Learn English Backwards To Erase Doubt And Build Fluency

okay looks like we're live let's get the camera  straight over here all right I am Drew Badger the  

founder of Englishanyone.com and the English  fluency guide welcome to another live video  

here on YouTube uh lately we've been talking a  lot about doubts and I want to talk about one  

specific part of that which is learning backwards  uh I've talked about this before on the channel I  

think maybe a few years ago but it's a good  time to bring it up again because something  

interesting happened to me yesterday so let me  tell you a quick story about that and then we'll  

get into the lesson make sure this is working  over here sure this is working over here okay we  

got the all right we are working all right let me  erase this hopefully everybody is enjoying their

day all right well uh I'm not  going to pronounce this correctly  

but let's see if I can say that though uh gu gu  guid Muhammad I I think I could say Muhammad I  

think my favorite teacher glad to hear it Mr  larner hello sir how are you doing uh Silvana  

says hello from brail nice to see you there what  Suba in the house uh nice to see everybody out  

there today I don't think it's a holiday in Japan  and Olympia is back all right we got a nice crew  

of people here today uh click the like button if  you would uh just to tell other people uh well  

YouTube will tell other people hey we should  watch this yesing nice to see you there uh so  

what we're going to talk about actually this is a  story that happened to me uh it's kind of a long  

well it's not really a long story but it's been  happening over a long period of time but I finally  

uh found out something about it yesterday so just  to give you a little bit of preview oh no it's 3:  

in the morning so I was uh oh nice to see you  Annette Lewis nice to see you there uh so I  

was uh actually I was at a Starbucks yesterday  uh here in Nagasaki Japan and uh I asked for an  

afato I think I'm going to write this down  it's it's an Italian word I'm guessing if  

there are any Italians or some maybe some  Spanish speakers or somebody anybody knows

Italian I think that's how you write it  afato if I can pronounce that uh correctly uh  

so in the the Japanese spelling of this because  it's not a Japanese word it's spelled in Katakana  

which I'm not going to take time to write down  but the more important part is the last sound  

of the Katakana is toe so AF but every time I  order this at different Starbucks it doesn't  

matter where I go to they will always say  afoga do afogado if you listen carefully it  

sounds like dope and so last uh or yesterday  I was asking some of the staff I said why do  

you guys say afogado when it's afato that's how  it's written on the on the on the paper it's on  

the menu it's everywhere in the in the restaurant  but everyone says afogado it's like pretty clear  

they're saying afogado instead of afogado uh  and so I had a nice conversation with the staff  

at Starbucks about about how to pronounce this  word and I just said oh it's really interesting  

because usually Japanese are very specific like  especially in a corporate like a business setting  

like this if it's name of a thing like afato  um but they all pronounced it afogado do and  

they were so they started talking about that why  they pronounce it that way and I we didn't really  

have a long conversation I can't bother them  for too long there but in general it's easier  

to pronounce this word as afogado than afoga  to it takes a little bit of extra energy and  

effort to add the toe sound rather than the  do that's why we have an in English lots of  

pronunciation will be kind of we get like the  the flap sound the flap D it's like like got  

got to got well that's some bad writing right  there so got to like I have got to do something

becomes written as got so shortened like this  but really the pronunciation in American English  

uh it's a little bit different in British  pronunciation they will use that British  

is weird because they will eliminate some sounds  but add other sounds it's just part of how the  

language over there is but in American English  Gada it sounds more like a D sound so we don't  

say G we say Gada G and it's the same thing  with this afogado like most people would not  

say afato they would say afogado uh just because  it's easier and faster to say so the title of  

this video is talking about learning English  backwards in the the same way that I learn  

Japanese backwards and let me just make this  very clear very simple uh usually what happens  

when people are learning a language especially  as an adult is they will begin with uh with

writing so they will start with writing and then  move forward to maybe hearing some sounds or some  

kind of listening and maybe finally speaking at  the end uh but what I'm recommending is that you  

actually do the opposite of that which is begin  more with the real language that natives use and  

this is how children also learn the language  so I I don't really like to confuse people or  

or explain too much about learning like a child uh  but there are certain things you can take from how  

children learn and this is one of those things so  when children are First Learning the language they  

spend a lot of time listening because they can't  read or write yet so obviously they're getting the  

opposite kind of pronunciation and so it's very  surprising for many children as they get older  

and they start learning to read and write that oh  that like we don't actually like we we don't say  

got to like children children might write this  as like like I got to do something so they're  

beginning from the end with how people actually  pronounce the word and or this two words in this  

case so I have got to becomes I got to so I got to  need I got to do something I got to do something  

so they're beginning here and then they're  actually working backwards to the writing  

so you don't have to take everything from how  children learn the language but this is one of  

those things that really is important to do so as  you're learning uh a lot more of the the native  

