Native English Daily Expressions For Fluent Speech

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maybe we aren't maybe we are post something in the  chat let's see if people are here uh watching this  

let's see okay yes I think we are alive all  right I am Drew Badger the founder of English  

anyone.com and the English fluency guide and  today we're going to talk about where native  

English Expressions come from all right nice to  see people in the chat there we go George is there  

Olympia is there nice to see you guys all right  uh hopefully everyone is enjoying their day this  

should be a fun video we're going to talk about  Native vocabulary and how to use it and learn it  

and so you can actually Express Yourself fluently  rather than just learning a bunch of random  

phrases I really want to help you understand  things like a native because that really is  

the secret to communicating fluently if you have  to think about translations before you speak then  

you're going to get stuck hesitating and thinking  about rules then that's obviously going to stop  

you from expressing yourself all right so since  we're getting uh look at this this is amazing  

says Joe bear if I'm pronouncing this all right  well it's a good idea glad it's working over here  

all right looks like Chad is working  fine on the phone too Reuben's nice to  

see you there from Brazil Aaron  is back nice to see everybody

all right so when you learn English vocabulary  and you want to be able to use it fluently as I  

just mentioned the key really is to understand  it like a native so we're going to talk about  

something very basic something every day  that everyone does every day that you will  

all know about and then use those expressions  so use the understanding to actually have good  

communication uh about about lots of different  things so I thought what's something very simple  

very basic we could talk about and it's just in  the bathroom so I'm going to talk about again  

basic things I really want you to understand them  like a native and that means you understand them  

through situations I'll explain this very quickly  remember that there are two basic ways of learning  

the English language or really any language but  since we're talking about English you have English  

as a second language and this is where we learn  things through our native language so if you're  

a Chinese native Chinese speaker you're thinking  about something you want to say first in Chinese  

you translate it in your head and then you start  speaking so you go from your native language  

to something in English and maybe you know just  one expression for that but what natives are doing  

they're actually beginning so this is learning  English as a first language so not English as  

a second language we're learning English as  a first language which is what natives do and  

natives are taking again a situation like we're  going to talk about situations in the bathroom  

so it should be very something you guys should  remember very easily you'll understand it like  

a native from the situation and then we'll be able  to use it fluently because of that and so we have  

the situation and we go to the English vocabulary  all right so let's get right into it so nice to  

see everybody there if you do have questions  or comments feel free to post them in the chat  

so it says can you tell us how to use exclusive  word in different ways music exclusive you mean  

the word exclusive maybe we'll come back to that  later we'll see if we have time if I understand  

your question correctly all right so let's say  we're in the bathroom Nils is back hello from  

Wisconsin uh I multiple Wisconsins or was that a  typo on there or maybe that's a different one uh  

so we're going to talk about learning phrases  and in the first one we're just talking about  

washing our hands so everyone knows this very  simple to wash your hands now you probably know  

this already what's the best way to learn phrasal  verbs teach you'll see that in this video Arturo  

it's really just understanding them the same  way natives do so in the case of phrasal verbs  

specifically usually there is a physical origin  to that thing just like we'll talk about in this  

video so I really want to help you understand that  like a native rather than just learning the words  

by themselves and trying to translate that so  when you're in the bathroom or whatever you're in  

the kitchen you're washing your hands we can take  this same phrase and when we think about washing  

our hands it's really just cleaning something off  and so the the physical basic idea of this to wash  

your hands maybe you have some dirt or something  on your hands and you're just you're removing the  

dirt from your hands but the interesting thing  is that natives take this and they start using it  

in other contexts in similar ways all right  so pay attention to this so if I wash my  

hands let's say I'm in some kind of group with  someone and I'm having an argument or something  

I don't want to deal with them anymore I just  say I wash my hands so I wash my hands of this  

so I wash my hands of this so I wash my hands I'm  not actually washing my hands but we can take this  

expression very basic expression that you use  every day wash your hands and we can apply it  

to other situations like P pilados did I don't  know what that's referring to but let me know  

if you have more information about that Libya  so again I can take mines I can wash my hands  

of something it means I don't want to deal with it  anymore I'm leaving that situation something like  

that so again again again again again we can take  something very basic physical that you use every  

day and then we can use that in many different  situations so if I'm in an office and maybe my  

company some people are working on a project and  I don't like what they're doing with it or yes  

so you can quit that thing it says Iran yeah so I  wash my hands of whatever that thing is so I wash  

my hands of this situation I wash my hands of  this thing so it's it's it's it's the idea of  

taking something you're just trying to remove it  ah okay okay so you're taking something you're  

removing it from yourself you're removing yourself  from the situation all right yes so again like to  

wash your hands of something we're taking a very  basic physical idea like this and applying that to  

other situations so you can see how we might take  this I might talk about like a relationship so I  

had a bad relationship with a business partner  I just I said fine you can you can like take the  

company whatever I don't care I wash my hands of  the whole situation or if we're talking about in  

the past tense like I washed the same way you  would use it normally I washed my hands of that  

all right but the key is I washed my hands of  something all right why is it of rather than off  

because we're not physically doing it it's we're  not like washing my hands off we're just washing  

our hands like of of a situation we're kind of  removing ourself from it so we're not it's not  

the same thing of like washing dirt off because  the situation is not actually on your hands but  

we just use it in this way I wash my hands  of this thing to wash my hands of this thing  

all right but is everybody getting this the point  is to understand it first like a native see I'm  

not trying to give you Portuguese or uh French or  any other language we just want to learn something  

very basic that you can see in English and then  you will notice it how natives are using it in  

other situations that have nothing to do with  like washing your hands or something like that  

yes Arturo said if all Americans uh would  speak like that yes well all Americans do  

not speak like me and we cannot change the world  unfortunately but we can change ourselves and when  

you're learning with me in this way it's helping  you learn in different steps getting you to that  

point so even me there might be some people in  the United States that I can't understand what  

they're saying maybe they Mumble they don't speak  clearly they're speaking too fast or using some  

vocabulary or expression I'm not familiar with but  we can get you to that level so that's what we do  

over time as you learn with a program like fluent  for life but anyway does everybody get this idea  

so we take something that's every day you can and  you can even do this with like you know you could  

clean your ears or or anything like that but we're  going to cover a few more of these Expressions  

just from the bathroom and maybe you can think  of some as well all right but the basic idea is  

we're going to take something you can see how it  works you understand it physically the same way  

a native does and then you can apply that in  different situations wow I'd be following you  

since like 12 years ago do you mean you have been  following me like you have been watching since 12  

years ago or you or you would have been maybe you  should have been all right hopefully everybody is  

getting that though it's just hard to race I need  some Superstar to wash my wash my hands of this

of this marker over here  shouldn't be sticking on like that

I'll have to have to write something  lighter all right let's try red  

red marker all right now next idea so let's say  we are washing our hands if you look down in the  

like in a in a sink so here's like the the water  spout over here there's you turn the water on  

and down at the bottom there's a little  drain this is called the drain down here

so in the drain and in uh it could be in a  sink or in a bathtub the same idea we have  

a drain down there too and so if we're trying  to keep water in the tub or keep water in the  

sink then we put a plug something that stops the  drain so usually you have if you look at it from  

the side here's a like here's a pipe going down  in the sink and so the the drain is right here  

so the same thing this is the drain here and  usually we put a plug p l u g inside that thing  

so that will stop the water from going down so we  put the plug in here now we can have water in the  

bathtub or in the sink or whatever and we can  use that water so what do we do when we're done  

using that water does anyone know this basic  expression what do we do I've given you some  

of it here can anyone think what do we call  that when we're done using the water how do  

we get the water to go down into the drain what  do we say sometimes this plug is like connected  

to a little little chain so we don't lose it  somewhere can anybody think of what that is  

I'll give you one more second the red marker is  not better well I'm I'm thinking uh I don't know  

if it's easier or more difficult to see but it  should be easier to erase Arturo says a Flushing  

we'll take a look at that in a minute anything  else what do we say when we want to get this  

water to go down the drain so the water we have  the plug in here because we want to keep the water  

in here but when we want the water to go down  what do we have to do how do we get the water to  

go down the drain so in a sink we're not really  flushing anything yes ritual says pull the plug

all right to pull the plug so  if we pull the plug out of this  

then this is all clear and now  the waters the water can go down

pull the plug yes so when you pull the plug  this is the physical idea of taking a plug  

out of the little drain area so that the water can  go down in the same way how else might we use that  

so we're using the idea of pull the plug to  stop doing something we're going to quit doing  

something if you understand the deeper idea of  this it's not just taking a plug out of a sink  

it's it's like getting rid of something we're  finishing that thing so we were using the water  

now we don't want it or we don't need it anymore  and we let it go down the drain so to pull the  

plug on something we can also think about this the  same way uh I'll get to like a similar idea in a  

moment but really the basic idea is that we're  taking something we're finished with it so I  

might have like a bad relationship there's a girl  I've been seeing for someone for a while unplug is  

a we wouldn't really use unplug for that you could  use that we need to unplug the drain but typically  

to pull the plug like we put we put something in  there intentionally so we want the plug in there  

then we do not so we pull the plug out pull the  plug so if I pull the plug on a relationship so I  

might pull the plug on a relationship maybe I was  I was dating some girl and I it just wasn't a very  

good fit for both of us and so I decided just pull  the plug on that or maybe I'm in another business  

situation where we're working on a project uh  it's not it's not profitable we're not doing  

very well so instead of continuing to do it we  just we pulled the plug we pulled the plug on it  

nil says we let it flew you mean fly like Let  It Fly well I mean the you mean fly the the  

where we're just letting the water drain out so  we're just we're stopping something we're ending  

that thing we're pulling the plug on that we're  pulling the plug now there are two kinds of plugs  

you can think about as I just mentioned before  so you can have pull this kind of plug and there  

is also the same kind of plug that goes into a  wall for electricity so that's also called a plug  

yes so not not cut the electricity yet so that's  the same it's the same idea so we have like uh in  

a in a water pipe you have a plug so that thing is  stopping the water from going through and then you  

also have the plug in the wall so if I have like  a electrical plug same thing into the wall socket  

so if I take the electrical socket out if I if  I pull the the cable out of there I am pulling  

the plug it's the same idea so I'm disconnecting  something I'm ending that thing that's finishing  

