The 3 Big Questions I Get From English Learners

let's get started I am Drew Badger the founder  of Englishanyone.com and welcome to another live  

video on YouTube this should be an entertaining  one uh I'm going to cover a lot of the things  

I'll be talking about in my book uh it's not  released yet so depending on when you uh watch  

this video you're watching it live if you're  watching it live or if you're watching it on  

the replay uh but people have been asking  me about it and I wanted to give a deeper  

preview about what's going on  in the book uh why I'm making

it and answer the three biggest questions uh that  people have so let's get into it I'll keep my eye  

on chat but I want to get through all this so I  will do my best to remain focused look at that got  

hiso Cho aruro is back and Annette nice to see you  there in Wisconsin all right uh let's get started  

this should be an entertaining one uh as usual  we're going to be talking about fluency but I  

want to deal with the three main questions and  these are really types of questions I get from  

Learners so they are about the three different  uh kind of phases where people are learning  

or the three main struggles people have uh and  we're going to talk about those in just a moment  

but first I want to talk about how people become  fluent and the kinds of things that people think  

they need in order to become fluent so listen just  go through this quick list uh when I ask people  

about what they think they need to become fluent  see maybe blue is better for this uh so the first  

one is obviously speaking you need to speak a lot  and again these are the things that people think  

they need to become fluent so you need to uh speak  a lot number two is you need maybe some kind of

immersion so immersion meaning you live around  native speakers or maybe even even live in an  

English-speaking country or you're married to  a native speaker or you have a parent who is a  

native speaker or a child who is a native  speaker all of those things so any of any  

of that kind of stuff uh would fall under  immersion uh number three what else can you  

think of some other things that people uh  might need to be uh might need to have in  

order to speak fluently uh let's say we're  going to talk about like a large vocabulary

anything else if you think I'm missing anything  uh these are the the main things that people  

think they need so when I talk about how I help  people or when people talk about uh like what  

they're looking for in lessons so they're usually  talking about something that's going to give them  

some kind of speaking uh some kind of immersion  or you know at least having a large vocabulary so  

they know a lot of vocabulary they can understand  things uh but maybe they they still lack fluency  

so what we're going to talk about in this video  I could go on there there are other things people  

think they need um but what I'm really talking  about here are the kinds of things or the kinds  

of reasons where people think they're not fluent  because they don't have one of these so people  

might say I'm not fluent because I don't speak  enough whatever that is like they they think  

there's like maybe they they've spoken a little  bit or maybe they don't speak at all so they're  

unable to speak and that's why they can't  get fluent or they don't have some kind of  

immersion they don't have native speakers around  them something like that uh or they don't know  

enough words so these are the typical kinds of  things uh that people talk about that stop them  

from becoming fluent now I want to address these  things right at the beginning because uh the main  

thing I teach and the main focus of the book of  course we get a fired truck or whatever uh is  

is coming over here as usual but the main focus  of the book is saying uh that these things are  

actually not necessary they're certainly nice if  you have them uh but lots of people try to speak  

every day they have opportunities to speak like  even me living here in Japan I know quite a few  

foreigners who've been living in Japan longer than  I have and they still don't speak Japanese very  

well I also know lots of people who live in the  United States or other englishspeaking countries  

and they still don't speak in fact that's a lot of  the people I help so people who live in the United  

States uh and they don't actually communicate  very well even though they live in the United  

States so they've got that immersion uh they could  even be married actually I have quite a few people  

who who I help uh they're married to people and  they still can't speak so they're married to an  

English speaker a native English speaker and they  still can't speak fluently so again these are just  

the things that people think they need but even  the people who have these things still struggle  

to speak so what's the deeper issue here what's  actually missing what's the real problem same  

thing here with having a large vocabulary I know  people who know a lot of English but they still  

struggle to speak so that's a lot of people even  for uh watching my videos especially they think  

they need to know more words or they think they're  unable to speak fluently because they just don't  

know enough vocabulary but what we're going  to talk about in this video uh is how these  

things it's not speaking it's not immersing not  having a large vocabulary those are things that  

are not required they're certainly nice if you  have them I wouldn't tell you to stop speaking  

or to not live around natives if you can uh they  are certainly nice to have but these are not the  

things that are stopping you from speaking so if  you can live around native speakers and still not  

speak if you can be married to a native speaker  for years and still not speak if you can live  

around English speakers for years and still not  speak or have a large vocabulary and still not  

speak what what's the actual problem can anyone  know any any my like longtime uh followers people  

who will be watching my videos for a while what  is the thing people are really struggling with  

so I want you to picture this situation uh  you have a person here this is the English  

learner and they have uh some opportunity  to speak with someone else but either they  

are too shy or maybe they try to speak but they  still make mistakes what's the real problem here  

what's the issue so they could be married to a  native they could know a lot of English they could  

be immersed in the language they could be living  in the United States or Canada or England or  

whatever so what's the real problem does anybody  know anyone want to want to put a put a guess here  

yes they don't know the meaning well of a word  yeah that's part of it I'm looking for something  

deeper one word so see if people know what I'm  what I'm aiming at here what do you mean with  

immersion so Anette uh like you live in Wisconsin  so you are immersed around native English speakers  

presumably unless they have you in a in a box  or a jail and you only get to speak German or  

whatever um but immersion just means like when  you like I take something like this water or if  

I have like a bowl of water something like that  I'm going to put that down in my hand and if if  

this is all surrounded by water of my marker is  immersed in water so to emerge or excuse me like  

immersion uh this just means that they something  is like surrounding that thing completely uh so  

Rola yes uh the answer is actually doubt so  the thing that really stops people even when  

you have opportunities to speak even when you  are married to native English speakers even  

when you know a lot of words you still have some  kind of doubt that's actually stopping you from  

speaking so the whole point of this video and the  whole point of my book is to explain how you can  

get fluent before you speak that way you actually  feel confident and fluent and you're ready and  

you're excited to speak even before you say  another word okay that's the basic idea so  

we're going to talk about that in this video uh  but I wanted to lay this Foundation uh to number  

one talk about the things that people think they  need but they actually don't again These are nice  

things to have like if I had to choose I would  rather live around native speakers than not live  

around native speakers but it's certainly not  necessary and a lot of people who do live around  

natives still can't speak so living around natives  immersion is not the guaranteed key to fluency but  

uh if you can eliminate any doubt you have and  there are three causes of this doubt that I found  

uh so if you can eliminate these causes of doubt  that's what actually lets you speak okay so the  

core idea is that doubt is the thing that really  stops people from speaking it's not having like  

some kind of immersive lessons or something like  that uh and I get into a lot more detail about why  

those things don't actually work as well as people  think they do but just for this video I wanted to  

give a preview and talk about the big picture  of the book all right so let's talk about the  

three questions that people have most frequently  you've probably seen these especially if you've  

been watching these videos for a while the first  question so now we're going to talk about these

so these are again not the uh it's not  like this exact wording all the time  

these are three kinds of questions I get  uh so number one is why do I understand

so the first question the most common question I  get from Learners uh and this is we we're going to  

kind of structure this video as uh beginning with  people who might have more trouble understanding  

me so some people really understand everything I  say which is great uh but it doesn't necessarily  

make you a fluent speaker so uh number one why  do I understand you but do not understand ha it  

so this is a really common question people get  uh and I'm going to give you this simp simple  

basic answer for this now if you can imagine kind  of like I'm going to draw my little Rainbow it's  

supposed to be a rainbow image I only have a few  different colors uh unfortunately don't want to  

mix these up but let's just imagine this is a  rainbow over here put some black in there kind  

of funny looking rainbow uh so usually what  happens uh especially in a video like this is  

you are getting by by listening to this video and  understanding this video You're getting a small  

portion of the language you are not getting the  full spectrum of the language you are just getting  

a small portion of it and what I mean by that is  you're listening to slow speech so I'm being extra  

clear and pronouncing things enunciating things  clearly even if I still blend the sounds of my  

words together you're still hearing nice clear  like like clear uh easy to understand English  

okay so I'm speaking clearly I'm speaking a  little bit more slowly than I normally would  

and I'm also not using a lot of slang and idioms  and expressions and other things like that okay so  

this is the basic reason why you would understand  me but still have trouble with all of this other  

stuff over here so you could understand me let's  say you have a private teacher some people pay for  

private lessons where they have a particular  coach that they're speaking with and uh when  

people are are talking about you know they're like  having questions with a uh like a native speaker  

usually it's a it's a like just an English teacher  you might be getting the same kind of speech it's  

clear speech people want to be understood because  that's the point of the lesson the point is to  

actually help you understand but when you get  into the real world you're exposed to all of  

this other stuff and so it's going to be faster  less clear people Mumble when they speak they're  

using lots of slang and idioms or movie quotes or  references from popular culture that kind of thing  

so if you're only listening to this if this is the  only kind of English you get if you listen to me  

and think wow I'm listening to Drew I understand  even everything he's saying right now can you  

understand all this do you understand everything  you hear in movies and TV shows and if it's fast  

or uh even if it's not very clear or people are  using cultural references do you understand all  

that if you do fantastic you got through  that kind of first level of Doubt all right  

so being able to understand things uh often the  problem is that people are just not exposed to  

the whole range or the whole spectrum of the  language it's like getting a rainbow and you  

only get one or two colors of it rather than the  whole thing so my not so pretty rainbow but you  

can imagine what that would look like we've got  yellow and green and purple and blue and all of  

these colors here so we've got this over here but  we're missing all these things so Anette says why  

do I understand men you but what sorry uh so if  the question is just making this idea clear when  

you're listening to me right now I'm speaking  slowly clearly and not using a lot of difficult  

