The Secret To Spontaneous English Speech

englishanyone.com and the English fluency guide  welcome to another live video here on YouTube  

today we're going to talk about the secret  to spontaneous speech so this is really the  

same thing as fluent speech it just means being  able to speak without thinking or hesitating or  

translating uh I will say though at the beginning  of this that it's not a bad thing to think in your  

head sometimes like even right now I need to  maybe think a little bit about what I'm going  

to say the problem is when you get stuck trying  to think and translate uh and you're more trying  

to plan out rules rather than actually trying to  speak fluently all right it looks like look at  

that we got uh Asia represented over there tubasa  nice to see you there and I can't read the hungu  

but uh hello nice to see you hopefully everybody  good morning long time no see gam back over there  

Ohio Drew say Ohio and welcome back good morning  to everyone uh so this should be actually not that  

long of a video but I always say that and then the  videos are long let's see Ramadan from Kurdistan  

nice to see you there K changy I can't read that  Chinese I know I know I can like guess what that  

is but let's see well Olympia is back oh my heart  okay all right looks like everybody's excited oh  

it's good to see over here a good sign a good  sign see make sure I don't miss anybody what  

Nils is back look at that Martha nice to see you  there glad to see you well it's a pleasure to see  

everybody over there uh let's get right into the  lesson so I wanted to begin as I usually do with  

a quick story well and Sam is back Sam Walton  the famous Sam Walton uh nice to see everybody  

here uh so this was an interesting story uh I  want to before I tell the story though just to  

give kind of an example I often remind people  of this uh and especially if new people are  

watching the Channel I want to tell people right  at the beginning of this video that they there are  

really two ways of learning English or any other  language the first is learning English as a second  

language where you're basically trying to learn  the rules like a linguist uh and you're mostly  

using your native language to translate things  in your language into English so you begin by  

thinking about something in English or excuse me  thinking about something in your native language  

and then you want to translate that in your head  before you speak and if you can do this process  

quickly enough you can kind of speak fluently  but but it's much easier if you learn English  

as a first language instead and that's what we'll  be talking about in this video uh so I really want  

to talk about communicating spontaneously uh  and I Do cover this a lot on the channel but  

I thought this was a slightly different angle of  way I could talk about this U to help more people  

understand how this process works uh so let's say  I'm a let's just say I'm a French native French  

speaker I'm not I don't speak French but let's  imagine I am um and I'm learning actually no  

let's take we'll take let's let's imagine I'm like  an Arabic speaker because that's like a completely  

different language than English how it's written  and spoken um so if I have a word that I'm trying  

to learn like I I learn a word like make sure  this fits over here super uh it doesn't need  

to be capitalized but let's just say I'm going  to capitalize it here uh super so I'm trying to  

learn a word and I don't know any English at  all and the first word I learn is super and  

I don't really have a way of understanding that  uh so I just get a translation through my native  

language so I'm going from Arabic into English I  don't know what the Arabic word for super is you  

can put it in the chat if you like uh but this is  basically how people are learning the language so  

anytime I want to say something is super then  I would first think about that uh I would kind  

of think about what I want to say in Arabic and  then I would translate that into English and then  

say the word super but but I wanted to tell you a  quick story about me as a native English speaker  

and how I learned this word so I didn't learn  this word through Japanese or Arabic or French  

or any other language uh I learned it as a native  speaker so all in the English language all right  

uh so this is an interesting story uh if we begin  with the word we just have the word super and I  

wanted to use a basic word like this just because  it's an example that even a child can understand  

uh and it's a common word but hopefully it will  make you think a little bit differently as I give  

you this story so when I was a young a young boy  you know 5 years old 6 years old 7 years old I  

knew who Superman was like the superhero you know  I knew about superhero Superman and I knew that  

wow this Superman so you have like a regular man  and then like Superman he's just like a amazing  

and powerful and does things better uh than other  people he can fly and other things like that so I  

learned that like I I knew what a man was like I  could tell like man and woman I knew what a man  

was and so when I learned Superman as like like  a comic book character in a movie I understood  

this was a person who was more powerful better  at a higher level than regular people now what  

was interesting though I didn't really think  much about the word super I just learn oh okay  

I guess you know it's just it's like this guy  is like better than other things so super must  

mean better or if you go to like McDonald's or  something you have like super size now I don't  

think that's even offered at McDonald's anymore  but if you want to get a super sizee of something  

it means you're getting a larger version of it so  a regular drink might look like this but a super  

size is like that this is why Americans are  probably fatter than they should be uh excuse  

me but anyway so this is the super size over here  now here's the interesting story so I was at a uh  

I think it was like a like a play or an opera or  something like that probably an opera uh I don't  

remember how old I was I was still young uh but  I'm watching this show so I'm sitting in the uh  

let's just put some chairs down here here's  the show and you have some people up up here  

you know singing I'm sorry these are bad pictures  of people but here I am I'm sitting down here and  

I'm I'm there with my mom uh and I'm watching the  show and I noticed uh that you have uh like there  

were words up here because you know the Opera  was in Italian or whatever language they were  

singing probably Italian and I I saw there  were words up here and I knew like oh look  

at that you've got you've got like the words  up there and my mom said yeah those are the

supertitles the super titles the super  titles now I said oh that's interesting  

because I heard like when you're watching  a movie make sure I fit this in here or  

even if you're watching this right  now uh this is a live version so the

subtitles the subtitles will not uh be  ready until after the video is finished  

so if you're looking for subtitles and you're  watching live you'll just have to come back  

and watch it again later uh but when I when I  knew about that I already knew about subtitles  

so I had heard about that I had seen movies and  I just knew that was the word you know subtitles  

but when I heard oh that's interesting super  titles supertitles that's for the words above  

the screen rather than under the screen  so we call them supertitles I think sir

titles sir titles is also another word for these  but the idea of supertitles something being over  

above what we have and this is a physical  understanding of look at that we have this  

thing over something else and the subtitles  are under the video and so as I learned that  

I understood what super meant not because I  was getting a definition of it but because I  

continued to get lots of examples and again  this is only like one one more example but  

each time you get another example of that thing  that that puts another layer onto your fluency  

and U basically coming from your understanding and  that's what enables you to speak spontaneously so  

because I was I was feeding my brain I mean in  this case this is my mom teaching me something  

she said oh yeah those are the supertitles  the supertitles so I could have said oh yeah  

look at the subtitles above the play or above  the movie or whatever above the the Opera but  

she said no those are the super titles so isn't  that interesting so at that moment when I heard  

that like you can feel that in your brain where  you where you hear like oh look at that that's  

interesting like even if you already know  what super means here's another use of it  

that you probably hadn't thought about especially  non-native Learners uh most of them are familiar  

with the word subtitle and they might even know  okay sub means under just the same way you might  

have here some water here and a submarine uh is  like under the water so sub Marine submarine or

subpar this is from golf par is like what you  need to what you should normally be getting how  

many times you hit the ball before you get it  into the little hole so subpar is kind of like  

below that like you're not very uh very good or  you're not doing something very well like oh I  

just tried this new like pasta restaurant and it  was kind of subpar wasn't very good all right so  

as you're learning these things this is the way  a native learns it so you just learn this thing  

too as a first language as a first language  all right so I wanted to give you this quick  

example uh just to show you that really what we  need for spontaneous speech is lots of input so  

