This Gets You Fluent In English Faster Than Repetition

all right I think we're live I am Drew  Badger the founder of englishanyone.com  

and the English fluency guide welcome to  another live video here on YouTube today  

we are going to be talking about repetition and  what's way better than that if you are a long  

time viewer of the channel you will probably  know what I'm going to talk about so this is  

really especially important for new people like  if this is your first video that you've watched  

from me this video you should find it uh  very helpful let's see what we got here

all right I think we're working and uh Chad is  working there too nice to see everybody there  

all right so let's talk about I want to talk  about repetition because you hear about people  

using this a lot and I've talked about repetition  in many videos but I want to talk specifically in  

this one uh about why repetition is actually  not so helpful of course I do recommend it you  

should be repeating lessons uh but repetition  has limitations and so I really want to help  

people understand what's better than repetition so  repetition is important it is valuable but I know  

a lot of people get bored by repeating lessons so  there are a lot of good reasons to actually not  

repeat information I know this sounds funny uh  and the typical advice is that you should learn  

something and then try to repeat that as many  times as possible you've probably heard of spaced  

repetition where you hear something and then you  try to take a little bit of time where you don't  

hear it and then maybe hear it again and then you  hear it again after certain intervals so certain  

amounts of time and that can help you remember  something but remember that the the real goal  

of learning a language is really for most people  communication and communication is a dynamic thing  

so this means every conversation is going to be  different you could even meet your same friend  

every day for a year and the conversation would be  different even if you're talking about maybe the  

same thing you could have people who talk about  sports and they every day they meet and talk about  

their favorite sports team but the conversation  is still different and the same thing obviously  

is also true when you're meeting new people so  you will find new people in your life like you're  

working or just out you know in everyday life  you have to be prepared for lots of different  

situations so because we only have a certain  amount of time to learn uh like every person  

has you know a certain amount of hours in the day  and maybe we don't have a lot of time uh to learn  

or practice or whatever so if you think about  the amount of time let's say they're only like  

15 minutes even something that short so you've got  15 minutes in a day you can really do this so let  

me draw this over here so if you have 15 minutes  a day at the most basic level for for spending  

time learning you can learn maybe you know let's  say you learn one thing or we're learning you know  

one or two things like this could be one phrase  this is another phrase over here and then we're  

just going to repeat these things again and we're  going to spend 15 minutes repeating a lesson so  

listening to something again and again and again  again repetition can be helpful and it's useful  

but again language is a little bit different  than something like uh like practicing golf  

or even doing any other physical activity like  playing the piano or playing the guitar because  

it's Dynamic okay so if we have 15 minutes we  could practice something like this and repeat it  

again and again or instead of this we actually  learn a bunch of different but related things  

so we build what I call a network like a fluency  Network this is the it could be for pronunciation  

it could be vocabulary or grammar but things that  are connected so let's make this a little bit more  

concrete help people understand this if we think  about again how conversations work let's say we're  

in a conversation and I've been practicing the  phrase like like a regular greeting like good  

morning or just even something like hello now  if I practice saying this I really want to get  

used to saying the word hello so I repeat that  phrase again and again and this is the same in  

any language so if I'm trying to learn Japanese  I learn a nice clear like konichiwa like I hear  

that from from like a listening CD or an audio or  whatever a video and I repeat that again and again  

but what will happen in a conversation is that  hello might be used but you might also hear lots  

of other things so part of being able to to  communicate with people is understanding what  

other people are saying as well so there might  be some things that you use uh and I've explained  

this to people before where they spend time uh  reviewing things and they they maybe get a little  

bit frustrated because they're trying to learn too  much information but the important thing is that  

you would learn a bunch of different greetings  like these are all different greetings like hey  

or what's up or how's it going or howdy depending  on where you live and even if you don't use all of  

those things you're prepared for those in the  conversation so at the most basic level we've  

got a few things here one is the amount of time we  have when we're learning and so if you don't have  

much time repeating things like it's it's it's  only going to help you maybe remember that word  

or phrase especially if it's easy but it's not  going to prepare you very well for conversations  

because there's all of this other information  that you might hear instead of that okay  

uh and then also like at an even deeper level than  this repetition is just boring for people because  

the mind is naturally excited about and interested  in new things that's why most people when they're  

trying to learn languages they're always trying  to learn new vocabulary but they don't review any  

of the vocabulary so here's the tricky thing this  is like the real core problem of language learning  

uh which is how do you how do you prepare for  this so how do you learn this information and  

also review it all right so how do we learn this  information uh without just like repeating stuff  

again and again all right isn't that it's kind of  an interesting problem because the mind needs to  

repeat but it doesn't want to so the mind you know  how how we're trying to develop a habit just like  

I'm practicing you know I'm taking my daughter  to karate class and she has to practice katas or  

you know whatever she's trying to do and these are  these are just motions that you do again and again  

but it's very different from being in an actual  street fight with someone where you don't know  

what's going to happen alright so I'm not standing  there like practicing a certain thing if someone  

is actually trying to attack me that's a much  different situation than when I'm doing something  

practicing some motions by myself all right now  before we talk about what we can do instead let me  

check the chat and make sure everything is uh uh  doing all right over here and see how everyone is  

doing Arturo nice to see you there from Honduras  and I see you George is back everything is okay  

all right glad to hear it hello from Miami nice  to see you there uh Anne let's say hello from  

turkeys is more hello hello yes again we got like  different different ways of people greeting even  

in this chat right here so some people say hey  some people say hello say people how are you  

how's it going thanks for your help says Darwin  Professor Douglas says my favorite Professor I'm  

aiming to absorb 5 000 words in English all right  well this will be a good video for you because  

I will tell you that you don't actually have to  absorb 5 000 words in English and it's important  

that if you learn 5 000 words you better be able  to use them fluently otherwise you're wasting  

your time so it's much better to learn fewer words  and really know those words well you will kind of  

have like a core group of words that you know and  then like like another larger vocabulary that's  

like a passive vocabulary so you recognize that  information but maybe you don't use it so much  

when you speak so maybe in total you know five  thousand words but you should have you know even  

a few hundred words that you use well and that's  like the core active vocabulary that you have so  

it's not bad to have a passive vocabulary but  usually what happens is people don't develop an  

active vocabulary of the the things that they  really should be prepared for in conversations  

all right so it's a nice goal but I would focus  more on fluency rather than the number of words  

you know because you don't need to have a certain  amount of words in order to speak fluently you can  

have one word and either use it fluently or not so  if I greet people if I don't know any Japanese at  

all the only word I know is hello I can still walk  around and like say hello to people I couldn't  

have much more of a conversation than that but I  would still be able to use that fluently because  

I understand what it means all right all right  let's see and nearest says hello from Orlando  

nice to see you there and Charles again hello  teacher from Korea I'm on the vacation now all  

right very good now in this we would say I am on  vacation we don't stay on the vacation we just  

say I am on vacation but very good I'm glad you're  relaxing uh hopefully you find this an enjoyable  

video for your vacation maybe you should go out  uh do something more I don't know go have some fun  

something like that these videos are fun but maybe  you should go water skiing or you know something  

like that enjoying your vacation all right uh the  best teacher ever since our tour High teacher from  

Vietnam says Ming Mary when did the Live start  did I miss something no it just be it just started  

like 10 minutes ago 10 minutes ago all right Alan  from the Philippines look at that people from  

all over the place oh Brussels out here what's  going down yeah look at that another greeting  

what's going down what's it's like people can use  what's up and what's going down and they both mean  

hello what's happening with you how was your life  all right Michelle says I've just moved to Texas  

from La it's very hot and humid yes it sounds like  Japan over here uh good night I'm from El Salvador  

