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really giving you a good lesson explaining  what fluency is how it works and why you  

should be learning a certain way Arturo nice  to see you there uh it's good to see everybody  

back here again I'm Drew Badger the founder of  englishanyone.com and the English fluency guide  

and in this video we are going to talk about  really fluency and what you should be doing if  

you only have a few minutes today or any  day to be learning English so I will try  

not to be distracted by the chat and then  I'll come back after I'm done I want to get  

through a bunch of these so we make sure we can  cover everything in about 15 minutes and then  

I'll be able to answer questions after that so  I'm not ignoring anybody but go ahead and post  

your questions if you have them and then after  I finish this we'll go back and take a look all  

right uh so I want to talk about just like a few  very simple facts about fluency and how this uh  

understanding this about fluency changes the way  we learn or what we should be doing with our time  

because your time is the most important thing that  you have and if you're not using it effectively or  

efficiently so efficiently meaning you're getting  the result you want without wasting a lot of time  

or wasting a lot of resources so just uh some very  simple facts about fluency so fact number one is  

that fluency is uh is like a unique skill uh just  communicating in a different language so fluency

so fluency is a unique skill or a very specific  kind of skill so you might think about when people  

think about developing fluency they think about  practice and practice is a little bit different  

from something like learning an instrument so if  I'm going to practice an instrument an interest  

like if I want to learn to play the guitar  or the piano or something like that number  

one I can usually do this by myself uh and  number two I'm taking something uh and like  

learning a kind of you know learning to play a  song or something like that but it's basically  

one thing and I can get better at doing that as  I repeat that process over and over all right so  

everybody understands how this works if I want  to learn the guitar then I would get a guitar  

and practice playing with the guitar and as I  practice over time I will get better at that  

thing and even if I'm just doing it by myself  I'm sitting in my room I'm learning to play the  

guitar so this is what people usually think of  about practicing something like that but fluency  

is different than this and the reason it's the  reason it's different is because it involves  

other people it's a real communication  in everyday life involves other people

foreign

so we have something where we need to develop  a skill like learning to play the piano or  

playing the guitar but it's not something where  we're doing it by ourselves and our ability to  

communicate depends on how well we can understand  and react to other people in a conversation so  

this is why you can't you can't really practice  a language the same way you would practice an  

instrument all right so I can't learn like kind  of one song and then I can maybe play that or sing  

that well or something but in a conversation  it's Dynamic so we need to be spontaneous and  

we need to understand people and respond quickly  all right so this is why communication it doesn't  

matter what the language is but but communication  is a unique skill all right so it's a unique kind  

of skill there could be other things that are  similar I just want to focus on fluency here  

but the point is it's not something where you  just take something in practice like you learn  

one phrase and practice that again and again that  doesn't make you fluent in conversations does  

everybody understand that so far so I can learn  a phrase in English and then in a conversation  

I could be talking about something in natives  use something completely different okay so this  

is why like in a classroom you might think about  learning English like this where you get a phrase  

some word or phrase and you practice it like  the word hello and then you practice saying that  

again and again but in a conversation somebody  might use something different like what's up

what's up all right so this is just one  example and this is only a difference in  

vocabulary maybe natives will also use you  know they will not pronounce things clearly  

they will speak quickly you might not understand  their accent if they're from a different place  

that's unfamiliar to you so there are lots of  different things that involve other people and  

that change the conversation so you can't you  can't practice a language like this you can't  

try to learn a bunch of phrases and then  expect to be prepared for a conversation  

hopefully everybody gets that point and  the final thing here as is mostly mental

so a sport like baseball or basketball or  something like that you're actually people  

are developing what you call muscle memory so  you're learning to move in a certain way you  

practice a basketball shot or kicking a soccer  ball or whatever uh in in this with fluency you  

do have like a you know there's a little bit  of moving your mouth and learning how to make  

a sound something like that but typically or most  of the the actual uh the process of communication  

and speaking fluently it's all mental so it's  it's how much you know it's how you feel about  

uh like your confidence or your ability to  understand other people there are lots of  

different things but it's mostly mental so when  we think about all these things this affects the  

way we learn in a unique way all right so I'll  go back and answer questions about this later  

if anybody is asking but I want to make sure this  is important uh where you understand how important  

this is because if you learn individual words  and phrases that's not going to make you fluent  

okay so what does so what do we do if we only have  a little bit of time and this is the important  

thing the real difference between the people who  get fluent and the people who do not all right  

so let's erase this see how much time we've got  oh we've already got about seven minutes we're  

like halfway done with this very quick lesson all  right so what do we do with our time if we've only  

got 15 minutes a day what we should be doing  is focusing on a specific uh like a situation

or a topic or voice or maybe some kind of  grammar but I don't really like to think  

about it like here's a grammar point it's  it's usually just the the situation so I  

want to give you a few examples just to give you  something very quickly so you can understand how  

this works let's imagine I'm in a situation  and someone tells me something surprising

or I might think that's unbelievable so surprising  unbelievable a friend of mine says he went fishing  

and he caught a fish this big or like really big  bigger than I can fit on the screen right here  

so he tells me something what are the different  ways I might respond to that so I might say uh  

let's see

r you serious

are you serious are you serious or even  something just shorter like seriously seriously

or I might say really

or if I really don't believe him  Isaiah like uh let's see you're

you're pulling my leg now I'm just giving you a  bunch of these things just to show what it's like  

in a real conversation because often English  Learners get into a conversation and then when  

they can't respond when they don't understand  what other people are saying that's when they  

freeze and they lose their words and they lose  their confidence all right so the point is to be  

prepared for different situations by learning the  different ways that natives communicate all right  

so if you only have a few minutes a day  to learn don't spend your time trying to  

remember one or two individual phrases what you  want to do is try to get as much input as you  

can about a particular topic okay so this  topic is specifically about surprising or  

something unbelievable uh and the more you hear  different natives talking about things that are  

in this situation so what does a native say when  they're surprised now there was a a TV show called  

Seinfeld maybe you have heard of it or you've  seen that show before but one character on that  

show her name is Elaine whenever she heard  something unbelievable she would say get out  

get get out you also hear this as like get  out of here get out of here get out of here  

but you can just say get out all right so when  young kids like young Native English-speaking  

kids are watching that show or when they were  watching it uh they would see that and think oh  

in this situation that's what you could say all  right but there's not just one way to do it so  

rather than trying to get a translation or uh  like look at a grammar point and try to focus  

on specific vocabulary what you should be doing is  picking a situation or a topic and again these are  

it's basically the same thing it's just like what  happens in a particular situation so what happens  

or what do I say when I drop something on my head  or if I I fall over or if I'm surprised by doing  

something or you can also get in this same in the  same way you can focus on one person's voice so I  

might listen to one person speaking like you're  listening to me you watch a few of my videos or  

if you have a favorite actor or somebody you like  watching listen to their voice again and again  

uh and each time you hear something new from them  it will it will kind of build your understanding  

for their voice all right and so again I  don't really want to call it like focusing  

on different grammar points specifically  but the grammar comes from the situation  

