How Quickly Do You Want To Get Fluent In English?

foreign I think we're working we should  be live I am Drew Badger the founder of  

englishanyone.com and welcome to another  live video here on YouTube today as usual  

we're going to be talking about fluency  and I wanted to cover this from a slightly  

different angle and really show you how you  can get fluent really as quickly as you want  

to so let's see if Chad is working make sure  the video is live over here uh if you are in  

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Hello nice to see you there good morning  it's about so what do you do what is your  

job because you should be working right  now if you are Chad is working he says  

all right I'm glad to hear it where's my  Eraser all right it should be a fun video

we always have new people coming to the channel  especially new people who don't know much about  

getting fluent in English like they're learning  their first language and so I'm always excited  

to welcome new people nice to see you there  Louis let's see if takar nice to see you there  

no man Alejandra what's up bro from Mexico if I'm  pronouncing that correctly Allison uh this shooty  

George is back nice to see you there all right  everybody is working over there just moved to  

Canon faces some issues uh to understand native  accent and speaking yes so this is part of what  

we will talk about oh you're an English teacher  oh really all right then actually I got an email  

yesterday from an English teacher in the United  States and and he was like wow I can't believe  

you know like he was just starting to learn about  getting fluent and helping people learn English as  

a first language and so he'd also arrived at the  same conclusion and was happy to found he found my  

videos and he was just really happy to find that  I thought that was great but it's always happy or  

I'm always happy to see people from uh like just  other countries or whatever that are also helping  

people learn and so if I can help you learn let  me know so this video again we're going to be  

talking about fluency and I really want to explain  to people what you need to get fluent because when  

you understand this you really can get fluent  as quickly as you like so I will go through  

this quick lesson and then as usual go back and  answer any questions people have but do keep the  

chat flowing keep clicking the like button let  me know make sure that you understand what I'm  

saying that you're enjoying this and that we can  move along and enjoy the video together all right  

so basically how this works most people think so  most English Learners think and this is not only  

English learners but most language Learners in  general think they need immersion to get fluent  

like they need to be living in a particular  place so let's say you were from Morocco or  

Brazil or wherever some of the people in the chat  are from there so they think that they can't get  

fluent unless they live in the United States  or Canada or the UK or wherever so being around  

English-speaking like English-speaking people  being in that specific physical environment they  

think they need that in order to get fluent  but the truth is lots of people do live in  

English-speaking countries for years and still  don't get fluent so that's not what you need they  

also think they need to be young so maybe oh no  I'm too old to get fluent or I need to have like  

a private teacher in order to get fluent excuse  me uh but you don't um and the reason actually  

we don't offer private lessons even though every  day I get emails requesting like please teach me  

privately the reason I don't do that is because  you need more than one person to get you fluent  

you really need uh there's like a I forget what  country it's from maybe like Ghana or something  

it's like an African proverb it takes a village  to raise a child and this means you need to get  

lots of input from lots of different people in  order to become fluent so rather than just one  

teacher and typically a teacher even me is going  to be teaching you a little bit more slowly making  

things a little bit easier you really need to get  lots of input so let me tell you a quick story  

and then we'll go over this lesson and hopefully  this makes a bit more sense to people but a few  

years ago so my older daughter Arya is now eight  years old and she is in second grade in elementary  

school I have a younger daughter as well who is  four and she is so Noel my younger daughter is  

she is second year kindergarten right now so when  my older daughter Arya was in kindergarten her  

first year she had this little card that she  would take to work and she would get a little  

stamp or a sticker every day and so as a young  girl she learned the word like shusekado so that  

it's just Japanese like you know just imagine  I'm this is kind of a language learning story  

so I'm not going to tell you what it means you can  kind of guess what it means but it's a little card  

and you would bring it to school and you would  get a little stamp every day and so as how old  

was she I don't know four years old or three  years old or something going into school and  

just learning that and she's probably heard the  word card before so in Japanese also the word  

like kado is used in it's the same way it's used  in English so it's taken from English actually  

but shuseki I'm going to explain what that means  in a second but if you think about a young child  

hearing like here's just a piece of paper you  get little stamps on it and it's shu secato is  

the name of the thing and I heard that when she  was going to school and I and that was the first  

time I heard that word shuseki and I didn't really  think much about it I was just like I'm not really  

I wasn't really hearing it so that was let's  say I heard that for example uh uh I don't know  

like three years ago so I first hear the word  I'm going to just write it up here in English

so uh shusiki and so I hear this word uh and this  is a couple of years ago and I didn't really think  

much about it and I never use the word myself  but a few years later uh I was hearing an example  

about going to like a business meeting and it  was talking about using this same word like to  

to do this thing and so I hear the word the first  time and I don't really understand it perfectly I  

don't know exactly what it means I just know it's  the name of this little card but then I hear it  

again about a business meeting so at first when I  heard it I thought maybe this means I don't know  

something to do with the school I don't know  exactly what that word meant but when I heard  

it again about going to a meeting and in that  context it was like to attend the meeting and so  

I remembered like immediately I remembered back to  that example and it's like oh attendance card and  

I like it didn't occur to me because I needed both  of these examples to help me understand what that  

meant all right and so the same way when a young  child is learning a language they will often hear  

examples of something but not really understand  that so the first time they hear something they  

might recognize the word and think okay people are  talking about this thing when when people use a  

word but they might not really understand what it  means and I was the same way so even as an adult  

I hear the word one time I know it's it's we're  talking about like a little card it's got some you  

know like here are the days of going to school you  get a stamp each time you go to school but I don't  

really understand what that means all right and so  when I when I heard it the second time I finally  

understood ah it just means attendance card okay  so it's it's from these two examples together that  

help me understand something all right now why is  this important why am I sharing this story uh I  

have a piece of paper here and I thought I would  be able to demonstrate this idea in the same way  

so here's my piece of paper I'll just  put some magnets up on the board here

now remember that as I said previously or  a little bit earlier in the video you don't  

become fluent by living in an English-speaking  country you don't have to do that all right it's  

not necessary it's nice if you can the same way  it's nice if you can speak with other people but  

you don't have to it's nice if you can all right  but what you absolutely need to do what you must  

have to get fluent is understandable messages  that help you understand something like a native  

so take two examples here first time I hear the  word shuseki in Japanese now I could hear that  

again and again and again and repeating that word  again and again but it doesn't help me learn more  

the repetition doesn't help me understand the word  better it's only after I got this second example  

that I that it clicked in my mind so you can say  like I understood something or it clicked in my  

mind I finally understood it so I wasn't really  thinking that hard and this happens all the time  

so I I hear words and maybe I don't understand it  in that moment but it goes into my mind and later  

a connection is made where I finally understand  something like a native so I wasn't translating  

anything when I learned shuseki or heard shoe  seki that second time I automatically made that  

connection okay so remember you don't need to  live in an English-speaking country to get fluent  

you don't need to have a private teacher to get  fluent you don't need to uh just practice speaking  

to yourself in a mirror you don't need to repeat  words every day to get fluent the only thing you  

really must have is the ability to understand  something now the title of this video is how  

quickly do you want to get fluent and so that's  this example right here if you look at the time  

span here from the first time I heard this until  I heard another example this was like three years  

all right so this is a three year time span now if  I want to get fluent faster what do I have to do  

see if you can answer this question because  this really is the secret to getting fluent  

faster so what do I have to do to get fluent  faster I don't have to quickly move to an  

English-speaking country I don't have to move  uh like to be even around native speakers where  

I am I don't have to practice speaking all the  time from this example what do I have to do if  

