How To Keep Talking In English, Instead Of Getting Stuck

all right let's see we got here

pull up the chat hopefully everyone is  doing all right I am Drew Badger the  

founder of Englishanyone.com and the English  fluency guide and we'll give people a minute  

to file in and today we're going to talk  about uh how to keep talking in English so  

I get this question actually quite frequently  see if anybody's coming in a chat over here  

all right I think we should be live we'll see  all right can't tell but hopefully post something  

in the chat let me know what you're watching  over there all right but I think we are live

so this video is going to be a little bit  different than what I usually do because  

I don't have a specific plan other than answering  your questions and talking specifically about this  

idea so usually I have you know like a specific  topic or things I want to talk about but this one  

I really want to talk uh specifically with the uh  we're kind of talking about the problems that you  

have and I thought it would be interesting  to not have anything uh like planned just  

so you can see what I do when I don't know what  like to talk about so I like to do this in live  

videos anyway because part of being able to have  a conversation is to continue speaking and so you  

can keep a conversation going uh or continue to  ask questions or to continue uh you know talking  

about whatever the topic is so in this video what  I'd like uh help with you or from you in the chat  

is think about specific times it could be topics  you have trouble talking about or specific times  

where you're in a conversation and you get stuck  so I really want to focus on the moment you get  

stuck and then give you specific help about why  so in the chat let me know just tell me about a  

specific time I can kind of tell you some stories  just to get this started a little bit but I'd like  

to know specifically because if you get in a  conversation and you become stuck for whatever  

reason they're usually like a few Main causes  of this it could be just a lack of confidence  

generally but usually there's a lack of confidence  about a particular issue so you might not maybe  

you don't know like a specific word you want to  use or a grammar point or something like that  

but I'd like to know specifically that's part of  the reason I can do these live videos and I can  

actually talk with you so let me know in the chat  good morning nice to see everybody over there yes  

I'm live right now nice to see you all there so  this is your chance your opportunity let's say  

hi you look smart well I'm glad to hear it I guess  it's better better than looking dumb I suppose but  

so I can I can go into a few specific things  anyway but usually when people have a problem  

they should know at like as best as possible what  the reason for that is all right so each person it  

might be a little bit different so what I'd like  to do again is to get specific advice or not like  

specific advice but tell me specific situations  uh where you have trouble so me when I was uh  

learning Japanese and just beginning to learn  it and still having trouble expressing myself  

um I mean even now I don't know the entire  language there's again lots of things I don't  

know about being able to speak Japanese it could  be some vocabulary I don't know or something but  

I'm able to speak fluently and I can maintain  speech so I can continue talking about things  

just because I have different ways of expressing  myself I don't I don't like kind of mentally get  

stuck anywhere but when I was first getting  started I remember I would really be like  

usually the problems and you can let me know  if you guys are having some of these as well  

so number one is like I just I just didn't have  like any vocabulary at all so like no words

to express something and this is an issue  a maybe a tricky issue for people who watch  

my videos because you are not a beginner in the  language or I'm guessing you are not a beginner  

in the language you've been learning English for  a while so you probably know a lot of vocabulary  

already you've been studying for a while but  maybe in conversations you lose that vocabulary  

so so what again one thing I experienced uh  let me I'll check chat in just a moment um but  

I would just I would find like I didn't I didn't  know anything about the topic and so if I have no  

vocabulary just like now in English if I have to  speak with a bunch of doctors about some Advanced  

Medical thing I don't I can't really speak much  about that all right so that's a problem of like  

not actually having any vocabulary at all and in  that case really we want to solve that by just  

building the vocabulary up so there's some ways  we can do that uh second one is like uncertainty

yeah or you can say like you're unsure about  something or worries of some kind foreign

or grammar or pronunciation or something else  or maybe you're worried about saying the wrong  

thing I remember one time this is a good example  just from my own history for language learning  

I remember talking to a like a mother in in  Japanese and my Japanese was not very good and I  

was talking about her child and I was saying like  I was trying to say she's so smart but I like said  

I said I thought I said the wrong thing I actually  said the right word but I thought I said the wrong  

word so in in the middle of my just in my mind in  the middle of the conversation I'm sitting there  

worried like oh no I just insulted this woman but  I actually didn't so I was happy about that so you  

could have worries about words and even with this  it could be like are you using the correct word

or maybe you don't know how to say  the word itself like how to say it

foreign like the intonation or the pronunciation  or something I gave an example of this uh in maybe  

two videos back so two videos ago previously  where I was talking about the uh inventory  

versus inventory inventory so maybe you learn a  British English pronunciation and then you talk  

to an American English speaker and they pronounce  things differently so they're not anticipating  

what you're saying and then of course you  have like worries about grammar as well

and this could be worries about like I I  want to I want to express something but I  

just don't know that grammar point or maybe  you're thinking uh like I know that grammar  

point but I'm not very confident about it so  I'll say something else a related example of  

this is native speakers and spelling so  often native speakers will want to write  

a word but if they don't remember how to  spell it they'll just use a different word  

so this happens often in grammar and what's  nice is they're usually different ways of  

expressing something so if I for example like  I can't remember how to say like I have to do  

something I could say maybe I need to do something  and even if the meaning is a little bit different  

people still understand generally what I'm talking  about and then of course we got pronunciation I'll  

just put Pro over here for pronunciation so you  could have uh it could be errors of things like  

this and and this is only like uncertainty about  your own vocabulary excuse me so of course you  

have maybe issues with what the other person  is saying so you don't understand something  

they say and you're worried about that these are  I'm trying to just give you some examples but I'd  

love to hear more about maybe the last time you  were in a conversation and what happened with that  

because we want to get you unstuck so that you  don't you know you're you want to continue have  

a nice smooth conversation I have a bunch of  worries in your head while you're speaking

all right uh let's check here we've got uh  Vida I'm Brazilian teacher of English I love  

your method but I struggle with stuff like the  past tense mostly the irregular verbs any tips  

okay all right well glad to hear it uh so that's  related to grammar uh when you you mean just like  

the simple past like any any kind of past tenses  uh and especially irregular verbs so if you mean  

like go and went so these are things where  uh part part of the way we want to teach and  

actually solve a lot of these problems at the same  time is the review that we get of the vocabulary  

and so just like one thing like I I go back and I  actually review a lot of basic Japanese grammar uh  

just because I want to get lots of examples and  when I say I review it I mean naturally varied  

review where I get many many different examples of  it and so one example like uh and this is another  

again I give a lot of Japanese examples because  that's the other language that I'm learning in my  

own life other than English but I was reading and  just going back over like the difference between  

like something looks good uh or I hear something  is good so they're very similar grammar points  

in Japanese uh and and like I'll use them but I'm  still not like 100 confident about it like I will  

hesitate just a little bit and so when I have a  situation like that I know I need to go back and  

get a lot more examples so usually what people do  is they will try to like if they have a grammar  

like a tricky grammar point or something  especially uh like Vito is saying uh with  

irregular verbs you don't become a better speaker  or a better user of these grammar points uh by  

just understanding it logically or intellectually  most people know the rules so if I have like a  

regular verb I add Ed or something else to the end  of it but in general we just want to get lots of  

review it's the review all of the different and  varied examples of something that get us fluent  

so in my case last ho last night I came back home  and I had taken a shower and after I finished my  

shower I noticed there was a mosquito in the  bathroom so right now it's hot summer time you  

might even hear some cicadas outside I'm trying  to keep them quiet but they don't listen to me  

very much so last I'm taking this shower and it's  mosquito time I got I saw just kind of something  

flying around and I can't stand it I hate having  a mosquito in the house my whole family does  

because you know you go to sleep at night and  then someone's gonna get bit and the kids are  

all itchy you know mosquitoes not going to kill  us or anything but it's just really annoying and  

so I'm sitting there I just took a shower I was  all hot and I see this little mosquito and my  

mother-in-law is like coming out in the hallway  and I say go back in the room go back in the room  

there's a mosquito so I'm trying to trap this  mosquito in like the smallest part of the house  

and it took me about five minutes but I got hot  again after I took the shower and what I heard  

is like so my mother-in-law used the specific  grammar point that I had been reviewing earlier  

that day now this is an interesting thing about  like she was like I like kagai you do so this  

so it's like the difference between like ah like I  see one versus like I hear there's like something  

happening and so what you'll notice from this  is as you get more review of these things rather  

than trying to understand this like the biggest  tip I can give you is to get 100 examples I mean  

you don't need that many but try to get as many  examples as you can because usually a textbook  

uh like a regular grammar textbook might give you  one or two examples of something so it's mostly  

an explanation of the grammar point with one or  two examples and then they move on to the next  

thing so what you should be doing and this is why  in fluent for life we spend so much time giving  

you lots and lots and lots of examples because  you don't really get fluent by understanding it  

logically you get fluent by just absorbing  the grammar in different ways so it's much  

more interesting for you and it really helps you  understand how to use it because you're getting so  

many different grammar points all right so that  was kind of a long answer to your question Vita  

but as far as a specific tip goes anything like a  specific grammar point that you have trouble with  

stop and focus on that get a whole bunch of  examples you can do this in Google or chat GPT  

or whatever but like I need a bunch of examples  of this and so you want varied examples and what's  

nice obviously is not just having a text example  but also being able to hear it and so here I am  

when I come back home and I hear that specific  grammar point and maybe you've noticed this too  

I forget the like the psychology term for this  but usually what happens is if you were like  

if you're looking to buy a new car then you will  maybe have a specific kind of car like a specific  

model you're interested in and then you will start  seeing that car all over the place like your brain  

just now you're thinking about it so much you  recognize that the car was always there but you  

just recognize it more now and so that recognition  the same thing comes as you review grammar point  

so you want to be able to review them but this is  the kind of fun example where you're getting lots  

of varied review not just trying to understand  it logically or repeat the same example again and  

again all right hopefully that helps all right uh  uh let's see here all right ambo beats that said  

hello I'm from Indonesia nice to see there can you  speak British accent can I speak with a British  

accent it uh well I think there there are quite a  few different British accents I'm no expert in the  

