How Natives Think And Speak English Fluently

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over here I am Drew Badger the founder of  englishanyone.com and welcome to another  

live video here on YouTube this should  be an entertaining one we're going to  

talk about how natives think so you can do  the same thing uh because how they think is  

really the uh the secret to their ability to  speak nice to see you there George who else  

is that uh renan and the te family from  maybe that's uh Washington over there all

right all right uh this video will not be uh  terribly long I guess it depends on on how how  

many questions people have we'll see how it  goes uh but it's actually a pretty simple uh  

pretty simple idea to understand uh but let's  just make this very clear uh remember that the  

the basic idea uh that I'm always talking about  especially if you are new I want to make this  

point again because I haven't really spoken  about it in a while uh and this is that you  

need to understand the language like a native if  you want to use the language like a native uh and  

this just means that if you're thinking through  translations and and uh you're trying to trying  

to remember grammar rules it's going to be more  difficult for you to communicate all right so  

the the basic idea of language learning is that  we want to mirror let's we're going to draw kind  

of a a mirror over here if you imagine this is  uh one side of the mirror how far can I draw on  

this let's draw a line over here so we have  one side of the mirror over here and we have  

another side of the mirror over here so the this  part of the mirror here we're going to call this

reality I know this I this won't be  like a really deep lesson but it it  

should make sense uh so we imagine this is  reality over here and then this is the the  

learner so this is the mind of the learner  over here and in reality if you look at the  

language uh what do we see now I guess I  could draw this as a kind of an image but  

it's a little bit easier if I just list a  bunch of things that we see uh in the real  

world uh for language all right so we're in  we're talking about language we have like a

variety so we have a variety of  vocabulary uh and we also have a  

variety so we're going to say with this  you will see this theme here a lot uh  

for just everyday uh language learning  and language use so we have a variety of

speakers okay uh and these are also going to  have a variety of speeds so because we have  

different speakers people will have different  accents as well so pronunciation could be uh  

a little bit different vocabulary can be  different as well so if we have a variety  

of vocab a variety of speakers a variety of  speeds a variety of accents we have all of  

these different things it looks like a kind of  massive network of all these different things  

that are connected it really it kind of looks  like a like a brain because we have all these  

different connections there uh and if we want  to be able to understand and speak like this  

then the way we learn needs to mirror this  all right so if we look at the native I'll  

just put an N over here uh if we look at how the  native learns they're getting all of this stuff  

so they're getting the variety so the variety  of vocab they're getting a variety of speakers

they're getting variety of speeds and accents  and any other kind of variety that you would  

get in everyday life all right so just to make  this a little bit more clear for people if you  

think about your native language and how you use  that you walk around the city where you live or  

the country or any place like that uh but you  will hear likely different speakers okay so it  

could be different people in your family or  your town or your city your school your job  

you'll have all of these different people who  speak a little bit differently okay and because  

this is the reality of the language you're you're  getting exposed to that same reality as a native  

learner all right and so the mind of the Native  learner they get used to this kind of speech so  

you have lots of different speakers different  speeds different accents you get used to all  

of that different speech all right so this is  incredibly important to help you understand  

not only what they're learning but how they're  learning it okay so the the kind of next piece  

of this when we understand uh the reality of  it so this is the actual the way the language  

is in reality you've got not just one kind of  speech or one speed or one speaker you've got  

a whole variety of all these different things  so we have the same kind of speech you would  

learn and down here we'll just put like the way  you would learn this information so there's not  

there's not really studying here there is some  studying when you get into school but most people  

already know the language and you don't need to  go to school to learn how to speak most people  

just pick this up automatically so we're not  really studying the language you could and a  

lot of people do study in school but you don't  have to you would still pick up the language  

you would still understand the language and learn  to speak without doing that all right uh they're  

also not really trying to memorize flashcards  or whatever again you could do that as a native  

and maybe some people if you're studying for  a high school test you might do some flashcard  

memorization although it's not the best way to  learn uh but again this is something you don't  

necessarily need for developing fluency but what  they do get they're so they're getting all of  

this input and they're learning to understand  they're learning to understand the language  

naturally okay that's really what's happening  and at the the very base of this they are

destroying doubt so each time they hear another  example of something they feel a little bit better  

about that so if I hear let's say the first time  a native speaker and this is a native speaker  

learning their own language so a young child  maybe they hear something for the first time  

but they don't hear it very clearly so they might  hear let's say a word like uh I don't know what's  

I'm trying to think of an example from from my  daughter so my daughter was watching a TV show  

yesterday uh and she heard some uh what was that  word I think maybe maybe an example was like uh  

Vibe just as an example so my my daughter heard  the word one time and that was maybe the first  

time she heard this word and she couldn't hear  it very well and she said Vibe like she was just  

listening on some headphones and she couldn't  hear it very well uh and I said no vibe with  

a V so sure her first example is just hearing  something from a video uh and then I'm giving  

her another example a little bit more clearly all  right and the point of this again is to destroy  

the doubt that she has about that and so we talk  about what vibe means they different ideas of this  

it could be a feeling that you have or Vib like  a vibration where two things are they're kind  

of fluctuating like this at the same way or in the  same way so when two people feel chemistry we call  

that chemistry or they have a good vibe or this  location has a good vibe they're talking about the  

feeling or the atmosphere of that so as I explain  those kinds of things I'm not I'm not trying  

to give her some rules to study or anything to  memorize I'm just helping her understand naturally  

so she can destroy the doubt and as she continues  to hear so now this this word is over here in her  

vocabulary it's not maybe she won't know how to  use it perfectly yet that's okay she's working  

up through the levels of understanding uh but  as she understands more she will own this word  

and then be able to use it fluently because she's  getting all these examples and she's understanding  

it like a native okay so this is just one example  I can cover some more if people are interested uh  

let me go through the chat before we look at the  opposite and what people are often doing to learn  

languages all right so nice to see everybody here  I'll go through this pretty quickly uh let's see  

nice to see people on the video AA good morning uh  Dion says hello looks like the Brazilian flag uh  

mabar uh let's see good live alono says yo hi good  time Fanny from Honduras Ru good morning shout out  

to my friend from Mexico Jus says hello from sou  Paulo Nils Annette from Wisconsin let's see uh  

