Fine-Tuning English Conversation Ability For Natural Communication

look at that Joseph over there with a comment  we'll give YouTube a moment to fire up over  

here make sure we're working but you can  see I have a uh a special guest hell today  

all right we are working look at that that's  actually pretty quick over here all right hi  

so this is my friend show and he is joining  me he also has a YouTube channel and he lives  

in Nagasaki you can click on the link in the  description below to see his channel no well  

you know since you're here and uh if especially  for people who are interested in learning more  

about Nagasaki or Japan so he focuses more on that  uh but today uh I brought him on so I could help  

him with his English uh so I thought this would be  like an interesting different kind of conversation  

maybe you want to give a quick introduction  okay about anything and we can we can take it  

from there okay so again I'm sure nice to meet  you we'll put his name up here yeah I live in  

Nagasaki City Japan but I'm now I'm now 33 years  old 33 years I'm originally from Tokyo then four  

years ago I moved to Nagasaki because I love  history and culture of this place city and the  

other day we met that's right yeah so we met uh  well R says hajim oh you can speak Japanese yes  

we we do we do have some some people who uh know  some Japanese and actually some Japanese people  

may be joining us uh on the video as well but  we'll see but let let us know if you can hear  

all right if you also have any questions as usual  this is a different kind of video where we're not  

really uh talking about a specific I guess I mean  it's kind of about having better conversations  

so what we thought we would do is just talk  and if there are things I can help him with  

or if a show has questions about you know  maybe specific words or you can't think of  

a particular thing or how to say something uh  so the actually the first thing we were talking  

about before we started the video is the idea of  fine tuning fine tuning tun so that was new yes  

for you yes uh so and this is an interesting  thing where he has a uh so she is Korean I  

don't know your name though I can't read the the  huru you you you have to say what your what Your  

an this is the only word that I can y yeah the  only Korean yeah but that's that's pretty common  

here in Japan and that's a net nice to see there  in Wisconsin so we get people from all over the  

world ni enjoying these yeah yeah yeah people  some people are up at 2: or 3 in the morning  

watching these oh yeah yeah yeah time you should  get some sleep good night uh so fine tuning to

fine tuning to fine-tune something so this was  new to him so he already knew uh one use of the  

word fine which is like how are you today I'm fine  uh but fine can also mean like very small or very  

like we're going to take something like powder  so if you look at a rock you might have a rock  

this big and here's a smaller one smaller smaller  smaller we get to maybe a grain of sand and so we  

have kind of fine fine green sand like like that  so it's basically getting smaller and smaller  

more specific so if you're tuning something like  you tune a guitar by turning the little I don't  

know what you call those it's like a screw or  something but to to make the strings tighter or  

looser uh so when you're tuning those things you  can do bigger tuning but then fine tuning is just  

to change its like mold yeah so it's not like a  bad thing if you don't know the word fine-tuning  

because usually people can say something different  in a conversation if they don't know a particular  

thing to say but anyway so that that's what we  thought about talking about today uh and also  

well Mari says welcome thank you sure yeah uh so  if you did you have anything specifically like  

you had a question about pronunciation or or  way you're speaking or word choice or whatever  

uh but as we're talking I can I can ask and I'll  keep my eye on the chat to see if anybody has any  

questions about that okay okay and about fine tun  I have another question sure so fine means like  

small or tiny correct can I say like fine sand  yeah so you we would say fine in that case it  

would be fine green green green means what that's  the it's like the thickness of the sand so we can  

have fine I actually did a video about this uh  when was that a maybe a week or two ago but I was  

talking about uh like so you have fine grain and  you can also have coarse coarse so if we have  

something like sandpaper uhhuh uh so sandpaper  has little pieces of sand on it so you can polish  

things uh you could have fine grain with W which  is kind of good for polishing like we just want to  

get a smooth uh or we could have more rough oh or  coarse grain sand so it's it's more the it's like  

the size of the little pieces of of things okay  then one more thing yeah can I use this word fine  

tune as a vve yeah V well that's what it is so  we're we're going to like we want to fine-tune  

something we want to eat something we want to  drink something we want to play something so to  

fine tune it is a it is a verb okay in that way  yeah see that's good I mean the I learned a new  

vocabulary well there you go and and also like  no notice what I'm I'm doing here when the the  

goal is not to just give him lots of like what you  would call conver uh uh just like conversation or  

lots of like input I want to specifically answer  his question but I want to help him discover  

the answer so rather than just like give you a  translation or a definition of it we want to give  

you examples and show you how something works okay  so it's much easier to remember and understand it  

in English that way so like Christian yeah uh so  like can I ask you some kind of difference of the  

words sure like fix correct Sure tune and sure now  this is an interesting thing people can learn you  

can like learn to do this by yourself and and even  me when I'm thinking about words in in Japanese so  

when you when you're thinking about fix versus  what what was the other word correct correct  

is there any other the mirror uh there could  be but if we're trying to compare two different  

things for example we're looking at uh so  this is called a VIN diagram and so we we  

want to think like okay so this is fix over  here uh and this is correct over here and  

then when when might they both be used for  some situation or when might it like sound a  

little bit awkward or weird or something like  that um so if I want to like uh let's say fix  

what kind of things might we fix just as an  example there there are like different kinds of  

things can you think of anything a machine so fix  uh M cycle uhhuh machine so a machine or like a  

bike bike something like that to fix a particular  thing uh anything else uh I'm not sure about else  

what else might we fix relationship oh fix fix a  relationship that's a good idea fix a relationship

fix nothing bike relationship uhhuh so machine and  so this pronunciation here this is not in Japanese  

this uh this like sh kind of ma yeah it's like  machine machine that a am correct machine yeah  

machine machine machine and so if you're learning  to uh correct or and there's the word correct or  

fix your your pronunciation uh listen and try  to make try to over pronounce it like a machine  

machine machine yeah so we have a machine here  a machine uh and then you can go back to regular  

everyday machine machine yeah machine so we have  to fix a machine fix a bike uh fix a relationship  

another good example of that so would we say  correct correct uh machine and if not why not  

why why might we why might that sound weird maybe  anyone else watching this uh you can think do we  

do we do you think like does it and the the thing  we want to think about uh like these are the kinds  

of questions that if you ask a native a native  can help you with this so a native it's going to  

be more difficult for them to answer questions  about grammar like what is the present perfect  

tense so they like if you ask them that they  won't be able to tell you but this is more like  

a game where you say when can we use this word  but not that word so here I'm I'm I'm trying to  

like lead you to that rather than just tell you  what the answer is but trying to get you to think  

about that so you get that that same sense about  what's correct now the way natives do this is uh  

from from the time they're born so natives over  many years are getting lots of examples of like  

fix correct fix correct fix fix correct correct  correct so they're hearing all these and slow  

they're they're figuring out a pattern about when  to use one or when to when to use like another  

one uh and so you can think about that I'll just  take a look at comments and see if I'm I need to  

get like a like a large you know comment reading  thing over here but let's see if I'm uh pardon  

me as I as I like I don't I feel bad I'm skipping  over people as people are saying hello nice to see  

everybody there oh you can you can also see them  on the uh you here you can use the use the mouse  

uh we got a comment from tar correct would mean  something to do with idea for physical think  

might need other word like fix so correct  would mean something to do with an idea for  

physical things might need or other words like  fix corrective pronunciation all right so you  

can also fix your pronunciation so what we're  what what we're looking for is like trying to  

understand what these words mean and uh I don't  want to just tell people like oh it's this and  

this because you will forget it yeah so I shall  fgure out the pattern yes okay so the point is to  

understand the pattern the way a native would  think about it and so you get that with lots  

of examples okay oh but I don't think fix is used  for the pronation yeah but but natives would hear  

that example okay so a native would think like  oh like you should fix like fix your Let's see  

we can just uh We'll erase this for a moment  here okay so we have a whole lesson about out  

like fix and whatever so yes Joseph another good  example to fix your behavior oh Behavior fix your

behavior to behave so fix your behavior fix  your pronunciation I'll just leave it as Pro  

so fix your pronunciation fix from chaos I  don't know what that is that sounds like a  

good name for a video game though so but you  could fix something like that you could you  

know you could fix fix chaos H fix chaos yeah  so if you have chaos in your life and Chaos  

just means lots of weird things happening or  you don't know what's going on like you want  

to fix that and organiz exactly so we want to  organize or to order your life so we want to  

kind of fixing something is like switching from  this to this thing over here so fixing something  

like that now uh if we're talking about like  correcting something so I I I asked you can we  

correct a machine can we correct a machine now  it depends on the actual example so correcting  

a machine like let's say I'm correcting AI so I  would correct a machine and said like no that way  

of doing it is not doing something like you should  do it this way instead so I'm trying to guide it  

to a different way of doing something but when you  fix a machine it usually means there's something  

broken about that thing so correcting is more  like let's say you're in a boat uh and you're  

traveling this way but there's a rock over here we  should like correct the way we're going so we're  

going this way so here we would use correcting  we don't really want to like we're not trying  

to fix the boat there's nothing wrong with the  boat but we want to correct the boat to correct  

the direction of how it's going so people in  like moving in a ship they would use correct  

in this way but if there's a problem with the boat  itself like a hole in the boat we should fix the  

boat if there is a hole here we don't we don't  correct that I mean you could say like we should  

