Fluency Triggers For Confident Spoken English

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go YouTube let's get it started all right I  think we should be okay all right I am Drew  

Badger the founder of EnglishAnyone.com  and the English fluency guide welcome  

to another live video here on YouTube today  we're going to be talking a little bit more  

about fluency triggers this is really the  thing I do in all my videos but uh people  

were asking me more about this so I thought  I would explain and give some more examples  

uh but if you do go back and watch really  any of my videos even from the start of the

channel you'll see that all of my videos have  really been about this basic idea of understanding  

English like a native uh but eliminating the doubt  that stops you from speaking this is really how  

you speak so it doesn't matter where you live or  how old you are as long as you can eliminate the  

doubt if you have any doubts about conversational  phrases or vocabulary or whatever uh then that's  

really what's going to stop you from speaking so  I thought I would give some more examples today  

starting with a non- language example and maybe  this will give you uh even better reason or just  

some more better not more better just some better  examples uh of how these work uh because I know  

people really want to speak and really again all  of the things people think they need to become  

fluent are not really necessary the thing you  really need is just to understand the language  

well enough to feel confident about speaking all  right I will keep my eye on chat over here but  

I think we're doing fine all right let's see here  we got George over there Papu and uh subu nice to  

see everybody there Olympia oh my heart oh no  protect your heart Olympia Jerick nice to see  

you there uh and Rafa watching from Ethiopia  all right we've got people from all over the  

place let's get started uh I thought it would be  interesting to start this with just an a a very  

simple explanation that anyone can understand  about how the brain learns all right so this  

you don't need to understand like you know the  inner workings of the brain this is really just  

understanding how the brain works so I wanted to  give I brought an example uh this is a game that  

I play with my own kids at home called guess who  uh and the point of the game I've got the actual  

pieces kind of taped on here so I can hold it up  and you can see all the characters but on the game  

board here we have a whole bunch of faces and  the reason I'm doing this is because I want to  

show you something visual uh but also help you  understand something that's not like language  

specifically it's just how your brain learns so  uh let's see so we have uh all of these people  

over here uh and when you play the game uh this  is reg you can just find this on Amazon or you  

can even make your own version of it it doesn't  really matter but you can see we have all these  

different faces on the board and the point of the  game is to ask questions and figure out who the  

other person's person is so I am thinking of  a person so there is a blue one of these and  

then a red one for the other player it's really  a game for two people we're not actually going to  

play the game uh but the point is I just want  to show you how this works very simply when  

you're learning vocabulary because it works the  same way now basically what happens when you're  

learning vocabulary there are two ways to do  this the first one is just to get a definition  

or a translation of something this is what most  people do this is It's really the fastest way to  

understand something but it's not really the  most effective because it doesn't really help  

you understand that thing like a native it doesn't  really help you understand that thing and really  

make that thing confident and clear in your mind  all right uh so just to give you an example of  

this the other way is to discover what that thing  is by removing any doubt you have about that I'll  

give you a specific vocabulary example after this  but I thought I would just do it with this one uh  

so when we're playing the game Guess Who we begin  with a whole bunch of faces over here so you can  

see all of these characters and you just I'm  I have a card that shows one of these people  

so I'm thinking of one of these people and the  other player is asking me well let's see so we  

know it's a person so it's not a dog or a tree or  something else we know it's a person and that's  

when the game begins so which person am I thinking  of or which person like does I have their card all  

right so people would ask me or the other player  would ask me does your person have blond hair does  

your person have blonde hair and if I say yes my  person does have blonde hair then you eliminate  

all the other people on the board the way this  actually works I'll flip this over on the other  

side you put this down on the table and each one  of these things flips up and so you flip them  

down and then again the point is to eliminate all  of the doubt all of the wrong answers until you  

get the one that's correct so you continue to ask  questions and the point of the game is to see who  

can find the other person first all right so does  your person have a big nose does your person have  

glasses does your person have a is your person  a woman you can ask these kinds of questions and  

then try to get uh until you have maybe just  one person left and then okay now we know who  

the person is now you also if you're uh like a  teacher of English or again as natives are just  

using this to help their own children learn the  language uh you can see how the brain is working  

so the brain wants to solve the puzzle that's the  whole point of the game the game is not like okay  

I picked a card I know who the person is and now I  will just show you the card that would be a very a  

very boring game no one would want to play that  because the brain wants to solve the puzzle and  

this is part of the reason why when a teacher  just gives you translations or a definition  

of a word it doesn't really sink in your your  brain kind of switches off we we talk about the  

fluent communication switch in the brain on this  channel uh and uh if you want to learn more about  

that watch the previous video I made a few days  ago uh but the basic idea is that if your brain  

is not interested in something there's no real  connection to that thing or you have some kind  

of doubt about it then you can't communicate you  don't really understand something very well you  

don't really know it and you still have some kind  of doubt about that thing so the basic example  

the reason again I wanted to show this is because  it really shows you oh so we're we're thinking of  

a person but we don't know which one and we're  trying to eliminate all of the doubt until we  

find exactly the person and each time we learn  more like oh your person has orange hair or or  

blue hair or black hair or whatever we can find  out and get closer and closer it's like a Target  

so the same way uh this works with vocabulary uh  again when we're learning something when we learn  

a new word uh if we don't just get a definition  of it we have maybe a vague understanding it's  

not specific we don't really know for sure what  that means so if we can imagine a Target like this  

uh and each time we get more information we get  closer to the Bull's Eye over here we get closer  

to the center and that's where we're looking for  that's the when we have this answer it means we've  

eliminated all the doubt we feel very confident  about something and then we can speak okay so  

again when you're trying to learn a language of  course we focus on English on this channel uh but  

when you're trying to learn any language or figure  something out the point is to remove the doubt and  

now let me give you an actual vocabulary lesson  uh with the same idea here so remember there are  

two ways uh to learn let's see here maybe this  one's better that's a little better I know but  

this one really I have to choose a better marker  or uh one that's going to be more difficult to  

erase don't make me choose don't make me choose  let's see I'll try I'll just use blue again okay  

so number one remember we can get a definition  or a trans translation I'll just put a def

translation and then we just  go directly to the word but we  

usually don't remember them later  okay and then the second way is we

discover the word so we discover the meaning  of the word as we get more examples of that  

thing that's how we really understand it like  a native we eliminate the doubt and so what we  

do with that these are what I call fluency  triggers uh that really help you understand  

that and in the video I did a few days ago that  was really an example uh of showing how quickly  

this can work for vocabulary but I wanted  to give some more examples in this video  

uh about pronunciation grammar uh that kind  of thing so you can see this is not just for  

basic vocabulary you can really do this with  anything and that's the point of good teaching  

to really help you understand something so you  feel confident about using it all right so just  