okay so the grammar if you're trying to understand  like a native and you don't have much time to do  

it so even now this video we're at like 12  minutes into the video already and I just  

want to show you what to do if you only have 15  minutes to learn but you should be focusing on a  

particular thing and we're not going to remember  a lot of the phrases just one time and so the  

important thing to do is that you're doing this  every day and you're going back and reviewing  

this same vocabulary but in different ways so for  a week you might spend time watching what natives  

do when they're responding like this so what did  natives do when they're surprised what do they do  

when they're angry what do they do when they're  giving a present to somebody else what do they  

say when they go to the hospital so remember this  is a really important point about learning it's  

not just one phrase that people would use in a  situation there are many different phrases so in  

order to be prepared for conversations in order to  be prepared so you can communicate fluently this  

is how you have to learn all right so it's much  better it's a much better use of your time even  

if you only have 15 minutes to get lots of input  about a particular topic or a particular situation  

all right hopefully that makes sense now I  actually got some notes Here let me see if I  

put if there was anything else I wanted to put in  here I guess the last thing I will add to this is  

that because it is such a mental process what you  can also do is imagine not only yourself speaking  

but you can imagine other people saying things so  I might in my in my voice like let's say I hear  

um I learn a word like like are you serious so I  might imagine like a famous actor or somebody in  

my head actually saying that to me so I'm getting  even if I can't get actual other people to respond  

or to speak with I can imagine other people saying  those same things to me uh to get this so I might  

if I'm if I'm going to say it if like let's say  I'm uh uh like I'm Morgan Freeman like the actor  

Morgan Freeman I'm going to imagine him saying  something to me and like in my voice I might say  

you're pulling my leg you're pulling my leg but  Morgan Freeman is like you're you're pulling my  

leg you know he might he might speak and he's  going to sound in a different way and I can do  

his voice perfectly in my head even if I can't do  it you know perfectly while I'm speaking so the  

the mental aspect of the learning this is the kind  of thing you should be spending your time doing if  

you only have you know 15 minutes a day so don't  spend your time uh trying to trying to repeat like  

one phrase again and again because remember  in a conversation if someone doesn't use that  

expression then you're not going to be prepared  for that all right now what I call this I'll just  

put this up here make sure everybody can see this  this is just naturally thank you very reviewed

so naturally varied review means that you're  picking a situation and this is the same way  

natives get fluent but remember it's not just  something you get for one day so right now we've  

spent about 15 minutes this is about the span  of 15 minutes right here and if you're getting  

information and focusing on phrases or vocabulary  uh or pronunciation or whatever those things are  

you're getting them all at the same time but you  might want to just focus on one kind of voice  

like speaker from the United Kingdom or a speaker  from the United States all right but the point is  

a focus on that and do it not just for one day but  you got the next day and the next day and the next  

day and it's that varied repetition that gets you  fluent all right so not you repeating one phrase  

to yourself you speaking to yourself but you can  spend time kind of communicating mentally in your  

head there's very little of the language that you  need to like practice moving your mouth that kind  

of thing uh just I'll add a little bit here for  that specifically some people worry about their  

pronunciation I call this sound transitioning so  it's much easier for you if you're trying to learn  

a new sound let's say there's some language that  has like a click in it like a sound kind of like  

that so there's nothing like that in English but  let's say I'm trying to learn some language that  

does have that and I can't quite make that sound  I can't jump directly to that sound but I might

I'm going to transition from one sound to the  next until I can find that particular sound but  

even that it's much better for me to listen  and also to watch lots of different people  

saying something similar or even saying the  same thing but around a particular topic all  

right so this is what you should be doing when  you get uh when you're learning by yourself if  

you only have about 15 minutes or less uh if  you have more time you know I would actually  

do more of this most of your learning should  be doing this and that way when you get into a  

conversation you're already prepared all right so  that's it for the lesson part of this if you have  

questions about what I've explained or if you'd  like to just answer or ask different unrelated  

questions let me know I'll go back and take  a look at the chat now all right so I want to  

make sure everybody understands what I'm talking  about for this so this is all very very important  

stuff especially if you don't want to waste  your time all right all right let's see here  

so hey bro hey guys hello from Brazil hello  from Brazil from Nicaragua Guatemala got lots  

of people on the other side of the plant I  am from Brazil nice to see you they're from  

India that's weird looks like the chat got  cut off I've been following you for a while  

and for a while I appreciate what  you're doing from Nicaragua oh okay

well thank you very much now is okay we can hear  you well all right let's go back and make sure  

if I got everybody so thanks you're one of the  best teachers glad to hear it and thank you for  

15 minutes because sometimes it you did this one  hour and I can listen to you in the car but not  

so often I drive so one uh long one hour we can  hear you well yeah so I I'm happy to spend more  

time explaining this if you have questions  about it but I wanted to just make a quick  

video about what you should be doing with your  time so the most important thing to understand  

about this is that fluency is a specific kind of  skill all right it's not like playing the piano  

or playing an instrument where you're where  there's one thing and you're trying to do it  

perfectly okay what you need to do is be prepared  for spontaneous communication and the only way to  

do that is to get lots and lots of input so you  don't spend your time trying to repeat one thing  

it's the repetition of different things over time  that builds it's basically a network in your mind  

allows you to communicate fluently alright so  when you're learning phrases like this this  

is naturally varied review we're just focusing  on a particular situation and we want to talk  

about what do you do in this situation so what do  you say well hello from Chicago my hometown nice  

to see you there all right hello from Jersey on  New Jersey I'm from Indonesia and the Dominican  

Republic from Colombia okay nice to see you  guys there does anybody have any questions  

about this or anything that I can help you about  again I just wanted to focus on what to do in 15  

minutes so I wanted to make a quick video and  again the rest of this video is just answering  

questions if you have any but the main idea  fluency is a specific kind of skill and so you  

don't want to just practice one phrase again  and again it's much better to spend your time  

getting that same phrase from different people  or you're learning different phrases for that  

same topic you're getting naturally varied  review all right get the likes up friends  

is feel free to like and uh share the video  now uh my my videos are not very popular I  

think number one because I don't I don't put  a lot of like production quality into them  

I know I I talk to people the same way I would  I would teach somebody on the street you know  

I'm just talking with people or the same way  I I teach my own kids at home so I might Draw  

