How To Rob A Bank In English | Native Vocabulary For Fluent Speech

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

we're going to talk about how to rob a bank  in English uh just thought this would be a  

funny topic uh to do uh for a number of  reasons there'll actually be quite a few  

principles and things that I cover in  this video it should be an interesting

one uh but I'm not I'm not going to like teach  you individually step by step how to rob a bank  

it's probably not a good idea to do that uh and  there are probably better places to learn that  

than me if you want to do that uh but this is  going to teach something more important to give  

you something far more value valuable than gold  anyway all right nice to see everybody there oh  

look at Brett at the beginning nice to see you  there all right here for learning how to rob a  

bank all right uh so what we're going to do  in this video I guess the reason I wanted to  

make this uh is because there is a a fundamental  problem uh that a lot of people have with learning  

and it comes from uh it's it's like a problem of  human nature I know this sounds uh it's like a a  

heavy thing or a difficult thing or a I don't know  like a confusing thing to start a a video with uh  

but the basic problem is that people are always  interested in new information or doing something  

new or experimenting or whatever they want to try  something new uh but what you need for fluency is  

actually the ability to go deeper so there's  an old story uh about a uh like a person who's  

digging for gold digging for gold and so they  have here's our they have like a pickaxe here  

like that and they're swinging it down and trying  to dig down uh into the gold maybe they found a  

few little pieces of gold on the surface here  these are called nuggets like a gold nugget n  

u g g e t a gold nugget so maybe a small piece  of gold like that just sitting up here uh so  

they see that and think o there's some gold over  here they get excited and they dig down because  

they think there might be more gold to be found  uh over here so usually what happens is people  

might they might dig like a little bit down here  let's just say he's kind of digging a little bit  

further down in here he might even dig like maybe  a little bit further than that so he's got I got  

himself a a hole over here I got to stretch his  legs out now so he's digging for gold but he gets  

down here and he doesn't really find much more  so he stops all right but in this story The Gold  

there's actually like a really huge vein a vein  we call this a vein like a vein in your arm you  

know like a vein of gold down here and so the  guy stopped just just like a little bit if he  

if if he would have dug a little bit further uh  he would have reached all this goal down here  

all right so often what happens this is not  just for language learning but just in life  

in general people will uh try something new  and then they will either get distracted or  

not find success like immediately with that thing  and then they will go somewhere else okay so this  

guy is digging and then he says okay well I guess  there's no gold over here I'm going to go dig in  

some other spot and I dig in some other spot and  something like that okay so this problem happens  

with a lot of people and the analogy here for uh  language Learners is that people will get lots of  

vocabulary they might like learn a new word over  here a new word over here but they don't really go  

deep enough to really get the benefit of of all  of the the the knowledge and the understanding  

that comes when you really uh understand something  and remove any doubt that you have about that so  

if you just learn a new word you hear it a little  bit maybe your understanding is slightly but you  

still don't feel very confident about using it in  conversations uh until you get to this point down  

here you're not going to feel really very fluent  your vocabulary will be increasing as you continue  

to find more little bits of vocabulary here and  there but until you go deeper and really get to  

the gold where you really understand something uh  this is where you're going to struggle so in this  

video I wanted to talk about rather than and uh  just like a typical thing like how to go to the  

grocery store or something like that um I want  you to think about how you can use something  

you're interested in and then go deeper into that  so that you can get a lot more examples of things  

a lot more use of uh of the language from a wider  number of people uh and this is what's going to  

get you a lot more fluent uh because again as I  often say you don't need to study a particular  

topic or learn a particular thing uh because  vocabulary is useful from one situation in many  

situations so as an example I've talked before  about baseball and how popular and common this  

is throughout uh especially the United States so  English speakers in the United States will use uh  

baseball terms baseball vocabulary for talking  about other things so you might hit a home run  

for example that's the best kind of hitting you  can do you can hit you hit theall out of the park  

uh in in a game of baseball if you do that then  you get a a run and you can score other players  

on the field uh but it's a really impressive and  great thing and so we use that to hit a home run  

or to hit the ball out of the park we use that  expression in other situations okay and so this  

this idea of talking about like if you only  heard hit a home run but you didn't hear it  

used in other situations or you didn't go deeper  in learn more about it then you probably won't  

feel very confident about using it you might  understand if someone else uses that but the  

goal here is to help you feel very confident about  using vocabulary so how do we trick the Mind into  

going deeper into things when we are naturally  bored and we easily often give up okay so people  

are learning something and they get tired or  maybe they don't get immediate success and so  

they give up and do something else or if you're  you're trying to start a business maybe you don't  

have immediate success you get frustrated and you  go try something else like well I shouldn't sell  

ice cream I should sell I don't know Bitcoins or  something like that whatever and so people jump  

from one thing to the next and they never really  reach the gold down here but it's always here  

okay so the the you you go just just a little bit  more a little bit further dig a little bit deeper  

in wow look at that you hit all of that gold down  here all right uh so again I'm using the uh just  

this idea of robbing a bank uh to to explain  to people about how we can learn something that  

you might be interested in now maybe you don't  care about robbing a bank so some people maybe  

they're coming here uh just because they know who  I am or maybe some people are actually interested  

in robbing a bank I don't know um but what I'd  like you to understand is that I'm just picking  

a random kind of topic like this just to show  you that you can take vocabulary go deeper into  

learning it in various ways uh and then actually  apply uh the kind of principles that you get from  

from learning deeply from actually getting to  the goal down here and you can become fluent  

in learning how to rob a bank uh just like you can  become fluent learning how to uh I don't know make  

shoes or go to the grocery store or anything else  you might be interested in okay so if you don't  

care about a lesson about going to the grocery  store even if you have to go to a grocery store  

every day you know that might be something very  common in your life and it might be important for  

you to learn that but maybe you don't care about  a lesson or you don't want to like sit and watch  

videos about that think about the things you are  interested in okay so again I've just picked this  

random topic of uh robbing a bank because even if  you are not interested in robbing a bank you can  

watch plenty of videos of people talking about  this or there are movies about people robbing  

Banks or robbing different robbing different  people or places um and that vocabulary can be  

useful in other situations as well okay all right  uh the last thing I will mention before we cover  

a little bit of vocabulary about robbing banks and  how we can use that in other situations as well um  