I want to get fluent faster see if anybody in  the chat can answer this question it should be  

pretty easy from my example but I'll just give  it one more time let people put something down  

there all right yes so the psychotic is  Back The Psychotic American teacher get  

many different examples of a word yes and so  really you need as many examples as possible  

until you get to the point where you understand  something so for me it only took two examples  

so I don't need to hear 500 examples of the word  to understand it from two examples it clicked in  

my mind and I yes like now I feel confident uh to  use that word all right so before that if I heard  

shuseki I don't I don't really know what that  means does that mean school or does that mean like  

this kind of like stamp or sticker or something  like that I don't I don't really know what it  

means but after hearing another example in in an  unrelated to school situation uh then I know like  

okay we're talking about to attend something and  so then I go back to this in my mind and I think  

oh yeah it's just an attendance card just like we  have in American schools so you have an attendance  

card or your attendance sheet and then I got  that oh look at that shoe sticky and so it clicks  

in my mind I understand what it means the only  problem is that it took me three years to do this  

so the only problem is it took me three years to  do this okay so if we draw our example again let's  

say I have so this is the first time over here  this is our span of three years and then I hear  

the word again that really helped me uh uh write  with like or help me understand this thing so  

this is the second example this is example number  one let's see uh and so this took me three years

I'm sorry I'm not writing very well on a on  this piece of paper really it looks like a  

green but yes it means three years over here  so what do I have to do to get fluid faster

we have this time period

we just need to get the examples faster that's  it all right so if we close the amount of space  

between these if we can reduce that if I can get  one example and then I hear another example almost  

immediately after that and I help and that helps  me understand something then I became fluent in  

this word almost instantly does that make sense so  if you think about children like children learning  

vocabulary learning words learning grammar  pronunciation all of that children have very  

little control over how they learn so if they have  a good teacher they will have like maybe they will  

get an example and the teacher will try to make  something understandable as quickly as possible  

but most children they will just hear something  and they don't really know how to how to how to  

learn that Faster by themselves but we can do this  so we can actually choose to get fluent faster and  

we can remove all of this time because you're not  there's no real learning that's happening during  

this time it's this example and this example that  helped me understand something and so if I can get  

those like one right after the other then I can  get fluent much faster does that make sense so  

the the only thing that's really controlling me  or or kind of uh stopping me from getting fluent  

as quickly as possible possible is just getting  understandable messages that help me understand  

the vocabulary like a native because until I  really understand a word I'm not going to feel  

confident about using it I have to feel confident  that I understand a word I'm using it in the right  

context I understand when I should use it to  what people I can use it with all right so all  

of these things like they come like look at that  like just in this case it only took two examples  

so maybe sometimes it takes you know like three or  four or more but the point is instead of spending  

10 years to understand something you understand  it almost instantly if you can learn it the right  

way okay so if you get these examples faster so  instead of this instead of taking three years  

we can take maybe one minute and really understand  something and then we can learn that we understand  

it we feel confident about using it and we move  on to the next word and that's how we can become  

fluent word by word as quickly as possible Isn't  that cool so when I ask people how quickly do you  

want to get fluent this is what I mean do you want  to learn things quickly understand them quickly  

and then be able to use them quickly or do you  want to spend more time and like wait for maybe  

you get an example something like that so this is  really the way that people typically learn even  

native speakers will learn like this but you as  an adult learner you can control your learning and  

get fluent much faster even faster than a native  because you can control the kinds of examples that  

you get and how frequently or how close they are  together Isn't that cool so you can get fluent  

faster you can choose actually how quickly you  want to become fluent by how quickly you get the  

the examples that help you understand something  it's the understanding that gets you fluent it's  

not where you live or uh or like me me repeating  something my to myself again I could spend three  

years just repeating the word shuseki to myself  over and over and over again but I don't really  

understand what it means only when I understand  what it means from these multiple examples do  

I get it all right all right let me go back and  answer some questions hopefully that makes sense  

I just wanted to give a quick lesson about that  uh but we should be able to answer some questions  

but this is it really proves that you can become  fluent as quickly as you get the examples it's  

really how quickly you can get fluent this  is why influent for life we want to really  

truncate this to truncate however I read this  where there's a good new word for you up here

to truncate maybe a new word for many of you this  just means it takes something and make it smaller  

to truncate something so I want to truncate the  amount of time between the different examples so  

that as you're learning something your mind  is like ah look at that I got it I got it  

all right let's look at comments if you  have questions about this let me know  

but it should be a pretty simple idea all right  uh Diana says to develop a speech what is the  

most important thing so again if you mean like  developing speech or developing a speech so a  

speech would mean like you're giving a speech I've  written a speech a speech but if you mean just  

speech in general this is the most important thing  understanding is the most important thing when you  

understand something like a native you can use  it like a native Isn't that cool so the uh the  

alternative or the opposite way of doing that is  to try to understand something through your first  

language so if I got like if I learned shuseki  and I just got a translation of it then maybe  

I understand okay this is an attendance card but  maybe I don't make the connection that I can also  

use the same word when talking about attending  a meeting maybe I just don't think about it but  

because I learned it in Japanese and understood  it as a Japanese speaker would understand that  

then I can use it fluently so I know when I can  talk about like attending a meeting in the same  

way all right so it's understanding that gets you  fluent if you don't understand something you won't  

feel confident using it all right Alejandro thumbs  up automatically right off the bat thank you very  

much Allah says teacher we want to we want your  live lessons every two days at most well I have  

uh many hundreds of videos that you can go back  and watch also we got many hundreds of videos in  

fluent for life and so the people who want to get  fluent faster uh all the video content is already  

it's already there most of what I do on YouTube  is trying to help people understand the foundation  

of learning like this so just showing that you  really can get fluent Faster by how quickly you  

get examples all right let's see uh where it says  your opinions are different from the other English  

Oh you mean yeah you wrote couches but coaches  opinions well yes I think in general my my idea  

about language learning is that you should be  learning language uh any language the same way  

you learn your first language so to me there's no  difference between learning uh French or German or  

Chinese I'm going to learn them all the same way  so I'm going to learn Chinese as a Chinese speaker  

would learn Chinese I don't want to translate  from English into Chinese I want to learn Chinese  

in Chinese and if I learn Chinese through English  then I'm going to think about English when I speak  

Chinese so often I will meet people here in Japan  and they know quite a lot of English but they  

don't actually speak very fluently because they  have to think about what they want to say first  

they think in Japanese then they translate that  and then they try to speak in English but that's  

not actually communicating fluently it's just  trying to struggle and hesitate and you're you're  

not actually being able to express yourself  so if you want to express yourself you have  

to understand it the same way a native does so  there's nothing stopping you from communicating so  

when I think about translations or grammar rules  or something that's stopping me from expressing  

myself so I don't want to do that I want to be  able to just speak the way I'm speaking right now

uh uh let's see so numb and says nice example  let's see all right so related to real life  

things yes again like just to make this very clear  it just means you understand something like you  

recognize that you feel it's a process you feel  ah now I got it I call that the aha moment when  

you learn something in another language without  anyone even telling you what it means obviously  

you can get examples and and definitions and  things but it's best if you get those all in  

that language so you should be learning English  in English so Alejandra says better write three  

year with the dash for those who doesn't  you would say those who don't understand  

the difference in using three years instead not  my case though well if I'm if I'm talking about  

uh I think I made a video about this Alejandro  a while ago but if I'm talking about like a uh  

like a three year old baby baby so I'm it's  like a three three year old baby like that  

with the with the dash in there or  like a five day trip five day trip  

so I've got the dash in there because I'm  connecting this as like a modifier of this  

it's a five day trip but I don't need the  dash if I'm just saying it's five days okay

uh let's see here all right and going back to  get uh let's see if I got anything else here

all right hopefully it looks like people  are getting the example though all right  

but hopefully that makes sense Alejandro uh let's  see as and when needed around what do you mean by  

that so understand the word yes so understand  and be able to use it quickly yes so when you  

understand something like a native and like a  native just means like like I get it like I don't  

need to think and translate anything in my native  language I just understand it all in English  

or whatever the language you're studying AJ says  in order to speak fluently one needs to listen  