R am from Saudi Arabia Manish good morning if you  guys have any questions and the huru I can't read  

but hello from Korea with little heart nice to see  you there uh let's see hm Manor hello hello tubasa  

nice to see you there how's the how's the weather  in Kumamoto or Nagasaki rather well it's actually  

rainy over here uh today but maybe I don't know  about Kumamoto uh ju says hi there how how are you  

all doing looks like everybody's doing well Amar  basil is anyone who wants to practice speaking  

uh at this point I will I will make a quick quick  word about practicing speaking because we're we're  

talking about this here uh speaking practice  is something that natives start doing after  

they spend a lot of time getting this if you think  about a baby as they grow up they become oneyear  

old 2year old they start speaking words but it's  after they've really started to understand so they  

spend most of their time like 99% of their time  just trying to understand the language so they  

can destroy doubt and if parents or teachers are  good at what they do they can destroy that doubt  

faster which gives you confidence and lets you  speak so you don't really become a good speaker by  

trying to just repeat after other people or speak  with other people who are also maybe not good  

speakers okay so this is why I always recommend  if you're feeling confident and you want to meet  

people to practice with with you should be meeting  natives all right so be looking for people who are  

interested in the things you're interested in and  not talking about hey let's practice English all  

right so if I want to improve my Japanese if I'm  feeling confident and I just want to speak with  

more people I don't talk about learning Japanese  I just talk about whatever we're talking about you  

know we could be talking about gardening like I  did when I came to Japan uh or I could be talking  

about something else but the point is I'm not  I'm not focused on the language I'm just using  

the language language and part of the reason for  this is lots of natives don't know how to explain  

the language so they understand the language but  they're not really good teachers of the language  

like to be able to explain it to a non-native  and and often people want to get the rules and  

the explanations for the rules that natives the  average native just doesn't know okay all right  

uh so if you're looking for people to practice  with uh I would not look in a YouTube chat I  

would just go find other people who are interested  in the same things you are and speak with them but  

you can find those people on YouTube just watch  actual content for YouTube or content for English  

speakers here on YouTube and there's a lot of it  all right Amar says hello from Algeria hey okay I  

answer that one already hello from Hong Kong insar  looks like is that China or turkey I can't see  

what that flag is uh greetings from mermans region  uh Ricardo says hello from Cork and from Brazil  

and Susie nice to see you guys here all right now  so we've covered the native learner so the native  

learner is really reflecting this very well so if  we have a variety of different kinds of speakers  

then we should have a variety of different kinds  of accents and things like that in the mind of  

the learner okay and so we're getting lots of good  examples and each of those examples every time we  

get a new one it's it's building on our ability  to understand all right so let's look at the  

non-native so the nonnative learner so we have the  native learner over here the NL the native learner  

and this is the nnl the nonnative learner now is  what the non-native learner doing does it reflect  

reality does it reflect reality so often what  people are doing in uh like a regular class or  

or they could even be watching something here on  YouTube so typically the the the language they're  

getting is either too slow like they're watching  only videos like this that are helping them  

understand the language but it's really uh quite  slow for what natives actually speak or it's too

fast so they're they're not getting like the whole  range of of kind of speaking examples or different  

kinds of speech speed uh they're getting stuff  that's either too slow in English lessons so if  

you understand everything in an English lesson  it's probably too slow and easy for you uh and  

if it's too fast this is usually like native  movies and things like that that people like  

to watch but they don't really understand or they  can't follow it very well all right so again this  

is we're we're we're trying to we want to mirror  this it's it's almost like a puzzle so this this  

puzzle here the reality puzzle if I can fit I  probably can't fit that in here let me erase  

this so you can think about let's just see we've  got all these different pieces in here I'm going  

to draw kind of puzzle like this and we want to  have these same pieces fit over here so if we got  

this piece which is a little bit slower English  we're also hearing some slower English over here  

so natives are also listening to slower English  or we might have here some English for kids the  

same thing over here or we have some technical  English or something and we have that same thing  

over here okay this is the general idea idea  of again the the mind of the Native inside the  

native it's reflecting what the the real world  is like okay so all the great variety that you  

have in the real world is also in the mind of  the learner but what I'm saying here is that  

it's actually not really in the mind there are  so many empty spaces over here so uh a a learner  

might have like one of these or you know a piece  over here or something like that but they have  

all these extra pieces that that aren't actually  filled in so the goal here is to fill in as much  

as you can and when you understand things excuse  me when you understand things uh then that's when  

you're able to speak fluently all right so it's  much more difficult to become a fluent speaker if  

you don't have access to the variety of vocabulary  variety of speakers variety of speeds variety of  

accents uh and all of those different examples  all right now the second part of this is again  

how people learn so over here we have a lot of  studying and a lot of memorizing and we have

translating okay I could go on you can probably  think of uh more examples here but the basic idea  

here is that the kind of language they're learning  is different and the way they're learning it is  

also not really reflecting reality all right so  if you want to have the mind of a native speaker  

you need to look at where the holes are in your  learning and that's it now uh as my own personal  

experience when I came to Japan uh this was the  situation I had where I'm living in Japan so I'm  

I'm immersed in the language I'm around people  I hear native Japanese all the time uh but I was  

still doing this so I could hear lots of examples  but most of the learning I was trying to do was  

slow basic very easy but I was still trying to  study and memorize and translate a lot of things  

and that's why I was unable to speak okay so I  have lots of holes in the kinds of vocabulary  

I'm getting so the examples maybe I only listen  to a few teachers I do hear maybe I have some  

Japanese TV on or I hear people talking at a  cafe but I can't really speak very well so I  

can't uh have a good conversation with people or  have someone that that can explain things to me  

uh but in a Japanese Class A teacher is doing  the typical thing they're making the language  

slow and easy for me uh and they're telling me to  study and memorize things and translate but the  

way I'm doing this and what I'm learning it's not  reflecting reality so of course when I get into  

a real situation I'm struggling I'm panicking  over here okay so I really want to I wanted to  

just make this clear for people uh because it  can seem like there's a lot to do for language  

learning and there is there's always more to study  if people are continuing to learn just like me I'm  

still learning new words in English or learning  about new things new words are created all the  

time so it never ends but I'm able to speak  fluently because I'm getting lots of examples  

from different people and I'm helping or all of  these different examples the way I'm learning is  

actually helping me destroy any doubt I have about  using the vocabulary all right so this way of  

learning and these holes in what you're learning  it creates lots of doubt and that's what's that's  

what's really stopping most people from speaking  so it's not where you live or how much speaking  

practice or how much you know it's just in a  conversation if you think about that moment  

when it's time to speak do you feel too nervous  about making mistakes are you shy or whatever  

that means that doubt is actually the thing that's  stopping you from speaking because I've met great  

speakers who are living in the United States and  great speakers who are not living in the United  

States or never been to an English-speaking  country but because of how they learn they're  

reflecting so it's like a mirror here all right so  as a learner you need to think about what you're  

missing and then get more of that all right so  it's pretty easy it's almost like a map I'm not  

drawing this very very clearly but you should  get the idea of if I'm only listening to slow  

speakers well so in this example over here if I  only watch YouTube like English lesson videos that  

are slow and I'm not getting uh other examples  of things that are faster at a regular native  

speed then it's going to be more difficult for me  when I when I move from learning environment to  

the real world so you can study by yourself and  understand something I can be playing a little  

app uh and and understand that but if I'm not  also getting all these other examples over here  

it's going to be much more difficult when I try to  communicate so this is why lots of people struggle  

all right uh it's a pretty simple idea but I I  thought about making this video because people  

ask me about particular things they struggle with  like their accent or whatever but in a basic idea  

just think about the imagine the the reality of  real communication and you can think about that  

for your native language so when you're hearing  people you hear lots of different speakers lots  

of different speeds different accents all day uh  in your native language so if you can reflect that  

but also to try to learn the same way a native  learns all right that's how you develop the  

mind of a native speaker so you're not trying to  study or memorize the language you're really want  

to understand it and Destroy any doubt you have  about using vocabulary or grammar pronunciation  

or whatever okay all right so it's pretty simple  idea uh but I thought maybe visually this would be  

a little bit easier for people a good reminder let  me go back and look at chat if you have specific  

questions about this or anything else uh then  I can answer those for you Vena says hello from  

