How To Know When You're Fluent In English

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okay all right I think we're in okay I am  Drew Badger the founder of EnglishAnyone.com  

and welcome to another live video here on  YouTube uh I got an interesting question  

from a learner and I wanted to talk  about that in this video let me know  

in the chat if that's working I think  it should be let me see if we're on

YouTube and I think we are all right uh so we're  going to talk about how to know when you're fluent  

in English George look at that George how are you  always first how do you do that you must be like  

sitting by your computer or phone you just have  the phone open and ready uh Salan nice to see you

there all right let's see who else am I missing  over here oh nice to see everybody there Wendy  

uh Diana Muhammad and do I know you hello from  England Wellington from look at that everybody  

coming in nice to see everybody here um  so I want to make this uh like kind of a  

video with you all to answer any questions you  might have uh because the truth is you really  

know if you're fluent in English in general by  knowing how fluent you are in the individual  

words and phrases that you learn and so you  might be fluent or feeling confident about  

uh one phrase or one expression uh one grammar  point something but you might not feel fluent  

uh in something else and fluently or fluency  it really just means that you feel confident  

there are no doubts about that particular word  or phrase or pronunciation whatever that is um  

and you can use that thing confidently and so  when you remove the doubt whatever doubts you  

might have then the confidence comes out and  you do this uh in individual words and phrases  

now I thought about making a video about this  because I got uh an interesting question from  

a fluent for life member uh and this was just  talking about um I'll just give you I'll put  

the example up here I'm going to change the  example a little bit just to make it a little  

bit shorter uh but I'll give you kind of a quick  quiz at the start of this video and then we'll  

take it from there synonyms of English please  send us just Google that you don't need me to  

tell you what synonyms are or I guess examples of  them all right uh so this question uh this was it  

was actually a really good question because  it actually demonstrated uh how fluent this  

learner is in these particular grammar points  so even though he had some uncertainty and this  

was actually uh kind of wrong uncertainty from  the teachers and I'll show you this in a moment  

uh so this was let me see if I remember the  exact example but again I will I will change  

this uh slightly just to make it a little  bit simpler uh so the nurses let's see here

the so this is a quiz make sure  we can fit this in here the

nurses

returned uh let's just call the  guy we'll just call him [Music]

Tom so the first sentence is here uh the nurses  returned in the morning and found Tom d dead the  

nurses returned in the morning and found Tom dead  so that's sentence one and we'll put sentence two  

over here uh they so they being the nurses  uh I'll just make this very simple they told

John uh that he would have a new

roommate soon okay uh so these are actually even  a little bit too too complicated I should really  

make them shorter and easier than this uh but it  should be an interesting example for you now uh  

these sentences are correct what was interesting  uh is that the uh the learner this fluent for  

life member was saying that in some like English  writing class he got this as a question and the  

question was to connect these two sentences  to connect these two sentences do we use and

or but or so and or but or so so if we want to  connect these into one sentence which of these  

would be correct I'll give you a moment just to  try and answer that which of those do you think  

is correct and why if you want to add that so  which of these is correct so the nurses returned  

in the morning and found Tom dead they told John  uh he would have a new roommate soon so just to  

make this a little bit easier for you we imagine  a hospital room here with two beds uh so one guy  

this is uh one person you can imagine they're kind  of lying down like this that's the head uh and the  

other guy over here so this is we'll just say this  is Tom over here and this is John so the nurses  

come in in the morning uh and they see uh Tom so  we'll put Tom over here Tom uh so Tom is dead oh  

no he's got the little X eyes on him uh and John  is still alive so they're both in the hospital  

room and the nurses come in and they find that Tom  is dead uh and John is still alive John is okay uh  

and they tell John you will have a new roommate  soon so Tom I guess they take him out of the  

hospital room and so which of these is correct so  the the the I guess the the people or the teacher  

who gave this kind of writing example said one of  those was correct which one do you think it is so  

again the nurses returned in the morning so maybe  at night time uh the previous day they were both  

awake both alive but when the nurses came back uh  Tom was dead and John was still alive all right  

Monica says and anybody just go ahead put your  answers up there right now let's see here all  

right I'll answer any more questions over here  all right so nice to see you guys all right so  

Mr learner that's a great name sir you are amazing  well you guys are too kind mahes nice to see you  

there uh Muhammad says okay Deana we got a Diana  and a Deana that's amazing hello the best English  

teacher in the world you guys are too kind I'm so  happy to be here well welcome ell says howdy Drew  

how have you been I'm just in time yes welcome to  the party I'm doing well hope you hopefully you  

are doing well too uh B2 our can't do you know  a second language maybe more I speak Japanese  

uh and I know a little bit of maybe Spanish and  French but I couldn't speak those very well uh  

Hey night uh let's see new voice is uh great to be  part of the English interchange welcome late but  

useful no we just got started don't worry about  it uh the lovely heart eyes from Roberta nice to  

see you there how can I learn pronunciation if  you'd like to learn about pronunciation just get

Frederick you'll see the link to this in the  description below this video but this will train  

you the same way natives learn pronunciation so  if you'd like to do that so I'm Tom no dead what  

time is it there Mohammad ask what time is it here  it is 9:57 a.m. I got started a little bit earlier  

today uh also the next video should be on the 29th  here in Japan time so put that on your calendar  

all right uh let's see all right so is said and  since John is still alive the first one is true  

well the both of these are correct like these are  both correct English there there's nothing wrong  

with these the question is how can we connect them  as one sand would we say the nurses returned in  

the morning and found Tom dead and they told John  that he would have a new roommate soon or do we  

say the nurses returned in the morning and found  Tom dead or they found they told John probably  

we wouldn't use or let's just cancel that that  one that sounds a little bit weird it sounds a  

little bit weird or but so the nurses returned  in the morning and found Tom dead but they told  

