Vacation Vocabulary For Fluent English

soon hello again nice to see uh people out  there I'll give you YouTube a moment to load  

so I just got back from a little vacation and  I thought I would tell some stories from that  

to help you speak a bit more fluently uh  we'll just wait for YouTube to get fired

up in a moment I think if you can see this post  a comment let's see should be working all right  

I think we're going now all right I am Drew  Badger the founder of Englishanyone.com and  

the English fluency guide and welcome to another  live video here on YouTube today uh I wanted to  

just make a short video and then I'll take time  for answering questions if people have any uh but  

this is just some uh just two actually interesting  vacation stories so I just came back from Okinawa  

so this is a uh it's like a group of islands in  the southern part of Japan uh like at the very  

bottom of the the area what nice to see everybody  there at subasa Ohio nice to see you there if  

people are on vacation let me know uh but again  I just wanted to tell two quick stories from this  

uh you can let me know if you have any questions  I'll keep my eye on the chat um but it should be  

an interesting video for those who want to speak  more fluently uh so the first story is I was in  

Okinawa as I just mentioned with my family my mom  actually came out to visit me so we were enjoying  

our time there uh and there is a pool at the hotel  where we stayed and my daughters love getting into  

the pool and they're starting to learn how to swim  more and my older daughter Arya up until this trip  

uh she had almost always held her nose like this  so she you know holds on to her nose when she gets  

under the water to make sure that she's not uh you  know getting water up her nose so she would try to  

swim she could get under the water and she could  usually swim around she didn't have a problem with  

that uh but she was again holding her nose just  to make sure water didn't get under and for a  

long time like the past few years since she's  been doing this I've been telling her you know  

you don't have to do that the water is not going  to get up your nose unless you unless to breathe  

in and that's that's where you start choking uh  but she didn't believe me she was just like no  

no like I'm like I can't do it I'm not going to  do it uh and so I didn't I didn't really try to  

push that on her because it there's really no  way for me to do that I can't just like hold  

her hands and push her under the water that would  be a really bad thing to do uh but just hopefully  

I can uh explain to her just show her uh but I  wasn't able to do that so I would say Arya it's  

okay you don't have to do that uh and then I would  show her look I'm not using my hands and I would  

just get under the water even up to my nose here  just so she could she could see that the water was  

not getting up uh but she still didn't believe me  and she was still saying I can't so I had an idea  

about something I would try differently this  time or this uh this past week while I was on  

the vacation and so around the pool uh there  was a little Fountain so just like a little  

Fountain like this had some water coming out and  I went to the bathroom and found some cups and uh  

when I found the cups I was really excited uh  you know of course I understand she's nervous  

about not wanting to get water up her nose but  I wanted to show her exactly what's happening  

uh when she goes underwater so I took a cup it's  just a little plastic cup you could see through it  

which is nice uh and so I put the cup just turned  it upside down and put it down into the water  

so if you can imagine we got our Fountain here  here's the water level like this and I put a cup  

in so I put the cup just a like a small cup like  this and of course there's air uh inside the cup  

and so you can you can feel inside here where the  air is up here even though there's there there's a  

little water that gets in the in the cup obviously  uh because the water is pushing up on the air so  

the air is getting a little bit compressed but  as I push the cup down and I was showing her  

look I'm pushing the cup down but the air is still  in there and so it's it can't get out and that's  

why the water can't fill the cup up so even if I  push the water or push the cup way down deep uh in  

the water the you could see that there's still  a bunch of air still in there uh but if I tip  

the cup like this I turn the cup to the side then  obviously the air comes back out and you can see  

now there's water that fills up the cup and so  I asked her to try that too so I said look you  

can you can push on the cup and it's actually  hard to push it down there because it's filled  

with all that air and your nose works the same  way and something kind of clicked in her mind uh  

and she understood oh like look at that it's  it's you know that I actually don't have to  

have like the water just rushing up into my nose  because there's really nowhere to go if I just  

don't breathe I'm just kind of holding my breath  and the water can't get up into my nose and so  

once she understood that then she really felt much  more confident especially trying it herself and  

and seeing that like wow look the water doesn't go  in there and then she went in the water and gave  

it a try and it was fine and she said wow look at  that I can do it and so she was not just swimming  

with one hand anymore she was able to swim around  the pool and she got to enjoy herself and learn  

more swimming and and do all all kinds of things  like that so she just had uh an idea that needed  

to be broken uh about holding her nose and and  she knew okay she can kind of trust me but she  

really had to see like a really good experience  uh something that really could prove to her that  

it worked but ultimately so even though I could  show her this ultimately she still had to try  

this herself okay and so the reason I share this  story and I Shar this uh with with some learners  

recently uh is it even if I I can try to make  the language super easy for people and show you  

exactly what to do but if you don't follow it and  don't give it a try then there's really not much I  

can do so in English maybe you have some similar  expression in your native language uh we say you

can so you can lead a horse to water

but you can't make him drink so you  can lead a horse to water but you can't

make so you can lead a horse to water but you  can't make him drink so I can bring a horse I  

can you know like have a horse and hold the the  little the strings we call those the reins of  

the horse I can bring the horse over to water  but I can't force the horse to do anything so  

ultimately the horse still has to drink and so we  use this expression often when people are you know  

trying to say like trying to teach something but  the the person still has to give it a try okay so  

all the things I teach hopefully you're going out  and applying those things I can't force anyone to  

do it I can try to make the language as easy as  possible and really help get you fluent by making  

the language understandable but really go out  and try using what I'm teaching uh and if you  

do I promise you will make more uh have better  conversations you will feel much more confident  

you will learn faster uh so anyway uh when we  have expressions like this uh this is just an  

additional tip here uh I call this my my uh think  and Shrink technique uh but if you if we have  

a larger expression like this often natives  are only saying the first part of it because  

everybody knows or at least most adults know the  expression and you don't have to say the whole  

thing so we just say you can lead a horse to water  and stop there all right so you don't have to say  

the whole thing you can lead a horse to water but  you can't make him drink so everybody knows that  

and many other Expressions follow this same form  where there's a longer expression or a proverb  

or a saying something like that but people just  say uh the beginning of it like don't count your  

chickens before they hatch all right so don't  count your chickens before they hatch this is  

an expression where uh people are talking about  like don't don't make an assumption that you'll  

have something before you actually have it so if  you think something might happen don't bet like  

for sure that it will happen maybe it will maybe  it won't so don't count your chickens before they  

hatch so in the chicken case maybe you have a  bunch of eggs and you're counting the eggs oh  

