The #1 Grammar Mistake English Language Learners Make

hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's

number one English Fluency Guide and in

this video we're going to be talking

about the number one grammar mistake

that English language learners make I

get so many questions from learners that

have problems with being able to

understand grammar or more importantly

even if they do understand how grammar

works they can't use it automatically

and fluently when they speak so I wanted

to begin this video before talking about

the actual mistake people make more

talking about why you actually have this

problem typically people will be not

having the ability to use grammar

automatically because they have learned

it in a way that's taught them grammar

rules but hasn't taught them how to

actually use the grammar without

speaking now people are learning the

language like a robot or a computer in

most traditional language classes they

get a list of grammar rules and often

even in the videos that you'll see right

here on YouTube with people are teaching

grammar they're doing it the traditional

way to give you a list of things written

on a whiteboard and they explain its

this tense and then if we want to talk

about the past then you change it and it

basically goes on to explain things that

you understand logically but because you

haven't trained yourself to use these

things automatically that's really what

stops you from being able to get fluent

now this isn't your fault because this

is the way that native speakers have

taught non-native speakers for many many

years or even people that are non-native

speakers that are also trying to help

other non-native speakers learn the

language I've been teaching it it's just

a traditional typical way and this is

what we were fighting against with

English anyone and trying to help people

see that you should be learning things

visually and then understanding things

and practicing them much more so that

you can actually use them confidently

and correctly automatically when you

speak so the number one mistake people

make is not with a particular grammar

point it's more about the learning of

grammar in general you may have been

learning this way ever since you began

learning the English language or any

other language you're studying but it's

now your opportunity to change the way

you learn so you can start training

yourself to speak because what you

really need to do if you want to use

correct grammar automatically is to

practice using grammar and to learn it

the right way the first thing you need

to do to become a master of grammar so

that you can use it automatically is to

learn it visually you don't want to

learn

things where you're just reading it in a

textbook and getting a translation of

what your verb is to what a verb is in

English this is another one of the

really big problems that people make and

this is why maybe if you do hesitate

when you speak this is one of the big

reasons why this happens as an example

if I'm trying to learn Spanish I don't

actually see somebody running or

drinking or whatever and then learn the

spanish word for those things i'm just

reading in a dictionary maybe I see the

word like I don't know bear for drink if

that means drink I don't remember I took

like a little bit of Spanish and failed

it in school anyway but this idea of

just having something in a textbook

where you have to drink and then you

have the opposite thing the translation

of that next to it and then you're just

supposed to remember what those things

are now some people are able to do this

but I was not and I know a lot of the

people that follow me here watching

these videos have trouble understanding

in that way as well so what you have to

do number one is learn everything in

English and the way you do that is doing

it visually especially with verbs and

this is why we have all these little

video clips in these videos and I try to

demonstrate things visually as opposed

to just writing things up on a

blackboard it's important to see what

things look like you know to have the

spelling something like that but really

the most important thing is connecting

the meaning of something that you're

learning with the word that you're

trying to remember so I'm not trying to

translate from your language into

English but by taking a word where

you're seeing somebody running and then

you see I ok the word is to run for that

so the first step to grammar mastery is

to learn everything visually through

English the second step is once you've

mastered the grammar itself to

understand and practice using it by

telling it in different ways as an

example I could just maybe if I'm

speaking in a very simple way talked

about yesterday I went to a party or

tomorrow I will go to a party so I'm

taking something and I'm just making

different sentences in my mind by

practicing something and again I'm

connecting the meaning of something not

with a particular verb tense but in the

same way children would learn it it's

almost like you know if we look at the

verb to eat so if a child is listening

to a verb like that and I here as a

young

someone says I eat dinner and I'm

watching them they are eating right now

ok I understand what that means I eat

but if I here I ate dinner yesterday I'm

actually hearing these as two different

words it's not until we get a little bit

older that we connect oh these are

different tenses of the same thing so

we're actually really getting to the

meaning of something just this word

eight means to do something in the past

tense but then maybe like it's a little

bit easier to see when you have a

regular verb but something irregular

like to eat when it becomes eight

something it becomes a little bit more

difficult to understand but again this

is why you should be connecting with the

meaning directly so the first time

you're connecting with the meaning

directly is seeing something visually

and the second time is you're connecting

with the tents by hearing that thing and

understanding what the meaning of that

is so if you understand the time period

ok yesterday my friend did something so

we're not talking about right now we're

talking about a period in the past

instead of he does something now or he

will do something in the future he did

something in the past now these are both

of the steps that we do in master

English conversation but however you

like to learn keep these two things in

mind and that will help you improve your

English grammar and use it and really

become a much more competent user of

correct grammar automatically well I

hope you have enjoyed this quick video

really it's a very simple process for

mastering grammar once you stop doing it

the traditional way so if you're trying

to learn something like you're a Spanish

speaker and trying to learn English

through Spanish or Portuguese or any

other language Chinese French Italian

you have to remove all of those other

languages and connect exactly with the

English language through visual

exercises so something where you

actually get to see what's happening and

learning in the same way a child does

and then listening to stories which

explain okay we have a particular tense

and we're trying to show you exactly how

something works but we're again

connecting with the meaning of that as

opposed to trying to drill tenses and

remember grammar point all of these

things are really simple and will help

you improve but you have to actually

practice these things so just take a few

things maybe a few sentences and then

play with that so learn it as a visual

thing and then try practicing okay if I

did that thing yesterday how would the

sentence sound so yesterday I

sindh to music today I am listening or

right now I am listening to music if you

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use grammar correctly it's really not

difficult to become a master of grammar

but you have to stop learning at the

traditional way finally if you do want

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