How To Turn "Textbook English" Into Natural, Native English - EnglishAnyone.com

and the world's number one English fluency guide  it is a pleasure to welcome you to another live  

video here on YouTube and today we're going  to talk about how to sound more natural and  

more native so how to instead of using only  textbook English the kinds of things you  

would learn in a lesson that you can actually  start using more native things the things that  

natives really use in conversations so  as I get people in here hopefully uh I  

think YouTube should be telling people about  this now if you have any questions I'll I'll  

let's see I'll just put a note about this up  here for particular situations let me see here

foreign

so if you have a particular situation something  that you have trouble speaking about or you'd like  

to know a better way to express something let me  know what your textbook English is and I'll give  

you a better way to say that I'll talk a little  bit more about this in a moment but just letting  

people know hopefully yeah it should be coming  in correctly I think people are hearing me well  

too let me know if my sound is up enough uh but  this this idea came from I just asked people on  

Facebook if they had any questions about learning  or specific things they they were worried about  

that are preventing them from speaking and Denise  one of our students said hey can you talk more  

about how to use native natural Expressions so  I'll talk about how to learn those as well but  

as we're just getting in here hopefully the  chat is working uh post and comment let me  

see if I can post something I don't know if Chad  is okay I think it should be working we'll see  

uh but the basic idea is that there's there's  nothing wrong with using textbook English uh  

and this is just basically the kinds of things you  would learn in a regular English classroom uh but  

one of the main difficulties is that even if you  only use that those kinds of Expressions you will  

still hear lots of different things from natives  no of course we get a fire truck coming like usual  

when we go when we have these live videos so one  thing I will talk about in this video is with your  

help specific things that you have trouble saying  so if there are situations uh when you are maybe  

having trouble expressing yourself or you'd like  a better way of saying something just let me know  

what that is so you can give me some particular  word or expression and I'll give you some better  

ways of saying that I think this is easier than  me just giving you a bunch of Expressions but  

you tell me anyway I will start this video with  a very quick story I was in my kitchen uh pouring  

some milk into a glass and my older daughter Arya  was there so I'm just pouring a regular carton of  

milk into a glass and there was only a little bit  left so I just was able to pour I had you know a  

glass of milk right here here's my carton of milk  uh that's not a very good card certain of me not  

a very good carton of milk but I'm pouring the  milk in there and I only get maybe that much milk  

in the in the bottom of the glass and as soon as I  do that I'm pouring there and I look and Arya says

game over

so my older daughter Arya instead of saying  something like oh the milk is finished or  

something like that she used a very native natural  expression just a different way of expressing this  

which is game over and so she is she has learned  this for me when I'm uh doing something and and  

she understands that in this kind of situation  we can use an expression like game over so if you  

are playing a video game or you're playing like a  board game or something like that this has just I  

mean you would even call this textbook English  for that situation so the interesting thing  

again about Native speech is that we we might take  something that's simple but use it in a different  

situation and that's where it really sounds native  and natural hopefully that makes sense so we would  

take a phrase like a game over if you're just  playing a game or something and you would hear  

an expression like uh game over when the game is  finished we can also use this in other situations  

all right uh another thing I will uh give just a  very common expression that I hear people using  

uh and this is also a very common situation in uh  in conversations I actually teach this in fluent  

for Life uh but it's one of many thousands  Expressions thousands of Expressions that  

we teach in the program uh but I thought it would  be helpful to share it with everyone here as well  

and so in this situation you have usually two  people talking or a group of people that could  

be talking so one person says something  we'll just say person a is talking and  

then maybe person B interrupts person a so a is  saying something then B says something and then  

B usually says like oh I'm sorry uh like sorry  for interrupting you and then a says uh oh I was

going to say [Music] so this is a a common  expression that you will see people using in  

real situations in real life and you will hear  this often and it just means it's it's something  

people say before they get back to the thing that  they were Interrupted about or whatever so person  

a is talking they're saying something and then  maybe they get interrupted by B and then when  

a gets to talk again they say oh I I was going to  say this or I was I was just going to say this or  

you will hear I was gonna say this so instead of  going to I was going to say this or I was just  

gonna say this I was just gonna say and you will  hear it faster like this I was just gonna say I  

was just gonna say but this is a very simple way  instead of like thinking about I don't know like  

a textbook way of expressing this it's easier just  to to know some certain uh phrases like this you  

can use and then you can just after you've heard  natives use these a lot it will feel very natural  

for you to use them as well uh anyway I just  wanted to give two quick examples about this  

so one is game over and the other is I was just  gonna say but it will be helpful for me uh if  

you tell me specific phrases where maybe you you  usually say this uh or if you have heard a phrase  

that a native used and you didn't quite understand  why they said that so I'd like to do this I think  

it will be helpful for you especially this is the  kind of time where I can give in a native or in a  

live lesson where I can help people with specific  questions they have about their particular  

situations all right Vincent nice to see you there  from Sao Paulo Brazil and Ming Shu says your old  

daughter means you have another daughter yes  that's correct so I would say my older daughter  

my older daughter so I have two daughters and good  good thinking though but yes this is exactly what

what you get from kind of paying attention like a  native rather than trying to think about it like  

a student but the basic idea if I have like  you know let's say I only have one daughter  

uh and so this is my daughter

and if I have two daughters then I have an older

so old ER older daughter and then the opposite  would be what so this is my older daughter then  

who would this one be let me know in the  comments I want to make this easy but you  

should be thinking like a native this is how I  speak with my own kids when I'm teaching them  

things I have them try to guess something  and when they're right obviously they feel  

very excited about that this is my older daughter  older daughter and who is this one yep very good

younger now I know this may seem like uh like a  simple thing or a silly thing to ask because the  

answer might be obvious but you would be surprised  and often we want to really I really want to help  

you be thinking more like a native as you learn so  rather than a teacher trying to tell you something  

you should be looking for patterns and thinking  like oh okay so we got the older and now we  

have the younger one as well now imagine I have  three children let's say I have three daughters  

what would I call them then how  would a native speaker describe these

so as usual there are more than one way or  there are many ways usually to express Express  

certain things but this is a very simple  one so if we have three daughters or more

the oldest so this is my oldest  daughter and we have the youngest

e e s t my youngest daughter and what do you  think that one is I'll give you a moment to  

see if you can figure that out all right so  uh yes for my actual daughters I only have  

two so I have an older daughter and a younger  daughter my older daughter Arya is uh seven  

years old and my younger daughter Noel is uh or  the younger daughter Noel is uh four years old  

uh let's see again shim parses uh Hydro  how are you doing I'm doing very well  

you're looking outstanding fantastic good to  be outstanding I feel I feel great here we go  

where are you from sir I'm from Chicago but  I live in uh Nagasaki Japan so you introduced  

your older daughter when she was born but there  is no introduction of the younger baby yeah it  

was you know this is an interesting thing  about about like Parenthood uh I remember  

seeing this I'll answer this question first  to see if anybody got that yes very good

middle so if we have like my oldest my middle and  my youngest daughter all right so yes about about  

like maybe this is something more people can  uh relate to but I remember seeing a of like  

a really funny picture this uh just like a meme  on the internet it showed like uh pictures of of  

two babies so this is there's like the first child  the first child there it was like a beautiful baby  

picture and they were like beautiful flowers  all around it was it was like a very expensive  

photo it looked really nice and then there was a  picture of the second child which was like it was  

just you know regular baby picture with just one  one Little Flower so like people people don't care  

as much about the about the second child that's  a the basic idea uh of course I care about both  

of my children but the reason I didn't I didn't  bother making another video with Noel is because  

it would have just been the same thing as the one  with Arya but they are in fact two very different  

kids and uh maybe I will bring both of them in for  uh uh maybe a video something like that uh but if  

that if that's uh entertaining for you but most of  the things that I do at home are the same things  

I do like this so I'm looking for situations  where I can help them understand something like  

a native and then teach them phrases and really  help them again thinking more about patterns of  

speech rather than trying to teach them rules or  grammar things like that but yes anyway I thought  

that was very funny but these are the kinds of  things when you're trying to learn patterns this  

was this is how you should be thinking so  I'm trying to teach my kids in the same way

all right now as we go through these if you have  specific questions about about phrases you would  

like to know let me know and then I'll I'll cover  those and give you some more examples of those  

all right so let's see if I'm pronouncing that  correctly how can we speak like native speakers  

all right so this is another thing we can talk  about in the video Even though really the point  

of this video is just talking about uh specific  vocabulary you can use to sound a bit more native  

but the basic idea is that there is what we'll  call English as a second language lessons and  

then we have English as a first language lessons  and English as a second language lessons usually  

begin with your native language so they don't  begin with English they begin with your native  

language and they usually begin with a textbook so  we have a textbook here we've got some pictures of  

things and it's in your native language so let's  just I'll just use Japanese uh for example uh  

because I can I can draw that flag easily so we'll  draw a uh here's a picture of the Japanese flag  

and then we're gonna move that uh going to  English we'll just use America as an example

all right so that's my American flag up  here and so part of the the difficulty  

for people learning is that they're going  from their native language into English  

and so when we're talking about textbook  English like we're talking about here uh  

then we will have an expression here  like we will learn uh like finished

so finish or finished the past tense you  would learn a word like that and then you  

would translate from Japanese into English so you  would begin with the Japanese word translate it  

into English and then anytime you need to say  finished you would use that but the problem  

again is that natives will use many different  Expressions rather than beginning with like  

a Japanese word for Japanese Learners so as  an example we've got the word finished over  

here if you if you look carefully we're beginning  with a word in and I've written it in English but  

you would finish it let's say I would just say  like which would be the the Japanese for like  

something is like something is finished that's one  way of talking about this but in English we begin  

with a situation I'll just put an S right here  so a situation for something and then we look  

and pay attention for all the different ways  someone might uh someone might say this so as  