I know I'm going to get this many chickens but  maybe some of them die or something happens to  

them so don't count your chickens before they  hatch but we just abbreviate this we just say  

don't count your chickens all right so you can  lead a horse to water don't count your chickens  

all right so I just wanted to share this quick  story because I I thought it was a really good  

example of how you can teach someone and really  help them understand something but they have to  

take that next step and the people who do tend to  tend to do well or they're actually able to make  

progress in what they do so really like all these  videos that I'm making go out and actually apply  

those things that the tips and other things that  I share use that this is the same stuff that I do  

as I'm learning I I don't just tell you stuff and  then expect you to do it like these are all things  

that I do as I learn and that's how I got fluent  in Japanese all right uh so let me tell one more  

uh additional story about vocabulary that happened  uh about uh during the during the vacation and I  

thought this was just a a funny kind of use of  it but we actually uh like my mom you know we we  

were sitting there having having a conversation  about this and it was interesting that uh we we  

kind of talk about the vocabulary itself and how  it's interesting that we use vocabulary in certain  

ways so here's the situation here's the story  that happened uh one of my favorite desserts it's  

an Italian dessert called tiramisu I think I see  if I can spell it t me I think that's correct uh  

so this is a it's kind of a coffee and chocolate  and cream kind of dessert thing uh but one of my  

favorite desserts and at this uh Hotel they had uh  different uh like different restaurants you could  

go to and one of them had a really good TI misu  and the other was not so good and I was really  

surprised by that to find like why was the like  this one uh for breakfast was really good it was  

like amazing really good I enjoyed it a lot but  this the the one at a like a dinner buffet was not  

so good and I was really puzzled by why that was  anyway uh so my mom was asking me oh I I you said  

you didn't really like that tier missu so I I was  I was really raving to be to Rave about something  

to Rave r a ve e to Rave about something means  to say well something is really exciting like  

I'm saying wow that that stuff is really good this  tiu was amazing I'm raving about about it so I'm  

praising it to Rave about it so I was raving about  the TI missu and my mom asked me oh well if you if  

you don't really like that other tiramisu why are  you eating it and I said any port in a storm any  

port in a storm any port in a storm and my mom  thought that was pretty funny and it was just  

an interesting thing that I used and and often  people in these videos here on YouTube people  

ask do I speak this way when I'm talking with  native speakers like my parents or friends or  

other people just other native speakers uh and one  of the things that I don't really do very much of  

in these videos is using a lot of slang or idioms  or Expressions other things like that that people  

might not know so if I want to use something  I should teach it and help people understand  

what it means rather than just I don't just  like use Expressions uh without helping people  

understand what they mean all right but this is  a story about using the vocabulary so I can help  

you understand what it means but it's a very  useful expression any port in a storm so let  

me just help you understand this situation again  uh so we got two TI misu desserts uh one of them  

was really good I was raving about it and the  second one was it was not so good it was it was  

okay I was I was happy to eat it but it it just  I was very surprised that at the same Hotel they  

had two different restaurants where one was like  a completely different dessert than the other one  

and I was just very surprised by that even though  it was the same thing uh and so when I said well  

any port in a storm uh aness says there's some  alcohol in tiu is very tasty yeah there there some  

some some people do put alcohol in I don't think  all of them do like they're there there some of  

them kind of can be soaked with a uh I don't want  to like explain the recipe of it but there's kind  

of a cake bottom that usually has some kind of  coffee flavored lure or just some kind of coffee  

flavor espresso like that anyway um so any port  in a storm this this expression specifically comes  

from uh if you're out in a boat and it like maybe  the weather is really stormy and you just need  

to take your boat and put it anywhere you can't  just leave it out in the middle of the ocean or  

the storm might come and destroy your boat so if  you see a storm is coming or you're trying to get  

away from a storm any place is fine for you know  it doesn't matter if it's like the most beautiful  

Port so a port like a place like a harbor a place  where you would put your boat a port uh and so  

this is where we get like a sea port or an airport  or a space port so anywhere where we would have  

you know Vehicles things like that uh coming and  staying or docking uh in a particular place so any  

port in a storm means that uh even if something  is not ideal I'm you know I can still do that  

thing anyway and so we were talking about other  examples of when we would use that just because  

it was an interesting expression that came up and  I said you know I often well maybe not often but I  

hear that used with like men talking about women  and so like let's say a man is like man I really  

need like a woman tonight or something you know  like some guys are going out to a bar and whatever  

they're they're looking for women uh and uh they  maybe meet someone and you know it might not be  

like the greatest woman for that guy but you know  he's thinking like whatever like any port in store  

so even even if this person is not ideal for me  you know just like for tonight it should be okay  

you know so we're not we're not going to be too  picky so this is another way of saying uh like

I'm I'm not picky or tonight or about this thing  p i c k y to be picky about something so I'm not  

particularly picky about my tier misso if I get  a really good one I'm very impressed if I get a  

not so good one H I'm not unhappy about that so it  doesn't make me feel bad I was just very surprised  

to see at the same Hotel these two different  versions of the same dessert and I I should have  

asked the staff about that but then I thought oh  no like maybe I will make them mad or create like  

a rivalry or something like that and I say hey you  know cuz I didn't know who I could tell like do I  

tell the like the the other restaurant that had  the good TI missu and make them feel good about  

it or do I tell the not so good restaurant about  their ti so if I tell the not so good restaurant  

they might feel bad about that maybe they don't  care really they're just you know making whatever  

they're making but it was just very surprising so  any port in a storm I was saying I'm I I really  

want to eat some TI missu and so I didn't care how  good the ti misu was I was just like like anytime  

