Can You Speak English When Alone, But Not With Others? Let’s Fix That! :)

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YouTube see if we're live we are 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 today we're going to talk as always about  fluency but I wanted to talk specifically uh  

this is really a message for people who know a  lot of English and they often try speaking to  

themselves or they feel comfortable speaking by  themselves but they don't feel comfortable when  

speaking with other people and we can fix that  all right uh let me erase the board but you can  

let me know where you're from as usual uh if  you have questions go ahead and put those in  

the comments and I will do my best to answer  those you can let me know where you're [Music]

from most of the videos I make  are just uh answers to questions  

I get from Learners in this one uh we  were actually talking about oh no got

J so most of these videos I just let's see uh  yeah s boy uh so hopefully hopefully people  

are enjoying this I'm going to lose my track  of thought over here my track of thought so  

whenever I I whenever I'm thinking of something  and then I read some comments on the screen I can  

get lost anyway uh so today we're going to talk  about uh how you can kind of practice the right  

way so that you feel confident when you're  speaking with other people as well all right  

let me just look at comments make sure there  are there are any uh let's see Korean please  

oh no I I don't speak Korean unfortunately uh  there are many languages I would like to learn  

Korean is one of them uh just because we do have  quite a few Koreans here in Japan and Nagasaki  

specifically uh but uh I don't know Korea but  morning to everyone uh as usual uh I will try  

to keep the lesson here pretty short and then  you can stay around and answer or get answers to  

questions if you'd like all right uh so I want  to make this very simple because people often  

uh Martin actually asked me do I speak Spanish I  understand a little bit of Spanish uh I did take  

Spanish but I I'm not a good speaker of Spanish  I can only say like three things in Spanish  

I could say what do I remember in Spanish  I could say uh like hola what else

uh that's like the only thing I could say in  Spanish uh but anyway uh so in this video I  

want to make it very clear very easy for  people why this happens uh and I thought  

uh I have some pretty interesting examples that  will help you probably change the way you think  

uh about about about kind of practicing by  yourself learning by yourself uh so hopefully  

uh this should make some sense to you so let let's  just make this very simple so here is the the kind  

of two the two main things uh that people have  when they're when they're learning by themselves  

or trying to speak by themselves uh let's just  make a simple uh chart over here make sure you  

can see that all right uh so the first thing if  you you're by yourself I'll just say uh I'll just  

put you uh so by yourself over here and then we'll  just put uh with other people okay so others so  

when you're by yourself and when you're with other  people and the two main things uh people have when  

they are uh when they are learning or trying  to speak by themselves uh the first thing is

mistakes and the second thing is control all  right so I just want to compare this look at  

this just really make this very clear for people  why uh they feel confident or they might feel  

more comfortable speaking by themselves but less  comfortable speaking with other people and then  

we'll talk about how to fix that issue all right  so the first thing is mistakes so number one if  

you're talking to yourself you don't really know  if you're making mistakes so often maybe something  

might sound right to you because you've been  saying it for a long time but you don't really  

know uh if you're making mistakes probably you  are and often I will get like writing from people  

especially in comments in videos or in emails from  Learners and they will they will tell me uh like  

they are you know they're trying to explain  something they use actually a lot of advanced  

vocabulary or some more difficult vocabulary  but they still make a lot of basic mistakes so  

when they're talking to themselves they might  be making mistakes here but they don't realize  

it okay so that's part of this so it's like if  you're making a mistake we say ignorance is bliss

ignorance ignorance is bliss so ignorance is  like when you don't know something I'm ignorant  

it doesn't mean you're stupid it means it just  means you don't know about something like there  

are lots of English words I am ignorant about I  just don't know the vocabulary so ignorance is  

bliss so it's like when you're happy uh because  you don't really know you're making a mistake  

all right uh and then obviously you can control  so yes over here for being able to control what  

you're talking about all right so if you are by  yourself it's it's easy to see why you feel more  

confident or comfortable because you don't know if  you're making mistakes and you get to control the  

conversation all right pretty simple so obviously  the opposite is what happens when you're speaking  

with other people so here you might be making  mistakes but others are maybe telling you that  

you're making mistakes or you worry that other  people are noticing about your mistakes so  

this is a lot more uh uncomfortable usually for  people because they think oh maybe I'm making a  

mistake in front of other people and they worry  about that uh so this is really like a big issue  

I'll just put an exclamation point there because  people are usually like excited about this this  

is not really the best not really the best chart  I just thought of this this morning as a good way  

to answer this question for people so maybe I can  think of something better but for right now this  

should make sense so remember uh you're making  mistakes probably but you don't realize you're  

making mistakes you don't know it you don't know  what you're saying uh and then you can control and  

over here it's much more difficult to control  a conversation okay so maybe other people uh  

say something and even if you practice one thing  people might say something different so you can't  

control the conversation maybe you can control  what you talk about in general but you don't  

really know what the other person is going to say  or how they're going to say it so as an example  

when I came to Japan uh I learned basic greetings  that was one of the first things I learned like  

good morning is Ohio goas good afternoon good  night those kinds of things but I noticed people  

don't actually speak that way or a lot of them  don't especially young kids uh or old men that are  

casually greeting people uh so like I would say  Ohio Bas in the morning trying to be very polite  

and very like clear trying to pronounce everything  well uh and old guys would say o o it's just like  

a regular greeting but I I looked in my textbook  and I couldn't find that anywhere so this is again  

an example of a situation like greeting someone uh  but I'm not actually prepared for for what people  

are saying or maybe I just just don't know that  vocabulary okay so often when people are trying  

to learn by themselves or they or maybe they what  they think about as uh practicing with themselves  

or practicing to be able to speak with other  people they're often using some kind of dialogue  

so that you look at a dialogue and maybe you  try to repeat back so person a says this and  

person B says this and a and then you repeat  those and you try to say those things back and  

forth and even if you practice those things just  like my example here excuse me I can't control  

what other people are going to say so if I go  to order some food at a restaurant I could say  

may I have this so I want to order a coffee may  I have a coffee or I could say could I have a  

coffee or I could say can I get a coffee so  if I'm practicing with some kind of example  

from a book again I'm not really controlling  that situation uh and I don't know for sure  

what people are going to say so even if I could  maybe memorize a particular thing like this uh  

it's usually very difficult to to become a good  speaker because of that okay so lots of reasons  

I just wanted to make it really clear why you  might feel more uh comfortable when you're by  

yourself but obviously less comfortable  when when you're with other people there  

might be other reasons as well maybe you feel  uh like you're introverted so in an introvert

an introvert is someone who is  the opposite of an extrovert an

extrovert so again someone who's more facing  inside and an extrovert is more facing outside  

so an introvert is more shy they maybe spend  more time with themselves or they don't like  

being in social situations they feel a bit  more shy even in their native language and  

an extrovert is the opposite someone who likes  spending more time with other people and you  

know doing things like that so what I'm I'm  talking about here is really the language  

specifically all right so so problems associated  with the language not just when you uh like if  

you if you it's like if you if you know your own  language well but you feel nervous when speaking  

with other people you will probably have the  same problem with English uh but that's not  

really a language learning problem that's just  a confidence issue and that that's a different  

problem we're not talking about that today uh but  it's also easy to solve if you want to do that  

anyway uh hopefully this makes more sense and now  I want to talk about how uh we can solve this but  

very quickly I want to go back and look at chat  to make sure people are understanding what I'm  

talking about here but it should be a pretty  simple idea where you feel comfortable because  

even if you make mistakes you don't realize it or  you have no one else to say anything or judge you  

so you don't worry about it or you're just able to  control exactly what happens when you're speaking  

with yourself pretty easy and then when you're  speaking with other people you might get worried  

about any potential mistakes you might make uh and  the other thing is you're unable to control what  

the other piece uh the other person says all right  so let's take a look at chat uh and then we'll go  

back and talk about how we fix this issue how you  can actually practice by yourself uh rather than  

trying to uh do the the typical kinds of things  like memorizing dialogues or sentences things  

like that all right uh nice to see everybody there  I'm going to go pretty quickly here uh let's see  

from Al Mori nice to see you there Tom English  or Japanese okay Cam from Thailand nice to see  

you again good morning very early hello from  Brazil says trocando I always get excited when I  

get to say like you know some interesting name in  Portuguese or something great job says Martin oh  

you're talking about my my bad Spanish all right  let's see Sam I have a question my listening is  

very improve but just one problem I couldn't  like you I need to speak much better uh yes  

so I would focus more on understanding we're  going to talk about that in this video oh looks  

like AO uh can speak English or Spanish look  at that who is the the mysterious gono chimpo  

