How To Correct Your English By Yourself To Get Fluent Faster

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fantastic and let's make sure this is working okay  I am Drew Badger the founder of englishanyone.com  

and the English fluency guide welcome to another  live video here all right let's get the camera  

looking good okay all right uh today we're  going to talk about how to correct your own  

mistakes uh and so this is a much faster way to  get fluent than trying to wait for a teacher to  

correct you it's nice uh if you do have someone  but most people don't and even if you do have a  

teacher it's probably infrequently maybe you could  live around native speakers uh like me so I have  

native speakers around me but even my  own wife will not correct my like any  

mistakes I might make or questions I have  about Japanese so I'll ask her questions  

and she can't really help me uh so I have  to solve my own problems and this is how  

I get fluent so you can apply this same  oh my goodness this blue really sticks on

here all right

all right let's get started all right nice to see  everybody out there uh if you are here and you can  

hear me all right uh Dalia says Dear teacher I  come from STP STP I don't know what that flag is  

I could barely see that STP let me know what that  is uh but anyway today we're going to talk about  

again how to correct your own mistakes uh so as  I mentioned uh in the quick introduction to this  

video the basic idea is that it's much easier  if you are actively trying to correct your own  

mistakes by learning the right patterns before  you make them okay so we want you to actually  

correct your mistakes before you make them rather  than a kind of a typical approach where you don't  

really understand what you're saying and then you  try speaking with people uh and then you make a  

mistake and either they correct you or maybe you  discover later that you said the wrong thing uh  

and that's where you start to struggle uh so  I I've experienced this myself many times as  

a language learner for many years uh but once  I started being active about how I learn rather  

than being kind of passive and waiting for other  people to correct me and often people will be  

even too polite to say anything so especially me  being in Japan I could speak really bad Japanese  

and people would just say wow that Japanese is  really good so they're just being polite and  

it's nice and friendly and I understand that  but it's really a bad way to get Corrections  

for your English uh or whatever language it  is you're learning uh so just to talk about  

that there should not be that long of a video  but if you have questions as we go or anything  

even unrelated to today's topic I'll do my best  to answer those questions uh but I just wanted  

to talk about this from uh more like the way you  learn languages uh natively so the way you learn  

your native language and then thinking about how  you apply those same things to learning English  

so rather than trying to study rules you should  be looking at situations and what this means is  

maybe you're interested in something uh or you  want to talk about um like a particular action  

or a particular context or something happens like  what do you do when you order pizza or what do you  

do when you go to a park and and play or something  like that there's specific vocabulary for each of  

these things um but there's also a wide range  of vocabulary you can use and so so the more  

examples you get of native speakers talking about  things the better you will feel about this so you  

get specific situation situational vocabulary but  you can also learn specific grammar and get those  

patterns as well so usually what happens when  you're learning your native language is you're  

not actually speaking with people most of the  time I mean some people might do that but most  

people are either just doing work by themselves  or maybe they have to write something or something  

like that but usually they're getting input from  other sources so they're watching movies and TV  

shows or they're reading blogs or newspapers or  something uh and you're not actually repeating  

anything or saying anything back to that media so  if I'm watching uh a TV show or even you watching  

this video right now you're not repeating anything  well you could be I suppose but you're not really  

having a conversation with me you're listening  to my input and if I'm speaking correctly then  

you're getting an example of correct input okay so  instead of trying to think about practice as like  

we we kind of learn something to a a limited or  low or very small degree so I I get like a grammar  

rule or a simple sentence structure and try to  repeat that again and again what you should be  

doing is spending a lot more time getting more  input um so I'll talk about that in this video  

just go through chat make sure I haven't missed  any questions uh but that is the subject for today  

all right nice to see people over there are  Marco trano nice to see you there for the  

lessons kzi Masa Armando how's it going  everything is going fine hi sir fod from  

India SEMA I can't read I can only read stoner  with that Korean over there hello Mund hello  

from Angola from America STP sa Tom and Prince ah  the island okay I got you uh Mario hello Lars MO  

morning morning is that supposed to be morning  morning star Morning Star Alonso best teacher  

ever you're too kind uh Dion Dion is I'm am I  pronouncing that correctly hello I'm Brazilian  

hello uh teacher mint water over there yes I do  have my my big jug my big bottle of mint water  

we'll see how long I go I don't think this will  be another like hour and a half video but we'll  

see thanks for everything that's my goat the  goat look at that uh and Wellington Professor  

from sa Pao Brazil okay nice to see everybody  there all right uh so again the subject of  

this video is more about Active Learning rather  than learning something to a shallow degree and  

not being able to use it fluently so there are  basically two ways uh there are actually many  

ways but we'll just talk about the two main  ideas about improving uh and these are things  

you can do all by yourself so the first one uh  as I just mentioned we have different situations

uh and then we have uh like  specific grammar structures  

like we're looking for for like how to  say a particular thing uh but you could  

use this in really many different  situations uh so we'll talk about

grammar or we'll just say sentence sentence

structures all right so I'm going to  describe this in the way I do it for  

learning Japanese uh and so when I think about  like anything I'm trying to learn as a learner  

of Japanese uh I might get an example or  I might be in a conversation and I hear  

something and I don't quite understand it I  can't understand it from the context maybe  

I will I will like note that uh we can  use this is a very good uh phrase here

a mental note so instead of taking a physical  note like I write a note down on a notepad I  

take so we can say take a mental note so I  note something in my mind like oh that was  

some interesting grammar or I didn't know that uh  you know vocabulary could be used in a particular  

way so I take a mental note of something and  then after I get that information then I can  

start applying these particular things and I think  okay what are we talking about and then is it like  

a particular grammar structure uh and you can  you can kind of put vocabulary in this uh as  

well the the basic point is are you focusing on  a specific vocabulary you want to learn uh like  

individual words and phrases or are you talking  about like a a sentence structure which is like  

some kind of grammar so if I think I wish I would  have done something so if I hear that from someone  

like oh that's an interesting like I wish I would  have maybe it sounds a little bit difficult for  

me I have to think about that I wish I would have  so I'm at first trying to think about really what  

the situation is and you'll notice that these are  connected um so in the case of something like I  

wish I would have then I'm thinking okay first of  all what what is the person trying to say so I'm  

in a conversation and and someone is talking to me  and they say oh I wish I would have turned off my  

uh light this morning so they left their house  and they forgot to do something so and I'm I'm  

looking at them even if I don't understand all of  those words I'm thinking what's happening in this  

situation so you see these are all still connected  grammar is still connected with situations and  

situations are still expressed with grammar but  uh it's just how you think about these so again in  

this example I'm I'm hearing a specific sentence  structure I wish I would have let me write this  

for you here I wish I would have so you'll hear  particular particular things like this and rather  

than first trying to think about the grammar or  like I and then I and then would and and what  

the specific words are we try to think about the  situation and understand what's happening here  

so what does that mean when someone says I wish  I would have done something the basic idea is

Regret so they are sad or frustrated or  disappointed or something because they  

didn't do something else okay so even if if you  can't remember like a longer sentence structure  

like this we want to First understand just  what the meaning of that is okay and if you  

can't do that from context then we take a kind  of mental note and again this is when we are  

in a conversation with someone um don't worry  about trying to understand everything so if you  

are in a conversation so even me I might watch  a movie or a TV show or something in Japanese  

and if I don't understand every word I don't  really worry about it I focus on a few things  

and then I learn those and maybe come back and  if I'm watching the movie again then I can try to  

focus on some other things but it's better just to  take a few things uh or just one and focus on that  

so if you hear an interesting thing like oh I wish  I wish I would have studied more for that test I  

wish I would have uh like eaten more uh food this  morning or I wish I would have had bre breakfast I  

wish I would have eaten breakfast and so when you  get something like this you will he natives use  

this as a pattern all by itself or I wish I would  have or I'm talking about something like oh I wish  

my mom would have I don't know given me more money  or something like that so I wish somebody did  

something else and as you get this that's where we  start looking being more active about our learning  

and we start getting lots of examples all right  so at this stage we're just talking about maybe  

we hear something interesting or we find something  uh or we want to say something uh and so we learn  

