click on the link in the description under this  video and you can get Frederick and yes I think  

in the future we'd like to add more things we may  have a monthly subscription because I'd like to  

put stories in there and other things that you can  learn with but right now because we're still just  

building the app I'm always like trying to make  it perfect so we're still just releasing it uh and  

testing new things with it so get just one time  payment click on the link in the description below  

to get that uh Alejandra again when you begin  to learn through English not from your native  

language sometimes you forget the meaning of that  word in your native language yes that actually  

happens sometimes I would I was talking with my  dad I couldn't remember the word ambassador so I  

was I was trying to like and I couldn't remember  the word uh Ambassador in English and I was just  

like I was like yeah what's the name of that  person you know they they represent your country  

and they travel to a different country and I kind  of remember like oh Ambassador that's right yeah  

so yeah so you have these kind of slots uh in your  vocabulary and this is one of the things I talk  

about in how to remember any English word which  is also in fluent for life so if you understand  

this this notion like the way your mind works it  basically has all of these slots in it and it's  

difficult to try to put something new in your mind  because you already have these things these slots  

in English so if you create a new category of  something that's a much easier way of doing that  

so I I give a quick story about that like  trying to remember the word moss in Japanese  

so when I was first learning that word the  word Moss which is I couldn't remember it I  

was like okay I can't it was it's it's like  a short simple word but I couldn't remember  

it uh and then I went to a a gardening show  in Japan and I saw a kokedama which is like  

it's it's just uh like a kind of a dirt  ball with moss around it and sometimes it  

will have a flower or plant or something in  it and I was like oh look at that kokodama  

and I understood like I created a new category of  that thing because I didn't have that in English  

like I didn't there wasn't any like a moss ball  thing was not a thing I knew about but because I  

learned it in Japanese I understood what it  was I then was able to understand both Koke  

which is moss and Tama which is ball and so I  connected both of those things and was able to  

remember that by using that same category  idea uh the way your mind works yeah uh

let's see all right uh let's see what is  Frederick all right so so Frederick uh when  

you be so Frederick for anybody who would like  to like learn more vocabulary the native way  

as well uh Frederick is an app that we created  to have people learn English in English and so  

rather than using translations you're learning  with images and animations and that helps you  

understand the vocabulary and the grammar and  the pronunciation all in English so it's it's a  

new kind of app like the first app of its kind  to teach you English all in English that way  

so if you click on the link in the description  below this video you can learn more about  

Frederick so if you want to improve your  listening and your pronunciation it will  

teach you the same way natives learn pronunciation  so learning all the individual sounds and then you  

also hear how they blend together as you hear  different words and sentences in the app uh so  

we're still building that it's been a long  time I think we've been working on it for  

like 10 years or something I've spent oh man  I don't know how much I I don't want to tell  

you how much money I've spent on this app that I  could have spent on vacations and cars and stuff  

but it's a it's a labor of love a labor of  love all right now this is a new expression  

for you if my marker Works come on marker  come on labor there we go kind of Labor

a labor of love so what's happening here if this  is a new expression for you A labor of love so  

labor meaning to work I'm doing some kind of work  but I'm not laboring for money I'm laboring for  

love so it's like something like a passion project  something that I really enjoy doing because I just  

really enjoy doing it alright so I really want  to make an app a whole system that everybody can  

learn with so video learning is great the only  problem is that you can't really interact with  

video so I really wanted to make software kind of  like a like a video game like this that teaches  

you or lets you basically teach yourself the  language so Frederick is a labor of love so it's  

something I wanted to do even if I never like made  any money off of it I still wanted to do it just  

because I thought that would be a good thing to  make so then that's a another great expression you  

can remember like a labor of love so when you're  talking about some project you're working on that  

maybe you don't do it for work it's just a hobby  like you're fixing your car at home or you're I  

don't know you do gardening in your back backyard  or something you can call that a labor of love a  

labor of love all right so no link no problem  Drew nope I know ink no problem yes it's true  

uh even I have to improvise so maybe if like the  markers aren't working then I have to have to be  

creative and and think you know just like this  like I'm not able to use the chat on my phone  

since I updated the YouTube app which is really  dumb I don't know why that's happening so I have  

to look at my computer over here but you have to  improvise all right uh Ohio's NSA let's see nice  

to see you there uh Dr Fatima do you recommend to  read any book about vocabulary such as a picture  

dictionary uh yes but uh it's like if you want to  do that just use Frederick Frederick is basically  

a picture dictionary uh but it's got animations  in it as well and it's got way more it's over 2  

000 words and sentences plus you get to hear me  speaking so you get to hear all the pronunciation  

and it's all organized by uh by the vocabulary  sound so we begin with the alphabet and then go  

up to much more difficult things like graduation  and synthesis and apocalypse other words like that  

but we do it step by step so you can tell exactly  where English pronunciation is is going well or  

not not going so well all right so remember books  books again are a great idea the only problem is  

that you can't hear anything I mean maybe you  listen to an audiobook that's a good idea too  

uh but the you also want to hear native speakers  you really need to have that native speech those  

native examples that are not clear that are that  are not using clear textbook English all right  

this is why we put all that in fluent for life  all right and uh let's see Emerson again Anki plus  

immersion on English are the best way to review  new vocabulary uh I don't really recommend Anki  

so those are just regular flash cards naturally  varied review is going to be much faster than  

trying to just repeat something again and again I  think I may make a video about just like straight  

repetition and how it works but your brain is is  always looking for new information so it's making  

it much more difficult like trying to re repeat  something like a flash card is really boring  

because your brain is not interested in doing  that all right so what your brain is interested in  

doing is seeing something and trying to understand  a pattern your brain loves doing that that's why  

we like to solve puzzles uh and like watch a  murder mystery or something like that your brain  

is trying to solve a problem it's entertaining  for you that way so if you have to choose between  

these two ways of learning either you're going  to repeat something again and again which your  

mind does not want to do or you're trying to make  a puzzle and understand patterns which your brain  

does want to do which one should you pick so the  the clear example uh the clear winner here would  

be understanding phrases and patterns and things  like that with naturally varied review so rather  

than repeating something like looking at the same  exact flash card you want to see that vocabulary  