I don't become a better speaker by repeating  the word super over and over and over again  

I I become a better speaker by understanding  what the word really means in English okay so  

I'm not trying to learn it through a translation  I'm trying to get more connections of the word  

just like we've got sub here we've got  sub here we've got I'll write the word

sub submarine a submarine and so here we have  what you can guess what Marine probably means  

Marine refers to the water the ocean that kind  of thing like a marine so if we have marine

life marine life means animals that live in the  water in the ocean marine life and so as you get  

all these connections again I'm not doing this  through another language I'm not using Chinese  

to understand what something means I'm getting  more varied examples of these things to really  

understand them and when I really understand  something that's when I speak all right so two  

things about this video uh that I wanted to make  clear at the beginning here uh the first one is  

that when you're learning something like this  again we don't want to try to get translations  

or even definitions of words we want to kind  of form a natural definition or understanding  

of a word by getting lots of examples of it so  I've given you these with like the word super  

and the word or the word part here uh sub so  this would be like a prefix uh even if we have  

a word like subscribe similar kind of thing so a  slightly different meaning uh we might have like  

subpar submarine or subtitle but as you get these  different meanings you will come to understand oh  

that means like under or below but you understand  that naturally without without someone telling you  

what that means you discovered that yourself by  me giving you this example okay so when you feel  

confident when you know the thing really well it  will come out from you spontaneously automatically  

so you will know oh wow I can talk about something  being like super good like really good or super  

in some other way in the same way we have super  titles okay now the other thing is uh is kind of  

a like a a tricky thing about language learning  is that people feel comfortable with a particular  

way of learning even if it's not working for  them very well so many people will continue  

to try to uh practice try try to practice their  speaking or or they will continue to study more  

and more even though that's not really helping  them become a more confident speaker but they  

do it because it's comfortable to do it it's the  way they know how to do that so this is why when  

I'm trying to show you a different way of doing  things English as a first language rather than  

learning English as a second language I want  to do it in easy small simple very even Tiny  

Steps like giving you an example of one word  or two words or word Parts things like that  

that help you understand the language and then  they get you used to feeling more comfortable  

and more confident and these these two things  work together all right uh George says it's  

Omni Omni Omni means like everything Omni so  if we have a word like Omni I mean you could  

even if you get a word or a like a prefix or a  suffix something like that like these kind of  

things so Omni like if something is omnipresent  it means it's everywhere where so you could think  

like God is omnipresent like something that's  uh present in every place in every time every  

location omnipresent or omnip we we we would say  like omnipotent p o t n t excuse me omnipotent but  

we say it as omnipotent omnipotent omnipotent  means all powerful so Omni just means all or  

everything all right but as you get more examples  I don't want to just give you like Omni and then  

here's a definition of it the definition actually  comes from your understanding and that comes from  

getting lots of varied examples of that thing okay  what does it mean prompt or what does prompt mean  

prompt means like well it could mean different  things actually uh if you mean prompt like being  

on time uh then like I am prompt to the meeting  uh or at a particular location I am prompt for  

that thing or I could prompt you by getting you  to do something at a certain time so I say okay  

we're going to start speaking in three two one  go and so that's your prompt that's me telling  

you okay now it's time to do something but again  uh the point is not to get lots of definitions  

of words so we don't really want translations  and we don't really want definitions either and  

one of the problems with definitions is that  it makes it's it's kind of telling you a way  

to think about a word uh but almost always  you will you will expand or you will deepen  

that definition as you get more examples so it's  important to understand the meanings of words in  

situations and then as you get that same word used  in other situations usually related situations you  

will come to understand that word better okay so  hopefully this makes sense the basic idea is that  

we want to get lots of uh lots of varied examples  of things that really help us understand because  

the understanding is what enables the spontaneous  speech so if we don't want to think and translate  

through our native language we shouldn't learn  that way okay let me say that again if we don't  

want to think and translate through our native  language we should not learn that way so how you  

learn is how you speak I've repeated this many  many times how you learn is how you speak okay  

but it's also important if you're if you've been  learning for many years like the typical way of  

trying to study grammar rules or translations and  now you want to switch you have to also have your  

brain feel comfortable with that because typically  if you don't know a word the first thing you will  

do is look it up in a dictionary and usually get  like a translation through your native language  

but the better way to do that is to try to get  a bunch of varied examples so you can do that  

with YouTube or Google you know anything even  like this so I can type in a word in Google  

like super in like or chat GPT or whatever and to  say give me examples of words with this with this  

uh it could be like a prefix or a suffix or just  something that has the word super in it and as you  

get these different examples the the collection  of of these things together it forms a network  

and that's what uh enables you to speak fluently  okay so you become fluent in individual words and  

phrases as you learn them and then you just do  that with more words and phrases and that's how  

you get fluent very quickly and you're just doing  it like a native okay hopefully this makes sense I  

knew it wouldn't take a long time to explain this  it really is a simple idea and I have covered it  

many times on the channel before but I thought  this was a helpful example uh especially because  

it came from my own childhood me learning the  language as a native speaker so this is what it  

means to learn a language as a native speaker or  to learn it as a first language all right let's go  

back and check chat now if people have questions  about uh anything whatever could be related to  

this or not I'm happy to answer all those right  now all right uh let's see Martha right there  

from Venezuela nice to see you and ilder nice to  see you uh let's see tdt from uh Ottawa a new a  

newcomer yes you'd say I'm a newcomer a newcomer  uhak says hi from Al Mor Japan always fun to  

listen to you big thanks to you it's my pleasure  Amy from Indonesia let's see and again Sam says  

hi Sandra nice to see you again teacher gam Super  Mighty Man yes super duper yes you can also say  

super and super teacher yes you guys are great  uh Guadalupe hello there uh let's see I think I  

answered that one already vital says nice to see  you from VRA Ukraine excuse me uh Neil said love  

your examples glad to hear it Glen sham do you  mean subtitles under the screen and supertitles  

over the screen yes that's correct and submerge  yet so the same idea to submerge something is  

like you could have like merging something and  you could submerge something as well so we want  

to put something like under under something else  and that could be a physical idea or a figurative  

one uh looks like Pavo if I'm pronouncing that  correctly from Poland uh let's see okay I answered  

that question already Solomon says sanctions I  don't know if you're asking what that means you  

left me on red you left me on red are you asking  like what what that means or if there's like a  

question about that let me know what you mean  Neil says is there a difference between could  

and might or both have the same mean meaning well  the the way to answer questions like this is to  

look for examples where they do have the same  meaning or where they don't so all we need is  

one counter example to maybe change the way we  think about something or to answer a question  

like that so could so when when can we use  could uh without being able to use might for an

example so if we have could like I could I

could come to the party whoops I need to stop  speaking and writing at the same time I could  

come to the party now if we change this to  I might do these sentences have the same  

meaning I could come to the party or I might  come to the party now could here we have like  

the possibility of doing something so I could  come to the party so if I'm thinking well what  

should I do tonight I don't have any plans so I  could I could go to a movie I could go swimming  