it I'm pulling the plug on that thing okay like at  the end of these streams I pull the plug that's it  

now just so you understand usually when we pull  the plug we're just we're we're we might be a  

little bit frustrated or we're disappointed about  something it's usually a little bit of a negative  

connotation so a negative idea so I'm like if  I'm like I don't like pull the plug on a birthday  

party when I'm finished with it we just end the  party but if the birthday party is not going well  

maybe we pull the plug on it so we stop it we  don't want to stop it but maybe we we have to  

for some reason so we pull the plug on something  so it's usually something because we don't want it  

or it's not helpful for us or some reason like  that so we want to try to stop it immediately  

we're going to pull the plug all right yes there's  spark plugs too yes there are lots of lots of  

little plugs plugs for things and even different  different meanings of the word plug like you can  

use the word plug talking about to plug something  like to advertise it a little bit so if my friend  

uh sells vacuum cleaners and I I give him a plug  on this stream I say oh you should try my friend's  

vacuum cleaners they're really great I'm plugging  him all right isn't that interesting so it has  

like nothing to do with with this kind of plug but  just so you understand the basic idea we have a  

physical thing like this uh yes or you can call it  a stopper same thing as well some some people call  

it a plug other people call it a stopper because  you're stopping the water all right very easy but  

everybody get this idea I just want to make sure  this is clear that natives understand these things  

because they're they're looking at the real  like physical situation they're just looking  

at some kind of situation that happens in their  life and that's how they learn the vocabulary  

but then usually as they get older then they  learn how to use like these same expressions  

for other situations so the bad relationship  I pull the plug on it the unprofitable project  

we pull the plug on it I'm doing some event at my  school and and people are not you know doing well  

or whatever uh we pull the plug now usually and  now this is a I think I'll talk more about this  

in uh in my next live video but let's see uh  let's see Allah says take off the plug now this  

is a an interesting thing about phrasal verbs  this doesn't really erase much better either

why one day I will get a digital  whiteboard and then and then I can  

just write up here and do some interesting  things with that I look forward to that  

so we do say pull the plug  or you could say pull out

but we do not say pull off because typically  you could say that but it sounds a little bit  

weird usually because a plug it goes inside  something so if you think about a bottle or  

a pipe the plug is not just like sitting on the  top of it it's going inside that in some way so  

if it's in something the opposite would be out so  we pull out the plug if there's something on like  

this so the opposite of on would be off so if  we have something on we would pull it off like  

if I have a Band-Aid or there's like a cut on  my hand I put a bandage on my hand then I pull  

off the bandage but if something is inside  my hand like a needle I would pull that out  

okay does that make sense again most of the  language you can understand it physically in this  

way the same way natives do and then you take that  same idea and start applying that into different  

situations all right everybody is getting it all  right shall we move on let's cover a few more

now let's try black

here we go now we just had the idea of we have  some water you know so here's our sink up here  

again we pull the plug on something and the water  can go down and this expression is just to go  

down the drain to go down the drain to go down the  drain so anything that's going down the drain and  

we think about what does that mean so we're  removing something we're getting rid of that  

thing we don't want that thing anymore or maybe  it just on its own it's just happening like this  

uh and just going down the drain so something is  something could be wrong something is happening  

we don't know what's going on there are lots  of reasons why in in this physical situation  

this is just water or something it's going down  a drain but again we can take this and apply it  

in different situations in real life and we  can talk about like again a business example  

I have a new project I'm working on but we're  spending a lot of money we're like a lot of the  

money it's just wasted the money is going down  the drain the money is going down the drain so  

we are wasting a lot of money so in that case the  situation is money going down here oh no we don't  

want that to happen we're wasting it chokes  and drinking I don't know what that is around  

uh but anyway it could be anything you could be  wasting time you could be wasting money yes so  

unplug yes you also have that same kind of music  so unplugged uh some kind of music performance  

without loud sound usually it's like acoustic  music like they don't have their instruments  

plugged in but it could be something else  it doesn't it doesn't have to be just that  

but does everybody get this so you could  have we have different ways of saying  

this you will hear natives say go down the  drain you will also hear go down the tubes  

go down the tubes down the tubes so fall in the  crack so following the cracks is a different  

a different thing actually we got a question  about that I'll address that one in in just a  

second because we had another question about  that from someone else actually a fluent for  

life member yesterday so down the drain down the  tubes or what else could water go down like this  

similarly I bet you guys can guess you use  it every day so we can use this again natives  

don't have just one way of saying something  we've got lots of lessons that people or  

lots of Expressions that people could say  are lots of ways of expressing yourself

okay so you could have something go down  the drain go down the tubes or go down

go down the toilet accurate says the pipes  yeah so you could say like pipes typically  

we you could say that it wouldn't be like a bad  expression it's like going down the pipes but we  

usually typically are talking about these things  uh especially when you're talking about something  

going down the toilet it's like extra bad so  we're saying like money is we're just wasting  

money we're just we're wasting money it's going  down the toilet or you can even talk about like  

the whole company or a project or a TV show or  anything that's getting worse over time is going  

down the toilet or going down the tubes or going  down the drain so people were watching uh the TV  

show Game of Thrones and they were saying well the  the final season so everything up until the final  

season was good and then the last season went down  the toilet all right so I went down the toilet  

went down the drain so it could be something  that's bad happening something that's wasteful  

uh yeah drain is is fine but you can use any any  of these things so natives will understand these  

you could say pipes also so when something fails  yep so something is getting worse so you see how  

this we we take an idea like this and then we  we start looking at it in like a figurative way  

so the show is going down the drain yes the show  is going down the drain my career is going down  

the drain oh no so anything where you're talking  about a particular situation getting worse or  

something being wasteful or something bad is  happening wow this neighborhood is just going  

down the drain the neighborhood is getting worse  maybe there's more crime or whatever it's going  

down the drain it's going down the toilet going  down the tubes any of these things see you tonight  

to see you there a long time no see Elder says  the huge plug or plaster when this ship or leak  

or large puncture yes so remember leak l-e-a-k  this is where we have a hole in something a leak  

so here's some water coming out of a hole that's  a leak l-e-a-k-l-e-e-k is a kind of vegetable  

learn the difference for these things in  Frederick if you'd like to learn you know  

correct spelling for words like this these  are called homonyms they sound the same  

mitsuo my life is going down the toilet excellent  usage I hope your life is okay all right but very  

good everybody's getting it everybody understands  so you see how we take something even just in the  

bathroom itself rather than learning just  like this is a toilet and this is a sink  

like you're understanding something that's  happening what is the connection with these  

things and then how can we start using those  in other situations so anything that's going  

bad or getting worse over time is going down the  drain going down the toilet okay pretty simple

all right I think we're let's see error Lena hi  teacher what is the meaning of yeeded out I don't  

know Google that that sounds like some young some  young slang Google that I'm sure you'll find some  

good examples all right uh let's see now similarly  you notice how I'm trying to connect all these  

ones the world is going down the drain yes so  you can use that same expression for that too now  

let's say there's something in here so the water  cannot go down the drain what do we call that  

what is this so there's something wrong  is stopping that throw in the towel my  

vocabulary in this field yep throw in the towel  that's another thing that's an expression from  

boxing so maybe the like the coach or the the  trainer for someone yeah so we say it's clogged  

or you can stay clogged up so the toilet is  clogged up some people will say backed up

the clog is typical clogged up so yes  something is clogged up over here and  

what else could be clogged up what else could  be clogged up can you think of anything else  

so we're taking this there's a flow  of something being stopped right here  

arteries excellent so another another similar  idea like arteries in your heart so you get  

little you know stuff in your heart  so the blood can't flow through oh no  

they're clogged up you could also have streets  streets so if we have streets like this and  

there's lots of cars on the streets and there's a  traffic jam the streets are clogged up same idea

clogged up so anytime we have like a  bunch of things happening and the like  

this so the sink your nose very good  your nose is clogged up same thing

so you can see how we take a thing like this and  

we try to understand how we so Cloud  up Cloud up is a little bit different  

progress of your project is clogged up can we  see this uh the we we could say we're like we're  

we're caught up in some way like if there's uh  usually like if we're talking about a project not  

running smoothly uh it's a similar idea to this we  might say there's like a snag uh it could be like  

clogged up uh with meetings or something so if you  want to talk about the reason why some project is  

not is not going well so the like we have too many  meetings meetings are clogging up our our system  

yeah your throat as well so your throat could  be clogged with something but hopefully if it's  

if your throat is clogged you probably can't  breathe so blocked up is another another idea

so the road could be blocked or blocked up  phrasal verb blocked up now this this doesn't  

add anything important to that so people often  wonder why we use like why do we have up or over  

here up usually the up number one it makes it  sound a bit more casual and conversational uh  

but number two typically we're talking about like  how complete it is so it's like clogged up like  

there's no like water is not getting through  here at all it's all clogged up clogged up

uh is it used passive well I mean you could you  could use it like like something is something  

is clogged up so I can clog up something  as well if I put a whole bunch of things  

in the toilet I can clog it up or it could  be clogged up over time from whatever like  

your bathroom drain maybe gets hair in it or  something like that yeah the internet could be  

clogged up in the same way it could be blocked  maybe too many people are trying to to access  

a website at the same time so something like  that but typically it's like there there's a  

reason for for some flow of information or  a system not working so there's a blockage  

something is blocked up there's a problem with it  in that way yes arteries we got that one as well  

so instead of saying clogged up partially do we  usually say something uh you could say like it's  

like you could you could say that actually it's  like partially partially clogged up or it's like  

it's blocked a little bit but uh this is the  way people will speak though people are not  

very precise about their language so they and we  often don't know exactly so let's say for example  

we have a pipe here and there could be a like a  full claw it's completely clogged so 100 percent  

but this one over here maybe  there's something else like  

uh it's it's kind of partially clogged so  if you go to a doctor and they're checking  

your arteries or your heart or whatever they will  say you have like a partial Block in your artery  

or maybe it's they could even say it's like 50  or 80 percent blocked or something like that  

so you don't need to don't worry yourself too  much about that you could just say there's  

there's a clog in the system or there's a snag or  a block or something it just means things are not  

yes something is stuck things are not flowing  smoothly that's what we mean and so there are  

different ways of using this what does that mean  in these phrasal verbs as I just explained usually  

it means like the completeness of it so if we  say like if I'm telling my child eat your dinner  