Something on the board but it's it's just about  the the varied review that I can give you and  

the the more entertaining thing on YouTube is to  give you a whole bunch of new vocabulary but if  

you only review something and see it one time  you will most likely forget that information  

and then you're basically just wasting your  time very nice here from Germany all right  

please tell me the exact way to prove my English  watching the videos watching the videos is enough  

all right so following this and  here comes another another siren

well you can listen to some Japanese

now this is a perfect example of of you know when  I'm coming to Japan and learning uh when I stopped  

learning the traditional way and by traditional  way I mean you're focusing on grammar textbooks  

and listening practice exercises that kind  of thing once I understood I need to focus  

on situations and connect vocabulary to that  then I'm I'm like okay what do I what do I  

what do I kind of listen for what what should I  be focusing on and so that that ambulance that  

just drove by here you know it's making the  siren sound but it's also got an announcement

what do you think that means now even if you  don't understand any Japanese what do you  

think that that might be saying so again you're  thinking about the situation and what it what is  

it probably saying go Chewie kurasai gochui  kurasai now if I get off an elevator so the  

elevator opens up the door is opening or closing  uh or I'm on the train I might hear the same thing  

hi from Okinawa yeah

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so what what do we mean by that  what do you think that means

now if you're Japanese don't  answer that question go away please  

it could mean go away please that's  one one way to think about it

so again the you you hear something  I'll write it in English for you go to E

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and I'm I know there are Japanese people who  do watch my videos but this should be helpful  

for a lot of people who do not speak Japanese  but if you hear something like gochui kurosa  

and you're thinking what about the situation  that that's in so I'm hearing an ambulance

an ambulance says or at like the train doors

or like an elevator

what do you think that means

it's a very good approach associating  situation of sentences yes this is  

how you learned your native language this is  how you learn your native language all right  

so all these things go true you  could aside just means be careful

okay

so Chewie suru it's like to to be careful to pay  attention to notice all right but the point is  

you're not you're not learning like the grammar  I'm not trying to give you a grammar lesson in  

Japanese the whole point is to think like when  you hear this the first time you hear it you  

might hear it from an ambulance it's like oh  I wonder what they're saying it's probably be  

careful or please move out of the way or something  like that but each time you hear it again in a  

similar situation again we have the situation  here each time you hear in another situation the  

the meaning of that becomes clearer it becomes  more understandable to you and when you can  

understand something in the language so if you're  understanding something in the target language you  

feel much more confident about using something  you're like I really understand what that means  

there are actually words or expressions in  Japanese that I just know in Japanese and  

it's it's a bit difficult to translate them in  English because I learned them in Japanese rather  

than translating them through English all right  but the point is that you're taking a situation  

and you're understanding the language the same way  natives do and if you don't have much time to do  

this it's much better to get like a situation  like when we're telling people to be careful  

and how can we get lots of examples of that from  different people so I think I explained a little  

bit in the in last week's uh if I don't remember  if I did a video on YouTube last week maybe I did  

maybe I I don't remember actually but there are  basically two ways to do this there's by yourself

and the by yourself way to do this you can do  this right on YouTube is you would look for a  

specific situation or a specific thing  a specific topic and then watch a bunch  

of different videos about that very specific  thing all right so I talked about fixing cars  

or baking bread or whatever but if you watch  a bunch of different English videos about that  

um and I I tell the story about when I came to  Japan and got different examples uh of going to a  

coffee shop and listening to lots of people order  food so the first person says may I please have  

this may I please have a coffee maybe a next  person another person says can I have so one  

person says may another person says can all right  and then maybe the third person also says may I  

have and then you might hear something different  it's something different and then maybe the same  

thing again and you'll see a kind of curve we  call this a bell curve a bell curve of the the  

things that are most common and then you'll hear  some other things like this but the the amazing  

thing about this is like I I don't get fluent  by trying to learn one of these and practice it  

a bunch of times I get fluent by understanding  this as the the kind of different phrases that  

people might use in this situation and once I know  that I feel very confident in that situation all  

right the confidence comes from being prepared for  the situation and you understand the grammar from  

the situation so the pronunciation the grammar  the vocabulary it's all connected as one thing  

so if you're getting uh even by yourself on  YouTube or if you live in an English-speaking  

country or you can go somewhere where they're  native English speakers there are lots of ways  

to do this you can do it right now online right  here on YouTube again find a specific topic that  

you're interested in it doesn't matter what it is  forget about learning English lessons on YouTube  

I don't watch Japanese lessons on  on YouTube either I like to teach  

on YouTube because there are a lot of people  who are trying to learn on YouTube but they're  

not really learning in a way that gets them  fluent that's what I focus on for my videos  

uh but you can do this by yourself all right  and then the other uh the other way to do it is  

if you have someone like me just give you all the  examples and that's what we do in fluent for life

so this is where I actually walk you through  lots of different examples and I don't just give  

you the vocabulary I'm actually teaching  you and explaining you why we do certain  

things it's much more uh it's it's like if you  wanted to build a business and you didn't know  

how to do that you can go to YouTube and  learn get lots of information about that  

but you'd probably rather have someone just  show you how to do it who can give you lots  

of good examples and explain from failures  and successes that kind of thing all right  

so if you want to do uh do it by yourself you can  or I can show you how to do it in fluent for life  

and you can click on the link in the description  of this video if you'd like to learn more about  

that program I can also answer questions if you  have that about fluent for life but let's go back  

to the chat and see if anybody had anything to  ask me yep uh jump on a very good warning yep  

all right let's see that is okay we got that  one already Raphael says uh hey Drew please talk  

about how natives build their ideas up through  phrasal verbs I do think it's the core of what  

you're trying to get across meaning that you have  full control of it fluently all right uh that's a  

an excellent topic so phrasal verbs that's one  of the things that I focus on because it's so  

commonly used and this is one of the uh kind of  the foundational pieces of fluency especially  

for little kids they start learning individual  words and phrases and it's usually phrasal verbs  

that they that they they move up to when they  start making more complex ideas but phrasal  

verbs allow you to do this in a very simple way so  you just use the phrasal verb actually get across

so to to have a point to get something across to  other people we have a basic idea like a bridge  

see I want to get like from what you know where  where I am on this side of the bridge to the  

other side so I want to get across to get meaning  to take a position from here to the other side  

so to get across but we have a more figurative  meaning of this it's like how do I get something  

across to you so when I'm teaching I'm trying  to get information across to you as well all  

right same kind of idea so natives uh Raphael  we're talking about learning in the same way uh  

that you would be learning your native language  and it's again just getting situations and you  

learn very basic things like I would usually start  teaching my kids you know if I'm going to take off  

the cap of this marker and put on  now there are different like more  

advanced ways of explain of explaining  this I could remove the cap remove

to remove the cap or I could  place the cap like this to remove  

and replace the cap so replace could mean  to change with something else or it can also  

mean to like put it back on there all right so  phrasal verbs allow you to make kind of more  

difficult ideas but in a simple way because you're  combining simple verbs all right or simple verbs  

and adjectives and it's usually two or three words  together so very simple but natives are building  

this up by focusing on a situation so it's the  same exact idea I was talking about earlier where  

we have something the situation is I have a marker  I want to remove the cap but a child would not say  

remove a child would say take off all right  so that's the situation to remove something  

and in the same way a child would learn take off  your hat take off your shirt take off your shoes  

all right so this is how again you're getting  naturally varied review you're getting lots of  

different examples of something and that's how  you build your fluency automatically so fluency  

most people think most Learners believe that  you get fluent by continuing to repeat things  

and you actually get fluent by developing  your understanding of the language so when  

you understand the language like a native you can  speak like one all right it's a very little amount  

of of the the muscle memory uh and that kind of  thing where I need to learn how to how to move my  

mouth in a certain way the pronunciation becomes  much easier after I listen to lots of different  

people pronounce something all right so I might  hear the word I've given this example before