Chon all right hey there uh Hey the link please I  don't know what you're asking for benefactor says  

Hey teacher in May 2023 I was asking you about  donations if you can remember I joined the program  

fluent for life for support and to improve  my English donations asking about donations  

hello I am Sue from Georgia nice to see you there  in English can I say I absolutely enjoy something  

or I quit love don't like something Uh Oh you mean  like quite like not quit but quite Qi t e quite so  

in English uh can I say I absolutely enjoy uh  something yeah you can say you absolutely love  

something or absolutely hate something absolutely  is it's like completely 100% so I absolutely hate  

that or I absolutely love that you can say  that or I quite love something uh or you can  

say I don't quite like that but typically if  you just don't like it we say yeah I don't I  

don't I don't like it very much you can say  that Ben fact I didn't start the program it  

looks amazing and well structured well get in the  program and start learning it's waiting there for  

you we we're always excited to welcome people uh  and we're here to get you fluent so get in your  

lessons and start improving lamb says as long as  people understand what I mean I don't care about  

the details so far yes so it depends uh on the  kind of communication you need so some people  

need to be correct like if they're speaking for  their job or something communication especially  

correct communication is very important  to them uh and again like this is really  

for you you can decide uh individually  what you need to uh to improve for your

situation uh

yeah you you moved you moved to omra use your  English though or your Spanish hello sir good  

to see you again uh Ben Wong says how about  picture dictionary is this a good way to get a  

lot of vocabulary as a native way um Ben that's a  you could do that a thing that's even better than  

that is just using Google do a Google image search  uh this is similar to what we do in Frederick so  

if I give you a word for something uh and it's  also important like I'm going to explain this  

in two ways the first way uh just answering the  question is if you can get lots of different  

images that's better than just a Pictionary a  picture dictionary picary is the name of a game  

actually uh but a picture dictionary so rather  than having a word with one picture it's better  

to have a word in context with many pictures so  if I go to Google and I search the word Bridge  

b r i d g e Bridge uh then I'm going to see  lots of images of bridges and that will help  

me understand what the word means but it's also  important and I repeat this again and again that  

words by themselves don't mean anything they only  mean something in context so it's more important  

uh to get lots of native examples that way within  a particular context for that word so I can talk  

about a bridge like a physical Bridge or I could  talk about a bridge like a connection between uh  

cultures or something like that but in general  if you know the uh the particular context of a  

word then it's a good idea to do a Google image  search so we do a similar thing in Frederick uh  

and you can click on the link in the description  to get that app if you don't have that already  

uh but this is where we have uh multiple images  for each of the words and sentences that we have  

uh so that way or actually each of the words uh  but you some of them you actually create your  

own images uh for those but this is a good way  to understand what words mean all in English by  

helping you understand those things in the context  and even again within Frederick we can't give you  

every meaning of every word but just so you can  understand how to read and write that's the most  

important thing that's what we're really focusing  on uh for listening and pronunciation in the app  

all right um let's see who did I did I why did I  skip over here oh it like skipped oh it took me  

all the way to the bottom again all right I see  uh let's see okay I think I got that one English  

with Tom Hanks so nice yes I know people think I  look like Tom Hanks probably uh Forest Gump I'm  

guessing but the interesting thing is nobody in  America says I look like forested gum even even  

with his haircut I never I never got that uh but  when I was younger people did say I look like Mr  

Bean ban ban Nicholas says I'm an introvert  I don't like to speak with others yes so if  

you just don't like speaking with anybody then  this isn't really a language problem that's just  

more finding a way for you to actually enjoy  communicating with other people if you want  

to Game Money learning English ain't as easy as  many people thinks thinks actually it is quite  

easy uh and that's why lots of people are able  to get fluent but the difficult thing is uh if  

you learn in a way that makes language confusing  it's going to be more difficult for you so you  

you could like spend lots of Years Learning the  traditional way and trying to memorize rules and  

use translations and yes that is the difficult  way to learn the language but I'm going to show  

you actually in this video how to make it a  lot easier for you even if you're learning by  

yourself all right Francisco said hey there uh  and another cam over there being an introvert  

lamb says I'm getting older I don't think that  I'll be perfect in grammar to be fluent is my  

objective thanks teacher yep so like again like  being it's not really about being perfect because  

there are always many ways to express yourself but  typically people will make basic mistakes uh in  

the language and they are worried about that now  if you don't care about making those mistakes and  

you don't really have anything to worry about  uh yeah this ISS good morning o Drew or maybe  

Tom Hanks look at that look at that look at that  let's see I I think I get more Tom Hanks comments  

whenever I just get a haircut uh but we'll see  a says hi from Egypt I'm from Beijing and I'm  

in Ireland uh learning English from a native would  become more easier yes it becomes easier if you're  

learning from a native if that native knows how  to teach you like a native the point is really to  

understand a language like a native and there are  many Native teachers who don't do that they just  

give you more rules and things to help you maybe  memorize some rules I guess but they're not really  

leading people to become more confident speakers  and alisandra says I've been following you for  

over 5 Years glad to hear it hopefully you've been  speaking better and if you know other people who  

would enjoy what I do then click the like button  and then share the video with other people PA says  

thanks for coming back to the lives yeah I've  been doing these for a while uh jander says hi  

greetings from Brazil the video about harsh words  helped me a lot haha obado glad to hear it uh yes  

so that's an example of understanding a language  or understanding even a word specifically I'll  

talk more about that in this video uh like a  native so that was a fluency trigger Pablo says  

how can I teach my daughter she's four years old  uh you should get Frederick click on the link in  

the description below this video to get that so my  own children started using that when they were two  

years old uh and now they can read uh but they  also learn the language as a result uh and we  

also have basic uh basic English language learning  videos that start from absolute zero and they're  

all taught uh the same way I would teach a native  the language so the other thing I would do um  

is uh actually watch content for little kids but  you you have to kind of help them make sure what  

they're watching is understandable because a lot  of that like just showing kids content they might  

pick up a few words and phrases but you need  to spend a lot of time with that especially if  

it's not organized very well uh Ben Wong says  I think I can learn a lot from native speaker  

when you are having a conversation with them pay  attention how they respond that is good advice  

yes so again this is what we do in uh fluent  for life as well so you get to see examples of  

how native speakers are talking with each other  and you learn how to become a master of English  

conversation in the the same way so you see many  many examples of different Natives and that's  

how you improve your pronunciation learn what's  the correct thing to say or even many different  

ways you might Express something in different  situations uh so yes like we we we know that is  

a good way to learn but if you make it even more  systematic by preparing Yourself by understanding  

what people are saying before you have them in  in those in those situations then you learn even  

faster uh these lessons are a blessing in  the sky I really like them glad to hear it  

I know I can do that with Google Lens ah yes uh  that's an interesting thing how to get six in  

ielt test uh I would I would look for people who  focus on that I don't focus on any particular test  

although what I teach does help people improve  their scores on tests like that but look for the  

best advice possible specifically for your test  here says adrew thanks for your lessons what  

caught my attention is learning English as a first  language compared to learning as a second language  

I've been learning a lot thanks and God bless glad  here yes uh it's really just learning English uh  

the same way a native would learn it and so when  you see something the way a native says uh I I  

had like just a quick example of this in uh in  Japanese um like if if people if you're trying  

to translate something in English I'll try to tell  this story very quickly uh but this was a woman uh  

who was uh teaching actually she was actually  teaching some Japanese and she was saying like  

if you buy somebody lunch what do you say when you  buy somebody lunch or what do you say so let's say  

I buy you lunch uh usually the person uh I I am  buying lunch for so I'm paying and you are getting  

the lunch you would say like goo sadish which is  just it's just Japanese for like thank you for for  

treating me or thank you for paying for me thank  you for the lunch uh and typically like if you try  

to translate the situation how I might respond to  that in English uh I might say oh you're welcome  

but uh but when instead of trying to think about  it like a translation you think about it like a  

native and you watch what Native Japanese speakers  actually say and and they don't say that so you  

might have one person uh says like ah go and the  other person just says Ah Zen you know like it's  

okay uh like it was nothing so that's part of the  culture that changes the language and so you're  

saying uh actually like oh it's it it was nothing  uh that I like bought you lunch like don't worry  

about it it's not a big deal so you could say  something like that in English but that's why  

it's important to understand the language in the  language rather than using translations okay so  

that's what I teach uh hopefully that makes sense  but yes uh if you're learning that way you will  

make much faster progress uh and B Wong again I  have heard a sentence from a native speaker I'm  

in a lot I'm in a lot like in a lot of trouble  or something in a lot or like in a parking lot  