I could go meet my friend I could go have  dinner someplace I could come to the party  

or I could go to the party but might and make  sure I'm answering this question if I didn't  

like make sure we got that correctly uh yeah  so if I might come to the party we're talking  

about how probable it is like to what degree so  let's say I have like if we're going to measure

this so if we have let me just draw like from  zero to 100% so I might come to the party as  

like I don't know like 70% I might I might come  to the party or let's say if I'm if I'm definitely

coming I'm definitely coming I'm absolutely coming  that's 100% all right but 70% like yeah I might or  

I might not so here we have an example where  they mean two different things all right now  

we could also talk about like uh like could you  could you or like might might you do something  

thing like in that in that in that case uh  we can use them in the same way so this is  

an example of when they would have a different  meaning but sometimes they could have the same  

meaning like might let's see or like could you  help me so I say could you help me uh or if I  

might like someone might say like might like  might you help me or might you be able to help  

me might you be able to help me and in that  case they're basically the same meaning where  

you're just like is it possible for you to do  something okay so here we're talking about how  

probable like what is the possibility of  something like will I or will I not uh but  

again like we have an example where they do mean  something the same basically uh or where they mean  

different things all right so you're looking  for counter examples where we just really need  

one counter example or one example to show uh  that they do mean the same thing or they do not

all right hopefully that makes sense let me know  uh if it does not all right uh let's see Cornelio  

says good night teacher what would the meaning  of getting things short getting things short I  

don't know what give me more more context for  that I don't to get things to get something  

short I mean it it it depends on what you're  what you're talking about specifically like  

like and this is why it's always important to  understand vocabulary with the situation so I  

gave this example before I'm trying to connect the  vocabulary with a situation rather than uh just  

like looking at the words by themselves like they  have meanings uh beyond the the the context or the  

situation so vocabulary always means something in  a situation all right just like I showed here like  

the meaning of Might it means like you probably  will do something or like might you be able to  

do something uh is asking like is that possible  so possible versus probable so they don't always  

have the same meaning or they can't uh or they  are not always used the same way all right we'll  

get to that question in a minute uh but anyway  hopefully this makes sense uh but let me know  

if it does not let me see here if I'm still what  was that question before so getting so getting  

getting things short so let let me let me give you  an example of short in the same way that a native  

would come to understand this I don't know what  your specific example is from to get something  

short uh but here here's a meaning it could come  from so it might it might come from this like it  

could come from this it might come from this it's  a possibility it could it might come from this um  

so let's say I have uh $5 in my pocket pocket  I've got $5 in my pocket uh and I want to buy  

a dress so here's a dress or a shirt or something  uh that's $6 so I might say in this example I am

$1 short I'm $1 short so short meaning like this  so we can have long and short we're trying to  

compare something so you can think about it like  I have $5 I want to get to six but oh no I'm $1  

short I'm $1 short okay so I don't know what  specifically you're thinking about for like  

getting something short but like this is the kind  of example uh where you would come to understand  

the meaning of word of a word like short with  different examples so we can have something  

long and then something short also so we're  we're going to compare two different things  

uh but here we can also use this same idea of  like oh we need $6 but but oh no I only have  

five so I'm short I'm short all right but let me  know if that's still not clear again if you have  

a specific example where you've heard something  try to think about the context where did you hear  

that who was speaking what were they talking  about what was the situation all right let's  

see uh thara says uh why your English is easy  well because I I'm a good teacher and basically  

to be to be a good teacher means you're making  the language understand so number one like I'm  

speaking more slowly more clearly and then I'm  also not using a lot of complicated vocabulary  

that you probably don't know all right so I'm  I'm using easier English to help you understand  

and I'm using examples that help you understand  the language okay all right let's see Neil's got  

back to me sometimes I stand is sometimes it's  confusing yeah Nils uh don't worry about it what  

you're do what you need to do is get examples in  in context and so you you learn okay I can use can  

or could and might in the same situation in this  context but maybe in this other one I I use it in  

a different one so at first you're you you kind of  feel more confident about a particular context but  

then you hear something different and it's like a  counter example or you think oh I I didn't expect  

uh to use that like that word in this context it  like the same example before that I gave about  

supertitles so I didn't expect like I would just  use the word subtitles because I just thought oh  

subtitles are words that go with some kind of  picture or something so you can understand what  

people are saying so like my my understanding  of the word subtitle when I was when I was a  

kid I just thought it meant words that go with  a picture or a movie or something like that but  

it actually is the words like the titles with  the location of it so subtitles as a contrast  

to supertitles which goes above something rather  than below it okay so as you get these examples  

like it will feel confusing so at first you're  like oh like it it actually feels a little bit uh  

uncomfortable but it also is like wow like that's  really interesting that's the aha moment when you  

understand something more deeply and so you will  have uh examples like this especially with words  

like could or might because you will get lots of  examples of these um so especially if you're uh  

like if you're INF fluent for life you will get  examples of these things but you can also find  

them just looking at like on uish or just examples  on chat GPT uh or YouTube as well uh Google will  

also give you lots of examples so don't worry  about it like you'll you should understand a  

situation so don't don't try to think about the  meaning of words it's more what does the word mean  

in this situation uh and then you will understand  it better all right uh elen from Brazil nice to  

see you there Mery flowers what does Echo chamber  mean oh that's an interesting question an echo

chamber so an echo echo an echo is a sound that  comes back to you uh so let's say if I'm here  

like if I if I just stand here and and talk in  a big open space so I'm making a sound and it it  

will just kind of continue to go but if there's  something else like a wall or something else and  

the sound comes back to me that's the echo the  Echo and so a chamber is just some kind of room  

all right so an echo chamber is a room where  you stand in there and if you say something  

like the sound will continue to bounce around  and you will hear the same thing over and over  

and over so I say hello hello hello hello and it  just it keeps echoing like that an echo chamber  

so this is the physical understanding of what an  echo chamber is now you've probably heard it in  

the more uh figurative usage of people like an  echo chamber would be where I I go to a place  

like a physical location or I'm online in like a  group uh and I'm I'm talking to people who just  

repeat back what I say so everybody agrees  about the same thing and everybody is just  

talking and like every there so there's no it's  like the opposite of debate where you have one  

person that believes one thing and another person  believes something else and they have like a back  

and forth they try to debate something like that  okay hopefully that makes sense so when people  

like let's say you get all like all like people  who believe in one political idea like liberals  

or whatever they all get together in one room  and they're all talking to each other and they  

all say things and they all repeat things back  to each other and they all agree that would be  

an echo chamber and this is for anybody it's not  just like for liberals or whatever this is for  

for any anybody who believes one thing and it's  uh uh continuing to go back and forth like that  

so you will hear that a lot uh recently uh  mostly because now now people have uh like  

specific groups or places that they can talk with  each other about uh and they only kind of discuss  

ideas without having other ideas get in uh with  that as well uh uh let's see all right uh next  

we have hello teacher I have a question I want  to know the difference between immigration and  

migration well immigration means you're like  moving in to someplace and migrate just means  

to move so you can immigrate immigrate so we  have like I am like immigrate like to go into  

someplace or you can have immigrate like to go  out of that place and Migration by itself just  

means motion so like animals might migrate  it just means like to move from one place to  

another or we might migrate like my website from  one server to another server so we're just moving  

something like that okay so migration just means  movement uh and it could mean like like a cycle  

or it could mean moving from one place to another  but immigration means to come in and immigration  

you hear the difference I I immigration and e  e immigration immigration all right so going  

in versus going out out and again this is why we  we want to pay attention uh to different contexts  

when we hear vocabulary right good question  though uh let's see hi from India thanks from  