I I'll share one more quick story I was watching  a uh it was just a some some video I saw it was a  

a woman she was painting a wall with a a paint  roller so usually when we when we paint a wall  

if we're painting some small area uh we have a  paintbrush like this you know regular paint brush  

where we're just moving the hand up and down  like this but we also have a roller so a paint  

roller looks like this is kind of a a long thing  it's got a little kind of edge piece and a handle  

like that that's pretty good picture better than  my my usual drawings uh and so you have a roller  

and the roller can cover more area faster and it's  typically used for for big surfaces of walls while  

a smaller paintbrush would be maybe for more  details or the side of something like that see

hi look at that we get an interruption in the  middle of the video that's pretty rare anyway  

uh so we have a paint roller over here and this  woman was using a paint roller and she was trying  

to paint the wall uh and she kept going over this  one spot so it you know it looked like there was  

some area that was maybe a little bit lighter or  a little bit darker or something and and she kept  

looking at that and she would put the paint roller  over it and then put the paint roller over it over  

and over and over again and and she still couldn't  figure out why it wasn't getting the paint uh but  

if you look at the person taking the video you  can see there was a there was just a shadow on  

the wall from uh like a a staircase behind her  and so the the interesting thing about learning  

in this way uh is that as we learn we really  want you to uh to recognize patterns and the  

speed at which you can recognize patterns will  get you fluent faster so this woman like maybe  

the first time she goes over the spot it's that's  something is a little bit weird about that maybe  

the second time wow this thing is not disappearing  I wonder what's going on so she actually takes a  

step like physically takes a step back she might  might notice oh that's just a shadow on the wall  

and the paint job is fine okay so uh again this  this second little story here the reason I'm uh  

bringing this up is I want people to remember that  as you're learning a language really what you're  

trying to do is understand patterns of language  so you recognize when people say things so that  

way you can apply that in different situations  just like the Home Run example I gave before  

so we're looking for patterns wow someone did  something successful in the baseball game they  

hit a home run now we can take that vocabulary and  use it elsewhere so we recognize the patterns of  

things oh you hit a home run in uh in like the  dating world you found a really good partner for  

yourself or you hit a home run at work where you  were working on a presentation and it did very  

well and you got a promotion or something you hit  a home run okay so it doesn't matter if you don't  

care about baseball that's fine uh but you should  care about you know whatever you're naturally  

interested in and you focus on that thing uh and  then you can learn more vocabulary by going deeper  

into that topic by focusing on it more not just  getting one lesson but getting lots of varied  

uh you know lesson information about that so my  microphone is let me see if my let me see if my  

I can turn the gain up just a little bit let me  know if that's better for people uh you can also  

turn your own volume up hopefully this is not too  loud for people all right but hopefully everybody  

uh understands this basic idea we really want  to understand patterns and this will also help  

us understand exceptions so when little kids are  learning the language so native English speakers  

they start learning a pattern like walk and they  learn walked well look at that if we want to make  

the past uh then we put Ed on the end of it okay  and so we learn like play Let's see play and then  

played oh that's interesting look at that so as  soon as they get a few examp examples of this  

they think it applies to every verb so that's  understandable they're learning a pattern so  

they learn the patterns but then they also learn  the exceptions and as you learn more patterns and  

more exceptions like go so the child at first  might say something like go and the parent or  

teacher corrects them and say no no no we don't  say that we say went and so the child learns ah  

okay there's a there's an exception to this rule  often we have this but not always and so the child  

becomes a bit more uh nuanced in their learning  so they understand there are slight differences  

or there are times when the rule doesn't always  follow but in general we have a good pattern and  

that's how they develop their sense of correctness  it just allows them to speak without thinking or  

translating because they understand the patterns  and they understand the exceptions and you only do  

this as you spend more time with the things you're  interested in the language like learning how to  

rob a bank or play baseball or do anything else  all right I'll go back uh and check chat and then  

we'll give you uh just kind of a few interesting  expressions from robbing a bank that you can use  

in other situations and I'll see if you can  think more about how you might do that all  

right uh let me see here all right so nice here  Nazar from Tajikistan etam good morning there uh  

good morning from Korea n Dennis says hello from  Mexico how can to enhance my grammar and how to  

get a good score on TOEFL uh about grammar uh  this is a similar lesson that we're talking  

about really for improving anything this is not  just about grammar uh it's also for vocabulary  

or pronunciation or anything else really the goal  is to get more examples of something but varied  

examples as I'll show you in this video uh and  show you how to do that more and that's going to  

help you understand more and eliminate the doubt  that you have about grammar so in general uh the  

English as a second language approach is you take  a grammar Rule and then you try to memorize that  

rule again and again and again but you don't  really feel confident about using it because  

there's probably some doubt you're worried about  using it incorrectly or you're not for whatever  

reason you're just not very confident about using  it until you you eliminate that doubt it's going  

to be very difficult for you to speak so what  we do on this channel uh is we're trying to  

help you understand English as a first language  and this means we're not rather than trying to  

look at rules we want to understand situations  and think about when people use something so I  

I talked recently about the what was that video  like the present uh the present perfect uh and  

so it's explaining to people that you can have  something like a marker or I can have something  

like uh you know black hair or something or you  know white hair in my case um or I could have a  

gray shirt or I could have a dog or something  uh but I can also have experiences so I can  

talk about something that I did like yesterday I  played the piano so I'm just talking about that  

experience yesterday I played the piano but if  I want to talk about look at that now I'm like  

partly a piano player so I have that experience  so I can say I have played the piano so I have  

that experience so we're not trying to teach  you the rules and okay you need this verb and  

then the past participle or whatever or any kind  of technical vocabulary uh that a linguist might  

use what we're really trying to do is understand  when people say something and the more you think  

like that uh the more you will understand and  and feel confident because you're eliminating  

the doubt you have about vocabulary or grammar or  whatever uh to your second question there about  

tofl uh I I don't focus on that uh my students do  do better on tests because they just understand  

the language better but I recommend you look  for people who specifically focus on tests if  

that's a priority for you all right uh JMA says  good evening Carrie nice to meet you all Daniela  

from Brazil hi again from Korea Lauren hi drew the  best teacher in the world how are you doing today  

I'm doing very well too kind there uh Han from  Egypt uh looks like yinyang laughing over there  

mus musak good time sir hi Sensei I guess that's  what you're trying to say but Hello nice to see  

everybody there Nicholas from Dominican Republic  b bah hello uh syvan from Brazil I turned up the  

microphone let's see aside hi teacher thanks  for the stream he everyone out there says Juan  

Carlos uh mush I'm from cashmir and I've been  listening to you for one month hopefully you've  

been improving the sound is quite low it should  be the same let's see I can turn up the gain even  

more that's basically what it usually is do I need  to get real real intimate with the microphone real  

close over here hopefully it should be coming in  fine though all right Andrew says your method of  

educating is the best thank you it's my pleasure  all I'm really trying to do is eliminate the doubt  

and help you discover the language for yourself  uh Danielle says what does immersion in English  

mean do everything I'm guessing you mean do  everything in English uh yeah the basic idea  

of immersion is like if you if you think about  you know imagine you uh you have a have like  

a child uh and this is a pool over here and the  child is standing up here and you say hey we're  

going to we're going to push you into the pool  and now you're immersed in the water so it just  

means everything around you uh is covering you  and so the idea of immersion to be immersed in  

a language uh means it's all around you it's on  your phone or your computer or uh something like  

that all right so that's the idea of immersion uh  I used to think so I don't anymore I used to think  

immersion was the most important thing you needed  to get fluent until I came to Japan and found that  

I did not get fluent with immersion uh what I  did get fluent with was eliminating the doubt  

that stopped me from speaking that's the actual  thing that allowed me to communicate so even if  