to the language daily like eating and drinking  to live stay alive uh but if if that were true  

then all of the people living in English-speaking  countries would be fluent but they are not many  

people live in English-speaking countries and they  hear English all the time but they're still not  

fluent and the reason is because they don't really  understand a language like a native that's it  

all right so uh like the it's important to  understand that and that way people can make  

sure like just being around the language isn't  going to help you understand it and even if you  

do understand it you can get fluent much faster  if you are systematic about how you get those  

examples so if you can instead of spending like  this one so I I was in the Japanese environment  

learning the same way a Japanese child does but  it just took three years to understand the word  

three years think about that there's nothing  special about the word shuseki that's difficult  

it's just it took me three years to understand  it because I couldn't make that connection in my  

mind of what it meant I needed more examples and I  needed enough examples in this case I only needed  

two but I just needed enough and to to get me  thinking like ah now I understand what that means  

all right so that that's the secret all right  Jules is uh from Bangladesh so how can we increase  

the number of understanding such examples so again  we do this in fluent for life or if you're just  

trying to do it by yourself you want to be getting  more examples of the word it could be just even  

like Googling a word like this in English and see  all the different examples you get or you could  

use like euglish as an example of that you'll  see different examples of words or even just  

searching on YouTube if you put in whatever like  the word Bridge you will get lots of examples of  

that or I can do an image search on Google and  get the same thing but the point is I should  

be getting enough examples until I understand  something if I don't really understand something  

then I'm not going to feel confident using it and  then that means I'm not fluent in that vocabulary  

all right so the way drills is the way you  explain really have changed my English world  

thank you sir well it's my pleasure glad uh glad  to be helpful the dream of Caesar hello everyone  

let's see here so Alejandra I didn't know that  bro that's why I said not my case thanks anyway  

okay well I'm just making sure I read that I read  that clearly all right so how to make the native  

speaking mindset so this is the native speaking  mindset again either you were thinking in English  

or you're not really thinking at all or you're  translating from your native language and so  

if you understand something as a native speaker  then you can use it like a native speaker but if  

you have to think and translate then that's where  you struggle to speak so you have to get examples  

until you understand something but the point of  this video is just I wanted to give a very simple  

clear easy example of look it only is like the  understanding here and here but it's not like it  

takes a long time to do that there's just a long  time between the examples so if you can get the  

examples faster you can get fluent faster so you  just need to decide how quickly you want to get  

fluent and if there's a specific word or phrase  or something that you don't quite understand then  

get more examples of that thing so this is what we  do in fluent for life and this is why we organize  

this systematically to make sure people get those  examples as quickly as possible so I want to do  

this is one example with a vocabulary but I want  to do the same thing with pronunciation so if  

you hear me say something you might try to copy  my pronunciation but you should also hear other  

people saying the same thing so it's important  to hear me and you know five other people saying  

something similar or the same thing because  that's how that's how you're learning in real  

life so we're trying to take the real life kind  of the real life learning situation but make it  

systematic so much more systematic and efficient  than how a native speaker would even learn their  

own language so an adult learner who starts at  let's say they're 30 years old or 40 years old  

50 years old and then you have a baby native  English speaker the adult learner should be  

getting fluent much faster than the baby all right  so even the baby is just spending most of the time  

listening to things and not really understanding  anything for a while but the adult learner can  

start speaking very quickly so you can actually  get fluent faster than a native Isn't that cool  

so you don't need to spend a lot of time trying  to live in English-speaking countries or practice  

speaking or whatever the practice is this like  it's really just the understanding that comes and  

you can get that very quickly if you either get  those examples yourself or you get someone like me  

to give them to you that's how you do it all right  thanks so much answering my questions my pleasure  

well Elena is back konichiwa Drew I'm happy to see  you when and where can I meet your dad so I would  

be able to practice your lessons with him I don't  know I have to talk with my dad about that maybe  

he'll come on uh I should have done a video again  I haven't done a video with him in a while but  

all right let's see Alondra says then according  to your theory which I truly support those audio  

book English for sleeping don't worth you  mean like not worth it or you're or are you  

trying to say they don't work um I've never  tried learning a language through sleeping  

maybe that works I don't know I I don't know but  like the the important thing is not really how you  

get the information like you could you could get  this for me in a video like this or you could read  

it somewhere you would get the same idea it's  important to hear the word but you could still  

learn it through reading about it so in my case  uh I actually got like this first example was my  

wife talking to my daughter about like put your  put your like card in your backpack uh and then  

this example over here I just read it in a book  so it was Japanese book and I read the example  

and it was like ah she's Sicky she's the kikado  okay I get it like attendance card I understand  

what that means and so you you don't have to  get it from any particular Source it's nice if  

you can see it and hear it and read it and even  try writing the word down so if I want to try to  

like write the word down uh that would help me  understand it even better so especially in the  

case of Japanese where you have like the picture  of the word means something we don't have that  

in English because our language is phonetic  so it's just like you look at a word like cat  

and it like there's nothing if you don't know what  what this means there's nothing about the letters  

it tells you it's a cat it's just written this way  but like a word like in Japanese like if we have  

like that like this is Yama for mountain and it  kind of looks like a mountain so people will learn  

the language this way and and they will think like  oh like I can kind of understand it a little bit  

more so it's important uh especially when learning  like when people are talking about their names in  

Japanese often they were like well it's this this  kanji or this character so people are trying to  

explain what it looks like and so there are all  of these different things you can use to to like  

make make the understanding faster and so as a  teacher it's my job to try to make this process as  

quick as possible so I want to give you the first  example then second example third example is many  

examples as you need and if I'm a good teacher I  can do it in maybe one or two but maybe something  

is just more difficult it needs more time and you  need more examples so there's nothing wrong with  

that it's just that's what you need but the point  is that if you get the examples faster you get  

fluent faster so how quickly do you want to get  fluent that's the question of this video all right  

moving on let's see here all right Alondra again  then all right I answer that one hour so Aretha  

says my problem before I said something in English  I usually think in my native language uh to Sid or  

to write anything yes so again there are there  are two processes here there is learning English

foreign

so there's learning English as a second language  and most people are doing this is called ESL so  

learning English as a second language and this  is where you learn something so you have your  

native language and then you learn a a definition  or translation in English so I I gave let's say  

I'm learning Portuguese is my native language  and I'm trying to learn English so I will begin  

with Portuguese and and like Latin languages or  languages with like an English alphabet or the  

same characters are going to be easier so Japanese  like the written characters are completely  

different from English but it's it's still the  same idea so young children they're not using any  

written characters anyway they're just listening  to the sound so a native English speaking child  

is connecting so this is the English as a  first language approach you have a situation  

and then you're connecting that with a vocabulary  so whatever that is but because you translate  

when you learn then you have to translate when you  speak that's why this happens but a native speaker  

they're not translating anything they're just  learning in this situation you use this vocabulary  

so like if I take some if something drops on  my head I say ouch little kids look at that  

and they say oh okay when I drop something on  my head I say ouch or when I'm angry at someone  

I say this or when I'm frustrated I say that or  when I go to the bank I say this so it's always  

a situation connecting with the vocabulary so  there's a connection there it's just what are  

you connecting are you connecting a translation  with the English language or are you just learning  

the situation and connecting English vocabulary  with that so if you struggle with this specific  

problem it's because you're learning English as  a second language it's not your fault this is  

the way everybody teaches well everybody but me  but in general when you're when you're learning a  

language as a second language that's what's going  to cause those problems so how you learn is how  

you speak if you learn through translations you  will think about translations when you speak but  

if you don't if you can understand something in  English or in the language you're studying then  

you can use it without thinking you use it without  hesitating without translating thinking about  

rules that kind of thing so that's how you do it  all right Alejandro again Drew could you record a  

video in Japan talking with other people it'd be  so nice like a video of me speaking Japanese with  

other people uh like just to hear me speaking  Japanese or what what what what would be the  

benefit of that let me know because I can just  speak some Japanese right here if you have any  

have any questions or you want me to say anything  let's see uh I can't read the Cyrillic but from  

