How To Speak English Fluently With Few Words

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okay we are working all right I am Drew  Badger like who is that Brides nice to  

see you there so I am Drew Badger the founder  of englishanyone.com and the English fluency  

guide and welcome to another live video here  on YouTube we will be talking as always about  

how to become a more confident fluent English  speaker and I wanted to prove a point a very  

important point because I will argue with  Learners about this all the time about how  

many words they need to speak fluently so I  like to give lots of different content about  

this in different ways uh but the truth is you  really don't need a lot to speak fluently as I  

will prove in this video it's really how well  you know the vocabulary okay so I'll say that  

again how well you know the vocabulary another way  to say this is comprehension triggers confidence  

comprehension triggers confidence all right so  just think about these two words connect connected  

together comprehension and confidence or if you  want to think about focus and fluency in the same

way but the basic idea is the uh the better you  know the vocabulary the more confident you will  

feel about using it so as we get started here uh  let's see if we have any questions or comments  

George nice to see her there Niall or Nall how  are you I'm doing well and N says hi the toy  

says hello greetings from Brazil Bill Mike hi to  people how are y'all going or you would just say  

how are you doing but hopefully people are doing  well Renee says greetings from Brazil yes to my  

friends in Brazil a lot of Brazilians always join  on the live videos it's a pleasure to welcome you  

all uh Yuen says hi you're my favorite teacher  I've changed the way I learn languages because  

of you glad to hear it it's actually funny many  people tell me that but I always remind them that  

I'm just really reminding you how you remembered  or how you learned your native language so people  

say I kind of taught them a new way to learn but  it's really the old way it's the way everybody  

learns uh and it's really just reminding  people uh that you learn any language the  

same way and that's basically the the whole theme  of this Channel and the theme of this video even  

specifically how well you know the vocabulary  and if you understand it like a native rather  

than trying to understand it like a learner then  you will become a lot more fluent much faster all  

right uh let's see any Lauren nice to see there  how's it going doing well and from Iran and abih  

high and Judy nice to see you there all right so  today uh I brought a a little prop because I want  

to prove something to everybody uh this is the  Cat in the Hat I think this was published when  

was this published let me check I think this was  published in the 1950s uh yes 1957 look at that  

I'll just show you the uh copyright page here  see if I can find this specific thing look at  

that copyright 1957 so this book is older than I  am this physical one is not older than I am but  

uh just going to show you this is one of the most  popular children's books uh for English learning  

kids especially in the United States um probably  in the UK I would guess as well uh but anyway uh  

the interesting background or story behind this  book is that the publisher gave the writer of the  

book Dr Seuss so Theodor gel I believe that's how  that's his actual name but Dr Seuss maybe you're  

familiar with this uh this art style or this  author um but the publisher gave him a challenge  

he said here is a list I don't remember how many  words exactly I think he said like here like 430  

words something like that so he gave Dr Seuss a  challenge he said you can only use uh these 430  

words for a book and Dr Seuss actually lowered it  to I think like 236 words something like that uh  

so this book actually has only 236 words in it  but they are used in very interesting ways uh  

as I'll go through some examples of this book  I'm not going to read the whole thing uh but I  

just want to show you that how well you know the  vocabulary is really the most important thing so  

the comprehension leads to the confidence or the  comprehension triggers the confidence as soon as  

you really feel like you understand something well  you've heard it many times maybe from different  

speakers you've heard it in different contexts  you really feel confident that you know it so  

we don't become fluent simply by repeating a word  again and again because that's not really helping  

us understand anything better but we do become  fluent when we hear lots of different examples  

and we hear words used again and again uh so  again excuse me this is a book for kids but I  

also recommend my adult students learn with things  like this because it takes simple words and still  

uses them in interesting ways that adults also use  okay so even me as I'm learning Japanese I still  

read children's books in Japanese because there  are lots of interesting things that adults use as  

well it really helps me understand the vocabulary  to master it better and that's why I'm able to to  

speak Japanese without thinking in English Okay so  if you'd like to translate uh when you speak then  

continue learning the traditional way but if you  don't want to do that if you want to communicate  

uh quickly easily naturally without thinking  or translating or hesitating when you speak  

then really the goal is to focus on particular  things learn them really well understand them  

very well and then you will feel more confident  about using that so hopefully this won't be too  

long of a video uh you can probably find this book  even maybe right here on YouTube probably somebody  

reading the whole thing that's another way to  get good examples of it I don't want to take  

the whole time to read this whole book uh because  it's already been done elsewhere I'm sure uh but  

I do recommend you get uh some things like this  the the one thing I will add about Dr Seuss is  

that sometimes he puts nonsense words into things  like the name of a little monster or something  

is like a fizzle Wizzle and he just these are  just words that he makes up uh where he's just  

creating something because it Rhymes or it sounds  nice uh but those aren't real words but there are  

lots of actual real words uh in this example uh  but hopefully uh I'll get to prove to you that  

really you can take look at this even just a small  number of words and these are words specifically  

uh for young children like taken from a list of  words that young readers would be learning and  

let's get started so we begin with the cat and  the hat uh again I'm not going to read the whole  

thing but the basic idea of the story is that  you have a young boy and girl are sitting at  

home by themselves they have nothing to do and  so they're just thinking well it's rainy outside  

we can't really go outside and play and it's  just boring we're going to sit here so what  

are we going to do all right so that's the idea  and then suddenly they hear a knock at the door  

so they are just sitting there their mom is out  maybe doing some shopping or something like that  

and then they hear bump at the door a knock at the  door and even there fish is a little bit excited  

he can talk in the book as well and now they're  going to begin a little Adventure just things  

going around on uh on in the house uh with the Cat  in the Hat so the cat is wearing the hat but you  

could talk about this in the same way like the  Cat in the Hat or the woman in the red dress or  

the guy in the green shirt that kind of thing so  even though he's not inside the Hat it's I guess  

his head is slightly inside the hat but this is  a way of speaking about that and as you get these  

examples just like when you're listening to me  speak uh it's not just the specific vocabulary  

