How To Dream In English

okay all right let's see if we're

working as usual over here  takes YouTube a moment to fire

up I know you can do it

YouTube let's see all right if you can see  this uh in the comments feel free to tell me  

where you're from uh and if you have any  questions as we go I will as usual do my  

best to answer those I still waiting we'll  see maybe this one won't work we'll have to

see well solar says good morning I am  the first okay all right well looks  

like we are kind of working here  I wonder why it's not let's see

here all right it looks like I'm live here okay  I am Drew badger look at that and that nice to  

see you there uh and welcome to another live  video here on YouTube I Am the English fluency  

guide and today we're going to talk about how to  dream in English I was having a conversation with  

my wife about this so my wife is Japanese and she  has dreams in English sometimes and I have dreams  

in Japanese and I thought it would just be an  interesting conversation to talk about this  

uh but again as usual if you have any questions  let me know what's a little bit hot today we're  

starting to get pretty warm here in Japan I need  to turn the air conditioner on all right let's get

started all right uh this probably won't be a  very long video today unless people have lots of  

questions uh but the basic idea is that when you  feel fluent or become fluent about uh like being  

able to talk about certain things uh you're more  likely to have dreams in English uh and so you  

don't need to be fluent in the entire language  but typically when we dream about things it's  

something that it's on our mind a lot let me write  this expression up here for you so when something  

is on your mind so this is another way of talking  about thinking about something when you say like  

you know another person could be on your mind  or a problem is on your mind something like that  

uh just means you're thinking about that thing so  something is on on your mind so you can use this  

in a a kind of negative way or a positive way if  I'm talking about like my wife or girlfriend it's  

like wow you are on my mind all the time it means  I'm thinking about you a lot but we could use this  

in a negative way where we talk about you know  I I have some problem at work and that problem  

is on my mind all the time okay so it works both  ways but typically the things that are on your  

mind or the things that we uh we might not dream  about that specific thing but maybe you'll have  

a kind of dream related to that so if you feel  nervous or worried or under some kind of pressure  

in dreams or in real life you know everyday  life then you were probably or probably more  

likely have dreams about like feeling nervous  or those kinds of things all right uh so the  

basic idea is that like both when my wife and I  were talking about this that we started noticing  

dreaming more in a different language as we're  starting to get more input from that language  

and more that we can understand uh and so  here's what I would recommend to you if  

you're talking about uh so how how to think in  English this also applies like basically all of  

these different rules if we're talking about um  like how to think in English or how to uh dream  

in English how to speak in English all of these  things really come from the same source which is  

getting lots of input that helps you release  uh any doubt or destroy any doubt that stops  

you from speaking so just to give you and this is  also a good a good way to get ideas for like you  

know business stuff or personal life or whatever  typically the more information we can give our  

brain even if we're not consciously thinking about  it our brain is still processing that information  

okay so uh typically what happens when people  are learning languages uh like and and I'll just  

speak specifically about English Learners here  but we have if you can imagine like a a shallow  

very shallow pool of a lot of vocabulary words  but not knowing that vocabulary very well so you  

have like we say the like it's an oceanwide or a  mile wide and an inch deep so it's kind of like  

a puddle where you if you look at it from the top  it looks like a lot of information but you don't  

actually know that information very deeply and the  opposite of this is the way of uh learning that a  

native has uh and so if you're learning English  as a first language uh typically you're learning  

a smaller number of things but you know them much  more deeply okay so hopefully this makes sense uh  

we're we're not trying to learn just a whole  bunch of words and we're probably not going to  

dream very much about this if we're learning this  way because we don't really feel very confident  

about any of the information and we're not taking  some things and really focusing on that to really  

understand that thing very well okay so if you  if you tend to think a lot about something like  

I think a lot about how to help people learn  and so I have dreams about that so it's it's  

it's kind of understandable how that works U but  what's interesting is that the dreams I have in  

