How To Teach Your Dog English

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started all right uh if you have any questions as  usual post them down in the comments I will keep  

my eye on those uh and hopefully this should be  a fun kind of interesting uh lesson I thought I  

would try to teach things in a in a different  way today uh just had this uh interesting idea  

a friend of mine was like oh why don't you like  you know you could teach people how to teach their  

dog English so we we'll uh we'll get to that  looks like we're rolling 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 today this will be  kind of a funny different kind of video uh but  

it hopefully will remind people uh to think in a  different way so I'm always trying to do this and  

and to remind you uh like as a very simple thing  at the beginning of this video If you're trying to  

teach especially a dog like you're trying to teach  a dog a trick or something uh you don't want to  

give it some textbooks you really want to make the  information clear uh and so we'll talk a little  

bit about that in this video uh it shouldn't  be that long of a video but if people do have  

questions I will hang around so I will stay longer  and ask or answer any questions people might have  

uh but it looks like we are rolling here and we'll  get started so I I thought about uh doing this  

video a friend of mine I was asking him hey what  what should I talk about uh like in a in a video  

or whatever and he was like hey he happened to  have this book so this is teaching your dog Maui  

so like from uh from New Zealand like New Zealand  uh you know new zealanders might be interested in  

doing this and I mean it's it's kind of a cute  little book I'll just show you the inside of it  

like pictures of dogs and uh teaching people stuff  but I mean it's not all that understandable which  

is which is kind of the the problem with it uh but  we'll talk about more uh how we can help people  

actually learn and get fluent and use these same  ideas on yourself so for me uh even if I might be  

able to if I just draw a a quick image here of all  the things I could do to learn a language and try  

to understand something so humans people we have  a wide range of things uh this is not going to  

be a very scientific looking graph but I think you  should get the idea of it um so we could basically  

learn by just seeing something down here using our  our senses so put like a little eyeball over here  

some eyelashes or your ear you know you're able to  to hear some information or touch something with  

your hand so these are our senses over here and  as we get a little bit more refined with things  

uh we can also use just basic contrasts so when  we're trying to teach someone a new language uh  

we would have especially if we want to teach that  language in the language we're we're teaching so  

if you think about especially teaching a dog a  language you can't use any translations to teach  

a dog unless you know how to speak I guess the  dog's language but the point is uh it's easy to  

show something like uh like up and down so we  can we can learn a contrast like this because  

we're able to compare different things or at  least two different things so that's this maybe  

slightly higher level up here so we have our base  senses where we can see something so I might learn  

a color like the color blue or the color black or  this color kind of I don't know what this color is  

it's it's a kind of green I guess uh but it should  be pretty easy to understand if you can see these  

things but the point is it becomes easier uh as  we're able to contrast these things with something  

else so if I have a blue marker and a black marker  you see that both of them are markers but you can  

tell the difference in the vocabulary by what's  different so blue marker here and black marker  

over here so same basic idea uh and as we go up we  could get as I mentioned getting like translations  

of something so we'll put like translate so get  getting translations of something this is where  

we start needing to use another language to teach  ourselves a language so if I'm learning Chinese  

and I'm learning Chinese through English then I'm  using translations to do that and of course the  

problem uh is that when I'm learning Chinese  through English I'm going to think in English  

when I try to speak Chinese so we really want to  understand things as best as possible uh of course  

I could get uh explanations and translations  definitions that kind of thing uh we just say  

Define uh or I get a like an explanation  in a textbook like we're going to get like  

uh the logic of a I don't know like a textbook  explanation something like that so as we go up  

like you can you can see how and these this isn't  like a it's not like a specific order it's just  

more like the kinds of things that a person could  do to learn a language and a dog is is basically  

stuck down here all right so uh instead of having  you know like a textbook uh or using translations  

something that uh you know whatever you might  be might be able to use I recommend you do not  

use these things unless you Absol absolutely  have to so the goal first should be trying to  

understand everything in the language the same  way we would teach a dog all right so if I'm  

trying to teach a dog a language uh like English  and and even just for regular people you know if  

you're a native Spanish speaker maybe you have to  speak with your dog in Spanish but your dog would  

learn the specific commands like sit or shake  or whatever things you know stop that you're  

teaching the dog to do but those same things they  become much faster and easier uh when the dog can  

easily understand what you're saying and we make  things easier to understand when we can use these  

basic things down here like having a contrast  like I'm showing you a contrast here uh versus  

you know again like trying to use a textbook or a  linguistic explanation about why we do something  

so the dog the dog isn't going to understand that  and in the same way uh your brain is going to have  

a harder time understanding things if you try  to uh if you try to give it these more difficult  

things things to help it learn so it is possible  to learn this way but it becomes more difficult to  

speak and really the whole point is just like  a dog we want the dog to react quickly when  

we're you know if we tell the dog to stop doing  something or to go or to sit down or whatever  

the the thing is we're saying we want the dog to  react quickly to that information or that command  

uh just like we want our own brain to do that  too so we don't want to think about something  

a person explains something to us and we have to  think and translate in our heads uh and then we  

start speaking so uh the basic idea of this video  is that it's a reminder and this is a reminder for  

myself as well uh that I should be trying as best  as possible to learn everything in the language  

I'm learning so if it's a dog learning English  then we have to make that language clear uh and  

so trying to compare different things and and  show the dog like yes this is correct and this  

is not and I'm not like a professional dog trainer  I used to walk dogs actually uh when I was uh back  

in high school that was a lot of fun uh and so I  could you know kind of talk with different dogs  

and and talk with their owners about how they're  training them that kind of thing uh but most of  

the time when I'm I'm just talking with them  like the dog wants to understand what you're  

doing so the dog is trying to follow you and  understand what your commands are but if if  

you're not very clear then obviously it's going to  be more difficult all right so just talking a lot  

to your dog just like if I start talking to you  a lot in Chinese unless you're a native Chinese  

speaker you're probably not going to understand  me all right so we want to keep things as simple  

as possible we really want to make sure that we  can understand things in the language as as much  

as possible uh so I want to see if anybody has any  particular things that they're struggling with it  

could be particular grammar points or something  else they'd like to focus on in this video uh and  

