This English Speaking Practice Guarantees Fluency

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of englishanyone.com and the English fluency guide  welcome to another live video here on YouTube I'm  

going to try to keep this one short and sweet  so short and sweet just meaning I'm going to go  

through this as quickly as possible it's important  information especially if you've been learning  

English for a long time and even trying to speak  with people but you're still not getting fluent  

or you're still not feeling more confident in your  conversations uh but this is also a video for new  

people to the channel so I help people who know a  lot of English but struggle to speak so I'm going  

to show you how you can actually practice your  speaking uh in a way that guarantees fluency so  

often people will continue to try to to say  things by themselves but they really don't  

feel more confident so I'm going to show you why  uh a lot of people struggle typically and then  

something that's actually much faster and easier  to do that will get you fluent guaranteed all  

right hopefully that sounds good uh I'll keep my  eye on chat but let's see uh let's see here I'll  

just go through these very quickly pen so nice to  see you there hello Alberto says hi from sa Paulo  

sair says hey hray good morning Alberto God bless  you see you and we got a bunch of letters over  

here I wanted to study with you but if I can't be  fluently can I have my money back uh well yes we  

obviously guarantee what we do but if you're not  serious about learning anything then don't join  

any of my programs so I always tell people like  if you're like if if you really want something  

you will find a way to do it and so if you join  uh what I if you like already like what I do here  

on YouTube uh and you'd like to join our programs  they are guaranteed but but most people that join  

if they just follow the steps they become more  confident speakers because it really is a very  

logical process uh but if you're already thinking  about uh getting a refund before you join then  

probably joining is not a good idea uh sair says  all over from Bangladesh uh really satisfied your  

notification glad to hear it thanks for helping  us it's my pleasure hi I'm back I'm just trying  

to go through these very quickly your way is so  good but I'm afraid afraid of what what exactly  

are you afraid up well let's go through this video  and see if I can make you less afraid all right uh  

let's get started so uh what I want to do here is  actually just give you a demonstration of how you  

should be learning so you practice your speaking  but hopefully it will get you to think about  

speaking practice in a different way uh especially  if you have been uh not following my channel if  

you are new to the channel hopefully this will  change the way you think about what speaking  

practice is so you become more confident now the  basic idea is that what most people do I will call  

this uh English see if this fits up here English  as a second language ESL so when people are  

learning they're typically learning uh the English  language through their native language so they  

have some kind of subtitles uh or translations or  something that helps them understand the language  

better uh but the problem with this is that if  you learn through translations you will think  

and speak through translations and this is a big  reason why a lot of people struggle to communicate  

so we're going to go through this process with  how speaking practice works for ESL and then  

we'll show you what this is like for what I do  and then actually give you a demonstration of  

that so you become more confident from this video  itself and I'll just prove to you that this works  

all right uh so basically with English as a  second language you begin by learning something  

so usually the first thing you do is just you  learn maybe they give you uh like some kind of  

I don't know just like a lesson about whatever it  could be Greetings or learning some vocabulary but  

because you're learning through a translation  you don't really feel very confident about  

the vocabulary and so the second thing you do uh  either by yourself or with a partner or something  

is you try to speak and from this process uh  the the idea is that people hopefully become  

fluent somehow after they've they've kind of  spoken a lot but that's this is this is it this  

is basically the English uh as a second language  approach so you learn something and then you try  

to speak but why is this not getting people very  fluent so everybody almost everybody learns any  

language this way it doesn't matter this is not  just for English this is for learning uh Japanese  

or German or French pretty much everybody is  learning uh whatever that language uh as a second  

language through their native language so they  begin by learning something and then they try to  

speak by trying to repeat that information again  and again uh so let's just take a a word that's  

pretty simil uh simil simple excuse me uh like the  word root so you will learn the word root as an  

example uh and maybe you will get a translation  of that from your native language and then you  

just try to repeat the word root Root Root Root  Root Root you just say the word again and again  

and you still don't for some reason really feel  very confident about using the word okay so you  

might remember it maybe you don't remember it  but this is generally the process that happens  

when you're learning English as a second language  so most people who would be watching this video  

uh this is how they began learning languages  okay so what I'm going to show you now is what  

I do and this is the opposite approach this  is learning English as a first language and  

I'm going to take you through the steps that  I use personally to become a confident speaker  

of Japanese this is the same stuff I teach my own  students for English uh and it's what I recommend  

on my Channel all right so as we we're going  to contrast this here I'll move the word root

over we'll leave root here for now so this  is again the English as a excuse me English  

as a first language approach now what you're  going to notice here like we've got these two  

different phases so a phase like this p h a s e  so two different parts or two different phases  

of learning uh but what we're really trying  to do when we're learning English as a first  

language we really go through four steps rather  than two uh and you'll see that most of this is  

actually not opening your mouth so most of the  process of speaking practice it's preparation  

that prepares you so preparation getting you  ready to speak so the first thing we do is we  

try to usually get some kind of exposure to  the Lang language so I'll just put exposure

here so we hear the word root for example I'll use  the same word over here root so we hear the word  

root maybe we don't know exactly what it means  but we hear it maybe it could just be I'm I'm  

using a simple word you might already know uh but  hopefully this example will make you understand  

the word even better all right that's really  the point of this video so we get exposed to  

some new vocabulary we hear it or we read it or  we see it on TV or something like that uh we're  

exposed to it and maybe we hear a sentence like  like the root of a plant okay so we have a plant  

over here and here is the uh maybe we're learning  the different parts of the plant and these are  

the roots down here Root Root Root Root and you  might even learn more like detailed things we're  

not going to go into the the parts of the plant  but in general like the things that little kids  

would learn about a plant we've got the FL and  the leaves this is the stem here s m and these  

are the roots okay so maybe let's just imagine  this is your first time hearing this word you hear  

the word root and if you don't hear it again you  probably won't remember that word okay so this is  

being exposed to the language and most people like  this is basically the same thing here with ESL so  