English meaning I'm not using slang or idioms and  things like that so I'm using a specific narrow  

range of English when I'm teaching people in a  lesson like this now there are sometimes when  

I'm teaching specific vocabulary which I will do  in this video uh but the more important thing is  

that just so you understand being able to listen  to and understand a lesson like this is different  

from being able to understand the whole range  of English okay so you can understand me or  

maybe you can't even understand everything  I'm saying that's okay uh but for the people  

who can understand me uh and maybe they still  have trouble understanding a this wider range  

of English all the slang and idioms and faster  speech and different levels of politeness and  

all of those things that come with learning the  real language that's the reason people will be  

asking me this question okay so the first level of  things uh when we're talking about the doubts that  

people have it's usually because they're just not  exposed to that kind of English all right that's  

the that's the basic reason so you might know  some of the English and maybe you can understand  

everything I say which is great uh but you might  still struggle with a lot of other things over  

here now next we'll talk about uh the people who  can understand every everything even that native  

speakers are talking about and we'll talk about  that next level of Doubt but let me know if this  

doesn't make sense hopefully people get this idea  this is very important so anybody asking why do I  

understand you or why do I understand English  teachers but I still struggle to understand  

natives this is the reason okay so typically when  people are learning they get a small narrow just  

a we can we might call this a band or part of  the spectrum here so only this part of it like  

listening to radio signals where you can only  hear some channels but you can't hear all of  

the others so if you're not exposed to that and  teachers aren't helping you learn that language  

then of course it will be more difficult for  you to understand native speakers all right now  

before we go to the next question uh or I'll see  if anybody has any questions about this does this  

make sense let me know if this idea makes sense  so anybody who's wondering uh why I can understand  

you but I can't understand natives is that clear  for you now out let me know uh I'm going to draw  

uh at the bottom of this before I erase it uh  at the beginning of this video I talked about  

the different things that people assume they  need so they need to speak or live with native  

speakers or have a boyfriend or girlfriend or  be married or whatever maybe they don't know  

enough words those are the reasons they're not  speaking but uh here we see the real problem is  

just doubt and so this is one part of that so I'm  going to draw my little typical chart down here  

about the kind of doubt you experience when you're  trying to speak and you can't so the first part  

of that is actually just making sure you can  understand or you know the vocabulary because  

if you just if you don't if people are using all  of this vocabulary down here slang and idioms and  

you just don't know what that means then of course  you're going to have trouble in conversations okay  

so uh if we're going from zero this is like having  uh very little or you don't understand uh let's  

see I don't I I don't can't read the word after  the word but so but not but not natives so not

natives so why do I understand you but not  natives I'm sorry for my poor penmanship I'm  

trying to write quickly here but I will uh  write it more clearly I will take more time  

so why do I understand you and this could mean  why do I understand English teachers in general  

or people who are trying to help me learn like  my private coaches or whatever but not understand  

natives okay so if you're only learning this  little band only this little part of the language  

but not the rest of it then that's why you're  going to have trouble understanding people okay  

so you have to be exposed to the whole thing to  eliminate any doubt about understanding things  

okay creative says where can I learn new verbs all  over the place strong verbs I don't know what's a  

strong verb you have to just listen to natives the  same place everybody else learns them you learn  

them from all over or you watch people doing  particular things like if I'm trying to learn  

verbs for certain sports or verbs for activities I  would watch those activities and learn those verbs  

all right so you might have different things for a  sport rather than I don't know ballet or gardening  

or something like that so novel says so now if I  understand you how I need to understand everyone  

more than I learn or less so uh just talking about  this specific thing if you're only Listening to  

English teachers that's part of the problem okay  so you need to be making sure you're listening to  

the whole spectrum and this doesn't mean knowing  the whole language I want to be clear about that  

I'm not saying you need to know every word the  point is that if you're only listening to this  

kind of English like really slow English or really  clear English or you're just getting only some  

very easy to understand examples like you could  get actually lots of examples of conversational  

English but if it's all clearly spoken then  that's not going to help you or prepare you  

for conversations when people say things that  are different or they speak less clearly lots  

of reasons why it might be more difficult for you  so the point is not just to uh to only learn this  

and obviously this language is useful but we want  to uh understand these other things here so this  

other quick question about uh like how to lose  an accent so if you're only Listening to English  

teachers then you're going to probably keep  an accent or you will try to sound like a slow  

clear speaker rather than different natives so if  I'm trying to develop an accent in Japanese like  

a particular way of speaking or the same thing  for people in English you need to listen to a v  

variety a variety uh of different speakers that's  how you get the accent so you don't just listen  

to One clear speaker you need to listen to a bunch  of different people you need this range this wide  

range of different things that's what's going to  get you flowing so Wendy is also asking how do  

I improve my listening this is how you do it so  one way we train this like what we do in fluent  

for life is we begin with people understanding  this kind of narrower easier band of English but  

then we also give you the same examples in Faster  speech or with more difficult accents so you need  

to train yourself systematically as you go through  these things okay so it's not just listening to  

clear speakers you need to get the whole picture  and again this doesn't mean the entire language  

it just means different kinds of speech like the  real different examples of things you might hear  

in an everyday conversation or in a movie or the  radio or music or whatever so when people say like  

how do I understand you but I can't understand  books or movies or radio or whatever U this is  

the reason you're just not prepared because you  haven't been EXP exposed to that and it's probably  

not systematic so some people they try to watch  movies in English uh or TV shows in English but  

they have a lot of trouble understanding the  content so there's maybe just too much of it  

coming at the same time you might have a sentence  with three uh jokes and some sarcasm and some  

cultural references or something like that uh  but you might not understand all of it so that's  

how you do it so well again th this we're going  to be talking about the two other questions in  

just a moment but I want to make sure everybody  understands this point it's a simple idea but a  

lot of people are still confused about wait a  minute like I can understand what this person  

what Drew is saying or some other teacher but why  am I not understanding others it's because you're  

just not getting that range of the language you're  only getting a small part of the rainbow up here  

all right let me go through these last questions  over here see if I missed uh any anything uh Hamza  

says if I read and I surround myself with English  then I can be fluent in English not necessarily  

surrounding yourself with English as I mentioned  at the beginning of this video is not the key to  

fluency because lots of people are surrounded by  English all the time and they still uh still can't  

speak okay so I I want you to kind of follow me  through this is why I'm writing this book because  

I want to lay this all out and the purpose of  this video is just to go through that because  

people keep asking me when is the book coming  out and uh what's in it and and all of this  

information so I thought I would just make a video  explaining this and that way people don't have to  

wait uh for it to come out they can just start  using this information immediately uh let's see  

Marcela says is there any place in the US you have  trouble understanding the people you are saying  

considering you were Native um in general I don't  I don't have any trouble understanding people but  

they might use a a phrase or uh vocabulary that  like they might describe something so in different  

places in the United States you might have like  soda uh or Coke or pop so these are all different  

things that could mean the exact same thing all  right so we've got like like if I go to one one  

part of the United States is is my bad picture of  United States in Florida in there too so they got  

like soda up here and then you got soda pop or  Coke or something like that uh but in general  

the people are using the same kind of language so  there might be some things that are different or  

unique to a particular area and and people will  speak differently uh I told the story sometimes  

about my uh there was like a friend of a friend  of my family uh we went to their house for dinner  

sometimes and she had a Southern accent so she  was I think from Georgia uh and after dinner she  

said y'all want some pie y'all want some pie  y'all want want some pie and if you hear that  

that's again an example of something down here  rather than the way an English teacher a clear  

speaker y'all want some pie so basically she said  y'all so like y'all like you all y'all want some

piie so this is a a more natural way of  expressing do you want so typically uh  

like in an English lesson you might hear do  you want want something do you want something  

but a a regular like in everyday English people  might just usually start the conversation or the  

question with you you want some pie you want a  drink all right or even just want some pie they  

might not even say you all right but again this  is the typical kind of thing where the speech is  

going to be different and the pronunciation  might be different and it might be faster or  

blurred or something so if you are not exposed to  this kind of language also if you only hear clear  

speakers but you don't hear lots of unclear  speakers or different different accents or  

whatever then it's going to be more difficult  for you to understand and become a confidence  

speaker does that make sense so the foundation of  this is just getting that input and then making  

sure you understand it and make and and we we'll  get to that part next but uh that's the general  

idea here of going from 0% understanding to  understanding something very well and being  

able to use use it so another thing I'll mention  right here at the beginning or near the beginning  

of this video is that we actually have different  levels of understanding so when people say hey  