Brazil uh let's see Elder hi Drew learned some  English with you thanks a bunch it's my pleasure  

Basel said do you suggest any apps to practice  speaking I studied English language and literature  

in an Arab country we didn't get exposed to  speaking that much uh I know how to speak but  

I lack fluency yeah uh so again like that question  is perfect for this situation so if you think  

about how you learned in school so I don't know  the specific spefic about that but I can guess  

you probably used some Arabic to learn English  maybe uh so you probably had some translations  

probably had memorizing probably studying and  you probably weren't exposed to lots of native  

examples and a in a variety of native examples  this variety of speech is really important because  

uh again if I hear one word in a class I might not  hear that word in a real situation but natives uh  

they get lots of different examples of how people  speak or different ways of saying things so what  

I call naturally varied review they're getting  this automatically so my father says something  

my mother says uh the same thing or she says  something similar so as an example let's say  

I'm sitting at the table the dinner table with my  family uh so let's just say here's a table we're  

going to look at it from the top down uh we have  four people over here uh so let's just say these  

are my kids so this this is AR over here this  is Noel uh and this is my wife and this is me  

uh and let's say Noel so Noel is 5 years old and  she's jumping around in the chair she wants to run  

around uh there are different ways we could tell  her to sit down so as an example I could say sit  

down I could also say have a seat all right or I  could say put your butt down if I'm feeling a bit  

you know maybe funnier or I'm just like we're  we're not so serious yet sit down have a seat  

put your butt down there are different ways I can  express this same situation and then my wife could  

say something similar okay so have a seat sit down  she could say the same thing but with a different  

accent or a slightly different pronunciation  all right so in an English class you might hear  

something like sit down for example but over here  the native would hear something like sit down so  

usually a parent is communicating very clearly  sit down if you're maybe in an angrier mood and  

you really want your child to listen sit down so  I'm expressing everything very clearly so it's  

easy to understand my child understands the words  they can hear all the sounds clearly but sometimes  

I'm just speaking faster and I blend the sounds  of my words together so it sounds more like sit  

down so the T disappears sit down sit down sit  down sit down it depends on the situation so the  

same speaker could actually say the same sentence  or the same phrase in a different way and all of  

this variety is naturally helping you understand  just like it's helping you understand right now so  

you think oh that's interesting you could hear  sit down or sit down sit sit down sit down all  

right so hopefully this makes sense so if you're  learning a lot that doesn't necessarily make you  

a fluent speaker because what you learn and how  you learn it is important hopefully hopefully  

this is clear so we want to reflect reality the  way you're learning what you're learning uh the  

more it reflects reality the more you will speak  fluently so if you are getting examples of all  

these different kinds of speakers different speeds  different accents different vocabulary and you're  

able to understand these things without using  a lot of translations uh it's and it's easy to  

understand things like if you tell a child sit  down you're actually showing them okay we're  

going to put you in a chair and sit you down  or I could do the opposite like stand up okay  

and children understand this directly in English  they're not they're not using uh Portuguese or  

Chinese or Vietnamese or something to learn that  language they're learning English in English all  

right so if you have these things over here  that's what would cause you to know a lot of  

English but actually struggle with fluency so  this is a big problem for people because often  

they're not learning enough of the enough of the  variety again they're just getting a few pieces  

of this but not really a lot uh much much less  than you need to have a good conversation with  

people and to understand lots of different kinds  of speakers and then the way they're learning it  

is going to make it more difficult so all these  kinds of things are usually creating more doubt  

more questions so if I learn like when I came to  Japan and I was talking with uh teachers trying  

to understand the language that they would just  give me explanations they were like well this is  

the uh the present progressive and uh you need to  memorize it like this and this is the structure  

of it and I'm just I'm okay I think maybe I'm too  stupid to learn this way but when I remember wait  

I didn't didn't learn English that way but I can  speak English just fine so maybe I should learn  

English or maybe I should learn Japanese the way  I'm learning English all right so I want to have  

I want to reflect reality and I want to actually  understand it the way that would help me use it  

help me develop fluency all right so good question  I know a lot of people struggle with that same  

thing but this is the reason why so you have again  uh the the kind of language that you're learning  

is different or it's only a small part of the  whole and typically the way you're learning is  

making it more difficult for you to communicate  because it's creating more doubt uh let's see

here uh and let's see Sam rushka says I am an  English language teaching student in Turkey  

uh I try to in immerse myself in English with  listening to native speakers yeah so you want to  

get more examples of native speakers but you want  to understand what they're saying so if you're  

just getting lots of examples of natives but you  don't really understand what's happening and you  

don't understand it well enough to use it fluently  then it's it's good but it's not as good as your  

learning should be so the point uh the goal is  really to destroy doubt to eliminate any doubt  

for each thing that you're using so if you have a  grammar point that you're shy about learning what  

that means is you have some kind of doubt about  that so you're nervous about saying the wrong  

thing so you should go back and focus on that  particular grammar point and that will actually  

help improve your conversations greatly okay so it  will help you get more examples uh and typically  

that's how people are learning uh and natives  would actually learn much faster if they if they  

use like the particular kinds of uh principles  I teach here when people understand we're we're  

really trying to destroy doubt but often kids are  hearing things and they don't really understand  

what they're listening to so parents if they take  care or teachers and and help excuse me and help  

uh kids understand things better or more clearly  then they become fluent faster they become more  

confident about what they know and they can start  speaking faster all right uh the last point I'll  

make very quickly about this is that speaking  practice is not listed up here because that's  

not how you develop like the the confidence and  destroy the doubt so if I learn a word like we had  