like the example we just had with the guess  Who board game if I give you a bunch of flash

cards now I'm the teacher and I'm teaching  you a new word but I'll teach you a new word  

in an alien language and now if I could  if I just give you the definition uh or  

the translation of it like that the number  one example over here the first way to teach  

then you probably won't remember that thing  but if you discover that the fluency trigger  

uh by using this and really this whole thing  is a fluency trigger each one of these pieces  

works together uh and you could use these  in any order all right but the point is I'm  

leading you to discover what something is so  you really understand that thing so you feel  

confident about using it okay if I eliminate  the doubt you will have confidence and then  

you can speak all right so let's say I want  to teach you uh I'll teach you here let's

see all right so that's one thing it's kind of  hard to see what that is don't worry about that  

uh but the let's see the alien word here is  at at now you might think you know what that  

means but you don't really know for sure so you  remember our Target example so we know it's you  

know it's probably not an animal uh you know it  might be it's probably not an animal or food or  

something uh so we have a general idea on the  target about where something might be because  

we have maybe we can maybe we can understand I  could I could guess what this word might mean  

you can try to guess uh in the example or  in the uh comment section below so if you  

think you know what the word is as soon  as you know just post the comment uh and  

again this is your brain trying to process this  information with Discovery rather than trying  

to get a definition or a translation of the  word all right I'll give you another example  

so again we don't just use one example we get  multiple examples of this thing here's another

example okay this is also a all right so nil's  thought a cake now that's really my fault for just  

drawing poorly but again as we go through uh the  examples over here it should become more clear we  

should feel more confident as we get more examples  until we lead ourselves to the discovery ah now  

I get it okay if anybody thinks they know good  morning over there uh what I'm talking about what  

the uh word at in this alien language means just  write it in the comments I'll give you another

example this is also

a I give you another example

is also OT at now remember this is an  alien word this is not an English word  

I'm not teaching you English right now the  whole point of this example yes Nils has it

close okay now as you get more examples you  actually feel the doubt removing from your  

brain it just kind of Disappearing as it gets  more clear so you become okay with we got one  

thing this is supposed to be a shoe but of course  I I'm not so great with my drawing over here uh  

so I if I'm doing this in like a real lesson like  I'm really trying to teach you an alien language  

or whatever I would probably have like a clearer  picture over here uh but the idea is still the  

same so we have uh like a kind of general idea  we know it's not you know like like an animal uh  

or food or I don't know some like abstract thing  probably we have a general idea about what might  

not be or what it could be but we still need  to get more examples no no no it's my fault you  

didn't do anything wrong so the first one we  get is shoe but we don't really know what I'm  

talking about you actually don't know so a could  mean it could mean clothes it could mean shoe it  

could mean the color it could mean the shape we  don't know but as you get more examples and this  

is how you got fluent in your native language as  you continue to get more examples that refined  

your understanding until you get to the Bull's Eye  and you feel confident because you eliminated all  

the doubt that's when you start speaking fluently  okay so you don't you don't learn something like  

this and then just try to start saying it because  you don't really know what you're talking about  

the only reason you could do that is if you got a  definition or a translation but you can understand  

it's a different feeling this is more like a game  this is more like the way you're actually trying  

to learn the way your brain wants to learn your  brain wants to solve the puzzle that's what we're  

designed for we're designed to recognize patterns  and solve puzzles in this way okay that's how we  

get more information we're always trying to get  more information from our environment uh and this  

is how we become a confident speaker it's simply  by understanding the vocabulary word all right  

Unown unknown word for now remember this is not  an English word I'm not teaching you an English  

word this is an example of an alien language or  just you know some R some random language but uh  

this is not correct for any language I know of  that would be funny if it is though uh but I'm  

not trying to teach you a language here so we have  like in English we would say maybe shoe shirt sock  

pants or underwear or shorts or something like  that uh and so again the example here as you feel  

more confident you get more examples that's really  how you discover the meaning of the word and how  

you eliminate the doubt so this whole thing Al  together is an example of a fluency trigger I'm  

specifically designing it this way so that you  discover the meaning of the word okay uh let's  

see so let me go back and check comments over here  see if people have any questions about this but  

nice to see everybody here let me see I'm going  to go through this pretty quickly so I can give  

you guys more examples Elder says what's going on  Drew Friday morning lesson would be nice what day  

is it I think it is Friday it's Friday I think so  yeah it's Friday for me in Japan uh my says okay  

I answered that one all right MBO says can I use  English to English dictionary for English fluency  

well again uh if you use a dictionary you're going  to get a definition so either you're using English  

to get a definition or you're using your native  language to get a translation but my point is if  

you if you have just a little bit of patience  uh and the reason to have patience is because  

most people usually just forget words that they  get a definition or translation 4 okay so if you  

if I just tell you what the word is then there's  no lesson there you don't care you don't really  

remember it either so you would probably forget  the meaning if I say a uh in week you would not  

remember what that is but because you learned  it this way because I gave you a trigger that  

really gets in your mind I'm using all of  these things together as a single trigger to  

help you understand the word okay so you can use a  dictionary especially if you want to just you you  

need a quick definition of something remember this  way is faster but again the discovery if you're  

going to give yourself more time if you want to  become fluent faster this is how you do it okay  

with triggering yourself like this triggering  the fluent communication switch in your mind by  

eliminating the doubt if you get a definition  of something often you don't really eliminate  

all the doubt because many words have more than  one definition and there are nuances of words and  

sometimes you can use it one way or another way or  the pronunciation might be a little bit different  

okay so yes you can use a dictionary and it's best  if you use an English to English dictionary but if  

you want to speak fluently this is what you need  to do okay hopefully that makes sense all right  

uh let's see M says I think you are giving a root  level example to learn fluency yes the point is uh  

the these are the two basic ways of learning most  people are learning like this they're trying to  

get definitions or translations and then memorize  those uh but typically you're not going to become  

fluent and you will not really eliminate the doubt  that stops you from speaking and that's the the  

real the real core of fluency so if you have doubt  about vocabulary grammar pronunciation anything  

else then you won't speak you will recognize  information so you can understand and this is  

why many English Learners know a lot of English  but they still struggle to speak all right so  

they haven't eliminated all of the out they're  still nervous or worried or something about  

their pronunciation or uh their understanding of  something so maybe I know a word I recognize it  

when a native says it to me but I just don't  um there's something about that word that I'm  

struggling with so you need to find that out it  could be the pronunciation of the word or if it's  

a grammar point maybe you're not quite sure how  to use it you don't really understand what it  

means but that's the reason you're not confident  about using it or you forget it in conversations  

or uh whatever there lots of of reasons why  but the the the really the number one core the  

foundation of all of that is just doubt so you're  uncertain or you're nervous you're you're lacking  