English um the doubts that a lot of people have  usually come because they start learning this  

way and then move forward instead of learning  backwards and moving back by understanding the  

the the sound of the language first and then  hearing how it's written so it is possible to  

do both but the the tricky thing is if you spend a  lot of time beginning with reading and writing and  

maybe just hearing some slow easy clear teachers  it's going to be much more difficult for you when  

you try to listen to much more advanced everyday  conversational speech so the first question or  

the one of the three most common questions I get  is why can I understand English teachers but not  

understand Natives and this is the problem that's  the reason for that excuse me so uh if you've  

been learning like this in school then right now  you should be taking this and trying to reverse  

the process going back from the regular way that  people are speaking and then and working backwards  

from that so it's okay uh you don't have to spend  a lot of time just listening to Native content but  

you should be getting native content plus making  sure you understand what people are saying the  

point is incorporating or adding the actual native  content into what you're learning okay so I I'll  

see if anybody has any questions about that uh  but the basic idea again is that children develop  

a good sense of listening first and that's one  thing that you should be adding to the way you  

learn rather than trying to begin with reading  and writing which is the opposite of what people  

uh what people typically do all right let's see  here if anybody has any questions or comments but  

look that nice to see everybody there I'm going  to try to go through this very quickly Tom zzo  

and Susan there uh Japanese is fun to learn yeah  Japanese uh is an interesting language for sure  

uh actually I'm I'm glad I I started with English  and went to Japanese because English feels a bit  

more confusing to me uh starting with Japanese  first I suppose like learning the the Japanese  

characters is really much more difficult than  learning the English because there's so many  

more uh written Japanese characters but the  language is actually quite logical and easy  

to understand as you see there Louis uh as said  I have watched all live videos approximately  

240 hours oh my goodness I'm a member of the  blueprint Set uh so I know Tom and Nils but  

they don't know me I guess know all constantly  follower it's interesting isn't it yeah it's  

it's interesting to see I'm always happy to have  uh people I like to see people people who want  

to continue learning and I I I try not to give  you the same content again and again I'm trying  

to make sure people understand the foundation of  things and I often express that in different ways  

but it's taken me a long time just to explain  this process to people but uh the general idea  

is that you want to be uh destroying any  doubt it's really the doubts that stop you  

from speaking so most of the reasons that people  have uh when they struggle to speak or if they  

don't have any speaking chances they're worried  about not being able to speak when they do have  

the opportunity so it doesn't matter whether you  have chances to speak or not most people are not  

able to speak because they have some kind of doubt  that was kind of a long confusing explanation but  

the the point is that doubt is the real thing that  stops people from speaking so instead of trying to  

force yourself to speak it's much easier if you  just eliminate the doubt first and so that's what  

uh this is one technique you can use use to do  that so uh when you're like a lot of people they  

spend time only Listening to English teachers like  they're only watching Maybe videos like this uh  

instead of also getting other content that helps  you really prepare for lots of native speech uh so  

it could be hearing uh the real content people  use uh in everyday life or it could be movies  

or real conversations between people whatever it  is but you need to make sure you understand that  

and then you still understand exactly what people  are saying okay so if you only get one of those  

things like you're just only learning the reading  uh or writing uh in in your English classes but  

you still have trouble understanding natives then  this is something you should be doing you should  

be listening to much more native content but  just make sure you do it systematically it's  

not just listening to random content you need to  be listening to lots of different things related  

to the same thing that really prepare you to  understand that in real life all right right uh  

let's see if any any other questions I knew this  would be this would be like it's a pretty short  

video so I'll leave the rest of this time for you  guys look at that I did that one really quick all  

right uh or if maybe uh like Tom and Louis you  guys are just speaking to each other over there  

you guys can enjoy that uh remember you're never  late for live videos because you can just watch  

them anytime so hopefully you guys can just go  back uh if you have any questions you can post  

those in the comments below but you can always  watch these that make them available anytime so  

you don't need to stay up and watch it at 3:00 in  the morning or whenever whenever you're watching  

this let's see L Max says I'm learning English  in I've spent a lot of time trying to improve my  

pronunciation but I don't get the sounds that are  not in my native language yeah that so that's a a  

common issue like the the Japanese example here  uh if a sound is not in Japanese it's much more  

difficult for people to produce it but if you  listen to lots of different examples of natives  

producing sounds and you you can focus on uh not  only the individual sounds but also hearing how  

they blend together then you can uh understand how  to make these sounds better so I don't know what  

to do because I can't make these sounds um I've  I've done lots of videos about pronunciation uh  

I guess this video is kind of about pronunciation  but I often talk about um the basic idea is called  

sound transitioning so to transition means to move  from one thing to an to the next I'm going to draw  

a little musical scale here for people just so  you understand this uh so this is what I'm I'm  

going to draw this badly so don't get angry at  me I'm going to draw this as a this is supposed  

to be a a music note or not a music note but the  treble cleff over here and we've got some music  

notes over here look at that some beautiful music  so uh if I if if I want to learn how to sing and  

I have trouble producing certain notes then like  let's say uh my my music teacher they say okay I  

want you to sing this note and I I don't actually  I can't read music so I don't know what this note  

is I'm sure somebody could tell me what this is  but let's just say imagine this note is ding like  

e whatever and I don't know if that's correct or  not that's it's not really the point but so let's  

say this note is d e like that sound and and the  teacher then says okay try to make like B like a  

different a different note up there it's more  difficult for me to try to hit specific notes  

just by copying the teacher but what is easier  for me to do is to try to transition my voice like

d like that I could so I could move up and down by  just making slight adjustments in how I make the  

sound to go up and down until I hit that pitch so  if I hear someone like me and then I'm like okay  

like that that that sounds like it's correct so  the same kind of thing there that's for matching  

the pitch uh and you you also you can do the same  thing for uh like if you're trying to figure out  

how to make a sound it's just moving your mouth in  different ways until you get it like let's say I'm  

trying to learn some language that has I don't  know like clicks like some some kind of sound  

like that that is is not in English usually uh I  could practice just trying to make a sound that's  

similar to that and moving that moving that  moving that like mouth moving my mouth or my  

tongue or whatever until I get that sound so it's  the same thing you can do if you kind of close to  

something then you can transition to it just by  moving your mouth in slightly different ways until  

you hit that sound so it could be the pitch or it  could be the uh like the the just the way you're  

moving your mouth because that that's all it is I  mean you you could be born in uh in Italy and then  

learn how to speak Italian and how to pronounce  it just because you're listening to lots of other  

people and you develop a way of doing that by  watching them speak so if I can do that and  

then like if I go to uh Russia and I'm trying to  learn how to speak Russian and I start changing  

the way I speak a little bit I I could mimic that  sound pretty quickly just because I'm using sound  

transitioning in this way so if you're trying  to figure out how to to sound more like a native  

especially if you have sounds that are not in your  language this is what I recommend you do so pick a  

sound that's close or whatever the you know the  particular letter sound if it's like a c or I'm  