I like it class glad to hear and from Brazil let's  see uh two people we got Bianca and uh is that  

Gabe zagabis and the emperor the emperor to get  the Jedi the emperor look at that hello teacher  

uh you bear Mohammed from Bangladesh and from  Serbia nice okay so we do have lots of people here  

glad to see it so what do we do instead of just  repeating information again and again all right  

so we know a lot of good reasons why repetition  isn't very helpful it's nice if you can do it  

but you will quickly start thinking like ah this  is boring and it's it's getting less effective  

each time I do it all right so that's one reason  another reason is it's not really preparing you  

well for conversations because you're repeating  some things but you're just not getting a lot of  

information uh that also other people might be  using in conversations so different vocabulary  

different pronunciations different speeds  in those conversations as well uh so what I  

recommend and if you have been in classes with  me before you will probably know the answer to  

this but this is again specifically for people  who are new and this is naturally varied review

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now this is an example of naturally varied review  over here pardon me as a another siren is going  

by but when we have naturally varied review this  is actually teaching us the same way that we get  

fluent in our native language and as an example I  might be like we have the greeting example that I  

gave before but let's say I go maybe something  a bit more interesting and different a friend  

of mine says like I'm gonna take I'm going to  take his picture so this is me and I said let me  

take your picture thank you

so this is a little bit longer let me take  your picture and this is a very you know Common  

situation or if I'm asking someone else like can  I take your picture or may I take your picture how  

would you respond to that now what you'll find  is there are actually many many different ways  

you can respond to that so rather than trying  to practice and repeat a certain response where  

we are like okay we're going to take like one  response like you know very something simple  

like okay all right that's a you can respond with  that that's perfectly fine and you can practice  

repeating that so if someone asks me if I want  to do something I know how to respond in that way  

but if you want to sound a bit more interesting or  you want to say something like you know let's have  

some more fun with the conversation uh a better  way to do this let's see if we have oh getting  

some some longer comments over here I'll just give  you one example but if you can think of some other  

responses to this so a friend of yours says let  me take your picture how might you respond to that  

so me like I like to you know I'm going to  say something interesting I want to have  

fun with the other person I say uh okay be sure

to get my

good side be sure to get my good side my good  side now if you see me right here I'm on camera  

and sometimes when you're taking pictures like I  look good from this angle or I look good from that  

angle or that angle or something like that so we  call this your side when you're taking a picture  

so I can respond yeah be sure to get my good side  or I could just say to start the conversation or  

the response here oh get my good side so I make  a face we'll get my good side okay so this is a  

native way of responding to this and there are  many there are lots of different ways we can  

respond to this but the point is that if I just  practice something rather than hearing lots of  

different responses to this then I can't really  choose like what would be a good thing for me  

now I might take this and I would respond that  same way to lots of different people all right  

so if I'm out like you know I could be with one  group of friends or another friend or something  

and I tell them all like oh get my good side  and I'm maybe joking or whatever but again  

I can still use that same expression it's more  interesting than just okay or something but again  

it's a different way of expressing something for  that situation all right now another way I could  

respond to that I could say like oh make me let  me see if I could fit this in here so instead of  

be sure to get my good side I'll put another  response up here is make me look good make  

me look good make me look good so again this is  another way of responding to this same situation  

all right so make me look good be sure to get  my good side again it's okay to say like okay

sure whatever you like if you'd like to take my  picture that's fine with me but if you want to say  

something more interesting then we do this now  how do we get this vocabulary though all right  

you're probably not going to find make me look  good or get my good side in an English textbook  

probably not you might find it but probably not  but you will find it if you just look at people  

in those situations and watch what they do all  right so this is why I'm always talking about  

paying attention for situations so all of these  examples like these are different ways I could  

respond to this question or to this statement  here let me take your picture so oh that sounds  

very nice you could take my picture thank you very  much make me look good be sure to get my good side  

so if I go out and I'm watching people like  like a simple way I could do this and I have  

done this before uh in Japan like if I go to a  tourist area I can ask people to take my picture  

and I'll just say like oh could you take my  picture even just to like practice that you know  

particular question but I could practice saying  different things and I can also pay attention  

to what other people are saying when they ask  you know or when they're talking or whatever  

about taking a picture so this one situation  of just taking a picture it actually has lots  

of different examples or ways of speaking and  the more of these you get so if you spend 15  

minutes like we're doing in this video so if I  we take even you know 10 minutes five minutes  

just talking about one situation you're going to  learn a lot of different things even if you don't  

remember them all perfectly it's fine you would  be prepared for them in a conversation though  

but you can take maybe one or two and those become  your I call them your go-to phrases so your go-to

freeze where your go-to vocabulary or your go-to  response so this is the vocabulary you go to when  

you want to speak so I'm thinking like ah what  should I say how should I respond I I will go  

with or go to this usual thing that I say so when  someone asks me to take a picture I might say oh  

be sure to get my good side be sure to get my good  side okay hopefully this is making sense but the  

point is like in in a lesson or if you're just  trying to spend if you only have a certain amount  

of time to learn it's much better uh instead  of learning this way where you're trying to  

take something and repeat it again and again it's  much better to get lots of different examples and  

this is one example of naturally varied review  so rather than taking uh again like a specific  

word I want to look at a situation and then maybe  hear different people talking about that like I've  

done I gave an example of that on the YouTube  channel about how to make espresso and it shows  

you different ways of doing that and as you see  each example you feel more fluent you learn more  

vocabulary and you're really learning like a  native rather than trying to learn something  

through your native language each time you hear  another example of something it's nice if you  

can get some explanation like what do you mean  by good side like oh like this side of my face  

that kind of thing but you learn those examples  like a native if you learn like a native okay so  

rather than trying to learn the typical way if  you only have a certain amount of time it's much  

better to get naturally varied review and that's  going to help you build fluency a lot faster than  

just repetition by itself all right so I can  go on with more examples if people have uh like  

specific questions about naturally varied review  and how it works or how to get it or whatever  

but especially for the people who are new to the  channel I'm all about trying to get you fluent as  

quickly as possible and so when we do things the  traditional way like trying to repeat especially  

if we're just repeating stuff that comes from a  textbook or from an English listening practice  

audio or something typically it's not going to  give you enough of the practice you need or it's  

going going to give you enough of the like the  kinds of English you would hear in real life so  

even listening to me right now is not enough for  most people if they're watching my videos they can  

understand what I'm saying but they might still  have trouble understanding Natives and movies and  

TV shows and things like that and that means they  should be listening to me and lots of other native  

speakers who are speaking normally alright so this  is what we do in fluent for life you can certainly  

do this by yourself but this is how you should be  learning if you want to become a fluent speaker  

as fast as possible all right let's go back to  chat uh see how everybody is doing over here  

all right oh gate oh Gaby Gaby like baby oh  okay that's how that works okay pardon me  

all right Suzette says and about you teacher  where are you I am in Nagasaki Japan currently  

all right Hamza says I can understand but I have  a problem with speaking yes and so a lot of the  

problem speaking comes from people actually not  getting naturally varied review that's really  

the core problem of language learning because we  need to repeat but we don't really want to repeat  

so how do we trick the Mind into actually  repeating things or getting the uh the  

repetition we need and also prepare for the  dynamic nature of conversations so how do we  

prepare when we don't know what other people  are going to say so if I know I'm going to a  

party and maybe my English is not very good then  oh no I'm going to feel quite nervous about that  

and I will probably not want to speak very much I  remember this is exactly how I felt when I first  

came to Japan and I couldn't speak and so I was in  conversations with people but I I'm just standing  

there especially if it's a group of people  talking and I don't understand certain jokes  

or whatever I'm trying to follow what people are  saying but what I started to do once I I realized  