in different contexts or hear it from different  speakers hear it in different tenses so see it  

in different tenses maybe you hear it or read  it somewhere or listen to it somewhere this is  

why we put naturally varied review into fluent  for life because it's much faster than trying  

to take that vocabulary and and try to repeat it  and you'll notice like the the naturally varied  

review is what natives are doing naturally so  this is what you do when you're learning your  

your native language maybe some new vocabulary is  created like some person at a university discovers  

a new thing and they start telling people you hear  about it in the news you hear about it from other  

people you read about it in a newspaper that's all  those all those different sources are what what  

create the understanding and let you use that  thing fluently for yourself all right so if  

you're just taking like one flash card and trying  to repeat something again and again it's going to  

be less effective it's also going to prepare you  less for real conversations so it's it's better  

than doing nothing uh certainly like everybody  should be reviewing but it's just much more uh  

like it's a much easier and natural way to review  if you get naturally varied review all right uh  

for sure I'm excited by your approaches Alexi  glad to hear I'm rushing currently living in the  

U.S yes if you have any questions about it let  me know this is my my chance to to really help  

people often what I do in these YouTube videos is  explaining to people about like the strategy and  

then you know the things we have like Frederick or  fluent for life or or the native fluency blueprint  

these are just different like the actual lessons  it will take you through that so the system you  

can use to go through that but I'm here now if you  have any questions about programs or anything else  

all right uh good evening the Ambassador yes uh  let's see uh good night my brain now um try all  

right Samuel Simpsons is very good and uh charov  says hello teacher all right looks like we got  

to the end uh of the questions over here into  questions and comments does everybody understand  

this idea hopefully you're you're understanding it  better now than maybe you did before when people  

talk about how many words do you need to speak  fluently I hope it's clear that you don't it's not  

like you you like you can have this this one piece  of equipment like one word or phrase and you use  

that fluently but maybe you're you're very weak in  other places like you don't know other words so if  

I hold up these colors maybe you know this color  but you don't know the names of these all right so  

how fluent are you you can't really say what you  can say is you're fluent in this color but you're  

not yet fluent in these colors okay so you have  like some pieces of equipment and the point is  

to like level up the overall fluency by leveling  up the individual pieces of equipment so these  

um like the different like words or phrases or  grammar point or something but it's okay to for  

you to use something that you feel comfortable  with all right the goal is not to try to push  

yourself to some really high academic level like  to be a linguist and know everything perfectly the  

point is to number one have something that you  feel confident about and again the confidence  

comes from you understanding that thing very well  so getting lots of review of that thing really  

understanding it like a native rather than trying  to like remember okay for this grammar point do we  

have it in like the past perfect and then we put  this word and then that word you don't want to  

think about the vocabulary like that you want to  know it the same way a child does without having  

to translate anything all right and so the second  thing is in making sure like we feel uh confident  

about the vocabulary and and we don't need to  worry about like trying to remember everything  

so you're building you're building your vocabulary  and then you're kind of taking something you like  

and then that becomes your new thing that you're  using currently and you'll notice over the course  

of your life you use different vocabulary and  then you also have like the kind of nuanced  

vocabulary where you might say hello uh in a  more like professional business meeting but  

you might say hi or hey in a more casual meeting  and so that's again like the like the lipstick  

it's the same thing like instead of the color  red we're talking about different greetings so  

we might have a greeting for uh being like polite  or a greeting for being more casual and you get  

these different slots for uh the different kinds  of greetings you make or we have a slot for like  

greeting someone at night so we say good evening  or more casual ways just like evening all right  

all right Alexi again says I hope you have the  whole algorithm of preparation including the  

study plan which has a critical importance the  whole algorithm of preparation what do you mean  

specifically Alexa are you talking about fluent  for life if you are talking about fluent for  

life I can explain quickly uh for you and anyone  else who would like to know how it works basically  

what we do um ah and these damn markers so I can't  explain it with I have to do this without markers  

for today but the basic idea behind fluent for  life is that most people struggle to speak because  

they don't really learn the language in English  they're trying to learn something through their  

native language and they're thinking about it  logically so they remember like oh like I use the  

past perfect in this sentence or or like you know  they're thinking about grammar rules or they're  

thinking about translations but when they're in  a conversation you have to be quick you have to  

maintain the flow of the conversation and so the  only way to do that is really to learn English as  

a first language now there are three pieces of  this learning as a first language so the first  

one is learning the actual vocabulary that native  speakers would use if you don't know what native  

speakers are saying then you won't understand them  and you won't communicate in that language either  

and the second thing is again understandable  messages where we're trying to understand what  

natives are saying all in English and I want to  connect my vocabulary so the vocabulary in English  

with the situation so if I drop something on my  head that's the situation I drop something on my  

head what does a native English speaker say they  say ouch or ah damn or you know whatever that the  

expression is they're different things you can  say but most native speakers they know the word  

ouch and that's what a lot of people say so you  can learn more expressions and other things but  

the point is like you want to get so good like  ah you drop something on yourself like or you  

get surprised or whatever you can respond to that  thing automatically and the only way to do that  

is by understanding it like a native that's the  whole point and so the last thing that helps you  

do that is the naturally varied review so we  want to hear lots of different examples about  

vocabulary like uh we want to hear not just me  like you don't want to hear only me teaching  

something you want to hear other native speakers  talking about that same thing so you want to get  

lots of examples of like an Irish person or a  person from the Southern United States or like  

a man or a woman we want to hear lots of different  examples and from again people all over the world  

so what we do in fluent for life is we really want  to help you build Mastery in the language so that  

you automatically communicate so we want to help  you learn like a native and learn systematically  

the same way a native does so the way the program  is broken down is well we have an index that talks  

about all the different topics you could learn  it's got all the grammar points listed all the  

the different native speakers and where they're  from and then obviously what the topic is for  

that conversation so one topic might be learning  about baseball and all the vocabulary that we use  

from baseball in other situations like we're  talking about baseball like let's say you go  

out on a date you know with uh with a girl and  your friend says like hey did you hit a home run  

you know did you score so you're asking like you  know did you get a kiss or something like that and  

