How To Feel Confident And Certain When Speaking English

all right let's see if we get live as usual I  am Drew Badger the founder of englishanyone.com  

and the English fluency guide welcome to another  live video here on YouTube uh looks like people  

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pardon me I still have kind of a sore throat  what look at George right there George you must  

live on YouTube how you're always here like right  nice to see Tom there again it's been a while Tom  

nice to see you hopefully everybody's doing well  uh I wanted to make this video because we get I  

free Palestine right yep yep uh I'm sure we're  going to have uh no political discussion here  

on the channel so be careful uh I know everybody  wants to support you know their sides in various  

you know conflicts or whatever uh but we'll save  it for uh for other venues uh anyway hopefully  

everybody is doing well uh I wanted to make  this video and just talk with everybody about  

speaking confidence like I usually do uh and talk  really specifically about how this develops with  

some examples from my own life and teaching my  own kids uh and I thought I would also answer  

a question I received from from a member of  fluent for life and so we'll answer all of  

those in this video uh so when talking about  speaking confidence in fluency the basic idea  

is that confidence and fluency really they come  from how well you understand the language so it's  

not understanding a little bit and then trying to  force yourself to remember things uh or trying to  

like practice them by yourself and repeat things  until you can say them again and again and again  

really we just want to feel like we really really  understand something and that's when we start

speaking so I thought uh it was interesting a  couple maybe two nights ago I was just at home and  

my uh my family we were just watching some TV show  and there was a thing about trick art trick art

trick trick art now trick art these  are um like we can often call these  

op iCal Illusions so an optical optical  illusion Like Your Eyes Optical optical

illusion an optical illusion like when you see  something and it looks like it's far away but  

it's actually right in front of you something  like that well look at that Nils is here nice  

to see you again uh so this was just a a  TV show about that but when Arya my older  

daughter Arya heard trick art so she did didn't  know what trick art was she just heard the TV  

show they're talking about like this show  is going to be about trick art she doesn't  

know what that is but this word it triggered in  her ah that sounds like Halloween like trick or

treat so what you notice very quickly especially  with kids is they're making connections between  

things and they're looking for patterns in  the language and this is is what gives them  

the certainty to understand words and grammar  and pronunciation so when they hear something  

like oh look at that trick like I've heard that  word before I think I know what that means trick  

and then we've got so trick art and trick or  treat so trick like a magic trick and all of  

these things mean like we're going to do something  interesting or something funny that it's going to  

mess with us in some way or it's going to surprise  us or something like that so this uh actually saw  

this at a local Starbucks they were explaining to  people what trick-or treat means if you don't know  

what this is oh people going like little kids they  dress up on Halloween in the United States and  

they go from door to door in their neighborhood  and they ask people for candy and they say Trick  

or Treat so the idea is that if you if you give me  a treat I will not like trick you or do something  

bad I won't you know throw I don't know toilet  paper at your house or whatever people do and so  

we have trick or treat and then ARA knew about  trick or treat already but if if a child just  

hears the phrase like trick or treat they might  not really be thinking okay I understand what  

that means especially young kids they just repeat  that phrase trick-or treat trick or treat but they  

don't really often know what what a word means  and so when they hear something again they think  

oh look at that we've got trick or treat we've  got trick art another example of something and  

so here it's like my mind is playing tricks on me  so this is another expression my mind like to play

tricks so My Mind is Playing Tricks on Me My Mind  is Playing Tricks on Me So if you see something  

like wow I thought I thought I saw someone uh  but actually that person died two years ago  

or something My Mind is Playing Tricks on Me  My Mind is Playing Tricks on Me but the point  

is uh we don't we don't become more confident  and fluent about individual words and phrases  

so we won't feel confident about using these in  conversations just by hearing them one time and  

if you hear them maybe you hear them one time uh  you might think you understand what something is  

and sometimes you do often we will you know we  will get an example or something and we really  

understand something but uh a lot of times we  do not so we hear something and really it's  

uh again more and more examples of something  and that's really what builds the confidence  

and and fluency that allows us to speak so if you  want to feel confident and certain when you speak  

how you learn is very important it's really the  most important thing hopefully this makes sense  

uh I want to give one more example before I talk  about uh this other question that I got from a  

fluent for life member in just a minute but I'll  check back and look at chat right quick make sure  

nice to see everybody there everybody's doing  well Diego finally made it to the live of this  

channel welcome welcome remember you don't need  to be here live to get the benefit of the lessons  

the videos it's all the same content it's just  if you have questions it's nice uh if you ask  

them uh but it's again the same content even if  you miss it so we always make these live videos  

available so anybody can watch them later all  right greetings from Colombia let's see Regina  

Ice see you from Brazil and Anna there let's  see Viet let's see hello from Vietnam Liz hello  

everyone and Charles from Korea another person  from Korea Aubrey from Korea look at that from  

Kenya I like to watch live and also later okay  well that's great enjoy the live video if you  

like it live let's see uh Pon if I'm pronouncing  that correctly from Thailand Thailand has a lot of  

interesting names especially for like thinking  about like someone from the United States Russ  

from s Siberia wow look at that and Eileen from  Puerto Rico nice to see you there all right but  

hopefully everybody gets this idea very basic the  fluency really comes from how well you understand  

something so that gives you the confidence to  use something in a conversation all right if  

you don't have confidence if you don't really  know what something means you won't use it all  

right so this is often why people are learning  things they know a lot but they actually don't  

feel confident using more than basic things  in conversations so people will often only  

speak simply like they will just say yes yes or no  even though they understand a lot so I had a few  

interesting conversations with people I went to a  Thanksgiving party actually yesterday and quite a  

few International people here in Nagasaki and uh  one of my friends uh his wife was asking me like  

hey can you teach me some English so his wife uh  actually she's from uh Persia I think from Iran  

um well she speaks Persian she speaks Turkish as  well he speaks Turkish too um but she was asking  

me like how to help her learn and also to help  their son because now he's learning like Persian  

and Turkish and English and Japanese and he and  he kind of confuses all these things together so  

I was telling her like kind of these things  number one you really should be focusing on  

a particular thing I guess it's possible to help  someone learn multiple languages but you really  

should help people learn one language in that  language okay so rather than like using uh Persian  

to teach Japanese or something you should be able  to especially with a child teach them the language  

within the language itself and as adults we should  be learning the same way uh is there someone from  

Japan here in the chat uh let's see it might be  a little bit early there might be some people uh  

who are watching but occasionally we get viewers  in Japan Anna I see there H I love the way you  

teach hoping to learn more from San Francisco well  nice to see you there Anna if you have specific  

questions do let me know let's see Darlington  in Zimbabwe look at that I think we have every  

continent represented we just need someone from  Antarctica I guess all nice to see you thanks  

so much for the lessons it's my pleasure all  right so one more quick example before I answer  

this question from a fluent for life member uh so  this was another example where I was talking with  

my daughter do you guys know what this uh this  bone is in your let's see this is going to be a  

bad picture over here so here's a a person uh and  I'm just going to draw like the this is supposed  

to be like your bones in here so we're going to  put little little arm bone here and the finger

bones so these are these are supposed to be your  bones over here and you got rib rib bones over  

here I'm not going to draw this very well I want  to do this very quickly yes these are these are  

all bones they are supposed to be this is not  a very good skull like you should draw like a  

skull like this I don't know something like  that or that's a skull so this is a skeleton  

a skeleton uh and this bone here your back bone  your backbone back bone so this uh the bone here  

for your back this is called does anyone know  what this is like the the doctor the clinical  

definition the scientific or way you would go if  you you go to the doctor's office they talk about  