Seattle Washington nice to see you there uh Jules  says sometimes although I read a different example  

I cannot understand the main meaning or uses  how can I find the Alternatives all right so  

good question so you should be looking for and  you can give me an example if you have any word  

that you don't understand this is easier with just  giving people examples of things but let me know  

if there's a word and anyone can post a word  here that they maybe they've heard it but they  

don't really understand what it means and so they  don't feel confident using it just post an example  

that will be a little bit easier to explain this  but I just gave one example before in this video  

with Japanese like the word shuseki and because  I didn't understand it when I first heard it it's  

just it's just like a word it's just a sound to  me but when I hear it again in a different context  

that's where it becomes understandable so I'm  looking for ways to make something understandable  

I gave this example a while ago but imagine you're  a young child and you see a cat I think I also put  

this in that short clip that I released a few days  ago so if you if you see this so it's an animal

like you can look at it you can  you can see what it what it is  

uh and if I say let's say I say  uh uh I don't know like scruffy  

you just hear me say this sound so I I point  at the cat and I say scruffy scruffy now at  

at first it's not really clear what I mean by  that so if you don't understand anything about  

English and you're just hearing me say a word and  I'm pointing to a cat you can make some guesses  

about that maybe I'm talking about the color of  the cat maybe I'm talking about like the quality  

of the hair maybe scruffy I'm actually this is  a capital here and that's the name of the cat it  

could be so it's only when you get other examples  that help you isolate what the what the problem  

is or what what the exact meaning is another way  to think about this is like a science experiment  

where if I have like two plants let's have a plant  here and a plant here and I've got some sunlight  

and I've got some sunlight over here and  the same kind of dirt so the same soil  

this one gets water so I put a water drop  on that one but this one does not get water  

so here I'm trying to find like which which one of  these plants is going to grow better like the one  

that has a soil and the Sunshine and the water  or just the soil and the Sunshine but no water  

so here you can see like this plant does not grow  and I think oh well the problem is probably most  

likely the water and so what you're what you're  trying to do when you get examples in a language  

it's really like a puzzle and you need to get as  many different angles of something as possible  

so I'll just give you yet another example

so let's say you hear uh let's say here the word

monolith if I'm spelling that correctly  I think I think I am on the list  

so let's say you hear the word monolith monolith  now maybe this word doesn't mean anything to you  

maybe you see an example of a monolith I'm  just going to draw like that so here's a  

it's like a large Rock standing in in the ground  like that a monolith now at first especially  

if you think about a young child like a parent  just says oh look that's a monolith over there  

a monolith but you don't really know what that  means it's like okay what okay I guess this is  

a monolith but what what is that what does that  mean and so it's only when you start getting more  

examples like if we take mono let's say you hear  mono and hear it in a different context like mono  

monotone so monotone is like just like it's  one sound or I could talk about like a mono  

monorail so I have a train that's just going  it's instead of like a regular train on two  

tracks a monorail is just on one and so as  I get these different it's these different  

examples and they're in slightly different  contexts it helps me understand oh I bet mono  

means what and it does so Mono Mono Mono anytime  you hear this like monotonous monotone monorail  

monolith look it's one rock and so that that's  where like uh all with an eye that's right excuse  

I don't know I can't think  today but yes that's correct

well I was thinking with the Y with a Y anyway  English can be tricky like that but uh yes so  

that's correct it should be monolith with the eye  in it uh and so yes so the same idea but again  

if you imagine you're just hearing these words uh  you will see those examples and and after a while  

you will make that connection so how quickly can  you get those examples so here I just gave you  

a bunch of examples all at the same time yes so  monotonous is the same thing so if something is  

boring it's always the same it's like one thing  monotonous monotonous so it's the same thing like  

wow it's very this is a very monotonous speech or  a monotonous song or something so when you hear  

just monotonous by itself it's it sounds like a  long tricky word where you don't really understand  

what it means but because you've had these other  examples now it makes a lot more sense you get to  

understand it and you understand it more like  a native and you understand oh look at that  

you know like we have uh all these examples  that help us have a pretty good idea and each  

time we hear one of these we we feel more  confident about that so if I hear something  

like mono something else and you can just  Google the word like mono and um probably  

all of those are going to be an example of one  something okay so similar ideas like uh like uni  

so if I have a unicycle it's just a little  seat a little a little seat like that on  

on a wheel so this is a unicycle  but he so you and it's like  

so unicycle so if I just have one wheel  I'd say unicycle but if I have two wheels

this is a bicycle so the pronunciation is a  little bit different but you can see like look  

at that like cycle and cycle mean the same  but we've got uni for one and buy for two

okay a monohan yeah I've never heard the  word mono hand but I could imagine look  

at that thank you so much Tom Hanks yes I  was waiting for another Tom Hanks reference  

all right so everybody getting it  everybody understanding the the idea here  

all right so this is how you do it you want to  look for something that's a little bit different  

so this is what I do as a teacher like I have to  think about this when I organize these things in  

uh fluent for life when I'm teaching lessons  like I go through the hard work of finding all  

the examples but it certainly is possible to get  it so the faster you get these examples the faster  

you get fluent so if you want to get fluent  faster get more examples okay and it's just  

something that helps you understand often if you  just try to repeat something that's not really  

going to make it easier to understand so you  need to get different examples monotone monorail  

monolith I don't know why I said why that's  so weird but anyway hopefully that makes sense  

uh let's see here all right the cat on that  canvas rocks you're getting better at drawing  

yes like I'm not trying to draw well it just it's  it should be as clear as I can as fast as I can  

because I'm number one not the best drawer number  two it would take a long time for me to draw you  

know some some good good pictures over here all  right Victor says can you explain the usage of  

jiren after the preposition two I hear a lot of  uh English-speaking saying a verb on gerund after  

the word but don't really get the reason why  yet Victor instead of thinking like an English  

student try to think more like a native give me  an example and we'll help you understand what it  

means so rather than trying to think like if you  try to ask a native speaker like what do we have  

a gerund or like 2 plus infinitive or whatever  uh it's not going to mean anything to them but  

if you just think about the situation like I  showed before we want to connect situations  

with vocabulary so rather than the the problem  with thinking about just like a grammar Point by  

itself is that you start thinking about the word  and the word really doesn't mean anything when  

it's separate from a situation so we always want  to think about the vocabulary with the situation  

and that's how you understand it like a native  so rather than trying to cover specific rules  

you want to think like here's the situation in  which we do this I mean it's helpful to know  

the name of a grammar point so you can look it up  but like when I'm teaching I don't want to use a  

bunch of grammar terms other than just giving you  those so you can look them up but I want to help  

you understand the situations so when do we use  certain vocabulary so if you'd like me to cover  

something give me an example sentence and let me  know a specific thing you have a question about

uh aglin says a Southern California hello  Drew in chat room nice to see you there  

are monotonous very good Prof says Amado  thank you sir and let's see all right got it  

hello Audrey it's my first time being here from  Maryland nice to see you there better yeah well  

welcome everybody's getting it though let's see  I wish I could have deleted my native language  

for a certain amount of time in my brain to  learn a second language as a first and then  

recover it back yeah you don't have to do  that though so I I know like this is like  

a funny idea and I understand what you're  saying but if you think about it logically  

foreign you already know and you already speak  multiple first languages okay so learning English  

is not it's not like a difficult thing  to do that it's just how you learn

so let's say I don't know what your native  language is let's say your native language  

is French just because it's short  and I can write it quickly up here  

so if your native language is French you  actually know a couple at least a couple  

of different first languages a  few different Native languages  

so you've got French is the general language  but you also have like how you speak

how you speak with kids

how you speak casually how  you speak professionally

how you speak to like a boss or okay  Armenian so so it's the same idea it  

doesn't matter what your what your language is  but it works in the same in our media and I'm  

guessing so there are words that people use  with children that they don't use with adults  

all right so like I don't know like I wouldn't I  wouldn't tell my friend I have to go like I have  

to go pee pee or something like it would sound  funny if I'm like I gotta I'm sorry I have to  

go pee pee uh but it's like yeah I have to go to  the toilet so people use different expressions  

for different people and it's all in the same  language okay so I'm using one way when I speak  

with kids I'm using one way when I speak with my  friends so this is the vocabulary it might even  

be the grammar being a little bit different  it could be the uh pronunciation even the way  