John that he would have a new roommate soon or  so so they found a new roommate uh for John so  

we can connect this with so so which one of these  would we put and but or so in here all right let  

me answer a few more questions and then I'll  give you my answer all right uh looks like we  

have a couple of things here so joh still okay  we answered that one already Let's see we got  

so so hi from nicaragu hello from Haiti hi from  Brazil how are you doing today I'm doing well  

what is the word all right I think answer that  but and so so is the correct one all right why  

now here's the interesting thing all right here's  the interesting thing so in the example uh so in  

this kind of test example or maybe it was from a  textbook or something the answer the teacher gave  

was but the answer the teacher gave was but so the  nurses returned in the morning and found Tom dead  

they told John that he would have a new roommate  soon now if we're only looking at just these two  

sentences by themselves all three of these are  possible all three of them could be correct it  

actually depends on the mood you're going for  so do we want to say it's like a positive thing  

uh or we want to say maybe it's like a not so  positive thing it depends so we could actually  

use all three of these and the interesting thing  was that this learner was a little bit confused  

because the teacher said the answer was but but  it's actually it could be really any of those all  

right so often when we get examples like this and  we will see this on tests and this is why it can  

be frustrating for me as a teacher uh sometimes I  will look at English tests and I will be wondering  

why the test is written the way it is because you  could actually have multiple correct answers but  

they will be looking for one correct thing which  is usually how a test Works uh but often you could  

have more than one uh correct answer so let's look  at all three of these uh and the reason I want  

to highlight this is because this learner this uh  fluent for life member uh is correct he is correct  

that you could use all three of these all right so  we could have all of these we're just connecting  

these and really the point here is do we have a  solid understanding a feeling of what's correct  

okay A a sense of what's correct when we could say  something and then we have a good way to explain  

why that is so often like a native speaker they  might not be able to explain particular grammar  

rules but they usually just know they have a  sense for what's correct and and my job is to  

kind of be both like to know what's correct and  also be able to explain what's correct so in this  

sentence here we've got the nurses returned in  the morning and found Tom dead and so we could  

put and here to connect these two see these are  just two things together and so or and they told  

John that he would have a new roommate okay so  that you could it's still grammatically correct  

it's logical uh there's nothing really confusing  about this it's just two pieces of information  

and we're connecting that with and okay so very  simple we could also say but if we're talking  

about like in the in the morning the nurses came  back uh and maybe they're they're talking about  

how John feels about that so maybe he feels sad  so the like this situation up here or I guess  

this situation specifically of Tom being dead uh  it would be like a difficult thing for John who's  

still lying down in the room next to him and so  the the feeling is like the so the nurses came  

back oh no he's dead they don't want to panic but  they're just saying like it's okay don't worry uh  

you will have someone here uh you will have like a  new person here very soon okay so in that sense uh  

we might prefer but so the nurses returned in the  morning and found Tom dead but they told John uh  

that he would have a new roommate soon okay so in  in this the usage of butt is really just to make  

Tom or I guess John feel better okay so you could  make a butt to connect these two things but again  

this learner this fluent for left member was a  little bit concerned because well but typically  

means like the opposite it was raining but I went  for a walk anyway okay but again we're talking  

about something where the the the mood it could  really be any of these things so we might have  

but here so the one person is dead but we want  to feel or make this other person feel better  

okay and then same thing with so so if we use so  here as well so this is something that happened  

and then this becomes the conclusion of that thing  or the response to that thing okay so the nurses  

returned in the morning and found Tom dead so they  told John that he would have a new roommate soon  

now even here so it sounds it could sound a little  bit awkward where they're just saying like well I  

guess he's dead and now you get a new roommate so  it's not like a direct response to that but again  

it's logical you could say something like that  all right so the again again the the the feeling  

what we're going for here is to become fluent  in individual words and phrases like this is  

when you develop a sense where you feel confident  so you don't have any doubt where oh I could use  

this or I could use that or I could use something  else okay so if you feel confident and you have a  

good reason to to support that you could use any  one of these in these examples okay so I thought  

this was a really good uh exercise of something  where especially in a typical English lesson uh  

you get something where you could have multiple  correct answers but often uh people really they  

were just kind of forced to choose one but I like  to do this when I'm taking tests or whatever I try  

to find holes or things like that where I can say  no no you actually could use this other one over  

here especially if the uh the teacher says I'm  wrong all all right let me go back and answer  

some of these all right uh let's see hello from  Turkey it's 4:00 a.m. here so I'm dead have a nice  

day oh no all right I think so fill in correctly I  believe the nurse killed Tom no I don't think so I  

don't know maybe this is this is not like a murder  mystery example it could be though all right says  

I believe but uh fits better because they are  told uh they told that to John before knowing Tom  

was dead well we don't know that for sure all we  know is these pieces of information so the nurses  

returned in the morning and found Tom dead maybe  John was maybe John knew he was dead already we  

don't know uh and but they told John so they found  him dead and then they told John you will have a  

new roommate soon all right uh let's see and uh  Davidson uh from Brazil nice say Muhammad I am  

a beginner so I can't understand fluency speakers  you mean fluent speakers uh if you are a beginner  

this might not be the right uh video for you this  is really for people who know a lot of English  

already but they still lack the confidence to  speak they still have some kind of uncertainty  

about that so I also invite anyone here now uh if  you do have questions about anything it could be  

questions about this example or anything else  that you have uncertainty about so it could be  

a word or grammar point or something if it's  not something that's easily found on Google  

I can probably help you solve it faster here  uh let's see jet from Gambia nice to see you  

there uh I request you to read slowly the nurse  returned in the morning and found Tom dead they  

told John that he would have a new roommate soon  okay so that's our simple example over here all  

right uh Quang says hello from Vietnam uh let's  see if I'm pronouncing that Ruku uh I felt the  

three could go but thought you were looking for a  unique answer yeah so again this is a tricky thing  

that happens when uh when a teacher is giving  you a test you're thinking like what is the  

answer the teacher is looking for and when you're  fluent like a native speaker taking the same test  

would say wait a minute it could be all three of  these things the meaning would be maybe slightly  

different and we could maybe say that like maybe  but is more appropriate but it really depends on  

uh we we just need more information begas says uh  uh Andrew may I also say they found Tom was dead  

yes they found Tom was dead so typically we just  say they found Tom dead they found him dead cuz  

I mean he's not it's not I mean you could say  they found Tom was dead like it's in the past  

but Tom he's he's still dead right now so Tom is  is dead as well uh I heard they will marry soon  

versus I hear they will marry soon ah both of  those are correct uh so that's a good question  

so in that case we're we're talking about maybe  I heard something from somebody uh maybe it was  

like a while ago that you heard it but even if  it was a while ago often we we will I think I  

gave a like a talk about this a while ago but  but talking about telling stories where you're  

EXP explaining something as if it's happening in  the present because it makes it more interesting  

for the people listening to it as an example  uh if I'm telling a story about something that  

happened maybe even years ago so I was I was at a  restaurant and Batman came into the restaurant so  