this bone that goes up your up your back what  is this called yes so this is supposed to be a  

skeleton I'm actually a very great yes George  has it exactly so we've got a spine and so I  

was talking with uh yes if you enjoy my drawings  that's great you should get my book I actually  

have a book with much much nicer drawings in it  but yes so this is your spine your spine your  

spine has a bunch of little bones in it called  vertebrae vertebrae vertebrae uh you can I don't  

want to go too deep into this but the point is  I was teaching my daughters so both of them Noel  

and AR I was teaching them about some some bones  they liked you know looking at like anatomy books  

y so spine Martha has got it as well so what's  interesting so you hear a word like spine and  

the first time you hear it it's just okay that's  the name of this uh the name of this bone or this  

this series of Bones over here and if you hear  another example a related example so we look at  

this it's kind of like this middle bone here  connecting everything in the body and so if  

we take another example uh this is going to be a  slightly uh better drawing here kind of so this is  

a book A book right here and what's interesting I  was EXP explaining to my daughters we also have so  

this is a spine right here and this is the spine  of a book isn't that interesting so we call this  

a spine so this is your spine the spine of your  body and this part here the middle part of the  

book that holds the whole thing together is also  called The Spine of the book so if you if you open  

a book really wide you open it kind of too far  you can crack the spine the book just like you  

crack the spine of your back all right yes so  does a book have a spine yes and so like it's  

not a bunch of little bones in here but this  is the hard part that connects these kind of  

soft Parts on the outside of the book all right  so isn't that interesting it functions the same  

way and this is how we learn new vocabulary and  native speakers are learning like this they hear  

usually one example now it doesn't matter like  you might hear this example first and then this  

example or maybe you hear this example first and  then this example all right so it's the the order  

is not important the point point is that we have  these different examples and it's the different  

examples that help us connect a pattern so if we  just get one example of something this is this  

is why when people tell jokes they are usually in  threes so you need at least like three different  

examples to create a joke so if we have the first  example I think I gave this example years ago but  

but there was a like the movie it was like the  Disney uh Beauty and the Beast movie and so in  

this this is a a typical three kind of thre part  structure of a joke and the reason we need three  

parts is because we need to create a pattern  and then we need to break that pattern and  

that's usually what makes something funny so in  in this joke in the in Beauty and the Beast one  

character was saying well what can I do or I think  the Beast he was saying like what can I do for for  

Belle so what can I do something nice for her and  then the little clock guy he said well you can  

give her flowers so that was the first example so  you can give her flowers second thing he said was

chocolate all right so here we've got a pattern  of things developing so here's like a nice thing  

you could give to a girl here's another nice thing  you could give to a girl and then the joke comes  

we're going to take take that pattern and break  it so you might assume okay maybe we're going to  

I don't know take her out to dinner or something  like that so that's not funny it's just a list of  

different things you could do so what the guy the  little clock guy says he says oh you could give  

her flowers you could give her chocolates and then  the third one is or you could give her promises  

you don't intend to keep and I still remember  that even watching that as a little a little kid  

so so often like you know you tell women things  but you don't like keep the promise or whatever  

that's the joke so you could give her flowers or  you could give her chocolate or you could give  

her promises you don't intend to [Laughter] keep  and you know Disney Disney is kind of funny like  

that they'll put in things that you know we say  it goes over the heads of kids like they don't  

quite understand it like they'll hear a joke and  they're wondering why adults are laughing but the  

kids don't really get it so those jokes are more  for adults uh but I just thought that was funny  

anyway anyway the way the human brain works the  reason jokes are often this is because we're  

for patterns we are pattern recognizing machines  and so when we know something is going to happen  

then we feel confident like ah yes I I recognize  something and I'm prepared for it so I know what's  

going to happen and this is why people like native  speakers can often finish each other's sentences  

so someone might be saying something and another  person is able to complete that sentence because  

we recognize the pattern so what I'm showing  here I'm just giving examples like the earlier  

one about trick or treat so we're talking about  the different examples of tricking something or  

learning the different uses of the word spine  how we might have this backbone here being a  

spine but this also being a spine over here okay  so as we compare and contrast things this is how  

we build speaking confidence and fluency so now  if you look at this it's like oh wow you feel  

much better you feel much more confident oh look  at that like the spine of a book The Spine of my  

body and as you get more examples these just  help you again feel more confident and fluent  

so be you again you develop the confidence and  fluency before you speak so right now you're not  

speaking with me you're just listening to what I'm  saying uh maybe you write a comment but you're not  

actually having a conversation with me but again  the point is you feel confident so when you're  

in a conversation the words will come out okay  hopefully that makes sense let me go back and  

check chat uh and then I'll answer this uh this  question this should be an interesting one all  

right uh let's see yep all right so all right I  think we got some I think I answered those already  

uh Marcio how to use get uh is so trick you mean  tricky Like It's Tricky it's difficult to use it  

how to know the time to use it uh to substitute  some words in English uh Marcel if you look on my  

channel for the word get you will see some videos  with that uh also influent for life we cover that  

so that's in the whole uh visual guide to phrasal  verbs as well as specific lesson sets that cover  

that so we teach you how to understand words  like get like a native so I have covered this  

before you can just check the channel for that  and you will see more examples uh let's see so  

I feel confident but not certain say Red Army Red  how to overcome that problem well why are you why  

are you uncertain you have to think about what  is the cause of that so why are you uncertain  

about something and I guess the more interesting  question is how can you be both confident and  

uncertain so you CU I mean really they they go  together it's kind of like it's one one thing so  

if you have it would be hard to be confident  I mean you could kind of feel confident but  

still uncertain about your vocabulary I guess you  could feel that way but typically these are going  

together uh but most people are unconfident and  uncertain about their vocabulary because of how  

they learn it so they usually get like a single  example of something and try to repeat it again  

and again or maybe they just they're trying to  study something and understand it logically but  

not get enough examples to really like feel  really understand the difference I'm going to  

give you an example of that today uh after I go  through these comments but that's basically the  

idea so we want to really understand something  very well so we feel confident using that thing  

and so the confidence really goes along with uh  you know the the certainty that we get before we  

speak so if we're if we're in a conversation  and we don't feel certain about vocabulary  

or pronunciation or something then we won't use  that thing we will we will naturally try to find  

something different or easier or something like  that uh but do check the channel you will find  

more examples of that uh let's see and L says how  does the use of varying vocabulary levels impact  

our fluency when conveying the same meaning uh  Liz if you have a specific example that's a good  

question uh but again when you say like the use  of different vocabulary levels impacting fluency  

like the the fluency doesn't change depending on  what level like if you're using a more basic word  

rather than a more advanced word word uh that  wouldn't really matter uh it's more about how  

well you use any vocabulary rather than can you  not use it at all so if you have basic vocabulary  

and you can use that fluently the like the way  children can so often children are speaking you  

watch like yesterday at this Halloween or excuse  me Thanksgiving party I was at um there were kids  

there and they were speaking some basic things but  speaking very well so they weren't using you know  

uh like more difficult academic vocabulary  or things like that but they were speaking  

fluently so your ability to speak and the kind of  vocabulary you use are not really connected it's  

just how well uh you can enjoy or you know feel  confident about using what you know so if there  

if there are more difficult things that you don't  know then don't feel bad about not using them you  

should just learn to understand those things  better and then you can work those into the  

conversation I guess the only difference is if  you need English for academic or some kind of  

higher level professional use and you have trouble  understanding more difficult things then you just  

need more practice with those kind of like uh  We've shown you already but I'll I'll give you  

