Think Your English Sounds Strange? This Gives You Natural Speech

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I am Drew Badger the founder of englishanyone.com  and the English fluency guide welcome to another  

live video on YouTube uh today I wanted to  do something different because I often have  

people asking me how they can sound more natural  when speaking so I want to to talk specifically  

about this problem uh I had a friend of mine  also say specifically that he worried about  

his English sounding strange and I wanted to talk  about exactly how this happens uh and the really  

simple way to fix it if you've been a longtime  follower of the channel you've probably heard some  

of these ideas before but I really want to give  you uh some very good examples uh so I brought uh  

some friends today just some I'm taking some of my  kids uh toys and we're going to have some fun with  

these look at this though I found this alligator  too look at that looks like a real alligator the  

mouth even open look at that all right so uh let's  get right into the uh to the lesson the basic idea  

here uh if I can just draw let's see if this  marker is working o the black is it's a good  

black to date sometimes I get uh different markers  they get switched and some are better than others  

uh so the basic idea or the basic problem that  people have uh it comes from uh learning like  

what I've talked about before on the channel  which is basically e uh SL which is learning  

English as a second language and this creates  a lot of problems that we're going to fix in  

this video but I just wanted to explain why people  when when they talk about sounding unnatural or uh  

feel like they don't express things correctly  or they don't say the right thing and it it  

just sounds awkward or strange uh this is the  reason so if you begin with a it's usually a

translation or it could be using English  vocabulary through your native structure  

like the way you think in your native language so  often when people are first learning a language  

they begin with translations so they try to  say something exactly like they translate one  

thing into something else uh like how to say  hello in like they would begin with kicha in  

Japanese and then say hello in English so they  learn they they take something they already know  

they basically begin in some way with there uh  we'll just put ANL over here uh well that's not  

really fitting let me move this over uh so  you begin with your NL or your your first  

language your native language uh and then you  try to think about how I can say something in

English uh and again this this idea it's coming  from your native language so it's number one  

either a translation or if your your language  skill is a little bit better you will still be  

thinking through like your native we'll just  call it the native uh sentence structure or  

it's not really only sentence structure but  basically just ways of thinking and ways of  

speaking through your native language so you get  maybe a little bit faster at at saying things  

in English but you're still thinking or saying  something the way you would say it through your  

native language so native sentence structure  were like more like native sentence or idea

structure I don't want to make this a complicated  video but I I really want people to understand  

why they have this problem and often people  ask how do I speak without translating and so  

this is going to explain that or give  you the answer to that as well uh but  

this is what's usually happening so again when  you're just learning a language usually people  

are learning it through their native language so  this is called English as a second language you're  

learning English as a second language through  that so your your native language is like a  

filter that's that's between you and the English  that you're learning all right so you begin with  

a translation like a word forw translation how  you say something in like Hello uh in English but  

you would translate that as kicha or something  in your native language uh and then the native  

sentence structure usually when you're you're  level is a bit higher uh but you are still first  

thinking in English or think excuse me thinking  in your native language and then thinking how do  

you uh Express something and often this is where  higher level people that that they know a lot of  

English but they still struggle with this idea  about sentence structures and they make things  

that sound a little bit awkward all right now I'm  beginning this video with a a basic explanation of  

the problem but let me give you some examples  so let's say uh like I want to talk about I'm  

I'm trying to explain something to you you can  tell me in the comments what I mean by this so  

there is a sport I'm talking about a sport right  now so this is my explanation of something there  

is a sport where you have usually five players  on one side and five players on the other side  

and they play on a big uh court it's called a  court like the floor where they play on usually  

a wood floor uh and then they they they bounce  a ball like they bounce a ball and pass a ball  

to each other and they try to to throw that ball  in a ring and and get points that way so I'm I'm  

trying to explain something to me let let me know  if you know what sport I'm talking about uh while  

I'm explaining this I'll explain it one more time  so there is a sport where you have two teams and  

maybe five players on one side five players on the  other side and they bounce a ball and they pass  

that ball and try to put that ball into a ring  all right Marie says basketball all right very  

good yes that's what I'm talking about now what  I'm doing with this example is showing usually  

what I'm I'm trying to give an English explanation  or an English example uh like for for instead of  

using a translation so you'll notice we we begin  with kind of a long explanation of what some  

is because I can't really explain something  I don't know how how to explain it or I don't  

know the simple way to to explain it but the  basic thing is like yes just like uh playing

basketball so playing basketball I think someone  else said I'm talking about what're talking about

basketball from the uh what was that Space Jam or  something like the original Space Jam from Michael  

Jordan I didn't see the the new one with LeBron  James but anyway so th this is I wanted to give an  

example of a native speaker doing this in English  because it's the same kind of thing you don't know  

how to just explain something this is the target  this is what you want to say but you don't know  

how to express it simply so you use a a longer  explanation or say something in a way that sounds  

a little bit awkward like if I'm explaining to you  what basketball is and I just want I just want to  

say like yesterday I played basketball yesterday I  played basketball so that that's the basic thing I  

want to say uh in in English yesterday I played uh  basketball but I can't think of that because I'm  

probably thinking of a translation or I don't know  a natural way to express that so I make a kind of  

long explanation that sounds a little bit awkward  and maybe it's correct I mean you understand what  

I'm saying people understood I'm talking about  basketball but again I'm just not expressing it  

naturally so this is not it's not really a problem  of of only translation it's a basic problem of not  

seeing examples of how natives would say things  naturally all right so if I if I like if I told  

you in the in the same word uh or in the same way  like to build a house but I never showed you how  

to build one I just gave you some like here is  some here's some pieces of wood uh here's like a  

window and a door and some other things like that  but if I don't show you what a house looks like  

I just give you all these materials and say here  you go just please build a house for me you really  

have no idea what that is you might start to put  things together maybe you would figure something  

out but I don't know maybe you put the door on the  floor uh and you put a wall over here and a window  

you know someplace else and this is the same kind  of thing that happens and the reason it happens is  

because you're not getting good examples of how  something is in English so the the basic idea  

here like people are often thinking about how do  I uh how do I think in English or how do I stop  

translating and you don't really do it you don't  really like stop translating or stop having native  

sentence structures it's just more you have to  replace those with a new way of thinking and that  

means seeing examples of how natives do things so  another good example of this uh this just happened  

to me today as I was coming here to record this  video uh I was on a tram here in Nagasaki and I  

saw I just thought this was very interesting uh  because it's a perfect example of this but it was  

a poster on a on a tram I was just sitting there  looking at you know the regular advertisements  

that you see they're on Japanese buses and trains  and things like that uh just like in the US  

oh no that was a sneeze but I stopped myself and  so I saw this picture and it was for I'm not going  

to draw the whole thing but it was basically  for a uh like a Japanese uh picture studio so  

like a photography studio and you could come take  pictures over there and I saw some Japanese that  

was just really interesting to me and the Japanese  waso deash and I thought oh wow that's such an  

interesting like it's so perfect and so Japanese  and so simple and the basic explanation here or  

the the translation I would give you is like put  your memory into a picture or turn your memory  

into a picture or make your memory a picture or  like capture your capture your memory something  

like that so you'll notice here I'm giving you a  few different ways to express the same situation  

and that's the core of what we're talking  about but uh this poster gave me an example  

of like how we're going to express something so  shash shash we're talking about shashin like a  

like a picture of something like a photograph  uh that's a different Kani uh but this this  

example here I have a situation so I understand  what's happening I'm not trying to think about  

anything in English I just see a situation here  the situation is is a poster for uh photography  

so there are some pictures of little cute k  kids over here and they have some uh traditional  

Japanese like lovely outfits on you know uh and  so it was just like shashini and I thought oh wow  

that's s like that's so simple it's like if you  want to translate it word from word for word it  

would be Memory to picture that's basically  what it means but the the the kind of deeper  

the deeper idea is just like turn your memory or  save your memory as a picture kind of thing but  

it was a very elegant way that uh if you asked  me in the morning how would I say that I would  

probably give like a longer explanation so it  would it would be probably correct I'd be like

like like I would I would try to like explain  something so it was like for a specific event  

like children turn three or five or seven  years old anyway uh it was just a perfect  

example of exactly how you need to be learning  the language if you want to speak the language  

naturally so what are the two things we have here  that you need number one we have the situation so  

the situation is a poster in this case a  poster for some kids taking a picture uh  

like for like a special occasion so it could  be a graduation or uh a new baby or somebody  

turns you know 10 years old something like that  uh but it was the situation and a very simple  

explanation in Japanese that was very very  short very natural very kind of the natural  

way people might say that especially you have  maybe not much space uh on an ad uh but this  

is one example of that all right so we have a  situation and the next thing over here number  

two we have a way of expressing something all  right so I'm just trying to make this clear  

giving you a few different ways to understand  this because that is uh really the essence  

or the most important part the foundation the  key the secret if you will uh to understanding  

things and using them the same way a native does  so what we have here again number one a situation  

and number two we have usually what natives are  doing is hearing different ways of expressing the  

same situation all right now in this example we  just get one because it's making a it's just an  

advertisement and they're trying to be clear they  don't need to tell Japanese people 10 different  

ways to say something but they could all right  all right I'm going to give you one more example  

and then I'll give you a bunch of examples in  English that you can help me with that will  

get you understanding this idea and thinking and  speaking more naturally all right so this is one  

more example of this uh another example from Japan  and I like to use these especially I don't I don't  

have like so many uh Japanese people watching  these videos there are a few uh but it's nice  

because if you don't know Japanese the examples  are a lot more interesting for you in Japan and  

especially maybe women might not know this but men  often like we go into the uh the men's toilet uh  

and we have something called a urinal a urinal so  men you know we can stand up and and like pee on a  

like this little it's basically like a box maybe  women I'm sure women know what this is they've  

seen it before you know uh but basically it's like  instead of using a a sit down toilet like that you  

can stand up so you don't have to take time and  sit down this is why men are much faster in in the  

bathroom because we don't have to like you know we  can we can go into the toilet and women typically  

have like a longer line for the toilet so I don't  think women use a urinal I'm not I don't know if  