eat your dinner eat your dinner I want them to  eat but otherwise they eat up I mean like complete  

that finish all of your food but natives are not  really they're not like thinking about it in such  

a strict way like if I say up then I mean like  completely but this is typically when we think  

about something so it's it's it's usually one of  two reasons so the first one as I said it's you're  

being more kind of casual and conversational so  I could say clean your room or I could say clean  

up your room and nothing really changes in the  meaning of those two things so it's uh it could  

be casual or conversational or I'm talking  about do it completely finish it all right

let's see if we got these over here A bunch of  here yes it's toughs that's right yes you remember  

instead of saying clogged up partially yeah okay  we got that on all of them have up as a particle  

not necessarily so you don't need to have that  in there and it's not bad if it's missing you say  

clean your room sometimes parents in a if they're  a little bit angrier or they just say clean your  

room but if I'm being a bit more friendly I say  clean up your room and so you learn these subtle  

nuances of the word and there's nothing bad about  telling someone like clean your room but it sounds  

a little bit more casual and conversational  a little bit friendlier to say clean up  

all right so wipe the table or wipe off the table  it's the same basic idea but you you could be  

expressing it just as a little bit more a little  bit more casual a little bit more conversationally  

hi Jeff dogs this evening a time is not up  completeness yes so it could be that but it  

doesn't necessarily mean that email inboxes can  become clogged with large numbers of unrelated  

emails yes Enrique very good that's another  good example so my inbox is clogged with lots  

of stuff and when do we use Jam so jammed is the  same idea so again Natives and this is what you  

learn as a as a native English speaker or when  you're learning to get fluent in English as a  

first language so we have a situation like  this we begin with the situation and then we  

learn lots of different ways we might Express  that because natives will say things and each  

person has their own thing so one person says the  toilet is blocked so we got block one person says  

the toilet is clogged so we have clog one person  says Jam uh another person says like stopped up  

like stopped up so they're all correct they're  all fine they're just there's something wrong  

with it the flow is not moving correctly uh  there's a there's a problem a blockage in that  

so a physical machine the same thing can happen  there so if I'm using my computer printer and  

the paper goes in but oh no the printer is jammed  the printer is jammed the printer is blocked like  

the paper got stopped up inside the printer all  of those things are fine to express that but you  

can see how they come yes so you can just say  that like the paper is stuck in there as well

so you see the difference here when you're  learning English as a first language you  

begin with the situation itself and then you  get to the vocabulary it's not beginning with  

like a word in your native language and  then try to learn one word in English  

you'll always begin with the situation and then  we look at all the different ways we might Express  

that and then we can take these words and see  how they would apply in even more situations  

it looks like your camera is losing focus  on the Whiteboard is it I can't tell

is it losing focus on me or am I am I I don't know  what I can't see the picture looks clear to me  

but I think everybody's getting  it no oh no no no what yo you know

but I think you all are getting it you understand  what happens teach you a few more all right  

light changes once in a while everything's fine  oh okay well it could be so there is an open  

window over here or at least the the window is  uncovered so the light might change if there's  

a cloud or something all right so let's talk about  if we've got the uh toilet probably know this word  

[ __ ] over here let's talk about how we might use  

this some interesting expressions with  that so usually if something is gone

gone to [ __ ] what do you think that means all  right so it's gone to [ __ ] or you can talk  

about like the past say went to [ __ ] what do you  think that means what situation is that describing

sure Chad is working over here nothing not good  [Laughter] yes that's a basic idea so when we  

talk about something like going to or it went  to this means becoming so it's something became  

worse over time now this is similar to the idea  of going to a lost cause no not necessarily it's a  

a lost cause usually means like we like  my son was kidnapped 12 years ago and  

I'm still looking for him and it's probably  not possible for me to find him or you know  

something like that people might say it's  a lost cause so in that sense a lost cause

it's a different idea than something going to  [ __ ] but this is a more uh obviously this is  

probably not something you want to use in the  office unless people are uh maybe they're happy  

it depends on your office if you're using  this vocabulary professionally but people  

will understand that like something severely  yes as Kyoshi just mentioned uh to become a  

disaster something getting worse it's also  similar to the idea of going down the drain  

it's just another way of expressing that  same idea so anything getting worse over  

time or even if it became worse quickly  even oh no like the weather went to [ __ ]  

the weather went to [ __ ] so something is a  mess let's create hope there you go the stock  

market went to [ __ ] same thing something got  worse so that TV show went down the drain that  

TV show went to [ __ ] over time it really went to  [ __ ] or it's gone to [ __ ] like it has it has  

gone to [ __ ] so we're describing  it right now like it's gone to [ __ ]

pretty simple idea so gone to went to it just  became it became shitty became shitty [Music]  

it became shitty it's getting worse

all right pretty easy gone to [ __ ] all right  another expression with [ __ ] for you all  

is because I know people love to learn  some curse words my stomach is going as  

[ __ ] uh is a bit confusing yes like you  you could say that though you could say  

like something is wrong with my stomach but  people might be confused they might think  

you need to go take a [ __ ] maybe if something  is actually wrong with your stomach right there  

uh his job is going as [ __ ] uh I screwed up in  any situation his [ __ ] so [ __ ] is a little  

bit different [ __ ] means that something is  untrue or you think you're skeptical about  

something so if I say uh I eat uh 200 bananas  every day for breakfast so my breakfast I eat  

200 bananas and you say oh that's [ __ ]  so it means like you you think I'm lying  

you're you think I'm lying about that yeah you  could say like the show you would say the show  

became shitty or you say the show became or the  show went to [ __ ] so it became became shitty

or it went to [ __ ] we don't usually say  became [ __ ] like actually you could say  

that it became [ __ ] but uh very useful says  around yes and so these are you can you can  

look at something like look at that even that  [ __ ] in the toilet is very useful for learning  

all right so it became shitty gone to [ __ ]  oh no the video is becoming shitty all right  

so usually it's like the quality is going down  it's getting bad you don't like it anymore  

like oh that restaurant that restaurant went  to [ __ ] I don't I don't like that anymore  

so remember this is a pretty uh not really rude  English depending on who you're using it to but if  

you're talking with someone about a show or some  whatever some other thing then you would use it  

usually in that way but I would probably not say  it directly to someone like your your restaurant  

went to [ __ ] that would be really rude of me to  say that directly to someone about about something  

bored boarding boarding what do  you mean what is that I'm boarding  

all right another expression related to [ __ ]  all right so when we're talking about this we  

imagine yourself sitting on the toilet here's  a toilet over here my lovely picture of the  

toilet you were sitting on the toilet if we have  the idea of in decision yes you could say it's a  

little bit vulgar that's correct so we could say  yeah I'll leave these up here [ __ ] or get off  

the pot so a toilet can also obviously it has  many different ways of uh you could call that  

the throne or the pot uh or the chair or  whatever but the toilet we can say [ __ ]  

or get off the pot and this is the idea  of being decisive so you should make a  

decision about doing something like either do  this or do that thing Lewis says take a dump  

yes so this is not not really a video about  different ways of describing [ __ ] itself  

but we can talk about like the Expressions that  we get from a situation like this so you're  

sitting on the toilet it's like ah like I kind  of need to take a [ __ ] but um maybe I I don't  

know so people will use this the the situation of  indecision you can't choose something and then use  

this expression here so you would tell someone  if there's they they have to make a choice so  

either this thing or that thing and maybe they  are taking a long time to make that decision  

all right so [ __ ] or get off the pot so you  should make a decision either either [ __ ] or  

leave [ __ ] or get off the pot so it's just  telling someone make a decision same idea

yeah make sure I got anyone

yes yes so Kyoshi says yeah  in Japanese we say so excited

all right uh this [ __ ] see what the [ __ ]  situation yes very good sometimes you read a  

paper when you take it don't that's true so  some people you could you could do all kinds  

of stuff while you are taking a dump but some  people maybe they maybe they're there for too  

long and we can take that idea so [ __ ] or  get off the pot [ __ ] or get off the pond  

all right let's see Andre Silva you are top I'm  Brazilian and I uh I'm living in two years in  

the U.S and anything you say is true there are a  lot of people living here that isn't fluent yes  

we're all there's some there are quite a few  errors in your in your uh comment there but if  

you if you want to learn real English the same way  natives are learning it just do what I'm what I'm  

teaching here you have to learn English as a first  language and as you just said yes there are lots  

of people that live in English-speaking  countries and don't speak fluently  

living in an English an English-speaking country  does not guarantee fluency okay but if you learn  

English as a first language you do get fluent  mainly Brazilian people for all right I don't want  

people arguing over over different stuff I will  give you one more uh shitty expression though it's  

actually a good expression it's not not a shitty  expression but it's about [ __ ] all right now  

this is a this is a pretty I'll give you a clue  and see if anybody knows this expression already

so it's using the word uh Japanese toilets are  high tech yeah some some of them are usually  

they have like a high-tech thing that that sits on  them you know it's interesting for people maybe uh  

who have not been to Japan or don't know about  Japanese toilets uh often especially in public  

toilets out here they will play some kind of  music or it will be like like running water sounds  

so if you go into the toilet you sit down in the  in the toilet starts playing music it's trying to  

cover up your sound so it plays like Rushing Water  or like could be some music or something I thought  

it would be better if it just made like [ __ ]  sounds so like they should all be like you know  

like making like bad because that way you can't  tell who's doing what in the toilet so that would  

be better than just like Rushing Water because it  doesn't I've been in the Japanese toilet sometimes  

it gets it can be pretty loud in there people  like you know I don't want to be too vulgar  

on the video but anyway I thought  that would be an interesting one  

my leg didn't count oh no yes click the  like button anyway I don't know if likes  

are counting or not uh but yeah so there are lots  of interesting things with the uh with the toilets  

uh in Japan one of the interesting things so I  was actually with my uh younger daughter Noel I  

took her to the toilet last night and she looked  at the toilet and she saw we're because we have a  

usually like a Japanese toilet is in a different  room than the then like the shower and bathing  

area so the toilet is actually in its own own  space so if you want to ask someone like where  

is the toilet that's a different place than  where is the bathroom like in America where  

we would usually have everything in the same  room uh but an interesting thing about Japan  

so we have like a toilet uh with uh there is  a rack on the wall like a towel rack in my in  

my younger daughter said what is that for because  there's no towel hanging on it I said well I don't  