we have a whole vocabulary that's just talking  about that from baseball because it's such a  

popular uh and important part of American culture  uh and so you're learning something like that and  

then the key there is to focus on something so you  spend your time you spend like a whole month just  

focusing on that vocabulary and reviewing it very  well so each day you're learning the vocabulary  

in a slightly different way you're listening to  it you're writing it a little bit maybe watching  

something or listening and as you go through the  lesson set you automatically build fluency even  

if you don't have someone to practice speaking  with so the point of kind of the way people are  

naturally learning the language is that you don't  spend your time trying to repeat things to other  

people what you should spend your time doing is  really understanding the language well all right  

because when you understand the language well  that's when you feel confident about speaking most  

people in conversations they worry about saying  something because they don't know well is this the  

right word for the situation like they don't know  like they learned maybe some things from Spanish  

or Russian or whatever the the language is and  then they don't know exactly I don't know if I'm  

pronouncing that correctly so maybe I should pick  a different word and so if you're not feeling  

confident about that then it doesn't matter if you  can have conversations or not because they will  

all keep you at this kind of lower level of using  the vocabulary so everyone who joins the program  

has their own unique plan through it so there are  a hundred different lesson sets and most people  

don't go through all of them and you don't need  to spend that much time in it because the point  

is to get fluent in that particular vocabulary  just like you're building up like a really strong  

sword we do that really quickly so you go through  that you learn that vocabulary and then after you  

go through uh that first lesson set you are now  fluent in that vocabulary and you can use that  

when you're talking about other things so even if  you're learning about baseball and that vocabulary  

now you know how to use that vocabulary in the  right situation in business or when talking about  

war or talking about relationships or whatever and  then you go on to the next lesson set and do the  

same thing again with some different vocabulary  and grammar and speakers and as you go through the  

whole thing it's basically simulating what it's  like to learn English in a native environment  

so if you can't travel or even if you live in the  United States if you want to have like like a very  

a systematic native environment that's really  going to give you the review you need that's  

what we have in fluent for life but let me  know if you have specific questions about it

yes I know this is a this is a special it's a  national holiday but yes I didn't know today  

it was a national holiday so I got up I thought  I was uh going to give my like walk my daughter  

to school I will do that sometimes uh but  it's a national holiday and I was already  

like planning on doing this so here I am  but yes if you were enjoying hopefully uh  

enjoy your day enjoy the national  holiday yo no no he come out

uh let's see Sam again uh fuchsia yes fuchsia is  the color uh I mean the schedule the study plan  

and uh sort by step Manor yes Alexi uh so when  you join the program you get a daily schedule  

and again so you you begin by picking from the  index what lesson set you would like to learn and  

it's all done by yourself so you can go through  it like we have a recommended schedule but some  

people like to go through a little bit faster  a little bit slower it just depends on how much  

time you have but yes there's a schedule every  day and so today we're going to spend at least  

15 minutes or 30 minutes just watching a video or  trying to write a little something and again like  

if you can spend more time fantastic but even if  you only have 15 minutes or 30 minutes a day and  

almost everyone should have that kind of time but  if you have that yes it's all structured for you  

uh uh Net10 Nathaniel says let's see  Hello teacher watching you from West  

Center from Brazil hello from Brazil we  got lots of fans in Brazil Sam Walton  

Again YouTube English teachers should  watch your vids and take notes you're  

on another whole level yeah I think actually  a lot of YouTube teachers do watch my videos  

that's why you see people like so I have a video  on my channel uh it's like it's probably the  

most popular video on YouTube on English fluency  it's called get fluent with one trick and so you  

can go to like if you type in get fluent with one  trick you will see all the people they copied that  

and I've seen that in other languages too it's  like get fluent in French in one with one trick or  

whatever but most people don't they don't actually  do what I recommend it's still the same kind of  

thing now this is a tricky thing about YouTube  Because as a like as a business I'm not really I'm  

not really doing YouTube the right way it sounds  kind of funny but I I have uh I'm at war with  

myself this is another good expression for you  so to be like you know what it means to be at War  

so at War like I'm at War so you're fighting but  you're at war with yourself at war with yourself

let me write this clearly [Applause]  you're self at war with yourself  

all right so I'm at war with myself about uh  like how I teach on YouTube so if anybody out  

there is watching and you want to teach English or  whatever the thing is on YouTube uh the the kind  

of typical way to do it is to give people more  new information okay so I mentioned earlier about  

like I forget who was asking about like Anki flash  cards or whatever but remember that your brain is  

naturally interested in new information all right  it always is looking for something new so you go  

to YouTube most people do not go back and watch a  YouTube video they already watched all right it's  

very rare uh you might have like a favorite movie  or something like that that you go back and watch  

occasionally but it's very rare for people to go  back and watch like a language lesson on YouTube  

again all right but so what what like what people  typically do for teaching on YouTube is like here  

are 10 new words to remember about whatever all  right so you watch that because you're naturally  

interested in that your brain is excited to  watch new information but then you forget it  

because you don't get any review so you're you're  like the the YouTube kind of teaching or whatever  

is is all about trying to get as many views as  possible uh and so that that leads to people  

making content that like it doesn't really build  fluency because you need to have review in order  

to build fluency all right so it keeps you kind of  stuck watching you know the same kinds of things  

so when like when people ask me why should I join  your program when there's so much free content  

on YouTube I say well it's great if you enjoy  watching content on YouTube and you're getting  

fluent from it fantastic but a lot of people are  not so they're they're kind of stuck on YouTube  

they like learn a few words and then forget them  and then learn something else and then forget them  

instead of getting naturally varied review so you  it's possible to get that you basically have to  

create your own learning program to get naturally  varied review from YouTube If you're trying to  

learn that way but it will not come from watching  more random Youtube videos about like learning  

vocabulary all right so just understand what's  happening about that so yes other people like they  

might take like popular videos or whatever from  certain channels or something um and yeah like  

