Learn English Grammar Like A Child - So vs Because - The English Fluency Guide

Well, hello there. It is Drew Badger, the English Fluency Guide. And I'm here with my

daughter, Aria. Or you want to say hello? Hello.

Hello. Yeah. All right. How old are you? I'm four.

"I'm four." That's right. Yeah, she's four and ... You're like four and a half now I

think. I think so. What do you want to talk about today?

I want to talk about Elsa. Talk about Elsa. Talk about Elsa. So she loves

the movie, Frozen. Now we are just at a park up by our house, they are relaxing a little

bit the rules about going outside and being able to do things. They still want people

to wear masks and all that here in Japan, but we are basically ... Well, we are the

only people here. So anyway, did you want to talk about something? I thought actually

an interesting thing to talk about in this video is just remind you that even though

native speakers are learning the language as well, that they still have some things

that they struggle with. And one of the things that Aria has a little bit of trouble with

is the difference between "so" and "because". So we've been practicing that a lot lately

and giving lots of examples because it's one of those things that can be tricky. So if

you're saying, "I'm tired because I was out running." You're giving the reason for that.

Or you can say, "I'm tired, so I'm going to take a nap."

So we're just giving some examples of that, but she will occasionally make mistakes about

whether she should be using "so" or not. So I just wanted to mention that as something

that even native speakers will have things that they've made mistakes about, and so they

have to learn it as well. All right. Did you want to say anything about "so" and "because"?

Yeah. Yeah. Can you make a sentence about that using-

Yeah. ... "so" or "because"? What's something with

"so"? Can you make a sentence with that? So I'm tired, so I'm going to sleep.

Okay. So like, "I'm tired, so I'm going to sleep." Yeah. So if I'm tired, so I'm going

to sleep. Or like, "I'm going to sleep because ..." You're going to sleep because what?

Because I'm tired. Okay. You're going to sleep because you're

tired. So part of that is just getting to practice it because there are times when we

use "so" like, "I'm hungry, so- I'm hungry.

Yeah. "I'm hungry, so I should get something to eat or I should go eat something." But

again, I just wanted to remind you that even though-

Daddy, I want to make two videos. You want to make two videos?

Yeah. Well, you want to make another video about

what? About-

Well, you got to come to [inaudible 00:02:41]. ... hello guys.

About what? Hello guys.

What do you mean, "Hello guys"? Because I want to tell about-

You want to tell about what? Well, look at the camera if you're going to talk to people.

You want to tell about what? I want to tell about-

About what? About English and Japanese.

Ah, you want to talk about English and Japanese? Yeah.

Like what? What about English and Japanese? [foreign language 00:03:05].

Ah, so because you're hungry [foreign language 00:03:12]. You want to eat something.

Yeah. So she could give actually an English and

Japanese lesson over here. So [foreign language 00:03:18] is you're hungry, so you want to

eat something to eat. So [foreign language 00:03:24]. So you want to eat something. She

is learning both English and- [inaudible 00:03:28].

... Japanese. What? Daddy, we have to make a video again.

What do you mean make a ... We're making a video right now. It's this video. So we'll

see if ... If You'd like to see more videos where I'm just talking with my daughter, I

actually thought about making some videos like this because part of how I'm teaching

her, it's really how I teach you. But you actually get to see it while we're having

a real conversation. So I don't have like structured lessons with her or anything like

that, but usually while we get to do something. So if we go to the park and she's swinging

on the monkey bars or something like that, we can practice. So if we're hot, what do

we do? Or I mean, we're hot so we do what? We do-

What do you say? You got to say it to the camera.

[crosstalk 00:04:17]. Like, "I'm hot. I'm hot, so ..."

I'm hot so I'm going to drink a water. Okay. So if you're hot, so you're going to

drink some water. Or you're going to drink some water because?

I'm going to drink some water because I'm thirsty.

Ah, because you're thirsty. That's right. And there you go. So you have to just ... A

lot of that just comes with the practice and the point is really to develop the sense of

being able to do it without thinking about it. And so right now we practice things or

we go over many sentences again and again, different examples and we do that just wherever

we happen to be. And you can do the same thing while you're practicing your English as well.

Is there anything else you wanted to tell people about?

Yeah. I just wanted to make this quick video, maybe

we'll make some more. But if you'd like to see some more or maybe even-

I'd like to see some more. ... specific things ... Hey, you want to see

some more? Yeah.

Well, you can tell them that. I want to see some more.

You want to see some more videos of yourself? Yeah.

Ah, I see. That's also another thing. She does a practice by herself, so she watches

home movies, just videos that we shoot on the phone. And so she can watch herself talking

or us talking with her. That's another interesting thing she can do just to practice. But if

there's nothing else, we just wanted to make this quick video so people can enjoy seeing

a little bit of how natives are teaching their own kids. Because a lot of the same things

that learners should be doing, they think a lot more about maybe learning from a textbook

or trying to do something a little bit more difficult, when really the basics are much

more important. So mastering the things that you should be using over and over again, and

spending less time trying to learn some things that you're not going to use very frequently.

But if that's that, we will say goodbye and get back to just talking to the park. But

let us know in the comments below, if there's anything you'd like to see more of. And if

you have any questions about this. Again, try to take something like one thing

you're practicing it again, and again, just like I practiced "so" and "because". Or "for"

and "to", or other things like that. Usually I'm trying to contrast two different things,

so showing her which one we should be using and which one we should not. But a lot of

that is just the repetition rather than me trying to explain a rule to her. So we just

go through different examples and over time she gets it. All right. Well Aria, you want

to say bye-bye? Yeah. Bye-bye.

All right. Aria is busy over here swinging on the monkey bars, but that will be that.

But if you'd like to learn more about how I teach my daughter and also the same way

I teach adult learners, you can click on the link in the upper right of this video or on

the link in the description below this video- [crosstalk 00:07:00] I want to make another

video. Well, we'll make another video later. We'll

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