British accent I can kind of pretend like I speak  with a British accent but I usually I do the kind  

of American version of the bad British accent like  Shine Your Boots Governor yeah like that's the  

kind of thing we we say in America about I like  the British accent even though they're you know  

quite a few different ones I think that's more  like the Cockney accent but yeah if I if I had  

to go to England when I I lived in England I lived  in England uh I lived in London actually uh and I  

would try to just listen to the people over there  and copy their accent a little bit but no I'm not  

not the best at having a British accent all right  when uh to use can and could okay all right well  

that's a specific grammar point question we  can we can tackle that so can versus could

now before I answer this question I want to make  it clear that it's important to to understand like  

we we want you and when I say we I mean me like  I want you and you should want this for yourself  

but I want you to understand these things like  a native and so when we have something like  

like a student will ask me like what does this  word mean or tell me the difference between two  

words or something like that the answer is usually  it depends on the situation and so I might have  

uh like a time where I say I can do something  or I could do something so if a friend of mine  

asks me hey can you come to my house for dinner  I say yeah I can do that so I'm able to do that  

I'm able to do that yeah I could do that so  I can answer his question with both of these  

words and it would mean the same thing so in  this situation it would mean the same thing  

um but it's it becomes like a little bit different  like maybe if I'm asking someone uh can you let's  

see so can you like can you clean my house and I'm  like he's asking me if it's possible for me to do  

that so can I uh clean his house yes it's possible  for me to do that and he's asking could you that's  

basically the same question but here the slight  difference is it sounds a little bit more polite  

could you could you do something rather than  can you all right so can is it's really the  

most basic of of like asking about ability rather  than uh like do you want to do something or or  

but it's true that natives actually I mean they  will use it that way so if I say like yeah can  

you can you come over to my house it's like you  know asking is it possible for you to do that  

and also do you want to do that thing but if I  say could again it's a little bit more polite so  

this is one example uh where we're not we're not  just trying to get like every definition of all  

these things we're looking at a specific situation  and understanding how they're different so I had  

um let's see we got a question so we get  questions every day from from people we've  

got like I don't know 40 000 students in like  programs like fluent for Life native fluency  

blueprint uh and we get lots of questions  and one of them was talking about the word of  

recently so I was looking looking back through  comments and I noticed like this uh this learner  

was a little bit disappointed because like he  knew one meaning of of but then he encountered  

a different meaning and was like hey what  happened to the word of like I thought it  

meant this but now I'm learning it means this  thing over here so this is another thing like  

that if we go back to the root of a lot of the  problems people have with language learning it's  

because they will usually start with a translation  and then go to the English word like that so they  

will learn okay like here's like of and then  you have maybe one example and then you learn  

whatever this word is in your native language  and then you learn the English word of over here  

but the way native speakers do this is they  actually begin with a situation and you've  

probably seen me talk about this before if  you've watched my videos so we begin with  

a situation and it's like oh in this situation  we use can but in this situation we use could

all right so like if I'm talking about the  past like yeah I could I could do that when  

I was younger so in that situation it's  a different situation all right so if I'm  

talking about like asking someone right  now the situation asking someone right  

now if they are able to do something I can  use either one of these words all right so  

can you come to my house or could you  come to my house for this situation  

and this is how little kids learn the language  it's like oh okay here's one example of can and  

one example of could and then they will remember  that and then maybe the next time they hear  

something different then they're understanding  expands all right but they're not they don't begin  

with the word and try to try to think like what  are all of the meanings of that okay so here if  

we're talking about the situation is something  in the past I can only use could for that so  

if I'm asking like were you able to do something  so were you able so in the past were whoops were  

you able so were you able to do something uh and  I can say yes yes I was able or I could do that

so were you able to to clean your house did you  have time to do that so I'm asking about something  

in the past yes I could I could do that I was  able to do that we don't use can for the past  

in that way okay so hopefully this makes sense  I don't I don't it's it's really important that  

you try to focus on one thing and then get lots  of examples of this situation so you want the  

naturally varied review I try to do this I don't  want to spend too much time on just like a single  

thing but that's how you should be doing it we do  this in fluent for life but I'm trying to cover a  

couple of different things in these videos here  but hopefully this makes sense all right does it  

does it is it let me know if this makes sense all  right because we've got the same words but it's a  

different meaning depending on the situation okay  so try not to think about like what the word means  

and like we know can means this like it's got one  meaning that's not true okay it has a meaning for  

the situation I think I gave an example of this  like many many videos ago I forget what video  

it was but I was talking about how words have  no meaning it's a it's like a funny idea about  

vocabulary but you've got it's almost like two  sticks that are supporting each other like this so  

if you just have the word it falls down it doesn't  the word doesn't mean anything you have to have  

the situation to hold it together okay so it's the  word with this the situation that means something  

and then you have maybe the same word with a  different situation that means something else  

all right ill fresh good uh good comment over  there all right let's see here uh we'll go back  

so Hi how are you says if she have I'm doing  well hello sup Drewes is ildar nice to see you  

there perfect thanks says Vita glad to hear it  it's Serendipity I guess well there you go I'm  

happy to help all right uh let's see how can  I teach reading says uh Ian if I'm pronouncing  

that correctly if you want to teach young kids  or really anybody how to read English click on  

the link in the description below this video for  Frederick this is a system that I took many many  

years to build with my team I don't know anything  about coding but I knew how to like design a good  

system because I spent many years teaching  young kids how to read and I wanted a system  

they could use to teach themselves so if you  want to teach someone how to do that it goes  

through all of the steps for learning the same  way natives learn but the real really main thing  

that's different about Frederick versus every  other system is that it allows kids to teach  

themselves so the kids can actually discover  what things mean rather than a teacher just  

saying look this letter means this or this letter  has this sound they actually get to discover that  

for themselves so you can click on the link for  Frederick in the description below this video  

uh let's see uh and simmer and says hi from India  I found you you the real instructor glad to hear  

it I'm here to help all right let's see here good  morning from China good morning good morning from  

Uganda sometimes I know words but when I was  talking I forget the word yes I want you to go  

deeper so anybody we're talking about like the  general topic of getting stuck in conversations  

and I want you to think about that why do you  forget the word do you think all right so there's  

a few different a few different things we can do  with this one the first one if if we forget a word  

we can transition to something else so if I can't  remember the word cat maybe I remember the word  

feline have you ever heard that word before  there's another word for like kinds of cats

new word for probably many people maybe all of  you feline so I've got a pet fee line that's a  

cat or some kind of cat so like a feline you  might also have like a tiger or a lion or  

something like that they're in that same group a  few but the point is there are different ways of  

describing something so that if I forget one  I've learned another and the reason natives  

are able to do this again is because they're  not starting with a word they're starting with  

a situation all right so a native  speaker let me clear up some space here

so the way a native speaker learns English  and this is the same way you learned your  

native language is you have a situation  first and so the situation might be  

I'm going to draw very bad cat here oh my goodness

uh I'm I'm actually a pretty good drawer but  I'm trying to do something uh quick over here  

here's a cat so a child sees a cat and uh  one adult might say like oh like it's a cat  

another another person might say oh like it's  uh that's lucky and the child doesn't really  

understand like are you talking about what the  thing is are you talking about the name of that  

and so they're getting this naturally varied  review so they're naturally getting different  

examples maybe someone says a feline all right  so this isn't it's not so common most native  

speakers know what this word means but maybe  you don't hear it so often in your conversations  

uh but anyway the point is that they're hearing  different ways of describing that thing and that  

way when they get into a conversation and they  have to talk about something like they could say  

cat they could say feline they could say lucky  all right so if I'm talking about my cat and  

I'm talking with my mom I can say yeah there's  a problem with the cat I think the cat is sick  

or I could say I think lucky is sick I think  our feline is sick so when you learn as a native  

learns when you're coming from situations rather  than coming from vocabulary and translations this  

is how you learn to speak and then you can move  from one thing to another and speak like me I call  

this moving like water but the point is you're not  getting stuck on a particular word because you can  

easily transition to something else all right  so if you get if you get stuck thinking about  

a word usually there's at least another way to  say it like if you don't know all of these maybe  

you think about like what's that little animal  we have like I forget the word of that thing  

so you can explain a little bit about someone  ah you're talking about the cat you're talking  

about lucky so that's the name of the cat are you  talking about like that feline in the house okay  

all right uh let's see so hi Drew Badger I'm  Mohammed Muhammad Ali nice to see you there  

I would really appreciate your time uh uh and  you again good job we owe you a lot ah it's my  

pleasure now be careful when you're saying like  I would appreciate your talking about it's like  

I'm thinking okay you're going to ask me for a  favor so like I would appreciate if you're going  

to do something like I would appreciate  it if you bring me to the airport later  

so like I'm not I don't appreciate now I would  appreciate in the future so if you do something  

I will appreciate that so if you want to say to  someone like right now like thank you to someone  

right now or you know like you've already done  something and I'm thanking you for that you can  

say I appreciate you so I thank you I appreciate  you but in the future I would appreciate all right  

so that's another reason where we have a word like  would and we're going to think about like when  

are the situations we would use that because  the native is thinking they're not thinking  

about the word they're thinking when do we use  something all right so I would appreciate that  

all right uh or would you would you yes if you're  talking about like would you do something in the  

same way all right I have an aha moment about  this says Nils glad to hear it let me know what  

specifically you had an aha moment about what like  the way of learning or some specific vocabulary  

let me know the more you think about that the  more you can you can apply that same like I I  

had an aha moment when when like when I learned  like this or I did something so you should do  

more of that all right and then you will get more  of that that nice feeling all right L fresh says  

thanks Sensei yes it's my pleasure uh Jay Wu  says hello Drew good morning this is my first  

time in your live stream today is a lucky day  look at that lucky lucky day indeed well it's  

my pleasure thank you I appreciate all of you  being here with me I appreciate you all right  

so what about wood what about wood okay I think  people are asking about like like we talked about  

could and wood so remember I know you like the  the natural reaction of the learner is like just  

give me the definition of the word and the best  I can do really and and this will help you the  

whole point of these videos is to help you build  fluency by understanding English like a native so  

a non-native a non-native will think about a word  like would and they will just get a definition or  

they will try to translate that in their native  language but would or any other word if you're  

learning it as an English speaker like a native  English speaker you're thinking when do I use  

that so if we're talking about now let's just say  here's now and then sometime in the future like so  

would you like and again I could use I used the  example before like so can you uh or could you  

or would I can use all three of these to talk  about asking for something in the future like  

that all right so remember the point don't don't  try to remember like memorize a definition it's  

just can you use this in this situation so in  this situation if I go to my friend's house  

like I might ask him like hey can you come over  to my house for dinner can you come for dinner  

or could you come for dinner or I could say hey  would you come for dinner I'm asking all of these  

mean really the same thing I'm asking them about  sometime in the future all right but I wouldn't  

use that in the past or if I'm talking about  something else like they have again different  

meanings but in this situation in this situation  you would hear all of these and that's why like  

a native again is getting this naturally  varied review so they begin with a situation  

like asking someone to do something in the future  and then they will hear people using all of these  

so they will learn ah I can use could or can or  would for all of these things okay so when you're  

hearing these in a situation if you pay attention  think first about the situation and then what is  

the vocabulary that you hear for that because you  will often be surprised like oh I didn't know we  

could use this vocabulary for that situation  but you will hear natives talking like that  

okay hopefully that makes sense so try not to  try to memorize like the meaning of wood and  

can and it's more like in this situation what do  people say and you learn that by getting lots of  

examples of that situation and that's why I call  it naturally varied review because you're going  

to hear different people say it they're going to  say it in a different way just like ordering food  

at a restaurant so uh I might go to a restaurant  and my waiter says like what would you like what  

would you like all right so they're probably not  going to say like can like can you eat this that  

would be kind of like a little maybe impolite all  right or could you do something man they might ask  

me to do that but typically like what would you  like what would you like like if you had this food  

would you like that what would you like that's  what they're asking me okay so always connect  

the vocabulary with the situation the situation  is the most important part and this will also  

train you to stop translating and thinking in  your native language because you're not trying  

to connect vocabulary in your native language  with vocabulary in English you're just seeing  