I've learned from other teachers as well there's  like you know some some great things but once I  

learned about like like even Dr Steven crash like  I give him credit for hey he like came up with  

an idea about how people should be learning and  it's the same thing I discovered but he has like  

a lot of the you know the scientific evidence or  whatever that it also proves it's correct so I'm  

also learning from other people but again if you  want to become fluent you need review it's the  

review that gets you fluent and it's the review is  boring for people that's why people don't want to  

do it all right so that's why I naturally varied  review becomes the solution to that so you're able  

to unlike a a flash card where you look at the  same thing again and again and it gets more boring  

each time you do it you have to change it up you  have to mix it up with something else and make  

it a little bit different and that makes it more  kind of palatable or interesting or acceptable to  

your mind so your brain thinks oh I'm listening  to that now it's a different speaker saying that  

same thing or it's in a different context or  like before it was you know for business now  

we're using that same thing for talking about  relationships so just remember this as you learn  

I talk about this sometimes but it's the it's not  more English that gets you fluent it's the review  

remember that little kids they know fewer words  than a lot of adult native English speakers but  

the kids speak more fluently why is that it's  because they review that vocabulary they know  

that vocabulary really well rather than trying  to have a big vocabulary that they don't remember  

all right uh let's see Edith says what does the  phrase nail on Neil Nils is back mean I think  

you say it sometimes when when you see a comment  ah Nils yes Nils is back so Nils and this is an  

interesting thing how vocabulary works as well  so nil I keep forgetting that this let me see  

here maybe red is better now yes so Nils is a is  like a German name I believe uh and in the movie  

Die Hard with Bruce Willis so the original die  hard from I don't know that was like 30 years ago  

I think uh so in that movie there's a character  named Nils and Nils is one of the terrorists that  

comes and and gets in this uh it's a Japanese  uh office building in Los Angeles if you've  

not seen the movie you should watch it it's an  entertaining movie but Bruce Willis is on the  

he's on the walkie-talkie talking with the the  head terrorist uh and he and the head Terraces  

like Nils where like where are you Nils and Bruce  Willis is like Nils is dead [ __ ] he said Nils is  

dead uh and so whenever like I've never met  anyone personally named Nils but I thought  

it was a cool name Nils is dead so now when I  see Nils look look at that Nils is in the chat  

still over there so Nils is in Wisconsin I  believe still not Germany currently but whenever  

I whenever I I see him there I say Nils is back  so like he came back for another chat rather than  

Nils is dead you know because that would be that  would be mean and not true Nils is clearly alive  

so that's where that comes from all right we  call this we call this an inside an inside joke

inside joke so an inside joke means it's  like inside a circle so only the people  

in this circle understand the joke the  people on the outside don't understand  

inside joke so if you were talking with your  friends it's like it's like a code you can  

use when you're talking with people or it's just  something that only you and your friends know or  

your family or something rather than something  that like everybody has access to all right uh  

how to join your program you can just click on  the link in the description below this video  

so you can get uh Frederick you'll see a link for  that and you'll see a link for uh fluent for life

uh let's see Christian Ross's hey teacher I  have been practicing all day for eight hours  

I need more I see practicing  English doing something else  

all right let's see uh naturally varied review  is really important yes so that naturally varied  

review was like that was the the main thing  I discovered about about how to get fluent so  

when I talk to people about Stephen crashing  and when they're saying they're like what is  

what is understandable messages or a crashing  calls this comprehensible input I call it  

understandable messages just because that's a  little bit easier to understand but when people  

say like well how much of that do you need and I  just say you need as much until you get the aha  

moment that's where you can stop and like ah now  I got it I understand what something means so a  

good teacher can help you get to that aha moment  for words and phrases much faster so notice like  

I'm explaining something like what is an  inside joke what is a labor of love what  

does it mean to be at war with yourself and as  you learn these things like you might begin with  

a textbook example of like yeah I can't like I  don't know if I should marry this woman or not  

I don't know if I should start a business about  this or not it's like an important decision I'm  

trying to decide you know and I can explain it  like that or I can just say I'm at war with myself  

or if I'm working on something yeah I'm just I  really love fixing cars or I love like you know  

teaching kids at the library something like that  even though I don't get paid for it it's a labor  

of love a labor of love an inside joke so I'm not  trying to give you a translation of the word where  

you would be like hey I kind of understand like  an inside joke but once you understand it like a  

native so I'm teaching you as a first language  I'm teaching you English as a first language  

the same thing I would explain these same things  to my own kids so they ask me lots of questions  

about what does this word mean or when can  we use something and they're understanding  

by connecting the situation with vocabulary all  right they're not trying to do it between like  

two different languages even though they could  so now my my younger daughter is four years old  

and they could like use English and Japanese and  like you know I could like I could kind of cheat  

and tell them one thing means something else in  in English or Japanese but I don't want them to  

do that I want them to actually understand  what it means within the language itself

all right uh yeah let's see you he says uh hi drew  first time for a live class could you explain how  

to use composed of consist of comprised of every  time I want to use it I need to Google an example  

uh well those all mean the same thing basically  like like this um like this marker is composed of  

the different pieces of it so it's composed  of plastic so I could be talking about what  

materials it's made out of or I could be talking  about the different parts like it's composed of  

ink and plastic and I guess maybe that's it just  ink and plastic or maybe something else so it's  

you could talk about it's comprised of the same  things or it consists of the same things it you  

know they're all basically the same and this  is the the example I gave at the beginning of  

this video uh talking about like if you're  you're developing a good relationship with  

someone you could describe that as we have good  rapport or we're building a relationship or we  

get along well together or we're getting to  know each other there are lots of different  

ways to say this so you don't need to like you  can pick one of those expressions like which  

one do you like the best like comprise  consist or uh what did you say compose  

so in the same example you level  up your vocabulary just pick one  

like okay I'm gonna like use like composed up or  whatever but you will understand the rest of them  

they mean basically the same thing all right but  you will learn a more a more kind of like nuanced  

view of them like maybe I use uh comprise when I'm  talking about like I don't know it's actually like  

if you if you look them up you would probably find  in a dictionary they would be like uh synonyms so  

a synonym is a like a meaning of related or exact  uh same meaning um so if you if you look for those  

you see lots of examples but the it's the examples  rather than getting even like a definition from  

uh from a teacher or something that will that will  help you see that and again this is the your brain  

is a naturally uh it's like a pattern recognizing  machine and so it loves to find patterns if you  

give me 10 sentences with a word like if I  teach you a new word but I don't tell you  

what it means but I give you 10 sentences and you  hear that word again and again you will naturally  

come to understand what that means and the more  interesting thing is you will like the process so  