I'm moving my mouth around until I can hit that  way of producing it but it's a series of steps  

like oo like that so rather than trying to hit a  specific sound focus on something related to that  

if something is close enough and then try  moving your mouth or the pitch of your voice  

in a slightly different way uh until you get to  whatever the the particular sound you're trying  

to make all right hopefully that makes sense so uh  in general pronunciation is basically two things  

you've got the individual sounds uh and then  you've also got listening to the way words blend  

when you hear them normally spoken like got to so  I got to do something I have to go do something I  

got to do something something like that so you'll  learn both of those things uh from getting lots  

of examples from native speakers so spending  more time with natives uh and then also again  

this sound transitioning idea people are in the  comments are talking about Frederick you can click  

on the link in the description to get that so that  will take you through the same process as well  

going through all the different sounds of English  and showing you how to to blend them the same way  

uh natives would blend them as well so click on  the link in the description if you'd like to do  

that but that's really everything you need if you  want to become uh able to pronounce certain things  

that you don't have in your language also if you  enjoy the app and you have not reviewed it yet  

please I would love you to uh go to the App Store  and leave a review for Frederick I would really  

appreciate that all right uh let's see present  perfect more present perfect present perfect more  

perfect this way Louis let me know if you have a  question about that because we do have uh influent  

for life we have uh sections on that uh Marcel  nice to see you there all right well yes yes and  

was able to learn the r sound thanks to that glad  to hear it yes if you enjoy the app please do uh  

please do look leave a review on the App Store uh  let's see grow up with me says do you make live  

chat every day no we do not uh but remember uh  you don't have to spend a lot of your time doing  

live chat with people you just have to eliminate  the doubts I think somebody asked a question about  

that uh but yes usually like once or twice a week  I will try to do that uh and Lewis says Drew draws  

you would say drew draws with an S there Drew  draws very well yes my my drawing is is okay my  

problem is I I don't want to spend a lot of time  drawing pictures here because people don't really  

care as long as they get the idea uh so seon says  how can I improve my pronunciation and accent  

so I just explain that hopefully that makes sense  Jimmy elaia says I don't understand what you mean  

about avoiding doubt in order to improve speaking  out to improve uh improve fluency out improve  

speaking with I don't know I maybe you made a  typo in there uh but let me talk about doubt  

very quickly I talked about this idea in maybe  it was my previous video or the one before that  

um but this is the this is the basic idea for  people developing fluency and the reason people  

are looking for help and the reason I help people  so I'm going to explain all this is simply as I  

can to make sure all the new people uh or anyone  that still doesn't understand this idea I really  

want to make sure you do because it really can  change your life if you understand this okay so  

I'm going to I'm going to just lay this out very  simply so number one so you want to speak fluently

so that's the goal you want to speak fluently  everybody's on the same page I don't think  

anybody disagrees with that if you are here  watching these videos this is probably the  

reason so you want to improve your fluency you  want to understand English better you want to  

communicate better for your life impressing  people getting better jobs or just having  

good conversations with the people already in  your life all right all right so number one you  

want to become a fluent English speaker number  two but here's the problem okay but the problem

is you can't speak because like for these  couple of reasons so the problem is you

can't or speaking is just difficult in  general because and I'm going to put uh  

four basic buckets of of people here so these  are the kinds of people or usually people have  

one of these four problems and this is  what stops them from speaking so you are

introverted or shy so it feels unnatural  and uncomfortable to speak maybe even in  

your native language okay uh the next  reason why people have trouble speaking  

is because they think or they're  waiting to speak uh they don't know

enough they don't know

they don't know enough English they don't  know enough English the basic idea here is  

that people are waiting to know more words  like they already know this many words but  

they're they're still waiting until they know a  few more to really feel confident about speaking  

okay uh next is they actually have problems with  communication so we'll just say communication

so communication problems and this is everything  that could go wrong when you try to speak so  

you forget words you get stuck you have to  translate in your head when you speak maybe  

you're unsure about grammar or pronunciation  or whatever all of these things actually stop  

you from speaking so even if you have speaking  opportunities you could be living with natives  

you could be married to natives you could be  having conversations with people every day but  

still not feel confident and fluent all right so  you're still having communication problems and  

that's what stops you from speaking uh and then  the final thing uh is you have no chance to speak  

now if you have any other reason why you might not  be fluent let me know but for the 20 years I've  

been teaching these are the four main ideas or  the four main groups of people the kind of reasons  

that people will tell me why they can't speak all  right but if you look at all these things the the  

real problem with all these is actually doubt  it's not the problem like people think it is  

it's not like oh I'm shy or introverted because  even people who are shy or introverted they can  

can typically speak well when they're feeling safe  and they're talking with close friends or whatever  

they have no problem speaking so the problem is  not you know just being shy or introverted because  

those people can speak well when they have the  right environment and then the next group is the  

people who don't know enough the real problem  is they're not actually confident about the  

vocabulary they know so instead of actually  becoming confident about that vocabulary they  