I gave the example earlier in this video  about game over so instead of just saying  

like oh look something is done something  is finished we could say oh game over

now another way another more  advanced uh is another like  

kind of expression we could use to talk  about this same thing of being finished

so we begin with an idea we're not really  beginning with with a word we're beginning  

with an idea although often like  you could just put finish in here  

for when something is ending uh so  like a relationship is ending maybe  

like you see a boy and a girl they used  to be dating and now oh no they split up  

game over game over so there's no game happening  but we use that same expression but you wouldn't  

learn something like that if you're learning  in the English as a second language way because  

you're just beginning with something like finished  and you would say oh the relationship is finished  

the relationship is finished or the milk is  finished or the class is finished or like you  

know that that boxer he got like really badly  beaten up the boxer is finished so you can use  

that but it will be confusing for you when you  start trying to go the opposite way of hearing  

all of these different Expressions that natives  actually use so we've got finish game over we  

might also hear like that's all she wrote That's  All She Wrote there's another expression a longer  

expression you will hear for the same situation  so that's the end game over finished That's All  

She Wrote so that's like the end of the story so  we she didn't write any more than that like the  

author didn't finish anymore or write any more  of the story That's All She Wrote That's All She  

Wrote so all of these different expressions  are the native ways of describing this we of  

course also use the word finish but often we  want to you know describe things in a slightly  

more interesting or natural way and so we will use  something like that it's a little bit maybe boring  

you know people are writing books or telling  stories and they want to make it sound a bit  

more interesting so game over if you've ever  seen uh the the movie Aliens so this is where  

some like space soldiers go to a planet and try to  kill some some aliens there's a scene where where  

one of the the soldiers after after their plane  blows up he says game over man game over and this  

is like a really a famous line from that movie  but he's again he's just saying we're finished  

like that's the end something is there's a really  big problem and you can understand that from the  

situation so you can see him really excited game  over man game over the same thing or That's All  

She Wrote all right hopefully this is making  sense but the point is with English as a first  

language we're beginning with a situation and  then looking at how natives would respond to  

that so what are the kinds of things a native  might say in that situation we don't begin with  

just a word in a different language and then try  to translate that uh and I should probably just  

write this in Japanese over here but the basic  idea again you're going from a Japanese word  

to the translation in English and you're trying  to remember what those are uh rather than trying  

to learn English as a first language where  you're beginning with situations and remember  

this is how children are learning their native  language because they can't translate anything  

so a child like my daughter my older daughter  Arya she heard me say game over when we're  

talking about a game then she also heard me say  game over when we're talking about something else  

being finished oh no time is up game over so we  have to go home we can't play at the park anymore  

I'm sorry game over it's time to go back home and  so she learns that ah okay I can use Game Over uh  

in a different situation even though it's talking  about basically the same idea all right let me go  

back and see if I got some some more comments over  here that is an old farther away that doesn't hold  

farther away you mean hopefully I don't know if  you mean father or not Dana says could you share  

a link about your online courses actually yes if  you click on the link in the description of this  

video it will take you to fluent for life you can  find the link for Frederick below this video as  

well uh yesterday I saw a video Stephen crashing  about language actions this is this is the same  

technique you use both are awesome people go get  him yes so I actually sent uh maybe two days ago  

a link to watch that video so this was uh the  the video about Stephen crash and talking about  

language acquisition and he's he's talking  about the same thing I do so what's what was  

really interesting uh just to talk about Stephen  crashen for I've probably mentioned him many times  

and you can actually learn more about him if  you click on the link in the description but  

basically he and I both discovered the same  thing in different ways so Stephen crashing  

is a linguist and a language researcher and he was  basically trying to understand how fluency Works  

how does it happen how does it develop and over  his own research he found that we all get fluent  

in any language in the same way and that is by  understanding the language in the language and  

he calls this comprehensible input I call it just  understandable messages you can call it comprehend  

comprehensible input but that's basically what  we what we what we're talking about right here so  

learning English as a first language is not about  trying to take your you don't begin with your  

native language you begin with a situation and  then we're seeing how natives are talking about  

that what are the patterns that they use when they  talk about different things so something finishes  

something is over oh no like right at the end of  this video uh game over That's All She Wrote I'm  

sorry that's the end of the video That's All She  Wrote okay and as you pay attention to these you  

will start learning more and recognizing these  things more and this is how you go from learning  

things and only using textbook English to using  the things that natives really use now remember  

there's nothing bad about using the word finished  or using the word no or using the word whatever  

like it's not the bad thing isn't uh like that you  should not you know learn this vocabulary because  

it's useful vocabulary and natives also we're  speaking with the same vocabulary the difference  

is that there are many other things that most  Learners do not learn in school so when you  

translate something you're you're really trying to  make it as simple as possible in the ESL approach  

so this is why you begin with a Japanese  word like so let me just here I just there

so we begin with something  like owaru so this means finish

and that's why in a Japanese English textbook  you will see a bunch of English or you will see  

a bunch of Japanese even though it's an English  textbook and this is because we're just going  

to tell you what the definition is now this is  an interesting thing about learning as well uh  

that's like I don't think I've heard uh crash  and mention this but this is talking about the  

the like the mental side of how you feel when  you discover something for yourself so rather  

than a teacher telling you exactly what something  means the more you can discover that for yourself  

the more excited you feel about alert all right  and so it's it's exactly like watching a movie  

if you're watching some kind of scary movie or  a thriller or something like that and I give you  

an example or like tell you what what happens and  say oh the Killer is this person you're going to  

be angry about that because you want the chance  to solve that problem yourself or the same thing  

in a video game if someone tell tells you how to  solve something you feel bad because you want the  

chance to solve that problem yourself all right  so if you can do this in language learning you  

will develop that skill much more easily the  tricky thing is that you've been trained for  

so many years just to wait for a teacher to tell  you what something means rather than okay let me  

like pay attention closely to this situation  and watch what natives are really saying okay  

but this is how you do it so instead of just  trying to look at vocabulary in your native  

language and look at what a basic word might  be in English you would take something like a  

situation and listen for the different  ways that natives would describe that  

all right let's see if we got well Antonio says  a big hug from Brazil thank you very much hater  

is back uh is this similar to the way he presents  more than one way for example so uh so say I am  

sorry or ways to say thank you and so on for the  rest of the situation is this correct yes that's  

it so the basic idea is that in in any situation  there are usually multiple ways to express  

yourself and this is why uh in this in a in like  a regular textbook way you will learn maybe one  

word for a particular situation so you might learn  a word like owaru in Japanese and we learn that  

that means to finish something and then if we hear  something different like game over it's like wait  

a minute owaru doesn't mean game over like that's  a different Japanese expression actually uh and  

the same thing like that's all she wrote that  would that would you would be kind of crazy to  

try to translate uh one thing like that into this  now this is a big problem for language translating  

software because it's trying to take all of these  things and fit them back into these Expressions uh  

but owadu does not mean the same thing as like  that's all she wrote like I don't know if you  

were to translate that in Japanese it would be  much different than than Finnish so I'd be like

so like something something  like something she finished

but it wouldn't be like what the point is it's  not like a a one-to-one thing that you can  

easily translate but a native can understand  it very easily because they're not trying to  

translate the word they're trying to look  at the situation when people would use it  

so the more examples you can get like uh  if you're trying to say I'm sorry so it's  

the situation is someone is apologizing  to like to say sorry so you can think  

about the many different ways that a native  might say that and also depending on how

like how serious that might be so let's  say the situation is to say I'm sorry  

hater gave that example we might begin with  let's say this is a range from like serious  

uh to not serious and this I just mean like it's  a big problem or not a big problem so if you have  

to say I'm sorry uh if it's just like a very  small thing like you accidentally hit someone  

in a in a restaurant or something like that so  I'm walking and I maybe bump them a little bit  

uh oh I could just say oh sorry or I could say  something like my bad which has become more kind  

of conversationally useful uh in recent years like  many years like a maybe uh like a 70 80 year old  

person would not say my bad it's more for uh for  younger people but this is another thing you get  

as you pay attention to the language you start  noticing who is using the Expressions so you  

notice older people speak in a different way  or younger people speak in a different way so  

everyone might use the word finish but different  people might Express things in a different way  

uh so you might go a little bit  uh maybe higher like I'm very

I'm very sorry or you might have allow me  to apologize or uh oh I'm terribly sorry  

about that all right but the point is uh as you  as you're thinking more like a native you're  