I can get some TI misu I'm happy to get it and I  rarely eat it anyway because they're just where I  

live in Nagasaki you know if I went to Italy or  something I maybe would eat that every day for  

every meal but in Nagasaki I don't I don't really  get much tier missu I think there's maybe one  

place I can get it but I I rarely ever go there uh  anyway I just thought this was an an interesting  

question and it just showed that natives actually  do talk about these kinds of things and we talk  

about vocabulary and and how we use it pardon me  is there's a an ambulance as usual if you've been  

with us for a while you probably know about our  our favorite ambulances or whatever I do feel bad  

obviously there's like some trouble going on but  anyway uh hopefully this sentence or this phrase  

makes sense to you and you can see how when you're  learning vocabulary you should keep your mind open  

for the situation in which it's used because I can  talk about any port in a storm with some dessert  

even though people might not use it that way so my  mom was kind of laughing because she was surprised  

that I used it in that way when you know maybe  people use that where they're actually talking  

about boats or they're talking about women  or whatever so often if you're not picky or  

you you're just choosing something because I don't  know maybe like it's the only option and you don't  

really care so much so you can say any port in  a storm so any port in a storm all right so I  

wanted to keep this video pretty short at least  the uh beginning teaching section of this uh but  

hopefully these ideas and some of this vocabulary  has been more useful to you and you're also seeing  

how you should be learning the vocabulary all  right we always want to take a situation and see  

how we connect vocabulary with that situation  so in this situation uh the point is that I'm  

choosing something even though it's not ideal or  perfect for me I'm kind of settling for that thing  

so maybe I didn't really want that I wouldn't  choose that if I had a few options but because  

it's the only thing well any port in a storm so  I really wanted some TI missu I didn't care if it  

wasn't perfect but it was okay all right so any  port in a storm but you can see how there's also  

additional ways that we might Express that so I  could say I'm not picky or I'm happy to settle to

settle so to settle for something so to settle  for like I'm happy to settle for the less good  

TI misu rather than no ti misu so less good tiu  is better than no tiu okay all right uh for my  

Italian fans out there uh please send me some  TI missu in the mail or something if you can  

because I'd really like to try uh some different  TI missu really from Italy I'd like to go to Italy  

I've never been there uh but I thought as as it's  one of my favorite desserts if you can send that  

to me please do all right uh let me go back and  check chat see if anybody has any questions about  

this or anything else since I've been away all  right Paris say alot zuas again Ohio goas yeah  

looking hot over there and the toy says hello  Drew greetings from Brazil Satish from India  

Med from Morocco L says Brazil's take over the  live always yes we got always lots of Brazilians  

but I'm happy to help anybody who's who's uh  interested in learning let's see uh if I can read  

this glenson as an interesting name it has been  a long time well I was here I guess a week and a  

half ago and uh Neil's over there Anette back in  Wisconsin I guess I think you were in in Germany  

for a bit uh AAL says hello from Switzerland that  took c yeah you're talking about like my daughter  

being cautious yes that's true so she was being  cautious and it's okay to be cautious I know  

a lot of people are cautious and even when you  get guarantees about things uh people are still  

nervous about trying but you have to take that  leap at some point so you can lead a horse to  

water but you can't make him drink but I promise  you uh if you have a good sense that something  

will work give it a try go do that thing and you  will probably succeed see uh Allah says thank you  

Professor you are the best it's my pleasure let's  see when I die I also hold my no yeah so when you  

when you like maybe you jump in the water you hold  your nose like that it's okay I'm not saying it's  

a bad thing but when you're underwater if you  want to use both hands while you swim and it's  

just more fun you don't have to hold your nose you  can use your hands to do whatever uh if you can do  

that as it says hello from Ethiopia uh let's see  sand yeah Sandia from India from Kolkata uh batter  

says while reading a story I came across the  following sentence me and my brother did something  

why didn't he say my brother and I tell us please  thank you uh well that's just incorrect English  

but you'll often hear that and even in these live  videos or in regular communication uh I will use  

incorrect English that's actually just commonly  used so if you heard it did you hear there was an  

example of that a little bit ago what did I say  exactly I said there's something but I used yeah  

I'll just give you an example of it over here uh  so often natives will get uh confused about using  

me or I and you you like nobody really cares about  that in a regular conversation they're not going  

to stop stop the conversation to talk about that  but it's important to use it correctly especially  

if you're writing so I'm surprised you would get  that uh in a regular story but a so that's that's  

one mistake that natives will uh will commonly  make so if you you might hear someone make a  

mistake like like uh like me me and my brother did  something or my brother and me did did something  

and to remember which you should use if it's like  me and X did something whatever that is me and X  

you would just think if if I erase this how would  you would would it would it sound correct and and  

in this case like me did something a native  speaker especially an adult native speaker  

would never say this all right so they wouldn't  make that mistake they would know ah okay I did  

something and typically when people are using  the language like that like if they if they just  

make a mistake about which one of those to use  because they're just speaking casually and forget  

or whatever um this is a way to remember that  especially for writing okay so just think if I'm  

only talking about myself which would be correct  and in this case I did something uh or if you're  

talking about something being done to you then  like something was done to me all right so I did  

something but something was done to me all right  and then if we're talking about an additional  

person we typically uh for politeness we would  put ourselves second so like like my brother  

and I so my brother and I did something  okay so I put myself second in that like  

my family and I are going some going  somewhere all right hopefully that makes  

sense oh I'll just give you one additional  example since I forgot to mention that uh

there's so there's two cats on the table there's  two cats on the table and you probably heard me  

or maybe you didn't notice it though uh when  I was using this and often talking about like  

there is is for one thing like there is a  marker in my hand there is a marker in my  

in my hand okay or I would say there are two  markers in my hand but we say there's and even  

if it's talking about more than one you will  hear natives say this because it's just faster  

all right so if I try to say it like there are  there are two cats over there it just it's kind  

of needlessly you know I'm taking more time to  say things even though people understand what  