we should correct that problem but more people  would naturally say fix okay because there's  

there's some kind of error there uh that is maybe  damaging or hurting this thing or stopping it from  

behaving normally so you can think about it  like this like your uh in the pronunciation

example to if you think about yourself kind of  like a machine a like fixing your pronunciation  

means there's there's maybe like something wrong  with you there's like a problem with what you're  

doing uh but correcting your pronunciation is  maybe you say something like this but really  

you should say it like this so we're going to do  a slight change in how your your pronunciation is  

so you say like I I like this but you're maybe  you say like I like I like that like you don't  

know how to say the k sound so we're going  to we're going to correct your pronunciation  

here we could say fix but like fix in general is  more like there's kind of an issue with with the  

thing rather than rather than what you're doing so  there's a relationship there they're connected but  

uh and and even even with this like you still  might not know like when do we use one or the  

other you should still get many more examples  another thing you can do if you're unsure is uh  

putting like a search into Google so if we do like  if I just type in fix uh fix something so like  

fix fix a bike uh or correct a bike so what what  would I use for that and and do you understand the  

differ situation so let just like as a can you  what what is the difference between fix a bike  

and correct a bike correct a bike so what would  what would what would be different based on what  

we what we've looked at so far what what would  be the situation for both of these things fix a  

fix a bike is kind of easy uh so what does that  mean there is some issue or something is broken  

with a bike like like yeah sure so like a wheel  or something yeah so that's to to repair the bike  

sure correct a bike correct correct a bike what  what what does that mean to correct a bike what  

what would that mean So based on the examples  we have so far to correct a bike correct a

bike what correct the bike like for example  

if bike with how to say you're riding it then  correct a way Direction corre that's right it  

makes sense but correct a bike yeah no so that  what you I mean you're you're correcting you're  

correcting the bike As you move it so it's  just like I'm correcting a boat by changing  

the direction oh okay so so in that case like  this is why you could search for something and  

still get uh like the like a Google search for  something like that but I'm trying to help you

that little we could it or we could only use  this one and when we can use both but sometimes  

the meaning is different so like in this case  like if we fix a bike or we correct a bike it  

actually means two different things so I don't I  don't go to a bike if there's a like my tire is  

broken or something I don't say could you correct  this for me I say could you fix this there's it's  

actually broken but correcting would usually  mean there's like a slight problem or an issue  

or something I think somebody mentioned uh the  word trajectory trajectory means like Direction  

yeah so the trajectory of something if I shoot a  gun or an arrow or something where is it where is  

it going so here the the bicycle like I have my  daughter has a uh a scooter like a little scooter  

you can stand on and push it it kind of lik looks  like I'll draw this very quickly but just like a  

little thing with some wheels on it like this  a scooter but the The Handlebar over here it's  

it's kind of crooked so I need to correct that you  said your hand that H crooked it's crooked so it's  

not straight it should be you should be riding it  straight like the wheels should go straight when  

you're riding it but it's it's kind of crooked  crooked yeah so it's it's like bent okay and it's  

not it's not facing straight so the The Handlebar  and the wheel should be like this can you spare  

it just just uh which one uh crooked crooked yeah  H so crooked crooked is like this it's like okay  

so not not straight okay not straight yeah so  something is crooked or something something wrong  

yeah so that's Tom over there new vocabulary yes  and so this is how natives learn new vocabulary  

where you might not know how the lesson is is  going to happen but you will learn something your  

parents will teach you a new word so yes like the  the problem with it it's actually I don't want to  

explain too much detail but it kind of works like  this so you have one pole and then the handlebar  

is on top of it but the handlebar is is like  it's like off so it's it's not it's not it's  

not lined up correctly it should be like this but  it's bent a little bit like this so usually when  

you're holding a handlebar the the wheel goes that  way but the wheel actually goes that way so I need  

to fix that but I could also say I need to correct  that so it's like putting it putting it in a in a  

way that it should naturally be or right position  yeah so that that's why like we're it it's it's a  

similar thing like if we're fixing a machine like  there there might be a problem broken with it but  

uh to correct a machine would be like educating  the machine like don't do this do this other  

thing over here so if I'm programming a computer  or AI then I want to say oh like we don't want to  

do this we want to do this other thing over here  so it's not broken we don't need to fix it but  

we do need to correct it and and teach it to do  something better teach or navigate or how to say  

lead yeah something like that so you're you're  directing something like in a new in a new way  

so when you're hearing more of these if you're  unsure about like which which word is correct  

what we want to do is uh get more examples of that  so chat GPT could be helpful for that like I want  

to understand uh like fix versus correct and  and that's a thing it could help you do or even  

Google would give you you know some examples of  something but chat GPT is typically better for for  

fine-tuning your understanding so we want to think  about like how we how we change something or think  

about it in a different way uh and chat gbt can  give you lots of examples but it's helpful if you  

understand how how to learn where you think like  okay chat gbt give me some examples when uh we  

could use it and some examples when we could not  and that's like it's it's more about spending time  

with the vocabulary let's see anything anything  new over here as we go I think uh people are  

going Let's see we had a couple of things over  here so repair yes so repair rep repair repair  

is like more of a a specific can I can I can I  say something or try can I try give it go ahead  

repair pant you could oh so you could you could  repair something like no yeah you could repair you  

could repair a machine as well so anything where  where there's I don't know let's say like this uh  

this eraser it gets broken or something is bent or  there's a problem with it I can I can repair that  

thing it's like getting it back to the way it was  before so that's usually if you have some pants uh  

here you can get a get a marker too if you need to  write anything but it's like so there's a hole or  

a rip in your pants now we we take patch and cover  that up okay now we have repaired that thing so  

we've fixed it we didn't correct the pants now  why didn't we didn't correct them because it's  

not like they're going in a direction or or like  moving in that way it's more getting them back to  

the way they should be uh working yeah yeah yeah  fixes how you say fix some issues or how mistakes  

or problems or something like that repair is how  to say some more similar to like recover yeah or  

how you say make something not back to the yeah  so you can think about it like it's like making  

something whole so if we have uh 100% or 0% and we  if it it should be 100% like the computer should  

be working or the car should be working something  like that but maybe it goes down uh and so we want  

to repair that and get it back up to 100% so just  like the pants there's a hole in the pants now we  

need to put a patch on the pants and and fix it  and make it whole again so you could say repair or  

fixing that but we wouldn't say correct pants  so if I go if I go to my tailor and and like  

if I say hey could you correct these pants they  would they would they would think for a minute  

like they would maybe try to guess what you  mean by that if they think oh he's like I I  

understand he probably want there's a hole but  if he doesn't see the hole and you say can you  

correct these then they won't they won't know what  you're talking about so like they should be doing  

this but they're not doing that so it's more like  it's like a behavior or something like an action  

or a way of doing something that you want it to  do but it's not doing that thing so that's why  

we talk about correcting Behavior so if you're if  your child like they don't listen or they're not  

being a good kid or something we want to correct  that behavior now in that case we could also say  

fix that like there's a problem and we need to  fix that but it's the specific the specific fixing  

is like correcting the behavior going from not  doing this thing to doing this thing over here  

so it's more like a change or like we're we're  moving into something in a new way repair the  

behavior is kind of maybe weird yeah you like you  could you could say that butd yeah but it's it's  

not very likely and that's another thing you can  check uh like checking on Google about something  

like that so if Google says uh i' like check or  uh com what's the word here so I want to repair  

your behavior or fix your behavior you're going  to get many more results for fix and few results  

for repair in that way so usually it's like  there's something broken there but like correct  

is more like we want to change where something is  going so it's a slight difference and this is why  

even when people ask sometimes you can use like  here we have fix a bike and correct a bike but  

the meaning is slightly different so while I'm  writing it oh like go that way instead I'm not  

I'm not like fixing the bike I'm correcting  it m and so often we will like the there's  

another uh use of this that maybe is new for  you maybe new for other people um is like to to

over to over correct to overcorrect what do  you think that might mean to overcorrect how  

to say for example the parents over correct the  behavior of the children in what way what would  

that mean you should do it you should do it this  is this is correct you should do it so you think  

they're getting too angry yeah too angry or too  how to say they're pushing too hard too yeah  

pressure or how you say they don't the parents  don't respect CH children's kids idea or I see  

something like that yeah overcorrect is a it's  it's a different that that's kind of correcting  

maybe too much but this term overcorrect usually  it means and we can use this actually in different  

different situations uh but let's say I'm I'm  uh I'm flying a an airplane and I'm going this  

direction but there's some wind blowing over  here so the wind is pushing me this way so like  

if I want to actually go straight or I want to go  in a different direction I need to over correct  

forgetting where we want to go because the wind  is pushing me back this way so it's a it's a way  

of like like another example would be um you  probably seen these before it's like a little  

ball that swings on a like a string like this a  pendulum it's called a pendulum uh and so often  

like in in society in general like people might  do something too much and now there's a correction  

it like kind of goes back or it overcorrects it  goes back to the other way or if I'm driving and  

