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

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and the world's number one English fluency guide  it is a pleasure to welcome you to another live  
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video here on YouTube and today we're going  to talk about how to sound more natural and  
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more native so how to instead of using only  textbook English the kinds of things you  
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would learn in a lesson that you can actually  start using more native things the things that  
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natives really use in conversations so  as I get people in here hopefully uh I  
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think YouTube should be telling people about  this now if you have any questions I'll I'll  
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let's see I'll just put a note about this up  here for particular situations let me see here
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so if you have a particular situation something  that you have trouble speaking about or you'd like  
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to know a better way to express something let me  know what your textbook English is and I'll give  
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you a better way to say that I'll talk a little  bit more about this in a moment but just letting  
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people know hopefully yeah it should be coming  in correctly I think people are hearing me well  
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too let me know if my sound is up enough uh but  this this idea came from I just asked people on  
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Facebook if they had any questions about learning  or specific things they they were worried about  
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that are preventing them from speaking and Denise  one of our students said hey can you talk more  
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about how to use native natural Expressions so  I'll talk about how to learn those as well but  
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as we're just getting in here hopefully the  chat is working uh post and comment let me  
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see if I can post something I don't know if Chad  is okay I think it should be working we'll see  
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uh but the basic idea is that there's there's  nothing wrong with using textbook English uh  
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and this is just basically the kinds of things you  would learn in a regular English classroom uh but  
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one of the main difficulties is that even if you  only use that those kinds of Expressions you will  
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still hear lots of different things from natives  no of course we get a fire truck coming like usual  
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when we go when we have these live videos so one  thing I will talk about in this video is with your  
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help specific things that you have trouble saying  so if there are situations uh when you are maybe  
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having trouble expressing yourself or you'd like  a better way of saying something just let me know  
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what that is so you can give me some particular  word or expression and I'll give you some better  
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ways of saying that I think this is easier than  me just giving you a bunch of Expressions but  
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you tell me anyway I will start this video with  a very quick story I was in my kitchen uh pouring  
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some milk into a glass and my older daughter Arya  was there so I'm just pouring a regular carton of  
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milk into a glass and there was only a little bit  left so I just was able to pour I had you know a  
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glass of milk right here here's my carton of milk  uh that's not a very good card certain of me not  
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a very good carton of milk but I'm pouring the  milk in there and I only get maybe that much milk  
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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
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game over
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so my older daughter Arya instead of saying  something like oh the milk is finished or  
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something like that she used a very native natural  expression just a different way of expressing this  
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which is game over and so she is she has learned  this for me when I'm uh doing something and and  
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she understands that in this kind of situation  we can use an expression like game over so if you  
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are playing a video game or you're playing like a  board game or something like that this has just I  
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mean you would even call this textbook English  for that situation so the interesting thing  
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again about Native speech is that we we might take  something that's simple but use it in a different  
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situation and that's where it really sounds native  and natural hopefully that makes sense so we would  
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take a phrase like a game over if you're just  playing a game or something and you would hear  
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an expression like uh game over when the game is  finished we can also use this in other situations  
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all right uh another thing I will uh give just a  very common expression that I hear people using  
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uh and this is also a very common situation in uh  in conversations I actually teach this in fluent  
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for Life uh but it's one of many thousands  Expressions thousands of Expressions that  
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we teach in the program uh but I thought it would  be helpful to share it with everyone here as well  
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and so in this situation you have usually two  people talking or a group of people that could  
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be talking so one person says something  we'll just say person a is talking and  
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then maybe person B interrupts person a so a is  saying something then B says something and then  
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B usually says like oh I'm sorry uh like sorry  for interrupting you and then a says uh oh I was
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going to say [Music] so this is a a common  expression that you will see people using in  
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real situations in real life and you will hear  this often and it just means it's it's something  
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people say before they get back to the thing that  they were Interrupted about or whatever so person  
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a is talking they're saying something and then  maybe they get interrupted by B and then when  
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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  
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you will hear I was gonna say this so instead of  going to I was going to say this or I was just  
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gonna say this I was just gonna say and you will  hear it faster like this I was just gonna say I  
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was just gonna say but this is a very simple way  instead of like thinking about I don't know like  
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a textbook way of expressing this it's easier just  to to know some certain uh phrases like this you  
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can use and then you can just after you've heard  natives use these a lot it will feel very natural  
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for you to use them as well uh anyway I just  wanted to give two quick examples about this  
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so one is game over and the other is I was just  gonna say but it will be helpful for me uh if  
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you tell me specific phrases where maybe you you  usually say this uh or if you have heard a phrase  
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that a native used and you didn't quite understand  why they said that so I'd like to do this I think  
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it will be helpful for you especially this is the  kind of time where I can give in a native or in a  
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live lesson where I can help people with specific  questions they have about their particular  
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situations all right Vincent nice to see you there  from Sao Paulo Brazil and Ming Shu says your old  
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daughter means you have another daughter yes  that's correct so I would say my older daughter  
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my older daughter so I have two daughters and good  good thinking though but yes this is exactly what
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what you get from kind of paying attention like a  native rather than trying to think about it like  
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a student but the basic idea if I have like  you know let's say I only have one daughter  
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uh and so this is my daughter
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and if I have two daughters then I have an older
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so old ER older daughter and then the opposite  would be what so this is my older daughter then  
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who would this one be let me know in the  comments I want to make this easy but you  
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should be thinking like a native this is how I  speak with my own kids when I'm teaching them  
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things I have them try to guess something  and when they're right obviously they feel  
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very excited about that this is my older daughter  older daughter and who is this one yep very good
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younger now I know this may seem like uh like a  simple thing or a silly thing to ask because the  
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answer might be obvious but you would be surprised  and often we want to really I really want to help  
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you be thinking more like a native as you learn so  rather than a teacher trying to tell you something  
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you should be looking for patterns and thinking  like oh okay so we got the older and now we  
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have the younger one as well now imagine I have  three children let's say I have three daughters  
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what would I call them then how  would a native speaker describe these
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so as usual there are more than one way or  there are many ways usually to express Express  
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certain things but this is a very simple  one so if we have three daughters or more
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the oldest so this is my oldest  daughter and we have the youngest
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e e s t my youngest daughter and what do you  think that one is I'll give you a moment to  
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see if you can figure that out all right so  uh yes for my actual daughters I only have  
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two so I have an older daughter and a younger  daughter my older daughter Arya is uh seven  
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years old and my younger daughter Noel is uh or  the younger daughter Noel is uh four years old  
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uh let's see again shim parses uh Hydro  how are you doing I'm doing very well  
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you're looking outstanding fantastic good to  be outstanding I feel I feel great here we go  
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where are you from sir I'm from Chicago but  I live in uh Nagasaki Japan so you introduced  
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your older daughter when she was born but there  is no introduction of the younger baby yeah it  
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was you know this is an interesting thing  about about like Parenthood uh I remember  
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seeing this I'll answer this question first  to see if anybody got that yes very good
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middle so if we have like my oldest my middle and  my youngest daughter all right so yes about about  
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like maybe this is something more people can  uh relate to but I remember seeing a of like  
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a really funny picture this uh just like a meme  on the internet it showed like uh pictures of of  
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two babies so this is there's like the first child  the first child there it was like a beautiful baby  
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picture and they were like beautiful flowers  all around it was it was like a very expensive  
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photo it looked really nice and then there was a  picture of the second child which was like it was  
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just you know regular baby picture with just one  one Little Flower so like people people don't care  
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as much about the about the second child that's  a the basic idea uh of course I care about both  
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of my children but the reason I didn't I didn't  bother making another video with Noel is because  
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it would have just been the same thing as the one  with Arya but they are in fact two very different  
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kids and uh maybe I will bring both of them in for  uh uh maybe a video something like that uh but if  
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that if that's uh entertaining for you but most of  the things that I do at home are the same things  
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I do like this so I'm looking for situations  where I can help them understand something like  
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a native and then teach them phrases and really  help them again thinking more about patterns of  
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speech rather than trying to teach them rules or  grammar things like that but yes anyway I thought  
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that was very funny but these are the kinds of  things when you're trying to learn patterns this  
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was this is how you should be thinking so  I'm trying to teach my kids in the same way
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all right now as we go through these if you have  specific questions about about phrases you would  
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like to know let me know and then I'll I'll cover  those and give you some more examples of those  
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all right so let's see if I'm pronouncing that  correctly how can we speak like native speakers  
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all right so this is another thing we can talk  about in the video Even though really the point  
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of this video is just talking about uh specific  vocabulary you can use to sound a bit more native  
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but the basic idea is that there is what we'll  call English as a second language lessons and  
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then we have English as a first language lessons  and English as a second language lessons usually  
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begin with your native language so they don't  begin with English they begin with your native  
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language and they usually begin with a textbook so  we have a textbook here we've got some pictures of  
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things and it's in your native language so let's  just I'll just use Japanese uh for example uh  
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because I can I can draw that flag easily so we'll  draw a uh here's a picture of the Japanese flag  
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and then we're gonna move that uh going to  English we'll just use America as an example
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all right so that's my American flag up  here and so part of the the difficulty  
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for people learning is that they're going  from their native language into English  
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and so when we're talking about textbook  English like we're talking about here uh  
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then we will have an expression here  like we will learn uh like finished