Vibe of here before I don't become more fluent in  that word by repeating it so me speaking me saying  

the word Vibe or if I just told you a random word  in Japanese and asked you to repeat after me then  

you're not going to start using that word more  fluently because you still have some kind of doubt  

about it like okay I heard some word but it's  it's just a sound and maybe I kind of understand  

it but not not really okay all right so uh yes  obviously natives are speaking but typically  

natives have the same issues that non-natives do  where if they don't feel confident they won't say  

something they will pick a different word or  uh use a different way of expressing something  

that they do feel confident about because no one  likes making mistakes in front of other people all  

right that's just that's Universal everybody has  that issue all right uh let's see Basel says the  

name of the app is Frederick uh yes if you're  talking about our pronunciation app uh you can  

click on the link in the description below this  video to get that all right uh professional facts  

hi sir from India Andre says adrew can  you explain how a native would learn the  

differences between close and near close and  near well typically when natives are learning  

vocabulary so that's a good example um let me  clear some space here I think people are getting

it so remember the first time if we if if  we could look at it like a a series of of  

of short very quick lessons that natives get uh  let's say I have a situation where let's see uh  

so I have my marker over here and I have  uh the Eraser uh so I can put the Eraser  

and the marker uh close to each other or near  and I could say like look the marker so the

marker is near the

Eraser so that's maybe the first time you hear  the word oh the marker is near that's kind of  

the target word I'm teaching so look the marker  is near the Eraser now if I keep this exact same  

situation and then I say oh the marker is close  to the Eraser then you learn for this situation  

you could use either of these all right and this  is just two examples so the first example is the  

marker is near second example the marker is close  to something else all right but what happens over  

time is that natives will get look so we have a  word like if we just look at this if I give uh  

this word on a piece of paper to a native and I  say please read this some people would say close  

and some people might say close because they're  thinking about different situations so as a child  

is learning these things they might see the word  near and they understand that they're like okay  

like something is close to something else uh  but they also learn the vocabulary maybe they're  

learning the spelling of that but then they they  learn that the same word might actually have a  

different meaning in different situations so for  this situation right here we have two things that  

are close or near each other but I might have  close like close the door all right and again  

as they're getting all of these they're they're  they're filling in this little map where they hear  

oh that's interesting like the word close it could  be spelled uh like this or we could also have the  

word close with the same spelling okay and so if  you're if you're trying to teach someone we want  

to make it like a like a science experiment to  let people understand something without needing  

to translate or to explain very much so if  I say oh look the marker is close and then  

my wife or someone else comes over and says yeah  the marker is like near then people would think  

oh okay in this situation you know uh typically  a non-native might think okay well I guess near  

and close always mean the same thing and then  they they kind of stop stop learning all right  

they're like okay I got that now I move on to the  next thing but the native is actually continuing  

excuse me again the native is actually continuing  to get more examples of things over time okay and  

it's the variety of something that really helps  people understand but again here the marker is  

near the Eraser and the marker is close to the  Eraser so I really want to make it clear that  

for this situation we have the same uh the same  thing the same situation but we can express it  

with different vocabulary okay so that's how  you would learn it uh and then as you get uh  

different examples uh like we might hear uh like  another situation where like I'm close close to  

my goal close to my goal or I'm near my goal and  so here it's not a a physical example but it's a  

a a figurative similar idea so I'm working hard  to do something and I almost achieve that thing  

so I'm very near my goal uh I think someone  just said nearby that's the same same kind of  

thing so you could also use nearby uh in the same  way nearby so one thing is near something else or  

close to or nearby so when you're learning things  like a native this is reflecting reality so in  

reality people will express the same situation in  different ways all right so it's not just one way  

we don't only use the word near for something we  also use close or we use uh like around or next  

to depending on how close it is or very close we  might even uh like alter it a little bit extreme  

L close like they're they're right right next to  each other okay so it's not like a specific thing  

nearby means you know 5T or something like that  so people will people will just use a general idea  

like around this marker this is you know close or  we're getting further away we're moving away from  

the marker all right hopefully everybody gets  it though does everybody does this make sense  

so when we're trying especially if we're trying to  teach kids or when I'm trying to teach anybody uh  

I want to make the examples simple and I want  to change only one thing so I'm going to keep  

everything else the marker is near the Eraser or  the marker is nearby the marker is close to so you  

understand oh these are different ways of saying  the same thing for this situation and that's how  

the native mind is working so they're thinking oh  they're there are all these different situations  

and we have all these different ways of expressing  things and that's how people learn learn to speak  

fluently so if they don't feel confident about  one if they don't like maybe there's one way or  

one word they don't they forget the word near for  some reason they remember close or nearby or some  

something else all right so you might even have a  higher level word like in proximity to all right

prox so proximity means like around the area it's  the same thing it's just a more advanced or maybe  

more detailed or uh educated sounding word but  it's the same thing okay so as you're getting  

these different examples that's what helps you  understand these things like a native all right  

hopefully that answers that question but let me  know uh again my my job here is to eliminate any  

doubt people have so if there's still things  uh that you want to uh you know if you still  

have questions that's why I'm here I want to  make sure I answer everything for people all  

right uh let's see Louis says Hey teacher uh you  asked me to record a video speaking English but  

I'm in the second month on flu for life when I  spent a year long going to record I'm excited  

how much I'm going to learn well you don't  have to wait a whole year because you will  

be speaking much better before that but whenever  you feel comfortable feel free to make a video all  

right so it says uh thinking face over there  uh Hamida says hi sir have a question words  

are disappearing while I speak uh English what  should I do to speak fluently uh again you need  

to spend more time and make sure you eliminate  the doubt that you have about vocabulary and  

that's typically why uh like people forget words  when they don't know those words very well okay  

so the same thing for me right now I'm I'm trying  to learn Japanese kanji so these are the Japanese  

written characters and if I feel confident about  the character I can write it very easily but if  

I don't feel confident I forget I forget what the  character is like I need to think of a better way  

to remember that okay so it means uh like it's  how well do you know that information so again  

most people over here when they're trying to learn  a language as a non-native speaker they're doing  

lots of things that make it more difficult  for them to understand like they're getting  

uh examples that are only too slow or they're  not actually seeing how natives would actually  

speak or they're trying to memorize things and  it's just not how the mind likes to learn the  

Mind likes to discover things and understand  examples like this one so if I say the mind or  

the excuse me the marker is near something or the  marker is close by or the marker is in proximity  

to all those examples you might not remember them  immediately but from the first time you hear that  

you think oh okay like my brain is starting to  get it without me giving you a long explanation  

or translation so if I can help you understand it  like a native understands it then you will feel  

more confident and you will speak more fluently  so this is how you stop for getting words when  

you speak you actually have to reflect reality in  when in the way you learn and what you learn okay  

all right now we're getting more comments over  here let's see here all right uh V says do we lose  

the ability to communicate over time it's maybe a  psychological issue sometimes I feel I've lost my  

skills or as if they've gotten worse uh well I  mean like I will forget some English sometimes  

if I don't use it uh I mean I I use Japanese in  daily life here and sometimes I will like what is  

that word I forget what that word is in English  I it's like I know some words in Japanese or or  

even some words I learn uh in Japanese and don't  know what they are in English like the names of  

a a flower or something like that um but yeah I  mean typically if you if you don't if you don't  

kind of review it or get more examples or things  like that you could lose it over time so anything  

you're not really using uh but typically you can  get it back very quickly it's like learning to  

ride a bike the next time you ride you might at  first feel a little bit nervous but you quickly  

learn to do it again so you won't lose it forever  Anderson says I like to watch your video you is  

a good teacher congrats thank you would say you  are a good teacher but thank you Ali says I was  

more confident in speaking English a couple  months ago I was speaking in a great way with  

us accent but I stopped to practice I'm feeling  like I'm losing my skills what should I do well  

how are you learning before keep keep doing that  go back to what you were doing whatever you were  

doing don't stop all right this is just advice  for uh for the way I got fluent and what has  