I can show you how these principles are applied  so rather than uh me trying to think of I could  

easily but uh if there are specific things you'd  like to know about uh this is your time now uh  

to ask them and that way I can help you and do my  best to prove that this is actually the way that's  

going to help you use the vocabulary when you  need it in actual conversations all right so let  

me go back and look at chat if you have specific  questions about grammar points or whatever day is  

like a little bit more of a free for all this is  a really good expression here a free for all so  

a freefor all just means you can do whatever you  like and if you have questions about particular  

things uh I can help you understand that but the  the main idea of this kind of intro uh part of  

the video here is to remind yourself that we are  the dog we are trying to teach so if we if we make  

things uh clear for ourselves then we're not going  to react well in conversations so we really need  

to make sure we understand things very well uh and  part of that is just making the language clear but  

the rest of that obviously when you're training a  dog there's a lot of repetition there uh but it's  

a little bit different for us because you know  we get a little bit bored with the repetition  

we can learn things in different ways see them in  different contexts and understand them better so  

often uh with basic things like seeing a color  you would maybe see that a few times times and  

you would recognize that color name and probably  be able to remember it but other things as they  

get a little bit more difficult they require more  review more understanding to to help you make sure  

you you really get those things all right so let  me look at chat see if anybody has any questions  

about this but it's a pretty simple idea I'm I'm  really again just trying to get people thinking  

in a different way and reminding yourself to keep  it simple when you're learning because the goal  

is really understanding everything in English if  you can uh rather than using your native language  

or trying to translate things in your head all  right so Adriano says uh hi everyone Paris says  

hi Musa says hi R says hello Annette nice to see  you there hello Drew greets from Wisconsin or that  

says greats greats from Wisconsin you mean like  G re T like a greeting greeting from Wisconsin  

uh smil says hi great teacher am says nice to wash  you oh my goodness you're going to wash me there's  

a couple of couple of spelling errors or something  in these first comments here you guys are making  

me nervous over here uh Adriana says let's share  this video yes please do if you know other people  

who would like to learn English and speak English  without hesitating or translating this is the way  

to do it so you really want to help your brain  understand things the same way you would teach  

a dog and keeping it simple so if you can't  use any of these other things to teach a dog  

you really have to be very simple and clear with  the language and make sure that the dog absolutely  

understands what you're asking for or what you're  angry about or whatever so the dog can actually  

read our emotions very well uh and and so when  we're when we're trying to explain something they  

can easily tell if we're happy or sad or something  like that uh but we can use that to our advantage  

uh to help them understand let's see Salma Woods  is really a very good book yes it's an interesting  

book but it's basically like the the kind of funny  thing about this book is that it's uh the idea the  

idea itself from like a marketing perspective  is clever like okay teach your dog Maly but uh  

these are it's actually like an example of the uh  the wrong way to teach so I didn't want to like  

talk too much about it but like if we have let's  let's say we we'll kind of use this book as an  

example so it's it's obviously it's for helping  people learn some specific phrases but it's it's  

breaking the rules of this so one of those would  be understanding things through simple contrast  

so I haven't looked carefully at the book I've  looked through a couple of different things but  

it looks like it's some some cute pictures like  this then we get the English up here then we get a  

translation down here uh and then a pronunciation  of whatever that is so if we want to say get down  

we say e let's see it's the pronunciation is e  he I guess if I'm pronouncing that correctly but  

you don't really understand what that means or  like like which which of these is it a or heck  

that that refers to like up or down so let's see  if there's also another example here that's like  

get up or something so that would be helpful so  if we if we can see like here's turn right let's  

see there's turn left in here oh okay here's  turn left so this is a a better example of  

something so turn left is let's see uh HRI uh  f ma Maui so here's that's turn left and then  

ah okay so now now we can see like left versus  right and we can understand it a little bit more  

in context although there's still a lot of  information here that's pretty complicated  

to say turn right or left but the only thing  that's different between these two let's see  

because I'm going to pronounce it uh poorly so  HRI fak hopefully I don't get in trouble I'm  

GNA say some some bad words on this if I'm if  I'm saying this incorrectly uh so again hurri  

and then fak M and this is a fak mai so that's  the difference between these two like turn right  

versus turn left the only thing different is like  toe versus weat and so that's the kind of thing  

that your brain would get uh get excited about  if it can understand those differences the same  

way we can have black marker and blue marker and  you can see the difference between these two your  

brain is trying to think what's different just  like those uh like you probably seen these little  

images for little kids that have it's usually  two pictures and then it will have something in  

this picture and almost the similar thing in uh  this other picture here but then maybe one or two  

things will be different so it's like find the  find the find the difference between these two  

images so that's how our brain works we're trying  to understand things and if we can understand them  

all in English so it would be even better like  for the purposes of helping you understand Mai  

um to show those things on the same page so we  could see like what is the difference between  

like oh like M to and maii all right see if  anything else in here is so here we have like  

so here's go right so we have go right and turn  right so that's interesting so we can see let's  

see where is turn right so turn right is H fak  and then we have re a h so H is like a go but  

I I still don't it's still not clear what what  piece is meaning what thing all right so you can  

see if I'm still confused about it so I like I'm  getting these examples like here is a phrase in  

Mai that helps you understand something even if  it's a basic thing like turn right I still don't  

have any confidence using it because I don't  really understand what I'm saying all right  

so if I'm using that to a dog the dog is really  going to be listening to what what's different  

between these things and hopefully getting like  okay like like the master said like where go  

right like right and left and so we're looking  trying to make that very clear to the dog like  

look look right like that way right left kind of  the same way you would teach a child but making  

sure it's clear that you know what you're saying  so it look I mean it like this this kind of thing  

this is the the the typical way that people teach  languages and it becomes confusing when you don't  

actually understand how the pieces work let's  see if there's anything else so so like stay  

is like e no no stay and no means a cow or C  elongate any vow with maon that's interesting  

sit is a no wait a minute stay now oh that's  interesting it's the same command for sit and  

stay huh interesting and no ho or and no and no  were and no were and and no were again for sit  

and state anyway I think you guys get the idea  but hopefully uh it should be making a bit more  

sense about when we're learning something the same  way we really want to keep it very simple around  

this area here using your senses using contrasts  to help you understand things in English rather  

than understanding them through a a different  language or your native language all right uh  

dinku says a good good morning sir and S says Hi  teacher it's a captivating thing to know how to  

teach your dog yes so remember like just like  your brain wants to understand the dog wants  

to understand too usually because the dog gets a  treat when the dog does a good job or you know you  

you Pat the dog or you're you show the dog some  love and your brain works the same way so when  

our brain can understand something we get those  aha moments where we feel good like we've solved  

a puzzle and oh like that actual good feeling it  makes us the whole point is it makes us makes us  

feel good so we want to get more of those things  and understand the language even better ABDO says  

could you borrow me this book I have a crocodile  teacher so could you borrow me this book here you  

would say could you lend me this book that's a  good example of like understanding the contrast  

between two different things here so if I have  a one person let's see uh we'll just say this  

is a a librarian I'll put a bunch of books over  here these are supposed to be some books uh and  

the librarian has here's a desk right here and  I am coming over so the librarian is going to

lend so lend me the book and I so I am kind of  receiving it as I do that I am borrowing the  

book borrow the book all right and then another  contrast with this instead of lend and borrow so  

the librarian lends the book I borrow the book  we also have if we're talking about renting so  

if somebody is renting uh like renting a book  or renting something you know some equipment or  

something like that this is where you're paying  money for that all right so to rent something  

like in in that case you would just say like I am  uh renting uh or they are renting to me so when  

you're paying it's the same word but when you're  borrowing or lending uh you're talking about like  

whose perspective it is so you have a kind of  logical scene here you can understand oh The  