just continue to learn more and this process  is is basically infinite like you will just  

keep learning more and more but never really  knowing the vocabulary well enough to use it  

confidently all right so the real problem here is  doubt again the real problem here is doubt you're  

uncertain about your vocabulary and of course uh  that problem is obvious for uh the people who have  

communication excuse me communication problems  in conversations so anytime you're you're trying  

to speak but your mind goes blank because you  forget a word again that's a doubt about how  

to say something that's a doubt about what should  I use in this situation or a doubt about how do I  

connect my my speech so that I can communicate  fluently those are all doubts all right so you  

like this is kind of the most obvious to see for  this for this group of people the people who can  

uh have speaking opportunities and for the people  with no chance to speak uh they're worried that if  

they don't speak enough they will not be prepared  when they do speak okay I know that sounds a  

little bit weird but like let's say I'm living  in a in a like in a forest on a mountain and I  

have no one to talk with then My worry is that  I will not feel prepared if I do have someone to  

speak with so I need to have some kind of speaking  practice um and and basically all of these people  

here like they're worried that they have to speak  more or spend more time like learning more of the  

language in order to get fluent but the real  problem with all of these things is actually  

doubt okay so again the introverted person doesn't  have a problem speaking when they feel confident  

like they know somebody well and they can be  talking with close friends they don't have an  

issue with speaking it's not a problem so the  real problem is more like feeling uncertain or  

if you're unsafe or you're just not sure about the  people you're speaking with so you feel a little  

bit like uh you're not able to to communicate with  people very well so you just don't say anything  

now if you think you don't know enough the really  the real problem is that you're just not confident  

about the vocabulary you already know so how  would learning more words help you if you know  

a th words already and you're not fluent in that  vocabulary why would you become fluent in a th 10  

words or whatever all right and then of course  the people with communication problems their  

heads are just filled with doubt all the time  uh they're trying to speak but a little voice  

in their head asks am I saying things correctly am  I pronouncing things correctly uh are people going  

to judge me or laugh at me about speaking and  then the people with no chance to speak they're  

really just imagining oh no if I don't speak then  I won't be able to improve all right so these are  

the four reasons if you have any additional if  you think you you can't speak because of some  

other reason I'd love to hear it uh but these  are the main four that I've heard from people  

all right so when we look at this like the problem  is not being introverted it's not your personality  

or the number of vocabulary or like the size of  vocabulary the number of words you know uh and  

it's not even about how many chances you speak  all right like how many opportunities you get to  

speak the real problem is you feel uncertain  about speaking speaking so that when you're  

in a conversation when you do have a speaking  opportunity you're unable to express yourself you  

have doubt you don't have certainty and confidence  about what you're saying so the real problem is  

doubt all right so you want to speak but you have  problem speaking because of these issues and it's  

really doubt so when you understand that doubt  is the real problem now now we can we can change  

our whole way of thinking so here like most  people have they kind of get stuck with these  

things because they think so we're going to put  this as three here uh so you think you need to

speak to develop writing  very poorly over here to to

develop but even people who do speak they still  don't feel confident and fluen so what's the real  

problem it's doubt so what you're trying to do  here if I can I'm kind of running running out  

of space over here it's like you're you're over  in this area and you want to become you want to  

become fluent you want to get to this area over  here so right now you probably know a lot of  

English you can understand what I'm saying  but you lack actual conversational fluency  

and so how do you get from over here to over  here now people think they are stuck because  

they can't speak it's like look I I want to  speak and I can't speak because of all these  

reasons over here so instead what we want to  do is not force ourselves to speak or if you  

obviously have no chances to speak you can't do  that anyway uh but when you erase the doubts you  

have first this builds a bridge very comfortably  and easily so that you can get over here and  

finally feel comfortable speaking so the point  is not to not to like not speak we want to get  

you to the point where you feel comfortable so  you should feel comfortable before you have a  

conversation and so this is why I talk a lot about  uh eliminating doubts whatever doubts you have it  

could be doubts about pronunciation doubts  about how to connect words doubts about uh I  

don't know like other people judging you because  of how you speak if you can eliminate all those  

doubts and the nice thing is you can do that by  yourself so you can prepare for conversations you  

can feel prepared for other conversations If you  eliminate the doubt first and so all the lessons  

I do it's all trying to eliminate these different  doubts each person will have different problems  

or different issues or different questions but the  point is in general it's just eliminating doubt so  

let's say one person uh they feel good about one  sentence but one word in that thing is um they're  

not sure if they're using that correctly or maybe  the pronunciation is wrong or something like that  

that doubt will stop them from speaking so if you  can eliminate that doubt by feeling confident if  

you know what you're going to say is correct  before you speak then you will start speaking  

okay so the real problem is not it's not these  like these things that you think it is because  

all of these assume that the only way to become  fluent is to try to to try to force yourself to  

speak all right so instead of forcing yourself to  speak eliminate the doubt first and then you will  

feel a lot more confident when you do speak so  lots of people maybe even have no chances to speak  

and that doesn't mean you can't improve you can  improve even if you have no chances to speak just  

by learning more and understanding the language  better so you eliminate any doubts you have and  

that way when you do speak you will feel much more  confident and certain all right let me know if  

this idea uh doesn't make sense but the point is  people think they have these issues here that are  

stopping them but really these are only stopping  you if if the only way to get fluent is speaking  

but that's not the only way to get flu let me  draw this another way for you uh I'll erase all of

this this is a good good workout over  here to try to erase all this blue

I want you to think about it let me see here  let me use red can people see red if this is  