I could describe the story that way I was at the  restaurant and Batman came so those are those are  

both just the simple past I was in the restaurant  Batman came into the restaurant uh or I could tell  

it as if it's it's happening now even though it's  it's not happening now it's just a way of telling  

the story where I say so here I am I'm at this  restaurant and Batman comes into the restaurant  

so it feels a lot different it's like wow I'm  telling the story as if it's happening right  

now and it feels more interesting to listen to  because we we connect more with things that are  

happening now rather than something uh in the  past so you could tell the story story both  

ways and in the same example where we're talking  about I heard some friend is doing this so yes  

like you you at some point in the in the past  you heard something a friend of yours told you  

some information uh and then now you could also  describe it as oh I hear you're doing something  

again we if we try to bring something more to the  present we usually connect with people a little  

bit better because it's something that's happening  right now as if it's like news or new information  

okay so I hear uh you're doing well in school  I hear you're doing well in school even though  

I didn't hear it immediately uh I may I heard  it actually from your parents or something I I  

heard it but I can describe that if I'm talking  to somebody's son hey I I hear you're doing well  

in school so like I it it's again connecting with  the present and both of those things are fine but  

it's kind of in the theme of this video where  we're we're talking about the the sense that  

that you have about grammar so when you or not  just grammar but really any vocabulary and when  

you feel I have like a good sense of this so I'm  able to say both of those I could use the past  

or I could talk about something happening right  now uh because I feel confident and I understand  

what I'm saying for both of those things okay so  there's a level where you're learning a language  

and you say oh that's interesting like you you  have a question about did you hear something or  

so like you heard or I hear and so you you  know that both of those could be used in a  

conversation but you might not know why that's  where the doubt comes in but as you understand  

more oh so one is just talking about a a moment  in the past where I heard something and now I'm  

just describing it like it's happening right now  just because it's more interesting to listen to  

that way all right so hopefully that clears up  some of that doubt let me know if that makes  

sense all right uh let's see eigor says hello  from Brazil when will the next live uh teaching  

B uh that will be I think the 29th of this month  look at that you got I guess it's a leap year this  

year a leap year so we have 29 days in February  rather than 28 uh Marin ala says good afternoon  

and M says we use an for expressing subsequent  events right well again we could talk about a  

subsequent event or we could just be connecting  two things I am uh 10 years old and I like fishing  

there's nothing subsequent about that it's just  here's two pieces of information so this one we're  

kind of telling a story or we're trying to make  some kind of connection but these words actually  

become quite important to the mood of that story  so we don't know actually a lot of information  

we don't know if Tom knew or I guess if if John  knew that Tom is dead maybe he did maybe he did  

not uh so maybe they found him dead John did  not know and so they told John it's okay all  

right so you might probably think like so or but  would be better answers here especially if we're  

telling a story typically when you're telling a  story we have like so and something happens but  

something happens therefore something else happens  so you're telling a story where there's something  

going on but there's a problem and then therefore  we create some kind of new challenge or a solution  

or something like that all right so we typically  wouldn't just list and and and and and it would  

boring we want to have a story where we're  explaining something this is called the set up the  

setup the set the setup the setup of the story so  what happens and then this is like the conclusion  

of the story so this thing therefore uh this thing  uh happens over here so Tom died therefore we're  

going to let him know uh or let this uh let John  know that he will have a new roommate soon this  

is kind of a it's kind of a sad example uh we  could probably find something simpler and easier  

but what's interesting the point really here uh is  that I want you to think more about these various  

things and as you come to understand them very  well that's how you really become fluent so you  

become fluent in the word and you become fluent in  the word but you become fluent in the word so and  

your fluency continues to develop as you get more  examples all right and so this usually happens as  

we get different examples various examples  using a word like and or but or so that make  

us feel confident that answer our questions  that remove our doubts about these particular  

words so whatever they are and then as you become  fluent in more words and phrases you can really  

say you're becoming fluent in the language as a  whole hopefully that makes sense that's the basic  

idea of this video all right uh let's see M says  say if I learn English can I understand all books  

of English well I suppose I mean the you could  there's a difference between being able to read  

something and knowing what it means so I could  put a word up here maybe you could read it you  

could sound out the word but you might not know  what that means so just because you know how to  

pronounce everything or read it doesn't mean you  would know like you couldn't really understand  

all the language so in like in theory I guess yes  you could you could potentially learn things but  

there's probably a lot you would not still know  uh Rita says do you have give private classes  

please uh no I do not uh the reason I don't give  private classes because they're typically not a  

good way for you to feel confident for uh regular  communication and so the biggest reason for this  

is you need to have exposure to lots of different  native speakers so you can't only listen to me and  

really any person you would be having private  lessons with it would give you slower easier  

English and maybe you would understand a little  bit more but the English in a lesson would be  

very different from How The Language really is in  movies or TV shows or real conversations so again  

like we we prepare everybody for this influent for  life and it's much faster and easier to learn that  

way because I'm basically giving you lots of uh  what I call fluency triggers it's really just a  

way of helping you understand The Language by  removing the doubt you have about it and so as  

you get lots of examples you feel more confident  about pronunciation listening grammar vocabulary  

all of that because you're getting so many  different examples from different native  

speakers U so that's uh and again like if you  want to have a private teacher that's great to  

help you understand things like I'm doing in  this video but that's it's only one level it's  

like the first level of understanding things so  the kinds of things that I teach like I do here  

you will find that influent for Life Plus lots  of examples with Native other native speakers  

that are not teachers just regular people talking  that will help you understand the language the  

same way natives do so if your goal uh is to be  a confident speaker you really need to be uh kind  

of putting that in or putting yourself in that  position the same way natives would be uh let's  

see uh bird says who will be the next president  of USA uh I don't know I don't know I'm not I'm  

not really happy about anybody running so I I  don't know maybe maybe none of the above none  

of the no nobody that's uh I don't know we'll  see but I I can't imagine uh Biden surviving  

like physically surviving like Biden would be this  example like the nurses returned in the morning  

and found Biden I mean he would be he would be  like 90 years old or something like that and he's  

already having trouble so I don't know uh thanks  for having explain okay got it make sure again my  

my goal here is to make sure everybody has that  understanding and that's when you feel confident  

about using something that's when you become a  confident speaker all right uh let's see M says  