trying to integrate all of this information and  it becomes much easier uh when you think about it  

from situations rather than trying to think  about it from vocabulary and translate that  

all right hopefully that makes sense if you have  more questions about that let me know all right  

so 20 phrases say it's over or 20 phrases to  say I apologize yeah and again uh I don't need  

to give like a whole bunch of those because  you can find lots of those online the point  

is more how you think about this and looking  for looking for situations like when you  

apologize so if you're watching a movie and  you see like one person kills somebody else  

well that would be very serious or one person that  you know does something like they forgot I don't  

know something else like maybe you forget your  your wife's birthday maybe that's pretty serious  

uh or you know something like that but you will  see rather than trying to memorize a list of these  

things the point is to pay attention for them and  so that why that way uh when you're looking for  

situations and how people use these you would  begin with the situations that you have uh in  

your life so the things that you deal with most so  when I came to Japan and I wanted to learn about  

uh gardening I was focused on that so I was  learning about gardening situations how do we  

talk about moving a rock or how do we talk about  putting some moss on the ground or something like  

that but the basic idea again is you're looking  at situations rather than looking at vocabulary  

all right uh Claudette says greeting from Mexico  always a pleasure to learn English for me is my  

pleasure all right let's see and uh greetings  from Germany good morning here in India thank  

you very much for your efforts so if I learn in  the usual way a translation into my mother tongue  

how would I correct the words I learned uh that  were literally translated in my mind sometimes  

when you translate an expression the expression  in another language will maybe not make sense  

from my bad in Portuguese doesn't make sense if  you're translating yeah uh so good questions Fabio  

so the the basic idea again like you have been  trained for many years to learn in the English  

as a second language way and this means you will  you will probably get things you you will probably  

even think in Spanish or Portuguese or whatever  your native language is so you will think in that  

language first and then think about what you  want to say and mentally translated when what  

you should be doing is trying to you're you're  you're basically training your mind to think in  

a different way so rather than be beginning with  your native language you begin with the situation  

and I would just like be be mindful of this like  I am uh so in my house let's say I don't know my  

kids are running around and my wife yells at  them or something like that as an example now  

I will get this lots of like lots and lots of  examples of Japanese for getting angry at kids  

so as a parent this is something that's useful for  me because I will hear these expressions and I can  

use these Expressions if I want to but if I am  a teenager or I'm a young adult and I don't have  

my own family then this vocabulary is not really  useful for me so a lot of these things again they  

come from your particular life situation and then  you look at the kinds of things that you hear so  

if you like going out to restaurants you should  pay attention so one thing like I would do if I  

go to a Japanese restaurant or something I would  go to a restaurant and just sit down and listen to  

how other people are ordering food so I order my  food and I can listen I'm paying attention to the  

other tables around me I'm kind of listening to  the conversations things like that and listening  

to how people order stuff so it's a pretty simple  thing but the point is I'm focusing on a situation  

and getting lots of different examples now I'm of  course like I might not use all of those things  

but I will become very aware of them and it  will be easier for me to understand natives  

when they're in those situations all right so  that's really the point of this is thinking about  

the situations people have rather than trying  to begin with particular vocabulary and so the  

the basic idea is that you have to retrain your  mind to focus on situations rather than focusing  

on specific words and it's okay like to think  about I'm thinking about like a good word for  

this or whatever but ask yourself what would a  native say in this situation and then it's easy  

to find that like I mean even uh like watching  videos on YouTube can give you basic examples  

of lots of different situations like apologizing  uh or buying some food or something so you can  

go to like watching a travel show when people  are buying things or or going to different you  

know ordering in restaurants or whatever but I  would look for real native content that's why we  

put real native content into fluent for life we  want to have actual conversations between people  

so you can see how people are responding to each  other the ways that they interrupt or the ways  

that they might explain things we're really trying  to give you more situations for that rather than  

just giving you some textbook examples of things  that you can memorize all right so again think  

about it from the situation perspective the point  is not to uh to to try to to think about things  

in your native language and then translate them  even though this is the way you've been taught  

to learn languages so you will have to have to  begin making that switch in your mind just just  

paying attention it's actually quite easy to do  once you start doing it and you will feel really  

great when you discover something like ah like I  now I know what that means and you learned it like  

a native rather than learning it like a student  and you can really feel that switch in your mind  

all right uh Victor says when learning  a language not only learn or acquire  

the language but also the culture or the way  of thinking yeah and so that's another thing  

Victor excellent point uh that we will also and  and this is a this is like another thing about  

um uh uh like learning language learning not  just trying to learn the vocabulary but also  

understanding where the vocabulary comes from  so learning these kinds of things you can learn  

about the culture of apologizing or the culture  of ordering food or the culture of doing all  

kinds of things so how do people explain how do  people move when they speak you know like people  

think about Italians or whatever talking with  their hands a lot that's part of their culture  

it's part of what they do and so you learn  those kinds of things as you pay attention  

to the living language all right the living  language is the is the point the language  

changes and evolves and adapts over time and this  is another I I I heard or my staff told me about  

um someone someone had had like written written  to us and said like my My Method doesn't work  

um but instead like the kind of ESL method was  better uh and and they were just saying like well  

you have or they were explaining what they learned  with uh and they have um I don't know they forget  

what what sort of resource they were talking about  but it was like like vocabulary and learning some  

pronunciation and learning some stuff like this  from a website that didn't have lots of actual  

native examples in it and and often the English  as a second language approach will break down the  

language so they will kind of split the language  up into different parts like this so you've got  

grammar pronunciation vocabulary but in the the  efl approach all of these things are integrated  

in one situation so when you're learning to  say I'm sorry you're learning pronunciation and  

grammar and vocabulary all at the same time and  you're learning how a native would actually say  

it and so that's why I don't understand like this  this approach of of uh it's okay to break down  

the language into different pieces uh if you're  beginning with real speech which is what we do in  

fluent for life so we try to give you uh examples  of the way natives would really communicate and  

then we're going to show you that maybe in a  little bit easier to understand weight because  

it is helpful to get some explanations just to  learn a little bit faster but if you can discover  

more things by yourself that's even better but  the point is like if you're if you're trying to  

learn let's say pronunciation and you only hear  individual sounds you can like push a button  

and listen to One sound but you can't compare  easily different sounds then you're you're going  

to struggle to to improve your pronunciation and  listening because hearing one sound like one one  

letter is not as good as being able to compare a  bunch of different letters together this is why we  

built Frederick the way it is you can also click  on the link in the description to learn more about  

Frederick but the basic idea is that again we want  to integrate the language we want to put all of  

these pieces together rather than trying to learn  them in separate separate pieces and I'm always  

it's always kind of confusing to me when people  write me and if they say drew your method doesn't  

work I say well of course it works it's how you  got fluent in your native language so it's not I  

didn't I have not created did anything new I'm not  like developing any like fancy I don't know what  

like a technique or something like that all I'm  doing is really helping you learn English like a  

native speaker that's it because uh really that's  the only way you're going to be able to speak  

uh let's see all right so let's see Claudette  said there are so many phrasal verbs and there  

are so many meanings as well what is your advice  to learn them faster and stick to them forever  

any advice please well you should if you're not  already a member of our visual guide to phrasal  

verbs you should get that but I'll give you the  whole my whole like actually if people want to  

know how to do that it's you can you can do all  the things that I'm doing um like by like the  

same things I do you can do them yourself it's  just a bit more difficult but if you're curious  

I can explain actually let me see if people would  like to know that if you'd like to if you'd like  

to know more about like like learning kind of  how I do phrasal verbs let me know in the in the  

comments here and I'll speak more about that uh  but I'll move on because I've covered that before  

but if you want to hear if if enough people  want to hear more about that then let me know  

um all right let's see so ming show May I know  your daily life in Japan how much time that EU  

can speak English uh actually I don't like this is  my English speaking time really most of my time uh  

if I'm if I'm speaking to people uh I'm speaking  in Japanese and unless I'm at home I at home I use  

almost all English because I want my kids to get  uh lots of English input and I'm really the main  

source of that they will watch some you know TV  shows or YouTube videos or things like that to to  

learn some English but I'm the main person in the  house that uses English their mother also speaks  

uh really good English but I want to like give  them even more and so since they have a lot less  

time to learn those things like so they spend  most of their time going to regular school and  

it's all in Japanese so I have to take time and  be very strategic about how I teach them because  

I don't have I don't they just don't get enough  enough time for that all right uh so Claudette  

welcome to realize is make a story containing  your phrasal verbs yeah that's part of it yeah  

uh your channel is pristine pristine well that's  that's an interesting way to put it pristine  

pristine and usually pristine means like it's  kind of like a clean and untouched like a pristine  

Mountain you know like nobody goes there there are  no buildings on it that kind of thing uh but if  

you want to say like uh it's helpful or a fan like  you're a fan of the videos then yes fantastic you  

can uh you can describe it that way thank you very  much Claudette again have you ever thought about  

inviting some students to peer in your YouTube  channel I would love to see you with your students  

you can actually find some videos where I have  done that and on our Instagram Channel as well I  

have invited uh some people to join me in videos  I don't know if it's possible to have people  

um join on these videos or not in YouTube but I  have done that on again Instagram videos where  