Librarian Is lending the book and I am borrowing  the book all right or if you want to ask someone  

else to do something hey could you lend me that  book or could you lend me a hand so could you  

help me help me out lend me a hand could you lend  me a hand this is a casual conversational way of  

saying could you help me could you lend me a  hand for a minute it's perfectly fine to say  

could you help me but could you lend me a hand  all right so notice uh what I'm doing here I  

want to show you a difference between something  make it very clear uh but also give you some  

naturally varied review where we're talking about  a slightly different way of using a word so not  

just repeating it again and again like lend lend  lend lend because me repeating something something  

doesn't really help you understand it better all  right seeing different and varied examples do help  

you understand that better okay so those different  examples uh will help you understand things better  

than mere repetition than just repetition by  itself so someone is lending me someone I like  

someone might lend me a marker or lend me a book  or lend me uh lend me some help lend me a hand or  

I might borrow a book or can I borrow something  from you can I borrow something from you whatever  

so if you're if you're asking something someone  and you want them to do something you can use  

either of these words uh but just make it clear uh  why why you're you're like why you're or kind of  

who who is the who is the subject here who are  you talking about so can I borrow a book may I  

borrow a book you will hear both of those can I  borrow a book uh and may I borrow a book or you  

can ask someone else to do something and that  would be like would you so would you would you

would you lend me a book would you lend me a book  all right would you lend me a book or something  

like that so these are two basic ways of saying  that lend and borrow all right but yes if you  

if you want to teach a crocodile even I bet  a crocodile even would be even more difficult  

to teach but I bet it I bet it's something is  possible all right uh M says the color of your  

shirt is light green light green really yeah I  guess I made it some kind of green Olympia nice  

to see you there hi like uh my amazing teacher I  was Ching talking English to my cat glad to hear  

it uh yes so people will speak with their animals  they will do that naturally but if you actually  

help the animal understand what you're doing I  mean it would be interesting to actually do a  

lesson where I'm teaching a dog and see how well  I can help it understand the English how quickly I  

could do that I bet I could do that pretty pretty  fast I don't have a dog unfortunately uh but that  

would be interesting to do pel says hello teacher  I hope you are doing well I'm leaving Oh you mean  

living living in California L IV i n g thank you  for taking your time to teach us it's my pleasure  

sadik says I'm exciting you would say I am excited  so I am excited I am scared I am interested you're  

talking about yourself uh whenever watching your  lesson so Miguel says good afternoon teacher I  

have a question is it true what Donald Trump said  about immigrants eating the pets and dogs and cats  

of the residents of Springfield uh I don't well  I don't know I'm not a resident of Springfield  

but uh the way to check that would be to look at  police records and say what they say I don't know  

I guess I I don't know I mean I'm I live in uh  Nagasaki Japan and I I hear news about all kinds  

of things but uh I am uh pretty much all news  for me is suspect when I hear anything I'm just  

like yeah I don't know if that's true or not I  would have to get uh confirmation uh it's actually  

an interesting thing mentioning this news and  uh and thinking about how we come to information  

uh and so when we're when we're thinking about  something like let's say I hear some news like  

people are eating pets or whatever let's say I  hear that um if I hear that from One Source like  

a friend of mine just told me something and even  if my friend friend I don't know he's like a smart  

guy or knows something if he tells me something I  might think uh okay that's you know I still don't  

I I have I have no reason to believe that yes or  no I just you know somebody says something to me  

I don't know if that's true or not but if I hear  that from like another person and a completely  

different source so not not like a group of my  friends are all telling me the same thing like  

like my enemy tolds me told me the same thing  as well as an example like I don't really I  

don't think I have any enemies but like let's say  someone I I I don't know like didn't know at all  

uh or you know they they have completely different  ideas than me something like that if they also  

told me the same thing then you know I would I  would be more inclined to believe it all right and  

this this is an interesting thing about language  as well like often people will hear something one  

time and think they know what it means or think  they know the truth about something but often  

it's not or you know like news might be telling  you something but maybe it's not actually like  

they're giving you a particular way of looking at  something rather than trying to give you factual  

information so if I say like this is a blue marker  lots of people could correct that and we could all  

you know we could we could check that information  pretty easily uh but yeah so I I have no idea what  

what's happening in many places in the United  States but I I would I would caution anyone  

like uh more information you hear and this is kind  of getting uh it seems to be getting worse where  

more people are they're listening to like one  particular kind of news and that's all they listen  

to or they have their maybe group of friends or  something and so this this group of people will  

say like yes something is happening and this other  group of people will say no it's not and like  

usually there's some kind of truth whatever that  is uh but you want to be able to uh to get lots of  

different perspectives to understand understand  something in the same way that you want to hear  

lots of different examples of vocabulary to really  understand it very well uh right let's see Cano  

says your t-shirt is sage green oh okay well I  guess that settles it so here this is another  

interesting thing like one person says light green  another person says sage green I guess I don't  

know is I didn't look at the uh the name of the  color but that's an interesting question uh let's  

see Bogden says hi there tar says good morning  sir and how do I teach my students a grammar  

point with naturally varied review uh the point  is to pick something first of all they're they're  

kind of two two phases with this one or two steps  the first one is to make sure they just understand  

what the grammar point is um and and often the if  you if you can't make it clear like if here like a  

very simple thing is like like the present versus  the past so if I'm talking about something today

if I want to illustrate this so just like I'm  showing you here I want to make sure people  

understand the difference you you can give me a  specific grammar point if you if you'd like help  

with that uh but if we if we understand uh the  context here so this is uh let's see like just  

yesterday and this is today and if I understand  like right now like let's say I have a little a  

little card of a person skiing so I have like  a little this a little image or a flash card  

or something of a person uh skiing so here's a  little hat there and he got the ski poles uh and  

the little ski boots over here like that so this  is a it's supposed to be a person skiing I should  