I'm just giving a kind of longer more complex  example but after we get this the next thing we  

want to do is start getting lots of examples so we  get ourselves used to this grammar construction or  

whatever this thing is so it could be vocabulary  or it could be a particular like grammar Point Way  

of uh expressing an idea uh so like another way  of saying this so the same situation of expressing  

regret is like I wish I I wish I had like I wish  I wish I had so I wish I had done something so I  

wish I had eaten breakfast it's the same idea I  wish I would have eaten same thing all right so  

both of those are the same but you will hear  these in the same situation different people  

might express it differently all right let me know  if I'm going uh too quickly or not explaining this  

uh clearly but the the main idea I just want to  repeat is that rather than learning something  

just a little bit where you don't quite understand  it uh or you hear something in a conversation I  

really want you to prepare well so that when  you are in conversations you don't make the  

mistakes okay or things are actually quite easy  to understand because you've already prepared for  

them so as an example uh kind of related to this  if you every day have to do some particular job or  

you talk with customers or do something like  that you should get lots of examples of that  

thing and you can get lots of examples even if  you were not in that situation so let's say I  

will start a job where I am teaching people how to  fish just as an example so I'm I'm starting a new  

job I haven't started the job yet but maybe next  week I will begin the job I can actually watch  

lots of videos on YouTube about native speakers  fishing or teaching people how to fish there are  

lots of videos that teach people how to do that  so maybe I know how to fish but my English is  

not very good and I can't explain that so I watch  other people talking about these things and as I  

get all of these examples that's where I feel much  more confident and maybe I thought I should say  

this but oh actually I should Express something  in a different way okay so the the correction that  

comes is not from like a live person where you're  sitting there asking them questions it's nice if  

you can do that but most people don't have that  opportunity even me like being in native country  

so I'm a Japanese Learner in Japan and I don't  have people to ask I can't just like ask people  

questions all the time I suppose I could try but  uh maybe some people couldn't answer the question  

because not a lot of just everyday people can  explain why language works the way it does just  

people aren't like language teachers even if they  know the language but maybe people are busy or  

they don't want to help me or whatever there are  lots of reasons why it's difficult to do that but  

uh the good news is I can use Google or chat GPT  or YouTube or lots of other resources where if  

I want to find out about how to say something  uh and it couldn't be it could be a situation  

or if I want to talk about like a specific like  um like what about like I don't know what what  

do you call it like uh like even a particular  grammar Point like how do I express regret or how  

do I express surprise so if I want to learn just  like about saying like reacting to something in  

a surprising way so in Japan like people like you  hear something and you get kind of startled it's

likey all right and that's like one way people  might do this but other people might say something  

different okay but as I watch different people  being surprised then I will hear oh okay here  

are these different ways of expressing that okay  and so like like I will say like to Japanese kids  

out here I'll say like big boy donkey which is  just the name of a restaurant but they are like  

surprised by that okay so I'm able to play with  the language a little bit but but you see again  

it's the same idea of we're taking a situation  uh and and that situation can be like a a bigger  

thing like how to grow potatoes or uh even like  how to begin a speech so if I watch 10 different  

speeches and see how different people deliver  that then I will feel much better about giving  

my own speech okay or if I'm looking at something  very simple which is a specific grammar point this  

is even easier uh where I can uh like type that  into chat GPT or Google and just say give me 20  

different examples with I wish I would have and it  will give you lots of examples and you will begin  

to think about it in English rather than trying  to translate that in your native language because  

the goal really is to know what is the correct  pattern to use okay so number one what is the  

correct pattern patter and number two in really  any situation there are many ways to express  

yourself so there could be many different ways  uh to to express something it could be a short  

way a long way depending on who you're speaking  with uh but again that's the basic idea let me  

go back and check chat make sure people are still  following me over here all right uh red goat says  

hi sir I hope you're having a good day you're  by far the best teacher that gives Methods at  

actually work so again we would say give methods  that actually work so this is subject verb  

agreement very good I appreciate the compliment  uh but I always want to help make sure people  

are using the right things so if you have someone  like me to help correct you like people in fluent  

For Life do uh that's great but if not again this  is how you would do it so think about something  

you want to say you have a particular idea uh or  a particular grammar point so I want to say like  

how do I express regret so I'll give you a quick  example of about this I was at a uh like a funeral  

in Japan I don't know a few months ago uh in in  America we have specific phrases that we say to  

people when we visit someone at a family like  at a family gathering so like at a funeral so  

usually like maybe my friend uh my friend's father  dies and I will go and and like I will say things  

like I'm sorry for your loss uh or like he was a  good man or I'm terribly sorry to hear about that  

uh but I didn't know those particular phrases for  Japanese like for going to a like a funeral I've  

been to many funerals but I would go and listen  to people and nobody really says anything in  

particular um like you know the kind of like like  specific phrases like that that you would hear um  

for for those situations so I I was trying  to think and I asked my wife uh and like her  

and her sister and her mother I say well what do  people say at a funeral like that when you're like  

do you say like I'm sorry or what do you like  what do you say and they couldn't really tell  

me so in in that way like it's a similar situation  to uh another uh I think who was that uh was that  

Koo who was that that asked me before about Oak  so so this is like a Japanese situation where a  

Japanese person is going home early and they want  to say I'm sorry for like leaving before you but  

the but the same situation for English speakers  we wouldn't really say that so we would say oh  

well I I'll see you see you later or like have  a good day or something like that but we don't  

really apologize for leaving early so this is  why we don't want to translate we want to look  

at situations and get lots of examples of what  natives say in these situations okay hopefully  

that makes sense all right let me go through  and finish that though I'm sorry I left that in  

the middle of that comment though but uh thank  thank you very much red goat so under whatever  

circumstances keep giving us gems it's my pleasure  thank you very much uh CK says hello teacher I'm  

Somalia now I want to be careful here this is  another example of basic grammar you would say  

I'm Somalian or I'm Somali whichever when you say  or I'm from Somalia so if you I think like wasn't  

that uh like Kennedy Went to went to uh Germany  and he said like Berliner or something which is  

like I am a jelly donut uh rather than like what  you I I don't speak German but uh it's just like  

an interesting uh thing if you're going to rather  than try to understand the grammar it's much more  

difficult to look at something like that and try  to memorize it it's much easier if you get a 30 40  

50 100 different varied examples of natives using  that specific thing if you do that you will feel  

very confident and you won't make that mistake in  your conversations all right uh let's see Alfonso  

says I can't still understand if we need to be  brushing up our vocabulary uh I I still can't  

understand if we need to be brushing up our  vocabulary to become fluent uh first of all  

the the the the phrase like to brush up this is  talking about if you have not done something in  

a while typically uh and like you need to start  doing it again so maybe I I'm living in Japan  

right now I speak Japanese every day but then I  go back to America I don't speak Japanese at all  

uh and then I returned to Japan 10 years later and  I I I need to brush up brush up or brush up on my  

Japanese you'll hear both of those brush up and  brush up on but in that case it's like I need to  

kind of like polish that thing again because it's  a little bit old a similar way of expressing that  

is I'm Rusty I'm Rusty so if you think about if  you leave a bicycle outside in the rain for a long  

time it gets old and Rusty just like your skill  like being able to speak a language so my language  

ability is getting rusty or I have become Rusty  uh in that way so there are lots of different  

ways to express things uh but the basic idea is  we want to see what what people are saying uh in  

those particular situations and then and then this  is the key here get lots of examples get lots and  

lots and lots of examples okay this is why like  every uh fluent for Life Lesson set we've got like  