I know it like people just like ask a teacher just  tell me what this means but I promise you when you  

discover what something means for yourself you're  like ah I got it okay so this is the this is what  

we do with naturally varied review and again in  Frederick what you'll notice like we designed  

Frederick rather than a regular flash card which  has usually a picture on one side of the flash  

card and then a word on the other you actually  have four different icons for each word so as  

you scroll through the different icons it's like  ah now I'm starting to get it by understanding all  

of these different things together it's a whole  system you use to understand vocabulary not just  

one example and this is another reason why flash  cards are not as good as naturally very reviewed  

all right Nils is back again with a nice smiley  face there uh and Yamaguchi son says uh thank you  

I'm very excited about Frederick yes give it a  try we have more people in Japan uh playing with  

it enjoying that also leave us a review anybody  who has tried Frederick anybody is anybody else  

in the chat tried Frederick already and if you  have if you enjoy it like uh like the app give us  

a review give us an awesome review I'd love to get  more people trying it I'm also looking for schools  

so we're now starting because I want to start  building the like the school version so we can get  

that in school so if anyone out there is a teacher  and you would like to use it in a classroom let  

me know just send us a mail all right and I think  we got through all right we've got some more here  

yeah nice to see everybody got  some some good sentences over here  

look the penguin Channel good  job all right uh and let's see

okay all right yep yep so Nils is just yeah  that's the name uh let's see great movie yes  

but it is uh the name of a ship yes I'm sure Nils  is probably the name of many different things  

maybe someone even has a cat named Nils you know  maybe Andre I guess my age without saying my age  

that Die Hard movie so I am you can guess my age I  am well I'll just tell you I'm 42 uh years old but  

yeah I remember when Die Hard came out that was 88  I think something like that I wasn't I wasn't that  

old when it came out uh would you recommend any  outputs what does that mean outputs you mean input  

like you you're trying to get more information  like the information you get for for learning  

let me know says can you suggest the three main  steps to become fluent in English well I just I  

basically gave you the whole thing there's there's  only one thing you need to do to get fluent it's  

learn English like a native so learning English as  a I mean I call it learning English like a native  

but a better way to say it is learning English as  a first language all right and part of the reason  

I say that is because people think it's impossible  to learn like a native they think well I how can I  

learn like a native I need to get a translation of  something no you don't if you have a good teacher  

who can who can make the language understandable  then you understand it all in English and that's  

how you use it so when people get stuck thinking  and translating about the language that's when  

they can't communicate and this is why you have  many people who can read and write and they can  

take tests in English but they really struggle in  actual communication because there are too many  

things going on in their mind they are overwhelmed  that's part of what we're talking about in this  

video so people get stuck translating hesitating  and they can't communicate and so the the reason  

for that is because they learned English as a  second language ESL this is the way most people  

teach the language you're learning English as a  second language and that's why like you're trying  

to translate things it it basically makes your  like the processing of your your brain crazy high  

when you're trying to speak so you're having to  think you're trying to pay attention and listen  

to what the other person is saying and you're  wondering if you're using the right expression  

you can't just relax and talk for a long time and  and have you know a good enjoyable conversation  

it's just a real a real tricky thing so as I  explained before uh what I call like the three  

pieces of this so the the only thing you have to  do is understand English like a native and you do  

that by learning English as a first language not a  second language all right so this means you learn  

the real vocabulary that natives are using so the  real slang idioms phrasal verbs all of that stuff  

but you don't just get translations of it you have  to understand it all in English so you need to  

get understandable messages and then you need to  have naturally varied review because you need to  

review the information in order to remember it and  really develop fluency the naturally varied review  

also helps you understand that better because  after you get lots of examples of something  

that's where you feel much more confident  about it if you get one example of something  

feel okay just like in the Frederick app if we  just gave you one picture of something you might  

understand it and it's easy for something like a  cat or a dog or whatever you can see what it is  

you understand that but something if we're trying  to explain the word justice or like capture with  

one image that would be really difficult but if we  show you four different images it's a lot easier  

to understand because you're looking at all of  them it's the naturally varied review the varied  

review we don't want you to just repeat like show  you the same thing again and again because that  

doesn't teach you anything you're not learning  anything new by reviewing the same thing again  

and again you have to change it a little bit and  so if you have all three of these things these are  

the three pieces you need and you'll notice like  there isn't a fourth piece about speaking practice  

because the speaking is a natural result that  comes from doing these things what most people  

are doing is they're trying to begin with like  learning something through their native language  

and then they try to repeat that to other people  but because they don't really feel confident about  

it they get stuck so they're stuck in this like  for years of of not being able to speak instead  

just learn like this you level up your vocabulary  by understanding English as a first language  

that's the fastest way to get fluent and it's  really the only way you're going to get fluent  

without like a lot of work you know trying to  do things spending a long time doing things a  

traditional way so that's it that's that's the  whole process and like almost every video I talk  

about like this basic same idea I'm just teaching  different things like giving you examples of  

different vocabulary or explaining how things work  but what we do in fluent for life is this is that  

process of learning English as a first language  all right uh let's say pretty nice says a Shakib  

power I have learned two thousand words before  but I couldn't use any of those words and now I  

am learning naturally very review and now I don't  need to think about the words yeah so there you go  

and this what this is what happens to a lot  to Learners like it's easier to learn this  

way remember you all I'm doing is taking the same  process that you use in your native language and  

and just helping you do that in English because  when you learn new things in your native language  

you just do that naturally all the time a  friend of yours will tell you some new word  

and you're like oh what does that mean and maybe  you talk about it maybe you hear about it on the  

news or you hear about it from whatever like the  government is trying to tell you to do something  

and you know you hear it on a commercial and  and see it you know around the city or whatever  

they're trying to do it's the same thing with  advertising like you see something again and again  

and slowly it gets into your mind but if you have  the naturally varied review it's going to make  

that process much faster all right that's whether  the naturally varied review part that is like the  