I think I'm going to go off the road I might  like overcorrect and really go the opposite  

way off the other side of something so instead of  just correcting like the to correct so I I should  

be going this way this is correct but uh maybe I I  start my car is moving this way and now I'm going  

this way and I get nervous and so oh now I over  correct so I go past correction to start driving  

up this way instead it's like more how you say  put more effort or yeah energy or something to  

correct something means overr but you're doing it  too much okay too much is it positive or negative  

well usually usually it's it's negative because  I I should be here so if I start driving this  

way but I should be here like this is correcting  my behavior from here to here I want to correct  

correct where I'm going but if I keep going now  I'm going too far that way so I overcorrected  

oh so you could do that like in your life maybe  you're uh you you're studying a lot because you  

want to practice for a test or something uh but  then like you think okay I'm not doing so well  

I I I should not see my family at all or I should  not like eat or any like you're doing it too much  

you're overcorrect a so we want to we want to  do the correct thing but not too too much too  

much so often we overcorrect like a you know  like a missile system when a when a missile is  

fired like that it has a particular Target uh but  the missile itself is designed like if the wind  

blows it this way it's designed to correct itself  but if it if it moves too far that way it over Ed  

so it's it's not like doing something like you  know like being too angry at your kids it's more  

like doing something the opposite way like where  you're kind of breaking something as well can I  

say like uh I wanted to lose my weight sure but  I here you would just say lose weight yeah then  

I over corrected my diet then I how to say I got  sick or I got sure something like that you could  

say that now this is this is like a common thing  I hear in Japanese about like lose your weight we  

just say lose weight so you don't need to say  like we just say I need to lose weight okay so  

I don't say like lose my weight no no I I don't  have to put my yeah in front of the we don't we  

don't say that so we just say lose like I need  to lose weight so if you're if you were saying  

like I need to lose my weight that would all  it it it would mean no people wouldn't say this  

but if they did it would mean more like you're  carrying something like you have a backpack or  

uh something like that like I need to like lose  this thing that I'm caring like to get rid of  

that thing but just lose weight in general is is  usually when people are talking about they're too  

fat or something that's what they mean to lose  weight yeah so how do you how do you feel there  

like I I know it it seems like we're taking  a lot of time just to talk about one or two  

words but like as you you should do you feel more  confident yeah yeah I think I'm like understanding  

or I'm getting the concept or idea maybe  hopefully yeah so there there's a lot we could  

I could spend I don't know 2 hours or more looking  at more examples of things like that and so I I  

could I mean another way you could do this is just  searching on YouTube for like correct something  

like even just type in the word correct and see  what it shows you or do a Google image search so  

not like a a like a word search do an image search  and see what it gives you uh but those are ways it  

would it would help you understand it more like  a native because a native doesn't use a transl  

but they would think like what is the correct word  choice for repairing something so sometimes it  

could be correct and sometimes it's not but very  good those are those are good questions and like  

you know often people will think even especially  even shorter simpler words like fix is a very  

early a word that young uh children would learn  that very quickly all right let's see if we have  

any other questions here so ildar says and you can  see the same thing on the chat here if car uh if  

engine cranking won't start the spark is run out  of the tire I don't know what that means I think  

that might be referring to like an old an old car  but we don't really have like the spark is run out  

run the spark is run out to the tire I don't know  what what do you mean IL what do you mean by that  

Louis says the guest is like me uh in the fluent  for life shaking his head as he learns something  

new I do that I feel like I'm the person who uh  with you drew GL to hear it yes so that I mean  

the point is when you're when you're learning  you should be like oh like yeah I get it and  

and if you if you understand it better then I'm  I'm doing my job so that that's the point and so  

you can do this by yourself but obviously it's a  lot faster uh when you're getting examples from  

other people so Richard says I'm going to fix my  English yes so you could say that or I could like  

fix my English would mean kind of in general you  think there are problems with it but to correct  

something like typically means there's a specific  thing we're trying to like it should be like this  

but we want it to be like that instead World  Choice yeah correct World Choice that's correct  

yeah so you could we could talk about fixing word  choice in general or talking about correcting a  

particular word choice so like here should I say  correct or fix like we want to like correct that  

thing it's not really like a problem that we fix I  mean we are we are fixing it but the correction is  

like more of the important thing cuz we're we're  saying do we go this way or do we go that way so  

cor correct sounds like more like general or how  to say larger concept like correct way or correct  

fix fix is a more specific it depends on the  situation though so just like these like if I'm if  

I'm fixing a bike there's usually a specific issue  with the bike and also if I'm correcting the bike  

then you know there probably I I should be going  this way but I'm going that way it so it it's it's  

not like fix and correct are kind of bigger terms  it's more looking at specific examples and then  

comparing those examples and thinking about how  we might do that because in general like we could  

fix society and so fixing Society is like well  there are problems with life or lots of different  

things like that so that's a very big picture idea  like do we fix how do I how do I fix my life so if  

I like if I if I talk about fixing my life like  maybe I'm I don't know I have a bad relationship  

with my wife and I don't work and other things  like that there could be many problems uh and  

often people will speak in a general way like that  so instead of saying um like I need to fix this  

specific problem they're talking about a general  fixing my life but if they're saying like I need  

to correct my life like in that case it's usually  mean like I think I'm going this way but I should  

be going this way instead so it's more about  the direction you're moving in your life so uh  

try like I I wouldn't I wouldn't just think like  it's a big thing or a small thing it's more like  

what are we doing is it like a direction are we  repairing something or even if it's many problems  

um you're still like for for a specific problem  we could think like are we we're going from this  

thing to this thing over here so it is like a  correction uh but typically it's it's more for  

like a direction you're moving when when some  kind of uh example like that when you get that  

uh let's see over correct I'd say change your  behavior yeah so Joseph that's another way you  

could say that as well so change is also that  same kind of like it's like every day you are  

moving and maybe you're moving in a good way or  you're moving in a bad way so you can like kind  

of change change the behavior or correct uh if you  think you know I want to I I want to not do this  

I want to do this other thing over here so that's  more of like a uh way you think about that if you  

can sew repairing your clothes is not a problem  says Marcelo yes that's correct uh chat gbt fix  

my spelling mistakes yeah so chat gbt can help you  with things but also it can make mistakes as well  

so be careful with chat gbt so I I use it more as  a like for for English and thinking about lessons  

and writing and things like that because I can I  can tell if it's correct about something or not  

uh but if it's in Japanese I have to get lots of  examples I might go to Google or something else  

to to make sure how is his grammar I mean English  for I think it's kind of very nice yeah yeah that  

like chat gbt will be correct but sometimes it  will it will not give you the kind of response  

you want or it will say something I've I've just  I've found that when I'm if I'm asking questions  

about Japanese and it will say like something  and I was like well wait a minute you said it  

was this and it's like oh I'm sorry I his answer  could be sometimes yeah not not correct yeah but  

if I if I focus on kind of simpler things or if  I like the better thing to ask chat GPT is is  

rather than like translating something I describe  a situation so I talk with with my students about  

this and the the goal is is not to think about  like think through a translation so I begin with  

English and then try to translate into Japanese  it's more like how do I how would a Japanese  

person describe this situation so I'll give you  a perfect example and I think I told this on  

the last video or maybe two videos ago um but I  was on the the tram the Nagasaki tram and I saw  

it was a poster for like shigang uh photography  studio thing and I thought this was like really  

interesting so it was a picture and it was just  like an advertisement and had little cute uh boy  

and girl you know in like uh you know traditional  Japanese something like that uh and at the bottom  

it said like uh what did it say it was like and I  thought wow that's so amazing like how they said  

something it's just like turn your memory into a  picture so they're different ways you could say  

that but if you asked me like how I would say  it in Japanese it would not be that simple mhm  

like ah like like oh that's like a really like  yeah native and yeah so like I'm this is a  

situation and that's how how a Japanese person  would express it now there are different ways  

maybe a different Japanese person would say it  differently and for like an advertisement you  

want to be simple so they don't want to tell  like a long story you know they want to have  

big big words so you understand what's happening  in the in the picture here but it's like oh like

like ah okay like it wasn't even like a full  sentence it was just you know expressing it  

like that and so that was an example of taking  a situation and learning the vocabulary the way  

a native would say it yeah so it's still only one  way so I'll give you another example I think maybe  

I when I talked with you about this before I was  at a uh like Starbucks and usually they say uh  

like if you're he like for here or to go oh so  in in Japanese it's like like mesu or like you  

know like Moi or whatever yeah something like that  so usually they say that but maybe two weeks ago  

uh one lady said n very kajo yeah yeah yeah and I  was like well I mean I you know they know me over  

there but I just thought like I had not heard that  for like for like for here or to go and so and  

then another lady said like a day later like Tabu  oh very CU exactly so and so in Japanese that's  

like like eat and then go or drink and then go and  it means like are you going to be here or are you  

going to like take it to go and so I just thought  that was like a very interesting it was another  

example I have the situation the situation is  like here or to go but they're different ways you  

can express that and so when I'm when I'm getting  chat GPT to think about things for me I will say  

uh here's the situation like this person says this  person like how do you say getting to know you in  