I should do something simpler but uh if I take  this and then I I'm teaching the students and  

they understand like today is happening right now  and this was yesterday so I can actually show them  

a calendar and they can understand the context so  I can take a card like this and put it today and  

say like he is skiing okay so he is or this person  like uh let's see let just say he because that's  

shorter so he is a skiing a ski he is skiing he  is skiing and if I move that same card over here  

I'm just changing the time so they understand  the context they understand the situation but  

they don't need me to explain that in whatever  your native language is so I have the card here  

he is skiing I move the card over here he was  skiing okay I could even do like do the future  

uh he will be something like that just showing  an example all right so that's one example then  

I would do the same thing with maybe some other  grammar points or or even just some other examples  

for this specific grammar point until they can  anticipate what I'm going to do so if I have  

have maybe 10 different cards like this that just  show a different action like eat uh just like eat  

dinner or something uh so if they understand  specifically what eat dinner is but now I  

want to help them understand how to say that in  different times then again they're looking at the  

context here I mov the card here today so right  now he is eating dinner or he was eating dinner  

or he ate dinner yesterday it just depends on the  specific grammar point I'm doing but as they get  

more examples of this this is not about you  having them repeat after you it's you just  

showing them lots of varied examples and helping  them understand what that is the same way I would  

teach a dog all right so if I have like ball if  I'm going to show like teach a dog what a ball  

is like the the typical way to do that would be  just hold up a ball and say ball ball but a dog  

is a dog is thinking like well what what exactly  does that mean like what do you mean by by ball  

uh instead it's better to actually show a dog  many different balls and the ball would the idea  

of what a ball is that the dog would it would  make sense to them like here's a baseball and  

basketball and football and other things like  that soccer ball or whatever uh and the dog  

through that varied review would understand  what ball means rather than me just holding  

something up because if I just say like uh I don't  know I up something like what's a good [Music]

example if I continue even if I show you what  this is and I continue saying the word over and  

over and over again the repetition doesn't help  you but if I show you some different examples of  

something in this case the word I'm teaching you  is like a bottle like a container like a water  

bottle if I showed you some other water bottles  and I kept saying suoo suo and I also taught you  

other things like suie like it just means water  you would come to understand that naturally so  

that's the point of naturally varied review rather  than having someone just repeat something again  

and again so you don't become more fluent by  repeating after me you become more fluent as  

you understand the language better all right so  the same way a dog would so if I hold up a ball  

and show the ball ball ball ball the dog is  like okay I'm I kind of get something but I  

don't know exactly what's happening here but if  I get a different ball and say ball and another  

ball and say ball and another ball say ball I  bet very quickly that dog would figure out the  

the word ball means some kind of object like that  and you could easily translate like like no like  

this is not a ball not a ball or like this this  is not a ball either okay so when you're trying  

to teach your brain it's the same idea think of  your brain as as like a dog that you're trying  

to teach and if you make the Learning Easy then  your brain understands faster and more easily  

uh and that's when you start speaking all right  so just another thing I'll make very clear about  

this when you're teaching students you don't have  them try to speak you have them really understand  

until they can anticipate what you're going to say  so even if I do something very simple like just  

like the past Ed form or something if I say like  uh play played uh let's see what's another one  

like placed placed you know something like that  if I take some basic verbs uh and show them that  

and now I might as they understand that and they  understand the difference I might give them an  

irregular verb like oh look wait wait go went and  their brain is going to think oh oh my goodness  

like that's interesting how we have something  that's a different example of that all right  

but that's how you do it so depending on whatever  the grammar point is you're really trying to help  

them understand something in context in English  rather than using these other things up here like  

a textbook or trying to give them a translation  or a long explanation of something you really  

want to show people how the language works and  it's actually quite easy to do if you give people  

good examples all right bog says what is the  difference between American and Australian accents  

well rather than just explaining a difference it's  better to just listen to some differences in how  

people speak so I have a friend uh like the  actually the guy I got this from a friend of  

mine uh he's from New Zealand and so he speaks a  little bit differently and it's better actually  

Master English conversation or fluent for Life  uh in the master English conversation sets uh  

in that program you will see uh he's in one of  the lessons actually uh and we're talking about  

I think we're talking about business but you can  hear the differences in the way we sound and so  

this is a thing like whether you're in the program  or not uh the point point is to contrast these  

different things rather than uh than just get  like oh just trolling all right look at that all  

right well uh for for for a lot of people who are  not uh just trolling that's that's how they would  

want to figure that out so that that's actually a  legitimate question that people have all right uh  

let's see and vercio says Hi everyone from Brazil  Zoe says hello uh good to see you again sorry  

greetings it's all right Elder says sup Drew just  in time let's learn some English with you this  

morning I'm all ears glad to hear it Elvis says hi  guys from China beijing's sound look at that those  

are some little cats or something it's interesting  to see the emojis that are around now uh and CH  

says is this real oh no is that chat gbt asking me  if I'm real that's interesting let's see Jet Blue  

wow Jet Blue is watching us over here hey everyone  from Egypt to all Le says why don't you do lives  

with slides that would be more interesting give  a try yeah lesson I haven't I haven't tried that  

maybe I will try that in the future uh but yeah  I just just for the for the setup I have here  

maybe I will try something different uh with some  stuff like that but often the the point of doing  

the video this way is that so you can actually  see examples of me responding spontaneously in  

a conversation so if I make a a video with a slide  presentation the the way I speak would actually be  

different so I would be talking about something  I would give an example and and you can if you  

watch my videos like the videos where it's me like  this just talking rather than or as opposed to the  

uh videos where I write a script and I'm reading  that it's a it's a different way of speaking and  

more people need uh I mean I suppose I could do  both really but you know that that but that's B  

the basic idea is is TR trying to maintain that  uh spontaneity so giving people examples of how I  

I get a question and here's how you would respond  to that uh but yeah something interesting to try  

Harvey says Hi everyone Rinku says now I have to  leave this class for my school oh no well you can  

come back and watch it later Ali says hi can't  wake up my dog for this class she is a lazy bone  

yes you would say she is a lazy bones a lazy bones  let's see AB is the good way to teach the dogs by  

food just act the action and put food in your  hand when uh it does the same give him the food  

yeah there you go so your brain is is operating  in the same way and the point is for this video If  

you explain like whatever the action is like you  put your hand out and the dog is like well what  

am I supposed to do so you have to maybe pick up  his foot and and put it on your hand if you want  

the dog to shake or you want the dog uh to do to  do like every you know whatever the particular  

particular thing is let's see uh let's see nman  says H I am happy happy to watch live now cam says  

sorry I'm late B said okay got that one already  thanks a lot teacher what uh if the grammar  

point is reported speech well then in that way  you're like let's say I'm talking about reported

speech you would first think I mean the basic  idea is to get get you as a teacher thinking  

about how you would explain this in your native  language so imagine you know we're going to forget  

about English for a moment but just talk Talking  whatever your native language is uh let's just  

say it's Arabic for example um if I'm thinking how  do I teach another person like an Arabic speaking  

person what is reported speech and I would I would  just do that I don't speak Arabic but basically  