I don't know 10 20 could be like even a hundred  different examples of certain things okay because  

we really want to make sure you feel confident and  certain about what you're saying all right uh okay  

let me make sure I got that so yeah so again like  make sure if we need to brush up the vocabulary  

so if you're if you're continually if you're still  or continuously I should say continuously learning  

English then you don't really need to brush up  anything the point is you should just be learning  

and understanding uh much more and that way you  will feel much more confident when you speak so if  

you don't feel confident about something it  means there's some kind of doubt there that's  

stopping you from speaking so you need to clear  that doubt by answering that question or just  

getting more examples of whatever that thing is  uh I'm Barat nice see you there Barat okay I got  

that correct good morning sir guys don't forget to  like says Alfonso thank you this is just a quick  

psychological thing it's better to say remember  to do something that way people if you say don't  

forget then they will think for forget so it's  better to say remember to do something uh bridg  

nice to see you there my favorite teacher hello  it's my pleasure Samir we are still sleeping at  

1:30 a.m. uh I see good luck my dears hello  from Algeria hitch says uh this is my first  

time in your live welcome to the party I'm on  a mission first uh learning hello good morning  

I'm Sudan C says I wish I would have conditional  sentence type too yeah yes I know C is always very  

good about saying like what the particular thing  is we want to talk about like it's it's just much  

more difficult for you to think uh oh this is  a conditional or this is a zero conditional  

or whatever uh rather than thinking about that we  just want to understand what is a what is a person  

trying to express so I wish I would have is like  you're regretting that you didn't do something so  

I wish if only so like another way of saying this  is if make sure that fits over there if only I  

would have so you could say that as well if only I  would have or if only I something whatever that is  

if only so rather than uh trying to think about  the grammar name the grammar name is useful for  

searching things but it's very easy you can ask  chat GPT like I wish I would have what's the name  

of that grammar point you can ask that as well and  it will tell you but that the name of that uh is  

not really useful for you in conversations if you  don't know how to use it fluently so I that's why  

I don't care about really teaching uh like the  the you know particular grammar names other than  

telling people this is what it is so that they can  search for it R says why Japanese are so bad in  

learning things well I don't know Japanese seem to  be doing fine and they seem to learn pretty well  

I mean seems like a country is doing all right a  lot of smart people over here let's see can we use  

past continues in that example of regret uh well  you you you wouldn't really need to like I wish  

I would have I mean you you could say like I wish  I would have been doing something I wish I would  

have been paying attention like you could say that  but I'm trying to give you a shorter simpler way  

to express that so so let's say I'm watching  my child uh but then my child I don't know  

runs away and does something because I'm looking  at something else oh no I wish I would have paid  

attention is a is an easier way to say it than  I wish I would have been paying attention so you  

could uh you could use that but native speakers  are are looking usually for the uh like the  

easiest way to say something or the fastest way to  say it uh R says because of racism they have what  

racism you mean in Japan racism uh Tina how can  we correct ourselves as Learners yes so that is  

the whole point of this so typically when people  think about making mistakes uh either it's while  

you're by yourself uh and so in that case you  can just either think about like like I'm going  

to a party and uh I want to say congratulations  to someone so like I can ask chat GPT or Google  

like how can I say that okay uh but then you want  to get lots of examples of that same thing so this  

is why it's not necessary to try to remember like  the this whole thing it's better just to get lots  

of examp examples because our brains don't really  like I wish I would have and you're you're trying  

to think about it logically when we want you to  just understand the pattern very well because  

you've seen it so much okay the the probably I  would say like the number one thing uh for people  

not getting fluent is that they they still have  doubt because they just haven't reviewed something  

enough so they still don't feel confident about  how it's pronounced or whatever the the issue  

might be uh but that's typically why people  would be struggling to speak that's where the  

mistakes come from especially if you make the same  mistake again and again you really aren't feeling  

confident about something so you should go back  uh if it's a situation or a particular grammar  

structure or vocabulary whatever um then get  lots of examples okay the uh the examples are the  

things uh that are that are really going to help  you get fluent faster so you need varied examples  

and it's even better uh if you can hear them from  different Native speakers all right oh no here  

come here comes a a firet truck or an ambulance  or whatever but that's uh tell how you can correct  

yourselves as Learners that's the whole point of  this video so we want you to correct your mistakes  

before you make them and if you in a conversation  you should also be listening to what other people  

are are saying I know it's it can be tricky  because often uh language Learners you're trying  

to think about what you want to say and also  paying attention to what the other person is  

saying so I recommend like try to forget yourself  just listen to the other person even if you feel a  

little bit nervous really try to pay attention to  what the other person is saying uh and if you want  

to kind of practice your English and by practicing  I mean reviewing your English if you want to do  

that in a conversation just repeat what the other  person says so that's another kind of sneaky way  

to practice uh reviewing different things in a  conversation so if a friend of mine says like oh I  

want you to come over at the top of the hour and I  think oh that's interesting like I've never heard  

that expression before uh so at the top of the  hour so if we think about here's like some some  

expression or some interesting vocabulary I hear I  can repeat that back to them just as a way to make  

a mental note and to try to remember that thing  so I might say oh you want me to come back at the  

top of the hour and I'm just repeating it back to  them so I want you to come at the top of the hour  

and I say oh you want me to come at the top of the  hour and if you don't know what that means imagine  

a clock over here so we have 12 3 6 9 so this is  the top of the clock here and this is the top of  

the hour so often radio shows will happen about  like we have like the top of the hour is the start  

of that thing so maybe like 1:00 2:00 3:00 at the  top of the hour top of the hour so when you hear  

something you can repeat that back to the other  person if you're doing this in a conversation but  

if you're by yourself and you're reading something  or listening to something and you don't quite  

understand it stop and get a bunch of examples  of that thing okay so you can get them from  

like ug.com they will give you examples tons of  examples where you can listen to what natives are  

saying or you can use chat jpt or Google but there  are lots of ways for you to get uh these different  

examples that will make you feel more confident  about that so this is how you correct yourself  

and make sure you can uh especially before you  get into conversations you can correct a lot of  

these things uh and then you don't have to make  the mistake when you're in the conversation all  

right uh Alonso says in the past I used to correct  myself while speaking English with my counterparts  

that helped me to become more fluent in English  yes so if you if you can take time and people  

don't mind you like correcting your English in  the middle of conversations I know a lot of people  

are nervous or worried about that um for various  reasons but if you don't want to do that it's it's  

even easier to correct your English before you  speak so this is why we really focus on helping  

people be prepared for conversations by knowing  the language really well if you know the language  

well you will feel confident you will speak okay  so rather than trying to know it a little bit and  

speak and I said something wrong and I forgot my  words in the conversation just spend your time  

knowing the conversation or whatever that kind of  topic is or that vocabulary really well all right  

right uh R says he is already teaching the top of  the class today the top of the class the topic yes  

uh Ahmad says uh thank you very much sometimes we  are afraid to practice the language for fear of  

making mistakes so what is your advice well yes  the whole the whole idea of fear of practicing  