Red Enough okay it's hard to erase too all right  uh so let's imagine here we've got a mountain and  

the flag is up here and this is where you want to  get this is all all the people having a party up  

here talking communicating fluently that's where  people want to get now what people usually do is  

like they're taking this path up here trying  to get to trying to get to fluency and you  

know you you see lots of people on this path lots  of people are they're dying or they struggle they  

stop you see people falling over you know people  don't make it up the mountain all the way some  

people do so you do see some people get to the  top here but it's uh really difficult for people  

to do that it's very difficult for people  to do that so lots of people think and this  

this is really the the typical way that people  learn where they're trying to uh understand like  

the the kind of typical things that people do to  learn a lot of this is forcing yourself to speak  

or if you just think oh no I don't have anyone to  speak with so what can I do and those people are  

just kind of sitting down here and maybe they're  trying to watch some videos or something but they  

don't really feel that when they speak that they  will be confident and that's the key right there  

at the moment moment when you speak do you feel  confident like when I go to Starbucks like I  

talked about at the beginning of this video if I'm  in here in Japan do I feel confident before I make  

my order and I do and so that's why I'm able  to speak and I don't just speak at Starbucks  

but you know I can go around and talk with people  anywhere here in Japan uh and that's because like  

instead of doing this I took this other path over  here so this is like what I call the strangest  

fluency Secret which is you can actually it's  more like taking an escalator up to the Top If  

you can imagine it like this so you got people  just standing on here like you know it could be  

moms and dads or you know professionals anybody  students that instead of trying to force yourself  

to do all of this difficult work over here you  just eliminate the doubt all right so instead of  

me trying to like get into a conversation and  and use something uh uh like that that like I  

don't feel confident using and people will tell  you over here like yeah just get out and use the  

language just just try to force yourself to speak  be confident now it's easy to give that advice  

and maybe some people some people do they follow  that and they they really try to force themselves  

um to speak but it's just much easier if you just  get on the escalator over here and the escalator  

will pull you all the way up automatically even  if you don't have people to to practice speaking  

with all right so the key is not speaking it's  being prepared for when you do speak all right  

let me draw this little like Bridge thing again so  you're over here and you got fluent communication  

over here how do you get there so like people  think like I can just I got to just like kind  

of jump over there and hopefully I make it but  most people do not you know they're struggling  

to communicate they don't really understand the  language very well in instead you build a bridge  

like this and you just walk across it which is  like this escalator right here so you're you're  

able to understand the language better you feel  more confident before you speak so when you do get  

into conversations it's much easier to communicate  with people okay so this is the idea like I just I  

call it doubt in general because it's the opposite  of confidence and uh excuse me when you feel um  

when you feel like you have uh like something  you want to say but you're not sure about how  

to say it then you're going to be stuck and this  is what most people are stuck doing so they're  

trying to do all these things over here uh the  kind of typical way to get fluent and they're  

studying things and and I'm not really drawing  this picture very well but imagine just trying  

to go up a difficult mountain in this way when  it's I mean you do you are like it does take  

some time to get to the top but this is just a  much easier easier way to do that you get on the  

escalator and go up to the top and have someone  guide you up there or uh whether you're learning  

with me or anybody else or someone who can show  you exactly how to eliminate the doubts you have  

and as you eliminate those doubts you feel much  more confident about speaking all right so again  

the point is not to like try to speak to get  fluent it's how can I eliminate my doubts and  

feel confident before I speak wouldn't you rather  do that wouldn't you rather feel confident before  

you speak so if I know I'm going to talk about  something you know whatever that topic is or I  

know I'm going to use this pronunciation or this  grammar point or whatever I should feel confident  

about using that before I speak and if I can do  that then speaking is a lot easier to do okay  

so this is it's not like I'm not talking about  replacing speaking because the goal is speaking we  

want to get you to the top here we want to get you  over here where you're actually enjoying communic  

but I'm just saying most people think this is  the only way to get to the top when look there's  

this other way over here this is like the the  kind of working hard and doing a lot of things  

that probably aren't eliminating doubt in fact  they're probably causing you more doubt that's  

why you see lots of people they get stuck at the  bottom or they make it up a little bit and they  

quit or you know even like you you'll get a few  people that really work hard and get up to the  

top and you know I admire those people who who  went through all that effort but me I'm a little  

bit lazier so I'd much rather if someone could  just make like if I'm trying to learn Japanese  

and someone could make the language very easy for  me to understand and prepare me so that when I do  

get into conversations I feel confident I would  much rather do that okay I'm not trying to work  

hard just to work hard I'm just trying to get up  here so if there's an easier way to do that uh  

then you know that that's what I would much rather  do if the if your if your goal is to have like a  

mountain climb then that's a a separate issue some  people you know they like like as a a challenge or  

something if you want to do that but for me I'm  just trying to have fun speaking with people and  

that's what I do that's the life I enjoy right  now because I learned this way so I used to be  

like this I was like ah how do I do this and this  was this was me for 15 years still trying to learn  

different languages I would learn a little bit  and then quit and then learn a little bit more  

and then quit and go to a different language and  then quit and then I was just like why is this so  

difficult and the problem was I had all these  doubts that stopped me from speaking so I said  

wait a minute like what if I go over here and just  get on the escalator instead and so that's where  