confidence about something because you still have  questions about it so just like uh the game here  

so our Guess Who game so you could begin I say oh  I'm thinking of a person and you say oh is it Max  

is it Max I say no it's not Max you're really  just guessing and this is often how people are  

in conversations so the idea of kind of forcing  yourself to speak before you really feel confident  

is like this where you're just you're basically  guessing or you're saying something but you're  

probably going to make a mistake so I'm thinking  of a person but your your brain is really trying  

to find out who that person is uh without me just  telling the answer if I just tell you the answer  

there's no game there's no learning process  you're not really thinking about it and you  

probably won't remember that information okay so  who am I thinking of well I'm thinking of someone  

with glasses someone with a hat uh someone with  orange hair and now as you're looking at all these  

you're like okay I can eliminate all these P oh  he's thinking about Claire okay so that's how the  

game works and the reason we play games like this  is because our brains enjoy them that's the whole  

point studying is the opposite of that studying  is where you try to get a bunch of definitions and  

push them into your brain but you don't really  understand you don't really feel completely  

confident about something and that's when you  struggle okay so the more fluency triggers you  

can give your brain the better you can understand  the information that's what you're actually going  

to get uh or that's when you're going to get  that the communication to flow easily uh let's  

see conon says do you mean the important idea is  to feel confident with our words yes so the the  

the important thing is to eliminate doubt so  I talk about confidence but the basic idea is  

just get rid of the doubt if you have no doubt out  then there's only confidence okay so if you have  

questions about something then it means you're  not 100% confident you still have some kind of  

doubt so you need to answer those questions for  yourself if you're learning by yourself or ask  

a teacher or whatever but it's better to get this  kind of thing this is where I'm giving you a bunch  

of related examples that actually work well with  each other I I specifically create lessons like  

this what I call a fluency trigger to help people  trigger that feeling in your mind where you're  

like ah now I got it that's the aha moment you  feel when you understand something and you feel  

confident about using something so if you go to  the alien language and you see something like this  

you could probably guess it's a okay so some kind  of clothing like if I give you an an additional  

example or you see something else I don't know  we'll we'll draw like a slightly different uh  

thing over here you know some other little other  little piece of clothing and you could probably  

guess this also means o it's a coat you know so  you can get more specific probably in the alien  

language there are different words for each one  of these things but the purpose of this is just  

to understand you or or to understand what the  vocabulary is by Discovery okay all right so  

what is the solution to get fluent in English  you need to eliminate doubt that's it if I if I  

could if I could say it in like two words like  we we'll just we'll make it very simple here

destroy doubt okay so if you have a doubt about  anything about pronunciation gramar vocabulary  

it doesn't matter uh that's what's stopping you  from speaking it's not where you live it's not  

how much you study or how maybe much speaking  practice you get lots of people live in the  

United States or the UK or or Australia and  they've been doing that for years so they're  

surrounded by natives they have opportunities  to speak but they don't and it's because really  

they feel kind of shy or they have uh some kind  of doubt about something that's basically the  

answer so all of those things it really just means  you're uncertain about something and that's why  

you will have trouble speaking all right nice to  see everybody there good morning again let's see  

uh Bridget says hi Drew uh mathematics was easy  to learn from me because I played with marbles  

and understood how to use four rules however  I struggled learning English language yeah so  

again like uh I I gave an example with this this  is this is a specific language learning example  

uh this one is not but again uh you can understand  the rules of something and math math is yes like  

quite easy to understand but you can understand I  try to make my lessons like this it's more like a  

math problem where you're trying to solve it where  you're trying to eliminate what what the answer  

answer could be uh until we have one answer and  we know what is correct and that that's where we  

feel confident about something okay now let me  give you uh another example of this uh another  

kind of fluency trigger that helps you just really  feel confident uh about using vocabulary and this  

is when you see uh different native speakers  in a situation or they're describing the same  

situation and often they will say the same thing  to descri describe that uh or they might say like  

a few other uh related things about that but  typically in the same situation there are a  

few things that natives might say and I I don't  have the uh specific example here but you can  

probably find it on YouTube uh or somewhere uh  I think there might be some some lower quality  

versions of this on YouTube uh but there was a uh  it's a like a documentary movie by ESPN so this  

is a like a sports uh TV network in the United  States uh and there was a a specific episode or  

a specific movie uh called Reggie Reggie Miller  versus the New York Knicks I'm not going to take  

time to write that but if you look up uh 30  430 uh this is the name of that series uh so  

if you look up Reggie Miller 30 for30 uh you can  probably find this clip on YouTube or some other  

site or even find the whole thing excuse me uh  somewhere now what was interesting I'm going  

to set the stage here I'm going to describe a  situation that happen happens in the uh in the  

documentary so Reggie Miller is a basketball  player or he was a basketball player uh and  

he played for the Indiana Pacers and they had  a team rivalry with the New York Knicks and so  

they were always fighting with each other and  uh having some good matches it was like really  

entertaining to watch because they were two teams  that were pretty well matched with each other uh  

and so there was one scene where Reggie Miller  he scores uh eight points in like 11 seconds or  

something like that so it's a really incredible  thing that he did because if you ever if you've  

ever seen basketball usually people take one shot  and then they have to run back to the other side  

of the court and then they take another shot so  it's to have 11 points in uh or how many points it  

was like eight points in 11 seconds something like  that uh it was amazing now what was interesting is  

that in this document people are talking about  that scene and so there were two phrases that  

people learned like multiple people use the exact  same phrase because again this is how natives are  

learning they recognize in a situation people will  use certain vocabulary so this is why I always  

recommend the kind of what I call naturally varied  review where you're listening to different people  

talking about the same thing okay you're listening  to different people talking about the same thing  

so I'm going to give you both of these phrases  right now so the first one uh is I've never seen

anything like that first one I've never seen  anything like that I've never seen anything like  

that and so when you watch this documentary and  you see so Reggie Miller basically what happens  

in the uh in the scene is Reggie Miller comes  and he like the so the Indiana Pacers are down  

they're like the New York Knicks I forget how  many points they have but the New York Knicks  

are winning right now at in this this point  in the game uh and then like uh Reggie Miller  

gets the ball and he's he was known for taking  uh three-point shots so Reggie Miller gets the  

ball he he shoots a three-pointer uh and it goes  in and then uh after that like another another  

player uh Tred to pass the ball to another player  inside and Reggie Miller stole the ball and he ran  

back again to the outside of the so in like in a  basketball game you have the hoop over here uh and  

there there is the uh this is the three-point line  so Reggie Miller was here he ran back out here and  

and put up another shot uh and so he was able to  score eight points in 11 seconds what whatever  

it is I don't remember the actual numbers uh but  it was a very amazing thing and so when you have  