we're being exposed we're hearing something maybe  for the first time but we're not really getting  

getting like a lesson about it I guess this is  kind of a lesson but if you think about in the  

in the real world how you might hear something uh  we're just hearing something from other people or  

seeing it somewhere okay so that's exposure uh to  the language so someone just said what is efl so  

this is English as a second language and this  is English as a first language now people will  

tell you wait wait Drew efl means English as a  foreign language but it's really not a meaningful  

distinction it's there's nothing really different  there for English if you're learning English as a  

second language or learning English as a foreign  language so I don't really care about that  

distinction I'm just calling this efl because it's  easier for people to understand a second language  

means learning through your uh native language  and learning English as a first language means  

you learn English directly so you notice I'm  speaking to you all in English but I'm keeping  

my language quite simple so you can understand  what I'm saying okay so I'm trying to teach every  

all in English because if you learn in English you  will speak all in English Okay so again we begin  

with exposure we have a plant we see an example  like this and now we're going to move on to step  

two so step two this is where we're really trying  to develop our understanding this is what I call

awareness now here's what's interesting from  this so we begin with a word like root we get  

exposed to the the word we hear it we see it  whatever however we get the word and then now  

we're listening for the word all right so  just the word exposure over here uh just  

to make sure people understand what this is to  expose something like this part of my skin is  

exposed you can see it like the sun can touch  my skin the light can touch it but this part of  

my skin is not exposed it's covered okay so if I  expose something like if I take my shirt off I'm  

exposing you know my body to expose something  so when you are exposed to information it just  

means it's hitting you in some way okay I  think I've talked more uh in detail about  

this topic uh quite a bit oh no of course we get  a fire an ambulance or something like usual uh  

but again the point is you're some information  is just coming to you but you might not really  

understand it or you might not remember  that information maybe you only hear it  

one time and you forget it and this happens  all the time like every day you are getting  

new information that's that's coming to you maybe  you listen to something or you see an ad on TV or  

something like that uh but it's lots of new  information so you're being exposed to this  

all right just like you were exposed to the sun if  you were outside all right but you're not really  

controlling anything with this and you probably  don't understand it very well I could expose you  

to some new English and you probably at this point  would not feel very confident about it okay so we  

go on to this the interesting thing about exposure  is it goes into your head and now your brain is a  

little bit kind of listening for that thing so  maybe if we hear that word again you will think  

oh isn't that interesting so let's say you go to  the dentist uh and the dentist is you know he's  

looking at your going to draw kind of a a tooth  here and he says there's a problem with your

roots and you think oh isn't that interesting  just like we have the plant over here

so in the same way that a plant has roots these  are the roots of your teeth these are the roots  

of your teeth and so some people might have to get  their like their Roots you know pulled out or we  

have to pull some teeth maybe there's a cavity  like a hole in one of your roots something like  

that but you recognize oh wait a minute like  a root it doesn't just mean this right here it  

doesn't just mean uh this part of a plant it's is  kind of a look at that it's like a little thing  

that helps kind of hold something into something  else okay so when you're learning English as a  

second language you just get a translation of a  word like this but you're not really understanding  

the deeper meaning of it and because you're not  understanding the deeper meaning of it you're not  

really feeling very confident about using it okay  so again you just learn something very quickly  

maybe you get a translation or a definition of  that thing but you don't really understand it  

like a native does okay and natives they need  lots of different examples to hear things very  

well okay so when you really understand things  we're developing awareness now we're really  

starting to understand that thing better and  this is where a lot of students get stuck so  

they get to the kind of awareness level where  they hear it oh maybe they they hear like a  

different example but they still maybe don't  remember it or still don't feel very confident  

uh and it's typically because they're not  getting more examples to really understand  

what something means all in English Okay but  you can see how we we usually get one example  

the the exposure is like the first time  we hear something so we see an example of  

something like plant roots but then maybe we  hear that again later sometime oh oh look at  

that you got some teeth roots over here okay and  so now we're feeling a little bit more confident  

we understand that thing a little bit better and  we're probably recognizing it more when we hear  

these things in conversations okay and now we're  going to go to the next level of this which is

ownership where we really feel confident because  we're getting lots of examples lots of naturally  

varied review so I've already given you some  a little bit of that varied review where we  

have a plant root and then we have the root  of a tooth but we can also get more detailed  

or varied examples of things like the root of  a problem okay so let's say I have a problem  

at work I don't really know what exactly the  cause of that thing is so here is my problem  

but I don't really know the reason for that  so let's say I have an employee who's always  

late all right so that's the problem but I don't  know why that employee is always late I want to  

know the root of the problem the root the real  reason the actual true cause of that thing and  

so we have the root the reason for the problem oh  so maybe they have to take a bus uh or something  

that bus is late and they they they try to  be on time but sometimes the bus is late and  

they can't do anything about that whatever the  reason is um but we're looking for the root of  

the problem the root of the problem and so  when you hear this you feel oh wow look at  

that we can take a physical idea and we can  also get this more interesting idea of like  

the root of a problem or the root of an issue  something like that so the root of a problem

a problem or an issue so what's the real cause of  that thing the root of that so like if it's all  

coming from down here the same way uh the plant  roots are creating the plant we have the root  

of a problem the real cause of that problem okay  does that make sense so as you get these examples  

you should be feeling more and more confident  about it now you can also talk about the roots

the roots of your

family so the roots of your family or your family  Roots it's talking about where did you come from  

so maybe my family we live in the United States  right now but maybe my roots are from I don't know  

wherever some place in Europe or where wherever  you're from okay so these are your roots you're  

talking about in the the same way just like the  plant we're really understanding things okay  

another good example there from zener one money  is the root of all evil so that's a very common  

phrase money is the root of all evil so if we talk  about all these different evil things might happen  

they all come from money okay that's the idea  of that phrase money is the root of all evil  

so it's the cause of all that okay and as you get  these examples you really start to take ownership  

of the word it really feels like you understand  that thing very well and again you'll notice  

something important here if you can get these  varied examples quickly then you become fluent  

faster okay but in in real life many people are  not learning like this they might hear one example  

and then a month later they hear a different  one or a year later they hear a different one  

and then they finally understand something and  they think oh now I get it so my job is really  

to give you a series of systematic examples like  this so I can call this a fluency trigger where  