I'm surrounded by people I won't speak if I feel  unsure or uncertain about you know about uh about  

my vocabulary pronunciation or accent or anything  else uh so the this idea of immersion it's helpful  

if you've got lots of examples of the language but  if they don't really help you eliminate the doubt  

then it's not very useful so again it's just like  teaching a child to swim you can actually teach a  

child to swim or you can just throw the child  in the pool and maybe they teach themselves or  

maybe they drown you know you get some of both so  you get a few people that maybe figure it out but  

most people will just drown all right so I don't  recommend this I recommend actually helping people  

understand the language and that's how they get  flu all right uh let's see zundo says good morning  

from Angola Daniel do everything in English 247  yeah that's basically the idea uh if you can't be  

in a physical environment where English speakers  are but remember even lots of people live lots  

of you know people from various countries live in  the United States and they don't they just speak  

their native language so they they spend time  with people who are like them and they speak  

their native language and they're just because  they're in the United States it doesn't mean  

they're being immersed in the language so again  uh the point is to get lots of good examples that  

help you understand the language and eliminate the  doubt all right uh so let's cover some interesting  

phrases from robbing a bank that can also be used  in other situations uh I I've just picked some  

random phrases there there are lots more if you  watch movies about things like this I'm not really  

a big like bank robbing movie kind of guy there  there are some O Okay movies like that uh but it's  

not not really my thing but if you enjoy that or  if there is something you enjoy you should go with  

that and get more information about that thing in  English that's the basic idea all right uh let's  

see what did I have here okay uh so we're going to  cover just a few of this few of these Expressions

here to case The Joint to case The Joint  all right uh so to case The Joint if you  

don't know what this is to case something  means you're kind of exploring it you're  

looking at it you're uh trying to understand  how it works and Joint typically refers to a  

location or a place so if you think about  a a like a a criminal like a a I'm just G  

I'm going to draw kind of like a like a  like a bad guy here's like I don't this

is let to put some sunglasses on him uh and he's  he's like reading reading a newspaper over here  

and he's kind of looking looking like this but  he's he's also trying to watch the employees at  

the bank to figure out what they do so maybe that  he's at a bank right now he's sitting there on a  

bench uh and he's reading his newspaper but really  he's looking at uh where the the people in the  

bank are walking around or what time they start  their shifts or something like that he is casing  

The Joint he's trying to figure out what's going  on so that maybe he can it's basically getting  

intelligence about something all right so he's  trying to learn more about something and look  

at that he's casing The Joint uh trying to learn  more so that he can plan his robbery all right and  

this could be for anything like casing The Joint  like you're you're not necessarily talking about  

only banks here so in even in like uh stealing  something uh these are typically called like a  

heist so a heist movie A to Heist something you're  stealing it so a heist movie like we a group of  

criminals is trying to steal something like in  uh like in the oceans 11 or 12 or 13 uh or people  

try to steal a car or something like that these  are called heist movies uh so you can case the  

joint uh for this situation but you can also case  The Joint maybe uh you're uh walking around at a  

new business and you're thinking about working  there and you're think and someone is asking you  

like oh what are you what are you doing you're  just walking around our business like looking  

at stuff and I said oh I'm I'm casing The Joint  because I'm thinking about working here so I'm  

I'm making a joke like I'm going to rob them or  something like that uh but I'm just saying oh I'm  

I'm trying to learn more about your organization  or your place or your building or something like  

that so to case The Joint I'm casing The Joint  all right so again this is a a basic thing that  

you will hear most frequently for criminal stuff  so criminals are looking around you know schools  

or a business or something like that trying to  figure out how to plan a way they would steal  

something they're just getting more information  and they're casing The Joint but you could see how  

you would apply this in other situations uh where  again we're just trying to get information about  

something so if I'm and and typically we would  use this in in like a joking way because casing  

The Joint usually implies that you're trying to  get more information so you can steal something  

uh but again you can use it like oh I'm just  casing The Joint over here so like uh if you're  

you're looking at looking at the menu at a pizza  restaurant or something and someone says like oh  

uh can I take your order and I I joke I say no  I'm just casing The Joint you know as a just being  

being kind of silly they might not even laugh at  that joke but the point is I'm just I'm making  

a joke uh about yes I'm I'm here kind of looking  around to see if I could Rob the place uh you know  

instead of them like instead of me being there to  order some pizza all right just as an example so  

this is again a very common thing but you can see  how this is a a kind of more casual more slang use  

of the vocabulary because we can have something  like case like a briefcase uh but joint is you  

know like my elbow joint this is a joint also  but we use that vocabulary for talking about a  

location all right all right number two see what  we have here so as we move like our criminals are  

they they begin with the planning stage they're  trying to think about how exactly they will  

uh they will rob uh their bank or whatever all  right and so number two we have like to pull off

a heist to pull off a heist all right so  this is a very common phrasal verb here  

to pull something off means to do that thing  successfully to pull off a heist to pull off  

a heist all right so anytime I could be here's  that word Heist again so Heist meaning we're  

able to steal something but the more important  part of this expression is right here to pull it  

off all right so we Begin by planning something  we're casing The Joint we're trying to figure  

out what's going on where we can get in or  steal something some money or Jewels or art  

from the art museum uh but then if we're able  to do that thing successfully we pulled it off  

we pulled it off all right now this expression  again this uh very common phrasal verb is used  

in many different situations when you're trying  to do something successfully uh and you do so  

you actually do that thing especially if it's  a bit more difficult so if I uh let's say I'm  

trying to learn a new language in five  minutes and then give a speech in that  

language so that would be a pretty difficult  thing to do uh but if I do it successfully I

pull I pulled it off look at that or if I'm asking  someone else if they did something successfully  

like oh did you pull it off did you pull it off  off okay or I pulled off something so I pulled  

off a trick I was trying to do on my bike uh  I pulled off a uh you know some like special  

thing I was trying to do so remember that phrasal  verbs can have different uses and uh this meaning  

of pulling something off like I can even like  pull the cap off of this marker here so that's a  

basic usage of something like that but here we're  talking about just doing something successfully  

and to remember it that way you can just think you  know imagine like a a cap on a marker or something  

that's really tight on here and you you managed  to pull it off okay so I was able to do that  

thing successfully so to pull off something so  anytime you do something successfully especially  

if it's very difficult or people didn't think you  would be able to do it you pulled it off okay as  

I go through these let me know if you have any  questions uh but this should be uh pretty pretty  

simple over here I'm just trying to go through  the like the basic kind of steps about uh about  

these things as as someone might be trying to  to pull off a heist uh stealing something from a

bank all right number three  what else do we have over

here all right uh this is to make a clean

getaway all right and you'll notice phrasal  verbs get used quite frequently this is a  

like a phrasal noun where we're going  to take these words to get in a way and  

put them together into one uh one  word and you'll often hear about a

getaway a getaway car or a getaway driver so to  get away if we remember the the idea of the of the  

word get it just means to take something to have  something to own or control a certain position  

so if I want to get from here to here I need to  travel there somehow but I can talk about that  

with the word get so how do I get to Chicago so  right now I'm in Nagasaki Japan how do I get to  

Chicago so if I'm asking for directions the same  kind of thing how do I get there or I want to get  

to a particular place or if I'm just on vacation I  want to get away so maybe I have a stressful work  

and I'm tired of what I do or I need a vacation  I need to get away and in that case these are two  

different words here to get away that typical  phrasal verb used in that way uh but here it's  

one word as a combination here a getaway getaway  and you can hear how the pronunciation changes a  

little bit it's like G the T disappears it becomes  almost a D sound G getaway getaway getaway so a  

getaway car a getaway driver or to make a clean  getaway so to do something clean means to do it  

without having any problems all right we had  a clean getaway all right so like maybe we're  

doing a clean data transfer for our computers  or we're doing something else but if we're able  

to do something clean it means we did it without  any problems or any issues to do something clean  

all right so after let's say the the guys they're  casing the joint and then they pull off the heist  

after that oh no they make a clean getaway so they  get in their car and they get away so they go to a  

different location they get away maybe they get  far away same kind of idea so to make a clean  

getaway all right hopefully this makes sense so  it's a pretty simple idea but you can see already  

how even something very simple to pull off uh a  high start to get away would be very useful to  

know because you can use these phrasal verbs in  many situations okay so you can think about any  

anytime like a person does something and they  are not caught they got away with that thing  

all right so we have the physical use of being in  one place and then we move someplace else so I'm  

getting away I need to take a vacation I need to  get away for a while so maybe I take a vacation  