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so finish or finished the past tense you  would learn a word like that and then you  
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would translate from Japanese into English so you  would begin with the Japanese word translate it  
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into English and then anytime you need to say  finished you would use that but the problem  
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again is that natives will use many different  Expressions rather than beginning with like  
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a Japanese word for Japanese Learners so as  an example we've got the word finished over  
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here if you if you look carefully we're beginning  with a word in and I've written it in English but  
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you would finish it let's say I would just say  like which would be the the Japanese for like  
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something is like something is finished that's one  way of talking about this but in English we begin  
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with a situation I'll just put an S right here  so a situation for something and then we look  
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and pay attention for all the different ways  someone might uh someone might say this so as  
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I gave the example earlier in this video  about game over so instead of just saying  
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like oh look something is done something  is finished we could say oh game over
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now another way another more  advanced uh is another like  
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kind of expression we could use to talk  about this same thing of being finished
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so we begin with an idea we're not really  beginning with with a word we're beginning  
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with an idea although often like  you could just put finish in here  
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for when something is ending uh so  like a relationship is ending maybe  
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like you see a boy and a girl they used  to be dating and now oh no they split up  
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game over game over so there's no game happening  but we use that same expression but you wouldn't  
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learn something like that if you're learning  in the English as a second language way because  
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you're just beginning with something like finished  and you would say oh the relationship is finished  
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the relationship is finished or the milk is  finished or the class is finished or like you  
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know that that boxer he got like really badly  beaten up the boxer is finished so you can use  
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that but it will be confusing for you when you  start trying to go the opposite way of hearing  
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all of these different Expressions that natives  actually use so we've got finish game over we  
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might also hear like that's all she wrote That's  All She Wrote there's another expression a longer  
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expression you will hear for the same situation  so that's the end game over finished That's All  
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She Wrote so that's like the end of the story so  we she didn't write any more than that like the  
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author didn't finish anymore or write any more  of the story That's All She Wrote That's All She  
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Wrote so all of these different expressions  are the native ways of describing this we of  
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course also use the word finish but often we  want to you know describe things in a slightly  
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more interesting or natural way and so we will use  something like that it's a little bit maybe boring  
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you know people are writing books or telling  stories and they want to make it sound a bit  
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more interesting so game over if you've ever  seen uh the the movie Aliens so this is where  
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some like space soldiers go to a planet and try to  kill some some aliens there's a scene where where  
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one of the the soldiers after after their plane  blows up he says game over man game over and this  
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is like a really a famous line from that movie  but he's again he's just saying we're finished  
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like that's the end something is there's a really  big problem and you can understand that from the  
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situation so you can see him really excited game  over man game over the same thing or That's All  
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She Wrote all right hopefully this is making  sense but the point is with English as a first  
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language we're beginning with a situation and  then looking at how natives would respond to  
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that so what are the kinds of things a native  might say in that situation we don't begin with  
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just a word in a different language and then try  to translate that uh and I should probably just  
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write this in Japanese over here but the basic  idea again you're going from a Japanese word  
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to the translation in English and you're trying  to remember what those are uh rather than trying  
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to learn English as a first language where  you're beginning with situations and remember  
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this is how children are learning their native  language because they can't translate anything  
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so a child like my daughter my older daughter  Arya she heard me say game over when we're  
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talking about a game then she also heard me say  game over when we're talking about something else  
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being finished oh no time is up game over so we  have to go home we can't play at the park anymore  
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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  
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in a different situation even though it's talking  about basically the same idea all right let me go  
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back and see if I got some some more comments over  here that is an old farther away that doesn't hold  
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farther away you mean hopefully I don't know if  you mean father or not Dana says could you share  
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a link about your online courses actually yes if  you click on the link in the description of this  
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video it will take you to fluent for life you can  find the link for Frederick below this video as  
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well uh yesterday I saw a video Stephen crashing  about language actions this is this is the same  
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technique you use both are awesome people go get  him yes so I actually sent uh maybe two days ago  
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a link to watch that video so this was uh the  the video about Stephen crash and talking about  
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language acquisition and he's he's talking  about the same thing I do so what's what was  
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really interesting uh just to talk about Stephen  crashen for I've probably mentioned him many times  
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and you can actually learn more about him if  you click on the link in the description but  
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basically he and I both discovered the same  thing in different ways so Stephen crashing  
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is a linguist and a language researcher and he was  basically trying to understand how fluency Works  
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how does it happen how does it develop and over  his own research he found that we all get fluent  
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in any language in the same way and that is by  understanding the language in the language and  
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he calls this comprehensible input I call it just  understandable messages you can call it comprehend  
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comprehensible input but that's basically what  we what we what we're talking about right here so  
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learning English as a first language is not about  trying to take your you don't begin with your  
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native language you begin with a situation and  then we're seeing how natives are talking about  
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that what are the patterns that they use when they  talk about different things so something finishes  
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something is over oh no like right at the end of  this video uh game over That's All She Wrote I'm  
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sorry that's the end of the video That's All She  Wrote okay and as you pay attention to these you  
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will start learning more and recognizing these  things more and this is how you go from learning  
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things and only using textbook English to using  the things that natives really use now remember  
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there's nothing bad about using the word finished  or using the word no or using the word whatever  
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like it's not the bad thing isn't uh like that you  should not you know learn this vocabulary because  
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it's useful vocabulary and natives also we're  speaking with the same vocabulary the difference  
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is that there are many other things that most  Learners do not learn in school so when you  
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translate something you're you're really trying to  make it as simple as possible in the ESL approach  
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so this is why you begin with a Japanese  word like so let me just here I just there
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so we begin with something  like owaru so this means finish
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and that's why in a Japanese English textbook  you will see a bunch of English or you will see  
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a bunch of Japanese even though it's an English  textbook and this is because we're just going  
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to tell you what the definition is now this is  an interesting thing about learning as well uh  
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that's like I don't think I've heard uh crash  and mention this but this is talking about the  
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the like the mental side of how you feel when  you discover something for yourself so rather  
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than a teacher telling you exactly what something  means the more you can discover that for yourself  
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the more excited you feel about alert all right  and so it's it's exactly like watching a movie  
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if you're watching some kind of scary movie or  a thriller or something like that and I give you  
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an example or like tell you what what happens and  say oh the Killer is this person you're going to  
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be angry about that because you want the chance  to solve that problem yourself or the same thing  
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in a video game if someone tell tells you how to  solve something you feel bad because you want the  
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chance to solve that problem yourself all right  so if you can do this in language learning you  
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will develop that skill much more easily the  tricky thing is that you've been trained for  
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so many years just to wait for a teacher to tell  you what something means rather than okay let me  
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like pay attention closely to this situation  and watch what natives are really saying okay  
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but this is how you do it so instead of just  trying to look at vocabulary in your native  
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language and look at what a basic word might  be in English you would take something like a  
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situation and listen for the different  ways that natives would describe that  
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all right let's see if we got well Antonio says  a big hug from Brazil thank you very much hater  
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is back uh is this similar to the way he presents  more than one way for example so uh so say I am  
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sorry or ways to say thank you and so on for the  rest of the situation is this correct yes that's  
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it so the basic idea is that in in any situation  there are usually multiple ways to express  
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yourself and this is why uh in this in a in like  a regular textbook way you will learn maybe one  
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word for a particular situation so you might learn  a word like owaru in Japanese and we learn that  
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that means to finish something and then if we hear  something different like game over it's like wait  
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a minute owaru doesn't mean game over like that's  a different Japanese expression actually uh and  
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the same thing like that's all she wrote that  would that would you would be kind of crazy to  
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try to translate uh one thing like that into this  now this is a big problem for language translating  
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software because it's trying to take all of these  things and fit them back into these Expressions uh  
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but owadu does not mean the same thing as like  that's all she wrote like I don't know if you  
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were to translate that in Japanese it would be  much different than than Finnish so I'd be like
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so like something something  like something she finished
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but it wouldn't be like what the point is it's  not like a a one-to-one thing that you can  
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easily translate but a native can understand  it very easily because they're not trying to  
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translate the word they're trying to look  at the situation when people would use it  
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so the more examples you can get like uh  if you're trying to say I'm sorry so it's  
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the situation is someone is apologizing  to like to say sorry so you can think  
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about the many different ways that a native  might say that and also depending on how
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like how serious that might be so let's  say the situation is to say I'm sorry  
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hater gave that example we might begin with  let's say this is a range from like serious  
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uh to not serious and this I just mean like it's  a big problem or not a big problem so if you have  
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to say I'm sorry uh if it's just like a very  small thing like you accidentally hit someone  
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in a in a restaurant or something like that so  I'm walking and I maybe bump them a little bit  
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uh oh I could just say oh sorry or I could say  something like my bad which has become more kind  
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of conversationally useful uh in recent years like  many years like a maybe uh like a 70 80 year old  
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person would not say my bad it's more for uh for  younger people but this is another thing you get  
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as you pay attention to the language you start  noticing who is using the Expressions so you  
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notice older people speak in a different way  or younger people speak in a different way so  
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everyone might use the word finish but different  people might Express things in a different way  