people describing this it was really interesting  to see a couple of people say the exact same thing  

where they said I've never seen anything like  that I've never seen anything like that or some  

people just said like never seen anything like  that never seen anything like that never seen  

anything like that okay and so as as a child what  like a native speaker learning these things I'm  

not trying to study grammar what I'm trying to  do is understand I want to make connections with  

the vocabulary and understand in this situation  people say this okay it doesn't matter we're not  

going to talk about uh if it's present perfect  present continuous or the past simple whatever  

we're just looking at what do people say and as  I get the kind of understand of this then I can  

use that for other things like I've never done  that before whatever we'll talk more about that  

in this video in a moment but the point is this  is just something it's really interesting to see  

that natives for a particular situation there will  be maybe a few phrases that people will say and  

it was interesting to see a lot of people saying  the same thing like the exact same thing so these  

people are being interviewed separately about  this and they all say the same thing and so in the  

documentary they just show like one person after  another saying this okay now another situation uh  

it's again this this this same uh thing with the  basketball thing they were talking uh about this  

like the general situation of scoring eight points  in 11 seconds uh and then so the idea of that is  

never seen anything like it or never seen anything  like that so you could say it or that never seen  

anything like it never seen anything like it never  seen anything like it so anytime you see something  

really amazing really surprising you will hear  natives say wow like an alien is flying by never  

seen anything like that amazing all right never  seen anything like that now the more specific  

thing so the more specific thing there were  two situations here so the first one is just  

that he did something amazing but the second one  is kind of how he did it and people also uh gave  

like a different example or a different phrase  uh but they're talking about the same thing over

here this is a more advanced expression but you  will understand it from the situation all right  

so again Reggie Miller he steals the ball over  here so there's a pass that comes in Reggie Miller  

steals the ball he could shoot right there like he  had a had an open shot but he thought it's better  

if I take the ball back behind the three-point  line to try to get another score to try to get  

more points okay so imagine this situation it's  late in the game everybody is like very excited  

you have a a huge crowd of people around you  everyone's like ah oh my goodness so Reggie  

Miller already put up a three they inbound the  ball so the the other team passes the ball and  

Reggie steals the ball he could have he could  have uh just shoted right them but he had had the

presence of mind he had the presence of mind to  go back and shoot the three he had the presence  

of mind so it means he was still thinking he  wasn't just he wasn't panicking he was still  

thinking I need to get a three he was consciously  thinking about it so we say oh he had the Pres of  

mind to do that so like he was present in his  mind he wasn't thinking about something else  

or distracted or confused or panicked he had the  presence of mind to go back and shoot the three  

now watching the documentary it's interesting  that again a few people said this exact same  

thing okay a few people said the exact same  thing I highly recommend you find this uh so  

regie Miller 30 for30 it's a really interesting  documentary anyway even if you don't care about  

basketball uh but you can probably find these  clips if you look for Reggie Miller like 11 or  

eight points in 11 seconds or something I forget  what exactly it is uh but you should be able  

to find uh some clips of people talking about  this so he had so they're talking about Reggie  

Miller they're amazed that Reggie Miller had the  presence of mind to go back and pull that shot  

so instead of instead of shooting a two-point  shot from here he actually took the ball back  

behind the three and then look at that he shot  a three and it went in I never seen anything  

like that never seen anything like that so most  players I mean like unless you're like a really  

good player like you might Panic right there and  just like oh I got the ball let me put it in again  

very quickly but he had the presence of mind to  not do that he had the presence of mind to take  

the ball back and put it in and interestingly  this is the same thing that other people were  

thinking and they all described it this way they  all mentioned the same thing the presence of mind  

like wow just the presence of Mind of this guy  so he was really he was there in the moment he  

wasn't panicked or confused or anything he had the  presence of mind to bring the ball back and shoot  

the three okay so another a thing like uh I gave  the example before like guess who about getting  

these different examples of vocabulary and it's  the whole thing that's really the fluency trigger  

and as you hear these things it's like wait a  minute you might hear the phrase one time you  

don't quite understand it but in a situation you  connect the situation you really understand what  

the situation is you hear a few different people  talking about that you will think wow now I I got  

it all right to have the presence of mind and now  you might forget something like this but again  

this is the better way to review it to really  get more examples of other people saying this  

uh or to look at like you you once you learn  a phrase like this you could go to uish and  

get more examples of it uh but again this is  just another example of a fluency trigger and  

how you can actually understand something the  same way natives do and eliminate the doubt you  

have about using it all right so even something  a bit more complicated I'll check chat before I  

give uh another example with grammar just to show  you that this really does work for anything all  

right uh let's see uh another English structure  teacher I I don't know what that's asking let's  

see Papu over there Tom Hanks yes this is Tom  Hanks child says man you look like a soldier  

with that hairc yes I know uh people some people  think I do uh out here so people ask me if I'm in  

the military and I will say no I'm Tom Hanks all  right ilder says uh by the way do you remember  

the game Russians won from us just on last second  of the time I don't in what sport I don't know uh  

Shad says good morning from Zambia nice see there  so how should I learn phrasal verbs in vocabulary  

uh you need to get fluency triggers you need to  eliminate the doubt okay artill says Hi teacher  

all right 3DS 3z is who's a care do you mean  who cares all right yes I won't forget Reggie

Miller uh again watch the clip it's it's  it's pretty entertaining if you can find  

it uh unfortunately I couldn't find uh before the  video I just didn't have time to do it but if you  

look for it I'm sure you can find it somewhere  all right let me give you one last example just  

to prove my point about how you should be  learning and why it's important to really  

trigger your mind rather than just get some more  definitions or explanations uh or translations of

vocabulary all right now uh this is  a grammar example uh and let's say  

this is a regular English lesson we're  going to teach you let's see I'll make  

sure this fits over here uh the present perfect

oops the present whoops the present perfect so  if this is a normal English lesson I would say  

okay the present perfect is this uh and I'm going  to give you some examples of the present perfect  

and hopefully you remember it but this is not the  way I teach because people don't really learn very  

well this way so again uh we're going to we're  going to take a step back and I'm going to give  

you a trigger and the trigger really is like this  whole series of things and we will come back to  

the present perfect after that but the point here  is to help you understand something to eliminate  

the doubt you have have because that's when you  speak okay so let's start up here uh and we're  

just going to introduce ourselves here just  like we talked about uh for these people over  

here we can talk about ourselves we can introduce  ourselves do something very simple uh I have let's  

see here I'll make this I'll move present perfect  out of the way here we'll come back to that want  

to make sure I fit all of these things in here  so I I have what do I have I have a white shirt  

a white shirt I have a white shirt okay nice  and easy oh I have what's this I have a blue

marker blue

marker uh I could have let's see  what else do I have I have some

water

some water okay now I want to make sure everybody  is following along because if if I keep going  

we should be able to get you all the way to the  present perfect and help you understand it very  

well uh without me teaching you a lot of grammar  but just by understanding it removing the doubt  

about these things you should feel more confident  about that but I want to stop right here does  

anyone have any questions so far I want to make  sure there's no doubt about any of this all right  

should be very basic English people understand  this already but I really I really want to make  

sure you know because uh part of the way you can  do this by yourself is to understand grammar try  

to make it more simple to see where you're getting  stuck because there's usually some place where  

people get stuck uh and uh I I can't maybe explain  something I don't really understand the grammar  

and that's why I don't feel confident using it all  right this should be clear uh let's take it a step  

further so you could probably do more like the  different things I have now we're going to take it  

let's let's just call this level one uh level two  over here we're going to talk about other things  