I would like like here's me like talking about  something I said so right now I'm I'm describing  

something about myself but I could also talk about  something I heard from someone else so instead  

of like I said you know like I'm like whatever I  have a blue marker so I have a blue marker I have  

a blue marker I have a blue marker now I could  also talk about like saying someone else said  

they have a blue marker or he said I have a blue  marker all right so if we're we're talking about  

any any kind of difference about another person  saying something or my mom told me there there are  

different ways I could describe that but that's  how you would do it so again making sure people  

understand the context of the situation rather  than we we don't Begin by saying hey class today  

we're going to talk about reported speech if I go  up to to people on the street in America and say  

can you tell me what reported speech is  they will probably talk about the news  

or something like that so like most people don't  know what that means and we don't really want to  

get them thinking about a grammar term again like  talking about like the logic of it or a linguistic  

explanation of what something is we just want to  help people understand why we're doing something  

what what is actually happening what is the  situation and so in this case uh they said I  

have a blue marker so a friend of mine is talking  he has a blue marker like he told me that and then  

I can say that or I could like I could and again I  could phrase it in different ways like he said so  

he said something or he told me he told he told me  or I even I just heard so I heard would be if I if  

I don't know who the person is or I don't want  to say who the person is this is just a secret  

someone told me so someone told me or someone said  this someone or I heard I heard something so there  

are different ways you can do this and again  I'm trying to give you just different examples  

I could go into even more detail about it but if  I'm trying to help some students understand this  

idea you continue to go until you look at them  the same way you look at a dog and the dog is  

like ah I got it I understand what you're saying  so if I show a dog a few different balls and then  

I I say like you know I'm trying to point like  like is this a is this a ball and the dog is like  

yes like I understand what you're saying so even  if the dog can't speak to me I I can understand  

it's easy to look in a dog's eyes and see if they  understand just like I can look at students eyes  

and see if they're bored or they're confused about  something or they're angry whatever all right so  

I want to continue explaining something and and  basically give lots of varied examples to help  

them understand without me needing to explain  the logic of something like that so another way  

to think about this is how would I explain it  to a child so if I'm talking to my own kids my  

children are 9 years old and 5 years old and I say  oh like I said this or I'm just talking with them  

like I have a blue marker I have a a sage green  shirt a sage green shirt or I could say well uh  

your mother said this or your grandfather or or  your friend or they said or I heard something  

like that okay so the key uh is to try to try  to make a situation understandable give lots of  

varied examples say maybe here are some different  ways that people might Express that because there  

are many different ways and this is that's a big  problem with regular teaching is like like when  

you look at a a book like this and it's like  here's like up you go and we have one way to  

do that like or one way to say this in Mai there  are probably many ways to say that in Mai uh and  

just in the same way there would be many ways  to say that in English so if I'm talking about  

having a dog go up some stairs I could say up you  go or I could say go up or please go up or that  

way there are different ways I could express  that uh and typically a native is hearing all  

these different versions and that's the value or  one of the many values of naturally varied review  

So It prepares you to hear all of these different  ways of speaking uh again like he said or he told  

me or I heard all of those are correct ways and  common ways that you will hear people expressing  

uh this idea uh let's see and then Leo says that's  why YouTube doesn't publish the live much I think  

uh I have no idea why Why YouTube may like publish  or not publish or tell people or not tell people  

I don't know if if me not having advertising on  the YouTube videos is is an issue so maybe if I  

put ads on my videos YouTube will show them more  maybe I don't know uh it could be I'm bad at what  

I do maybe I don't know you know it's interesting  to to think about that like why uh like some of  

these live videos they go very viral people like  the idea and some of them like it could be a good  

idea or a bad idea or whatever but it you just  it just kind of depends on the mood I suppose  

uh but that's often how my YouTube channel is  so I don't know says what's up bro I like to be  

an English teacher do you have some tips uh well  it's yeah basically this if you're trying to teach  

people uh just help them understand the language  without needing their native language if you can  

do that then you will be a good teacher and it  it also like uh me I I am thinking about how  

my or thinking about what my goal is my goal is to  help people speak and in order to do that in order  

to do that I need to make sure people are 100%  confident about the vocabulary they're learning  

so if people don't quite understand something  then I need to explain it in a different way  

but this is like the last thing I want to do  like to give a definition or a translation or  

something so even if I'm speaking with a Japanese  person if I'm trying to help them speak I I could  

give them a translation but it would probably be  worth worse for them because they'll think about  

that translation when they speak I remember uh I  made I was working on a book actually for Japanese  

Learners of English and it was a whole bunch  of uh pneumonics to remember vocabulary for  

the first level of the uh what name is that it's  like the English language uh proficiency exam or  

something like that it's a specific like the what  are they now I forget the name of it anyway it's  

just an English test uh common in uh and it's  got these different levels uh and I i' written  

or created all these pneumonics but like that  book would be helpful for people remembering uh  

the test but it would be less helpful because it  would train them to think in English before they  

speak and so like you know these are the kind of  things I I think about U but the goal again in  

general is to make sure if you want to help people  speak rather than you know you're just trying to  

teach whatever like it's easy to give people some  some vocabulary maybe they will they will remember  

some of that but the more difficult thing to do  is to actually help people understand English in  

English and get them fluent so that's the job of  the teacher that's what I do uh but it depends on  

what your goals are but if you're if you're if  you're looking for specific tips I made a video  

about how to teach English as a first language  or how to teach English in English I think it's  

one of those one of those names uh let's see and  I says tell me teacher please what the difference  

between increase increasing and increasingly  well those are those are just like the difference  

between like it's like the difference between a  an adverb and an adjective so if I'm talking about

like as an example uh and this is  something you can also like search  

on our search on our Channel um if I have  if I'm talking about moving like I I threw  

a ball or I'm running just very simply like  I'm running so here's me uh kind of kind of  

running I guess that's me moving that way  who I'm working working hard over here I'm  

running uh so if I want to talk about  how I'm running I could say like I run

quickly so I'm describing the way I run so  I could run slowly I could run slow slowly  