English comes from fear of making mistakes in  front of other people but what I'm telling you to  

do is you practice English by yourself so rather  than like uh trying trying to make mistakes in a  

conversation and then correcting those things you  should be thinking about like just getting lots  

of input and that will give you uh all really any  kind of grammar structure you'd want to know uh or  

how do we express things in different situations  if you are actively trying to learn rather than  

passively waiting for someone to speak to  you and then you say something and make a  

mistake that's a much slower more difficult more  frustrating way to learn so it's much faster much  

faster if you learn in an active way where you're  trying to actually learn things before you have  

conversations so the preparation comes and this is  how you actually learn to speak correctly before  

you're in a conversation so the fluency actually  develops as you understand the vocabulary better  

there's only like a small amount of improvement  you could make just repeating something again and  

again so I heard like a new like a song there's  a new song for like a Japanese TV show I heard  

um uh this just a Japanese uh some maybe the the  Japanese watching this would know ojarumaru uh  

and at the end they have like an outro like so  for music or TV shows they they will have like  

an intro um like an introduction or intro music  and we also have like an outro so this is the  

like the finishing song kind of thing an intro and  an outro and so the outro music uh there's a song  

and I was trying to understand what they were  saying and like some of it was like one of the  

one of the lines was like uh what was that I can't  even remember what it was I was like it was like

jeene what was the what was the line

though so I was thinking like okay how do I and  

and that's just the thing where  like you would have to practice

like and I was like ah okay like I understand  what like what the what the what the thing is  

but it took me like a little bit just to cuz it's  like a it's like a tongue twister kind of so like  

it's hard to they're talking about like there's  one life uh and it's difficult to compare things  

that's what the the lyrics are saying but the  actual like noes I was like ah okay like it's  

it's like it sounds nice but it's a little bit  difficult to say if you're just trying to think  

about the grammar so in that case like it's  helpful to hear a bunch of different examples  

about it but most of the Improvement so if  I can draw I'm getting too many things up

here just to make this very clear for people I  know we have a lot of new people uh watching us  

so uh if we just talk about like the English as a  second language way of learning versus what I do  

which is English as a first language most people  think if we imagine this is like a PID of all the  

things that you do to learn a language uh usually  what people in ESL do is like they have like a  

little bit of learning like you kind of study  something down here we'll just put an S here for  

study uh and then we'll have like just T here for  talking like this is your like talking practice  

and so people think that after you study something  well the real like Improvement comes up here when  

I'm talking okay but what I'm doing is really the  opposite it's like this is all like the kind of  

study and learning and the review before you speak  and so the actual Improvement of talking is a very  

small part of what you do okay so this way  uh it's much easier much faster much more  

relaxing and comfortable because you don't have  to practice in front of other people you're just  

getting lots of examples so I might hear uh like  20 different examples of something and then I feel  

confident and then in the situation so when I have  a chance to speak then the vocabulary just comes  

out fluently so when I'm talking to someone I'm  like like Dicky kn or whatever I could express  

it in different ways uh but if I'm talking about  like using something it's after I've heard many  

examples of it and if I don't feel confident about  saying it I should get more examples okay so the  

confidence is all like built here and maybe like a  tiny amount of confidence comes at the end uh when  

you when you're saying something but th this is  a much more uh difficult way to learn a language  

okay so you're spending more time waiting for  someone to talk with and you think well I can't  

practice because I don't have anyone to speak with  what do I do uh and then you also think uh well I  

guess I know this vocabulary already already why  can't I speak and so this this really causes all  

of the problems people have and this creates all  of the doubt and confusion that stops them from  

speaking but this way over here we want to destroy  all the doubt as you learn and that way when you  

speak you speak fluently okay so you're actually  developing fluency as you learn but if you don't  

understand what you're learning then of course you  won't speak fluently okay so fluency fluency isn't  

something that develops like through your uh like  like like trying to trying to practice like like  

repeating things again and again it just it really  comes from understanding the language very well so  

being knowledgeable about it and getting lots  of examples that make you feel confident about  

the language all right uh let me make sure we're  getting a lot of comments here uh let's see all

right okay wrestling says Hi teacher I want to  thank you for your job I like your method of  

teaching all the best from you uh from Ukrainian  who lives in Toronto very good Toronto R and you  

would say from a Ukrainian who lives in Toronto  very good and again like as you get more examples  

of this you'll feel like oh I mean typically  people know a lot of vocabulary but they can't  

quite stick things together because they're  worried about little little bits of grammar  

that they don't quite use uh fluently or  correctly and they're worried about that so  

that's a big issue for people that that stops  a lot of them from speaking it's not the like  

the larger vocabulary that you might know it's  sticking these pieces of vocabulary together so  

spend more time with that I promise you you will  become a much more confident speaker all right  

uh says have to use the from to describe where  you from well if I if I say like where are you  

like I don't it's like where are you I don't  know where you are but if I'm saying where are  

you from I'm talking about like your origin  did you come from a different country that  

kind of thing so where are you from well Nils  is back Anette all I I hear German yeah yes

Yesa says I'm Italy no I'm From Italy yes so  I am from Italy and remember uh your correct  

pronunciation correct punctuation all these  things I am from Italy or you can say I'm  

Italian I'm Italian so remember there are always  different ways to express things yinyang look at  

that with the heart eyes over there I how to use  must have and should have uh rather than like go  

into those specific things look up just go to chat  GPT and say give me like like must have and should  

have so look up examples but if you don't if you  don't understand the idea like this like I wish  

I would have the idea really the situation is  we're talking about regret so you feel regret  

I wish I would have done something so I wish I  would have done something so we we connect with  

the emotion we understand the situation so even  if we don't understand the the specific grammar  

structure we understand what's happening so if  you look at little kids little kids watch their  

parents and their parents are like I wish I would  have done something and so they they see oh like  

my my Dad or Mom is like they feel bad they are  frustrated because they didn't do something okay  

so they understand the situation even if they  don't feel so confident about using the grammar  

but you can be more proactive more active about  how you do something how you how you learn and  

review so as you get more examples you will  feel more confident about speaking all right  

uh so yes like even those those little things  like if you're looking at like must have or  

should have like look look for those two things  so number one like what is the real idea being  

communicated and number two what are a bunch of  examples that I can use to help me understand it  

all right R says we use V to short I have I've  been yes so you can shorten that as as I have  

Tiana says what's the difference between start  and baking Oh you mean beginning like start in  

beginning um well it could be I don't want to go  into like a long explanation about like specific  

vocabulary for this video uh I have done that  before uh but Google Google that ask chat gbd  

and like when you're when you're looking for  things like this say like ask ask Google or  

chat GPT or whatever like AI you use is there  a time when we can say start but not begin and  

you're so you're looking for times when it's  when it's different to help you understand  

those things it's okay says yes Japanese culture  is nice but sometimes it's not nice but [ __ ]  

Japan is great what are you talking about I love  you Sensei well thank you very much it's good to  

be loved all right uh did you watch Attack on  Titan uh I I'm familiar with it but I have not  

seen that uh TJ do you have another podcast on  Spotify no I do not Allah could you please explain  

how to understand complex texts and articles  especially considering I am in my 40s well your  

age doesn't have anything to do with that but I  would be looking at like specific ideas within  

those texts like look at specific sentences that  you don't understand and then apply the same thing  

if you can't understand from the context then you  can ask like chat GPT what does this mean what are  

they talking about but you have to spend the time  to actually figure something out so if you need to  

I don't know learn something for work or whatever  you have to read something complicated then that's  

how you would use chat GPT to help you do that BR  says Drew in the past I had figuring out what the  

sentence was implying now you are making it clear  yes uh and so again like a lot of speakers they  

when they're listening to someone they really try  listening to the words and try to understand what  

those words mean rather than kind of looking at  the bigger picture and understanding like what  

is the emotion or what is the situation what is  the the thing the the other person is implying so  

even if I can't speak if like if you watch me and  I start speaking an alien language and I'm like ah

so I just start speaking some random words like  that maybe you don't understand the vocabulary  

but you can see I'm frustrated so as you begin  to kind of work from the bigger picture of okay  

this is a negative emotion he doesn't look very  happy something is like that now we can maybe  

if we hear it again we will feel uh like better  about about understanding the specific vocabulary  

uh all right hopefully that makes sense all  right K says I'm sorry I have to go to work  

today I'm not lying so I'm sorry for going for  it's okay uh asra says kich Geno I'm Malaysian  

I hope I can improve my English and be able to  communicate with my fiance's family members in  

the UK they speak in different accents ah so here  is another good example like I didn't mention uh  

specific like pronunciation or accents but it's  the same idea so the same rule or law would apply  

to that if I'm going to move to the UK I should  probably watch videos on YouTube about people who  

live in that particular area or something and that  would prepare me for understanding those kinds of  

speakers so it's very easy to do like all this  information is just waiting for you go pick it  

up it's right there okay it's already waiting for  you all right LF hey Drew why some native speakers  

hold the ed sound for the verbs in the past  tense for example I called the doctor sometimes  

sounds like I called the doctor um typically what  native speakers are doing the reason for that is  

because it's faster to say and usually uh from the  context people would understand so if I say yeah I  