I should be learning this way is I started just  looking at one situation at a time and thinking  

what do people say in those situations so how do  people order food at a restaurant or how do you  

complement meant someone like oh that's a nice  looking dress or like that outfit looks great on  

you or ooh did you buy a new shirt or did you  get a new haircut or something like that so I  

start kind of paying attention to what other  people are saying about things like that and  

I'm getting naturally varied review in Japanese  the same way that I got it in English when I was  

young and so I look at my children now and they  hear lots of different examples they might hear  

something from TV or from me or from their mother  or grandparents or whatever but they're getting  

lots of different examples of those things and  even if they don't use them all they're still  

prepared for that all right so this is how you  get prepared and also become a much more confident  

speaker so if you don't feel confident about what  you know then of course you're not going to speak  

very well and so most of the problems people have  it's really from coming or coming from learning  

English the traditional way through your native  language rather than learning it through English  

so if you have specific questions like about  how to improve speaking I cover those in  

a lot of videos but I'm happy to answer  specific questions if you have them here  

all right uh let's see and Kansas says please  record this lesson and skip it it's four four  

in the morning I need to sleep yes I always make  these videos available so people can watch them  

later that's fine yes you don't need to be live  in order to benefit from the lesson all right  

so this is another if you if you also  listen to my my classes uh like the  

these videos that I make on YouTube you can  hear lots of examples of of native speech  

so I still say things that you can use in your  conversations like an example would be soap  

you've probably heard this a lot it's a very  common basic word but a more kind of natural  

uh not necessarily more natural but a more  interesting way that you might hear this is in

order whoops I can't spell in order eat R in  order to so you just hear you just heard me use  

that right then so I said in order to do something  or like so you can do something all right so if  

you're listening to these like students get they  get very focused on like what is the the target  

vocabulary uh that a teacher is writing on the  board or something but if you pay attention to  

the the broader lesson the the words and sentences  I'm using you will learn things like this like  

oh instead of so he means like in order to all  right so in order to to get fluent you should be  

getting naturally varied review all right it's the  same idea like so or if you want to if you want

or if the goal is something like we just  say in order to so in order to get fluent  

this is what you should do if you want to get  fluent this is what you should do all right  

if the goal is fluency this is what you should do  and as you're hearing these different things maybe  

in order to becomes one of your go-to phrases all  right in order to catch the bus we have to hurry  

all right so it sounds a little bit more maybe  it's slightly more educated it's not it's not like  

the most casual thing you just say like like the  most casual thing you might say is like uh like we  

we gotta go we gotta go to catch the bus we gotta  go to catch c-a-t-c-h I can't write and spell at  

the same time or write and speak the bus all right  so we gotta go to catch the bus that might be a  

very quick casual way of saying this or I could  say in order to catch the bus we have to leave or  

I could say we have to leave we have to leave now  in order to catch the bus but the point is that  

you're getting lots of different examples of these  things so listen and and again like you can listen  

to these these videos again and again that is a  is a kind of repetition uh but you can also just  

look at other people when they're talking about  similar things like if we got to do something  

and then look at the vocabulary they're saying  like oh that's interesting they said something  

different or they also said the same thing  all right those are all examples of naturally  

buried review but yes you can watch these videos  anytime you like that's why I make them available  

all right uh let's see hey teacher says Tom good  morning nice to see you there Hamza says okay I  

got that one already all right Tom classmates  greetings from Rio De Janeiro Brazil let's see  

Abdi can I ask something I saw another in English  video they said listening and reading only you  

cannot get fluent speaking even though it is wrong  what is the meaning of their Sid speaking no rules  

I don't understand what that means but I'll tell  you generally speaking that you don't need to  

speak in order to become fluent speaking is the  result of having developed fluency so fluency  

really means that you understand information  very well all right so I've covered this  

many times but again there's always new  people joining us and if you heard that  

right there I used some incorrect English  that natives often use I said there's

always new people joining

us so there's always new people joining us this  is incorrect English it should be there are  

always new people joining us but I use that  incorrectly because it's faster and easier I  

think I talked about this in last week's video  so there are always new people joining us but  

it's much fat it's much faster to say there's  yeah there's always there's always there's  

always new people joining us all right so if  you're and now make sure I like don't lose  

my train of thought over here uh uh let's see  yes so going going back to the question about  

like how how people can learn usually what  what people are doing when they're learning  

is they have uh they they maybe they learn and  when I say learn it's usually like they get a  

translation of something because that's  how most people learn languages so they  

begin with something in their native language  we'll just call that a translation and then  

you learn the English word for that so like  if I learn the word I don't know like uh Yuki  

in English and that means snow in or Yuki in  Japanese means snow in English so whatever that  

is in your native language people begin with  something like that and then they try to speak

uh and then usually there will be repetition in  that so people will just repeat the same word  

again and again but this is not really preparing  you for real conversations it's pretty easy if  

you're only trying to learn an individual word  like this means that like a like a physical object  

so a shirt or a cat or something like that that's  easy to understand it gets more complicated and  

you have to think a lot more if this is a grammar  point or like a much more uh like a difficult  

grammar point something more complex and so if  you're learning this way and then you're trying to  

just repeat what you learn you're still not going  to be very well prepared for real conversations so  

someone will say something different or they will  blend their words and they will not be clear and  

then it will be confusing and you think wait I'd  learn this and it doesn't sound like the textbook  

or the teacher or whatever so instead of doing  this it actually is possible you can learn through  

Reading and listening or watching just like  you are doing right now you're learning without  

speaking you're not saying anything to me or if  you are speaking I can't hear you so we're not  

having a conversation here I'm just speaking here  and getting some feedback from you via the chat  

um but these are all ways that you actually  build understanding and that understanding  

comes from getting these lots of different  examples and naturally varied review so if if  

the question is saying like you can get fluent  without speaking then yes all right so I would  

say the same thing rather than speaking like  most people try to do this and they don't get  

fluent so they're still trying to speak or they  get out and they they complain about saying only  

simple sentences in their conversations that  they they never really get to a comfortable  

level with their English oh and that's and  that's partly because they're trying to speak  

but they don't actually understand what they're  saying so if you don't feel confident you don't  

really know what you're saying then of course  you're probably going to not be not feel very  

confident about speaking so instead you should  get lots of different examples through different  

ways like this like Reading Writing whatever  and then the understanding leads to confidence

and that leads to speech so if I feel very  confident and strong and powerful then yes  