I in Kenya I can't understand African people there  I can't understand that's a question or you you're  

telling me that uh and big says is it correct to  say they found him had been dead for two hours  

or you would just say they found he had been dead  for 2 hours I guess but like that that's making it  

kind of unnecessarily complicated uh you're so  if they found they found Tom Dead uh you could  

say like they found he had been dead but that's  more like that's more like the discovery of how  

long uh he he had been dead for all right so just  just to make this very clear the nurses walk into  

the room let's say they walk into the room at uh  at like 3:00 oh no it's in the morning a better  

example let's just say it's it's 7 700 a.m. so the  nurses come into the room at 7:00 a.m. and they  

say oh no Tom is dead so at that point they found  him so this is the first uh example of finding him  

dead so they found him dead like they found him  and just like it just means that that's the the  

condition or uh like whatever whatever he was  the situation he was in so I might walk into my  

uh like my daughter's room where they're playing  and I find them playing a game so it's just what  

are they doing when I when I see them all right  so this is It's not like just an example for  

dying or anything this is just what is the state  or condition or situation what are they doing when  

you see them okay so I found him dead this is why  we just like we have it just very simple like this  

so I found somebody dead or I found someone  sitting on a chair or I found him watching  

TV typically we we say kind of found here it's  it's like a discovery so we notice something oh  

no here's a problem like I walk into uh my kitchen  and I find my wife standing on the kitchen table  

so that's a surprising thing whoa like it's like  I could I could say yes I I saw my wife standing  

on the kitchen table but I also found her on the  kitchen table it's a little bit surprising so this  

is the first instance of finding something but  maybe after they do some research or they they  

test okay his heart stopped at 3:00 so they they  found he had been dead for 4 hours in that case  

so these are just two different times like the  first one is they're finding they're discovering  

something uh like the situation the person is  in and then the second second example is they  

maybe did some research or did some checking they  looked at his medical maybe there's some little  

computers or information that know oh okay he  stopped breathing and his heart stopped at 7 or  

at 3:00 so that that's where like that's why you  would probably not want to put both of those ideas  

in the same sentence if that makes sense so the  nurses return in the morning to found uh to find  

him dead or they say and found him dead uh but we  could also say later uh we found he had died at  

uh 3:00 so we found or we discovered or we learned  the computer gave us that information he had died  

or you can just use use the simple past we found  he died at 7:00 or 3:00 whenever okay so slightly  

different we want to try to communicate as simply  and clearly as possible uh but we may have uh like  

again we want to be clear what the situation is  are we talking about just seeing him dead or we  

want to actually talk about when we discovered  uh by uh maybe some some additional information  

or something like that all right that's a good  question though Gabriella says hello from Uruguay  

let's see how is my sentence not correct when  will be next live teaching please what would be  

the correct form of this sentence or you can just  say when is your next lesson very simple when is  

your next lesson or you could say when will the  next lesson be or when will the next live video  

be both of those are fine remember that there's  not just one correct way to express something  

typically we can uh Express things in many  different ways just like you do in your native  

language all right looks like we've got some uh  tie there that I can't read uh Fran says but it's  

possible because they didn't want to say John that  time or they didn't want to tell John in this case  

you would say don't want to tell John uh that Tom  had been dead decided to make him believe he was  

changed to another room so is more simple since  it coordinates the first idea yeah it's still it's  

still a little bit too too complicated and it's  not this is not enough information to tell us like  

anything we can we can imagine that for sure uh  but it's not enough information Wellington says I  

begun watch your classes with velocity in YouTube  75 now I'm understanding you well uh you mean the  

speed like the speed the the video speed uh so  you mean you're list to my videos a little bit  

more slowly at 75% speed is that what you mean uh  yeah I'm glad you're improving uh danis says the  

word or is a conjunction that connects two or more  possibilities or alternatives for example which do  

you prefer English or Spanish yes um that's why  like or or is probably not a good example here  

that's an obvious no so we wouldn't say this or  that uh but we can look at these other examples  

and see how those are correct so yes typically  we're and I it's it's good that you know that or  

maybe you got that from Google or whatever but  it's it's more important to develop the sense  

for what's correct so like when do we say or when  do we say and it's like I want you to think about  

it like a native speaker because that's when  you know you're fluent all right so you know  

you're fluent in these particular things when you  know ah okay I should use and for this or or or  

whatever the the example is all right uh what is  the best way to become fluent in English you need  

to eliminate the doubt that you have about words  phrases grammar points Etc uh so that's what we do  

in these videos and influent for Life M says is  the second sentence uh as a consequence for the  

first one isn't well yes so it's basically like  a consequence it could be it could be seen as a  

consequence where we say so uh but we could  also say it as like as a kind of a contrast  

fting thing or and again like we still we could  still use but even with a consequence it's just  

more that in that case but would be talking  about the feeling that the uh the nurses are  

trying to give John so John maybe feels bad so  they came in oh no like we're sorry uh we see he  

died but don't worry we will give you a new like  a new person all right so it sounds a little bit  

nicer if you if you change that example if I  say oh the nurses came in they found John or  

they found Tom dead I should have given them  better he like typical English name from from  

a like a textbook or whatever so Tom they found  him dead if we use so then it sounds like they  

don't care as much all right I'm I'm kind of  we call this reading into something to read

into when you read into it means you're you're  kind of putting your own ideas into a situation  

you're trying to guess or think about what they  might be thinking you're imagining something so  

maybe I see something that's not really there I'm  reading too much into it uh but for this example  

we can have a little bit of fun with this so  you can imagine the two nurses come into the  

room they find Tom dead so they told this other  guy okay well we'll give you somebody new so  

it sounds it sounds a little uh you might you  might use the word like I don't know callous or  

depressing or like the nurses don't really care  okay we will take this dead guy out and bring a  

new person in for you you know so uh instead of  putting so here but makes it sound a little bit  

friendlier and nicer so oh no like a child drops  their ice cream on the floor so will get you a new  

one okay so the where we we're talking about the  the conclusion of something a child drops the ice  

cream on the floor and will give you a new one or  a so or so will give you a new one both of those  

would be fine and or so but but takes a little  bit of time to to offer some care or empathy for  

the child or the or for John in this case so the  child drops the ice cream uh on the floor oh but  

but don't worry but don't worry we'll get you a  new one okay so if a child drops the ice cream on  

the floor and the parent just says so we'll get  you a new one there there's less feeling there  

there's less care uh and so the the parent would  feel like you would you would feel like they care  

less all right so it feels like someone would care  more in this sentence so I could see why the why  

the teacher would give them but as like the most  appropriate answer but you really can make the  

case that all three of these are okay all right  hopefully that makes sense but you can you can  

see how by spend spending more time on these  words you start to feel more confident about  

them so the goal is not to uh like be thinking  like we got to study as many words as possible  

we really have to understand a few words really  well and then we start building on that okay I  

think people are getting it though all right the  whole goal of this video is to demonstrate uh  

that we really become fluent in individual words  and phrases as we remove doubt as we uh develop  

understanding we feel confident about those things  that's when we start speaking all right uh okay  

here be nice with Biden please well I'm not I  don't I don't care about Biden or Trump but I  

mean I'm just saying looking at Biden uh I would  be worried about Biden if I was sleeping in a in  

a hotel or not a hotel room if I was sleeping in  a hospital room uh with Biden I would worry that  

the nurses would come in and tell me oh no we'll  get you a new roommate soon you know just cuz cuz  

he's uh he's he just he just doesn't look well  you know and they're not doing a very good job  

of uh hiding that but we'll see I feel a little a  little embarrassed as an American uh let's see uh  

if I answer that one already all right bird says  I hope Trump and America will be great again we'll  

see we'll see I don't know I don't know if Trump  will make America great again he he does talk a  

big game uh coming from like business in marketing  though all right uh can I say my pain subside or  

mitigate uh well mitigate typically means like  you might still have a problem but you put Like  