Brazil I've learned a lot with you my pleasure  will hello from Paris France with the fire over  

there soana what is outof pocket meaning out of  pocket uh like rather than something you plan

on uh this is an accounting term us usually  for business like you have an outof pocket uh  

expense but you can think about it physically  like you have uh here's here's your your your  

pants over here here's a pocket uh and  you've got money inside your pocket  

so you reach into your your pants pocket  and pull the money out so this is like an

out out of

pocket expense so instead of like paying  something where I I might use a credit card  

or something uh or I might have there might  even be a specific accounting definition of  

out of pocket uh but it typically means  like some usually like a small expense or  

something that I'm paying either like with  cash I'm paying for that thing uh or uh if  

there is like a specific definition that  you need for like accounting purposes uh  

but this would be different from like regular  expenses that you might have so it's a it's  

a particular kind of expense so you're  paying out of pocket for something like

that uh all right okay I'm gonna have to move  faster the comments are piling up okay here we  

go all right uh let's see po I've wrote something  like this you left me on red it means you didn't  

reply back or replay reply probably reply left  me on red i' never not heard of that I don't know  

maybe that's a new expression leave someone on red  I don't know try Googling that and see what you  

get David but could is more common than might uh  more used yeah and it depends on the situation as  

well uh so again Jam how to pronounce omnipotent  uh people here pronounce it horrible or you'd say  

horribly they pronounce it horribly omnipotent  omnipotent omnipotent and again if you'd like  

to hear me pronounce words and show you how to  do that you know what to do get Frederick click  

on the link in the description below this video  and hear me teach you how to pronounce over 2,000  

words phrases and sentences uh the way I do so  if you want to pronounce things uh naturally and  

smoothly I can show you how to do that cam says  hi from Thailand I want to get married with me  

uh I'd have to ask my wife we'll see what she  says I think it's hard and weird to pronounce  

maintain maintain maintenance and another similar  word which I don't remember yeah so some times  

you will get words that are similar or they have  similar Roots like Omni becomes like omnipotent  

like we don't say Omni and then potent we say  omnipotent omnipotent uh and the same thing  

with maintain versus maintenance maintenance  and then you will also hear slight differences  

between things like like British English versus  American English and even within America people  

might pronounce words a little bit differently but  this is another excellent reason why we get lots  

of examples from different native speakers as we  learn so if you only get examples from one person  

then you will be surprised or kind of shocked  when you hear different pronunciations from  

different people so native speakers hear lots  of different pronunciation from many different  

people and you need to do the same thing if  you want to become a fluent speaker uh let's

see okay I think I answered that one already

uh sometime okay I got that one already all right  is there a difference between uh May and may I  

and can I uh if you're if you're talking about  it in the context of like asking permission or  

being able to do something may is actually the  correct way like may I go to the toilet so if a  

a student is asking a teacher uh they should be  saying may I do something but the language gets  

a a little bit worse over time and people just  say can I do something when they're asking for  

permission when it's really asking about  ability uh so there is a difference there  

but typically when people say like oh can I  come to the party like you don't need to ask  

the other person you need to ask for permission  which is may I come to the party but may almost  

sounds a bit more formal now because so many  people use can uh let's see all right Dev says  

one thing that is difficult to me is idioms  sometimes I guess the meaning other times I  

have to search the search in the context and  the meaning yeah so uh you will get these and  

it's again a really good idea to pay attention  for what natives are talking about because kids  

will learn idioms in these same ways so if I'm  watching a cartoon with my kids and uh like a  

character dies and another character says oh he  kicked the bucket they might not understand the  

idiom they're not trying to think logically  about what that means they just associate or  

connect kick the bucket with dying and so that's  how you you kind of get that and then usually as  

you get older or you start learning it more  as an adult uh you connect more with uh the  

specific like the the origin of something like  that and you can learn more about that so if  

you're if you're curious about the meaning of a  particular idiom you can look up origin of so the

origin so go to Google or chat GPT or whatever  and just say what is the origin of and then that  

particular idiom uh cable and fo says an echo is  a reverberation yes that's correct all right uh  

let's see okay tanar what's your native uh my  native language is English uh but I also speak  

Japanese venicius hi Drew I would like to know  what days of the week you are alive it's boring  

to get the train rolling it's boring to get the  train rolling you mean you mean like while you're  

on the train or uh typically I'm here like it  could be Thursday or Monday or both it depends  

just whenever I whenever I feel like it uh but I  don't have a specific schedule but it's usually  

around this time uh I had a conversation with  my boss at work in English he thought that I've  

lived abroad are you where do you oh so you you  live in uh Brazil right does so are you are you  

saying that with like a good meaning or a bad  meaning all right uh yeah good teacher uh from  

guadalahara Mexico hello from Brazil big fan here  says IL nice to see you there body says hello uh  

you explain so well well it's my pleas Brazil in  force here yes lots of Brazilians yes if you know  

other people in Brazil who are trying to improve  uh their speaking and they want to understand how  

to learn English like a native you speak a little  polish no I don't uh but I am from Chicago and we  

have a lot of polls in Chicago uh pan says a great  Guru I'm not a guru don't call me that I'm not a  

guru I'm just a regular guy uh an insurance  coopay insurance copay ah like out of pocket  

yeah yeah so that I mean if you're looking for a  specific um like a specific accounting term then  

like that's slightly different so out of my  pocket equals out of my budget yes be careful  

using it like that you wouldn't use it that way  but you can use it that way as a joke for sure  

uh what is the best way to learn English maybe  give us some tips well there's really just one  

thing you need to do to learn English and that's  just learning English as a first language rather  

than learning English as a second language now  you might be new uh or I know some new people  

will probably watching this so I'll give  my uh very quick explanation about how this

works uh what's the best way let  me get some of my delicious water

first ah all right so uh most of the people who  are looking for help usually they have problems  

so we begin here uh so these are the communication  problems that people have it could be like we'll  

just make this very quick forgetting words uh  needing to translate not understanding native  

speakers uh confusing grammar rules these  are the kinds of problems that people have  

with communication uh and the reason for these  problems usually people think so like people

think so people think that they don't study enough  or they don't live in an English-speaking country  

or uh they don't have enough speaking practice  this is these are the like the three main reasons  

why they think they have these problems so because  of these problems they don't study enough or they  

don't live in an English-speaking country or  they don't practice speaking enough but but  

none of these are true the real reason so the  real reason uh the real reason you struggle to  

speak is because you don't understand English  as well as you think you do so there are three  

basic we'll just put one two three here levels of  understanding a language and so the first one uh  

is just exposure to be exposed to the language  means you're hearing it like I could I could go  

to Romania and hear Romanian speakers speaking to  me uh and I I don't really understand what people  

are saying but I'm being exposed to the language  uh and next we have awareness so awareness meaning  