I want to speak it's nice and easy for me  to do because I understand the vocabulary  

but if I don't then speaking is  not going to help me so hopefully  

that answers that question if I got that  correct I don't know if not let me know  

all right again Jim is back sometimes I had to  frustrate or you can say I experienced that or I  

just like have a frustration or I get frustrated  and I get exasperated while learning English why  

why does that happen well in general it's because  you're well you know it could be a lot of reasons  

for that really I can't assume uh one particular  thing but typically people are are probably  

overloading their mind with too much information  or you're making it more difficult for yourself  

by learning things through your native language so  without thinking about it you should be aware of  

this as you learn so if you're feeling frustrated  like you're you're reading something like me if I  

if I'm looking at like a Japanese textbook and I  read through something and I find I still don't  

understand what what it's trying to tell me so  that makes me frustrated and then I think well  

that's not really a very good lesson or maybe  I'm just a bad student I guess I don't know  

probably it's the lesson usually lessons are  trying to just give you information but they  

don't really help you learn much so that's one  example of being frustrated by how you learn but  

other examples could be like you hear something  but you you're not hearing it clearly or maybe  

something is a little bit difficult for you and  you're not getting enough examples of it so there  

are lots of reasons why you can be frustrated  with something it takes a lot actually to make  

a good lesson to make it understandable all right  uh Evita says Drew do you live nearby a nearby a  

hospital Sirens every class Yes actually  up the street there is a fire department  

and I am not like in the room I'm in it's not uh  perfectly sound proof as you can hear sometimes  

there will be cicadas outside or something so I  do apologize uh I have a like a good microphone  

but unfortunately a good microphone also picks  up lots of the The Sounds out there so that's  

another good if you're listening carefully for  this vocabulary like to pick up a sound it's  

like I physically pick something up a microphone  is picking up sounds as well like well that goes  

like a loud car or something like that cleats this  is the contact speech make me fluent speaker I  

don't understand what that what that what do  you what do you mean by that is the contact  

Beach make me fluent speaker what do you mean  by that give me some more information like what  

do you mean by contact speech uh Tom says I missed  the beginning of the class I'm sorry for that it's  

okay I don't I don't expect anybody I'm happy  to just make these videos and people can watch  

them whenever they like you know actually I don't  schedule them because I enjoy my freedom I talk  

about that a lot so I'm happy to have kind of a  regular schedule but I don't want to tell people  

there's a class and then like for some reason I  can't do it or something like that so I feel bad  

if I'm if I'm unable to to fulfill that all right  the emperor is back uh sir should I learn grammar  

if I want to become an English teacher please  alert me let's see all right let me explain  

very quickly about grammar grammar is essential  but the the tricky thing is that you don't have  

to learn it by studying a bunch of rules now if  you want to be an English teacher you probably  

should know like the names of grammar points and  other things like that when I teach you'll notice  

I don't talk about them because it's not necessary  to know that information as a learner just like my  

young daughters so my uh like seven-year-old and  four-year-old they don't know what a like past  

perfect is but they know how to use it you know so  they're they're learning those things I mean they  

they don't they know how a toilet you know they  know how to use the toilet but they don't know how  

it works similar kind of idea so if you want to be  a plumber then you should know how like a toilet  

works or whatever but if you just want to use use  a toilet then you can probably figure that out  

maybe this is a bad analogy but in general yes  you need to learn grammar but the important thing  

is it is is how you learn it so if you want to  be a teacher you probably need to study a lot  

more about specific things but if you just want to  learn for yourself to be a good speaker it's not  

necessary to know and this is why I explained to  people rather than thinking about a grammar like  

a specific grammar topic or whatever it's much  better to think about like when we use something  

so rather than like when do we use like the  present continuous we don't think about that  

a native does not think about oh I'm using the  present continuous they don't even know that  

vocabulary really most people I think most native  English speakers would probably not be able to  

tell you what the present continuous is they  can probably guess they're like well it's in  

the present I guess it's happening now and it's  continuous like I'm still doing it I guess like  

they that that's how natives would think about  that but the important thing is it's like if  

I'm showing you how something works as a learner I  don't care if you know what the present continuous  

is but I do want you to know how to speak about  something happening right now all right so if I  

show you something like like I have like you  know some food in my hand like this is some  

food or whatever and you can see me eating right  now like I am eating I am eating and then I show  

you something else like I am I am boxing or I am  reading or I am jumping or I am looking something  

thing like that it's through all of those examples  that you can contrast with something else where  

like yesterday I I looked at something so I'm  not looking right now I'm not watching a movie  

yesterday I watched a movie but right now I am not  watching a movie so I can show you these things  

without trying to explain what the grammar rule is  so I really want to make it clear that yes you do  

need to learn grammar but the important thing is  how you learn it and if you learn it like a native  

then you can use it fluently but a teacher would  probably need to learn more information about how  

this works let me know if this uh if this video  is entertaining for you guys click the like button  

so I can see how I'm looking at that and it's  like it looks kind of low so click that like  

button unless this video is awful and in which  case you should tell me in the chat all right  

um uh all right here we're going let's see uh  today is the first time I heard how you get  

back up how you get back up like how like  the expression how you get back like what  

do you mean how you get back up and get back  up from from what do you mean like in general  

or are you talking about that like a specific a  specific there I mean there are many ways or many  

times when you might use that like you could be a  boxer and like you have to get back up again but  

let me know but that's very good like it's nice  English nice phrasal verb there to get back up  

uh let's see jalila if I'm make sure I didn't  skip anybody here okay I think I got that all  

right Julia says I have a problem or I have  a problem is or you could just say my problem  

is I do understand English but most of the time I  don't understand from the first time when someone  

speaks yes I thought about doing a video about  understanding English better I think I've covered  

this in a number of videos already but it's it is  a common problem uh the basic advice I would give  

is to really focus 100 on what the other person is  saying so usually what happens in a conversation  

is your your your attention is divided so you'd  split between the other person and yourself so  

you might be listening to what they're saying  but you're also trying to prepare what you want  

to say it's much better to take your time in a  conversation you can slow the conversation down if  

you need more time to think that's okay so I can  listen to someone like I try to listen 100 to what  

they're saying name I don't always do that but  that's the goal I try to do that especially if I  

know like it's something more difficult or I need  some help with it and then I can ask the person if  

I don't understand something so I just say like oh  like oh what what do you mean about that or like  

what is like I don't know that word or something  but I'm you know I feel comfortable asking about  

that and most people will explain like you know  what is what does this mean or something like that  

and they will give you an explanation but really  try to put all of your attention on the other  

person and focus on listening and understanding  that person rather than uh maybe dividing your  

attention where you're thinking about what  you want to say and I promise you you will  

start understanding a lot more and if you don't  understand you can just ask the person in general  

though when you're listening to someone like  usually there's a general idea and then you can  

go a little bit more specific like specific words  or phrases and then there are also key words where  

you're hearing something a friend of mine might  be maybe he has some longer sentence yesterday  

I was going to go to the park but it was really  hot so we didn't go so yesterday I was going to  

go to the park but it was really hot so we didn't  go and so I'm looking at that like there's a kind  

of it's almost like a story framework so it's  like one sentence a very short story this was  

the goal he wanted to go to the park the problem  was it was too hot the conclusion was so he didn't  

go all right so often you will hear these and  if you you pay attention for the key words like  

something something something but oh I know now  there's like something is going to change or the  

opposite will happen something like that so I'm  looking for like a general just getting a general  

sense for what what the conversation is about or  what the other person is speaking about and then  