I I called the doctor so I called the doctor so I  leave a little bit of space there um but you would  

know I'm I'm talking about the past so it's not  really necessary uh to say it clearly yes I called  

the doctor I would only speak really clearly  like that to another native if like my wife is  

saying hey did you call the doctor it's like yeah  I called the doctor really did you call the doctor  

yes I called the doctor okay so in that situation  I'm trying to be really specific I'm being very  

clear uh and it's not really about the language  it's just like yes I'm making it clear I called  

the doctor but most of this you can understand  from context because you know it's not about the  

future because I in that case you would say oh  I will call the doctor so tomorrow I will call  

the doctor okay tomorrow I will or tomorrow I'm  going to call the doctor both of those are fine  

um so these are things that as you listen to  more native speakers very good you're you're  

hearing that that they don't really say that and  that's why because it's just not necessary people  

understand from the situation what the person is  talking about and you don't need to like make it  

more clear people already understand Ray goat says  the biggest problem that I face that face me you  

would say that faces me or that I face uh often is  that whenever I start a conversation with a native  

speaker they think I'm a native and just that puts  me more load on my mind is it good and how to deal  

with it ah if you're like you mean like because of  how you look or something like they think you're  

going to be a good speaker but you're actually not  that's the problem that's interesting um but yeah  

it's it's kind of like uh like I have a friend who  who's who's Japanese but he's raised in Brazil and  

he doesn't really speak Japanese very well so  he comes here and Japanese people will kind of  

try speaking with him and he's just like ah like  I don't I don't understand and then someone else  

will have to kind of speak for him so that is that  maybe that's the kind of situation you're talking  

about um but I don't know I mean in that case like  if you if you just have to speak with someone and  

just say like like you I mean you can make it like  kind of a joke like oh maybe I look this way but  

actually like I don't know Japanese like please  teach me or in your case I don't know English  

please teach me or my English actually is not very  good so you can make that kind of like you can you  

can turn that around this is the psychology part  of language learning where I could be scared about  

that or if this situation happens again and again  I can think about what's like a a kind of funny  

way to deal with that where people start speaking  with me and I'm just like oh like I'm new here I  

actually don't speak English so so like oh I'm new  I'm new here like I'm you know I'm new here or my  

English actually isn't very good but you can you  can talk about that and and that kind of makes the  

conversation a bit more comfortable for everyone  so you tell people hey my English is actually not  

very good so uh please please speak more slowly  but you can say but I'm excited to learn okay so  

my English is not very good but I'm excited to  learn and so people will feel a bit more uh kind  

of cuz because the the other person also doesn't  want to make you feel uncomfortable either okay  

all right uh I got that one Vin says hey Drew uh  correcting myself before I say something will I  

not create some doubt and be hesitant speaker well  if you're if you're correct the whole point is can  

you feel confident about something before you  speak uh and if you can then you won't make the  

mistake when you speak or if you do it would just  be like oh I maybe I I don't know was thinking  

about something else or whatever but it will be  the kind of mistake that a native will make when  

maybe they say something and they just it doesn't  come out very well but it's they are they know the  

language well they're just maybe like this time  or something they're not expressing themselves  

perfectly and that's okay uh I should have put  upfront that I'm not native no you you you don't  

have to say that you're not native or whatever but  I'm guessing it's because of how you look or maybe  

something you do that people are guessing that  um but it's interesting thing that we we kind of  

project that so now that I speak Japanese fluently  Japanese people will will speak with me like I'm  

like I'm fluent even before they hear me speak  so I'm just standing around or something and they  

will start talking to me in Japanese all right  but like typically you can look at a foreigner  

and a foreigner will give that impression that  they can't speak and so Japanese people wouldn't  

try to say anything to them or maybe they would  try to speak English or something but uh but it's  

it's an interesting an additional uh part of the  psychology of learning and expressing yourself uh  

C says what does it mean at Advance you probably  mean in advance it just means before something so  

would like if I like if people often say like  thank you in advance it's just like I'm asking  

you to do something for me I'm thanking you in  advance for doing that thing so even before you've  

done the thing I'm saying thank you brother says  hello from Alabama nice to see you there uh have  

you ever download an app for speaking with English  Learners no I have not well done and very helpful  

so glad to hear Rocky says your Japanese sounds  smooth do you think we are better to practice or  

you would say like do you think it's better uh to  practice reading out sentences in chunks so we can  

get our tongue used to the rhythm of the target  language uh yes I think that's helpful so again  

that's that's kind of coming from up here so even  in fluent for Life most of the program is just  

it's this down here helping you really understand  something but there will be sections where you  

repeat after things just to just to practice  saying words or get get used to the pronounciation  

that kind of thing so there is uh some kind of  practice that that comes from speech but most  

of it the the real thing that stops people from  speaking is is typically not accent like that  

that could be a problem but it's more like using  incorrect grammar and getting stuck and that's  

usually a bigger issue for people because they  just don't understand the vocabulary well enough  

Alex says hi from China the third time nice to see  you again m t says so you mean not to worry about  

grammar when we speak no no no my point is that  you should worry about grammar before you speak  

worry about grammar before you speak so if you're  thinking and you might be talking to yourself or  

whatever or you're listening to something and you  hear oh that's interesting like I can understand  

that but maybe I can't express that same thing  so here we have an example of a grammar point  

where you understand it but do you feel confident  us that thing if you don't then stop then take  

that information and like put it in in uish or  chat GPT or something uh where you can get lot  

a lot more examples or many more examples of that  thing and that will make you feel more confident  

about using it so if I hear something and like  oh okay I understand what someone is saying but  

I have to ask myself do I feel confident saying  that all right so there's like usually a larger  

a larger amount of vocabulary that you know  and a smaller amount of vocabulary that you  

feel confidence saying okay so you need to have  confidence here and you don't really need so much  

confidence here you're just listening for what  other people are saying uh but if you want to  

use this if you want to expand this circle then  you need to spend more time feeling more confident  

getting more confident and you do that by getting  more examples of that thing until you really  

understand that thing very well okay so sometimes  I'm not saying you need to get a 100 examples  

of everything the point is just to get enough  until you really feel uh until you really feel  

confident that you understand something okay so  you could get one example and often when I teach  

I'm trying to give you a few examples to really  help you understand something to give you that  

aha moment this is called a fluency trigger where  I I basically make you understand something very  

well uh and you feel more confident about saying  it okay so it doesn't take a lot of examples but  

if you can spend time you you should be spending  more time in in general in your life listening  

and learning to things like or listening to and  learning things uh rather than like rather than  

speaking even in your native language okay most  people are not spending all day speaking even at  

like a newspaper reporter or somebody or like a  person on TV news people who talk professionally  

probably spend a lot of time actually listening  to things or reading things as well okay so the  

same kinds of things you would do in your native  language you would do that in English uh let's  

see where do we get stuck or where do we stop uh  okay all right soam says what do you do for good  

vocabulary for writing in exam um I don't know I  I like typically an exam would have some relation  

to whatever you're learning so so I would get the  vocabulary from there Flavio says I'm from Brazil  

Koo I wish I had more time today is this a correct  yes perfect so you can say like instead of like  

I wish I had done something you can say I wish I  had more time I wish I were more handsome I wish  

I were a faster runner I wish I had more time so  again that's an excellent way to use it very good  