I recognize it I understand what people are  saying but there you notice now different levels  

of understanding so I can hear something and not  understand it at all or I can hear something and  

I can recognize it or I can hear something and  have what I call the ownership which is the fluent  

level of understanding which means I have enough  confidence to say something okay so the confidence  

only comes at this level and so I gave you the  example at the beginning of this video uh where  

I'm talking about learning a word like super so  the the reason people have the problems they have  

is because they learn English as a second language  and this means that they're either learning it  

through their native language or they're studying  it the traditional way by trying to memorize  

grammar rules or or maybe they're studying  flashcards uh or they're getting kind of slow  

easy examples that aren't aren't really helping  them understand the language and so this gets  

you usually like ESL lessons will get you to the  awareness level and awareness level meaning you  

can understand you can recognize things but often  it's it's kind of like the speech that I'm giving  

here so you can understand a teacher uh but often  have trouble understanding native speakers okay uh  

so the the learning English as a second language  it actually makes the language more difficult  

to understand and because it's difficult to  understand you feel confused and you have doubts  

and questions and confusion about the language  like all you see all the questions I'm getting  

here uh every one of these questions is really the  same thing Drew I'm uncertain about this point or  

I'm uncertain about this grammar I'm uncertain  about this vocabulary or this pronunciation it's  

all talking about uncertainty and they have  uncertainty because they learned English as a  

second language so I have like experience teaching  English here in Japan in the classroom and most  

of the students are still learning this way they  have a Japanese teacher who doesn't pronounce the  

language very well they're not really learning the  language as a native would learn it they're just  

studying rules and they're getting translations  so of course the language is difficult they're  

learning it as a second language Okay so so the  again like people think that they they don't  

speak well because they're not studying enough  but you can try to study as much as you want you  

could study for 20 years and still not be a good  speaker if you're not learning the right way so  

The Simple Solution becomes learning English as  a first language and like I gave the example at  

the beginning of this video that is an example of  learning English as a first language so I don't  

take a word like super and just like translate  that into Japanese or French or Korean or Thai or  

whatever I'm trying to help you understand it and  and build a network in your mind that really helps  

you use that language spontaneously so at this  point if you want to speak spontaneously you need  

to have the ownership level of the vocabulary okay  so just being aware of the vocabulary being able  

to recognize it doesn't mean you know how to speak  fluently it just means you can you can recognize  

vocabulary when you hear it and it's much easier  to recognize things than to to speak okay so  

again the problems that you have they're really  just coming from learning English as a second  

language and second language lessons are typically  difficult to understand they create doubts and  

questions and problems and that's what stops you  from speaking so it's not it's not like the amount  

of vocabulary you have it's how confident do you  feel about that vocabulary if you are 100% certain  

that you will speak correctly L then you speak but  if you're not if you're not certain about speaking  

correctly or if you think well I don't know how to  pronounce this word or maybe I'm using the wrong  

grammar point or will I make a mistake if I say  this word rather than that word all those doubts  

that have that's what really stops you from  speaking but if you learn English as a first  

language like a native then you actually feel  confident about what you say so you feel confident  

that you will speak correctly and that's when you  speak so the big secret like the the big thing  

that I can that I can tell everybody the same  thing I've been sharing for 20 years is that you  

don't get fluent by learning more you don't try to  like study the language more you get fluent as you  

understand the language better all right I know  that it sounds like a like it's like it sounds  

like a small unimportant difference but you don't  just like add more vocabulary you get fluent by  

understanding that vocabulary really well like I  gave at the beginning of this video the example of  

super all right so if I give you one example like  here's a man and here's a Superman I can compare  

these two and think like wow like here's a regular  man just a regular guy but Superman is like super  

strong right so I can look at these two and slowly  oh look at that like a man versus a Superman I get  

it but when I go to the Opera and I see subtitles  and supertitles then I get an even stronger more  

confident feeling about that word super so I  I know it means like over and above something  

else so we think about it super like super doesn't  mean like really strong it's just like over bigger  

better higher than something else and so rather  than getting a definition the point is to get  

lots of varied examples that help you understand  the language like a native okay so I don't say  

to people you should learn like a native that's  basically what you're doing but I just don't say  

that because people don't believe they can do it  but I just proved you can do it earlier in this  

video all right but I just tell people it's it  just the easy way to understand it is learning  

English as a first language and just do what  natives are doing and so that's how you get fluent  

all right so we don't we don't need to study more  we need to understand vocabulary better and as we  

do that the process of fluency speeds up all right  so it accelerates we get fluent faster and faster  

as we learn more and we understand the language  better okay hopefully that makes sense so this is  

I know we have new people coming but even you know  the the veterans the old people the people have  

been following me for a while it's always good to  get this review that's why a lot of what we do on  

the channel is helping people review things all  right so I spent a little bit of time on that uh  

but it's important for people to understand how  that works all right uh so if you have problems  

with your communication uh you don't need to learn  more you need to understand the language better  

that's the real secret all right uh uh all right  so Al alery if I'm pronouncing that ccul teacher  

I'm learning from West Africa in Gambia nice to  see you there uh thank you for making my English  

skills super it's my pleasure uh thank you lots  of learning here glad to hear it from Colombia  

says Milton nice to see you there uh you help me  learn English yeah it's my pleasure really I'm I'm  

trying to like the learning comes from you all I'm  trying to do is make it understandable so that you  

naturally are like oh look at that I understand  I understand what we're talking about I followed  

your Chanel since you started wow look at that all  right well thank you very much if you know other  

people we can help send them our way uh let's see  ilen says I'm going to start teaching some English  

tips to close friends I've already suggested them  to follow you will thank you very much uh you are  

a regular guy great answer yeah uh how often  are your classes well the these classes most of  

the stuff I do on YouTube is just it's giving  simple examples of how to learn English as a  

native speaker so how to learn English as a first  language um and if you want like like classes all  

the time that's what we do influent for Life uh  so you can click on the link in the description  

below this uh video in the description you'll see  that link down there uh but these live videos are  

maybe like once a week maybe twice a week uh  Drew is not a goo he's more like a Sensei uh  

let's see I think you have classes with your dad  about than Thanksgiving it was an amazing class  

yeah so he he's been in a few of those lessons  uh INF fluent for life all right uh Sanders says  

super class our etymology and origin well atmology  is like specifically for Words origin could mean  

anything like my origin like you wouldn't you  wouldn't talk about my atmology you would talk  

about my my origin uh big Nick uh hi Andrew I've  been following your lessons for about three months  

and I want you to give us a lesson on English  humor and jokes because sometimes really hard to  

get them and laugh with the natives uh if you're  if you're influent for life we have lessons about  

that about like sarcasm and humor um and I explain  kind of jokes like that sometimes I cover those  

here but if there's a specific joke you hear that  you do not get let me know all right uh Al Aly if  

