How Natives Learn English And Get Fluent

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I am Drew Badger the founder of englishanyone.com  and welcome to another live video here on YouTube  

I think we're working all right uh uh hopefully  this should be an interesting video I want to  

answer a few questions I've received from Learners  uh some of these what to see there uh but yeah it  

should be an interesting video I want to talk  about how natives learn so you can do the same

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thing all right right nice to see people joining  us if you do have questions uh please post them  

in the chat I will go uh pretty quickly through  this lesson but hopefully uh again if you have  

any questions I'll be able to answer those as well  uh garon nice to see you there Junior and George  

is back nice to see everybody all right uh before  I begin the video I wanted to say that uh this is  

a little bit I guess the opposite of what most  people think uh see often Learners think that  

there is a native speaker like you were born a  native speaker and then you get fluent because  

you're native but actually what's happening  is people are born the same way all over the  

world so I could take a a baby uh from China  put that baby in the United States and that  

baby would grow up becoming a fluent English  speaker so it's not who the person is it's  

just how the person learns and so I'd call this  how to learn like a native because people think  

about it that way but this is really just how  to learn the same way natives are learning uh  

but it's just the people who would learn English  as a first language rather than learning English  

through a second language so let's look at some  uh questions some just interesting things I've  

received from fluent for Life members uh and  I thought I would share them with everybody  

because they were just interesting things to think  about uh so a lot of what we do in the program uh  

and even on the channel is just trying to help  people think more like a native so that you can  

speak without hesitating or translating so I want  to begin with uh looking at my own kids and how  

they become fluent both in English and Japanese  so I have two daughters an older 8-year-old and  

then a younger 5-year-old and so I want to just  go through a very simple example of how they're  

learning so you can learn the same way uh usually  what we're doing and and I don't like teach them  

lessons we don't I mean we actually do have  a whiteboard at home but I do just kindy of  

uh help them compare things and understand  things without needing another language to  

do that so we begin with even something simple  like I want and they hear this over and over  

and over again they know like I and then want  and then we contrast this with something like I

have so I want something and I have something so  let's say I have a marker so right now my kids  

would understand that I'm holding something or  I have a purple shirt but I want something else  

so it's something I don't have all right so I  have a purple shirt uh but I want a blue shirt  

I would like a different color shirt actually  uh and so you can understand this like most  

people especially when they're starting to  learn the language this is something that's  

very easy to translate from your language  into English if you're not just learning  

it like a native speaker would learn it  so if you're not learning it as a first  

language you would get like a translation of  something uh but we can understand this it's  

very simple sentence and so we continue from  here uh once we understand okay I want now we  

can think about what do you want and we can make  the sentence a little bit more complicated so I

want what do I want I want some juice very easy  I want juice or you could even say I want a juice  

like a container of juice or I want some juice  or I want orange juice something like that but we  

really just want to keep the sentence very simple  because we're helping native kids understand the  

language in steps like this so you begin with  something simple like I want and then you move  

up like this and make the sentence a little  bit more complicated all right uh so turno  

is getting ahead of me over here but we begin  with something very simple again like I want a  

blue marker all right so I want a blue marker I  want a red marker I want a black marker anything  

like this where we can just see something  physical we can understand how the grammar  

works so we're learning the pronunciation we're  learning the grammar we're learning vocabulary  

at the same time and this is again how kids are  learning English and it works the same in your  

language as well you get you begin with simple  things that people can understand and then you  

start making them more complex all right so we  want to do this because it's easy to translate  

when a when a sentence is simple but if you start  getting more complicated it becomes more difficult  

to understand all right so we don't want you to  translate at the beginning uh that way you can  

understand things without needing to translate  later when you get more complicated all right so  

now we have I want juice or I want any physical  thing something I can touch or even something  

you can't touch like I want a college degree I  want uh freedom I want Justice you know we can  

even think about something more complicated than  that uh that a child would not yet understand but  

the point is that we're still using the same  basic grammar we're just switching one word  

for another one okay so we move on from this this  from talking about a physical thing or just like  

a noun something you might want to talking about  a verb we got an example of that before so I want  

to do something so I want to go I want to play I  want to eat so you're thinking just like this like  

I want juice or I want this is that activity so  you can think about it in the same way a native  

would think about it like like yeah I want I want  like playing soccer I want to play soccer I want  

to play soccer I want to go outside I want to  enjoy the day I want to teach I want to eat I  

want to play I want to go all right it's the same  idea we're just talking about a thing or we're  

talking about an action that's it so I want to do  something and again we can switch this out with uh  

with have like we had uh previously so we talked  about I want rather than I have so I could say I  

have some juice or we could say I want to drink  juice same idea so very simple again I want to  

keep this very simple I'm sure you all know this  but as we get more complicated it's easy if you  

start understanding it in these simple steps the  same way a child would all right so what it means  

to learn like a child is you start understanding  everything all in the native language so you  

don't need another language to translate or learn  through and then you just work up through these  

steps to make sure you understand everything  hopefully everybody understands this so far if  

you have any questions about that let me know but  it should be pretty easy to understand so I want  

juice I want to do something so let's just say  I want to make it nice and simple go let's just  

say I want to go all right very easy I want to go  now we can make it a little bit more complicated  

remember you can think about how how children  would be using these things as their talking  

with their parents so often little kids just say  I want like I want something I want this toy or I  

want something like that so they understand I want  and I want and then they can name that thing or  

they can name the specific thing they want to do  I want to go to school I want to go to the party  

but now we get a little bit more complicated like  I want you to do something I'd say I want you to

go it's still the same idea so you want this is  the thing you want so you want instead of a thing  

or an action you want someone else to do something  okay so I want you to go I want you to come to the  

party all right so you go this is the idea and  then this is the thing that I want so I want  

this thing to happen all right I want want you to  go to the party okay hopefully this makes sense I  

don't I don't need to get uh super complicated  with this unless you have more questions about  

it but the point is when you're trying to learn  grammar uh you might begin with a longer sentence  

like I have to think about doing something so  you would begin with a longer sentence what I'm  

suggesting what I'm recommending is that you try  to make that sentence as simple as possible and  

see where you get stuck so where do you get  stuck so if you you know okay I understand I  

want and then I want some juice okay I understand  that I understand this part but I get stuck here  

so what are you getting stuck about so I want  someone else to do something for me or just to  

do something in general so I want you to learn  lated I want you to learn lated or or I can make  

it slightly more complicated like he he wants so  he wants you to do something he wants you to do  

something so same idea but the point is I want you  to I want you I want you to control the sentence  

to think about where you actually get stuck so  rather than trying to translate a more difficult  

sentence try to make the sentence simple and then  if if you hopefully don't need translations you  

can understand that and then work backwards to  see okay can I understand the sentence in a more  

complicated way or a more complicated sentence  does everybody get that idea all right let me go  

back through chat uh and then we'll see if anybody  has questions about this nice to see a lots of  

people here though hello hello everybody let's see  if I can go very quickly through people all right  

uh Anyan ice to see you there Antonio hello Junior  hello all right I am the shark says so turno Robin  

nice to see you there good morning G Jam Junior  hello listening to another video glad to hear  