I have so I have and I'm going to talk about  things like about myself same idea I have a

nose pretty easy I have a nose I have two eyes or  I have two uh we call this color hazel it's kind  

of a mix of brown and green two hazel eyes I have  a nose I have two eyes anything else what else do  

I have see if anybody out there watching what  else do I have anything else you can describe  

about me I have what should be very easy go ahead  use use use the English you know you should feel  

confident about this hopefully everybody watching  this knows these uh basic kind kind of sentences  

and they can describe things like this about  themselves okay very simple so I have a nose  

I have two eyes no one really anyone uh I have  uh let's see a mouth very easy two ears I have  

hair oh my head says you have knowledge  o o something you can't see look at that

interesting knowledge pretty easy I have a mouth  okay now remember we we want to make sure we get  

this correct I've seen some mistakes you  have a mouth Yes I also have freshly cut  

hair you would put a dash between freshly and  cut because we're connecting that freshly cut  

hair all right so this is again we really  want to make sure that we understand these  

things that we're using all of these correctly  all right so I have yeah so I have two legs I  

have eyebrows so if it's one thing you can  say I have like one mouth or a mouth I have  

a mouth I have two ears I have a head I have a  body I have shoulders okay so we can talk about  

like other things outside of us I have a dog  I have a house or we could talk about things  

about ourselves as well we have teeth another  good example hands very good all right pretty  

simple now we're going to extend this a little  bit further to level three and we're going to  

talk about experiences okay experiences so I have  let's see I have what have I done I have played

baseball I have played baseball again it's  the same thing we're just talking about an  

experience that's part of us okay so just like  my nose is a part of me my eyes is they are a  

part of me my mouth the knowledge I have that's  all a part of me my experiences I'll just put  

exp over here for experience my experience is  the things I have done are a part of me also  

okay I want to make this very clear because  this is a complicated thing for many people  

but it doesn't yes so I have studied another  another good example so I have studied whatever  

I have studied marketing uh I have studied piano  okay so children uh would be up here like I have  

children but it's all the same thing so you can  have something like around yourself what I have  

uploaded look at that so I have uploaded more than  600 videos good good example I've uploaded right  

so I have and this is the thing so when people  ask me what's the difference between just an  

activity or something you did in the past and the  like using this example this is it's still a part  

of me there's a connection between what happened  in the past and right now so I played basketball  

or I played baseball or I studied something or  I uploaded something I could be talking about  

if I draw like a timeline like this I could be  talking about some time in the past so here is  

now make sure that fits so I did something let's  say I played baseball here okay so this was uh 10  

years ago so this is 10 years in the past so I  played baseball if I'm just talking about that  

just talking about the experience we can just  use the simple past I played baseball but I  

have played means we're connecting that with  the present it's part of me now it's part of  

my experience just like my eyes are part of me  so you can see my eyes you can't really see my  

experiences but I can tell you about them okay  so I have and what are the things I have done  

okay so I have a been so after we take usually if  I'm if I'm teaching something like this I want to  

do uh begin with okay we got nice Ed Ed you can  recognize a pattern now we want to make it just  

a little bit more complex by adding something else  like I have seen or I have done or I have been and  

as you recognize the patterns you're thinking oh  look at that it's really just talking about who  

you are as an experience so I'm not talking about  the thing I'm talking about me I have this thing  

I have this experience so you could make this a  longer sentence I have the experience of playing  

something but we just say it in a shorter way I  have played very simple okay I have played I have

played Mak sense so if we begin by talking about  like well this is the uh the present perfect I  

don't need to I don't need to talk about like  explaining a bunch of grammar rules it's just  

like look at the steps this whole thing this whole  thing is a trigger that helps you understand the  

grammar and use it without thinking because we're  not trying to learn the grammar we're trying to  

learn when we can say something when can I say  I have done something okay and as you as you ask  

more questions or you need more information  that's great that's fine what you're trying  

to do is eliminate the doubt so if you have a  question it means you have a doubt about something

okay hopefully this makes sense but this is  how you should be thinking about the grammar  

like it's really just situations there's  nothing there's nothing really different  

between having an experience and having  a dog it's just one is like a thing you  

can see and the other is not but either  way you're connecting the past with the

future okay now there are different uses of the  present perfect like this I don't want to give  

like a long uh like lesson about that but the main  idea is we're taking something that happened in  

the past and we're connecting it with now it's  still important now like I have uploaded the  

videos like the videos are still available okay  so that's why we would say I have done something  

so I have played baseball like I'm you know  partly a baseball player that's part of part  

of my my history or my experience or who I am  okay so I have played this but I have not done  

something okay hopefully that makes sense let's  go back and look at some of these examples look  

like we have some uh good comments over here  all right but I think people are getting it  

Hong thinks uh I think grammar is important for  exams but for fluency we don't need to focus on  

it well this is both like if you understand  like you just learned a usage of the present  

perfect without studying like the present perfect  does that make sense so the point here is not for  

me to tell you like okay today we're going to  learn about the present perfect because your  

mind doesn't really know what that means it's like  what does that mean to present perfect it's like  

it's in the present what makes it perfect like  like it's complete is that what you mean like  

the brain doesn't really understand what that  is but the brain does understand this where oh  

okay I have a marker look I look I have a hand  anybody can see that okay or I have a nose I  

can I have like a a face people can see that and  now we're just taking it just one step further  

about who we are like the things that you can't  see the experiences that we have okay so I have  

played I have gone I have been I have watched I  have witnessed all right so it happened there's  

probably some event or it could be a series of  events I actually played uh uh baseball for many  

years uh but I like I don't play baseball anymore  or I don't play I don't play it currently but I  

have played I have that I have that experience  all right is it is this feeling a little bit  

better for people again I don't want to do a long  lesson about present perfect because the the goal  

of this video is not to take this and and try to  teach you like every usage of the present perfect  

but the point is once you understand one of these  it's easy easier to make a a connection with more

things okay all right let me go back uh and  answer some of these questions here uh let's  