I guess it could be uh depending on what the  situation is but that's correct English I'm  

in a lot uh what's up Drew uh your video uh says  TI I didn't maybe didn't finish that comment good  

morning good morning from Pakistan from Vietnam  Namaste and let's see uh Rainer says Hi teacher  

drew first time following your lessons live in my  first time dropping a message over here thanks for  

the hard work you are an incredible teacher it's  my pleasure again click that like button and if  

you know other people who would enjoy this send  them my way so I can help them too Maria says good  

evening uh uh good evening oh from South Korea oh  I love your video uh improve my English listening  

I am Ti from hoim Min City very nice considering  to have a spouse uh who from English countries yes  

so if you you could get married you could improve  your English by getting married you could uh but I  

I have not actually improve my Japanese very much  by being married to a native Japanese speaker in  

interestingly uh and so you would think like oo  I get to learn a lot but most of the time I'm  

just listening and paying attention to my wife  speaking and that's how I learn so I actually  

learn very little from asking her questions  because either she doesn't know the answer or  

she's too busy or whatever so getting married is  not it's not the solution most people think it  

is but if you can you know you find someone see  I like teaching like my you know my wife or my  

kids ask me questions and I like uh taking time to  teach people so if you're going to marry someone  

find someone who also knows how to teach if you  can do that that would be the best but cheers  

is uh Drew hope you're doing very well I am I  want to ask you about something my problem is  

I listen to many different native speakers but I  can't stick to one accent while speaking I end up  

suspecting the right pronunciation uh well focus  on one I don't know what pronunciation you're or  

what accent you're trying to go for but focus on  one particular thing uh Hing Halen I buy a long  

English class before or you mean maybe you mean  like a lot of English classes before uh and never  

work cuz they just want to be sell English class  uh yes so like there there are lots of traditional  

English classes that will teach you the English  language so like you can find that but they  

probably won't help you become a confident speaker  because they're not really helping you understand  

the language like a native okay so if you want  to speak you need to understand English like a  

native and that's what we help people do uh but I  always recommend like anybody who's thinking about  

buying any of my programs if you enjoy what we do  on YouTube you will enjoy the programs because uh  

that the programs are where we go into a lot more  detail and go step by step helping you understand  

vocabulary hearing that from different speakers  all the things you need to prepare yourself for  

real communication uh let's see and estudos says  hi I've been stalking your channel for a while  

your lessons are great carry on glad to hear it  stalk away how long time duration can take from  

basic to fluent speaker well it it it's like try  not to think about it as from from basic to fluent  

it's more you get fluent in individual words  and phrases by how well you understand them so  

I can learn to say go so Sama in Japanese and if  I understand when to say that how to say it again  

I'll talk about that in this video um but I can  do that very quickly and I can learn to do that  

with other phrases as well if I'm understanding  that very well so the key is really to understand  

the language very quickly understanding words or  phrases or grammar pronunciation uh the faster you  

do that the faster you get fluent so you could  go uh for individual words and phrases in like  

less than a minute you could become fluent  in that thing and then you go to the next  

thing and you get fluent in that and that that's  basically how the process works so a lot of people  

like they they learn something a little bit but  they don't really understand it very well so they  

can't use it uh and that's part of this problem  over here where you're maybe feeling comfortable  

by yourself but you don't know what mistakes  you're making uh let's see and good morning Drew  

says hack uh and Co says hello good morning from  Hong Kong learning English as a first language is  

kind of like installing software by root device as  English is second language is kind of installed in  

Software System yeah it's it's something like that  something like that all right uh that was a joke  

sound funny well well well did you better drink  some water often yes I don't like taking breaks uh  

in the middle of videos but if I really need some  I will I will get some all right uh teach can you  

teach us some pickup lines pickup lines well you  don't need me to teach that just just say hello  

to people say hey usually for the the problem  with pickup lines actually all right let me let  

me stop and talk about pickup lines for a moment  because pickup lines is similar to this problem  

over here where you might learn some lines and  try to memorize those like like oh uh those are  

those are some nice I don't know like whatever you  think of like a like what a typical way to start a  

conversation or something like that uh from from  like a pickup line so for people who don't know  

a pickup line uh this is something a man usually  uh would say to a woman when you I don't know see  

her at the grocery store or a bar or something  to try to start a conversation to pick her up  

like we call that like trying to uh trying to you  know start a conversation so you can ask a woman  

for a date um and so often the same problem  uh people learning pickup lines have is the  

same problem language Learners have so they're  trying to memorize these things but they don't  

they don't come out very well in a real situation  and so it's sounds forced and awkward and and and  

the woman is like okay I know like this is not a  real situation here the person is just um you know  

they're they're just kind of using some phrase or  whatever that they learn and it doesn't feel real  

to the person so if I'm teaching somebody like  if I'm teaching young men how to interact with  

women I'm actually teaching them the same thing  that I teach to English students which is notice  

something interesting about the person you want to  speak with and that's how you begin a conversation  

uh I'll tell this this story I've already told  this a few times but we always have new people  

coming to the channel so I thought I'd tell it  very quickly again uh so usually uh there's a  

a Starbucks I go to uh and there there's a a seat  that I like to sit at it's right by the window I  

like to have lots of light and there was a couple  sitting in uh the chair I'll just draw this very  

quickly but this is a good example of this kind of  thing rather than using a pickup line uh you use  

something that's for the person for that situation  so there was a chair here here here here here and  

here and I usually sit in this chair right here uh  but the wife was sitting here and the husband was  

sitting there now this is right at the beginning  uh of the day so it was maybe 9:00 in the morning  

uh and these two uh they were foreigners so it was  a just a couple from America but they were living  

in Tokyo uh and the whole restaurant was open so  the whole Cafe uh was open open and so the wife  

was sitting here and the husband was sitting here  but I wanted to sit in my chair so I could have  

sat in many different places and usually it's  a bit awkward if I just come and sit here next  

to them they're going to wonder why is this guy  sitting over here you know that's a little bit  

you know most people don't do that you don't just  go sit right next to some other people uh unless  

all of the other seats are taken all right it's  like if you're on a like on a street car or a  

train or something and one person is sitting here  if you have the whole bench open you don't just go  

sit right next to somebody else that's a little  bit awkward all right anyway uh so the the kind  

of pickup line and I'm not trying to like pick up  this woman or whatever it's just some guy and his  

wife there but I need to start the conversation  and and and make it a little bit easier for them  

to to think I'm not weird or something like  why am I sitting there uh and so I walk over  

to them and remember this is a Starbucks here  in Nagasaki Japan I walk over to them and I say  

making us sit together they're making us sit  together and so what I mean was like they're  

trying to they're telling all the foreigners to  sit in one place and the woman said really oh  

my and I said no no I'm kidding I'm just I just I  just wanted to sit in this chair so I said no this  

is just my my usual chair so I explained that so I  I broke the ice I was able to begin a conversation  

but not because I'm memorized a line it's just I  I knew what to say and there could have been other  

things I could say but that was just something I  thought was was like funny and I would just see  

what they what they react you know how they react  to that anyway uh so this is me because I'm able  

to communicate fluently I'm able to say something  appropriate for the situation without memorizing  

anything beforehand so I didn't think about that  I didn't plan that in my day I didn't find that  

in a textbook or anything I just found that as  a good way to start a conversation and make sure  

that they know I'm not being weird by sitting  there okay so when I talk with people uh in the  

same way as you develop better fluency what you're  really looking for to meet more people is things  

that you can describe or note something about  the situation so about how both of you are in the  

same situation uh or you know it's interesting  something happened or you know it it it it can  

work a little bit differently when men are trying  to approach women but it's basically the same  

idea all right hopefully hopefully that makes  sense that was kind of a long explanation for  

that but uh I'd rather not teach you a bunch of  pickup lines but I know a lot of people want to  

learn pickup lines and that's okay but I do so we  do teach lots of phrases and especially influent  

for life we have like 13,000 over 13,000 words  and phrases in there uh but again the point is  

not to uh as I'll show you in just a moment after  I get through these comments um let's see but  

that's basically the idea you want to understand  the language well enough to use it all right uh  

so let's see oh says tell us about shadowing yes  shadowing please um I don't really focus on that  

and there are other channels that talk about that  so you can you can go into the nuances of trying  

to repeat after people but um what I always say  is it's much faster like I'll just make it very  

clear for everybody the fastest way to get fluent  in English is to remove any doubt that stops you  

from speaking that's it so the fastest way to  get fluent in English is not to repeat after  

other people I want to understand the language  really well so that I know how to use it and  

that's what's going to get me fluent and again  I'll explain more about how that works uh in  

just a moment but that's the basic idea so if you  are interested in shadowing you can just Google  

that or just search for it right here on YouTube  and we'll find lots of people talking about that  

but I've just found that's not the fastest way to  get people fluent Augustin says hey there I know  

how to write and read English I studied for many  years but I really need to improve my listening  

and speaking nice it just came across your life  well welcome to the party that's exactly what  

we're talking about I'm teaching too glad to  hear it oh Bridget nice to see you there and  