all right from Sal Pao Brazil says Wellington uh  lorama hi I'm from Brazil nice to see you there  

all right hello from Seattle thanks Adan oh I  lived in Seattle for a while Neils nice to see  

you there yeah I bet it is cold in Wisconsin right  now uh doio nice to see you from Prince ban nice  

to see you they glad to hear uh glad to meet  you says Junior again all right so turn says I  

want to so you would say I want to learn English  and this is the pattern you get so you can think  

about it logically like I want learning English  like that I like I want this thing but the way we  

construct the sentence is I want to do something  so I want to go I want to play I want to leave  

maram says I can't believe I finally caught the  live wow well welcome to the party all right uh  

lur hopefully I'm pronouncing your name Lau La  if I'm pronouncing that correctly I like how  

you teach well it's my pleasure all right hello  again says uh Sandra nice to see you there again  

let's see here uh so much respect for you drew for  this creative engaging teaching technique it's my  

pleasure uh I really want people to understand I  I don't have a special technique I'm just helping  

you understand the way natives learn the language  that's it and what I mean like the point of this  

video is just to show you that there there's  really no such thing as a native speaker it's  

just either it's a person who learns English as a  first language or someone who learns English as a  

second language like you're learning it through  some other language like that so you don't you  

don't you're never you're not born native you  just become native what we would call native  

it's just because of how you learn and this means  that anybody can learn this way so as soon as you  

start learning English as a native speaker you  start learning English as a first language then  

you can start speaking the same way too all right  uh uh banck says hi Andrew I have no difficulty  

with my name pronouncing it's a Biga for short  ah from Turkmenistan okay you are the reason of  

my waking up so early is 603 well welcome glad to  have you here uh bega uh Maran greetings from oh  

you're in Vancouver okay hack Wizards Army says  hello everyone all right explain about ing says  

Willington what about in would you like to know  I want you to go to the party yes hello everyone  

uh uh how do you pronounce want with a t or no T  well it depends on the situation like how quickly  

you want to say it so right now I say want so in  a like a video like this where I want to speak  

more clearly I will pronounce those words but  often in a regular conversation with natives I  

would just say yeah I want I want so I leave a  space for that I want I want but I don't really  

pronounce the T so listen carefully and this is  why it's also a good reason to read transcripts  

as you maybe watch videos or you're uh listening  to people speak on a podcast so I want to make  

sure I subscribe to this channel very good I want  to make sure uh how do you pronounce juice juice  

again uh also Earth Sky if you'd like to hear me  pronounce lots of different words and understand  

pronunciation the same way natives do you can  click on the link in the description below this  

video to get Frederick hugar Rez let's see uh oh  from India okay nice to see you there all right  

he's a good teacher well I try Joseph Alexander  says I'm learning words through context following  

the efl method and then create my own sentences  approximately 40 words per sentence 40 words per  

sentence how can I know if the sentence is Well  written is my routine okay I don't do you mean  

you actually put 40 words in the same sentence is  that what you mean I don't think so I definitely  

would not recommend that uh if you can understand  that but I would like like to see a sentence with  

40 words in it that you could understand it  would be like a lot of like Clauses or like  

a list of something uh but the the point here is  that grammar grammar is like a like a staircase in  

this way and you don't need to make a complex  sentence to understand something really we're  

taking pieces and putting them together and so if  you understand these basic things really well and  

you understand them without translating then it's  much easier to use them so you don't need to make  

a really long sentence in order to do this the  point is really to take the sentence and change it  

slightly like we have I want you to go and then we  just change it to he wants you to go so we don't  

want to change the whole sentence we really want  to give our brain something like an anchor to hold  

on to so we change just it's like a like a pivot  you know you change something a little bit we're  

still connected I want you to go or he wants you  to go or they want you to go something like that  

where we're changing it just a little bit so we  still understand all right so this is how we learn  

new things uh and this is also why I recommend if  you're learning uh like you're watching something  

like a movie or you're trying to read a book or  listen to a podcast you should understand most  

of what you're hearing or reading already so if I  read something and I don't understand half of it  

it's going to be very frustrating for me because  I won't understand the words like if I'm trying to  

improve my uh my Japanese so I would not want  to so I would not I I would not want to study  

something that I don't really understand I want  to add slowly things that I I do understand uh  

and then that way I will understand any new  sentences from Context so don't make it too  

complicated for yourself keep the sentences short  and simple uh as long as you can understand them  

all right nice English lesson for you glad toar  here all right G champ I want some wine why does  

this happen sometimes I get a little frustrated  it's okay uh so my really difficult so you would  

say my uh difficulty or my real difficulty  is understanding conversation yeah so we talk  

about that a lot on this channel and the reason  for that is because the way you learn English in  

school or even typically through YouTube videos or  however else you're learning it's still the same  

traditional methods that make the language more  difficult to understand and the language is also  

different from how natives actually speak so you  can hear right now I'm really just speaking very  

clearly slowly using English that I'm pretty sure  you would understand rather than some random movie  

quotes or other things or cultural references  that you would probably not understand and so if  

you don't prepare for real conversations with the  kind of learning and the kind of uh information  

you would need for those then you're going to  have trouble understanding native speakers so  

if you'd like to learn more about that that's  what we do in fluent for life we prepare you to  

understand Natives and have good conversations  all right uh let's see Gerson says about idioms  

you have a question about idioms let me know hams  says hi greetings from Syria look at that people  

all over the place all right Miriam uh I want to  cancel my yoga class to stay on this amazing live  

just watch it later you can do both you don't  have to choose there there's there's nothing I  

mean you can you can ask a question that that's  about the only extra benefit you get from being  

on the video live but uh it's still the same  information uh so turn says Drew you are the  

best are you too kind you are too kind Wellington  in uh in the verb example I want to going is that  

correct no we would not say that we would just  say I want to go I want to go so this is a very  

uh specific uh construction where we talk about  I want and I repeat these things because I want  

you to understand understand these patterns I  want you to understand these patterns all right  

so it's important for me that you do that but  I want you to understand these patterns now the  

reason it gets tricky we can change the pattern  to something like let's say we erase this down

here I don't really like this blue let me try  me try black so it gets a little bit tricky  

for people because if we change the verb here so  instead of I want let's say I like now here when  

you like something we could actually say that so  I like to uh fish I like to fish or you could say  

I like fishing I like fishing so I don't want  to like explain a lot about the grammar because  

I wouldn't explain a lot about the grammar to my  own kids the point is to recognize the patterns  

the same way natives do and then you will get  used to those things oh like I like two fish or  

I like fishing so both of those are fine but we  don't say I want to go or I want going we don't  

say that all right so as a as a as a learner who  is an adult so as an adult learner you want you  

use your logical brain to figure out why you're  like well why why is this you want to know and  

and like that that's that's part of the reason  that it makes it uh frustrating for people to to  

to try to learn uh grammar and then they just want  to translate sentences to make things easier but I  

promise you if you really get many many examples  the same way natives do you will simply accept  

that that's how things are okay so this is part  of how the language works you certainly certainly  

can uh learn more about like why exactly like one  verb does this and one verb does not uh but then  

it would just be a lot easier if you're like a  child so a child doesn't really ask questions  

they they do as they get older but when they're  very young like they they typically don't think  

much about it they will recognize things that  are like when the pattern gets broken so this  

is it's like the pattern being broken here but  if you just repeat things again and again often  

the kids will just figure it out because what  K what kids are really trying to do is connect  

vocabulary with situations and so they understand  the patterns uh this way so rather than having uh  

like a rule or a translation you're trying to  study this is way uh this is the way you would  

uh understand it better so that you can use it  without thinking or translating so the point  

is to get lots of examples so when you hear I  like I like to fish or I like fishing there's  

no difference between these sentences you can  say both of those you will hear natives use both  

of those and they don't really mean anything  differently uh when we're talking about that  