I'm saying and and they know I'm not I'm not like  misund understanding the grammar I'm just saying  

it faster so you will often hear natives using  the vocabulary this way so there's uh there's  

two people over there there's there's some you  know some things happening over there even if  

I'm just talking about multiple things rather  than just one so the correct English would be  

there's a cat over there like one cat there is  a cat but even for multiple cats or whatever  

I'm talking about there's two markers over there  look there's two markers instead of there are two  

markers which would be correct so this is another  reason to pay attention to what natives are saying  

and uh rather than trying to think like just  specifically about the rules we want to get lots  

of examples of different natives talking about  things and even especially the same situation  

because then we can see oh look some people do use  incorrect grammar and it's okay nobody cares and  

everybody just you know has a good conversation  about that so if you are trying to make a strong  

effort to say there are two cats over there  it's really very easy just to say there's  

two cats over there all right there's two cats  over there all right uh let me keep going here

all right

and all right I answered that one Richard  says uh I can relate to what you articulate  

in your expression in fact I need uh everyone  I need someone to converse with me in English  

oh accept whatever is on offer regardless  of the quality just saying it to remember  

the phrase yeah so accepting whatever is on  offer regardless of the quality yes that that  

is like a a kind of definition for the term but  if you understand it within the situation then  

you should get that idea also uh and also just  a mention about uh you don't need someone there  

to improve your conversation ability you just  need to get lots of good examples that help you  

remove the doubt that stops you from speaking  okay so when I'm trying to practice by myself  

uh I'm not really speaking to myself or trying  to speak to other people even if other people  

might be available I'm trying to get lots of  examples of how something um like what whatever  

examples of the vocabulary so a perfect example of  this I think maybe two or three days ago I was at  

a bookstore and right now is summer time in Japan  and so typically at a bookstore you will have  

uh you know like books for particular seasons or  particular uh you know whatever whatever the you  

know some some theme or whatever something like  that so maybe during Christmas time you've got  

Christmas books uh but at this bookstore because  it's summer time lots of little kids are going out  

and trying to catch bugs so they have their little  box to catch bugs or a bug net uh and there were a  

bunch of books about uh like uh rhinoceros beetle  so lots of kids in Japan like Beatles I'll draw  

uh a picture of It kind of you know my pictures  are not very good but it's a pretty pretty large  

Beetle and it kind of looks like this it's got a  like a big horn and it's got the legs like that  

so six legs but it's got this big big kind of horn  in the front so this is the the male I think like  

uh but anyway so this is called a Kabuto Mushi  a it's just a like a rhinoceros beetle um and  

there were a couple of different books about that  and these are just for kids but I read a couple  

of books about this again I like reading Japanese  kids books because there are lots of interesting  

vocabulary words I can learn uh but also just it's  hearing different people telling stories about the  

same kind of thing so you will find some of the  same vocabulary or you will find other different  

ways of describing things and so what often  happens is people will read one book or watch  

one lesson about something and then they will stop  and they will think well I guess I understand you  

know these bugs or I understand this grammar point  or whatever but for me I'm always trying to get  

additional lessons or more examples of things and  that's the actual practice that gets me fluent so  

I can learn a lot more about these bugs by getting  a bunch of different examples of them it could be  

stories or podcasts or whatever um but it's much  better to do that and spend my time getting this  

information this input rather than me trying  to speak or find someone to talk with all right  

so uh as I continue to remind people you don't  have to find people to practice speaking with  

in order to improve your fluency you just need to  get lots of good examples so real native speech  

just like I'm getting these real books that real  Japanese kids would be reading and I can get the  

same information from them uh so I I think I told  a story about this similar uh kind of experience  

with uh what was that tanabata uh which is H like  the star Festival from last month so in SE uh in  

July there is a it's like a star Festival kind of  thing where people uh wish you know like you just  

write your wish on a on a little piece of paper  and hang that on a bamboo plant uh and I and I  

saw I didn't know some of the vocabulary for that  I know what tanabata is and I was just like okay  

let me read a bunch of these kids books and find  out more information of course I read a bunch of  

books and I know more about it and it's pretty  easy all right so rather than me uh trying to  

speak I need more information all right that's  actually that's a pretty good picture I'll leave  

that one up all right let's see here uh some more  good questions over here all right so Hussein says  

hello I have a test tomorrow in passive voice in  present and past could you give me some advice to  

help well if you have a test tomorrow just like  look up the specific examples of that um and  

just cram that into your head right before  the the test so obviously you can you can  

spend a bit more time but I would just get lots  of different examples rather than me explaining  

you what the passive uh like the passive voice  is just get a bunch of different examples of it  

and then you will naturally feel more confident  about how the vocabulary works all right so if  

you're if you're trying to learn or pass a test  then just try to cram as much information as you  

can by getting lots of examples right before for  the test uh and you might not remember everything  

but you will you will do much better on the test  in that way so rather than spend a lot of time uh  

doing that that's what I would recommend you do  all right ABDO says maybe doesn't make maybe uh  

doesn't the same person make it ah you're talking  about the ti misu um well in that case like the  

the the the ti misu actually looked different so  it looked like different ingredients obviously  

different quality stuff so I was just wondering  like the breast breakfast one was better than  

the dinner one weird like usually the dinner is  kind of the nicer one but the breakfast one was  

way better so I don't know why they do that but so  yes I know different people were making these it's  

in two different restaurants I'm guessing they  they probably made it they wouldn't make like two  

different ones in the same restaurant I'm guessing  uh but uh yes sometimes the police it's typically  

we don't really get many police sirens over here  but uh usually it's some kind of ambulance or  

something around here Le says Hi teacher I'm now  studying about slave African people that came to  