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uh so you might go a little bit  uh maybe higher like I'm very
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I'm very sorry or you might have allow me  to apologize or uh oh I'm terribly sorry  
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about that all right but the point is uh as you  as you're thinking more like a native you're  
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trying to integrate all of this information and  it becomes much easier uh when you think about it  
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from situations rather than trying to think  about it from vocabulary and translate that  
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all right hopefully that makes sense if you have  more questions about that let me know all right  
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so 20 phrases say it's over or 20 phrases to  say I apologize yeah and again uh I don't need  
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to give like a whole bunch of those because  you can find lots of those online the point  
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is more how you think about this and looking  for looking for situations like when you  
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apologize so if you're watching a movie and  you see like one person kills somebody else  
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well that would be very serious or one person that  you know does something like they forgot I don't  
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know something else like maybe you forget your  your wife's birthday maybe that's pretty serious  
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uh or you know something like that but you will  see rather than trying to memorize a list of these  
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things the point is to pay attention for them and  so that why that way uh when you're looking for  
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situations and how people use these you would  begin with the situations that you have uh in  
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your life so the things that you deal with most so  when I came to Japan and I wanted to learn about  
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uh gardening I was focused on that so I was  learning about gardening situations how do we  
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talk about moving a rock or how do we talk about  putting some moss on the ground or something like  
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that but the basic idea again is you're looking  at situations rather than looking at vocabulary  
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all right uh Claudette says greeting from Mexico  always a pleasure to learn English for me is my  
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pleasure all right let's see and uh greetings  from Germany good morning here in India thank  
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you very much for your efforts so if I learn in  the usual way a translation into my mother tongue  
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how would I correct the words I learned uh that  were literally translated in my mind sometimes  
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when you translate an expression the expression  in another language will maybe not make sense  
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from my bad in Portuguese doesn't make sense if  you're translating yeah uh so good questions Fabio  
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so the the basic idea again like you have been  trained for many years to learn in the English  
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as a second language way and this means you will  you will probably get things you you will probably  
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even think in Spanish or Portuguese or whatever  your native language is so you will think in that  
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language first and then think about what you  want to say and mentally translated when what  
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you should be doing is trying to you're you're  you're basically training your mind to think in  
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a different way so rather than be beginning with  your native language you begin with the situation  
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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  
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kids are running around and my wife yells at  them or something like that as an example now  
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I will get this lots of like lots and lots of  examples of Japanese for getting angry at kids  
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so as a parent this is something that's useful for  me because I will hear these expressions and I can  
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use these Expressions if I want to but if I am  a teenager or I'm a young adult and I don't have  
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my own family then this vocabulary is not really  useful for me so a lot of these things again they  
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come from your particular life situation and then  you look at the kinds of things that you hear so  
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if you like going out to restaurants you should  pay attention so one thing like I would do if I  
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go to a Japanese restaurant or something I would  go to a restaurant and just sit down and listen to  
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how other people are ordering food so I order my  food and I can listen I'm paying attention to the  
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other tables around me I'm kind of listening to  the conversations things like that and listening  
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to how people order stuff so it's a pretty simple  thing but the point is I'm focusing on a situation  
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and getting lots of different examples now I'm of  course like I might not use all of those things  
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but I will become very aware of them and it  will be easier for me to understand natives  
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when they're in those situations all right so  that's really the point of this is thinking about  
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the situations people have rather than trying  to begin with particular vocabulary and so the  
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the basic idea is that you have to retrain your  mind to focus on situations rather than focusing  
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on specific words and it's okay like to think  about I'm thinking about like a good word for  
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this or whatever but ask yourself what would a  native say in this situation and then it's easy  
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to find that like I mean even uh like watching  videos on YouTube can give you basic examples  
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of lots of different situations like apologizing  uh or buying some food or something so you can  
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go to like watching a travel show when people  are buying things or or going to different you  
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know ordering in restaurants or whatever but I  would look for real native content that's why we  
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put real native content into fluent for life we  want to have actual conversations between people  
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so you can see how people are responding to each  other the ways that they interrupt or the ways  
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that they might explain things we're really trying  to give you more situations for that rather than  
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just giving you some textbook examples of things  that you can memorize all right so again think  
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about it from the situation perspective the point  is not to uh to to try to to think about things  
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in your native language and then translate them  even though this is the way you've been taught  
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to learn languages so you will have to have to  begin making that switch in your mind just just  
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paying attention it's actually quite easy to do  once you start doing it and you will feel really  
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great when you discover something like ah like I  now I know what that means and you learned it like  
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a native rather than learning it like a student  and you can really feel that switch in your mind  
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all right uh Victor says when learning  a language not only learn or acquire  
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the language but also the culture or the way  of thinking yeah and so that's another thing  
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Victor excellent point uh that we will also and  and this is a this is like another thing about  
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um uh uh like learning language learning not  just trying to learn the vocabulary but also  
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understanding where the vocabulary comes from  so learning these kinds of things you can learn  
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about the culture of apologizing or the culture  of ordering food or the culture of doing all  
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kinds of things so how do people explain how do  people move when they speak you know like people  
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think about Italians or whatever talking with  their hands a lot that's part of their culture  
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it's part of what they do and so you learn  those kinds of things as you pay attention  
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to the living language all right the living  language is the is the point the language  
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changes and evolves and adapts over time and this  is another I I I heard or my staff told me about  
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um someone someone had had like written written  to us and said like my My Method doesn't work  
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um but instead like the kind of ESL method was  better uh and and they were just saying like well  
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you have or they were explaining what they learned  with uh and they have um I don't know they forget  
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what what sort of resource they were talking about  but it was like like vocabulary and learning some  
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pronunciation and learning some stuff like this  from a website that didn't have lots of actual  
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native examples in it and and often the English  as a second language approach will break down the  
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language so they will kind of split the language  up into different parts like this so you've got  
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grammar pronunciation vocabulary but in the the  efl approach all of these things are integrated  
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in one situation so when you're learning to  say I'm sorry you're learning pronunciation and  
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grammar and vocabulary all at the same time and  you're learning how a native would actually say  
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it and so that's why I don't understand like this  this approach of of uh it's okay to break down  
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the language into different pieces uh if you're  beginning with real speech which is what we do in  
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fluent for life so we try to give you uh examples  of the way natives would really communicate and  
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then we're going to show you that maybe in a  little bit easier to understand weight because  
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it is helpful to get some explanations just to  learn a little bit faster but if you can discover  
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more things by yourself that's even better but  the point is like if you're if you're trying to  
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learn let's say pronunciation and you only hear  individual sounds you can like push a button  
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and listen to One sound but you can't compare  easily different sounds then you're you're going  
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to struggle to to improve your pronunciation and  listening because hearing one sound like one one  
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letter is not as good as being able to compare a  bunch of different letters together this is why we  
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built Frederick the way it is you can also click  on the link in the description to learn more about  
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Frederick but the basic idea is that again we want  to integrate the language we want to put all of  
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these pieces together rather than trying to learn  them in separate separate pieces and I'm always  
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it's always kind of confusing to me when people  write me and if they say drew your method doesn't  
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work I say well of course it works it's how you  got fluent in your native language so it's not I  
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didn't I have not created did anything new I'm not  like developing any like fancy I don't know what  
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like a technique or something like that all I'm  doing is really helping you learn English like a  
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native speaker that's it because uh really that's  the only way you're going to be able to speak  
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uh let's see all right so let's see Claudette  said there are so many phrasal verbs and there  
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are so many meanings as well what is your advice  to learn them faster and stick to them forever  
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any advice please well you should if you're not  already a member of our visual guide to phrasal  
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verbs you should get that but I'll give you the  whole my whole like actually if people want to  
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know how to do that it's you can you can do all  the things that I'm doing um like by like the  
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same things I do you can do them yourself it's  just a bit more difficult but if you're curious  
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I can explain actually let me see if people would  like to know that if you'd like to if you'd like  
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to know more about like like learning kind of  how I do phrasal verbs let me know in the in the  
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comments here and I'll speak more about that uh  but I'll move on because I've covered that before  
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but if you want to hear if if enough people  want to hear more about that then let me know  
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um all right let's see so ming show May I know  your daily life in Japan how much time that EU  
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can speak English uh actually I don't like this is  my English speaking time really most of my time uh  
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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  
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almost all English because I want my kids to get  uh lots of English input and I'm really the main  
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source of that they will watch some you know TV  shows or YouTube videos or things like that to to  
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learn some English but I'm the main person in the  house that uses English their mother also speaks  
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uh really good English but I want to like give  them even more and so since they have a lot less  
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time to learn those things like so they spend  most of their time going to regular school and  
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it's all in Japanese so I have to take time and  be very strategic about how I teach them because  
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I don't have I don't they just don't get enough  enough time for that all right uh so Claudette  
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welcome to realize is make a story containing  your phrasal verbs yeah that's part of it yeah  
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uh your channel is pristine pristine well that's  that's an interesting way to put it pristine  
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pristine and usually pristine means like it's  kind of like a clean and untouched like a pristine  
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Mountain you know like nobody goes there there are  no buildings on it that kind of thing uh but if  
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you want to say like uh it's helpful or a fan like  you're a fan of the videos then yes fantastic you  