I actually have me kind of doing individual  one-on-one work with students but usually what  

happens is like it's the same advice I would give  for most people uh and so usually it's maybe some  

pronunciation or something like that but when  people really feel that they need some kind of  

personal attention uh when it's not as important  as most people think it's usually just a lot of  

the same advice that I give generally to people  uh that I'm that I'm using for helping them but  

if you'd like to see me speaking with Learners you  can find that on the channel just look for that on  

the channel Sam says Hi We want to know everything  you mean like all things or everyday things John  

says hello Adrian is there something that I can do  to remember the pronunciation of difficult words  

I've been thinking about it because I live in a  Spanish country with no contact uh with English  

speakers at all yeah so for learning pronunciation  as I've talked before there are basically two  

parts to this the first one is learning the  individual sounds of letters because there really  

are some very simple rules that help you pronounce  English so these are called the rules of phonics

so phonics just means the sounds of English so  as an example we have a word like cat but if we  

put an e on the end of this this becomes Kate and  you can learn rules like this very simple you can  

uh very simply you can teach them yourself  these in Frederick let me put this up here

so if you want to learn how to pronounce  we take you from uh words like cat to  

words like Symphony and apocalypse and  uh I don't know advantage or whatever  

I forget exactly what higher level words  we have but it takes you through over 2  

000 words and the the really the deeper point  of the program is to teach you how to think  

about pronunciation like a native so natives are  learning the pronunciation of individual words and  

they're also learning how you blend words together  so you might have like this I was I was teaching  

this uh actually to a woman like a week and a  half ago I think uh so this let's see this star  

so if we have uh words like this star so a native  would pronounce this as this star this star this  

star so this s basically disappears and these  blend together so it's like this star this star  

so the star this star so when you're learning  uh the sounds of individual words and you also  

learn how to blend them together which is what  we do in Frederick then you can learn how to  

pronounce basically anything so this will teach  you the spelling of words how to save them and  

how to hear them very clearly uh click on the  link in the description if you'd like to learn  

more about that let's see Rue copes it seems since  I started to work on my pronunciation my listening  

comprehension has increased significantly yeah so  the these two skills are are connected so all of  

the skills are really connected you're listening  your grammar your pronunciation but the listening  

specifically is connected with uh pronunciation  and what's interesting is that people think they  

need to like practice speaking to improve their  pronunciation when actually the opposite is really  

true and and when you listen to enough English and  if you hear 10 different people say something your  

your pronunciation will automatically improve  even if you don't uh like repeat yourself a lot  

so you you don't have to say that and it's it's  kind of like hitting a hitting a note in music

so if I give you if we have a I don't I don't even  remember how to draw like a music stab it's like  

something like that I think something or maybe  that's a dollar sign or I forget how to draw the  

I think that's a treble a treble clef but uh for  this like let's say I say hey I need you to like  

hum this note I don't know what this is uh forget  how to read music but let's just say it's ding  

and if I just say ding like you hear that by  itself you might not be able to hear it but  

if you can start from a different note that you  can make so if you say like ding ding something  

like that uh we can we can try to get our sound  down to where it should be so I call this sound  

transitioning but it's a way of trying to make  it easier to connect like ding trying to get to  

that uh particular sound you're going for and this  is why Frederick again gives you lots of chances  

to compare different sounds so if you can hear  [Music] and you can really spend time listening to  

these different sounds and you can easily get your  pronunciation in your listening uh improved a lot  

all right let's see John says I would like to  have your secret for mastering phrasal verbs  

thank you okay uh I'll mention this very  quickly so this is a it's actually a very  

simple process and this is the way natives are  again teaching everything the way natives are  

learning so the way this usually works I do  it in uh three steps see if you can imagine  

uh what these are but the basic idea for  learning not only phrasal verbs but for  

any uh any kind of vocabulary is number one we  want to try if we can to understand it visually

uh and so an example of this if we're talking  about phrasal verbs uh maybe you would learn  

I don't know I think I gave this example  in a in another YouTube video before but  

I'll give it again because many people are new  on this video so if we have a boat right here  

and the boat down here is we can look  at the action we imagine this marker  

as a boat and oh no uh we can talk about  this the phrasal verb will be to go under

so the boat is physically going under the water  we mean like going under the under the surface  

of the water so we want to try as we can to  understand something visually and almost every  

really example of phrasal verb that children are  learning and phrasal verbs are really important  

because this is what we're using to make things  a little bit more complicated for children so  

they're learning a difference between like sit  down and sit up all right so as an example uh  

again we're learning in a visual way if we have a  chair like this if we have a person let's say we  

might have I'll just compare this so I don't have  a chair right in front of me but if we imagine  

three different things we have a person standing  and then we have a person uh sitting and then we  

have a person I don't know like this last one  like maybe their their posture is like really  

really bad they're sitting like this so this one  we could if we if we tell a child like stand up  

so we don't want to just stand but stand up we  want to get them that that connection of stand  

with up meaning we want you to stand well  stand erect like stand up straight stand  

up straight and so if we have sit down again we  have the action and we're talking about moving  

from standing to sitting so sitting down but  then this one we might have sit up so sit up  

if you think about stand up and sit down then  we get the idea of so I'm kind of you know my  

back my posture is is not looking very good  and my mom tells me to sit up so okay now  

I'm going to actually sit up and you know usually  teachers will tell kids to do that in the same way  

so this is to sit up but the basic idea here is  that kids are learning these things visually you  

can actually see what's happening and so again  you're looking at the situation visually what is  

happening and what are the words people are using  for that situation so in this situation what do  

people say you see like a child okay the teacher  says stand up and the child stands up another  

child is watching that and they think oh okay well  I guess stand-up means to to get in this position  

and they're not trying to translate from German  or Thai or whatever they're just looking at the  

situation and making that connection so it's much  easier to do this when you're learning things uh  

visually all right uh and next we want to begin  like the the kind of second thing here is we want  

to look at core meanings of of phrasal verbs  uh so we'll just call this like core meaning  

and the I mean these are bait like one and two are  basically linked together uh but the core meaning  

of something like uh like a phrasal verb where  we're just just beginning with something that's uh  

easier to understand again with a visual meaning  and we're looking at like stand or sit so the core  

meaning of that what does that mean to stand so  it just means like you know something is up rather  

than being like sideways like that so I can have a  like a pencil right here I'll draw a little pencil  

so this pencil is standing up rather than lying  down okay so it's a same idea like the pencil  

doesn't have legs but it's vertically in a  position like that so it's standing up again  

we have the visual example and we're looking  at the core meaning of stand and so we get a  

couple of different examples of what that means  and as we see more of those it makes more sense  

like trying to learn phrasal verbs that way so  another thing like take so if I have a a little  

bit more complex word like take we have just an  idea of like moving one thing from one place to  

something else now that could be like stealing it  or it could be just bringing it with you but you  

will see these in different visual examples as  you're learning them and you understand the core  

meaning of take all right so we're transferring  something from one place to something else maybe  

we're carrying it like I take a a lunch to  work with me so I take my lunch I bring it  

from my house to uh to work uh and then after  we're understanding visually and we're getting  

the core meaning then we can start learning more  figurative uses of stuff so we'll just say figure

so figurative uses so we begin with an easy visual  example and then we move to the more figurative  

uses over here so going back to the boat example  we have go under so the boat is sinking we can  

take this same phrasal verb which we have like  a visual example of and then we can get the more  

figurative figurative example of something like  the company is going under meaning bankruptcy all  

right so the company in the same way like the  their their money is getting worse and worse  

they're losing money or maybe they will have to  close the business so the business is going under  

does that make sense so when we're learning uh  not just phrasal verbs I do this with phrasal  

verbs because phrasal verbs are so common they're  important to learn uh these are this is really  

the core of children going from just saying  one word to making phrases and this is why  

it's again really important for pronunciation  and listening and grammar as well and why I  

have a whole program that's dedicated just to  this so in fluent for life of course there are  

I don't know how many probably like I don't  know hundreds of phrasal verbs that we teach  

but also the visual guide to phrasal verbs is  included in that program but this is again what  

I'm doing usually when I'm trying to explain  something uh like some kind of expression or  

an idiom or anything like that I really want to  help you understand it if I can't really show you  

visually maybe I can tell you a story uh somebody  mentioned that I think but the point is to help  

you understand it from a situation rather than  trying to think about it as like I want to train  

translate that from one language to another  and then once you understand the the core  

meaning so we're really trying to focus on like  like go and then understanding what under means  

and so as you understand these and you start  connecting them it becomes a lot easier to use  

the figurative more advanced ways of expressing  them so go under we say like the boat is going  

under or the company is going under all right  so go under by itself doesn't change but the  

point is the understanding after you think like  okay this thing is kind of going down it's bad  

meaning children understand that and then so  when they hear the company is going under they  

think ah I can use the Expression in this way  too so phrasal verbs are very very simple if  

you learn them in this way this is what we do in  the visual guide to phrasal verbs which again is  

included in fluent for life but it's it's a very  simple process of trying to help you understand  

it like a native by thinking about situations  rather than thinking about like translating in  

the the English as a second language approach  hopefully that makes sense all right uh

okay hello there listening nine to ten a day make  me more confident in short time thanks Noah glad  

to hear it all right uh let's see Joanna with  some looks like clapping hands I can't tell  

if that's clapping hands or washing hands I  can't see what the I'm guessing is clapping  