Pi so I am from Chicago in the United States and  I'm I'm speaking particularly clearly so you can  

understand what I'm saying uh and the word pie  like like a pie that you eat like a dessert pie  

uh I went when I was younger I had a like another  family that I would visit with my family and the  

the wife of the the guy that was he would be  making or she she would make a pie for dessert  

but she was from the Southern United States maybe  from Georgia or something and she would say y'all  

want some pie y'all want some pie some pie and  this was like a thing in my family we talked  

about that we like we wow we really like her voice  her her accent her dialect so she was an American  

you know fluent English speaker but she sounded  different all right so y'all y'all want some pie  

y'all want some pie like do you all want some  pie so it's the same word but people pronounce  

it differently so if you what most Learners do  again they're getting one example of pie from  

like a clear teacher like me but it's not enough  to prepare you for conversations because you need  

to hear that from lots of different speakers that  will improve your listening because you'll be  

again prepared for the different kinds of speech  that you'll encounter in real life all right so  

you'll hear me say pie someone else might say Pat  pan y'all want some pan y'all want some Pine y'all  

want some pie y'all want some pie all right so  they're different ways of saying this it's the  

same word but people pronounce it differently  so it's better don't just repeat after me say  

Okay Drew said pie so I'm going to repeat after  him you don't need to try to repeat after me just  

listen to more people say the same word all right  I know this sounds weird it seems like you should  

you should practice the language but the practice  is getting lots of examples that's the practice  

all right some Pat that's right left  by this right oh pan all right uh  

uh all right hopefully hopefully Rafael  answered that question for you all right  

so Lewis and okay so your English is so clear  I like to hear you yes it's I'm I'm speaking  

particularly clearly so people can understand what  I'm saying but that's part of the reason you need  

to get lots of different examples of related  speech so listen to me say something and listen  

to other people so this is what we do in fluent  for life so you will hear me say something you  

will hear someone from Ireland say the same thing  you'll hear a different native speaker you will  

hear a person from England say the same thing all  right so that's how we train your listening which  

improves your pronunciation all right let's  see you are amazing oh thank you you're too  

kind of can you apply a discount for Christmas  a discount a discount for what I'm originally  

from India living in Florida why do all natives  have a deep voice I don't think they do lots of  

natives don't have a deep voice when I speak my  native language I speak with a deep voice but  

when I switch to English my voice suddenly becomes  squeaky and high pitch um I would have to hear you  

speak but that's probably more about confidence  than the way you speak uh like it's not about  

the language itself so you might personally maybe  not feel completely comfortable with your English  

and that would be probably a better reason or a  stronger reason why you would change the words uh  

or why you would pronounce things differently  uh I've read the words early days of thought  

its meaning is last days but found out the true  meaning how can I avoid this kind of mistake all  

right I'm gonna ask you guys how how to solve  that problem how can we solve that problem

so we got an uh a question about some vocabulary  

so people will hear something a learner  will hear something in this case early  

days and uh let's see what's the name of that  sorry uh durso let me know if I pronounce that  

incorrectly I'm guessing that's French it sounds  like a French name they're so barket bar k  

so if you you learn a word you hear this in a  conversation early days and my my daughters do  

this all the time so they are okay thank you all  right so they uh my daughters will get some kind  

of you know the hero word or something and they  will say Daddy what does that mean or how do you  

say this or something like that and I always ask  him the same thing I say where did you hear that  

and I try to get them to really think about  what we've been talking about in this video

what's the situation all right so the situation  leads to the vocabulary it's not the other  

way around so this is why natives understand  vocabulary from the situation rather than thinking  

like translating in one word to something else so  early days might be something you hear like in the  

early days of my teaching career so in the early  days of my teaching career I was not a very good  

teacher in the early days of my teaching career I  was not a very good teacher or in the uh the early  

days of the war there was a lot of confusion in  the early days of the in the early days of the war  

so you're hearing something like okay in the  early days of the early days of something and  

someone might say well in the early days of my  like college life uh I didn't I didn't study  

very much but later so in the early days let's  say we imagine like someone's talking about  

their college life so in the early days of  my college life I didn't study much but later  

I was I became a more serious student and  so in that way you think like ah okay it's  

probably like you know a before or earlier part  of something uh because they talk about later so  

after that that's something else so we know early  days there's not going to be the end of something  

and you can think about that also another example  again you're getting the naturally varied review  

that you get it's coming from different uses  around the same situation so different speakers  

using it in different uh like different times  but it's usually about the situation so early  

I can talk about waking up early in the morning so  let's say this is like 7 00 a.m and this is 10 a.m  

it's in the morning so right now in Japan it is  a 10 10 40 in the morning so it's not very early  

most people are at work if they're going to work  already but five o'clock six o'clock seven o'clock  

this is early I have to wake up early tomorrow and  as you hear all of these different uses of early  

it becomes okay I understand what that means it  was like early and then you might also learn late  

so later so early in the morning or later in  the morning and so early days would mean talking  

about like these instead of minutes or hours we're  talking about days in some kind of time period all  

right so the early days of something so instead of  trying to get a translation or go to a dictionary  

try to use your understanding of the situation  and that will help you figure out things like this  

so when I talk to my daughters and they say Daddy  I heard this phrase can you can you tell me what  

that means I say okay what what was happening  when you heard that phrase so they watch a cartoon  

and they say oh this was happening I say okay so  what do you think that means and then they start  

thinking about it and like ah okay I understand  what it means so my job even as a like a teacher  

is really it's not to teach I know it it sounds  funny my job is not to teach it's to help you  

understand something because if you when you think  of something yourself then you think ah like I got  

it now I feel very confident about that okay so  my job is that's why I call myself a fluency guide  

rather than a teacher because my I'm not I'm  not really trying to just tell you information  

all right but now you make me think  about my hair well you brought that up  

so you you were you were curious about about  hearing about that but again it's not it's not  

a bad thing it just means you didn't understand  it from the situation and that's fine so when you  

when you first hear something usually you will  not understand that and understanding develops  

over time as you get more examples so you need  to get different varied examples to make your  

understanding stronger you can't just hear the  same phrase if I keep repeating early days early  

days early days early days that's not going to  help you understand early days but if I give  

you lots of different related examples again I'm  calling this naturally varied review as I give you  

more naturally varied review it becomes obvious  all right so it goes from unclear to clear in the  

early days of you learning English maybe you had  trouble understanding some things but over time  

you learned more okay so this is why again I keep  telling you this we began the video talking about  

what to do if you only have uh 15 minutes a day  really even if you have an hour today you should  

be doing the same thing but this is especially  important for people who don't have much time you  

want to take something and focus on it and and get  that in lots of different ways but don't feel bad  

really this is another important point for people  don't feel bad about not understanding something  

all right I saw some other comments but I want to  make this very clear because again fluency is such  

a mental issue okay it's a it's a mental process  it's not like like learning to throw a punch or  

something it's a mental process so if you don't  feel confident about what you're learning [Music]  

and you won't feel prepared to speak all right  let me give you another example of this again  