I'm trying to help you understand something very  quickly by giving you lots of varied examples uh  

same thing with hair another good example so  the roots of your hair so if I've got my hair  

like if I try to pull that out [ __ ] oh I've  got you can see the actual roots of the hair so  

the same thing the tree roots tooth uh like  the roots of your tooth or the plant roots  

all of those things but uh after hearing all  this you should feel much more confident about  

using the word roots there's even a movie  called Roots that's talking about this  

like the history of uh people roots does  this make sense all right so the fourth

thing finally we speak

okay so you have two different ways of practicing  a language you can try to learn something a little  

bit maybe get a definition or a translation  and you understand one thing and maybe you  

remember maybe you don't and then you just try  to repeat that thing to yourself over and over  

and over again and hopefully you remember  all right or you can spend a lot of your  

time actually not even that much time depending  on how quickly you can get the information just  

like I'm giving it to you now if you can get  this quickly then you will become much more  

confident you will feel that ownership level of  understanding much faster and then that's what  

allows you to speak so you see how all of these  things they they go into the next level right  

here so if you're exposed to something enough  you will become aware of it you will feel more  

confident and if you get that systematically you  really understand lots of different ways of people  

using that or you hear different examples from  different speakers then you really feel confident  

about how to say a word grammatically how it works  how the pronunciation works okay and that's what  

makes you speak okay so again you could try  to speak you can force yourself to speak if  

you want to but if you want to become a fluent  speaker much faster this is the way to do it so  

the English as a first language approach where you  actually spend most of your time not speaking all  

right again a couple things to notice here this  is a faster way to do it like if you get this uh  

you can see in this video how long did that take  I don't know 10 minutes or something explaining  

these different examples uh and that's just  one word but now you can you're not really just  

learning the word roots you're understanding the  cause of something understanding how uh different  

the the different situations that you can use this  word in so it's not just about the like plant root  

or something like that it's understanding the  cause or where something comes from okay pretty  

interesting right and so the speak speaking is  the result of all of this understanding on the  

typical approach where you're learning English  as a second language you might feel confident  

but probably not and you won't really understand  something very well so when you try to speak you  

won't really feel very confident but here because  you understand something so well you have the  

confidence to speak okay remember it's really the  doubt that stops you from speaking so if you don't  

learn something very well you don't understand  it very well then you probably will have doubts  

that stop you from speaking all right but if you  really look at all these examples you've got so  

I've I've I've taught you I've basically taught  you one word but shown you how it can be used  

in many different situations okay and you really  feel much more confident about understanding that  

and of course uh as you you're getting these  examples you're also hearing me explain things  

and you're listening to my pronunciation uh and  so there's many different things or there are  

many different things you're getting as you learn  this way okay hopefully this makes sense I'm going  

to go back and check comments to make sure people  are following me still and then we'll do maybe one  

more quick example uh but you can let me know if  you have any questions about that so it really is  

a simple process you don't need to force yourself  to speak uh but maybe you could have uh just  

some time learning by yourself getting many more  examples of things and then when you do have that  

situation uh you will feel much more confident  all right let's go back and check uh chat see if I  

missed anybody here all right pardon me as I as  I try to just go through this let's see all right  

last month I graduated ESL I can't even speak it  well yeah so that that's the is not your fault I  

really want to say that it's not your fault this  is the way most people speak uh or the way most  

people learn any language and they do that just  because of trying to pass tests so if you have  

to take a class in University they might have  you speak but it's usually not the same thing  

as speaking with uh real people in real life  uh so most people are not becoming confident  

Speakers by learning English the traditional way  Wellington says hello here again soan speak less  

bro all right uh y you mean speak slow actually  maybe he's telling me to speak less maybe that's  

what he means but when people come to watch these  videos it's like you aren't really just learning  

one word if you really pay attention to how I  speak you will become more fluent as you get all  

these examples all right so people might think  uh maybe I just want to learn a few words very  

quickly but if you're watching this video it means  you're not yet a confident speaker uh or if you  

are you're wasting your time watching this video  uh but if you're not a confident speaker then you  

really should be spending more time listening to  more examples uh and that's what's going to help  

you become a more fluent speaker it's very simple  all right Z zakan says Drew can you you can say I  

don't have practice speak speaking to get fluent  just practice more listening to get fluency how  

is this possible without speaking practice too uh  hopefully this answers that question remember the  

goal is not to only listen okay right now you're  actually watching something uh the the point is to  

understand the language better so I'm not saying  you only need to listen because I wouldn't I  

wouldn't teach my children English or Japanese  uh by like I don't know covering their eyes up  

and making sure they can't touch anything or taste  anything that would be stupid uh you want to get  

as many different kinds of information as you can  and so you want to see things and hear things try  

writing things down but the point is the speaking  if you don't feel confident you're not going to  

speak anyway so why would you bother okay so if  you don't feel confident and that's probably why  

you're watching this video because if you were a  confident speaker you wouldn't be watching this  

video uh but if you if you don't feel confident  then stop trying to speak it's much better to  

spend your time and you can do this by yourself  just getting lots of examples that help you  

understand the language okay so you can do this  by yourself this is also what we do in fluent for  

life which you can learn about by clicking on the  the link in the description below this video but  

the point is as you can see it's pretty easy to  do this if you start getting many more examples  

and understanding them in context the same way  a native does all right but that's the goal so  

we're not trying to learn something quickly at a  shallow level I want to really help you understand  

something deep deeply like Roots you know to  understand something deeply not just getting  

a quick example and understanding something that  you don't really feel confident about using all  

right uh I know he speaks a lot at the end all his  words become meaningless all right let's see here  

uh let's see all right uh understood what does he  okay we answered that already thank you very much  