I listened to the content for natives a lot  yes Hilder that's the that's the key so Macon  

hi drew a big fan of yours from Brazil talking  about pronunciation how to clearly understand  

the difference between can and can't in spoken  language uh part of this is uh just the context  

so it's it can be different it can be difficult  to understand this we'll give an example here

and it becomes easier to understand uh differences  in things like this the more examples you get  

so if you can hear lots of different examples of  natives talking about this in different situations  

than you will hear it will be easier for you to  hear these things so I can and I can't foreign so  

first when you're learning these things and this  is the same way I would teach my own children uh  

I hear I make sure it's very clear for them what  they're listening to so I want them to understand  

the word even if they can't read it so they can  both read these words now but when they were  

just learning can and can't that's a very basic  thing that children learn from a very young age  

and I want to I want to like practice that with  them can you do this or I can't do that so I can  

like I can throw a marker up in the air and catch  it I can do that but can I throw two markers up  

go actually I can do that I can do that too but as  you're listening to more examples once natives get  

an understanding of what the word is then natives  start speaking a little bit faster and start  

blending their sounds together so listen carefully  as I'm pronouncing it like again the textbook way  

is usually what students get they only get the  textbook version of I can or I can't or even I  

will hear I cannot a cannot is is really uncommon  in spoken English because people are usually just  

speaking faster cannot uh is is usually heard when  people are uh you like you really you really want  

to to say like it's absolutely impossible to  do something like I cannot I cannot leave my  

office and do something like I cannot so can't is  a little bit more casual and cannot is like I'm  

re like a really very serious about something and  again we're trying to connect the situation with  

the vocabulary so in the situation of just can  you come to my party tomorrow I'm sorry I can't  

I can't come to the party uh but like can you uh  can you shoot a missile at that country it's like  

no I cannot I cannot do that so you will hear this  in movies when people are really trying to be very  

serious I cannot we cannot allow them to do that  okay so they're being more serious and you can  

pay attention for the situation and notice how  people are expressing this so for listening for  

hearing these things again we begin even even  like native children are getting the same kind  

of basic textbook examples of things so I can  I can't I cannot but what difference like the  

difference is like natives begin learning more  like as a as English as a first language approach  

they're hearing it more like I can can becomes  kin I can I can I can I can I can I can instead  

of I can they're saying I can I can I can I can  I can I can so Ken I can go I can go tomorrow I  

can go tomorrow I can go tomorrow and you will  hear it even faster than that I can I can I can  

I it's almost like I I I I I can I can do that  I can do that so you will you will usually hear  

the the kind of k sound in there yeah I can do  that can you help me tomorrow yeah I can do that  

I can do that I can do that I can I can I can  do that so remember children are learning even  

before they can read the word they are learning  the faster way of pronouncing this I can do that  

I can do that I can go I can go I can go now the  difficulty for language Learners is usually like  

uh again hearing can versus can't so if they hear  someone like yeah I can't do that I can't do that

so listen to this pronunciation  A little bit faster

I can

I can't all right so which one am I saying I  can do that I can do that I can do that I can  

do that I can do that which one am I saying I can  do that I can do that I can do that I can do that  

I'm saying I can I can do that I can do that and  you also maybe notice my facial expression I look  

a little bit more positive maybe I'm shaking my  head like yeah I can do that I can do that I can  

do that but if I say I can't I can't do that I  can't do that I can't do that I can't do that I  

can't do that I can't do that I can't do that  so I'm more I can't do that I can't do that I  

can't do that so if it's casual like going to a  party or accepting an invitation or something and  

it doesn't matter like can you can you get milk  after work uh no I can't do that I can't do that  

or yeah I can do that I can do that and it's most  difficult when you can only hear the example okay  

so when you you're listening to something like  did he say can or can't you can always ask the  

person like wait did you say can or can't but  typically if you're listening for the stress  

here I can I can do that and there's a there's  a slight stress like difference between these  

so I can do that I can and this is like I can't I  can't we're really really trying to to emphasize  

that hey I can't do that so we sometimes you may  hear like I can't I can't do that I can't do that  

it's more like like a child would say like oh I  can't I can't do that when they're saying like  

it's not possible for me to do something even  though someone else maybe can do that so maybe  

my friend can ride a bike but I can't do that  I can't do that I can't do that but if I'm if  

I'm addressing like a request for someone it's  usually like uh like I can't I can't do that I  

can't I can't do that I can't do that now I can't  do that I can't do that I can't do that all right  

um I don't want to spend too much time on this  but the main idea to develop a better sense of  

this is to spend more time listening to natives  you spend more time listening to natives you spend  

less time watching English language videos that  are going to help you like like the the language  

teacher even me like it's it's a it's a useful  thing to try to understand things but you really  

will improve and get to that fluent level the  more time you spend learning like a native so  

that's why in fluent for life we take you through  these different steps so the point is to help you  

to give you some simple explanations of things but  also give you lots of examples of how natives are  

communicated it's pretty simple all right  let's see we had a bunch uh let's see okay  

all right so Adrian again I hear some Americans  skipping the T at the end uh but an interviewer  

told me I was wrong by not pronouncing the last  T of that I'm confused about that yeah again it's  

it's situational so natives will say both like I  can and I I can't I can't I can't so listen I'm  

not pronouncing the T really clearly because  natives don't do that they're not if if the  

meaning is understood then people will try to be  as quick as possible so I can't I can't I can't  

I can't the space is in there for the T but the T  isn't spoken I can't I can't same thing with like  

so do and don't now do and don't is easier for  natives or for non-natives to understand because  

the sound is different so this is a ooh and this  is an o sound so do and don't do and don't but you  

notice I'm not saying the T do don't do don't  do don't so it's it's like I'm making space  

for that I leave a little bit of space there but  I'm not I'm not trying to say it clearly the only  

time I would pronounce this really well or really  clearly is again it depends on the situation if  

I'm really angry at my child for doing something  I would say don't do that don't do that so you  

hear it here here I'm I'm ex I'm like really  expressing myself clearly uh so if I say don't

don't do that and in that case in this  situation again like that the situation  

is the most important thing the situation is  more important than the vocabulary because the  

situation tells you how exactly to say something  so if I'm just saying like oh I yeah I don't do  

that I don't do that I don't do that so in that  in that case I don't do that so if someone asks  

me hey do you prepare people for English tests  I would say no I don't do that I don't do that  

I don't do that I don't do that I don't do that  you hear the difference I'm being more casual  

I don't do that I don't do that I don't do that  so do you wear I don't know like uh do I wear a  

like I don't know so I'm trying to think of a good  example but but basically like the like the one I  

just gave if I'm being casual and I know the other  person can understand what I'm saying no I don't  

do that so do I do I sell fruit for a living no  I don't do that I don't I don't sell fruit that's  

not what I do but if I want to be very clear like  I'm if I'm angry or I'm just trying to be really  

really understood it's a slightly different  situation so even though the vocabulary is  

the same the situation means that you're going  to say it in a slightly different way and so I  

would say no like don't do that you notice with  both of these T's they come back don't do that  

don't do that you can hear the like the  expression you can see my face maybe I'm  

looking a bit angrier don't do that and I  really want to make sure people understand  

what I'm saying and I'm just making it  clear but I'm saying the exact same words  

so remember the English as a second language  approach you're beginning with vocabulary  

that the English as a first language's approaches  we're beginning with the situation and so the  

situation is like okay if you're angry and you're  saying like not to do something then like don't do  

that you're really making it very clear but  if you're just casually speaking I don't do  

that I don't do that so you will hear lots of  examples of this in you know you pay attention  

to natives you will watch what they do and  that's how you learn these different expressions

great uh let's see  

all right hater again most of the time when  learning vocabulary it's hard for him without

which I use pictures sometimes also it  is difficult to interpret vocabulary  

that has meanings that is not an object  yes and so we of course had trouble doing  

that when we were building Frederick  so how do we make like a word like  

like a capture so this is a maybe a  little bit easier to understand but  

so we would have like an image so the  word is capture or captive I should say  

so this is one of one of the words in the app  captive captive and so we have like just uh  

you know like a whale you know in a in a bowl or  something like that so it's supposed to be like  

a like a fish or something in a bowl and this one  is just a fish out I cannot draw and this is just  

a fish over here so we're contrasting these and  this is the thing we're looking at so captive  

would mean ah okay we're understanding something  is like held in some way it's captive so rather  

than being free it's captive over here and then  we also give a bunch of different examples we give  

at least four uh four examples for every word  or phrase that we're teaching a phrase We want  

to really show people how to do this with uh with  visual examples so they can do that without using  

their native language uh the next thing to to note  about this uh is that it's it's more difficult  

um again when you're trying to think about  the word like through your native language  

rather than try to think about a situation where  you would hear something so again focus on the  

situation first and then listen to what natives  are saying for that particular uh pronunciation  

uh let's let's see uh okay let's see like guys  underwear 51 thank you very much I find difficulty  

to finish the sentence with correct grammar when  I talk to natives any suggestion uh yes so again  

everything comes from paying attention to how  natives are speaking and so if you don't feel  

comfortable or you don't feel confident about  finishing sentences or you're unable to do that  

it just means you haven't had enough practice  with that so if you give me a specific uh like  

a specific example of a sentence then I can help  you practice that here but the important thing is  

not that you try to like repeat that it's that you  hear it again and again and then you're like ah  

okay now I feel very confident that I understand  what I'm saying so understanding is really the  

most important part of speaking and as I mentioned  earlier in the video when talking about crashing  

he discovered the same thing so this is like  the big shock about language learning is that  

you don't get fluent by repeating phrases again  and again you get fluent by really understanding  

something and then they start naturally coming  out of course you might make a mistake you know  

here or there but it's much better to really  understand something and then only there's  

maybe like slight fine-tuning and pronunciation  or something like that when you actually speak so  

the more examples you get the easier it becomes  uh let's see panty funny I already understood  

interpret from Japanese to English but I'm still  struggling how to make sentences in English brain  

are you Japanese I don't know I can't tell from  the preacher if you're Japanese or not but the  

point is like if you're if you're learning from  Japanese into English or you're learning from  