know what do you think that's for and she said oh  well maybe you put you like hang it towel on that  

and I said that's correct and the reason we have  that is because for many Japanese toilets and  

this is an interesting thing for saving water  a typical toilet work it kind of looks like  

this there's the back with the this is called  the tank of the toilet so like the water tank  

and there's actually like this is the seat over  here and then you have the the water goes in here  

and then after you flush the toilet so when we  think about like stuff going down the drain it's  

the same idea there's a drain in the toilet bowl  this is the bowl down here so when you flush the  

toilet the water goes down here and flushes the  toilet yes but there is a sink instead in many  

toilets and this is an interesting idea for saving  water so instead like the pipe will come out up  

here so this is the kind of toilet we have uh and  that's so you can actually wash your hands with  

the water that will then fill up the toilet isn't  that interesting so people sometimes they will  

wash their hands you flush the toilet this water  goes down new water comes through here and you  

wash your hands before that water goes into the  toilet and then you dry your hands over there so  

it's a really good idea especially for places that  want to save water or conserve water all right

they also have many really tiny sinks  

this is congratulations I don't know if that's  for Japanese toilets or something else but why  

is it is that why American people say bathroom has  toilet yes so again for most people the bathroom  

contains everything the sink and the washing  hands and the toilet and everything it's all  

in one space so we you will see like WC as  an abbreviation for water closet which means  

it's another way of talking about the toilet where  this is usually just uh just one person using that  

so I'll give you one more uh [ __ ] expression I  thought this would be fun this is a really great  

expression you will hear this a lot so I'm curious  to know if you know it or not this will be so it's  

a word or an expression with the word [ __ ] in it  and the situation is something has gotten really  

bad all right something has gotten really bad and  we use the word [ __ ] in this you can probably  

think of a few different ways of expressing  that but I'm thinking of one in particular  

if you can write anything down go ahead in the  comment and write the write a comment about  

that but just an expression using the word [ __ ]  that's describing a situation that gets really bad  

and if if you don't know this it's  okay I will teach it to you in just  

a moment but if anybody has any comments  [ __ ] happens yeah you could say that

that's not the expression I'm thinking of but  very good so when we talk about bad things  

happen yeah it looks like people know that one  isn't that from Forrest Gump [ __ ] happened

uh yeah they're saying [ __ ] yeah  you can you can talk [ __ ] yeah sure

you'll notice [ __ ] is a very  useful word or just oh [ __ ]  

yes that's correct oh [ __ ] all right so this  expression though this is a really interesting  

one and when you understand it visually it's  it's very easy to remember and you're just  

like oh my goodness yeah same [ __ ] same [ __ ]  different day is another another good expression  

same [ __ ] different [Music] day so maybe  you go to your job and you don't like it  

there or whatever it's like man I got to do  the same [ __ ] and it's just like it's it  

and for a different day I'm doing the same  thing I don't like same [ __ ] different day  

all right or you get a new president in and the  new president is the same as the old president  

same [ __ ] different day all right but the  expression I am thinking of uh is when [ __ ] hits  

the fan when [ __ ] it's a fan actually this isn't  a sentence so when [ __ ] hits the fan when [ __ ]  

hits the fan now this is a pretty I'm gonna  try to diagram this for you uh but if you can't  

imagine why we would say something like this like  what is that what does that mean you can imagine

if we have a like a spinning fan over here so the  fan blades are spinning like that and you take  

some some [ __ ] and throw it at the fan blah  it's gonna like spread that all over the place  

so this means there's a serious problem something  really happened badly uh you can just talk about  

when [ __ ] hits the fan disastrous yes very  disastrous all right so you could be some it  

could be some interpersonal problem these  Expressions have similar uh yeah examples  

in other languages yeah I'm sure so when [ __ ]  hits the fan but it's easier to understand that  

ah okay [Laughter] I like that I like the little  dap but like the little dap guy over there yeah  

so something has gone terribly wrong when [ __ ]  hits the fan or if you're talking about the past  

or describing something like [ __ ] hit the fan So  Yesterday [ __ ] hit the fan at my office uh when  

uh there was a big explosion with uh some of our  servers so like the computer servers or something

it's happening here in my country like where where  you are like let's say a war breaks out oh my God  

[ __ ] hit the fan uh something is really really  going going awful all right very bad situation

when [ __ ] hits the fan so you can use this like  as a as a longer expression when [ __ ] hits the  

fan what do you do so if I'm in a job interview  and I'm interviewing you I say well when [ __ ]  

hits the fan uh are you good under pressure so  if there's a problem what do we do about that  

all right Stanley says good morning how  was your day so I'm an English learner  

more precisely I'm a beginner you're a beginner  okay well this video uh or usually the videos  

I make like this are typically not for very  beginners so you might not understand a lot  

of this but we do have videos for beginners  on the channel if you'd like to watch those  

so [ __ ] hits the fan when [ __ ] hits the fan

I'll give you uh two more because I know people  get maybe they're not feeling so confident about  

similar phrasal verbs I'm rushing we have an  expression to throw [ __ ] on the fan meeting  

to instigate it yeah so if you throw [ __ ]  on the fan it's the same idea so I don't know  

who was the first person to throw some [ __ ]  on a fan they probably thought like I wonder  

what would happen if I threw some [ __ ]  on a fan and then they found out thank you  

all right uh so last two things I will I really  want to help you understand this like a native  

I think maybe in the next video I will cover  this in more detail but again we want to really  

focus on the situation that's why you hear me  repeating this idea a lot we don't want to look  

at the words by themselves we want to look at the  situation and so if we have something like clean  

up versus clean off versus clean out so I really  want you to think about these things the same  

way a native does so typically clean up like we  could be if we got maybe some toys uh or other  

things just some some junk or laundry or trash or  something on the floor we're picking those things  

up we're removing them we're cleaning up the  situation so it's it typically has like a like  

as I mentioned before up adding the preposition  up here it can mean usually being conversational  

or casual but it can also mean just being like  we're talking about the like if I wipe something  

up we're talking about the physical direction  we're moving but the important thing about this  

is looking at these differences and understanding  it like a native rather than trying to translate  

it in your head so if you can understand  it like a native then you will use it like  

a native without thinking all right so the same  thing for clean off we're trying it's just like  

something is on the table and we're removing  it so we want to clean off something so it  

could be off a like a flat surface like this or I  could clean off like I could wipe off this right  

so I could clean something off wipe something off  the same idea it's just removing something from a  

surface now clean something out typically it means  we're looking at like the inside of something and  

we're we're in actually removing I'm cleaning  out the inside of this so I'm cleaning out the  

inside of this so we can take that idea and think  about it like let's say some robbers go to a store  

and they take all of the money they take all of  the the stuff in the store they cleaned it out  

because the the things are inside the store  they're kind of in there taking everything  

and then they leave they cleaned us out so some  robbers came some thieves and they cleaned us out  

or I got cleaned out like if I go to  a casino and I'm gambling and I lose  

all of my money I got cleaned out I  got cleaned out so you can think of  

my pockets like like they're taking all  the money out of there I got cleaned out

so again the reason I teach this way is because  I want to help you learn the differences between  

these it helps you really understand it more  like a native I cannot understand the way even  

you speak your pronunciations maybe it's not  my level yes so if you are if if you can't  

understand me you should watch our more  basic videos or uh download Frederick and  

install that you can start from from zero from the  beginning it's hard to explain like to a beginner  

really informative all right

so yes glad to hear it so again if you have  questions so now I'm done with the like the  

lesson portion of this video do you gamble Mr  Drew uh no I do not I have in the past just  

to try it so I went to I've tried like a few  things just as like a like a like a cultural  

a cultural thing so I tried like I've been to  a casino in the United States and I've been to  

horse racing and in Japan I've tried Pachinko  so Pachinko is like it's a you you shoot these  

little balls up and try to get them into a into  like a little slot machine thing and then try to  

make more balls and it's it's I don't know  it got kind of boring but the first time I  

went I won some money and I said oh wow this  is pretty easy so I won I won like a hundred  

dollars in in American money and so I went  back again and I lost uh and I lost it all  

so I so I said okay that's enough I guess it's not  so easy so I had maybe beginners luck beginner's  

luck this is where you try something for the first  time and you're able to do it beginner's luck  

all right let's see here do you live stream  regularly yep if you look at the videos on  

the channel you will find usually about once a  week once or twice a week I will do live streams  

they're not scheduled but they're usually around  this time so this is uh in Japan uh Monday morning  

and Thursday morning typically and sometimes I  do them just at different times I'm a translator  

can you recommend some books mainly concerned  about explaining the differences between synonyms  

uh uh I'm sure there are books  about that I don't use any and I  

don't I don't really teach using any  books like that but again the goal

and I've talked about this in in many different  videos if you go back and watch the the video  

how to speak fluently about almost anything  so if you watch that video that's the name of  

it I think how to speak fluently about almost  anything the basic idea of that is when you're  

learning English like a native and that's what  we're doing in this video and all of the videos  

I'm trying to help you begin with a situation  and then we learn lots of different ways that  

natives do it so you would you would call these  synonyms or just different ways of expressing  

that but instead of trying to get a book about  synonyms it's much better to just get multiple  

examples of something so this is what I call  naturally varied review so an example like I  

have on on the channel I made a video about making  espresso so how to make how to make espresso and  

in that video I'm explaining the differences  between four different different people making  

espresso so you will have the situation of  making espresso and then people will use  

different vocabulary some of the vocabulary will  be the same some of it will not and so in these  

situations you can learn what would be synonyms or  different ways of expressing something like that  

all right so there are probably books that you can  get you can list synonyms but unless you are very  

good at remembering information in a list like  that then I would probably not recommend that  

my English Professor recommended your  channel when I was in college oh awesome  

where are you from are you are you Japanese you  have a hiragane for your name but are you uh  

and what what what school what's the name of your  professor I'll send uh send them a thank you card  

let's see what if the robbers cleaned up the store  and they came out from the chimney well if some  

robbers break in and they clean up the store the  store owner would probably be happy about that  

and then they went out back through the chimney  like Santa Claus so that would be a good thing  

if they cleaned up the store but you notice how  it's interesting when you think about it more like  

a native so the the question means you're you're  thinking about it more like a native which is very  

good no training in the art of using the sword are  you asking me if I'm if I'm learning like anything  

my uh my daughter goes to uh karate lessons and  they they started asking me to do it with them  

so I now have like practice with my daughter  so actually the the teacher uh asked like one  

of the other mothers so we were just sitting  in a big gym and we watched the kids do that  

um and uh like they they have what was that  it's just it's just you sit on the side and  

watch the kids but he asked one of the mothers  if she would do it with them and that mother  

said she would do it if I did it too so I  said all right fine uh and so now I'm now  