you're a good teacher glad to hear can I talk with  you like text you well if you have a question just  

let me know Isaac said I speak English fairly well  but I am always Desiring to improve my speech and  

lexicon yes so uh typically if you're trying to  improve if if you already feel confident that's  

great but maybe you want to learn some additional  vocabulary or something without hearing your  

speech I wouldn't know for sure uh but many people  uh actually know a lot of vocabulary but still  

don't feel confident using it because of this they  actually just don't understand the vocabulary very  

well well so they might think they do but really  they don't all right and so they they have an  

issue maybe the pronunciation or the grammer or  vocabulary whatever that thing is uh but that's  

what stops them from speaking all right uh and  I think I answered anette's question already uh  

let's see the real cause Jack says how's it going  I'm Med from Syria thanks for your great video  

glad to hear it all right uh why do I understand  you but I don't understand other people says Biv  

bival if I'm pronouncing that correctly uh the B  basic reason is because I'm speaking more slowly  

more clearly and using more basic vocabulary  that's it so I'm trying to be understandable  

in the same way that uh many English teachers  on YouTube or in a classroom or whatever would  

try to be understandable so if you want to become  a fluent speaker it's good to have a teacher who  

can explain things but then you still need lots  of examples of native speech so you get used to  

that speech as well if you don't listen to real  examples of natives you will not become a more  

confident speaker it will still be difficult for  you to understand so if you spend all of your time  

watching YouTube videos about English learning  but you don't have a systematic way to understand  

natives as well you're probably going to struggle  all right uh have you seen the show called Roots  

yes that's the same thing so that was based on a  book and it became uh a show all right uh Isaac  

again let's yeah that's coming from the the King  James Bible do you live near a hospital why do  

I hear an ambulance and in our in your lives yes  uh up the street there is a uh a fire station so  

they I think they have ambulances and fire trucks  over there AR says do you live yeah okay uh speak  

in English wherever you are and whenever you are  yes so again speaking in English is a good idea  

but I'm saying that understanding you notice  most of this process is just understanding in  

my I think two videos ago I gave an example about  this how the the thing that most people do if we  

compare these so the English as a second language  approach they don't really learn the vocabulary  

very well and then they spend their time trying to  force themselves to speak so this is the learning  

phase and this is the speaking practice phase  but I'm telling you to do the opposite where you  

actually spend more of your time which you can do  by yourself so you don't need to wait for anyone  

to speak with you you spend most of your time  understanding the vocabulary and that way when  

you do have the opportunity to speak the words  just come out naturally so I find this like when  

I'm when I'm learning Japanese I don't spend uh  actually much of my time at all speaking Japanese  

but I do read a lot and listen uh and learn a lot  of Japanese but when I'm in a speaking situation  

then the Japanese just comes out okay because I've  spent a lot of time really trying to understand  

the language very well all right I promise you  you will become a more confident speaker if you  

do that all right uh and it doesn't matter what  the vocabulary is like you see even I I took a  

basic word like Roots just to show you that it  really like it works basically with anything  

so the more examples and even not just getting  them only from me like one speaker you should  

be getting them from many different speakers and  that will help you understand the vocabulary much  

better uh let's see I want your Instagram we'll  just search English anyone on Instagram all right  

uh let's let's see I listen and read a lot is it  is it enough well you tell me if you're if you're  

unhappy or unsatisfied with your English then you  know you you probably should not continue doing  

whatever you're doing and this is what I tell most  people if you're already a good speaker then you  

don't need to watch my videos just go do whatever  you're already doing and keep doing it you know  

but if you're if you're trying to do something  and it's not working then maybe you should try  

something different you know that's not just for  language learning that's for anything uh let's see  

and Usama says man I think my shyness is the main  reason I feel awkward whenever I try to speak I  

gave an i exam last week Sunday I am very nervous  how I will speak there uh the shyness can be an  

issue if you also have a I don't know nervousness  or you feel shy in your native language but if  

you speak confidently in your native language  but you feel shy when speaking English you're  

not really shy it's just that you don't know the  language well enough so you have doubts about the  

language that stop you from speaking that's the  real reason that's the root cause that stops you  

from speaking okay so the doubt is the real root  of the communication difficulty all right so it's  

not really shyness people aren't just like shy  for no reason uh typically they might be worried  

about something or they're nervous about something  but uh typically uh that's the reason okay so if  

you're if you're not shy in your your native  language but you are shy in English it just  

means you need to understand the language better  okay so just like I gave this example with root if  

you take that example and you apply that to other  things this is what we do in fluent for life but  

you can easily do that by yourself if you like um  but I'm just showing you that you really should be  

spending more time not speaking and the speaking  actually comes from how well you understand the  

language I promise you if you take I mean I I want  to make this very short and simple so that's why  

I take a short simple word and show you how this  works uh but hopefully it proves that you really  

can become more confident about individual words  and phrases as you understand them more like a  

native okay so we're not trying to speak uh after  we get a definition or translation or something we  

try to speak after we really understand something  well okay all right uh let me go through these uh  

quickly over here do you have a lot of programs  which one uh well just go to English anyone.com or  

click on the link in the description of this video  to learn more about fluent for Life specifically  

uh Frederick is good for pronunciation and  listening as well uh you can get the link for  

that in the description also uh I don't have  a lot of programs because I want I just like  

have some maybe two or three very focused things  that I want people to do uh and if I have like  

30 programs then people won't know what to do and  then they just study some random things uh again  

you should be learning like a native and doing  it systematically that's what's going to get you  

fluent much faster uh Anda says oh teacher I'm so  happy for attending your live and seeing you glad  

to hear it jerma says Hi teacher it's a pleasure  to watch one more class uh zener says as for me  

exposure is very important I call it Discovery  way of learning it feels exciting to discover  

something in that mind and I learn words by heart  yes uh you're I I I talk about this as well it's  

a very important good point about that um when  you can understand something through Discovery  

you really get much faster to the ownership level  because nobody taught you something you just kind  

of understood something often exposure happens I  could be at the airport and I just listen to some  

other people talking but I don't really understand  what they're saying maybe I hear a new word and  