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can uh you can describe it that way thank you very  much Claudette again have you ever thought about  
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inviting some students to peer in your YouTube  channel I would love to see you with your students  
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you can actually find some videos where I have  done that and on our Instagram Channel as well I  
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have invited uh some people to join me in videos  I don't know if it's possible to have people  
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um join on these videos or not in YouTube but I  have done that on again Instagram videos where  
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I actually have me kind of doing individual  one-on-one work with students but usually what  
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happens is like it's the same advice I would give  for most people uh and so usually it's maybe some  
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pronunciation or something like that but when  people really feel that they need some kind of  
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personal attention uh when it's not as important  as most people think it's usually just a lot of  
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the same advice that I give generally to people  uh that I'm that I'm using for helping them but  
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if you'd like to see me speaking with Learners you  can find that on the channel just look for that on  
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the channel Sam says Hi We want to know everything  you mean like all things or everyday things John  
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says hello Adrian is there something that I can do  to remember the pronunciation of difficult words  
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I've been thinking about it because I live in a  Spanish country with no contact uh with English  
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speakers at all yeah so for learning pronunciation  as I've talked before there are basically two  
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parts to this the first one is learning the  individual sounds of letters because there really  
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are some very simple rules that help you pronounce  English so these are called the rules of phonics
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so phonics just means the sounds of English so  as an example we have a word like cat but if we  
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put an e on the end of this this becomes Kate and  you can learn rules like this very simple you can  
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uh very simply you can teach them yourself  these in Frederick let me put this up here
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so if you want to learn how to pronounce  we take you from uh words like cat to  
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words like Symphony and apocalypse and  uh I don't know advantage or whatever  
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I forget exactly what higher level words  we have but it takes you through over 2  
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000 words and the the really the deeper point  of the program is to teach you how to think  
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about pronunciation like a native so natives are  learning the pronunciation of individual words and  
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they're also learning how you blend words together  so you might have like this I was I was teaching  
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this uh actually to a woman like a week and a  half ago I think uh so this let's see this star  
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so if we have uh words like this star so a native  would pronounce this as this star this star this  
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star so this s basically disappears and these  blend together so it's like this star this star  
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so the star this star so when you're learning  uh the sounds of individual words and you also  
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learn how to blend them together which is what  we do in Frederick then you can learn how to  
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pronounce basically anything so this will teach  you the spelling of words how to save them and  
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how to hear them very clearly uh click on the  link in the description if you'd like to learn  
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more about that let's see Rue copes it seems since  I started to work on my pronunciation my listening  
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comprehension has increased significantly yeah so  the these two skills are are connected so all of  
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the skills are really connected you're listening  your grammar your pronunciation but the listening  
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specifically is connected with uh pronunciation  and what's interesting is that people think they  
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need to like practice speaking to improve their  pronunciation when actually the opposite is really  
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true and and when you listen to enough English and  if you hear 10 different people say something your  
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your pronunciation will automatically improve  even if you don't uh like repeat yourself a lot  
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so you you don't have to say that and it's it's  kind of like hitting a hitting a note in music
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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  
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something like that I think something or maybe  that's a dollar sign or I forget how to draw the  
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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  
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hum this note I don't know what this is uh forget  how to read music but let's just say it's ding  
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and if I just say ding like you hear that by  itself you might not be able to hear it but  
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if you can start from a different note that you  can make so if you say like ding ding something  
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like that uh we can we can try to get our sound  down to where it should be so I call this sound  
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transitioning but it's a way of trying to make  it easier to connect like ding trying to get to  
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that uh particular sound you're going for and this  is why Frederick again gives you lots of chances  
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to compare different sounds so if you can hear  [Music] and you can really spend time listening to  
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these different sounds and you can easily get your  pronunciation in your listening uh improved a lot  
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all right let's see John says I would like to  have your secret for mastering phrasal verbs  
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thank you okay uh I'll mention this very  quickly so this is a it's actually a very  
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simple process and this is the way natives are  again teaching everything the way natives are  
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learning so the way this usually works I do  it in uh three steps see if you can imagine  
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uh what these are but the basic idea for  learning not only phrasal verbs but for  
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any uh any kind of vocabulary is number one we  want to try if we can to understand it visually
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uh and so an example of this if we're talking  about phrasal verbs uh maybe you would learn  
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I don't know I think I gave this example  in a in another YouTube video before but  
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I'll give it again because many people are new  on this video so if we have a boat right here  
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and the boat down here is we can look  at the action we imagine this marker  
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as a boat and oh no uh we can talk about  this the phrasal verb will be to go under
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so the boat is physically going under the water  we mean like going under the under the surface  
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of the water so we want to try as we can to  understand something visually and almost every  
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really example of phrasal verb that children are  learning and phrasal verbs are really important  
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because this is what we're using to make things  a little bit more complicated for children so  
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they're learning a difference between like sit  down and sit up all right so as an example uh  
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again we're learning in a visual way if we have a  chair like this if we have a person let's say we  
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might have I'll just compare this so I don't have  a chair right in front of me but if we imagine  
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three different things we have a person standing  and then we have a person uh sitting and then we  
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have a person I don't know like this last one  like maybe their their posture is like really  
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really bad they're sitting like this so this one  we could if we if we tell a child like stand up  
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so we don't want to just stand but stand up we  want to get them that that connection of stand  
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with up meaning we want you to stand well  stand erect like stand up straight stand  
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up straight and so if we have sit down again we  have the action and we're talking about moving  
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from standing to sitting so sitting down but  then this one we might have sit up so sit up  
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if you think about stand up and sit down then  we get the idea of so I'm kind of you know my  
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back my posture is is not looking very good  and my mom tells me to sit up so okay now  
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I'm going to actually sit up and you know usually  teachers will tell kids to do that in the same way  
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so this is to sit up but the basic idea here is  that kids are learning these things visually you  
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can actually see what's happening and so again  you're looking at the situation visually what is  
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happening and what are the words people are using  for that situation so in this situation what do  
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people say you see like a child okay the teacher  says stand up and the child stands up another  
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child is watching that and they think oh okay well  I guess stand-up means to to get in this position  
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and they're not trying to translate from German  or Thai or whatever they're just looking at the  
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situation and making that connection so it's much  easier to do this when you're learning things uh  
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visually all right uh and next we want to begin  like the the kind of second thing here is we want  
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to look at core meanings of of phrasal verbs  uh so we'll just call this like core meaning  
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and the I mean these are bait like one and two are  basically linked together uh but the core meaning  
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of something like uh like a phrasal verb where  we're just just beginning with something that's uh  
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easier to understand again with a visual meaning  and we're looking at like stand or sit so the core  
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meaning of that what does that mean to stand so  it just means like you know something is up rather  
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than being like sideways like that so I can have a  like a pencil right here I'll draw a little pencil  
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so this pencil is standing up rather than lying  down okay so it's a same idea like the pencil  
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doesn't have legs but it's vertically in a  position like that so it's standing up again  
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we have the visual example and we're looking  at the core meaning of stand and so we get a  
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couple of different examples of what that means  and as we see more of those it makes more sense  
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like trying to learn phrasal verbs that way so  another thing like take so if I have a a little  
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bit more complex word like take we have just an  idea of like moving one thing from one place to  
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something else now that could be like stealing it  or it could be just bringing it with you but you  
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will see these in different visual examples as  you're learning them and you understand the core  
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meaning of take all right so we're transferring  something from one place to something else maybe  
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we're carrying it like I take a a lunch to  work with me so I take my lunch I bring it  
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from my house to uh to work uh and then after  we're understanding visually and we're getting  
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the core meaning then we can start learning more  figurative uses of stuff so we'll just say figure
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so figurative uses so we begin with an easy visual  example and then we move to the more figurative  
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uses over here so going back to the boat example  we have go under so the boat is sinking we can  
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take this same phrasal verb which we have like  a visual example of and then we can get the more  
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figurative figurative example of something like  the company is going under meaning bankruptcy all  
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right so the company in the same way like the  their their money is getting worse and worse  
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they're losing money or maybe they will have to  close the business so the business is going under  
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does that make sense so when we're learning uh  not just phrasal verbs I do this with phrasal  
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verbs because phrasal verbs are so common they're  important to learn uh these are this is really  
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the core of children going from just saying  one word to making phrases and this is why  
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it's again really important for pronunciation  and listening and grammar as well and why I  
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have a whole program that's dedicated just to  this so in fluent for life of course there are  
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I don't know how many probably like I don't  know hundreds of phrasal verbs that we teach  
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but also the visual guide to phrasal verbs is  included in that program but this is again what  
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I'm doing usually when I'm trying to explain  something uh like some kind of expression or  
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an idiom or anything like that I really want to  help you understand it if I can't really show you  
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visually maybe I can tell you a story uh somebody  mentioned that I think but the point is to help  
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you understand it from a situation rather than  trying to think about it as like I want to train  
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translate that from one language to another  and then once you understand the the core  
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meaning so we're really trying to focus on like  like go and then understanding what under means  
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and so as you understand these and you start  connecting them it becomes a lot easier to use  
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the figurative more advanced ways of expressing  them so go under we say like the boat is going  
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under or the company is going under all right  so go under by itself doesn't change but the  
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point is the understanding after you think like  okay this thing is kind of going down it's bad  
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meaning children understand that and then so  when they hear the company is going under they  