Oh natives say this in this situation okay so it's  only vocabulary with with an ID or situation and  

that situation could be a thing like a cat or  something like that so if I have a marker here  

the marker is the situation the marker is the  thing we're talking about and the name we give  

to that is marker so when you hear it's like a  red marker a black marker a blue marker do you  

have a marker do you have another marker would  you like a marker so you ask different questions  

and and pay attention to what natives say in those  situations and that's how you learn the vocabulary  

all right uh Nixon says I get confused when  it comes to using get used to uh using get  

used to can be similar with be used to okay I  think someone else was answer or asking me this  

question before so let me cover the difference in  this situation okay pay attention pay attention  

to the situation let's do some magic here

all right so what is the situation here  we got can let's see uh so get used to  

and be used to all right now watch this  so we notice the difference between B  

can can and actually we'll just say here we'll do  BN and get s [Music] all right now when you hear  

just these words by themselves when we hear the  word be usually the situation means like something  

exists right now like it is hot all right so  this is like I am you are easy it is okay for B  

so it is hot or I'm like like the my being like  how I am right now like I am doing something I'm  

being it right now but when we talk about get  get usually means there's there's some kind of  

movement all right so B just is it's right here  but get is more like you're becoming something  

it's like moving from here over to here so  right now I'm at work I need to get home  

I'm sorry I need to get going okay I'm taking  a position I'm moving from one place to another  

okay so to be used to all right so to be used to  means like I am like understanding something or I  

am like in this position already so I am used  to uh doing these videos on YouTube all right  

so I'm already I'm like feel good about doing  it it's very easy very fun I am used to it okay  

so right now so you can think about someone  who's like already uh like you know they've  

been working at a job for a long time they do it  well they do it easily they are used to that thing  

okay so they've already had that experience  they're already here but if you're getting used  

to it you're thinking about like moving into that  so maybe this is my first YouTube video uh I don't  

really know how to do anything I feel a little bit  uncertain I'm not used to it yet all right so I'm  

not if you if you think about like we have time  and at this point like right here I'm used to it  

it just means I have like that experience okay  but over here not yet I am not yet used to so  

used to something so maybe my first time I tried  doing something oh I didn't do that very good uh  

or did I didn't do that very well uh maybe  I made a mistake I don't feel very confident  

about something but over time oh look at that  we can talk about improving now I am getting  

okay getting getting used to something so I'm  moving towards feeling good about that thing I'm  

getting used to it all right so I made my first  video I didn't feel very good my second video I  

felt a bit more confident in my third video fourth  video now I've made 500 some videos on the channel  

I am very used to doing this okay so it's nice  and easy I understand how to do I've got lots  

of experience same thing okay so the again the  difference here we're talking about like there's  

kind of two different ideas here so there's used  to like to be used to it just means like you you  

understand something you feel good about that  thing you feel confident and comfortable all right  

and then it's either are you already or are you  becoming okay so remember get is move it's it's  

motion it's movement from one thing to another  like if you get a present the present is moving  

from one person to you you got something if you  understand something like I'm telling you like hey  

did you get it did you get what I'm saying did you  understand what I'm saying it's moving from me to  

you did you get it so we have two different ideas  here we have B versus get and then we have used to  

but hopefully that makes sense let me know uh  in the chat if you have any questions more about  

that but again when you're understanding these  things like to be used to it just means like you  

feel confident uh you feel good about something  you feel used to that thing okay I'm used to it  

so hopefully uh some people who have been watching  my videos for a while they are used to my way  

of speaking and so they understand my English  very well they are used to me they are used to  

me but notice also that the pronunciation changes  slightly so the D disappears and this is more like  

Houston it's like you say use them yeah I'm used  to it used to it used to it all right so you stew  

or used all right now this is different this is  different from I used like I used to do something  

all right like I used it to do something  like I did it before I don't do it anymore  

all right so slightly different different  meaning of that so like I use it to uh play  

um I used to play chess so I used to do that I did  that before but now I don't all right that's why  

we have this be or get so be used to means like  oh now I'm like I'm feeling confident about it  

or getting used to it means I'm becoming confident  about it but when you just talk about like I used  

to do something it's something you did in the  past I did it before I don't do it now I used  

to do something I don't do it anymore all right  and this is why it's important like you kind of  

learn one thing I want to focus on one thing at a  time then introduce something else and talk about  

a slightly different situation I'm talking about  this for a while but this is a very common grammar  

construction and hopefully this makes it a bit  easier to understand let me know in the chat if  

I'm correct all right but the basic idea like used  to for this situation say look it's the same thing  

we got used to up here and used to down here so  if you ask a native speaker what does used to mean  

and they will think huh when do I use that when  do we say used to well we could say like yeah I  

used to do something back many years ago I used  to play soccer now I don't I used to but I don't  

anymore or we could talk about like if you're  feeling like more comfortable you're getting used  

to something or you are used to it okay so always  focus on the situation the vocabulary comes from  

the situation it's not the other way around  all right uh uh let's see hopefully all right

I think we got that all right um

oh no I really the chat really like skip me down  man damn you Google always with this chat over  

here I do appreciate having a chat but it's you  know be nice if it didn't just like skip me down  

about that all right uh and one uh and listen  if I'm pronouncing the Antoine yeah I think  

so Antoine maybe hello teacher I'm from Haiti uh  when can we use the past perfect the past perfect  

so remember think of an example I want I want  you to try this now like think about when we  

use something remember like past perfect like  think about it being complete it's finished  

like I have done something it's already finished  think about a specific situation when you would  

do it don't think about the grammar point or the  grammar Point name think about when you would use  

something give me an example sentence and then  I'll give you some more all right give that a  

try oh no we just like did a whole example  about this so I want to make sure people get  

it but don't think about it like a linguist or a  teacher think about when you want to say something  

what is the situation try to think about that  so like I'm trying to talk about something I  

I did before or like I was doing something and  now I've finished it or I used to do something  

and now I don't do it anymore okay see these are  all situations and you're not thinking about it  

like a grammar student you're thinking about  it like a native speaker so think about that  

Lucia let's see what about wood okay we  answered that one already uh what do you  

say you should be doing instead of you should  do oh well this is if you were if if you're  

all right here's here's like a good example for  some naturally varied reviews and make sure I  

understand the question uh uh why do you say you  should be doing instead of you should do ah okay

remember that there are often multiple ways to  express something so natives will hear different  

native speakers like my maybe my kids they will  hear me and like some teachers or some friends  

or other parents or whatever talking about things  and they will get different examples of something  

so they will hear maybe like but I will use uh  you try to use that exact example so you should  

uh let's say you should eat

all right so you should eat like I  recommend you eat like it's a good  

idea if you're doing something I'm giving  you some advice here or you should be

you should be eating all right in this situation  I'm going to continue using this because I really  

want to get this deep into your head in  this situation these mean the same thing  

all right they both mean in general  in this situation so you should eat  

I'm not talking about just one time  if I say you should eat vegetables  

I'm talking about like your whole life like from  now like uh you know until you die I guess like  

it's a good idea if you eat vegetables that's  my advice my advice I recommend all right so  

you should eat this can mean generally or you  should be eating it's it's still talking about  

the same thing but using the continuous I don't  even like using the grammar term here but using  

the ing here this is just so you understand it's  it's like I want you to keep doing that thing  

but both of these mean the same in this situation  okay so both of them mean the same thing so you  

should eat or you should be eating you know it's  it's basically the same thing all right so it's  

not just like one activity um if I'm if I'm trying  to give you advice for like life in general okay  

now if I if I want to say like you should go like  if if someone is is asking me for like directions  

or something or if they're saying like should  I go to the party I said yeah like you should  

go I wouldn't really say like you should be going  because it's just one event it's like the party  

party is like it's happening at one time so I  wouldn't say like you should be going to the  

party like you might hear something like that but  it's it's less common so the your understanding  

of of situations becomes more fine like you  understand slight differences in Nuance as you  

learn it like a native speaker rather than trying  to learn it and translate it through your native  

language so that's like a horrible a horrible  way to confuse your brain if you're like okay  

like is it eat or being eating or something like  that it's better to understand it as a situation  

so if I'm giving you advice for life like  you should be learning every day you should  

be learning every day okay or I could say you  should learn every day it's the same idea I'm  

talking about generally or yeah like we're going  to do this thing repeatedly it will continue that  

kind of thing all right that's the way natives  are thinking about it I'm giving you these long  

answers because I really want people to understand  these but let me know if this makes sense  

all right thanks Sensei it does make sense all  right good to hear it Keiko says Hi teacher nice  

to see you there let's see Marco says Frederick  is a really great app awesome if you do have  

Frederick and you have not given us a review  please review the app it will help us reach  

more people so please go to the Google Play store  or the App Store give us hopefully give us a five  

star review but please review the app leave us  a great comment and also if you have feedback to  

improve it one of the things I'd like to do the  the next little thing I want to improve with it  

is a little slider on the level select screen that  way you don't have to like tap on all the levels  

to move them you can just like slide your finger  just a little bit and go through all the levels  

hopefully that will be a cool thing for people  all right if I read my holy book in English does  

it help yes I mean if you can read anything in  English if you understand that information sure  

but remember like a holy book is probably like  a pretty thick book of most of the Holy books  