German into English or whatever the language is uh  that you're thinking about it as a student rather  

than thinking about how you learn your native  language so the easiest way to understand this  

is remember how are you learning new words in  your native language so a Japanese person who  

speaks Japanese fluently is going to listen to  lots of new words and expressions and they will  

learn all those things in Japanese all they have  to do is just apply that same thing to learning  

English words so instead of thinking about the  Japanese first or the German first or whatever  

the you know the French or whatever your language  is you're thinking about the English situation and  

watching what natives do so if you get examples  of how natives communicate that's what really it  

means to learn the same way children learn so  I'm giving I I don't usually teach my kids uh  

like I don't teach them English through Japanese  or Japanese through English if I'm trying to teach  

them a Japanese thing I will speak in Japanese and  teach them that uh so I so I don't teach them to  

translate in their head and they do a really good  job of like speaking in that in that particular  

language when they're switching from one to the  other Claudette again I love your explanation  

about phrase verbs thanks a lot it gave me a  big picture yes but stop thinking the words  

uh linking linking the words it makes sense for  fast speaking and understanding glad to hear yep  

uh so the most important thing is a practice  is speaking loudly that uh that I come up with  

thinking no the the most important thing the thing  I am I'm saying is that you don't get fluent by  

just like repeating loudly or speaking out like  the thing that you should be doing is getting lots  

of input and this is this is like the most this is  probably the most I don't know the most confusing  

thing to me as a teacher when I was learning I  discovered this idea I felt very excited because I  

thought yes like I don't have to find a speaking  practice partner I just need to get lots of  

examples so I can go to a Japanese restaurant and  you know sit and listen to people's conversations  

if I if I want to do that and I'm not saying  anything but I'm learning a lot I'm like ah okay  

you can use this expression like that or whatever  and as I hear more examples of that that's how I  

feel more confident about using things and then  I finally start speaking so most of my practice  

is not speaking most of my practice is actually  just listening to lots of different examples and  

so this is why uh like occasionally we will get  like there is a certain kind of learner who who  

you know will like uh want to learn more about  what we do or maybe try some of our programs uh  

and they're they're still thinking about learning  in this way and so they will begin with uh like  

the particular word or phrase they want to use  and they're thinking about translating and they  

think that if they know that phrase already  they're already like they don't need to review  

it again and usually I just say to those Learners  like great if you're already fluent why are you  

looking for help if you're already fluent why are  you looking for help and so it's like if if your  

way works then why are you looking for help just  keep doing what you're doing but for most people  

like their way is not actually working but it's  difficult for them to try doing something new and  

this is understandable it's hard you know for  ever since people are young they are told that  

they need to learn in a certain way even though  it's not working for them but they are just told  

and it's it's like a I don't know it's just like  a really weird uh thing about about the mind like  

from the time you were very young if you were told  you have to learn this way you have to learn and  

memorize grammar rules and try to translate learn  definitions of words that kind of thing and you  

have to speak so if you're told all of those  things and then like another guy says hey you  

actually don't have to do those things in order to  speak it's it's hard to accept that I understand  

uh but as I say the proof the proof  is in the pudding it's another great  

expression for you the proof is in the pudding

so this is like you think about actual pudding or  whatever like some pudding that you eat so like  

the the good flavor you can tell if something is  good or Not by like by actually giving it a try  

so the proof is in the pudding uh and if if you  were continuing to learn this way and that is not  

helping you speak then be open to trying something  different all right and this is not like a crazy  

method that I came up with it's just applying  how you learn your native language that's it  

all right let's see thanks for the tip  on phrasal verbs glad to hear it uh when  

I say with with his with his do I need  the pronunciation the th sound with his

with his with his like with his example with his  example we would we would blend blend these parts  

together it's like with this with this you can  pronounce it again if you want to be more clear  

just to make sure people understand you can say  with his but typically we would pronounce this  

faster with is so with his experience with his  experience with his experience with his experience  

so you can say both of those both of those  are fine it's just natives will will use both  

depending on the situation if you want to be clear  with his experience he will be good for president  

or with his experience with his experience  with his experience with his experience so  

the same thing it just depends on if you want to  be more clear or not but the point is you should  

be prepared for for natives when they actually  speak and you will hear these differences in  

the in the conversation so try to listen more  for what's the what's the situation here rather  

than just What's the vocabulary they're using all  right uh okay so I don't do that is it pronounced  

like I won't I won't it's not really I wrote to do  that it's like I I don't I don't I it's more like  

I won't if you want to if you want to really say  it like that like I don't do that so some people  

will say it even faster I don't do that I don't  do that I don't do that I don't do that I don't  

do that I don't do that I don't do that I don't  do that uh precise uh precisely precisely focused  

on pronunciation uh can you recommend how to learn  English uh step by step for example one nouns and  

dialogue this topic um okay well since people are  uh Curious how we do this and actually I'd love  

to hear it's it's usually better if you tell me  how you think you will learn so if if you think  

like okay today we're gonna learn some nouns uh  and tomorrow we're gonna do some pronunciation or  

something like that these are all uh English as  a second language approaches so what I actually  

do uh the same thing I do with my children is the  same thing I do in my programs and so what I do

we begin with the end when we're learning let  me see what time it is it's already a look oh  

my goodness 11 30. we've been doing this 78  minutes oh my goodness all right so uh let's  

imagine I'm teaching my own children all right so  you're not worrying about like teaching English  

or anything as like as a different language I'm  just teaching my own kids uh there's a situation  

just like this we got a situation here uh and then  

there is some kind of vocabulary so we  have situation and vocabulary so maybe  

I am uh I'm excited about something they  did so uh the situation is I am excited

and I want to like praise my children so I would  say great great job or I might also hear like nice

work and there are other ways I could express this  too but my kids what they're doing they're not  

there's no Japanese in here they're learning  everything in English so they understand the  

situation like they want a game or they finish  their homework or something like that and I say  

okay here's the vocabulary great job nice work  and they might not even understand every word  

that I say but they understand like the meaning of  the whole thing is like here is a positive thing  

you say when you praise people and they hear that  you know from many different people many different  

examples and so taking this idea uh if you if you  understand this idea what I do in fluent for life  

is we begin with a situation and the situation  is usually two or three people talking and then  

before we get to this because this is there's a  lot of information in a conversation like a lot  

of information so not just the vocabulary people  are using but how they're pronouncing words uh how  

they're feeling the tone of voice that they have  and so we want to break this into different pieces  

so some of this will be understanding the  vocabulary and and I do this because it's  

again it's overwhelming just to watch a  conversation between two people so unless  

your English is already at a very high level  uh it's probably not going to help you very  

much to do that in fact it will make you more  frustrated but if you can learn some of that  

vocabulary first here are some key phrases we  want to look at here are some key like cultural  

ideas uh and maybe we want to talk about here  some like some specific grammar things that  

we want you to focus on we're going to really  just focus on these pieces first and so you go  

through these pieces and after you go through  these you finally go to this and the situation  

makes a lot more sense okay so this is how you  should be learning the language and in a in a  

in an everyday way if you're trying to do this by  yourself you're really just looking at situations  

so I would go to like the restaurant example I'm  sitting at a restaurant and listening to different  

people talking or listening to how people order  from their waiter okay or I go to a cafe and  

I'm listening to how people go to the counter  and order food and I will learn all of those  

different things and so I'm not I'm not just like  randomly learning vocabulary I'm learning it for  

situations so in this situation people are talking  about I don't know getting married or something  

where people are talking about uh raising kids  or they're talking about going to work or they're  

talking about I don't know like business meetings  or giving presentations or something like that but  