I've been I don't think I've seen a urinal in a  woman's bathroom it's probably physically possible  

but you might it might be messy I don't know  I'm not going to speak for women but the point  

here is this the name of this thing is a urinal  okay and on a urinal you're standing there uh  

in uh in in Japan like many of the urinals I have  seen they have automatic flush automatic flush so  

I'll just write this here make sure we can it's  not necessary to remember this but so automatic

flush so that just means uh even if no one is  here the the toilet will flush automatically  

or the toilet will flush after you're finished  so maybe there's some kind of little sensor or  

something sensor so a sensor that that can tell  if there's a person there or if the person is  

finished or sometimes just to flush some water  and you know make sure whatever just to keep it  

clean so uh this is the situation all right  I'm just giving you lots of information to  

help you understand but the basic idea is in  men's bathrooms we have things called urinol  

and uh in Japan I have seen on top of these  urinals little notices so it's just a little  

written note that says sometimes uh even if uh  even if a person is not here the toilet will  

flush so that's the B basic idea so even if uh  a person is not here the toilet will flush now  

we have the understanding of the situation so  remember that's the first thing we have we're  

not trying to think about a translation or try  to understand any grammar structures or anything  

we really uh this is even it's even like before  language we just kind of see something and we  

understand what's happening it's a toilet  there's a note on here and if we can read  

the note we understand what the point is but  the basic idea is I I'll just write this in  

English here uh let's say one example is  even if no one is here the toilet flushes

automatically so even if no one is here  the toilet flushes automatically so there  

is a little note like this on the top  of the urinal just telling you that  

now I don't know if it's necessary to have that  but here's the interesting part the interesting  

part is on different toilets in different places  like different urinal I have seen it's a similar  

message but the wording is different it's not  exactly the same like one place might say even if  

no one is here uh the toilet flushes automatically  that's that's like an English way you could say it

or another way you could say  this is this toilet flushes

automatically this toilet flushes automatically  and again it's the same idea but we could be  

expressing it in different ways so when we're when  we're learning something here we're learning uh  

without trying to use translations the the  first thing we begin with is some kind of  

situation and there are no words we need we just  look at it and we see what's happening all right  

I'm going to show you some more examples in  English but I wanted to just really make this  

idea clear about these two things that you  need to develop natural speech the first one  

is understanding things at the beginning from  the situation not from trying to think through  

your native language all right the typical  thing people do they will first think of an  

idea to say in their native language and that's  what gives you the sentence structures or makes  

you want want to translate in your head uh  before saying something okay so the the the  

point is is like do I understand what's  happening like I can read this and it's

like or

whatever so in Japanese like it would say  something like that or like or something  

like that like it would say it in different  ways I'm giving you some different ways  

it might be written in Japanese so the  the two things you discover about this  

number one we're looking at the situation  number two there are usually pretty much  

almost always multiple ways to say something  there really could be an infinite number of  

ways to say something so what happens when  natives are learning their language just like  

you learned your native language is there is a  situation like oh no Mom is angry mom is angry  

now Mom could say a lot of different things like  she could yell at me or say I don't know like I'm  

really frustrated I'm disappointed in you uh why  did you do that what were you thinking these are  

all different ways that a mother might Express  that and so as a native I'm not learning through  

any translation what I'm doing is understanding  a situation and these are the different ways  

that we might Express that I really want to  make this clear because this is the secret  

this is the way that you actually start thinking  in English because you're not really thinking in  

your native language right here there's nothing to  think about you just see the situation this is a  

marker this is a marker okay like I don't need to  I can I can see this even if I don't say anything  

like this here is the situation this is the marker  so some kind of activity or action or even just  

something like this this is a marker this is a  marker that is a marker notice how the situation  

changes this is a marker that is a marker okay so  you see your brain understands oh the situation is  

a little bit different so the ver the vocabulary  or the sentence whatever it changes as well so  

I'm not trying to think about anything I just look  at the situation and then as you get more examples  

of natives talking about that or describing that  situation that's how you start thinking and using  

those same sentence structures as well all right  now before I uh get my my little animal friends  

over here we're going to talk about some more  things but I really want to make sure people  

understand uh the idea of this so let me go back  and take a look at comments and then we'll get  

into the rest of the lesson here actually giving  you some examples of this I wanted to usually  

I like to to try to give examples first and then  explain something afterwards because I really want  

to help you understand that but here I think it's  easier if I just tell you kind of what the secret  

is or what the story is before you see examples  because it'll be much easier for you to understand  

them that way all right let's go back and check  comments looks like we got quite a few of them  

s nice to see you there hello again and same and  George is there let's see Orlando and power grass  

that's an interesting name and neomar says what's  the most important thing when we are learning a  

new language grammar or conversations uh well  it's it's not like grammar or conversations and  

most people you're not going to be having  conversations when you're starting to learn  

a new language you just want to understand the  language which is what we'll we'll talk about in  

this video actually um but conversations come from  your ability to make connections and this teaches  

you how to make these connections so if you think  your English sounds weird or strange or whatever  

the reason is because you're usually starting from  either an actual translation like a word for word  

translation or or if your level is a little bit  higher then you're still thinking about like the  

sentence order that you would use or something  like it would sound a little bit more like your  

native language but you're using English words  so it's it's a slightly more advanced version  

of a translation but that's the basic idea all  right uh let's see and isale from Brazil and B  

says hello and Tom again nice to see you there I'm  late today no you're all right and Betty look at  

that talking about basketball and let's see true  law and anilia says hello thanks you are so right  

okay I think you understand what I'm talking about  and Tom says I left a review uh for Frederick yes  

uh we appreciate that if you uh we did see that  and we left you a reply I think um but if you have  

any questions about that let us know uh and for  anyone else who's interested in improving their  

pronunciation and uh and understanding uh English  this way exactly how I'm describing it in this  

video click on the link in the description below  this video to get Frederick uh it'll teach you  

English in the same way Bridget says hello and  nmer says I'm from Venezuela what is the best  

method to learn another language according to your  experience uh I can talk a little bit more about  

that uh as I go through but I want to focus on  this idea because this idea is like the foundation  

of learning any language and it's a pretty simple  thing once you understand it but the basic idea  

is to understand everything in the language  you're learning and as you remove doubt you start  

speaking more fluently so you begin a language  by understanding things you see a situation you  

hear how natives might Express that which gives  you confidence you feel more certain about how  

you'll say something and then you speak that's the  basic idea so if we can remove any doubt you have  

about using English then you will speak much more  confidently and fluently all right uh let's see  

since what is the best strategy to learn English  for the language for beginners yeah uh Nomar  

just get get Frederick click on the link in the  description below this video uh but also I will  

show you exactly what I'm talking about uh Unice  nice to see you again hello hello I'm happy to be  

on time to join Drew's live stream I'm excited to  listen to Drew's fruitful lectures as always it's  

my pleasure glad to help uh and uh glad to have  you here and Victor saysa soy Guatemala all right  

coming from Guatemala and Tom ends as one the  situation the way of expressing something yes  

so we'll we'll come back and I'll explain this  idea I will repeat it but say it in slightly  

different ways the same way I do most of my videos  uh but yes the point is to understand something  

you begin with a situation that it really requires  no words and then you just see how natives Express  

that that's the idea and it's the same way you  would learn to do anything else uh Asma says  

uh hi everyone and Thiago says I'm Thiago from  interior of Sou follow how long have you been  

teaching English uh over 20 years 20 years uh and  Tom was asking about the urinal you can ask some  

women about that bogon says hello you I got it  yeah men can't stand uh and P men can stand up  

and P and women Camp y so it's pretty simple maybe  women also take more time in the bathroom anyway  

but uh the urinal is is is part of our secret  to being F faster about that so in Portuguese  

the same word a urinol h so I like learning  this way to flush let's see here EST estudos  

estudos good morning teacher Drew let's see and  kosi said something there let's see yep what is  

the meaning uh flushes so that's a good question  so if you understand what flush is like when you  

flush the toilet to flush means to clear something  out usually with with water so we're going to uh p

button or toilet and to flush to flush something  out to flush so that's one meaning of that uh so  

toilets in Japan regularly flush to keep it clean  yes exactly so the interesting thing about Japan  

number one they will tell you what they're doing  so most people they would go to the toilet and  

like the toilet is just flushing automatically  maybe it flushes when you go there or it flushes  

when nobody is doing anything but uh Japanese  part of the part of the culture is trying to make  

sure everybody knows what's happening so they  will put a little note like that but you will  

probably not see a note like that in English I I  can't recall ever seeing a note like that or maybe  

it just says automatic flush toilet or something  uh but typically like a Japanese thing it will  

actually be a little sticker like a long kind of  note that's like even if people are not here the  

toilet will flush it's just making that clear for  everyone all right I think I understand and what  

is the point of being WR what's the point of that  being written on the Ural well the point of that  