Japanese like there could chat gbt would give more  of a translation that would probably be a little  

bit awkward or not correct like it's like again  like using that correct like it's like it's kind  

of right but maybe there's something something  incorrect or wrong about it like you could say it  

but so it's more like like shimu would be maybe  like a better word for that or something like  

to to get to know someone like nedu or whatever  something like that so there are different ways  

you could express it but it's better to give  chat GPT more information about situation so  

like how would a native describe this and there  are different ways that you could get that so I I  

would also ask chat gbd for multiple ways to say  something so then you can see oh that's that's  

interesting yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's nice  wa but when I saw this I thought oh like I I felt  

very excited when I see that because oh look and  and often when we're trying to translate something  

we make it more complicated but it should be  usually simple and usually people find a simpler  

way to say something but when you translate it  it's less simple so we need to correct that we  

need we need to fix that so here we can say fix  or correct like fix that behavior I got that new  

question yeah right now very good what is the  difference between what to say and how to say  

sometimes you know I'm not native speaker I say  oh what to say oh I don't know how to say I don't  

know what to say in English something like that  but I I'm I'm not so sure the difference so what  

to say and I guess just just just now you said  how to say or something like that so typically  

what what to say would be like choosing between  t different words you could you could say that so  

I'm going to explain it uh but show you again it's  kind of like this where there sometimes you would  

only say one or the other but you could use both  sometimes what what what to say more like focusing  

on the words or something then how to say more  focusing on like phrase or expression well you  

could like what what to say is more like making a  choice between this thing or that thing over here  

so if I say like what is the correct thing to  say so what should I say is it at uh in or on  

uh so I could say how do you say it it's a similar  a similar IDE of like which one of these is the is  

the the correct uh way to say that thing so you  you don't have to worry so much about like what  

should I say in this s um in this situation uh or  how to say is again like it's still making similar  

kind of choices uh but the the difference here  is like when I say what to say it's usually like  

a specific thing and how is more like there could  be it's it's still some some change or variation  

like this but like all of the could be correct  okay so what to say is more like like what do  

I say like what is what is like this is like the  best one or the correct one for this one but how  

to say something there could be many ways to say  something like if I like how like how how do I say  

I love you so how should I say that like if I'm  I'm thinking like how do I say I love you to my  

wife like I could say I love you or I you know  you you you complete me or you are perfect you  

know something like that so there are different  ways to say that but if I'm thinking like like  

what to say it's like trying to find the specific  thing I'm interested in so that's why when you ask  

natives like how how should I say this or how  could I say this they will maybe think of some  

different ways that would all be correct but when  if I'm thinking about what to say it's usually  

like there's a specific one I'm looking for the  best choice or correct choice so like if I say I  

am like I am at the restaurant so in this case uh  I could say actually like I'm at the restaurant  

meaning just anywhere around that area or inside  it could be both uh but in the restaurant would  

mean specifically inside the restaurant on would  mean I'm on like top of the build you know if I'm  

on the restaurant uh but so you you don't some of  these things you don't have to worry so much about  

what is correct like oh like what should I say for  this or how should I say this like both both of  

those it's the same kind of idea but generally  if we're saying how it's like like in what way  

but what is about making a choice about like this  is the correct thing something like that but just  

remember it's not natives will use both of those  okay so not not that like yeah it's not it's not  

like I don't have to worry so yeah that's correct  that's correct that's cor that's right so here  

I would say that's correct like there are like  ways of thinking about it yes that is correct I  

wouldn't say that's fixed I would say that's  correct okay so you you like made the right  

choice about about doing something M so yeah so  in general you can say how do I say this or you  

can say like what uh what to say or uh what do  you say what do you say for for whatever so if  

you if you want to use both of these the same way  it's like what do you say for and you describe the  

situation like you're talking to Chad GPT then can  I say like what can I say you could say that both  

y so what what can I say and I I can even tell  you like different ways of saying that so what can  

what can you say for this or uh how might I say  so how might I say is like it's knowing that there  

are different ways you could say something or you  could say what is so what's one way so what's one  

way to say something so what's one way to say  I love you or what's one way to say where is  

the bathroom or something like that or you could  say oh what's another way to say that or what's  

a different way to say that interesting what's one  way what can you say yeah what can I say is also y  

okay so you can ask it's I mean it's you're you're  asking me like what can I say to do something but  

it's it it it's just means what could anybody  say in that situation interesting yeah because  

usually maybe Japanese people use more like what  can I say oh you could you could say that what can  

I what can I say Japanese language system is some  something more how to say sure we we we don't put  

you or something like that yeah yeah maybe some  difference yeah so that and and that's another  

good reason why we learn it in English not through  Japanese so you you also begin thinking um like  

in in Japanese if I see that example like omash  it's like wait a minute there's no like subject  

or whatever it's just like it's like if I were to  say that in English I would have to say turn your  

your memory into a picture or something like  that or from memory to picture I would have to  

think about it like that um and make it more of  a sentence because that's like the English brain  

the English structure is like that so there's  always a thing like that but as I see it as I  

learn it in Japanese it's like like are you going  to eat eat and go or are you going to like n like  

I was like well yes I will I will but it took  me a second because I wasn't prepared for it so  

I never hear that from people because yes it is a  casual thing and usually like a Japanese place is  

going to be more uh bit more formal you know like  I went to the bank and they were like oh like very  

very very polite at a at a bank like that what  do you guys think any any questions about this  

is this making sense let's see armano says chat  gbt is training itself so it means that sooner or  

later rather than sooner than later is going to be  almost perfect I yeah so it's it it should be like  

that um that's the hope uh but yeah we'll we'll  see the I think the the problem with with chat gbt  

is that it also it's not only teaching itself it's  being told certain things or like we have to like  

it it's getting some input about how it should be  thinking or how it should be responding to people  

as well so it's not completely free to just learn  and absorb information so we have to remember  

that when we're asking it questions so says IA  improving Oh you mean AI improving depends on how  

many smart and educated people upload the right  information to the net yes and there are a lot of  

a lot of not smart people putting things on the  internet to you know it's maybe me so it depends  

on what chat GPT can do but but yes like usually  I I kind of work with chat GPT and I have to teach  

jat chat GPT things for a conversation so I say I  want you to do this and this and here's what we're  

working on and because if I ask chat GPT to to  teach me a language it's not going to be the way  

I would teach people normally it's it's going to  give me the usual information about how to learn  

things that actually would not help me but so that  that's that's kind of another another problem with  

with things like that so yes chat chat learns from  us says Pablo and jaguay if I'm pronouncing that  

correctly I can listen and understand uh someone  but reply challenges me uh does hallucination  

mean correction no hallucination means you're  you're like seeing things that are not really  

there hallucination to hallucinate so it's like if  I eat a I know some special plant or something and  

I like oh there're ghosts and dragons and  things I'm hallucinating I'm not actually  

seeing those things around me too hallucinate to  see things that are not really there uh but the  

other question about uh reply challenges me yeah  reply challenges yeah so they're they're saying  

they can understand but being able to to respond  to people is is a challenge and and often there  

there are a couple reasons why this worked but let  me let me give just a very quick explanation about  

um uh about how practice uh makes it more more  difficult it actually makes it more difficult  

for for people to prepare uh for conversations so  if you think about we're going to we're going to  

draw this here um this is like the learning part  uh we could also call that practice as well and  

then this is where you might use something uh this  is I'm this is like uh I'm trying to think about  

the best way to explain this but to help people  understand that there there's a difference for  

for what people should do to practice for for  speaking so when people are learning a language  

like typically they they learn like one way to say  something so you learn hello or kicha in Japanese  

or and like everybody says that but people say  different things in in real conversations so you  

learn one way to say something uh usually for  a maybe a translation uh you would you would  

get something like that and when you repeat the  things you you are you say the same thing again  

and again trying to make sure you say it correctly  uh and then you might also have if you're trying  

to speak with other people even if you you can  speak with other people often you will say the  

same like simple things again and again so often  people have these problems like say the same thing  

but in in an actual conversation this the the  real situation here uh it's all different so  

you have many ways so a native speaker could  say many things that you are not prepared for  

or uh they might say um like have a pronunciation  that you're not familiar with or like a dialect or  

something so if I leave Nagasaki and go to Tokyo  or tohoku or whatever people might say things a  

little a little bit differently um like I lived  in in kilo for four years and so like I know like  

Kanai Kanai dialect but and so it's different  from what Nagasaki people would say uh but also  

when you just repeat things it doesn't really  prepare you for all the different you know the  

the unpredictable things in a real conversation so  what's really happening is like the the situation  

is more like this like you got all these like many  ways of doing things and so you actually need a  

different way to practice that prepares you for  communication because this this way over here does  

not prepare you for communication so there lots  of like reasons that people are unable to respond  

so people say things but you can't think what  what do I reply with so this over here uh is the  

reason I'm giving you those other many examples  of things so that's the the naturally varied

review so naturally varied review is the way  that natives learn the language so they get  

many different examples from their parent or  uh teachers or TV or whatever so it's lots of  

natural examples and they're varied and so it's  not just repetition so they might hear the same  

thing but different people are saying it and so  this is actually what prepares you for for having  

these kinds of conversations so this stuff if you  think about practicing uh the piano it's the same  

thing so if I practice the piano we think about  like piano practice and the piano concert up here  

and so piano practice I'm just going to review  and repeat the same thing over and over and over  

again until I can do it correctly but I can do  this because the concert is just me doing the  

thing like again and again but if some new people  come and say hey could you play a different song I  

wouldn't be able to do that or like hey just start  playing make your own music or I couldn't do that  

either so it's a different skill than just the  kind of repetition that people do so you need to  

get more uh examples of how natives are actually  saying that and that's that's what will prepare  

you for that so if you're just learning like right  right now just listening to my example you can  