I'll give another example after this about a uh  a slight variation on when natives can talk about  

the same situation but from a slightly different  angle so they mean something slightly different  

but they could be talking about the same situation  so I'll cover that in just a minute but the point  

is here we really want to just understand things  review and get lots of pattern recognition going  

so that how we can understand things the same way  a native child would so we can use them fluently  

all right so I know uh you will be tempted  you will want to try to understand well why  

does this work and why does that work but I I  promise you that information will not help you  

speak better there might be some things you learn  where like oh that's an interesting like you know  

origin about the language or some linguistic uh  information about the language some reasons why  

we do this but it will typically be like well  this is a a certain kind of verb and this is is  

a different kind of verb and you're just going  to complicate your mind with that so if natives  

don't know that information then it's better  for you to not worry about that information  

either okay all right so keep it simple we just  want to focus on pattern recognition by getting  

lots of examples and that way you can keep your  mind open most of the time that you will just  

accept the vocabulary the same way a native would  and you would think oh that's interesting people  

say this word in this situation rather than you  trying to translate uh or think about rules all  

right Juan says good uh greetings from uh is that  Tennessee I don't know maybe you're in Tennessee  

I guess let's see uh nice English lesson for  you I want okay I answer that one already

uh okay uh let's see Miriam says whenever  I'm am bored I watch your lives and I learn  

more I bought fluent for Life package and it's  amazing uh you're name should Stand Out among  

other English teachers well again welcome to  the program thank you for joining it I'm glad  

it's helping you if you know other people  who would like it let them know tell them  

about the program let's see uh Canon says  Hi Mr Drew glad to hear it uh margus says  

hello everyone mam again even when you teach us  different types of movies which are better for  

learning uh I'm not just learning the language  it's looking at different material differently  

yes and so uh the the language is it's just  a medium for communication and if you if you  

focus on the activity or the thing and you  you kind of allow your mind to accept that  

uh as long as it's understandable for you uh  then you will feel a lot more confident as you

learn uh let's see you raised my confidence  in spoken English from 20% to 90% in just  

three months I follow you although I learned the  language about two decades yeah so there there  

are two different ways really for people learning  the language I'm really glad to hear that though  

that's great uh people like people often ask me  are actually working on like a new article on  

our site about how long it takes to get fluent in  English and the point I keep making to Learners is  

that it actually doesn't take very long to learn  the problem is just people think that language  

learning is difficult because most teaching is  hard to understand and it's the understanding  

that really makes the language communication  much easier so if you learn something but you  

don't really understand it or you have doubts and  concerns or questions or worries about grammar  

pronunciation anything else that will stop you  from speaking and natives will do this too so as  

an example maybe a native would be trying to write  something like they're writing it by hand or even  

just typing something if they forget how to spell  a word they will just use a different word instead  

and this happens to people a lot this is kind of a  joke in English because the spelling rules do seem  

quite complicated uh but it's the same idea so  if you're learning uh you could learn English for  

many many years and not become a confident speaker  if you're learning with traditional methods that  

actually make the language more complicated and  harder to understand Alejandra let's see uh could  

I get these examples from movies and practice with  them yeah yes you could uh so usually just as an  

example from fluent for Life usually what we do  uh because a conversation we'll have for example  

many different uh maybe expressions or even  grammar points so I could have many different  

grammar points featured in the same conversation  but in each lesson set we really just want you to  

focus on maybe one or two things and get lots  of examples of that so uh like I've given this  

example before but if you imagine like I'm a a  baseball coach and I have a a a son who's trying  

to learn how to play baseball the typical thing  for a parent to do is to yell out many different  

things like oh no run faster or throw the ball  better or hit this way or do that other thing but  

the better thing to do is just to say son today I  want you to focus on this one thing I don't care  

if you drop the ball I don't care if you don't run  or whatever but just try to try to like watch the  

ball that's all I want you to do today and so we  know that playing baseball is it's not going to be  

a on- day event so we don't have to worry about  trying to fix every problem at the same time so  

in the same way when I'm making uh these lesson  sets for fluent for Life what we do is just have  

a focus for something so even though you will see  examples of lots of other grammar points we really  

would just want you to focus on a particular  thing uh and that focus is really what gets you  

uh fluent faster all right uh I just says please  activate the translation into Arabic thank you  

I don't know how to do that um but we will have  when when we're making the live like this there  

is no transcription because Google doesn't do that  automatically at the same time uh but it does uh  

come out I don't know I think a day later let's  see part says hello thanks for the live I read  

Japanese comic manga in English do you think they  are useful for learning the language yes anything  

I mean as long as it's actual native speech so if  you're reading uh a manga in English just like I  

Read Manga in Japanese uh to help me learn some  Japanese so miam says the other day I faced the  

word fation at work then I looked at the root word  as learn from you that was to Fork uh and that  

explains enough not to forget the word and to use  it properly in slightly different context yeah and  

so this is where we also get like bif forcation  to bifurcate to to cut something like that to B  

fory good evening teacher says Manuel Canon says  got it all right Neil says uh you think from my  

soul sometimes I think so complicated and think  ha why yeah it's it's a natural thing as adults  

and also because we've been trained for many years  to think about grammar rules so we're trying to  

understand why something works rather than just  connecting the vocabulary with the situation it  

seems very simple but it's just we're like nah  like why does it do that obviously we also have  

grammar rules from our native language our first  language in our head already so when we're trying  

to do something different we wonder well why do  they do that like in like English and Spanish the  

noun and the adjective are reversed so in English  I would say like red car uh but Spanish is like  