I don't quite know the meaning of it um but as I  get more awareness if I can do this by myself then  

I feel very confident about that and that's why  when I'm teaching uh I try not to just give you a  

definition I want to give you a bunch of different  examples so that you feel much more confident you  

feel excited like you discovered something for  yourself okay so that feeling of wow look at that  

like I solved the puzzle uh often the traditional  English as a second language approach like the  

teacher will just solve the puzzle for you and  that's a lot of the reason why it's boring so  

they just give you an English word and a word in  your native language and just say that's what it  

means but for me I'm actually trying to help you  understand it like a native so you discover the  

meaning of the word and that makes it much more  memorable and you feel much better about learning  

uh lots of good reasons to do that uh let's see uh  okay Bridget says Hi teacher Drew sometimes it's  

the old ways in the mind that is blocking the  efl uh of learning yeah it's like people learn  

that way but most people just have never heard  about this I didn't hear about this when I was  

learning languages for 15 years either I just I  just heard about this you know people just say  

well just learn and you know force yourself to  speak get out there and have courage you know  

but as a teacher I don't want to tell people to do  that that's not really good advice because like if  

I just say okay hey keep hitting your head on a  wall and uh hopefully eventually you will become  

a good speaker it doesn't really work like that  and it's you know I'm not teaching you anything  

but here I'm actually trying to show you how the  learning process process works and how you can  

feel much more confident uh as you're doing things  all right uh I got that one already maybe I have  

to learn more phrasal verbs that's my weakness and  also have to review some words because I forget  

them when I don't use it uh yeah it could be but  it's typically not the specific vocabulary you're  

learning it's just how you learn the vocabulary  and young children know maybe not many words but  

they use them very fluently because they know  that vocabulary very well so they go through  

this process uh and really everybody goes through  this process you could go through it very quickly  

in 1 minute or five minutes or something or it  could take you a few years if you don't get good  

examples in a systematic way so that's the the  value of getting these examples much faster uh  

how much time it takes to be fluent with you uh  well again like I just showed I just uh showed  

you with this video that you can become fluent in  a single word in a few minutes uh and that process  

can actually happen much faster and then usually  what we do with fluent for Life uh is we teach you  

a few hundred new words and some of the vocabulary  you already know that maybe you don't understand  

very well so we really help you understand that  and that's about 30 days uh if you go through the  

whole process but that's much more than me just  talking to you like this you're actually hearing  

examples of native speakers talking um and and  getting the whole process so I'm most of these  

YouTube videos it's just me maybe teaching some  vocabulary or explaining some principles about  

language learning uh like this like how you should  actually be developing speaking practice but  

you'll see that the the actual speaking practice  is is not you speaking isn't that interesting  

speaking just comes at the end when you feel much  more confident about it uh whatever it is you're  

learning uh let's see I'm from uh Sri Lanka glad  to see you now uh first time to come to the live  

glad to If I buy a program can I text you well  we don't do like texting with anybody but you  

can certainly ask us questions send us emails we  have comment sections uh in all of our lessons so  

anytime we're waiting to help people and answer  questions uh let's see George says I consider  

the most difficult situation for a Spanish speaker  is to speak in the past yeah I can't really speak  

about Spanish but there's nothing logically  different uh about learning English uh if you  

learn it as a first language so it's difficult  if you're trying to go from your like your native  

language into the past so in the Japanese example  the sentence structure is different so I would say  

the English equivalent would be like I Pizza eat  instead of I eat pizza and that could be confusing  

for me if I try to translate the vocabulary  because I'm trying to reorganize the words but  

if I understand it as a native I just think oh  like yeah i p e there's nothing like logically  

different about it they just organize the language  in a different way uh but if I understand it  

directly in Japanese then it becomes much faster  and easier for me to understand uh great to be  

here learning with you sorry I'm late the real  root what is the difference between accuracy and  

fluency uh says Denson I'll let you Google that  uh that's pretty easy to Google Michael says my  

writing and reading are very well you would say  very good uh but I struggle to speak English how  

can I improve this is it this is how you improve  so remember if you want to speak fluently fluently  

means you can communicate like I'm doing now  without hesitating or translating or getting  

stuck on something if even maybe right now  there's something I want to say but maybe  

I forget a word or I think maybe that's not  the best way to explain it I try to say it in  

a different way so I have lots of knowledge about  the language because I learned English in this way  

and that's what allows me to speak so if you want  to speak fluently and you want to again be able to  

communicate quickly respond well when people are  asking you things again having a good conversation  

then you just need to know the language better  so don't spend your time trying to repeat things  

spend your time understanding the language well I  promise you you will feel more confident speaking  

uh if you understand the language well I really I  really can't say it more easily than that uh and  

it's the same thing really in anything in life  like if I tell you all right I want you to go  

to a golf game and just start playing golf and  maybe you don't know anything about Golf and you  

don't hit the ball very well whatever but if you  know the game really well you're probably going  

to be a better a better player of the game uh and  MBO says I have a problem understanding phrasal  

verbs what are they why are they difficult what  is the difference between a phrasal verb and a  

verb uh just Google my or you can search my  YouTube channel for examples of that well I  

spent a lot of time talking about phrasal verbs  but you can understand how that works do you have  

any strategy for learning idioms and slang to  sound more like a native speaker uh well it'd  

be the same thing like this so I'll give you  another example uh we we covered the word root  

but I thought I would do maybe one more example  if I had time uh let's see here I'll just think  

of an example very quickly since you're asking  about this so we'll go through this same process

again with a different phrase so rather than  just an individual word like Roots uh let's  

imagine we're trying to learn an idiom  or phrase or something like that but the  

process works in the same way so let's say we  get uh we're just getting exposed to something  

we're uh let's say talking about running all  right uh so someone is running and every day  

they're trying to practice they're trying to  run a little bit more because they're training  

for a race or a marathon or something so they're  running and maybe every day they try to they try  

to run three miles I'm sorry for the people using  the metric system over here but maybe let's say  