some more examples in a minute uh let's see here  what Koo is here good morning from Japan there  

you go nice to see another Japanese learner over  here all right hopefully you guys are getting it  

so Regina talking about parts of the body yes so  connect a pattern got it so this is again working  

with the machine that you have so your brain is a  pattern recognizing machine so you can try to give  

it information to to like remember like a list  of things but it's really difficult for us to do  

that if we don't organize it like this so we have  to create some kind of pattern or make some kind  

of connection that allows us to understand things  Simon says I a beginner in English I hear but I  

cannot speak how do you help me to speak easily  well Simon you just have to understand better  

that's really all you have to do so you don't have  to be I'm sure people are not really beginners  

here they might call themselves beginners but  anybody watching on my channel is probably not  

a beginner all right so Liz again says this is  especially true when conversing with someone  

and they inquire about a word I've used that  they don't understand oh like if you're talking  

about you like if you use a more advanced word  that someone doesn't know well yeah that's not  

a that's not really a fluency issue that's just  a knowledge issue so I could be talking talking  

with my kids and I use some vocabulary they don't  know and that has nothing to do with my fluency or  

you know their fluency it's just they don't know  that particular vocabulary let's see here oh my

goodness all

right uh Adrian says I am a native Spanish speaker  I'm still having problems saying the word she ah I  

always say sh [ __ ] that's right uh but I can  say spreadsheet or Excel sheet with no issues  

I feel frustrated with that word that's really  interesting but that's a common thing actually  

uh when people will be able to say one thing  and by itself or like they can't use it but  

they can say it with something else but that's a  good way to practice it you might try practicing  

it in your head like in your head say spread  and then sheet sheet sheet sheet so I'm I'm  

saying spreadsheet and if that will help you  uh connect the word better so it sounds like  

you can do it you just have to play with the  word a little bit uh and also I would always  

compare again like I'm teaching with these  other things about vocabulary it works the  

same way with pronunciation so we would have an  example like uh like sheet I would look at like  

other other words that like you could pronounce  like feet or SLE or Pete or something like that  

so see what the particular issue is about what  what sound you really can't make because it  

sounds like you can make the eat sound like  eat or even if it's not spelled this way the  

same pronunciation like like defeat or wheat or  heat so those are the spelling is different but  

the pronunciation would be the same uh also uh if  you have uh Frederick you can use that level where  

we're talking about e and EA and it will give you  lots of practice with that and it will also give  

you practice with the I think level level three  well many levels actually have uh the short vow  

I sound like [ __ ] you know that that word so the  pronunciation is very different is [ __ ] hit spit  

split versus e e so the long vow e sound so if  you don't have Frederick already you can click  

on the link in the description below this video  to get that but that will take you through all  

of these levels of pronunciation and spelling  as well so you can learn how to make those all

right let's see if I go back through here uh  now your microphone start to work fine yeah my  

microphone should be fine it's it's the same same  thing I'm doing every day I don't change anything  

with it I turn the gain up slightly uh just  cuz people are complaining about that but and  

The Psychotic teacher is back my let's see maybe  that means ninja right there my ninja my ninja all  

right don't get too psychotic on the channel  now all right Darlington says uh what time do  

you start giving the lesson need to learn much  more about essays and reading and ey outs well  

this channel doesn't necessarily focus on it's  not like an IELTS Channel I'm sure you can find  

other people who focus on those specific tests  uh we just help people with fluency and speaking  

confidence and obviously those will benefit you uh  if you're taking a test uh but I don't also have a  

uh like a specific time when these happen often  it's like usually Thursdays around this time uh  

Japan time uh or today is Monday so occasionally  they will be on Monday as well so repetition is  

a good way of recording uh something again we want  to be we don't necessarily want to repeat a lot of  

information we want to get varied review so natur  natur Al varied review is much more important uh  

because if I just repeat something if if I look  at this and I'm trying to remember the name of  

a particular bone like whatever the bone is I'm  just using spine as an example uh because this is  

something I had taught with my kids uh but if I'm  looking at the example of spine I can just repeat  

that word again and again or if I get a different  but related example same thing up here I'm trying  

to create a pattern help me understand something  oh look at that there the spine that holds your  

body together and then there's the spine that  holds the book together and your brain will  

think oh look at that that's interesting and the  the interesting connection that is created you can  

actually feel that in your body like wow look at  that I understood something and that's what helps  

you remember so it's much faster much easier  to do and it will get you fluent much faster  

than just repeating stuff yeah yeah the spine is  a little bit different from that one Daryl look  

at that you guys guys keep it clean in the chat  here uh let's see here and covet said let's see  

can I please have your channel name it's English  anyone English anyone it should be uh should be  

on the the name of the channel look around on the  on the channel you should see it there all right  

let's go through these Regina uh things that  are ual I don't know what that means you mean  

equal equal is that what that means uh you were  at of thanks party in Japan yes I was all right  

good evening from Mexico thanks for your exent  class glad to hear it your method of learning  

language is just fantastic glad to hear it Zed yep  well it's the way it's the way we all learned our  

native language that's that's all I'm doing I'm  I'm really giving you a reminder I'm reminding  

you of how you learned your native language and  you can get fluent efficiently the same way so  

most people forget that when they were young they  didn't speak a lot they actually most of their  

time is just getting input from people like your  parents or saying things to you or your family or  

your teacher or whatever and that's what guy you  fluent okay so you the obviously you're speaking  

but most people are speaking after they feel  confident that they understand something all  

right uh M chin says hello first time I can catch  your live show Welcome Liz again for me it's Beach  

and [ __ ] I see yes and again get Frederick if  you don't have that already it will show you how  

to how to learn these things and then you'll  easily understand the difference between them  

because you get so much varied review all right  so hello from Taiwan ice see you there Dar uh  

you should stay here and practice your listening  yeah so we can always do that yeah it was yeah  

I know what that means I know what that means Mr  psychotic American teacher I know let's see John  

says fluent is different than Advan yes that's  correct so we could have I mean you you can have  

a an advanced level of speaking ability which  is which is measuring how fluent you are so you  

could have no fluency at all you don't understand  anything or you have a high level of fluency so  

you could speak about it that way but most people  confuse fluency with the amount uh the amount of  

words you know so they think a high vocabulary  means you are fluent but often people that know  

a lot of words or people who excuse me people who  know a lot of words uh they still can't speak so  

uh it's two different things and it's it's good  to understand the differ uh let's see pyro color  

if I'm reading that correctly hello from Taiwan  yep got some nice nice yeah actually have a lot  

of members in fluent for life from Taiwan Dustin  how can I memorize adjectives more effectively  

while it can't be easily visualized like a noun  and a verb well sure it could so you can take  

like if if your goal is to memorize something  by getting a visual example of it you would do  

the same thing we're doing right here which is  comparing something so if I you know just as an

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example if we begin uh like we're talking about  an adjective or even an adverb it would work the  

same way uh but yeah I mean certainly an adjective  that would that would give you like a visual thing  

because we have an adjective for for a noun so  if I'm comparing things even something very basic  

like red marker blue marker so the adjective  is the color here and the noun is the thing uh  

but again I can also do that with an adverb if  I'm talking about like moving something like to  

move the marker or move the mark marker quickly  like that so I can move it quickly like that or  