real Innovation I had uh that really gets people  fluent much faster so it's not just about like if  

you only learn like on YouTube you will find lots  of uh conversational English it's all over YouTube  

and that's because like the mind is always  interested in getting something new so people want  

give me new vocabulary I want new vocabulary but  you don't know your current vocabulary fluently  

why are you learning new words so I make videos  about these kinds of problems all right it's  

like it's not a very I don't know entertaining  thing there are people who are interested in  

that so the people I help are the ones who really  need to speak so they need to you know it's like  

have uh good conversations with with people in  their life like maybe they have grandkids who  

speak English and they don't know their native  language uh or maybe they have to like you know  

be at a call center or they're running a company  and they need to communicate with other people  

who speak English like it's for people who  want to want to speak fluently uh let's see

yeah

Arturo says Hi teacher nice to see you again nice  to see you all right thanks uh the marker consists  

of ink is that correct well like you would talk  like to talk about something like consisting of  

it it's the different the different parts of it so  like to give you an explanation I'll answer this  

other question here so what exactly or what is  naturally varied review mean so naturally varied  

review consists of getting lots of different  examples and varied examples of a particular  

thing so one example like I've done I made a video  a few months ago about how to make espresso and I  

did that it was an it's one example of naturally  varied review so in that video If you go to our  

YouTube channel after this video is finished you  can watch that one and you will see different  

people making espresso now there are some things  like people will be talking about espresso

let's see here which marker which marker will work  this time we'll see so I'm going to use this other  

Circle up here because it's already there and I  don't need to draw a new one I'm not very smart  

huh so let's say the first video you watch it  teaches you a bunch of vocabulary so this is a  

video One video about how to make espresso but  you don't stop there you watch another video  

it's also about making espresso so they're  they're both about making and making espresso  

and you will see here oh there is some  vocabulary that both of those people used  

and maybe some vocabulary that's different  it doesn't matter but you see wow these  

words must be more important but let me try  another video we watched yet another video  

and look at that now we get it's these is these  words up here that we know those words are really  

important because they keep coming again and again  all right and then in that video I actually put  

four different videos of people making espresso  so here's like the fourth videos like that so we  

know oh this vocabulary is going to be very very  important so when we're leveling up our our sword  

or whatever we're hearing different examples of  the same vocabulary before I made that video I  

didn't know anything about making espresso I don't  know what espresso is it's like oh you know some  

kind of coffee or whatever I had no idea I'm not  really a fan of coffee um but I thought it would  

be an interesting video to make because I don't  know anything about espresso so I can show you how  

quickly you can learn about something when you  get naturally varied review so in this example  

like one of the first things you learn is like you  take uh like the little espresso filter thing you  

put some coffee grounds in it and then you press  it down but they call it tamping so to Tamp kind  

of like Tamp it down or whatever make sure it  fits in the in the little uh filter thing this  

is one example of naturally varied review where  we take the same topic and have different people  

talking about that so it's going to give you lots  of different examples and this is something you  

can do right on YouTube so instead of watching a  bunch of random videos like teaching English about  

that don't have any connection to each other it's  much better to take a topic and then focus on that  

like how to grow roses so you look up on YouTube  for videos of native speakers talking about how  

to grow roses and then you watch 10 different  videos about that and I promise you after you  

go through all of those you're going to feel very  confident about some of the core vocabulary and  

you will know you know some other vocabulary as  well but that's how you feel confident and you  

could start having a conversation with someone  about growing roses after you do that all right  

so what most people do is like they will they  will watch one YouTube lesson again I apologize  

for these bad markers over here so they watch one  YouTube lesson about something and then they don't  

really feel very confident about the vocabulary  because they don't really understand it they've  

only heard it from a clear teacher so if like you  could learn something from a teacher and then go  

into the real world and hear the same word but  not actually hear it very well because someone is  

not pronouncing it clearly or you know maybe their  pronunciation is they're kind of mumbling a little  

bit so the naturally varied review gives you all  of these different examples of it it's the varied  

review that gets you fluent okay it's not just  hearing something one time because you will you  

will probably not remember it and also you won't  really understand that thing very well remember  

that as you were growing up you heard your parents  your friends your teachers other people in your  

community saying the same things your mom said  wash your hands and your dad said wash your hands  

and your brother said wash your hands and and  your teacher said hey did you wash your hands  

yesterday I washed my hands so I'm getting  different examples from different people in  

different tenses and that's where I feel really  confident about something and I did it all in that  

native language I didn't do it through another  language I did it all in English all right so all  

I've done is taken that process and put it into  a system that you can use to teach yourself and  

then as you get fluent in that you can start using  the vocabulary automatically that's how it works  

all right so hopefully that answers both of  that both of those questions so naturally very  

naturally varied review consists of uh naturally  very review consists of or what if you think  

about what comprises naturally varied review or  it's composed of these different uh uses of that  

same thing or like we have a core idea or a core  topic and we're going to have different people  

talking about it you're going to hear about it in  different tenses and that's what naturally varied  

review is so if you want to talk about like we  want to talk about all the elements of something  

this marker is composed of ink and plastic  this lesson that I'm giving you right now is  

composed of you know talking about video games  talking about vocabulary talking about how we  

build fluency so it's composed of what are like  the things I'm talking about it's the pieces of  

something it's composed of so I can talk about  like a cookie so this uh chocolate chip cookie  

is composed of you know I could talk about the  ingredients it's composed of butter and milk  

and sugar and flour and something else chocolate  chips all right hopefully that makes sense all  

right uh Daniel Moss is hi Drew I can I can fully  understand you but I cannot understand the movie  

how can I improve it so this is another thing  that naturally varied review helps you do so  

if I if I prepare you for a movie by explaining  what the vocabulary is and giving you examples  

of how like those native speakers will be  speaking you will feel a lot more confident  

and you will understand that movie much better  all right so most people most English learners

they watch a lesson from a teacher and then they  try to go directly to understanding a movie or  

something like that but the vocabulary is is  maybe the same but a lot of it is different  

it's going to be a faster speed it's going  to be maybe not as clear so of course it  