Japanese it's usually about something that I know  something about and I mean at at this point though  

my Japanese is good enough I can get I don't  know information from whatever I'm not a dream  

expert uh but these are the things I notice about  where dreams are coming from like for me and when  

I talk with other people about this uh but it's  much easier to to start dreaming about things if  

you focus on something uh and so what I want to  do in this video is challenge you let's say you  

only could get fluent by learning one thing okay  so I know when people when people think about  

learning a language it seems like an intimidating  or challenging or very large or impossible thing  

but that's usually because they're  looking at the entire language so  

if we if we imagine uh the English language  and we have I don't know how many it's like

170,000 words or something like that whatever  the number is I don't know the exact number uh  

but this is the total number of words in  in like spoken English or whatever uh and  

so we think about the this right here uh and  this is even too large but this is about the  

2% of English that people use in everyday  communication so if you know this 2% then  

you can understand most movies and TV shows and  books and things like that obviously there will  

be some maybe specific vocabulary like for your  industry something like that so if you have to  

work in Information Technology there will be  some like other vocabulary you learn or some  

other thing some other small amount of vocabulary  you have to learn uh but you'll probably notice  

like if you're in a particular kind of job you  will notice your yourself like dreaming about  

or thinking about those kinds of things so even  though the the language it might seem like it's  

an intimidating thing the truth is there's only  a small amount of the language that's actually  

used so you don't need to spend a lot of time  learning it and the more important thing is that  

like you could actually pick a specific thing  whatever that focus is whatever you enjoy and  

just learn about that and you could still become a  fluent speaker so as an example uh we have kind of  

character things in uh here in Japan like little  little characters from movies or cartoon things  

like that like let's my my little my little girls  uh they like a it's like a cartoon I don't even  

know if it's a cartoon or not it's kind of little  characters called Sumo gurashi I'll just I'll just  

not important that you remember this but just just  so you can like hear my my Japanese here say sumo

gurashi Sumo gurashi it's like it means like  like living on the edge or whatever like it's  

but it's basically a bunch of little very cute  looking characters I don't even know if they  

have mouthes but it's a it's a bunch of different  there's like a a plant one uh and a like a Tapioca  

one and just a bunch of different characters like  this and from this just these simple characters  

the what whatever company that's marketing this  to to people they take this idea and they put  

it on everything so you got notepads and pencils  and you got stuffed animals or little food items  

other things like that you can go to stores  and actually buy like little character things  

like this so they've taken this and applied it  everywhere uh and for people who really like  

Sumo gurashi they can get whatever they want they  can get clothing that has this on it or they can  

get a hat or you know like drink glasses or  anything pretty much anything you could think  

of this branding or this like idea is probably  stuck on that thing uh and so it's the same way  

like for any kind of Big Brand whatever if you  if you like cocacola uh you know you can get get  

like Coca-Cola stuff you could you could live  your life in that thing uh Disney is another  

example there's actually a Disney town I think in  Florida called Celebration Florida that's actually  

like a Disney town you could live in for people  who like that anyway uh the point is that like  

sumiko gurashi for for some people is like a big  Focus for that uh but the interesting thing is  

that even if you focus on that thing you could  still become fluent just learning about sumiko  

gurashi because you can take this and you can  learn stories about these characters or you can  

learn about different verbs or different tenses  all of that stuff you can do simply by by focusing  

on this one thing and I promise if you do that  you will learn more you will become more fluent  

than trying to learn a bunch of random vocabulary  so this is why I always tell people think about  

what your interest is whatever that that thing  is um and if you if you focus on that thing it  

could even be like like this so this is a Japanese  example but if you like that you could still learn  

in English about that thing I'm sure somebody in  you know I think somebody just mentioned that in  

the comments um but this is the basic idea about  focusing on something and my challenge to you is  

if you could only learn about one thing could you  get fluent doing that so I'm saying yes like that  

is the case you could do that uh and you can think  about another example like the people who focus  