I can understand what Drew is saying but you  don't understand what natives are saying even  

if they say the same thing so I could I could  say something and a native might say the exact  

same thing but they might express it differently  uh they would have uh like a different accent or  

something maybe they're mumbling or speaking  faster you can understand me so you have this  

level of understanding uh this is what I call  awareness where you you can hear something and  

and I'll talk I talk more about this in the book  about uh the different levels of understanding  

but the point is that understanding me doesn't  make you a fluent speaker okay you probably seen  

videos on YouTube it's like if you understand  this vocabulary your English is amazing like  

they say your English is amazing or your fluent  or whatever it it's it's not true understanding  

something doesn't give you the ability to use it  it's a different skill so the point is here you  

can have some level of understanding and then  you also have some doubt remaining so you have  

to remove all of the doubt to become able to use  English confidently and fluently all right oh but  

the good news is that you don't have to speak  or live in an english- speaking environment  

in order to do this the point is just to make  sure you remove the doubt so that's the focus  

of the book and what we're talking about in this  video hopefully this makes sense all right we're  

getting quite a few little comments here  I want to go through these quickly make

sure uh let's see so how to understand real  conversation how to practice that so we're  

we're going to get to that uh in just a second  uh but good question Marcel says hello nice to  

see you there and we got some looks like  Chinese I can't read hi sir I purchased  

your course how may ask how should study the  course to maximize and learning experience  

uh just need to review it again and again I need  to memorize everything in the course and really  

appreciate if you would answer my question so  if you're talking about fluent for Life uh the  

basic idea is that you're going to learn things  in different ways because we really want to make  

sure you have no doubt about the vocabulary so  if you follow the instructions there is a daily  

schedule uh where you will start with one lesson  then you will like watch it and then listen to  

it the next day and then read it and then go on  to the next lesson because we want to give you  

naturally varied review I'll talk about that a  little bit more in this video but just to answer  

that question quickly about using the um using the  program so any any program that we might have or  

even if you you get a program from any place you  really want to try to get as much naturally varied  

review as possible so watch video then listen to  it then try writing something from the video and  

then even if you can find additional information  about things uh like if I'm watching an English  

lesson about growing roses I should also go to  YouTube and watch some vide videos about growing  

roses too because that's going to eliminate a  lot of doubt I have about vocabulary or how to  

use things or being able to understand different  speakers all right so the point is to eliminate  

any doubt you have and the doubt is really  what's guiding you so if you feel confident  

about understanding something uh but maybe you're  not sure about some grammar or something like that  

that's the particular thing you want to focus  on and then uh you can always send us any uh  

questions you have via email or just comment in  the system and we'll be right there to help all  

right uh Anette says I so excited to read the book  glad to hear it and peepe says I have a difficult  

responding and uh reasoning at the same time as  native speakers it seems like my vocabulary is  

disappearing yet we'll talk about it in this  video as well uh can you tell the difference  

between these two sentences if I hadn't dodged  the ball it would have hit me in the head versus  

if I didn't dodge the ball it would have hit me  ah okay we're not we're not going to cover like  

didn't versus hav in this video but uh I think  I've covered that in various videos if you search  

like did versus have you should find that on the  channel and and says I want to be a translator  

and looks like English and Spanish I'm guessing  but there are a lot of terms that native use that  

I don't know and they speak yes so again uh if  you're if you're trying to be a translator and you  

want to be prepared for a wide range of English  then you need to be exposed to a wide range of  

English and make sure you understand it all right  so hopefully everybody gets that uh so this is the  

first main question I get from people let's move  on uh to number two so we really want to eliminate  

any doubt you have and now we're going to get  to uh like even people who can understand all  

of the English they he so they understand all  uh native English speakers or they understand  

teachers very easily uh but even if you don't uh a  lot of people have uh still trouble understanding  

a variety of speakers and so the next the next  question I have or the next question people ask me

is here we go and I will write this more clearly  

here so why uh can I understand don't  understand e r s t a n d understand

words uh but not use

them in conversations oh I  didn't say when I speak [Music]

all right so why can I understand words so this is  for the people who can understand a lot of English  

uh if you let me put number two up there excuse  me so why can I understand words uh but not use  

them when speaking now this is specifically  talking about learning individual words and  

phrases and grammar points where you might learn  something but you forget that specific thing in  

in a conversation so you're trying to talk  but maybe the word escapes you another way  

of expressing this is why do I forget my words  in conversations or why do my words disappear  

or why do I lose my words uh so anything where  you would understand other people speaking to  

you but you forget to use that or you can't use  it or you just struggle uh to maybe find that  

vocabulary or use the right thing in the right  situation uh in a real conversation okay so if  

this is you if you understand what I'm saying uh  you can follow native speakers when they talk you  

have a good level of understanding but you still  have a lower level of uh speaking ability because  

maybe individual words and phrases you don't  remember them very well you can't recall them  

very well when you speak uh this is that kind of  question here so this is for people usually uh a  

bit higher level where they know quite a bit  of English they can understand teachers they  

can understand lots of natives but they wonder  why am I not speaking okay so uh we're going to  

talk about the problem of speaking uh specifically  speaking fluently in just a moment but I wanted to  

talk uh just about this one first and I thought  I would just share a quick story uh from last  

night um so I was uh at home with my family I was  watching uh it was just some TV show with my wife  

and kids uh and in the TV show they were talking  about uh Disneyland Disneyland so this is uh in  

Tokyo I I think it's Disneyland I think I forget  Disney Disneyland uh in Tokyo Japan so they were  

talking about Disneyland and it was Disneyland at  night and they were showing what the workers do or  

the employes I think they call them what do they  call them there's like a special word for them at  

Disney it's like performers or or something like  that um so when you're at you're at Disneyland  

the people working there like they're you know in  Mickey Mouse costume that kind of thing so those  

people I think they're called the cast I think  they're called cast members cast members so if  

you if you go to different stores you might just  have an employee working at like a sandwich shop  

but at Disney it's like whoa they are cast  members you know so members of a cast like  

a cast in a play or a cast in some kind of movie  or performance so they want people to think like  

Mickey Mouse is there he's like whoa you know I'm  Mickey Mouse and Performing different things uh  

so he is a cast member or whoever the the person  inside the Mickey Mouse suit if you thought that  

was a real Mickey Mouse anyway um so this is a TV  show talking about what these people do uh after  

like what what they do kind of after hour so this  is a a conversational way like I I gave you uh in  

in step one talking about learning conversational  speech uh so I'll give you a an example of that  

so after hours so this means like after people  are working what's what's going on at Disneyland  

so it's after the park closes then the customers  or the guests are leaving and what do the people  

do after hours so we want to know what happens  and this TV show is going to talk about that so  

uh it's just talking about Disneyland and cast  members and here's some interesting English  

that's related to this specific question now  my uh the the show we were watching is all in  

Japanese but I was talking with my kids about  this in English while we were watching it so  

my my children know both English and Japanese  and my wife speaks English and Japanese also  

um and so she said something very interesting  about this she said oh we're going to see what  

happens uh in the I'm going to fit this over  here I'll just put it over in the back yard  

in the backyard and I I was listening to that  and I said wait a minute like this is this is  

correct English like in the backyard but for the  context it didn't make any sense I was like what  

in the backyard what do you mean by that and  she said you know like like after the the the  

workers are just there the customers are all  gone we get to see what they do you know like  

while nobody is there and I said oh you mean  you mean like back stage we're talking about  

stage just like we have the you know if we have  imagine a play over here we've got the stage and  

we have the curtains over here on the side and  the performers are up here so the the the part  

of the stage back here so this is the actual stage  the area around it where people go when they are  

not on stage they go off stage or they go back  stage so backstage is it's like it's one word  

like backstage uh or if you go to see a concert  you might have a backstage pass so backstage pass

backstage pass so backstage pass like a little  a little badge or something that says oh I can  

go uh backstage and talk to the performers or  the musicians or something like that so she  

said backyard a backyard is when you're like  here's your house house over here and then we  

have the front of the house and then you got  some uh backyard here's a tree back there in  

your backyard so it is the yard some people might  also have a front yard but this is the backyard  

here so the interesting thing about this is that  she knows if I was explaining this and I said oh  

you can go backstage she would understand that  English but she had trouble using the correct  

English in this explanation okay so in her her  explanation of like oh uh look we can see the  

performers backyard I said oh I don't think we're  going to their house we're not going to see their  

backyard we're going backstage we get to see uh  what's going on when people are not supposed to  

be at the park so when it's closed what are the  workers doing another way of expressing this is  

behind the scenes so what's going on behind  the scenes what's going on behind the scenes  

oh Esther look at that another fellow wisconsinite  over there all right are people getting the idea  

here so if I explain something I could correctly  say oh we get to see what's happening backstage  

but because my wife was like not really thinking  about it she was just like oh she said backyard  

instead so this would be incorrect English I  didn't understand exactly what she was saying  

so she she forgot like that's the thing so in her  mind I can't really guess like exactly what she  

was thinking but this is the kind of mistake you  make when you don't really understand the language  

as well as you think you do all right let me say  that again this is the kind of mistake you make  

when you don't really know the language as well as  you think you do when you understand oh it's back  

stage like not the front of the stage not where  people are this is backstage we're going behind  

where people actually are okay backstage like  oh I've got I've got tickets to the concert  

and we get to go backstage to talk with uh talk  with their performers backstage okay does this  

make sense so this is an example of when when  people are listening it's a much easier thing  

than trying to speak because you have to remember  the correct words for situations and you have  

to understand the vocabulary well enough to feel  confident using it so lots of people it's really  

easy to understand because they don't have to  think they're not the one trying to make sure  

the grammar is correct and they're putting things  together correctly and even in a sentence even if  

you don't understand everything you can understand  generally what's happening so I could explain this  

to my wife look we get to go uh with this TV  show we get to go behind the scenes we get to  

go backstage and see what's happening and she  would understand that perfectly she would know  

exactly what I'm saying but when it's her turn to  speak and also her English is really good by the  

way I'm just using this as a particular example  because it happened yesterday and you know I  

might make similar mistakes in Japanese because  there might be some word that I think I know but  