You cover up the the pain somehow but if the pain  itself is subsiding the actual pain is going away  

all right and this is why it's important to  really dig deep into words and understand what  

that is so if I want to mitigate a problem the  problem might still be there let's say I'm uh I'm

driving uh so I need to like drive to work over  here here's a road I could go this way this way  

so there is maybe like a traffic accident right  here I can kind of mitigate that by going around  

it the traffic accident is still there uh but  if the traffic I mean we wouldn't really say  

the accident subsides but in the similar way  that if it disappears then the actual problem  

is gone okay so be careful number one to get good  definitions of things if you're unsure about them  

but the more important thing is to get lots of  examples of those all right actually think I  

talked about mitigate in a previous or recent  video all right uh let's see that's a good  

question though all right uh my main fear is the  toeu IBT all right well go study for it then all  

right uh you got to think remember try try not to  think about like the test like what are specific  

things that you're unsure about fol focus on those  that's the point of this video you don't really  

get fluent in English you actually get fluent in  individual words and phrases as you understand  

them better and you can think about that in the  same way for a test so typically you would be  

feeling confident about some things for the test  but maybe not others all right hello I'm Sue from  

Korea nice to see you there hi says a cute bana  hello look at that all is it alive I don't know  

what that's referring to let's see n says uh I can  understand a book only if I read two times or more  

why how to improve that sir well it could be the  kinds of books you're reading are too complicated  

you should start with something simpler that  you can understand more easily but sometimes  

books even for native speakers if you're reading  something more challenging then that would that  

would be a reason why you would have trouble with  that all right I have a question uh says uh Sue  

over here let's see uh when I read a sentence I  know all of those words in a sentence but I can't  

understand the sentence what's the problem you  think uh the most likely reason is because you  

learned English as a second language so it's not  your fault I'm guessing this with with just this  

one example uh but typically what will happen is  like a person who's learning English as a second  

language so they're learning English through  like you would be learning it through Korean  

probably maybe in school you studied English I  think I think actually now uh English is it's  

like widely taught much more even like more  than Japan in Korea so I think more there  

might be better speakers over there I don't know  for sure I don't know much about Korea but I do  

know that most people are still studying English  the traditional way so they're not learning it as  

a first language they're learning it through a  second language so what happens is when people  

are learning English as a second language they  will get something like this and they will think  

okay the nurses return and they're they're kind of  translating each of these things in their head and  

it becomes more difficult to understand the whole  situation okay so that's a that's a a big reason  

why that happens to a lot of people I would need  more information to to diagnose that further but  

that's typically why that happens how do I get  fluent with phrasal verbs uh typically we we get  

fluent in phrasal verbs the same way we get fluent  in anything else and this is by getting lots of  

examples that we can understand so as an example  uh if we're talking about like here's a simple  

example of a phrasal verb this is false down so  you see the marker is moving straight down like  

that like snow or leaves or rain it's falling down  but here we have fall over so when the markers it  

goes to the side like that like a tree falling  over or a person falling over like that so here  

without me trying to use your native language I'm  able to explain just by showing you how it works  

so these are called fluency triggers uh and this  is where we're helping you understand something  

where you really feel confident about using it  so that's how you would get fluent in phrasal  

verbs once you understand the like the physical uh  usage of that which is where uh typically phrasal  

verbs are coming from and this is why often little  kids are learning phrasal verbs as a way to build  

their vocabulary uh but the the thing you would  do next is you would take something like that  

like oh no like the economy is falling down  okay or like the the economy is you could say  

it's like falling over or like they're like their  success or something something is becoming worse  

so we can take a physical idea like fall down  and then take that like I don't know like our  

relationship like fell apart all right so we had  something and then like it just it just crumbled  

into many pieces so a building or something old  could fall apart so we have a building with you  

know it's one structure but then it falls into  many pieces like that so it fell apart but we  

can also talk about a relationship falling apart  as well so this is how Native learn the language  

and if you do the same thing you will learn to  understand these things the same way natives

do uh let's see uh Bea again says in my area the  nurses would definitely use so in such casesa  

have you ever been or have you ever gone back to  Chicago along with your kids no I have not I have  

actually not taking my kids back to Chicago uh  Margo says hi Drew this is Eduardo from Mexico  

I've been following your videos for so long very  good thank you welcome uh you would say for such  

a long time for such a long time uh very good  uh I guess yeah I guess you kind of could say  

like for so long but usually it's like for such a  long time uh is it live or if you're talking about  

the video right now it is unless you're watching  this later in which it's in which case it's not  

all right uh hello from Brazil says Fabio M says  H nothing has happened the nurse care much about  

John comfortably rather than the tragedy of the de  yes you are you are reading into uh you're reading  

too much into it so we don't know what's happening  I'm sure nurses have to deal with this situation  

sometimes uh they come into a room and there are  multiple patients so two or more patients in the  

same room and they have to uh say oh no somebody  died or maybe they don't even tell the patient I  

don't I don't know what nurses do I'm not a nurse  uh we need to get a nurse on here and answer that  

question I guess all right uh Fabio with the nice  uh Emoji there hello says David uh THS says what  

is the difference between for instance and for  example uh I get in this situation like if you're  

if you're if you're just and this is why it's  always tricky when people just say What's the  

difference between these two words or something  because words typically have multiple uses but for  

instance or for example I could use them really  to mean the same thing I'm just giving uh one  

example of something for instance or for example  typically if I'm saying uh like if I want to give  

a grammar example uh yesterday I went to the store  uh and I bought something or I like to buy uh like  

snacks or something like for example I like to  get uh I don't know actually I guess so here if  

if I if I was going I'm I'm trying to think about  the like the native way to explain this to people  

but the best way to understand things like this  as I explained before is like uh we have this  

is called a ven diagram where we have like four  instance let's see instance uh an example over  