I wish I had more time today all right I'm late  uh as always it's okay Nicholas no worries uh the  

dark Cardinal with some hearts over there Alex now  I asked chat GPT make five different sentences of  

the first same meaning by different vocabularies  teacher told you me the most important thing is  

situation situation situation yes so like the idea  of a situation is just so you understand what we  

call the big picture what are people actually  saying because if you understand the big picture  

then you think oh okay this person is just they  feel sad or they feel regret or frustration or  

anger or whatever or they're talking about  something something uh but there are many  

different ways of expressing that so if you ask  chat GPT like how can I express regret like or and  

you can even like give give uh give chat GPT like  uh I'm sad that my dog died so you can give chat  

GPT a Target sentence and say give me 10 different  sentences that express the same thing in different  

ways and it will tell you that it's like I really  feel bad that my dog died or or my dog passed away  

or I lost my dog or my dog whatever something  like that but you will get 10 different examples  

and so you can control that and basically you  can teach yourself and so you like we're what  

we're talking about in this video you can correct  your own mistakes so the point is if you can if  

you can understand these things as you learn  them then you don't need to wait for a teacher  

or someone else to come explain something to you  V says hi Drew is it right to learn individual  

phrases or to learn uh to learn individual words  are learning phrases uh well you will learn both  

uh but typically you will hear phrases of English  and you will get both of those and there there's  

a a connection obviously between the words within  a sentence and something else so you might learn a

phrase and when we I often cover these in videos  but you might hear a particular phrase uh like  

what what's a good example uh yesterday I  let's see I I went uh what's a good example  

so now it's this is the problem when you  have like an infinite number of ways you  

could talk about something just to give a  single example sometimes it it comes more  

slowly uh so I went to uh here's yeah I got one  I got one I got one so I caught a game yesterday

so I caught a game yesterday so let's say  I hear that like oh okay like caught a game  

that's interesting like this is a particular  phrase that people will use often uh or like a  

friend might ask me like did you catch the game  did you catch the game yesterday or whatever so  

when you hear something like that you're hearing  the phrase but you're also hearing the individual  

words across different sentences okay so maybe one  person says this and tomorrow a different person  

says something similar and look at that it's  like oh I caught something I catch something  

and you you mean like who that's interesting did  you catch the game and so first we think what is  

this person really trying to ask me even if I  don't understand these particular things like  

my friend is probably asking me if I saw or  watched a particular maybe sports event or or  

something like that so usually there's some kind  of context here I don't just walk up to a random  

person and say hey did you catch the game unless  this it's like something that everybody would know  

about so an example of that would be uh like let's  say uh so shoh Otani is a famous baseball player  

from Japan who now plays for the Los Angeles  Dodgers and lots of Japanese people watch the  

games and so when like the uh the world baseball  classic or whatever the name of that is like I  

think that was last year maybe um but like when  I think that was in Japan and a lot of Japanese  

people were watching that and I and I could say if  I'm speaking English with someone like oh did you  

catch the game and they would probably guess that  I mean oh the game with Otani in it all right so  

like when we're talking about things like that  typically you will hear a phrase and you might  

hear that same phrase used from different people  but we also learned the individual meanings uh  

of things like that so when you hear like did  you catch the game we have an idea of like you  

probably know catch like like oh I caught a bug or  I caught a cold something like that like I throw  

up the marker and catch the marker like that but  we can also catch something like oh like did you  

catch the game so it typically like to catch a  game like that is like you could go watch it or  

you see it on TV or even you saw only a little  bit of that game so if a friend of mine says oh  

did you catch the game uh yesterday uh oh yeah I  caught a little bit of it or I caught the I caught  

the end of the game so I saw like the last bit of  the game okay so I I don't tell people hey focus  

on phrases or focus on individual words because  really like they're actually connected okay but  

typically you will like like young children when  they're learning things they're actually doing  

these things at the same time but the the kind  of better advice is just in general learn like a  

native so learn English as a first language and  listening to people like this like what would a  

native say in this situation so uh another way  they might be say hey did like did you watch so  

did you watch some baseball game or did you see  some baseball game or whatever okay so I could  

hear all of these things from different people  did you watch it did you see it did you catch it  

okay and so as you hear that you learn like the  kind of meaning of catch has different meanings  

uh or could have related meanings in different  situations but they all have the same kind of  

core meaning of like getting receiving something  like that so did I catch the game I didn't I  

didn't catch the game like with a bug catching  net or something like that but I caught the game  

yeah I watched it I saw it I caught the game  okay I caught a cold over the weekend I caught  

cold all right see if we can get through these  we've been going for an hour so far all right  

uh rof says we need a donate button teacher don't  have one uh yes you'll notice I don't have I also  

don't run ads on my videos because it's kind of  a waste of your time so uh the people who support  

me are the people who join my programs that's  really the only way I I make any any income from  

like doing stuff on YouTube or whatever I I don't  I don't uh look at Drew is already rich yeah I uh  

I well I I I probably could make a little bit more  money by running advertising on the channel but  

like it's it's like I I don't do that for a number  of reasons which I've talked about already I think  

I have to run some ads like some some videos but  when you come to my Channel I want you to just  

get straight to the learning without having to  wait or click on anything or skip anything you  

don't want to watch uh jez do it says what's your  nationality I am from the United States MBO says  

Hydra I understand what you are speaking about am  I fluent in English uh I'll probably make a video  

about this too because people keep asking me about  that but your ability to understand me and your  

ability to speak are two different things so even  if you understand me it just means you understand  

me that's really all it means so there will be  other people who speak uh English at a fluent  

fast level maybe they use lots of uh difficult ult  uh vocabulary or uh maybe quotes from movies and  

and TV shows and things like that uh and you won't  uh you won't understand what people are saying and  

so it like maybe you can understand me like this  person but you might have trouble understanding  

other people or still using what you learn uh G if  I'm pronouncing that correctly what does the word  

redemption mean I've been looking for the meaning  of the word and there's a lot of meaning uh  

uh well to to like to redeem is typically like  coming back in some way so if I if I like redeem  

a coupon like I bring the coupon back to the  store uh and I can get like a free drink or  

something like that to redeem something uh  and you could also have a a Redemption of  

like uh like a person who does something bad  but then they become a good character later so  

that's like to redeem something so it's like you  it's there's like some kind of like going back  

back or going up and then uh or going down and  then coming up again kind of thing but again get  

more examples and like a lot of that I don't want  to spend a video giving 20 different examples of a  

particular word because that's already done for  you in in chat gbt or whatever uh let's SS says  

G9 I don't know you have to look g g uh let's see  con says hello I like your contents glad to hear  

if you know other people who would enjoy it please  share the video sir could I know the difference  

between talk to and talk with uh typically talk  to like you could use both of these in the same  

way uh but if you're talking to someone it's  like all of me like right now I'm talking to  

you all right uh and it typically that could also  mean having a kind of negative meaning where like  

I'm like talking to my children or I'm giving  them a talking to where I'm basically telling  

them something like why did you do that you made  a mistake or whatever we need to do this better so  

I'm talking to someone but talking with usually  implies like back and forth so I'm talking with  

someone so I say something they say something it's  more of a conversation but uh sometimes people  

will use those and and have the same meaning but  that would be the slight Nuance if someone is like  

like my boss was talking to me after work so it's  like he was he was telling me something all right  

I wasn't really having a conversation he was  talking to me uh rather than doing something  

so I just remembered to by itself is like you're  talking about the direction of something but with  

is like a connection between those things uh so  see I think Redemption is kind of similar with  

repay it's strong relate with religious context  well it like Redemption doesn't necessarily mean  

religion but again that's why we we try to  get lots of varied examples so that way we're  

not thinking like oh Redemption means like only  religion because you can have an evil character in  

a story that has a Redemption Arc so it means like  he he redeems himself in the story he he does you  

know something positive or whatever does something  helpful in the end moose says thank you for the  

clarifications my pledge of red goats yeah in my  case is the same as you uh they hear me speaking  

or hear my accent they think I can speak fluently  so they start a high level conversation and I can  

manage it but sometimes it feels frustrating yeah  so if if something like that happens again and  

again then you take control of that and make it  make it your thing make it you know make it more  

fun so you can say oh like actually I'm I'm new  here like I like I've been practicing you can say  