I could run quickly I could run I don't know  I could describe that in different ways uh  

but like this is the this is the thing we're  talking about how as you get the examples you  

see that this thing is just describing the  way I run and so if you're trying to teach  

this to to students we begin with I run all  right so they understand like it's a person  

doing an action and then the contrast comes  where you start showing different examples  

and it's even easier I don't have a lot of space  to run around but let's say I'm I'm something I  

could I could I could show you right here that's a  little bit easier on the screen so if I do I write  

so I write I write sloppily all right sloppy  writing so it's sloppy writing SLO so sloppy  

writing but it is sloppily done so I am doing it  in a sloppy way all right right so is the writing  

itself sloppy or am I describing the action all  right so as we again we're we're trying to build  

like a network in our mind of how uh vocabulary  works so we start with a verb a very basic action  

I write and then okay here's a way of describing  that like I write quickly I write so let's see  

we've got quickly over here we've got slowly we've  got neatly so like an opposite to in a sloppy way  

I could write in a neat way that's another way  you could describe this all right so see as I'm  

as I'm getting these you understand what right  means it becomes a stronger understanding of the  

word right but uh you also understand here like  oh it's this is how an adverb Works without me  

explaining using logic or linguistic you know  definitions or something like okay class today  

we're going to learn about adverbs all right I  wouldn't talk about that the only reason re I  

use the word adverb is just so people understand  like if you want to look up more information about  

what that particular grammar point is uh but this  is how you would show that thing so an adjective  

uh maybe it's like a way to contrast uh like a  person and how they are so he is a happy person  

or a sad person or something like that so we  begin with here is a person and we have like  

a happy person and a sad person an angry person  you can see those different examples and without  

me explaining what an adjective is you naturally  come to understand what the meaning is and how to  

use it fluently all right so you don't get that  from me giving you an explanation you get that  

understanding from me giving you lots of examples  and that builds a network in your mind of all  

these different examples and that's how you you  develop that that uh sense of fluency all right  

so fluency comes from your understanding and you  being able to connect these different things so  

here I understand look I can describe a person  doing something I write or I play or I go or I  

do something but I could be more specific and I  could show you like I am writing uh very slowly  

so I write I write slowly or I write quickly or  I write very neatly or in my case you can say  

I draw badly all right so so my pictures are not  very good I draw badly or I'm drawing in a sloppy  

way or sloppily sloppily so when you're looking  for those examples uh you want to start off with  

something very simple very clear and then work up  to those other ones and give different contrasting  

examples so people understand what's happening  rather than you trying to just like give a  

definition or a translation of that thing okay so  I wouldn't I wouldn't mention anything about that  

maybe at the end of the lesson I would say this is  an adverb like we call this an adverb if you want  

to you know whatever whatever that thing is uh but  helping people understand it if you're trying to  

get them to speak often uh teachers are not trying  to get people to speak because they don't need to  

speak to pass a test in school so a lot of people  don't they don't know about this way of teaching  

because it's they don't need to know about  that you know so I call this like the strangest  

fluency secret because people think you need to  talk to get fluent but really you just need to  

understand the language better so it's it's  like the opposite way uh of thinking about it  

than what most people do uh right hopefully that  that makes sense so if you're like I I don't want  

to go into even more detail about like the other  things but if you're hopefully you can see how uh  

we would take a word like increase or something  and then teach it in different ways just seeing  

it used in those different situations uh would  help you understand it very well let's see bden  

says is Frederick the best app for practicing the  phonics uh I certainly think it is I haven't found  

anything better that's why I made it uh otherwise  I would have just use something else because it  

was a real pain in the ass to make that app so but  yes uh if you if you want to teach yourself uh and  

understand phonics get Frederick just click on  the link in the description below to get it uh  

and if you have any questions about it let me  know Persona says hi sir nice to see you why  

don't you show us three pen Japanese language  Oh you mean my my Japanese lesson so this is  

same kind of idea now if I'm trying to teach uh  Japanese to a dog I would do the same thing you  

know I'm going to say like marker marker marker or  in Japanese it's actually basically the same word

all right so if I'm if I'm looking at  uh different examples I don't want you  

to speak I want you to listen to me  and help you understand the language  

very well and as you as you start getting  more examples like if I have like AI Maka

hold you understand like oh he's talking  about the color and even if like the shade  

of you know the color is slightly different  it's basically the same [Music] thing hold up

as you hear those examples and uh with my  Japanese pronunciation it's a little bit  

harder to hear uh like in the English it  would be more like C Ro Kuro but this R  

sound in English is not in Japanese all  right anyway uh you you get to see the  

definition by understanding in context rather  than be giving you a translation and when you  

discover the vocab ulary meaning this way  you really remember it more you feel more  

confident you're mo more motivated and you really  understand the language better yeah K so I don't  

know it's if it's the same uh kanji like the same  character for that in Chinese I think it might be

kud so my my Japanese is sloppy  as well all right uh let's see

here uh so let's see I feel I am a time traveler  because the last time I heard about your daughters  

was when they were seven and three years old well  yes actually you can you can be a time traveler  

and and go through the YouTube videos and actually  see I've not had uh my younger daughter Noel on  

any of the videos I think um but Arya has been so  AR actually have a you could see ARA when she's  

uh just born at the hospital Leo says you are a  good man well I try thank you Leo uh slip cout  

slip K or slip cow my dog is asking for Freedom at  NASCAR thanks for the tips excellent Antonio says  

hi Drew understand you and other native 100% but  why I cannot understand other natives like Tony  

Robins uh the basic idea or the basic reason is  that people will uh they will speak differently  

and they will use different vocabulary so you  might learn a way of speaking as an example  

you might learn to say hello in an English class  so the teacher says hello and the student says  

hello and you practice that but in the real  world people might say hey what's up how's it  

going where you been how's the family how's  everything these are all different ways that  

people might might greet each other in English  oh long time no see it's been a while how you  

been or how have you been doing well how's the  family all right how's work how's life how's  

it hanging you will hear all of those different  things uh and that's part of the problem so you  

you've got a a you can think of the this this  Gap or this significant difference between uh  

we'll just make this a little classroom here  so we have some students in the classroom here  

they usually learn one way uh one way to speak  so they learn one example how to say one thing  

uh like what is a greeting like I just ex uh  gave you the example of that so A greeting in  