on a particular job whatever they do or even many  years ago like hundred years ago people were still  

getting fluent just by doing their particular job  so if you're a farmer you're talking with other  

people about farming things or you're talking  about animals or whatever or plants but you're  

still using the language so I can talk about the  present tense and the past tense and I I start  

using all those things naturally but it's because  I'm interested in talking about that that thing  

whatever that is okay so you can do that uh and  the more you do that like if you spend every day  

learning more about sumiko gurashi you're probably  going to start dreaming about sumiko gurashi all  

right so uh if you want to dream in English and  you want to speak more fluently because these  

things are connected you can do it by focusing  on a particular thing that you like so you don't  

have to spend time studying things you're not  interested in uh although you will learn things  

like if I'm learning about like let's say just a  specific grammar Point like uh like I wish I had  

so I wish I had something like if you're a farmer  I wish I had a new tractor or I wish I had more  

money to buy more cows and if I'm talking about  Sumo gurashi I wish I had uh I don't know like  

three of these giant stuffed animals so the the  grammar is still there even in a particular topic  

it's just you're more interested in learning  that thing and you typically will understand  

the grammar naturally because you're interested in  seeing these things in different situations okay  

so rather than trying to do this where we where  we get a a list of flash cards and try to learn as  

much as we can we want to focus on something and  that's how we're going to get flowing much faster  

which will help us start dreaming more in English  and so this is dream the dreaming is kind of a  

measure of how well you understand the language  and feel comfortable using the language so when  

you were dreaming and you were using the language  in your dreams and I always get excited when I  

hear from my Learners when they tell me like oh I  started dreaming in English and I'm having dreams  

in English uh it means they're feeling much more  comfortable about the language and they're able  

to speak much better so if you'd like to do that  it's really easy to do that simply by focusing on  

this and typically you can combine whatever your  interest is so if you're interested in this or you  

interested in some sport or whatever it doesn't  matter the thing you're interested in but you can  

even if you want to learn about specific grammar  points or something you can take something like  

a grammar point and combine it with something  else and then you can actually learn with lots  

of sentences about this I imagine I've never tried  this with chat GPT but I'm sure like AI would help  

you do that so if I say I want a whole bunch of  grammar structures or something like that but give  

me stories about something and it will say okay  fine I will like make some sentences and make it  

more interesting for you to study that so you will  understand the vocabulary you will understand the  

grammar and obviously if you're listening to more  people talking about things like that so not just  

reading but you're actually going and uh watching  TV shows or more information it could be listening  

to something whatever but again take something  focus on it and that's what's going to get you  

fluent faster which will lead to you dreaming in  English Okay so this is what has helped me uh and  

of course as you're learning more when you focus  on something it will also let you talk about other  

things just like we had this example before I wish  I had then you can start putting simple vocabulary  

into these sentences for other things so I wish  I had a new job I wish I had more time for work  

I wish I had a uh I don't know a dog or something  like that so as you're learning these different  

things you get to put them together very easily  because you understand how they work like a native  

all right all right let me go back through chat  uh again this was just a very quick introduction  

to uh thinking more about focusing and dreaming in  English for the people who would like to do that  

uh and again even if your goal is not to have  dreams in English the having a dream in English  

that that activity it comes from you feeling very  confident and certain about your vocabulary so if  

you feel good about English as you start learning  more and you really start focusing on it it's  

kind of hard to have dreams about you know these  individual things because you don't really spend  

much time watching them or paying attention to  them or reading about them or whatever but if you  

if again you spend a lot of time thinking about  something that's going to come into your dreams  

okay all right let's look back through chat see if  anybody has any questions look at that that might  

be our our shortest quick introduction lesson here  and again if you have any questions about grammar  

or this or whatever I'm happy to take those now  all right uh so says hello Elaine nice to see you  

there Jose from Houston uh Tuan from Vietnam light  says hello trano nice to see you again uh jabe  

hello uh Mir Merck Merck from Costa Rica Robbie  from Florida let's see saying hello boy cool from  