been successful for my students is just helping  people eliminate the doubt that stops them from  

speaking uh and so if you're feeling worse over  time or something or I mean you don't really have  

to spend a lot of time speaking but you should be  getting lots of examples of other people speaking  

all right so lots of variety like we're talking  about here all right remember you don't need to  

speak in order to improve your speaking ability  I know this sounds weird but the the idea is that  

the more examples we get that we really understand  and they eliminate the doubt we have then when we  

do speak we will feel confident and the vocabulary  will speak uh we'll speak it clearly and correctly  

without thinking about it so that's the goal all  right advance civilization hi sir how you doing I  

think I'm late it's okay you can watch these  videos anytime Nelly there what are the best  

ways to memorize new words uh if you look on  my channel for that I have a video a couple of  

videos where I talk about word memorization  specifically um so just watch those I think  

one of them is uh how to remember or how to learn  like 10,000 words something like that uh so watch  

that video but the it's it's it's part of this  like it's connected to this also we have a whole  

memory program uh like people who have the native  fluency blueprint uh some some people get that uh  

it's also included in fluent for Life learning  English says hey Drew I usually learn English  

by using a dictionary because it offers lots of  example sentences which using vocabularies that  

I want to learn I put 30 minutes to read sentences  of each vocabulary uh I don't recommend people do  

this if you want to it's okay but remember when  you learn with a dictionary it's not really ref  

in the way people speak so it's very easy to  look at a book and you can see clearly what  

the examples are and how things are spelled but in  the real world it's not that clean and clear okay  

so you need to get both so if you're only looking  at a dictionary and you're not also getting these  

other examples again we want to fill in this whole  puzzle over here we only uh get a few pieces and  

we're still going to struggle so people who could  study the dictionary uh they still might not feel  

very confident about uh like how they feel or they  might not remember the words very well or they  

might not hear them when other people are using  them because they're pronounced differently all  

right so if if that's helping you and and when  people ask me for advice about things like this  

like am I doing this this correctly uh the the  main thing is are you eliminating the doubt you  

have that stops you from speaking so if you have  any doubt then you should probably do something  

different but if you are eliminating the out if  you feel more confident and you feel more fluent  

then keep doing what you're doing all right so  if reading the dictionary is actually helping  

you have better conversations then great continue  doing that but it's probably not going to help  

most people because again the reality doesn't  reflect what's in the dictionary all right it's  

a part of it so you will get you know slow easy  clear examples in in real speech sometimes but a  

lot of it is not all right so you have to reflect  that in the way you learn so so if you only get  

some pieces it's going to be more difficult for  you uh Sam RKA again I don't do not worry about  

also try to understand the teacher yes and it's  really my job as the teacher to be understandable  

so it's not really your job to like work hard  to understand what I'm saying I want to make my  

language and uh my explanations easy for people  to understand Mark W said it is more difficult to  

learn the first native language than any other  afterwards a 5-year-old child has been exposed  

their native language for X number of hours etc  etc an adult uh with only 250 is fully bilingual  

um I I wouldn't say that it's necessarily more  difficult or easier uh because if if I could take  

a baby in their native language and then I could  take an adult and they both like a child is born  

on one day and I start learning with an adult If  I Could Teach that I would I would beat a baby for  

sure like if if you could give me like two years  or something I wouldn't even need that much time  

but uh the advantages that a child has versus the  advantages an adult has it's just it's it's really  

difficult to compare that because there are many  things that an adult can do that a child cannot  

and the most important one of those is choose how  they learn so some people have parents that you  

know they say things and the child just doesn't  understand what the parent is talking about and  

so uh it's more difficult you can say lots of  English and this is why like the idea of just  

uh like input by itself yeah but it's you know  it's it's like if I if I if I have a like a fire  

hose and I just shoot a lot of water at you you  will maybe like drink some of those drops but most  

of it will just go over your face or whatever you  won't actually remember anything or learn anything  

or understand anything very well all right so when  people think like they have these ideas about how  

a native child would learn and it's faster or  easier but that that's not necessarily true uh  

and you can actually start uh learning you want  you basically want to take the the best of of  

both things so if I like the the the obviously  the fastest way is if you are a native and you  

learn the way I'm explaining which is eliminating  doubt all right so this is what I do with my own  

kids so I don't have as much time with them for  teaching them English uh most of their day is  

spent in Japanese and so I have to be clever about  how I teach them because they have less time to  

learn but they're still learning in a native way  okay hopefully that makes sense so I know it seems  

like the child has a has an obvious Advantage  but there are obvious advantages also that adults  

forget that they have all right um where do we  go here all uh again and it says did you also  

attend a school in Japan to learn the language or  did you learn the language through conversations  

with NL or through your wife well I didn't get  married right when I came to Japan so I was I  

was I was myself trying to learn and most of what  I did was uh this the traditional typical ways of  

learning the language so I would try to study a  bunch of words but I very quickly saw that wait a  

minute what I'm hearing or seeing in like in the  textbook example so I'm listening to these CDs  

you guys remember CDs so I'm listening to these  examples but the the real way people speak and  

especially I'm in a small town in Nagasaki and  it's a little bit it's not like in the country  

country but uh people speak differently this  is not the same way that you would have like  

a like a professional newscaster in Tokyo it's  a different way of speaking so people pronounce  

things differently different vocabulary again this  over here so if I'm only listening to one kind of  

speech then it's going to be much more difficult  in real life if the people around me don't speak  

that way so I need to get those examples uh  and really help people understand things uh  

and that's what I was doing for myself so once I  understood that I need to reflect what's happening  

in the real world the kind of language that real  people are using and I need to understand it  

like a native that's when I changed and I started  understanding things more just like understanding  

from situations and so gardening when I came to  Japan and started uh studying gardening that was  

a really good thing for me to do because I'm I'm  doing something physical I can see we can talk  

about different kinds of plants or moving rocks  or something like that and I'm able to understand  

directly in Japanese without having an explanation  because of my my like all of the guys who I worked  

with they didn't speak any English so I had to  understand it you know but I I did take like some  

Japanese classes but I quit those pretty quickly  because they didn't help uh greetings from Mexico  

says Alejandra over there El elud says what up  justice says I used to listen to your podcast  

and advanced listening videos and still love two  pieces of art glad to hear it if you know other  

people who would enjoy them please uh recommend  let's see Mark again uh just don't stop practicing  

and keep tracking of your time so you would say  keeping track of your time of exposure to your  

target language don't stop practicing because you  forget uh if there is no continuity uh again when  

when people talk about practicing it's the the  steady Improvement or the steady uh destruction  

of doubt that's really what practice means so when  people think about like how do you practice the  

language it's just how do I get more examples  or how do I fill this up and how do I actually  

understand things so that I feel confident about  speaking unit again as see you there uh how many  

languages do you speak right now I speak Japanese  and English and I know a little bit of French and  

Spanish I could understand some but not much  I don't have the confidence to speak I know I  

would speak incorrectly I remember uh a few years  ago I was in Colombia uh in Bogota and I was in  

a taxi and I just couldn't I like I was I was  really frustrated because I couldn't I couldn't  

say anything thing the taxi driver is he's kind of  trying to talk to me I was just getting a taxi to  

the airport and I was just like ah because I like  talking with people you know most of the people  