I know are like pretty thick and I usually  don't recommend people like try to read one  

thick thing I recommend you read like a few thin  things because that's giving you naturally varied  

review so just like trying to watch a two-hour  movie it's much better to watch like a 20-minute  

cartoon and then you can watch a few different  cartoons about that topic all right it's much  

better you want to give your brain like review  much more frequently all right it's much less  

likely so people are not they don't usually review  information like they will read a book and then  

they don't review that information at all so they  get a passive understanding a passive vocabulary  

but they're not building an active vocabulary that  they feel confident about using all right that's  

the key for fluency uh all right because it's  difficult for me but I'm listening hard to date

we can do it all right people like it let's  see I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly yes  

give me give me like a like if you're enjoying  this video like the video so Google and YouTube  

will say yes we need to send more of Drew's videos  out to more people all right Dania says how can we  

create a situation without having a partner very  easy the same way you get review of anything so I  

made a video on my YouTube channel you can go  see it right after this one is finished it's  

how to make espresso in English and it's just  four different videos in the same video where  

I'm giving you examples and and you're getting  naturally varied review where you would have  

lots of different you only get four in the video  but you can get many more even on YouTube and so  

this just means like you're getting review uh from  it could be reading something like a blog post or  

an article online or it could be a newspaper or  like a physical book anything like that but you  

want to get information again and again and again  in different ways you don't want to repeat I know  

people like like repetition like repetition is  important but it gets boring very quickly because  

your mind hates repeating stuff if you think you  know some information already your mind doesn't  

want to do it again that's why it's so difficult  for people you know like doing you know karate  

practice or something like that where people are  like we have to do the same punch over and over  

again or or language students trying to read the  same text over and over and over again it gets  

very boring so instead you need naturally varied  review this is where you get lots of different  

examples in different ways from different people  from you know it could be different like media  

like I talked about like reading something  listening to it watching it uh or you can  

also get it from different people so you can get  like me talking about something or someone else  

talking about something else but that's how you  get the review you need the Improvement comes from  

understanding the vocabulary well not from you  trying to practice what you say all right so what  

I'm doing here like as you get this you're like  ah like I understand this better and now I feel  

more confident about it I feel more confident  about using I'm what what did we learn I'm  

getting I'm getting used to it all right you're  feeling better over time I'm getting used  

to it so you might have some grammar at the  beginning you start learning you're like  

I don't really know about this I don't feel  very confident about it but as you review it  

you get one example another example another  another another another another many many  

examples and after that time wow you're really  getting used to it and then you are used to it

and that's how fluency develops you can  actually feel your fluency developing as  

you get these different examples and this is  why naturally varied review is so much better  

than repetition and so people talk a lot about  repetition I should make a whole video about why  

repetition is incomplete uh like the better thing  is naturally varied review and you will see like  

charts of this like it's like yeah repetition gets  boring over time so we need spaced repetition no  

no no no no we don't want to like space out the  boring repetition we want to get lots and lots  

of repetition but in different ways so we keep  it in entertaining and enjoyable for yourself  

so you get fluent much faster so the the typical  way even spaced repetition is quite boring and  

it's difficult to do it's trying to trick your  brain into doing something it doesn't want but  

your brain does enjoy naturally varied review  because your brain can feel ah you're getting  

used to it okay you're becoming used to that thing  all right so yes go people uh go like the app if  

you've not liked it already all right uh simran  says you won't believe but I learned English in  

a better way after watching your playlist videos  uh thank you last sir but I have a question how  

can we approve English through Reading yep it's  the same thing so just like you're watching my  

videos like if you watch a video of mine about  you know whatever that topic is uh you should  

read about that same thing all right it's the  same same thing like I do this in Japanese as  

well so I might like hear about something if I'm  learning about gardening or whatever I should read  

a little bit about that or if I'm watching a TV  show about something I should read the transcript  

of that or try to read like another story about  that same thing I think I gave a uh like my email  

subscribers a while back I told them the story of  how I was watching just some Japanese cartoons in  

the morning and I saw two different shows were  telling the same like common story and I said  

wow that's amazing look at that like here's the  story of this thing and here's the story of that  

and another time it was about it was like a game  where you're standing in a circle and you try to  

push people out of the circle and that was in  two different shows on the same day and I said  

wow look at that you know it's it's again it's  it's different it's not exactly watching the same  

thing again I'm getting naturally varied review  so I want to hear that and remember this is the  

same way you learned your your native language  so you didn't have just one robot like tell you  

something nice and easily like you had like maybe  your mother said something clearly to you but  

then your grandfather is like you can't understand  what he's saying very well but you you kind of get  

the idea come here come here like uh he's saying  come here okay yeah come here come here you know  

but that's how you learn you're getting lots of  these different examples that's how you can use  

it and that's how you can understand  it when you hear it from other people  

all right uh uh let's see so Nils had an old uh a  old cat yes you would say and old cat and old cat  

an old cat all right uh David says uh are speaking  slowly or you always speak like this I'm from  

Colombia keep going yes for these videos I have  a range of people who watch so it could be people  

who maybe can't understand a lot of of English  some people understand quite well so I try to  

keep my speed about here but the more important  thing is I'm not using a lot of difficult  

vocabulary most people and when I say difficult  it's more like vocabulary that you are not  

used to so you have not heard it a lot so these  are idioms slang phrasal verbs Proverbs movie  

quotes things like that like references from TV  shows so yes this is this is not how I normally  

speak but again this is why we do this like in  these videos this is just helping you learn tips  

about how to build fluency and so if you're  looking for like actual step-by-step lessons  

where you hear me like taking you from this  to like faster speech of me actually speaking  

with with regular natives that's what we do in  fluent for life so you can click on the link  

in the description below this video if you'd  like to learn more about that all right uh  

and let's see a cat means lucky no I was I was  giving an example of like uh I'll give another

example of this

often like a teacher when a teacher is teaching  something the teacher understands what they mean  

but the student does not so the goal of the  teacher is to make the lesson understandable  

so you understand what I'm saying so if I'm  trying to teach you this is not English this  

is not a real language I'm just making this up uh  but I think it's it's a good example for helping  

people understand how your brain works when  it's learning so if I draw something like this  

I'll try do like try to draw a good oh no  that's pretty bad that's a really bad picture  

I'm gonna I'm gonna do my maybe my problem is I'm  like drawing from a bad angle I'll try this again

okay so if I if I draw a picture like this and I  and I'll just I'll use the word uh I'm just making  

this up Khan so I if imagine I am like an alien  trying to teach you my alien language and I call  

this Khan over here now at first you don't really  know what I mean you have a you have a general  

idea maybe like you know you can try to guess what  I'm talking about but if I say Khan you're not  

really you're not 100 sure so you wouldn't feel  confident using it in a conversation I mean only  

if like you saw another one of these you would say  con but you don't know what I'm talking about 100  

I could be talking about the color the shape am I  talking about this item by itself or is it like a  

group of them it's only as you get more examples  that you really start to understand the vocabulary  

so repetition is not going to help you all right  repetition if I just repeat like Kong Kong Kong  

that's not helping you learn anything this is why  you need naturally varied reviews so I need to  

give you a slightly different example of something  and then help you understand like what that means  

now if I draw this thing over here let's see do do  do do do do do that's a bad that's a bad picture  

too oh my goodness let me draw why can't I here  okay and then I call this Khan also so now your  

brain is thinking like oh what is connecting  these things because I'm using the same word  

so I wonder what that means so this is a calm  and this is a con also let me draw something else

and as you get these different examples then it's  like ah okay he's probably talking about tool

okay and so this is why like when when you're  when you looked at the example before about  

about the cat so I gave you the picture of a  cat here can I say oh cat or lucky or feline  

now one of these is is talking about what the  animal is actually two of these words are doing  

that if you understand what that means and then  you know like lucky if you understand what that  

means that's the name of this particular cat okay  but if you think about a small child when they're  

learning this in their native language like  they hear cat they hear lucky they might hear  

even feline but they don't really know what that  means they need to get more examples of something  

so if they see like other cats like here's another  cat over here like both this is a cat and this  

is a cat but only lucky is this one huh that's  interesting this one is lucky and this one is not  

so maybe that means the color it could mean the  name of the cat it could mean something else but  

the whole point is that you're not just repeating  that you're getting this uh different examples of  

this so when you learn like a native speaker this  is what I talk about learning English as a first  

language you're getting all these different  examples and that's what helps you understand  

it like a native so you don't get one example and  then translate that you know you're just like oh  

okay now I understand what this means like this  is a tool that's a tool that's a tool over there  

I really want to make sure this is clear  because if you understand English as a  

first language then you speak English as  a first language that's the whole point  

of this that's where fluency comes from  all right okay the cat needs help as true  

and yes the name of the cat is lucky actually I  don't have a cat actually but just for the example  

here so is that good evening teacher could you  tell me what time and what day you are on live  

please let me know so I enjoy my freedom so I  don't have a schedule for these live videos but if  

you look at when they are you can probably guess  uh they are often on Like Mondays and Thursdays  

Japan time in the morning but today is a Friday  actually so this is a little bit different than  

the usual one but if you miss the live I still  make the videos available so don't feel bad if you  

if you don't go to the live video the information  will still help you even if it's not a lot

I'm so happy to see you teaching live I would like  to know any suggestions understand Afro-American  

people please I can't follow them yes any kind  of people you want to understand like spend more  

time with those people that's the best thing you  can do like watch and if you don't like know any  

physically like you don't have some friends or  whatever then watch people online you know or like  

television shows or something like that but it's  the naturally varied review like over enough time  

you will hear like ah like this kind of person  like sounds like this or they have this kind of  

voice but you will get used to you will get used  to that and then you will be used to that okay  

all right uh let's see here kite Kitty says I love  your drawing yes all right Neil says can and could  

glad glad to hear it okay can you start a foot  cam what does that mean a foot cam like a foot cam  

like be like a like a what do you mean a foot cam  what does that mean uh can you can uh can I take  

you out for dinner can I take you out for dinner  yes so if you're gonna ask someone I don't know  

if you're asking me or just practicing the grammar  but yes you can take someone out so you could also  

say kudai so could I take you out for dinner if  you're asking someone like that Mary says I have  

a moment about the expression something works for  someone I use it a lot uh wasn't in the books yes  

yeah when anything like works for something you're  talking about like it's appropriate for something  

or like it allows you to do something like video  works for me as a way of teaching software also  

works for me which is why I created Frederick and  that's also like a good way for you to learn so  

video if you can learn with video then video works  for you same thing so something might help you  

or it's enabling you in some way all right thanks  Drew let's see I love your drawing Gladiator your  

drawing is very POG champ I don't know what  that means but that's hopefully that's good  

it's a very interesting lesson says Manana glad  to hear it I wish I could draw like that I need  

to go pee oh no you better go don't do anything  important teach us about dogs when I come back  

it's my first time to watch you live stream  as well well hello and welcome go tell your  

friends say hey Drew is on right now uh this  is an an atypical time atypical so I usually  