hear some different ways of saying fix or correct  or something but you should also hear other people  

talking about those things in in real life so you  get more examples it helps you understand that  

that that's what helps you to to actually respond  in conversations in with or in I don't know in  

your English learning method and specifically  in this section part yeah uh naturally varied  

review that's correct in this part should I speak  out or should I focus on just listening yeah well  

it's not the the goal is not just listening and  often people will say this I've given this example  

before I'll erase this yeah like best balance for  like listening and speaking sure so the the goal  

it's it's more like think about using your senses  so you have you know your eye and your ear and  

your nose and your and your mouth and your hands  you know so you have all these different senses  

that help you the goal is to get to understanding  if you can understand something well it means you  

have no doubt about that thing so the goal is  not to to only like listen well it's not like  

do I listen or do I speak it's what what can  actually help me understand something better  

so if I say this is a blue marker but I don't  show you what it is it's much easier if I just  

use your eye and you can see oh this is a blue  marker and this is a black marker over here so  

you can see the difference here or if I say uh  this is an orange what does it taste like so I  

could describe that for you you could listen to  me but it's much easier if you just taste the  

orange so you're using your mouth is actually  the correct way to get to understanding so for  

these when you're getting naturally varied review  the point is how can we get to understanding to  

eliminate any doubt d o u BT so if you have  any doubt you're not going to use that thing  

in your conversation so we have to is get rid of  the doubt and that's what allows us to speak so  

it's a it's a process of like hearing things and  then seeing them or reading them or just however  

you can understand with usually you do this with a  variety of examples rather than just one uh but if  

you feel more confident because you you don't have  any doubt about that then you can say something so  

even right now if you feel more confident about  fix something like fix a bike or correct a bike  

if you understand the difference you can now say  that more confidently so you can you can try to  

speak before that but it's easier if you learn  something then feel confident and then speak over  

here so usually people try to learn something but  they don't know it very well and then they try to  

speak but then they don't feel very confident and  it's it's a a frustrating that's me yeah so lot  

lots of people have this like they they want to  speak quickly and I understand that but it's it's  

actually faster if you use this way to really  understand something get many examples and feel  

very confident about it some people maybe they  don't care uh if they make a mistake but lots of  

people do so I personally I don't like making  mistakes when I speak so I should listen and  

learn and it's again it's not just listening but  the point is to understand what what's happening  

there so maybe I see an example just like in  the example of the train so on the on the train  

where I saw like so this is like from a memory to  a picture I see that I'm not hearing anything so  

it's not about listening I'm just understanding  the the the Japanese better from the example so  

in that case my eye help me understand something  better so uh you can speak like I want everyone  

to speak uh soon as quickly as possible but  it's much easier and faster if you just get  

more examples and understand something well than  you feel confident then you speak so speaking is  

the is usually the last thing and then you then  you go on to the next thing so now you have some  

question about other vocabulary or whatever and  you you feel confident about that and then you you  

start speaking nice so first understanding yeah  so remove remove the doubt so any question you  

have the doubt like sometimes I'll hear uh you  know about comprehensible input so that that's  

the idea of just getting l of you watch lots of  movies or read things or whatever but I'm saying  

you should get this in a structured way so try to  answer a specific question like what doubt do you  

have about fix or repair or correct or something  like that and if you can answer that that's what  

you should do so you destroy the doubt then  you feel confident because you know oh ah now  

I I understand and that's when you speak so you  feel confident first then you speak yep y I know  

it's the opposite of what most people typically do  but that's the so you you could a regular teacher  

in a classroom they will just say Okay class here  is the word and usually they teach this by giving  

a translation because it's faster so here's like  you say kicha in Japanese and you say hello in  

English but in real life people say Hey or what's  up or hi or something like that so if you're if  

you're not getting the naturally varied review the  way the way natives are getting it it becomes much  

more difficult to understand that yeah because  of that kind of education things like I learned  

my I learned English in Japanese so I have so  many doubts in my head right now and so that's  

that's why I'm here I'm here to help and so that  that's the same thing I do for for all the people  

out there so when when people have questions uh  it's it's better to focus on a specific thing  

so you don't say ah my pronunciation is bad  say What specifically is the thing we need to  

fix or correct and so if you have like your  pronunciation is good but maybe you have some  

specific things you you want to say better or  whatever but that that's how you would do that  

when how to say people try to understand the  concept or something how to say so we would say  

how yeah how how do do you you say say how do you  say so how do you say how do you say you you can  

say like how to say but that sounds more Japanese  what three if you if you say how how to say how'  

you say okay it sounds like like it's it's less  natural sounding how you say so how do you say  

it's it's it's more words but how do you say  how do you say how do you say how do you say or  

you can say what what do you say what do you say  both of those are are just fine so how how this  

is correct like you could it's okay to say that  but it it's just it sounds more more like like a  

Japanese person I hear Japanese people using this  but native speakers use this yeah my question is

go go go means sorry sorry in Japanese  naturally vared review yeah during this  

period or time MH uh how to say should  I focus on learning like by each word or  

vocabulary or should I listen to some podcast  or watching movies or it dep which is which is  

the better way sure it it depends on what the  problem is so for me like let's say I I want

to I want to have like a I don't know a  conversation like not I don't want to just  

know one word but I want to know how to talk  about and then whatever that thing is so how  

to talk about gardening for example M so how  to talk about gardening in Japanese now the  

the fastest way to do this would be to watch a lot  of Japanese YouTube videos about people gardening  

and talking about gardening so what I'm going to  see are like uh for specific phrases or specific  

topics there will be some things that are used a  lot and some things that are not used very much  

but I will start seeing patterns a lot so I made  a a video on YouTube that's that's this example of  

things so using naturally varied review to learn  how to make an espresso you know what an espresso  

it so like for for people who don't know I I don't  really like coffee so I go to coffee shops I like  

the environment I like the feeling of it uh so and  espresso you can get like a little a little shot  

of of kind of thick coffee or very strong coffee  um but I don't I don't know anything about how  

to make espresso so I thought how would I learn  that and the way I would learn it in English it's  

the same thing I watch different people making  espresso so I could watch one person making that  

but I get a better sense of what to do if I get  a variety of examples so just like in real life  

uh like if a child if we we think about a like a  a real life Child Learning a language so here's a  

child by themselves if the only person teaching  them is like their mother up here then they're  

going to sound exactly like their mother but  if they've got all these other examples of like  

their dad and friends and school and TV then  they will they will develop their own unique  

pronunciation and that's that's like fitting for  them so when you're when you're getting examples  

about like a specific thing just focus on whatever  that is it could be a larger topic or something  

like that so like in uh our program fluent for  life we we organize it by topics so you would  

have a a conversation about I don't know raising  children or something like that or conversation  

about you know a business I don't know like  marketing or something like that and so you  

kind of learn generally about that but then you  also have smaller things within that so I could  

go from a a bigger bigger picture of gardening  to like something smaller like growing roses  

or planting seeds or something like that so it's  just whatever you are particularly interested in  

but the the variety of this English is going to be  much better than just like listening to one person  

talk about that so like there often like what  I do for so again for fluent for life we will  

have me explaining things because I know how to  explain things well uh but then you will also get  

examples of other people talking about things so  you get to see how how people normally do it so it  

is possible to do this um and like examples that  I do for there is a guy in Japan who does Street  

interviews well there a couple of people who do  this I think but this is when you're when you're  

watching these Street interviews he says like  what do you think about this but he asks five  

different people and then you get to hear their  different answers and it's the same thing like  

some people will use this word a lot and other  people will use like these other words and so  

you're learning ah okay this is like the common  thing for people to say you know like what is like  

I don't know what whatever whatever the topic is  but it's the it's the focus and the variety within  

the focus that gets you fluent because the point  is to destroy the doubt of where you have about  

talking about something so if I if someone asks me  in English how do I talk about fixing cars I don't  

know how to fix cars so I can't talk about fixing  cars but if I watched like 30 videos about people  

fixing cars I could probably have a conversation  about that so that's the idea okay so just think  

about focus it could be a specific word but often  like if you focus too tightly you don't see how a  

word could be used in other situations and so that  like that kind of what I'm I think about that when  

I'm teaching so I want to show you how a word  might be used like I gave an example in a recent  

video about the word uh or the phrase uh home run  so this is in baseball you know what a home run is  

like you hit the ball out out of the park but when  else might we use the the word home run what else  

when when else when else so when when else so any  any other time when else home run might we might  

we use the word home run so this is an interesting  lesson about like how natives learn the vocabulary  

as well but so you you understand what a home run  is I'll just kind of draw this for people if you  

don't know baseball I'll give this example again  because it's a it's it's an easy one to see uh so  

when you're playing the game of baseball this is  a baseball field and this is called The Diamond  

it's like basically a square but you've got the  bases over here and then you have home plate home  

plate so the person standing with the bat is  down here and the pitcher throws the ball and  

if the batter can hit the ball outside of here  or if they can just hit the ball somewhere and  

they can run all the way around and get back home  again we call that a home run so it's pretty easy  

to understand they're like running around the  bases to get back home so we call that a home  

run but when else outside of baseball might we  use this term home run like can I say like oh  