3 miles or I don't know 5 kilm or or whatever  so every day they try running this and they're  

they're trying to uh I don't know maybe they  they just again want to do that but but maybe  

one day they decide I'm going to push myself  a little bit further and I'm going to run uh  

3 miles and a half or four miles uh this day  so instead of running 3 miles they're going to  

run 4 miles today and they get extra tired but  they feel good because they went the extra mile  

they they tried to run a little bit more they  tried to work a little bit harder uh and that  

that felt good to them so they trained their  body a little bit more they push themselves to  

do more than they should okay now uh if you were  listening carefully I just exposed you to a very  

common phrase in English did you catch it maybe  you've heard it maybe not uh but this is often  

how people are exposed to vocabulary maybe you're  listening to someone talking and someone uses a  

phrase maybe you don't quite hear it did anyone  catch that phrase I'll write it down for you

here see if anyone can write it  down before I write it down over

here to go the extra mile to go the extra mile  so every day this person is practicing they're  

practicing running maybe they're training or doing  something and they usually run three miles but one  

day they decide to push themselves to do more than  what they usually do and they run an additional  

mile so they're doing more than they have to  or more than they should just really to to make  

like that extra effort to support themselves in  their their training so they went the extra mile  

all right so we have a situation like this we're  exposing you to something I'm trying to help you  

understand it a little bit more to get you to the  awareness Wess level so we think oh like to go the  

extra mile so that would come from just a regular  situation there's nothing tricky about this these  

are all words you know so to go the extra like  additional plus something to go the extra mile  

so they ran an extra mile but from this now we  want to take you to the awareness level and maybe  

we give you more examples about people going the  extra mile in different situations so maybe I go  

to a hotel uh and they maybe they made I don't  know like a lot of reservations and I wanted to  

stay at a hotel and they were all booked uh but  I went there and they said well we're sorry uh  

all of our rooms are booked for tonight so we  don't have any rooms available but uh we will  

call some other hotels and make a reservation  for you and I think wow that's really nice they  

went the extra mile for me so they didn't have to  do that but because they want to have really good  

service like they could have just said I'm sorry  uh we don't have any rooms maybe try someplace  

else so so that's kind of typical level but they  went above and beyond the typical level they went  

the extra mile for me okay so they went the extra  mile maybe I go to a store and they don't have uh  

like a particular I don't know I'm I'm looking  for some furniture uh and they say oh well I'm  

sorry we don't have this particular Furniture but  we could build something that fits your particular  

Dimensions would you like us to do that and I  think oh wow like they didn't have to do that  

but they went the extra mile for me okay so see  how this process it still works the same way no  

matter what you're learning and it doesn't matter  if it's grammar or pronunciation and you'll know  

like the grammar and pronunciation and vocabulary  they really all are together when you're learning  

things but this is actually the process and then  as you get more and more examples maybe you hear  

some other people talking about the same thing and  now you will really be listening for it when you  

hear oh like to go the extra mile for something  okay so like I go the extra mile here trying to  

answer questions for people even though I don't  have to do that like I go the extra mile to make  

sure I do okay sometimes maybe I there're just  too many questions and I can't answer them all  

if I don't have time but usually I try to go the  extra mile and answer everyone's questions okay  

does that make sense so as you're hearing all of  these examples you should be understanding better  

the doubt should be disappearing you should be  feeling more confident so all of these things  

are happening before you speak before you speak  and then when you are in a conversation oh like  

someone went the extra mile or you're describing  that and maybe you have you could just say it like  

yeah someone made a good effort or someone did  like a really good job or someone did more than  

they had to do you could say all those but wow  someone just went the extra mile for me or for  

someone or just someone went the extra mile  so maybe someone at work he was working on a  

presentation uh and he stayed up all night to  find additional pictures or something to make  

it look really good to make it even better so he  didn't have to do that but he went the extra mile  

okay and so you'll notice as you start getting  these when you get to the point so as you go  

go through these stages these phases of learning  when you get to the point where you feel ownership  

you know what people are going to say before they  speak so you can anticipate that and when you can  

anticipate it means you feel very confident about  something and you should be able to use that in  

conversations as well okay so at this point maybe  you try using it in a conversation you might make  

a mistake or something just because the vocabulary  is new but you should be able to use that thing  

quite quickly okay to go the extra mile so if  you go the extra mile with your learning it's  

the same thing so if you if you study just a  little bit maybe you get a few examples but  

if you go the extra mile you really will become  a confident speaker much faster okay all right  

let's go through these last questions here and  uh we'll make sure hopefully I'll be able to oh  

my goodness I'm getting through getting a lot of  these comments now all right uh let's see where  

did I leave off here uh oh I can't answer that one  uh doubt is the root of communication difficulty  

Isaac yes you got it exactly so I mean there could  be other reasons but it's typically people are in  

a conversation or they're learning something and  they don't quite understand it and that's what  

stops them from speaking so if you have doubt or  uncertainty or fear it's really what what we're  

talking about that's the root of the issue uh  so I recommend you go the extra mile and just  

get lots of examples get more examples of a thing  until you really feel confident with it but says  

my teacher what to do with advice the letter  to start with vocabulary reading or what well  

just find you know think about your level and find  something interesting for you whatever that is so  

try not to think about um like don't don't think  about learning certain vocabulary you basically  

want to combine an interest uh with with like  maybe maybe some some like level of vocabulary  

for you so that's so let say I like I like cars  uh but so my interest is cars uh but my level is  

low so I should watch YouTube videos about cars  made for kids okay it's pretty simple so I'm  

not really trying to focus on particular grammar  because the grammar isn't really important what's  

important is do I understand when vocabulary  is used for different situations so I need to  

connect situations with vocabulary all right  so people say things in different situations  

and if we just kind of learn vocabulary like this  then we're not really learning about situations  