Ela and so it's like why do they do that or why  do they say la or L you know I could think about  

why that is but it's more like it's more fun for  me to try to understand that when people are in  

this situation where they're talking about this  that's what they say so if I can think about that  

and I can and then I can guess after I understand  it then I feel much more confident I can say the  

same thing all right so try not to worry about  that uh if you still need help you know like  

okay I I really don't get something I need to  understand the the origin of this or the logic  

behind it then we can talk about that but for  the most part it's not really that necessary uh  

let's see M says boa I don't know what that means  gang name I want uh everyone should say this says  

you say learning English is the first language  but everyone does a language hard their self  

and someone who learns language yes let me make  that less complicated make it easy for yourself  

learn English as a first language as opposed  to trying to learn it through you know your  

translations or whatever uh let's see uh Danielle  says alindo I think doesn't that mean like like  

handsome in Spanish I think let's see on news  says hello Danielle Hi how are you ah okay all  

right talking about oh talking about the teacher  with the K KK K okay that's the laughing I like  

the different the ways like different languages  so in Japan you'll have like www like on there  

uh oh I think I don't know if you were talking to  each other talking to yourselves but we've gotten  

through these comments so let me go to another  example uh just to see another thing that I

had so this is another question uh  from actually the same uh fluent for  

Life memory that we got a little while ago  which I think maybe it was different let me

check yeah okay actually a couple of  people asked about this uh so I want  

to cover this as well now let's say  we're talking about time we talked  

about prepositions in a uh recent  video uh so I wanted to compare

in so in five minutes for five minutes or since  let me write that more clearly since 5 minutes  

ago since 5 minutes ago all right now when we're  talking about something as I said before and I say  

this in every video natives can express an idea  or something they want whatever they're talking  

about in different ways but sometimes the like  the slight Nuance in the meaning it they will be  

a little bit different but you can still express  the same idea in different ways but I wanted to  

again just start with something very simple like  this and then we can make the complex or make the  

sentence more complex so in 5 minutes uh I know  we're if you think about just this by itself in  

five minutes you're thinking about the future  you're thinking about kind of like I will do  

there or I will be at your house in five minutes  so five minutes from this point five minutes from  

this point uh but I just want to talk about  these words uh just just with with this idea  

by itself about the slight difference in Nuance  for uh comparing these different words so let's  

say the situation is uh we have a person now so  we'll just say this is now on our timeline here  

so this is the future and this is the past and  let's say someone uh started something let's say  

one year ago so when we talk about the the past  from now we talk about ago so let's just say one  

year ago one year ago now if we're talking  about something like let's say instead of 5

minutes we'll say one

year so in one year we're talking about a  time period but it just means like at some  

point anytime so this is in that time period  this is in that time period here here here I  

mean I I really mean along this this line here in  the timeline uh but we we can talk about any time  

here this is in that time period now four we're  actually talking about the whole period so when  

you hear people talking about like I haven't  we'll write a a longer sentence here so I

haven't done let's see I done what did  they do I haven't done uh done it just  

very simple uh in one year or for or since okay  so I haven't uh let's say we'll make this a bit

more I haven't uh had no I  haven't gone since we did fishing

before so I haven't gone fishing in one year so  when we talk about like here's a oneyear period  

so I didn't go fishing here or here or here or  here or here or here or here at any time in this  

time period so this is when we would say in so  in this time period within this time period I  

have not done something okay so if I if I end the  sentence here so I haven't gone fishing this just  

means I've never done something so I haven't gone  fishing ever in my life I haven't gone fishing I  

haven't gone fishing I haven't gone fishing okay  so just to start with something nice and simple  

means I I do not have this experience I don't want  to spend a lot of time on have I've done videos  

about this you can search the channel for them if  you want to understand this but the basic idea is  

you can have a thing like I have a marker I have  green eyes or I can have an experience okay so  

the experience becomes a part of me just like my  hair or my mouth or my ears or it's part of who I  

am so that's why we can say I have something so I  have that experience all right so I haven't gone  

fishing I don't have the experience of that but  we're talking about within this time period you  

might hear a person say I haven't gone fishing  in one year I haven't gone fishing in one year  

so we're talking about from today in the past year  I have not gone fishing so maybe the person went  

fishing before that but in the past year they  did not so when we hear in one year or in the  

past year both of those are fine so in the past  year all right so I haven't gone fishing in the  

past year we're talking about just anytime inside  this time period okay or we could hear someone say  

I haven't gone fishing for one year now what they  mean when they say that is they're talking about  

the time period so they're not talking about  like in inside the time period they're talking  

about the time period itself okay this is a subtle  slight Nuance I'm trying to give you like a little  

bit of understanding natives aren't thinking about  it that deeply and that's why you will hear people  

use uh all three of these things and without even  thinking about it but just so you understand the  

subtle difference because again as I mentioned  before I know people are trying to think logically  

and understand how it works so sometimes it is  helpful to get some explanations about things uh  

but I'm really trying to help you understand  the way natives think about this or the way  

natives would explain this if you asked them so I  haven't gone fishing ever all right that's like my  

whole life I haven't gone fishing I've never done  that thing all right but if I say I haven't gone  

fishing in one year we're talking about within  this time period I don't have any experience  

within this time period four we're still talking  about like the time period itself all right we're  

not talking about like a a particular time it's  just during this whole period I didn't I didn't  

do that so for and in it's it's really the same  thing but this is the slight difference in Nuance  

are you talking about like there is no experience  within this or you're just talking about the time  

period itself okay that's it since is a little bit  different from both of those but you could use it  

in the same sentence in the same way uh and so I  haven't gone fishing since like uh I don't know  

since it's like a year ago a year ago and in that  way the the thing we're focusing on is the time  

period when it began so we know now that's like  implied and we know the beginning so it's three  

different ways of talking about the same thing so  all of these are fine you can use all these the  

the grammar is slightly different the Nuance is  slightly different but this is why you would hear  

people like different natives would express the  same thing with different vocabulary and it means  

basically the same thing but you can see how it's  slightly different so in we're talking about like  

imagine it like like a box within a time period  or for we're talking about the whole time period  

itself or since we're just saying it started  here that's one we care about but it's basically  

it's just different ways of talking about the  same thing all right I hope this makes sense  

so I haven't gone fishing in one year I haven't  gone fishing for one year all right same idea I  

haven't gone since I haven't gone fishing since  uh whatever the time period or since a year ago  

all right or since last year there are different  ways you can express it but the point is uh I  

don't want you to get stuck thinking like wait  a minute he said in but that other person said  

for oh no you you again the point is to accept  these different things because there are many  

different ways to express an idea the same way you  would do it in your native language and I'm pretty  

sure every language has uh the same idea okay so  you would be able to express the same thing in  

slightly different ways uh and the Nuance might be  a little bit different but it's really essentially  

the same thing all right I think someone just  asked for subtitles over here remember when these  

videos are live uh there are no subtitles for them  because Google is or YouTube is not able to just  

make subtitles while I'm speaking that would be  great if possible maybe in the future uh that  

will happen but all right let's see Miriam says  the most challenging matter in speaking English  

for me is telling a story happened to me since I  can't use complex sentences with multiple tenses  

instead I stay quiet when I asked when they asked  how was your weekend ah all right so uh as an  

example if you want to talk about something  you can still express yourself with simple  

sentences and I would begin with that so rather  than just staying quiet pick something that you  

do feel confident saying and express it simply  I've given examples on the channel before about  

me explaining something at three different levels  of complexity like talking about a pair of shoes  

or talking about I forget the examples I give but  if you look at if you if you if you search I think  

like shoes just the word shoes on my channel you  will find that video so this is me talking about

different uh or explaining something at different  levels of complexity so let's say I want to talk  

about my weekend with somebody and this is  a common thing I get from people so they are  

often good at talking about their work but  as soon as a coworker asks them about their  

weekend then they uh they maybe forget what they  want to say or they can't express themselves so  

the easiest thing to do is just begin with the  simple past so if you want to talk about the  

past you don't need to use like a complicated  sentence like I just gave I gave that example  

because someone was asking about that but if I  just want to talk about what I did I just say