I succeeded in big S Sales deals it's like a  home run yeah like that so you can see I hit  

a home run or I had a home run or it was a home  run something like that in sales or in your test  

or whatever presentation or something like that  so a home run we get the idea of a specific thing  

like the the baseball game gives us the vocabulary  but really it's about talking about like a great  

Victory or a great achievement it's a hard thing  to do to hit the ball out of the park or to run  

around the bases fast enough to to get back home  so that's where we we learn that and so native  

speakers they learn about those connections so if  you just say like what does the word home mean or  

what does run mean you don't really you're transl  or you're thinking about in a very limited way  

that's why the naturally varied review shows you  different ways that natives might say something  

or in a different different situation different  context but yeah you you get the idea yes I need  

to get a lot of examples examples that's right so  you can focus on that and it's easy to do like if  

you're um like I have a program called the visual  guide to phrasal verbs so you have a thing like um

so a phrasal verb is something like to go under  or stand up or flip over or things like that  

it's it's actually similar to Japanese how how  they work but we take something physical like  

go under so here we have some water and if  we imagine this is this is a boat over here  

so the boat is oh no like the boat is going  under it's going under the water so that's a  

very easy way to understand that but another  way we might also use go under is talking  

about like a company so a company is going under  it means they're losing money like the company  

is going like bankrupt so that's another way we  would use that so as natives are learning these  

examples they hear oh go under can also mean  like to have financial trouble in that way so  

it's greater examples to give you that by the  way that could be nice for people to learn the  

vocabulary or words by like picture or image  or something like show cryp movie that's what  

I did yeah thank you so that that's why I started  started making things on YouTube I don't know 14  

years ago or whenever I started doing that  but that because it's you can actually see  

you know the image of something happening  or you can compare the differences between  

those things like usually Japanese people learn  like vocabulary by like English words Japanese  

words y translate what yep translation  yep I see them on the train every day oh  

especially like high school so usually it's like  a high school kid sometimes an adult but they have  

the the little book and there's a little red like  the Shiki or whatever like it's like a little film  

so you can cover the answers on it and so I want  to make an ad on a train that has that you need to  

use like you see the the like what I'm saying but  yeah that that's basically the problem so if you  

learn through the translation then you will think  through the yeah so like when I speak English I  

first think the concept in Japanese and try to  translate that into English though so your speech  

is quite fast though I mean are you just thinking  quickly are you still thinking in Japanese right  

now or sometimes some it depends uh yeah but I  noce I realize there are so many like Japanese  

English in my English so so it's just it's it's  nothing wrong with you it's just where you got  

the like where you got the input so if it's like  a Japanese teacher told you something or you see  

Japanese examples then you're going to think  in Japanese but if you get an English example  

then you're going to think in English about that  particular thing yeah learning English by learning  

English in English or learning English by or with  or like picture Y image grip it be nice yeah with  

what but again like so so there are there when  you when you get naturally varied review you  

feel comfortable because you know oh I could say  learn English by images or with images or through  

images so you could say all of those that would  all be correct and that way you wouldn't be  

worried like which is which is the correct one  when they're all correct so that actually that  

would probably be an interesting video to go like  give a like an English test to Japanese people but  

all of the answers are correct and so I just say  which of these is correct just to like make them  

kind of nervous about that but that would maybe  let me know if I should make a video like that  

that would be an interesting thing to do uh just  in Nagasaki you know talking to talking to people  

people cuz there are people who do know English  and you know they can use a little bit but many  

are very shy to speak MH maybe let's see how we're  doing here look at that we've been going for 72  

minutes wow that's right the time flies let's see  uh all right let me see here I think I got that so  

ajhf is very nice I love you anyone we're glad  to hear what does LP and you what does LP oh I  

think maybe that was like so that was learning in  practice versus the actual situation and Anonymous  

says a very good lesson how could I fix that yeah  so that you can ask someone like how can I correct  

this or how can I fix this thanks guys natural  spring water questions does students learn English  

through translation in Japan or not you want to  answer that for them does do Japanese students  

learn English through translation at least I  did yeah and I think most of them most of them  

and like now the Japanese government is having  younger kids start learning English and usually  

those lessons are taught by foreigners or there  or even it could be Japanese teachers as well  

but they're still learning in English for younger  kids so they do songs or looking at pictures or  

something like that but once they get into junior  high school then it's like translating transl  

stuff like that so they they have not they've  not made a um like a good system for that I'm  

not so sure about like current education system  yeah but when I was a un when I was a student we  

focused on more like reading yeah and what Reading  Writing yeah like that and then you take a test in  

reading and writing so you don't have to speak no  yeah no need so be because most people don't have  

to speak they don't you don't learn about this  because it's not necessary to read basically you  

learn one thing and then you repeat that on the  test so oh I remember like kicha is hello and like  

I just translate that and and repeat it back to  the teacher or the tester whatever uh let's see  

we got a question please tell me the vocabulary  for the flowing words for the following words are  

you going to you're going to post something down  there maybe she's going to post something else  

Bible says make the fusion fusion of what let's  see French Queens I do know the instructions  

today just be well be Fain for I'm a hustler what  I don't know what that's referring to you guys are  

usually very on with your questions let's see and  I can't read this cilic but it says hi there hi  

hopefully people are enjoying this we probably  won't go for much longer but I don't want to  

Tire you out usually I can talk for like  2 hours or something for yeah so usually  

about this time people start telling me uh  get a drink so I take a a quick drink over

here but yes uh if you have any specific questions  uh it could be related to this or not that I can  

help you with let me know uh but is there anything  else you like anything else that's been on your  

mind you've been thinking about that I I think I  have a lot of like doubt questions like anything  

specific you can think of right now but the  thing is like it's so unconscious so it's so  

difficult to pick up but if we can have some  small conversation or something like that then  

we can point out the mistakes or something that's  right again even even by now you you found some  

sure sure but I I think in general your your  speaking is really good uh and but I can I can  

I can tell like a little bit I can feel you kind  of processing oh yeah yeah processing so thinking  

like ah how do I you know what is what is the what  is the best you know way to say something like  

that so as you it's it's much more relaxing if you  just see a bunch of people saying something so in  

a particular situation so if I go to a coffee shop  I can just sit and listen to them talking so even  

like sometimes I will just I I will hold a book  and pretend I'm reading but I'm just listening  

to other people talking or to the the staff or  somebody like that and so what they're talking  

about just to get examples of their speech yeah so  it will make you feel more comfortable because you  

will think oh okay in this situation you could say  this then now we are in nasak City yeah no like  

native people around me then my question is sure  do you have any recommendation for like podcast  

or something uh like English podcast content  to listen to cont Listen to I would I would  

watch YouTube videos and the reason I recommend  no I don't I don't really listen to anything I  

mean I I would prefer because I I like not just  listening I want to see something and actually  

hear an example so I still watch Japanese kids  shows like show so this this is a show for like  

2-year-old three-year-old kids I want to be out  running around like with the balloons and you  

know but it's listening to those songs that really  helps me understand oh I should say like GA or ni  

or wo or like whatever the there there little some  differences about the way Japanese and English  

sentences work but uh like when I saw the example  on the tram about likeo shash like oh look at that  

like that's like that was exciting to me to to see  that um but if I just like heard that on a podcast  

I wouldn't catch it yeah so I want to have as many  different different angles that are helping me  

understand something so podcasts are good if your  English is at a higher level and you just want to  

like and you can really learn a lot so at like a a  better way to understand it is like how much uh if  

I can understand only 80% of something I I should  watch like TV show and a shorter TV show but if I  

can understand maybe 95% of something that maybe a  podcast is a better idea because here I might hear  

like one word or another word but I can understand  that from the context of the show do do you watch  

some like American YouTube something or cont TV3  not not I don't not really but I mean it again  

that's if you're interested in watching TV shows  or whatever but for most people the problem is not  

understanding so your your level of understanding  is high and it will be high than your speaking  

ability so even for me like I can understand  better than I can speak in Japanese and so it like  

people could be talking a lot and I think like  hey I could probably say something like that but  

my Japanese would be like I can understand much  better you know and that that's just normal for  

for everybody so if you can understand something  that that's good but that's that's different from  

speaking so what I often explain to people about  if you if you just want to learn more vocabulary  

um then then just listening to content is a good  idea or watching things like that but what usually  

happens is let's say you listen to something for  one hour the thing that actually helps you speak  

is the the naturally varied review because  you need to review the content in different  

ways and it's like people are probably not going  to listen to the same podcast an hour long like  

again and again but if you have something short  like 5 minutes you would listen to that and I  

would listen to like 10 different people talking  about how to make I don't know like how do you  

make a marker like how do you do that what is  so how would like how does this company do it  

and that company and this company over here I  will feel very confident about how to do that  

thing because I I need to review so that's how uh  you need to get practice in the language but the  

practice doesn't really come from you speaking it  comes from you understanding the language better  

so in this conversation right now you are learning  more from me than from you speaking Yeah so like  

a lot of people think they need to have a  native speaker physically with them but you  

are learning from me and even if I have like  a screen right here and you're just watching  

a video exactly so the people watching the  video out there they are learning from me in  

the same way even though they're not physically  with me so it's me helping them understand the  

language better so if you can get lots of  examples of native speakers talking about  

like here's how to make a cie so I can go to  YouTube and find like how to make a cie or  

whatever and I can be specific about that like  here's like a chocolate chip cookie or a peanut  

butter cookie or something or how to even do  something like how do you make a pencil something  

very simple how do I tie my shoes even little  little kid kinds of things like you would hear  

examples and so I talked in another video recently  about like sikin Noob so so this is a children's  

book The Three Little Pigs and and we have this in  Japanese and English so at my house I have three  

different physical copies of the book in like from  different people so there are some similarities  

and some differences as well so like one one  Like the Wolf is like like like uh what does  

he say like or whatever like let me in let me in  but he says it differently in another book and so  

it's interesting like in English we would say like  let me in let me in but maybe people express it  

slightly differently so it's the it's the the  varied review you need to give yourself something  

shorter if you want to speak so the speaking you  need to get practice to speak but you don't that  

practice doesn't need to be you speaking it's  just you getting lots of very focused review  

from different people yeah so that this is what  I would recommend for people who want to speak  

if you if you just want to if you like listening  to content you can you can learn a lot but you  

won't really remember the vocabulary very well  and you won't you probably won't feel confident  

about using it and again if you spend an hour then  you it's hard to like take an hour and then okay  

let's read the same novel again so if I have a  novel In My Bag I'm going to read the novel I'm  

probably not going to read it a second time right  afterwards so I want to take a short book like I  

read children's books for that reason so something  short I can see pictures in the book and it's easy  

to understand what's happening uh and and to  understand the language within Japanese so if  