we're just trying to take vocabulary in English  and connect that with vocabulary in your native  

language but instead we should be taking words and  understanding when or why natives are using them  

for a particular situation okay but that's how  you would do it so you think about an interest  

you have and whatever your English level is and  then you find something some kind of content for  

that okay so don't make this difficult don't try  to study a bunch of rules just look for Content  

that and you you can find a lot of this so you  can look for like let's say uh like videos about  

cars for elementary school kids or how to fix a  car for element school kids and it will teach you  

some basic things about the language uh but you'll  learn it naturally you'll see a car and people  

fixing it and learn the different pieces of cars  and things like that uh so that that's how you  

should be learning those things again the point  the point is not to just learn the vocabulary  

it's to learn it well enough that you really  understand that vocabulary all right uh let's

see uh where did I where did I oh no where did  I go YouTube keeps moving this I really I really  

want to have the uh I need some way to control  this that would be very good uh writing versus  

speaking can be a wide sea of difference yeah  that's true uh learn by firsthand experience  

yes so again like trying to discover things  for yourself and understand them very well  

uh that's what's going to help you speak abdos  says thank you teacher for your effort really  

we learn us the smarter way how to learn but  I want to ask you sometimes I learn a word  

but when the word I need it uh forget almost  word when I speak but replaced it uh I don't  

quite understand what you're saying but I think  you mean you learn something and you forget it uh  

and it's okay if that happens usually it it just  means you didn't learn it very well or you don't  

remember it very well uh but you should be able  to use something different and that's again why we  

want to get naturally varied review so naturally  varied review uh part of this like one example is  

taking one word and really understanding it very  well another example is hearing a situation so  

you see people talking about something and you  see different ways people might describe that  

because there are many different ways you could  you could express something so he says hello my  

favorite teacher your methods of teaching English  is awesome I understand your English even when  

you're fast but some people I don't understand  when they are speaking English too fast what to  

do uh again we we go through this whole process  of helping you understand the language very well  

usually from a particular teacher but you have  to see more examples of natives talking about  

these same things so you would you would continue  this so with what I'm giving you now you should  

feel more confident about using this but to hear  other natives using the same expression that will  

make you feel even more confident that you know  how to say things well and that you are prepared  

when others speak uh especially if they're not  so clear so this is what we do influent for Life  

uh could you please share some tips for cc Qs  please I don't know what that is uh let's see  

uh t uh let's see uh [Laughter] yes if you are  if you are learning and you are understanding and

like okay so we need to practice more we need  to understand better and that's what's going to  

help you become a much more confident speaker but  hopefully this makes sense I don't want to spend  

too much time speaking in Japanese though uh STI  says I teach I'm from Ethiopian you would say I  

am Ethiopian or I'm from Ethiopia I'm following  your channel for beginner in English can I I can  

understand a little uh anyone to talk in English  says Antonio so you can talk remember but I I  

really do recommend it's much easier to do this  isn't that exciting to know that you can improve  

by yourself wouldn't you like to do that wouldn't  that be much better see I would rather spend my  

time just learning by myself and then when I  have people to speak with then I feel confident  

speaking so you can speak with other people or  you can even speak with chat GPT uh I talked  

about that in my previous video but you don't  have to do that Joy says do you think listening  

to podcast is a good exposure for beginners uh  not really the reason I don't recommend podcasts  

is because it's much better to see things as well  so video is going to be much better if you're at a  

higher level then podcasts are good and you can  learn while you're doing other things but young  

children they they like actually interact with  things or they see things on video it would be a  

much more difficult way for them to learn if they  only listened so try to get more examples watch  

our beginning English playlist on our Channel just  search for that we have a playlist about that that  

shows you how to learn that way thanks for your  teaching dictation please I don't know what that  

means how can speaking says centi uh so just go go  through this process pick some vocabulary however  

you want to learn and then really understand it  well say hard jot is mad I don't know what that's  

referring to but you're probably going to get  me into some trouble over here say it says hello  

my best teacher which one is important academic  vocabulary phrasal verbs this said Ali oh this is  

s ali uh well it depends on what you need English  for so if you need English for your career then  

you probably should learn academic English but  phrasal verbs are also important because those  

are used in professional situations as well thank  you very much for teaching I appreciate you're the  

best uh I love to hear your videos improved my  pronunciation with your help glad to hear it uh  

if you enjoy the video click that like button and  tell other people about what we do so more people  

can help uh more people can be helped uh by our  videos Bible says teacher do you have any classes  

of slangs most of the teachers here on YouTube  don't teach them and they're come common in movies  

uh this is what we do more in fluent for life so  we cover slang and idioms and phrasal verbs and  

Proverbs and all that uh and we go through this  same process so really helping you understand  

the vocabulary you get to hear it from different  speakers uh I do have a like I think like half a  

playlist so went I made a slang alphabet video  series uh like a couple of years ago I never  

finished it because there were just more important  stuff to do uh but you can definitely find lots of  

slang if you just search my channel for that s  says be for speak we should listen you probably  

mean listen uh but again I want to make it clear  this is not just listening I'm not saying only  

listen I'm saying understand the language well  and understanding can come from listening or  

uh it could come from speaking but it's usually  coming from watching things and understanding  

how the language works the same way children  learn the language Richard says have a pleasant  

morning despite being able to write or speak in  English I'm still going the extra mile in order  

to speak imp pecly uh very well written nice work  good work to go the extra mile I like this uh to  

go the extra mile that's right uh and N says I'm  from coin if I'm pronouncing that correctly maybe  

not all right uh pry says good morning G you are  my best teacher I always follow your lessons very  

good to improve my knowledge thanks a lot it's  my pleasure uh speaking English and ply in all  

situations will be impossible at least I know  that man cannot be perfect in understanding yes  

well Isaac you don't need to say that yes that but  we we need to kind of remind ourselves that yes  

we're probably not going to be perfect but it's  good to have some kind of goal where we're we're  

trying to do as well as we can so even me when I'm  speaking up here I will make mistes or say things  

maybe I I don't know say something the wrong way  or whatever it happens but you know that's okay  

and Mark to go the extra mile yes so if you write  it down actually write it by hand and write a few  

sentences Like Somebody went you know you could  even tell a story about someone who went the extra  

mile for you or how you went the extra mile for  someone else but again as you hear these different  

examples you should feel more confident teach your  profile picture is so handsome are you trying to  

say I'm not handsome now yeah some people like  when they see the profile picture they're like  

oh wow you got older like well yeah you know I'm  I'm just too lazy to go take more photos and so I  