I'm kind of learning learning karate with them  all right gear says when we have some confusing  

situation can we use a phrase using clean  something to express that we need to deal  

with such a situation to get it straight yeah  you could say I need to I need to clean this up  

or depending on depending on the kind of situation  you could say there are different way again  

so your situation is let me make sure I have  this exact so we have some confusing situation

so a confusing situation we could use a phrase  like we could say clean we could also say clear

so if there's a usually confusion or a  misunderstanding we want to clear that  

up so something is confused it's messy  we would want to clear that thing up  

or we could uh if there's a problem we would  usually fix that yeah crystal crystal clear

crystal clear so we want to make something  clear so my job in these videos is to make  

the vocabulary I'm teaching make the lessons  clear for you I also want to make my voice clear  

so I don't I don't want to clean my voice I want  to make it clear all right so there's nothing  

blocking it you can't it's not being misunderstood  or it's dirty or something's wrong with it I want  

to clear it up so if you have a misunderstanding  there's General General confusion you could  

express that in different ways we want to fix  that we want to clean that something like that  

so if you if you clean off your feet usually if  you if you clean off your feet like there's some  

kind of dirt or something like I'm brushing my my  feet like that so there's some dirt or something  

on my feet I'm cleaning them off and cleaning  cleaning my feet up yeah you you could kind of  

use that expression I suppose we want your videos  to be the same as this one who is we who are you  

who are you speaking for what government are  you speaking for all right let's see here uh  

uh let's see your videos are very entertaining  I also love listening to your voice it's very  

therapeutic glad to hear it yes maybe I'll do  some ASMR videos you guys know what that is  

it's like the odd like oral like if I get in  the microphone like this like people speaking  

into the microphone some people listen to  that while they're asleep I was in uh okay  

but forgot his name let's see maybe he was not  a good teacher if you forgot his name oh no was  

that a long time ago Ryan says cleaned off crumbs  of bread clean out the kitchen drawers yes so you  

could also clean out the kitchen drawers if  they've got crumbs in them as well same thing  

all right thank you for uh thank you  very good morning uh good sir God bless  

your family tree oh the whole tree well  thank you very much tomorrow thank you  

let's create oh let's clean okay it's that one  uh all right okay thanks clean up clean myself  

up before dinner yes you can clean yourself  up for dinner you can also just like you know  

wipe yourself off before dinner as well there are  lots of subtle nuances like this but it's not bad  

speaking to to use something like and let me let  me like fix fix this situation let me clear this  

up let me clean things up here so you could use  that in any any like situation where people are  

not communicating correctly or there's an issue  something like that round from Nepal of el Fabio  

have you ever read the book Grapes of Wrath uh I  don't think so I know the book but I do know do  

you have any suggestions for pte test what is that  a pte test I guess I don't Victor says Hi Fred  

where are you guys talking to each other Juan says  I easily understand American speakers but when it  

comes to British movies TV shows or actors in it's  just like another language to me yeah so they will  

be different and if you are not used to their  accent and their vocabulary will be a little bit  

different too sometimes Native American speakers  and British speakers we will we will we will uh  

maybe misunderstand each other or we it's fun to  learn those differences though so I have friends  

in Japan from all like all over the place uh like  uh it could be British English or Australia or  

Canada or New Zealand and it's interesting  to hear the different vocabulary they use  

uh let's see okay I got those already uh  today's lesson over well basically this is  

this is question time so I wanted to teach uh  really two things so the first is the actual  

vocabulary but the more important thing the  main thing I wanted to teach is getting you  

to think like a native so if you if you learn  from a situation and so even taking something  

that seems boring and every day like washing your  hands or whatever there's usually some interesting  

vocabulary or another use of that vocabulary that  you probably don't know so you can think about  

that and even as a native speaker natives create  new Expressions all the time from something like  

that so we will take an expression like washing  your hands and then apply that to something else  

so if you start doing that as well even if you  don't use something that's common people will  

start they will think like ah like I understand  what you're saying I I get it and you will start  

developing that sense that a native has and  that's what lets you speak fluently learn  

from various situations uh the same Expressions  I sorry yes we don't need to wash out our mouth  

well you could now this is a thing that actually  in an older expression in English to wash out

so sometimes uh does Frederick cover like this  one well Frederick Frederick covers like all of  

the basic vocabulary that we that we have in here  like the word crystal that should be I think yeah  

it's in that's in Frederick um but it will teach  you how to pronounce that and how to blend your  

words together the same way natives do especially  as we do this in the United States and if you like  

my therapeutic voice you can listen to all those  words all the time if you like you can listen  

to me pronouncing sentences and and different  words but I go through all of that and help you  

understand that pronunciation like a native uh  what's Frederick I'm new so if you click on the  

link in the description below this video uh you'll  see a link to that but it's an app for IOS and  

Android and it's the first app of its kind that  teaches you English as a first language and helps  

you understand pronunciation and listening and  grammar and vocabulary the same way natives learn  

it so natives are not trying to learn something  through a different language they learn it all  

in English and so as you go through it it's a game  and you play with it and explore the language and  

you learn the pronunciation uh in the order that  you should learn it and that's how you become a  

much more confident speaker much faster rather  than taking traditional lessons so that's a piece  

of what we do another big part is obviously fluent  for life that's where we cover really everything  

with video lessons more of the same kind of things  that I do here but I actually take you through the  

steps needed for influencing I think there's  some fluent for Life members on this on this  

live video right here all right uh but I'll  answer that question about wash your mouth

so this is an older expression we don't usually  hear this now but this was when little kids would  

say something bad like they would use a word like  [ __ ] or something the culture generally is more  

relaxed now about kids using bad language or what  we would call talking back to your parents so  

usually many years ago like a parent said don't  do that and the child would say okay I will not  

do that but now children are much more relaxed  and parents aren't so strict with kids anymore  

but many years ago like if you had a you were  talking back to talk back to your parents it's  

like you need to do this like I'm not doing that  you're talking back to your parents so they would  

wash your mouth out with soap so they would take  so like you're gonna have some like a dirty mouth  

now we have to clean your mouth with soap and so  soap tastes really bad and like yeah uh in the  

book The mocking the Mockingbird you mean to Kill  a Mockingbird yeah I read that yeah so it's it's  

not it's not like an outdated expression it's just  that people don't like the the vocabulary and the  

expression itself is not like Old English like  Shakespearean English or something people would  

use this and it's still correct English but the  the idea of washing someone's mouth out with soap

is an older expression but this is interesting  and this is I actually have a fluent uh there's  

a fluid for Life Lesson set talking about this  what's the lesson set name for the members out  

there I think it's uh I forget the name of it  but it's we're we're talking about uh learning  

generationally because the language is a little  bit different for different Generations so if  

you're an older person like I'll be 43 very soon  uh so people like if I'm talking to older people  

I can make this reference like I can make a  joke about washing someone's mouth out with  

soap and they would laugh at that they would  understand that vocabulary but a 10 year old  

kid would not they don't because they don't hear  that ever they would understand like wash my mouth  

why would you do that but older people would  know that so you can think about those those  

specific things as you're learning uh let's see  how many lessons in your program on your sites as  

a lot if you're talking about fluent for Life uh  hundreds of them so they're they're a 100 lesson  

sets in the program and it's years of content  so we don't expect Learners to go through all  

of it each person gets in the program and they  go through lesson sets that they choose and you  

start getting fluent in each lesson set so you  become fluent about a particular topic and then  

you move to the next the next one and the next  one and you can go through uh as long as you like  

so there are total like hundreds of like over  300 some videos I think but the point is not  

the number of videos but how you learn so we help  you learn English uh as a first language so you  

really need you need to learn English as a first  language if you want to speak which is what we do  

so typically in these YouTube videos I'm giving  samples or examples of different things that I  

do but getting even like a good lesson where I  help you understand something like a native you  

really need review you need to hear other native  speakers using that same vocabulary and that's  

what prepares you to use it in a conversation  so YouTube is is typically incomplete for doing  

that unless you go to lots of different videos  and find lots of content about things so it is  

possible to learn like a native by yourself  if you also can understand the vocabulary  

we just make it easy because we've put  everything together and given all the steps  

all right let's see here will be very  okay I think I got that one already  

foreign is there a recap version of each live  stream uh not really a recap usually at the  

beginning of the live stream I explain what  it's about at the end as I can do right now  

as I actually just did a minute ago the basic idea  is to learn from situations and then go back and  

and learn the different ways that we would Express  that so if you're paying attention in real life  

when uh people say something there's a situation  like somebody gets hurt what do they say about  

that now what what do they say when something  happens what do I say when I greet people I  

could say hello or howdy or how are you how is  it going other things like that so I can express  

myself in different ways and as you learn these  you were prepared for the different ways natives  

will respond in situations and that way you feel  confident about speaking so often when people are  

learning English as a second language they begin  with their native language and some vocabulary  

they want to say in their native language then  they try to translate it but maybe they can't  

hear the pronunciation in the same way in a real  situation or a native will use a different word  

not the word they learned in the classroom so you  really need to get lots of variety when you learn  

that's the most important part for learning  so if you can learn even if you get just lots  

of examples from me you need to hear other native  speakers giving you those same examples because I  

am intentionally trying to be clear and easy to  understand so almost every stream someone will  

say wow Drew I wish everyone spoke like you  so everyone does not speak like me so I have  

to prepare people to have real conversations for  real communication so there isn't a like a recap  

for each of the videos but I do sometimes cut  clips from videos and make them available so if  

you check the the channel you can see both of  those my parents should wash their mouths out  

all right let's see Society has changed just thou  the thy 43 years definitely not old yes I don't  