Brazil about 500 years ago that's interesting uh  let's see just ju oh no there are no spaces in  

this name just just a rando just a random Channel  okay that's what that means uh are there two T's  

in the word settle pronounced as 2DS it's just  one it's two T's but it's pronounced like sedle  

we call that like just a flap te you basically  pronounce it very slightly in American English  

so British English it would be like settle settle  but American English it's settle with a D sound  

just a slight D sound settle panacota is good  yes that's another uh that's probably my second  

favorite Italian dessert you know that's the one  thing I love Japan but the food you know I like  

Japanese food but like if I was living in Italy  I think I would I would like it even more so of  

the different kinds of food I enjoy Italian is  probably my my favorite like I like Italian and  

like Thai food I like Thai food a lot uh Jefferson  from Miami and Hong says good morning teacher have  

a great day Meg says good morning from brail  and San says I need a friend to speak with so  

I already answered this you don't need a friend  to speak with you really just need to get lots  

of examples and it's very very easy to do that now  with YouTube and podcasts and there's no shortage  

of information so there's lots of examples of  native English about anything you would like to  

learn and it's very easy to find it so that's  how I got fluent in Japanese I wasn't waiting  

around for people to like come be my friend and  talk with me and even if you do have that you're  

really just repeating the vocabulary you already  know so it's a much better thing if you want to  

level up your vocabulary you actually have to  learn new things just like kind of training a  

muscle you have to stretch that muscle in order  to make it bigger stronger so you do have to do  

the same thing uh for learning vocabulary so  don't worry about finding people to speak with  

uh it's going to be a much better use of your time  just to get lots of good examples and then if you  

find people to speak with then you certainly  can uh bnie says good morning from Uganda and  

Lewis again from Brazil Leo and uh bellotas I  don't know where that is maybe that's in Brazil  

also Hammond says hello oh wow there for three  weeks in Germany hopefully it's going well though  

and abisedrin says you are teaching a teacher  well hello Jose says hi kitty kitty k says hello  

teacher Drew Ohio goas wait did you say Ohio goas  go uh let's see there's many people here today as  

well is this okay yes you would say that is like  w wow there's there's a lot of people here there's  

a lot of people here you will hear native say  that yes very good uh and so again I wouldn't  

write that so when you're writing you do have time  to uh to think and okay is this correct grammar or  

not you should take your time to do that but  when you're speaking you will hear natives  

using shorter incorrect versions of the language  because nobody cares people are just uh typically  

in conversational English they're trying to  communicate faster and uh communicate information  

without spending a lot of time or saying any  extra things uh let's see AB says a calzone is  

a good try it's soon to a czone Oh you mean like  a like the like the Italian calzone is that what  

you mean uh but yeah I'm a fan of those too if  that's what you're talking about all right uh  

she if I'm pronouncing that correctly hi teacher  I'll be studying in the UK from September do you  

have any advice for people going to an English  speaking country for the first time um I would  

just learn about I would like watch videos about  that thing on YouTube whatever it is your interest  

Ed in uh and you will know a lot about the country  or you know you're going to the UK maybe you can  

find I don't know where specifically you're going  but if you're learning about London or uh I don't  

know wherever particular place you can be you can  watch videos on YouTube that talk about that and  

so you can learn all about things before you even  get there so the kinds of food or the places to go  

or the people or the accents they have but again  the more training you get with those accents it's  

almost like training AI you give yourself lots  of input and that's what's going to help you  

understand something better rather than you trying  to say a lot of things by yourself but that's how  

I would prepare for going to a different country  uh make says uh botas is in Brazil okay gotcha  

poos hi from talagante Chile nice to see you there  pardon me as I as I get my kind of Spanish accent  

I just like to to say that let's see uh an AB  says secret of your Fitness my fitness like  

physical fitness uh I I wish I had like a good  secret for physical fitness I I actually don't  

feel very fit I I need to like you know not eat so  much tiar missu I think now I need to get more fit  

uh but the only thing I do uh usually I wake  up and just do some exercising in my room and  

that's that's it I don't go to a gym uh or yeah  I don't I don't actually I don't even even play  

any sports right now but that's it so I just do  it's all calisthenic stuff so Calis let me write

this uh I think it's c a l e s t  h e calisthenic if I'm pronouncing  

that there might be let me check  that before I tell you the wrong

thing oh that's an i excuse me just trying to  remember what so call ethics is where you're  

using uh like body weight training uh and so like  I'm just doing pull-ups or push-ups or whatever I  

it's just using my own body weight for resistance  so I could go to a gym but I don't really feel  

like taking the time and it's I can just do that  at home so I have a uh like a free standing uh  

parallel bar like a just a bar I can do pull-ups  and things like that uh let's see Leo says the  

flat te sound in Brazil one of our Brazilian R  sound yep AB says uh you make me hungry when you  

talk about Italian food is very delay yes it is  I wish I could have some now like I usually don't  

get TI misu for breakfast so that that's part of  the secret to my fitness also is not eating TI  

misu for breakfast because it is quite Rich you  know you got some cream and I think marscapone  

cheese or something in there very tasty though  okay says uh sorry uh typo okay goas and so I  

thought you were just being very polite like oh  goas goas cuz I I will I will kind of make jokes  

like that in Japanese sometimes for people uh  C is back what animal you oh you could say what  

animal did you draw this is called a Kabuto  Mushi or a I don't even know the name of it  

in English I think let me check let me check that  too before I tell you some wrong information uh

let me see it should be like a rhinoceros  beetle yes I am correct about that so a  

rhinoceros like a like a regular rhinoceros if  I draw that one I'm not going to draw that one  

very well I'll just do it quickly here  uh so a regular rhinoceros has usually  

one or two horns up here a rhino uh and so a  rhinoceros beetle is the same kind of thing a

beetle a beetle and again here just like I use  the word settle so you're hearing me when with  