I can move it slowly slowly all right so there  are always ways to understand these things and  

if you get to maybe a really high level and you  really can't think of a visual way to do it you  

should be able to understand vocabulary with more  basic vocabulary in English so again this is the  

way you learned your native language the only  way you could learn it is by getting messages  

that you understood and I'm giving you some  examples of those and we'll get into the uh  

recent one that I got from a fluent for life  member in just just a second El says uh how's  

it going drew the fourth Thursday of November  is Thanksgiving day thank you for teaching us  

let's bite a big turkey yes so yes we had a  it was a Thanksgiving party out here and uh  

yes it was not on like Thanksgiving day but  you know we get to enjoy the party out here  

anyway well from Tokyo Japan AKO kiman nice to  see you there yes I was just in Tokyo last week  

I was in Shinjuku with a friend of mine let's  see con jat oh h says Tom okay all right uh  

well let's give you this example so uh Reed  if I'm pronouncing that correctly re SII D  

this is just a member of fluent for life he  was asking a bunch of questions about related  

examples about selling and so I thought I would  just make a video about this because a lot of  

people could benefit from this as well so let  me give some examples well and Jasper's live  

good morning from yokoh nice to see you there  all right so what do we have here we had on

sale and this is again as I talked about earlier  in this video another bunch of really great  

examples that we can compare that will help you  understand the vocabulary better than trying to  

just look at a word by itself and maybe get a  translation of it so we really want to compare  

these different things to understand them like a  needed so what do we have we had on sale we have  

for sale and we'll just go down this list let's  see go on sale now this is related to that one  

uh go for sale same thing is related to that one  above as well go for sale and we had in let's see  

in in the sale that's not actually a word we we'll  put something up for sale we'll do that one so put

something up for for sale and  we what else we have make a sale

okay so he had one more example like in the sale  which I mean you could use that like something is  

found while something is like inside of a sale  uh like I don't know we'll we'll put that one  

up here I'll get to that one in a moment in the  sale but this is actually an interesting example  

of of how I'm I'm thinking about it like a native  speaker and I'm not thinking about the individual  

vocabulary I'm thinking about when I would use  these things all right so let's look at all these  

different examples and compare them and see how  natives would use these things so right here we  

have on sale on sale now on sale uh you guys can  probably answer what some of these things mean you  

probably understand these or you've heard these  before but you can think about on on sale as a  

contrast or something uh opposed to uh being like  offsale or we would just say like not it's not on  

sale so this means like we're going to take  something and then put it at a reduced price  

all right so it's available we can talk about like  on sale uh usually this means like again we have  

like a higher price let's say we have uh something  it's usually I don't know $10 but now we're we're  

going to sell it for five so right now this part  is over here on sale so it's on sale but we can  

also use when we're just talking about something  being available for purchase and this is where  

we would often hear people say now on sale so it's  now on sale if we've been waiting for a particular  

time let's have a time period here uh so up here  it's not on sale so something is not available  

ah yeah that looks like the is that the kanji for  I don't know that for what is that what is that a  

kanji kanji for or the Chinese for uh so this is  before we start a sale the stale the sale starts  

here and then from this point until this point  here it's on sale so something is now on sale and  

again we can we can hear this like the and this is  why it's important to remember that we don't just  

have vocabulary by itself the vocabulary means  something in a particular situation so again we've  

got on sale meaning there's a discount of some  kind or we could also have on sale meaning it's  

just available for purchase so now something is  available it's now on sale now you can buy it uh  

but maybe before it was not and after some period  it will not be on sale so it's not on sale anymore  

so we we you can kind of think about on and off  we don't really talk about something being like  

off sale but you can think about the difference  between on and off like this so it's possible or  

it's discounted in some way it's on sale now uh  we're talking about I'll just connect these two  

here when something goes on sale it just means  now we're making it available so it's the same  

idea but we're talking about something going  we're talking about the transition from here to  

here so right now something is not fors sale where  it's not discounted and now it is so now oh it's  

going on sale okay so we could talk about again a  discount for something or just being able to sell  

it but the point is that we're making something  available it's the transition we're talking about  

so whenever we talk about go I think I've made a  many maybe many videos about this uh but the idea  

of go is a transition from one thing to another so  I could go on sale so right now it was not on sale  

and maybe tomorrow it goes on sale so you'll often  hear people maybe they're uh making something  

available from a certain time like tickets are  on sale from Friday so from Friday to next week  

tickets are on sale or tickets are going on sale  tickets are going on sale from Friday whatever  

okay so the only difference here by adding go  is we're talking about a transition from one  

state or situation to another so it was not on  sale or not available and now it is available  

or discounted okay everybody getting it hopefully  this makes sense so the point is to review lots  

of different examples and see how these things  work together and that builds your confidence to  

use these things in conversations but do let me  know if anything is still unclear all right now  

we have four sale this again just means something  is available it's just another way of saying that  

something is available for selling okay so like  if I'm keeping something let's say I have a store  

so you might go to like some stores and you will  see uh like let's say there's some nice clothing  

you know I'm not going to draw this very well  here's like a shirt hanging up over here this is  

a clothing store a clothes store but in the store  there's also let's just say a here's a dinosaur  

there's like a a dinosaur head up on the wall and  people will walk in and and maybe that's a popular  

thing people like to go to that store and look at  the interesting things on the wall like a dinosaur  

head and so people will say oh wow is that for  sale is that dinosaur for sale so like is the  

purpose of it are you selling it is the purpose  of that thing to sell are you selling it is that  

dinosaur for sale is it for sale all right and so  people here we talking about four like what is the  

purpose of something is this dinosaur here because  you want to sell it or is the dinosaur here uh  

because you got like I don't know it's it's just  like here for decoration what is the purpose of  

it okay so typically when we hear four oh okay  it's like it's for sale so sometimes you will go  

to a store and like this is not for sale but this  is all right this is not for sale but this is so  

oh look this t-shirt is for sale for however much  money so it's for sale for $5 or something or you  

can say the t-shirt is on sale where we're going  to have you know typically in a in a store if you  

see some things already there and you see on sale  typically that means a discount because it's a  

store already so you know the clothing or whatever  that thing is it's avail able to sell but right  

now we're going to say well it's if it says on  sale then we definitely mean like it's a discount  

that's the meaning we're talking about but if I  just go outside and I see a guy he's just sitting  

out in front of his house and he has a bunch of  things out in front of his house I don't know what  

he's doing so I might ask him oh are these things  for sale so a guy just sitting like he's just I'll  

give a slightly different example here so here  here's a guy he's sitting in front of his house  

just over here and he's got a lamp and a table  and you know some other things like that and I  

say ooh that's a nice lamp that's a nice table is  that for sale so like is that outside here because  

you're selling it is it for sale and he says no no  I I I'm moving I'm moving into this house okay so  

it's not for sale not for sale it's for me not  for sale I'm not selling this it's for me it's  

for me all right so everybody everybody get it so  this is why you will hear different things in the  

same situation so the Nuance or the meaning might  be slightly different all right but the point is  

that as you're comparing these different things  it makes you feel confident more confident about  

it so K was asking about discount so again as I  mentioned when something is on sale it can mean  

that it's just available so let's say I'm selling  tickets to a concert I'll make this a bit more

clear so the concert tickets let's say  this is a Thursday then Saturday over  

here and then we got Friday so concert  tickets go on sale from here to here  

now this can mean it can mean number one  a discount well here a discount or it just  

means available I'm trying to write quickly over  here available pardon me as I close this getting

light all right see if that's a little bit better  all right that's not in my face now all right so  

you will see this like if we have something that's  available for a discount a discount you can say  

it's for sale or excuse me you can't say it's on  sale or it just means something is available it's  

on sale all right so yes Regina has it it's  important to understand the context but this  

is why you can ask people questions and say oh  like is something for sale or what do you mean  

on sale is it like a new thing that you're that  you're selling now or are you selling something  