will be more difficult for most people  and that's why you need to go in steps  

to prepare yourself for this vocabulary so if  we if we begin let's say like so what we do in  

fluent for life is we actually begin with a real  conversation between two people or two or three  

people actually so some conversations actually  it's more than more than two people and then  

we take this and we split up the information into  different lessons and so the first one we're going  

to give you like one piece of grammar that you'll  see here like just this month we only really want  

you to master one use of grammar so you can learn  other things later but right now just focus on  

this one thing and as you go through the month you  will get fluent in that grammar you will you will  

learn to feel very confident using it so a lot of  what's in the program will be things that people  

already know but they just don't feel confident  using that grammar or that vocabulary or whatever  

so we take the thing like you could do the same  process with a movie so you have like all of the  

vocabulary from the movie uh and like here's how  to understand the different native speakers and  

you just go through that in different steps and  so instead of trying to go directly to the movie  

which is more difficult you have a series of it's  you know it's kind of like a staircase that goes  

up so you start here and you go up here and now  you can understand the movie that's how it works  

so you have to prepare yourself for that because  the vocabulary and the pronunciation and the speed  

is so different all right it's like trying to go  from beginner to an advanced level in one jump  

foreign that's how you learn Japanese yes that's  correct so I taught myself basically Japanese I  

only had I don't know maybe like like one month of  Japanese lessons in a classroom and I hated them  

because it was so boring and I wasn't learning  anything I was just like I don't understand  

what like what this is talking about it's it's  the same thing like a teacher will just give  

you more examples of okay let's uh diagram this  sentence I don't want you to diagram a sentence  

I want to understand what you're talking about  and and that's like the coolest thing you can  

do for a learner is is to let them understand  something where they feel like I got it like  

yes now I understand uh how something works  and when you do that then you feel confident  

using it until that point you will always be  worried about something like maybe I don't know  

what can I use this word in the in this context or  something I forget an example I was talking about  

my I was talking with my wife yesterday about  what was what were we talking about I forget  

um I don't remember but it was a similar kind of  uh thing like this where we were I should have  

written that down maybe I will recall it later  but the basic idea is that if you're learning  

the actual vocabulary that natives are using  and you're understanding it like a native it's  

a lot easier to get that that aha moment like ah  like now now I get what you're talking about okay  

all right uh I'm from India Revenge was life and  I see there's uh Shakib again teacher I understand  

some teachers whatever they describe clearly  but did not know with some teachers even I have  

that vocabulary or whatever they describe are they  speak uh fast or slow or [Music] let's see [Music]  

okay yes again like you you have to be prepared  for the vocabulary it's the preparation that  

gets you ready for the conversation so  natives natives like they they also don't  

feel confident talking about things until they  really know that so even if you look at little  

kids there's a lot they're just spending their  time listening to people they see Mom you know  

like mom yells at dad or something and the  kid learns Ah that's what you say when you  

get mad you know it's something like that or  you know what do you sing when you're happy or  

whatever it's all these things that you learn  by paying attention to that and then you speak  

speaking is the result of understanding if you  don't understand what you're learning you don't  

feel confident so you don't want to speak and  that's why lots of people avoid conversations  

or if they're in a conversation they speak very  like you know we got the very like the weak wooden  

sword and shield and we don't we don't feel very  confident about our vocabulary so we don't use it

uh good evening says Suzette and I see  there Nils again the most people speak uh  

very fast and not clear and then my brain is  exploding yes I like it that you speak clear  

I don't understand all but I know what you mean  most of the time yes and so that's that's part of  

the reason we wanted we want to take it slow and  make sure you understand everything these YouTube  

videos are a bit trickier because I have a wider  range of people who are uh like some people don't  

understand me very well other people do understand  me very well you know it just it depends on that  

so I'm trying to be clear so more people can  understand me and get this information and then  

you can also go back and watch these videos with  the the subtitles after I put subtitles on them  

uh nandani says you are a wonderful teacher thank  you oh that's very kind thank you very much long  

says yes it seems like naturally varied review is  a way of input to remember vocabulary how about  

any other strategic outputs recommendation uh uh  I don't I don't know what you mean by strategic  

output I mean other than like writing which is a  form of naturally varied review also like you're  

taking something that you learn you hear it you  see it you write it you speak it uh yeah I mean  

it's it's that's like the kind of output you  would do but the you don't you don't have to  

put a lot of pressure on yourself to speak  you just put like put all your energy into  

learning and understanding the language and if  you don't understand something get more review  

of that thing it's like the like maybe the lesson  is not very clear or you just need more examples  

of it or something and some things are just  a little bit tricky like for me like like a  

thing that was tricky and it's even still  tricky sometimes is like is like the ball  

holder uh like formation like you know something  like that um where like the more you do something  

the more something else happens like that  and this can be a tricky thing if the like  

the grammar structure is a little bit different  in your native language and in those cases it's  

really important to get lots of review in that  language so for me I don't really want to like  

study it like a grammar structure I just wanted to  get lots of examples and then I and I understand  

like ah okay now I understand I'm hearing it  more and I'm feeling more comfortable with it  

so there isn't a lot you have to do with like  output the output is a natural result other  

than writing for practice which you can do H Ray  the name Nils reminds me of an old anime named uh

that's interesting yeah maybe that is that about  a foreigner if it's if it's a name like nails like  

that based on a Swedish juvenile novel ah okay  uh learn English let's see I cannot remember  

the words that I learned yes it's again like  people people want to learn uh like and this  

you will see YouTube videos that will actually  teach you like hundreds of words like it's crazy  

I've seen uh idiom like idiom videos or does  regular vocabulary where they will teach you  

it's like learn learn 100 words so here's  like one two three four five six seven

you know we have all these all these vocabulary  words but you don't you don't understand them  

deeply so the the actual vocabulary that you  learn well like it's got roots in it like a  

tree with some Roots so you understand that  vocabulary well it's better to spend like a  

day and just learn a few words and understand them  really well and then the next day you learn a few  

more and understand them really well okay so in  in fluent for life we try to give people like the  

core vocabulary for that lesson is like I don't  know how many words a day like 10 words a day or  

something it's not it's not that much I mean it's  it's spaced out in different ways and a lot of it  

is vocabulary that you know already it's just  that we want to help you understand it really  

well so you feel confident and use it fluently all  right but again remember the point is not to just  

learn a bunch of words you want to understand the  vocabulary really well so you can use it fluently  

hmm let's see Suzette says the more I need  more vocabulary because when someone talking  