I help they they enjoy speaking or they need to  speak for their job and when you can't communicate  

it's really frustrating so again the problem is I  I had lots of doubt about vocabulary like I don't  

know that word or I don't know how to say that  correctly uh and that stopped me from speaking  

uh could you please explain how to use who's and  who uh this is not really the video for that but  

I have covered that before um but the basic idea  is you have to think about are you talking about  

an object or I don't even want to like go into  uh explaining what it is because I have covered  

it before but if you search my YouTube channel  you will find more about that uh what's up says  

very cool premise for a live stream video topic  all right whose phone is this and to whom am I  

speaking yes okay those are some good examples  thumbs up right off the bat says Alejandra ice  

see there h on again kind the easy to understand  but very easy to forget uh any advice for that  

situ kind of what do you mean I would just get  more examples so you you you know you really  

know what you what you struggle with so if you  have trouble understanding people then you should  

get more examples of that kind of speech or if you  struggle with using correct grammar you should get  

more examples of that kind of grammar all right  but you you should be trying to understand it  

like a native and that's the like the examples  I give in these videos that's what we're doing  

doing mmud says my native language is Arabic and  I want to learn English please give me advice to  

achieve that well you're getting advice right  now what's up says are you going to be posting  

this as a video that can be viewed yes so all  these videos we save uh and they are just freely  

available after people watch uh after people watch  the live Advance says what am what I am doing now  

is copying every single word that come from your  mouth Mr I'm doing it accurately what do you think  

about that well copying copying me is a good idea  but only if you understand what I'm saying so you  

might hear things and like again you you kind of  improve in these layers over time and I might say  

something now and you don't quite understand  it and that's okay maybe you hear it again  

later from some other place or I use it again in  some other video and then it clicks in your mind  

where you think ah now I got it all right so it's  a process of adding these layers because typically  

you don't hear something for the first time and  understand it and remember it perfectly okay it  

just doesn't work like that we got to build  it up uh over time but as you're continuing  

to do these things it's much faster if you do  it like a native rather than like a traditional

student uh let's see Susi again with another  interesting face Ilia says I have watched your  

videos for several years you are really a  helpful teacher glad to hear it uh if you  

know other people I can help send them my  way see is back a student hit his classmate  

then the teacher asked him why he hit him  so the student replied I did nothing he  

literally just hit me out of the blue any  question uh my question is uh what is the  

expression oh is the expression out of the  blue so this is a perfect example of when  

we're trying to understand something  like a native so if we imagine this

um there are two ways we can try to learn this  there is the traditional way of understanding  

it like a student or we can understand it like  a native so if I have two people here so this  

guy is he's just kind of standing here maybe  he's looking looking at something over here  

and then there's another student over here uh  he's holding a bat let's just say make this more  

interesting uh so this student is standing here  and this student just says Dum to Dum and we're  

just going to like I'm just going to hit this  other kid over the head or hit him in the head  

with a bat and the teacher uh maybe they hear  something and and the teacher says why why did  

you do that and so they're thinking usually you  have to you have to like provoke that person you  

have to do something maybe you make them angry or  something like that but in this situation there  

was no logical reason this one kid just hit the  other kid in the head with the bat and so we hear  

the expression out of the BL so we begin with the  situation one kid hits another kid with a bat out  

of the blue so what do you think that might mean  again I'm trying to help you understand it like a  

native we begin with the situation and then from  the context of that oh he did it out of the blue  

so another way he might say something instead of  using this uh maybe they say like uh no reason so  

no reason or I don't know uh and so it there could  be many different ways to express this but when we  

hear out of the blue this is one expression uh  for this situation and maybe we hear it uh in  

another situation so as an example uh let's say  I was uh talking with a friend of mine so this  

is not this situation we're moving to a slightly  different situation I'm talking with a friend of  

mine uh and out of the blue uh like a fly just  you know flies into my mouth and I swallow that  

fly okay and so you get the the understanding of  like oh that's interesting yes like so Elizabeth  

just put it in there like unexpected or sudden  but my goal as a teacher is not to just give you  

a definition or a translation I really want to  help you understand it so you get that like ah  

okay I understand what that means okay if you  do that you start really understanding like a  

native so you're learning the native vocabulary  but you're also understanding it like a native  

okay so when something comes out of the blue if  I'm just trying to give a uh like explanation of  

it it's like just some random thing happens it's  surprising it's unexpecting and we can think about  

out of the blue like you imagine the Blue Sky  up here and just like wow here's like a alien  

spaceship or something it just comes wow out of  the blue okay so you can think about it as out  

of the blue sky or you can think about like some  like dragon or Monster comes out of the blue ocean  

or something like that okay but that's how you  want to learn and understand this so typically  

people want to just go straight to a definition  so the the the the less effective way of teaching  

is just to give an example of something okay  so I want to help you understand the context  

so you feel ah okay I'm connecting the context  with the situation and that vocabulary so these  

two things are connected so if we understand  the whole story this student did something to  

this student for no reason so he's just saying  like for no reason I don't know out of the blue  

he just hit me it was just some surprising weird  unexpected thing all right uh how we doing here  

coming up on an hour so far we have a drink my  quick break look at that I'm back to my mint

te ah freshly brewed mint tea very lovely all

right uh I think I answer that one already let's  see The Dark Knight I hate speaking in English  

well uh you haven't explained much more than  just I hate doing it but typically people hate  

speaking because they don't really understand  what they're saying uh and it's it's not your  

fault if you dislike English or having to speak  English most people are teaching in a way that's  

making it more difficult difficult for you to  speak that's the real problem okay so if you if  

you're learning the language even if you're  trying to study very hard uh and you uh and  

you're like you feel like a good student it can  still be very frustrating if you don't actually  

understand what you're learning okay so our brains  are not designed to just remember a bunch of uh  

you know examples or or like a list of things  that's just not how we learn uh all right let  

me let's see it sound unmake sense all right I  don't know if you all right let me let me know  

let me know if if if if anything about this is  not clear all right uh learning says thank you  

drew what's up says the website Clos Master might  offer a way to use a similar or the same approach  

to this concept of filling in the blank uh with  any number of different potential words yes  

um so there are lots of examples of an app or a  thesaurus or something that can explain different  

ways of saying things but will you remember it all  right it's easy to get examples in a dictionary or  

from a thesaurus but will you remember them so  you notice here I'm taking more time with it I  

could just give an explanation or a definition of  the word but if I do this you feel a a stronger  

emotional connection it becomes more memorable  for you you really understand what's happening  

and ah now you feel confident about using this  all right so that's the goal it's not and this  

is why people want to go get a list of words and  try to remember them but they don't actually speak  

fluently they don't feel confident about what  they know they don't know the vocabulary very  

well because it's not reflecting reality they  get lots of examples in a dictionary but it's  

just not how people speak people don't speak like  you see words in a dictionary it's just it's it's  

like two different languages okay so again you  need to make sure what you're doing is reflecting

reality all right where did I what did I miss over  here I think here all right so it says whom okay  