I'm looking for maybe just individual phrases to  follow so rather than trying to look and and pay  

attention to each word I'm looking for broader  phrases and then keywords that maybe change or  

do something about the conversation like but  or and or so something like that all right so  

the the biggest advice I can give is to spend a  lot more time really listening paying attention  

to what the other person is saying so without  worrying about what you're going to say you have  

to have a little bit of faith in the conversation  where like I don't know what I'm going to say  

next but I'm going to put all my energy into  listening to the other person give that a try

uh all right and Tom says in a specific situation  we can have lots of situations to explore  

and learn in English I think it's better than  repeating words or even singing because we don't  

sing to each other yes I guess unless you live in  a musical where people are singing to each other  

like a Disney movie or a play or something like  that yes people are typically not singing to each  

other but singing is certainly you know listening  to music is a great way to learn the language  

it's just another one of the things that you use  in order to learn so there's that phrase again  

it's another one of the things you use in order  to learn okay so if you listen carefully you'll  

hear me like this is a like a speech pattern  that I use a lot and if you pay attention you  

will hear that in order to do something in order  to in order to in order to and then you will hear  

me as I blend it together like in order to eh Nord  like that it's like in order in order to in order  

to in order to I know it sounds funny but this  is again how natives are learning the language  

and so when I'm giving you these examples I try  to go back and highlight certain things that's  

another great phrase or great uh vocabulary  for you to highlight something too high like  

hot with that I can't I really I just  really can't write and let me be quiet

highlight so to highlight something I'm showing  you hey look at this like I'm putting a bright  

light on that thing you might have a like a  highlighter pin when you were writing things or  

or reading things in a book you might highlight  something that's important all right similar  

idea so yes uh you don't have to personally  sing but listening to music is a good idea  

all right uh uh let's see Khalid asked me again  is the contact speech make me fluent I still  

don't know what you're asking about maybe maybe  or did I like skip that oh I think I like now the  

chats get me down all right let's see all right I  answered that one and Tom said uh it's possible to  

influence speaking English only by listening  to someone speaking English is the question  

um I want to make it clear that yes like you can  get fluent only by listening to someone but it's  

going to be slower uh in the the understanding  will take longer because if you're not like you  

know seeing a physical example of something and  also if it's only one person so let's say you  

live with your like live with your mother and you  live in a cave with your mother and she's the only  

one speaking to you then you will you will really  start sounding like her and you will get used to  

her language like her voice and the way she speaks  but if you go out you leave the cave and you go  

out into the real world and you hear lots of other  people you will not be prepared for that you will  

be like a non-native speaker going into the world  so you will probably know a lot of the vocabulary  

but you won't be very well prepared for it so  listening is helpful people seeing things is even  

better because you're getting listening and you're  learning something so if I if I like if I cover  

something up and say like I'm holding a red marker  in my hand if you don't know what I'm talking  

about it's going to be much more difficult and I  have to explain what that is so that's like if you  

have a listening exercise or something but if I  show you like look I have a red marker in my hand  

then you can listen to what I'm saying and you can  understand it because you're connecting the visual  

like what you see with what you hear so this is  how you learn your native language and then you  

can do that same thing in English so yes you can  learn and you can become fluent you can understand  

certain things but it's going to take more time  so the fastest way to get fluent is to get lots  

of naturally varied review and that means from  different people and seeing it and hearing it  

and writing it and reading it in different ways  you can save the speaking part for when you're  

feeling very comfortable but usually like at that  time then you really are ready to speak so if I  

know what the word red is like I go to a store  and say like I want that red marker then I can  

feel confident asking for that but if I don't know  what this color is or someone told me and I don't  

remember then I'm not going to feel very confident  asking for that thing so yes you can get fluent  

that way it's going to be just a little bit slower  but it's certainly better than learning like only  

through a textbook where you don't hear examples  you you don't hear native examples of speech  

against him again you wore my favorite shirt  all right I'm back with the uh the favorite  

shirt over here let's see sprinkle nevertheless  I want because I like purple I'm glad to hear  

it yes I don't know what exact color this is I  guess it's kind of purplish something but thank  

you Eunice says hello from Morocco Arigato  for your lessons what how are handsome how  

are handsome I don't know if you're saying I am  handsome we're just like what does handsome mean  

or something but uh welcome uh Keiko says uh  yes it's stressful uh I couldn't response here  

we would say I couldn't respond respond dit so I  couldn't respond all right so hence you got dick  

in that Bible and I don't I can't I can't respond  Dickey I can't respond all right so if we're this  

is another thing where you where you get lots  of examples of something like the difference  

between a noun and a verb and I don't like using  the terms but just so you hear the difference

so respond

you would hear like like I need to  respond or they responded or you  

didn't respond to my call to my call but if  we're talking about a thing like a response

did you read my response I sent you a response  okay so just pay attention for these different  

things when you hear them in conversations uh  it works similar to Japanese but you will hear  

it again it's much better to learn it through  getting lots of examples naturally varied review  

all right but very good uh let's let's  see uh Tom says today's class is being  

very nice or you could just say this  class is nice it is nice all right

I think yes I think I got that correctly uh let's  see nice to see you again uh an MBO if that's a I  

don't know if that's a name or an acronym uh hello  sir how can I master phrasal verbs you have to  

learn them visually and I take you through three  steps of this in a program I called or I call the  

visual guide to phrasal verbs so you can find this  in fluent for Life uh you also find examples of it  

if you just look up uh phrasal verbs you can find  a few I think I have two samples from the program  

but you will see actually many videos about  phrasal verbs on my channel and an example is like  

take off put on all right so the same way I could  take off a shirt I could take off my glasses I  

could take off the cap of this marker I put the  cap back on it's only by seeing lots of examples  

that you really understand the core meanings of  phrasal verbs and then you can start learning  

like wow like my business is really taking off so  here we have take off the cap but like my business  

is taking off so we could think about that like  a plane is going like we are ready for takeoff  

so that's a phrasal noun like the the actual  verb to take off but like to take off like I'm  

going up so like here I'm on the runway and  now I'm I'm taking off I'm going off so in a  

figurative way I can talk about like my business  doing well or like a community doing well or a  

team doing well like wow the team is really taking  off all right so it just means they're they're  

becoming more successful so you see how it begins  with understanding from a physical the idea if you  

can learn that way and then you can start learning  more figurative uses because you understand those  

well and so that's how you master phrasal verbs uh  let's see and the emperor again sir should I learn  

Grant okay I want to answer that one already how's  it going Drew this is here hello I am uh let's see  

hi teacher from India Tsubasa from anime yeah is  uh like a common a common name uh but yes I think  

it's also like anime characters will have that as  well um but I think he's actual actually Japanese  

let's see me from Brazil That's right when  you use a via or bi uh it just it's it's not  

it depends on the situation as I always  say it depends on the situation so if  

we're talking about like to do something  like I might I might like uh like go  

buy bus like I'll take a bus to go to a  particular place uh you could you could say  

like to go like via or via you will hear both of  those pronunciations to go via bus or go via bus  

um it just it depends but it again like there  are some times where like like I am uh like I am

by the school so here this is a different meaning  than than this where we're talking about like in  

in the way of doing something this is just like  I'm close by something so I would not say like I  

am via the school we wouldn't use that because  that's a different meaning so always remember  

like you have to just look at different situations  and think does it fit in this situation or not and  

so you need to just get lots of examples of that  and that's why it's so important just to focus on  

certain things until you really get lots of good  examples all right and that's how you know them  

like a native all right hi first time here says  good dear nice to see you there Hi teacher from  

Haiti Tom again when is the best time to use the  contract for like this what do you mean Drew's  

shirt instead of shirt of true what do you mean by  contract let's see uh like using the word of yeah  