I don't understand everything but I understand  everything you say yes your your problem is not  

more vocabulary it's not more vocabulary I promise  you like you you're you you have like an issue  

about like the understanding maybe if they're  using some different words that I don't use  

like in that case yeah there's a vocabulary issue  but for you communicating fluently uh you don't  

it's much better to actually level up your current  vocabulary than than to try to learn new words so  

you can be prepared you know for idioms and stuff  like that this is the kind of thing we teach in  

fluent for life but it's much more important  for you to understand the current vocabulary  

you have rather than try to learn more words uh  Adrian says I appreciate you reading each comment  

questions in the comments section and taking time  to explain it thoroughly great teacher yes well  

this is my my chance to help people this is this  is what I what I want to do I did not have this  

when I was first learning Japanese there wasn't  it wasn't even YouTube or anything at that point

um let's see George says in-app purchase  level gone after reinstall the app  

ah uh send us an email George if you have a  question about that but you should be able  

to go to the level select screen and then click  on uh like update or restore previous purchase  

there should be a little button that does that  I don't know if you're on iOS or Android but  

you should be able to reinstall and still get  the app after that if you're using the same  

but you have to be using the same account  so if you have an Apple account or a Google  

account and you use a different one then it  would not it would not share that information  

uh yes I saw the video with espresso yeah got it  all right thanks do you have a program trained  

that people don't understand the movie yes so  that's what that's what fluent for life is it's  

not it's it's not about like like only movies it's  about understanding conversations but that's if  

you if you can understand everything in master  English conversation like and all all the lesson  

sets in the program you'll you will understand  movies just fine hmm uh let's see Eunice says  

hello teacher Frederick uh the aha moment now I  got it yeah say it says I've been trying to use  

more vocabulary but I feel like I'm stuck using  the same word over and over yes again it's okay to  

use the same word until you find something better  or you find a better way to express that but the  

way to stretch yourself so that you start using  more difficult vocabularies to understand more  

like a native so watch what natives are saying  for that situation so if you always say hello  

every time you greet someone you just say hello  hello and look at native speakers and wonder what  

they're like what is that person saying someone  said hi someone said hey good afternoon good  

day nice to see you how you been how's it going  so as you see that you're connecting ah in this  

situation this is something I can say find  something new and then say that there you go  

that's what this video today is about uh Sunita  says sorry about that you are the best teacher  

glad to hear I use your approach and it really  helps me glad to hear it uh let's see Sam Walton  

again risk comes not from knowing what you're  doing it's what we don't feel confident speaking  

we don't understand the vocabulary well yes Sam  Walton has it very good all right and uh let's see  

what Chad was disconnected I think we're still  working though I don't see anything wrong with  

the video but we're doing all right gonna  shut it down now to make sure I don't lose  

my voice again uh Nathaniel says uh good night  teacher good night all God bless you thank you  

and it says I think learning some few word  from the same context and try to get their  

different aspects and parts of speech uses and  collocations synonyms and even related idioms  

and finally practice them yes so that's  you're explaining naturally varied review  

Bruno Dart says what's up y'all how's it going  Drew glad to be here learning from you once  

again yeah so look if you even look at this chat  you will see different greetings from people in  

the chat and different greetings and so it's not  like one person is correct and another person is  

not it's just different different greetings  so you don't have to put lots of pressure on  

yourself to think of one correct thing but if you  learn this way then you're basically building up  

like an inventory of a lot of vocabulary but you  pick the specific words that you like that you use  

frequently all right so I do the same thing when  I'm speaking Japanese like I will use something  

and then use it frequently and then maybe I hear  something better and then like oh that's a cooler  

thing I'm going to use that expression instead all  right it's like kids like my my younger daughter  

or both of them it's like oh I gotta go pee pee  like my you know my four-year-old she has to go  

to the toilet it's like I gotta go pee pee now  do you think when she's you know 32 years old in  

in some business or whatever she's going to tell  people I have to go pee pee probably not I mean  

maybe she will I don't know but probably not she  will graduate to some more interesting vocabulary  

oh I've got to go to the toilet I've got to go  powder my nose or I just like excuse me for a  

moment you know lots of different ways to express  that all right uh all right I think that's the  

end of the chat make sure the chat is oh I'm not  signed in right now looks like we're still working

all right andrean says how about uh let's create  a group chat for students of Drew what do you  

think fellow students yes I will leave you  all to create whatever you like I will not  

be responsible for that also I often don't  really recommend uh chat groups for people  

because like there are already chat groups for  native English speakers and you should just get  

in those if you want to have people to chat  with so it's useful I suppose if you want to  

meet with other people if you'd like to fantastic  and also in our programs we have like a community  

where people can talk with each other and ask  us questions but you really should be trying to  

get as much input as possible from other Natives  and so get in chats or groups or whatever think  

about the people or the things you're interested  in and and do that online or do it in real life  

that's how you get one all right uh let's see  right heels says uh good morning teacher prayers  

for your long life thank you very much hope so  uh Angel is back with the cat again trans is  

thanks Drew I appreciate the lesson for today  it's my pleasure and Abby says thanks as well  

all right I think that's a good spot to end on  hopefully everyone has enjoyed this uh if you  

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people who have been struggling for a long time  they can understand pretty well but they're not  

really good speakers and they want to know why  they want to know why they have been learning  

English for a long time and still can't speak  and again uh if you want to learn this way you  

can just level up your vocabulary nice and easy  just by learning English as a first language if  

you'd like to do this just click on the links  in the description below nice simple thing you  

can start doing immediately just get Frederick  start playing with that and it will actually  

teach you much of the vocabulary and grammar and  pronunciation you need to learn just by you like  

playing a game and then we've got obviously fluent  for life which will really help you become a much  

more confident influence speaker automatically  even if you have no one to practice with  

all right well thanks again for everyone joining  me and I will see you in the next video bye-bye