Leo being written on the Ural is that it's it's  um for Japanese culture like I just explained like  

people like having an explanation for something  or or the the company likes explaining it and as  

you spend more time in Japan or as you you learn  more about Japan you will see that lots of people  

like having an explanation about something uh  I I I gave this example before uh this is a a  

meme that I I I found uh about about Japan that  I just thought was very funny but it was a it  

was a comparison of uh America China and Japan  I'll just tell it to you again very quickly so  

we had the American flag up here Chinese flag  over here and then we have a Japanese flag down  

here uh and the the question was uh like 1 +  1 equals like well it's just a question mark  

here so 1 plus 1 equal so the uh the American the  American version was one or excuse me two before I  

get the the math wrong here so the answer is 1+ 1  equals 2 that's how an American would answer this

question and for the Chinese one  this is a like Chinese character  

written this way and for the Japanese  one it was a long explanation that said

like so it basically like the same thing with  this urinal example here they have to take time to  

explain things instead of just being direct or not  saying anything at all about something so this is  

a part of the culture part of the people uh that  you learn about Japan that's different from other  

places like the United States so if if we turn  this the same urinal idea uh for this it would  

Pro I don't know what what China would be uh but  in America it would just be a urano uh and I don't  

know what China would be in Japan it would be a  urinal with a long explanation on there that says  

this urinal uh sometimes flushes okay so uh again  like part of this is but this is this is really  

it's important to understand this because if you  understand what's Happening Here you begin with  

a situation and you're not trying to translate  anything you just have the translation or the  

not the translation but the the explanation or  the way you would say something directly in that  

language so in the Japanese I look at the toilet  uh the note up there it's written in Japanese

like so it just it just says like even if a  person is not there the toilet will flush all  

right so the toilet flushes but the point  is we have a situation automatic flushing  

toilet is a situation but we could express that  in many different ways that's the key all right  

so uh if you start doing this uh a  native child or just I won't even say

n but a child is how they're learning basically  have a situation and see what do natives like  

what are my parents or other friends or other  people say in this situation and that's it  

so they don't need to translate because they  understand something directly in the in that  

language and that's what I'm going to help  you do in this video all right let's see uh  

get a few more of these things here all right and  just a random Channel says how to native speakers  

think and what do you mean by understanding a  vocabulary word all right that's a good question  

but hopefully uh this this video should help  you understand how natives think about things  

and it's understanding a situation like this  so here is here is a marker I don't need to say

anything everyone one can see like that  like there is a thing here and we call it  

a marker all right but even before I say  anything here is the situation it's just  

it's just a marker now a different person  like a Portuguese person would say I don't  

know whatever it is in Portuguese if they're  describing this uh or a Japanese person would

say MAA and an English speaker  might say uh this is a marker or  

they might say I have a marker all right the  situation is maybe slightly different but you  

can understand we begin with something and  then we're just hearing different ways that  

different natives would say something that's  it and so when you start thinking more this way  

as I'll show you with our uh little animal  friends look at this got my I'm excited to  

use my alligator over here I don't really use  like an alligator much he's coming to get you  

look at that all right I think we're almost  done with these though uh let's see here and

a s sa if I'm pronouncing that how to be uh mother  language this is it what I'm talking about in this  

video uh renan says uh Brazilian here good evening  guys and Kato says let's see the point is we  

first have an image of the specific situation then  describe it in English right yes but the important  

thing here is that there are many different ways  of seeing how something might be said so like a  

one one person might express it this way just like  like on those on the toilet the toilet notice is  

not the same everywhere different toilets have  different notices for the same situation uh and  

jomez says do you think the best way to learn  is by listening uh listening is a part of that  

but the goal I talked about this in in another  recent video the goal is not just listening it's  

understanding are we are we connected over here  I think we should be let's see hopefully uh so  

what probably I mean what topic of the day we're  talking about how to think in English and how to  

speak naturally instead of uh maybe expressing  things in your native language all right uh what  

is your favorite English book my favorite English  book uh uh I don't have this book I guess maybe  

depends on the situation it depends on what  I'm what I'm interested in I guess I don't  

really have a favorite book uh Diamond says hi  from Japan it was easy to understand for me how  

to use the toilet even if yep there you go so in  that case like like that's one way to express it  

you could also say Al though someone might not  be here but this is a pain pain let's see if  

we're if we're connected here I wonder why it's  doing that usually these are fine all right but  

hopefully it's working all right uh let's see  Hello it says uh Marcela from Brazil and hotel  

motel Bungalow and Resort what is a different  uh please for these understanding just look at  

pictures of those put those words into Google and  see different examples of those so for some some  

example like this like the difference between a  bungalow or a hot H or those like sometimes you  

will have the uh the same meaning for those but  other times you may not see here all right yeah  

the the connection is is going hopefully we can  keep it going what would you recommend students  

do to practice and internalize these specific  scenarios when living in a country with a  

different official language than their target one  you just get the examples online that's it so I'm  

going to show you now just like if you and I are  not in the same room right now but you can still  

get examp examples for me and you it is on my  side yeah it's it like the the this the video is  

kind of I don't know it's not not doing well all  right Timberlake says greetings from Korea Unice  

I have a marker I've got a marker I got a marker  Americans say often I got a pen that's right you  

could say that how do you think in English  this is how you do it so I'm going to show  

you we'll give you a bunch of examples in just a  moment all right so in Portuguese marker is Keta

thing like a marker pimp yep how to learn to speak  alone and still make progress well and I'll show  

you that uh in this video as well of lots of good  questions in here all right it's okay now I feel  

so happy when I see you on live direct and gam  says good morning sir all right let's get into the  

examples all right so I'm going to give you the  the point here is like uh [Music] without thinking  

about things in your native language I want to be  in with some very simple examples all right so I  

have a just a couple of De just brought some nice  uh colorful animals and daughters I hopefully I  

didn't tell them I was uh taking these from them  but they have some other ones so hopefully they  

like but my my younger daughter Noel even though  she has many little animals she loves animals  

like this uh and she will notice she said hey what  happened to the like where is the octopus or where  

something like that if I if I take it  take it from that all right uh so let's  

have just do something simple so here I have  a bag very simple I have a I have a bag or  

I could say I'm holding a bag but that's  the situation so try not to translate or  

think about anything just listen to me and  I will give you some examples all right so  

I have an elephant I have a bag I have  an elephant an elephant elephant I put  

the elephant in the bag I put the elephant  in the bag pretty simple I put the elephant

in so I have a an elephant here I put the elephant  into the bag or I put the elephant in the bag  

pretty simple all right so there are different  ways I could describe this same situation now I  

drop the elephant in the bag I drop the elephant  in the bag I drop the eleph I drop the elephant  

into the bag all right different ways I I could  express this now here we have the bag I put the  

elephant on the bag I put the elephant on the  bag or I place the elephant on the bag so right  

now you should be just without thinking about  translating anything the example should be clear  

so that you you can hear my different ways  of expressing this and it's it's basically  

the same situation so I take the elephant and  put the elephant on the back now I could throw  

for video should work better if it's uh if  it records it oh wow look at that I don't  

know what that why why we're getting a such  a such a strange thing from that maybe we'll  

just have to try this again later but uh here  we have to throw the elephant in the bag like  

that throw it in this is an ant the ant yes I  I can see the the video is lagging over here I  

don't know why why that's happening but so the  ant I throw the ant into the bag or I place the  

alligator in the bag I place the alligator  in the bag this is a starfish starfish so I  

place the starfish in the bag so if I take  all those out so now I want to take take  

them out of the bag I take them out so I take  out the alligator I take out the elephant or I  

put in starfish so if I'm throwing something  I might throw it faster or here's a slightly  

different one this is to toss toss like that  so I'll write that here for you so I could

throw so I could throw  something or more gently to to

toss to toss it all right pretty simple so  when I'm looking at something like this uh as  

you get more examples of something it's the same  situation but you seeing slightly different ways  

of of expressing it all right so remember when  natives get this uh like a native like a child's  

mother might say wash your hands and then their  father would say uh wash your hands and a like a  

teacher or somebody else would say wash your  hands but it's the same thing for everything  

I'll just have to record this again another time  we'll have to try again maybe part two uh for this  

video but I'll get through a few more examples  and then answer any questions people have so the  

basic idea here we have a situation now I'll  see if you can answer this for me so here's a

situation how would you describe this what's going

on if we can have part two maybe  we will need part two we'll

see what's going on all right Leo says bite  very good that's one way to talk about it  

what's another way to bite something maybe the  alligator is eating the starfish so if you if you  

if you show this to some English-speaking children  they might express it in different ways they would  

say oh the alligator is eating the star or uh the  alligator is biting the starfish or the alligator  

is holding the starfish or or the uh the starfish  maybe the starfish is uh trying to escape from the  

alligator so here's a starfish trying to escape  and the alligator is coming after it like that all  

right so if we have uh these different examples  here the point is not to not to try to translate  

what's happening but just see the example all  right and I'm giving you some visual examples  

but it works the same way for everything even if  you can't see something happening so this is not  

about like only okay Drew this is like an easy  physical examp but I'm just showing like this  

because often people who are learning the language  so English Learners they will maybe have trouble  

with expressing basic even basic things like this  so if you are still looking at this situation  

and thinking how would I translate that in my  native language then you're not getting enough  

examples that show you how to say something in  English Okay so the point when you're learning  

a language you have a situation and then you see  different ways that a native might Express that  

that's it and so usually it's different Native  and often uh over time when when native children

are so when you learn new things in or in your  native life or a few days later they hear a third  

example of something and what's Happening Here is  they're developing fluency by erasing any doubt  

they have but you'll you'll notice something  very interesting about this if you could  

get in this same period of time if you could  get the examples much faster then you would  

get fluent faster so that's why when I'm when  I'm showing you things or giving you examples  

in these videos I try to give you multiple ways of  saying things that normally a native would not get  

at the same time so a parent just says wash your  hands like wash your hands for dinner or wash up  

for dinner or get cleaned up for dinner wow that's  really weird how the how the video is doing that  