I'm talking about uh we're talking about like the  whole all of the phrases and things I use are are  

very important to listen to because they give  you the ways that native natives really speak  

uh Mike just had the example Men In Black yeah  so that's the like men wearing black suits so  

that uh Will Smith movie men and black same idea  so I'm going going to cover uh just a few examples  

of vocabulary there are more actually quite a  few uh but I just went to uh just look through  

the pages very quickly and I thought I would give  you some of these examples so the first one is to  

be about be about let me write this on the board  for you and then we'll take a look at it so to be

about now you've probably heard this before when  people are talking about like what is the movie  

about or something like that so what is the  content of something but I'm going to read  

this page and we're going to see what be about  as a kind of different way of explaining what  

this might mean to be about so but our fish said  no no make that cat go away go away it's a really  

good phrasal verb we'll cover that in a moment  make that cat go away tell that Cat in the Hat  

you do not want to play now another interesting  thing about these Dr Seuss books is that they  

rhyme so it it becomes a little bit easier to  remember I'll read it again but our fish said  

no no make that cat go away tell that Cat in the  Hat you do not want to play he should not be here  

he should not be about he should not be here when  your mother is out he should not be here when your  

mother is out okay so he should not be here he  should not be about all right in this case the  

be about means it just means around in this  particular area okay so like what are what is  

what is happening what's around what's about  what's happening in this particular place so  

to be around a particular thing maybe I am uh if  I told my friends like oh I'm around the uh the  

University or I'm around the restaurant all  right or I'm about the place like that same  

kind of idea so if someone is about like there  is like a criminal about right now so it just  

means in this particular area someone is here  I'll read the page again but our fish said no  

no make that cat go away tell that Cat in the Hat  you do not want to play he should not be here he  

should not be about so he should not be in this  area he should not be in our house he should not  

be here when your mother is out so while your  mother is outside of the house all right so  

notice these are all very simple words but we  have again a really interesting story which I'm  

not going to read I highly recommend you read  the cat and the hat if you have not already but  

you can see even with simple vocabulary we can  make some quite interesting phrases and oh even  

a whole store all right next one is put down  this is another phrasal verb put down so put  

down and often uh when you're learning things as a  second language you might hear maybe put down and  

then you get a translation of this but a native  speaker typically they're going to learn this  

in a situation and then they will also hear words  used in other situations so you can have put down  

which has a few different meanings and you'll  probably guess the meaning of the one from this  

situation so the fish is saying put me down what  do you think he means by that so A Child listening  

to this story put me down put me down says the  fish so the fish says put me down and you can  

get oh okay I guess yeah to make something lower  or you know if you're holding something up to put  

it in a lower place so we have that idea as well  but we can also have a more figurative use which  

is not in this book but we can talk about putting  someone down meaning to make them feel worse so if  

I'm saying bad things or mean things about someone  I'm trying to make them feel bad that's also known  

as putting someone down putting something down  sacrific is sacrifice is a little bit different  

to put down but in general we can take something  from a location like if I have this marker or this  

eraser up here I can put it down here so children  will typically say pick me up and put me down pick  

me up and put me down okay so that's the physical  use of it I'll read you the page put me down said  

the fish this is no fun at all put me down said  the fish I do not wish to fall I do not wish to  

fall so here you can see I do not want to fall or  I do not wish to fall again we're hearing these  

different uses of things and when a student says  well how do you say this usually I will say there  

are actually many ways to say something so here  we could say oh I don't want to fall or I don't  

wish to fall but here wish becomes a little  bit better word because it rhymes with fish  

okay so put me down said the fish this is no  fun at all put me down said the fish I do not  

wish to fall I do not wish to fall okay pretty  easy so far you probably know all of these words  

but again the real question is how well do you  know them and that's why we review that's why  

we continue to get many different examples  of things so we really understand them well  

okay all right next one hold up hold up now what  do you think is happening here hold up to hold

up hold up another phrasal verb to hold something  up let me read the page this is going to be a  

little bit longer so Mike gave the example of  weight yes that's a more casual and conversational  

meaning but let's see if that meaning is used on  this page look at me look at me look at me now  

it is fun to have fun but you have to know how I  can hold up the cup and the fish on a rake I can  

hold the toy ship and a little toy man and look  with my tail I can hold hold a red fan as I hop  

on the ball but that is not all oh no that is not  all let me read it one more time look at me look  

at me look at me now it is fun to have fun but you  have to know how I can hold up the cup I can hold  

up the cup so where's the cup right here we have  a couple of different things we have a little cup  

over here so I have a cup here's a glass maybe a  glass but both of these are I'm holding up just  

like I'm holding up the book I'm holding up the  book so I'm holding it and moving it in an upward  

Direction so you can see it to hold up the book  so I can uh I can hold up the cup and the milk and  

the cake I can hold up these books and the fish  on a rake I can hold the toy ship so here's the  

toy ship over here little toy boat and this is  again another use of uh nice vocabulary so you  

can see the actual things happening this  is another good reason to read children's  

books because the words are simple but also  it's easier to understand from the context  

it's not like just looking at words on a page  so I can hold the toy ship and the little toy  

man little toy man here and look with my tail so  with my tail I can hold a red fan I can fan with  

the fan so here he is saying he's using the  verb and the noun in the same sentence so I  

can fan with a fan so to Fan something something  like I'm Fanning my face right now so I'm Fanning  

with my hand but you can fan with a fan as I  hop on a ball or hop on the ball but that is  

not all oh no that is not all okay so we have a  couple of different uses of hold up uh I'm not  

going to cover them all here but the point is as  you're learning something like this you should be  

thinking oh this is an interesting example so he's  holding up lots of different things he's holding  

up some books he's holding up something like  this and it just means like you're you're kind  

of working against gravity so if I let go that's  another good phrasal verb to let go of something  

the book will fall down so I have to hold it  up I have to keep it up here I'm keeping the  

book or holding the book up here okay but there  are some many other interesting uses of hold up  

including uh a a use used by police or criminals  all right so let's talk about the opposite

here oh no what's happening in this situation  now we're going to talk about come down to come

down so here we''re learning uh we've learned  a few phrasal verbs and we're just taking basic  

words like come down put down up and we're just  combining them using them in different ways and  

when you understand the vocabulary very well you  know how to use the vocabulary well so you see  

I'm actually able to to Really create new words  or new ways of expressing things with the same  

vocabulary so I'm not trying to learn new words  I want to understand the same vocabulary really  

well all right let's listen to this page this is  what the cat said then he fell on his head oh no  

he fell on his head he came down he came down  with a bump so means he came down and then he  

he maybe hit the ground or something and that  made that sound so he came down with a bump  

and from up there on uh or he came down with a  bump from up there on the ball and Sally and I  

so the brother and sister there Sally and I we  saw all the things fall we saw all the things  

fall I'll read it one once more that is what the  cat said then he fell on his head he came down  

down so he came down in that phrasal verb there  he came down with a bump from up there on the  

ball so you could say from up on the ball or  from up there on the ball both of those are  

fine and Sally and I we saw all the things fall  we saw all the things fall pretty easy right  

so he could say he fell down or he came down so  he was up here but now he's down here all right  

pretty simple all right next one we're going to  do do actually this is another phrasal verb and  

you can see how useful these are that's why I  spend a lot of time teaching them uh again so  