this is very important you notice me using the  word again again because I like to not I don't  

want to repeat myself exactly but I want to  give you related examples it's that naturally  

varied review all right most of you probably  learned English in school and your teacher  

usually had some flash cards and the flash  card would have a word like let's just say uh

now if I give you a word I'm going to  teach you a word this is not a word in  

any language but let's say I'm teaching you  a language I show you this and I say uh sin

let me know in the comments what you think  that means just tell me what what does sin  

mean what does sin mean so I'm teaching you  a word in a new language I show you a flash  

card of something and I'm showing you okay  sin I'll show you this and I say sin I don't  

tell you anything else let me know what you  think that means what does sin mean this is  

just a quick experiment to prove something  to you about language learning all right  

any ideas post it in the chat right now  the name of owner the name of the owner

the name of like the name of  the owner of this let's see pot

vase

flour

all right let's see if we have  any more examples of this plant

vase all right next I'm going to give you  another picture but notice notice something here  

this even this picture and I give you one word  it's not clear what I'm talking about you don't  

understand okay so there's a whole like there are  many many different things that you could assume  

I'm talking about so the teacher the teacher  knows what the picture is but the student does not  

okay now make a sentence okay even  if I make a sentence I'd be making  

a sentence in a different language  so I the sentence would be like

and like I'm just I just made that up it doesn't  

doesn't mean anything but now  I'm going to give you another

that would have send me

now what does sin mean this is the situation  see the situation itself from one situation  

it's not always clear definitely pot definitely  pot yes okay now you guys get it so a good a good  

teacher makes the lesson understandable  all right this is not understandable  

this is more understandable okay we're definitely  talking about a pot all right but the the the main  

idea is that the the lesson is not one thing  you don't get a lesson from one flash car  

it's a series of things that come together  that builds your fluency and understanding  

okay does everybody get this idea  so I have an app called Frederick

and what we did for Designing we had to design  over 8 000 icons so the images like a flash card  

kind of thing for Frederick all right and so one  of the things we did is instead of just having one  

icon you have multiple icons that you look at and  each time you learn you look at a different icon  

it becomes easier to understand what that is all  right and it's the same way in uh like just in  

in everyday life you will learn a word or phrase  and the first time you learn it it's not 100 clear  

it's like maybe you know 80 clear and you hear  it again it's like oh now you're up to 90 percent  

and then you hear something again as you get  enough examples then when you're 100 confident  

about something that's when you feel really  excited about speaking because you know you won't  

make a mistake all right now it looks like there  were a bunch of questions that popped up here let  

me go back and make sure I get these all right all  right Muhammad says okay we'll make sure I go back  

and vikash says could you explain the grammar of  using wood would be you just have said it can be  

used in the present in a present sentence well  yeah you can say I I would you know it would  

be it would be good to to practice this way it  would be would be good if we do something right  

now you can't say that but remember you should be  focusing on situations grammar grammar comes from  

situations so rather than thinking about grammar  and trying to remember a particular grammar point  

you have to think about the situation itself uh  and and that will help you understand the grammar  

all right so hopefully people got I thought  it was recent days ah so recent yes recent  

recent would be would be closer to now so just  like the idea of recently like I recently did  

all right what about uh camply did you did you  recommend camp Lee oh cambly oh that was yeah that  

was uh many years ago you mean cambly yeah if you  want to spend your time practicing with somebody  

you can but this is more efficient it's a more  efficient use of your time you want to see more  

examples of native speakers actually communicating  rather than speaking with other teachers because  

other teachers or someone who's trained to to  help you speak they're not actually preparing you  

for conversations so this is why uh in fluent for  life we actually give you real examples of native  

speakers native speakers uh communicating Julio  is a good explanation Glenn here yep very good  

explanation all right also I have done something  and I had done something he had done something  

had differentiate between them again Watch the  video if you go back on my channel and watch the  

video about have I think I did that last month  and we talk about that that specific thing but  

again it's going from the situation uh on going  from the situation to the vocabulary or grammar  

all right Raphael says what I meant is that how  natives can swap one words around a reason to  

reason their point whereas non-natives  learn like if they're memorizing chunks  

without yeah so again Raphael this is  the this is the exact example I gave

foreign if we're going to contrast we're going  to compare the way a learner learns and the  

way a native learns so a learner they usually  begin with the word or phrase or grammar okay  

we're gonna I'm not going to write this quickly  because I want to be quick but they begin with a  

word or phrase or grammar and then usually they  try to translate that or they're going to study  

some rules uh you know they're trying to memorize  something uh or they're going to use a word list

or they might use uh let's see it's basically all  the traditional ways of learning a language they  

might use spaced repetition space repetition  means we're going to take a word you know and  

we're going to show it to you and then we're  going to wait an hour and show it to you again  

and again and again I I'm not a big fan of  spaced repetition because it's much better  

to get naturally varied review instead of  learning one word you learn a bunch of them  

and the network builds your memory much faster  than space repetition does okay but Learners are  

doing this and natives are going to get again  they begin with what the natives begin with

the situation everything comes from the situation  because the point is not to translate it's to  

understand in the language so if I'm learning  English I want to spend my time listening to  

native English speakers talking or you know  explaining things about a particular situation  

so the situation then leads to the grammar  or the vocabulary and the pronunciation all  

these things are connected but you'll also  hear many different examples of something  

so I just gave earlier in this video an example  of being surprised or thinking something is  

unbelievable and gave a few different examples  of how a native might respond in that situation  

so I hear something or I see something a  friend of mine is telling me a story I say  

well that's that's unbelievable or wow are you  serious seriously really you're pulling my leg  

these are all different ways of responding to  that and the reason a native can communicate  

fluently is because they're prepared for all  these different kind of different ways of  

expressing the same thing so Learners  are learning like one word or phrase

so in Japanese as an example I might you might  learn the word like for surprise is like like

or I might learn like in a  real situation I watch what  

what happens what do Japanese people  do when they're surprised by somebody

usoyo so they're they're saying different  things about but in that same situation  

and so as a child a child learns all these  different ways of saying something and they  

might say you know one thing most of the time but  they're prepared for what other people are saying  

and that's why it's so important to spend your  time getting input from lots of different people  

about the same situation so on Monday maybe  you're just learning about being surprised  

and you get input from lots of different people  on Tuesday you're you're getting input from you  

know maybe some different people but it's still  talking about that same situation the point is  

to feel uh 100 confident about something you  might not know every phrase but that's fine  

you'll you'll understand most of what people  are talking about but you'll be prepared in  

conversations and that preparedness is what gives  you confidence all right let me see if I got uh

all right so late in my case I'm a fluent  uh speaker of English I speak Advance you  

mean advance advance English however  because I'm in college and intend to  

continue to higher education I want to take  my English to the next level what should I do  

uh uh well if you're already fluent then just keep  keep learning like this keep learning like and  

keep learning like a native speaker so a native  speaker just continues to broaden their their  

understanding with learning more topics but still  learning in this same way so the native is always  

focusing on again situations and learning that  way all right so natives but thanks anyway you  

really changed the way I see language learning  and all started when I saw your visual guided  

phrasal verbs video Yeah glad to hear it yeah  so again the visual guide to phrasal verbs is  

showing you situations and then if we begin  with situations and then how do you how do  

you learn from that so the visual guide to  phrasal verbs if you do not know what that  

is this is another one of my programs this is  also included in fluent for life um but you can  

click on the link in the uh the video below this  in the description below this uh my G oh yeah

oh so again Japanese people it's same  thing in every language is not just one  

way to say something there are many ways to  express something and you become comfortable  

with certain Expressions so when you see your  friends your you listen to your friends speak  

if you pay attention to them they will have  certain phrases that they that they use often  

so I might say uh like if you watch my videos  you'll hear me use I don't know like or whatever  

so I'm giving some examples I might say whether  you speak Spanish or French or whatever I say  

that like as and you're like oh okay that means  if I'm going to give a list of something but  