I started thinking about destroying doubt and  that's why I teach people this way instead so  

uh you can find lots of lessons that will explain  grammar to you and help you understand things but  

for me I want to help you understand things and  use it so you feel no doubt you should be having  

no doubt about what you're saying and that's when  you have complete confidence in your English okay  

let me know if this if uh if this idea I'm trying  to explain this in different ways uh to make sure  

everybody gets the idea here uh but hopefully  this makes sense so Jimmy uh elius let me know  

uh if this doesn't make sense the point is before  you have a conversation if you can feel confident  

because you have no doubt when you do speak  you will feel confident okay all right uh let's

see oh Drew I recognize a musical talent in  you says Anette yes I well I actually I sang  

when I was younger I don't really sing anymore  my range is quite limited Bridget nice to see  

you there uh elx or L El Maxi RT says thank you  I realized that I made a lot of mistakes in that  

last message I'm not wearing my glasses I will  do that fortunately I'm studying in an American  

school so I'm listening to English daily yes  remember that when you're listening to English  

be specific and focused and targeted with what  you do don't just listen to a bunch of random  

content listen to a bunch of content about a  specific thing you're interested in okay so  

listen to a podcast about whatever it is you like  and then read something about it and then watch a  

TV show about that same thing that's all going to  work together to develop your fluency all right  

yes and can we each can each word be studied via  naturally vered review sometimes it's hard to find  

examples uh Yes actually you I mean you could do  that if you want to get that specific with trying  

to understand a a specific word um sometimes  when we learn new vocabulary we hear things  

really quickly and we can learn them very easily  like when I I went to I I I told this story in  

I think previous the previous video or the  one before that about going to the Japanese  

hardware store here and not knowing the word  uh for a little piece of wood like this so the  

English word for this uh is a shim uh or you  can call it a wedge and you could spend more  

time getting naturally varied review like there  are different ways you could do that I could hear  

the word from different speakers so just hearing  different people pronounce the word word slightly  

differently each time they're saying it uh but I  really want to make sure that the most important  

point is that I understand the word and I remember  it um so it's the kind of naturally varied review  

that works better with with trying to remember  vocabulary is hearing it in different contexts uh  

and making sure you're still understanding the the  general meaning of the word but the more contexts  

you hear it in the more you develop a web like  like a Spider-Man web you know uh for remembering  

the vocabulary so if I'm trying to remember a  word uh so the uh the Japanese what was that

saabi um that that that was the the Japanese word  I didn't know what it was but I learned it and now  

I remember the word uh from that conversation but  I would remember it even better if I watched some  

Hardware uh shows or people building a house or  fixing something or whatever and people were using  

this vocabulary again and again then it would be  automatic I would understand I would anticipate  

what people are going to say I would think oh  like I know you know they're going to talk about  

saabi over here uh when they have you know when  they're talking about this particular item so  

that's one way you could get naturally varied  review so it's not just about repeating the  

word uh you can also find examples of specific  vocabulary with uish y o u g l i s H so yish

docomo uh or it will find uh examples of that  used in different uh different videos and so  

you can listen to different people you can find  naturally varied review that way as well so we  

also obviously designed uh fluent for life to  to give you this same kind of naturally varied  

review so we don't want to just hear something  one time we want to hear it again and again in  

slightly different contexts from different  speakers at different speeds and all of that  

really prepares you to remember it and to  understand that and feel confident about  

using that in your conversations uh right let's  see we got some more comments here if I missed  

anybody let's see and Tom says let's see I  think someone already or I think I skipped  

that one already uh let's see so hopefully uh  yes and that makes more sense for it also doubt  

between enough naturally varied review doubt  enough naturally varied review is it true it  

it just depends on the specific doubt you have  like if I'm unsure about how to spell a word  

like let's say I I want I want to I'm a native  English speaker but I don't know how to spell very

well uh and so I write I'm trying to write a word  like just an easy word like uh I know like cookie  

so if I write C I don't know how to spell cookie  so if I write c c cookie is that how you spell  

cookie I don't know if I'm unsure about how to  pronounce that or how to spell it uh so spelling  

specifically in this case but if I'm unsure about  that I'm not going to use the word or I'm going  

to try to find another way to express something  uh the spelling the correct uh spelling of cookie  

is a uh like this cookie uh but the point here is  that if you're unsure about anything like getting  

more examples of it is typically the way to help  you understand that so that's where naturally  

varied review works so asparagus is another  example uh maybe you don't know how to pronounce  

or spell something the point is until you remove  that doubt until you end that doubt you will not  

feel confident using that thing so that's for  pronunciation vocabulary grammar anything else it  

could be listening as well so if I hear people uh  like I talked about at the beginning of this video  

about understanding uh natives when they speak so  if I only listen to slow clear teachers when I get  

into a real conversation with someone if I'm not  used to that pronunciation if I'm not used to that  

speed or the way they speak their their accent and  pronunciation all of that then I'm going to have  

a hard time expressing myself okay so any of those  things doubt means like it's a very specific thing  

you can measure that thing either you feel doubt  or you do not um so hopefully that makes uh that  

makes sense with with how people get stuck well  he just got back to me here Jimmy says thank you  

so much it was a great explanation you mentioned  situations I identify with and get me stuck all  

explain makes sense to me I know now where I  am on my English learning and why glad to hear  

yes fantastic so a lot of people they don't know  that this path exists and I didn't for 15 years  