I mean this is a like the if I say like Drew's  a shirt that's just a very casual very simple  

way of saying it if I say like the shirt of Drew  that sounds like I don't know like I'm I'm a king  

or something like that like wow like the shirt  of Drew is amazing uh but I would just say like  

yeah Drew's shirt something like that so in this  situation if I'm just talking about something it's  

a little you make the uh like what you're saying  you make it longer by putting of in there so you  

don't have to say of and often I will write like  that and then I will I will switch this sentence  

and not and I will take the of out of it so if  you're just talking about a group of something  

like that it's much better to just say like this  guy's thing or his or her or something like that  

or Drew's school instead of school of Drew or can  I use the contracted Ah that's what you mean a  

contraction like I see what you're saying okay uh  yeah you can do yeah you don't need to use of you  

know like you it it just depends on the situation  if you're trying to be more formal about it you  

know like the United States of America you know  where is like the country name is a little bit  

longer it's more formal than we would say that  but if I'm just talking about somebody's clothing  

maybe it doesn't matter Drew's shirt Eunice can  you please talk about how to improve speaking I  

need some tips from you that I do every day like  repetition imitating or talking in front of a  

mirror I mean that kind of road map yeah don't  do any of that stuff so those are all typical  

things about like speaking in front of a mirror or  whatever the best thing I can do is number one to  

stop speaking I know this sounds like weird advice  but stop speaking and just get lots of naturally  

varied review that really is the best way to build  fluency because speech comes from confidence and  

confidence comes from understanding so if you  don't really understand what you're saying then  

you won't feel confident using it it doesn't make  sense for me to repeat in front of a mirror if I'm  

not really feeling confident about something so if  I feel confident I don't need to repeat anything  

in front of a mirror but if I do not repeating is  not likely to help me make it easier to understand  

so we we have kind of two different issues with  that so let me say that again to make it more  

clear if I if I understand something well I  don't need to stand in front of a mirror and  

practice it and if I don't understand and that's  why I'm trying to like practice saying something  

each time I repeat that I'm not learning anything  more I'm not actually reviewing that vocabulary  

the only real benefit I could think of is just  you practicing using something like if I if I  

learn like a I don't know like a tongue twister  or something like that or I'm trying to just  

just get practicing saying something but if I've  already heard lots of people use it and I remember  

the phrase I understand it very well then I'll  probably use it just fine so the best thing and  

that's what we're talking about in this video is  rather than repeating more information is getting  

naturally varied review so you're hearing lots of  different things you should focus on something and  

you can be specific about that you can learn you  know you can focus on pronunciation like a certain  

kind of people where I want to I don't know like  some people have trouble understanding certain  

ethnicities or accents or locations whatever that  the place is so if I move to like here in in Japan  

out in the country like out in the countryside  where my wife's grandmother lives like her  

Japanese is like real like mumbly and hard to  understand I can understand her now I can have  

like a good conversation with her but when I first  met her I was just like what is this lady saying

you know I was like it was fast and I you  know just using lots of local local dialect  

um and it was just very difficult because I didn't  have lots of exposure to it but after I heard her  

a lot and I heard other people and I'm getting  that like again that naturally varied review  

that's what helped me uh enjoy the conversation  because I can understand her and I know how to  

communicate I'm not really like speaking like  that back to her but she understands what I'm  

saying I understand what she's saying all right  so rather than like what we talked about at the  

beginning of this video like speaking to the  mirror you know I'm talking to the mirror I'm  

talking to myself in in my car or whatever  that's fine it's useful if you're trying to  

just like get your mouth maybe correct about  what you want to say but you don't improve  

your understanding of something by repeating  it you improve your understanding by getting  

more varied examples okay so I was like if I'm  trying to look look at something in in a room I  

want to find where something is and I have one of  my eyes covered I can keep like grabbing like this  

and I still probably won't find it but if I get if  I open both of my eyes it's very easy to find that  

and this is an example of slightly different  review so the first thing like the first eye  

like shows me okay there's something over here  but I can't tell how far away it is so I need  

to open the other eye and now oh okay I can I can  figure out like where it is and like how far away  

it is that's why we have two eyes and that's why  they're on our face like that we don't have just  

one eye because it would be much more difficult  to to see where things are you need two eyes to  

do that and so in the same way you need to have  lots of different examples of what vocabulary is  

or other people speaking things because I can hear  on a listening practice exercise like somebody  

says a nice clear sentence but then in real life  people don't speak that way and so now because  

I've only heard that one example I'm not actually  going to even if I repeat that phrase again and  

again so an English example is like how are you  today so I hear that and I'm practicing that in  

my car how are you today how are you today how  are you today but then someone in real life is  

like hey Drew how's it going hey Drew how's  it going Hey Joe how's it going and I'm I'm  

like wait a minute they didn't say hey how are you  today or whatever you know and so again like the  

the repetition of it this is it's it's why it's  it's less helpful to spend your time repeating  

and more helpful to get lots of different  examples of things with naturally varied review

um yes hopefully that answers  that question let's see Jose hi  

teacher I've been watching your  videos lately glad to hear it

oh no now the chat skip down  again chat why you do that to me  

oh no it's like a whole bunch of uh let's see oh  no did it really skip down that long all right  

um okay all right I got here all right Mary uh I  can speak English in my mind very well but when  

it comes to really speaking it is hard to express  myself tell me why I can give you some specific  

advice about that but what what is the thing that  stops you when you get into conversations is it  

because you're worried about making mistakes  you don't know about the grammar or maybe the  

pronunciation is different from the people I've  probably given a few examples already but let me  

know so respond and keep this conversation going  other people probably have uh similar issues but  

it just depends so let me know what's happening  at that moment in your mind so you can speak to  

yourself just fine you get into a conversation  and up something happens what happens foreign

all right and let's see Ayub says when I started  to speak I won't get the appropriate word even  

though I Know It uh very well very well not very  much um yes so in this situation it's much better  

like you probably don't know the vocabulary as  well as you think you do and a lot of people  

like there are reasons why you could get nervous  about something like you're just nervous like uh  

even uh like a kid who has to speak in front  of his classmates as a native speaker in in  

English like there's no language problem that  student will still feel nervous and ah like oh  

I I I I I forgot what I'm going to say so that can  happen to you if you just feel nervous in general  

but the way to conquer that so to overcome that  nervousness um other than just like feeling good  

about you know providing like a listening like  a person who's listening in the conversation  

um when you get into a conversation like it's  the prop the the preparation you have for that  

so again like if you're making simple mistakes  in your writing here I'm guessing you would  

probably be worried about like am I using that  word correctly or not so very rarely do I see  

people like sentences of perfect English from  people who are also worried about that so some  

some people will like if I see a comment and there  are mistakes in that comment that I'm guessing  

the person probably doesn't know the language as  well as they think and so they will worry about  

that in the conversation so the solution becomes  getting more naturally varied review all right  

I'm trying to make this very easy there's like  really just one thing you have to do it's just  

learning English as a first language and a big  part of that is getting naturally varied review  

all right Eunice again your approach helps me  develop a mind map of English now I need a road  

map or plan to do daily thanks in advance yes this  is exactly what we do in fluent for life so we  

show people like this is what you learn and every  day do this like this step and then this step and  

then that step and all it's doing is just showing  you how to get lots of review so that you feel  

more confident you understand the vocabulary very  well and then you want to speak it's that easy  

uh let's see four door says a fjorda says  uh are you in California I'm in Toronto  

we have now I like that or you can say it's now  10 o'clock no I'm not in California I'm in Japan

he means maybe let's see all right uh El Chris  says I was in the U.S once for a Christian  