here uh in general the best way to understand  the difference between these two or if they are  

the same or when they can be uh used the same way  or not uh is just by getting lots of examples of  

these and I'm not going to do that now but just  we're we're looking for like one counter example  

when they would not be used just so we know that  they could be used the same time but maybe uh they  

can't in other situations so let's say going back  to the store example so I go to a store uh I like  

to buy snacks uh for example uh I like to buy uh  I don't know candy bars so candy bars all right  

so I like to buy candy bars so for example so I  wouldn't I wouldn't when I'm talking about like  

a list of things like uh these are some of my  supplies I use for teaching for example I use  

a whiteboard or a marker or something like that  um so that's for example all right uh so if I'm  

giving a list of something like I wouldn't really  say for instance like uh oh I I need to I need to  

buy some uh some clothes after work today and a  person says like oh for example like what do you  

need to buy so that if I'm talking about a list of  physical things or something I need to do people  

wouldn't typically say for instance for that uh  but they wouldn't use for instance or for example  

if we're talking about uh like things I need to do  uh or um like things I've done for my job so it's  

typically like some kind of action or something  that I'm doing so what kind of things do you do  

at work uh well sometimes like for instance I uh  I shovel snow uh or for example I shovel snow so  

in in this case I'm talking about things that I  do I would be able to use for instance because an  

instance of something is like it's talking about  an action when something happens uh and an example  

could be talking about an action or it could  be talking about a list of something all right  

I don't want to spend too much time explaining  this but when you're looking at at words like  

this your your goal to to develop this sense to  to feel fluent to feel confident about when you  

should use one or the other you should spend time  on things like this trying to get many examples so  

if you Google a bunch of examples you're looking  at what is the pattern here what are the uh what  

what is the connection between these things okay  so if I go like anytime I hear for example it's  

usually like a list of things or it could be a  list of activities but when here for instance  

I typically only hear like a list of activities  okay so something is happening rather than like  

okay I have uh some different colors with me like  what colors do you have oh I have a for example I  

have a blue red black yellow all right but for  instance I wouldn't say oh like for instance I  

have uh blue like that would sound weird because  this is just a physical thing it's an object I'm  

not it's not like an action okay so remember an  instance of something is when something happens  

like an instantaneous thing it's happening right  now okay now that was a kind of long explanation  

uh and you should even go deeper I recommend all  right so this is what I'm doing when i'm trying  

to understand things in Japanese you get more  examples all right so the you can kind of you  

could get a definition of something but you  don't really develop the sense for when to  

use something correctly from a definition okay  I bet like you might even if you look up both  

of these words you would get like maybe a similar  definition for both of them but it's the examples  

you get that really tell you oh this is for I'm  I develop a sense for these kind of examples uh  

this is when I could use something and this  is when I would probably not use it all right  

does that make sense the chat got kind of quiet  hopefully people are following this uh but again  

um if you watch a lot of YouTube videos that are  teaching you things it will typically be like a  

list of words hey guys today we're going to learn  uh 20 phrases and I'm going to just tell you the  

word here's an example or two maybe we repeat  the phrase and then we go on to the next thing  

but that doesn't really help you learn anything  I'm like the teacher is not really uh providing  

you um what you really need which is certainty  about that thing so until you get certainty you  

will not feel confident using that thing you will  find something else to say all right and natives  

are the same way so if they don't feel confident  uh about something then uh they will not feel they  

will not feel happy or comfortable about saying  something so if you're watching videos the the  

reason teachers make videos like this is because  everybody wants to learn more vocabulary so  

everybody's always like I need more give me more  vocabulary uh usually because they think if they  

learn more uh or if they know more words they will  speak fluently but hopefully this video shows you  

that the opposite is true all right so I don't  I don't want to look I mean we're just talking  

about a few words in this video really I'm using  many words but we're talking about and but so or  

here's another example for instance versus for  example okay but the point uh is not to teach you  

a lot obviously we want to learn many words but  while we the the important thing is to make you  

feel confident to be certain about that vocabulary  all right uh let's see here uh let's see bgm says  

it's my first time to attend your live lesson  love it if possible provide us with a schedule  

for live sessions dates uh it's just a wish in  possible time again thanks a lot again uh the  

next video should be on the 29th the 29th actually  uh this will probably be I like I usually don't I  

never do this I never do this ever but uh this  is my you can see some Japanese on here this is  

my actual schedule uh for the videos next month so  you can take a screenshot of this there's actually  

Japanese on here but these are all the dates for  uh for March so we've got looks like it's like  

the 4th 7th 11th 14th 18th 21st 25th and 28th of  March okay there you go for people asking for uh  

for a schedule over there all right uh aanti says  uh where can I find content like example of words  

and context there is an app or something help  just search in the internet yes so you can do  

uh just Google will give you obviously it will it  will give you lots of examples chat GPT as well  

or other I mean it's not just chat GPT that has uh  AI service like that uh or you could use uish I'll  

write that up here for you if that fits let's see  where can they fit here y u g l i h do so yish is  

helpful if you already know the vocabulary uh and  you want to get more examples from that okay all

right uh all right David with a nice hand  over there Ellison says why Interstellar  

main character dialogues are so hard to pick  up even using Subs I watched How I Met Your  

Mother and understood without Subs though uh I've  never seen Interstellar but I I think it's a more  

that's a Christopher Nolan movie I believe uh and  typically he has especially a movie about space  

they're probably like it's like the content itself  is just more difficult to understand so it's not  

the language really maybe they're using some  more difficult words but it would be different  

than a like a TV uh drama Su say I appreciate  your answer glad to hear it uh let's see hello  

from Georgia first time in live so first time to  be live welcome here Danny says hey Drew when when  

was the last time you went to the USA you've  been in living in Japan for many years right  

uh yes I was in I think 2019 it was before covid  I was back in the US uh and I have not been back  

since but I have had family come out to visit me  here uh and I've been in Japan on and off since  