I I saw a movie very simple we're just using  the simple past very easy so I don't need to  

make a complicated sentence or I don't need  to try to put a lot of complicated Clauses  

in the same sentence I can make just a  few a few sense so I saw a movie it was

interesting let me write

that so I saw a movie it  was interesting or I liked

it so I liked it very simple it was about

whatever it was about a boy and uh a girl  going fishing okay so you don't need to  

make a complicated sentence or like one long thing  that's trying to explain everything just say yeah  

what did you do yesterday what did you do over  the weekend oh I saw a movie I went to the park  

I read read a book I played with my family I saw  uh a baseball game okay so even native speakers  

they will usually begin a sentence or like begin  a response with something simple all right unless  

there's a really amazing story or something  amazing or uh surprising that happened most  

people would just begin with something like this  so the the conversation uh if you pay attention  

to conversations they often go like this like  someone will ask a question like especially a  

cooworker like oh how was your weekend so it will  begin like they're usually just being polite just  

it's just hey how are you I'm doing fine and  if it's a good friend of yours maybe you have  

a longer conversation but it usually starts quite  simple so oh I uh I saw a movie and like yeah the  

movie was the movie was good or you would if if  the person is interested or you want to talk about  

it more that that's where you can start having  more complex uh sentences in explaining something  

but even then you can still use simple sentences  to explain yourself so don't feel nervous about  

that you like have to use something complicated  the point is just to express yourself and often  

natives will do the same thing natives will just  say oh I saw a movie it was a yeah it was a good  

movie uh it was uh it was fun or it was not it  was not very good it wasn't very good so if we  

talk more about it then we can make the sentences  a bit more complex but you don't have to do that  

all right but this is a very easy way when people  ask what you did especially over the weekend or  

you know how was your week or your vacation or  something oh it was fun and most people don't  

really care to listen to a long story anyway  they're they're probably just being polite  

and you know just connecting with you a little  bit so if they start asking you questions then  

you can explain more and it's okay if you don't  say it perfectly but I would just keep it simple  

and this is why we talked about building up your  ability to speak at the beginning of this video  

so I was talking about I want and then I want  something or I want to do something or I want  

you or I want him or her or them to do something  all right so we begin by getting comfortable by  

really understanding the basics I know a lot  of people think oh I know that well if you know  

that why are you not using it fluently okay you  should feel uh you should know something to the  

point where you feel confident saying something  if you don't feel confident saying it you don't  

really know it you know it a like well enough to  recognize that information but you need to know  

it well enough to speak that's really the goal you  need to you need to keep learning keep reviewing  

keep understanding something until you feel yeah  I got it and then you will have the confidence to  

speak so you don't learn something a little  bit and then either force yourself to speak  

or maybe you just say nothing because you're too  shy just continue to get more examples about that  

thing until you feel you really understand  it and sometimes it it happens very quickly  

sometimes it's uh it can take longer but the  more examples you get the faster you improve  

okay hopefully this makes sense so there there  are always uh easier ways simple ways to express  

things uh you can take like really any sentence  you like and I can give you a simplified version  

of it that's perfectly fine for conversations  okay all right I think everybody's getting it  

though let's see here check these other all right  again Jam do you like baseball yesterday I watched  

your video about baseball phrases those phrases  use different situations like dating yes uh well  

yeah I played baseball I just I use that also it's  like an American thing I thought people would you  

know I could talk about something else uh but I  like to yeah you'll notice like I talked about  

like pivoting so like it's like the connection  is baseball and then maybe I'll talk about you  

know some different things related to that just  to make it a little bit easier to understand if  

I completely change the example in the context  it becomes more difficult to understand uh your  

explanation on the fact that there are more than  one way to say the same idea and how to practice  

that approach is really helpful that has never  occurred to me before yeah so often we don't think  

about these things but this is what's happening in  your native language all right and we know this is  

true because let's say there's like some activity  happens let's say there is a I don't know like a  

car crash if we just imagine a a I'm going to draw  this badly uh but here's oh no boom here's a car  

crash if five people let's say five native people  uh five people watch this they're each going to  

describe it in a slightly different way okay they  might use some of the same vocabulary but a lot of  

the vocabulary will be different and I've talked  about this in many videos before like if you watch  

my video on how to make espresso in English uh so  I give an example this is some naturally varied  

review where you look at uh different people  explaining the same thing so if I do a video  

about some different people talking about a car  crash they're going you could you could kind of  

put the vocabulary on a on a bell curve like  this so some words are going to be used a lot  

like crash like the word crash gets used 10 times  like everybody uses the word crash but maybe only  

you know two people use a different word or  somebody else uses you know some other word  

like this but if you could take all the vocabulary  that people use it would fit on a bell curve like  

this and so what we try to do is focus on these  most important things and you would learn a few  

of these other ones as well like in the espresso  video you'll see people talking about tamping the  

coffee down so they have a little it's like a  little press where the where the ground coffee  

goes and there's a like a kind of metal piece  that that fits on top of that kind of like this  

to Tamp the coffee down and so everybody uses that  expression because everybody goes through this  

specific activity but some people talk about like  a word in coffee is like the aroma so the aroma  

of the coffee is the smell all right the aroma  of the coffee all right but maybe only like two  

people would use the word Aroma someone else might  say smell or some other word or not talk about it  

at all okay so as you're usually what happens  when people are learning English as a second

language what I call just the uh the ESL approach  so they take a word they begin with their native  

language and then they try to translate something  into English and that's why you get like a single  

way of saying something like what's the word for  snow uh in your native language and then you get  

the word you just look up in a dictionary and you  get the word snow or what's the word for money in  

your native language and then you get like like  let's say just a Japanese example like the word  

for money is like okan just as as an example and  in English we get money but a native speaker would  

actually learn many many different ways of saying  money they talk about bills or change or cash or  

greenbacks or frog skins or whatever people  want to say but just like I don't know people  

have different words for snow you call it powder  or you know they're different ways to express it  

as well but the point is when you're learning it  like a native you're actually not beginning from  

your native language and learning it into English  and the English as a first language approach we  

want to begin with the situation and then you  learn oh look at that there are many different  

ways so lots of different vocabulary or even  ways we could construct sentences so grammar  

as well there are different ways of expressing  that so here's a car crash how did different  

people talk about a car crash yes a book uh it  says uh Mary five bucks $5 five bills five bones  

lots of different ways to talk about money  all right so the point is we're looking at  

a situation I really want you to think about  this the uh the natural way for a non-native  

to think about this is like okay I have something  in my native language that I want to say I need  

to translate that into English but I'm trying  to stop you from doing that I I don't want you  

to do that so I don't want you to do that that  instead I want you to think about the situation  

and see how natives would describe that so I've  given this example before as well so if I drop  

something on my head or I hurt myself and I I'm  like a Japanese person I would say it or I would

say or I might say like you know I would I  would say different things in that situation  

and without you needing a translation you can  understand what I'm saying so it is like ouch  

or painful okay so that's how we that's how we do  it that's how you get fluent and you don't need  

to be a native to learn like one that's the whole  point so natives don't they're not born native uh  

they just basically they learn English as a first  language and so they become native what we would  

call them as uh being native all right uh Margo  says I haven't gone fishing since one year ago  