Tom says hi Drew I like your videos I just want  to ask what's the speech rate speed that natives  

use when it comes to speaking it depends on the  speaker also it depends uh you could be in a busy  

City so New Yorkers speak faster than people  who work on a farm typically usually like kind  

of country people are speaking slower and City  people are speaking faster so it depends on the  

person and you will meet some really fast people  and some slow people this is why it's a good idea  

to practice with lots of input from different  natives at different speeds Mar says which book  

is the best grammar book for advanced level in  your opinion uh I don't know much about actually  

learning grammar from a book that way because I  don't recommend doing that um but I don't know  

maybe you can find examples of that see what other  people recommend but that's that's not what I what  

I recommend for that Alexander says I already  bought your Course once and I'm going to buy it  

again the best course of all time I became fluent  I truly am you're going to buy it again oh my  

goodness well actually if you enjoy the course do  send us a testimonial I've got a bunch of videos  

from Learners of them speaking but I'm always like  lazy to put them up on the website I really should  

put them up there uh but if you have enjoyed the  program yeah send us a video of you telling us  

about it and let other people know we're glad  to hear so says do you know Steve Kaufman uh I  

know of him but I've never met him uh but yeah  I think if if we're talking about the L is that  

lingo lingo Steve or whatever his name is I think  Ben W I feel shadowing can't settle the problem in  

speaking uh yes I found something similar I don't  know your reasoning for that uh but typically yes  

like shadowing shadowing is not really the best  way to get fluent because it doesn't really help  

you understand the language better that's that's  the that's the goal it doesn't really eliminate  

the doubt all right me says good morning from  Vietnam I have probably been learning for 8  

months but my level is not increased still B1  when I test how to improve from B1 to B2 listen  

every day sometimes when I do homework uh we'll  talk about that in this video teacher I said to a  

woman are you a vampire because you look like you  because you look thirsty when you look at me and  

she liked it and she said I was a funny guy yes uh  and that can depend there are lots of reasons why  

like a pickup line like that might work uh and  like it depends on how you deliver it and do  

you feel confident saying it you know do you look  good to that woman like and this is an interesting  

thing like typically uh you could like different  people could use the same line and if it's like  

I don't know one person says the same thing but  the woman doesn't like that but another person  

says the same thing and the woman does like it so  it depends on depends on many things Geo nice to  

see you there uh norx says I need English for  academic purpose what should I do well you get  

more academic input for your English uh depending  on specifically what you want to do I want English  

says says uh Mustafa I want English give me the  English yes uh brid says teacher Dre is doubt  

the inner voice making you feel less confident  in speaking fluently yes so doubt doubt means  

it doubt could mean uh like self-confidence it  could be just you don't know the vocabulary so  

you don't know how to express something so if I'm  in a a a room with a bunch of Japanese scientists  

and they're talking about something that I just  I don't know the vocabulary then uh I'm not going  

to feel very confident in that situation so  I have lots of Doubt so doubt it doubt could  

be many different things but that's that's the  basic idea so anything where you are not certain  

about being able to communicate and so that's a  good transition into the the second part of this  

video here I'll just answer Bob right quick Bob  says I've been reading a biography for three some  

months which I think has efficiently extended  my range of vocabul and also made me willingly  

Venture off and talk and write in English  oh well that's good if you're enjoying that  

and S says hola all right well let's talk about  part two of this about how to actually fix this

problem all right so just to review this again  if you're by yourself you will probably feel more  

confident because you don't know if you're making  mistakes and the other thing is you can control  

what other people are saying uh because you're  the one speaking in your mind but when you're  

speaking with other people you maybe don't know  if you're speaking something correctly or saying  

something correctly or not uh so you would feel  worried about that and of course you can't really  

control what the other person says all right  that's the basic idea you could have other  

reasons but these are the main differences between  just you being uh by yourself and you being with  

other people and trying to speak so I thought  this was a good way to talk about uh how you can  

actually improve by yourself uh typically what  people are doing is they're maybe as I gave the  

example before they're usually having some kind  of dialogues like some kind of text examples uh  

and then they try using those things like a pickup  line or they try to memorize those but then in a  

real conversation people say something different  and they're not prepared for that so rather than  

trying to learn uh longer pieces of the language  you want to actually understand these pieces  

uh these small chunks of things it could be  phrases or something even individual words  

but if you understand those things individually  very well then you will feel much more confident  

speaking now when I thought about uh covering this  topic I remembered uh a story from my childhood  

uh about uh it was a like an art teacher uh  explaining about a block of wood and I think  

maybe this was even a story about I don't know  somebody else like a famous artist I don't know  

Leonardo da Vinci maybe um but imagine you have a  a block of wood like this and it could be anything  

it could be a block of wood or stone or something  like that uh but within this there is a sculpture  

of whatever you see in your mind and the goal is  really to eliminate so we start uh like we start  

cutting pieces off of this until the only thing  left is the little shape or the thing inside that  

okay so we we take uh we take a knife or something  and we we start removing pieces of this block  

until we get to whatever that the the sculpture  or that the shape we want to make inside that and  

so you imagine the shape or the thing you want  to make and then you just start removing the  

stuff that is not that and so this is people who  get good at sculpture basically able to see the  

final thing within this already and so each person  maybe they have a block like this and they make  

a different sculpture you make a different you  know it could be a shape or a person or an animal  

or whatever the the design is uh but the point is  you can see that thing in that it's it's always in  

there okay and then you just need to remove what  is not that thing to become this thing okay so  

as we keep removing pieces of this we remove more  of the block we cut it away until finally we just  

have the last thing that's here all right now why  did I think about this story uh I was reminded of  

this because it works really the same way with  speaking and so if you imagine you have a like  

a block same kind of idea like a block of wood uh  within this is a particular thing you want to say  

so you already know what you want to say you're  not really uh the the goal of language learning  

is not really learning what to say because you  already know how to express express yourself or uh  

like like I want to go to the store or whatever we  use language to communicate that but you already  

know what you want to do so you want to go to  the grocery store you want to say someone looks  

beautiful or you whatever that thing is so that  thing is already here the problem is that you  

just need to get rid of the doubt that stops  you from doing that all right so just another  

way of understanding the same idea you might  have doubt about pronunciation you might have  

doubt about whatever the the specific words you  might use but you know what you want to say the  

the essence of the thing the the particular phrase  or the idea uh you know will will will that that's  

really like the thing that will actually help  you uh Express what you want uh with within  

English so maybe like let's say I'm a uh I don't  know I speak Turkish that's my native language so  