I'm just noticing some of these uh these weird  things in the video yeah I apologize for this  

no idea why that's happening though so maybe  it will it will record better when the actual  

recording uh finishes but we'll see anyway so  yeah the point is like there's a situation of  

of somebody washing their hands and you could  express this in different ways and as you hear  

these different things you really become much  more confident and you start understanding the  

different grammar structures or sentence  structures or just ways of saying things  

all let me go back to the beginning of the video  and hopefully this makes sense so the two ways  

of learning the English as a second language  way and the English as a first language way  

of learning so when we have learning English as  a second language you usually get a translation

or one way to say

something or they give you a different way to  greet for different times of the day so in in  

the morning we say good morning in the afternoon  we say hello and at night we say good evening or  

good night before we're going to bed but uh  in the English as a first language approach  

we're trying to learn everything all in English  and we do this by connecting the situation with  

the vocabulary so this just means a situation  with a vocab okay so we have translation or  

learning everything in English by connecting the  situation with the vocabulary and here we have

multiple I'll just say many keep  that short and a n y many ways to say

things many ways to say things okay so we have a  translation if you learn this way that's why you  

will translate and sound awkward and strange when  you speak but if you learn this way you will solve  

that problem okay this is naturally teaching you  to make connections make one last Point uh about  

this situation here and that is like the result  of this is it teaches you to say one thing in  

a situation and if somebody says something  different then you will not be prepared to  

answer that so if I'm in a conversation and I  heard hello from a teacher so the teacher tells  

me hello uh but another person like ildar  will come on these videos sometimes he'll  

say like uh like what we even just you could  even write this in different ways it's like w  

as u p what's up what up or just sup sup sup  so this is a very casual way I would probably  

not use that in an office but you will hear this  sometimes all right so sup what's up if I only  

learn hello and someone says sup to me I'm going  to feel very I uh I'm going to be very surprised  

and I will probably I don't know I I just won't  be able to process that information because it's  

different from what people normally say Okay sup  what's up so if you're in a real conversation you  

need to be prepared for these different ways  that people will talk and the only way to get  

that is to learn English this way so you have to  be getting lots of examples so the same situation  

like people having a conversation with each other  how there are many many many many many many many  

ways that people might do that they might say  even describing the same thing like my father  

let's just say as an example so many ways to  say something uh my father died as an example my  

father died someone else might say my dad died  so my dad died or uh maybe my dad had passed

away passed

away p a s s e d to pass away so that's a  phrasal verb way of expressing the same thing  

so to pass away or to pass on my dad passed  p a s s e d passed on so to pass away to pass

on when you're hearing all these different  things it's is teaching you look you don't  

have to learn just one way to say something  and actually you should not learn just one  

way to say something you should really be  learning many different ways to express  

yourself uh because in real life that's how  people talk you have to be prepared for real  

situations and this will actually prepare you to  sound natural because there are many different  

ways to express something you will learn these  different ways and then you will hear oh maybe  

I like uh like this way of saying something or  some way is easier than another way but that's  

how you will communicate naturally and easily all  right now so how do you get these examples like I  

just gave you some here uh if you have some  situations you would like me to cover I can  

you know I'm just using these even something  very simple like this so if I have this like  

how do I describe this make this a little  bit easier here so what is this situation

how would you write that how would you say

this what is this what's happening  here so I can tell you this but this

is all right pretty easy how would you say that  just make a comment right now that describes this  

situation and you will probably find different  ways in the comments and I could probably think  

of some different ways of saying this as well  all right so Tom says the butterfly is above  

the octopus yes that's correct now notice a  little bit different here uh you could try to  

come up with some more examples but when I'm  teaching you something I want to try to make  

the situation clear you the English for that  situation so watch carefully the butterfly  

is on the octopus the butterfly is above the  octopus on the octopus above the octopus on above  

on above or I could say the butterfly is over  the octopus above the octopus over the octopus  

on over on above on above over on I could also  say the butterfly is on top of the butterfly is  

on top of the octopus the butterfly is on top  of the octopus all right now all of these are  

correct they are different ways of saying the same  thing but the point is as you're listening to me  

you're getting to hear okay I I can connect the  situation I see it how a native would say that  

so the situation is this just an octopus and a  butterfly here the butterfly is on the octopus  

now look we have the reverse so the reverse or the  opposite so now the uh octopus is on the butterfly  

or the uh the octopus is placed on the butterfly  or I put the octopus on the butterfly or you  

could even just say the octopus is touching the  butterfly so we could describe this in different  

ways and the the Nuance of what we're trying to  say we might have to express it a few different  

places but I could uh these things could be  touching or I could put one thing or place one  

thing or set one thing on something else see how  that works so you're seeing a situation and you're  

understanding it the same way a native does not  by translating but just getting lots of examples  

in English of how people might say that and right  now you're only hearing my voice but a real native  

would hear lots of different voices explaining the  same thing okay hopefully you understand how that  

works so let's see if I have anything else here  who this is a seahorse this is a seahorse right  

here a seahorse a seahorse do you know that is a  seahorse it looks like a horse so this is a yellow  

seahorse yellow seahorse so the seahorse here  is Bumpy or maybe spiky has some some spikes on  

his back this is a Salamander salamander so this  salamander is very smooth see the salamander is  

smooth but the uh the seahorse is spiky or maybe  rough so we have a rough seahorse and a smooth  

salamander you see the difference so the spiky  seahorse and smooth salamander very smooth all  

right pretty easy look at that they both have  a long tail the salamander has a tail and the  

seahorse has a long tail too but the seahorse is  yellow and the salamander is Maybe this is a maybe  

a reddish brown color a reddish brown color okay  so even seeing simple short examples like this it  

starts helping you understand oh okay this is  how natives might Express things so here is an  

octopus this is a red octopus this octopus has  eight legs this octopus has eight legs so this  

salamander has four legs this octopus has eight  eight legs you can count them 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 so  

octopus like the word OCT means eight OCT like an  octagon an octagon has eight [Applause] sides 1 2  

3 4 5 6 78 an octagon octagon so an octagon also  we use this for for the stop sign in America the  

stop sign is an octagon an octagon even the month  of October so October it should be eight octagon  

like an octagon or an October or an octopus it  should be the e8th month but October is actually  

the 10th month because some other months were  added I think uh January and August were added  

uh and that's why October is the uh 10th month  now and not the eth month but it should be the  

eth month October all right everybody everybody  getting this over here yeah so yes a pentagon uh  

has five and look at that how many legs does a  seahorse have how many legs does a seahorse have  

a seahorse has no legs so no legs eight legs four  legs pretty simple now I know you might think like  

oh Drew I understand all of this English this  is pretty easy but people are still making the  

same basic mistakes when they speak because they  actually don't get these same examples enough they  

just don't get enough of them that's the that's  the main problem I see when people are learning  

so this is the like for the new guide that I'm  working on for fluency uh the strangest fluency  

secret uh this is explaining this idea and that  you you just usually don't know English as well  

well as you as you think you do so hiker fan and  other people here have some good additional ways  

to express these ideas so as you see lots of  different natives expressing things you see  

different people expressing the same situation  in different ways it gives you more confidence  

to express things in different ways too rather  than thinking that you have like one way to say  

something all right let me go back through  and answer a few more connection questions  

here so people were talking about that I think  people people get the idea though I apologize  

for the connection there's really not much I can  do about that unfortunately uh it's my usual setup  

and it is what it is I guess all right uh let's  see I'll go back and answer all right I think we  

got through those over there all right uh and uh  fuk [ __ ] says how to learn to speak alone and  

still make progress so again what you're learning  from me in this video is that you see examples  

of how natives say things and as you get enough  examples you become much more confident that you  

will say things correctly as well so that's how  you do it without having anyone to speak with so  

you don't need to physically be with me to learn  from this video and you don't need to physically  

be with native speakers to learn with them either  you just need to get lots of examples from them so  

as an example uh let's say we have like a cooking  show so if you want to watch maybe some kind of  

cooking show uh where I'm cooking cooking some  delicious animals over here so I'm cooking let's  

see what am I cooking today I'm cooking uh let's  see seahorse and salamander and octopus together  

I'm making a special a special dish cooking them  up so I could I could fry them frying these right  

here I could fry them or I could sauté them or  I could put some butter or oil something like  

that in the in the pot and then I could put them  on the plate when I'm done we could Al also call  

this serving them on a plate so to put them on  a plate or place it so this is a fry pan here  

a fry pan and a little plate so I put them on  the plate or you could even call this placing  

them to place them on the plate or plating them so  even in uh uh like actual like a chef would would  

say plate like to Plate something to actually put  something on a plate like this that's a verb as  

well to Plate something PL to Plate something so  to serve them on a plate or put them on a plate or  

place them on a plate or even arrange them I want  to make them look beautiful I put the seahorse  

here and the salamander here and the octopus I am  arranging them on the plate so yes you can plate  

things or place things now again depending on what  you're interested in if you like cooking you will  

learn a lot of these words by watching cooking  shows it's pretty simple and easy how it works so  

once you start focusing once you understand the  bigger idea of understanding things not through  

translations but just getting lots of native  examples of how natives would say something so  

set up in the plate yes you could usually say we  say uh set something on so we set something on a  

plate like that so I set the salamander on the  plate or I set the uh set the seahorse on the  

plate or set the octopus on the plate okay so  to set things in a different way if I say set  

up set up would be a little bit different thing  so setting up would usually mean I'm I'm kind of  

building something or making something like if I  set up I don't know some little like weird statue  

thing like I set I set something like this look  at that I set that up on the plate so this is  

setting up something it was usually some kind of  building or creation something like that that's  

setting up but if I there you go they fell over  they fell over fell over so if I put something on  

the plate here's the octopus here's the salamander  I just set them on the plate I'm just putting them  

on the plate that's it but there are different  ways you can see that I'm expressing that same  

thing I think people are getting that look at cam  sorry I'm late it's okay don't worry about it you  

can watch these videos anytime all right uh let me  go back and catch some of these other examples all

right I don't know yeah hopefully a nuclear bomb  was in dropped Unice uh let's see here all right  