I go to a different place I'm getting away so  I'm getting away away from my situation here  

getting away from from work or stress or family  or something like that to get away like I'm I'm  

taking this new position right now I'm here but  I'm going to this uh new position over here all  

right so we're getting away for a while uh but  anytime you you do something like if I I could  

steal a cookie or and and this isn't even for  like really bad things where you would get in  

trouble uh let's say I uh let's I fell I fell down  uh and and and people are like oh no he fell down  

and I and I said no no I'm I'm trying to just do  some push-ups over here so I pretend I'm walking  

and I fall I fall over uh and then like and people  like oh no they're kind of laughing at me because  

I fell down and I say no no no I meant I meant to  do that I'm I'm just doing some push-ups and they  

and they believe me then oh I got I got away with  it I'm kind of tricking them uh I was able to do  

that thing so this is not just about robbing banks  uh or stealing things it's any anytime you're able  

to to kind of do something and you uh maybe trick  some other person into believing you somehow okay  

so you got away with that thing all right uh  there are more and and again I'm not trying  

to cover every use of these things this is just  the idea uh of where we're taking something and  

showing you we can focus on a topic and learn  some vocabulary from that thing that is also  

applicable in other situations so this is trying  to understand the patterns about the language  

okay hopefully that makes sense let me check chat  before we continue okay see we have some questions  

over here uh saludos uh did is mixico says  Rodrigo Bridget says hello teacher uh from the  

UK okay watching from the Philippines Mundo again  is definition important for us to learn new words  

like a native uh a definition is less important  hopefully I'm making that that particular lesson  

clear with these examples over here remember in  the in the English uh if you're learning English  

uh as a second language the English as a second  language approach you basically have two options  

uh you start with a a trans ation of a word and  the other option is you get a definition of a  

word but all both of these things so you have a  translation and then here's uh the word in English  

or I'm getting a definition uh it could even  be a definition but here's the word in English  

over here the problem is you have only a single  connection uh between this thing and that thing  

and so it's much easier to forget the vocabulary  that way uh when you're learning English as a  

second language though that or as a first language  excuse me uh that's what we do on this channel or  

what I do in my programs the point is to really  help people understand the vocabulary very well  

and typically you do this by here's the vocabulary  you're going to approach that thing from different  

angles all right just like we're talking about  here so we have a Target thing like pull off now  

if I just give you a definition of that then it's  like okay you know pull off something like I have  

some tape on my arm I'm going to pull that thing  off if you only only learn that then you might  

be very surprised and confused when you hear  something like pull off a heist because wait  

a minute nobody just like pulled something like  that so you would be confused about that so the  

way natives learn things is they hear something  like pull off and they hear how it's used in  

one situation and then they might get some more  examples of that same kind of usage in various  

situations and each each time they hear a new  one they feel more certain and more confident and  

that's what lets them speak okay so if I just get  a definition or I just get a translation it's not  

going to be very memorable and I probably won't  really understand that thing very well but if I'm  

getting lots of different uses of it so here's the  here's the pulloff definition it's it's kind of an  

understanding of that where look I take something  and Pull and remove it I'm pulling something off  

something else okay so I have pull off here but I  also have like pull off off uh a heist which is a  

different usage it's slightly related but uh it's  a different usage of that thing and so as you get  

these different usages you start to develop a  a strong understanding of the core meaning of a  

phrasal verb or other vocabulary or grammar and  that's what really makes you feel confident and  

that's what lets you speak okay so you don't you  don't get a definition or a translation and then  

just repeat that word again and again that's not  how you get fluent because that's not helping you  

understand or eliminate any doubt you eliminate  the doubt by getting what I call fluency triggers  

that's what I'm doing in this video I'm trying  to give you lots of different varied examples  

that help you understand something and if if one  example doesn't really help I'll just give you  

another one and then another one and then another  one and usually it clicks so remember I talked at  

the beginning of this video about people digging  for gold and a lot of people they stop before they  

actually get to the gold and that's what this  is right here so a person digging for gold like  

they just they hear uh hear a word and then they  get a definition or they use a translation uh of  

English uh and then that's it they they they  get like one little gold nugget but they don't  

really get to the the meat the the real core uh  understanding of the word and they still likely  

have some kind of doubt so they might worry  uh I'm not sure about the pronunciation uh is  

this the right use usage can I can I use this  word in this way can I take this phrasal verb  

and split it into different pieces or does it  have to be together these are all questions that  

if you answer them they allow you to speak more  fluently because the whole idea is fluency comes  

when you eliminate doubt okay so yes definitions  can be helpful but uh rather than a teacher just  

telling you something it's much easier if you  get stories and other examples like these varied  

examples here that help you understand it like  a native that's the whole point so that's why  

we call it learning English as a first language  because you're understanding it the same way a  

native would rather than understanding it you know  through a translation or just a definition okay  

so if you want to communicate fluently you have  to basically build this network by getting lots  

of examples and that's what eliminates the doubt  that stops you from speaking all right that's a  

long long response to that question but this this  comes up in every video because generally people  

have this same problem now most people think  uh that like learning a language is boring and  

frustrating because they're they're basically  getting a translation and then just trying to  

repeat something again and again uh and of course  that would be frustrating people want new stuff  

they want new information all the time and they  don't want to review so you have to combine these  

two things into naturally varied review which is  where you're learning about a topic and then you  

get more examples in different ways so you don't  just repeat the same thing repetition doesn't help  

you learn anymore uh but if you understand better  by getting lots of different examples that's when  

you actually start speaking all right uh let's  see if we have uh where else did I where did I  

stop over here uh okay Daniel I'm moving to  Chicago next month along with my daughter so  

what can we do to there to become fluent well  find something you're interested in and and go  

deep into that thing so that's what we're doing  in this video just a quick example of it Louis  

hello from Haiti I love your job glad to hear it  Alandra says hi thank you for the videos they have  

helped me a lot glad to Here recently I started  learning Chinese but I have doubts about how  

I should learn this interesting language with  first language approach well you you basically  

would start uh if you have someone who can help  you learn that's ideal um it's really difficult  

like even me learning Japanese by myself I don't  really have a teacher I and people think that that  

because my I have a Japanese wife that that's like  a benefit to me it's not really a benefit I can't  

ask her questions and have her uh answer those  because she's either too busy or tired or just  