I didn't change anything about my YouTube channel  in so long I probably should though uh I need to  

says I'm from Indonesia you are good uh you are  good uh teacher and um I like the way you convey  

it and the way you say it is very clear glad  to hear it yeah him handsome you would say he  

is handsome he is handsome aill says how should  you check the concept for a new vocabulary what  

do you mean by that uh in general you just pick  something and try to learn it until you understand  

it and when you feel that aha moment ah now I  understand it that's when you can use something  

confidently uh L or I may that's oh it's an I uh  imion hi there reading aloud and writing on the  

page will increase confidence in learning uh yes  but remember uh if you don't understand something  

better then then you should be Focus focusing on  that but you could understand better by writing  

things or reading or something like that there are  lots of ways to understand the language better and  

Louise says hi guys I hope you all have a great  weekend or I guess you had one it's Monday for  

me Wes says hello I have a personal question for  you did you wear an oldfashioned cloth of Japanese  

did you wear an oldfashioned cloth of Japanese  you mean like have I ever worn like traditional  

Japanese clothing if so yes like you know during  a festiv or something like that but I mean I just  

wear a t-shirt usually nothing nothing fancy uh so  PR again says I did you how is everything going on  

you'd say how's it going doing well uh brid says  Drew you look tired this week take a rest you'd  

say you look tired if you're talking about right  now no I'm actually uh trying to think about a  

lot of things and make sure I I keep this video  short and focused today uh but yeah in general  

yeah sleep all right says thank you always worth  watching glad to hear a says Hi teacher and Zim  

Drew is it possible you would say is it possible  to get fluency like a native without living in  

the USA yes um and so lots of people do do that  and you can also think about the opposite which  

is many people who are trying to learn English go  to the US or Canada and they still don't speak so  

the location doesn't doesn't matter if I go to  uh Japan so I'm in Japan now but if I come to  

Japan and I still learn English like this or I  learn Japanese excuse me like this then uh I'm  

probably not going to become a good speaker and  that's what happened to me so the first year I was  

living I spent basically a year living in Japan  learning Japanese as a second language uh and I  

still couldn't speak but once I started learning  Japanese as a first language I very quickly felt  

more confident and became more fluent all right  so that's why I recommend uh exactly what I'm  

teaching here so it worked for me uh and uh it's  worked for a lot of my students as well and it  

should work for you because it's the way you got  fluent in your native language uh let's see thank  

you he's handsome glad to hear it yes I'm always  glad to be handsome or looking tired I guess to  

some people let's see s says hey there I'm a  follower assalam alaikum from Egypt nice to see  

you there and is up how y'all are doing how y'all  doing we're doing well Mike well it looks like  

we've got to the end of the video I'll do a very  quick recap here remember most people struggle  

to speak because they have doubt about whatever  pronunciation vocabulary something and that's  

usually because they learned English as a second  language so it's not your fault this is just the  

way most people teach the language they really  want to help you learn as much as possible because  

most people just want to learn lots of vocabulary  so that's what people do um but they actually uh  

don't understand that vocabulary very well so they  struggle to speak but with my Approach what I call  

the English as a first language approach this  is where we want to expose you so you develop  

awareness and ownership and then you really start  feeling confident the doubt disappears and that's  

when you speak okay so you can do this by yourself  I just gave you a couple of examples of how to do  

that like finding something you're interested in  here on YouTube it's in English but make sure you  

find it for your level so I suppose you could  look for that like a language learning level  

but it's much better to think about it the way  a native would do it so something for children  

or Elementary School students or college level or  whatever your your level of ability is and maybe  

you understand quite a bit uh but you don't speak  because you just need to get more examples of how  

uh you know whatever that thing is so if you  like whatever your thing is if you like cooking  

or fixing cars or gardening or monster trucks  or how to make drinks or whatever whatever that  

thing is you can find lots of content there's  no shortage of content about about that but if  

you or if you kind of organize it and learn it  systematically and get lots of examples of it  

you really will feel much more confident about  that you should watch the uh espresso video that  

I made you'll find that on the channel it's  just how to make espresso in English but it's  

an example of naturally varied review where you  get to see different people making espresso and  

you see how the language works so some people  use the same vocabulary or some people might  

use slightly different vocabulary to describe  the same situation and so that's why we really  

want to get lots of examples of things and it's  not the speaking that gets you fluent speech is  

the result okay it's the end point you become a  good speaker as you understand the language better  

there's very little actual practicing of using  the vocabulary uh most of it is just going to come  

from you by yourself and getting information like  with me influent for Life uh and all the natives  

that we have in that program or you just doing  it by yourself but that's how you would do it  

all right I think we answered everybody's question  let's see Annette says couldn't you start a little  

video every day where you explain a word I really  like how you explain well that you there already  

are lots of videos like that on our Channel um  but that's also what fluent for life is so we  

have that like rather than me making a bunch of  new content we've already gotten that you know  

it's already it's already waiting for people all  right uh brid says brilliant glad to hear it and  

Bibble says thanks a lot you help us a lot it's  my pleasure I know what it's like again I spent  

15 years struggling to to speak languages because  I was doing this but once I discovered this it was  

like oh wow that makes a lot of sense I should  just do that instead all right so that's why I  

teach the way I teach and if you'd like to do that  either do it by yourself or click on the links  

below to learn how we can help you do that have a  fantastic day and we'll see you next time byebye