Louis says how long have you oh you guys are  talking with each other I guess so butterfly  

is above the octopus very good Tom it seems that  you have great Evolution yes so like you would  

say like Evolution or or great Improvement you  were getting better bridet says my dad kicked the  

bucket so a butterfly is on an octopus y That's  it exactly TOA thanks for the explanation now I  

got it teacher so you would say now I got it or  now I understand now I got it the butterfly is  

placed on the octopus or I place the butterfly or  a butterfly touches down on an octopus yep that's  

another good way to express it so the point  is you you learn to understand all of these  

little nuances and differences so if I put if  I put two things together like this like maybe  

they're together so here is a butterfly and  here is a starfish so I put them together or  

I put them close by each other or I put them  next to each other or I could put them maybe  

on top of one another so I put this one on this  one or I place this one on this one as you see  

the different examples then you see how natives  would really understand something okay but the  

interesting thing is like I should I don't really  think there's a classroom around here I could do  

this at but if you're if you're seeing a classroom  example which you could just find on YouTube of a  

group of young kids watching something and the  teacher says what is this and you will hear the  

kids give slightly different examples of that  thing there's actually a a funny commercial you  

can watch this commercial on YouTube and and see  the example of this uh but a teacher it's similar  

to what I'm doing right now uh so this teacher is  uh looking at different things and showing them  

to the children and they're talking about colors  in the classroom so it's just a teacher sitting  

in front on a chair and there are some other  students around them watching uh and teacher  

says what color is this and the students look at  this and they say oh that's blue uh or they hold  

up something like you know what color is this like  what color is the octopus ah uh the octopus is red  

and then the teacher says what color are my teeth  and the students all have these different examples  

or different ways of saying that like instead of  just saying saying white the students say like  

offwhite or stucco or mother of pearl or something  like that where it's like it's like a little bit  

yellow so this is a commercial for I don't  know like Teeth Whitening you know toothpaste  

or something like that but it's a funny example  of how that works in the real world so when you  

see an example like oh what what color are my  teeth ah uh like my teeth are uh my teeth are my  

the the the the teacher is supposed to say well  the correct answer I guess is just white so the  

octopus is red maybe we could pick a different  color but the octopus is red the butterfly is  

blue uh the starfish is blue what color are my  teeth oh the my teeth are supposed to be white  

but the children say stucco or mother of pearl or  something like that so it's actually a very clever  

commercial uh but it's a it's another good example  of of naturally varied review how natives will say  

they will describe the same situation in different  ways so that really gives you a lot of confidence  

to know oh there isn't just one thing I have to  remember there are actually many ways I could do  

this and it will also teach me naturally different  ways of describing something so it will teach me  

those uh those native sentence structures and I'm  giving you some very simple uh physical examples  

with with objects like this cuz it's easy to  see the difference look at that like so here  

uh like the alligator his mouth is is closed and  now it's open so the the mouth is open the mouth  

is closed so maybe the alligator is yawning or  he's yawning or he's uh I don't know stretching  

stretching his mouth something or maybe the  alligator is chewing something like that or  

munching something that's another way you could  talk about this kind of chewing like that to munch  

on something Munch m u n c to munch I'm munching  on something so a native might say what are you  

eating right now if I'm at home I've got something  in my mouth and I'm chewing and my one of my  

daughters will say what are you eating or what are  you chewing on or what are you chewing or what are  

you uh I don't know what are you having right  now so there are different ways that they could  

express the same thing and natives have a very  wide range that they could express things with so  

if they can't think of one thing they can easily  say something else often Learners they only know  

one way to say something so if they can't remember  that that's when they struggle all right but this  

naturally builds the uh it's basically developing  the habit of seeing how people are doing it so  

you can do the same thing so if I see a hundred  people describe something I'm going to feel very  

confident about describing it too I would be able  to anticipate I would know what people are going  

to say before they speak all right so if I'm in a  conversation I can respond quickly because I know  

what the patterns are and people generally have  the same ways of speaking hello how are you how  

is it going what are you doing today how is  the family we might talk and kind of Express  

these different things to each other uh but as  you see those different things it's the variety  

the diversity of those uh of those expressions or  those responses that actually builds your fluency  

because remember in a conversation you need to  be prepared for an unpredictable situation in a  

classroom the teacher will tell you something and  then you have to repeat that back to the teacher  

but in the real world you don't know what people  are going to say each conversation is unique each  

conversation is completely different and maybe  somebody will Express one thing or something else  

so you don't know how people are going to respond  so you need to be prepared for real conversations  

in this way all right hopefully that makes sense  let me go back and make sure I'm answering all  

of these questions over here wow a lot of new  vocabulary today yes and so often uh people  

will like Learners will think okay I already  know how to say like mouth open I know how to  

say that so I don't care I'm not going to try to  learn it differently or say something else but  

what are some other ways we might say this  even something simple like open open closed  

I could say open I could say a gape a gape a g  a p e this is a more advanced way of saying open  

like look at that so like we could even describe  different amounts of being open Watch carefully so  

right now the mouth is closed I open it slightly  it's slightly open it's opening wider W now it's  

really a gape it's wide open that's as wide as  it can go all right you could have like a gaping  

mouth so when we have a gaping mouth it's like ah  like really open wide like that and if you don't  

learn situations like this you won't understand  them when natives are talking about that you will  

just think oh open and close I learned that  in school I know open and close but natives  

they get much more specific because they're  getting to see all of these very specific  

details about things that most Learners don't  know okay so the lesson here is that you should  

be paying more attention to the wide variety  of what natives are doing and you will do this  

naturally with the things you're interested in  so I I just brought animals because I you know  

people like animals in general and I thought I  could show some interesting things about you know  

we could even describe this alligator in very in  very interesting ways I could describe this very  

detail uh or describe the feet like if you look  at the feet notice how there's a slight kind of  

connection between the toes we call that webbing  so just like a spider web I don't want to make  

sure that it's kind of if it's clear enough if  you can see that let's see if I move out of the  

way an alligator's foot it's slight connections  between the toes these are webbed toes toes like  

a web like a spider web so they're connected and  that allows the alligator to to use his foot like  

a paddle so here what I'm explaining things I  can talk about the tail of the alligator so the  

tail of the alligator can move back and forth like  this yeah like webbing so just like to have webbed  

feet like a duck has webbed feet or a flipper  when you're when you're swimming look at that  

and Leonardo understands the value of knowledge  knowledge knowledge knowledge I could take this  

one alligator and make a three-hour lesson  about about anything I want I can talk about  

an alligator cooking I could describe uh the way  the alligator might move the way the body looks  

I could describe look at that the little the  rough back remember we talked about that before  

so notice the difference here see the salamander  is smooth but the alligator is rough so he's got  

some kind of spines or bumps or scales on the back  that go up and down up and down but the salamander  

is actually quite smooth it looks like the if you  look closely at the side of the salamander here  

it looks like it's got a little bit a little bit  of it's kind of ribbed a little bit so it's got  

these in andout spaces ribbed so the top is smooth  but the sides are maybe Ju Just a little bit rough

okay see the difference so I'm giving you these  examples number one to remind you that you  

probably don't know the language as well as you  think you do and if you learn the way if you learn  

the way I'm describing here you will understand  these things naturally but notice you're you're  

learning this without saying anything you don't  need to speak to learn these things you just  

need to see lots of examples of that and it's  the repetition through the variation that gets  

you fluent so not just learning one way to say  something and hearing that repeated you get a  

lot of examples and hearing those things in in  different ways and that's where you uh that's  

where you get from look at that there goes ilar  right on time near the end of the video and he's  

got a different way usually of saying hello  each time very good so he says hey there or  

sup or hello or how's it going or how you been  how's the family so he knows there are different  

ways to greet people and so natives will use  those and you can even learn these nuances of  

a specific way of of how you repeat something  or how you say something uh just by seeing how  

natives will do that and you understand oh in a  more formal setting someone might not say what's  

up but they might say how have you been how  have you been how is the family so Japanese  

as an example is uh typically more formal than  English but we do have formal ways of speaking we  

have formal ways or casual ways polite things yes  so Lura uh Lura has webbed toes equals toes with  

membranes look at that yes that's a good way to to  put that so it could be a membrane even a membrane  

is like kind of like a more like a skin so it's  a little bit different like we could think about  

it like a membrane but usually a an alligator we  wouldn't call that a membrane because a membrane  

is really a very thin piece of skin like the uh  the webbing on a bat so a bat wing we call that a  

membrane but the the webbing between the the toes  of a duck or the toes of an alligator it's more  

like skin all right or more like like something a  little bit thicker so a membrane is very thin like  

that so that's a great word but you'll notice as  you get more specific like with things like that  

we could compare the different skin between the  toes of a of a duck or an alligator or a bat or  

something like that and we would learn that there  are specific words for these things things or even  

that we could describe them with different  words mebrane is is like the the vocabulary  

for that is like something very thin like a  membrane if you have like a like a imagine a an

egg so inside an egg we have a baby chick  uh so the baby I'm going to try to draw  

this I this is supposed to be like a little  little developing I don't know bird in here  

uh and around that like there's a very  thin a very thin kind of layer of skin  

that is a membrane so this is more of a  a membrane here membrane uh but if we're  

talking about an alligator foot the  webbing between the toes uh of a like  

of an alligator like that so like this kind  of thing here it's probably thicker than a

membrane all right I think people are getting it  though all right uh let me go through a couple  

more of these let's see I think Tom asked  before like is it a pan or a pot so a pan  

is thinner and a pot is going to be thicker like  that all right uh and let's see so Cas says from  

your explanation we can become fluent through  enough experience of different situations and  

describe them in English right yes that's what  I'm saying so the the the process of developing

uy what's happening in your native language as  you learn new things we have our timeline over  

here usually you learn something new whatever  that is you some some new word happens but maybe  

you don't feel 100% confident about it you know  uh you learn something but then you hear like  

here's another example and another and another  but in slightly different ways so your mother  

says something your father you hear it on TV and  as you as you get all these examples you really  

start feeling very confident that you understand  something and once you have that confidence that's  

when you start to speak so you could hear a  word and start speaking immediately but it's  

probably not going to help you very much because  you won't feel very confident uh about saying that  

thing but usually what happens is like confidence  increases and oh look at that now we we cross the  

uh kind of confidence barrier here where you  feel confident enough to speak and now maybe  

you get even more Improvement by using the word  so for uh for duck feet we would just say that's  

like like webbed just in general you can just say  webbed so webbed describes the connection but you  

might hear like I don't know what a duck foot a  duckfoot uh because it's different yeah I mean  

usually like a duck foot is it's it's like its own  thing a duck foot rather than uh like a regular  

bird that might have non or unwebbed feet like  that so duck foot is like this uh but we would  

just typically say webbed like ducks have webbed  feet ducks have Webb feet and maybe like an eagle  

or something like that would not so a little a  little bird like a pigeon does not have webbed  

feet because a pigeon doesn't doesn't swim but a  water bird might have webbed feet like that but  