I'm like how what does this word mean you know  it like even just explain it to me in Japanese  

or something uh and uh and she's just like no I I  I can't do it uh so I'm I'm a much better teacher  

and I actually enjoy teaching so if you have  someone who can help you do that that's a benefit  

uh but if you're trying to do it by yourself the  key is really to focus on something and make sure  

you understand it really well and I would start  with basic things about the language I don't  

know why if you need to learn Chinese if you're  just learning it for fun or whatever um but you  

like me I watch Japanese kids shows because the  language is a little bit easier I can understand  

new things in context there pictures that help  me show something is moving rather than trying to  

read a book that's really difficult and I don't  know all of the vocabulary for it so Japanese  

or even Chinese in particular um they would be  difficult for someone who's an English speaker  

or a Spanish speaker because the written language  is different okay so you really need someone to be  

able to give you this kind of review or you need  to get it yourself by watching YouTube videos or  

something I'll I'll give like a quick pause in  this video just to explain uh I was going to talk  

about it in a bit but uh this quick video this  quick explanation I'm giving about vocabulary for  

how to rob a bank this would be the beginning of  a lesson all right and the lesson would continue  

as you personally like went out and got more  information or watched more movies or whatever  

about robbing banks okay so remember the the guy  that's that's digging for gold over here here's  

the the pickaxe uh and he he sees some gold the  gold is down here we know it's there for sure  

it's guaranteed absolutely like in this case like  for language learning we know where the goal is  

okay now an actual person looking for gold maybe  they they're not for sure that no one told them  

exactly where the gold is but I'm guaranteeing  you the fluency the goal the gold is actually  

down here I know for sure that it is because as  you understand a language more you speak better  

okay so the whole point is like this lesson I'm  just giving you a couple of examples and making a  

little bit we're digging a little bit down into  the dirt over here and as you dig further and  

further by getting individual lessons from other  you know like watching movies or other people even  

on YouTube talking about how to rob a bank okay  or bank robbing or whatever you would learn about  

bank robbers you would learn about different  banks that were robbed or famous robberies in  

history something like that and this is assuming  you were interested in that now you might not be  

interested in robbing bank s that's fine I'm not  particularly interested in it either you know uh  

even I might watch a movie about robbing banks  but again I can focus on pretty much any topic  

and if I focus on it and get more varied input  about that thing that helps me understand the  

language better that's when I start speaking and  even if I focus on something like robbing a bank  

I can take that vocabulary and use it elsewhere  because I'm fluent in that vocabulary all right  

so this this is why it's important instead of  digging all these different holes in different  

places the gold is here we know the gold is here  absolutely for sure guaranteed I'm telling you  

it's here just keep digging that's it and you will  and in I guess in the like the language learning  

case like you actually get like there's more gold  as you go down it's it's like an even better way  

to think about it so if you stop up here by  just getting a translation or a definition  

that's where you will fail and by fail I just  mean you're you're learning a little bit where  

you might understand something but you won't  speak because you'll still not feel confident  

you're still unsure about things okay so that's  how you do it uh so we're talking about robbing  

a bank just it's a random topic uh and you could  learn more about it from movies or whatever but  

that's how you would do it so you think about your  interest whatever that is so for me when I came to  

Japan my interest was gardening and so learning  to make Japanese Garden so what did I do I found  

a a guy who could teach me Japanese gardening and  I didn't talk with him about hey teach me Japanese  

but he's a Japanese speaker and he's teaching  me about gardening in Japanese and so I'm going  

to learn both the language and the topic at the  same time okay so you would do this like a child  

learning their native language learns the same  way so they take uh like a parent is you know  

maybe like coloring something or playing with  some little toys uh and the child understands  

automatically oh okay like this is what this means  like we have something that's red and something  

that's blue and this other different color over  here and that's how the child understands without  

just getting a translation or a definition okay so  this whole whole process is about removing doubt  

and I'm just trying to give you a way to make  it fun and easy and interesting to do because  

what most people will do is they will learn some  random vocabulary and then they will stop they  

stop at the surface up here instead of continuing  to dig all right now I'm not telling you what to  

learn I'm telling you how to apply this idea all  right so what we do in fluent for life the reason  

we give people so many topics is because you can  you can learn whatever you want if you want to  

learn about animals or taking care of plants  or something go ahead you learn about that and  

go deep into that topic we show you how to do  that or if you want to learn about uh you know  

business related things got lots of topics that  cover business from different angles uh we talk  

about with different people you hear different  people speaking so all of those things all of that  

is going to eliminate the doubt so this is how you  would do it by yourself uh but it's also what we  

do if you've like someone to help you do that all  right uh hopefully that makes sense though so most  

people they will learn a lot of random vocabulary  they they develop an understanding of vocabulary  

uh but it's only at a low level and that's why  they can't speak they can understand people but  

they don't feel confident expressing themselves  because they have lots of uncertainty because they  

didn't go deep with the language and going deep  does not mean just repeating the same thing over  

and over it's getting different angles different  approaches different examples of vocabulary from  

different speakers different speeds all those  things that really help you understand uh let's  

see Z says hello from senagal yes see from Tunisia  nice to see again looking good all right another  

Alejandro from from Mexico minisha says hello Mr  Badger today I'm late I'll watch you later all  

right uh dragon says aive from Morocco thank  you for your effort I learned a lot from you  

keep going glad to hear Jose says it looks like I  finally catch you live very good from Wilmington  

all right Juan Carlos again once I finish this  month's lesson I'll be able to pull off on that  

situation is that correct all right so you would  be able to pull something off like I would be able  

to pull off like a particular thing so I would  like let's say I'm learning about uh how to raise  

chickens so I would be able to pull off raising  chickens or I would be able to pull off you know  

talking about raising chickens or something like  that now you don't you don't need to like take  

a phrasal verb and try to try to force it into a  situation but as you get more examples of it you  

will feel more confident so if you if you check in  the visual guide to phrasal verbs in your account  

uh you will see lots of these different examples  about how phrasal verbs work and they're very very  

very common very important to learn uh and that's  why we have a whole program that's dedicated to  

that right in fluent for Life uh but again uh as  you get more examples you will feel more confident  

and you will know how to check that because again  again again we're talking about understanding the  

patterns of language so as you get more examples  you hear oh it's interesting people can use the  

language in this way or this specific uh you  know group group of words or whatever in this  

phrase so very good keep practicing and you  will feel your improvement because you will  

notice yourself feeling less doubt uh let's see I  think did I skip a bunch of those let's see here  

um okay here we are Mundo great lesson Drew  really appreciate it glad to hear it Danielle  

says a fool question maybe that's maybe you didn't  mean that what's more important to reach fluency  

phrasal verbs or idioms because I want to focus  on one uh definitely ly phrasal verbs idioms are  

less frequently used and phrasal verbs will get  just that that the reason I made a whole program  

about phrasal verbs is because there are there's  so many benefits to learning them uh and if you  

know a few basic words like look at this we've  got pull and off and we've got uh what else did  

we have here maybe I erased it uh like we had  get and away those are very basic things that  

a child would learn but you learn how to apply  them and put them together in different ways  

it's like Legos or something like little building  blocks and when you combine them the right way you  

can make lots of different vocabulary but idioms  are actually quite specific and so we might learn  

an idiom and that idiom is a specific phrase or  expression that would be used in in a particular  

situation like you could I mean as an example like  hitting a home run or something I gave that before  

that's a phrase where you're learning something  and you could use that in other situations but  

it's that specific phrase to hit a home run you  have to remember it as it is and it's less uh  

useful because it's less commonly used all right  so it's it is like a very good phrase to know but  