I mean I'm not you know I'm not that old I feel  young now doing karate you know staying staying  

young and healthy all right give a live idiom  changes as the time goes by Casablanca alive  

changes I don't know what that means it always  seems like Olympia you have like a riddle for  

me or something I'm trying to guess what that  what that means so I need an opportunity to  

speak English it says Mitzvah are you Japanese  or are you so you were at a Japanese school  

but are you Japanese or are you you would like  you're still in Japan or you went someplace else  

um the reason I say that is because even  people in Japan or anywhere else you can  

become fluent by understanding the language  better so if you have to spend your day

and I've talked about this before but it's  a good thing to repeat let's say you have 20  

minutes to to practice your English or speak  English or learn English or whatever it's 20  

minutes of English time in your day and this  is not you know just like listening to stuff  

like music or whatever you want to but if if you  think you're going to spend 20 minutes talking

to someone so you're looking for a a native  English speaker or even just anybody to speak  

with instead of doing this usually what will  happen if you're already fluent and confident  

oh okay yeah so you can you can talk to talk  to yourself in English you could do that um but  

the the amazing thing about learning English as a  first language is that you don't try to spend your  

time talking you try to get lots of input that's  really the whole point of learning this way so if  

you don't have anyone to speak with that doesn't  really matter you're actually improving your  

fluency by yourself by getting lots of examples  so again we have 20 minutes I can try to talk  

with someone and usually that's going to be Me  Maybe repeating something I might I might have  

like a few maybe I learned something new often  I will learn new new vocabulary from talking to  

someone but a much more structured and efficient  way to spend my time is to get lots of different  

examples and get my naturally varied review and  uh and and the three things that you really need  

to become a fluent speaker so some people may be  new to the channel I will review this quickly uh  

so I call this the fluency triangle but it's  basically like you're getting real English

I'll just abbreviate this so you're getting real  English and then you're getting understandable

messages and understandable messages  means you can understand something in  

English just like I've been giving  like you can see wash your hands  

you can understand that but then  you need naturally varied review

so all three of these things together are learning  English as a first language you have to have all  

three of these things let's say you're missing  real English so if you get understandable messages  

in the classroom and you get naturally varied  review which is of various examples of stuff if  

you don't actually learn the real vocabulary then  you're not going to become a fluent speaker you  

won't be able to communicate with people because  you don't know the words they know all right and  

this is why many students who learn English in  a classroom are not prepared for the slang and  

idioms and all of those things in real life so you  have to learn that stuff and you need all three of  

these all three of these work together and that's  what it means to learn English as a first language  

so what I gave you today those are examples  of English as a first language lessons  

all right so the the learning the learning process  is like as Iran just said uh is all about like the  

the time you spend is our Iceberg example all of  this time down here this is all about learning  

and the speaking part this is a very small  part of what you do maybe just to practice  

some vocabulary or pronunciation but all of  the understanding of the language you can do  

that by yourself so you don't need to you don't  need to spend time talking with people talking  

with people is the result it's the thing  that comes after all of the understanding  

and a lot of people like they are maybe  waiting for someone to talk with but they  

still feel very shy and they're not using more  complicated English they still use just basic  

expressions and they're not really having a good  you know like a good feeling in the conversation  

but instead if you really understand something  like you hear something you're like ah so I  

gave an example since you're Japanese I can  I can give this example to you so my younger  

daughter Noel she's in uh second year she's  like nenchu and Hoy Quinn in kindergarten  

so second year uh and and her older sister went to  the same kindergarten and both of them have this  

little like it's just like for for for like taking  attendance but when I the first time I heard Shu  

sakikado uh I I didn't like think anything about  I didn't really know what that meant so I knew  

like that car they call that car to shoot but  I didn't know what shoe stick he meant and so  

I hear them using that and I didn't really think  anything about it because I don't I just don't  

use the expression but then like two or three  years later I was hearing about like going to a  

business meeting and it's like ah shoots like like  you attend the meeting and then I remembered the  

shoes and I put the two together in my mind I'm  making the connection like ah it's an attendance  

car that's what that means so I know what the  thing is like I can call this like blah but  

you don't really know what I'm talking about it's  only after you get many examples that you really  

understand but now that I know what it means I  understand shuseki like a native Japanese speaker  

and so that's like uh how I can how can how I  can use the vocabulary without thinking about it  

so it's not because I was talking it's because  I was getting lots of examples of that thing  

so in that case with shusekado example uh it  only took two examples so the first one like  

the attendance card and then the second one is to  attend meetings so I could get more examples after  

that but that's all I really needed uh yeah so the  way we retain information is kind of like a riddle  

and so yeah and this is why people use stories to  re to retain information so we tell each other uh  

tell each other stories we think in stories we  don't usually think in lists of information and  

that's why it's really difficult to get like  the way you learn in a textbook of having a  

bunch of lists like you have a list of vocabulary  it's really difficult to remember that you will  

probably remember the first one and then maybe the  last one and that's just part how the mind works  

but if you have a story you can remember lots of  different things or a song or something that helps  

you connect all those things together anyway the  point this is kind of a long explanation I know  

some people are new I want to explain that again  but the basic idea is that if you can spend your  

time talking that's helpful if you if you feel  confident and you're learning things and you're  

paying attention but it's much more uh or I guess  a much better use of your time uh to actually just  

get naturally varied review more water to you  please Olympia is telling me to drink I guess

Japanese water all right so hopefully this makes  sense so if you were if you were thinking that  

you need to find someone to practice with you  don't what you really need is to get lots more  

sources of that information so you know whatever  you're interested in talking about uh mitso if you  

want to I don't know learn about what I don't  know what your interests are but if you have a  

hobby or something find videos about that thing  in English and watch different videos of that  

uh that means listening is the point of learning  Allah not exactly what I really mean is that you  

need to understand something in order to use  it so if if someone tells me I need to give a  

speech about some science thing and I don't and  I don't know much about that then I can't give a  

confident speech about that thing but I can stand  here and talk for people for hours about learning  

languages because I I know it very well so if  I understand something then I can talk about  

it it's the same thing with regular languages  if I don't feel confident about the it's not  

it's not really about like physical immersion  but yes this is a kind of simulated immersion  

where you're you're getting lots of input  but the point is to do it in a systematic way  

so the example I gave about like the Shu secado  uh the it's immersion but it's not very systematic  

because there was like a whole year or like a few  years of time between the first time I heard the  

word and when I understood it so that's not very  efficient I'm being immersed I'm immersed in the  

language I hear my wife use the word and my kids  are using the word but then I learn it later and  

I finally understand what it means so I've taken a  few years to do that but it's not really like I'm  

not spending all that time learning or practicing  or whatever there's nothing in between this it's  

just this like these two different times  so what you need is systematic immersion  

and so that means you're going to learn a  whole bunch of things that are connected  

with one situation you're going to practice it  you're going to hear it from different people  

you're going to see it in different ways in  different tenses and that's what's going to  

give you the fastest Improvement so rather than  me trying to wait like three years to naturally  

feel something or naturally understand something  through immersion I'd rather just have someone  

show me here's how it works and here's how it is  and I'm going to teach you and get you fluent very  

fast so that's what we do in fluent for life  so you pick a specific lesson topic and you go  

through that and you get lots of examples and  then you move on to the next one but the point  

is a systematic immersion so if I could spend 20  minutes getting systematic immersion in Japanese  

so learning Japanese as a first language if  I had a teacher to do that I would do that  

but I have not found a teacher to do that so I  have to just like kind of teach myself and pay  

attention to what other people are saying and  and that kind of thing all right uh let's see

all right so Roger says seven years studying  English and seems like I started out yesterday  

so much to learn yet what's funny is some uh  some online guys making ads promising fluency  

in just four months and stuff well I'll be I'll  be like even me so for fluent for life like I  

promise fluency in 30 days for that material so  I don't promise fluency in the entire language  

that would be ridiculous and even natives are  not doing that anyway so as I often show people  

so there are like 177 I don't know a thousand  words in common use in the English language  

let's let's say so I think it's I don't know the  exact number but people use about two percent  

only two percent of that is really necessary for  having conversations and understanding newspapers  

and TV shows that kind of thing all right and the  reason this happens there's a is this called let  

me know if I'm getting too uh too technical for  for people here but this is a natural uh principle  

about life called the 80 20 principle and so  if we imagine like they're like these are all  

the words in the English language I know I can't  like fit them all in and we have their frequency  

how often they are used over here the Curve will  look like this so this means that some words are  

used all the time and some words are used like  almost never and so if you learn these words  

and you learn them efficiently so you don't  you don't wait like five years between trying  

to understand the word or phrase if you can  understand it very quickly I can get you fluent  

very quickly by helping you understand something  very quickly so I'm not I never claim that I can  

get you fluent in like the entire language like  that I mean you don't need to know the entire  

language first of all natives don't know the  entire language either there are lots of things  

I can't speak about because I just don't know  the vocabulary even you know particular jobs  

like being a doctor or a mechanic or something  like I don't know the names of lots of car parts  

I just don't know that vocabulary so I couldn't  I couldn't speak about it I can speak generally  