that was already available at a discount so the  difference between maybe something new like like  

a yeah so garage sale is a good example of that  so that's why if I walk if I'm walking down the  

street and I see a guy in front of his house and  he's just sitting there with a bunch of things I  

think maybe it's a garage sale so maybe he's  selling some stuff I don't know that's why I  

ask him oh is this stuff for sale so I would use  for sale before I say on sale because I don't know  

if he's selling anything or not okay so for sale  or on sale so again it could mean a discount or  

it could mean it's just available but typically  if you're in a store and you see some close there  

that's like uh it says on sale typically they  would mean it's a discount so there's a reduced  

price or they would just say like sale it just  says sale by itself hey it's going to be cheap  

sale and this is interesting like in Japan people  use this uh a lot so going it might not be going  

cheap uh but it could be like going for a reduced  price so maybe not uh cheap but like less than  

the regular price okay so going for sale is the  same idea where we're talking about like it's  

it's it's there's movement somehow so it's going  for sale like like I'm uh you know making making  

these things available so if I have some clothes  or something I'm doing a garage sale so I'm in  

front of my house with some old toys or books or  clothing other things like that so I could say yes  

these are going for sale or they are just for sale  I could use both of those things so it's just two  

different ways of saying the same thing they are  for sale or they are going for sale all right does  

everybody get this so it's it's the the reason  I want to compare these and the reason Reed was  

asking me this question asking us this question  uh is because of people will look at these and  

just look at the word and think like on and try to  translate that in their native language but it's  

much easier if you understand it the same way a  native would get it okay all right I think people  

are are getting it let me see if anybody has any  questions about this so far also houses and cars  

are considered for sale when people want to sell  them yes so you could have something for sale that  

makes it available and then you could say o it's  even on sale right now we're making it available  

but typically if I have something like for sale  or not it's just like are you selling something or  

are you not selling something so that's the that's  the more important thing what is the purpose of  

this item so right now this shirt that I'm wearing  this is not for sale I'm wearing this shirt this  

shirt is for me it's not for you or for somebody  else it's not for sale okay so when you ask  

someone we don't say like oh is that shirt like no  one would ask me is that shirt on sale if a native  

speaker asked me about the shirt I'm wearing they  say ooh like is that shirt on sale what they would  

mean is did I buy that from a store and get it  like at a discount that's what they mean they're  

not asking me if I'm selling the shirt they're  saying oh is that shirt on sale like at the store  

so they mean like did I buy it from someplace uh  and I got it for a discount okay hopefully we got  

it there all right uh M says hello I had talked  with translators before and and the first language  

is more important than the second language for  people to study the second language so I'm reading  

many books in Japanese let me something me read  that again I talked with translators before and  

the first language is more important than the  second language for people to study the second  

language so I'm reading many books in Japanese uh  I don't know I don't know what that means but are  

you saying you're you're you mean you're trying  to read like Japanese books to learn English or  

something what did what do you what do you mean  by that now I don't know like other other people  

can be good at translating but some people are  not like even people who translate might not  

be very good at speaking uh so those are different  skills but you know people who want to communicate  

fluently you should be learning everything in the  language you want to speak so there's no reason  

the only reason you need translations is if you  you just want a quick definition or to understand  

something right now but if I want to use something  quickly I want to understand that in the language  

so if I need need a translation it means I don't  understand something so I probably will not feel  

confident about using it I can get a translation  of something like I could give a translation of  

spine but then that would be like oh that means  your backbone but then if you get the example like  

I gave before about the spine of a book then I  wouldn't understand that so you see the difference  

like one is me thinking like a native me thinking  like a native is looking at like backbone and  

spine of a book and comparing those two things  things in English but the other is just getting  

a translation of one thing and then I wouldn't be  able to make that same connection like a native  

speaker uh if I'm trying to translate that as  well so this is why really another reason why  

uh you shouldn't be translating anything so you  should be learning all in English if you're trying  

to learn English or you're trying to learn uh like  a different language whatever that is but the the  

reason people use translations is because they  don't actually understand what they're learning  

that's why you need the translation but but if  you learn it and you understand it the right way  

then you don't need the translations and you can  understand something the same way a native does  

so right now this is a lesson it's like I would  explain this same thing to my daughters okay so  

there not I'm not translating anything I'm just  helping you understand the difference when we  

would use these things so when do we say on sale  rather than for sale what does that mean all right  

now related to this to put something up for sale  this just means to make it so we still have for  

sale it's the same idea so something could go  for sale or just be for sale or I put something  

up for sale now this phrasal verb here to put up  typically we mean like making it available Oh no  

I got to sneeze hey I got it all right pardon me  so put something up for sale uh you you can kind  

of think about this as like putting it up online  like that so putting something up for sale or  

just like I could put something out for sale as  well so if I have like a house or a store now I'm  

going to put something like in the shop to make it  available I'm putting it out for sale or I can put  

something up like kind of raise it to a higher  level put something up for sale as well okay so  

you don't have to think too hard about these and  I don't want you to think that there's only one  

way to express these idea the we're just looking  at some very specific vocabulary but you can see  

how a lot of these they mean relatively the same  thing okay and now to make a sale this is when we  

actually sell something so if I am a sales person  like at a at a store or something like that and I  

sell this marker and someone gives me some money  I just made a sale I just made a sale all right so  

this is the same way we would talk like yesterday  I made a sale I am making a sale or tomorrow I  

will make a sale it just means you sold something  okay all right and in the sale this is the one I  

I was I was trying to think when would I use that  like I I would only be like this particular words  

or these three words in this order talking about  something in the sale that might be talking about  

like am I selling I don't know like these three  things uh like is this is this uh is this eraser  

included in the sale so I'm selling these three  things and someone asks oh is the Eraser included  

in the sale like that I mean that that's really  the only time I can think of maybe there others  

but nothing is coming to me right now uh but  typically we would I mean that would be the  

time you would use something like that so in the  sale all right I think people people got it over  

there r nice to see you there all right I think  yeah so houses and cars are also considered for  

sale when people want to sell them yeah so any  I mean anything could be for sale it doesn't  

matter what it is you could sell a you could  sell an airplane the airplane is for sale it  

just means that's what we're doing with it we're  trying to sell it right now so something is for  

sale a building could be for sale for sale uh you  could sell your soul oh no my soul is not for sale  

so people will say that sometimes like I can't be  bought you know my soul is not for sale not for  

sale all right let's see I think I got that one  pyrro again anticipate versus participate yeah  

it's a little bit different as far as comparing  words they sound similar so anticipate means to  

think about what will happen in the future so if  I'm looking at a cloudy Sky I can anticipate some  

rain I will think maybe something will will  probably happen and participate means to be  

included in something something like right now you  are participating in this video by commenting so  

you are being a part participate participate and  anticipate but when we when we're looking at words  

like that it's important to break them into pieces  so like anti uh anticipate so anti- meaning before  

so like AM and PM for the time like am like anti-  Meridian and and post meridian so this just means  

is it before and I think it's even the same thing  like in uh like Spanish works the same way it's  

like anante or whatever like dis or something  like that if I remember that but it's before  

and after the same way so anticipate means like  okay we want to think before about what what will  

happen to anticipate something uh Dustin says is  there any difference when you said you shouldn't  

be translating instead you shouldn't translate  no there's no difference so I'm I'm just talking  

about in general you shouldn't translate and  also yeah it's there's no no meaning for this  

specific usage no and often people will say like  you shouldn't do that or you shouldn't be doing  

that they mean exactly the same thing it's just  just different ways of saying that and that's  