I don't really know enough to know it without  a doubt so when you understand it's like wait  

wait wait we're not talking about a backyard  we're talking about backstage so you want to  

go backstage and see what's happening behind the  scenes all right does everybody get this idea so  

when people say why can I understand words so why  can I understand what other people are speaking  

to me but they can't use them and again this uh  this specific question is usually talking about  

forgetting individual words and phrases so there  might be some things that you don't forget maybe  

you can say a sentence and you're pretty confident  about most of the sentence but some of it maybe a  

word or a grammar point or pronunciation you're  not very confident you still have some kind of  

doubt and that's what stops you from speaking so  it's not having a speaking opportunity it's not  

knowing what the word actually means and using  it correctly and feeling confident about it but  

hopefully you feel confident now does everybody  understand the difference do you feel confident  

about backyard versus backstage raise your hand  give me like a heart or type something in the  

comment so I see what's happening over here let me  check see if comments are working on phone let's

see I think we're

working all right yes it looks like we are working  all right so uh that's the basic idea of when you  

can understand something but not speak it just  means you have some kind of doubt still you're  

not really as prepared as you think you are for  the conversation all right and uh another thing I  

would like to make clear here is that you can know  some things without a doubt and other things you  

might still have doubts about them all right all  right thank you I'm glad everybody or at least a  

few people are following me here I really want  to make sure you have no doubt so that's why I  

take my time to explain things and make sure you  understand them all right so if you have no doubt  

you either have doubt or you have confidence but  you don't have both you might have like some doubt  

about something like I understand something  but I have doubt about using it then it means  

you don't have confidence about that thing but  when you eliminate all the doubt now we've got  

100% confidence that we can use something and  you will feel confident about backyard versus

backstage okay so that's the uh the second  question and again it's like people might not uh  

say it exactly like this but this is the kind of  question where people can understand some English  

but they still struggle to speak all right audio  is less encouraging well if I if I turn my head I  

might uh not be caught by the microphone but I'll  try to speak more directly into it all right let's  

keep moving though all right so I want to get  we've already covered the first two core questions  

that people have again the first question  is do you remember what's the first question  

anybody remember see if anybody was following  following this as I erase this over here so the  

first question was why can I understand English  teachers but I have trouble understanding Natives  

and it could be movies or TV shows or whatever  that's the main thing where if you don't even  

know the English then of course you will struggle  to understand people okay so that's the it's kind  

of like the first level of eliminating doubt  over here if nobody ever taught you something  

thing then of course you're going to have trouble  speaking all right so Sonia says I can understand  

you but I cannot speak like you now we're going  to talk about that particular issue all right  

so second thing we talked about this one here is  when you can understand people like you can follow  

people uh why do I understand you but not AES  yes so that was the first thing we talked about  

and then the second one is maybe I understand you  I can follow other people when they're speaking  

but I can't speak like them uh it's usually  because you have particular words and phrases  

that you can't use confidently and fluently so  you could have basically some kind of doubt about  

whatever the vocabulary you're using and that's  what's going to cause you to uh struggle to

speak but hopefully uh you've seen so far that  the solution to both of those problems is not  

to live around native speakers or to like try to  speak a lot more it's just to eliminate whatever  

doubt you have about that particular thing so if  you don't know what people are really saying then  

of course you're going to have more trouble  when when people are in a conversation so if  

I'm talking with people in Japanese and they're  talking about I don't know some like high level  

I don't know biology or something and I don't  know the actual vocabulary they're using of  

course I will struggle in that conversation  okay so if you like some if you just don't  

know the language at all of course you will  struggle and you could know the language but  

still have trouble speaking anyway if you have  doubt about the the vocabulary you know so you  

might hear something and recognize it but  you still don't feel confident you don't  

really know it well enough uh to to really  understand that one well how's it going says

Malu and I'll make this my little doubt my  doubt gauge my doubt uh little thing over  

here so this is so we have like 0% certainty 0%  uh assuredness about about something or we have  

100% certainty where you feel very confident uh  about understanding things and so I want you to  

understand that there are different levels of  understanding it's not like oh I understand  

Drew so I should be speaking fluently no that's  not how it works understanding me is going to  

have like it's going to give you a little bit  of the that range of English but it's only a  

piece of that puzzle it's not the whole thing  you still need to listen to lots of different  

people speaking uh and so now we're going to talk  about let me put my blue back up here uh question  

three and so this is for really the highest level  of Learners who know a lot they understand a lot  

of the language and they're really struggling with  why am I not able to communicate fluently and I'll  

talk about the the two pieces of that uh but that  is the question here so why do I know uh we'll  

just say how can I know so much English G now I  can't I can't I can't even write the word English  

over here while I'm talking NG g l i s h so how  can I know so much English yet not be fluent f  

e n t so uh I I help people at all three levels  of this but this is the highest level for people  

who know a lot of English uh but still struggle  to speak and let me just check chat make sure  

we're working over here accesses uh is it a  better strategy to start practicing in formal  

situations since it's easy to understand  the language than with normal people in  

streets for example uh not necessarily but  I'll talk about uh how how that works here  

all right uh so let's get into this so this this  third question here this is the main kind of  

question or the third kind of question I get from  Learners which is how can I know so much English  

or like I understand everything you're saying  Drew or even I understand everything natives are  

saying but I'm not able to put my words together  fluently and confidently and talk about really  

anything or have a conversation about anything  I might be nervous talking about some things but  

not others this is the actual problem of putting  the information together in conversations okay so  

how do you do that uh and when I explain to people  that the the problem is not just like listening to  

a lot of English it's really eliminating all the  doubt uh and this I'm going to I'm going to put  

kind of two sub problems here these are the the  the core things that people really struggle with  

uh the first one is just knowing uh so knowing  like let's just say the right word the right

so knowing the right word for the situation  so whatever that thing is uh people will have  

doubts about both of these things so they will  have doubts about what is the right word for  

the situation and then the other thing is  like how to let's just say uh what it say

connect so how do I know the right thing to  say for a situation so the thing that sounds  

natural the thing that sounds normal uh and then  also connecting speech how can I take these pieces  

of language like words and phrases and grammar  points and actually weave them together like  

I'm doing right now so I'm speaking fluently I'm  saying the right thing at the right time and I'm  

also able to connect my language all right so I  can think like what is a way to say something uh  

and again like there are there there many ways  to do both of these things so I could uh let's  

say I want to say I don't know really hot for  example so I could say what is the right word  

for the situation like wow it's really hot in here  or I could say it's extremely hot or it's it's a  

stifling heat uh over here uh where it's hotter  than hell or it's crazy hot in this room there  

are different ways that I could say the right  word for the situation or the right phrase for  

the situation and then the second part of that is  connecting speech where I'm able to take my words  

and flow them together dynamically so remember in  conversations the tricky thing about practicing  

for real communication is that it's not like  practicing for an instrument or uh practicing  

a sport where you're trying to shoot a basketball  or something like that because each conversation  

is dynamic it's uncertain it's uh you don't  really know what people are going to say it's  

unpredictable so uh we'll we'll talk about kind  of how you prepare for that but these are the  

main problems that people have so the without  them like thinking about it this is it either  

you're you have trouble finding the right word  for the situation so you you hear something like  

oh I understand what the situation is but I don't  know what feels natural what might a native say  

or what are some different things natives might  say and then I have trouble actually connecting  

the speech okay so this is the the the final  core thing that people have doubt about this  

is usually the biggest one uh so people especially  are this is like the most painful problem because  

they understand so much English but they're still  not able to put it together fluently uh so before  

we talk about the solution to this uh let me go  through chat right quick make sure I'm up uh let's  

see cleaning solution says what can I do if I have  problems speaking about daily life I think I have  

a good level about business topics but not about  regular topics uh we'll talk about that in just  

second uh Rich says I understand what you  stated however when I converse with somebody  

I have doubts because I fear making mistakes and  might feel embarrassed yeah so that's the kind  

of thing we talked about uh in the the second  question people have but then they also have  

doubts about what's the right thing to say and  how can I connect all of these things so that's  

the that's the kind of deeper problem people have  so if you if you know what the vocabulary is and  

you feel confident that you can remember it in  a conversation but but you still have trouble  

remembering it or even knowing if if that is the  right word for the situation there you can see  

how all of these doubts it's it's just a bunch of  doubts that stop you from speaking but if you can  

eliminate all of those doubts then the confidence  returns because you can't be doubting and having  

confidence at the same time either you have doubt  or you have confidence either you really know the  

language well enough to use it or you will have  doubts and questions in your mind that stop you  

from speaking all right all right so let's look at  this uh and a p says I've been having this problem  

where I know words but I can't use them correctly  in terms of making generalization sentences out  

of them sometimes I would use a plural form uh  but I use otherwise yeah so that that's kind  

of talking about problem two where you have uh  like misunderstandings or you have a just some  

kind of doubt about using things correctly  so if I can't remember a word just by myself  

and in my mind when I'm talking to myself if I  can't remember something then I'm definitely not  

going to use it correctly in a conversation either  so it's knowing the vocabulary feeling confident  

that you could recall it because you really  understand the vocabulary well like you understand  

it without a doubt and you're able to connect that  thing and you know that's the right thing for the  

situation so if you have all of those things  then you have confidence and speak INF fluency  

all right but uh hopefully as I repeat again and  again the point here is not to try to practice  

speaking it's to eliminate the doubt you have all  right so this I really want to make it clear like  

how do we solve this problem let me give you an  example this is actually another story from last  

night I I thought this was so entertaining  because I I was thinking about teaching this  

lesson talking about the book and what it's what  it's covering um and then I had both of these  

stories the first story I just told from my wife  uh and then this is the second story from from my  

daughter now this is an interesting one uh so both  of these were last night we again sitting at the  

dinner table and Arya my older daughter who is  9 years old she speaks Japanese and she speaks  