see so again like but really important for Hong's  question uh you're still learning the present  

perfect and you would still be able to use this  on a test and use it correctly but the point is  

if you only learn it through the traditional  way you're probably not going to do well on a  

test or in a conversation all right so I'm still  teaching you grammar I'm not I'm not saying like  

don't learn grammar or whatever the point is you  should be learning grammar but how you learn it  

is important this is how I teach my kids grammar  this is how regular natives are uh teaching their  

own children to learn the language okay and so  we want to make sure at every step at every step  

they understand what's going on so kids learn oh  look like what do you have what are you holding  

in your your hand I have a piece of candy I have  a I don't know a toy I have something what else  

do you have tell me about yourself what about  your body oh I have uh two arms or two legs  

okay what else can you tell me about yourself  what have you done oh I have uh I have played  

uh let's see I played basketball I have uh I don't  know whatever ever but you you can you can think  

about all these things where it's just talking  about things you have and it's different it's  

not talking about the event you're talking about  yourself you're connecting your the the thing in  

the past it's now a part of you because you have  that experience okay you have the experience all  

right uh let's see uh let's see I've have been  teaching you have Tau talked about baseball  

players yes so I have so in the past like I have  done something you can talk about someone else's  

experience as well you have done something or like  bringing it back to these examples like what has  

she done she has uh worked in uh sales she has  worked in sales so she has that experience okay  

or he has what has he done he has been fishing he  has been fishing he looks like a fisherman maybe  

kind of he has been fishing so you can look at  all these things and we can make up stories like  

this just to give ourselves more examples of the  thing but the point is that you need to eliminate  

any doubt you have about what this means okay if  anybody had doubt about this before hopefully I've  

removed it or at least removed most of it if not  you can still ask me questions just to make sure  

but this is the difference between I played where  we're talking about the event or are we talking  

about me I have played I have that experience all  right have you done something before yes I have  

so I have yes I have that experience that's what  people are saying I have that experience all right  

I have learned English with a nice teacher very  good let's see J what is the difference between  

have and have got uh different there's really  no difference there like often Americans will  

say I have got uh but I think British is just  have but have got is the same thing it's like  

you have something and you you got it you  don't really need to say both of those but  

conversationally you will hear both of them you  have taught us enough English let's see receiver  

says does it mean I have uploaded uh why does it  mean times but just uploaded once in the past no  

it doesn't matter so I have uploaded we would  describe how many videos like I have uploaded  

one video or I have uploaded 20 videos it like how  many videos does it doesn't matter I still have  

the experience of at least uploading something  one time so just like playing baseball maybe I  

only played one game so I have played baseball  even if it's only one game I still have played  

I still have played I have that experience okay  so there is the experience just one it was only  

one game but I did it it's part of me now I have  done that for okay so it doesn't matter how many  

times I played baseball I can I can say that also  if I want to give more information I have played  

baseball for 10 years so from like uh 5 years  old to 15 years old so I if I played baseball I  

played baseball for 15 years okay so we're talking  about something in the past again I don't want to  

make this more complicated about that and try to  teach you too much at the same time but the basic  

idea here is just just understanding this one  thing remove the doubt one piece at a time and  

this will give you much more uh to use when you're  in your conversations because you will feel more  

confident about using it all right all right uh  H ilder H you were talking about basketball okay  

uh no I don't know that uh again let's see uh  Canon says I have a hand yes so you can shorten  

it like that I have a hand Emanuel says I've got  is British therefore it means the same as I have  

example I have to go uh I've got to go yeah so  I have and that's a slightly different meaning  

I really want to keep it basic with this just  to make sure people understand they can talk  

about the uh like the different things that they  have as a physical thing or even an experience I  

have a smartphone which I'm using to watch videos  yeah so you have up here a smartphone you have a  

hand that you're watching the smartphone with or  holding the smartphone with maybe or you have eyes  

you're watching it maybe you have been watching  so that's another slightly different example Hanan  

says I have traveled around the world y another  good example he has been playing basketball for a  

long time now that's where we want to connect the  past with an event that's still going on so I have  

been playing basketball I have been teaching today  for about an hour so I have been teaching I so I  

have the experience right now it's continuing  so I have been doing it I have been doing it  

I have been doing it all right but I want you  to understand these things one at a time they  

build on one another I should have like written it  the other way but really we begin with something  

simple and then try to add to that to see where do  we get stuck where is the the the the doubt still  

so if we can uh eliminate the doubt that's when  we will start speaking all right uh I'm about to  

buy a new phone probably I4 I enjoy these free  English lessons yes uh my lessons are are very  

good because they help you eliminate the doubt  that you have in your mind that stops you from  

speaking let's see Raymond says I just want to say  thank you for your work I have been studying the  

lesson sets in your program and I know it will pay  off later hopefully Rayman it should be paying off  

now uh just like in this video you you as soon as  you get examples the point if you're talking about  

like fluent for life or anything else uh any of  the other programs we have uh the point is to to  

continue to get these fluency triggers uh and as  you get more you should feel more confident each  

time you get one so it's not like you learn and  then there's a payoff later you should be paid  

paid off as you learn just like I'm showing in  these uh in these videos here but yes I'm glad  

you're improving let's see all right mahash says I  have had a bad experience is this sentence correct  

yes so again the the reason I have like uh I  didn't I didn't use ha here is because it it like  

makes people a bit more confused okay so it's like  wait a minute he said have and had in the same  

sentence that's crazy so it's much easier to just  start this out with with like basic Ed past tense  

here okay so I have played I have studied I have  uploaded uh but I have had that's the same thing  

so we we can talk about one thing as like having  an experience but it was in the past so I had an  

experience so I have had the experience it's a bit  more complicated to explain it like that which is  

why I have to be careful about the order in which  I teach things okay but yes you are correct see I  

see you are you are you are trying to stretch  yourself and and challenge your understanding  

that's how you become uh more confident very  good okay so as you get more examples then  

you're you're still asking more questions to try  to expand to learn more to get more uh use out of  

of your vocabulary so look I have had I have had  uh and again like had just like I got something  

in the past have you seen before is correct uh  zakim we wouldn't say that because have you seen  

already implies in the past uh there are sometimes  where natives will use these things like uh I have  

not seen it before like it just sounds a bit more  casual and conversational I thought about making  

a video about this this topic where people kind  of add words that aren't really necessary maybe  