I have to translate anything I'm doing it wrong  so the book should give me or the the video or  

whatever should give me enough enough information  so like the video or content for like 1 hour that  

could be nice but like same topic different  content yeah could be nice yeah maybe so or  

even like so in the example of the um like the  Japanese Street interview so that one it's it's  

a similar kind of idea but we're just having these  in the same video so it's like 20-minute video but  

it's got 10 different people or five different  people what do you think about this like what do  

you think about I don't know would you date a fat  guy you know like would you eat this or something  

like that where we're we're asking people the  same question and so you get to hear the same  

question asked again and again and it's it's  said a little bit differently and then you get  

hear each person's response which is going to be  different as well so this is a lot like people  

don't they don't think about it this way but that  is naturally very review and so it's a great way  

like I'm I'm hearing the question in Japanese and  the answer in Japanese and and other people are  

watching it just to learn about Japanese culture  or whatever they don't think about the language  

but I'm thinking about it like oo this is a really  good opportunity you know to to see language used  

this way so if you don't have an example of this  you can you can make that by just watching a bunch  

of short videos that will give you that same  information so more people doing the same kind  

of thing just like you should watch the espresso  video on my channel because it goes into that so  

in that in that one it actually shows you like  I I kind of explain some things and show you the  

different examples but it's the same basic thing  about like what are the steps and so I'm learning  

that vocabulary at the same time and I still  remember that vocabulary like you have a the  

little espresso machine and there's a little uh  it's like a little metal weight that you you push  

down kind of like this and we call that tamping to  Tamp down and I I didn't know like t m p I didn't  

know that was the verb for that action I was like  oh do you just press it or push it or something I  

could say something people would understand but  there is a specific verb that those people know  

for that so I actually I mean I know the word Tamp  like it's like you could Tamp down like anything  

you could Tamp down a re ution like we want to  stop something before it gets T down yeah to  

Tamp something down so that's another example of  a phrasal verb but you can see it like just going  

to push that down a little bit to Tamp it we're  not we're not really pressing hard we're going  

to Tamp it down you know make sure it's t and temp  down yeah oh got it so I mean tamping and tamping  

down it's the same thing we don't really Tamp to  the side you know people usually are moving in a  

downward way but often conversationally uh we will  make these phrasal verbs to Tamp something down so  

uh when I see that and I hear that in the first  video oh that's interesting Tamp down and then  

I hear the second video says that and the third  video is like now we're going to T so that little  

tool is called a temp and and it's I'm thinking  like you know isn't that uh isn't that interesting  

how about tap tap is a different word so you could  tap tap is more like like you're kind of like  

you know it's a it's like repetitive movement  like to tap something but this is more like a  

gentle press pushing something down like that to  Tamp something down all right I think people are  

getting it though let's say thanks so much teacher  thank you would say thanks to you thank you uh my  

teacher for helping us lovely live glad to hear  it how can I say I agree I'm doing or I'm going  

right now how can I say I agree I'm doing or I'm  going right now well that's not those are correct  

what do you mean what's your question about that  but there is one I think please tell me about the  

vocabulary for the following words but you didn't  give me any words that you were asking about  

that America says or of air uh so your English is  pretty good oh he's talking about you uh well you  

no well it could well my English is all right uh  your English is pretty good do you speak English  

in your daily life uh no I don't speak it's I  think so he he could but there aren't many he  

was saying and this is a lot of people who have  this problem of not having people to speak with  

but my point is you don't need people to speak  with to improve your English or even first Sunday  

yeah so you just need lots of good input but the  point is not just not just getting lots of random  

things like okay I'm going to watch some Japanese  anime or whatever that I don't really understand  

focus on something and then get the naturally  varied review that makes you feel confident so  

the goal is to get rid of the doubt you have so  you feel conf about using things so even me if I  

have a doubt about something I'm not going to say  it I'll just say a different thing or something  

like that all right but I think if anybody looks  like we don't have any additional questions over  

there cam from Thailand often joining us at  the end of the video but remember you can go  

back and watch this I'll make sure this stays  live over here what is the best way to en uh  

enhance vocabulary that's what I just uh explained  here so when you're talking about enhancing your  

vocabulary that's learning more but also learning  to use it better and so often uh it's better to  

to take more time with words you already know so  often people they they don't really feel confident  

with the with the vocabulary they know so they  start learning more words but if you don't feel  

confident about these words you're not going  to feel confident about more words either so  

it's better just to know that vocabulary very well  and then you will start feeling more confident and  

then it's easier to learn new things so the way  I'm I'm talking about learning you uh your your  

learning will accelerate so it will get faster  as you do more of it let's see cheers uh from  

Mexico says Pablo and John says my problem is  anxiety I get nervous when I talk to a native  

English speaker ah so John do you get nervous when  you're talking in your native language because if  

you if you do not then the problem is more just  preparing for English conversations and that's why  

uh like the advice I usually give is just you're  not really getting the right preparation it's  

limited speech preparation so you don't have  to speak but you should be prepared to speak  

and you do that by getting lots of examples and  feeling much more confident about the language  

but if you if you are nervous in any language  then that's like that's a psychology problem  

not not just like learning English specifically  so I am a student of uh AA engineering uh should  

I learn specific vocabulary well I mean if you're  if you're trying to learn and you need to speak  

English for a particular job then yes you would  uh that would be the thing um you know what like  

if like if I'm an airline pilot and I need  to speak English for my work then that's the  

thing I should focus on so I could learn I could  watch you know some TV shows or something like  

that but I should probably focus on the thing I'm  interested in but the part of the reason that we  

get the variety is because the human mind is very  bored by repeating things again and again so if I  

say hey watch this same video 10 times you would  probably learn a little bit more but you would be  

very bored very quickly like I don't want to watch  that 10 times and so people don't want to review  

they don't want to the practice is the thing that  gets you fluent but if you if you don't actually  

make it interesting for your mind then you will  not review so it'll be more uh more difficult  

for you uh Pablo says I want to learn Japanese so  there are lots of actually I mean there's lots of  

people teaching Japanese on YouTube John says oh I  see thank you and Su because I also have to take I  

exam and someone else is asking for the TOEFL so  I don't I don't focus on maybe you have some have  

you taken the TOEFL or ey or something more than  10 years ago oh how did you do did you do well or  

you remember your score not not so good ah okay 80  something oh okay well I don't know if you want to  

if you want to get 80 something then he will he  will give you some some advice about that I don't  

focus on tests um because it's it's not so helpful  for in the real world communication so I know many  

people who have good scores on tofl but they they  they don't feel confident speaking so it's a it's  

a different thing but I would I I don't want to  give you bad advice so I recommend you look for  

there are plenty of people who focus on IELTS or  or whatever the test is um if it's just passing  

the test then do that thing for passing the test  uh my my students do well on those tests because  

if you're a good speaker you know the language  well and you do well on those tests anyway uh but  

if you just need to pass a test I would look  for people who specifically focus on that uh  

let's see America is it hard for you to pronounce  some words I'm guessing that's for you oh I guess  

a lot of one specific phrase uhhuh this day I'm  listen to some podcast uh then every time they say

what give me

second what what what's that it's a it's a phrase  that different podcast use same same same let's  

listen to the DI dialogue one more time ah so it's  an English learning podcast or whatever I don't  

yeah the word dialogue dialog dialogue dialogue  dialogue dialogue dialogue it's an A A so that  

sound is not in Japanese so that's why Japanese  people say di like but it's a dialogue dialog law  

you should you should get Frederick I I should  I think I showed you the app before but that  

like pronunciation something so it's pronunciation  listening and it will it will show you like these  

words the point really it's it's a similar kind  of review where you get to compare the sounds so  

you hear the difference between law and log one  more simple but difficult pronunciation word okay  

but uhhuh usually Japanese people pronounce this  like but yeah and I pronounce like but but yeah  

that's fine fine yeah really yeah okay so often  like a word like this but if you're responding  

to someone and and even right now I'm trying to  speak very clearly but yeah so it would be like  

but and this is the the short u sound uh but but  but often in a in a conversation if I'm speaking  

the T it it almost disappears so it's like but but  but so the space is there but I don't say but but  

yeah like that but yeah maybe this something like  this yeah yeah yeah so that it's the short it's a  

short short vowel uh uh uh uh uh so but but so  you'll notice like I might be moving my mouth  

but but but I don't say the T but B yeah but it's  not like it's like but but but but so just listen  

to the listen to the difference I will say it  with the T and without the T but but but but but  

but but but so I'm I I I leave a space there I'm  not saying it faster really I'm just not saying  

the T so it's it's the same sound like but but  but but so it's like a D sound almost but it's  

very very very sound so or very soft so I would  say uh it's a nice nice day but but it's hot but  

it's hot and us usually that sound is connected  to the next word so that's another uh issue about  

blending the sounds of the words together uh let's  see do you recommend learn Japanese as a first  

language yes that's so that's what I do and that's  what I recommend other people uh any any language  

you're learning so if I'm trying to learn German  I should learn German in German rather than learn  