if you're only going to focus on one thing and  that's exactly what I tell students to learn  

you focus on phrasal verbs uh you will get fluent  much faster that way and you will learn a lot more  

vocabulary because you're basically multiplying  your vocabulary without needing to learn a whole  

bunch of words pretty cool uh must says sir  how to say like a native come on and sit in  

my car there you go that's how you would say it  that sounds a little bit uh a little bit tricky  

though I would be careful with that Alejandra  says what is your approach for pulling off uh  

like pulling off learning Japanese again you would  say like pulling off learning Japanese but here  

you here you can just say what is your approach  for learning Japanese um or I'm trying to think  

of a of like a more natural simpler way of saying  that uh you could say like how did you pull off  

learning Japanese like it's typically something  like uh you you pull pull off just like I've given  

the examples here it's usually something you use  after something has already been done successfully  

so if I ask someone before they do something if  I say how would you pull off uh doing something  

it's it's it it's sounds a little bit odd because  it it it kind of means that I'm guaranteeing or  

or saying for sure that they will do something um  so if I say I'd like to pull off something like  

I'd like to pull off a a bank heist or I'd like  to pull off something else like uh it's a little  

more natural to use it that way but if you're just  talking about learning some skill then it's not  

really like a thing that you pull off in that way  if you're talking about it beforehand so you can  

just say how would you get fluent in something  so for me as I'm learning Japanese this is what  

I do so I I like this video is talking about a  broader topic of uh robbing banks but you you  

can also Focus that on learning individual words  or grammar points or something like that so for  

me I I have maybe a grammar Point like uh like  the difference between like M and uh like M so  

if I'm if I'm learning learning that uh it's it  took me a while like I can try to think about it  

logically and get an explanation it's like oh  this means like until and this is by and I can  

try to explain it to myself logically but that  none of that really okay so I recognize when I  

can use one and and when I can use the other and  that's the developing that sense it comes from  

getting all these different examples down here  rather than just trying to get a definition of  

something like that okay so remember the the ESL  approach everything is at a surface level okay  

so yes this latest uh she pulled off a Flawless  piece on the piano yeah so again uh she pulled  

off a Flawless piece remember that pull off it  implies that it was probably a difficult thing  

maybe people thought she couldn't do it okay so  if you're like a skilled person uh that's really  

good like like a skilled surgeon didn't pull off a  surgery like he just did that and it was easy and  

probably he's done that many many times but if he  pulled off a really difficult surgery that people  

didn't think he would do that's when you would  use pull off okay so you notice as I'm continuing  

to give more examples like this is this is how  the education process works so it's how you're  

eliminating doubt by well like what about this  situation or what about that one so your brain  

is trying to eliminate the doubt from situations  well how about we use it this way and as and if  

you're trying to learn by yourself that's how  you would do it you would ask yourself these  

questions and and look for examples like that but  if you have someone who's actually there uh or  

you have a program that lays all this out for you  then that's how you would do it all right so lot  

lots of good examples though all right uh I would  say none of them fluency does not have to do with  

learning adms or phrasal verbs uh well again like  if you're if you're trying to get fluent and you  

want to focus on some sort of vocabulary I would  um I would I would recommend phrasal verbs rather  

than idioms uh let's see I got away with cheating  on my test I remember that sentence yeah there you  

go so that's a common usage of that so I got away  with it very good G said hi Drew I have doubled  

the price of fluency Corb a year ago is about  236 now it's almost double Ste very expensive  

are people living in South Asia uh well I mean  actually lots of things have gone up but the  

the the price of if you're talking about fluent  for life like the full price of the program it's  

a it it gives you guaranteed fluency so you like  for people we have people all over the world who  

join the program and it's really for people who uh  it's worth it for them to be confident speakers so  

if like let's say I want to come to Japan I don't  really know Japanese I have two options I can try  

to learn the traditional way like the you know  in this it would be Japanese as a second language  

and I can struggle for a while and that's what  I did so I actually spent a year trying to learn  

Japanese and I failed to learn Japanese I wasn't  uh more confident uh in in learning the language  

or speaking the language uh even after a year of  learning until I started doing this so learning  

Japanese as a first language and that's when  I became fluent and this process happens with  

individual words and phrases so there is still a  lot of the language I don't know but I'm getting  

new lessons and by lessons I just mean examples  of things like that so if you're looking for more  

examples I don't want to spend too much time on  these but it's really easy to just get examples  

of that like go to Google and just type in  pull off and you will see lots of examples  

of different different vocabulary uh or different  sentences so you can ask Google uh or chat GPT or  

something give me 10 sentences using pull off that  are like varied sentences like like that and you  

will see examples I do recommend Google uh rather  than chat GPT because that's typically pulling  

examples uh that are made by humans and those are  probably going to be correct chat GPT or other uh  

AI can be uh incorrect sometimes I've noticed  uh far says what's in your course well you can  

click on the links in the description below this  video to learn more if you're interested in that  

uh but basically what I do in YouTube videos is I  I will teach a little bit of vocabulary um but one  

lesson is typically not enough to help people  understand because you'll probably still have  

some kind of doubt uh and part of that comes like  you know me explaining something and I'm using a  

slower clearer uh speech with uh typically easier  vocabulary but in the real world uh you might  

hear people that pronounce things differently or  blend their words or they Mumble more so what we  

do in fluent for life is we give you all of those  examples to help you understand things better uh  

and feel more confident about the language but  you can extend that by continuing to learn even  

more so a person might go through fluent for  life and and they focus on particular lesson  

sets uh but then they go to you know whatever  uh they want to learn more about a particular  

topic and they watch movies about that thing or  something but at that point uh they still uh they  

start improving naturally because they're just  they're they're they're reducing the doubt more  

and more and that's again how you get fluent  so you don't get fluent uh by just repeating  

things to yourself or others you get fluent by  understanding the vocabulary better uh let's

see uh Daniel says we really need to learn  everything like clean up clean out clean off  

yeah like the visual guide to phrasal verbs  would would help you it would give you like  

a great start for that uh if you're interested  in that you can search our YouTube channel for  

phrasal verbs and you'll see some example videos  of that uh let's see so here in South Asia the  

price should be RS I don't know what that means  uh it's a poor region again like if if uh if  

if you don't have like a lot of money to join  and you know that's okay I understand a lot of  

people maybe can't join the program you can enjoy  these videos right here I've got lots of content  

that will help people improve and many people  improve even just watching my videos and you can  

prove it is possible to learn without joining  any program like I don't I don't learn with a  

program for Japanese but it's much slower it's  much more difficult I would rather have a good  

program I've have not found one uh that actually  can teach me Japanese uh as a first language and  

give me all the examples I need uh so I just  use the world around me but it would be much  

nicer if I had a teacher that was like okay today  we're going to do this and I'm going to teach you  

this thing and then we're going to get these other  examples it would just be a lot faster easier um  

but again like if you don't have any if if you  have like no money then maybe learning English  

might not be a top priority or uh there are other  things that maybe you should focus on rather than  

doing that uh let's see could you please answer my  question at the end of the video there are verbs  

that trigger subjunctive mood like recommend uh  but is there any situation where it's mandatory  

that you use the subjunctive mve uh I don't want  to cover that in this this video but you uh like  