I don't want to list every language so that's  the situation that's what Drew is talking about  

magical all right I can understand you but  I can't speak so again the the reason people  

can understand me is I'm speaking slowly and  clearly number one uh but number two because  

they're only getting input from link from teachers  rather than getting input from The Real World

so again what we do in fluent for life for people  that can understand me we want to get you up here  

to where you can understand native speakers and  it's really difficult to try to jump up to this  

level so what we do is we give you some steps  to get there it's much easier to get to that  

level where we take actual like regular speech  that's difficult it's got difficult vocabulary  

the things that you don't usually hear in a real  or in a textbook or in a classroom it's faster  

English and the accents are much less clear  and so if we can take that English and make  

it easier to understand and then have you listen  to that and get lots of different examples of that  

same information that same language you will feel  very prepared when you get to real conversations  

so if you understand me but you don't  understand natives this is how we get you there  

so this is fluent for life all right let's see  getting some more good questions over here your  

English is clear but some people talks and it's  hard to understand yeah so I can also speak and  

and have it be difficult to understand I do some  examples of that sometime can you please tell me  

exactly what we can do in 15 minutes to be fluent  English go back and watch the video again the the  

solution really is to get lots of input it's not  to speak so if you only have 15 minutes don't try  

to repeat after people don't try to spend your  time practicing speaking or something just get  

lots of examples of people so you feel confident  about using the language when you do speak  

all right the language learning process  uh is is just about getting input  

I have to imagine a situation and write down about  the situation is that an example to be fluent  

no you you watch this is it's a very concrete uh  a very like very regular example of something you  

watch native speakers talking about something  or being in a certain situation and then what  

do they say what do I say when I'm baking a cake  what do I say when I'm uh before I go to sleep  

like before I go to sleep but what do I say to  people I say good night or I say sleep well or  

I say sleep tight there are different ways I could  say that and so if you listen to different natives  

talking about that same situation you will  become fluent automatically just by listening  

to them your your pronunciation will improve  your vocabulary will improve your grammar will  

improve this is how you got fluent in your native  language okay and it's the only way you will get  

fluent in English if you want to become a fluent  speaker some people don't care about actually uh  

uh you know communicating fluently maybe  they just want to have uh like understand  

movies or something like that that's fine can  I define the word exaggeration exaggerating  

is it is it nervousness well when when do you  hear that when do you hear that again natives

Learners learners so Learners  are looking for a definition

natives are thinking about situation

so when do you hear that so  the word exaggerate exaggerate

or exaggeration pardon my my poor doctor  handwriting over here I should be a doctor  

uh so instead of giving a definition  of this when do you hear that word  

when do you see that word when do you  like if you're reading it if you're in  

a story like if a friend of mine is telling  me hey I caught a fish this big in my bathtub

I caught a fish this big in my bathtub I mean  that's that's some that's some [ __ ] right  

there you're exaggerating now maybe he caught  like a maybe a fish this big there's probably  

no fish at all in his bathtub but let's say  he went out fishing in uh in like a lake or  

something and I'm pretty sure like the fish  in that Lake are this big a big fish is that  

big but he gets a fish this big wow he must be  exaggerating he must be he must be exaggerating  

all right so it's the situation that helps me  understand the vocabulary but I don't want to  

hear just one example I want many examples of that  how else might somebody be exaggerating something  

so if I'm in a job interview maybe I'm saying  like yeah I can do this and that and I've got  

all these skills and lots of experience  but I don't really I'm just exaggerating  

I'm exaggerating so I'm taking something  at like some level and making it bigger  

I'm exaggerating something and the  more examples you get of that thing  

like a word or something the more situations  you get when you're using that something

here is a face I'm going to  draw two eyes and a smile  

here is another face I'm going to  draw two eyes and an exaggerated smile

you get it okay here's a smile here is  an exaggerated smile and as you learn  

that as you get these different  examples your mind you can feel  

it expanding you should feel something  when you learn that you're like oh wow  

like now I understand what that means all  right you don't get an understanding from  

a definition you get understanding from  lots and lots of examples of something  

okay it got quite kind of kind of quiet in the  chat hopefully hopefully that makes sense to  

everybody so this is an exaggeration I'm not like  telling a like a lie I'm exaggerating something  

like when you if you've ever had a caricature  drawn of you so you sit down and they draw kind  

of a cartoon picture of you so maybe  like you like in real life you have uh  

there's like a small a small space or a small  gap between your teeth but a caricature artist  

might draw you like this it's like wow like  we're gonna draw we're gonna exaggerate that

okay so as you're learning these different  examples that's how you develop the fluency  

because you feel confident about the vocabulary  ah now I understand what exaggerate means so I  

feel confident using it okay you don't get  fluent by repeating the word exaggerate  

exaggerate exaggerate exaggerate so my teacher  said exaggerate but now someone pronounces it a  

little bit differently and I'm not prepared for  that but if I hear different people use the word  

exaggerate I hear different situations of that  that's when I feel confident about using something  

does this make sense let me know in the chat if if  everybody gets what I'm saying here because this  

is this will get you fluent if you understand this  if you understand this idea all right all right  

vikash exaggeration is When someone tells you  that it was huge and really yeah so again you can  

give different examples of that like a definition  but if you just okay we're gonna get lots of wow  

I'm going to show some examples of something like  wow we're really exaggerating something like that  

all right sir I'm quite fluent in my mind but  when it comes to speaking words not come to mind  

how can I speak effortlessly uh so this is it the  the same thing I've been talking about all video  

if you want to be a fluent speaker you need  to get lots of input it's not about you if  

you're if you're not feeling confident in  your mind or if you're feeling confident  

in your mind but not when you're in real  conversations it's usually uh because you  

didn't get enough input you didn't get  enough examples uh of like other people  

all right uh their souls is for instance  practicing with other people online uh

how can I catch different speakings about  the same situation all right yeah I you  

don't need to get it from practicing  from practicing with other people

like I mentioned earlier if you  go on YouTube fix car engine

so if I search for fixed car engine or how to  fix car engine and I get specific how to fix uh  

Toyota of a certain kind of car whatever how do  I fix a Mercedes-Benz xzq engine I don't think  

that's even a real car name but I don't know  anything about cars but if I'm looking for that  