I'm on on Thursdays but today happens to be  Friday and here I am says Lucia Alice says I  

know all the words that I want to express  but I can't organize it into a sentence  

at once ah yes how to organize sentences in  your head that's another interesting topic  

so yes people often get confused about things and  usually usually often often almost always in fact  

it's because again people are learning English  as a second language rather than learning English  

has a first language all right so when you learn  English as a second language you kind of learn  

all this random vocabulary like here's a word and  a word and a word and you translated it through  

your native language and now you're thinking like  well how do these puzzle pieces go together okay  

so it's almost like like a better way to draw  this uh would be like just some uh some puzzle  

pieces kind of like that I just imagine these are  puzzle pieces I'm not going to take time to draw  

all these very well but you get the idea all right  so these are kind of random puzzle pieces but what  

happens usually when you're learning English as a  first language is you'll get these puzzle pieces  

connected together so you'll have like  a few pieces stuck together kind of like  

as a phrase something like that or if it's  just one piece by itself like the word cat  

you've probably understood what that means  okay so like like I go to the and you will  

hear this as a phrase all the time like  I go to the gym I go to the bank I go to  

the party I go to something like that and as  you hear these you will hear like oh I went  

so ah the person is talking about a different  situation they're talking about the past like  

I went to something I went to the bank yesterday I  went to the party I went to the beach or whatever  

and so the pieces over here uh you don't really  learn how to connect them because you're learning  

each piece individually the the connection is  through like a translation in your native language

thank you all right this is a little bit confusing  but the basic idea is if you're learning English  

as a native speaker if you get one piece like  you learn the meaning of it as the situation or  

the thing uh or you're learning like phrases like  this and you're connecting all the words together  

in English so it makes it much easier to take this  piece and connect it with this one or some other  

pieces like that and that's how you can speak  fluently without having to organize sentences  

in your head so you see the English as a second  language way it's a lot more mental work you have  

to think like first you have to think like I  want to say something and often people will  

think in their native language first I want to say  this and then I have to translate that but now I  

have to translate this and connect these pieces  and I I don't know what to do and that's what  

creates a lot of the problems when people have to  speak usually like you can probably write well or  

you could read or understand things but it's  the actual quick communication it's much more  

difficult to do this when you're learning English  as a second language but don't feel bad this is  

just the way everybody is taught all right I'm  just showing you a better way to do this all right  

and we know this works because this is how you  learned your native language and the nice thing is  

that you can just do the same thing with English  Isn't that cool all right let's keep it moving  

how long we've been going for about about an hour  okay A little over an hour all right uh people see  

let's see it's my first time have you seen the  movie The Sound of Freedom no I have not good  

question get used to used to be used to or tricky  for non-native speakers yes depending on how you  

learn them but if you watched my little lesson  my quick lesson that's the same way I would teach  

that to my daughter so I'm not trying to talk  about grammar Point names or linguistic names  

anything like that I just want to help when do you  use it so help people understand when do you use  

something so if you think about like like at this  point like I feel good over here but like not yet  

so like I'm feeling good all right and usually  it's like a kind of almost like a like a ramp  

like you start from zero and you get up to I don't  know wherever you feel let's just say this is 100  

over here so you start at zero you're not feeling  good but you're getting used to it you're getting  

used to something and what ding now I am used  to it so I've had enough experience up here now  

I feel used to it you don't really get like  more you I mean you could like you get more  

used to something but uh in in the very basic  understanding of like to get used to something  

and be used to something so now I am used to it or  you are used to it or she is used to it all right

uh uh okay uh uh [Music] from Chile nice to see  you there I have a friend in Chile Muhammad Ali  

it takes me four years to find the right place to  learn English but remember English is only on your  

lips so try the best version of yourself that's  some nice advice oh no chat skip me down again oh  

no well I really like okay you guys have a bunch  of confidence all right now I think I got that one  

yes yes ask me about the past perfect again give  me an example so look at the examples I'm giving  

up here give me a like a sentence example what do  you mean by the past perfect I'm trying to get you  

to think like a native so give me an example  all right people please hit the like button  

yes all right uh yes it means I was accustomed  to doing that yes so again we can talk about  

getting accustomed or being accustomed like I am  a custom I do like something hello teacher Drew  

Eunice is back uh I used to do sport every day  like some kind of sport but I'm used to sleeping  

instead nowadays is this sentence correct well  you would say I used to do like you would pick  

like a particular sport like I used to play tennis  or I used to in general you can say do sports but  

that usually means you're talking about different  things like you play tennis and you were running  

or something so yes I used to do that but I'm  used to sleeping instead nowadays yes yeah you can  

say that like I'm I'm used to doing it now like  it's it's kind of what you what you do currently

all right great teaching thank yous Anne it's my  pleasure houses good morning I'm getting used to  

cooking and eating vegetables glad to hear what's  the difference between fun and funny well fun it  

just means it's enjoyable in some way like maybe  I'm watching a drama maybe uh it's like it makes  

me feel good I can think oh that's like it's it's  a fun movie but maybe I'm not laughing about that  

which is what funny means so I can I can have  like wow this is like a really like maybe this  

is a fun lesson if you are learning so if you feel  you have that aha moment like ah now I understand  

something this lesson is fun but I'm not I don't  know maybe I'm funny if I'm if I say something  

funny or something funny happens then that's a  different thing but there's there's a difference  

between enjoying something and laughing about  it so remember pay attention to when people do  

something when people are like oh wow that that  roller coaster was a lot of fun they probably  

weren't laughing about that but they enjoyed  it okay so the thing that always think about  

when uh is written English must be strict in  using uh perfect grammar yes especially if  

you're if you're writing professionally if you're  texting your friend then maybe people don't care  

but if you're going to write a resume or some  professional communication then it should be  

correct all right I remember when I worked I was  a manager at a hotel and I would look at resumes  

for people and if I saw lots of grammar mistakes I  would just be like no I'm not hiring you all right  

so even native speakers will have issues with that  all right uh let's see perfect explanation says  

Marlene glad to hear it just like I've wanted all  of your videos just like I've wanted all of your  

videos yesterday I'm glad to hear it remember if  you enjoy what we do uh this is only one piece  

of that so really with these YouTube videos I'm  trying to answer questions people have about how  

to learn but if you'd like me to show you kind  of Step by Step taking you through the process  

giving you the naturally varied review organizing  all the information that's what we get in fluent  

for life so you can click on the link in the  description below to learn more about that  

all right uh hi says Yamin and nice to see  you there Yale says I should continue making  

exercises is that okay uh if you're talking about  like if you say I should continue making exercises  

that would mean like if I'm making exercises for  like for homework assignments or something but if  

you mean like to exercise like to to work out you  would say I continue exercising to keep exercising  

or continue exercising but like an exercise so and  that's another like again the English it depends  

on the situation so the word exercise could mean  like physical exercise like I'm stretching or  

something like that uh but it can also mean like a  military exercise where we're trying we're moving  

our battleships or something or it could mean  exercising like I'm practicing something so some  

homework sheet that I have to do I'm like writing  some Japanese or something that's exercise as well  

all right English people's contacts just hard to  understand water bottle things like that ah you're  

talking about British English yeah and there's  even like different kinds of British English too  

so it sounds like they don't use the r the way  we do so an American like me I would say water  

water uh but a British like kind of more like  higher uh kind of classier British English it's  

like it's like water water water it's like water  water and there it's similar to like Australian  

English like like water water or you might also  hear like water water you got a license for them  

what give me some water some water you know so  there are different ways of pronouncing it even  

within England uh I should take my time watching  your video every day yes it is a good idea Nixon  

hey Drew this is uh Suresh nice to see you there  how can someone learn English perfectly perfect  

English in six months all right so anyone who's  trying to learn like as I just gave you some  

examples today you get fluent word by word as you  understand something so you can think just like  

these puzzle pieces over here okay I understand  what the word cat means I know what it means I  

can use it confidently you are fluent in this  word or maybe you're fluent in some phrases so  

it's not that you take six months to get fluent  in like the language you can actually get fluent  

in each of these pieces very quickly it could be  one minute it could be like a day or something  

if you need some more review or it could be a  week maybe some grammar points are a little bit  

trickier especially if your native language the  grammar functions a little bit differently but  

you don't take a long time to do it so this  is why like in fluent for life we get people  

fluent in 30 days in each lesson set so you're not  going to know like everything and and be able to  

use everything perfectly but it's not really the  point it's like it's the continual Improvement  

every day as you get fluent in more and more  things individually okay so so stop thinking  

about like about like how long it takes you to get  fluent because it's not six months or a year it's  

like it could be one minute or two minutes or a  week or something it just depends on the like how  

difficult the grammar point is for you or the  vocabulary and how good of a teacher you have  

you have or if you're teaching yourself all right  so it doesn't take that long to learn but just  

remember you get fluent in each of these pieces so  if now you understand like ah like get used to and  

be used to like now I get it I understand and I  can I feel confident using that now you're fluent  

in this so you move on to the next thing and get  fluent in that and that's how the process works  

uh from where should I get a buddy uh well  you can find people online go to YouTube  

videos about topics you enjoy and comment under  them that's one way to meet people but remember  

that you don't need a buddy to to get fluent  like I'm just showing you right now you're not  

practicing speaking with anybody your your mouth  is shut probably maybe you're repeating after me  

or something but you don't have to do that the  point is to understand the language very well  

remember my my Iceberg example over here so here's  the water this is like the speaking part up here  

the rest of this all this under here this is all  understanding the vocabulary when you understand  

perfectly then speeches super easy you just open  your mouth and the word words come out because  

you know how to use it right you feel confident  about that yeah uh learn the lyrics of uh music so  

you would say learn the lyrics of music or you can  talk about a song but music is uncountable the way  

to say music and keep singing throughout the day  but yes you can sing that's another good way to to  

review it's a different kind of review only songs  can't help me uh I think yes well again maybe you  

have some songs that you like for your native  language and that's how you got fluent in your  

native language as well so you might hear uh like  somebody in their native language say something  

or like whatever your native language is you might  hear it in a song or see it on TV or something so  

it's just Again Naturally varied review all right  uh uh Amadou says good morning my teacher please  

keep up Good Wonderful teachings you are amazing  glad to hear it uh like uh I'll See You Again  

says I always begin learning a language looking  for songs and trying to sing along Sheehan says  