another thing you learn when you learn like a  native and this is why I always tell people you  

can't learn just with one person because if you  learn with only one person you think there's only  

one way of saying something and even if I give  you different ways you really should be hearing  

many different native speakers give examples of  things so this is exactly what we do influent  

for life we really want you to see how different  native speakers respond and how different people  

say things all right because there's not just  one way to say something and often you will  

find some very interesting or different or simple  or more difficult ways of saying things uh let's  

see a plot for sale says Simon yep in Egypt when  something is for a cheap price they say it's for  

free that's interesting it's for free free would  be different I mean if you're still paying money  

it's not free at that's interesting in Arabic  and they try to translate that into English  

and they say it's free huh well that's that's one  hell of a translation right there but that that's  

another reason why we don't want to translate we  should not try to translate sometimes we have to  

you know that's part of life but in general as  a learner you really want to understand what  

something means and so you understand like  like even if I translate like take the word

free so if I just translate that into Japanese  I could mean like muo like free like it doesn't  

cost anything or like gu like free like I could  you know have like Liberty to do something I'm  

able to go do it so these are completely different  meanings of free and so when we're learning things  

it's good to understand it like a native you want  to understand it like a native all right uh let's  

see if I got any more here Regina said now it's  clear glad to hear it David says guys good night  

everyone and let's see hello from rep public  Saha uh Yakutsk oh really oh are you from that  

area that's cool I think I remember that from  like the game Risk I remember playing that like  

UT up there I'm guessing that's Russia around  there greetings from morans region says Nelly  

sorry for the confusion what I wanted to say is  that when foreigners learn English they need to  

study their native language well to improve I  still don't understand I I don't like when you  

say foreigners like are you are you Japanese  I'm guessing you're Japanese I think you're  

in Japan and you have a Japanese name um but if  you're talking about like foreigners in Japan  

learning English or you mean like Japanese or like  other people learning English uh people should be  

learning English in English it doesn't matter  where you live or who you are uh in the same  

way that you know if you're Japanese you should  be just learning Japanese in Japanese same thing  

question uh can you pronounce lied Long Live fall  and beach with your handsome mouth so that we can  

catch proper shape of a mouth through position if  possible for those well Long Live fall Beach Li Li  

but if you'd like to hear me pronounce words over  and over and over again whenever you want just  

get Frederick you won't see my mouth moving but  the more important than that is compar comparing  

different sounds all right comparing different  sounds so you know having uh rather than like  

you you listening to like one word repeating that  like you want to hear related words similar words  

slightly different words uh like pin and pit  and then you will you will naturally develop  

a better pronunciation for that and also like  this is what I call sound transitioning but  

this is making it easier for you to pick a sound  that you can say uh I forget who that was earlier  

today that was talking about um like [ __ ]  versus sheet like spreadsh sheet spreadsheet  

and so you pick a sound you can make like e like  just the long vowel e by itself e and I want to  

turn that into I and just keep making that sound  so watch this listen to the sound e and you can  

hear you can see it also but you can hear how it  changes e e like she versus [ __ ] right so like

e [ __ ] so sheet to [ __ ] so I just call this  TR uh sound transitioning and so we're taking a  

sound that you can make and just try continuing  to make that sound like e and you will hear when  

the sound is is correct but you can do this along  with Frederick you will hear lots of words over  

2,000 words and sentences so definitely download  that app if you don't have that already all right  

let's see Tom says hi venicius from Brazil K thank  you teacher it's my pleasure Ed you Spar high from  

India Tom from Dominican Republic Davey greetings  from uh looks like we got more people from Brazil  

and psychotic teachers enjoying himself yes I am  from the coldest region in the world is already  

23° below zero I'm really your fan oh well stay  warm hopefully I can keep you warm over there  

stay stay warm don't don't freeze to death K  yes it's also difficult to use available I'm  

not good at this yes available it just means like  it's possible to do something or yes you have it  

that that thing like if I go to a store and say  like is this available like do you have something  

available do you have like a larger size available  so is that possible to to get that do you have  

something but there are easier ways to say that so  I could at a store if I'm buying something I could  

say do you have something in a larger size so do  you have uh this this shirt in a larger size do  

you have it in a larger size so they might have it  in small in medium in large extra medium I like to  

get extra medium that's my that's my size if you  guys send me some clothes get extra medium all  

right let's see here if we can find some more  interesting comments what time is it here all  

right we should we got a little bit of time left  all right uh what is the meaning of differently  

and how can it be used in a conversation well it  just means like you're doing things uh like it  

would be how you do something like an adverb you  know so if I'm if I'm behaving differently so if  

I one day I'm like very very sad and another  day I'm very happy and excited I'm behaving  

differently I'm doing something differently so  it's a way of modifying or changing uh like a  

behavior or something so I could I could teach  differently I could eat differently I could do  

something like if I go on a diet I could eat  differently change my diet so differently I'm  

doing it differently all right and again when  you're learning things like that it's important  

to to to not just get one example like you can see  I'm I'm giving you different examples in different  

contexts but even more than just that particular  word so you might say if we're learning adverbs or  

adjectives whatever that thing is you want to get  some more just like to understand like like if I'm  

teaching adjectives so we got red marker purple  marker blue marker black marker green marker I'm  

looking at all these different things and so the  marker doesn't change but the adjective does and  

so we can compare easily oh okay I understand what  the color is that's why I often give that Japanese  

example of markers because it's easy to understand  and help you remember remind yourself what it's  

like to learn your native language and then just  apply that to learning English so when you get  

lots of examples like to do something differently  or you could also uh do something uh in a more  

interesting way so in a different way do something  differently or do it in a different way and then  

you can look there are different ways of using the  word and so we could use it in different ways we  

could use it differently you got it uh let's  see next one Korean Japanese have uh the same  

structure but English has a different structure so  I think it's hard yes it's just different but it's  

easy to learn something the same way you would  learn patterns and anything else so if you have  

to learn for a new job or you're learning a sport  or you're learning anything else we still you have  

to take you know you're creating new patterns in  your mind but my point is really for learning like  

a native is it's much easier to do it if you're  learning like a native rather than learning  

through your native language so you're actually  making it more difficult and that's what creates  

a lot of the stress and problems that people have  all right so if I'm teaching someone Japanese I  

don't want to give like a long explanation about  well the noun comes after the adjective and it's  

like English and we do this and that and I'm going  to give you some words like use this word like a  

like a math problem or something I don't want to  do that I just want to give you examples so you  

said uh like Korean and Japanese are similar  I don't know if you speak Japanese as as well  

maybe you know some Japanese as well uh but the  same thing my typical marker example Mara Mara

maraa ch ch

ch so here this is how you would teach a child  and they don't know what an adjective or a noun  

is but they do understand oh you're talking about  this thing like you know touch the touch the red

mark okay so you can hear you would actually start  to understand the language very quickly like that  

and the the pattern would would make itself uh  pretty easily uh pretty pretty easily understood  

just by me teaching you English or in this case  Japanese as a first language so I don't need to  

give you lots of uh explanations about how the  grammar works I just need to show you how the  

grammar works all right so it's actually um like  most people most people don't think it's possible  

to do this uh and like it is pretty difficult  because you have to change the way you teach  

you can't you can't teach it like the normal way  anymore but if you want to see how I do this for  

uh for absolute beginners uh you can see that in  Frederick because Frederick is all taught it's  

all in English for for beginners and they will  they will learn the language obviously uh it goes  

up to higher levels and lots of adult non-native  English Learners are using it as well uh but also  

my series here on YouTube the it's I think it's  called like the best beginning grammar playlist  

or something like that I forget what the what the  playlist is uh but that's teaching English all in  