I'm going to find a bunch of videos on YouTube  about how to fix that engine and I'm going to  

watch those and I'm going to hear like a lot of  the same vocabulary from these different people  

I'm also going to hear some different vocabulary  I'm also going to hear some different accents  

okay but each time I watch a new video about  that topic I get stronger and stronger about  

my understanding it's my understanding that  allows me to speak because understanding leads  

to confidence which leads to fluency so you  don't you don't try to spend your time like  

speaking with lots of different people that's  again it's a waste of time what would I do I  

have 15 minutes I'm going to call my friend  and and try to like talk with him I don't have  

time for that so I do have time for this all  right so this is what we do in fluent for life

I want to talk about pets so I'm going to listen  to different people talking about pets I'm going  

to listen to stories about pets I'm going to  see different like short examples about pets  

I'm really going to focus on that so this is a  very efficient way to get fluent it means like  

you're going to learn something that you need  to learn but you can do it very quickly so in  

a short amount of time we're going to learn a  bunch of different examples again you can do  

this by yourself if you want to but fluent for  life actually takes you through the process and  

shows you how to do it all right all right I watch  a lot about computer programming languages yeah so  

if you're interested in that then keep watching  those videos so you will learn about computer  

programming and you will learn about English all  right uh greetings from Turkey 5 a.m but I'm here  

to listen to you great glad to hear it Rafael so  you mentioned was that we get fluent word by word  

could you please talk about it again I'm confused  about fortunate unfortunate all right um yeah sure

now one of the things I do as as I'm  trying to help you learn is I try to  

compare different things so it's much easier  for our brain to understand that way so what  

most people think is happening when they they  think about fluency so we've got we've got uh  

like fluency over here and then we got time  and over time Learners are trying to learn  

more vocabulary so each day I'm going to try  to learn five new words or something like that  

and so they continue to learn more and more new  words but they don't become more fluent over time  

most of the people who watch my videos they have  this problem all right so they've been learning  

even if they are good students they're trying  to learn lots of vocabulary each day I'll learn  

five new words or ten new words or something  like that all right but they they learn more  

but they don't increase in fluency so they're  spending more time but fluency doesn't increase  

all right and the reason this happens  is because fluency doesn't come from  

increasing your vocabulary fluency doesn't  come from increasing your vocabulary  

all right if you can't use this fluently then you  will definitely not be able to use this fluently  

so this is why I say you get fluent one word at a  time as you learn more so I might hear a word like  

like I just I taught you guys the word sin in in  a different language all right so just by giving  

you some more examples about that when you feel  confident about that one word that's when you can  

use it fluently so fluency your fluency in this  word is independent of this of this word over here  

and this is why you can use some words fluently  in other words you you just forget them because  

you haven't you haven't learned them in well  enough you don't understand them well enough  

you can't use them well enough okay so you  don't get fluent by learning more words  

you get fluent by really  understanding the vocabulary you have

okay does that make sense so hopefully this  is the idea about getting fluent word by word  

so if you if you don't if you don't understand  something then you keep reviewing it and seeing  

it in different ways until you do understand  that but you don't move on to new words now the  

reason most people learn this way is because of  basically how our brain works our brain is most  

excited by new information so we don't want to  review something again it's much more fun to to  

learn new vocabulary so people want to watch a new  YouTube video about different vocabulary it's like  

complete no no connection at all to what like some  new thing that we learned all right so you on like  

most YouTube videos it's like here are 10 you know  phrasal verbs or whatever that like don't have  

anything to to do with anything else and there's  a lot of good vocabulary but people don't learn it  

effectively so they're not they learn one thing  and then jump to something completely different  

it's the review and the the thing that I that  I figured out was the naturally varied review

so the naturally varied review is the key to  fluency because your brain will be bored if  

you just try to repeat something again and again  but if you can get slightly different versions of  

that vocabulary your brain will be interested and  you will learn uh the actual fluency you need or  

you will develop the actual fluency you need to  communicate so you don't get fluent by learning  

more vocabulary and most of this like you you will  probably learn it and then forget that vocabulary  

but if you focus on one thing like just this  month you're only going to focus on fixing cars  

or you're only going to focus on you know painting  your nails or something like that whatever that  

thing is it doesn't matter you can find videos on  YouTube for anything we have a hundred different  

topics in fluent for life and we take you through  the process of building fluency in each set  

of vocabulary so for each conversation that we  focus on you get fluent in that and then you can  

use that vocabulary to talk about other things  so that's how your your fluency you basically  

build it incredibly quickly so within the first 30  days of the program you're speaking more fluently  

rather than trying to learn more words and then  you forget them all right so that's what I mean  

by you get fluent word by word so either you get  fluent in that vocabulary either you understand  

it or you do not if you don't understand it don't  move to New vocabulary get more examples really  

understand something so you can use it fluently or  you will not feel confident speaking all right uh

let's see hi this is uh uh disaraldo Jessica  Aldo from Brazil and I see you there I think Ted  

lectures are nice for this goal yep you can watch  different Ted lectures but again like Ted lectures  

Ted lectures are good for like the situation of of  how do you deliver a lecture so it's the kind of  

like first we're going to do this and like here's  my my opening so how and we talked about that  

I think on a recent Instagram video I did about  giving a presentation you know even just beginning  

a presentation you focus on a particular thing and  uh and start teaching or explaining things from  

there uh so let's see a good point how to properly  pronounce the word instantly instantly instantly  

instantly and you will hear like British speakers  might say instantly with the T the second instant  

but in regular American English  instantly instantly now if you want  

to hear me pronounce a whole  bunch of words get Frederick

I pronounce over 2 000 words and sentences in  the app so you can listen to my beautiful voice  

all day instantly instantly instantly instantly  but remember that your pronunciation and your  

ability to communicate comes from getting lots of  different examples it's not just hearing me speak  

so I'm speaking very clearly so you can  understand so other people in the real  

world will not be speaking so in fluent for life  we give you examples of people who are not clear  

all right all right let's see if we get  any more questions I think maybe that's  

it though thanks English anyway  yeah it's my pleasure uh for PCO

yep I think we got everybody all right well so  this is it really uh if you want to be fluent  

then it's again a much better use of your  time to get lots more input so you really  

understand language and then you get that from  uh focusing on situations rather than trying to  

get definitions or uh focusing on grammar rules  or other things like that that people typically  

use when they're trying to learn a language all  right so don't think like a learner think like a  

native focus on situations get lots of examples  of that and you can do that either by yourself  

on YouTube by focusing on a particular thing or  you can come and join me in fluent for Life by  

clicking on the link in the description even if  you do not join the program I highly recommend  

you learn about how this process works because I  explain everything I'm I'm talking about you can  

see me I've like written it down for you so you  can understand how the process works all right  

looks like uh [ __ ] or kiss a let me ask I have a  question thank you very much it's my pleasure yes  

if you have question please go ahead just just  tell me the question no need to ask if you have  

a question but you got to be quick I'm getting  tired let me get my bottle of water over here