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think ah I can use the Expression in this way  too so phrasal verbs are very very simple if  
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you learn them in this way this is what we do in  the visual guide to phrasal verbs which again is  
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included in fluent for life but it's it's a very  simple process of trying to help you understand  
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it like a native by thinking about situations  rather than thinking about like translating in  
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the the English as a second language approach  hopefully that makes sense all right uh
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okay hello there listening nine to ten a day make  me more confident in short time thanks Noah glad  
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to hear it all right uh let's see Joanna with  some looks like clapping hands I can't tell  
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if that's clapping hands or washing hands I  can't see what the I'm guessing is clapping  
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I listened to the content for natives a lot  yes Hilder that's the that's the key so Macon  
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hi drew a big fan of yours from Brazil talking  about pronunciation how to clearly understand  
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the difference between can and can't in spoken  language uh part of this is uh just the context  
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so it's it can be different it can be difficult  to understand this we'll give an example here
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and it becomes easier to understand uh differences  in things like this the more examples you get  
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so if you can hear lots of different examples of  natives talking about this in different situations  
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than you will hear it will be easier for you to  hear these things so I can and I can't foreign so  
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first when you're learning these things and this  is the same way I would teach my own children uh  
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I hear I make sure it's very clear for them what  they're listening to so I want them to understand  
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the word even if they can't read it so they can  both read these words now but when they were  
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just learning can and can't that's a very basic  thing that children learn from a very young age  
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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  
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like I can throw a marker up in the air and catch  it I can do that but can I throw two markers up  
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go actually I can do that I can do that too but as  you're listening to more examples once natives get  
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an understanding of what the word is then natives  start speaking a little bit faster and start  
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blending their sounds together so listen carefully  as I'm pronouncing it like again the textbook way  
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is usually what students get they only get the  textbook version of I can or I can't or even I  
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will hear I cannot a cannot is is really uncommon  in spoken English because people are usually just  
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speaking faster cannot uh is is usually heard when  people are uh you like you really you really want  
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to to say like it's absolutely impossible to  do something like I cannot I cannot leave my  
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office and do something like I cannot so can't is  a little bit more casual and cannot is like I'm  
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re like a really very serious about something and  again we're trying to connect the situation with  
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the vocabulary so in the situation of just can  you come to my party tomorrow I'm sorry I can't  
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I can't come to the party uh but like can you uh  can you shoot a missile at that country it's like  
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no I cannot I cannot do that so you will hear this  in movies when people are really trying to be very  
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serious I cannot we cannot allow them to do that  okay so they're being more serious and you can  
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pay attention for the situation and notice how  people are expressing this so for listening for  
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hearing these things again we begin even even  like native children are getting the same kind  
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of basic textbook examples of things so I can  I can't I cannot but what difference like the  
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difference is like natives begin learning more  like as a as English as a first language approach  
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they're hearing it more like I can can becomes  kin I can I can I can I can I can I can instead  
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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  
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can go tomorrow I can go tomorrow and you will  hear it even faster than that I can I can I can  
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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  
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the the kind of k sound in there yeah I can do  that can you help me tomorrow yeah I can do that  
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I can do that I can do that I can I can I can  do that so remember children are learning even  
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before they can read the word they are learning  the faster way of pronouncing this I can do that  
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I can do that I can go I can go I can go now the  difficulty for language Learners is usually like  
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uh again hearing can versus can't so if they hear  someone like yeah I can't do that I can't do that
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so listen to this pronunciation  A little bit faster
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I can
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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  
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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  
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I'm saying I can I can do that I can do that and  you also maybe notice my facial expression I look  
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a little bit more positive maybe I'm shaking my  head like yeah I can do that I can do that I can  
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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  
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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  
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can't do that so if it's casual like going to a  party or accepting an invitation or something and  
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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  
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or yeah I can do that I can do that and it's most  difficult when you can only hear the example okay  
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so when you you're listening to something like  did he say can or can't you can always ask the  
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person like wait did you say can or can't but  typically if you're listening for the stress  
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here I can I can do that and there's a there's  a slight stress like difference between these  
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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  
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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  
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it's more like like a child would say like oh I  can't I can't do that when they're saying like  
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it's not possible for me to do something even  though someone else maybe can do that so maybe  
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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  
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I'm addressing like a request for someone it's  usually like uh like I can't I can't do that I  
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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  
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um I don't want to spend too much time on this  but the main idea to develop a better sense of  
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this is to spend more time listening to natives  you spend more time listening to natives you spend  
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less time watching English language videos that  are going to help you like like the the language  
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teacher even me like it's it's a it's a useful  thing to try to understand things but you really  
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will improve and get to that fluent level the  more time you spend learning like a native so  
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that's why in fluent for life we take you through  these different steps so the point is to help you  
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to give you some simple explanations of things but  also give you lots of examples of how natives are  
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communicated it's pretty simple all right  let's see we had a bunch uh let's see okay  
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all right so Adrian again I hear some Americans  skipping the T at the end uh but an interviewer  
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told me I was wrong by not pronouncing the last  T of that I'm confused about that yeah again it's  
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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  
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not pronouncing the T really clearly because  natives don't do that they're not if if the  
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meaning is understood then people will try to be  as quick as possible so I can't I can't I can't  
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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  
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so do and don't now do and don't is easier for  natives or for non-natives to understand because  
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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  
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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  
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for that I leave a little bit of space there but  I'm not I'm not trying to say it clearly the only  
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time I would pronounce this really well or really  clearly is again it depends on the situation if  
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I'm really angry at my child for doing something  I would say don't do that don't do that so you  
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hear it here here I'm I'm ex I'm like really  expressing myself clearly uh so if I say don't
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don't do that and in that case in this  situation again like that the situation  
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is the most important thing the situation is  more important than the vocabulary because the  
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situation tells you how exactly to say something  so if I'm just saying like oh I yeah I don't do  
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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  
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me hey do you prepare people for English tests  I would say no I don't do that I don't do that  
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I don't do that I don't do that I don't do that  you hear the difference I'm being more casual  
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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  
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like I don't know so I'm trying to think of a good  example but but basically like the like the one I  
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just gave if I'm being casual and I know the other  person can understand what I'm saying no I don't  
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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  
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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  
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really understood it's a slightly different  situation so even though the vocabulary is  
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the same the situation means that you're going  to say it in a slightly different way and so I  
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would say no like don't do that you notice with  both of these T's they come back don't do that  
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don't do that you can hear the like the  expression you can see my face maybe I'm  
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looking a bit angrier don't do that and I  really want to make sure people understand  
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what I'm saying and I'm just making it  clear but I'm saying the exact same words  
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so remember the English as a second language  approach you're beginning with vocabulary  
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that the English as a first language's approaches  we're beginning with the situation and so the  
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situation is like okay if you're angry and you're  saying like not to do something then like don't do  
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that you're really making it very clear but  if you're just casually speaking I don't do  
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that I don't do that so you will hear lots of  examples of this in you know you pay attention  
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to natives you will watch what they do and  that's how you learn these different expressions
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great uh let's see  
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all right hater again most of the time when  learning vocabulary it's hard for him without
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which I use pictures sometimes also it  is difficult to interpret vocabulary  
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that has meanings that is not an object  yes and so we of course had trouble doing  
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that when we were building Frederick  so how do we make like a word like  
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like a capture so this is a maybe a  little bit easier to understand but  
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so we would have like an image so the  word is capture or captive I should say  
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so this is one of one of the words in the app  captive captive and so we have like just uh  
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you know like a whale you know in a in a bowl or  something like that so it's supposed to be like  
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a like a fish or something in a bowl and this one  is just a fish out I cannot draw and this is just  
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a fish over here so we're contrasting these and  this is the thing we're looking at so captive  
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would mean ah okay we're understanding something  is like held in some way it's captive so rather  
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than being free it's captive over here and then  we also give a bunch of different examples we give  
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at least four uh four examples for every word  or phrase that we're teaching a phrase We want  
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to really show people how to do this with uh with  visual examples so they can do that without using  
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their native language uh the next thing to to note  about this uh is that it's it's more difficult  
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um again when you're trying to think about  the word like through your native language  
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rather than try to think about a situation where  you would hear something so again focus on the  
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situation first and then listen to what natives  are saying for that particular uh pronunciation  
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uh let's let's see uh okay let's see like guys  underwear 51 thank you very much I find difficulty  
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to finish the sentence with correct grammar when  I talk to natives any suggestion uh yes so again  
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everything comes from paying attention to how  natives are speaking and so if you don't feel  
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comfortable or you don't feel confident about  finishing sentences or you're unable to do that  
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it just means you haven't had enough practice  with that so if you give me a specific uh like  