I don't know the specific material if you'd call  it skin or there might be some you could probably  

just look that up if you're looking if you want to  be that specific about the language but typically  

this is this is how natives would say it a webbed  foot so an alligator has a webbed foot but the  

the material it's a little bit different so it  usually like just the kind of skin or whatever  

that material is but that's the basic idea so  if you don't know you can just Google that in  

the same way like I don't I could Google now  but you get the idea I don't want to mess up  

my connection again however however that happened  before uh let's see and let's see uh Thanos thano  

Thanos says uh difference between close by and  next two so close by in general remember I'm  

giving you kind of one example here but close  by next to close by next to so typically next  

to is like they're they're basically touching  all right like we like they could be they could  

be touching each other or very close or you know  and also you you when you learn these things like  

a native speaker if I just put put two things up  here like this and I asked a native to describe  

that I didn't I didn't give them any any specific  words they should use some people might say oh the  

they are close by or they are near each other or  nearby they probably wouldn't say touching because  

they're not actually touching each other but you  might hear near or next to somebody might say next  

to oh look like the the uh the now I'm forgetting  what this is a seahorse so the seahorse is next to  

the butterfly so it's it's kind of a a relative  thing it depends on the situation but if I if I  

compare this like like now they're a bit further  apart so now they are near each other same kind  

of thing yes so a membrane is a thinner tissue  so webbing webbing is more like it's it like you  

could say a bat has webbing but it's it's like  like we just call that specific material uh the  

the membrane or the skin but it's it's a much uh  thinner and lighter material uh but I think people  

people get it so and again like if you if you  just get one example of something then you really  

think in your mind like okay like this means  it's like look there's 1 cm difference between  

these they're 1 cm apart or one inch so that's  what we mean by next to or close by or something  

like that but natives aren't really thinking  about the language that way so somebody might  

call this next to or someone might say nearby  or near or close even this like they're they're  

pretty pretty close to each other but they're not  touching so here they are actually touching and  

and everyone would agree that they are touching  if they are actually touching like this so don't  

worry about being super specific like how like  oh no how do I express this English like is it  

is it nearby or close by or whatever the point  of seeing all those examples is to give you uh  

that feeling of like relaxation where you think  okay there actually are different ways I could  

say this I don't need to be so strict like there's  only one way to say something this is the the like  

the problem of one where you think there's only  one way to say something so now I don't know how  

to express it if I forget that way to say it all  right so hopefully I'm I'm I'm showing you you  

should feel more relaxed when you speak and you  will become more relaxed as you get more examples  

of these different things all right let's see here  and K to says please let us know your story about  

aha moment in Japanese did you experience many  small aha moments every day when you were still  

a beginner in Japanese language yeah so I have um  like what I call an aha moment is just like when  

you solve a puzzle and you think oh I I understand  the answer to that so I have uh deeper aha moments  

I'll I'll just give you those right now since I'm  working on this uh guide that uh I'm calling the  

strangest fluency secrets I'll be releasing that  soon uh but these these videos are are like a  

way to help uh explain a lot of that stuff as I'm  thinking about how to do it so in my everyday life  

like here's a perfect example I think I gave this  uh like what was that last week or whenever uh but  

this is an example in Japanese so usually like in  Japanese or the English would be like for here uh  

for here or uh to go and we could express this in  different ways so you could say like uh if you go  

to a restaurant like is this order for here like  are you eating here or is it to go so is in order  

for here or to go that's one way you might say  this so the situation is where are you eating are  

you eating in the restaurant are you taking the  food with or you could say like for here or take  

out or I think in maybe Australia and even in the  United States as well sometimes we will say take

away take away uh or we could just say like d  in so to dine like to eat have have dinner to  

dine in uh or we could just say like here  not even for here just like here or to go  

some natives will be very very quick like  that because we understand the situation oh  

so I'm taking an order on the phone or someone  comes to the restaurant oh is this for here or  

to go are you dining in or or is  this takeout or takeaway all right  

so uh the example for Japanese uh for me  happened recently like often often in um  

like uh so the basic Japanese way you  might say this is like uh like tenna uh

like so ten or mochi mochi I'm not I'm not going  to bother to write it but Mochi uh but I heard  

a different way of saying this and I was very  excited to hear that different way of saying it  

was like uh Tabu Tabu like would you like to eat  and then go so I I had not really heard this most  

places it's like like are you taking it home like  T like like like are you eating it here or you  

going to take it away so just in the same way like  English there are different ways Japanese people  

express the same situation yep I mean that's  that's not surprising but what's interesting  

is that like you learn a specific way of doing  this in a textbook so a textbook will say this  

and maybe they will say something else so  it's surprising for people when they get to  

a situation and they hear something different  but it's not surprising if you prepare by  

seeing lots of examples of this before you  do it okay so this was a specific aha moment  

about this vocabulary when it was like

ah like would you like to drink it first  and then go Tabu like would you would you  

like to eat it first and then and then  go so I had not heard that before but it  

so it took me a moment like oh ding ding  here's a new a new way of expressing this

T like I I could say like instead of mooch it's  like oh are you going to do something different  

you know so uh like MO is like like like mulu like  to hold something and and go home so the same kind  

of idea of take out or take away but I I thought  it was very interesting like T N like I heard both  

of those things and I was just like oh that's  that's interesting that's a new way of saying  

something and I understood it in Japanese in the  situation so here I am I know what the situation  

is it's a a person asking me do I want to like  have my coffee at the the cafe or take it out I  

understand what's happening but they're using  different vocabulary but I didn't panic I was  

just like oh that's interesting you could say  that like I didn't I didn't know you could use  

that expression and I've never heard that before  but that makes sense I could see that n would you  

like to eat first and then go yes I would so I  will eat first and then go instead of taking my  

food to go go all right so that that's a specific  aha moment in a conversation and that happens to  

me all the time now because now my Japanese is at  a level where I can I can understand things within  

conversations themselves but most Learners are not  ready for that because they're just not prepared  

with enough examples they get into a conversation  and it's just too much coming to them all at the  

same time or they try to watch a native movie and  it's overwhelming there's too much information but  

here this is a perfect example usually it's like  uh like whatever you know like like you're going  

to you're going to do it here uh but I just heard  something different and I thought oh that's really  

interesting and so now I have one more phrase that  I could use or that I would be prepared for in  

another conversation all right so these are my my  daytoday aha moments when I understand something  

new so every time I do it's like wow that's that's  very interesting Isn't that cool so I'm able to  

learn new Japanese within the conversation itself  and I don't get freaked out like ah what's what's  

happening I don't panic in the conversation it's  just oh that's really interesting and sometimes I  

mention that like like I I think maybe I said that  like one of the uh like one lady said like n like  

are you going to drink it here and then go like  n niku like are you going to drink it and go and  

I said oh like like you can like you can say you  can I was like talking to her about the expression  

itself and she was like yeah you know so it's  maybe it's kind of weird for her like she's  

just thinking about that but I like you know I  like thinking about this and it helps me remember  

the phrase that way so these are my daytoday  uh aha moments but I'll give you my my deeper  

three big aha moments that help me understand  Japanese and change the way I was learning so  