I could see like what is that thing or I know  what an engine is in a car but I can't I can't  

like talk specifically like a mechanic could speak  specifically about it all right so fluency is is  

part of it is knowledge but part of it is also  just how well you know the information do you do  

you know like a list of stuff or or do you have  like just a bunch of things that you remember  

foreign so it's important to understand uh like  it is possible to get fluent and you can get  

fluent quickly if you learn English like a native  but you still need to focus make sure you really  

understand the information and then you move on  to the next thing but in in fluent for life people  

build on their understanding of the language  and they get fluent faster and faster over  

time because as you get fluent in more things you  can use that new vocabulary to talk about other  

things and and typically when people go through  fluent for life if you if you actually follow  

the lessons you will become fluent in a particular  topic but you can then use that vocabulary to talk  

about other things just like we were doing in this  video so in this video it's an example of talking  

about everyday things in the bathroom like washing  your hands but how we can use that same vocabulary  

in other situations like I'm washing my hands  of some bad relationship so I'm stopping that  

thing I'm removing that from my life all right  so as you get fluent fluent really just means  

you understand something the same way a native  does so you don't have to think and translate  

for your native language all right let me know  if if all that makes sense though all right uh  

yeah watch your mouth so watch your mouth is more  common uh yes so we like it's an easier thing for  

parents to say and what about whitewash uh let me  see here well rather than like you mean you mean  

like it could mean actually different things  depending on the situation uh but that's it's  

different than like washing your mouth something  like that uh let's see but Google that what do you  

think about some AI apps like Elsa speaks sorry  that's the only one I remember now I've never used  

any of them so I can't comment on that I don't  know if it's helpful for people that's great but  

um most of the like AI can be helpful for giving  you naturally varied review uh and you can maybe  

have it like teach things and explain things to  you I suppose I've never tried that but the way  

a computer would communicate there can be errors  and also more importantly it's not really training  

you to be prepared for how natives actually speak  so I can read something clearly on a page or on a  

computer screen but hearing other people Express  that it's a completely different thing in the real  

world so I need to have practice listening to that  in order to develop my own listening and fluency  

uh so learning like a baby takes lots of time yes  so learning like a baby takes lots of time because  

it's it's like unstructured immersion just like  the example I gave so you learn something when  

you're one year old you wait five years and then  finally understand what it means so I want you to  

do this like we just take these two things and  push them together that's what I talked about  

in I think last week's video try to speak aloud  with the article you read it's very helpful for  

self learner yes but again it's much better to  just get more input like all the output if if  

this is like output versus input input is going  to win really every time because it's just more  

it's more efficient for your learning rather  than me repeating things I already know if I  

repeat things it's not helping me learn anything  it might improve my pronunciation A little bit  

if I can hear other examples of that but me  repeating things doesn't teach me anything  

new because it's just the same thing again and  again instead you need naturally varied review  

which gives you varied different examples of that  thing and that's what makes it more clear for you  

so living languages change over time yes  that's correct hello everyone new to this  

channel welcome Johnson all right hi Johnson how's  it going Rick and nice to see uh welcoming people  

Adrian I feel a little bit frustrated sometimes  I cannot find an easy way to explain some ideas  

I usually do that in like long sentences yeah  and so part of what you're trying to do is is  

look at how natives are expressing themselves  in those kinds of situations so they're talking  

about like child care or business or whatever  that thing is and how do they do that and you  

can see many of the Expressions that  I've taught today they're just quite  

very simple things that you can use so often  uh just try to keep it try to keep it simple  

and that way you can speak a bit more clearly  and and go back what's the name of that video  

um where I talk more about that uh well there  there are a couple different videos on the  

channel that talk about like the the steps to  fluency and also uh like being able to to express  

yourself using simpler language I just don't know  the names of them but if you if you go back and  

check some of the more recent live videos you'll  find those the way we retain okay I got that  

one so he said use efl yes so English as a first  language lessons that's the whole point all right

all right uh I think most people have the same  problem with using the easy way to express  

yourself even though you were a native speaker  yes typically people have have simple phrases  

that they use again and again they're speaking on  autopilot like they're not really thinking it's  

just hey how are you how's work and they just you  know they're not having like very even natives are  

doing that as well all right how is your scheduled  teacher yeah this is these aren't scheduled but I  

make them available uh even after the videos are  finished so you can watch the replays of them  

so that means when I can understand what people  saying I can speak automatically yes if you if  

you understand them and you and but it's it's  like do you understand it well enough to use it  

that's the key so there's understanding other  people and then there's also understanding  

well enough for you to use that so lots of people  can understand me but not speak as well as I can  

all right so the difference is like do you do  you know like how how well something works or  

do you understand it like a native so it's not  like can you hear and recognize information it's  

do you really understand what natives are saying  so the point is if you understand it like a native  

it's much easier to speak fluently because  you're not translating and thinking in your  

head all those things stop you from pronouncing  things uh let's see I I've always listened to  

miss Google translate I feel almost fell in love  with her she's a pronunciation is very attractive  

yes I don't know but be careful with that so  her pronunciation is is very attractive yet  

so over 90 of daily English conversation  consists of three thousand to four thousand  

words from what I heard yes and it's a it's  the same thing in Japanese or I mean most  

languages are like that so you have the  same power curve of most of the language  

uh or the important language it's only like a  small part of what people are actually using  

so children are fluent and still learning yes  around and so that's another uh thing when I  

explain that to people that you don't need to  be young you don't need to be a child in order  

to get fluent you just need to learn how they  learn but in a more efficient way so that's why  

I don't I don't really like saying that you  get fluent like a native because natives are  

actually not getting fluent very systematically  so if I could take like my for my own children  

I have to get them fluent systematically because  they spend more time in Japanese during their day  

uh let's see I was study level four but I  cannot speak I don't know what that's referring  

to I've learned about 10 000 words that help  understand in reading and not in spoken and even  

I have not heard you use those vocabulary I  have learned yes so there are lots to hear  

there are lots of vocabulary that you learn it  and you don't use it and you're basically just  

wasting your time with that so it's helpful uh  to know words but if you if you can't actually  

use them fluently it's that's why you look at a  child and a child has a smaller vocabulary but  

they speak better it's just because they've  they've understood that vocabulary like a  

native that's the secret and that's what  you guys can do too that's what I teach  

all right now it is very hard to find a scientist  in our real life to have a full conversation well  

you can meet people online if you if that's  what you're talking about otherwise I can use  

a dictionary when I understand so not when I  understand things or what people say well then  

I can speak on a MAG even if I didn't try speaking  Yeah so if you if you understand the language well  

and you can and you know it like if you know it  like you have a sense for what's correct then you  

will use it fluently so it's not just listening  to people like you can hear people just like  

speak speak like every day but you still don't  understand what they're saying and you couldn't  

use that then you're not fluent so listening is is  one skill but understanding the vocabulary like a  

native that's what actually lets you speak so this  is why people can live in the United States for  

many years and still not become fluent speakers  because they're they're listening to English a  

lot but they don't really understand it like  a native they didn't learn it like a native

uh tomoko says what language do you usually speak  with your family uh so with my children I always  

speak to them in English just so they can get that  like we'll play and I'm I'm constantly talking to  

them in English so I give them lots of input and  I give them lots of naturally varied review I do  

the same thing with my kids that I teach in fluent  for life so I I do the exact same thing with my  

with my own kids and then with my wife sometimes  I will speak in English sometimes in Japanese like  

if we are at home I usually speak all in English  but if we are out somewhere and I have to speak  

with somebody or whatever then I'll speak in  Japanese it's not painful to speak in English  

as long as I have something to say but when I  don't have it it gets painful to fulfill yes  

and so a lot of people have that issue that's  where you're you're thinking and like you can't  

keep the conversation going uh so kyoji uh you  will find that in fluent for life like specific  

lesson sets if you if you feel confident about  the vocabulary but you just like more help with  

like keeping the flow going so the lesson set  about storytelling uh or what's another good one  

well all of them will kind of show you how  to do that but if you really pay attention  

like especially to me you'll notice as I'm  speaking with people I control the flow of  

the conversation by how I'm asking people  questions and and how I do that so if you  

pay attention to what I do and the words  I use for that it will help your uh with  

your conversations as well I believe you can  Ella if you fully understand what people say  

you can respond to them so again like if you if  you don't feel bad about making incorrect like  

grammar mistakes so you can respond to them you  would say you can respond to them you can respond  

to them so that's like a simple thing where you  didn't understand that language like a native  

and that's why you're making a mistake about it  so it's nothing bad about you this is just how  

people learn the language so most people learn  the language as a second language and that's why  

they make mistakes like that like response which  is a noun rather than respond which is the verb  

so if you really like the point is to understand  the grammar where you feel confident about using  

it if you feel nervous it means you're not yet  fluent in that vocabulary that's the whole point  

thanks your videos are extremely helpful says  Adrian's my pleasure although I've learned okay I  

got that one Bruno nice to see you again hey Drew  sup I've seen the amazing espresso video on your  

channel can you give us more ideas of situations  on how many videos we should get to practice  

MBR so remember the idea for naturally varied  review like I just gave the example of Shu seki  

shoe sekikado or shusek sudo in Japanese means to  attend or attendance and so I got two examples of  

that so A naturally varied review for me for this  situation was two examples and that's all I needed  

to understand something the problem is that it was  like five years in between getting those examples  

so if you if you hear one example and you don't  quite understand something and then you get  

another example and you finally understand it  that's great but the point is to put those two  

things together that's why when I teach you'll  notice I give different ways of saying things  

in the same video or in the same You Know lesson  like this like I'm talking about how do we express  

something in different ways if you're paying  attention if you listen you will get those things  

automatically and so you will find I'm trying  to do two things the first thing is make sure  

you can understand a wider range of responses or  things that other people might say but also just  

give you a couple of different things and you can  choose even just one of those things that you feel  

very confident about and then use that all right  so when we cover like all of these examples most  

of them will just kind of go into your brain and  you're not really thinking about them but maybe  

one or two you will feel very confident  about and you will use those this is what  

people do in their everyday life when they're  communicating even in their native language

uh let's see here ah so again about like the like  uh Bruno's question about naturally varied review  

so it just like the example like it depends on  you and it's it's different for each situation  

so I think I answer that if you watch the previous  video like the 10 it's called what's the name of  

that video I forget it's like 10 things uh 10  things every English learner should know about  

fluency I think so uh so ten ten things every  every English learner should know about fluency  

and uh and in that video I talk about I answer  that question specifically about naturally varied  

review it sounds like a communication awkward  I have that problem with my native language as  

well sometimes yes so some people if you're  just not a very good communicator that's a  

different issue than than like a language issue  it just depends on the situation three thousand  

things to teacher Drew little barriers along  the path it's my pleasure dense content yeah  

yes hopefully hopefully if this is not interesting  let me know but I'm trying to answer questions and  

get to the the real problem that people have with  with vocabulary or communication so each person  

can be a little bit a little bit different but  Kyo says I watched your mass conversation video  

session where you talked with a bar owner who  looked a little bit tired after his long day  

I saw that you were trying to manage to make  the conversation flow yeah so you can you can  

look at that and I'm and part of the like the the  conversations like that or it's I'm almost like a  

like a host of that so lots of people are not like  naturally good at interviewing people or trying  

to keep a conversation going so I'm I'm showing  you how to do that that's a deeper level of what  

you get from the program as you watch that so if  I'm saying what do you think about this or what  

do you think about these and you will hear me use  those questions again and again uh and I'm and I'm  

either trying to like redirect people to something  else or get them to tell me more information or  