I speak Turkish uh and I know what I want to say  or I'm angry I want to express myself but I want  

to do it in English and I just don't know how so  what I would do is see lots of examples of natives  

expressing themselves and getting angry and then  what do they say how do they say it all right so  

maybe uh like in in frustration so if I'm feeling  frustrated that's the thing I want to express here  

uh in Japanese as an example uh like a child  gets frustrated and they say like Baka Baka is  

like it's like something is stupid or you know it  doesn't make any sense Baka uh and so like I see a  

bunch of people say that same thing like my wife  says like Baka like Baka my daughters say that  

or I hear somebody else and each time I hear one  of those examples I'm removing a little bit more  

doubt about what words to say how to express it  what the pronunciation is what the grammar might  

be if I'm using that in a particular sentence  and as I understand this better as I remove  

all this doubt I become fluent in that thing  okay okay so the fastest way to get fluent is  

to remove the doubt that stops you from speaking  it's like a it's a negative process because you  

already know what you want to say but you just  don't know like the exact words or maybe you are  

you are nervous about pronunciation so maybe you  do know the words but you don't know what's the  

intonation or the pronunciation of that um and so  getting more examples of this thing if you learn  

individual words and phrases this way you will  feel much more confident and then the trick is  

to link these things together in a conversation  and as you see them and you as you as you learn  

these individual words and phrases you get to  understand them very well you will naturally  

become able to do this and connect these things  automatically in conversations okay so we're  

going to contrast these two ways of learning  here the first one is uh we we can kind of  

ignore learning by yourself but the the typical uh  learning English as a second language is again we  

might have a dialogue you know AB a b and we're  we're talking back and forth like this um and  

so you might try to memorize that but you know  this this is a unique conversation that may or  

may not happen in the real world and if you're not  prepared for this or you're not prepared for how  

natives might use those words so I could write  a dialogue up here but natives would probably  

express it differently or they' say faster or  maybe the pronunciation would be less clear all  

right so maybe I hear a a dialogue that starts  with hello and I try to memorize that so okay  

I know hello but maybe in a real conversation  someone says hey or someone says hi or someone  

says what's up or just sup sup sup it's like sup  Su and if someone just said that to you you might  

think oh my goodness what what is what what is  this person saying to me but because instead  

of trying to memorize a bunch of things like this  you really focus on situations and understand what  

people say in those situations and I promise you  as you get more examples as you remove the doubt  

from that thing the the fluent thing whatever that  vocabulary or that grammar point or whatever you  

now own that and then you can by seeing how it  works with other things you learn how to connect  

these very easily okay so hopefully that makes  sense rather than trying to memorize like some  

longer examples of sentences I really want you to  get very fluent I really want you to understand  

the vocabulary very well and that way you will  naturally begin to link these things together  

without thinking about it all right so I might say  like hey uh what are you doing today and uh like  

I'll see you soon okay so I know each one of those  pieces and I know how to put them together uh when  

I'm just in a conversation without thinking about  it so I'm not translating I'm not hesitating to  

think about rules I'm just using everything well  because I understand the individual pieces really  

well okay so this could be uh specific words and  I understand those words for those contexts so  

it's not just a word I think I had a question  before about like what a word means uh but the  

the definition of a word changes for the context  I think it was like the harsh example so I did  

that in a different video that was uh how to speak  fluently about almost anything you should watch  

that video too if you have not seen it uh but  that's uh talking about the same thing where we  

spend more time really trying to understand what  a word means and not by translating it but by just  

getting lots of examples so this is how you learn  English as a first language you understand these  

individual pieces and then you just automatically  begin connecting them in real life because you  

know the pieces so well you also know how those  pieces might fit together okay so that's how I  

can I can walk up to some people I don't know  and and begin a conversation with them because  

I I know how to use the language and connect the  language to the situation because that's how I  

learned the language I learn the language from  situations I didn't learn The Language by trying  

to translate from one language into English I just  learned English in English and I do the same thing  

in Japanese I learn Japanese in Japanese okay now  if I could go back uh and like learn Spanish or  

French or the other languages you know that I I  didn't learn very well uh I could probably learn  

them like that and get fluent in them very quickly  if I had someone to teach me or there was a way to  

do this U but that's the basic idea so if you are  learning by yourself rather than thinking about  

practice as like a way to take maybe phrases  or something and repeat them spend a lot more  

time just getting many more examples of these  particular things and if you feel any kind of  

doubt about something thing so if you're you've  got your your box you know your your kind of cube  

or whatever like of uh of whatever material is  and you're getting rid of the doubt okay yes I  

know how to pronounce that but I still don't know  maybe I need to practice it with different tenses  

or something um but as you remove all that that's  where you really feel confident and you know you  

personally know if you feel confident using  something or not because you use it and if you  

don't feel confident then you will not use it it's  really that simple so that's that's what fluency  

means where you you basically remove all of the  doubt whatever doubt you have and that could  

be doubt about pronunciation grammar uh again  like the maybe the word order or the sentence  

structure whenever you might be using something  but the point is if you have doubt remove that  

doubt destroy that doubt get rid of that doubt  and then you will finally use it fluently and  

again we get fluent in individual words and  phrases as we understand them really well if  

we don't understand them really well we won't use  them so I could have one thing that I understand  

really well and I say that but this other thing I  don't know it very well so I don't say that so you  

don't really get fluent in English you get fluent  in individual words and phrases as you understand  

them well and then if you do that you can connect  them automatically because that's really what  

fluent is it means you understand how to use  something well the correct way to say it how  

to respond when someone says something like that  to you all of those things come and they come as  

you get more examples of those things not as you  try to repeat them to yourself like where you're  

imagining yourself speaking with other people  okay so even if you're in a classroom with another  

person or you're practicing with a teacher it's a  different situation than how people communicate in  

the real world all right remember even if I have a  teacher to practice with that's not probably it's  

it's it's going to help me understand the language  better and it will help me understand that teacher  

all right but if I get into the real world so lots  of people take lessons with Native teachers and  

they still don't communicate fluently because  oh like wait a minute the actual people speak  

differently than my teacher does so even me  even these examples here it's really just to  

help you understand principles of learning but  I'm doing this in a very slow and clear voice  

so you can understand what I'm saying but in a  real life I would be speaking differently okay  

just like I'm speaking differently to you know my  college professor or on a job interview or talking  

with a friend I'm speaking differently with those  different people so rather than uh thinking about  

typical practice where you're speaking to yourself  you don't really need to speak to yourself if you  

just get lots of examples of other people speaking  because those are the things that are going to  

remove the doubt all right all right let me go  back and check chat make sure everybody is on the  

same page uh with this let's see here all right  uh let's see Musta says nice to meet excuse what  

time is the live English class typically these are  Mondays and Thursdays around this time uh Japan  

time uh Leba says hello I'm from Prague Czech  Republic but in Kyoto now uh and kazawa and Tokyo  

Fe a few days ago wow enjoy your time in Japan  it's a little bit rainy now we're just getting  

into the rainy season uh we've got like I don't  know two weeks of rain now for the weather report  

uh let's see someone I am from Saudi Arabia I  hope today's lesson will be long too you hope  

it will be long well it's already going an hour  I I don't I don't want to speak for too long the  

point is not really to have a long lesson um but  I just want to make sure we clear up any doubt  

that people have about things that I'm teaching  so whether it's vocabulary or whatever I like to  

solve that for people I have a nice see there from  Brazil anti demon hey man I watched your video  

like a week ago which in formed that learn to  hear first before speaking that's absolutely true  

yes uh and that's again the same way natives learn  the language so if you look at little kids they're  

not speaking they're spending most of their time  listening to other people and when they understand  

something well then they say it all right that's  that's basically uh what what happens with people  

uh learning English by themselves uh let's see  and benefactor again as a suggest how about making  

proverbs in explaining their meaning this would be  great uh Proverbs well I've done like videos about  

stuff like that we also have lots of that INF  fluent for Life uh plus I mean you can find lots  

of examples of Proverbs uh and it would be better  actually like a lot of people are looking for new  

content when uh there's lots of content already  available that you have probably not seen so if  

I want to learn a proverb it would be better for  me actually to watch a video on YouTube for kids  

that's teaching that particular particular thing  all right so I could watch like some esops fables  

or uh some like myths or something like that for  kids but something that usually teaches some kind  

of lesson and again I want to spend more time  with that like let's say I just want to learn  

a proverb I could get a book that has a list of  these things and maybe some translations of it  

but that's not really very my brain is not very  excited about that but my brain would be excited  

about seeing a story that teaches things the same  way little kids understand lessons like that too  

so I would do that with English there's already  uh plenty of content like that for kids especially  

and you can just find stories about whatever like  my uh my older daughter Arya likes the story of  

The Emperor's New Clothes or the midest touch or  the princess and the pee or Rumple stil skin or  

other things like that these are just fairy tales  and Other Stories that usually teach some kind of  

lesson and you can find typically different  examples of people telling those stories on  

YouTube I would spend my time doing that if you  want to understand some Proverbs uh let's see  

let's see here and again I've been learning  English by myself for two years and I was  

surprised how fluent I was when I was talking to  a tourist very nice uh great teacher I'm Somalia  

please gift me English America well there you  go listen and now you got it now watch Jordan  