these are the kinds of things that we cover in  detail INF fluent for Life uh but you can also if  

you just want to get examples of the subjunctive  mood rather than someone telling you what it is  

just get lots of examples of that thing uh and  you will see ra again like uh I can give you a  

definition but it would probably be forgotten okay  so rather like the thing you get like you dig for  

the gold the gold the fluency that lets you use  the vocabulary without thinking that's over here  

as you get more examples of that thing all right  ild says how howdy I'm all ears Dr JGA says hello  

sir good day from Sri Lanka and from Vietnam I  from Egypt s from Pakistan let's see shm says  

why Wicked doesn't follow that rule that makes  Ed pronunciation like at the end of walked Walked  

uh and are there more words like it yes uh in  Frederick so we cover these different uses of that  

but again I can tell you a rule for something but  it's much better to just get lots of examples and  

you will understand it naturally and that's how  you remember to use it so we we have like a whole  

level about different Ed pronunciation uh and it  becomes more clear why why those have the rules  

that they are uh let's see M says I am casing  The Joint in the chat to see if I can answer  

all the questions uh let's see how would you pull  off these difficult phrases yeah that's that's a  

way to handle that or a way to say that Abraham  says but aren't a lot of meaning for the same  

word means that you need to memorize all them so  it's like knowing the meaning of a bunch of words  

yeah well like not not every word has a bunch of  meanings many of them do but the point is not to  

get a bunch of definitions if I go to Google and I  look up the word get seems like a very simple easy  

word but if you go to Google you will find like a  huge uh example or a huge like list of examples of  

all these different uses of get and you could try  to memorize that but I can I can almost guarantee  

that would not help you become a more fluent  speaker of get okay instead you should get lots  

of examples you get lots of examples that help  you understand that and that will help you get  

the meaning of it okay so we're the the point  is not to think like okay well here's this word  

and now we got these meanings stop trying to  memorize it because it's not going to help you  

okay it's like it's like the like the lady who  is uh who was painting the wall with the roller  

and the first time she noticed she was painting  something but there's still a like a a kind of  

Darker spot there and then she tried to paint over  it again but the darker spot was still there she  

did that a couple of times and she still didn't  just stop and think wait a minute maybe there's  

something wrong here and there's actually just  a shadow on the wall and that's what's stopping  

her from like you this is why usually painters  they put bright lights on the wall so they can  

see everything while they're painting and there  are no Shadows on it so uh in the same way lots  

of students don't learn that lesson they think  okay I'm going to learn a vocabulary word today  

or a phrase and I can't really remember it uh  but okay I maybe I remember it a little bit I  

can recognize it when people say it but I can't  use it fluently and they just stop or move on to  

the next phrase and do the same thing again okay  so be careful don't make this mistake if you're  

trying to get fluent and you already know a lot  of vocabulary but you can't use it then you're  

wasting your time okay so I'm trying to explain a  better way it's much better to focus on something  

and you actually become fluent in individual words  and phrases as you understand that vocabulary well  

as you eliminate the doubt if you don't eliminate  the doubt you won't speak okay it's I suppose you  

could but you would probably make mistakes and it  would be embarrassing for many people okay so this  

is why we learn this way we want to take something  and focus on it and really understand how that

works uh let's see all right I got those already  there can you give a schedule for these monthly  

live sessions uh they aren't they aren't like I  don't have a schedule typically they are usually  

Mondays and um uh and Thursdays so today is  what day today is uh I don't know what what  

today what day is today I think today is Thursday  isn't today what day is today is that is today I  

don't know yes it is a Thursday yeah I I don't I  don't really have a good sense for for time since  

I just I kind of do do r random things in the week  so this actually it kind of helps me uh but if I'm  

just in the middle of a lesson I don't know what  day it is so RS is rupees my earlier question was  

why has the price almost doubled in a year or so  uh the price has been it's been the same uh for  

the past year let's see uh but again like uh if  you if you're if you're if you're talking about  

the price of the program and you're unable to join  like I understand you know there may there there's  

some people who can't join the program I it's  okay you know you can that's why I still make  

all these videos and it's interesting that like  even though I have uh like premium programs and  

the people who join those programs they support  what I do this content that you're watching on  

YouTube it's completely free there aren't any  even advertisements before these videos um so  

I'm not I don't make like advertising Revenue  off of off of these I think Google or YouTube  

forces me to put some ads on like I have to have  like an image ad or something like that but you  

don't see any uh like pre-ad like like a like  an ad before the video anything like that um so  

no complaining you're getting you're getting  this content completely free it's ad free so  

uh even if even if people have no money they can  enjoy uh this content for the people who do and  

it's like important for them to have English  for their life like they see the benefit like  

when when people talk about a product or something  being expensive you have to think about what the  

value of that is so if working uh if I'm let's  say trying to work in a Japanese company and I  

could earn I don't know like an extra I don't  know like $10,000 a year and that's only just  

one year if I could get a promotion or something  uh and earn more by becoming a fluent speaker of  

Japanese then it's worth a lot of money to me to  be fluent and that means I would be willing to  

pay a lot of money to become fluent uh because if  I'm fluent in Japanese then I can not only enjoy  

this job but maybe other jobs and this is for  the rest of my life so being a good speaker of  

the language you need to speak is it's basically  the most important skill you could have so if you  

need to speak English for your life then like I  mean any like the the the program like the price  

of the program is actually really cheap for what  it is and the fact that we guarantee fluency so  

you can join lots of programs and they will teach  you give you lots of translations give you lots  

of definitions but they won't give you fluency  okay so uh anybody that that's unable to join  

I understand like even you know I could make the  price of the program a dollar and and there would  

be still people uh not able to join for whatever  reason uh Daniel says teacher I've been using the  

app Android for a long time flashcards I'm  not sure if it's useful what do you think  

should I use another method to memorize words  um oh you're using like flashcards or whatever  

yeah I I wouldn't I wouldn't use flashcards  are useful for review after you already know  

something pretty well but they're not really  good for uh actually learning the information  

because they don't teach you anything new so as  an example me um I can give you I'll give you an

example here is a stack of flash cards that I have  that I made for learning Japanese characters um  

and so just to show you that like I actually  do use flashcards but I use them differently  

than what most people do uh and in my case like  uh I don't also like you you'll see like it's  

my flash cards are quite funny my handwriting is  also really tiny so here's an example uh of just  

learning uh like a Japanese just a Japanese  character uh and I'm actually using English  

to help me do this uh and the reason I'm using  English is because when you're writing something  

you have time to think uh but I I typically don't  use English like I'm not trying to learn Japanese  

through English but what I'm doing with those  flash cards is is spending more time trying to  

think of a good story to help me remember  it and then I write it down on the flash  

card and then I check that flash card later  um and and see if I remember what that thing  

is um but anyway hopefully hopefully that makes  sense so uh if it's helpful for you keep doing  

it but if you're if you're worried that it's  not helpful it probably isn't helpful so I I  

don't want to just tell you don't use flash  cards uh but it's more typically how people  

are using uh flash cards and that's that's  what gets you fluent or not okay so typically  

flash cards are good for recalling things or or  practicing that after you've already understood  

it but if you're just trying to force yourself to  remember things it's going to be less helpful for

you uh let's

see uh uh okay price for complete bundle is very  expensive for South Asians thanks for answering me  

glad all right today uh today's Wednesday isn't  it well it's I'm in Japan all right Keith says  

hello uh from China ni to see you there it's  like a yogish all right had a bunch of don't  

don't spam the chat so if you if like I'm going  through questions and I'm taking time to answer  

people if they have questions but don't spam  the chat Abraham says another question sir do  