English and I show you exactly how to do that even  more uh more difficult stuff so like something  

like a versus the' like how do you explain that  to someone in English but if you think about it  

it's possible it has to be possible because  that's how people learn their native language  

if you can't make it understandable then no one  learns any language so you have to have to make it  

possible so you just look at how do people do that  like how and it usually takes it takes a while and  

some things like they're easy to understand and  some things are not easy to understand you really  

need a lot of examples to understand some nuances  and a really good teacher they really just try to  

shorten that process so if I can give you a few  quick examples you know the same thing like um  

like the spine of your back and the spine of a  book I'm giving you two examples and you really  

only need two that's enough for you to understand  that pattern and make that connection most people  

would remember that word and they would understand  the use of it better with both of those examples  

together so if I teach you both of them the  spine of a book The Spine bone like the spine of  

your body then people would understand that very  quickly and I can do that all in English so it's  

not about making it like I and like I need to use  translations or like that it's really difficult  

to do because how do people teach their own kids  they have to be able to explain things and often  

even regular native speaking parents are not  very good language teachers they're they're  

just saying things to kids and often kids don't  know what they're saying they're just getting  

lots of input and the brain is working very hard  to try to understand things uh but it's not that  

difficult to do when you when you start thinking  like this as a as a person who can who can teach  

someone uh their native language that way but I  would love to find a Japanese person who does that  

teaching I mean it's it's how people again are  like I I basically just listen to what parents  

are saying to kids or what Japanese people say  to each other that's how I learn the language  

so I'm looking at like what are the words that  people say in certain situations I'm not trying  

to translate it through English I'm just looking  at oh like in this situation someone said this  

get sun tight ah yeah yeah but I think I think uh  people are getting it but it's not that difficult  

when you when you figure out how to do it it's  like you you start understanding it and you make  

it like ah okay I just I need to make something  understandable and until it's understandable I  

just likely need more examples and that's really  it good morning from India I think I got that one  

already what the definition or the difference of  a marsh a Moore and a swamp says Davey uh rather  

than me like trying to tell you what that is just  Google that do a Google image search of those  

three things and it will make it much more clear  for you this is also why we do have multiple Imes  

is for all the words in Frederick so you will  understand how they work better by looking at  

different examples of that ner says hello nice  to see you there aim hello from Ethiopia lives  

in Australia good morning language acquisition  is the best way to learn a language and a lot  

of repetition says abalo yes and I'm basically  trying to explain to people what that means what  

it means to acquire a language so if I just tell  someone hey you should acquire the language don't  

learn the language acquire the language language  and people like well what does that mean then I  

have to explain the difference between learning  versus acquisition and it's just like all right  

well we're going to we're going to get into a  long discussion about that and that's that's  

really the trickiest part the most difficult part  for me about about what I do is trying to explain  

to people how it works because they they don't  believe it's possible so I say oh just learn  

English like you learned your native language  and they're like well I can't do that I don't  

live in America or I don't have native parents  or you know they they're they're kind of looking  

at all these different examples when really it's  just just understanding something in the language  

itself rather than through your native language  and so the point of this is we want to understand  

the language like a native speaker that's the  whole point is like what I'm talking about in  

this video about giving you the confidence and  certainty to speak when you understand something  

like a native you're like ah I really I really  understand what that means okay so rather than  

trying to think through a translation or a rule  or something I want to just understand it directly  

and that's when I speak so that's how you gain the  confidence and the certainty to express yourself  

so if you don't really understand something you're  not going to talk about it and this is the same  

in your native language and it's the same in any  other language you would use all right yeah this  

sne like five minutes ago though uh let's see  uh George says Cambridge dictionary's word of  

the year for 2023 is hallucinate is Trick art  hallucinated no a trick art is a Hallucination  

is when you're when you see something that's not  actually there like I'm like I imagine there a  

bunch of snakes in front of me right now that's  a that's like a hallucination so there not there  

aren't actually any snakes there but trick  art is physically something there it just  

looks different than than how you would like  it looks like something something is close and  

it's really far away you know something like  that so that's it's it's physically there it's  

not a hallucination so it's a a different thing I  think everybody's getting it though let's see all  

right so the psychotic again honestly it's hard  to teach without translation someone who doesn't  

know English at all it's tedious process it's not  don't think about it that way that's being as a  

being lazy and as being a bad teacher now I hate  to say that just because I really want people to  

understand it is possible it is easy oh it's it's  a mental switch that you as a teacher need to make  

because if you're if you're still thinking it's  like oh this is tedious of course it's easier just  

to give a a translation that's the easiest thing  you could do that's why most people just do that  

but if you try to think about wait a minute I'm  not teaching like a student I'm teaching someone  

who speaks my language so how would I teach my own  child and then you think well okay I guess it's  

kind of tedious like you could use that word to  describe but you know kids need lots of examples  

they need to really understand something but  when they get it then they can use it forever and  

that's the whole point so we have to think like I  spent a lot of time thinking about how I can teach  

something so that it's easy to understand it's the  understanding is the most important part because  

if you don't understand it then you can't use it  but it's not that difficult especially go watch  

that series of videos I I go from like the very  first lesson I do in that is just like I I eyes  

I eyes ear ears finger fingers fingers fingers  and so here without me explaining anything about  

the language you start to learn you start to build  that not that like uh the sense or the recognition  

of patterns and you think oh look at that like  in English when we have one thing we just say  

that one thing but if we have multiple like more  than one and that's why I would give this example  

it's like you know I eyes ear ears finger fingers  and just to make it clear for the brain that it's  

not only two it's like fingers fingers fingers now  people really understand ah okay so one thing is a  

special thing and then if we have more than that  then we add this you know like s sound at the end  

of it but without having to explain that people  figure that out if you're a good teacher and so  

that's what I show in those videos it's possible  to do that to learn English all in English so  

don't don't lose hope it's possible to do all  right let here again how to create an atmosphere  

to be fluent when all other people talking in  their own native language sir uh well just like  

this you know put put your headphones in and and  start watching content that's made for natives so  

I can learn Japanese anywhere in the world because  I know how to get content that I understand for  

for learning Japanese I'm not it doesn't matter if  I'm living around physically uh Japanese speakers  

or not so don't worry about that like you're  learning real English from a native speaker right  

now and we're not physically in the same place all  right got a couple more minutes I think yes uh I  

got this one good explanation sir glad to hear K  yes same here got the Korean and Japanese flag all  

right I got that let's see 103 people watching  this live stream but few people like this video  

well you know it happens we need who who is our is  our manager I think she is not here today we need  

our we need our like like manager is hustling up  the uh the likes over here yes if you do enjoy the  

video do click the like button uh but I'd rather  if you had to just pick one thing to do tell other  

people about this because it's just tell them  it's possible to learn English in English and  

if you want to become a confident speaker this  is how you do it that's it now if someone can  

think of a better way to learn languages I'd love  to hear it I have not found one but U this is it  

and this is what we do in our native language and  that's good enough for me and and and it works so  