many great reasons to learn phrasal verbs this is  why we cover them a lot have a whole program the  

visual guide to phrasal verbs uh as well as fluent  for life which contains that uh but this one is

fall into to fall into something and as you learn  to think more like a native you will understand  

these differences like if you're falling on  something or falling through something like if we  

have a hole and we're going to fall through that  thing or if we're going to fall inside something  

else so if I have a like a basket right here and  I take this marker and I drop it like this the  

marker will fall into the basket it will fall  into the basket but if I have a basketball and  

there's a a hoop or a ring maybe the marker will  fall through that thing okay so we're learning  

to think more like a native understand how these  things work and let's see how it is in the example  

sentence here and our fish came down to so here's  that same thing we've got the past tense so came  

down come down and that's another thing that's  nice about these books where again we get that  

naturally varied review we want to hear things  again and again not exactly the same way but if  

we can hear maybe the past or the present or we  can hear it in a different sentence it will be  

much easier for us to remember so and our fish  fish came down to he fell into a pot so he fell  

into he fell into a pot so you can say he fell in  or he fell into both of those are fine so he fell  

in a pot or he fell into a pot typically with a a  like a Dr Seuss book or something like this where  

we're trying to rhyme and we want to get certain  beats into a sentence like if I read it again and  

our fish came down to he fell in a pot it doesn't  sound as nice as fell into a pot fell into a pot  

so we want certain number of Beats or sounds in  a sentence and that's why this is chosen but you  

could say he fell in the pot both of those are  fine typically in uh if we're talking about like  

moving in or moving into into implies some kind of  motion but because we have fall with there as well  

fall is the motion and then in is the location so  he fell in something or he fell into that thing he  

said so the fish is talking now do I like this oh  no I do not this is not a good game said our fish  

as he lit no I do not like it not one little bit  so look at that he kind of fell right here and he  

fell into or fell in the pot so you can call this  a pot or a teapot again he probably just said pot  

not teapot because if we add an additional sound  there with teapot it's not as nice to listen to so  

and our fish came down too he fell into a teapot  rather than he fell into a pot he fell into a pot  

okay pretty simple right so we're just taking all  these simple words words that you probably know  

already but just trying to understand them better  by getting a broader range of examples all right  

pretty simple all right last example and again  another phrasal verb there are actually quite  

a few interesting things in here not just phrasal  verbs but I wanted to just show you this because  

it's really a good example of how we're taking  words you already know and just recombining them  

or combining them in different ways uh and so  this is put what's the example here put out so  

put out so we move along in the story and one of  the things that the Cat in the Hat does uh so just  

for the other examples here uh we begin where the  Cat in the Hat is basically trying lots of things  

to keep the kids entertained and then a little  bit later in the story he brings in these two  

little little guys little creatures and they're  just called Thing One and Thing Two and so now  

these guys are going to run around it's another  phrasal verb to run around the house and start  

creating uh some some more trouble basically and  so the fish is getting even more excited so I'll  

just show you this scene over here the Cat in the  Hat brings over a crate so this is a you can call  

this a box or a crate typically a crate crate  is something made out of wood like this like a  

wood crate so he lifts up this little latch and  then out come thing one and thing to and so the  

fish says again they should not be here when your  mother is out and that's the same thing he said  

about the Cat in the Hat they should not be here  so they should not be here when your mother is out  

put them out put them out said the fish in the  pot okay oh excuse me let me read that again I  

read that incorrectly here uh they should not be  here when your mother is not excuse me when your  

mother is not put them out put them out said the  fish in the pot put them out put them out said  

the fish in the pot see how that rhyme corrected  me so they should not be here when your mother is  

not put them out put them out said the fish in the  pot so again we can take something and put it out  

so we can put something up put something down or  we can put something in put something out all of  

these things we're just combining different  basic words and making more interesting and  

usually more complex sentences okay pretty simple  so we want to take these guys and make them make  

them go make them leave put them out so it's like  if you think about putting a dog or a cat outside  

same kind of idea so make them go uh and the  other example another thing I gave earlier in  

the book uh which was on another page is to  go away away let me write this more clearly

so make them go away or you can tell someone  to go away so you are here I can say go go go  

leave or just go away I don't care where you go  just leave from here okay so I didn't want this  

video to be terribly long I want to make sure I'm  just answering uh questions if you have any for me  

but the basic idea again is this book proves  like many other books do that you don't need  

to know a lot of English to speak well you just  need to know that English well and this is again  

why native english- speaking children maybe  they don't know many words but they can use  

those words very well they understand those  words very well and that's why they're able  

to speak fluently okay so if you would like  to speak better stop trying to learn more  

words and take the vocabulary you already know  and use that better learn that more get more  

examples of those things so even things like  this uh like if I talk about put down I gave a  

figurative example of that as well like to make  someone feel bad or to hold someone up like we  

talk about holding someone up like hold up your  hands like this oh no like look at that it's like  

a police siren right now put your hands up hold  up your hands same kind of thing okay but again  

the idea is if we take a very simple set of words  and this is only uh 236 words so 236 different  

words there are more actual words in the book but  the total number of words used is only like 236 I  

think but the basic idea you can look for uh books  like this when people ask me if they should read  

novels or things uh if you're not yet speaking  fluently don't read novels read stuff like this  

okay you will feel great uh you will understand  it quickly and easily you will get many examples  

lots of good naturally varied rep uh naturally  varied review not just repetition we don't want  

to take something and just repeat it again we  want to see it in different ways because that  

helps us understand the vocabulary better okay so  we take again 236 words repeat them in different  

ways that's the naturally varied review we need  to understand the vocabulary better okay hopefully  

that makes sense uh if you have any questions  about the Cat in the Hat or anything else let  

me know now is the time uh again I didn't want  to make too long of a video today but we'll see  

how everyone is doing all right uh let's see uh  Morning Star is it just me or his voice is kind of  

low it should be okay uh I think maybe maybe I'll  look into getting a la mic but this is what I've  

just been using for a long time all right uh brid  says Hi teacher Drew look forward to your teaching  

every week glad to hear it and sair says from  banglades it's sleeping time well thank you for  

joining us Alandra says hello what's up and body  says hello and sat says but I'm here glad to hear  

all right I think we've got some more examples uh  funny how put up has a whole different meaning yes  

again a lot of these will have slightly different  meanings but often there is a core meaning of  

vocabulary and if you get enough examples you  can understand what something means all right  

sometimes it's a completely different meaning  but typically we we usually have maybe one or  

two maybe three core meanings of of something like  that all right all says put someone down there's  

a song from the Carpenters which reads uh rainy  days and Mondays always get me down I believe it's  