I speak so uh professionally it's a little bit  different and again like even if within my own  

industry I might know vocabulary that other people  don't know so like mentioning things like gerund  

or infinitive or causative or whatever all those  things are things that most people just regular  

people would not know and so that's specific  vocabulary that I can use as a first language  

all right so how you speak with kids casually  professionally all these different things are  

first languages for you you already know how  to do them and each one of these things like  

it's really interesting when I was young  I had a friend actually this happened with  

a few different friends but like they would  speak on their on the phone differently with  

their parents than they would like speaking  with me so I had a friend I had two different  

friends actually the same particular thing uh  one so one girl her mom is from India I think  

I'm not going to bother writing it but so so  her mom is from India her dad is from the United  

States uh and then another girl like both of her  parents are from uh Sri Lanka I think but both  

of them are born and raised in the United States I  think both of them were born and raised here or in  

the United States but when they are speaking with  me they speak with the kind of regular American  

accent the same way I'm speaking right now but  when they're on the phone with their parents  

or with their mother like they sound like a  different person it's like British English  

on the phone an American English in person with  me isn't that interesting so people will I call  

this code switching this is like a regular term  for this where you're kind of switching the way  

you speak depending on whom the conversation  is happening with uh so again a person can be  

fluent in both of these languages at the same  time so you don't get fluent in just one you  

are already fluent in multiple first languages so  all you have to do is make one of these English

that's it just like I gave you the example  before so the only difference is how you  

learn these things uh rather than like trying  to learn it through your native language all  

right so if you learn English in English just  like you learn all these other things you know  

in your native language then you will learn  to speak it the same way so you don't have  

to erase the language you already have you  already have multiple first languages you  

can use all those and it's the same thing  if you just do it with English as well uh

uh all right Orson says how to understand give  up and give in ah okay so if I'm if I'm giving  

up like you can think about me let's say uh I'm  I'm trying to think of a so these are both phrasal  

verbs like to give up to something or give up  like to a group of people or just give up doing  

something you can think about like putting your  hands up like like I quit I can't do anything  

anymore so if the police are chasing me they  say like stop running just give up like put your  

hands up like this okay I uh I accept defeat so I  give up uh like I'm giving up like my you know my  

trophy or whatever or my my life or something else  to to somebody else I'm quitting doing something  

now giving in is a little bit more like I'm uh  try to draw this physically for you to help people  

understand it because they're they're a little bit  a little bit different like for how you understand  

them so if I'm if I'm giving in to something  it's like there's some kind of pressure on me  

to do something so a friend of mine is like tell  me the secret tell me the secret and I'm like no  

I don't want to tell you but every day he keeps  asking me please tell me the secret please tell  

me the secret and I'm like okay finally  I give in and just tell them the secret  

so finally I'm just like okay like I give in to  the Temptation instead of like like the pressure  

is pushing on me then I I finally accept the  pressure and I kind of like give in to it so  

I I welcome that thing where I accept that thing  to give in to that so often we talk we hear about  

like giving in to pressure uh or talking about  like like uh giving in to yeah I mean typically  

it's some kind of pressure or force or you're like  giving in to like a spell or or maybe you're just  

tired or something and you're like ah I can't  I can't do it anymore so you're not fighting  

against something you finally accept that thing  so it's a little bit different from give up uh  

but this again just means there's some kind of  pressure on you and you're deciding to accept  

that thing so okay I gave in to the Temptation  I saw a beautiful like chocolate bar and I was  

really hungry I wanted to eat that chocolate  bar so I gave in and ate the chocolate bar  

all right but when you give up it's just kind of  like I'm it's it you see how it's a little bit  

different from this so like if I'm running away  from the police or if I'm I'm fighting in a game  

and I I just quit I like stop doing anything  it means I just give up so I don't like accept  

that thing I just stop fighting I give up okay  so when you give in like you're you're kind of  

welcoming this thing but when you give up you  just stop whatever you're doing so I quit the  

game I quit running from the police I quit you  know whatever I'm doing so that's the difference

uh let's see all right sir please uh set course  for who are not native speaker what do you mean  

yeah I don't I don't teach native speakers I teach  people who are trying to become fluent speakers  

all right uh let's see what do you think about  Portuguese are you asking me personally I mean  

I don't I don't speak any Portuguese I don't  know any Portuguese it sounds sounds fine I  

don't really have have an opinion about it  Casey says okay you want to argue I'd have to  

say I'm in no rush to learn a language I've  already mastered and shortened for easy use  

yes like the the goal of this video is not to  tell people that they have to do anything I'm  

not like maybe some people want to get fluent  slowly that's fine I don't care what it doesn't  

matter to me my point is for the people who do  want to get fluent faster the way to do that is  

to get the examples closer together that's  how you do it so you shorten the amount of  

time between when the examples happen uh  I want to make this really clear because  

well you need to hear things many times  often to make them clear but the point is

people think that fluency fluency comes  with time so they think that like they  

start learning here and at this point like I get  fluent and fluency fluency improves with time but  

really what's happening is that it's not that  you're improving with time it's just that each  

time you get an example of something the fluency  improves but the fluency improves here and here  

it's it's like you you you understood something  and you understand it a little bit better and a  

little bit better over here so it's not  the amount of time time didn't get you  

fluent it's these examples at these times it  got you fluent so if you push those examples  

closer together then you get fluent faster  because you're understanding these examples  

all here instead of spread out so either I can  get fluent in like a day or an hour or a minute  

for that vocabulary or I can get the examples  more spread out so you don't get fluent just by  

spending more time with something you have to  be it's it's only the time where you actually  

get the stronger understanding that's the  time where the fluency actually improves  

so this time in here between these examples  there's no improvement really happening  

okay does that make sense so it's not like when  when people say time like what I what I really  

want to do is organize my time so that I get  a bunch of examples here for this word I now  

I understand it now I move on to the next word  and then understand that and keep going like  

that all right so it's not like I keep repeating  the word over and over again and after the 50th  

time now I get it that's probably not going to  happen so you can repeat something over and over  

and over and over but is that really building  your understanding it's probably not but when  

you get these again what I call naturally varied  review you're getting this example this example  

this example and each one of these together it's  it's it's building on that understanding and as  

you get these new these new examples they help  you understand things like a native rather than  

using translations or definitions and that's when  you can use it fluently so the goal is not to be  

fluent fast if you don't care about that that's  fine I'm just saying for the people who do like  

me so I would like to improve my fluency Faster  by getting these examples so when I'm learning  

I actually I hate not understanding something  so if I get a lesson from a teacher and I and  

I'm like I don't understand what that means  I don't like I like I learned something but  

I don't understand it I don't feel confident  using it so that lesson didn't really help me  

or it's just the first part of like a series  of things and all together that's what builds  

your fluence builds your fluency but you want to  get those uh quickly if you want to get fluent  

faster that's the whole point of this video all  right so I'm certainly not arguing with anybody  

go ahead and get get fluent slowly if you if you  like I should make a video for people who want to  

get fluent slowly so the video would be like  it would be the same video as this one but I  

would just say wait 10 years between each example  that'd be my get fluent slowly video all right uh  

uh let's see Victor again they objected  to sitting on these smoke in the Smoking  