I did already I don't know I have made so many  videos so I don't remember um but that's an  

example where it's you are it it's implied that it  already happened or that you haven't done it you  

don't need to say before okay so I have not played  baseball before I don't need to say before because  

we're talking about the past anyway so I I don't  have that experience we don't need to use that but  

you will hear people saying that because it just  sounds a little bit more uh kind of casual and

conversational uh let's see just end said I  have never had a chance to travel to Europe  

oh excellent very good yep that's correct  so you're making it you're you're taking  

it a little bit more a bigger step a little bit  more complicated so I have never done something  

it just gets a little bit more complicated for  some people when you try to put have and then  

had in the same sense but if if you think about  it logically with a bunch of examples it gets  

easier so I have played I have gone I have been  I have waited I have trained or I have not done  

that thing I have not played I have not played  I have not trained I have not written I have  

not spelled I have not been to some place  okay so I have not had so anytime you can  

have anything like like this we can just have  the like the past um so like if I want to if I  

want to take a more simple or a simpler example  so the past of this would be like I had I had a  

dog so we're just talking about it like I don't  have the dog now again this is me now we're just  

talking about the simple past the event in the  past so I had a dog maybe that was for a week  

or five years I don't know but I I had a dog  I'm just talking about the event okay but if  

we want to talk about like who who who I am as  a as part of that event so I had so I have had  

a dog I have had a dog so I have had a dog same  thing so either we're talking about the event I  

had a dog or we're talking about me I have that I  have and it's still because it's right now I have  

it I still have the experience but the experience  was in the past so I had the dog okay I have had  

the dog all right uh let's see so I had you would  say I had played baseball I had played so that's a  

different thing where we're not talking about uh  the current thing we're talking about something  

in the past I don't want to get too complicated  with this lesson here uh but you can start you can  

see how as you make it simple and we try to find  what step makes it a little bit confusing or where  

we still have a doubt about something that's  the part you should focus on or ask questions

about all right so I have watched you would  say I have watched an English lesson uh let's  

see so Emanuel says I have been listening to  you for almost an hour I in turn I have have  

been taking away a lot excellent very good good  uses so I have and you again like you're you're  

you started it and you're still doing it so here  like if we're just talking about something in the  

past it's not actually connected we stopped doing  that thing in the past I played baseball I went  

to the park I'm not at the park anymore I went to  the park but if we're connecting these things so  

there there are kind of two ways to connect it  the first is like is the event still happening  

the other is it's still me okay so that's  why we use like I have played because this  

event it happened already it's finished but I'm  still here I am I'm like a time machine you know  

like I I began there and it's still happening  now and we can travel back in time through me  

like I have I have that experience okay but  with this video right here if you have been  

watching so you started an hour ago and now  you still are doing it so you have been doing  

that thing so that's why it's I have been doing  it it's continuing you're still doing it right

now all right uh XD again for you guys who don't  know Taylor Swift she is becoming a billionaire  

by singing songs about her inability to pay good  men Ben she's 30-year-old lady Ben is Right Ben  

Shapiro let's see Bridget says Lang which is  everyday experiences is your daughter fluency  

speaker uh yes so my daughters both of them I have  two daughters a 5-year-old and an 8-year old uh  

both of them can speak English and Japanese their  Japanese is better they just know more Japanese  

and they spend more time uh speaking Japanese  but uh yeah they're learning both languages uh  

next time when your daughter breaks up uh with  her incumbent boyfriend she will compose some  

negative comments when she be yes Taylor Swift uh  Mr Drew can you make a video with your daughter  

well you can see if you go to my channel you  can find videos of her teacher I want to learn  

more about emotions next time what do you mean  emotions like what be specific uh that's why  

is important to learn the past participle verb  yes but my point is I don't want you to think  

like oh that's a past participle or whatever  because a native would not be able to tell you  

what past participle is it's just basically a  native would know like simple past present and  

future and probably present continuous and like  I guess you could talk about they would know  

like I'm talking about the grammar names of those  things like past continuous or future continuous  

but they're not thinking about that they're not  thinking grammar rule they're thinking when can  

I use this and that's an important an important  difference between Natives and non-natives so  

people who use the language without thinking about  it uh I haven't been being honest with you these  

days but the truth you would say the truth is that  I have found another teacher oh no Emmanuel don't  

leave me zaken uh is it possible to learn English  with series like friends uh sure you I mean you  

could learn like that but uh basically if you're  if you're just watching a TV show um often you  

will you would have to watch a lot of them and you  would have to have to have someone explain to you  

about grammar that you don't understand you would  need to get that information somehow so remember  

the point the point is it's not watching friends  or watching uh any like any particular show it's  

do you understand do you still have doubt about  the information that's the important thing so  

you need to find some way to eliminate the doubt  it doesn't really matter how you get that if you  

like watching TV shows and you can understand it  that's great uh but if you can if you watch some  

episodes of friends and you don't feel confident  about speaking then you're kind of wasting your  

time so those are the the questions you need to  ask yourself uh if you're eliminating the doubt  

then that's going to help you Mark says I have  been feeling that all the good English teachers  

are living abroad and learning another language  what uh what would be the reason uh I don't know  

if that's correct or not but I would guess uh  like I can speak for myself as a learner of other  

languages and like a fluent speaker of Japanese  um I understand the the struggle that people have  

with language learning and so probably uh teachers  who also learn or speak another language know that  

struggle as well and so you know the difference if  I live in the United States for example it doesn't  

matter where you live but if I live in the United  States and I don't speak a language other than  

English and I just uh am doing like I'm trying  to be a language teacher at a school and I'm  

teaching you the traditional way like teaching  English as a second language um and I don't I  

don't know what it's like to struggle with those  lessons that I'm probably not going to do anything  

different so you have many people that think they  need to learn the traditional way and people who  

think they need to teach the traditional way  but nobody's really getting fluent so that's  

the that's kind of the tricky thing it's a good a  good observation though but I would guess that's  

the reason that's the reason for me so I'm able  to help people because I know what it's like to  

struggle to speak and for me if I don't understand  something if I have doubt about that thing I won't  

speak and so that's that's really the thing for  everybody else as well so it's not the the problem  

is not logically understanding grammar rules  it's just like well I still have doubt about  

it I still am worried about am I using this the  right way is this like you know is there something  

I still don't understand or maybe it could be the  pronunciation there could be different reasons why  