I'm again if I'm pronouncing Alia uh super lesson  glad to hear actually looks like eia oh no I think  

you probably mean lesson but Le leion if I'm PR  if I'm spelling that correctly leion uh salana  

uh it's really hard oh really sad that I've been  learning English the wrong way the whole time I  

wish I had known about your channel when I got  started yeah don't feel bad about that uh it's  

not your fault that this is the way most people  teach and and this stuff it's either unknown or  

it's ignored by most people because most people  don't need to like they don't need to be and I  

won't say most people uh but when I'm talking  about people who are learning English like for  

school or trying to get a job or something like  that they don't need to become confident speakers  

they just need to know some information to pass a  test so if you do need to speak then you should be  

learning this way I mean even if you don't need to  speak this is faster than learning the traditional  

way as well um but most people just don't think  it's possible so they you know they don't they  

don't try uh let's see J Cento hello Drew hope  B is well with you I'm doing right Olympia you  

are super teacher is my pleasure easier instead  of more easy yeah you could I mean sometime yeah  

you will hear people say like it's more easy but  like yes easier is the correct way to say that uh  

Spider-Man thank you for teaching people English I  understand English including the difficult accents  

but I am struggling to speak says pop yeah so the  the the things that I explain when you talk about  

struggling to speak there are specific reasons  why that happens and so it's it's it's basically  

all because of this so how you learn is how  you speak and traditional lessons make the  

language more difficult to understand that like  those language lessons they uh they basically  

create doubts and questions and problems in your  head that stop you from speaking so humans uh we  

are not computers we are like emotional beings  you know we we feel bad we feel embarrassed if  

we make mistakes and so we can't just learn  information like okay here's a grammar point  

and we're not chat GPT or a computer where we  can just take information and memorize it like  

that we really need to understand vocabulary very  well and if we don't know something very well we  

won't say it so and and this is even in your daily  life as a native speaker of your native language  

so me like I can't talk about I don't know like  government fiscal policy or whatever in the United  

States even in English because just don't know  much about it like I I couldn't I couldn't speak  

confidently I couldn't give a speech about that  uh I couldn't give a speech about I don't know  

some biology things like specific vocabulary  for I don't know growing babies or something  

I could explain it in an everyday way a casual  way but I just don't so so it's it's not about  

like knowing the vocabulary it's how confident do  you feel about that vocabulary so if you feel you  

understand something very well then you can speak  about it uh all right let's see uh Muhammad Amore  

says from morania nice to see you there Elizabeth  origin and are no synonyms legit points to the  

study of so emology means the study of the study  of the origin yeah yeah yeah uh ging says you're  

a great teacher I'm glad to hear it uh in your  is in your profile is you you talking about my  

picture yes I have like an old picture on YouTube  and I'm too lazy to change it so I have that one I  

think actually maybe Facebook has a more recent  photo of me but Mustafa says I am struggling to  

use the word though I always use but what am I  supposed to do well you don't you don't like have  

to use though uh it's it's just another way of  expressing something so you could say that like I  

understand what you're saying but I have questions  about it I understand what you're saying though  

I have questions about it so again like the the  reason why you might not use one word rather than  

another uh is either you you don't know it very  well or you just don't feel comfortable like it's  

just more comfortable to use another word and so  you will notice this in your native language when  

you speak you likely use the same words and same  Expressions over and over again rather than uh  

like difficult things or new things or things that  you feel uh un like uncomfortable about so that  

that's that's another thing I mentioned in this  video where we're talking about your comfort level  

so I want you to feel comfortable learning English  as a native speaker or learning English as a first  

language uh rather than trying to translate or do  things as you typically as as you typically did  

so most people who watch my videos that's how they  begin learning English in school uh so that's the  

only way they know how to learn and so you have  to change the way you learn to understand uh and  

start speaking better uh let's again I agree with  you if you learn the language as a second language  

actually makes the language difficult yeah and  so that's the the the frustrating thing about it  

is like you're you think you're trying to learn  it the right way and teachers tell you that you  

should be learning it that way but like the human  doesn't really operate that way so I can tell my  

students hey just be confident go out and speak  and people people will not follow that advice  

like it you know so it's actually not good advice  to to tell people to do that so when I was first  

learning about language learning and I didn't know  anything I was like yeah you should speak because  

I just heard other people saying the same thing  but when I thought about that I said well why why  

do people not follow that advice and the reason is  because they don't actually feel confident about  

speaking and they don't want to make mistakes in  front of other people which is understandable and  

so the smarter thing to do is not to try to speak  more it's to understand the language better better  

and that's how you get fluent so let's see David  says I think most English courses teach the wrong  

way at least uh in Brazil since I've been learning  the right way have I improved a lot in the last  

three months glad to hear it yeah so most people  and most classes like either they don't know about  

this or they do know about it and they don't care  or they just ignore it so most like most schools  

uh they think the better way to teach is just to  try to give you a bunch of rules but this way is  

actually faster it's faster for everything so  you know it's weird that that more people don't  

do it but I guess more students for me I guess  uh so that like what I what I tried to do by  

creating Frederick uh is creating a new so I got I  erased it up here but if you click on the link in  

the description below this video uh you can save  your children from learning this way so Frederick  

allows children to actually teach themselves and  it's not just for children but especially for for  

adults who have learned English the traditional  way and now they're learning uh English as a  

first language you can actually start your kids  learning English as a first language too with the  

app uh let's see so food challenge sister that's  an interesting name you're teaching technique is  

awesome so glad to hear yes I'm not doing anything  different uh than I would do with my own kids  

so that's like the uh again like I'm trying to  help people learn the same way my own kids learn  

because they can only learn English as a first  language they can't learn it through another  

language although I mean I could use Japanese  to teach them English but that would be kind  

of a dumb thing to do Neil says I won't forget the  example with super tile and subtitle thank you for  

that yes and so that that's the whole like when  you don't forget something I've I've I've created  

an example that you think like oh wow it actually  sticks in your mind that's the aha moment where  

you feel really confident about something and so  just do more of that so continue to learn more  

like that and you will become a more confident  speaker so as you get fluent in individual words  

and phrases you will feel more confident and you  will begin speaking spontaneously uh let's see  

will says a tool that helped me was starting to  write a diary uh with everything I do projects  

research Etc yep Milton says uh it's true because  most of the teachers here teach rules and rules  

but students don't end up speaking fluently yeah  so like you will you will know the the method by  

the fruit so the fruit meaning like what is the  result of that thing so if your goal is to speak  

fluently uh another like a really like Insidious  or kind of I I don't want to say evil but it's  

like a it's a really disappointing thing about the  traditional way of teaching uh because it it gives  

it it's it's relying on hope so the it's it's  most selling you like the hope that you will learn  

something so the hope is that like okay uh people  say how many words do you need to speak fluently  

like okay you need to learn let's say 10,000 just  as an example so we start over here we learn the  

first word like do you feel fluent and confident  about that no not really let's try another word do  

you feel fluent and confident no not really let's  keep going and so we keep going keep going keep  

going and so the hope is that like you will become  fluent like at some point over here and so that  

that's why like it's it's a really frustrating  thing for many people because they think if they  

learn more words you remember I gave you those  examples before so people think that if they learn  

more words or if they live in an English-speaking  country or if they speak more that's how they get  

fluent but there are people who do live in English  speaking countries and do try to speak every day  

and do study a lot and they still can't speak and  the reason is because they don't really understand  

the vocabulary as well as they think they do and  it's usually because of the uh just the methods  

that they use to learn and it's not their fault  it's just this is how everybody almost everybody  

uh teaches languages and this is not just English  but learning for every language and so what I'm  

explaining now about learning English as a first  language it applies to everything else so it's how  