Section I don't know what that's talking about  oh is that your example the objective two uh to  

sitting yeah so again like in that example and  and it's really important to understand these  

things as an example by itself so like they  objected to and then like that that thing uh  

in that case we're using uh it's just as a noun  and so you could replace that with something else

and so the naturally varied review comes like as  you get different examples it's like they objected

to something so they objected to  something or like uh that like I  

can make this even simpler to  understand like I don't like

I don't like whatever so here like objected to is  the same thing it's where we would for for like  

the the verb object we use two here but maybe we  don't do that with a different verb like like so I  

don't say like like to uh in this example but like  the uh so they excuse me they objected to uh Birds  

so here I'm just using another noun but I'm using  it correctly in this like they don't like birds  

they objected two birds all right so here I  recognize like okay I'm just using some kind  

of noun it's a thing that people don't like uh  they object to something they object to something  

so they object to birds uh  they object to uh cookies

so maybe they don't like cookies they object  I object to cookies I don't like that thing  

or we don't want that thing all right so  instead of using a noun like this I can  

take a verb and turn it into a noun  and make it like smoking or swimming

like that but be careful when you're when you're  trying to learn something like a lot of Learners  

will be trying to connect this like wait a  minute you have two before a verb but it's  

got ing like you don't do that why do why do  we do that and it's really only Learners who  

have this problem because they're trying to  begin with the vocabulary rather than begin  

with the situation so in this situation we have a  specific construction object two and then we can  

just object to all kinds of things so I can object  to any like physical thing I can object to doing  

something same idea all right so these are all  nouns smoking swimming these are just names of  

activities or things I could do all right so when  we use object we use two like in that particular  

construction so sometimes you will have two  before ing it's just in this situation that's  

how we do it and so what I'm trying to do here  is give you some different examples to help you  

feel confident about this situation by itself so  rather than trying to learn like what are all the  

examples when we use two plus infinitive or just  like the ing form I'm trying to keep this simple  

but it's better to not do that it's better to  get the actual just a bunch of examples so it's  

it's helpful to know the name of it like gerund  or infinitive or whatever but that's only for  

looking these things up native speakers don't know  that information so here they object to something  

and so now when you when you remember this like  object two it's just some kind of noun that's it  

but I can think about this as an activity so  like today we are doing many different things  

what are we doing today today we are swimming  we are uh going to the store we are playing  

basketball we are doing this and it's just like  here's a list of activities okay so to object to  

object we actually the the two is connected with  object rather than being connected with the verb  

okay hopefully that makes sense but that's  how you would do these you would get these  

examples by by looking at one situation so look  at the situation by itself and then see how we  

we can get something until we understand that it's  like okay these are just different activities any  

kind of noun that I don't like or don't want all  right yes so you got it all right glad to hear it  

so remember and this is a tricky thing about  the language like people think like that the  

two is connected with this like we don't say two  birds that's not what we're talking about we're  

talking about object two it's connected with  this word instead but you don't really know  

that unless you get a bunch of examples and so  when you whenever you see something like this  

try to switch it with something else and see if  that sentence still makes sense that's why I'm  

doing this here so I don't even want to only give  like a bunch of like gerunds or whatever with just  

like ing words I want to also give you just some  regular nouns to make it easier to understand so  

they object to birds they object to Coffee  yeah I don't like coffee I object to coffee  

I object to uh uh I don't know television I object  to books it's just I don't like that thing I don't  

want that thing I object I object okay so when you  object two it's just connected with this instead  

all right so look for more examples and then try  to use a different word here to see if that makes  

sense this is what we do a lot in the grammar  Focus lessons uh in fluent for life and so we'll  

give different examples it's like does this one  make sense does that one make sense just so people  

really understand ah okay yes so like I object  to yeah so the same kind of thing good example  

people are getting it they're understanding  here uh uh let's see here and I think hopefully

all right even the intonation is so different  than a regular speech of mine sounds very rude  

in English yep and again you can just learn  to do these different things multiple ways of  

speaking but it all can be as a first language  all right I think some people are speaking to  

each other how should I say table in French I  don't know I don't speak French I think it's  

like Tabla or something if I'm writing that  down someone asked about wear down so if you  

think about wearing something like they're  different uses of the word so I can I can  

have wear clothing but to wear also means the  physical thing like to rub on something and to  

make it weaker so I'm putting some friction  right now I'm trying to like like wear down  

like my nose I got kind of burned on I was in a  softball tournament on Sunday and I got burned  

so you can see like I'm trying to wear down my  skin because it's peeling off to wear it down  

so you can wear down a person like young kids  they're asking their parents all the time like  

can we buy this toy can we buy this toy and I  say no no no no no and after a while I'm just  

like okay fine we'll buy it so they're wearing  me down in the same way so you can physically  

wear something down like this you continue putting  more pressure and friction on it it makes it worse  

and the same way you can wear down a person by  continuing to do something over and over again  

uh case again is that a trick question and is this  a must-have in order to converse with you or is it  

like me involving a code word I don't understand  Casey what is your is that a question for me I  

don't understand uh was excellent teacher Drew  says Eckland thank you my pleasure Gustavo has  

looks like the top of his head blew off gestaba  are you okay let me know if you're okay over there  

Eunice hey Drew uh we are baby native  speakers yes uh you're teaching us as  

native speakers we learn English from you as a  first language right yes that's the whole point  

so I'm trying to help you connect vocabulary  with situations the same way natives do not try  

to take even vocabulary by itself or grammar  points which is like the worst thing the most  

confusing thing you could do so the user I'd  get fluent faster if I had an English native  

to speak to break down sentence for me but time  is money well user this is exactly what we do in  

fluent for life that's why I made the program so  I don't have anything like this in Japanese or I  

haven't found anything like that for Japanese I  would buy it if there was such a thing available  

but I didn't have that for English and so I made  it for people so all like this kind of stuff this  

is what like you can really learn anything you  want to in the program that's why we made it uh  

Lucas is of course all you guys are talking with  each other top-notch explanation says worda why is  

it so easy to understand what you were saying  but not easy to speak and have confidence uh  

cassava you should it depends on what you're  talking about because if you understand at  

least some words or phrases you should feel  confident using those and then you just apply  

that to more and more phrases and vocabulary and  grammar and over time the the fluency develops  

on its own my understanding comprehension of  the language are great but I cannot speak at  

all that is the problem yes so again like if you  if you understand things on a logical level but  

you can't yet speak it's because you don't  really understand it like a native speaker  

that's usually the issue so you just you're  you're thinking about it logically like I know  

like the like we have like two plus infinitive  or we have gerund or whatever you're thinking  

about it like a student but a native doesn't  think like that a native just thinks in this  

situation I use this and and this is even more  important a native speaker knows that there are  

many ways to express something so in a situation  so here's like whatever situation is I'm ordering  

some food I'm going to the store I'm talking with  people there are many ways of expressing myself  

okay so I could do lots of different things uh in  order to express whatever so like a greeting in  

the morning I could say hey hello how are you how  are you doing how you been how's the family and I  

can give lots of different things like that and  I might like maybe I don't feel confident about  

using all of them but I don't have to use all of  them in in a sentence they're usually one or two  

that I use frequently with people our eclins  says just subscribed group and watching your  

channel for almost a month learn a lot from you  sell them out to you tag along for thank you well  

it's my pleasure you're in uh Philippines I guess  Lucas says Amanda Serene every day A friend of  

mine told me so about is that true uh oh you  guys are speaking with each other over there  

once a herd what you mean once I heard billfold  but I don't know if it's usual as a wallet but  