I'm paying attention to what they're talking about  and I learn like ah in this situation people say  

this and I'm trying to think more like a native  and recognize the patterns that people are using  

rather than just like trying to learn a bunch of  random words and phrases okay and so when we do  

this in fluent for life you begin by focusing on  particular uh topics that you are interested in  

and you go very deep into that that's why we spend  so much time uh looking at all these different  

pieces and approaching them in in different  ways because the vocabulary is is not really the  

problem for people it's like how well you know  the vocabulary so most Learners they get stuck  

because they think they know a lot of vocabulary  but they actually don't so they think they know  

something but then they get into a conversation  and forget the word or they can't recall it  

very quickly when they when they want to use that  thing so that's where the real problem comes from  

so it's not about learning some vocabulary the  step-by-step plan is this so we begin with a  

situation rather than you trying to just watch  it directly we want to bring you through a bunch  

of steps first that make this all easier to  understand and then when you get to the real  

conversation it makes a lot more sense okay now an  interesting thing that sometimes I tell fluent for  

Life members to do is start with the conversation  so if you watch the conversation first  

you will think wow this might be a little bit  overwhelming there are lots of things here I don't  

know really what I should be paying attention for  uh and then they go through the steps and they  

watch the conversation again and it makes a lot  more sense so they really understand things much  

better again that's the point of having a teacher  help you and kind of guide you through what's  

happening in the conversation so the conversation  is a it's a much bigger thing that's why we spend  

a whole month focusing on one thing and people  think like wow that's so much time to spend on  

that it's like that's how you get fluent that's  what little kids are doing when they're learning  

their native language they're learning like  a bunch of individual phrases like great job  

and nice work and then they're starting to put  those together in a in a bigger Longer sentences  

okay so that's how you do it so step by step uh  the bigger bigger picture of what we do is this  

but it's it's just the same thing as looking  at any situation and paying attention to what  

natives do so if I drop something on my head I  say ouch if I pick up something heavy I say ah  

and kids learn that in Japanese like you  like stand up and stretch you say oh shh  

you actually use different sounds in Japanese and  little kids learn that it's like it's not like the  

human body naturally makes like uh versus a Yosh  sound it's just what kids learn in that situation  

for this situation they learn that uh that  particular vocabulary uh all right let's see here  

all right so I found this sentence really hard  to say smoothly he is gesturing with his hand as  

he talks you mean his gesturing gesturing with  his hand as he talks yep so that one like he  

is gesturing so he is gesturing I would look  at the specific part of that phrase or that  

sentence that's giving you trouble so maybe if  it's the word gesturing usually people will say  

I have like a problem with this but the problem  is actually much smaller than that so if you if  

you would begin uh like one of the things we  do in fluent for life is if we take a I mean  

I give a simpler expression like  this I won't use the exact thing  

you gave but you will understand the  exercise from this so like I spent  

time at the gym now I really want to make sure I  understand the whole sentence but if I'm trying  

to like practice saying it just to get in the  habit of that I would actually begin with kind  

of the smaller piece of it here at the end  like the gym the gym the gym I really wanted  

to get comfortable make sure I understand what  this means like the gym yeah I'm talking about  

that you know physical Place uh where I you  know where I exercise or something the gym  

and now I'm going to make this bigger so notice  we're starting with the end of the sentence and  

working backwards uh so at the gym at the gym at  the gym at the gym and we hear ah look at that  

so we've got at the gym so we've got we've got  the same kind of tea and this is a like this is  

the the th Digraph sound but we're gonna eliminate  that one and get at the gym at the gym at the gym  

at the gym and again we're going to extend it  even more time at the gym time at the gym so Ty  

ma the gym time at the gym time at the gym so if  you want to get better at saying it it's a little  

bit easier like I mean you could start from from  this way but I I like to start from the end just  

because uh it's easier to understand usually like  the the way English sentences are structured uh  

where we're just focusing on like a core idea  that like just could be a phrase by itself so  

you could say like I spent time but like that's a  little harder to understand without like spending  

time doing what like like usually there's like  some you're spending time doing something but  

just the gym is an idea by itself that's easier to  understand all right so when you have a particular  

sentence that you're trying to say I would  break it into these pieces like that and then  

you can see exactly uh where you're struggling  to pronounce something but if you have native  

examples of that you can actually hear how natives  are saying it so this is what we do in fluent for  

life and why we make it easier for people because  we're giving you lots of native examples so I  

spent time at the gym same thing here spent time  at the gym and then who spends time at the gym I  

spent time at the gym okay so if you ever have any  kind of sentence like that I would break it down  

in these pieces and really make sure number  one that you understand that and number two  

that you can explain that uh and and like and you  understand how the the pronunciation works as well  

all right uh so Adrian again but why the  interviewers that companies force people  

to pronounce the T for example when the Americans  don't and I'm just giving you one example among  

others uh Adrian I think in that example it would  usually be because um like if you're in a in a  

professional situation or in a customer service  situation you would usually try to speak a bit  

more clearly especially if you're on the phone  and it's hard to maybe people can't distinguish  

like uh like we can do that or we can't do that so  if that's more difficult to understand that's why  

people would encourage you to pronounce it more  so if I'm like like in regular everyday Japanese  

Society I don't I don't speak uh the way I would  speak in a meeting or something so if I'm if I'm  

meeting like the president of a company I'm going  to talk with him or her in a different way than I  

would like casually speaking so I just you know  sometimes you have to think about it in that way  

uh for for particular situations again  it depends on what the situation is  

all right Tark says sir I want to advance to  speaking level I want to be able to do press  

conference at the highest level how would a  stumble to this level uh you would watch a  

lot of people giving press conferences and pay  attention to how they speak I would start there  

all right hi there it's uh again can I after  guessing the sentence or vocabulary go and  

see its translation into my language so that  I know whether I'm a writer not uh if I guess  

wrong what should I do yes ideally in a in a  perfect world you should hopefully be able to  

understand something in English and you can use  in English to English dictionary but if you need  

to get a translation that's not it's not the  end of the world it's not the end of the world

put a capital there it's not the end of the  world so it means it's not the worst thing  

if you have to look up a translation in your  native language it's not the end of the world  

if you need to look up a translation it's not the  end of the world it's not the end of the world  

so it's okay if you need to look up a translation  that's fine Claud it again now the preposition is  

another headache uh when to use on to into  again yes Claudette and that's why like you  

should get get the phrasal verb program if you  don't have that already it will take you through  

those you learn the core verbs and you learn how  phrasal verbs work with their prepositions as well  

all right uh welcome to real life uh thank you  see you next time hopefully okay next thank you  

for your knowledge and time I appreciate you have  a good night you're welcome I really appreciate  

your time for explaining everything thank you so  much for help here in Mexico it is 8 30 p.m good  

night enjoy your week ahead see you next week  save it says thanks so true how and when to use  

the vocabulary and phrases in different situations  yes I remember the school years that we had the  

reading lessons and we learned in that way yeah so  you can spend a lot of time and learn a lot that  

way I learn a lot of Japanese just from reading  and then I just use the speech uh let's see I've  

been getting a lot lots of input started using  the app my comprehension is even better I'm still  

having trouble with my pronunciation still haven't  passed level four yet are you talking about  

Frederick uh should I keep going or maybe that was  the end of that if you're talking about Frederick  

yeah so spend spend time on those first few levels  go over all of the uh all of the pronunciation  

there but a lot of that pronunciation will  continue like the short vowel sounds will  

continue into higher levels so if you if you start  on level one it's just the alphabet level two and  

level three are just uh two and three letter  words that have the short vowel sounds like

and even as you go into the higher levels you  will you will hear those same sounds as well  

so there's lots of review as you go through  it even if you get into higher levels Adrian  

got it thanks uh backward learning process  for learning pronunciation more proper way  

I would love to learn a real casual English  language do you have a course like that yeah  

that's exactly what fluent for life is  all right the let's see if that's fluent

fluid for life so this is what uh the course that  it basically teaches you how to have conversations  

like a native English speaker that's the whole  point of the program I originally called this  

master English conversation and this is back  when I started doing monthly lesson set so I  

had people follow me every month and we would  go through new things but then after we had so  

many of them I wanted to give people the  option to choose what they learn with so  

maybe some people just want to focus on more  you know things that you would find in British  

or British English or New Zealand English or  things that you would hear in a like a business  

meeting or something like that so when you get in  fluent for life it basically teaches you how to  

communicate well in business or conversational  situations but the same way native would  

so we're going to try to take you instead of  learning through your native language we're  

going to help you learn it all in English  and that's how you become a good speaker  

all right did I get back to everything please  make shorts about pronunciation yeah if you  

want again pronunciation like the shortest  thing we have is Frederick just get that  

so if you if you click on the link in the  description below this video you can get  

Frederick you can also get fluent for life but  Frederick explains like it takes you through all  

the pronunciation and shows you how to learn these  things and blend them together so it's a very  

simple program and it will help you communicate  and understand natives a lot more easily  

all right I think that should be it it looks  like we covered everybody hopefully that makes  

sense again the the goal of this video is to help  people uh instead of only using textbook English  

and again there's nothing wrong with that the  point is that uh we just we want you to have a  

wider vocabulary than just only using a  few uh words because especially even if  

you don't use them you will hear natives  using these words and words and phrases  

all right did we get anything else here how  should I learn idioms that can last forever in  

my brain uh so go back maybe you just joined us  now but go back uh uh Aisha and and review what  