Peterson's videos with no subtitles first and then  I turn on a sub to pick up some vocabulary which  

I send to chat GPT to review while watching the  video again very good well look at that you are  

uh taking control of your English and again you're  destroying the doubt that's how you do it uh some  

people will say y'all when they see each other  yep I say y'all y'all right you all so again y'all  

like how are y'all doing I say y'all a lot I don't  really say y'all in these videos but I I I'll I  

will often say it when I'm speaking with people  I have kind of a a like a southern a little bit  

Southern way of speaking some people say Richard  says I can express myself when I need to but I  

have a bit of doubt about my confidence in English  speaking Yeah so that's typically uh just doubt  

about pronunciation or whatever for particular  words or phrases so if you remove that doubt just  

think about what is what is the doubt specifically  if you spend a little bit of time thinking about  

that uh you will you will think oh like okay I'm  I want to say this word I know the word but maybe  

I'm not I'm not sure about how to pronounce it and  in that case I would just get lots of examples of  

how people pronounce the word so you go to uish  y o u g l i s h uh you put that word or phrase  

in there and then you will hear different people  saying that thing and that's how you do it uh or  

you know you could maybe use chat GPT to get uh  different examples of of grammar for something  

so I want to know like how do I like how do people  talk about this in the past or something like that  

so you don't necessarily neily want to memorize a  rule but you want to understand it like a native  

and how a native would use it in a different  situation C says but sometimes the meaning  

of words can be complicated to be understand so  searching the meaning by translator can shorten  

the time to understand it uh yes and no I mean  you you can you can do that there again if you  

take the faster way it's probably going to lead to  slower progress in your fluency so you might get  

a like the meaning of some word and sometimes  you know that's that's just the fastest way  

to do it but you really want to make sure after  that that you get lots of examples of something  

uh all in English so all in the language you're  trying to learn raml says what's the difference  

between figure out and find out uh typically  figure out usually means like there's there's  

more work you're doing in some way so you're  you're trying to think about a problem uh but  

find out like maybe you just heard something from  someone so both of those could mean uh that you  

you're getting some information you're discovering  something but trying to figure out usually means  

you are the one uh doing some kind of or it takes  some kind of effort P says thanks a lot this class  

is amazing glad to hear it remember to click  that like button and let other people know share  

the video benefactor I watched a lot of Jordan  Peterson's videos and I became depressed I can  

only listen to Drew to learn English and Andrew  Tat's motivational video Jordan Peterson bless  

his heart yeah Jordan Peterson is an interesting  uh interesting guy uh I'll leave that there though  

let's see Kitty says hello everyone hello from  Bali and K with a smiley laughy face Abu says  

can the listening skill improve the speaking  skill kindly I need an answer yes uh and again  

the the goal is not it's not just to listen it's  to understand the language well and part of that  

comes from listening so as you're listening to  something you will improve your listening ability  

also uh improving your speaking ability but the  point is if you understand what you're listening  

to that will speed the process up so if I'm  listening to something and watching it at the same  

time like these videos you're listening to me and  you're also watching me speak or watching my you  

know bad drawings on the board up here um that's  going to get you to fluency faster because it  

helps you understand better okay so whatever you  need like uh if I'm going to if I if I show you  

a picture of an apple I could say apple but it's  much better if you bite into an apple and taste  

what the Apple tastes like so I don't want to just  listen to people say apple I want to eat the apple  

and know what the Apple flavor is and know how it  feels that's going to connect me much better with  

the Apple so the more input you can get that helps  you understand something the FAS you get fluent so  

remember the fastest way to get fluent is to  remove the doubt that stops you from speaking  

all right whatever that is all right man Randi say  says good morning Mr Drew confidence is speaking  

gives you through practice please comment uh well  again practice is what I'm talking about here  

practice really comes from getting more examples  of the language that help you understand something  

and you'll notice me when I'm teaching something  if I say something and I I feel like people don't  

quite understand it I'm not just going to repeat  that I will try to explain it in a different way  

and actually if you look at most of my videos  most of my videos are explaining this one idea  

in different ways okay so you want to you want  to hear things in different ways hear them from  

different people at different speeds lots of these  things because the the whole point of this kind of  

practice is to prepare you for the real event of  speaking with other people okay and this is why  

we don't want to just memorize a bunch of lines  because people in real life might not understand  

that or they might not use those things when  we're in a real conversation but if we understand  

individual pieces of the language then we know how  to how to combine them or to use them in different  

ways in a conversation that's what it means to  speak fluently I'm not just repeating something  

I heard I'm actually communicating and it's real  because I know how to use the language well okay  

and you'll notice uh even the the videos I'm not  I'm not using a bunch of difficult vocabulary to  

explain all this it's it's usually very simple  uh vocabulary that even a native child would  

understand and so I'm not that's what I that's  what it means when I I talk about practicing  

it's not like trying to repeat a bunch of things  by yourself because repetition doesn't help you  

understand a language better what actually helps  you understand the language better is a lot of  

varied examples so this is what I call naturally  varied review but it's really just a different  

way of saying learn like a native learn English as  a first language and that's what's going to help  

you speak all right I think did I skip anybody  let's see all right uh Yan says still doubt how  

to use though uh I would get lots of examples  of that this is is kind of a trickier word to  

go go through uh just one word like this without  having any context but I would find the context  

where you see that word like um I like this  restaurant I don't like the price though so I'm  

I'm here I'm using though to mean but all right so  I like this though uh it's too far from my house  

so in that case this is again why we want to  learn vocabulary in context uh rather than just  

look at a word and try to get a definition or  a translation of it because that will change in  

different contexts okay hopefully that makes sense  all right uh so I would look for more examples of  

that and and focus on one at a time for for each  of those situations pal says I'm still struggling  

with listening skills but when I need to say  something mostly so you'd say most of the time  

I can do it due to or do I'm looking synonymous  or similar ah okay similar words for what to say  

when I would love to be flu uh but it sounds  like you're getting there this is what I call  

moving like water so water doesn't stop when it  hits a rock it just goes around that thing and so  

a fluent speaker if they maybe can't think of the  right way to say something or they make a mistake  

and want to say something different so this  actually happens a lot in my videos but I'm very  

good at moving to something else and most people  never notice it all right so if you're a good  

speaker then you can make mistakes or you can  anticipate something and okay I'll just say  

something else all right so as you get more  examples of things all of these begin to work  

together and and now you can actually learn new  things from the other things you already know so  

learning English as a first language there's  you know just lots of very good reasons to  

do it uh but this this is the when people talk  about practicing this is the kind of practice  

I talk about for getting you fluent um let's see  okay David says hello from Georgia nice See You  

Again live glad to see you there David your  videos give me great motivation to practice  

almost every day glad to hear it remember you  don't need to sit in like like write a lot or or  

do anything really to get that practice just get  lots of examples of a particular thing all right  

so watch uh 10 YouTube videos or even two YouTube  videos about a particular thing and you will feel  

more conf confident talking about that because  you will see different examples of of how people  

do things yeah usually like the uh the removal of  Doubt let me put this in put this in yet another  

way for people um if you if you really want to  remove a lot of doubt this is is kind of like  

an even longer process but uh a lot of people  like really like they want to they want to like  

know everything so they feel confident you can  imagine a uh in any situation you will have uh a  

power curve a power curve just means like when  we when we look at like the different phrases  

people might use so if I'm greeting someone uh  I could say hello or hey or how are you or other  

things like that so in a regular conversation uh  for a particular situation you will usually have  

some things that are used a lot like really  highly frequently used like hello or hey for  

uh more C casual conversation so if we imagine  uh a greeting like something like this like the  

most uh common thing would be like hello or hey  all right so we really want to make sure we we  

we we understand these words and know that uh but  then the rest of this is going to be other things  

like some like very infrequently uh or some  like a bit more frequently like that but as  

you get more examples by seeing more people in  that situation you will naturally fill this in  

for for that thing you're speaking about so  another example if I go to a restaurant I I  

bring up this restaurant example a lot because  you know people go to restaurants it's a common  

thing or go to a coffee shop or something um but  I could say like uh may I have so may I have a  

coffee all right so you could say may or could so  these are going to be uh two of the most common  

things you'll hear in in this situ ation so I'm  about to order uh and the the the Barista or the  

person at the restaurant says what would you like  or what can I get you if it's a bit more casual  

so what can I get for you or what can I what can  I make for you uh and so you'll say oh could I  

have or may I have whatever uh but some people  you you uh you might hear I'd like and rather  

than trying to memorize all of these it's much  better just to see 10 different people ordering  

food so what I will do like even me just uh like  I can do this live in Japan I can sit at a coffee  

shop near the counter and just listen to people  ordering I know it's I'm kind of stalking people  