I've never heard it again no bunch of examples  uh but yes Iran that's uh it's a similar thing  

you can a wallet is like a billfold yeah and  people might have different ways of carrying  

money or they might call them different things  you might have a money clip or a billfold or a  

wallet or some people might even say like a kind  of purse for that but if you want to know like  

specific like a physical vocabulary word like that  I recommend just doing a Google search for images  

so if you do a Google image search you'll see a  whole bunch of different examples for billfold so  

you can do wallet and see what kind of examples  you get you can do billfold see what kind of  

examples you get or money clip or whatever and  that's how you will understand it like a native  

so you will see oh look at that like it wallet  and billfold mean the same thing it's just most  

people say uh wallet billfold is kind of an older  expression but people will understand what that is  

all right hi everyone says I'm late don't you mind  giving me a summary you can say would you mind  

would you mind giving me a summary all right  here's a quick summary uh of what I'm talking  

about in this video so I mentioned uh before I  was learning a word in Japanese uh I first heard  

the word the word was shuseki when my younger  daughter was going to kindergarten and my wife  

said put the shoe sticky card in your backpack and  or this is all in Japanese but just make it easy  

for you so I heard the word and I didn't really  know what it meant I just heard Shu Sicky and I  

like it doesn't really mean anything to me there I  thought it just meant some kind of school card or  

something but three years later I heard the word  shuseki again but this was talking about attending  

a meeting and so when I understood both of those I  in my mind I went back automatically and was like  

ah attendance cardo is like an attendance card  and so it made sense like uh it took three years  

for me to understand that word but it's not  because I was studying the word for three years  

and it was difficult it took a long time it's  just because I got a word here and then I got  

the second example that helped me understand  it over here so you can become fluent faster  

if you get the examples faster so if  let's say on the same day I hear two  

different examples that help me understand  something then I'm fluent in that and I  

feel confident using it but if it takes  me four years or ten years or something  

then it's just going to take me that long but  it's not because I needed that much time it's  

just I didn't get the examples fast enough so if  you want to get fluent faster you just need to get  

your examples what I call naturally varied review  the examples that help you understand something  

like a native speaker when you understand  something like a native then you understand  

it and you can use it fluently that's how it works  so I'm asking people like how quickly do you want  

to get fluent so you don't have to live in an  English-speaking country or practice repeating  

something a whole bunch of times the point is just  to get to understanding as quickly as possible  

and this happens one word at a time usually or it  could be a phrase or grammar point uh let's see  

okay I think I answered all those is it different  meaning indeed okay Professor do you give class  

in private uh no I do not and I answered that  question at the beginning of this video excuse  

me so the reason I don't do private lessons  is because just like uh this example over here  

if you only hear from one teacher then it's just  kind of like repeating something again and again  

you're only hearing my pronunciation my my speech  is going to be a little bit slower than Natives  

and how they would really communicate so you need  to get a wide range of people and private lessons  

are going to be a little bit helpful but it's much  better if you can get lots of different examples  

from different speakers faster so that's what we  do in fluent for life again a lot like I should I  

don't know I could do private lessons but I do not  because it's just not really the best way to learn  

the wear down is when you give in uh  it could be it could be good question  

so like my my children are wearing me  down until I give in so you give in  

at a point where you're like okay fine I  accept that thing I will do what that is  

all right I was a king Emoji oh that's what that  was oh my goodness Gustavo I'm glad you're okay  

glad to hear your head didn't like pop off because  it kind of looks like the like the explosion one  

where people like wow I understood something  can you wear perfume yes people do wear perfume  

I think I don't know if people use it like if  they apply perfume or use something else but  

yeah typically people wear perfume uh Abraham says  Drew could you explain to me the meaning of this  

phrase it's up to us to read between the lines ah  okay you're going to combine a bunch of different  

things first of all when something is up to you  it means it's your choice it's your responsibility  

you must do that thing so it's up to you to get  up tomorrow morning so you have to wake up I'm  

not going to wake you up tomorrow you have to  do that yourself all right so that's one part  

of that so it's up to you so that means you must  do it yourself it's your responsibility now the  

second part of that is to read between the lines  to read between the lines usually means like the  

lines of text but there's the the written words  and then there's the truer or deeper meaning that  

someone might have so if I if I'm if I'm telling  someone like I might say you should really clean  

up your room right now like if you're kind of  reading between the lines like you better clean  

up your room or there's going to be trouble so  I'm not saying that but like that's you reading  

between the lines so it's kind of understanding a  deeper or hidden meaning of something so you have  

to do that by yourself so it's up to you  to look up those uh particular things or  

get that all right hopefully that makes sense  uh let's see a lot of indigenous people there  

when live speech native connected speech let's see  did I skip some of these uh okay yeah we don't you  

might say put perfume on uh but we don't we don't  usually it's like wearing some kind of perfume  

uh as he says I want to make a conversation with  you remember you get fluent by understanding  

like having a conversation with me is maybe  a little bit helpful but it's not necessary  

all right uh a lot of it okay I got that  one already I was hoping to get on one of  

your live videos well here you are Anonymous  let's see the problem is that I can't get into  

improving my vocabulary can you tell me I can  have more passion on that thank you from Vietnam  

um well why why are you not into  improving your vocabulary now  

I could guess why that is probably it's because  you're just repeating vocabulary over and over  

again and it's really difficult for us to get  to review stuff so that's why in fluent for  

life we use naturally varied review we want to  give you the same information in different ways  

from different speakers in different contexts  to really help you understand it the same way  

a native would so often if people are bored by  learning things it's just they're not interested  

in the vocabulary or whatever that's usually the  reason so repetition is really boring the mind  

is not interested in that so you need to find  some way to make the information new so you  

need to combine old with the new I talked about  that in I don't know a few a few videos ago but  

that's how you how you actually become fluent in  something and you can feel your improvement each  

time so I could physically feel it like just like  this example here so if I hear shuseki over here  

or excuse me this says three years so this is  three years between the times I hear this word  

so when I hear shuseki over here I don't really  understand anything but the second time I heard  

it then it became clear it's like ah okay now I  understand what you're talking about and now I  

can use that so I'm not just repeating something  over and over and over I'm actually improving by  

getting different examples and that helps  me understand better so the good feeling  

from learning vocabulary comes as you understand  something better so I remember actually recently  

I got uh like a member of fluent for life we had  a few members actually have fluent for life right  

me and we're just like thank you so much for  the program it's like helping me improve a lot  

and so yeah it's like that's what it's it's  supposed to help you understand like a native  

and you actually want to continue going through  the lessons so if you if you really don't want to  

like review anything at all in any way then you're  not going to get fluent in anything but remember  

how you get fluent in your native language you're  getting varied examples from different people  

from different people in different contexts at  different times and that's what gets you fluent  

uh see okay so hopefully I answered that question  let me know if I'm right about that RM says Japan  

all right I got a question I want to know how  you can get fluent like somebody that grew up  

with both English and their native language  well it's just how I explained in this video  

so this video is explaining how you get fluent as  a first like as a native speaker you get fluent  

in English as a first language by learning it as a  first language uh rather than learning it through  

your native language so I could at the same time  it might be a little bit confusing I could learn  

Turkish and Swahili and I don't know Brazilian  Portuguese or whatever I could learn all those  

things at the same time if I learned them all  within that language so I it's it's possible for  

me to do that but it becomes more difficult  if I'm trying to learn them through English  

so there's I don't know if there's a theoretical  limit to how many languages you could know I don't  