yeah so I like I haven't I yeah I haven't I've  been gone fish fishing since uh since a year ago  

or since one year ago very good uh G says I didn't  know before the 5-second rule if you drop food you  

could pull that food in under five seconds and  you could eat that food Yes actually like some  

people have a 5sec rule some people have a 3se  second rule I guess it depends on how dirty your  

floors are or where you where you are if you're  eating outside or something uh Dan says I am new  

to the channel and I would like to start with you  I want to speak the language fluently because I  

understand but I'm not encouraged to speak yes so  that's what we do uh the real secret to fluency  

is just to understand the language well enough  to have the confidence to speak all right that's  

really it so you don't get fluent by repeating  things again and again like if I'm trying to teach  

you a new word like if I want to teach you uh I  don't know like money I could just repeat that  

word again and again but that doesn't really help  you understand the word better you need uh lots  

of different examples and you need examples from  different native speakers in order to understand  

things Kon says just open the conversation with a  simple question yes you could do that as well uh  

also like you can also ask uh your co-workers  what did they do over the weekend so that's  

another thing you can do to try to control the  conversation and just in that way it's easier  

to kind of prepare some questions first uh if  that would help you mayor says hello Drew from  

armia thank you for this video it's my pleasure  all right uh let's see Wilson from Florida Lucas  

also in Florida Florida let's see all how's it  going Drew H ilder is back Monday morning in  

English review I'm all ears glad to hear Lucas  says today the audio sound volume it it is uh  

correct oh I'm doing the same thing every time I  don't do anything different I don't know uh V says  

immigration Keo says hello a long time no see long  time no talk teacher well welcome back husin ESL  

is the most dangered method uh to learn English  yes yeah yes I say like not only is it dangerous  

but it it takes a long time but I want people  to know I'm not mad at you for learning this  

way that's it's it's just how everybody is taught  the language uh and so I'm trying to show you it's  

not your fault but it is easy to learn the native  way and it just means learning English as a first  

language that's it uh vanet says I'm from La  ice to see you there your method is the best  

says Sandra well it should be it's the way we all  got fluent in our native language I'm not I again  

I didn't create anything new I'm just I'm kind  of uh like reminding people of how they learned  

uh let's see Roo if I'm pronouncing that rops do  you think animals are better Learners than humans  

because animals can understand humans better  than humans can understand them uh well I mean  

humans like an animal an animal can understand  like the raw emotion and what we do like a dog  

a dog can look at us and know if we're angry or  something like that they're very good at reading  

our facial expressions uh but a dog can't really  watch Harry Potter and understand what's happening  

so I don't know I it depends on what you mean  by by learning but you know we all have our  

strengths and weaknesses ma says how long should  one practice speaking to become an international  

speaker or like to become a native speaker thank  you well you don't you don't have to pra the the  

goal is not to is not to practice speaking the  goal is to like understand the language better  

so you have the confidence to speak now if  you're talking about being like a speaker on  

a stage that's a different kind of thing so I'll  uh in in this this similar kind of way like the  

difference between ESL and efl uh if we have the  the ESL approach uh th this is kind of the idea  

that people would perform an action and we just  repeat it again and again and that's how we get  

fluent like I'm uh learning to juggle so if I  take I don't know three markers and and I and  

I start like juggling them around when I first  do that I'm not going to do it very well but if  

I continue to to practice I'm just I'm doing the  same activity over and over again and eventually  

I will learn to do it all right so that's one way  of learning but in in this example uh the markers  

aren't doing anything different the markers are  just responding to what I do so I throw the marker  

up and it comes back down and I can juggle the  markers in this way um but the difference between  

this and a conversation is I don't know what's  going to happen in a conversation conversation  

and communication in general is dynamic so I can't  prepare for a conversation in the same way I just  

have to like be ready to respond to anything that  someone might say so me learning Japanese I can't  

like try to repeat certain phrases over and over  again because people might not use those phrases  

is in a conversation they might say something  different or I don't know what they'll say so  

it's Dynamic so this is why we don't get fluent  by just repeating things again and again we get  

fluent by understanding the language really  well and that's what gives us the confidence  

to respond automatically to hear things and oh  I recognize what people are saying but I can  

also respond back all right so we the the goal is  not is not like to try to repeat things like I'm  

practicing for a speech all right so that that  goal of like practice makes perfect um that's  

where you're you're doing some activity where  you can control the outcome and you know how  

it's going to be every time so if I'm practicing  for a dive like I'm going to dive off of a like  

in a in an Olympic event like a diving event  I can practice that dive over and over until  

I get it perfect but if I don't know what's  actually going to happen on the dive day I  

I just I have to be ready for anything because  I don't know what's going to happen all right  

so that's why communication is different from  learning to ride a bike or learning to make a  

pizza or anything else that just has some steps  and you can practice those things and get better  

what you're actually doing when you're learning  a language is you're becoming more familiar and  

understanding the language better so you feel  confident about speaking if you don't really  

understand anything it doesn't matter how many  times you repeat it okay so if I hear a word  

but I don't really know it it's not going to help  me to just repeat that word again and again so if  

you're practicing for a a particular speech  then it probably shouldn't take that long I  

don't know a day or a few days or something it  depends on the speech if you're just trying to  

memorize a speech so you can say it to people  but if you want to have Dynamic communication  

you really just continue to learn and uh learn  more vocabulary understand more grammar uh and  

do that the same thing with everything but this  process happens much faster if you learn like  

a native speaker rather than trying to learn it  through your native language all right let's see

here uh all right please tell the right way for  learning English ISS the hack Wizards Army I think  

I explained that already it's just learning  English as a first language it's really that  

simple look it says my best version my better  version in English language I want to obtain  

I want to get by the way in my country the first  language is Portuguese and there is not a second  

language for now yeah so it doesn't matter what  your first language is you you can learn many  

languages as a first language all right it's bag  again I see you turn the most boring days of the  

week like Monday and Thursday into something  a lot of fun I'm glad to hear it all right  

dun says honestly this is the first broadcast  I've watched of yours that I watched uh you a  

wonderful Professor that's great yes I'm actually  not a professor I know people call me that that's  

just like a term for teachers or whatever but uh  Miriam says would you please read my two to last  

comment I don't know uh post it again Miriam uh if  I because sometimes the chat moves too quickly and  

I can't remember just posted it post it again for  me if you can find it uh let's see delali says Hi  

teacher sooner I will have my home Home Country  heading to UK and I want to become fluent that's  

my dream though and how to make this happen thank  you again any anybody anybody else who's been in  

the video for a while or who's followed me for  a while what do what do we respond to this learn  

English is a first language that's it creative  says greetings from Albania I want to learn  

English more but I suck at grammar where can I  start uh you if if you're if you want to practice  

like beginning grammar you want to understand  that really well watch my beginning grammar  

playlist uh here on the channel hello teacher I  have a question is an abbreviation for is there  

an abbreviation for English you mean the word  English sometimes you will see it abbreviated  

as like e n you know like English that way but is  that what you mean PA says uh what do you think  

about Brazilians a guy studied English like it's  not normally we are not polyglots guys we we need  

to change the history yeah I I don't like uh I'm  not a polyglot I speak Japanese and English and I  

know a little bit of French and Spanish uh but not  not well enough to say them or to speak well um so  