the same meaning right uh well to get someone down  typically means like something else is is lowering  

you and typically this means lowering you mentally  you maybe don't feel so excited about something  

so you feel maybe I don't know sad or something  lots of Carpenters songs are a little bit they're  

kind of melancholy a little bit sad like that um  but yeah so like to when something gets you down  

you're you're you're kind of saying that the  other thing is making you feel bad in some way  

so rainy days get me down but we wouldn't really  say rainy days put me down because put me down is  

specifically for like someone saying something  bad to you or making you feel like making you  

feel small so it's like if you think about people  in like a social status or a social rank someone  

might say oh like like your your clothing is  stupid or something I I'm trying to think of  

a good example but if you're laughing at someone  because they have I don't know something is worse  

about them or even if there's nothing really bad  but you're just saying something bad about them  

you are trying to put that person down so you're  trying to lower you're putting them on a lower  

social status that's the idea behind that so it's  still a similar idea to taking something physical  

like this I have a marker or eraser or something  in my hand and I put it lower I can try to do that  

with people as well if I make them feel bad  or again we have a Social Status where I want  

to feel more Superior than someone else all right  that's the basic idea but good question all right  

uh let's see here where do we get very interesting  Dr Seuss to Tumble down yes that's another way of  

expressing a very good mic uh Dr suono good  morning from Indonesia nice to see you there  

from the Philippines J all right Yasmin says  hi and rajes chess rajes if I got that correct  

pronunciation there sorry s to interrupt but did  you saw the mail that I sent did I see the mail I  

don't know what what mail you're talking about uh  jerma says hi I'm late for the class but I'm here  

now uh welcome and remember even if you are not  watching these live you can still benefit from  

it you don't need to see me do this live in order  to you're learning the exact same thing all right  

uh Nabil says my total is 125 speaking but I want  to speak and tell stories better give me practice  

plan uh I want to do sales well you can actually  combine both of those things if I would watch  

people giving sales presentations about stuff  so if you want to learn more about selling or  

how to give you know telling stories and that  kind of thing that's a lot of what selling is  

so if you watch people like if you already know a  lot of English don't watch me watch someone who's  

specifically giving you know like sales training  or something like that uh and again the idea is to  

get many many many examples of different things  and will automatically start using things more  

confidently uh Emerson says oh Alejandra excuse  me Alejandra says how could I practice some new  

words using chat GPT uh I was actually just  experimenting with chat GPT voice yesterday  

uh and it was a little weird I was kind of testing  some Japanese with it and it it basically sounds  

like a foreigner speaking Japanese they don't  have like a Japanese voice maybe in Japan they  

do but I haven't found that example uh they only  gave a few examples of of different voices you can  

use so the English sounds quite good it sounds  like pretty pretty much like a natural person  

the AI voice is much better than it used to be and  it's improving quickly uh but the some interesting  

things I found about chat GPT I'll just mention  this as I'm uh because I was testing it I wanted  

to see if there was any value for you all or for  me as a learner as well um the first thing is it's  

chat gbt is designed to be quite a agreeable uh I  know that sounds like a funny thing and it's nice  

to get praise from chat GPT so chat GPT is really  like great job like you really you know you really  

understood that thing and you know part of it is  it's designed that way to make you feel better  

but uh at works against chat GPT often when uh  when you're trying to learn and you want someone  

actually to correct you and be a bit more strict  so you might try playing with chat gbt in that way  

um and telling like it's okay to be strict if  I make an if I make a mistake could you please  

correct it but often I have found even talking  with chat gbt in English it will make mistakes  

or the kind of writing I'll do I I will ask at  certain things and it will come back wrong so  

I'm I feel less confident about it for language  learning if I don't know the language already so  

if I'm trying to learn something in Japanese  I want to get many more examples besides what  

chat GPT has um and quickly again about the  ableness thing I just thought that was really  

interesting because I I was kind of testing chat  GPT and I I was comparing two different things in  

Japanese and I was saying what's the difference  between these two things just seeing what chat  

gbt would tell me uh and I said oh it sounds like  this first the first sentence is like meaning a  

little bit stronger and then chat GPT said oh  you're exactly right and I said uh so my next  

comment was never mind I changed my mind I think  the second one is stronger and then Chad gbt was  

like yeah you're right so again that's that kind  of agreeableness where you're you're looking for  

Authority when you're learning you want like a  correct example so you know something is going  

to explain to you something very well and I've  found that Chad gbt requires a lot more uh to  

get like good information from it to make sure  it's accurate uh but having said that so even  

though I I've just kind of said a few things about  chat gbt I do find it useful for getting examples  

so like the kinds of things in the Cat in the Hat  uh it would be easy for you to take 10 words and  

give that to chat gbt and say hey could you make  five different sentences or 10 different sentences  

uh with this vocabulary or tell me a quick story  using this vocabulary and that will give you some  

good examples about how to use things or just like  we do in our videos here you could say uh is there  

a way to use something more figuratively or could  you give me 10 different uses of like be about or  

hold up or something like that so if you already  know what the vocabulary is then it's easier to  

ask chat GPT or whatever you're using to give more  examples of things but I'm just saying be careful  

with using it U it might give you some incorrect  answers or not make you feel as confident as you  

should feel um so don't only rely on chat gbt so  look for like a Google or go to YouTube and watch  

native speakers actually talking about things  but once you understand something and you feel  

confident about it I I would recommend getting  more examples with Chad gbt that way all right  

hopefully that makes sense all right let's see  here and erson says hello from Sal Paulo Brazil I  

found your channel recently it's amazing thanks  for your help glad to hear if you know other  

people who would like the channel and who want  to speak fluently uh in Brazil or anywhere else  

number one click the like button and number two  tell other people about it just share the video  

Richard says good morning hello from Malaysia  Nicholas says I think that you should turn up  

the volume is everybody's volume up Max because I  I've got the volume up it's really the same volume  

level every video I don't change change the gain  on the microphone at all says hello uh teacher  

thank you I made a mistake I've made a mistake  uh when to use which uh both of those are fine in  

this example like I made a mistake about something  or I have made a mistake uh it's just you're  

talking about something oh it's just a different  way of saying that but both of those are fine for  

that situation uh K says uh nothing I don't  know let's see Alejandra says thanks for the  

clarification Drew glad to hear it how many pages  does the book have says mike uh and again this  

book has so again this is like taking some correct  English some basic English instead of saying how  

many pages does the book has you would say how  many does it have uh this copy of the book has 61

61 but there might be U it's been printed many  times and so there will be maybe different uh  

copies of it and I think there are also  some Dr Seuss books that are also even  

shorter so they have simpler shorter  versions for younger readers uh like  

uh one fish two fish that's a book I have  the the like the full book of One Fish Two  