I didn't know this path existed either but once  I found it I said oh wow look at that like this  

is not the only way to become fluent and I've got  kind of I don't know I'm not drawing drawing this  

very well but there are lots of dead ends like  people might try something and it doesn't work  

or whatever but the difference here is that it's  a really difficult way to eliminate doubt but this  

is the very easy way to eliminate doubt because  that's what the focus is the focus is eliminating  

any doubt like not just logically understanding  grammar but really knowing it very easily so you  

understand and can use that thing and so this is  it's just a a representation of that of of how you  

can get fluent by focusing on eliminating doubt  rather than just trying to force yourself to speak  

or to study more or thinking that you know maybe  I can't do anything because I don't have anyone  

to practice with all right so uh the again like  a really nice thing about this is you can do it  

by yourself so don't have to wait for a practice  partner I don't need to have someone to speak with  

just like right now I can explain an idea and  even if you're not speaking back to me you can  

still learn something from this video pretty  interesting right so it's it's just you over  

here you're going to watch this video anytime or  any of my videos and and learn more and eliminate  

more doubt so most of these videos are kind of  bigger picture uh videos about how to actually  

get fluent so how do you eliminate the doubt about  the fluency process process itself okay so yeah so  

the fluent for Life way uh this is what we do I'm  I'm certainly not like the only person who could  

do that like lots of parents get their kids fluent  every day without using the program uh but it's  

for people who do want to get fluent as quickly  as possible and they don't want to spend a lot  

of time trying to learn things by themselves and  teach themselves a language that's what I'm doing  

right now in Japanese because I don't have fluent  for life in Japanese so I have to teach myself  

the language and and I'm it's I'm kind of like I  don't know it's kind of like in the middle I guess  

so ideally you have someone who can just guide  you and show you exactly how to do it which is  

what we do influent for life but it certainly is  possible to do it by yourself it's just a lot more  

effort uh and takes way more time but I'm glad you  understand the process here all right so do let me  

know if anybody else doesn't let's see uh I have  the first three three of those yeah so other like  

the the if you're talking about those specific  uh like the specific problems that people have  

you can also have a mix of those three things uh  Drew how could the sound how how could the voice  

in the head be silenced so the doubt disappears it  just to be confident so you know what something is  

all you have to do is prove this to yourself with  one thing so you prove it to yourself with a word  

that you don't know and then you understand it  and you think oh my my God now I understand what  

that means and now I have no problem using it  so the doubt or the little voice in your head  

about that thing disappears then you just start  doing that with more things and as you destroy  

more doubt communication becomes easier all right  but the point is really to just prove to yourself  

hey if I can eliminate this doubt then I can feel  more confident speaking about this thing and then  

you just do that with more things and that's how  you improve that's the whole process uh let's see  

judge judement uh for other people is the problem  yeah some people like some people have may like  

let's say your your language ability is is really  low but your confidence is naturally high so some  

people are like that like I will just get into a  conversation and start talking with people but I'm  

not actually speaking a language correctly some  people don't care about that they just have a like  

a lot of confidence but most people uh especially  if you need confident correct communication for  

your career like you're working and you need  to send correct emails I can't just type some  

random letters and send that to people I need to  be correct and so for those people it's important  

to them to have confidence in what they're  saying before they say it you don't want to send  

an email and then think after that oh no was that  correct you want you want to be feeling confident  

as you're writing uh so you can work quickly and  you don't have any any issues with communication  

so Tom says welcome Brazil feel free to ask a  question yep uh amazing that's so true glad to  

hear it Sebastian says you're really professional  well I don't know if that's sarcastic or not but  

let's see uh starucks yeah and so that's another  thing uh even Japanese people just say stop up for  

abbreviating that so it gets shorter everything  gets shorter faster and easier until you can't  

like you can't shorten it too much but that's how  we know how quickly like if I if I just like if I  

told a Japanese person like I'm I'm going to today  they would say what what are you talking about  

like that I made it too short but if I say like  stabba ah stabba like you're like you're going to  

like St staba okay people people understand what  that is I'm going to staba all right let's see I  

would climb uh this mountain up uh if there were  some sushi up there I don't know why there would  

be Sushi up there but I suppose all right let's  see uh Paris says you are amazing with the heart  

eyes I love to see that AUST says morning teacher  I started to use your method in my work with my  

students I like how it works awesome great also uh  the highest level you can give them uh depending  

on their age actually you really could use it with  anyone is the ability to discover uh the language  

for themselves so that's why I created Frederick  so students can actually start uh playing with  

the language and discovering the language for  themselves and that makes it like even more  

memorable the point is not really to be lazy  about the learning proc process it's just not  

to make it difficult for no reason so you should  just eliminate the doubt and it's great when when  

you like you as an individual you're trying to  solve a puzzle or you're watching a movie and you  

discover something yourself you feel really great  about that because you made the discovery and when  

you discover something uh that makes you feel a  lot more confident and you remember that thing  

much more easily so uh if you'd like to help your  students even more you should get them Frederick  

you can click on the link in the description  below uh uh below this video to get that pardon  

me as I'm trying to read these comments at the  same time uh Arkham says good morning sir I am  

fisel from Sri Lanka I do consider you such an  exceptional lecture on the surface of this Earth  

uh to do the incredible practical approach of  teaching the language wow that was a that's a lot  

of words but thank you very much it's my pleasure  to help people learn again I know what it's like  

to struggle language learning does not have to be  this way if you just focus on doubt you don't have  

to worry about oh no do I not get enough speaking  opportunities remember even me living in Japan I  

don't spend a lot of my time speaking but when  I do speak I feel comfortable and confident all  

right uh let's see what is the path hopefully  uh Hussein was asking about that so this is the  

typical way people get uh fluent and a lot of  people don't they kind of die along the way or  

they quit or they stop learning or whatever very  very few people get to the top but on this path  

over here it's very easy because especially if you  can have someone else eliminate the doubt for you  

you can just get fluent as quickly as possible  uh but the key is to eliminate those doubts all  

right nice to see you there here and kich says  Yoshi Yoshi a kich nice to see there Yoshi or  