Conference I understood like 90 but never was  able to get the jokes until now I literally I  

rarely get the jokes yeah and again these are  different things that you learn depending on  

how you're learning so if you if you spend time  Listening to English lessons like you're that's  

time that you're not spending learning from real  people in real situations all right so that's why  

in fluent for life we actually give you lots of  examples of people actually speaking and you hear  

jokes and like we have like specific lesson sets  about that and help you understand uh more about  

like humor that kind of thing okay go says so  I'd like to be able to talk more in English  

yes that's why we're here help you have a like  a better conversation feel more confident and  

again uh the the great thing about what I do is  that I don't care if you speak or not my job is  

to get you fluent and so when you feel confident  because you understand something well then you  

will be much more likely so you will want to speak  at that point so it's very easy you teach English  

as a baby is learning to speak from his or her  parents yes that is the goal so it's the same  

way you learn new things even today so you learn  new things in your native language like this you  

just hear people explaining things or you hear  some new slang or vocabulary at first you don't  

understand what it means so I remember somebody  told me like especially now I am 42 years old  

and so now younger Generations are are learning  like weird vocabulary just like I had things I  

used to say like my parents are like what are you  talking about it's I feel like an old man but the  

point is like you're learning that same vocabulary  and you're learning it in the same way so I'm not  

getting like a linguist's explanation of something  it's just oh what is that vocabulary what does it  

mean now I'm probably going to hear it from a  few different places or I will my friends will  

be talking about that thing or whatever you know  it's the same way you learn your native language  

you get the real language you get understandable  lessons and you get naturally varied review that's  

it so the speaking comes later most people did  not start speaking right when they learn a new  

word even in their native language because  they don't feel confident about what it means  

so if I say something like like I heard the  expression or the phrase like on fleek and  

I still don't know what that means actually  I'm guessing like if I remember it's like on  

Fleek now this sounds dumb to me I don't know what  this vocabulary means but I'm sure you could look  

it up and I'm not hearing that in day-to-day  life anyway but it is something that younger  

people use to be on fleek uh I'm guessing it means  like cool I think but I don't know and so I would  

not feel confident using that vocabulary in a  conversation like a friend of mine is like oh  

like I I think it means like very cool like  wow that's a nice looking shirt I'm like man  

that shirt is on fleek and he looks at me like no  on fleek on fleek means stupid so there like I've  

I've said something I've used the vocabulary  incorrectly because I don't really understand  

it okay so this is the same thing that native  speakers experience and it's the same thing  

you experience in your native language all right  so this is why if I hear something I'm not going  

to feel very confident using it I can repeat this  I can say on fleek on fleek I could try to say it  

perfectly but I still don't really feel confident  about using it in a conversation so I don't use it  

now if I heard like a couple different examples I  was watching a news story or I hear some kids and  

I can understand the context of it I understand  what it means then I would know ah okay I feel  

confident it means something is cool or whatever  I don't know you guys can look that up I don't  

know what it means but the point is the same  thing so even natives will not feel confident  

about using something it's all the different  examples that really build your understanding  

of something and that's when you can use it use it  fluently because you feel confident about using it  

all right uh Eric again at least this time there  are 40 likes instead of eight from the last one  

yes I think we had we had some more likes but yeah  click click the like button how easy is that click  

that like button yes click the like button  uh say it says how does your course work all  

right uh so if you're asking about fluent for  Life the basic idea is that let me erase this

so if we know that we get fluent by understanding  and if you don't understand vocabulary then you  

will not use it fluently like that's just a basic  fundamental Foundation about language learning if  

you don't understand something you won't feel  confident using it like the example I just gave  

about on fleek uh and so usually what happens  is like Learners have been learning English as  

a second language and so they've been learning  it through their native language they've been  

I'll just draw like a little chart for you maybe  this would be a little bit easier to understand  

a very simple here

so this will be English as a second language and  this is English as a first language and so this  

will call this like the how like the how you  do it how you learn and these are the results  

so for how you learn English as a second  language it's usually translations

and I'll try to write this quickly  so translations you study grammar

and then you've got maybe memorize  vocabulary and usually it's like slower  

easier to understand English and you have  like it's it's typically textbook English

and because of that so we if we have like  this is how you learn and it's going to  

give us certain results so one of the things  it will do is it will it will not teach us

so it will not teach you real English you will  have trouble understanding people in real life  

if you only if you only learn the kinds of  things that are in classes so I've given a  

few examples already in this video but like a  greeting if you learn hello but you don't also  

learn like howdy how's it going what's up what's  going down other things like that then you will  

not be prepared for them in conversations so  it does not teach real English it teaches you  

uh I'm trying to write this  quickly it teaches you to translate

so when you're in conversations you're  thinking about what to say in your native  

language and then you translate  it in your head and then you speak  

instead of just communicating in English  all right so you're thinking about rules

you forget words

so natives are hard to understand

just like my handwriting is hard to understand  but I'm trying to do this quickly but you can  

see how this works so when you learn through  a second language like you're learning English  

through your native language then you're learning  through translations you're studying grammar you  

memorize vocabulary it's usually slower than  real English so you're not getting actual  

examples of native speech then that's going  to cause all of these problems and that's why  

the people who are watching my videos like  have the kind of complaints that they have  

the kind of frustrations and pains and problems  that they have like that they're talking about  

in the chat so everything they're mentioning  is this it's the result of learning this way  

all right uh and it's not your fault I just  want to say I always have to remind people of  

that this is the way everybody teaches because you  don't need to become a confident speaker to pass  

tests in school so this is why everybody just  does it this way all right now what I do is I  

teach people uh in English as a first language  so that's what I'm doing here so we're going  

to learn it's basically three things so very  simple we're going to learn like real English

and by real English I mean the vocabulary  that natives use in real conversations  

as well as you know things that you might  find in a textbook because that English is  

also used like of and the and there other  things like that but we're also going to  

learn slang and phrasal verbs other things  I'm also going to give you understandable

messages

so understandable messages means I'm going  to explain things all in English but the same  

way I would talk to a child or just an adult I'm  speaking with so I'm trying to keep it very simple  

and give you examples of things that you can  understand like I don't explain it logically like  

look I'm I take the cap off the marker I put the  cap on the marker all right and the last piece of  

this you need is what I mentioned at the beginning  of this video which is naturally varied reviewing

so because you get like if I just show you  something one time you kind of get it you  

understand it logically but you will likely forget  that so you need to hear it again and again but  

in different ways I don't want to just repeat the  same thing over and over I would like to show you  

different people doing slightly different things  so here's me I'm taking the cap off the marker I  

put the cap back on the marker here's someone  else that's talking like it take off my hat  

and put my hat back on someone takes off their  shirt or their coat or something and then puts  

it back on and as you hear these different  examples it's giving you real speech it's  

giving you understandable messages and again the  naturally varied review will help you understand  

how natives are using it and so the results of  this are you build fluency so you understand

you get confident

because you feel prepared for the conversation and  

you understand what natives  are saying and you get fluent  

so my goal is is not even to help you to like to  make you speak you don't have to repeat anything  

in uh in the program uh you certainly can like  it's it's nice if you do but like the the thing  

that's really building your fluency is this so  it's understanding things like a native and really  

feeling confident about the vocabulary and that's  how you get fluent so what we do in the program  

is kind of take you from from this learner like  move you from being an ESL learner to being an efl  

learner so we we take you kind of you're at like  a lower I'm not drawing that very well let me see  

if I can fit that I don't care so you start kind  of here at a lower level and we move up in steps  

to get up here all right so very simple we help  you understand the grammar vocabulary uh lots  

of different speakers so you get used to people  like a British English speaker or someone from  