Fish and also a a one for little kids  that's the same thing one fish two fish  

Red Fish Blue Fish uh but all of those are good  uh let's see uh K says hi okay from neone and uh  

honor be make use this pill make your headaches go  away yes idea is the same there to make something  

go away to make it disappear uh and JC sento hello  Drew to Mar nice to see you there H and Marcel  

Leana Marcel Marcela D says hello teacher and f f  if I'm C let me know if I'm not pronouncing your  

name correctly from Thailand George again chat  GPT yes you are right never argue with a fool  

Salvador says hi my teacher you are my teacher  for a long time my friend glad to hear and do  

says I just I've just broke up just you mean  woke up or broke up like you broke up with  

your your girlfriend or boyfriend or something  what do you mean uh Listen to You Make Me calm  

down oh so you you did you just broke you broke  up with someone oh no hopefully you're okay if  

you have any questions let me know maybe I can  I think I've given some relationship advice uh  

on the uh on these videos before uh and Debbie  says hey Drew I've been watching you since 2016  

oh my goodness thank you for everything that I  learned with you cheers from Brazil glad to hear  

it all right look at that we got uh to the end of  comments so if nobody has any further questions  

maybe we'll just keep this a short video today  let look at that amazing uh I'm going to give  

you maybe I'll give you like 10 seconds as I  erase the board over here to see if you have  

any questions uh about anything we can talk about  this uh but the basic idea is a really simple one  

just stop trying to learn more vocabulary if  you don't already feel confident about what you  

know and of course we get uh I know the police  the police are back or the uh the fire truck

all right let's see what we have here Morning  Star again hi Drew would you mind talking about  

spicing up our spoken English like for students  in universities uh if your English is already  

at a really good level and you're trying to be  more expressive I would just watch other people  

speaking so if you are a university student and  you don't have any basic errors in your English  

and you feel confident just spend a lot of time  paying attention to other people's speaking uh  

professors as well so if people are giving  lectures or talking about things uh you can  

learn a lot from those people as well as watching  other students so that's the best thing but for  

many people they really they want to express  themselves in more interesting ways but they  

still are making basic errors with their English  so if you you you basically you sound like if  

we're going to look at uh like three different  Learners over here so here's here's person one  

let's say person a a person B and person C uh  so these are all English Learners over here  

uh we have uh person a uh doesn't doesn't know  many words over here so let's just see doesn't  

actually let me I'll make a little little fancy  chart for you guys here if I can do this let me  

see I've never done this before I'm just I'm  thinking about it on the fly so on the Fly

but hopefully so on the Fly means like without  any preparation uh so we have let's see uh so  

vocab uh and then we have like errors over  here so let's say we have uh person a doesn't  

know many many words all right so this is like  vocab is a little bit low uh but the errors they  

don't make any errors at all so like they get  a check for that uh and then person B uh let's  

say they actually know a lot of words but they  have a lot of errors in their speech over here  

and then person C over here they have a high  vocabulary and uh basically no errors in their  

speech okay so we have three different kinds  of Learners here uh what you will find in most  

conversations like these these two people here  are the most like respected in a conversation  

uh but this one here it's a lot more difficult to  express your ideas because it looks like you're  

trying to use more difficult vocabulary but you  don't actually know the basics okay so it's like  

people are trying to sound more intelligent or  they're using more words and like they might be  

intelligent that's not really the issue it's  just the decision to to learn more but still  

have many errors in your speech so I know lots of  students like this like most of the people I help  

are in this group right here so if you don't  know many words but you use them well that's  

a good speaker that's this is like a native  child over here uh or even like a good learner  

that understands they should review things and  as you get good then you start increasing your  

vocabulary but typically if you know vocabulary  well you can also use more interesting examples  

of vocabulary okay like hold something up or put  something down put someone down I can use that in  

different ways because because I understand the  vocabulary well remember that uh comprehension  

triggering confidence so it's not about repeating  the vocabulary or speaking to people more if I  

understand the vocabulary more I will use it  better so this learner over here learner a will  

be respected uh they will say oh I guess maybe  they don't know many words but wow they really  

speak well with the words they have and then of  course you have uh typically a really good speaker  

like a fluent speaker has a lot of vocabulary  but also very few errors and not like you know  

actual grammatical errors uh that most Learners  would make so don't don't be this person here uh  

especially if you want to get a job or you want  to communicate well with people people won't ask  

you how many words you know they're going to ask  you how well you can speak all right and this is  

typically like if you're in a job interview that's  the kind of thing like if I'm if I'm giving a job  

interview that's the thing I'm looking for I don't  care about how many words you know obviously you  

should know some amount of words but it's more  important to me that you speak correctly and you  

know that vocabulary well okay so remember this  idea all right uh let's see here and double says  

what books would you recommend for fluency in  English speaking so I made a video about that  

that's uh these books get you fluent in English  you should look at that video but it's the same  

basic idea of things like this where you're  reviewing things in natural ways uh getting  

lots of good review what I call naturally varied  review so we're seeing things in different ways  

getting to understand them better and that's  what's going to get you fluent so if you can  

read and speak well and you can take a you know  something like the story of the cat and the hat  

could you tell the story of The Cat in the Hat  so even if you don't remember all the vocabulary  

could you explain what's happening could you tell  it well and would you feel confident doing that  

and remember this book it's only 236 words could  you do that so if you can't so we don't want you  

to get stuck here where you're trying to learn a  lot more vocabulary but you don't really use it  

well okay so don't don't worry about a specific  book it's more about finding things that you  

really really understand well uh and then if  you're trying to trying to uh get yourself up  

to another level I think Bruno is just asking  about that right now about graded readers which  

I do recommend I use those with my own girls um so  this is where we're trying to slowly level you up  

to get to get uh a higher level with your fluency  and your understanding uh but we want to do that  

one step at a time so if you understand at least  80 to 90% of the information you're reading you  

can understand new things in that vocabulary so  like in that book you can understand most of it  

you don't need to look at a dictionary uh every  two minutes that's going to be very frustrating  

for people Barco says hi Richard again uh my  issue is that when I memorize new vocabul words  

after a couple days days they slip my mind uh  yes they they leave your mind typically because  

you're trying to review them rather than getting  naturally varied review so most people what they  

do they will get a vocabulary word like let's say  we have a word like tough just as an example tough  

so if you learn a new word like tough uh and  maybe you hear one example of it uh and then  

you just repeat that word over and over again  tough tough tough tough tough tough I'm just  

going to repeat that word a better way to review  that in a more memorable way is actually to hear  

it used in different situations and I think we  covered this specific word a few videos ago um  