that's or I guess that's the whole island I guess  uh and El Maxi says I will have my dinner by all  

right well enjoy your day D says I'm sure it was a  good behavior to teach us how to have more detail  

in some doubt to overtake to improve the habits  to go there on top of the mountain yes so this  

is it's just an idea about how people normally  get fluent so the goal is up here to have fluent  

communication this is this is the party up here  where you get to enjoy speaking with people have  

lots of fun whether you're at work or whatever  you don't have any struggle communicating and so  

you can try to take the more difficult route or  you can just eliminate your doubt over here and  

that's going to get you flowing much faster  Abdul says good morning teacher could you  

give an advice we would just say could you give  advice advice is uncountable for programmers who  

don't have much time to practice speaking Yeah  so again I mentioned this earlier in the video  

where people think they don't have much time  to practice speaking and like the the I need  

to speak part is over here where I feel I don't  have anyone to speak with so I can like there's  

nothing I can do I have to struggle so the point  is just spend your time eliminating your doubt by  

understanding the language better you spend more  time with the language really and and and you can  

feel it's a very specific concrete real practical  thing if I feel doubt about a grammar point or a  

word or something even in English if I hear a  word and I think I I I recognize that word but  

I don't feel confident using it or I can't spell  a word that's a very specific doubt and I can end  

that doubt it's very easy to once I know what  the problem is I eliminate that doubt and then  

I feel confident using the word that's how you  grow your vocabulary not just learning more but  

actually being able to use those words actively  in your communication okay so yeah whatever your  

specific doubts might be uh that's the thing that  actually gets you fluent all right so you can get  

fluent this way you can try to force yourself to  speak if you're not comfortable uh or if you're  

maybe like this example here uh about not having  anyone to speak with the whole point is uh it's  

just much more difficult to get fluent over here  because this way usually gives you more doubt so  

you spend more time studying grammar but you don't  really understand it very well you don't feel very  

confident using it you're adding more doubt the  whole point of this process is to remove as you  

remove doubt you get closer to fluency and it's  it's a very practical thing you know for sure  

you're improving because oh look I now I don't  have any doubt about that word now here's another  

word or new topic I want to learn about and I I  don't feel confident about that but here's how  

I can do it so it's much easier when you have  that specific Focus rather than just trying to  

like learn more and more and more but you don't  really feel like you're moving closer to fluency  

until you eliminate the doubt it's just much  more difficult all right there are no doubts  

as long as we get knowledge and example on your  live streams yes so again the the things I do on  

the live stream these are generally about helping  people understand how the process works or just  

understanding or answering some questions people  might have about vocabulary pronunciation but I  

try to give examples in every video or stories  or something that talk about eliminating doubt so  

when you when you feel that you really understand  something or you have no uncertainty you feel sure  

100% confident about something then you can use it  all right so that's the thing to focus on uh just  

remember that the the kinds of things I talk about  or even the way I speak this is different from how  

people normally talk in regular conversations  all right so it's it's similar but it's just  

another way of uh again like I can give you part  of that in these videos but to have that bridge  

you need to get more examples of actual natives  talking about the things you want to talk about  

or use using the grammar points or vocabulary  that you have doubts about all right so the  

more uh you get not just me talking but examples  of other people doing things this is what we do  

in fluent for life but uh whether you're in that  program or not this is how you would get fluent  

all right and youf says Hey teacher greetings  from Morocco for me there's no doubt about my  

speaking but the problem is I can't expand my  vocabulary h i i i would probably question that  

like if you if you think you feel confident about  what you have already there's no reason why you  

couldn't learn more because how did you already  feel confident about that vocabulary what what  

would what would stop you from from moving up to  another level it's like if I if I can already do  

this this piece there's nothing different about  adding what what's different about these new words  

over here but typically uh the problem is people  think that they know the vocabulary really well  

but they usually do not I've never met or spoken  with someone that could that was like a really  

good speaker about some things and could not learn  more so most people like they're good speakers and  

they can easily integrate new vocabulary when  they hear it because they're already fluent in  

this vocabulary so I would I would go back if you  think you can't learn more you're you're probably  

just trying to increase your vocabulary but you  still lack some kind of confidence or fluency in  

that if you're already fluent in everything you  really feel confident it should be easy to learn  

new information and I I really tell students uh  not to try to push yourself to learn more unless  

you really feel confident about what you're using  already all right all right well it looks like  

we got to the end of the video uh remember if  you want to get to the top of the mountain it  

is possible to get fluent this way the typical  way people are learning the language it's just  

more difficult and often it creates more doubts  and the doubts are what really stop you when you  

speak okay so even if you you could be married to  a native English speaker you could have lots of  

speaking opportunities every day but if you still  feel nervous or unsure or hesitant about anything  

that's what's going to stop you in that moment  so the the the we call that the Moment of Truth  

when you actually have to speak how do you feel  in that moment if you feel unsure then forcing  

yourself to speak is probably going to feel very  difficult for you but the good news is instead  

of forcing yourself to speak you can spend more  time really understanding the language getting  

more examples of the things that you really  need to understand not just from teachers but  

also from natives who were just using the language  naturally the more you do that the more you will  

naturally become fluent I promise you it works  it's the same way you got fluent in your native  

language by understanding more examples of things  over time that's how it works but it's guaranteed  

the escalator will get you there if you get on  it and stay on it pretty simple all right have  

a fantastic day if you'd like to learn more  about how to do this this is what we do INF  

fluent for Life uh and if you have any questions  you can click on uh or you can just email us at  

info@ English anyone.com have a fantastic day  and we'll see you in the next video bye-bye