I understand you very well but does that mean  that I can understand any native speaker or  

you are speaking slower yes so I'm I'm speaking  more slowly more clearly I'm using more basic  

language than I would in a normal conversation  okay so that's why people people think okay I  

can understand you please evaluate my English  like these are two different things okay so you  

have uh the ability to understand one person  but this is why it's so important to get all  

these different examples so maybe your mother  speaks clearly but you have a friend who does  

not or you hear some different person who who  communicates in a different way and this is how  

natives develop their strong understanding of  listening to lots of different people natives  

get lots and lots and lots of varied input okay I  call this naturally varied review it's how you're  

actually able to understand things uh by getting  these different examples from people so if you  

only listen to One clear teacher or even a few  teachers like if you're watching lots of videos  

on YouTube about learning English and you're  not feeling more fluent it's because the real  

world speaks differently and you actually need  to prepare yourself for that world rather than  

just learning things in English uh here on YouTube  okay so like only watching my videos here it will  

be helpful for people uh but it's uh less uh it's  it's it's it's basically part of the part of what  

you need to get fluent okay all right I think I  got to the end of them let's see go this last time  

I checked the price it was 236 now it's over 400  is that correct sense uh you just say last time I  

checked you don't need a comma there all right uh  Mundo says let's dive into the lesson Drew please  

please help me I need to get a lot of examples in  Chinese thank you very much for answering me good  

night okay uh we'll answer let's see I think I had  two more things we'll go we'll cover these quickly  

since we're already what time is it now it's  already 11 we've been going for 74 minutes over

here all right uh so let's see number four is to  cover Your Tracks all right I'll make a quick note  

uh before I explain this is when when if you're  just listening to speakers like you're listening  

to me you will learn a lot of English just by the  way I speak like that that is the lesson okay so  

just like my children at home they they get to  hear me talk and they hear me explain different  

things and that's how they're they're learning  a lot and eliminating a lot of the doubt that  

stops them from speaking uh so when people are  like well just you know focus on the words or  

I need to remember this specific phrase it's like  like a very tiny part of the language I know it's  

what people are most interested in because that's  what they think about but if you recall if you  

remember if you keep in mind how you learned your  native language it's actually it's it's like the  

the whole picture the whole system you're getting  okay so cover Your Tracks uh this is a good thing  

like imagine you're walking uh in uh we got some  Footprints over here we'll imagine so here here's  

somebody walking these a you know imagine them  walking and and these are their footprints in the  

snow or they're walking in a store or something  like that and they leave some Footprints we also  

call these tracks so animal tracks the same  thing just like we have train tracks we have  

animal tracks or Footprints are the same thing so  you want to cover Your Tracks so as you uh commit  

a crime or you're trying to do something where  you don't want people to know what you did you  

want to cover Your Tracks so in this case I'm  erasing them it's the same BAS basic idea but  

if I Maybe cover them with more snow or something  that's called covering your tracks so if I if I am  

at home uh and I I'm kind of like stealing some  some cookies or something I'm taking them maybe  

my my wife doesn't want me to eat those but I'm  I'm kind of stealing a little bit of the cookie  

or something and I'm like let's say I I have a a  cookie uh and she doesn't want me to eat any of  

the cookie but I I I I take like a big bite out  out of one cookie and if I just leave that there  

she will know that that I had some of the cookie  because she can see this this big bite mark and  

and she knows that the kids have a smaller bite  mark all right so if I eat that part of the cookie  

so maybe what I do I take the cookie I kind of  like cut it down so it's a it's smaller like that  

I'm covering my tracks and now like the size of  the cookie is a little bit smaller but she won't  

she won't notice it so I'm covering my tracks  covering my tracks again the idea here is we can  

take something from robbing a bank and apply it  to other situations so if I if I make a mistake  

or I steal something or I'm doing something and  I don't want people to know about it I want to  

cover my tracks so if I visit like some websites  or something and I don't want people to know it I  

delete my history I'm covering my tracks all right  I'll tell a quick uh like in America we have these  

things called uh like blond jokes so like the the  idea is that like like blondes like blonde hair  

and this is this is It's like a kind of like style  of joke or whatever uh but like two two blondes we  

imagine like two blond-haired women are are are  walking in a forest and they come across some  

tracks so they see some tracks on the ground and  the first blond says uh those are Bear Tracks so  

like a bear a bear was walking here and the second  blonde says says no no no those are deer tracks  

and so they start arguing and arguing until they  get hit by a train that's a we call that a dumb  

a dumb blonde joke but it helps you understand  it's a different kind of meaning for the word of  

tracks okay so as I explained before you can have  animal tracks or people or train tracks something  

like that all right all right uh and the last  one what was the last one number five to cut a  

deal you will hear this a lot especially in crime  TV shows or lawyer shows to cut a deal typically  

means uh you're you're giving something up you  don't really like you know maybe let's say the  

the robbers they actually don't get away with it  they are caught by the police uh and so they cut  

a deal with the police the police say you could go  to jail for 10 years but we will we will cut that  

sentence down to only I don't know one year if you  tell us who you are working for uh and so they cut  

a deal they say okay like give us less prison time  uh we will tell you who who we are working for all  

right so there's actually like a bigger Crime Boss  or something like that so to cut a deal typically  

means you're like you're not in an advantageous  position you don't you know there's some reason  

why you would not be able to do something uh and  so you have to accept Less in a way so you cut  

a deal you cut a deal but rather than go into all  of these V all of these uh phrases into even more  

detail I just highly recommend you watch more of  this kind of content uh about robbing banks and  

again you could it could be any kind of thing  you could even be reading books or you could  

be watching uh movies or TV shows about this  kind of thing if you're interested in that but  

it doesn't matter what you're interested in the  important thing is that you're focusing on you  

know whatever uh whatever that is all right so  find something you are interested in and focus  

on that all right let me see if we're still  live over here maybe I'm not connected over  

here but I think we should be working all right  uh but I think that's the end if the chat has  

still let's see I think people all right perfect  timing for the live stream says Muhammad well we  

at the end actually of the live stream but you  can go back and watch it later uh hopefully I  

think we should be able to should be going live  hopefully this didn't just get cut off uh but we  

will end it here uh so I can save my voice and  if you have any questions you can uh just ask  

in the chat or you can send us an email at info@  English anyone.com all right glad to hear we are  

still live uh but hopefully you get the idea here  so if you're learning a lot of vocabulary but you  

don't actually feel more fluent the reason is you  probably haven't you haven't dug deep enough you  

haven't really gone for the gold over here to  really understand something so I I promise you  

instead of trying to learn a hundred words and  forgetting them just try to learn two or three  

and uh it might seem like slower uh or you're  learning less at first but I promise you while  

other people are continuing to struggle and learn  the same way and they're not they're not learning  

from their mistake uh you will be progressing  like that your fluency will accelerate as you  

learn more and you start understanding more  and that's how you get fluent faster okay  

all right uh hopefully everyone has a fantastic  day and I will see you in the next video byebye