I think you guys answering each other uh it's  that okay if I read a book so you would say is  

that okay if I read a book with an audio book in  English or should I start talking about myself in  

English should I pray to God in English or what  should I do to speak more fluently you don't have  

to like I want I really want to make this clear  you don't have to speak to become more fluent I  

know it and it's it's it this really sounds like  it sounds like I'm being stupid uh if I say you  

don't have to speak to become more fluent but  if we really think about where does where does  

fluency comes where does fluency come from fluency  comes from really understanding something well all  

right it's not about speaking you understand  something well all right so if I if someone  

tells me right now I need to give a speech about  uh I don't know like fixing computers or something  

I could not do that even though I'm fluent in  English I'm not fluent about that I can't speak  

about how to fix computers I I know very little  about the inside of computers I know some but not  

much not enough to give a a speech about how to  fix computers now if I study it for a little bit  

if I see lots of examples of other people doing  that I could very quickly learn to do that so I  

give an example of this uh about learning to make  espresso so if you go to my YouTube channel and  

and type or actually just look at it's one of  the uh it should be a video near the top called  

uh like uh making espresso or how to make espresso  in English and it's about naturally varied review  

so I give you four different examples of different  people making the same thing so the focus is how  

do we make espresso and I've got four different  people talking about that and then we can see  

those examples of of oh wow look at that and now  I know more vocabulary and I could explain more  

about how to make espresso I'm not an expert in  it but I could understand that so that's how I  

become fluent in making espresso and you can think  about becoming fluent in a language like becoming  

fluent in anything else but the the the the the  difference between uh like language learning again  

um and and like a typical skill like learning  to play the piano or something is because the  

environment the real environment is dynamic and  it's so it's so varied if I'm trying to learn to  

play the piano I can practice that over and over  again and so people think about practicing speech  

in the same way but it's not the same thing what  we actually need to do is be prepared for reality  

okay so if I'm if I'm learning an instrument like  or trying to play a sport or something like that  

it's easy for me to practice that thing by myself  by doing that thing but you become uh fluent in  

English the actual practice of that comes from  understanding the language better you eliminate  

the doubt and when you have no doubt that's  where you naturally have confidence and you  

start speaking so you don't have to take time  like trying to do all these things in English  

it's more okay if you like to pray or you like  to cook or whatever your interest is get more  

of that in English get more examples you don't  need to sit and talk about anything you just  

need to hear lots of examples until you feel  confident that you understand something well  

and then you can start speaking all right so you  could you really I mean you you can force yourself  

to start speaking before you feel confident or  comfortable but that's often demotivating for  

many people people don't like making mistakes  in front of others you know that's an obvious  

common thing and so the easier thing is just  to get lots of examples to eliminate the doubt  

about what whatever you're you're learning  or whatever you're interested in so that's  

how you do it so don't think about spending time  trying to do something like when I'm looking at uh  

people's comments I can see basic errors in what  they're writing and that means they don't know  

that vocabulary or that grammar very well so you  should spend more time trying to understand that  

you already know a lot of words but you don't know  them very well you don't have complete confidence  

all right we want you to really feel strongly uh  that you can use something well without making a  

mistake okay it's like if I get into a fight  with somebody if I don't feel like uh okay I  

don't know anything about fighting I'm going to  be I'm you know I'm probably going to lose this  

fight I will not have much confidence but if I'm  a well-trained fighter if I really understand how  

to fight I will feel more confident uh and more  sure that I will win all right so I want you to  

feel like that in the conversation so you spend  more time just trying to understand the language  

and this should be uh exciting for people because  you don't have to find anyone to practice speaking  

with you just get lots of examples but you you  really should get those examples in a way that  

helps you understand the language all right that's  how you get fluent all right um uh but about like  

you you can also listen to an audiobook while you  read it that's that's a good thing to do again  

that's giving you different examples of of the  vocabulary that's more naturally varied review  

Al Andre says I don't think that is necessary  maybe just watching again and again Drew's videos  

will do the magic yes uh again like my my videos  are part of this so in in our program fluent for  

life we're trying to give you the whole picture I  don't if I only make videos of me talking uh for  

trying to develop fluency it's less helpful than  getting lots of examples of other Natives and lots  

of other people doing things in different ways  at different speeds in different times uh all  

of that is what's going to get you fluent okay  so only watching me in these YouTube videos it's  

helpful but it's not as helpful as as hearing  lots of examples uh just to give you a a quick  

non language learning example of this I I heard  a story years ago about a zoo and at this Zoo  

there were uh there was like a chimpanzee you know  like an ape cage or an enclosure so you had a zoo  

and they had a like with a bunch of uh I'm going  to draw as usual I'm trying to draw quickly how  

do I draw let's see let's imagine as a that's a  chimpanzee kind of all right so we have let's say  

there's like 10 of them in this in this enclosure  all right now the this older uh kind he was kind  

of like the number one male like the most you know  everyone respected him he was kind of the leader  

but he had a limp a limp so he walked and there  was something wrong with his leg leg and he he  

kind of walked like that and what was interesting  is that all the other monkeys the younger monkeys  

they started to copy him and they started walking  with a limp too because they just thought that was  

the cool thing to do because he was doing it but  he was just doing that because he had a problem  

with his leg now the reason I bring this up uh  is because again if you only get one example of  

something then you are going to copy that example  and that's how you will speak so imagine if I have  

a teacher I live in a very small town and only  one person speaks to me like my mother speaks to  

me I'm going to sound exactly like my mother I'm  going to speak like she does I'm going to have if  

she mispronounces a word I'm going to mispronounce  it in the same way and this is why we need to get  

all these different examples it really it's a  it's a well-rounded we call this well-rounded  

it really covers a lot way of learning so that you  really understand that's the whole point so if I  

get into a conversation like you can imagine  one of these younger chimpanzees he goes and  

maybe he goes to a different zoo or he goes I  don't know back to the Jungle or something and  

he sees people or not well he sees chimpanzees  and they're walking normally uh and then and then  

he says like oh well he thinks to himself wait a  minute like he this this guy doesn't have a limp  

you know uh and so this is it's just an example  of how people people will will imprint I I did a  

whole video about this about imprinting too so  like a baby chick will imprint on whatever the  

the mother is usually it's the mother hen but it  could be a person or another animal or something  

like that uh so you want to get not just one  teacher or one example you need to get lots of  

them so it is helpful to watch these videos uh but  I really want you to get a nice variety of people  

okay good variety so this is why uh we organize  fluent for life the way it is so we give you lots  

of examples of different speakers all right how  are we doing for time here all right uh I'm still  

on the out of the blue comments uh let's see can  you understand British English yes I can there  

are some words that I don't know uh and maybe the  pronunciation is slightly different but in general  