I feel doubt but that's the whole point Taurus  says hello from from Indonesia which one you  

prefer Samsung or iPhone uh I don't know I'm using  an iPhone right now but I I have an older one you  

guys make me feel old over here I have an iPhone  8 plus which is is it's starting to feel a little  

bit old I could probably update that though uh but  typically I don't I don't care so much as long as  

it gets me what I need I don't really need to just  upgrade for the sake of upgrading kenon says uh  

you had made a video with your daughter before  six years we need a new video I see uh how are  

you doing from Zimbabwe doing well Raymond says  just hop on the program guys yes if you'd like  

to learn more uh I've given you a few examples of  fluency triggers here but if you'd like thousands  

of them all the work is done for you to learn and  understand like a native you can click on the link  

in the description uh of this video to learn more  about fluent for Life uh Frederick is the other  

program that will also give you lots of fluency  triggers really the point is to discover how to  

spell and uh and to listen and to read uh and to  learn the pronunciation the same way natives do  

but you will discover how to do that rather than  me teaching you a bunch of rules so you will still  

learn all the rules but it will be fun it won't  feel like boring lessons I got to go uh for you  

but thanks for help got it Val says what about the  vocabulary what about the vocabulary what's your  

question Justin says I'm struggling to be a better  English speaker too thanks so much well it's my  

pleasure glad to welcome you here uh remember  it's really very simple you need to eliminate  

the doubt any questions or concerns or worries  that you have about using vocabulary grammar or  

maybe you worry about your accent whatever that is  until you eliminate the doubt you you are likely  

most likely going to struggle so the solution is  not to just study more or even to force yourself  

to speak it's really just to eliminate the doubt  so however you can do that either you can do it by  

yourself I'm just most of my videos are trying  to give you examples of how you would do that  

or you just have someone like me do it for you  and that's that's my my like job is to help you  

understand that but whether you learn with me or  not uh the doubt is the thing you need to remove  

R says I fear to learn a third language will I  forget my English probably not you you should be  

okay uh Taylor swi his smart good point to become  a millionaire yes I think she has uh more money  

than a million I think uh but she's she's doing  all right I guess uh uh who whoever was mentioning  

about was that was that XD mentioning about that  yes like uh the kind of common idea that uh you  

have to think about like what your what Your Your  Role Model is and so maybe some people uh even  

though she has a lot of money maybe because she  doesn't have like I don't know she's not married  

or doesn't have kids or whatever uh let's see  says what is the best way to learn any word  

pronunciation well that you should get Frederick  for that because you don't and you can click on  

the link and in the description below this video  for that but the point of learning English uh and  

specifically learning pronunciation like a native  is that you're not trying to study rules but you  

should see how the words work together uh based on  their letter combinations and when you understand  

that then you can you you start uh feeling  more confident about that and then you add to  

that uh getting more examples from hearing other  native speakers using those same words so right  

now you're only listening to me speak speaking you  should be listening to many different natives like  

we do in fluent for life so you really need to get  many different examples which will improve your  

listening so not just listening to a slow or uh  easy to understand teacher you should be getting  

native examples as well that's why we put those in  the program uh let's see I understand everything  

but I can't speak English fluently says bird  uh again the reason uh most likely is you still  

have doubts about grammar vocabulary pronunciation  anything else remove the doubt destroy the doubt  

and you will replace that with confidence amen so  that's right to that's why I have been sticking  

around to learn more and more with you that's why  I have been you mean you haven't been I guess that  

you would say if you're not learning with me uh  but thanks so much yes is my pleasure learn with  

me or not it's up to you uh zaken says is it  true about you say about learn is more about  

understanding than try to speak without have a lot  of vocabulary yes uh and you know this is true for  

yourself because if you don't feel confident about  something you're not speaking the whole reason  

people watch these videos is because they know  English but they don't feel confident speaking  

it means they have doubts or questions about  something and each time they answer that they  

become more fluent okay so this it's a process you  feel each time when you learn something you get  

another example uh that makes you understand some  vocabulary or grammar that's why I'm taking time  

to go through this so you begin by understanding  this like yeah I understand this but why don't I  

understand this or where wherever you have  uh an issue but if you study uh or kind of  

learn things one step at a time like this this  whole thing becomes a fluency trigger a trigger  

which eliminates the doubt so it triggers your  confidence it triggers your ability to speak okay  

so when I talk about uh people not needing to know  lots of words yes the the point is you get fluent  

in one word or phrase at a time as you understand  that thing so you can know a lot of vocabulary but  

you might only be fluent in a few things uh if  you really feel confident about those things and  

those are the things you want to say but if you  don't feel confident it means you're not fluent  

in that vocabulary yet so you need to eliminate  more doubt you need to find some way to destroy  

that doubt to become a more confident speaker uh  let's see Lester says hi coach you wrot a couch  

I'm guessing that's a typo but that's okay what  is the difference between I have played baseball  

and I have been playing baseball greetings from  Guatemala so remember I have played so I have  

played we're just talking about something that  happened in the past but it's still a part of me  

but I have been playing means I'm still doing it  I continue to play baseball so I have doing the  

thing or I have did the thing okay so did you do  it or are you continuing to do it that's it that's  

the only difference all right xdl I kind of feel  like I am built different it's okay you know each  

one of us just like Samsung and iPhone they they  they're built different you know Sergio says uh  

grammar is awful well it's not really true it's  just it's how people learn grammar so hopefully  

I've given you an example here of how grammar is  not awful it's just like it's just easy Once you  

understand it one step at a time all right yes  it's a process uh 100% correct Mark again says my  

English level is C1 so it's pretty advanced in one  toone conversation I'm good but in presentations  

in front of a large uh in front of a group of  people it's a nightmare um you can explain more  

about why that is but it could be just confidence  uh where you're worried about maybe saying the  

wrong thing in front of more people that's  typically the the issue that most people have  

uh and it could be like stage fright in general  there are different reasons why you might have  

that issue I've talked about that in other um in  other videos also have a full like a whole lesson  

set about presentations uh INF fluent for Life  Sergio says my English level is A2 well all right  

that's okay you can write that though jend says I  I'm been so you would say I have been I have been  

in the USA uh for 26 you mean 26 years uh and I  still feel I'm continuing to learn English yeah  

so I have so you can say remember I'm I'm trying  to teach you one like one structure at a time so  

I have been in the US so again you came to the US  and you were still in the US so I have been I have  

been in the US for however many years or I have  been living in the US for however many years both  

of those are fine all right I think everybody is  getting it though all right so the more triggers  

you can give yourself the faster you get those  the faster you get fluent all right it's just  

like boom boom boom boom destroy the doubt and you  will replace that uh that feeling with confidence  

instead all right if you'd like to learn more  about that you can click on the links in the  

description so anybody who's not in the program  should join I'd love to know why people are not  

uh I could understand maybe people have a money  issue about it I understand uh but you hopefully  

like the way of learning should should make sense  where you're trying to basically understand like  

a native as quickly as possible by triggering uh  the removal of doubt that's how you get fluent all  

right last questions uh who you want to be Jack  Dr Lee John S is me the world leader oh no don't  

do that what C there right at the end H I'm late  uh but I'll watch it later thanks for the preure  

that was my pleasure uh can you teach about the  infinitive this is not the time for that I didn't  

want to like do a whole lesson about different  things I have talked about that in other videos  

remember don't think about the infinitive  think about when you would use something  

all right I will leave it there have a fantastic  day and we'll see you in the next video bye-bye