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a specific example of a sentence then I can help  you practice that here but the important thing is  
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not that you try to like repeat that it's that you  hear it again and again and then you're like ah  
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okay now I feel very confident that I understand  what I'm saying so understanding is really the  
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most important part of speaking and as I mentioned  earlier in the video when talking about crashing  
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he discovered the same thing so this is like  the big shock about language learning is that  
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you don't get fluent by repeating phrases again  and again you get fluent by really understanding  
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something and then they start naturally coming  out of course you might make a mistake you know  
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here or there but it's much better to really  understand something and then only there's  
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maybe like slight fine-tuning and pronunciation  or something like that when you actually speak so  
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the more examples you get the easier it becomes  uh let's see panty funny I already understood  
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interpret from Japanese to English but I'm still  struggling how to make sentences in English brain  
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are you Japanese I don't know I can't tell from  the preacher if you're Japanese or not but the  
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point is like if you're if you're learning from  Japanese into English or you're learning from  
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German into English or whatever the language is uh  that you're thinking about it as a student rather  
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than thinking about how you learn your native  language so the easiest way to understand this  
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is remember how are you learning new words in  your native language so a Japanese person who  
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speaks Japanese fluently is going to listen to  lots of new words and expressions and they will  
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learn all those things in Japanese all they have  to do is just apply that same thing to learning  
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English words so instead of thinking about the  Japanese first or the German first or whatever  
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the you know the French or whatever your language  is you're thinking about the English situation and  
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watching what natives do so if you get examples  of how natives communicate that's what really it  
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means to learn the same way children learn so  I'm giving I I don't usually teach my kids uh  
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like I don't teach them English through Japanese  or Japanese through English if I'm trying to teach  
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them a Japanese thing I will speak in Japanese and  teach them that uh so I so I don't teach them to  
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translate in their head and they do a really good  job of like speaking in that in that particular  
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language when they're switching from one to the  other Claudette again I love your explanation  
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about phrase verbs thanks a lot it gave me a  big picture yes but stop thinking the words  
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uh linking linking the words it makes sense for  fast speaking and understanding glad to hear yep  
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uh so the most important thing is a practice  is speaking loudly that uh that I come up with  
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thinking no the the most important thing the thing  I am I'm saying is that you don't get fluent by  
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just like repeating loudly or speaking out like  the thing that you should be doing is getting lots  
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of input and this is this is like the most this is  probably the most I don't know the most confusing  
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thing to me as a teacher when I was learning I  discovered this idea I felt very excited because I  
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thought yes like I don't have to find a speaking  practice partner I just need to get lots of  
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examples so I can go to a Japanese restaurant and  you know sit and listen to people's conversations  
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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  
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you can use this expression like that or whatever  and as I hear more examples of that that's how I  
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feel more confident about using things and then  I finally start speaking so most of my practice  
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is not speaking most of my practice is actually  just listening to lots of different examples and  
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so this is why uh like occasionally we will get  like there is a certain kind of learner who who  
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you know will like uh want to learn more about  what we do or maybe try some of our programs uh  
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and they're they're still thinking about learning  in this way and so they will begin with uh like  
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the particular word or phrase they want to use  and they're thinking about translating and they  
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think that if they know that phrase already  they're already like they don't need to review  
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it again and usually I just say to those Learners  like great if you're already fluent why are you  
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looking for help if you're already fluent why are  you looking for help and so it's like if if your  
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way works then why are you looking for help just  keep doing what you're doing but for most people  
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like their way is not actually working but it's  difficult for them to try doing something new and  
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this is understandable it's hard you know for  ever since people are young they are told that  
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they need to learn in a certain way even though  it's not working for them but they are just told  
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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  
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from the time you were very young if you were told  you have to learn this way you have to learn and  
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memorize grammar rules and try to translate learn  definitions of words that kind of thing and you  
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have to speak so if you're told all of those  things and then like another guy says hey you  
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actually don't have to do those things in order to  speak it's it's hard to accept that I understand  
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uh but as I say the proof the proof  is in the pudding it's another great  
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expression for you the proof is in the pudding
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so this is like you think about actual pudding or  whatever like some pudding that you eat so like  
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the the good flavor you can tell if something is  good or Not by like by actually giving it a try  
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so the proof is in the pudding uh and if if you  were continuing to learn this way and that is not  
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helping you speak then be open to trying something  different all right and this is not like a crazy  
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method that I came up with it's just applying  how you learn your native language that's it  
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all right let's see thanks for the tip  on phrasal verbs glad to hear it uh when  
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I say with with his with his do I need  the pronunciation the th sound with his
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with his with his like with his example with his  example we would we would blend blend these parts  
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together it's like with this with this you can  pronounce it again if you want to be more clear  
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just to make sure people understand you can say  with his but typically we would pronounce this  
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faster with is so with his experience with his  experience with his experience with his experience  
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so you can say both of those both of those  are fine it's just natives will will use both  
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depending on the situation if you want to be clear  with his experience he will be good for president  
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or with his experience with his experience  with his experience with his experience so  
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the same thing it just depends on if you want to  be more clear or not but the point is you should  
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be prepared for for natives when they actually  speak and you will hear these differences in  
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the in the conversation so try to listen more  for what's the what's the situation here rather  
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than just What's the vocabulary they're using all  right uh okay so I don't do that is it pronounced  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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do that I don't do that I don't do that I don't  do that uh precise uh precisely precisely focused  
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on pronunciation uh can you recommend how to learn  English uh step by step for example one nouns and  
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dialogue this topic um okay well since people are  uh Curious how we do this and actually I'd love  
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to hear it's it's usually better if you tell me  how you think you will learn so if if you think  
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like okay today we're gonna learn some nouns uh  and tomorrow we're gonna do some pronunciation or  
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something like that these are all uh English as  a second language approaches so what I actually  
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do uh the same thing I do with my children is the  same thing I do in my programs and so what I do
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we begin with the end when we're learning let  me see what time it is it's already a look oh  
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my goodness 11 30. we've been doing this 78  minutes oh my goodness all right so uh let's  
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imagine I'm teaching my own children all right so  you're not worrying about like teaching English  
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or anything as like as a different language I'm  just teaching my own kids uh there's a situation  
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just like this we got a situation here uh and then  
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there is some kind of vocabulary so we  have situation and vocabulary so maybe  
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I am uh I'm excited about something they  did so uh the situation is I am excited
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and I want to like praise my children so I would  say great great job or I might also hear like nice
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work and there are other ways I could express this  too but my kids what they're doing they're not  
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there's no Japanese in here they're learning  everything in English so they understand the  
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situation like they want a game or they finish  their homework or something like that and I say  
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okay here's the vocabulary great job nice work  and they might not even understand every word  
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that I say but they understand like the meaning of  the whole thing is like here is a positive thing  
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you say when you praise people and they hear that  you know from many different people many different  
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examples and so taking this idea uh if you if you  understand this idea what I do in fluent for life  
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is we begin with a situation and the situation  is usually two or three people talking and then  
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before we get to this because this is there's a  lot of information in a conversation like a lot  
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of information so not just the vocabulary people  are using but how they're pronouncing words uh how  
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they're feeling the tone of voice that they have  and so we want to break this into different pieces  
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so some of this will be understanding the  vocabulary and and I do this because it's  
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again it's overwhelming just to watch a  conversation between two people so unless  
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your English is already at a very high level  uh it's probably not going to help you very  
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much to do that in fact it will make you more  frustrated but if you can learn some of that  
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vocabulary first here are some key phrases we  want to look at here are some key like cultural  
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ideas uh and maybe we want to talk about here  some like some specific grammar things that  
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we want you to focus on we're going to really  just focus on these pieces first and so you go  
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through these pieces and after you go through  these you finally go to this and the situation  
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makes a lot more sense okay so this is how you  should be learning the language and in a in a  
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in an everyday way if you're trying to do this by  yourself you're really just looking at situations  
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so I would go to like the restaurant example I'm  sitting at a restaurant and listening to different  
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people talking or listening to how people order  from their waiter okay or I go to a cafe and  
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I'm listening to how people go to the counter  and order food and I will learn all of those  
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different things and so I'm not I'm not just like  randomly learning vocabulary I'm learning it for  
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situations so in this situation people are talking  about I don't know getting married or something  
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where people are talking about uh raising kids  or they're talking about going to work or they're  
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talking about I don't know like business meetings  or giving presentations or something like that but  
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I'm paying attention to what they're talking about  and I learn like ah in this situation people say  
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this and I'm trying to think more like a native  and recognize the patterns that people are using  
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rather than just like trying to learn a bunch of  random words and phrases okay and so when we do  
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this in fluent for life you begin by focusing on  particular uh topics that you are interested in  
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and you go very deep into that that's why we spend  so much time uh looking at all these different  
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pieces and approaching them in in different  ways because the vocabulary is is not really the  
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problem for people it's like how well you know  the vocabulary so most Learners they get stuck  
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because they think they know a lot of vocabulary  but they actually don't so they think they know  
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something but then they get into a conversation  and forget the word or they can't recall it  
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very quickly when they when they want to use that  thing so that's where the real problem comes from  
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so it's not about learning some vocabulary the  step-by-step plan is this so we begin with a  