I'm not really pronouncing the T here it sounds  more like a d so a British British pronunciation  

would be Beetle like The Beetles like the the  band The Beetles The Beetles but I just say  

beetle beetle with a D sound Beetle so this is  a rhinoceros beetle uh it's it's probably one  

of my best drawings on these YouTube videos uh  let's see uh and then than thanks a lot uh let's  

see Luciano says hey y'all and H says hi I'm  from Iran it's 5:00 a.m. here I really enjoy  

watching your videos they are really useful for  me glad to hear it if you enjoy the videos do  

click the like button and share the videos with  anyone else also let me know what specifically  

you like about them so I can do more of that so  people often say they like the videos but they  

don't specifically say why so let me know why  and let new word learned thank you yep glad to  

hear Alejandra says I wish you could have the  chance to travel to bolognia in Italy and eat  

the lasagna al la bolog yeah it would be nice  yeah I'll get to Italy at some point I've been  

there a few years ago uh and I'll never forget  that flavor and I'm from buenos SAR wow yes so  

now you guys are making me very excited about  about getting to Italy I don't know if we have  

anybody uh in the chat now from Italy but if you  have recommendations about places too I would like  

to check it out uh and I've got thank says G Abdu  says uh to be honest I learned lots of things of  

you teacher you have good ways to explain thanks  for your efforts glad to hear Bruno nice to see  

you there hey Drew I'm happy I could make it for  your live stream welcome ABDO again but you bad  

when you draw teacher you have to learn how to  draw yes uh again I don't want to take time and  

and like draw a really nice picture but maybe  I will surprise you all one day and take time  

to draw a really beautiful picture of something  and then you can say wow he's actually an amazing  

artist but but he was just pretending to be bad  Leo says in Portuguese how is this animal called  

I have no idea well you can you can look it up  look up rhinoceros beetle uh the Japanese is

Kao Mushi so if you look up Kabuto Mushi  that's the Japanese name for it so Kabuto  

now like when you look at Samurai you've seen a  Samurai helmet they usually have these kind of  

big like horn things like

Samurai I some interesting kind of kind  of helmet like that but before I came to  

Japan I didn't really know Kabuto musi was  a thing in uh in Japan so Mushi means bug

Mushi uh and like when I when I saw that I was  like wow look at that like people like the the  

samurai actually had a kind of helmet like like  these kind of beetles so I don't know the history  

of that but I think that's probably where it comes  from because they both have a the this this kind  

of helmet is also called kabo uh anyway it just  means like a horned kind of helmet thing that you  

have uh but it's a rhinocerus beetle in English  and they're they're probably different uh escaro  

I don't know if that's is that the name of it uh  I don't know if that's the name of that Beetle or  

not but it is it's just a type of beetle uh well  I don't know I'm not going to try to aeno Renos  

seron in Portuguese is it that's a rhinoceros  I don't know what that I mean that sounds like  

it would just be the the name so Rhino means like  nose or Rhino like people get nose surgery that's  

called rhinoplasty get nose surgery all right and  let's see Mr p ps PSO oh you guys are talking to  

each other hiker fans says hello everyone and  I don't know yeah just Google Google that and  

look for a look for a picture of it you can see  uh what it looks like but it's pretty pretty it  

kind of I mean it looks like this and also it's  got It's got big wings and so it can fly uh when  

it's you know the Wings come out like that  I'm not drawing it very well obviously but it  

actually has some pretty big wings and it can it  can fly around pretty cool insect but little kids  

love to go out and catch those things uh you can  watch national uh geography by Portuguese that's  

true yes like National Geographic so Beatles  is the same Beetle well beetle is like b e a t  

the the band name b e a t l s so they're they're  making a kind of pun on the word so Beetle it's  

the animal is with two e's and the and the band  beetles with his EA so like a beat like the drum  

beat the beat so the Beatles it's kind of a joke  uh hi teacher says n nice to see you there and I  

have learned this animal name years ago glad  to hear can you say dend der is it mean good  

morning dend do I think I've heard that before  uh it it means good morning in Poland but I'm  

probably not saying it correctly zen zen zen  I think it's like zen zen Zeno zeny something  

like that and there's another I think language  that says that I was in Poland many years ago  

uh let's see RL says have you ever heard about  Koji kabo from mazing no it sounds like an anime  

but no I I do not I don't know what that is n  says hello from Vietnam so that's the es carbajo  

in Spanish that's the name of that Beetle that's  interesting it sounds like escargo like the snail  

in French uh let's see I'd already forget yes  if you don't remember what it is but like all  

Japanese kids know what that M with that uh that  bug is C Machine jungle boy hey Drew uh is writing  

essays helpful to become more fluent in English uh  not necessarily but it could help you know there  

are lots of things you could do to get fluent in  English but the key is can they destroy the doubts  

you have about you know whatever pronunciation  grammar that kind of thing so that's really the  

key so anything else at at the at the heart of  learning and this was really the the big secret  

that got me fluent is just I needed to destroy  the doubt so when I when I thought about why I was  

struggling to learn uh it wasn't where I lived or  how many hours I practiced or even how many I how  

many people I tried to speak with because it was  just the doubt and so whatever you do you could  

be reading books watching podcasts watching videos  I mean listening to podcasts whatever uh any way  

that you might be trying to improve your fluency  if it doesn't destroy the doubts you have if it  

doesn't make the language more understandable  then it's not going to help you speak fluently so  

an essay could do that if you're writing an essay  maybe you have to research for that and you learn  

about it and you practice writing yeah that could  probably help you and if you feel more fluent and  

confident like you understand something better  after you do it then yes like that could actually  

be a good way to improve your fluency so think  about that that really the the thing that actually  

stops people from speaking is the doubts whatever  those doubts are about uh you know pronunciation  

or grammar or am I using the right word correctly  it's those kinds of things that will stop you from  

speaking so this is why it doesn't matter where  you live I know people today in Japan who have  

been living here longer than I have so they've  been here for like 30 years or 40 years and they  