I've played online games for foreign British  people it was my point to speak English faster  

yep there's lots of good ways you can get out and  use the language and also to learn uh let's see

some tips about when to use punctuation marks so  when I have uh if I'm teaching something like this  

they're not many of them uh if I'm just giving  my my daughter's like an explanation of this  

or if you're trying to teach this to somebody  else so we have something very simple

hello hello and I try not to give  like a long explanation about it I  

just want to compare these two  different things hello hello

and your brain is like oh what's different about  this one this one is no huh so this means I get  

a little bit louder or more excited and then  maybe you hear more examples of that like hey

hey

hey okay

hello

hello hello

you got it so your brain learns best when  it can compare these different things I'm  

not trying to explain what it is I want to  help your brain understand this naturally  

naturally varied review Isn't that cool naturally  very revealed okay um let's see good morning from  

my side you're a great teacher glad to hear  it clearly let's say let's say I would like  

to improve my spoken English well this is how you  do it keep watching I arrived late says Tom good  

morning let's see black beard uh what was that  sir the best teacher in the world coffee or coffee  

coffee Monterosa let's see her wrench oh you're  like wait like yeah yeah that was like a while  

ago if you're going back and watching the watching  the video BS that's a good lesson where if I just  

draw a picture and show you one thing you don't  quite know what it means this is why in Frederick  

we actually give you a bunch of these different  examples because I want you to really understand  

what that means so most most lessons will only  give you one picture but we wanted to give four  

so I had to make like thousands of these images  it really took us a long time because we had to  

individually make these or find the specific  ones we wanted we had to make a lot though  

all right Neil says I love your examples glad  to hear it Tom again teacher Drew really knows  

how to teach yes remember I'm just doing the  things that you would normally do in your like  

everyday life as you discover these things for  yourself but I'm trying to make it like obvious  

in a way that I'm not telling you the answer you  get to discover the answer because the lesson is  

good okay so the lesson like we can we can know if  something is a good lesson or not because either  

you understand it or you do not all right so I'm  always trying to make the lessons better and make  

them more understandable all right and Antoine  says uh why is it already been Friday in your  

country are you not in America if so where I'm in  uh Japan so I'm I'm in the I'm in the future look  

at that what would you like would you like some  stock information to tell you what's happening  

in the future about uh some currencies or gold or  something all right uh a says you should replicate  

yourself using Ai and sci-fi technology to spread  your ideas more deep uh and keep them alive in  

all ages and change the way people think well I  did that already that's what this is everything  

you're watching right now on YouTube so I can  make this video instead of doing a lesson for a  

few people in a classroom I can do a lesson for  thousands of people and then over time millions  

of people can watch these and then I replicated  myself using Frederick as well so the same thing  

so you can actually listen to me pronounce a bunch  of words so you could like meet me personally and  

say drew could you say the word water or dog  or truck or whatever but instead of doing that  

like you can push a button and just hear me say  that word it's like truck truck truck truck truck

and you can hear that right in the  app so yes that's all like when I  

when I began doing this the reason  I make these videos is because I  

want to help people outside of just  a classroom in Japan where I started

um uh okay now Google Skip me down again all  right you are a good man says I'm at well thank  

you very much all right uh see Swan says a why  and how is do use it before any verb example  

they do read that book oh okay yeah I think I  answered this question for someone a while ago

so remember the situation here all right so like  if I'm if I'm talking with someone like so I  

uh I clean my room so this is let's  just say this is me so I clean my room  

every day uh and my mom says no you wait let  me make this a regular cat but I know you  

don't here's our exclamation point again no you  don't and I say like and then me again no I do  

clean my room every day so in this example in this  situation I'm making it I'm emphasizing it it's  

for emphasis so I do do something all right  that's why we would add something like that  

so if someone says like oh uh what sport  do you play like oh I play baseball  

uh I'm just answering that question normally but  if someone is like really you play baseball or  

like you go to the park or something  yeah I do I do play baseball I do do  

that thing all right you might even have  the word do twice so I do do the dishes

so if I'm just talking with my wife like uh  yeah let me clean this up me so the same thing  

so if I'm talking with my wife she says you  know you never do the dishes I say no no I do  

I do do the dishes all right I was like yes like  I do do the dishes okay so remember it's it's the  

situation in this situation I'm emphasizing that  thing I do all right uh hello awesome teachers  

is Madison I love listening and practice with  yours you mean your English studies greetings  

from Brazil my darling wow my darling see I hear  that like it's like a lovely word my darling wow  

all right and uh Sirius says I love you teacher  wow you guys so it's like I've got some real  

some real love coming from the chat thank you very  much all right amazing explanation says Tom glad  

to hear it since none of my relatives friends  speak English would reading aloud help me to  

improve my spoken fluency uh yes Eric it would but  remember you don't need to you don't get fluent by  

repeating or speaking yourself you get fluent by  understanding the language well so if I'm like I  

gave the example before with the tools up here if  I do that again and I just teach you the word com  

and then you repeat that to yourself even if  you were speaking to yourself if you don't  

really understand what it means you're wasting  your time so just repeating words doesn't help  

you build fluency repetition doesn't build fluency  by itself understanding builds fluency and after  

you understand something that's where you can  try speaking so you don't have to worry about  

having friends or relatives or anything like I  can get people fluent like what I tell people  

in fluent for life like I could put tape over  your mouth and still get you fluent all right  

because I'm helping you that really is the  teacher that does the hard work of getting  

someone fluent by organizing the information well  and making sure the lessons are understandable  

okay so don't worry about finding people to  practice with just get lots of input lots of  

understandable messages make sure you're learning  the real vocabulary natives are using and you're  

getting lots of naturally varied review so not  just repeating things to yourself or other people  

you certainly can read and the the input will  come from the book but you can also watch a  

movie about something or listen to other  people talking about that same thing too  

just don't worry about speaking the speech  isn't what's it isn't what gets you fluent  

speech is something you do after you're  you're really understanding the vocabulary  

all right uh uh let's see so what's the time when  this live stream comes to an end well it's usually  

when I just either I run out of time so it's 11  18 a.m here in Japan and we've gone for 90 minutes  

almost uh so either my voice gets bad like I lost  my voice a couple weeks ago or I run out of time  

like I'm just like I got no energy left it's like  okay I'm hungry now I want to go get some food  

do I need some water uh or or we just like  finish I clear the chat but some videos are  

more popular we get more people coming to the  videos and I spend a little bit more time so

all right uh let's see Pinelli says good  morning from the Philippines what can I  

get started for you or what can I start  for you are both correct uh yes like what  

if you're talking about like working in a  cafe or if you're if like someone is maybe  

requesting you to do some other work like  I don't know your boss or something you  

can say what can I start or what can I get  started for you both of those are correct  

uh let's see knows again hope I reached the level  of understanding everything well if you if you  

understand each thing individually Nils then you  understand it all that's how it works so you start  

understanding each little thing but remember some  things will come very easily and quickly others  

might take a little bit more time and those  things are really important like it could be  

a grammar point that maybe is a bit trickier for  you something but spend the time just getting more  

examples of that until you really understand it  you will feel very good when you're like ah now  

I got it okay we're looking for the aha moment hey  Drew from Saudi Arabia uh Michelle nice to see you  

there Mary again I am getting used to practicing  so in this in this example here you would say  

I'm getting used to and because you're talking  about like doing something like I'm getting used  

to practicing my English or I'm getting used to  playing I'm getting used to speaking I'm getting  

used to going to work all right so you're talking  about the activity like that Eric again I scored  

C2 on my University's localization test but I feel  like a B1 well you are you are an A plus in my  

in my book I know like the the numbers are like  where the letters are backwards or whatever but  

don't feel bad about that remember tests aren't  you know necessarily accurate reflections of how  

real life is but keep taking like a little  step every day you'll feel better about that  

Melissa says what kind of grammar mistakes uh  or you can say what kind of grammar mistakes do  

natives do or do natives make um there there  will be like grammar mistakes where you're  

saying something you just use the wrong word uh  but it's not because you don't know it you just  

maybe you're talking about one thing and then  make a mistake and say something else you know  

not everybody is like a really good speaker  that happens and also they're intentional  

grammar errors that native make natives make  so right there I just I made like an error  

so I said natives make no wait what did I say I  said native I said native make when I should have  

said natives make and that was not because I don't  know the grammar it's just like my you know tongue  

stopped working or something so remember not to  get too worried about the grammar mistakes when  

you make them assuming you understand the grammar  all right but I'll just give you one example here  

of of something very common that  natives will use incorrectly thank you

I'll write this make sure I write  the incorrect English correctly here

there's two cats over there  there's two cats over there  

this is incorrect English Can you spot the  error what should it be what should it be  

all right I don't want to wait for the chat but  if you didn't catch it already it should be there  

there are there are two cats over there there are  two cats over there all right but we say theirs  

because it's just faster and easier and everybody  knows what we're talking about no one is going to  

say hey you didn't you didn't say R now we would  not write this we would write it correctly there  

are two cats over there but when we're speaking  there's two cats over there it's much faster and  

easier to say that if I try to say this quickly  it's like they're they're two cats over there  

it's much slower even even by a little bit people  just want to express themselves more smoothly  

and quickly and easily and again this is another  reason why like young children so native children  

will be learning from the sound of the language  first they're not learning from the writing  

and in my last video I talked about again  and in this video also actually uh used to  

so when children hear this they don't hear it they  don't hear the Deep because people don't say it so  

they just hear like yeah you used to do something  so if they try to write something in a in a text  

in like a I don't know like a text homework thing  at school they will they will forget to put the D  

all right because they're learning from the  sound of the language not from the writing  

or the written letters all right so when  we're looking for things like this again  

we pay attention to the situation and then think  about what natives say in this situation so here  

there's two cats over there there's two cats  over there so you can say this too and if you  

feel confident about it and you just say like yeah  there's two cats over there yeah there's uh you  

know there's there's uh there's three schools on  this street there's three schools on this street  

but if you if you feel unconfident about it if I  say there is there you don't want to say there is  

you wouldn't say there is but you'd say theirs  and people will be like ah okay you understand it  

like a native you're saying it like a native okay  uh saw post Skye says oh no where okay here we go  