English and she said Daddy uh I know what I want  for Christmas and I said okay what would you like  

and she said oh I want I'll write this uh write  this see if I can fit that up here I want a One

a one wheeled I want a one wheeled bicycle I want  a one- whe bicycle and at first when I heard that  

I thought like it's it's kind of like just a  funny idea to think about it uh but so I want  

to be very clear about what's happening here  she says uh for Christmas I want a on wheeled  

bicycle what do you think she meant by that  what's a one wheeled bicycle just post that  

in the chat if you know I'll give you a second  to think about what that word means now it took  

me a moment to understand what she was trying to  say uh but it's actually a unicycle yes that's

correct so what she's asking for is I'll draw  a picture of it here is a kind of little seat  

uh and you get a pole here and then there's  the wheel and there's some kind of pedal on  

it so you can you sit here and say one wheel  little vehicle like that but she said I want  

a onwheel bicycle and so it took me a minute to  think about it but I said Oh you mean you mean a  

unicycle right and she's said ah yeah that's it  so like she had kind of forgotten the word but  

here's the interesting thing she didn't stop she  didn't hesitate in conversation she just switched  

the word she was thinking of but she was just  able to say something else yeah you could you  

could say like monocycle but the word is unicycle  unicycle and so I said oh yes you mean a unicycle  

remember uni means one in cycle means like a  circle so a by cycle let see bicycle we've got  

two two cycles that's why we call it a bicycle  instead of a unicycle now interesting how the  

pronunciation for cycle also changes so we have  uni unicycle unicycle and bicycle bicycle bicycle  

we don't really say bicycle we say bicycle it's a  little bit easier to blend that together bicycle  

bicycle bicycle instead of bicycle and then we  don't say like unicycle it sounds a little bit  

weird unicycle but she said ah a unicycle so  she understood what the word was she had just  

forgotten it now what will often happen for a a  Learner in this situation is they will say I want  

a and then the conversation just ends because  they can't think of the exact word to save for  

something now this happens to natives all the  time and you probably you I'm I'm doing it even  

in these videos but I do it so quickly you don't  really notice it but the point is I'm what I call  

moving like water where I start saying something  and then I think okay this is the way I want to  

express it but wait a minute maybe that's not  the best way or oh actually I forgot the specific  

word I want to use so instead of going that way  I go this way instead but I'm able to move like  

water it's like there's kind of a rock in my way  and the water just flows around that rock but lots  

of Learners they get stuck at that point where  they're where they're going and they just think oh  

no I forgot that word that's the only word I know  to use for something so now I can't speak and the  

conversation ends or people get stuck or they're  just like ah I can't remember so what my daughter  

did was interestingly she couldn't remember the  word unicycle so she just said something different  

which helped me understand what she meant so  again even natives might forget some particular  

vocabulary but she's fluent in that she's able to  continue speaking simply by switching to different  

vocabulary okay see what happened there so she was  not able to find the right word for the situation  

but she just said something different all right  so there are many ways that we might Express a  

particular word there's not only one thing and  typically when people are learning learning a  

language they get one translation of a word and  that's why they think okay I I have my one way of  

saying something I might think like what are  some other ways of expressing this how about  

a one wheeled vehicle or what's the name of that  little it's got a seat on it and the wheel the one  

wheel under it oh that's a unicycle so I could  explain something even if I forget the actual  

word for it all right so my daughter was able to  find a way to express something so even though  

I was like wait a minute a one-wheel bicycle  like it's like it's like a light dark room  

or something it just it sounds like a like a  contradiction but so a onewheel bicycle after I  

thought for a moment and understood oh that's  what she's trying to say uh so she was able  

to explain what she wanted she had the right  words and she was able to connect the speech  

without stuttering or hesitating or worrying  that it wasn't the exact right thing okay so  

yes a one wheel a one wheel plus a bicycle  could be like a tricycle yeah so you could  

express something like that like what's  that it's a vehicle for little kids it's  

like a bicycle but it's got three wheels  on it ah a tricle a tricycle so that's a

tri so just like we have a tricle we can have  a tri triangle so a triangle has a three angles  

on it a triangle or a tricycle like this we got  the uh little seat thing and two wheels in the  

back like that so a uh tricycle tricycle all  right so how does she develop this ability now  

the interesting thing is like I don't actually  spend a lot of time talking with my kids they  

do watch you know movies and English TV shows  or things like that on YouTube sometimes um  

but I'm not they're not spending a lot of time  speaking English with me or even just speaking  

English during the day but what they are doing is  they're getting lots of naturally varied review so  

naturally varied review is what's like if they  see you know somebody talking about a tricycle  

they might hear the word tricycle and they might  hear an explanation about tricycle or they might  

hear some different pronunciations of the word  or they might hear different speakers saying it  

so let's say they're watching a a Peppa Pig  so this is actually a TV show I recommend  

Peppa Pig so this is British English and  even my 5-year-old daughter will say hey  

they pronounce the words wrong and I say no no  that's British English it's correct it's just it  

sounds a little bit different from uh from like  American English and even in America we might  

have different ways of pronouncing things so uh  when my kids are listening to this they might be  

watching a Peppa Pig episode about a unicycle and  so they'll hear a couple of different characters  

use the word the pronunciation is different  some people might not be speaking so clearly  

some people are a little bit faster this is the  kind of naturally varied review that makes sure  

they understand the word and when they can use  it so they're learning the right way to express  

things and they're learning examples of how to  connect that speech so you get this not by you  

speaking it's by listening to examples of other  people speaking so not just me like listening to  

other people like me talking with someone  or some characters talking in a movie you  

need to see all of those examples that teach you  the right way to express things so this is the  

secret the thing that most people are missing  uh and it's what I call actually the strangest  

fluency secret because you don't get fluent by  just repeating things to yourself you actually  

get fluent as you see lots of natives showing  you exactly how to say things in different ways  

okay let me say that again so what people think  they need is to speak a lot but lots of people  

have been speaking a lot for a long time and they  still don't feel very confident and fluent the  

reason is because they still have doubt so they're  still using you know whatever they they think like  

I don't know I I I I I try to say something but I  don't really feel confident I can understand other  

people when they talk to me but I'm still not  feeling very confident myself so even if they live  

with natives they could be married to a native and  still make you know mistakes kind of like the the  

mistake I talk about uh in the last example with  my wife uh but those are the kinds of things where  

uh you just don't know the vocabulary as well as  you think you do and the reason is because you're  

not getting enough examples of natives actually  talking about those things and showing you how to  

do that so you can see how in a regular language  lesson like a gave that example before about  

the rainbow where people have different kinds of  English that they're learning than uh the regular  

ways that people might speak so if you're only  listening to slow clear speech but you're not  

listening to lots of examples of people speaking  faster or not speaking so clearly or not using  

the typical textbook English that you might hear  just like I gave the example before about y'all  

want some pie y'all want some pie y'all want some  pie y'all want some pie so do you all or would you  

like some pie you might hear that in a textbook  but in a real example someone with a Southern  

accent says y'all want some pie and maybe you  don't understand what they're saying or or you  

couldn't express it like they did okay so the  difference here uh it's not like I'm speaking to  

my kids and they spend all their time developing  fluency by speaking they're actually developing  

fluency by seeing examples of different natives  communicating but they're doing it in a structured  

way all right so what happens with a lot of  Learners they make this mistake of having I'm  

going to draw this oh look at this we have  a pretty chaotic looking board here let me  

erase some of this so people will often tell me  but Drew I do listen to native English and I do  

watch TV shows and uh let's see here and they  think they should be fluent but they're still  

not fluent and so what's happening is they're not  learning this content in a structured way that the  

structured part is really important here having  native content is great but it's not going to help  

you if you're learning it in like an unstructured  way uh and I'm going to make this very simple for

you can people see the red marker okay I think  they can hopefully maybe I would use black for  

this example over here all right so if you are  at this stage AG where you can understand a lot  

of English and you can understand me and even if  you understand every native and you don't have  

any trouble uh understanding like you know even  you know people in movies or TV shows you can  

understand those things but you still can't speak  then it's probably because you're not erasing all  

the doubt you still have doubts about how to  connect things or what's the right word for  

the situation uh and those are actually things  that don't come from you speaking they come for  

you seeing other people speaking and how they make  those connections that's how you learn to do that  

and as you see more examples then you get to start  doing that as well so I might learn something in  

Japanese and hear oh look at that here's a word  that people used or a situation or some expression  

uh and now I see I could also use that in a  different situation so as I feel more confident  

as I eliminate doubt about how to learn things  or what might be the right thing for a situation  

that's when I start speaking so uh what what a  lot of people typically do all right so people  

can see the red on the I think some people maybe  are color blind so they can't see certain colors  

and I I don't know if like which color is best  I think maybe green is worse for that anyway uh  

so what often happens this is how people are  getting native content it's like this uh and  

I'm having these little circles over here and  these circles represent random pieces of native  

content so this one here is like maybe uh like a  TV show uh about I don't know sports or whatever  

uh and then this is a book about flowers uh and  then this is another thing about some unrelated  

thing we'll just put podcast up here uh and then  there might be just other random things like that  

so here's an English lesson video uh I'm going to  not draw that very well but it's supposed to say  