still can't speak Japanese very well so being in  Japan is not like a magical thing just like living  

in the United States is not a magical thing that  gets you fluent the thing that gets you fluent is  

destroying the doubts that stop you from speaking  all right so anytime you're asking me like do I  

recommend this thing or that thing whatever it's  just destroying the doubt all right uh let's see  

uh and Wes says there is an old series uh Japan  cartoon his name Grand grandizer grander one of  

the characters name K well there you go too  polite version go go there you go the to demo  

polite version Leo says how fuchsia is called in  English isn't that uh or F fuss or you're talking  

about a different I don't know what that is uh but  look it up I I don't know use Google I I have no  

idea that like the names of bugs in Portuguese or  Spanish or whatever uh but it's interesting I know  

now some like more things the names of them in  Japanese than I do in English cuz I just I didn't  

know what they were uh is the Japanese hard to  learn and what other what are difficult what are  

difficult English or Japanese teacher let me read  that again is there is the Japanese hard to learn  

and what are difficult English or Japanese teacher  I don't know what that means are you asking if  

the Japanese language is hard to learn uh it was  hard to learn when I was learning it as a second  

language and that means trying to understand the  grammar by uh like remembering grammar tables and  

doing Gap filling exercises and things like that  that made the language harder because it created  

more doubt for me but once I started learning uh  in a way that actually helped me make the language  

understandable then the language became quite easy  to learn now the tricky thing for me at the moment  

is learning kanji so I gave you an example before  uh about like Mushi so this is the uh Japanese  

character for bug or insect uh and so learning  things like this there are thousands of these  

characters it's much easier in English because you  only have 26 letters well you got 26 lowercase and  

26 uppercase letters to learn and it's much  easier to once you understand the phonics and  

the different rules of the sounds you can get  a a newspaper or something and read the whole  

thing and understand maybe not all of it but at  least you can read what the words are saying but  

in Japanese it's much more difficult so if I don't  know all of the characters for a newspaper article  

or something then I can't understand everything  about I can understand some of it but I could read  

something and there might be one character I don't  know like ah what does that mean now I'm stuck so  

it's it's just much more difficult uh for learning  the written language that way but in terms of  

learning to speak I haven't found a language  that I've thought was uh like more difficult  

than any other language because across every group  of people the children all learn those languages  

at the same rate so there are four-year-old  Japanese children that speak Japanese really  

well they're four-year-old Chinese children  that speak Chinese really well and same thing  

with English or Portuguese or French or whatever  and again there's nothing about the language that  

would make it difficult to speak but you do have  things like writing that make it more difficult  

one language versus another but speaking is uh  it's not that not that different if you learn  

it as a first language so that's what I do here  for for anybody new what we do on this channel is  

help people understand English as a first language  and that means you're really connecting with the  

language well you're understanding everything in  English and then trying to learn it the same way  

a native would and I know a lot of people believe  they can't learn a language that way uh but if  

you go back and watch my videos I'm just giving  you lots of examples of how vocabulary works and  

showing that you that you can actually understand  that the same way a native does and so if you can  

understand a language directly it's much easier  to speak it because you don't have to think about  

translations or grammar rules when you speak you  just use the language automatically uh let's see  

and C says fun fact uh T-Rex is actually a chicken  ancestor yeah I've heard that yeah yeah that birds  

are birds are the descendants of dinosaurs jungle  boy say says thanks a lot Drew very cool glad to  

hear it hiker fans is there a term to say  my name in one word hiker fan uh like a fan  

of hiking someone who enjoys hiking uh in English  you mean like another way to say that I don't know  

like a way to say hiker fan I don't know or is  there something different you mean by that Samir  

says uh something looks like uh that I can't read  Louis says it's a car ah f fusa fusa means car or  

is that a or that's a kind of car but I don't know  use Google for that if you're asking me what like  

what some Portuguese word means or whatever then  uh then I wouldn't be able to help you exactly  

destroy the doubt it seems I found listening to a  podcast do the magic for me yes and so you could  

listen to a podcast and that would help but  I would also watch something read something  

else that the point is to get all these different  examples and then that gets you fluent in the same  

way that a native is getting lots of different uh  examples as well all right and uh let's see so all  

right you guys are talking with each other I guess  pad says are you still learning Japanese what do  

you do now after living or after having reached  fluency when you have a doubt or you feel stuck  

when speaking to someone uh so yeah that's a good  question so I'm continuing to learn Japanese and  

especially most of my learning time now is more  uh just learning kanji so that's these Chinese  

characters uh that are used in written Japanese  so Japanese has three different written languages  

not including English that's sometimes used uh  but I know that language already and so yes I'm  

continuing to learn most of my time is spent doing  that and if I'm in a conversation where I don't  

understand something I typically don't have the  same kind of doubts I did when years ago I didn't  

I just like couldn't understand any anything in my  mind would go blank I have a lot more control over  

myself now because I understand the language a lot  better and so if I don't understand something I'm  

actually much more comfortable now asking someone  oh what does that mean like oh I I've not heard  

that word before or like could you explain that  and so sometimes people might like they're like oh  

like like you understood this word but maybe you  didn't understand that word and it's fine you know  

nobody nobody's arguing with me about that they're  trying to have a conversation with me and so like  

if I'm talking with my accountant in Japanese  I'll just say oh what is this term or something  

uh and if I can't just Google it by myself but  again like typically I'm I'm trying to use that  

in the conversation if there's something I don't  understand or I if I don't have time or or if I'm  

watching a TV show I'll just look it up just try  to get the definition of that thing uh let's see  

and Sergio says hello baby I love watch you you  would say I love watching you or you could say I  

love to watch you Meg says maybe Japanese is more  difficult to learn because you have to learn hiana  

kakana and kanji yes so the written language is  more difficult and uh regular school instruction  

for kids they spend I think 12 years trying to  learn all of the Kani it's like 2000 2000 kanji I  