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situation rather than you trying to just watch  it directly we want to bring you through a bunch  
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of steps first that make this all easier to  understand and then when you get to the real  
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conversation it makes a lot more sense okay now an  interesting thing that sometimes I tell fluent for  
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Life members to do is start with the conversation  so if you watch the conversation first  
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you will think wow this might be a little bit  overwhelming there are lots of things here I don't  
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know really what I should be paying attention for  uh and then they go through the steps and they  
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watch the conversation again and it makes a lot  more sense so they really understand things much  
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better again that's the point of having a teacher  help you and kind of guide you through what's  
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happening in the conversation so the conversation  is a it's a much bigger thing that's why we spend  
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a whole month focusing on one thing and people  think like wow that's so much time to spend on  
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that it's like that's how you get fluent that's  what little kids are doing when they're learning  
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their native language they're learning like  a bunch of individual phrases like great job  
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and nice work and then they're starting to put  those together in a in a bigger Longer sentences  
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okay so that's how you do it so step by step uh  the bigger bigger picture of what we do is this  
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but it's it's just the same thing as looking  at any situation and paying attention to what  
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natives do so if I drop something on my head I  say ouch if I pick up something heavy I say ah  
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and kids learn that in Japanese like you  like stand up and stretch you say oh shh  
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you actually use different sounds in Japanese and  little kids learn that it's like it's not like the  
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human body naturally makes like uh versus a Yosh  sound it's just what kids learn in that situation  
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for this situation they learn that uh that  particular vocabulary uh all right let's see here  
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all right so I found this sentence really hard  to say smoothly he is gesturing with his hand as  
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he talks you mean his gesturing gesturing with  his hand as he talks yep so that one like he  
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is gesturing so he is gesturing I would look  at the specific part of that phrase or that  
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sentence that's giving you trouble so maybe if  it's the word gesturing usually people will say  
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I have like a problem with this but the problem  is actually much smaller than that so if you if  
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you would begin uh like one of the things we  do in fluent for life is if we take a I mean  
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I give a simpler expression like  this I won't use the exact thing  
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you gave but you will understand the  exercise from this so like I spent  
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time at the gym now I really want to make sure I  understand the whole sentence but if I'm trying  
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to like practice saying it just to get in the  habit of that I would actually begin with kind  
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of the smaller piece of it here at the end  like the gym the gym the gym I really wanted  
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to get comfortable make sure I understand what  this means like the gym yeah I'm talking about  
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that you know physical Place uh where I you  know where I exercise or something the gym  
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and now I'm going to make this bigger so notice  we're starting with the end of the sentence and  
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working backwards uh so at the gym at the gym at  the gym at the gym and we hear ah look at that  
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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  
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the the th Digraph sound but we're gonna eliminate  that one and get at the gym at the gym at the gym  
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at the gym and again we're going to extend it  even more time at the gym time at the gym so Ty  
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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  
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bit easier like I mean you could start from from  this way but I I like to start from the end just  
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because uh it's easier to understand usually like  the the way English sentences are structured uh  
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where we're just focusing on like a core idea  that like just could be a phrase by itself so  
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you could say like I spent time but like that's a  little harder to understand without like spending  
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time doing what like like usually there's like  some you're spending time doing something but  
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just the gym is an idea by itself that's easier to  understand all right so when you have a particular  
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sentence that you're trying to say I would  break it into these pieces like that and then  
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you can see exactly uh where you're struggling  to pronounce something but if you have native  
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examples of that you can actually hear how natives  are saying it so this is what we do in fluent for  
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life and why we make it easier for people because  we're giving you lots of native examples so I  
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spent time at the gym same thing here spent time  at the gym and then who spends time at the gym I  
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spent time at the gym okay so if you ever have any  kind of sentence like that I would break it down  
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in these pieces and really make sure number  one that you understand that and number two  
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that you can explain that uh and and like and you  understand how the the pronunciation works as well  
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all right uh so Adrian again but why the  interviewers that companies force people  
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to pronounce the T for example when the Americans  don't and I'm just giving you one example among  
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others uh Adrian I think in that example it would  usually be because um like if you're in a in a  
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professional situation or in a customer service  situation you would usually try to speak a bit  
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more clearly especially if you're on the phone  and it's hard to maybe people can't distinguish  
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like uh like we can do that or we can't do that so  if that's more difficult to understand that's why  
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people would encourage you to pronounce it more  so if I'm like like in regular everyday Japanese  
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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  
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meeting like the president of a company I'm going  to talk with him or her in a different way than I  
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would like casually speaking so I just you know  sometimes you have to think about it in that way  
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uh for for particular situations again  it depends on what the situation is  
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all right Tark says sir I want to advance to  speaking level I want to be able to do press  
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conference at the highest level how would a  stumble to this level uh you would watch a  
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lot of people giving press conferences and pay  attention to how they speak I would start there  
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all right hi there it's uh again can I after  guessing the sentence or vocabulary go and  
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see its translation into my language so that  I know whether I'm a writer not uh if I guess  
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wrong what should I do yes ideally in a in a  perfect world you should hopefully be able to  
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understand something in English and you can use  in English to English dictionary but if you need  
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to get a translation that's not it's not the  end of the world it's not the end of the world
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put a capital there it's not the end of the  world so it means it's not the worst thing  
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if you have to look up a translation in your  native language it's not the end of the world  
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if you need to look up a translation it's not the  end of the world it's not the end of the world  
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so it's okay if you need to look up a translation  that's fine Claud it again now the preposition is  
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another headache uh when to use on to into  again yes Claudette and that's why like you  
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should get get the phrasal verb program if you  don't have that already it will take you through  
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those you learn the core verbs and you learn how  phrasal verbs work with their prepositions as well  
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all right uh welcome to real life uh thank you  see you next time hopefully okay next thank you  
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for your knowledge and time I appreciate you have  a good night you're welcome I really appreciate  
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your time for explaining everything thank you so  much for help here in Mexico it is 8 30 p.m good  
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night enjoy your week ahead see you next week  save it says thanks so true how and when to use  
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the vocabulary and phrases in different situations  yes I remember the school years that we had the  
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reading lessons and we learned in that way yeah so  you can spend a lot of time and learn a lot that  
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way I learn a lot of Japanese just from reading  and then I just use the speech uh let's see I've  
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been getting a lot lots of input started using  the app my comprehension is even better I'm still  
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having trouble with my pronunciation still haven't  passed level four yet are you talking about  
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Frederick uh should I keep going or maybe that was  the end of that if you're talking about Frederick  
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yeah so spend spend time on those first few levels  go over all of the uh all of the pronunciation  
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there but a lot of that pronunciation will  continue like the short vowel sounds will  
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continue into higher levels so if you if you start  on level one it's just the alphabet level two and  
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level three are just uh two and three letter  words that have the short vowel sounds like
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and even as you go into the higher levels you  will you will hear those same sounds as well  
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so there's lots of review as you go through  it even if you get into higher levels Adrian  
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got it thanks uh backward learning process  for learning pronunciation more proper way  
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I would love to learn a real casual English  language do you have a course like that yeah  
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that's exactly what fluent for life is  all right the let's see if that's fluent
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fluid for life so this is what uh the course that  it basically teaches you how to have conversations  
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like a native English speaker that's the whole  point of the program I originally called this  
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master English conversation and this is back  when I started doing monthly lesson set so I  
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had people follow me every month and we would  go through new things but then after we had so  
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many of them I wanted to give people the  option to choose what they learn with so  
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maybe some people just want to focus on more  you know things that you would find in British  
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or British English or New Zealand English or  things that you would hear in a like a business  
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meeting or something like that so when you get in  fluent for life it basically teaches you how to  
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communicate well in business or conversational  situations but the same way native would  
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so we're going to try to take you instead of  learning through your native language we're  
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going to help you learn it all in English  and that's how you become a good speaker  
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all right did I get back to everything please  make shorts about pronunciation yeah if you  
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want again pronunciation like the shortest  thing we have is Frederick just get that  
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so if you if you click on the link in the  description below this video you can get  
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Frederick you can also get fluent for life but  Frederick explains like it takes you through all  
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the pronunciation and shows you how to learn these  things and blend them together so it's a very  
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simple program and it will help you communicate  and understand natives a lot more easily  
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all right I think that should be it it looks  like we covered everybody hopefully that makes  
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sense again the the goal of this video is to help  people uh instead of only using textbook English  
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and again there's nothing wrong with that the  point is that uh we just we want you to have a  
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wider vocabulary than just only using a  few uh words because especially even if  
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you don't use them you will hear natives  using these words and words and phrases  
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all right did we get anything else here how  should I learn idioms that can last forever in  
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my brain uh so go back maybe you just joined us  now but go back uh uh Aisha and and review what  
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I talked about for learning phrasal verbs it  works exactly the same way so if you're like a  
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lot of these recent videos I've made on YouTube  or me talking about like how people should be  
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learning but all the stuff in fluent for life is  actually like teaching you stuff in the language  
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so I spent a lot more time doing that I do some  some things are kind of helping you learn some  
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tips or strategies in there as well but most of  it is just like giving you lots of vocabulary  
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and following that same thing I covered earlier  in this video all right uh I live in the U.S I'm  
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a surgical assistant for cardiovascular in the  U.S I need for casual English yeah so often uh  
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we do have people like a lot you know I get like  thousands of messages from people thousands of  
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emails and I have uh like a Word document I call  it the pain doc uh this is all the complaints  