I've been practicing my accent so I sound native  but actually my English is not very good so you  

can say something like that and actually control  the conversation and people will think ah okay  

like this guy is confident or whatever and and  you know I can I can have a better conversation  

but they will they will feel more relaxed about  that so part of when we're in a conversation  

we're also trying to make the other person feel  more comfortable if we can all right uh emo says  

really useful class glad toar hear it uh CL says  there is uh what should I do if I don't understand  

the subtitles in the replay uh I understand the  subtitles in the replay please uh you mean like  

in this video or any of them uh typically uh  also subtitles are released for these videos  

usually a day after the video is done so after the  video is live uh they're typically release them U  

but if you don't understand something I would  slow it down uh and try to think again about  

the the context of something uh and if you don't  understand everything it's it's not you know it's  

not the end of the world it's okay uh if you don't  understand at all all right jagie Chan so I can  

follow your live streaming see says I have a bunny  picture armo says I have to catch up the same that  

I have to I have I catch up the same that I have  to talk oh so you're talking about like we need  

to catch up like if you're talk it just means like  yeah we we need to talk but catch up doesn't mean  

talk it just means I need to find out what you've  been doing with your life so a lot of these things  

like a phrasal verb like catch up uh which we  cover in our visual guide to phrasal verbs you you  

think about typically a physical origin of some  kind of word like if you imagine like two people  

are racing or two cars or something like that so  they're going if they're going at the same Pace  

they're going together but if one car is going  F faster than the other one this second car here  

needs to catch up to this one okay so this is like  we need to catch up we need to get to the same  

level so this is the physical origin of something  like that to catch up to something else so one  

person is running and another person oh I need to  run faster to catch up to that person and so we  

take that idea and then we apply that in life so  like here is like my life is I'm doing something  

over here uh my life I'm doing something over here  and now look we need to now we need to reconnect  

we need to catch up so we usually catch up by  talking but the idea is just like oh it's been  

a while we need to catch up okay so when you  understand the situation you're not trying to  

translate like catchup meaning talk it's like  oh catchup is like look we're disconnected and  

now we need to reconnect we need to catch up  again so typically again like one thing is  

ahead or in a different place and now this one  needs to catch up to that person okay same idea  

all [Applause] right uh okay Diego says hello  I'm on my bed just listening you and practicing  

my listening excuse me thank you for the class  very useful content here greetings from Brazil  

well it's my pleasure I'm glad to hear vogan says  hello there drop the like guys yes could you give  

us best app or platform to practice speaking  in live mode uh again I don't I don't recommend  

people do that the the whole point of this video  is that that's a waste of your time so I don't  

have like a site where I would recommend you go  to practice live speaking because why would you  

do that when it's much faster to improve by  yourself so you can I'm sure you can you just  

Google like live practicing sites or whatever like  practice your English or something like that so  

these sites are created for people because most  people think they need to speak to practice their  

English but you don't actually improve that  way I mean you could if you are improving in  

a conversation it's because you're understanding  more from the other person you're speaking with  

okay so if I speak like let's say I practice  speaking and the the other person has a lower  

level than me I'm probably not going to improve at  all because like the the only Improvement really  

comes when I'm speaking and actually learning and  understanding my own vocabulary better or learning  

new things that are correct from the other person  so if I'm doing this this uh it's much faster and  

and easier for me and more comfortable just to do  it by myself and I can get lots of examples from  

native speakers so why would I need to practice  with anybody else so you can do that but I you  

know most of the the things that I talk about  are just uh the reason you don't speak well is  

because of the doubt you have so it doesn't make  sense to force yourself to speak it's much easier  

to clear the doubt okay so why wouldn't you do  that if someone has a good response if you would  

rather speak with someone then like do it the  faster and easier way that's fine but you don't  

have to do that so I I have to keep reminding  people of this because everyone tells you that  

you have to speak in order to improve but really  the Improvement just comes from that moment of  

understanding something better so that could come  from a conversation so you could be speaking with  

someone and you hear something like oh they use  that some interesting phrase or expression or a  

grammar point or something and I learn a little  bit more so I improve from that but it's because  

of what the other person said to me okay so if I'm  not speaking and it's what the other person says  

to me that gets me fluent then why am I looking  for people to practice with I should be just  

getting lots of examples that help me understand  things and I can control exactly what I'm learning  

so if I already know how to talk about this then  I don't need to spend more time with that thing I  

should go talk with somebody else so often in  in our work or you know jobs or daily life or  

whatever we kind of talk about the same things and  this is why many people they understand a lot they  

know a lot of English for their job but they have  trouble talking about things outside of their job  

because they talk a lot about their job and they  hear those same things again and again they've  

already become comfortable with that so they feel  confident about that already but if you talk about  

something new you should spend your time doing  that so you feel much more confident about that  

so if I keep talking about like if my if I have  a friend and he keeps telling me about like paint  

his house over and over and over again  like okay I already know about that like  

I should spend my time learning about something  I don't know about okay so that's why you don't  

you don't see me recommending things like that  um you can like after you're already confident  

uh I mean like finding a site to do that with  it's much easier like what we do in fluent for  

life is we actually teach people how to get  out and practice and how to meet different  

people to speak with so how to how to meet native  speakers which is the like who you should really  

speaking with rather than trying to talk with  more teachers so we are kind of giving you the  

teaching information and also giving you lots  of examples but if you want to find people to  

practice with that's how we do it but for me like  I don't I don't use any kind of speaking Japanese  

like onetoone lessons or anything like that I just  talk with people okay and if I can't have someone  

physically with me then I could easily meet people  online but I would do it with natives rather than  

trying to look for teachers okay so that's my  long explanation about that all right uh let's  

see ditto says uh shinos s let's see thank you for  your explanation sir it's my pleasure you got uh  

my best you got yeah got you my best teacher glad  to hear Diego says very good points every language  

has four dimensions uh listening speaking  reading and writing the ultimate goal is to  

dominate all of these four or all four of these  dimensions in my humble opinion yes uh so again  

it's much easier to kind of practice the things  like reading and writing because there's no  

pressure on you to to respond quickly um but  if you want to develop speaking then you can  

actually do this by yourself just by getting lots  of examples from other people okay so should be  

pretty uh pretty easy hope does this does this  make you feel more excited that you don't need  

to speak I know it sounds unbelievable I I know  when when I discovered this uh I thought like this  

is crazy it's like of course you have to speak to  improve your your vocabulary or whatever but when  

I thought about it I was like yeah I guess like  what am I actually doing in a conversation what  

I'm actually doing is like listening to what other  people say and that's how I'm learning so unless  

I want to get a specific response from someone  maybe 20 years ago like that was the only way to  

get information because we didn't have Google or  the internet or whatever but now all of that is  

available so there's all that information anything  you could want to learn about is available right  

now okay so you don't need to wait for anything  or wait for anyone you can do that by yourself  

all right uh AB abaran that's an interesting  name uh you are a teacher who always makes  

one's English richer glad to hear it yes and so  uh hopefully by that you mean that I'm able to uh  

improve your fluency without you saying anything  but what I try to do in these videos is you'll  

notice I cover some things again and again but  I always explain them in slightly different ways  

okay and then I cover new things and teach you  some new vocabulary as well but I'm not trying  

to overwhelm you with too much information people  who just listen to the way I speak uh they start  

to understand me and they start to understand  other people and they're learning more things  

and so what we do in fluent for life we take you  up to that next level where you're really getting  

many more examples of native speakers saying  these things as well all right uh let's see  

all right uh vum says when I need to use time with  the word have uh oh like you mean like have time  

to do something you just say I have time or it  depends like you can say I want time I wish I  

had time or I need time to do something so it's  not like just have goes with time you can use  

many things with time but Google that use chat  GPT get a lot more examples all right confidence  

tips for speaking in more formal settings please  uh I would get some examples of how people are  

speaking like if you mean like a formal setting  like like like you could find videos on YouTube  

about like people talking at a conference or  something I'm sure you can find people just  

walking around um talking and even if you were  doing that like if I want to know how to talk  

about something I would go to that thing or  find videos or something like that and just  

listen and get all those examples so if I want to  know how to order food at a restaurant uh I can  

go and just sit and listen to other people order  food very easy if I can't do it at a physical  

restaurant I just do it online you know same thing  or I ask chat GPT or Google or whatever like you  

know give it's it's not like native speakers  again have many ways of saying things just like  

you probably have many ways of saying things in  your native language and so uh if I go to Google  

or a regular English lesson just like how do you  order food at a restaurant like oh may I have this  

or I would like this that you maybe get a few  different examples but if you watch natives there  

are really many different ways like I'll I'll have  something let me think uh oh I we need a minute  