English or they might uh like how how do you  say how do I go to the bathroom or you know  

something like that but it's typically one way  of saying these different expressions and the  

teacher will have a clear slow voice it's easy  to understand what they're saying but over here  

in the real world there are uh like the the  the big problem with real communication is  

unpredictability unpredictability let me see  if I can spell that so to predict something

predict when you predict something it means  you know what's going to happen all right and  

people love predictability predictability uh  but we cannot predict things in conversations  

because each conversation is unique each person  will speak with a slightly different accent or  

they will have a I don't know faster speech or  whatever or less clear something like that so  

real communication is unpredictable so it's  harder to to know exactly what people are  

going to say and that's why a teacher like me  in this context so when I'm speaking right now  

in a lesson like this I'm going to speak more  clearly a little bit more slowly and not use  

a bunch of uh difficult vocabulary that I'm  not explaining so if I'm going to teach you  

something uh like some new vocabulary I will  make sure you understand it and I sometimes  

take time to do that uh but in the real world  it's full of unpredictable speech so you don't  

know what people are going to say how people  are going to say it uh you know whatever that  

the the the particular example is all right but  that that's that's the difference so natives  

speak differently than most people do uh in in  a kind of lesson video format like this let's

see uh yes and Joseph Alexander says nobody asked  for this stream but we all needed it there you  

go how true it is and it looks like is that a is  that a is that a dog look at that and it's a dog  

in your uh maybe is that your dog or just some  dog but there you go now you can you can learn  

learn some English or for your dog and teach your  dog some English all I really love your channel it  

reminds me of the classroom in high school oh no  well I don't know if that's a good thing or not  

hopefully you had a good teacher in high school  then let's see slow out again jokes apart you  

would say typically with this expression here is  like uh Jokes Aside jokes aside and it's a it's a  

understand what you're saying but the  expression is jokes aside and let me  

help you understand why so typically when  we have uh like let's say we have a bunch  

of things up on here let me see if I have some  I do I have actually some magnets that I can

grab so this is a really good example so uh jokes  aside so said jokes jokes apart so jokes apart  

uh that would mean like we're kind of taking  something like if we're talking about a part  

we want to maybe like split it into different  different pieces or something like that so to  

split something apart like if I have this  marker and I break it apart so I'm turning  

it into different parts so to to break something  or put something apart um but when we're talking  

about putting something aside Maybe we have all  these uh little magnets over here I'm actually  

just moving them all out of the way so that's  why we would say jokes aside so I'm I'm kind of  

like you know we're going to move the jokes away  for the moment and talk seriously for a moment so  

that's why we have something like uh Jokes Aside  excuse me jokes aside uh or you could say all

joking all joking aside so that's the  the idea here is like moving something  

out of the way like if I have a  table uh with a bunch of stuff on

it so I've got my I don't know some toys  on the floor or some plates on a table or  

something like that oh let me move those  plates aside so that we can do something  

over here okay so that's where we get this this  expression like all joking aside or Jokes Aside  

comma uh you know whatever else you're talking  about hopefully that makes more sense now but  

if if it does then you should be thinking like  oh like actually the the vocabulary is clear I  

understand why we use like all jokes aside rather  than like all jokes apart because we're not we're  

not like splitting something into different  sections we're literally clearing them out of  

the way okay all right let's see what else we've  got here here uh so I became fluent in English and  

your channel helped me a lot so thank you for  your effort glad to hear it if you know other  

people we can help please share the video and let  them know all right let's see Leo says if to fish  

is a verb why do I have to say go fishing and not  to go fish well I could go doing lots of things  

like I could go I could go eat I could go play  it's it's kind of combining uh combining the two  

activities so if I am uh typically we think of  like it's one thing of going like we're we're  

moving to some other place to go do an activity  so we go play and here again the naturally varied  

review of seeing the different situation  helps you understand it better so let's

say let's say we have uh like play so if I'm just  talking about playing it usually means I'm doing  

something right here so I could play guitar  I could play some video games I could play  

chess I could play I don't know play the piano  even just using this word to play and it means  

I'm doing something right here right now so I  am playing all right so I'm playing a a game  

or playing something uh but if my mom says why  don't you go play She's typically meaning we're  

combining go with this and we're talking about  like going to some other location and doing the  

activity so in this case like go play at the park  so my mom and I are at home right now she says why  

don't you go play outside all right so maybe I'm  already playing in the house I'm playing right  

now she says oh go play outside all right so I  could go read at the library I could go eat at  

a restaurant so it's a different place we're just  combining uh the motion with the activity because  

we're going to do it someplace else all right  so that's why we do that so if I could say go  

fishing or I could even just say go fish like  tomorrow uh I will go I will go fish like you  

know at somebody's Place whatever all right so but  I mean kind of conversationally we talk about like  

you know to go fishing we just use it that way but  this is why we talk about fishing like let's say  

I'm at my house here's my fishing pole and I'm I'm  trying to catch some fish right here at my house  

or so right now I'm fishing or I could go fishing  and usually go to some other place like a pond or  

a lake or a river or something like that all right  hopefully that's clear getting some good examples  

for everyone here but do let me know if uh if not  if not like if that doesn't doesn't make sense so  

you could say like go fish but we don't we don't  typically say like go to play I mean you could  

say that or go to fish but like part of the reason  in in this is the is the context just just to make  

this clear if I say go to fish just by itself I  only say go to fish and I don't explain anything  

or help you understand that that could mean like  this is me over here and I'm going to maybe walk  

or move to a fish over here so go to a fish that  would mean that would mean like I'm kind of like  

walking to a fish like going from this location  to this location over here so it's a little bit  

different and I think often just to make this  a little bit clear like we would just say go  

play or go fish or even just go fishing so like  I could go go to play at my friend's house or I  

could go to fish at a river but conversationally  it's usually easier and uh more clear or we just  

say it's kind of easier to understand if I just  say go fishing so I will go go do a particular  

thing but it's it's easier to understand if  you compare it with other verbs uh let's see

and did I I think did I like skip some of these  up here oh I think I got those already all right  

and let's see Don mavelli let's see you got  mackelli here I understand that I've to make  

the language comprehensible so I could  speak it better and I've included that  

approach in all my activities of learning and  did that for a good solid there you go out of  

is uh yeah you are right teacher thank you for  your efforts Don again continues oh so let's see  

a solid time that I've ignored speaking itself  for a long time I'm kind of worried that all  

the concentration on understanding it better  rather than speaking would come with contrary  

results so my question here is should I keep  concentrating here on understanding and not  

worrying about speaking although it is exhausting  process I don't know how exactly you're learning  

let's see understand and speak at the same  time you know like back in for it yeah so

typically to make this clear for everyone uh  yes you want to be learning something until  