think and the tricky thing about the kanji is like  like this could be uh like Mushi by itself or it  

could be like kchu like I'm I'm talking like using  the word insect so it even has different readings  

depending on the situation so you're learning the  the how to write the kanji as well as how to read  

it and you're taking all those and you you start  combining these with different things and it it  

changes the reading of it so it gets much more  complex and a lot more complex than English and  

the sound rules of English uh but if you're just  learning talking about speaking by itself little  

kids learn how to speak and they can already  speak quite well even before they're learning any

kanaji uh maybe I okay here we go Lou says  in Brazil I guess named Beetle when release  

a new version I thought it was discontinuing  oh you're talking about the car the beetle like  

the Volkswagen Beetle that's a different thing I  was talking about the insect but yes if you mean  

the capital capitalized Beetle that's what you're  talking about but verb conjugation is much easier  

in Japanese than uh in English or Portuguese yeah  it's I mean it's it's yeah I guess it is easier  

there are fewer uh irregular verbs which is nice  and yeah you can like the sentence patterns are  

are quite they're quite easy Once you once  you start figuring it out uh but it's much  

easier if you learn it in Japanese rather than  trying to learn it through English or Portuguese  

or whatever your your native language is uh Louis  says or go yes you just Google that there you go  

Leo says I already looked up okay you guys are  talking to each other still ABDO says so example  

when you watch TV by Japanese sometimes when you  focus with it's just heard or without subtitle  

you understand it or you have to read to help  you more yeah so I will watch Japanese TV shows  

and and not understand every word sometimes  I do sometimes I do not you know um but uh  

uh if I do or if I can't hear something clearly  like a speaker is not pronouncing words very  

clearly subtitles can help me as well just to  see what the person is saying and I'll say oh  

look at that like that person he was saying that  like if I'm listening to music music can often  

be difficult so I'll look at the lyrics of the  song to understand what it is but natives will  

make mistakes with with those things too people  will mishear something so not hear it correctly  

what Cano is back hey Drew maybe you should ask  your wife to make a TI misu for you yeah TI misu  

is is kind of a pain to make it so it's nice  if you can go to a hotel or a restaurant and  

get it that way uh but yes if you can get  a good one I have made TI missu before uh  

I've actually I made a pretty good one actually  but it it it takes a l a lot of time to make at  

least it took a l a long time for me or just  make it together I do think uh it's going to  

be hard to make it by the way tiu sounds like a  Japanese word to me yeah it it does sound a little  

but uh many Japanese people know the word  it's a popular dessert here especially at  

Italian restaurants I learned Japanese through  English but my native language is Portuguese uh  

Gill says this is the first time I'm watching  you live well welcome to the program and esset  

says sir is there you'd say are there any tips  you could offer regarding how to organize my  

thoughts when speaking English I can safely say  that I have a good grasp of the language but I  

tend to talk too much uh to my convey oh like  yeah and so I understand what you're saying um  

you should watch i' I've made some videos already  about about how to organize things how to organize  

sentences when you speak maybe I can make some  more I guess uh but the basic idea is that you're  

uh you're focusing on a particular like me when  I'm doing these videos there's a particular point  

I want to make but there could be many different  ways I could say it and I try not to say more  

than I need to unless it seems like people need  more examples or whatever to understand something  

so you want to express what's the shortest and  easiest way to do something whatever the the goal  

is for the communication sometimes you actually  want to speak longer or Express something in  

a more interesting way like you would describe  something in a novel or something like that so  

you have to think about matching the communication  to the people you're speaking to and so if you're  

an author writing in a book that's a different way  of communicating than you would be talking to some  

local person in an everyday conversation but you  just want to match that whatever that person is  

for that situation all right uh but specifically  about getting organizing thoughts as you speak I  

made a video I forget the name of it but the the  thumbnail image has a a little chain link at the  

bottom of it uh where it's talking about being  able to connect sentences as you speak inform  

sentences uh fluently uh daen do is a Russian  meaning good afternoon or good day oh look at  

that I guess maybe they use the same thing there  uh AB says for me I have some difficulty when so  

you would say I have some difficulty difficulty  when I try to watch a TV show without subtitles  

by English but when I read books I find books  easier than watching movies or series yes  

and so a book would typically be easier because  the the word is clearly written there but in  

regular movies or TV shows people are not speaking  clearly you know that that's the same reason  

people can understand me well but maybe they  don't understand others who are not speaking  

clearly so I'm making an effort to be clear and  understandable all right so it's okay to watch uh  

movies or TV shows with subtitles and as you get  better you will get an ear we will say uh to get

to get an ear for something it just means you're  getting used to that that speech whatever that  

is so to get an ear for something so when I  first came to Japan the speech was very hard  

for me to understand and people are speaking in  a much different way than people in regular like  

exercises in a in a textbook would speak and  so I need to get an ear for Native Japanese  

by listening to lots of native Japanese all  right same thing you need to do in English  

s says thank you sir and ilar says well how's  it going Drew it's going all right nice to see  

everybody here well let's see how long have  we been going well I think about an hour and  

me now says finally I am catching your live  I really like the way you are teaching you  

would say the way you are teaching or like uh  the way you teach you can say both of those  

remember the name Tatiana uh It Was Written in  Russian as well yes so I'm no Russian expert  

I only remember a little bit so I have been  to Russia before as well many years ago uh  

but yeah but try trying to learn that maybe I can  I can try to pick up some more uh cilic uh in the  

future Al along with Italian so I can learn my  Italian and ordered tiramisu in in an Italian  

restaurant I think that would be pretty cool  anyway uh I think that's the end of this video  

we've covered this I just wanted to give some  very simple vocabulary lessons uh if you have  

specific questions and you'd like to learn more  you can click on the links in the description  

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about grammar rules that kind of thing so that's  what we train you to do the influent for life so  

you can click on the link to learn more about that  and I'll see you probably Thursday I think if I'm  

not taking another vacation all right have a  great day and I'll see you next time bye-bye