I finally got fluent in Japanese so uh these are  the the three basic ideas here uh the first one  

is that I wasn't learning the real language uh so  I'll just say real language uh I can never spell  

while I'm writing at the same time l a n g u a g  e language so real language uh if you think about  

real language I'm going to draw uh I'll draw like  a rainbow for this let me know if this idea makes  

sense to people you can kind of Imagine This Is A  Rainbow so I only have uh red black and uh and you  

know just just imagine imagine this is a rainbow  let's see here so this is supposed to be a rainbow  

with a variety of colors so just imagine we've  got green and red and yellow and blue and things  

like that so in a real conversation like I'm  showing you in this video the if we if we kind  

of cut the the rainbow like here just so you  can see the difference so a real rainbow for  

a language is the whole spectrum of the language  like all the speeds all the different uh ways that  

people might Express things so just like I've  shown you here you can you can have one thing  

to say but say it in many different ways so there  many different ways to express it there different  

accents different dialects all these different  things make up the full spectrum of the language  

anguage so the real language people are speaking  some people are more casual some people are more  

polite some people will Express things faster  or slower or less clear you know all of these  

different things are in the real language every  day but what I was doing was B basically just  

like a a very tiny section of that so the whole  language is like this it's like the real rainbow  

but I'm only getting a very small portion of that  so I'm hearing slow speech it's very clear single

examples okay so no like mumbled speech or  whatever when I'm learning things in lessons so  

even when people watch uh like my video right now  I'm giving people usually slower clearer speech  

but in the real world you will have a much  wider variety of of the actual communication  

does this idea make sense about the rainbow  so we have we can call this like a spectrum  

s p e c t r u m so a spectrum of language so this  is the real full language when I go out into the  

world some people speak quickly some some people  speak slowly or more formal or less formal or they  

have an accent or whatever but me I was only  learning a very small portion of this okay so  

the aha moment was I have to learn this I have to  I have to get exposed to the whole real language  

if I want to actually speak the real language and  understand people okay so that was the first aha  

moment does this make sense to people so it's  pretty simple idea so I was basically learning  

a part of the language but I needed to learn the  real thing let me know if that makes sense like  

click click the like button or or something I can  see if people are like ah okay I get it hopefully  

the uh the the chat is still flowing over here  sometimes people people just start watching and  

don't don't comment for a while but hopefully  this makes sense let's see here I think we're  

okay all right so that's the first Insight uh  that I had about that actually got me fluent  

all right I first needed to actually learn the  real language prepare for the full spectrum it  

doesn't mean I need to know every word but I  need to be more prepared for actually how the  

language is rather than than only learning this  very small part of it all right so that's number

one number two number two uh is getting uh fluency

triggers so fluency triggers are what what  I've been giving you in this video actually  

letting you understand English in English  without needing to give you a translation so  

it's just like seeing examples like if I'm  teaching Japanese in the same way like ah

on so this is an eraser in English but maybe it's  

a little bit different for uh  for Japanese but the color is

bluea Kudo so here I'm giving you examples of  Japanese in Japanese rather than giving you a  

translation and if you could continue to learn  with me and hear these different examples these  

fluency triggers that's what would actually  help you learn the language so that's like  

what I was giving you before so all these these  examples like look like this is a seahorse so  

this seahorse is Bumpy or spiny over here it's  rough but this salamander is smooth so you can  

see it's very smooth the back is very smooth rough  smooth so here you get to see the difference and  

you can understand the situation you connect  the situation with the vocabulary rather than  

a translation so I'm not using Japanese to teach  teach you English you're learning English all in  

English so these are called fluency triggers  and when I started getting these in Japanese  

then that actually made sense George says white  marker yes you you could have a white marker on  

a black board or some other color like that  there are white markers just most people have  

a white board all right so that's a fluency  trigger and everything I've been giving you  

uh so far in this video is an example of that  it's just helping you understand the language  

in the language itself rather than using  translations okay and then the last part of

this the third and final thing which we also  talked about in this video is a naturally varied

review naturally varied review so this just  means if I give you one example of something  

in a textbook like the elephant is on the  elephant is on the salamander the elephant  

is on the salamander but I could also say  the elephant is on top of the salamander or  

even I could even say the elephant is above the  salamander even though they are touching like if  

I'm talking like which is which is on which like I  could I could still say this is above even if it's  

not like floating above it you will hear natives  say it that way so you don't have to think about  

like what's correct for above like above could  mean this it could also mean that so if I have  

something up here which is it's basically  on top of me or something like that like  

then it's it's another way people might say the  same thing okay so when I'm getting a naturally  

varied review this is me telling you the same  thing about seeing different natives express  

the same situation so I don't just hear one  thing from a textbook or from one teacher  

hear a lot of different situations from the uh the  same thing like that all right so uh to says like  

this uh salamander is covered with an elephant now  you have to be careful covered with is a little  

bit different so we could actually mean like let  me let me draw a uh better picture here actually  

it's probably easier just to show it like this  so here is a there is a little uh paper towel in  

another plastic bag here here's a paper towel  I'm going to do a magic trick for people here  

here so I if I hear like covered with you can't  really see the salamander anymore that's the  

difference so if I just see the elephant is on the  elephant isn't really covering it's on top of it  

but you can still see you can still see the top  of the salamander or the side of the salamander  

so you wouldn't say it's covering that thing  but if you're if you're if you're blocking it  

somehow like I'm covering something like uh this  uh paper towel is covering in the salamander so  

now you can't see the salamander anymore okay so  that's covering something else and one more I'll  

give you even one more example which is a little  bit different uh this is covered with covered

with so covered with you could mean like the whole  thing like like here we have like it's like the  

same color like it's kind of covered covered with  this if maybe we we we take the salamander and  

we dip the salamander in paint and now now it's  like covered with red so it's like red all over  

normally this is a white salamander but now it's  red it's covered with red or you could even say  

covered in red but another way we could describe  this is like let's say this salamander is covered  

with elephants like there there's like a little  elephant pattern like tiny elephants are all  

over the the salamander like that so these are all  different ways you could you could kind of Express  

these ideas and as you hear them and compare them  you really become much more confident about how  

the language works all right so if I like let's  say I draw some dots on this it's like covered  

with spots or covered in spots I could say both  of those things or even covered with elephants  

if I draw tiny elephants on top of the salamander  all right so it's seeing it's it's like spending  

time like this getting lots of different  examples and this is easy to do in in any  

kind of whatever the the particular topic you're  interested in like I like gardening for example um  

and and so you could see like the the example  maybe we're talking about plants and I could  

talk about planting flowers or growing flowers or  cutting flowers or doing lots of different things  

like that but if I watch 10 different short  YouTube videos about growing flowers what's  

going to happen I'm going to know a lot about  how to grow flowers and and how to express those  

different things so if you want to see another  example of how this works uh with a specific topic  

if you go to my YouTube channel uh and watch the  uh espresso video so on my it's a regular video  

not a live video but if you watch that video uh it  will explain um like how to do uh like an example  

of this naturally varied review so today in this  video I've been giving you examples of that that  

like second and third aha moment so the second  one again is getting fluency triggers meaning  

I'm I'm triggering I'm making you feel more fluent  by making the language clear so I'm connecting the  

vocabulary with the situation so you understand it  really well all right that's the first part of the  

language making sure all of these little pieces of  the language are understandable like you know what  

the vocabulary is or the grammar or pronunciation  or something but that's not enough we need to have  

the naturally varied review to prepare us for  the unpredictability of conversations so we  

don't know what's going to happen in conversations  so it's better to get lots of preparation before  

that happens so that means I'm going to watch  different people talking like I could watch even  

for me learning Japanese let's say I uh I don't  know my wife is pregnant we are going to have a  

baby so I need to talk with the doctor about you  know different things like having babies and stuff  

I could watch a bunch of YouTube videos about  Japanese parents talking about that or Japanese  

doctors talking about that all of this information  is already available the only difficulty is that  

like number one it can be hard to find things  like what content is good and the other problem is  

there might be individual words and phrases that  that are just more difficult to understand because  

you don't have someone teaching it to you so the  value what we do in fluent for life is like we  

organize everything and make sure you understand  it so it's it's much faster to learn that way so  

I mentioned before before about how quickly you  can understand the language uh people will ask  

me how long it takes to get fluent and what's  really happening is is like it's not how much  

time it's how quickly do you eliminate doubt so if  you are learning and you you learn something but  

you don't really understand the lesson you only  understood one thing but you spent an hour to do  

that so you took one hour and and learn something  but you don't really feel very confident about it  

maybe you understand one thing that you feel like  you could you could say you would feel confident  

about that or if you could get lots of these  moments where you really understand things very  

well which is what I'm I'm doing in these videos  you can watch like a 1- hour video and understand  

a lot and feel much more confident about using  the language that way okay so uh these are the  

the three major insights for me about language  learning and uh I've I've taken like 20 years  

to try to explain this all to people so I i' I've  been teaching the same way all this time but this  

is the these are the insights I had when I was  like I didn't I I it was more like a kind of  

natural thing for me that I understood but it it's  taken me a long time to try to explain everything  

in a simple way to people because fluency uh  it's it's actually a very simple process but  

many people have been learning for a long time and  not seeing results so they're very frustrated and  

if I say oh I can help you learn quickly they're  not going to believe me unfortunately so it's like  

if I told you hey I could I could teach you how  to make ,000 a day you know like if you hear that  

in a video on YouTube You're Going to say like  I don't that doesn't sound right to me even if  

it's true you probably won't believe it so it's  it's taken me a long time to try to explain these  

uh different things but hopefully you see that  the process is really simple if you learn the  

real language and you understand it in English  and you get lots of examples of how natives say  

things then you will get fluent too you will learn  the language you will understand things better and  

then you will start speaking so the goal is not  to be uh learning things and then starting to say  

them uh immediately it's just feel comfortable  first get lots of examples understand things  

really know the vocabulary well feel comfortable  and confident and then you speak so this is the  

opposite approach of what most people do where  they learn something and then immediately try to  

say it but they don't really feel very confident  and then they get disappointed and frustrated and  

and this process goes on for a long time so that's  why in my uh videos like this one I'm taking uh  

a lot of time to to express like these things in  detail so people can understand them so it's like  

why like maybe people know what a salamander  is but I'm taking time like look at that we  

can we can look at this thing and and actually  describe it in detail and that would teach you  

how to describe anything so I could say look at  this like I mean even the looking at a salamander  

and an alligator they're a little bit similar I  could say they have similar body types similar  

body types so they both have heads and four legs  and a long tail they are low to the ground so look  

at that like their their arms and or their legs  kind of come out to the side like that they're  

lower to the ground rather than a person walking  or a horse or something like that where their legs  

are under their body and they walk like that so  look at that like the legs are on the side of  

the alligator and over here the N or the excuse  me the salamander so salamander is usually on  

the land and a n is a similar kind of creature  but lives more in the water so I didn't bring  

a noot and a salamander but hopefully you get the  point so I could take something like this and if  