I was talking about like oh this this exam was  really tough so it was a difficult exam or I'm  

trying to chew on a stake and this stake is really  tough also it's hard to chew and as you get those  

different examples you feel more confident about  the vocabulary because you understand it better  

remember that confidence that confidence all  right the confidence that's what we need to  

speak that comes from comprehension  from understanding something uh very

well uh let's see here and hopefully did  I skip anybody all right uh on the Run yes  

there another example BR I know many words  uh I know grammar but I can't speak yeah so  

that's that's this is typically the reason so  a person who has a a larger vocabulary but they  

actually can't communicate very well because  they just don't know that vocabulary very well  

the real reason most people struggle is because of  Doubt so they have some reason uh maybe they don't  

understand something very well they're worried  about pronunciation or grammar or whatever the  

usage of a word and that doubt will stop you from  speaking so you might think you know something but  

until you really own that word until you really  understand it well you're going to have trouble  

using it all right so get more examples and that  will make you feel better you don't have to try  

speaking with anybody you don't need to do it  with anything else or with anyone else just get  

more examples of that uh let's see Emerson says  after studying some of your videos I took an EF  

test for a job and found that I currently have a  level B2 above average well hopefully that's good  

I don't know what your level was before that  but hopefully you have improved but very good  

uh Emerson congratulations and uh subba says  hello I'm from arrea I live in America almost  

three months so I not speak fluently English yes  spend more time getting more examples that's what  

you should do so actually take time like read  The Cat in the Hat 10 times I know it's it's  

repetition but you like there's a there's a bit  when you're starting to learn something you get  

some new material like this uh there is a good you  like you should repeat that information a little  

bit you don't need to read it 100 times you're  not trying to memorize the information but you  

will learn a little bit more and feel a little bit  more confident each time you read it and then if  

you get some different information like another  book that's I think there's also a sequel like  

the Cat in the Hat returns or something I don't  know if that if that's an actual book or not but  

um you can probably find words like you can tell  chat GPT to make you a new story like the Cat in  

the Hat just say hey here are the 200 words from  Cat in the Hat can you make me a new story and  

chat G will just make a story so you can say  uh make a I don't know 600w or whatever long  

story and you can create something like that  to give yourself even more review all right uh  

let's see Marcel hello from Brazil and Lou says  I understand you when you speak and there are  

words that I don't know uh but any times it makes  sense in the phrasal but hopefully uh if you're  

watching and you're understanding most of what I  say even if you don't understand all of it it's  

okay uh that's why if you watch typically people  will watch one video mine and then they watch  

another one and they understand even more and  they watch another one and they hear me talking  

about something different but a lot of the similar  vocabulary is used so the more you review and get  

that again varied review not just try to repeat  the same thing over and over again uh but that  

will make you feel much more confident uh let's  see is the book available in Japan or Amazon or  

other online shopping I'm sure it is you can take  a look uh but the cat and hat is very common yeah  

we probably got got this off Amazon Japan probably  Francisco hi there uh what would be a good advice  

to improve my pronunciation by my own and so this  is another example again I don't I'm not trying  

to uh make anyone feel bad I'm not trying to put  anyone down by correcting things but I think these  

are good examples that everybody can benefit from  so hi there what would be a good way or you can  

say what would be good advice for improving my  pronunciation by myself okay so remember advice  

is uncountable so we don't say a good advice we  just say what is good advice or if you want to  

talk about a specific thing we say a piece of  advice or usually we just say give me advice  

or give me some advice but for pronunciation  there are basically two things I recommend  

it's actually quite simple uh the first one is  download Frederick so that's in the link in the  

description below this video and that will teach  you uh will take a lot of basic words or start  

with basic words and go into more difficult ones  but they help you understand the pronunciation  

of words by seeing how the letters and sounds  are connected so you learn something like cat  

just like we have in the cat and the hat and we  have hat and we have other words sorry let me  

put that down here hat uh and so we see how the  different sounds as we change letters how does  

the word sound change okay so that's the first  part of that so download Frederick you can get  

it uh at the app store Google Play uh by the link  in the description below this video and then the  

second thing is to listen to lots of examples of  different native speakers so this is what we do  

influent for life it's for people who want to  hear many different kinds of speakers and that  

will naturally give you the correct pronunciation  and also for your English-speaking voice so if you  

listen to me maybe you like the way I sound or you  like a different person like an actor or somebody  

like that um you don't have to sound exactly like  them but find a few people and you will you will  

start to sound like those people as you listen  to them more okay so just get lots of good native  

examples and just like native English children  are learning pronunciation that's how they do  

it so they're learning the individual sounds and  how sounds change when you change letters uh okay  

let's see I got some uh Spanish over there from  Louise let's see uh Francisco oh okay I got that  

one already and Samir says I'm in uh three level  B1 I see uh let's see broco says I know how my  

brain works I write every new word in my mother  tongue then my brain memorized it I write every  

new word and my mother language you mean in  your like you're translating all those words  

if you're doing that that's going to cause you a  lot of trouble remember how you learn is how you  

speak so if you take words and you write a bunch  of translations of them that's going to cause you  

more trouble when you speak because you will be  thinking through translations that's why I do all  

of my videos in English I don't have a special  YouTube channel for Japanese Learners of English  

because Japanese Learners of English should be  learning English the same way natives do all  

right so I would teach the same way in Brazil or  Thailand or Mexico or wherever everybody should be  

learning English in English if they want to speak  okay if you just want to get some you need to pass  

a test or you know you just need some information  very quickly for a trip go get some translations  

but if you actually want to communicate you should  be learning everything all in English uh let's see  

what Nils is there Anette all right from Wisconsin  Tua Drew Sensei Ohio Ohio go Mohammad says good  

morning all right Emerson says I started using the  method taught by Drew English as a first language  

is helping me a lot glad to hear it yes so like  uh I've never found anyone that is not helped  

so if you if you tell people hey like you should  learn English as a first language and when they  

understand what that is at first they just they  don't believe it's really possible but when they  

start getting examples and they see oh like I can  actually learn English the same way a native does  

and I feel much more confident now and so because  you're understanding the language better so yes  

you will become fluent faster if you learn English  as a first language rather than learning it as a  

second language remember there's a little switch  inside your brain and so the the switch the fluent  

communication switch that I call it uh if you  have doubts about things that's going to stop you  

from speaking and a lot of those doubts come from  learning things through your native language so if  

you understand things in English you don't need to  translate you flip the fluent communication switch  

and you can start speaking all right uh Salvador  again I have learned a lot from you and I am very  

grateful as well as everything we are watching  in this video glad to hear it remember if you  