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that people have about learning and an interesting  thing that we get from professionals specifically  
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is that they often know like you might know the  the words or phrases for cardiovascular you know  
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like that particular vocabulary maybe you learn  that in school and you just remember that but  
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then you have trouble talking about like a movie  that you saw on the weekend so most people in in  
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professional situations have that uh and and most  like business English classes they kind of forget  
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that that human component of or the human part  of everyday communication so even in a business  
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situation you're still talking with people in like  a casual way so you might have you know particular  
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business vocabulary that you're learning but  in fluent for life we teach that business  
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vocabulary but we also teach you how to just  have regular conversations with people so it's  
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pretty simple thing uh but it's it's much easier  than most people think if you do it like a native  
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all right uh hi from Brazil how do I know if  I'm really ready to use my English in a company  
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uh [Music] uh how do you know if you're ready to  use English or use my English into company if you  
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mean like you speaking it's the same way you feel  about any any speaking in any situation really  
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the difference the important thing is that you're  not thinking about like your English you're really  
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thinking about this vocabulary or this grammar  point so you might feel comfortable about some  
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things but not others and that's normal you will  you will know some things much better than others  
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and then you will use those things more often  in conversations so the important thing is if  
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there's something you feel uncomfortable about you  should spend more time getting input for that so  
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listening to more examples and again this is the  kind of thing we do in fluent for life it's not  
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if you already know vocabulary you will probably  see some of that same vocabulary again but do you  
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really know it well enough to use it that's the  important thing so those are the people we help  
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so don't worry about like English in general focus  on the like the specific issues that you might  
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have whatever those are uh yes if you do not use  it you lose it that's true uh but I learned a new  
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word on day one and forgot on day four as you said  we should focus on input first yeah and so input  
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not only means like and this is as I mentioned  uh Stephen crashing earlier in the video uh  
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so he is a linguist focusing on helping  teachers become better teachers but me  
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I'm actually making lessons for students  so like that we have the same idea about  
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how people should be learning but the focus  is different and so that's you know we have  
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kind of different ideas about how people should be  actually improving uh with the specific training  
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so for me like what you will do in fluent for  life with with like as just like an example of one  
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phrase so you might hear something like uh it's  not the end of the world um but you will you will  
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like learn that in one lesson and then you might  try to write that down the next day then you will  
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hear it in a different lesson maybe a different  native speaker uses that same expression then you  
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will hear it in a conversation you will hear it  again as like people asking you questions about it  
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all right so you're getting all these different  examples you don't learn a phrase and become  
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fluent in it by hearing it one time especially  not like a longer phrase like that you might hear  
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a word like cat and think okay I understand what  that means without reviewing it very much that's  
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fine you don't have to review something a lot in  order to understand it but typically people don't  
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review things enough and that's why they don't  speak so the people that you know like it's like  
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anything in your you know in your life if you're  a professional at doing some something you might  
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know something but you like the real Masters at  that profession are the people who know it really  
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really well it's it's that simple so if you learn  a simple phrase and then you forget it a few days  
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later then you don't really know that phrase  It's just probably in your passive vocabulary
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all right let's see here Arnold says sir my  English improved tremendously by watching  
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your videos for a long time I can't thank  you enough that's my pleasure glad to hear  
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uh which is uh hi sir how are you doing I'm doing  very well thank you so much in all languages yes  
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if I learned 10 new words can I just remember if I  learn 10 words new words I just can remember only  
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one word a day yeah again like you're not this  isn't like learning if if you if you spend time  
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like you learn like imagine each one of these  is a new word or phrase so this is one day here  
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uh we're gonna give you like five new words or  phrases and then we never cover those again you  
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didn't learn anything that was a horrible lesson  unless it was like so perfect that you remember  
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everything and that's it's probably unlikely so  even my lessons like I can think I'm an amazing  
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teacher but I know like the human mind is like  I could be teaching something the lesson could  
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be really great you're watching a video but uh  in the back of your mind you're thinking about  
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what are you doing for dinner or you're thinking  about laundry or you're thinking about I don't  
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know whatever you're thinking about but you're not  100 focused all the time on everything nobody is  
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and so that's why it's important to review so even  even if you only watch the same video again which  
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most people do not want to do you will actually  remember a lot more and you will learn a lot more  
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all right but the the important thing that the  difference between what I do and the the English  
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as a second language approach is that like I don't  want you to just repeat the exact same thing I  
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want to have you listen to different people I want  you to hear things in different situations I want  
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you to hear different ways of Express different  ways of expressing things and that's how you  
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get fluent okay all right I'm gonna have to shut  this down uh because I basically out of time been  
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100 minutes oh my goodness 100 minutes of talking  about this stuff oh my goodness so yes it's uh be  
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careful it's not just repeating stuff you want  to repeat it in different ways this is what I  
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call naturally varied review about some native  speakers sometimes they also lack grammar why  
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uh I don't know I'd have to hear the example of  that but yes not everyone speaks correct English  
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just like in any language you're going to have  some people who speak better than others some  
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people who make mistakes and some people who also  use incorrect English that's really like we could  
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call it incorrect English but for most people  it's just like like there's there's two cars  
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over there you should say there are two cars over  there not to theirs two cars over there but many  
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people will say that because it's just faster and  easier to say so it's incorrect grammar but most  
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people use that real quick how would you prepare  yourself if you just had a week to study uh it'd  
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be like a week to a week to study for a test or  something like that I would just I don't know sit  
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down and and try to memorize everything I needed  just for the test if that if that's all you had  
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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  
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learn for a test or you have to pass a particular  class just focus on that teacher's information  
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whatever because it's different from a real life  conversation which is dynamic so if you just have  
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something like you know go ahead and repeat those  things or do whatever it's not the way I teach to  
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help people learn for real conversations but if  you have a like a deadline and you have to I don't  
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know do whatever for that particular situation  I would focus on that all right it is not that  
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they are a lack of grammar yeah some I mean most  people would I mean they can understand it but  
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maybe they just don't speak correctly it happens  anyway uh if this has been uh interview ah [Music]  
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uh yeah I would watch other people other people  doing like real interviews I would talk with and  
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this is a whole separate separate thing about um  like preparing to get a job or something like that  
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like even more important than the interview is  you're looking for a way to kind of connect with  
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the people uh who would give you a job so I would  find out more about the company figure out how I  
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can help the company and I'll talk about that  in the interview so they might even give me a  
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question or something I would say that's a good  question uh and like hear and maybe answer that  
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but I would have some things prepared about like  how I can actually help the company like I noticed  
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the company does a good job of this but like maybe  they're not so good at doing this other thing over  
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here and here's how I can help so thinking about  how you can help the company and tell that to the  
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the person you're getting interviewed by that  would be better for you I guess but again I  
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would need more information about that if I want  to attend your class what should I do click on the  
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link in the description below this video you can  learn more about fluent for life and again if your  
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goal is to uh you know be good at communicating  not only in professional life but also in everyday  
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situations we'll show you how to do it it's  really that simple if you have questions about  
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the program after you learn more about it you can  send us a mail at info englishanyone.com but it's  
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really that simple all right Mr Shaw will be the  last question here in a non-native country people  
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don't have the specific atmosphere situations  to learn English what should they do that's  
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what fluent for life is for fluent for life is  basically like simulating a native environment  
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but in a in a way that you can understand you  don't need to be in an English-speaking country  
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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  
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anyone but you're still learning from me so it's  the same idea if I can help you get a really good  
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input and help you understand English like a  native then you will use English like a native  
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it's that simple yeah so yes look forward to  welcoming you feel free to send us a meal if  
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you have any questions uh but that's how you do it  a teacher gave an idioms workbook will this work  
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uh uh I don't know how I would add out to see  the workbook I guess uh but in general you should  
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understand it like a native like the things that  I talk about go back and watch this video uh where  
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I'm talking about learning phrasal verbs so the  same kinds of things where you're understanding  
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it visually if you can you're understanding the  core meaning or the basic meaning of something  
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in the simplest way and then looking at maybe how  an idiom might come from that so most people are  
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probably not doing that most things if it's  a textbook it is probably just giving you  
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um I don't know like a definition of something  through translation probably which is not going  
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to help you use it don't learn a bunch  of idioms if you're not going to be able  
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to use them it doesn't make sense to spend time  learning vocabulary if you can't actually use it  
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guys get the app you'll have a private  teacher who never gets tired yes  
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yes he's talking about uh Frederick yes so that's  what Frederick is Frederick is me it's like having  
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me there uh always like uh you know to help you  with your pronunciation and listening whatever  
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you like but you get to listen to my boys uh it  is more about connection than Perfection that's  
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true I will send you an email yes all right  that's it I'm gonna have to run but thank you  
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all for joining us Hunter how to recognize  the update of the contents on your website  
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how can I recognize the update of the contents  on your website I don't know what you mean by  
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that but if you have questions let us know send  us an email usually we update people about things  
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uh just via email but if you have questions  about anything let us know at info English  
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anyone.com have a fantastic day remember how  you learn is how you speak if you want to learn  
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like a native so you speak like a native then  this is how you do it learn English as a first  
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language rather than as a second language by a  handsome man okay you guys are too kind bye-bye
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