The Secret To INSTANT English Speaking Confidence

hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's

number 1 English Fluency Guide and in

this video I'm going to give you my

number one secret to instant

conversation confidence so that when you

begin your conversations you can feel

very excited to begin speaking I'm going

to keep this video very short but I

thought I would just give a few examples

of how I begin conversations out here in

Japan with people I don't even know

every day when I'm walking around I try

to approach people it could be even just

very quickly like someone I see at a

train station or especially if I'm like

if I'm waiting for a bus or waiting at a

train station i might just begin having

a conversation with somebody so I might

find some reason to do it but the thing

that I use in order to get myself

excited and just prepare for the

conversation even if I don't know

exactly what I'm going to talk about is

I imagine the person is an old friend of

mine so even people i've never met

before when i walk up to them or if i

greet somebody especially if i go to a

convenience store or any store I walk in

I say hey like how are you and I and I

say this with a big happy voice kind of

like a more important reason I do it

also so people won't won't be scared I'm

kind of like a big foreigner that's in

this town of you know it's not very big

so people are often a little bit nervous

when they think oh no maybe this person

doesn't speak any Japanese so I have to

kind of make them relax make them calm

down a little bit but when I walk into a

place and I say hey like it's like

really great to see you I just walk and

I say oh hello and often i will look at

maybe the name tag of someone and i will

use their name and people typically are

in a robotic kind of way in you know

looking at people and they kind of do

their their normal routine like

especially people at a convenience store

in Japan they just you know they they

take your items they say hello welcome

to the store and they take your items

and scan them and they give them back to

you but if you try to begin a

conversation with them they think wow

like I'm now having a real human

connection with people so I've talked

about this before in a previous video I

don't remember which one exactly but I

was talking about advice for how to go

out and like just develop your fluency

in general just by meeting and speaking

with more people but with this video I'm

really

talking about the psychology of how you

do that and this is by imagining that

these are people that you've known for a

really long time so I don't just say

like hello I'm saying a like Hello like

I get like quite excited when I see

people and especially in Japan and this

is a bit more of a kind of generally

conservative place where you're meeting

people and people are not so friendly or

not so quick to develop really deep

relationships with people very quickly

but I like trying to do that so it's a

different thing than what people are

used to but also that makes it a bit

more likely that i'm able to make a

connection with these people into to get

them into a conversation of some kind

now if you're a little bit nervous if

you're thinking about how do i begin a

conversation or i don't know what to say

just begin with hello the point is just

to develop a sense or like the

confidence the courage to say hello to

people that you've not met before and

even if you're the one beginning that

conversation so even if I don't speak

any Japanese at all I would just say oh

hello and I'm just like being you know

very friendly and open and inviting with

people but I do that by imagining myself

as just having known that person for a

really long time so that's just a quick

tip for you today again it's not

something that like you need to think

about learning more vocabulary in order

to do it a lot of the real secret to be

to becoming a fluent speaker is to

change the psychology that you have the

ways that you think about things and

these are what's really going to help

you become a much more confident speaker

because there are many people I know

like personal students throughout the

years that I've had they know a lot of

information and even they know more

English than I know in Japanese so they

know more words or phrases that they can

tell me all about grammar points in

English and I say wow I don't know any

of that stuff in Japanese but the

difference is that I actually can get

out into a conversation and start

speaking confidently with people so it's

not about how much you know it's more

about the way you think about the

situation and can you get out and just

begin by trying to have a more a kind of

personal a human connection with people

and you taking the initiative about that

so you starting something and you

deciding it's a great idea just to say

like Hello like you haven't seen someone

in a long time I walk into a store all

hello how are you and people like wow

they're like really

is about that in most people like oh

like I'm doing well thank you you know

so they might think it's a little bit

surprising but at the same time it's

really an opportunity for me just to

develop that sense of being able to

start a conversation with anyone at any

time even if I don't know how it's going

to go so think about this this try to

imagine people that you see just give

them like a smile and say hello like the

worst they do is maybe not respond to

you but you know so what you're the one

that got practice even you know like

whether they say anything or not so

you're always winning in that situation

regardless of what the other person does

so this is a great way to begin a

conversation with instant confidence and

i hope you apply it i look forward to

seeing you in the next video and if

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