English lesson I want to be quick so an English  lesson video and other things like that so you  

are listening to or watching or reading random  content here's a blog post on a website U here's  

some radio program okay so this is what people  are typically doing to learn they're like oh I  

like I want to read this thing or watch this  thing and it's native content but the problem  

with it is that each of these individual pieces  will usually have like some part of it that you  

don't understand so maybe like I I I can follow  some of this I don't understand exactly all the  

words but I I get the general idea I can watch a  movie or read a book or whatever but maybe I don't  

understand everything so uh because you're not  strategically learning you're going to have more  

trouble trying to remember this information and  then actually just like we talked about uh knowing  

what's the correct thing for the situation and  then also being able to connect these different  

things so those two points are very important  I could really talk about them separately  

ly but it's it's really linked because you have  if you you have like the pieces of them how do  

I know what's correct for a situation so if  something like falls on my head what do I say  

like in English we would say ouch or damn or you  know depending on how painful it is for us if I'm  

speaking Japanese I might say like ouch so in in  one language or like what do I say when I stretch  

if you watch little kids so little Japanese  kids they get up they stretch they're like  

like that's a partic that's a Japanese thing  American kids don't say that they say like yeah  

you like get up and say something different so if  you watch them little kids are learning what to  

say even little Grunts and sounds like that like  yes like people people say that it's not like an  

actual word for the situation it's just kind of  it's just stretching but little kids see that  

and they think oh in this situation this is what  I say so they're connecting the situation with  

the vocabulary right rather than trying to learn a  translation of something and make that connection  

okay so uh when you're learning like this this is  a typical way people are learning and that's why  

they get a very wide range of content but they  don't know it very well so they don't feel very  

confident speaking about it does anyone have that  problem where you know lots of information you  

might have information about business or you know  whatever your hobbies or something like that but  

you still don't feel very confident speaking  about it this is usually the problem now how  

do we do this strategically what we want to do  is again so this is just the typical way people  

might learn things uh but instead when we want  to get naturally varied review We want to make  

sure we eliminate all of the doubt by exploring  things or listening to things or watching things  

in different ways all right so we want to take the  same kind of content and then learn it in slightly  

different ways to make sure we really understand  that and eliminate any doubt about what the say  

for this particular situation or what are some  different things you might say uh and then how  

to connect things so seeing how people actually  connect those words teaches you how to do that  

you have to see how the language is connected not  just learning a bunch of random words and phrases  

okay so we don't want to just watch a bunch of  random content we want to get naturally varied

review so very simply here's how this might work  for whatever I'll take a particular topic like  

uh motorcycles so I wanted to learn about  motorcycles I watch a YouTube video about  

motorcycles so here is like a what just say  YT video about motorcycles now I might also  

read a blog post about motorcycles so here's like  blog post or I'm listening to a radio show about  

so radio r a excuse d i o I can't I cannot write  and talk at the same time r a d i o a radio show  

about motorcycles or maybe I actually like go on  a motorcycle trip with a friend of mine and we're  

talking about motorcycles and I'm I'm hearing a  lot of this vocabulary he's describing different  

parts of the motorcycle and how they work together  and what they do as I'm hearing all these things  

some vocabulary I'm going to hear a lot okay so  uh like people are using the word motorcycle and  

various motorcycle parts if I hear that I'm going  to hear that and I'm going to hear different ways  

that people might use this or I might even hear  different ways of saying the word motorcycle so  

we have a motor cycle get that word cycle a lot so  a motorcycle or I might hear like a chopper or a  

bike so people will people will tell me different  ways of describing that so some guy is saying yeah  

I got a new bike today uh and I know they were  out shopping for a motorcycle so I hear oh look  

you can use the word bike when you're talking  about a motorcycle here I'm naturally learning  

just by getting this variation here that look at  that I can actually have a conversation and use  

motorcycle or bike at the same time or motorbike  another example you can combine them together you  

can have a motorcycle motorbike and you could even  have like specific names like a Harley or a hog or  

something even depending on particular Brands uh  or models of motorcycle okay but the point is I'm  

seeing like I gave those examples before about  different ways of expressing things so what are  

various ways I might describe motorcycle so the  situation is this like uh this physical object  

and it's well this looks more like a bicycle  but just imagine this is a motorcycle here uh  

yeah it kind of looks like a motorcycle I guess  so you're looking at this thing and it's like oh  

look at that I could say motorbike motorcycle  a chopper a bike whatever I could express that  

in lots of different ways and I'm also seeing how  people describe this in different ways so I'm not  

just learning individual vocabulary I'm seeing  how people connect that vocabulary in sentences  

if I watch a bunch of different people or listen  to them or read people talking about motorcycles  

I'm going to become fluent about talking about  motorcycles okay and not only will I learn to get  

fluent talking about motorcycles I will also use  that to talk about other vehicles or even other  

things that are not related to that so if someone  says I have been riding for a long time I think I  

think oh okay like they have been writing so  I can take that same grammar point and think  

oh I have been teaching or I have been playing  or I have been doing or I have been something  

like that but I I understood the grammar in  context I have been riding motorcycles or I  

have been racing motorcycles for many years okay  so I learned that grammar point and I understand  

oh like now that's a thing I can use to talk about  anything for any experience I've had or how long  

I've been doing something but you see how this  works your brain begins making these connections  

and seeing like wow some things are used a lot  maybe some things are used less frequently but  

you would still learn them some things might  be specific for I don't know like motorcycle  

parts but you're not talking about a motorcycle  travel or something like that but you can see  

how by structuring this being systematic with  how we're learning we're actually getting lots  

of great examples but it's not repetitive when  you're just learning something like if you try  

to learn this way then people will just say well  repeat the TV show again like I'm just going to  

watch the TV show again and lots of people  are not going to do that because it's boring  

your brain is naturally looking for new  information it always wants what's it wants to  

know what's new it's looking for novel new what's  exciting what what have I not seen before so it's  

looking for new information and that's why it's  so difficult for people to review typically if you  

read a book you might read a book like if you read  a novel let's say that's 200 Pages you're probably  

not going to reread that novel right after you're  done like nobody does that because it's boring  

ing you already know the story you don't want to  waste time to go back and do it again now it's  

probably a good idea if you read a novel once  and then go back and read it again you will  

probably notice some things that you did not see  the first time so that kind of review is helpful  

reviewing uh through repetition is useful but  most people won't do it because it's boring okay  

so when you're looking at something like if I like  motorcycles if I'm interested in that I will read  

a blog post about motorcycles I will watch a video  I might watch a movie about that like a movie like  

Easy Rider so let me put like easy easy rider so  it's a movie about like a motorcycle trip uh or  

I could watch movies about I don't know anything  related to that but this works even better if I'm  

interested in this particular thing but notice the  strategy here where we're getting naturally varied  

review it's not just repetition we're hearing  Maybe the same word but it's a different person  

saying it or the accent is different or the speed  is different but it helps us understand uh by by  

connecting all of these things it's all of this  together it's the whole system together that  

really locks that information in your mind  so that you feel confident you remember the  

information and notice something else I'm not  speaking right now okay as I'm doing all this  

I'm developing fluency even before I say a word  all right all right so the strategy is how do we  

know the information how do we eliminate the doubt  before we speak if you can do that then you will  

feel very confident I promise you if you have a  conversation tomorrow you know you're going to  

be talking about whatever some friends are meeting  to talk about I don't know planning a a road trip  

or something if you spend your time getting  a bunch of content before that you will feel  

very confident when you get into that conversation  even before you speak okay okay so the strangest  

fluency secret is you can become fluent before  you speak and actually prepare simply by getting  

lots of content and seeing natives talk about  doing things in different ways or they get  

to uh they get to understand things or you get  to hear different pronunciations see different  

people speaking about this is this exciting does  everybody get this now so the the typical thing  

people think about doing is I need to speak to  develop fluency but this shows us that while you  

could do that it's actually a lot more difficult  than just doing it the easy way and relaxing and  

getting lots of varied input and again this is  not just about like comprehensible input where  

I understand something I want to eliminate doubt  I can understand something but if I still feel  

uncertain about it then I'm I'm missing the bigger  picture here I need to eliminate actually get to  

100% about individual words and phrases and and  how do I feel about making sure uh these things  

can connect easily in conversations so if I don't  see examples of other people speaking it will be  

much more difficult for me just to take random  words and and know how to fit them together it's  

by seeing other people speak and actually uh  seeing how they make these connections and not  

just one person you see lots of different people  you see how people have it written or how it's  

maybe spoken on the radio or you get to watch  some examples and see people doing things in a  

video this is why we organize fluent for life the  way we do because we want people to get naturally  

varied review it's designed to actually work with  your brain instead of just taking some content and  

then you're not going to really want to review it  because it's boring you read that book you just  

finished that book why are you going to read  it again nobody does that all right now maybe  

you you might try to force yourself to do it but  you're going to your brain is going to be a little  

bit angry if you do all right so it is possible  to do that but it's much easier if we can trick  

our brains into getting that new information  by making the information feel new and it feels  

new with naturally varied review in that way all  right hopefully this is making sense I'll make one  

last Point here about conversations I'm certainly  saying if you get into conversations that's great  

the goal is to be able to speak with people but I  don't want you to have to feel that you're forced  

to do that that you really have to speak first  and then get fluent it's actually the opposite  

that's why I call it the strangest fluency secret  because everybody assumes you have to speak to  

become fluent but if that were possible you could  just sit and talk to yourself and then you would  

become fluent right but instead you actually just  see lots of examples of how other people speak and  

that teaches you how to make these connections and  as you do that you can make your own connections  

you get to connect things like you learn something  in one situation and you use it fluently in  

another thing you say the right thing at the right  time or you use language in an interesting way  

like my uh my kids do that all the time just  like Arya was talking about a one-wheeled  