you spend some time just listening to people  talk about things whatever you are interested  

in maybe you don't care about salamanders or  alligators maybe that you know whatever that's  

fine it doesn't matter what you're interested in  but my point is you can find information about  

anything you want even right here on YouTube  right now this is the easiest time in the world  

to understand language because there are so many  examples of it but the problem is most people they  

just watch like a very like I gave that rainbow  example before they're watching YouTube English  

learning videos that aren't actually helping them  build much fluency so they might be learning some  

more vocabulary but they think well I why don't I  feel more fluent in conversations and it's usually  

because it's just like it's like that rainbow it's  a small bit of the real communication so the real  

speeds or the real accents other things like that  that natives actually use so hopefully that makes  

sense let's see if I didn't did I use all of my  I think I used I think I used every animal look  

at that pretty good all right so we take time  and you can think about this for your level so  

if you have a maybe you can understand what I'm  saying but you still don't feel confident even  

with basic things watch Children's shows talking  about like you know specific things whatever that  

is so you could watch a children's nature show  about ants where's my ant I thought I brought  

an ant over here I had an ant before maybe I I  don't know someone's going to find oh here it  

is I thought someone's going to find an ant on  the floor and think like oh my oh my goodness  

look at that it is a giant ant so maybe let's say  you like ants I could go on YouTube and just look  

for documentary about ants or show about ants so  people uh keeping ants as pets or people you know  

doing you know whatever whatever that thing is but  I could find information about that all right so  

whether it's on YouTube or whatever uh if I'm  learning about a particular thing if I get the  

variety if if the variety is like the rainbow if  that if that reflects what natives are actually  

talking about then I will feel prepared and  confident in conversations that's how you do it  

and so the the great thing about all this is you  can do it immediately you don't need to wait for  

a a specific teacher or to have a person with you  you just need to have more uh like examples with  

with someone actually there that you can watch  all right so me like I I don't actually spend  

much time in my day speaking in Japanese but I I  do get lots of input uh but it's structured input  

I'm trying to give myself naturally varied review  not just watch like lots of random content that  

I don't review at all so that's a big problem  for people they can read a novel but they don't  

review it very well so they don't remember much  of it and they can't speak like the people in  

the novel or the TV show or whatever so this  is why I don't re recommend like just watch a  

bunch of random TV shows I would tell people focus  specifically on on what you're interested in and  

watch lots of content about that now it's okay if  you like watching TV shows I'm not I'm not saying  

don't watch TV shows but I am saying if your if  your focus is on fluency you need to destroy the  

doubt that stops you from speaking so you should  be watching like here's how to talk about you  

know people being friends or here's how to make a  coffee or here's how to you know whatever you're  

interested in but all of that will get you fluent  automatically if you if you spend your time with  

it all right last couple of comments let's see  here so iller says yesterday I tried to talk with  

neighbor's dog in English look at that using  using the lessons over there now remember you  

have to make the language understandable I can't  just go to a dog and blah blah blah start speaking  

some English I have to you know use use the ball  example so anybody who can if you watch that video  

the previous one I think I was I it's kind of like  a silly idea but if some people understood it uh  

and they were thinking oh that's it's actually  you know good advice so making sure your brain  

understands the information you're giving to it  Ramona says good morning sir watching from the  

Philippines I'm a new subscriber welcome if you  know other people who would enjoy this click the  

like video or click the like button on the video  and uh and share the video Joseph says how can I  

teach my cousin's efl one is four and the other  one is two uh just have them watch kids programs  

in English so that's how you do it or if you know  they are interested in a specific thing then let  

them let them watch that so if your kids like uh  I don't know whatever like if they let's say they  

like trucks or vehicles or something I don't know  what they're interested in but uh usually you can  

find YouTube content specifically for that thing  and just have them watch that so it might be songs  

uh like Coco Melon videos or also using Frederick  which you can click on the link uh in the  

uh in the description below this video so that  will that will let them teach themselves English  

so it looks like it's for kids but also anybody  trying to learn the language just like you I mean  

like today's today's lesson some people might say  well Drew well I mean that's just for kids like  

you know like real adults don't learn a language  with toys like that that's crazy and I say that's  

dumb like I learn I learn Japanese like this this  is how I learn Japanese you know I I don't care  

about like it being like a little toy or you  know a little animal or whatever I care about  

what I can do with these things and I can get  myself fluent with lots of good examples and  

that's why I teach that way so some people might  they might think it's it's I don't know silly or  

whatever but uh that's actually how it works uh  but hopefully that makes sense so find something  

your your cousins are interested in and uh and  then like you would you would just whatever give  

them lots of examples of that uh so let them  play with Frederick click on the link in the  

description below the video to get that or read  to them books so I I have multiple copies I get  

this same naturally varied review like I I showed  uh a few videos ago about um The Three Little Pigs  

so I have three different versions of that three  different books in Japanese that I read uh for  

that like to learn the three little pigs and I  can watch YouTube videos or uh read different  

versions of it elsewhere I could go to the library  and probably find even more versions of that same  

book or the same story but that's how you do  it so you you don't like even if you don't know  

English well you just give them the content it's  the organization of the content that really makes  

it uh powerful and valuable so me like I I spend a  lot of time organizing how I teach and especially  

the lessons like they're very organized and  they help you understand the English without you  

needing to translate anything so most of it like  if you're if you still can't understand this video  

or maybe you don't understand all of it that's  okay but you can probably understand quite a few  

things that I'm showing in these videos uh and  we do have uh more basic things we have a basic  

uh for beginners uh English grammar series that  you can watch and that will teach them English in  

English as well all right uh poly tang with the  uh looks like a little halo over there George  

has got it haer said I see here I'm here paying  attention glad to hear it all right let's see  

don't forget to like this live fellows yes please  ill says I'm very familiar with air smoothness and  

Aviation is it an important thing uh yeah it's  the same same kind of thing so if you have like  

choppy air uh then it's going to make your plane  move up and down but if you have smooth air it's  

kind of like the air current so the way the wind  is blowing if it's all blowing the same way then  

you will easily have a smooth flight but if you're  maybe going into the wind or the you have some  

like a cross wind like the plane is going this way  uh but the wind is blowing this way we call that  

a cross wind and it can make the plane uh push  that way or move or turn that way so as you if  

you're interested in even something like that like  air uh air currents or air flow watch videos about  

that and it will teach you more it will show you  a lot more in specific what I'm what I'm talking  

about uh let's see love and respect sir say Ali  and thank you for giving me an image of cover  

with that's right so right now I'm like covered  with covered with a shirt or you could just say  

my body is covered with the shirt all right so  it's something it's it's usually you can't see my  

body because it's it's covered or blocked somehow  and Jose with a smile and Annie with some clapping  

hands over there it looks like a big lizard yeah  it's kind of like a lizard Marcela says I haven't  

I haven't tried with a dog but I always talk to  my mom's plants there you go there thank God they  

don't answer well maybe they do they answer they  answer in their own way and JP family says ha I  

like these toys today yes I mean usually uh if I  can show you something I think on Thursday maybe  

I will do something special and actually have  another person with me and uh and maybe we'll  

try to do a different kind of lesson where I can  I can show you kind of working with someone so  

hopefully uh that makes sense but yes go out  keep talking to your plants you know use your  

examples talk to your dog and cat and all these  different things talk to I even talk to these  

hello Mr octopus or Mrs OCT I don't know what you  are I can't tell I don't know this octopus uh been  

very helpful today see if I can if I can stick the  octopus on my nose or something look at that see I  

can stick the octopus on my nose I can stick it  on myself or I can attach the octopus to myself  

see yeah I'm giving a situation and different  ways of expressing this so now the octopus is  

attached to me or even the octopus is holding  me or the octopus is stuck on me or stuck on my  

nose or I could put it on my ear or something like  that as you get more situations and you hear how  

natives Express them then you start learning how  to connect these different things and that's where  

you really start speaking very well like yesterday  I I again I don't spend much time in my day uh  

speaking Japanese but when I do so I spent like  all of yesterday speaking I had to meet a um uh  

like my family one like a family a relative had a  baby uh and so that the baby came and was you know  

we were not really talking well kind of talking  with the baby I guess but we had a nice family  

get together and I was just I spending a couple  hours talking in Japanese no problem I could  

like talk with people even if they're mumbling or  not speaking very clearly I can learn new things  

in the conversation because I I understand the  context I'm connecting the situation with the  

vocabulary okay so you can do all of this the same  way uh I I'm not doing anything special I'm just  

trying to show you how the language learning  really works uh this way has worked for me as  

well as my students so people are getting fluent  with fluent for Life Frederick is also helping  

people learn phonics and understand vocabulary  so especially if you have kids um and you want  

to start having them learn English without using  whatever their native language is uh get Frederick  

it will just help them understand how to do  that I should bring the the app again and show  

you it's just on my phone uh but you can install  it and play around with it for free and see how  

it works but I think that's it I think we have  no further questions here I think we got that  

also impressive the carrot cake years ago very  interesting yeah so like INF fluent for life we  

have kind of situations like that I think we have  two or three different specific cooking lessons  

because that's a very common thing making food  preparing food but if you see natives doing it  

and you understand understand the vocabulary you  start developing fluency very quickly all right  

uh if you'd like to see anything in particular  or if you have any questions let me know but  

that should be it for this video remember we  want to spend more time really understanding  

the native English the same way a native  would and then getting lots of examples  

so don't just get one thing with the translation  we really want to understand the real way people  

are speaking and that way we will feel prepared  and comfortable in a real conversation all right  

hopefully everyone has enjoyed this if you have  do click the like video click on the links in  

the description below this video and I'll see you  in the next video should be Thursday I guess in  

a couple of days have a fantastic day all right  have a nice day ildar and everyone else bye-bye