I'm new here I'm working and listening your tea  or C working and listening to your teaching right  

now it's awesome I'm going to watch more of your  videos or more videos of yours or more videos all  

right Duran says no I just tuned in it's okay  you can watch the replay when it when it's up  

on YouTube again so if someone understands what  you say what is his level uh well I mean again  

as I've talked about I'm covering many different  things in this video uh remember that fluency is  

a it's a it's a bunch of different skills I'm  not going to draw this very uh clearly here  

uh but this is a very simple explanation or a  simple drawing of an English fluency profile and  

it's just all the different skills that you need  to communicate fluently so one of them for example  

is like the size of your vocabulary and often  what happens is native speakers like they will  

or English Learners they will know a lot of words  but their confidence will be very low all right  

or so your listening might be higher uh but maybe  your grammar is is not very good so your level of  

fluency is actually it's it's controlled by your  weakest skill and this is why you can know a lot  

of words but not communicate fluently uh if you if  you lack confidence so if I know a lot and maybe  

my grammar is perfect but I feel really shy then  I won't be able to speak well with people and so  

when people ask me like hey if I understand what  you're saying what does that mean like it doesn't  

really mean much it's hard to to decide anything  about that it just means you're able to understand  

me and remember that understanding a teacher or  the way I'm speaking as a teacher is different  

than how Native speak so maybe you're good at  understanding like teachers but maybe you struggle  

to understand natives all right so these are all  different skills and you can focus on these things  

but I usually explain to people the fastest way  to build fluency is working on your weakest skill  

because that's the thing that's actually stopping  you from speaking all right so if you can improve  

your confidence it's a little bit you will  feel much more confident about speaking without  

learning more words Isn't that cool this is what  we teach in the native fluency blueprint okay  

uh let's see okay Jose again I love your videos  really awesome glad to hear it love your teaching  

meth it says Carol glad to hear it time again guys  share your questions here in the chat so that Drew  

can answer them yes and that's why I'm here all  right Duran which is correct do I or did I what  

do you mean like what what time are you talking  about what's the situation so if you're talking  

about in the past did I do something yesterday or  if you're talking about now or in general like do  

I you know like what should I do today like do I  or if you mean like in general about yourself like  

do I do I like eggs you're just asking a question  about yourself do I like eggs yes I do you know  

in general or maybe in the past like did I go  to the park yes I do I do so remember it's not  

about the vocabulary you have to ask about  the situation so when are you talking about  

what is the situation don't think about words  don't think about specific grammar points just  

try to imagine like like if you're asking me Drew  like how do I talk about something like I wanted  

to do something but I couldn't do that thing or  something like that if you try to explain it then  

that it's much easier actually to understand the  grammar all right Eunice again I'm almost getting  

fluency thanks to your approach teacher I really  appreciate it glad to hear I listened to your  

videos before starting a conversation in English  as a kind of warm up before exercising yeah that's  

great so remember not just uh only listening to  me find native speakers who are talking about  

things as well so find people who are listening  uh and can give you more naturally varied review  

all right today you are looking Army person so  you'd say you're looking like looking like you  

can say you're looking like an army person  or looking like a soldier or looking like  

you are in the Army see I'm giving you naturally  varied review different ways of expressing this  

yes I got a haircut uh two days ago so I'm  trying to enjoy my hair before it's all gone  

and then I'll just I will like have to wear a wig  or something what should I wear maybe every video  

I can wear a different a different wig all right  is Khan tool in Japanese no uh Dogo is a tool in  

Japanese but no I I was just giving that example  I I will give Japanese examples sometimes uh but  

I do have Japanese people who watch these videos  and the example is even better for them if it's  

not in Japanese so I like I just use like an alien  lesson like that so Khan doesn't mean anything

so if uh

dog am I look at my Japanese is like Missy  too but yes Khan doesn't doesn't mean anything

all right uh good morning shiv Kumar Juan  again thanks for explanation glad to hear it  

uh Eric uh uh uh L El Cera I need to practice  that an email Sarah uh so glad to see you it's  

been some time I haven't watched you things for  this great live uh God bless you all and then  

one again how could I effectively benefit from  reading a book to improve my speaking skills  

well reading a book helps you understand the  vocabulary better but there's nothing special  

about reading a book or listening to an audio or  watching a video or something it's just do you  

understand the content or not maybe you understand  something from like a written example but if you  

heard that same example you would probably  understand it too so it's not only about like  

only reading but reading is a good way to get more  naturally varied review so you want to hear lots  

of different examples and you want to get them  in different ways so you want to read them and  

see them and hear them and all of these things  come together it's the same way that you learned  

your native language so you want to simulate that  same environment all right so this is what we do  

in fluent for life like every day you're learning  the vocabulary or the grammar or whatever or the  

like whatever the pronunciation but you're  hearing it in different ways from different  

speakers in different tenses at different  speeds okay and all of this is what builds your  

fluency automatically even if you don't have  anyone to practice with all right [Music] um

okay Edwin says hello Drew greetings from  Philly oh like Philadelphia uh I'm from  

Colombia following since 2016. you are it's a  you are uh good teacher well thank you very much  

Charles again this program is extremely  helpful for non-native speakers yes that's  

the plan so the point is to make it easy  we want to transition you from learning  

English like a student so learning English  as a second language to learning English as  

a first language so you speak English as  a first language all right you can speak  

multiple first languages you just have to  learn that way that's that's how we do it  

uh and again sham again what do you think that  shadowing can help to improve my pronunciation  

uh shadowing is useful but I think it's much  better to get many many examples of other  

people speaking because often like people will  try to make their pronunciation they want to  

mimic the exact sound of the other person so if  you're trying to do it for pronunciation rather  

than just like to practice moving your mouth  and saying something I would rather get like  

10 different people hearing them pronounce  something rather than just like one person  

and me repeating after that your your mind will  do lots of practicing by yourself like even if  

you don't open your mouth I remember there was an  interesting psychology experiment about shooting a  

basketball and a team was split into two groups  and one was actually shooting baskets and the  

other was just sitting there and visualizing it  and they both improved so even the people who did  

not actually shoot the ball like the people who  were just thinking about it they got better also

uh let's see tough woman oh a tough woman  over there hello teacher Drew I am your new  

subscriber from your channel watching from  glad to hear it from the Philippines awesome  

all right Durant speaking of naturally varied  review I hope there will be available transcripts  

for your live streams uh well you can just you  can get the um uh I make the uh the subtitles  

available usually they take some time to process  because it you know it's just Google processing  

those uh maybe I'll go back and make some of those  but like that's one of the benefits of being in  

fluent for life is we've got all the transcripts  and everything all nicely written out for people  

all right so is that again you are a good teacher  thank you so much glad to hear it uh can you say a  

hello to Brazil hello uh to Brazil nice to see  everybody out there we got a lot of Brazilian  

fans I know our perfect pronunciation my name  Drew thanks congrats all right uh his Lima  

says hello Professor watching from USA just  to let people know I know some people call  

me Professor I know that's like a name for  teacher in some places but I'm not like I'm  

just a regular guy that knows how to teach but  I'm not like a certified Professor or anything  

all right uh Brazilians are everywhere indeed  didn't expect that yes we have actually uh  

I've got some friends out here who from Brazil  actually a guy both of his parents were uh or I  

think one of them is Japanese and one of them  is Brazilian but he grew up uh in in Brazil  

all right do you have any tips to practice  conversation says Camilla uh again without  

uh even having someone to speak with I would spend  your time like watching other people speaking and  

getting naturally varied review so if you can  you don't have to wait for for other people to  

to be available to practice speaking you just  start getting reviewed and start understanding  

the language like a native so get lots of  native examples like we do in fluent for life  

all right uh let's see Tom again says this is  the best channel to learn English glad to hear  

it uh what is shadowing I don't understand the  question yeah there are some people that focus  

more on this it's it's kind of like speaking  after other people like the shadow so if I  

say something then you're repeating after me  but I think I think shadowing is overrated uh  

overrated so I mean I think it's like I don't  know people people talk about it more than is  

like saying it's more important than it actually  is it's helpful just like kids repeat after their  

parents but there's nothing like magical about  that but I do think getting more examples of  

many different speakers if I had to choose like  repeating one person or hearing lots of different  

people and you could even still try to repeat  after them that's going to be better for you  

uh thanks teacher your class tonight God Bless you  that's my pleasure seem Akita for the uh that's  

for the the Brazilian I'm guessing that's some  Portuguese or something all right uh Sensei Drew  

yes you could say drew Sensei Yale against us I'm  meaning your class yes I figured that and again  

sham says I watch videos of some non-native people  speaking English instinctively probably those  

people will follow your tips otherwise they will  know already naturally varied review yeah that's  

just the name of it I I gave to it but it's what  people are doing anyway but I think when you when  

you know what what natives are doing uh it's a lot  easier for you to do the same thing so you hear a  

lot of like traditional advice about language  learning which is like some advice is uh just  

like repeat lessons a lot but that's forgetting  about human psychology and it's forgetting about  

how people actually learn languages themselves  like in their native language so just if you  

do something in your native language do that  same thing for learning English it's not that  

difficult it's just finding the information  and making sure you can understand that is  

the difficult part by yourself but it's possible  so that's how I taught myself yourself Japanese  

all right uh and then some more uh Portuguese  on there as well all right Camilla says I think  

that I have no difficulty so no difficulty to  understand Advanced English but maybe uh to speak  

I have yeah and so like if you have this like the  actually the the subject of this video is how to  

speak continuously so how to keep talking that's  what I'm trying to give you an example of that  

like me talking now but if you watch uh actually a  better way to explain this like for you or anyone  

out there that's that's trying to improve your  speaking remember that if you're making mistakes  

and you're worried about those mistakes that will  stop you from speaking so I gave some examples at  

the beginning of this video about the kinds of  things that like people struggle with but the  

the core maybe foundational reason for most people  is that they don't understand the language like a  

native all right so you should be understanding  English like a native rather than understanding  