I I don't know like it's interesting whenever  uh I will see and I don't I don't really watch  

many videos on YouTube about language learning  actually I should probably maybe watch some more  

maybe I can learn something um but typically I see  people doing like lots of complic stuff because  

that makes for like a more interesting video I  guess I don't know I mean it like I would make  

like my video on learning Japanese would be one  minute long it's like learn Japanese as a first  

language that's it and then I would just do that  with any other language I'm trying to learn um  

but I I don't I don't know like if if some people  are like particularly good at learning different  

languages cuz I mean it seems like you would you  would understand the process quite well if you  

learn a second language and then an additional  language you would you would come to understand  

languages in general um but also uh it's it's  kind of difficult to learn many languages and  

have that same level of communication so you would  have your primary language and you might have one  

or two languages that you know really well that  you have a good vocabulary in but you probably  

can't speak about lots of different things in  all of those different languages uh but my for  

me like I'm I would actually like to learn more  languages but it's more important for me to try  

to help lots of people learn my own language  like just that solving that problem is more  

interesting to me right now uh it's still Sunday  in Vancouver says Mar uh let's see today I said  

the word kale means money that's interesting I've  not heard that Louisa says thank you very much uh  

La University DOD says are you German uh yeah  I've got some I got a little German blood in me  

I think uh Lucas I guess I think in my opinion  I am brown belt of English idiom I need uh you  

a teacher to give me the black belt well if  you got a brown belt already then you can uh  

just keep doing what you're doing uh explain  your background you're talking about like my  

ethnicity or whatever or where I'm from I'm I'm  like an American mix of different stuff I guess  

uh how many days does it take to learn English  uh all right here's another another question I'll  

I'll answer about like ESL versus efl cuz we're  working working on like updating an article on  

our site about that as well as people ask about  this so how many days does it take to get fluent  

in English the simple answer to this uh is that  you shouldn't be thinking about like how many  

days it's more how quickly can you understand  just one word or phrase how long does it take  

to do that you can I don't know a minute a few  seconds depending on how quickly uh you learn  

that thing but the typical ESL approach is like  we continue learning more and more words because  

we think okay when I get to a th words like I get  fluent at 1,000 words that's the idea so you keep  

learning more people think they need to know  more words to speak but the truth is that you  

actually become fluent in individual words and  phrases as you learn them all right so if if I  

learn something and I don't really understand it  then I'm not more fluent I I I kind of recognize  

some information but I can't feel confident  about saying that so I keep my mouth shut all  

right but uh if I'm trying to learn something  and I actually focus on that thing and learn it  

really well I'm getting fluent in all of these  things so most people who are learning English  

as a second language they they maybe get fluent  in like in some of these words but most of them  

they only know to a low degree so they don't  have like a strong command of the language so  

it doesn't matter how many words you know what's  important is how well you know the vocabulary  

and this is why you will find native children  like my my 2-year-old or my like 5-year-old and  

8-year-old daughter they can speak better English  and Japanese than or really better English in in  

this case uh than a lot of adult Learners who  were trying to learn English even though those  

adult learners would know more words than my  daughters do okay so my daughters I'm training  

them to be fluent in the language rather than just  trying to give them a bunch of words to memorize I  

don't want them to only recognize information so  a lot of Learners will say oh I understand so I  

can recognize something in context when someone  is talking to me I can understand but I don't  

feel confident about speaking because you don't  really know the vocabulary very well you don't  

really feel confident about it you still have  some kind of doubt or something whatever that  

is so you can think about an individual word or  phrase we begin with zero and we get to 100 kind  

of level of fluency with that individual word  or phrase so when you first hear it you might  

not know what that means and so your level of  understanding is down here but as you hear it  

again and again and again in different contexts  oh wow like now now you really feel confident I  

really understand the word and now I'm at the  where I can express it fluently but what most  

Learners are doing is they kind of get like maybe  halfway they learn something up to here and then  

they stop and they move on to the next word so as  soon as they remember something uh like they they  

can't they can't actually remember it well enough  to use it fluently and they move on to the next  

word Okay now what's interesting is this seems  like a faster way to learn but but you're not  

really getting fluent so you're still wasting  your time this way it's a little bit slower at  

the beginning but it accelerates very quickly  and that's why kids can speak fluently so even  

a few years old they they can express themselves  like my younger uh my younger daughter uh 5 years  

old speaking Japanese and English you know like  it's it's not like a big deal to do that and her  

English is uh not as good as her Japanese uh but  like even to watch her you know speaking either  

language is like wow that's great that you can  do that or she will know words uh that I didn't  

expect because she just learned it from Context  in the same way I'm talking about in this video so  

you would have uh these two different approaches  and that's why you don't have to think about how  

long it takes you to get fluent because you could  get fluent in you know one minute in a particular  

word and then you just do that again and again and  again and again all right so don't don't do this  

don't learn a bunch of words get it a textbook and  and have a whole bunch of vocabulary in there that  

you don't really know get a few words know them  really well so they can use them in conversations  

and then do that again that's how you get fluent  all right so it can be very quick and the uh and  

the process accelerates if you do it correctly  uh otherwise you kind of stay stuck uh and and  

you can't really have uh good conversations says  I live 13 years in Canada and still not Point yeah  

so again you can be around native speakers  native speakers are not like a like a magic  

dust on you like some fairy dust that magically  makes you fluent native speakers are helpful and  

it's great if you can speak with them but if you  don't feel confident speaking then native speakers  

aren't going to help you do anything so the great  news is you can do all of this by yourself you can  

actually learn and get fluent without speaking  with anybody because fluency really comes from  

you understanding the language well all right  when you actually start speaking that's a very  

small part uh of the fluency building process  uh please suggest some English grammar books  

for ielt exam uh I don't focus on the IELTS so you  should ask someone who focuses on that I wouldn't  

really practice with any books about that anyway  I would spend my time uh getting native examples  

like we do in fluent for Life Lucas says I know at  least the minimum uh the max over 3,000 words in  

English that's great can you use them fluently  that's the real question creatives again hey  

teacher I am uh only not good in English tenses  we kind of understand but not good at meaning I'm  

not confident in them and I'm not sure which one  to use and when do you have a video on that yes  