German in English so it's if if I if I just want  to memorize some phrases if I'm if I'm traveling  

to Germany for a week maybe I don't care about  speaking fluently but I learn like a phrase book  

and here's how to translate that but if I want  to be a confident speaker then I don't want to  

translate I want to be able to speak and express  myself without thinking about it I'm from Pakistan  

let's see review the mother of knowledge oh ildar  is back knowledge let's see and I am from Pakistan  

there is no English-speaking environment what do  you think how can I practice speaking English with  

my own self so this is what I just what I just  explained to show here so and and and again like  

I I was I was explaining to him before the call  about the the difficulty for for getting people  

fluent is not teaching the teaching is the easy  part the difficult part is getting people to think  

in a different way about how to learn so people  like even I've done this for 14 years and people  

will still say but I don't have anyone to practice  with and I say it doesn't matter you don't need a  

person to practice with but you do need content  that will help you review and that's because the  

the goal is not to like speak more it's to remove  the doubt that you have about speaking so if you  

have a doubt about pronunciation or grammar  or something that's that's what stoping that's  

what's stopping you from speaking it's not like  me practicing or even me living in Japan so I've  

been in Japan for about 20 years on and off but  I know people so other foreigners who have been  

in Japan longer and they can't speak so being in  Japan doesn't make you a speaker it's do you have  

doubt about the language and do you do you like  pay attention and listen to what people say so  

you don't need to have someone with you and right  now with the internet and YouTube especially you  

can listen to lots of different natives speaking  and you get their examples about how to say things  

so the real the real question in a conversation is  what do I say in this situation so I've given some  

examples like in Japanese like if you get hurt in  Japanese or not in English if you get hurt like I  

hit you what do you say yeah so he's going to say  like if something happens to me I'm like you know  

I'm going to express it basically the same thing  but I'm going to say it in a different way and so  

me seeing that it's much better than getting a a a  translation or an explanation or a definition in a  

textbook like in a Japanese textbook it will say  uh painful is it but I think okay I don't really  

remember that but if I see 10 different people get  hurt and like then I'm going to remember that much  

more easily so I'm learning I'm connecting the  situation with the vocabulary not the translation  

with another like word in English or something so  that's why we want to see many different people  

in real life talking about things uh let's see  so I think I answer that one Mohammad says can  

you talk more about the advantages of your app  if you're talking about Frederick uh just click  

on the link in the description below the video  and it will it will tell you more about that  

but the basic idea is that when you're learning  a language it's much easier like if I teach you  

some Japanese right now like AK Maka AI Maka AKA  and here I'm using Japanese to teach you Japanese  

not I'm not translating anything I'm just giving  you examples so if I say like oh II Maka I we

sh and so if I can give an like an explanation

like like it's like so if we're  going to look at an example like

this so if I'm if I'm giving examples of  of different things like that helping you  

understand it that's what actually helps  you get fluent so understanding something  

all in the language and then comparing  the different examples so what I just  

gave you is like a different example of of  how the app works so if we look at a thing

like let's see if you can pronounce these three  words cop uh-huh cap cap mhm cop yeah so it's  

going to be a little different so cup uh uh cap  cop cap yeah so just like cap cop see little  

different cop c cap cop no it's just it's the same  sound so this is this is the hard C sound so this  

is the same and this is the same too the only  thing that's different is how we would pronounce  

the middle sound over here uh and so when you  can compare the different sounds that's what  

helps you understand it better so if you just  learn a bunch of random sounds like okay we're  

going to practice like say this word and then that  word or whatever it's is much more difficult for  

you to understand we want to isolate something  just like when we're focusing on something and  

getting different examples of IT cup cap cop so in  the app you get to hear oh what's the difference  

and I can test myself and learn up through you  know much more difficult words and phrases so  

that's that's Frederick which is more focused on  teaching you rules like this for pronunciation  

the same way natives learn them uh but fluent  for life is an actual video course if you're  

asking about that but both of those are linked  uh along with Show's YouTube video uh or the  

channel the channel is linked in the description  below this video as well so if you'd like to see  

more Nagasaki or more about Nagasaki do that and  maybe I will uh I will get maybe on on a video  

of yours or something at some time maybe I can I  can help him out like that uh we'll answer these  

last couple of questions over here is but not  grammatically wrong no that's that's fine you  

can say that like I like this but not that that's  I could say that some japanes people and again if  

you have a question about that just put that into  Google and see if it corrects your English and see  

if it says no no like you mean this but if you  see a bunch of examples of but not uh then you  

know it's correct so Paulo says some Japanese  friends instead of pronounce I think they Ed to  

the pronounce Oh you mean they say a different  word instead of I think they say like I see or  

something I think or I I think I H like you think  I think yeah I guess like the the spell is maybe  

incorrect there but yeah so often that like that  th sound is not in in Japanese so it's harder for  

them to to make that like no no see th so I tell  people to over pronounce it so stick your tongue  

out like think think think I don't think we have F  yeah so you can you can get the pronunciation but  

it's much easier if you see a bunch of different  people doing it uh am says some sometimes S I  

am frustrated I think I can never pronounce some  words correctly you should get get get Frederick  

get the app but you Frederick is is part of that  learning pronunciation the other part is seeing  

different natives make sounds and so as you see  lots of examples of that you will feel much more  

confident about uh being able to make these sounds  as well uh let's see and John says it's uh it a  

sounds like it hurt so also like you you that's  another thing about Japanese like he's not going  

to pronounce it like in a textbook where it says  that's like the whole thing but he's just like he  

doesn't he doesn't say the the whole thing just  like even even people will make it even shorter  

than that or say something different you know like  you know they they will they will say something  

something uh completely different but the point is  you learn it from the situation I say oh here are  

a whole bunch of people something hurts them what  do they say or what do people say like they sh  

you know when like a Japanese like an old guy  is like getting up so Japanese kids they learn  

to say those same kinds of things when they  [Applause] like yeah yeah they but so little  

kids will copy that uh it's it's interesting funny  but but that's how it works so like they they're  

getting the example of how to say those things  because they connect the words with the situation  

so like Japanese kids don't learn Japanese through  Chinese or through English they learn it by seeing  

what what what other people say and so you feel  much more confident as you get many more examples  

of people doing things uh Mr batch says I speak  and understand English but I struggle out when  

it comes to fluency go back and watch this video  again so we we cover that um about this idea about  

getting review and that's the actual preparation  that makes you feel confident for communication so  

real life speaking is unpredictable so you can't  just learn a few phrases and and maybe people will  

say something different or you won't understand  what they're saying so you need to get that right  

preparation uh let's see M says how can I stop  speaking with a strong accent just the the two  

things I recommended before so get Frederick  click on the link in the description below  

this even whether you learn with the app or not  like you need to learn the individual sounds of  

English and you also need to hear how they blend  with other sounds so you need to see those two  

examples and ritan says hello again great class my  question is about the pronunciation of vowels is  

there any specific rule for pronouncing vowels  or do I just need to memorize the words no get  

Frederick it will tell you that it will actually  help you understand those rules that's the whole  

point of the app so rather than like learning a  rule you want to see lots of examples and compare  

them and then you think ah now I understand what  this means and why you should say it like like  

that so when I pronounce a short or long vow for  example in the case of Apple the a is pronounced  

due to the double P yeah so like you could learn  rules like that but it's much better just to see  

lots of focused examples and that's what that's  exactly what the app gives you all right and so  

John's got looks like a smiley face over there new  subscriber live in nagas oh thank you there you go  

look at that thank you all right well I think  we have uh taken up too much of Show's time as  

it is but thank you very much hopefully this has  been uh helpful and informative for people I don't  

know maybe we should do this again or yes think  about some some other way to do that or I'll do my  

street interviews if I can find some some people  to speak with but that could be interesting anyway  

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you get notified by and he yes says how can we  achieve thinking in English without translating  

in our native language you have to learn English  in English so if you learn English through your  

native language that's why you translate but  if you learn English in English you speak in  

English without transl that's the whole point so  that's why all of this like even though he's here  

he speaks Japanese I could speak Japanese with  him but that would not help him learn English  

as well so he might learn a few things faster  but I'm trying to help him develop the mind  

of an English speaker in that way all right  uh so again click on the links if you'd like  

to learn more below uh the description below  this video and I'll see you next time bye-bye

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