English through your native language all right  so you want to learn English as a first language  

rather than as a second language so you can  understand things and there are different  

levels of understanding so you might have the  awareness level of understanding but you don't  

have the ownership level of understanding  where you really feel confident about using  

something all right so understand that these  are there there are different levels to this  

that's why you can understand often but still  not feel confident about using something all  

right so I might know it like intellectually or  logically like I know how the grammar Point works  

but maybe I still can't use it myself all right  so when you understand it you can continue to  

improve that and go from the awareness level  to the ownership level that's taking you to the  

fluent level just by getting more examples  so even if you don't speak you can do that

uh okay we are all here in Brazil learning English  with teacher Drew I know isn't that amazing you  

can be on the other side of the world and and  still be learning without being in a classroom  

with somebody you could be on the beach right now  all right thanks for this class and answer me says  

Camilla ah you would say like so in that in that  example like if you say thanks for this class and  

answer me it sounds like like I didn't answer  you so that isn't that interesting like people  

often think they know the vocabulary but if they  make there's like certain mistakes you might make  

that if you're in a conversation people would  say like oh I did answer you what do you mean  

by that so what you should have said if you're  talking about like thanking me for answering you  

would say thanks for the class and answering me  all right if you say answer me it's like answer  

me like give me the answer but for answering me  means I already gave you the answer all right and  

these are the subtle slight differences when you  understand it like a native like you don't make  

those mistakes because you understand it the  native way and that's why I remind people uh  

you can try to start speaking more and maybe you  will maybe you will improve a little bit probably  

not I mean most people they've they've been like  at a plateau level for a long time and that's why  

they find my videos and join my programs and they  start improving because now they're learning like  

a native all right so again if you're if you're  feeling confident about understanding but you're  

still not speaking there are probably mistakes  in your speech still even like things that you  

don't realize or mistakes but you're maybe  you're not quite feeling very confident about  

it but that's why I just spend more time  getting more review hearing more examples  

all right all right Yale it gives me the uh the  okay symbolic there see Daddy what is the best  

way to make students speaking most of my students  they are too shy to speak is that okay to teach  

Grammar with other mother language no no no don't  do any of that all right number one the thing that  

I explained to students and even these are my own  students like adults who are learning with me is  

you don't have to speak until you're ready okay so  don't force yourself to speak if you are a teacher  

in a classroom your students will feel very good  if you say two things the first one is you don't  

have to speak uh if you don't want to all right  and the second thing is it's my fault if you don't  

speak all right and that means as the teacher  you are the one who either makes the language  

understandable or you do not so if you are a good  teacher then the students will understand the  

lesson and they will naturally want to speak all  right but if you're not a good teacher if you're  

just giving them translations then it will be  hard for them to understand and then of course  

they won't want to speak alright so it is your job  as the teacher just like me for like fluent for  

life or any of the programs or these videos if I'm  a good teacher I make the lesson understandable  

so people feel good about that they think ah now I  understand this vocabulary or grammar or something  

and now I feel confident about using it all right  so it's the understanding that leads to confidence  

it's not more speaking practice so the I'll put  this example up here again so English as a second  

language what people usually do is they start  with like okay I'm going to teach you something  

but usually it's through your native language and  then I want you to repeat after me so there's some  

kind of speaking and now I want you to repeat  that and then at some point like there's fluency  

but it doesn't really happen like this right so  usually what happens is like you get to this point  

and you stop right there and you never develop  fluency so you teach a new word or phrase you try  

to say that thing and then you repeat that again  but you don't actually build fluency all right  

but when you learn English as a first language  you understand the whole point is to understand

it's not just to like know it like  you told me a grammar Point like you  

do this word plus this word plus this  word no I'm giving you lots of examples  

so you understand what I'm saying and  when you understand you feel confident

so confidence it confidence really means  a lack of worry a lack of doubt a lack  

of questions because in your mind as you're  learning things like that that tool example I  

gave before so if I give you that that picture  I'm going to try to draw it quickly over here  

here's that the like example I gave before if I  if I put Khan up here and just say this is Khan  

all right so if I'm doing this as like the English  as a second language but you know imagine it's  

like an alien language I'm teaching you so the  first thing I do I show you something and I say  

con so I know as the teacher I know what I mean I  know what this word means but you don't you don't  

really know all right so I gave you the other  examples before but now I'm like if I'm teaching  

you something new so I'm teaching you something  and now I say okay repeat after me and you just  

say Khan Khan Khan every time you see this this  little sign or symbol you will say Khan but you  

don't really know what con means yet all right you  didn't learn anything you're repeating after the  

teacher but you don't really understand all right  and so this like this this example here like this  

is the ESL way I give you something I'm trying to  teach you and and this is like a visual example of  

it but it could be a grammar point explanation  or something or maybe it's a translation  

but in the efl way I'm gonna give you a  whole bunch more examples because the goal  

is understanding it and so when you hear this  one and then maybe I draw like this other thing  

here and then I draw I don't know what's like  another like here I drew this example before

uh and so this is Khan and this  is Khan and then maybe I draw like  

I know some other thing over here and if  you understand what all those things mean  

ah the word con means tool now I get it all right  it's not because I gave you a translation it's  

because you understood it like a native okay  to understand something like a native means  

you connect with it directly you don't need  the translation because you understand so this  

way like so you teach something they don't really  understand so like people don't talk about this at  

all in regular language learning they don't talk  about like understanding the information they just  

talk about teaching and now we get to speaking  and repeating but why don't we develop fluency  

why not it's because people don't understand  okay so you don't get fluent by speaking  

speaking doesn't help you if you don't understand  so understanding gives you confidence it answers  

your questions like okay what does con mean uh  I have a I have a general idea maybe 80 percent  

you can't really fit that let's say this is 80 up  here all right I feel about 80 percent confident I  

know what that means oh now I hear another example  now I'm 90 confident oh I hear that oh now I'm  

like 99 oh now I really feel very confident about  the word I'm 100 confident that Khan means tool  

all right so because I'm confident now  I speak so I spend my time here not here  

speech is the result of this okay so after and  this is why you can get fluent by yourself so  

you don't need a speaking partner the speaking  partner what are you going to do with a speaking  

partner you're just going to repeat things you  don't really understand you don't need to do  

that it's just understand feel confident and then  you start speaking and sure maybe you have like a  

little bit of practice like with pronunciation  or something but the the core of understanding  

because you've heard it from different people  you've seen it in different contexts like the past  

or the present or the future or whatever you've  heard different people talking about it you really  

feel confident about something the speaking is  automatic the speaking is the easy part after that  

okay so you can get by yourself you don't need  to spend a lot of time practicing speaking so  

remember this as a teacher I really like want  to make this point clear because students if you  

force them to go through this like you're just  wasting their time you're wasting your time and  

I know maybe you have to do this for passing  a test but this is much faster and easier and  

the students will enjoy it so when I when I teach  people like I mean I don't teach in the classroom  

anymore other than this but I'm not telling you  to say anything the job is on me I am the teacher  

I have to make the language understandable it's  my fault if you don't understand if you don't get  

fluent it's my fault not your fault but over here  in ESL it's like well the teacher taught something  

you have to just remember it okay repeat it  to yourself and then the student is like uh  

of course they feel shy and scared and they don't  have confidence okay so don't do that as a teacher  

all right let's see here oh no now I like  got a whole bunch more questions over here  

all right I think I think actually we're getting  pretty close to the end I've only got a few  

minutes left anyway all right um so hopefully uh  daddy that makes sense all right so you don't need  

to use your native language to teach English You  Begin by just making it understandable if you'd  

like to see how to do that click on the link below  this video for Frederick install that and you'll  

see how to teach English as a first language all  right uh for answering me that's the correct way  

to say it then yes so it's like thank you for  doing something thank you for thank you for coming  

thank you for watching thank you for answering me  so you give you the naturally varied review your  

different examples thank you for coming thank  you for going thank you for playing thank you  

for doing this and then you can add for me or  with me or whatever all right I always hit the  

like button when I'm in the class very good yes  everyone click that like button click click click  

do you usually develop and update Frederick yes  so we're continuing to develop it and yeah we just  

released a new update a little like like a few  days ago but yes we're continuing to develop it  

and the the goal is to have it in schools actually  so if you'd like to use it in your school you can  

start doing it now but send us an email at info  englishanyone.com and say hey Drew uh we love the  

app we want to use it in our school how can we  do that and we with that all right time answered  

me let's see unit says for example scissors is  a tool and a tool is a thing I mean if I don't  

know the word scissors I'll say tool and give  someone a description of it and if I don't know  

the word tool I'll say thanks yes that's correct  so you could and I gave this example a while ago  

about like different categories of something  so you can go higher or lower or whatever  

all right by the time uh and practice I will  get used to it yes so the practice is what gets  

you used to it and that's how you start speaking  so don't put pressure on yourself to speak just  

relax and understand get more examples that's how  you do it so if you'd like help with this this is  

what we do in fluent for life again like if you  enjoy these videos you will love that because it's  

got more me teaching but most of it is like just  lots and lots of examples in a step-by-step way  

that leads you to understanding and speaking like  a native all right so if we can teach you like a  

native we're going to help you understand like a  native so you speak like well all right so click  

on the link in the description below this video  if you'd like to do that do click that like button  

share this video with anyone else who would enjoy  and I think uh yeah I think that's everything  

let's see Niels again uh let's see thank you drew  for the time to say good night until next time  

May Fang says hi Andrew can you make a shorter  video out of this live chat you mean the chat or  

the video itself I think probably uh we will do  I don't know I'd like I'd like to actually have  

someone like cut our videos up and make shorts  out of them so I'd like to do that actually  

um yes really nice content very inspiring glad  to hear it all right thank you so much to take  

care I'm already addicted to these classes  as Tom all right fantastic and we will see  

you in the next video that will probably be  Monday Japan time around the same time so like  

Monday like 10 a.m around that but thank you for  joining me it's been a pleasure and again click  

on the links below this video in the description  absolutely get Frederick and that will just let  

you practice lots of things grammar pronunciation  listening uh learn lots of vocabulary that you  

don't know even if it seems like an app for kids  it's not it's an app for anybody who's trying to  

learn like a native and again if you already  have the app and you like it do go to the App  

Store and give us a great review give us five  stars in fact give us 10 Stars if you can but  

have a fantastic day all right what fan from  Chicago too look at that all right fantastic  

my hometown I haven't been back to Chicago in  a long time uh let's see what school in Canada  

are you a teacher at me oh I'm not I got my  this is my school in the school of life I'm  

in Nagasaki Japan love your videos over the  years glad to hear it it's my pleasure all  

right well I'm going to shut it down so I can  rest my voice get some lunch and have uh have  

a nice rest of my day have a fantastic day  do click that like button and share bye-bye