I'm saying like wow that was really interesting  could you tell me more or something like that or  

you notice at the end of conversations something  I will say is like well I don't want to take up  

too much of your time and so even if I'm the one  trying to leave I say I'm like making it about  

them and so you can like these are all different  things you can learn from the program that are  

like if it's different levels of of communication  so there's the language part you learn but there's  

also how to actually speak with people and keep  a conversation going or how to tell a story those  

kinds of things how to give a presentation  so all those things are in the program  

uh JR says I don't feel confident like you  feel psychological problems better to goes  

to a psychiatrist yeah so if you're if you're  if you have problems of communication in your  

native language as well then you don't have a  language problem there's something else and we  

could talk about that too I mean that's  an interesting question as well because  

native speakers do have some problem uh  with with communication it's you know  

it's not about language learning uh let's  see that's a long name let me see if I can  

pronounce that ballester bromanian if I'm  pronouncing that correctly repetition is a  

part of fluency uh repetition repetition isn't  like part of fluency what you need is review  

uh and I'll this is another important point  that I'll just make for any new people watching

after I get some water

so when you when you learn information  

where you hear something new so here's  the first time you hear something so  

here's like we just imagine I'm telling you  something I teach you a new word like Sid  

so you hear the word the first time and you you  understand let's let's just say it's a simple  

word I'm sitting down you can understand what  I mean by that if I repeat that again and again  

you don't actually learn anything more from that  there's there's no new information added to any  

of these it's just repeating that word sit sit sit  sit sit sit maybe it's it's helping you understand  

it like the pronunciation or listening but so  maybe the first two or three times it's helpful to  

get that but after that your brain gets bored by  the information and so it doesn't care it doesn't  

want to listen to that anymore uh so instead of  repetition what you should be doing is getting  

naturally varied review and that means you're  hearing like sit for me you hear another person  

say sit you hear other people say sit you also  hear in the past tense sat or like will sit in  

the future you hear it in stories you hear it from  different people and so if you if you do this so  

this is naturally varied review that's where you  start building fluency because you're developing  

understanding like a native you're getting lots  of real examples you're exposed to the different  

pronunciations that people have so some like an  old man might be like sit down sit down so down  

and you it's like what did he say oh sit down  he said sit down but he's not pronouncing things  

clearly so you should hear even people pronouncing  things badly that should be part of your learning  

so that's why influence for life we have those  examples of like people speaking quickly people  

mumbling like some people I speak with they  don't they don't speak very well or some people  

are tired or some people are speaking I don't  know like their their pronunciation or accent  

or whatever is a little bit different but you  can see the difference for spending your time  

to use your time efficiently if you just repeat  something it's not teaching you anything new so  

if you look at like a graph of these two things  so the graph over time for repetition is like this  

like you hear it goes up and then it just like  plateaus like that but the graph are naturally  

very review is like this it continues to go up  because you're continuing to get new examples  

and you're you're getting deeper into the language  you're like ah isn't that interesting here's a new  

way to to use that word or here's a different  pronunciation or something this is how natives  

get fluent this is why natives they continue to  improve and deepen in their understanding as they  

learn but if you're just repeating something the  learning stops at this point you're just wasting  

your time okay so it's much better to get varied  examples if I only have 10 minutes a day then I  

should get like if I only have one minute I guess  it doesn't matter which one I do because you're  

only getting you only have time for two examples  anyway but if you have 20 minutes or something  

then get lots of naturally varied review you will  understand the language better you will feel more  

confident about using it you will think like a  native speaker and then that's how you will speak  

that's how it works so again I like I'm basically  I'm explaining things the same way you learned  

your native language but it's just more efficient  I'm explaining what you did so yes you did you did  

practice speaking with people but if you look at  most kids if you really watch them carefully most  

of them they don't feel confident about saying  something unless they they actually know what  

it is so some kids they will have courage and  and just start speaking but a lot of them do  

not and especially as kids get older they feel  more worried more insecure less confident about  

things as they learn all right so like if I'm  teaching a language in a classroom the typical  

thing is to try to make them speak but they don't  really understand so they they feel bad about that  

foreign all right we don't have much time left  I'll answer a few final questions over here  

how to improve my grammar because I frequently  make mistakes in my grammar you would say in my  

grammar again the secret to everything is  learning English like a native speaker as  

I'm as I'm teaching you right now so if you  want to improve your grammar pronunciation  

everything naturally varied review learning  like a native that solves all those problems  

uh let's see oh I have an interest in the  grammar question as well yeah that's the  

same thing and so also if you look uh look at  grammar is a is a part of the language just  

like pronunciation and vocabulary so you learn  all of these things at the same time when you  

learn like a native so a grammar example like  take off the cap put back or put on the cap  

so that's a sentence with grammar and you're  learning that as you get more examples you  

start to understand the grammar naturally  rather than studying rules that's how it works

uh okay a couple more of these  can I reach the level where I  

can distinguish mistakes when  others speak English yeah sure  

Miro says hi thanks for the video I can give  presentations and talk confidently when it comes  

to Scientific topics but in other discussions  out of my major I'm not fluent yes and so this  

is a common issue it's just you need to get that  information about those different topics this is  

what we do in fluent for life so we're showing you  like here's a very compact we want you to focus on  

a bunch of different things around a certain  topic so you learn how to talk about that and  

then you learn to talk about something else and  then you learn how to talk about something else  

so the reason you can speak about your topic  your like your profession or your industry or  

your major or whatever is because you know it  well you've spent a lot of time with it so if  

you do the same thing with other things but you  do it efficiently you can get those same results  

all right like children if you just repeat  something that you're wasting your time how  

irony yes you would say how ironic how ironic  yes so there is value to repetition but it's  

just more valuable to get varied review again  you need to have your learning be like the actual  

conversations so how you learn is how you speak  if you only repeat one word again and again and  

you don't hear that word in a real conversation  then you will be you will be worried you will be  

confused and you won't know what to say sometimes  small differences in accent can take us aback yes  

that's true I'm able to understand what the news  reporters say but not able to speak as fluently  

as they do yes again it's all it's all about how  you practice and how you learn sometimes we use  

English in our native mood therefore can sometimes  sometimes would cause an offense to other people  

who is who are native English speakers because of  misunderstanding yep and again that's the again  

the value of learning things as a native speaker  so you make the same kinds of ways of speaking or  

the same moods or the ways you move that kind of  thing so I said uh I can try to speak in English  

but I can't what do I do or what should I do you  do this go back and watch my videos and you will  

improve thank you drew I have to go to bed thank  you so much for your time my pleasure your throat  

is being clogged up yes it's getting like it's  getting dried out really that would probably be a  

better thing I'm glad it's not getting clogged up  because that would mean I have a breathing problem  

uh the most problem I struggle with is grammar  yeah you could say the biggest problem or the  

number one problem I struggle with is grammar  thanks so much Ms mural yeah so remember the  

point is to understand the language like a  native and you do that by learning English as  

a first language so it solves everything please  you the word implacable in spoken you mean like  

please say the word implacable implacable if you'd  like to hear me say words get the uh get Frederick  

you'll hear me say thousands of words that's  what I'm that's why I made the app thanks for  

your lecture thanks for everyone over there nice  to see you I appreciate the lecture glad to hear  

it wish you the best teacher thank you forever  uh let's see what time is it yes I have to go in  

one minute but I'll I remember one question from  earlier this is like uh things falling through the  

cracks just because two people asked about this  so if you imagine I'm like I'm sweeping the floor  

there might be some cracks in a wooden floor  and little pieces of dust fall through that  

or if I if I scoop up some water with my hands  there might be like some little cracks in my  

fingers and the water still like falls through my  fingers so typically when people say uh like if  

I'm teaching you something you're scooping up a  bunch of information from me but some of it like  

you won't retain all of that information so that's  what it means when Things fall through the cracks  

and so this other learner was asking about that  um from they were they they said they found like  

political examples of that um and so like like a  politician will say like we we created this new  

program but some people are still falling through  the through the cracks it means that the political  

program did not help them so they tried that just  like they're scooping up a bunch of water and some  

of the water gets through so you don't scoop  it all up some of it falls through the cracks  

all right uh Magic BoB says thank you thank you  forever how can I stop translating in my head  

learn English as a first language that's the  answer the answer to everything I was amazed  

when I discovered this and I found out it's proven  uh another guy another teacher sent me uh some  

some uh it was some reports from like I think the  French government about that that they were saying  

the same thing like and I found the same thing in  Japan so lots of people are discovering yes you  

should be learning English as a first language  that's how you get fluent so it's not it's not  

a mystery it's just most people don't don't do it  uh why do I call it Frederick originally I called  

the app scroll phonics because it's teaching a  lot of phonics but I call it Frederick because uh  

the the more like the deeper more important part  is that it's teaching you to read and pronounce  

and understand and so there was an American  uh former slave named Frederick Douglass and  

he taught himself to read and so I thought that  was a like a cool name for that uh thank you so  

much I'd uh I just get messed up and having my I  just get up Hocking and having breakfast [Music]  

uh let's see Iran says a grooves I will miss you  until the next video well you can join me uh in  

the next video should be my Thursday I think I  think I'll probably go a little bit deeper into  

some of this let's see emergency says I bought  your program The Vault why don't you uh a rick  

update or record more master classes because  they're already eight years of them so we don't  

we don't really need more like more content is  not the issue I think a lot of Learners are like  

we need more content but what's really happening  is they're not reviewing everything that they have  

so if you go through even like five of the lesson  sets or six of them or ten of them you should be  

like speaking much better you should be feeling  more confident about the language without having  

to get more and more content so the the point is  not to get more it's to get better at that content  

that's how you get it for it all right uh phrasal  verbs learning and naturally please help me yes  

uh the visual guide to phrasal verbs you can look  that up we have we offer that program as well and  

that's influent for life also but it shows you  how to learn them like a native Edson says is it  

possible to learn English without having someone  to speak to yes I answered that question already  

do you think reading stories are also a good  way to improve yes absolutely thanks for enjoy  

the day hi Drew says kolkati all right Sandra says  have a good one all right yes everybody recognize  

it's time to pull the plug pull the plug time to  shut this down but thank you again for joining  

me remember how you learn is how you speak uh  you are going to go live on your birthday it's  

Tuesday on your birthday yes I think I will be  live on my birthday so send me a birthday present  

all right so that should be uh next Thursday no  this Thursday so in three days I think but have  

a fantastic day go back remember to review the  information stop looking for new stuff until  

you already know the stuff that you really have  happy birthday yes almost I'll see you then bye