I guess but really I'm just I'm listening to what  people uh what people are saying for different  

situations uh another example of this I was uh  I was at a uh uh like a like a what do you call  

that an Onsen I forget the word in English like  a public bath um and I was listening to a woman  

she was probably I would say she was probably 60  years old I would guess uh and she was talking  

with her mother who was probably 80 years old or  something and her mother couldn't hear very well  

and so this woman was like she would say something  and then she would say it again in a slower clear  

way and she was a little bit frustrated that  she's like her grand her mother can't hear very  

well but that was great for me because I'm just  I'm just like sitting at the table next to them  

and I'm pretending like I'm reading a book but  I'm listening to what they're and now like oh  

look at that like I'm I'm so she'll say something  that's especially like Nagasaki um I don't know  

she was like uh like ion Kang ion Kang like like  we have to go or something uh and then like her  

mother was like what like what did you say and she  was like like like itis like she was and then she  

was saying it like the more traditional way how  you would say it but more slowly and I'm getting  

a really good Japanese lesson just listening to  this woman talk to her mother uh because she was  

saying this in different ways I was getting this  naturally varied review automatically um but again  

it's the same situation so if you want to feel  even more confident in situations spend more time  

getting these examples so you might think well I  already know how to order food at a restaurant you  

just say could I get this the job is not really  to know how to order something at a restaurant  

the job is really how do other people order at a  restaurant okay because you want to be prepared  

for all of the other things people might say all  right and yes maybe you don't work at a restaurant  

maybe you do but the point is you're getting lots  of good examples of the language and all of these  

things work together because maybe I don't go to  this restaurant but I go to a different restaurant  

or whatever all right hopefully that makes sense  all right uh let's see here if I answer that um  

let's see all right I think I got all right we are  at uh yeah so Pablo says a tap tap tap fellas uh  

hopefully that means tapping the like button not  tapping something else but hopefully uh David says  

every people around me so you could say you could  say everyone in this case everyone around me uh  

is very surprised how I managed to do such uh or  make such progress in my speak glad to hear it  

and IA says how to upgrade my level from C1 to  C2 illustrate through steps if possible uh this  

sounds like a chat GPT prompt uh it's basically  what I'm telling you here so whatever like try  

not to think about your your English level as B1  or a or whatever uh think about what do you want  

to talk about and then get examples of that so  if you want to if you want to know how to order  

food at a restaurant watch lots of YouTube videos  about people people ordering stuff and not English  

lessons I'm talking about actually like you know  people trying food at a restaurant or something  

like that just watch a lot of those videos  and you will get you know most people will  

say this but some people will say these other  things over here okay so it works the same way  

whatever you're learning and uh whatever your  level it's usually because you have some kind  

of doubt that's stopping you from speaking that's  the real problem okay so you don't really need to  

know more vocabulary you just need to know it  better all right and Ben Wong says how Native  

describe this situation feel itchy and the nose  and feel want to pick up pick pick the nose you  

could say yeah my nose itches my nose itches  but if you want to say that like and I really  

want to like dig I want to dig in my nose over  here oh my I want to dig in my nose so you might  

you probably wouldn't say that but that's a way  of saying that that's one way there might be uh  

many other ways you could you could pick your nose  or if you're talking about scratching the outside  

that's a little bit different uh but picking yeah  you would say just picking my nose you don't want  

to pick up your nose that's a different  thing you want to pick like a like a pick  

axe you know so picking something see I heard  repetition also the important part of study but  

building understanding through many examples  uh our sound add up and yet I still confus to  

collaborate both uh all right so the basic idea  if I if I had to make this very simple for you

all right so here is the uh English as a second  language way and here's English as a first  

language way so English as a first language  you will get some so step one is you learn  

some vocabulary so we learn something uh and then  step two is we repeat that uh and repetition like  

it will help you a little bit okay I I repeat  something but then we have this same problem  

where if people say something different or maybe  I don't quite know the pronunciation or something  

uh there's typically some doubt here about how to  use that vocabulary and this is where people get  

stuck so they want to get to the step three which  is speak speak fluently uh but they don't so they  

learn and they repeat and then they wonder why  they don't speak and it's because there's still  

some kind of doubt there that's stopping them  from expressing themselves but the efl way like  

we're going to learn something uh and I'm going  to continue to spend a lot of time learning  

learning that I'm going to learn many different  examples of that thing uh rather than uh rather  

than getting like one example from one teacher  and then trying to repeat that so repetition is  

useful but it's much better what I call naturally  well just abbreviate this naturally varied varied  

review and so uh instead of repeating something  where we get the exact same thing from the same  

person like I only listen to one uh dialogue  or or or listening thing from a CD or online or  

whatever from a teacher uh even from a real life  teacher uh it's helpful but it's not as helpful  

as getting many different and varied examples of  that vocabulary okay so I hear my mom say it and  

my dad say it and somebody else so it is it's a  it's a form of repetition and uh each time you  

might hear a few repetitions of these different  examples but if you notice here this is like  

repeating one thing so we get one thing and we  repeat that again and again but here we're we're  

building a whole network of of other people saying  things and getting all these different ways of  

saying it and it's it's this network we create  that allows us to speak fluently and when you  

understand these different things oh look at that  I understand that I might repeat one of those a  

few times so let's say I hear hello from somebody  so someone says hello uh someone else says hey I  

can hear those pretty well but someone else says  sup sup and I think wait a minute what did that  

person say sup sup sup so maybe I need to read  it like they're saying s u p sup where did that  

what is it sup what does that mean it's like oh  it comes from what's up and as I spend a little  

bit of time learning about this so I'm not I'm not  just learning something quickly and then trying to  

repeat it I'm spending more time with that thing  and because I spend more time with the language  

I automatically remove the doubt that stops me  from speaking then I speak so then I move uh to  

step three over here which is speak so speaking  is the result of that thing I'm not trying to  

repeat something or say it to other people I want  to understand the language well by getting lots of  

examples and that's what's eliminating the doubt  I have so I want to be prepared for different  

people saying different things even in that same  situation so again there are lots of different  

greetings maybe some people say hello somebody  says hi somebody says sub somebody says what's  

up someone says just I don't know something weird  like that I don't know and maybe I'm surprised by  

that too uh but in general we have people that are  saying different things but some things are more  

common than others and as I feel more confident  because I'm getting all these examples then I  

speak okay hopefully that makes sense so this  this works at every level so it doesn't matter  

if you're A1 or X5 or B10 or whatever uh whatever  your you know particular language level is if you  

want to go up in the language you want to become  a better speaker spend more time getting varied  

examples of that thing all right and you can  prove this to yourself very easily pick one  

word and just spend today get like 10 different  examples of that and I I guarantee you will feel  

very confident about saying that word okay and  just do that with more that's that's that's really  

how the process works all right let's see here all  been going for 78 minutes what time is it now all  

right 10:50 uh let's see okay all right uh Carlos  says hi I'm Carlos from Mexico do you have a mail  

or WhatsApp to contact you directly well you can  just send us an email at info@ english.com if you  

have questions uh C says I love you Mr Andrew  but I'm a male I'm male though there you go  

that's a good usage of though all repetition is  like going to the gym yes says Tom uh again like  

getting fluent is different than going to the  gym I really want to make that clear for people  

because like you know for each individual thing  yes you might repeat that but it's it's more like  

a wide range of things uh and I I'll give you  an example of this like there's going to the  

gym where you're just like man I got to pick up  this same weight and do it in a different way it's  

like man I would love to find a different way of  of like kind of moving this same thing where I'm  

not just doing the same thing all the time uh  and so I had this experience I lived on a boat  

in Alaska for the summer and I came back and I  was like uh I maybe about the same size I am now  

but like maybe a little bit bigger because I was I  was doing these exercises like moving fish around  

and other things it's the same kind of thing you  would do at a gym but it didn't feel like that  

so you want to get yes there is some repetition  there but the variety is really important and most  

people miss that variety all right Shang says hi  Drew thank you for for the lesson sometimes I feel  

like I struggle to pause or stop a sentence is it  kind of doubt yes uh so doubt doubt is just like  

it's the the like the big word for any worry or  misunderstanding or just any kind of uncertainty  

about anything so it could be whatever you're  you're worried about pronunciation or grammar  

or something but you know what that is so in a in  a conversation like you want to say something but  

like wait I just don't know that vocabulary you  know that's that's like a a problem so like that  

will cause you doubt or even if you know the  vocabulary maybe you don't know the best way  

to express it or you don't know the pronunciation  or something like that but that's typically what  

happens also could you give advice uh or give  tips on how to use connectors in discourse  

markers fluently between sentences uh I've done uh  I've done videos about this but search my channel  

for that like sentence connectors and I have  a couple of different videos about that one is  

is it's like these nine words will help you  speak fluently or something like that but  

it's there there things I've already covered  those in great uh detail um and yeah so like  

they let's see I'm trying to think of some other  videos if you search my channel you can probably  

find some R says uh no no no I means don't go no  like ionen like this is like Nagasaki B so so like  