New Zealand or from wherever and each time you're  learning a new thing you get fluent and you build  

a little bit more confidence and fluency in  that new thing you learn so you go through uh  

lesson sets that take you like this and that's  how you get fluent you finish one you go on to  

the next one and then the next one but you get to  choose what you learned so you can learn whatever  

you like all right so that's how the program works  you can click on the link in the description below  

this video to learn more all right uh uh let's see  jokes need to understand the culture not English  

yes part of part of understanding the culture is  yes being able to being able to get those jokes  

again shanigan is grammar important or not I speak  my native language fluently even though I do not  

know the grammar at all now be be careful I want  to be clear you do know the grammar you just don't  

know the names of the grammar points so that's  the difference so when you're speaking your native  

language you speak correctly just like the toilet  example of you can use a toilet even if you don't  

know how the toilet works all right so it's two  different two different things but you are using  

grammar and you are using it correctly you just  don't you just learned it like a native speaker  

you learned it as a first language rather than  learning it through your native language all right  

Mary again I love uh to use the word wood when  I speak English but I never learn how to use it  

all right well it depends on the situation  so I think we covered wood actually in the  

last video so the previous video I was talking  about um like would you like to do something  

and when you're learning a word like this what  you should do like the the English as a second  

language way to learn vocabulary is like we  take a word would and we're going to give  

you like every usage of it all right but what we  what we want you to do is learn like here's wood  

in this situation and here's wood in a different  situation here's wood in a different one and you  

get to learn kind of how they are connected  but sometimes it's completely different  

all right so I would like to do something or would  you like to do something we're talking about like  

in the future what would we like to do all right  or if we're talking about like something in the  

potential uh like uh let's see if I if I did  something like I don't know if that would work  

so when you're learning something you're rather  than thinking about the vocabulary think about the  

situation and when you use something and so when  you hear natives use something like oh they're  

using wood in this situation or that situation  all right let's see how much work we got here  

let's see Obrigado says Pedro let's see I  would like to know how to apply the varied  

review focused on pronunciation yeah uh so varied  review for pronunciation means you're listening to  

different speakers talking about the same thing  or even saying the exact same thing so when you  

hear five different people say hey how are you I  think one of the First videos I made on YouTube is  

an example of that like over 10 years ago so it's  hearing like five different people or whatever how  

many people is like four or five people I think  in that video um but you'll see the same thing in  

the video about making espresso so what we do in  fluent for life is that you're going to hear lots  

of different people saying the vocabulary from  that lesson so each lesson is about a conversation  

and that conversation is kind of split into a  couple different pieces so you learn about the  

grammar from that conversation the vocabulary the  pronunciation all of those different things and  

then as you go through that you get a little bit  more review each day so you're listening reading  

and uh listening watching and even writing some  of the vocabulary you can certainly speak along  

with the lessons if you like what some people do  but the most important part is the understanding  

of the content and so when you're trying to  get naturally varied review by listening to  

different examples of people that's the  same way that's how you would get that  

uh let's see the high norda example was great  thanks teacher glad to hear it Tom all right  

Alan says is a written and English needs a much  perfect grammar than speaking I'm guessing you  

mean writing yes but typically if you're doing  like professional writing yes it should be correct  

uh we write high five or maybe high five uh  like I'm probably like high like spelling it  

out because you're going like high five like  that but I mean you could write it I guess  

either way depending on how your uh how you're  talking about it all right see this says hello  

Drew it's always great uh being with you for  your live lessons thanks so much glad to hear  

it dran uh let's guess the color of the shirt  Drew will wear the next live stream yes uh your  

the guess would probably be black I'm guessing  because I have like I have like 30 black shirts  

and so actually the trick is like which black  shirt am I wearing think about that one like is  

it like this cotton black shirt from that place  or this other cotton black shirt yeah think about  

that that's a nice tricky bit of trivia for you  Michelle says I remember that you made the video  

about pronunciation put together two words to make  one sound like I remember and I got it yes I've  

talked about that uh frequently about blending  sounds together so you can hear that in Frederick  

as well so I recommend if you uh download that app  if you have not already click on the link in the  

description below this video to get Frederick but  you can listen to individual sounds and then you  

can hear how those sounds blend together in words  and also how they blend together across words  

uh El Chris says uh our El Ciro excuse me I Now  understand like 98 of regular American accent  

but there are some accents very difficult for  me to get like Australian yes it just you need  

to spend more time with those people that's  it all right again when you speak English  

with Japanese person does that person understand  your accent or not uh it depends usually I will  

be like I'm usually speaking Japanese in with  Japanese people but if they understand yeah

uh oh no I'm probably not going to get to all  these questions before I have to shut it down  

we've got like five minutes left all right  let me be quick here uh hi speaking of native  

speakers is it enough and more efficient  than shadowing and repetition or should  

we practice two methods in order to build  a true training I would just get naturally  

varied review you will feel more confident  and you will learn faster that way rather  

than uh rather than trying to like repeat  something again and again if you're trying  

to get fluent as fast as possible naturally  varied review is going to help you the fastest  

I love your pronunciations says illustrate English  time again let's see using the question mark  

why I'm pronunciation as a teacher Drew  pronunciation is also important to learn yet  

all right Japan we're close Duran what advice can  you give from my reason for not speaking fluently  

as I tend to forget the word or term of what I'm  trying to say yeah it's it's usually because you  

just need more review you need more review you  don't know you don't know the vocabulary as  

well as you think you do so there's a difference  remember between knowing the vocabulary and really  

owning that vocabulary where you feel confident  about using it all right I got what you mean uh  

firstly through physical learning then it comes  abstract ones when learning phrases yep you got it  

all right look at that any suggestion about how to  look up meaning of expression with many examples  

to deeply understand I'm thinking on trying chat  GPT says Pablo yep you could use chat GPT or you  

could get uh go to Google but I would look up like  you're looking up uh like synonyms so these are  

similar words so you would use maybe a thesaurus  for that but you can also just put in like  

um like ways of saying something so like ways  of talking about this or you could just watch  

like it might be easier to find particular  topics rather than trying to look up specific  

vocabulary so if I'm if I'm looking up uh like  how to grow roses and then I find 10 different  

videos about that that's going to teach me a lot  of vocabulary for that thing but that might be a  

little bit easier for you all right uh Drew  could you pronounce O'Reilly and O'Reilly

O'Reilly and O'Reilly I don't know me I think  that might be the same pronunciation for both of  

those I'm not Irish I don't know uh let's see Tom  says uh okay I like the black shirts too glad here  

I also click the like button says Geico all  right uh but that should be it for today I  

think we've gotten to look at that well Rue says  the first time to learn oh no now we get a bunch  

of stuff coming away oh no all right you guys  gotta stop commenting stop commenting all right  

uh let's see thanks for the answer all right  some nice hands up there from Tom pretty good  

exercises for the triceps of your hand while  you're clearing the Whiteboard yes so if I if  

I want to do like some erasing something like  that good good like muscle building exercises  

over here all right uh well that's it for me today  remember to go back uh you can repeat stuff if you  

like but I promise you you will get more results  faster if you do naturally varied review so you  

can get this for pronunciation for vocabulary  for anything you like especially if you just  

get fluent for life we go through all of these  things it's all set up for you or you can try  

to do it by yourself looking for lots of different  examples of things but if you'd like to learn more  

you can click on the link in the description  below this video both for fluent for life and  

for Frederick for everyone else out there have a  fantastic day and I'll see you next time bye-bye