all right so how can I how can  I improve my past perfect tense  

remember think about when people are using the  past perfect think about when people are using  

the Past Perfect all right think about when  people are using the present perfect or the  

present continuous or whatever that happens to be  you should go back and watch the uh the have video  

so I did I did kind of work with Learners a little  bit about that specific thing but remember you  

don't you don't want to focus on a grammar point  you want to understand when are people using that  

and then get examples of that kind of thing  that's also another thing we do fluent for life  

is organized by grammar point so you can actually  get lots of examples of a particular thing like  

the present continuous or the past perfect or  whatever but we don't teach it to you that way  

you get lots of examples and then see native  speakers actually using that in different ways  

all right but I think that's it if you have any  questions uh you can post them I will make this  

video available after the live is done do click on  the link if you'd like to learn more about how to  

become a fluent speaker and actually like if you  again have been learning for a long time but you  

still struggle to speak fluent for life is going  to get you fluent guaranteed why is it hard to  

reach C1 from B do you have any advice about that  yes every the answer to every question is this

women life freedom all right so the answer  to every question is this it's basically like  

you focus on situations get lots of different  examples so you feel confident about being  

in that situation and then you know the  vocabulary and the pronunciation all of that  

so when people use the past perfect well you got  to think about that so first if it let's say let's  

say you're like completely by yourself and you  don't know when to use past perfect go to Google  

and type in past perfect like past perfect  English tense and then look at the examples  

that you get from from different situations like  that all right so you want to look at different  

examples and instead of focusing on the grammar  itself it's like what what is happening in what  

time period when are when are people talking  about something are we talking about something  

that that people did and then they stopped  doing it like I used to do something or are  

we talking about something that like we started  doing years ago and we continue to do it today  

all right try to think like a native think  about how how a native would figure that out  

all right the more you you can think for yourself  uh the better you can become a fluent speaker the  

faster it will happen to all right so if you have  any questions you can also mail us at info English  

anyone.com but you will notice basically all  of my videos focus on this particular idea I've  

been teaching this for almost 20 years almost 20  years crazy all right Raphael people keep coming  

in with last questions over here have you seen  the guy who filmed his baby developed language  

comprehension up to its first word he lectured  on TED Talk uh I think that was like a couple of  

years ago I saw something where it was a guy he  mapped like the language and in in his house or  

something like that I don't know if we're talking  about the same thing um but the yeah it was like  

it was just talking about like the the developing  of the language but that I mean I what I'm telling  

you is what that is I don't I don't need like a  like a a crazy science experiment or a year-long  

or many year-long thing to know how this works  and anybody can figure this out this is exactly  

the same way you would teach your own children  all right so again those things are always great  

to know but you can see like it's it's the the  variation of something that gets you fluent it's  

not like a repeated example of the exact same  thing how can I improve my listening skill and  

understanding fast talking yeah same thing go back  and watch this video that's what you need to do  

so when I release this I'll release this uh where  can I get words different situations quickly

fluent

so if you'd like to see this all prepared for  you just click on the link in the description  

and you can go to that to learn more about fluent  for life or you can do it yourself and just look  

for different situations like on YouTube when  people are talking about wrestling alligators  

or fixing shoes or running  marathons or whatever that thing is  

exaggerate things you've been watching for 10  years oh my goodness wow well thank you where  

can I get uh um Enders I hope to see you again  soon thanks so yep well it's been a pleasure  

helping you guys do you believe it is possible  to be fluent in more than 10 languages [Music]  

depends on what you mean by fluent in those 10  languages I think you can if you learn this way  

I don't know of anybody who teaches this way for  other languages uh like that that has a system  

this efficient for learning languages and and  this also this is for higher level uh Learners  

it's not for beginners so if you had someone  who could theoretically it's possible I guess  

I mean I would like to learn that way you know  if but nobody else can really teach me the way  

I teach it's possible to do it but I don't know  of anybody else who does but it is if you could  

learn a bunch of different languages this way I  think you would not um but I'm sure it's I'm sure  

it's possible but learning the traditional way  it certainly would take a long time to do that  

to be really really conversationally fluent  uh and also understand different aspects of  

culture uh so I've been learning Japanese for I  don't know like 20 years or something and there's  

still lots that I don't know this is exactly the  way that you're telling you the baby only speaks  

after understanding through naturally varied  reveal yeah so nobody I I am like the first  

person to explain naturally varied review but I'm  just giving a name to that thing it's it's it's  

what people do so it's I didn't like invent any  new way of learning I'm just trying to describe  

what people do for language learning so if you're  and when you understand that it's helpful for for  

actually becoming fluid so if you think about  what you really need for fluency you can it's  

it's like a pretty easy like okay you need to  understand the real vocabulary that natives use  

okay that makes sense like if you don't know  the words then you can't understand them or  

use them but you also have to understand like  a native because if you're thinking about words  

and translations when you speak uh or like you're  learning through words and translations you will  

also think about words and translations when  you speak and then the third part is getting  

the naturally varied review because that's  what's actually building your fluency so  

it's is building your your deeper understanding  of something rather than hearing something one  

time so even if I help you understand something  like a native so I can teach you Japanese like a  

native like with a with a lesson in Japanese all  in Japanese but you would probably forget that so  

you need the review the review is what builds  the understanding and gives you the memory so  

you can use something in an actual conversation  so you still you still have you have to do all  

all three of those things but if you do those  three things or you get those three things then  

you will become a fluent speaker guaranteed but  you'll notice what you don't need you don't need  

to live in an English-speaking country you don't  need to have a native English-speaking friend you  

don't need to go to I don't know like in most of  the things you don't need speaking practice all  

the things that people think they need you don't  actually need it's it's really the understanding  

of something when you feel really strong when you  feel like you understand something very well then  

you can actually use it right all right now I'm  really gonna get out of here before I get any more  

but everybody okay God thank you thank you nice to  see you okay and hopefully go back and check hire  

comments make sure I didn't miss anything but this  is it I really want to distill really want to get  

to the heart of what you need to become a fluent  speaker and that's really it all right thanks a  

lot Drew I love your work glad to hear it K I like  your you got the K in Brackets that's pretty cool

all right have a fantastic day if you'd like to  learn more about how to do this uh all the stuff  

I've explained it's all written down nice easy to  understand on the page for fluent for life even  

if you do not join the program it will help you  understand more about how you should be learning  

how long can it take to reach a native level while  at B1 it depends on the I can't I couldn't answer  

that for an individual person it depends like  on how you learn really everything depends on  

how you learn um but in fluent for life we get  people like from this level like anybody who can  

watch and understand this this video but you're  not speaking fluently we can get you fluent in  

30 days or less uh by following this system so  you're you're fluent in that vocabulary remember  

you get fluent in particular vocabulary  you don't get fluent in the whole language  

all right I'm off for some pie Raphael  getting some pie over there some pie  

all right you all have a fantastic day  I will make this video uh available on  

YouTube go back and watch it again the first  15 minutes really covers everything uh but if  

you'd like to learn more click on the link in  the video and I'll see you next time bye bye