I have many videos just search grammar uh and  also fluent for life we have the whole program  

organized by grammar points so you can search  particular grammar points and learn how to use  

those fluently D sends uh is it possible to use  chat GPT for learning English what do you think  

of AI for learning languages uh it's interesting I  I actually use AI um for for like writing and and  

testing things for lessons but I found that AI uh  at like I think it's like at chat GPT 3.5 I think  

so I don't have the like level four or whatever um  it's pretty good but there's still some mistakes  

and it doesn't quite understand things I wouldn't  trust chat GPT to give me examples uh um I would  

trust Google to do that because Google is going to  find examples for me uh so I'm sure I could like  

if I'm very specific with chat GPT and I'm trying  to get some naturally varied review so I will say  

give me 10 examples of this grammar point in in  some different sentences or something like that  

uh it's helpful but it's not really at the level  where it could it could teach you well another  

thing about chat GPT is that it's if you if you  just ask chat GPT like I I was trying to you can't  

really teach chat GPT to do anything uh you can  teach it within a conversation but you you can't  

affect uh it's kind of like locked you can't you  can't like I can't teach jat chat GPT how to how  

to teach languages the way I do but within a  conversation I can help it understand that way  

so it could it could like explain things the way  I do um but it's still if you just ask chat GPT  

hey how do you learn a language it's just going to  take information got from other people who teach  

the typical way and so it's it's not going to it's  not going to give you like anything better than a  

normal you know like here are some grammar points  try to memorize these and the typical advice you  

would get from people about speaking before you  feel comfortable or you know anything else like  

that like any kind of typical advice uh so I have  not found it yet to be a really good uh kind of  

material or machine for doing that it's got some  limited use uh if you work a lot with it so if you  

if I if I have to write something I can ask chat  GPT to do something but I have to go back and do  

lots of Corrections uh maram says let's say your  lead asks you whether you send that certain email  

which is correct I have sent it two days ago or  I sent it two days ago yeah you would just say I  

sent it I sent it so you would like have sent it  you're you're talking about like the experience  

of doing something but uh in this you would just  say like I sent it again just use the simple past  

so you can you can also get the answer uh from  from like the if you pay attention to what what  

the person says let me look at your question  again uh like let's say let's say the question

is so did you send that

email so the answer is really in the question  get the simple past in the question so we give  

a simple past in the answer yes I did all  right the answer is in the question so if  

you if you listen for what people are doing  they it's like especially with questions it's  

easy because you will get the answer as the  first word of the question they're asking you  

so if your box if your boss says uh did you  do something it's yes I did or no I did not  

all right just simple past in the question  simple past uh in your response and so the  

same thing like uh have you done something so  let's say have you have you done something then  

the answer would be yes I have or no I have not  okay so you don't need to make it complicated I  

could say like your boss says did you send the  email yes I have sent it I could say that but  

you wouldn't want to say that you just respond  simply did you I did okay have you I have or I  

have not all right so pay attention a lot  of people get nervous in conversations and  

so they their ears almost close up a little  bit but if you just listen like did you do  

something ah I did okay so listen for the  the keyw it comes first especially with

questions uh

uh see okay Elder says I was married girl with  name right later I knew her previous name always  

I was a married girl you mean you were married  to a girl or what do you mean Paul says uh your  

videos are very helpful for me thanks glad to  hear Lucas says thanks teacher uh comments in  

this channel can be so funny entertaining let's  see funny experience says miam again when I talk  

in my mind I'm fluent but when it comes to  speaking my mind is slower and sometimes not  

as good as when I heard it in my mind yeah often  that like that that's something a lot of people a  

lot of Learners will say so they kind of you know  it's they they they feel more confident or they  

can project that confidence more in their mind  but they're they it means you still have worries  

about something so even if you say something  well in your mind you're still worried about  

well maybe they'll think I'll say the wrong thing  or my pronunciation will be bad or something in  

that case focus on a particular thing you want to  say make sure you really understand that and then  

you will feel more confident about speaking uh but  that's a very common uh complaint or issue that  

people have M says I've been writing English  in games and with friends for years already  

I write it every day but I still haven't started  speaking it all ain't fluent but I already have a  

decent knowledge so I'm here welcome yes uh again  until you feel confident about particular words or  

phras phrases remember you can be fluent in one  word and not fluent in another okay that happens  

with everybody so if you don't feel confident  about something that's what you should focus  

on uh Lucas says in my opinion a one time that  you learn something English language you never  

forget it completely yeah that can happen C says  hi Drew nice to see you here have a great week uh  

I'll watch this video again soon thanks so much  it's my pleasure FR says Hi teacher from Bolivia  

Juan Carlos I think I'll never be fluent cuz took  ESL classes when I enrolled in GED class and after  

a while dropped out nowadays I'm trying just watch  conversation speeches uh and more but hopefully it  

helps yes so yes the most people if you enrolling  classes or you take private lessons or something  

it's it's almost all going to be uh English as a  second language lessons and even if it's not even  

if you're learning the way I teach you still  need more examples of vocabulary from regular  

people so I'm intentionally I'm trying to make my  language easier for people to understand so it's  

going to sound different than how people normally  speak all right they they will just you know use  

different vocabulary they will speak faster the  pronunciation will be different so that's why in  

a program like fluent for life we want to give you  uh lots of examples of how natives actually speak  

and that's when you get prepared you feel much  more confident for real conversations after you  

see how natives are doing things creatives again  Hi teacher I'm only half good in English and to  

be honest I can learn English to fluent level uh  do you think I can learn German to B2 category  

because German and English are close I I I don't  I don't really see a difference uh it like between  

learning different languages at a particular  level I guess like German and English are sort  

of similar but uh I don't know enough about German  to to answer that question but in general if you  

learn something as a first language you can learn  it quickly and certainly much faster than doing  

it the traditional way Vivic says uh it's British  English or American pronunciation uh I am speaking  

with American English pronunciation uh DMS Brazil  is in the house well look at that we got through  

all the comments now I can enjoy a well-deserved  sip of my uh natural mineral water over

[Applause] here ah Neil says if people clearly  it would be a lot easier most people speak so  

quickly that it makes me nervous yeah uh and  so again this is why we have to prepare people  

you have to watch people speaking you have to  be prepared for that if you watch little kids  

little kids are paying attention to their parents  or other adults and watching them speak and they  

get used to understanding that so you have to  learn the same way okay that's how you that's  

how you do it uh let's see Brazilian is in the  building [Laughter] all right let's see uh what  

things help my writing just writing more that  would be the easy thing to do G two two days you  

mean two days ago I asked my mom How I Learned  our native language my mom told me that when  

you were asking I told my mom why some people  don't learn that way like our native language  

it happens so again most people most people  think they need to learn another language in  

a different way like that that there's like  a because it's a different language you need  

to learn it a different way but you don't uh you  really just understand it if you uh learn it well  

then you will speak that's how you do how you do  it Mar so much love and gratitude to be the best  

uh in efl teacher well it's my pleasure again uh  everybody should be learning this way and this is  

the fastest way to get fluent if you want to be  fluent uh but I can understand that people have  

been learning the English as a language for so  long it's just much harder for them to to make  

the switch you know they're trying to hold on  to translations or other things but hopefully  

in this video you've seen some steps that make  it easier to do that try to simplify things if  

you get a long sentence don't just jump to  translate it look for pieces of it that you  

do understand and see if you can use that to make  the whole sentence easier to understand and then  

take different related examples and see what  natives might say in those similar sentences or  

even just if you make those sentences yourself  and that will help your brain understand these  

things much better so don't make completely  new sentences keep one thing the same and  

change one other thing it's kind of like a science  experiment a little bit all right well hopefully  

uh everybody's getting it we're done with this  video and I look forward to seeing you next time  

I think the next video should be Thursday  3 days from now uh so I don't know exactly  

what I'm going to talk about so if you have any  questions post them in the uh chat but yeah it'll  

probably be talking about learning English  as a first language I'll probably be talking  

about that but thank you all for joining me have a  fantastic day and I will see you in the next video

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