Ken is like dakara like like iang like like like  we you know she like we in in this case I I don't  

actually don't remember exactly what she says but  it was something like like like maybe it was like  

Eakin or something something like that um but  but that was the basic idea she was saying we we  

have to go that that was that was clear from the  situation cuz they they had to go from TY happy  

to catch your uh online uh teaching uh let's  see uh Bon J say uh do you think some animals  

are better to pick our language's behaviors  than we are theirs uh that's an interesting  

question I know lots of animals can uh like dogs  can understand us uh you know monkeys or whatever

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Dolphins yeah K yeah but like PE people like  people typically like say it much faster in  

that uh in that situation as a teacher the best  video that I like in your channel is the one that  

you grab a pen and you start describing the  pen and can talk for a long time only using  

a simple pen that was really impressive yes  I'm glad to hear yes the the point of that  

is to show people that like the the thing is not  not what like helps you speak uh if you're able  

to communicate about something you can express  it in different ways or at different levels uh  

let's see but glad you enjoy that I've never seen  someone doing that kind of video before and it was  

a unique lesson congratulations teacher is very  creative of you uh yes I have a few different  

teachers or excuse me a few different um examples  of that like one is describing shoes and I think  

another is describing a t-shirt or something like  that but I wanted to take some very simple things  

uh just so people could understand that you you  don't need to be a complicated speaker but if  

you are a good speaker you can still talk about  something like that all right teacher uh please  

make sure to stay hydrated get some fresh air  after this yes I will I will go out in the rain  

after this thank you for today as well excuse me  I have to leave or see you it says wow you're an  

amazing teacher I like the way you are explaining  glad to hear it and fungus says looks like maybe  

like some eyes or something I guess music words  is awesome see uh should we remove but when there  

is though in a sentence so it sounds natural well  you know we don't typically don't use though and  

but um in the in the same in the same sentence so  you would say like I'm busy but uh I can come or  

I'm busy though I can come or I can come though  usually though would um it goes kind of at the  

beginning or the end of a sentence in that way I'm  sorry I'm not spending more time with that I would  

just recommend you get lots more examples that's  something that easily uh Nagasaki excuse me me I'm  

like trying to answer questions and read at the  same time so you can get that from uh like chat  

GPT or Google very easily oh yeah I'm from ausu as  well let's see oh what part we're in Inu uh I can  

speak but I only have difficulty with tenses uh in  that case Allah I would get more examples of that  

so just get examples in different tenses and try  to think more about what is the situation so you  

get a story and you hear that story in the past  that's the kind of thing we do in uh in fluent  

for Life re says thanks for the reply H re says  she might have said uh maybe maybe what to use the  

phrase tear down so tear down typically means like  uh like to to take something like a structure and  

then and then break it into smaller pieces like  after you have a like a show at a music festival  

or something you have to tear down the equipment  so you have to dis disconnect things all right uh  

should be back to your lesson again great  teaching thanks well welcome back anytime  

so he says do you have any tips to be talkative  person uh just like what I'm doing here know the  

language well it's a tool if you know how to  use it well you can speak well that's how it  

works and ab says the learning English looks  like a triangle consists of vocabulary grammar  

and pronunciation yeah that's the basic idea um  it it's the language isn't really complicated  

it's just more how well do you know the language  and that's the that's the real trick to fluence  

uh and so rather than trying to learn a bunch  of things uh you can actually learn a few things  

and understand them really well and become a good  speaker very quickly all right how is the learning  

English teacher I'm I'm doing well all right  let's see and last question here teacher I'd  

also like the video you talk about the book that  was mythical creatures that you were looking for  

for a long time yes uh that was I remember when  I finally found that book after 20 years uh and  

it was nice to show that to my own children  uh but I Rec men that book yes about the uh  

Encyclopedia of mythical creatures I remember that  there was a comment on that video I think from the  

some relative of the person who made that book  I think I thought that was very cool all right  

David said I have some kind of difficulties I  don't like something but difference is great  

I don't like something I have some kind of is  that a question I have some kind of difficulties  

I don't like something but difference is great  I don't like something but difference is great  

I don't know what that means exactly but uh  I'll give you the same advice I gave everyone  

else which is to get lots of review and this is  a nice thing about learning if you don't like a  

particular thing you can learn something else it's  similar to that if that's what you're referring to  

but uh just to give a quick recap of this if  you struggle when you're speaking with other  

people but you feel more confident by yourself  it's typically for obvious reasons like uh you  

don't know about the mistakes you're making or  you're able to control the situation you can  

control the speech when you're talking to yourself  but when you get with other people then you might  

feel more nervous uh about them maybe catching  your mistakes noticing those things uh and you  

certainly can't control what they're going to  say so that's why it's just a much more difficult  

situation it's more challenging uh but in order to  prepare for this rather than trying to memorize a  

bunch of things you should really just spend more  time getting lots of examples of the language uh  

it could be for uh particular words and phrases  or grammar but you usually know the you want to  

talk about and the things you struggle with this  uh struggle with so focus on those things rather  

than trying to learn a bunch of more new things  focus on what you already have and you will become  

a more confident speaker I promise you all right  uh let's see Ben ju says what is the meaning of  

someone she said she is a tough cookie I'll let  you Google that that's it's an interesting one  

though uh I says I guess we are exploiting you  as a respected native teacher answering our silly  

questions no well that's why I'm here you know I  I mean you could think about I don't really think  

about it as exploitation I enjoy teaching I mean  if you ask me and I don't answer every question  

people give me typically if it's a question  that's you know like what does Smart Cookie mean  

or whatever you can easily get that from Google I  I remember uh we do teach that in fluent for life  

though uh but uh when when it's something that  people can answer by themselves I usually let  

them do that uh but usually my job is to make the  language understandable so if they try to search  

for something but they can't find it then it's  my job to to be there to make it understandable  

for people so when you understand you speak all  right would you mind if someone asked you about  

your personal life such as how you met your wife  uh well I have a video on YouTube about that for  

for that specific example like you can look for  wife just search for that word on my channel  

and you will find you can see my wife you can or  like however we looked I don't know 10 years ago  

or whenever that was uh but she's been in two or  three videos my old my older daughter has been in  

a few videos as well I don't think my younger  daughter has um but yeah I mean if you have  

personal questions let me know if I think they're  too personal maybe I won't answer them but you're  

you're welcome to ask me whatever you like but I  think that's the end of this video so we finished  

all the questions uh but again if you would like  uh help actually doing all the things that we talk  

about and I can actually get you fluent along with  all the other natives that we have in the program  

if you'd like to learn how to do that just click  on the links in the description below this video  

for Frederick as well as fluent for life and you  can learn more about those uh let's see is Mo a  

common name in Japan I used to have a friend from  that country y mio is pretty Comm uh but yeah yep  

so yeah actually I know I know like a few people  name Miho actually uh so estudos says thank you  

very much for the lesson you're an amazing person  have a wonderful day uh how it feels like to  

travel to Canada Alberta I have no idea I've never  been to Alberta I've been in Canada before but uh  

we will leave leave that for next time and you can  look for what are the most common male and female  

names in the UK Google that I don't know Google  whatever that is I I think I now like the most  

common baby name for men is like Muhammad I think  but I don't I don't know for sure about like what  

typical names are but Google that anyway have a  fantastic day and we'll see you in the next video