I got fluent in Japanese once I started learning  Japanese as a first language that's when I became  

fluent so it's not a complicated process it's just  changing the way you learn and so if you don't get  

fluent in individual words and phrases you won't  get fluent overall and have good conversations so  

if you're just learning something but you don't  really feel confident about it you're wasting  

your time you should learn something and then  feel confident about it and then oh wow so now  

I know this word let me move on to the next word  and then as I start learning more again the the  

fluency accelerates your progress accelerates so  this is why like people going through fluent for  

life if they follow the program you start learning  at the beginning you're just like getting examples  

of words and you start feeling confident about  them but as you hear them more and more you  

really start to feel I know the vocabulary very  well and that's how I can start speaking so I  

don't want you to feel hopeful uh I want you to  feel confident and certain like that's why I just  

focus on a word like super at the beginning of  this video so you really feel that you feel like  

ah I got it now I really understand that so you  become fluent in that word now do it again with  

another word and again and again and again and  the progress will speed up and it's really a  

fast thing uh as you continue to do it see what  time is it how how we been doing 10:59 okay going  

for an hour so far uh let's see all right Milton  says okay I got that one all right uh let's see t  

tyara maybe I'm pronouncing that correct is it  is it tyara uh why can I why can't why I can't  

you mean why can't I understand English songs  well it's a it's a faster speech excuse me it's  

a faster speech uh it's it's blurred and usually  the vocabulary is difficult uh because people use  

idioms and cultural references and things like  that so it's a different language than what you  

hear in a video like mine uh let's see Mr Mario  is back uh okay that's let's see hey toar or I  

wrote you see I wrote I wrote in Portuguese uh  you didn't tell us your native language uh my  

native language is is English let's see I didn't  understand English but brainstorm so much says  

ning ninga if I'm pronouncing that correctly  let's see Mur says I understand but I have  

a problem when I need to speak about specific  subject yeah it just means you don't know about  

it very well or you don't know enough about it  so if you want to speak spontaneously you need  

to get more information about that thing and so  this is the the great thing about getting fluent  

you don't have to be in a particular place or be  a certain age or anything you don't have to have  

a person to speak with you just need to get  a lot more input about that particular thing  

if you have not seen the espresso video I made  check my channel for that watch that video for  

an example uh ill says do you speak slower with  us I can understand 100% what you say if I watch  

a movie I understand a few things sometimes it  seems they are speaking another language yes  

so I'm I'm changing the way I speak I'm speaking  more clearly I'm speaking slower uh and I'm also  

not using idioms and cultural references things  like that so I'm I'm intentionally making my my  

speech easier for people to understand so what  we do in fluent for life is I go from this level  

understanding teachers to understanding the things  in movies and real conversation stations TV shows  

that kind of thing uh let's see R says Master it  would be better if you take class every morning  

well uh for the people who want to learn with me  every day that's what fluent for life is for and  

you can click on the link in the description  to learn more about that uh musy or M M musy  

says happy New Year men will says hello I'm not  even going to stare I've already heard a lot of  

fallacies here goodbye teacher Mr Mario adios  uh I don't know what you're referring to let's  

see okay says uh you made a video on vocabulary  where you mention how to use different words of  

the same meaning to communicate effectively thank  you mate yeah it's my pleasure uh how long did it  

take you to become proficient in Japanese well  again as I explained before uh you get fluent  

in individual words and phrases so you actually  become proficient in in like in individual words  

and phrases as you learn them so rather than this  process where you don't you can spend years trying  

to learn something and and thinking that you need  to learn more words to become a fluent speaker but  

you don't you actually just need to understand  that vocabulary really well and this is why you  

have adult non-native speakers they know a lot  of words and they can't speak but you have native  

children who know a few words and they can speak  very well so uh when you're talking about how long  

does it take to become proficient like I gave the  example about supertitles earlier in this video  

how long did that take I don't know two minutes  or something uh and so you can become fluent in  

something very quickly and then you move to the  next thing and get fluent in that and so you will  

become uh fluent much faster that way all right uh  what is your favorite book you've ever read says  

salana huh my favorite book I don't know if I have  a favorite book I I mean there there are different  

books I've I've enjoyed for uh different reasons  actually I really let me see see favorite book I  

don't know I'd have to think about that cuz there  are a couple of books that I enjoy uh let's see  

yeah I don't it's weird I I guess it depends on  my mood or what like what specifically I'm talking  

about like if you're talking about a novel or a  business book or uh yeah I don't know I actually  

can't I can't think of anything cuz there it  wouldn't be I couldn't give you one example  

and then I'd probably think about something  different different later it's a good question  

but I'd have to think about that uh let's see I  have difficulties understanding speech especially  

connected speech is there any strategy to improve  my comprehension by listening uh yes it's the same  

thing I'm recommending for everything else which  is learning English as a first language and part  

of that is you're getting examples of different  speakers saying the same thing uh so you will  

hear people talking about like it could be talking  about the same thing or actually saying the same  

thing uh like the same speech or whatever again  sham I can speak about cars and American food  

because I learn a naturally varied review and  listen to watch many different native speakers  

talking about this yeah so it's it's very it's  very easy and and obvious when you when you start  

learning that way so if you if you want to learn  more about a particular thing uh and you start  

studying that you will be able to speak more  confidently about it so it's the same thing in  

English and the same thing in your native language  as well uh is it possible to get fluent in English  

even if I'm not so fluent in my native language  uh well yeah I you you don't have to be fluent in  

one language to get fluent in another you just get  fluent in different languages the same way you can  

be fluent in some words and not fluent in other  words so you will be confident uh and comfortable  

using some things but not others uh yes I have a  lot of uh Brazilian students yeah we got we got  

people all over over the world let's see Milton  says the ESL method that you have we can apply it  

to any language yes an efl so English as a first  language not English as a second language the the  

traditional typical way of learning is you take  like people say how do we learn another language  

without using our first language and I say well  how did you learn your first language that's the  

the answer to that question is you have to get  understandable examples of the language like I  

gave with the example of super at the beginning  of this video so it is possible to do that and  

it doesn't matter what language you already know  you could you could not know your maybe you know  

whatever you're if you're born in Mexico and  Spanish is your like the language you should be  

native in but you don't know it very well for some  reason uh that has nothing to do with you learning