like this click the like button and tell people  share this video on social media or whatever if  

you enoy enjoy the video tell uh tell your friends  just say hey it is possible to become fluent and  

it's not that difficult if you start understanding  English as a first language all right uh let's see  

and M says hi dear grammar is important question  yes obviously grammar is important the point is  

when I explain to people about learning grammar  like you're getting grammar from me me right now  

you're hearing grammar vocabulary pronunciation  maybe some cultural references or something just  

like we're talking about here with the cat and the  hat um and all of those things are connected and  

as you learn like a native you get to hear all  of them together we don't have like a separate  

lesson about vocabulary because you need kind  of grammar with vocabulary to understand how it  

works and vocabulary usually has a meaning in a  situation so the vocabulary is always connected  

with a situation rather than uh what people  normally do which is try to connect it with some  

word in their native language but if you want to  understand it like a native so so you use it like  

a native then you need to think uh and learn like  a native uh I am from India says nice ideas Mike  

again thank you drew for teaching us I already  feel I've learned and improved my English glad to  

hear and Sage says hello best teacher it's a good  idea it's good idea practice speaking English with  

AI instead of people this is s thanks uh again I I  talked about chat GPT uh a little bit ago but it's  

it's helpful for some things but less helpful for  others I will continue to experiment with chat gbt  

especially with the uh with the voice and uh we'll  see see if I improve my Japanese with that I'm  

sure I can just because I know how to how to teach  and I can I basically have to teach chat gbd how  

to teach me so it's kind of a tricky thing because  if I if I just like chat gbt basically thinks like  

a regular English as a like English as a second  language teacher it's going to give you examples  

and then try to explain how the grammar works  because that's what everybody does or what most  

people do uh so I have to explain to Chad gbt how  it should teach me and that's what I'm that's what  

I'm doing so whenever I start a new conversation I  always have to begin I like paste in some English  

about like here's how you can teach me uh and  it gets a little bit better all right um let's  

see yes people still talking about increasing the  volume hopefully uh I don't think I can make it  

much louder than this uh I can understand most  of of what you are saying but I can't construct  

sentences when I speak yes uh so this is the core  problem people have uh so that's that's this right  

here basically your understanding is good but your  ability to communicate is weaker than that uh and  

the basic reason is because you have doubt about  vocabulary or pronunciation or whatever uh I've  

given this example before but I will give it again  just because it's a good thing to remind people of  

but when people say they understand vocabulary  you have from maybe 0% understanding to 100%  

understanding over here and most people they  get like a little bit of understanding so they  

understand something enough to under to like  maybe hear it they can recognize that I call  

this the awareness level of understanding but  when you get to the ownership level over here  

when you really understand something well that's  where you really feel very confident about using  

the language so you have understanding here and  you have a lot of Doubt over here so you need to  

remove the doubt in order to become a confidence  speaker that's the basic idea and you don't really  

do that by speaking with other people you can but  even in a conversation the Improvement like when  

I'm speaking with chat GPT the the Improvement  is really coming from chat GPT not me so it's  

giving me examples or explaining how I can use  something better or something like that like  

that that's the the actual Improvement because  I'm learning something in that situation okay  

so it's a little bit different uh but in general  you understand something but don't speak because  

you have doubt about the language whatever that  is vocabulary pronunciation or anything else  

uh Mohammed says about grammar what are the most  important rules that we should work on in order to  

get fluency and communicate better with natives uh  you can look up grammar examples but each person  

is also different about what they know so some  people know some grammar points but not others  

and you can just think about what you uh the the  better way to understand this is what do you want  

to express so think about a situation and you can  ask chat GPT even in your native language like I  

want to talk about this what are some examples of  how natives would Express that and so you get the  

grammar point from the uh from that from the  situation not not trying to think about what  

a grammar point is um and it's much easier  to understand grammar that way so if I get a  

grammar Point uh like an example I give sometimes  is I don't know what's a good one like the present  

perfect um so here we we're talking about like  like I have green eyes uh or I have a green shirt  

uh or I can talk about I have experiences so  I have like I have played baseball so here I'm  

I'm not trying to study the the present continuous  or the present perfect or anything I don't really  

care about the name of the grammar Point what  is is important to me is that I'm explaining a  

situation well and so if I say if I'm talking to  chat GPT and say hey chat GPT like I know how to  

talk about me like personally like like I can say  I have green eyes or I have you know short hair  

but how do I talk about my experiences and chat  gbt would probably give me some examples and one  

of them would probably be like that so chat gbt  might say oh like I have done something that's a  

way of talking about what you do so this is how I  kind of teach chat GPT to teach me things so I'm  

not trying to say like give me a grammar point I  I will explain to Chad gbt here's a situation what  

are some different ways that natives would Express  that and then that's it's a lot easier for for  

chat gbt to not make a mistake about that because  it's just kind of pulling examples from places  

already uh but it gets a little bit trickier  when you're trying to ask for clarification  

about things uh but that's why I kind of use  chat gbt to get lots of examples because those  

are typically going to be correct uh and then I  can get those examples from you know I can kind  

of compare those examples with something from  Google that a native speaker probably wrote all  

right uh so so don't think about like a grammar  point because it's that's less interesting uh less

emotionally less meaningful to your mind so  your your brain doesn't really care about  

that and that's typically why uh if a teacher  is just explaining a grammar Point like even  

me like I I go to chat GPT or or anywhere like if  I want to know about a grammar point and it will  

typically just explain it to me it's like well  this is the this is like in the past tense but  

it's in like the passive voice also and it's  just like telling me all this information but  

it's the same thing like in a movie uh in a  movie we say show don't tell show don't tell  

so show don't tell means if you have a character  and the character says I'm angry you don't it's  

like okay the character says they're angry but I  don't see them being angry it's much better for  

the character to just like you can see the person  being frustrated or angry or upset or whatever and  

you can understand that well so that's show don't  tell and this is why I spend a lot of time showing  

you different examples and helping you understand  things with examples rather than explain a lot  

about how grammar works okay so I'm trying to  show you how grammar works I want to show you  

rather than tell you how the grammar works and  so chat GPT will often tell you how the grammar  

works because like that's how it understands and  that's how most people teach all right so just  

keep that in mind uh so the grammar is important  but think about it more from particular situations  

so I want to talk about like how do I uh I don't  know order food at a restaurant or something and  

chat jbt can help me with that uh because it's  got lots of examples uh then you can ask maybe  

uh what are the particular grammar points you  used if you want to know that information but  

it's just less important uh let's see nil says  orette says uh I hear you clear and loud uh  

the expression is I hear you loud and clear we  actually say the the uh we reverse those two but  

glad to hear it so I hear you loud and clear loud  and clear and grammatically there's nothing wrong  

with that but we just put the words in that order  loud and clear I remember uh watching a movie Die  