I'm sorry so if you go to a restaurant sometimes  you'll hear that like there are all these little  

situations like maybe a waiter comes up to your  table and says are are you ready to order or do  

you know what You' like or are you ready you  can say oh uh not yet could you come back in  

a minute or we're not not ready yet so that's  a specific situation where like what is what is  

that otherwise they come up and you're like ah  I'm not ready I'm not ready I don't know what I  

want yet just say oh no uh not yet could you come  back in a moment or in a minute or something like  

that so maybe you're sitting you're still thinking  about what you want to do so Japan uh solved this  

problem just by putting a little bell on the table  so when you're ready they just say uh just ring  

the bell all right uh let's see where go say I'll  catch your level up teacher you can say if you're  

talking about like to reach my level you would  say I'll catch up to your level I'll catch up  

to your level all right man says a j I lost uh if  you speak slow I love it all right uh sir I have  

one question I wonder if in your daily life you  speak like this because you're listening yeah so  

like again I I do speak like this sometimes but it  depends who I'm speaking with so if I'm speaking  

with again we'd have that speak to or speak with  if I'm speaking with people who like I understand  

their so I have a friend for for example uh we we  joke with each other a lot and I say hey I saw you  

like on a wanted poster like we have they're like  wanted posters of you up in the neighborhood or  

whatever and we're kind of joking with each  other about that and I know he knows what a  

wanted poster is so I can I can use that reference  so this is if you go to the police station there's  

a picture of somebody and says wanted it's like uh  like the police are looking for somebody like that  

so I'm saying he's a criminal or he's like he's  you know in trouble or something like that um so  

typically I'm speaking faster I'm using vocabulary  that that people might not know so I don't use  

that and I'm I'm quite careful about how I speak  uh and this is often like native speakers uh like  

so red goat gave that same example before about  if people think you can speak well then they will  

speak at a higher level because they're assuming  they're they're they're making a connection with  

you using language that they they think that  you know okay so they think you know something  

and so they will start speaking with you but if  you actually don't know it then they're like oh  

okay I have to speak in a a simpler or slower  way all right think we're almost to the bottom  

over here uh all right Rodrigo says brother you  changed my life back in 2013 2014 I learned a lot  

from you wow well welcome that's wow that was 10  years ago I hope you hopefully you're doing well  

it's my pleasure if you know other people we can  help send them uh my weight let's see ceel says  

hello Fabricio from Brazil ilder nice to see you I  heard you long time no see hopefully you're doing  

well Rodrigo again I got a scholarship to study in  the US a lot of my English skills came from your  

channel for sure thanks a lot oh fantastic nice  work Rand says uh Brazilians keep on saying hello  

but only 2% of Brazilians speak English that's  intriguing I don't actually know what percentage  

of bra Brazilians speak English um but yeah we  we do certainly a lot of Brazilians learning  

the language uh Fabricio says what is the best  study method to learn the first words in English  

um actually I would I would download Frederick  if you want to do that um Frederick uh you can  

anybody can click on the link in the description  below this video to get that that is our app that  

will teach you uh the basics of pronunciation uh  going all the way up to more difficult things uh  

as well as basic vocabulary uh and some grammar  as well but also our basic or our I think the the  

playlist on our YouTube channel is best beginning  English grammar or something like that but watch  

that video series and it will teach you English  in English but the whole point the most important  

point about both of those things is that they  teach you English as a first language so they  

help you understand English in English rather than  you translating so that will get you fluent much  

faster why kids become fluent even though their  parents are not the best teachers well typically  

uh they get fluent because they're getting many  different examples from lots of different people  

or television or whatever so my kids they will  they will learn things and use Expressions that  

I did not teach them but if you have a child and  the parent together all the time then the child  

really only learns what the parent teaches them  so it's the environment that the child gets that  

lets them learn faster so even if the teachers  are not good speakers if the children have lots  

of examples of other English then they will they  will get that or whatever language language uh  

let's see Leonardo says you speak so fast but  I get all that you say yes so I'm I'm trying  

to speak a little I'm not speaking slowly I'm  still blending my words together but I'm speaking  

clearly uh and still blending my speech the way  a native would uh so the difference typically is  

uh that like a native speaker would be less clear  than me uh but they would also be um I guess like  

it's like the vocabulary is much more different  or much different I should say uh so they use like  

again like the some movie quotes or something  like that uh and that comes from if I'm having  

a personal conversation with with someone I will  tailor my speech to that person and so since this  

is a lesson that anybody in the world might watch  I have to be careful about my language and if  

I teach something I have to explain it make sure  people understand what I'm talking about all right  

uh yes a lot of Brazilians okay leard says I would  really like to hear more about syllables open and  

close uh just get get Frederick it'll it'll cover  all that for you all right Rodrigo guys he is the  

best English teacher out there trust me much love  thanks again glad to hear yes send us a send us a  

testimonial send us like a video of you speaking  at in info@ English anyone.com we I have a bunch  

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us know that's great uh I really appreciate your  efforts it's obviously how heart kind you are and  

forgive our errors no it's my pleasure I know  how it's like uh what is your accent where you  

live I don't know if you're talking about me uh  so I'm from the United States but I live in Japan  

um yeah and so I have some people will say I have  kind of a uh what is it I don't know almost like a  

Southern accent I'm so you don't really hear that  in these videos but I I get kind of relaxed with  

my speech and I say y'all like you all y'all a lot  uh but anyway look at that we got to the end of  

the comments list over there all right well thank  you very much so again just a quick recap for this  

video the important thing is you can try to do  the kind of slower more difficult approach which  

is meeting people and trying to speak and then you  say something and you make a mistake and you feel  

bad about it and it's just more difficult or you  can spend time learning things you're interested  

in learn a lot about the specific situations what  vocabulary we would use or you can learn about  

specific vocabulary or grammar points but the  important thing is that you get lots of review  

of that thing so the naturally varied review  this is what I call getting varied different  

examples of things so we're not just repeating  something again and again this is important so  

you can hear different examples from different  speakers uh but it's also really necessary just  

to help you understand what you're learning so if  you only hear one word or one phrase again again  

and again it's not really helping you understand  it better and when you don't understand something  

you won't feel confident about speaking okay so  that's the goal uh and that's again how you can  

practice English by yourself if you'd like help  doing this we guide everybody step by step through  

this uh this whole process influent for life and  especially people who have questions we answer  

those as well all right I often keep your videos  on when I asleep glad to hear let's see can we  

ever begin I was in subjunctive mood or what uh  can can we ever begin can we ever begin I was I  

I don't I don't understand the question but if  you're if you're looking for specific examples  

of the subjunctive just Google that and you will  find plenty of examples but the point is get more  

examples uh when you can really uh understand  something that's when you really start speaking  

so get a lot of examples so the next video  should be what day is today Monday probably  

Thursday this week so 3 days from now I think  but if I'm not there please don't be angry at me  

maybe something happened or something like that  but typically these videos are uh Mondays and  

Thursdays Japan time again if you'd like to  know more click on the links in the video uh  

description so the links in the description below  this video and we'll see you next time bye-bye