2003 so over 20 years now Fab says do you think  I can read a book uh read the book Thornbirds I  

don't know you you try to read it and tell me  remember if you're reading something uh unless  

you you just want to give yourself a challenge  it's much better if you understand most of the  

content already so if you know the vocabulary  if you're reading a book and uh you understand  

at least 80 to 90% this is what I re recommend  so that any new information you can understand  

it easily from Context without having to get a  dictionary out every five minutes or more Leo says  

uh is flare up meaning getting bad uh again like  flare up this is a phrasal verb where we think  

about like a fire or something getting larger  so to flare up so you might have a small fire  

but then uh it goes onto another building and like  wow flared up so something becomes uh like bigger  

or more intense uh and so you can take that as I  mentioned before in the phrasal verb example where  

we take something you know just like fall down or  I can talk about fall over or fall apart uh and  

then I can use that physical thing to talk about  something else like relationship or a company or  

something like the company or the relationship  fell apart so it used to be connected it was  

strong now it's broken into many pieces it fell  apart okay so the same thing with flare up uh you  

have to think about when you would use it in a  physical way so like a fire physically flares up  

but we could also talk about an argument flared  up so maybe like a meeting at a meeting you have  

a few people they're talking and the president  is is talking with somebody else and they have  

a disagreement so the President says no I don't  think we should do that uh but then I don't know  

the accountant says well we have to do that thing  uh or the business will fail so now who like it  

just flared up into a bigger argument they start  yelling at each other like that so again uh we  

really want to get many examples this is the kind  of thing we do in like especially in the uh visual  

guide to phrasal verbs that I have uh which is  also influent for life but everything there it's  

really designed to help help you understand  things like a native uh let's see here all  

right make says hi studying English or you love  studying English okay from Brazil Jose says hey  

Drew you are a good teacher thanks for the videos  my pleasure Juliet I am late hi there looks like  

some Korean there's great explanation about  instance and example very very good all right  

glad to hear and again get more examples go get  more of them uh I'm I'm trying to be very quick  

about how I do this to make sure I can answer a  lot of questions uh but that's that's the basic  

idea where you you want to look for situations  and patterns in those things so when can we use  

the vocabulary when we cannot all right when can  we not use that vocabulary my says while speaking  

continuously suddenly doesn't get an idea what  to talk next so how to manage the situation for  

example speaking in a large group discussion uh  I talk about this in uh in other videos uh just  

look look for that problem I think like how to  it's like how to speak continuously or something  

I talk about that though uh in other videos news  is not available in Indian currency sir I don't  

know what you're talking about Tu says Hey Ohio  Drew s Ohio goas nice to see you there Muhammad  

says the first sentence use past time but the  second sentence Ed conditional but is a kind  

of chronology between them please explain that  the nurse returned in the morning and found Tom  

dead wait what are you referring to [Music]  uh first sentence is a p but the second use

condition uh no I don't know you referring  to that like the the stuff on the board I  

mean it's it's it's just talking about the past  there's nothing nothing conditional about that  

it's not like if he wanted to do something then  something else or whatever it's just like this  

so the nurses returned in the morning and found  him dead and they told John he would have a new  

roommate soon there nothing conditional about  that uh hi from Ukraine I can't read the cilic  

uh brid says hello to Drew uh the doubt Destroyer  yes the doubt Destroyer that's the problem that's  

the problem we need to solve right there MBO says  do you have phrasal verbs course says yes I have  

a a course called visual guide to phrasal  verbs it's included in fluent for life uh  

how about dual lingo is it help for English uh  I can't really speak about dual lingo because  

I've never used it to try to learn a language but  I would imagine if you want to become a confident  

speaker using an app like that is probably not  going to help you very much it might teach you  

some vocabulary but remember the the English or  whatever language you're learning in an app is  

going to be different from how natives really  speak so the vocabulary will be faster it will  

be more difficult to understand because they might  actually be using slang or idioms or phrasal verbs  

or other things that you're not used to uh so  again I don't I don't I can't really speak about  

that but I've I I don't think I've ever met  anyone who is like oh I only used dual lingo  

and became a fluent speaker or even that that  was like the main way they became fluent um so  

I don't know I can't really speak much about it  uh your class not available in Indian currency  

oh well if you're talking about buying forces from  us uh it's converted automatically during checkout  

so we we recommend like if you want to know how  much it would be whatever the program is like  

xe.com is the shortest way for checking currency  exchanges it's just the shortest website I can  

give to people um so xe.com if you want to look  up how much the price of your like a program would  

be in your local currency uh but everything is  converted automatically a checkout so it doesn't  

matter if you're in India Thailand Vietnam  La whatever like you're you would have a uh  

the currency would be converted automatically all  right let's see how we doing for time look at that  

10:52 all right all right look at that I think  we got we got through an hour uh and hopefully  

people have a better understanding I will give a  quick recap as usual um remember that the goal is  

to understand individual words and phrases really  well and you do this by getting many examples of  

them them you only need is is not like a specific  number it's just how many examples do you need to  

feel confident about something and then I would  still maybe get a few more but uh the goal when  

you feel confident when you get that what I call  the aha moment like ah now I got it when you feel  

that that's when you become fluent in a particular  thing so as you get fluent in more words phrases  

grammar points pronunciation whatever cultural  things that's where you start feeling fluent  

in the language itself okay that's the basic  idea second says hi Drew how long it takes to  

child was born in eua to speak flu eua you mean  like like the USA like a CH like a native child  

born I mean I it probably takes the same anywhere  usually children are learning to speak you know  

they start speaking could be one 2 3 years old  four years old they they they can usually speak  

their language quite well uh and again they it's  because they hear lots of simple examples again  

and again and again but from different people  maybe they watch a TV show or they're getting  

it's is the naturally varied review as I call it  uh that Learners are getting and so the more of  

that you get the naturally varied review will  build your fluency much faster because varied  

examples help you understand things from different  angles rather than you just trying to repeat some  

vocabulary over and over again so if you have one  flash card in your trying to review something it's  

less effective than like seeing different  examples in context um or you know whatever  

whatever helps you understand that thing well uh  how much or you say like you could say how long  

did it take for me to become have a good level of  Japanese uh remember just like I'm explaining in  

this video I become fluent in individual words  and phrases as I understand them uh and once I  

started learning this way I'm basically trying to  learn English or learn Japanese in my case like a  

native Japanese speaker so learning Japanese as a  first language and trying to give my brain as many  

fluency triggers as I can uh and so this is like  the process of doing that for individual words and  

phrases it could be very quick it could be like  a minute or less to become fluent in a particular  

thing or it could take more time there's some  maybe grammar points that I still don't feel  

comfortable with I just need to spend some time  and get more examples of them uh but in general  

just to have good conversations with people uh I  don't know like uh I think once I started learning  