bicycle so she knew how to continue talking  she was speaking fluently and she just used  

a different way of expressing something because  she forgot the actual word for something so it's  

okay if you forget natives forget things all the  time that's perfect example of that but they're  

able to continue speaking because they've seen  examples of other ways of doing things and she's  

like wait a minute what's like she knows like a  one a one legged dog or a three-legged something  

or whatever and oh this is just a one-legged or  one wheeled bicycle she understood the pattern  

because she'd seen lots of examples of that so  in a conversation usually what's happening is  

that you are trying to say things to other people  but you could actually uh just like most of the  

information most of the Improvement is coming from  the other things that people say to you so as you  

learn oh that's a a new way I could say something  that's some new vocabulary and you understand it  

in context all in English rather than trying to  use your native language and understand things  

that way all right is this exciting let me let  me know if I'm if I'm just talking to myself  

over here but this is how I got fluent in Japanese  this is how I get my kids fluent in uh in English  

and Japanese if I'm speaking I speak like both of  those languages with them uh but this is how we  

do it and I make sure because I don't have a lot  of time with my kids that this is how I'm going  

to teach them so I want to make sure uh they're  getting structured naturally varied review so  

they're actually they're learning something and  and getting it from a lot of different ways if I  

know we're going to like talk about Halloween we  might read some different Halloween books watch a  

different Halloween TV show or something like that  but they're they're getting all of this naturally  

very to review some things they may remember  better than others and that's okay but in general  

they will naturally learn how to be good speakers  because they're seeing all these examples or  

hearing examples or reading examples or whatever  and the proof is in people being able to speak  

that's how we learn how to do it so in your native  language this is how you got fluent it's the same  

way you will get fluent in English of course you  could try to continue doing this if this is what  

most people uh if if you were doing this or you're  just watching random content without getting much  

review and you you still don't really feel 100%  confident that you understand everything or you  

watch something but you couldn't also explain  that the same way the person did then you're not  

getting enough review of that thing and it's just  more boring to try to get review of the exact same  

thing in the same way so again like even like in  uh influent for life you might watch a video and  

then listen to that same content or or write it  or read it as well and as you do that your brain  

is going to think in a slightly different way it  will feel like oh this is kind of new information  

uh I can I'm happy to accept this and and review  it in a slightly different way but this is how  

you're going to get fluent and you can become  fluent before you speak okay so you don't need  

to spend a lot of time like when when people  ask me like what is the the ultimate strategy  

here the strategy is just eliminating doubt okay  that's it that's the only thing you have to think  

about it's not like it's not just getting when  people talk about comprehensible input they kind  

of stop at this level they're like oh I need  to get comprehensible input I just oh okay I  

I listen to a uh a podcast about something and I  understand that information okay great but did you  

did you destroy the doubt are you still uncertain  could you listen to a podcast and then go talk  

about that same stuff in the podcast as well if  you can't either watch it again or listen to it  

again or try to get some naturally varied review  so if I'm listening to a podcast about gardening  

I should also watch a TV show about gardening or  listen to you know just some people in real life  

go to the gardening store and watch people talk  about gardening okay so that's how this works all  

right let me go back and check looks like we've  been going for 85 minutes oh my goodness uh let's

see uh okay hello teacher I'm studying Japanese  and English these days and it's hard because the  

structures of the two are different yes uh  but if you can understand how they work by  

connecting Japanese with situations and connecting  English with situations it's easier to do that I  

don't really recommend people try to learn two  languages at the same time but it's possible  

just like you would go to school and you learn  math and science and other things at the same  

time like languages are similar but you can you  can still kind of learn them like I could even be  

learning about um like if if I'm trying to learn  two different languages at the same time I would  

probably be watching content about a particular  thing in Japanese and then maybe watch something  

different in English like that that could be one  way uh to separate that in your mind if you're  

having um if you're having any issue with that uh  which kind of language English you're speaking now  

so I speak uh well I speak American English Janie  says hi from Bangkok I'm on the motorbike watching  

your video nice uh just like you make a video  on making coffee and you show different videos  

to show they were using the same words but could  make a distinction yes so that was an example of  

naturally varied review it's one kind of example  so the naturally varied review is like it's like a  

science experiment where you want to like I might  have uh let's say I don't know I want to I want  

to find out I have a kind of plant and I wanted  to know does that fit over here okay so I have  

three different seeds uh and one has a sunlight  and one has sunlight and water and one has like  

no sunlight or water something like that I want  to see what happens to the plant so the sunlight  

one maybe it grows a little bit sunlight and water  really grows very well and nothing it doesn't do  

anything so here I'm I'm trying to compare  these different things and it's the comparison  

that helps me understand what was the thing that  worked or did not work so it it works the same way  

when you're trying to teach your brain language  you don't just get one example or get a list of  

things that you're trying to remember you see how  it's used we learn by watching other people or by  

listening to other people and that's how you learn  the language uh good question though um let's  

see access says I think in naturally varied review  situations the brain starts to focus more on the  

details yes so the brain will naturally do that  because the brain likes new information and it's  

trying to figure out what's different between  these things and it works even better if it's  

something you're interested in so if you try to  watch videos about motorcycles and you don't care  

about motorcycles that's probably not a good  thing to do this is why uh INF fluent for life  

you get to pick the topics you're learning about  because you don't want to just like I'm not going  

to force you to learn about you know Pokemon  if you don't care about Pokemon you know now  

interesting thing is you could watch some things  about motorcycles and then you would learn some  

useful vocabulary that could be used elsewhere  but uh you don't necessarily have to do that so  

it's a it's a good thing uh to to get various  information to make sure you really understand  

it and and want to uh and want to learn that  thing especially if you're interested in it  

all right nice to see you there and how did you  eliminate the doubts while learning Japanese so  

the I I just did the same thing in Japanese if  there a doubt I have about something I need to  

attack that doubt I need to I need to find out if  it's a grammar problem or a vocabulary problem or  

something and I might think at first when I hear  something I don't really understand it very well  

so I should find someone who can explain it to  me um like okay now I I hear something let's say  

like near my house I think I've told this story  there's a an announcement for the toilet like oh  

there's a toilet over here and for a long time I  could understand the Japanese that was being used  

for that it was like it just wasn't it wasn't  clear for me I couldn't I couldn't remember  

or understand what it was so I asked my wife and  they were saying ah like TL Ticky and I was like  

Ah that's what they're saying it like doesn't  sound like that at all or maybe my hearing is  

just bad but once I understood that then I could  hear it clearly there's an interesting uh just  

related to this uh it's a it's a like a science  experiment about uh people passing a basketball  

around a room and you ask someone hey I want you  to count the number of times the basketball gets  

passed around the room so you have a group of  people walking around a room and passing this  

basketball to each other um and then at the end  we're going to see like so you're trying to count  

the number of times that the basketball moves um  and at the end we'll ask you how many times they  

pass the ball and see if you got it right so they  they walk around the room for a little bit and  

people pass the B basketball and they say how many  times uh did they pass the ball and usually people  

are correct like they passed it 10 times and then  they say well did you also see the gorilla did  

you also see the gorilla and the person is like  what what do you mean what gorilla and like the  

interesting thing is in this experiment the point  is the experiment is just to show that people can  

focus on a particular thing if that's what they're  doing and then they they they block out additional  

information so in the experiment they actually  have a person with a gorilla suit on walking  

through that group of people and so the G like the  gorilla walks by and he's like oh hello and like  

actually he doesn't say anything but he's waving  like that and he walks through and so the person  

is really surprised that they didn't notice that  at all you can watch this on YouTube just look up  

like a gorilla basketball experiment or something  but it's an interesting part about our psychology  

about how we focus on particular things like  that anyway um so like when I'm when I'm trying  

to focus on particular things like I I want to  watch something and then I want to review it again  

because I know my mind is probably going to miss  certain things anyway but it's just more boring  

to review it if I'm just watching the exact same  thing again and again I can do that and sometimes  

I do but the the naturally varied review part uh  is much better for me eliminating uh any doubts I  

have about Japanese so I could uh like like that  um the toilet example it's like you it's like  

you can't really hear or follow what you what you  don't understand or what you can't pay attention  

to so you really need more examples and usually  in a different way rather than uh just hearing  

something again and again uh let's see and says  Emma spanol says I'm with you on that people often  

think they will learn faster jumping from one word  to the other without spending enough time with one  

thing until it's engraved in your mind yes so you  really want to make sure you understand things and  

that's why the the typical way that people get uh  comprehensible input is like yes I understood that  

but did I eliminate the doubt okay so we don't  want you to just understand lots of information  

uh we want you to understand well enough that  you have no doubt using something do you think  

learning synonyms helps yes so syn synonyms is  another example of that like like in this case  

I've got you know motorcycle or Chopper or bike  those are other ways of expressing the same thing  

so natives will like if you if you watch when  somebody is really scared what do they say you  

will get lots of different examples of that just  like that uh watch that that coffee video I made  

how to make espresso that's a video on my channel  just search espresso and you will see that same  

thing so you will see synonyms or different ways  of describing that same thing so you will learn  

those naturally as you see different natives doing  the same thing uh BR says Drew you speak as if the  

brain is separate from the self uh I don't think  so well I mean I don't I don't treat it that way  

it's more like this is how my hand works I can  talk about my hand like I talk about you know the  

brain and how what I'm interested in but I don't  I don't like I don't know I don't I don't think  

about my hand as like a separate entity but we can  talk about it that way just to make sure like my  

hand is able to bend this way but I can't bend my  fingers back like that so there's certain things  

that I'm good at doing or I naturally would do um  but there's other things that I should probably  

not force myself to try to do because it's not  what it would naturally want to uh Pepe says your  

explanation is very enlightening it will help me a  lot I think glad to hear it is very important Rich  