you understand it and then you can speak so you  have kind of understanding and then speech and  

then you go to something else you understand  it more and then you can and then you can say  

that thing okay so I I don't mean like only only  listen for years and years and never speak the  

the point of understanding is just to give you  the confidence to speak so if you feel confident  

about saying something great that's the goal  so you understand something until you speak so  

the this this way is in contrast to the typical  thing of like not understanding and then we try  

to speak a lot which doesn't really help people  okay so if it's like we'll just put like like  

in you for not understanding and then we're  going to try to repeat things or speak a lot  

when people don't really uh actually improve but  this way it's yes it's a kind of back and forth  

process for for different things so you become  fluent in things as you understand them and then  

you can use this information to learn new things  so your uh your process or your progress excuse me  

your progress accelerates so it gets faster over  time uh but this is how it works so the point is  

not to just stay quiet for no reason but the the  point is more we want to continue to understand  

something until we understand it well enough that  we have confidence that's the point so if you  

don't have confidence about something don't force  yourself to speak just get more examples of that  

thing but it shouldn't feel like an exhausting  process it it should feel like it should actually  

feel worse to not understand something and then  try to repeat that again and again that should be  

the more uh frustrating and painful process so  yes we want to understand something then speak  

understand something then speak and if you if you  can understand something very quickly which is my  

job I try to make things understandable as quickly  as possible if you can do that then you will start  

speaking faster all right and then you just apply  this same idea to other things so whatever that  

is uh you learn something and you want to try  to speak as quickly as possible that's great  

that's that's the goal so you don't have to force  yourself to not speak for a long time bog says how  

many languages do you speak speak just English and  Japanese and fill with the Kudo there uh Jefferson  

says hello teacher H sir you are very good as  a teacher well I'm glad to hear it if you know  

other people we can help let's see Phil again says  sir how to use present participle what do you mean  

by that so again another thing like someone was  asking about like adverbs or whatever before uh  

but think about what is the I really want people  to understand things in a particular uh situation  

so rather than trying to think like abstractly  about logic or a linguistic principle like what  

is the thing you were trying to express or give  me a specific phrase or sentence and I can help  

you understand that better so Ju Just so just  so you can understand like um I can get you  

thinking more in that way rather than thinking  about a particular uh grammar Point like that uh  

see teacher the way you talk is as normal as you  talk in your daily routine uh no it's a little  

bit different so remember I I'm speaking to a  particular group of people right now that might  

not understand uh a lot of difficult vocabulary or  cultural references or things like that so I'm not  

going to use that vocabulary when I speak but if  I talk with another friend of mine like like the  

uh the guy I got uh this book from uh so he he  and I we have a lot in common we know a lot of  

you know history and you know movies references  and things like that so we can use that in our  

conversations and so people influent for life  can actually see how that works and how I speak  

differently uh depending on who I'm speaking with  uh let's see Wizzle again says hi Drew uh Miami  

says or maybe that's Miami uh thank you for the  lecture with some examples glad to hear Finn part  

says what does as an aside mean so again same idea  like if we have if I'm talking about a main idea  

I might say like has an aside like here's this  other idea over here that may be connected with  

that or maybe not but it's just some uh some  additional information you might hear as an  

aside in a meeting so someone says as a like we're  talking about this uh tomorrow we have a a lecture  

from someone at our I don't know at our church  or something as as an example so like there's  

a meeting about something tomorrow we will do this  uh oh oh oh I forgot also as an aside we also have  

a party next week all right so there there's the  main thing we're talking about and aside from that  

so it's like off to the side maybe next to that  related to that so aside from that uh this is  

again like it's a really useful word but when you  understand why people are using it it's it's there  

they physically mean like moving something out of  the way uh but we can use it in a figurative way  

like this so aside from this other thing like do  you have any other questions so maybe people have  

no questions about the main topic but aside from  that do you have any questions about something  

like that all right let's see and Michael says  greetings from Uruguay and let's see can I say  

go to read I mean use to yeah you can so you  can say like I want to go go I might go go to  

read at the library library or I could just  say go read at the library so it's not it's  

not logically in or grammatically incorrect to  say that because you could go to uh do anything  

just means you're moving from one place to another  but conversationally people will remove that too  

because it's not necessary people understand what  you're talking about so if I'm going to read at  

the library like I'm going to work at the library  I'm going to play at the park I could use all of  

those or I could just say I'm going like going to  I don't know I could like for some of those things  

it's so obvious what you're going to do like to  go read or go play or go eat or go whatever like  

you could you could use those so it's not it's  not grammatically incorrect to use that though  

uh in GM rules it is right to use uh go play or  is just kind of informal no you you can say that  

that's it's correct does the word bite have the  same pronunciation whether as a verb or a noun

uh yeah it would be the same it's the same uh  let's see Jefferson says professor your classes  

with examples on your board are very good glad  to hear it Jerry says I am Jerry I've been I have  

good listening level but still speaking no have it  better progress I don't know what I am say myself  

now yeah it sounds like you you don't yet know the  language very well so this is what you will find  

for people they can't express things very well  so they will have lots of mistakes like this and  

they don't have confidence about what they want  to say so you should spend more time with your  

vocabulary spend more time understanding things  and then you will speak more uh confidently and  

fluently Woody Sage says hello teacher I want  to know how to start when I claim my opinion  

about some topic like in my opinion I think I  guess yeah those are all fine you could say in  

my opinion or I think or I guess and eor says  I am uh Cameron from Pakistan I listen to you  

and Shadow your accent so they're here people ask  me have you ever been in English speaking country  

well very nice so remember uh it's it's nice to  Shadow what I'm saying but you really should also  

be shadowing native speakers or even if you watch  the uh the conversation videos on our channel so  

if you watch those you will see uh more examples  of of me speaking in a a more natural way like  

how I would speak with other natives all right  I think people uh looks like we got to the end  

look at that fantastic so this was kind of a an  odd video certainly a weird topic I know people  

might be thinking like well I don't I don't have a  dog or whatever I don't have a dog either but the  

point is if you can if you can teach your brain  the same way you would teach a dog and and try  

to give your brain limitations so even if I can  use a textbook it's probably better if I don't  

use one if I can get good examples examp that  help me understand things all in English I will  

understand the language quite easily that way all  right so spend your time as you're trying to learn  

the goal is to understand things well and then use  them after you felt confident all right so if you  

don't feel confident about something get more  examples of it until you really feel confident  

then you will speak all right so the fluency is  developed as you get lots of understanding you  

really feel confident as you erase any doubt  that you have and that's when you'll start  

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