I don't know I don't know better a better reason  to change what I'm doing but yeah that's it uh  

what do you think about dual lingo is it possible  to learn English through this program uh I've I've  

played with dual lingo but like even the idea of  like Duo and lingo itself like I don't want any  

translations at all and my my bigger problem with  like the little that I have seen of it is that  

it's kind of restrictive about about telling  me what things are rather than allowing me to  

discover what those are so if you want to see the  difference between like a teaching app like dual  

lingo and like a self-discovery app like Frederick  you should compare those two so download Frederick  

you can uh the link will be in the description  below this video uh but that will actually  

teach you like pronunciation grammar vocabulary  listening especially for kids so kids are using  

the app as well even native English-speaking kids  are using the app to teach themselves how to read  

and the way it works is just kind of like this  it's letting you compare different things and  

understand the way the excuse me the way the way  the brain actually wants to learn and that's how  

you get fluent so it really when I talk about  fluency I just mean that you feel confident and  

certain about what you learn and when you  feel confident and certain then you speak

okay uh let's see but yes I'm not uh I don't know  dual lingo so well but from what I've heard of it  

like it seems like it's it's an app created to  to kind of teach people and this is that kind of  

lesson about language acquisition versus language  teaching and so I don't know I don't know anyone  

who became fluent using the app maybe people do  I guess I don't know maybe I'm sure like somebody  

must I guess but uh I don't know anybody in Japan  we have the we see advertisements for this thing  

called Speed Learning and so Japanese people  often ask me it's not so popular now I think  

like I don't hear people talking about Speed  Learning um but I've never met anyone that that  

became a speaker from Speed Learning and again  it's like kind of speed staying in the same place  

but this is it and and this really is the fastest  way to get fluent it's just understanding it like  

a native so that's that's really all you have to  do uh let's see make a sale means the action yes  

so you would say make a sale make a sale make a  sale s a e make a sale uh let's see ISAT vastra  

that's an interesting name hello teacher next time  could you talk about job interviews what about job  

interviews I think there are lots of like video  examples on YouTube already about job interviews  

but if you have a specific question let me know  M says yes I'm Japanese that means no matter  

how much I study I will never be a native speaker  but I study English I can understand the American  

way of thinking a little uh free I understand  yes uh yeah so again I don't know I don't know  

what people mean about like they can never be  like are you saying you couldn't become like a  

native speaker like you live in the US like well  you know if you're if you're going to judge your  

ability to speak by like being a native speaker  it's it's like yeah you know a native there are  

two parts about that the first part is the ability  to speak and so how confident and certain do you  

feel about your vocabulary the second part is the  actual knowledge that you have so I might be more  

of like a native speaker people would think about  me like that if I know like some TV show from 20  

years ago and I can make a reference to that show  in a in a conversation with someone so they would  

say wow like you you know about some TV show for  a long time but I I mean I could still be a native  

speaker especially of English because there's so  many different people who speak English it would  

actually be more difficult for me uh in Japan  for people to for people to think about me as a  

native speaker because I don't look Japanese so it  doesn't matter how good of a speaker I am or how  

much I know I could be born in Japan and still be  a fluent and a native speaker but people wouldn't  

think about me that way just because of how I look  all right but that's that's kind of life but the  

the interesting thing is that as a Japanese person  learning English you would be able you could you  

know potentially get to that level so don't don't  think you can't do it it's just it's more how you  

learn but it's not about studying more you don't  want to try to study more you want to understand  

more like a native and that's a big difference  I don't want to just get books and try to read  

them and and memorize a bunch of things I want  to get lots of different examples of how native  

speakers communicate all right so this is what we  do in fluent for life we want to give you lots of  

different examples help you feel certain and  confident about the vocabulary and that's when  

you speak uh let's see all right K says how can  I listen to good English conversation we Japanese  

people inherently try to listen only to the end  of a conversation Oh you mean like you mean like  

a sentence because the because the verb is at the  end of the sentence is that what you mean I don't  

that's an interesting question how can I listen a  good English conversation well uh obviously we do  

this in fluent for life but you could watch any  kind of conversation just on YouTube or wherever  

and uh like I I talk about sometimes I think in  in my video last week I was talking about being  

a spy and just listening to people talk so go to a  coffee shop I don't know where you live KO uh you  

live in uh what part of Japan but there should  be someplace I don't know go to Starbucks or  

whatever and sit and listen to foreigners talking  about stuff or find a way to do that now one of  

my students uh goena uh so she became fluent with  uh fluent for Life same thing and so she's German  

and uh she took a tour with like a she went she  went on an English-speaking tour inside Germany  

very smart idea and like I I was recommending yeah  like you got to do more things in English and be  

around English speakers talking about a specific  event or a specific situation so you could find an  

English tour like a group tour in Japan and just  get on that tour it' be very simple easy to do  

that but the point is it will help you understand  more like a native because you're getting lots of  

different examples and you're around all these  other people talking about that same thing uh  

let's see at let's see how much time well only  got a few minutes left from Turkey n see there  

Alando can you recommend us TV show for learning  English go just find a show you like you know what  

what do you like watching in your native language  and then find that in English so some people like  

watching a comedy other people like to watch you  know a gardening show or whatever like I watch a  

gardening show in Japan on uh Sunday mornings um  but you you can watch whatever you like it just  

depends on the the content you're interested  in so if you want to succeed you need to stay  

highly motivated enjoy the process of learning the  language Y and it's much easier to stay motivated  

if you if you enjoy and it's easy to learn native  speak talking so fast it's difficult to understand  

them says Regina yes and this is why you really  need to take steps to go from understanding kind  

of how I'm speaking right now to understanding  the native level so this is what we do in fluent  

for Life another thing we do in fluent for Life  G forget the beginning of the conversation I'm  

not happy with myself all the time oh no now  now you're talking about something completely  

different oh no Koo be strong over there available  I understand thank you very much okay you got it  

all right yes be be happy with yourself it's  Thanksgiving you know be thankful that's what  

we were talking about yesterday be being what  are you thankful for be thankful I'm thankful  

every day I get to talk with people from all  over the place and help people learn and be  

thankful for that all right and uh ISAT vaster  again thanks to you about job interview I mean  

terms and phrases yeah like that's already  available on YouTube I think like a lot of  

that stuff like how to do job interview and I  would like rather than watching an I mean we  

have like lessons about that but I would I would  just watch native speakers in a job like look up  

English job interview and you will you will see  I'm sure there were even recordings of people  

just in an actual or maybe they're pretending or  something but some kind of job interview like that  

you will find that on YouTube already so I'd  hate to create something that's already done  

but if there's still more information you need  or you have questions you can feel free to let  

me know but I would look for that I'm sure a  lot lot of that content is available already  

I remember when I was uh becoming a uh a waiter  so I worked at a as a waiter and a manager in a  

uh in a Japanese restaurant uh years ago and  I went to the library and I actually found a  

training there for servers so people who want to  learn how to be better servers and it was just  

like a DVD you could watch and it would teach  you how to do that and now all this information  

is just for free right up on YouTube so take  it advantage of that it is available for you  

to watch available all right but hopefully uh  people have enjoyed this video remember the  

confidence actually comes from understanding the  language well then you speak okay so don't put a  

lot of pressure on yourself to force yourself  to speak before you're ready you should really  

just get lots of examples from people speaking  and then you'll feel much more confident about  

that uh it's not the native that talks fast it's a  foreigner that understands slowly yes that's part  

that's part of it but obviously natives do speak  quite quickly and they're speaking faster than  

what I do all right but I think everybody's got it  George at the start and the end as usual nice to  

see you guys all here again thank you very much  for joining me uh if you would like to improve  

pronunciation Grammer listening all of that get  Frederick and definitely get fluent for life you  

can find the links to those uh in the transcript  or in the description below this video and if you  

have any questions about those you can just ask  uh just send us a mail at info@ English anyone.com  

Happy Thanksgiving day isn't it yes almost but you  should give thanks every day give thanks every day  

all right thank you very much for joining me  and I will see you in the next video bye-bye