I don't see why there would be because again like  I explained before there are multiple languages  

that you speak even in your first language and  so if you look at little kids like they learn the  

language of math the language of science they  learn the language of Pokemon characters you  

know like it's like little kids are learning all  this vocabulary for various video games or things  

like each video game might even have its own  vocabulary so those are all different languages  

that you learn and you're kind of using them from  your your main language but the point is you're  

learning them all the same way so that's how you  do it don't have the option of give money here  

don't Lucas is asking you mean  like like a super chat or something  

uh I mean if you like what I do join our programs  or get Frederick that's how we earn money to keep  

doing what we do uh can I learn phrasal verbs  without looking them up in a dictionary yes  

absolutely you just see them in action look here's  one right here take off the cap put on the cap  

there you go you didn't use a dictionary for that  so that's what we do in in fluent for life and the  

visual guide to phrasal verbs all right Neda says  thanks a million got it many thanks sir is there  

a live session every day at the same time no I  usually do maybe one or two of these a week but  

they're not scheduled they're usually around like  Monday and Thursday my time in Japan uh could you  

please turn on the subtitles for your live streams  and videos so I can get some new words you say uh  

yes I think usually I put those on and they take  a couple of days to do that though so Google is is  

like uh producing those and it just takes a while  because this is live they don't do uh like live  

subtitles uh beta says why didn't you ask your  wife the meaning of that word instead of waiting  

three years is your wife Japanese yes my wife is  Japanese uh the reason I didn't ask is because I  

just didn't think about it I wasn't there I hear  lots of words all the time and it's if you think  

about all the information that comes into your  head all the time there are lots of things I might  

hear like a hundred new Japanese words or more  a thousand new Japanese words I could be sitting  

down on a on a just a chair outside and other  people are talking and maybe I understand a lot  

of what they say but there might be some new word  that I don't know and I'm not I don't know like  

trying to consciously learn every new word so most  of the time I don't think about it but if they're  

common words I will probably hear them again so if  I if I think it's important and and it's necessary  

for me I might I might try to give myself self  more active review like the way I do influence  

for life I'd just do that for myself but often  it doesn't matter it's not that big of a deal uh

let's see so wearing me down until I give  an excellent uh what means makeup as he  

says well it depends on what you mean by makeup  there are a couple different examples of that  

um makeup could be meaning to repair  a relationship after after a fight  

or something that's one form of making up or  like women applying like making up their face  

uh let's see let's see leave the like hit the  like button yes Lucas has a good point everyone  

click that like button right now so for more  examples I can just Google it right yes well you  

can uh Google but use Google or YouTube especially  Google image search rather than just Google text  

shouldn't be two students have issues conjugating  verbs shouldn't be two students have issues you're  

asking if they should have issues what do  you mean I don't know what you mean by that  

or if they should not the English fluency Bridge  yes yes I haven't I haven't like used that term  

in a while but yeah that's that's what I'm talking  about uh what time is it okay oh my goodness been  

on here for 83 minutes and Counting uh Matthias  if I'm pronouncing that correctly what do you  

think about learning a language using the  books of Arthur M Jensen I'm using these  

books to learn German and Italian and the  review chapter using natural reviewing from  

YouTube I don't know who Arthur M Jensen is  but if it's helping you then keep doing it  

uh so most of what I tell people to do like you  can check it by yourself if it's true or if it's  

helpful for you or not so if I say something and  then you try it like well this doesn't work at  

all then maybe I'm wrong or whatever but most  of the things I do it's just because natives do  

those same things all right uh Abdullah says  please answer me if important listening to  

anything really you don't understand it are not  like children learn their own language yes like  

but as an adult it's really confusing to us and  it's frustrating to hear things that we don't  

understand so children have a patience for that  because they have to and like they like they're  

just getting new information all the time so  when I'm teaching my kids like I don't have  

a lot of time with my with my daughters because  they're at school or I'm working or whatever so  

I have to be very efficient about how I teach them  English most of their day is spent in Japanese so  

I can't just like blah blah blah give them a lot  of language and hope they understand things I have  

to be efficient with my own kids and that's why  I teach you all the same way so most people who  

are learning languages as adults they don't  have a lot of time to just listen to lots of  

English and even if they do that's not really a  good way to learn it's just a very inefficient  

way to do it because you're getting information  it's not systematic you probably don't understand  

everything and then you have all these open Loops  in your mind where you're like okay what does that  

mean and then you hear this other word over here  it just gets very confusing for people uh uh so  

yes like it's it's important to get native input  but structured native input is the key the point  

is to help you understand it like a native so if  you understand something then you can use it so  

I'm learning English for eight months so you would  say months but when people speak fast I don't  

understand them that says disease yeah so that's  common uh often the people who are learning the  

language like they're learning one kind of English  and people speaking or speaking a different kind  

of English so that's why you need to learn uh in a  way that will help you understand native speakers  

have to make up for the lost time what does that  mean well it just means like you lost some time  

and now you have to get back so like if you you're  like running in a race and other people are now  

ahead of you up here you have to make up for lost  time so that's a different use of makeup or makeup  

for Joel says I need to write down words that I  want to review or how to review process sir yeah  

you just need to get more examples it could be  something that you write down or you hear it or  

you read it or you watch it someplace so you can  just type a particular word into Google and it  

will give you lots of different examples go to  different websites and look at those different  

examples or go to YouTube and do the same thing  or get fluent for life so that's what we do  

it's all organized for you like that uh Arthur M  Jensen is the author of The Natural method okay  

uh it's normal for B2 student to make mistakes  related to conjugations like she have or that  

student is not a B2 because of those kind of  mistakes ah well I mean if if you're talking  

about classifying people by level I don't know  I don't really do that just because some people  

might like be good at some things but not  others or they know a lot of vocabulary but  

their actual ability to communicate is not very  high so it just depends and it says so I said I  

don't know don't you mind which I wanted to say  do you mind so is it acceptable to say uh and do  

you mind giving instead of would you mind yeah  you can use like like do you mind or don't you  

mind I mean like it's the the kind of natural  way to say it is like do you mind or would you  

mind those would be more natural than don't you  mind because if you say don't you mind it's like  

you're you're asking if I like if I if I'm not  happy with something it's a little bit different  

how to learn pronunciation the right way and  not just see how to read a word once and forget  

about it get Frederick click on the link in the  description below this video and install that  

app it will teach you pronunciation and help  you learn all the vocabulary and grammar too  

uh Abraham says hello thank you for the lessons  my pleasure I'm making up my mind to get fluent  

in English soon all right very good well I'll make  sure to get subtitles up I'll check to see if any  

of them have not been automatically subtitled but  we've got to the end of the comments thank you  

very much look at that and before I lose my voice  too let me get a nice delicious drink of water

special Japanese water it helps me it  helps me speak Japanese this water does  

all right well hopefully everyone understands this  just a very quick recap with my fantastic piece of  

paper over here people often think that you get  fluent just by spending time doing something but  

actually what's happening is you're getting  fluent at moments of understanding and if you  

can bring these moments of understanding closer  together then you get fluent faster that's really  

the point of this video so rather than thinking  about living in an English-speaking country or  

like needing to practice or have a like a like  a private teacher or anything like that you just  

need to get these examples faster and that's how  you're going to get fluent faster for people who  

want to get fluent faster maybe some people want  to get fluent more slowly it's a different video  

subject I suppose but you can take as much time  you like or as you like between these examples  

so I use or install a robot chat app if that  works for you I don't know you can give that  

a try but I don't I don't do that for learning  Japanese but maybe it will be helpful I don't know  

give me some water what do you think sir movie is  important to learn uh movies are less important  

for me because like the it's not enough review  fast enough for me like I would it's it's a lot  

of information and uh in order to to really  understand that and get a lot of examples I  

want to have something smaller so I want smaller  chunks of information like one conversation or  

one shorter video and then get lots of review  about that and then once I really I feel very  

confident about that then I would move on to  the next thing Jacqueline says Arigato Drew so  

subtitles are transcriptions by the end of the  line yeah it always takes a while to get those  

thanks Drew have a good one and then it says  is Sir commonly used in your culture as British  

speakers don't use ah yeah you can call people sir  that's like it's it's not it's used more like in  

professional situations but you could you could  use that it would be okay all right so if you  

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really is an important idea it's like it's like a  wormhole like like uh what's a good way to explain  

it like like cutting time so instead of trying  to take a whole bunch of time to learn English  

you can get fluent much faster by just getting  the examples more efficiently have a fantastic  

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