I lived in England for a couple of months I lived  in London and I I could understand people just  

fine so they they speak a little bit differently  but in general the language is similar all right  

uh let's I the fly example was a L's Drew can you  imagine swallowing that darn bug yes I've actually  

done that before so I've actually you know like  swallow swallow a fly there's there's actually  

an interesting a kid song called I know an old  lady who swallowed a fly you can look it up on  

YouTube if you want to listen to it uh but this  is for kids and I've sung this for my for my own  

daughters or when I was a teacher of little kids  back in school so I know an old Lady Who Swallowed  

a Fly uh and I'm not going to sing it for you here  but the the story is that she then she swallows a  

bird to try to catch the the fly and the spider  and these other things that that are inside her  

until she dies so it's funny there's actually a  lot of kids songs that it's like people dying or  

whatever I don't know why that is but but anyway  um all right uh so moo says Hi I study English  

with English dubbed and subtitled Japanese anime  and manga and wonder if the expressions are used  

in accurate English do these sources seem natural  for native English speakers uh it depends I mean  

you you want to get like good examples of stuff  uh if you can so natural examples of things and  

if you are learning with a translation there  might like the English might be correct but  

it might be different from what the Japanese  is okay so someone will translate that and the  

English by itself would be correct but maybe they  don't actually say that in Japanese so sometimes  

that happens in uh in any kind of translation  and again that's why we want to understand  

things like a native rather than trying to use  dubbed examples so I would actually recommend uh  

like shorter or easier or lower level cartoons in  Japanese if you're trying to do that or if you're  

trying to learn English you should learn those  same things uh or use that same kind of content  

in English it happened out of the blue yes that's  correct sir had a major oh John had a major heart  

attack he was in the hospital and his relative  as a doctor can he pull through this ailment get  

over and pull through the difference uh the ilness  in the ailment well all right that's I don't want  

to get like too much in the Weeds about about  explaining these various phrasal verbs I want  

to stay on on topic for this uh but in general  again you could hear different explanations in  

that same situation so someone could get through  an an illness or an ailment or something like that  

a heart attack typically wouldn't be an illness or  an ailment it's it's just like an actual physical  

thing that that goes wrong so you might have a  problem uh like that if there's a more technical  

word for that people might say that but you might  have a sickness or something uh but to recover  

is like to pull through like to to get through  something in the same way so and this is again  

why hearing lots of different examples about these  things it will make you feel more confident about  

using them because we don't just use only one  phrasal verb for each situation we could have

many but look up more examples of that and you  will find more examples and that will make you  

feel more confident about it Americans almost  always understand British English vice versa  

sometimes a local terms but usually but not always  yeah all right uh additionally sometimes okay  

still talking about that uh Nar hello I'm from  Venezuela I have a question I'm a teacher how  

can I motivate my students I want them to speak  English and be motivated but the educational  

system doesn't help uh yes I know I know how you  feel um the best thing you can do is eliminate  

the doubt because when students feel confident  that they understand something that's when they  

enjoy it and this is why people like students are  playing video games or doing puzzles or things  

like that because they naturally want to do that  so if you can make the lesson more like a puzzle  

but you don't give them the answer you let them  try to solve it all right and so you make the  

language understandable so they think ah now I  got it and they feel much more confident about  

that so actually just watch some of my videos  and watch what I do for that because what I'm  

describing is is like a typical lesson that I  do so I'm not I'm not here to try to like tell  

you to learn or to to motivate you it's just can  I make language learning easy and fun and if you  

understand it and you're learning then people  will watch the videos and improve I that that  

is the motivation so I don't need to give extra  motivation people either either I'm doing a good  

job of of teaching and I'm making the language  understandable and eliminating doubt or I'm not  

doing that okay uh let's see in advance says  I'm copying every single word that came from  

your mouth let's see the reason why I'm doing  this is because I'm enhancing my pronunciation  

to keep myself on the ball yeah so it's not bad  to copy me that's I'm not saying that I'm just  

saying you should get lots of examples which will  help with understanding influence see uh let's  

see Elizabeth says I would like an explanation  what close caption mean just Google that yeah  

you don't need me to explain what closed captions  are uh says hello Drew I've just come up with a  

joke may I share with you go ahead or was that  the joke actually tot it I've used Clos Master  

but never actually remembered examples they  used a deliberate attempt to really think and  

understand sentences terms would have helped me  more yes and this is why I recommend uh learning  

fewer words fewer sentences and really focusing  on those that will help you understand and over  

time your process will speed up because now you  can understand way more and you can learn so many  

new things with those examples all right watching  from Somalia we got uh Aden and and Osama there  

uh so the joke goes well after watching Drew's  videos after a while the only thing I'm fluent  

uh is speaking about what drawbacks I had before  on my way to fluency I see all right unit say say  

your body language and the way you move your hands  and explaining the lesson is very helpful for me  

understanding English I like listening to you drew  glad to hear it yes uh this is also part of the  

reason I like video rather than just audio so you  can actually see things I can draw my poorly drawn  

examples on the board uh Yousef says what time  is it now in the US I don't know I'm not in the  

US check Google uh France says hello bold says  hello thank you for your patience let's see Mar

melodos why do you put all that in one one name oh  my goodness Marcelo dios Olivia okay I think I got  

that right and there's two Olivas on that uh do  you think that if a person is not a native speaker  

is it possible to become a good English speaker  yeah for sure why why not I'm a good speaker of  

Japanese and I'm not I'm not native I'm not born  here it's how you learn how you learn if how you  

learn reflects reality then you will speak like  that it's that simple all right uh let's see as  

you are so beautiful with the heart eyes over  there all right thank you Game Over says Yousef  

and Mohamed says hello from Oman so it's 10:02 in  the US so they're actually different time zones  

in the US depends on where you live body says hi  all right I think we've gotten to the end of this  

video hopefully everybody gets the idea remember  there is a a natural world of of like all of if  

you can think of your native language of all the  different speakers and the ways they speak and  

the different speeds and the different vocabulary  the more uh you learn like this the more you will  

speak like this so if you only get slow examples  or they're too fast or something if you have holes  

in your learning that don't reflect this so if you  have all these different kinds of speakers but you  

only learn with a few different kinds of speakers  then it's going to be more difficult for you to  

become fluent and to have good conversations and  understand people so the more this matches this  

you really want to match these two things and  that's what's going to help you speak fluently  

all right so the mind of a native speaker we  really want to help you get that you don't  

need to be a native to think like this it's just  hey I need to get more examples that are like the  

real world and I really should understand these  things and eliminate the doubt that I have and  

that's what's going to help me speak all right  hopefully let's see any final comments there I  

think everybody got it uh but thank you very  much for the explanation many thanks yes and  

we know the time in Wisconsin there we go that  must be also the same time in Chicago right now  

all right well have a fantastic day if you'd like  to learn uh how to do this and I show you step by  

step actually with lessons that walk you through  all this and get you fluent automatically that's  

what we do in fluent for Life usually the things I  do on YouTube is kind of explaining the principles  

and I give lots of examples about how to learn  but that's how we do it so click on the links  

in the description below this video if you'd like  to learn more and I'll see you next time bye-bye