English uh I'm in the USA now and I can say I'm  fluent in English a few years ago I was in Brazil  

watching your videos thank you very much glad  to hear it yes if you know other people yeah  

lots of we have lots of people lots of uh Learners  students in the United States Canada UK Australia  

uh and these are people from all over the world  who are now in these English-speaking countries  

and like ah this is very different from the  language I learned in school and now I can't  

speak so yeah we we help a lot of people there uh  let's see more Taza said hello I recently moved  

to Canada my English is not very good well keep  following my videos keep applying this idea of  

learning English as a first language and you will  approve uh beggan says hi again so what would you  

do in a situation if some joke spoken in Japan  hit everyone in the room except you although you  

understood the whole vocabulary in it uh in that  case I would just ask somebody because that that  

would that like that the the understanding a  joke thing that specific example like I know  

the vocabulary but that means it's a it's a  reference that I don't know so we could call  

that uh it would be like that wouldn't really be  like an inside joke uh usually an inside joke is  

is like between two people so if I'm standing with  two friends talking and they make a joke to each  

other I understand the vocabulary but I don't know  what that's referring to then that that's that's  

not a vocabulary problem it's just I don't know  what they're talking about so that's a that's a  

different problem from the vocabulary and I would  just ask like what is what is the reference of  

that thing so that usually like a joke in that  way uh kids if you're if you're trying to learn  

kind of humor in another language you like start  with kids and look at the kind of joke things they  

get a lot of those are puns so I talk about this  in fluent for life as well so a pun is something  

like uh where we take different meanings of of  words or something that like like I like I ate

something so I ate something like the sound ate  sounds the same as a te so like I ate like that's  

a joke for a child because it's a it's it's  taking a different meaning of the same sound  

and so that's kind of a beginning way for people  to learn humor um and the it's the same thing  

in Japan they're they're it's called like a dare  like a like a dad joke or a pun same idea uh but  

my kids they they do that all the time there  are whole joke books just talking about that  

about playing with words like that so that's  a a slightly different that's a that's a thing  

where if you don't get the joke it just means  you don't know the uh the other meanings of  

something that you might use um but again like if  you if you actually don't understand something at  

all just ask somebody they're not going to you  don't have to feel bad for not understanding a  

reference if you if you don't know it uh did Trin  says sir the plural of person is people right can  

we say persons like three persons yeah you will  hear that used sometimes like it's almost like  

a uh like a legal or um it it depends on the  context though but in general like if you go  

to a restaurant they will say how many people in  your party they wouldn't say how many persons but  

on a legal document you might see something  like persons could you give uh some examples  

of this word quick sotic just Google that if  you're if you're looking for like an example  

of like what like quick soic would mean I mean  it's here ra rather than me telling you what it  

means let you like discover the meaning yourself  uh but it's an interesting word quick Sonic uh d  

s what can I do to improve my English level I  wanted to reach an advanced level but it seems  

I am stuck at intermediate uh that's probably  the the problem I talked about before where  

you have an awareness level of vocab ulary but  not the ownership level the fluent level where  

you feel confident about saying things about you  know whatever you you don't feel confident talking  

about something so that's usually where people  get stuck so they think they know something so  

they don't review it anymore but you know if you  feel confident about something or not so either  

you feel confident saying something or you do  not if you do not feel confident it means you  

need to review that thing more or get more varied  examples that help you understand that vocabulary

better uh Milton says I've heard a lot of the word  a't in many songs yeah a uh Solana another another  

interesting question what are your resolutions for  the new year uh my resolutions for the new year  

I don't know just keep keep doing what I've been  doing I guess it's like the resolution I had five  

years ago which is like just help more people so  I don't even have like a new a new resolution for  

this this year I guess hi teacher my first time  here hope you have a good day today I am and nice  

to see the little puppy right there student June  uh and Bridget says hello teacher true Bach nice  

to see you there all right look at that we got  through all the comments amazing all right uh just  

to do a quick recap of the video uh the main idea  here is that if you want to speak spontaneously  

you don't have to try to practice more uh and  say like say vocabulary more you should really  

get more information that will help you understand  vocabulary better and so as you do that you will  

naturally want to feel uh kind of more confident  and and that's what will allow you to actually  

speak without translating uh or hesitating or  thinking about grammar rules that kind of thing  

so any of the problems that you have as I talked  about uh all of this stuff comes from learning  

English the traditional way so as you start  learning more and I want you to feel comfortable  

learning this way so even you get one example  with one word if you feel more comfortable and  

confident about this way of learning you will do  it more so just give that a try and continue to do  

that uh and you will notice progress very quickly  Kim says my name is Kim greetings from greetings  

and congratul congratulations from Turkey ni  see tell you I understand 20 to 30% of text  

is it worth listening to or go to a lower level  yes I I would go to a lower level for sure um and  

again this same thing with me uh I'll still like  my my reading level is is lower so maybe I will  

I like I can have a much faster conversation in  in Japanese just speaking with people rather than  

trying to read my reading is still really slow um  and there's a lot of kanji these are the Japanese  

written characters from Chinese that I don't know  um so yeah like if you if you don't it will also  

make the the process of reading information much  more enjoyable if you understand most of it so  

you should understand most most of a sentence so  that one word or one new phrase is understandable  

in context but if you don't understand most of  it that will just be really frustrating for you  

because you will just spend time looking things up  in a dictionary or whatever so begin getting used  

to language um and another thing I would do is uh  instead of reading like a long thing whatever that  

is like find something short and then get many  examples of people talking about that so whatever  

if you're trying to learn how to about learn about  um I don't know changing a tire on a car so watch  

videos about that read different articles or  blog posts or something and that will help  

you feel more confident about it uh and learn the  vocabulary better as well uh Hound says you aren't  

look good you look tired well after uh speaking  for 78 minutes yeah I feel a little bit low

but you notice my voice tends to get a little  bit a little bit weaker uh as I go through the  

video but I'm always here to answer questions  but it looks like we did get to the end of the  

program which is great uh but again remember  as you're starting the new year think about  

just try to find find some simple things that  really make you feel more confident about the  

language and about this kind of learning so  you you shouldn't have to hope that you're  

getting fluent you should know you're getting  fluent as you learn and that will make you feel  

much more confident you're learning the right  way you're actually feeling more uh more like  

you understand the language better and you will  start speaking more it will naturally happen you  

will start speaking more spontaneously and you  will feel more confident about what you say so  

last couple of comments uh came through here thank  you very much for everything it very helpful says  

Nils nice to see you there again Sandra thank  you teacher Drew awesome class have a nice day  

God bless you and your family happy 2024 cim says  thank you very much for reading my message yeah  

it's my pleasure Natalia with some nice look at  that thumbs up and the hearts and boom lot lots  

of Hearts there thank you very much you're going  to make me embarrassed over here uh thanks have a  

nice day says Juan and Zana thank you so much  yeah don't feel bad about asking me questions  

you know it's nice to get questions about New  Year's resolutions or books or whatever I just  

I just don't know I don't even know what my  favorite book would be what would my favorite  

book be it depends I guess depends on my mood or  what I'm talking about let's see thanks Drew for  

taking the time to teach us and for helping  us get better at understanding the language  

it's my pleasure thenon thanks all right have  fantastic day and we'll see you in the next video

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