I talked about for learning phrasal verbs it  works exactly the same way so if you're like a  

lot of these recent videos I've made on YouTube  or me talking about like how people should be  

learning but all the stuff in fluent for life is  actually like teaching you stuff in the language  

so I spent a lot more time doing that I do some  some things are kind of helping you learn some  

tips or strategies in there as well but most of  it is just like giving you lots of vocabulary  

and following that same thing I covered earlier  in this video all right uh I live in the U.S I'm  

a surgical assistant for cardiovascular in the  U.S I need for casual English yeah so often uh  

we do have people like a lot you know I get like  thousands of messages from people thousands of  

emails and I have uh like a Word document I call  it the pain doc uh this is all the complaints  

that people have about learning and an interesting  thing that we get from professionals specifically  

is that they often know like you might know the  the words or phrases for cardiovascular you know  

like that particular vocabulary maybe you learn  that in school and you just remember that but  

then you have trouble talking about like a movie  that you saw on the weekend so most people in in  

professional situations have that uh and and most  like business English classes they kind of forget  

that that human component of or the human part  of everyday communication so even in a business  

situation you're still talking with people in like  a casual way so you might have you know particular  

business vocabulary that you're learning but  in fluent for life we teach that business  

vocabulary but we also teach you how to just  have regular conversations with people so it's  

pretty simple thing uh but it's it's much easier  than most people think if you do it like a native  

all right uh hi from Brazil how do I know if  I'm really ready to use my English in a company  

uh [Music] uh how do you know if you're ready to  use English or use my English into company if you  

mean like you speaking it's the same way you feel  about any any speaking in any situation really  

the difference the important thing is that you're  not thinking about like your English you're really  

thinking about this vocabulary or this grammar  point so you might feel comfortable about some  

things but not others and that's normal you will  you will know some things much better than others  

and then you will use those things more often  in conversations so the important thing is if  

there's something you feel uncomfortable about you  should spend more time getting input for that so  

listening to more examples and again this is the  kind of thing we do in fluent for life it's not  

if you already know vocabulary you will probably  see some of that same vocabulary again but do you  

really know it well enough to use it that's the  important thing so those are the people we help  

so don't worry about like English in general focus  on the like the specific issues that you might  

have whatever those are uh yes if you do not use  it you lose it that's true uh but I learned a new  

word on day one and forgot on day four as you said  we should focus on input first yeah and so input  

not only means like and this is as I mentioned  uh Stephen crashing earlier in the video uh  

so he is a linguist focusing on helping  teachers become better teachers but me  

I'm actually making lessons for students  so like that we have the same idea about  

how people should be learning but the focus  is different and so that's you know we have  

kind of different ideas about how people should be  actually improving uh with the specific training  

so for me like what you will do in fluent for  life with with like as just like an example of one  

phrase so you might hear something like uh it's  not the end of the world um but you will you will  

like learn that in one lesson and then you might  try to write that down the next day then you will  

hear it in a different lesson maybe a different  native speaker uses that same expression then you  

will hear it in a conversation you will hear it  again as like people asking you questions about it  

all right so you're getting all these different  examples you don't learn a phrase and become  

fluent in it by hearing it one time especially  not like a longer phrase like that you might hear  

a word like cat and think okay I understand what  that means without reviewing it very much that's  

fine you don't have to review something a lot in  order to understand it but typically people don't  

review things enough and that's why they don't  speak so the people that you know like it's like  

anything in your you know in your life if you're  a professional at doing some something you might  

know something but you like the real Masters at  that profession are the people who know it really  

really well it's it's that simple so if you learn  a simple phrase and then you forget it a few days  

later then you don't really know that phrase  It's just probably in your passive vocabulary

all right let's see here Arnold says sir my  English improved tremendously by watching  

your videos for a long time I can't thank  you enough that's my pleasure glad to hear  

uh which is uh hi sir how are you doing I'm doing  very well thank you so much in all languages yes  

if I learned 10 new words can I just remember if I  learn 10 words new words I just can remember only  

one word a day yeah again like you're not this  isn't like learning if if you if you spend time  

like you learn like imagine each one of these  is a new word or phrase so this is one day here  

uh we're gonna give you like five new words or  phrases and then we never cover those again you  

didn't learn anything that was a horrible lesson  unless it was like so perfect that you remember  

everything and that's it's probably unlikely so  even my lessons like I can think I'm an amazing  

teacher but I know like the human mind is like  I could be teaching something the lesson could  

be really great you're watching a video but uh  in the back of your mind you're thinking about  

what are you doing for dinner or you're thinking  about laundry or you're thinking about I don't  

know whatever you're thinking about but you're not  100 focused all the time on everything nobody is  

and so that's why it's important to review so even  even if you only watch the same video again which  

most people do not want to do you will actually  remember a lot more and you will learn a lot more  

all right but the the important thing that the  difference between what I do and the the English  

as a second language approach is that like I don't  want you to just repeat the exact same thing I  

want to have you listen to different people I want  you to hear things in different situations I want  

you to hear different ways of Express different  ways of expressing things and that's how you  

get fluent okay all right I'm gonna have to shut  this down uh because I basically out of time been  

100 minutes oh my goodness 100 minutes of talking  about this stuff oh my goodness so yes it's uh be  

careful it's not just repeating stuff you want  to repeat it in different ways this is what I  

call naturally varied review about some native  speakers sometimes they also lack grammar why  

uh I don't know I'd have to hear the example of  that but yes not everyone speaks correct English  

just like in any language you're going to have  some people who speak better than others some  

people who make mistakes and some people who also  use incorrect English that's really like we could  

call it incorrect English but for most people  it's just like like there's there's two cars  

over there you should say there are two cars over  there not to theirs two cars over there but many  

people will say that because it's just faster and  easier to say so it's incorrect grammar but most  

people use that real quick how would you prepare  yourself if you just had a week to study uh it'd  

be like a week to a week to study for a test or  something like that I would just I don't know sit  

down and and try to memorize everything I needed  just for the test if that if that's all you had  

to do I don't know I can't think of like a better  way to do that like if you're if you're trying to  

learn for a test or you have to pass a particular  class just focus on that teacher's information  

whatever because it's different from a real life  conversation which is dynamic so if you just have  

something like you know go ahead and repeat those  things or do whatever it's not the way I teach to  

help people learn for real conversations but if  you have a like a deadline and you have to I don't  

know do whatever for that particular situation  I would focus on that all right it is not that  

they are a lack of grammar yeah some I mean most  people would I mean they can understand it but  

maybe they just don't speak correctly it happens  anyway uh if this has been uh interview ah [Music]  

uh yeah I would watch other people other people  doing like real interviews I would talk with and  

this is a whole separate separate thing about um  like preparing to get a job or something like that  

like even more important than the interview is  you're looking for a way to kind of connect with  

the people uh who would give you a job so I would  find out more about the company figure out how I  

can help the company and I'll talk about that  in the interview so they might even give me a  

question or something I would say that's a good  question uh and like hear and maybe answer that  

but I would have some things prepared about like  how I can actually help the company like I noticed  

the company does a good job of this but like maybe  they're not so good at doing this other thing over  

here and here's how I can help so thinking about  how you can help the company and tell that to the  

the person you're getting interviewed by that  would be better for you I guess but again I  

would need more information about that if I want  to attend your class what should I do click on the  

link in the description below this video you can  learn more about fluent for life and again if your  

goal is to uh you know be good at communicating  not only in professional life but also in everyday  

situations we'll show you how to do it it's  really that simple if you have questions about  

the program after you learn more about it you can  send us a mail at info englishanyone.com but it's  

really that simple all right Mr Shaw will be the  last question here in a non-native country people  

don't have the specific atmosphere situations  to learn English what should they do that's  

what fluent for life is for fluent for life is  basically like simulating a native environment  

but in a in a way that you can understand you  don't need to be in an English-speaking country  

to get just like now like I'm in Japan I'm not in  the United States and I'm not in the same room as  

anyone but you're still learning from me so it's  the same idea if I can help you get a really good  

input and help you understand English like a  native then you will use English like a native  

it's that simple yeah so yes look forward to  welcoming you feel free to send us a meal if  

you have any questions uh but that's how you do it  a teacher gave an idioms workbook will this work  

uh uh I don't know how I would add out to see  the workbook I guess uh but in general you should  

understand it like a native like the things that  I talk about go back and watch this video uh where  

I'm talking about learning phrasal verbs so the  same kinds of things where you're understanding  

it visually if you can you're understanding the  core meaning or the basic meaning of something  

in the simplest way and then looking at maybe how  an idiom might come from that so most people are  

probably not doing that most things if it's  a textbook it is probably just giving you  

um I don't know like a definition of something  through translation probably which is not going  

to help you use it don't learn a bunch  of idioms if you're not going to be able  

to use them it doesn't make sense to spend time  learning vocabulary if you can't actually use it  

guys get the app you'll have a private  teacher who never gets tired yes  

yes he's talking about uh Frederick yes so that's  what Frederick is Frederick is me it's like having  

me there uh always like uh you know to help you  with your pronunciation and listening whatever  

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