Japanese as a first language it was pretty quick  it was like a few weeks really uh and that was  

just starting to understand things I would I would  be speaking simply at first and then having more  

uh like detailed conversations so you'll see maybe  I'll be able to put it on uh on the channel I was  

on a Japanese TV show a few weeks ago so we  recorded it I don't know when the episode will  

be coming out uh but you can see I'm just like  speaking normally you know the way I would speak  

um but I I I if I'm learning something new it  might take me a little bit of time to understand  

that and then to integrate that into my vocabulary  but it's a much faster process than learning the  

traditional way so actually becoming fluent  doesn't take as much time as people think it's  

just let's get right to the point of eliminating  the doubt uh destroying the doubt you have about  

vocabulary or grammar or pronunciation and then  you unlock the fluency automatically so you're  

you're already trying to explain things it's  just you're really blocked because of doubt  

about whatever that whatever that thing is so  if you remove the doubt you can start speaking  

uh pretty soon actually like within within days  really I mean uh depending on how how much you  

know or how confident you feel uh Abra says man  thanks so much for helping me a lot of respect  

from Saudi Arabia uh y it's my pleasure says  what are the ways to know the level of fluency  

in English I made a video about this as well where  I talking about the three levels of understanding  

so you begin with exposure to the language where  you might not understand it and then you go to  

awareness where you can recognize information  and then you go to ownership and people typically  

watch my videos um they're between or maybe at the  awareness level but not at the ownership level and  

it just means they still have some kind of doubt  about the vocabulary so you can go through these  

phrases very quickly I could teach you something  new and you could understand it very quickly um  

and then like become a more uh confident speaker  or at least use that particular phrase fluently  

and confidently all right so the point is really  to understand that thing very well and if you get  

lots of examples you can do that much faster  than trying to learn the traditional way uh  

this man the best teacher out there well it's my  pleasure if you know other people uh who I could  

help please send them on my way sometimes I have  a difficulty understanding phrasal verb should I  

look it up and Google well the best thing really  to do is get lots of examples of that uh just  

search my channel you will find some phrasal  verb videos there that help you understand the  

way I teach and it's again the way natives would  learn the language and if you want more you can  

join us in fluent for life where the visual guide  to phrasal verbs is is uh would you tell us about  

your site you create on the web oh if you're  like well the like for the the stuff that we do  

on YouTube here you you'll see a lot of my videos  are trying to help people understand how fluency  

really develops and I do teach you know words and  phrases but the the number one goal is to help  

you understand really the the truth about learning  rather than trying to just study more where you're  

trying to study more words and phrases until you  think well if I know a thousand words now I can  

speak fluently that doesn't really work uh and we  know that because people know a lot of vocabulary  

and still can't speak but the opposite where we  look at a young child who gets lots of examples  

of the vocabulary and they eliminate the doubt  that they have about that vocabulary that's when  

they speak and so I just recommend you do the same  thing that's how I got fluent in Japanese that's  

how I helped people get fluent in English and  I've been doing this for 20 years over 20 years I  

did not think I would be like here teaching people  but I really enjoy teaching and seeing people like  

that uh that I I can't see your face out there  but I can tell when people get something like  

just by your comments or you know if I'm teaching  in a classroom I can see also but uh when people  

like ah now I got it you know uh so what we do at  the website is we take these ideas that we have  

on YouTube so there's a lot of content on YouTube  but most of it is really just teaching principles  

about the language if you actually want me to get  you fluent automatically that's what we do in our  

program so like visual guide to phrasal verbs or  fluent for life so all the hard work is done for  

you you don't actually have to go through and  try to find lots of information to learn if you  

just want to become fluent quickly and really  uh without having to take time or have a like  

a person to practice speaking with anything like  that you just want to eliminate the doubt that  

stops you from speaking that's what we do so I am  like uh who was that said that the doubt Destroyer  

so we want to remove the doubt that stops you  from speaking so typically on like if people are  

wondering like why they should join a program  when I have so much content on YouTube you'll  

notice a lot of this is about the same kinds of  themes U like teaching people tips and helping  

them understand so maybe some people don't want to  join a program or they like learning by themselves  

or whatever it that's fine um but uh for people  who want help help who want to get fluent as fast  

as possible especially if they need English for  their career a lot of people who are professionals  

join us like people who are in government or  companies uh those are the people who join my  

programs because they want to get fluent as fast  as possible they're busy doing other things and  

they just want someone to tell them how to get  fluent and like actually so so it's really my job  

uh to get you fluent by triggering your brain the  the fluid communication switch in your brain uh to  

help you understand something and feel confident  about using it all right uh let's see Elizabeth  

says hello my name is Elizabeth I started to watch  your videos recently I love your lessons glad to  

hear it welcome to the welcome to the party  make says it's great you were able you were  

on a Japanese TV show is it possible to watch it  on YouTube uh it's not it hasn't been released yet  

so it's not even on television we just recorded  it um but it was fun I actually did a video like  

part of the part of the episode is here in this  room so I was teaching about how to learn so like  

explaining to them if you want to become fluent  you have to learn English in English rather than  

through Japanese and then we went to a local  ramen restaurant so we're eating eating I was  

introducing uh like a tomato Ramen that I like uh  to this guy and we were talking about that so it  

was an entertaining entertaining show we'll see if  they if they release it I haven't heard anything  

back um but the they were excited to do the show  and we'll see what happens maybe it will be a  

aable on YouTube jio says uh I'm sorry to bother  I am from Grand Rapids Michigan and very impressed  

about you sincerely well there no bother at all  welcome uh and again more hongu teacher I have a  

question take has several meanings but when do you  use it the most all right I think we're going to  

end here because that would be that would go into  like many different uses of things but that's the  

kind of question we answer in the visual guide to  phrasal verbs because I can take more time I can  

take more time take more time and take you through  a nice long explanation and show you many examples  

of how things work so again if you're if you're  nervous about a word check our channel for that  

just to get more examples you can probably find  more but you will find a lot more uh influent for  

life all right let's see Meg says thanks please  let us know when that happens yes uh if I find out  

uh when I find out I will let you know and thank  you for your help teacher all right well it looks  

like that is the end of the video remember take  more time time go into the vocabulary if you're  

uncertain clear up there's another phrasal verb  for you clear up the uncertainty and you will feel  

a lot more confident about it uh let's see uh Ben  says a few days ago I happen to watch a few videos  

with your elder daughter involve more videos like  these yes I have to get Arya and Noel back in the  

videos uh we'll see how that goes all right have a  fantastic day and we'll see you in the next video  

should be on the 29th uh and again I held up my  schedule earlier I'll put that up here again for  

you there you go you get some Japanese in there  as well so that's the character for uh Monday this  

like first one over here little little character  here and then Thursday it's like it's a moon and  

a tree isn't that interesting it's like moon right  yeah Moon and a tree for Monday like moonday isn't  

that interesting Monday and moonday all right have  a fantastic day and we'll see you next time byebye