Hard three was that Die Hard 3 Die Hard with  a Vengeance as a Bruce Willis die is it like I  

think it was the third Die Hard movie uh with him  and Samuel L Jackson in New York uh and and Bruce  

Willis is talking to some I think they're like uh  German I don't know like they're basically German  

they're not spies they're like some some kind of  like I don't know like the bad guys are basically  

Germans uh in in the in that movie um and they're  pretending like they speak English they have some  

like uh Chicago oh no they're in New York so New  York police officer Uniforms on and the police  

officer the German guy who's pretending to be a  police officer so I think they killed some police  

and then put on their uniforms or something uh but  he says wow it's a I don't know about this weather  

it's raining dogs and cats over here and Bruce  Willis is like oh that's interesting he like he  

said dogs and cats cats instead of cats and dogs  which is what a native would say so it's it's not  

actually you know like it doesn't really matter  which one you say but the kind of correct natural  

way that people would say it is that order so if  we're talking about I hear you loud and clear it's  

raining cats and dogs as you get more examples  you will uh feel more confident about that you  

will understand these Mohamed again another  question please why do you recommend the Cat  

in the Hat you should go back and watch the video  to see why I recommend the Cat in the Hat Okay  

go again uh hello teacher H now I've just hit the  like glad to hear it yes I I I could feel the like  

coming through I actually can't see on the live  version little hearts or other things like it is  

on Instagram it's a little bit different all right  mom says thank you a lot hello teacher G again  

can I ask you another question English has so many  verbs that I always have to look them up to choose  

the correct answer it's like being in a tunnel uh  you should pick a specific thing you want to know  

about and then focus on that because that that's  the that's the secret right there so don't worry  

about even if you don't understand some other  verbs focus on something excuse me just pick one  

thing and do that pardon me let me focus on some  uh some water over here we've been going for an

hour

okay all right uh should we have a few final  questions over Louis says you are talking  

about movie Die Hard yes a Die Hard three I think  Die Hard with a Vengeance uh daytone hey Drew uro  

here ah okay hope you remember me well I think  you keep changing your name if that's the same  

AR I want to speak English like you really I need  uh really need to help me I think my level B1 uh  

based on your comment I would say you need to  uh study more like focus more on the basics I  

promise you promise you promise you just find a  copy of this you can probably just read it online  

somewhere I'm sure it's available just go read  the cat and the hat and look at these very basic  

words and see how they are used okay and then go  to YouTube and listen to someone telling you the  

story of The Cat in the Hat okay and that's just  one example maybe you don't like the Cat in the  

Hat it doesn't really matter but find something  uh like what we're doing in fluent for life this  

is how we get people fluent automatically you're  just getting lots of varied review that helps you  

understand the vocabulary well as that's how you  start speaking all right can you please write down  

the title you mean the title of the video uh just  look in the description you should see it right  

on YouTube it's how to speak English fluently with  few words uh Salvador from Nicaragua I guess hello  

teacher I understand you completely but when  I try to when I try to speaking I can't yes so  

looking at your comment I can see basic errors  in that and that's the that's the real problem  

so again most of the people I help are in this  group over here they know a lot of vocabulary  

but they don't know that V VOC vocabulary they  don't know that vocabulary very well and that's  

why they make lots of Errors when they speak  all right so they don't feel confident about  

it because they just don't know it very well so  I promise you pick one word even like just any  

any basic word you like whatever it doesn't  even need to be a basic word but just spend  

a day picking like picking one word and focus  on that get a bunch of different examples and  

you will feel very confident and you will know  that I am correct so you will know ah like I  

really should focus on something okay that's the  that's the hard Truth for people you don't need  

to learn more you need to learn better you  need to focus more on what you already have  

okay it's kind of like uh it's like if you have  like a good like a man with like a good woman  

but he's still like you know looking at other  women or whatever you know like you will look  

at other women but like you know spend more time  with your woman like actually focus on that and  

you will have a better relationship typically okay  uh let's see uh Mike says what will the next class  

be about I don't know you tell me what should  the next class be about typically by like these  

classes are just uh questions I get from Learners  so if Learners say like how to learn whatever I've  

really covered everything uh but I I try to  make some videos that that teach you some new  

vocabulary but we still cover the same idea  because people need to hear this again and  

again and always we're getting new people coming  to the videos and so it's I like to welcome new  

people uh I know there there are people who are  watching this it's their first video of mine so I  

want to make sure they understand me and they're  they're connecting and understanding the basic  

idea of how we teach all right so there is some  repetition there but I always try to say it in a  

different way Richard says another issue is that  when I watch English movies some words I do not  

understand because they are using slang uh  idiomatic words especially from native speakers  

yeah uh your writing by the way is is is quite  good so I can hear you you can like understand  

things better I would lower your level of the kind  of videos you watch so maybe watch a movie for  

kids uh something like that don't be shy about  watching movie for kids enjoy it you will feel  

very confident and typically movies for kids will  also have some content in for adults like like the  

parents who are going to watch these movies too  uh but enjoy those movies uh and you will learn  

a lot from them uh Hong says thanks so much my  handsome my my teacher Hansen you're too kind  

Emerson yes I am in the B groups haha okay glad  to hear it all right look at that we got through  

the end of comments hopefully I've explained uh  basically how this works but remember this idea  

okay I will cover this again the basic idea is  that most Learners like the people I help the  

people looking for help they are here in the  middle so they know a lot of vocabulary but  

they still make a lot of errors and so this  is why they're not getting the job they want  

they're losing the interview or uh they're not  able to get I don't know whatever like a good  

conversation with people maybe they can understand  movies uh but they can't express themselves very  

well that's that's where this comes from so you  have these three groups of Learners this one over  

here they don't know many words but they use them  well and so they get respect you know people like  

oh I I would like hire that person because they  actually show that they can learn the vocabulary  

and use that vocabulary well and then obviously  the goal over here is to have a large vocabulary  

but use it well so if you were here if you know  a lot of words but you don't understand them very  

well you don't feel very confident about using  them stop learning new vocabulary focus on the  

vocabulary you already have and you will become a  more confident speaker all right uh that's it for  

this video hopefully you have enjoyed it if you  have do uh click the like button uh click it a few  

times you know uh and tell other people about  the video also if you'd like me to guide you step  

by step uh where how we get people fluent is in  fluent for life and we also again have Frederick  

in the link below both of those are uh down in  the links below this video and those will help  

you get fluent like a native help you understand  English as a first language so you speak English  

as a first language all right have a fantastic  day and we'll see you in the next video byebye