R okay you would say inrich e n r i c h uh I love  using my owner Works let's see and Anette says oh  

Drew you didn't read my message so I think it's  great that Esther and I know each other and that  

uh she knew your videos I think that's so great  oh wow okay so you you know you like KN knew each  

other independently you should start like a video  clip Club over there you can uh you can talk with  

each other uh let's see where are a podcast what  is her name I don't know what you're talking about  

clavio says hi from Brazil I am no sure but the  audio is a bit low I think the audio is fine what  

does read into me uh like to read into something  it means typically if if I'm if if like if I if I  

see a girl that I like as an example and she kind  of smiled at me I might read into that smile like  

all kinds of things like oo maybe she really likes  me or or like what did that smile mean maybe she  

doesn't like me and she's just being polite and I  start thinking and I create all these stories in  

my mind when maybe she was just smiling at someone  behind me I don't know but anyway that's when  

when we like read into something it's us it's us  trying to trying to put some kind of information  

or narrative or story onto something when that it  might not necessarily be true so I might read I'm  

reading into something too much property  investment says it sounds also weak on my  

end I'm from I'm from the Philippines thanks for  all the information it would be help uh as a lot  

of Filipino virtual assistance glad to hear it wow  feels like we get these master class for free from  

the owner himself well I'm glad you enjoyed it  so basically what I do is help people get fluent  

this way in fluent for life and you can either  join the program or just use the strategy and  

get fluent yourself so this is is how I got fluent  and continue to get fluent and learn new things in  

Japanese obviously the problem is uh if I don't  have someone to teach me things and I have to  

spend my time organizing the information uh or  trying to understand what things mean and that  

wastes a lot of time so I often explain to people  the the moment of learning a good lesson should  

be able to give you those moments like what I call  aha moments very quickly so if you're in a lesson  

and it's like o i understood something in all  these aha moments if you can do that very quickly  

you can get fluent much faster and in a much  shorter period of time but uh if I have to spend  

time like finding the lesson and organizing things  and maybe I don't really understand so much I'm  

wasting a lot of time and in my case it's because  I haven't found anyone to teach Japanese uh the  

way I do so I have to just kind of discover um uh  these things on my own uh but I don't know uh we  

don't provide one toone training in uh fluent for  life that would probably be maybe too expensive  

for people but it's also less useful than just  getting lots of varied examples of things so for  

me learning Japanese hearing only one person say  something is helpful but I would rather hear 10  

different people say something to me and that's  a lot harder to get a lesson about you will never  

find a lesson where it's like one teacher or  like 10 teachers and one student you know it's  

the opposite of what most people think they need  so it's it's like it should be one student and 20  

different teachers that's how you get fluent fast  so if you can get lots of different examples from  

different people and this is what we do in fluent  for Life we've taken away all this extra wasted  

time because all the content is just waiting for  you so it is possible to do it by yourself you  

can do this this is how I got fluent in Japanese  but I really wish I had someone to just prepare  

all this for me that would be great uh so I  don't have that but I'm able to still kind of  

create these things uh and it just gets me a  little bit uh it gets me results but it's slower  

than if I had someone to help me but uh because  I understand that I'm happy to provide something  

like that for English Learners and that's what we  do in fluent for life so if you'd like to learn  

more about the program uh and get help learning  to get fluent much faster uh you can click on the  

link in the description below this video but uh  when I release the book it will uh go into more  

detail about these things but this is the general  idea remember the reason people are are are having  

trouble speaking it's not because they need to  like spend more time speaking or because they  

they don't live in an english- speaking country  or they're not married to an a native English  

speaker they just have doubt about the vocabulary  or the grammar or the pronunciation whatever that  

is so if you can eliminate the doubt you will feel  confident it's just like you have one or the other  

either you feel confident or you do not uh but  if you can eliminate the doubt you will become a  

much more confident speaker guarantee all right uh  we should end the video though looks like we got  

to the end of that though uh let's see did I miss  anybody we even met she lives in the same city wow  

fantastic look at that bringing people together uh  this time I have enough money to buy FL V but no  

card was working I've tried other people's cards  as well that's weird uh send as a mail if you have  

trouble with that but you can also use uh PayPal  but should be working uh Elder says yep gorilla  

was funny way uh understanding how the brain  concentrated on the task by the way of a Honda  

Shadow I'm guessing that's a motorcycle I don't  know anything about bikes or cars really for that  

matter but uh that sounds very cool and Japanese  one I'm guessing uh axis says this is a sentence  

with vocab I learned from your latest video I can  make my way through with naturally uh naturally  

reviewed situation to anticipate the unpredictable  thank you yes that's that's quite a complicated  

sentence as well but yes the idea is to prepare  for and to anticipate the unpredictable and that's  

what this allows you to do so my daughter is she  doesn't know I'm going to ask her anything I say  

oh what did you do in school today uh and she's  talking about making a Christmas card and she  

doesn't she has no idea she's not prepared for  that but she's able to respond fluently because  

she's seen lots of good examples and knows how  to how to change things and move like water as  

she speaks so it really is a a fantastic process  and you can do these things by yourself you don't  

have have to wait for anyone to speak with or or  use any special techniques it's just seeing lots  

of examples of other people speaking to show you  how to do it and I promise you if you do it in a  

strategic way you will get fluent even faster  all right all right let's answer these final  

questions and then we'll be done for today Rock  says my total score is 41 I feel suck ah well you  

would say I suck in this example or I feel bad  uh but I'm sorry to hear that uh think about the  

specific things you need to focus on and then get  that review uh AA Jing says hey Drew AA from The  

Simpsons there Rocky AR glad to hear it and love  says in a video I saw your father saying I have  

them recorded their name uh can we also say I get  them to record their name yes it's another way to  

say it very good so again that's an example of how  different people could say the right thing for the  

situation and there are always multiple ways to  do that and when you know multiple ways of saying  

things you don't get stuck in conversations  it's pretty interesting how that works all right  

Cleaning Solutions again Drew do you uh do you  let's see do you have a test INF fluent for life  

to know your level um we don't really have a test  but the way it works for people knowing if you're  

learning with the program is you can start so the  advice I give to people is you choose a lesson set  

and then start watching the master class video  and then if you can understand that and and and  

not just understand it but you actually feel  confident you could say all that that's great  

uh but usually people cannot do that so you're  following natives having a conversation there's  

lots of vocabulary you probably don't know so you  watch the conversation first and then you go back  

and go through the lesson set and then when you  get to the conversation again you will feel a lot  

more confident because look at that a lot of that  doubt is destroyed so any questions you still have  

we can uh help you with those in the comments  but that's how the program works so you don't  

have to feel like you know everything but that's  how you would know about checking your level so  

the the ability of like the the program doesn't  get infinitely difficult it just teaches you to  

talk about different things and it shows you how  to make connections across these different things  

so you might be talking about work or you're  talking about uh I don't know some particular  

business meeting or situation but you see how  that's also useful that vocabulary for talking  

about relationships so even like if you go through  some kind of dating and marriage lesson set then  

you talk about business or something after that  you see how these things are connected so you get  

to learn with the things you're most interested  in uh and then that's what's going to uh going to  

get you flowing but it's it's basically all at  the same level because at some point like when  

you're learning the language it's like a tree and  it just kind of goes out from there so if you know  

all this stuff down here on the trunk like basic  vocabulary and grammar that's used in a lot of  

different things then you start learning the more  specific vocabulary for individual things things  

so like uh Advanced biology will have things that  that are only used for advanced biology but there  

will also be some vocabulary that you find in  other things like that so the language doesn't  

get infinitely difficult it's just talking about  different subjects so it doesn't matter where you  

start you could start here and then jump over here  like that it's all basically at the same level uh  

let's see I love this master class glad to hear  it let's see how should I get from intermediate  

to advanced level in English language like like  this that's what that's exactly what we do in  

fluent for life that's the whole point thanks  to God because you can in Japan and uh we all  

Asian can follow your class without any issue  of different time I'm single father for three  

young kids oh look at that in Malaysia yes so we  get people from all over the place who can watch  

these videos and even if you don't watch them live  you can still catch the replays well a good this  

well glad to hear it all right well I think  that's the end of this video but hopefully this  

makes sense I recommend you go back and watch  it again it might be boring for you because I  

know people don't want to review in that way uh  but especially if you joined us late do go back  

this answers every question it's it's really  The Three core questions people have about  

not understanding things not really feeling  confident about their vocabulary and then not  

feeling confident about actual communication so  if you want to make sure you understand understand  

all of these things the important lesson the  whole idea here is that you eliminate doubt  

as you understand the language better that's not  how you try to like you have to go out and speak  

or get married to someone and all these other  things people think they need lots of people  

get those things and still aren't fluent so the  lesson is understand things get the doubt out of  

there remove the doubt get rid of the doubt and  that's what's going to help you feel a lot more  

confident and fluent all right uh so is this  live streaming yes until about 5 Seconds when  

I shut it down but if you would like to learn  more about all this you can click on the links  

in the description uh also Frederick is down there  too I didn't really speak about that but the same  

principles apply when you're learning Frederick  so people who are playing with that you will get  

a good example of that same naturally varied  review by seeing the same or different images  

uh with the same vocabulary and then seeing the  examples used in different ways all right have a  

fantastic day click on the links if you'd like to  learn more and I'll see you in the next video by