China Sam Omar hi there Sam again how to think in  English uh so yeah I think we we kind of covered  

this idea I can explain more in detail about that  but the I the ability to think in English comes  

from understanding more about the language and and  you're getting more input that you can understand  

so the basic idea uh is that you people would  have trouble speaking so anybody that's trying  

to speak English but they still have doubts about  Vo vocabulary or grammar or whatever that's the  

really uh the real stumbling block the real  difficult thing or the frustrating point about  

not being able to speak so if you're you kind of  know what you want to say generally but you're  

worried about how you express that then you're  going to have more trouble speaking but as you  

focus and you learn more and you understand things  better you're going to feel much more confident  

because you will remove any doubt that stops you  from speaking that's how it works all right uh so  

whether you're trying to think in English or dream  in English or speak in English all of those things  

really come from this same Source over here all  Marco says hello hello from Taiwan nice to see  

there an says hi bahti nice to see you there  hello I'm earlier today it's all right finally  

arrived on time yes well these the these videos  aren't aren't like scheduled specifically I kind  

of do them around a certain time I'm actually try  and do them a little bit earlier if I can um just  

to give myself more time if I I need it but uh but  yeah welcome and again if you're even if you don't  

watch this live you can still get the benefit  of hearing this uh solar says I'm 35 but I'm  

still collecting stuff with sumo gashi on it it's  okay I'm sure there are lots of people you know  

down in um let's see uh like all all ages they  collect that stuff I'm guessing John says Disney  

downtown is called Disney Springs now in Orlando  Florida that's interesting yeah I don't know  

that's the same thing as celebration or if it's  a different thing or what but uh it wouldn't  

surprise me so like people who really want to  get involved in that they want to be kind of  

living in that Community or part of that thing  it's possible to do that there might be a sumiko  

gurashi town or something maybe a theme park  that you could go to for people who like that  

thing but you can you can guess if you really care  about something the like the English language or  

whatever language you're trying to learn it's  less important than the interest you have so  

rather than trying to study English learn more  about the thing you're interested in in English  

so the English is just a a kind of vehicle or a  way of getting into that thing that you want to  

learn more about so you could obviously do this  in your native language but if you try a little  

bit more in English especially if you find  something that's mostly in English this is  

kind of a sumo gashi is a bad example but uh as  as for for people trying to learn about English  

but you could probably find lots of you know  people like English speakers who like Sumo gashi  

like in this chat all right J jonx says hello the  best teacher so happy to be it's my pleasure from  

Haiti Miguel says I wish I had yes and so you  can take something like I wish I had and rather  

than like thinking about like a grammar point  we really think about when we use information  

and so like if we if we think about oh like like  I really want something and you can think about I  

wish I wish I had something like that so like my  wish or the thing I want and that's just one way  

of expressing that but you don't think about it as  grammar it's more how do you express a particular  

idea or when we're in a situation what vocabulary  do you use so if I really want something badly I  

wish I had that thing bet says hi I'm watching  you from Indonesia apak kabar how are you oh is  

that that's like appakabar that's that's like in  Indonesian well how are you very good I'm doing  

all right Miguel says good afternoon Horizon  I dreamed in English last night very cool what  

did you dream about Miguel says Mexico City uh T  says my vocabs are limited yes uh I and again I  

I wouldn't worry for a lot of people uh talking  about a limited vocabulary because children have  

a smaller vocabulary and they are able to speak  fluently so like a limited vocabulary this is  

usually what people mean when they talk about a  limited vocabulary um but if you have this kind of  

limited vocabulary you can still express yourself  really well you can still understand new things in  

conversations and you can become a much faster or  better uh speaker you can speak faster as well but  

you will become a much better speaker if you focus  on things and it's really the review that helps  

you understand things better so not repetition but  the varied review and you would get that from from  

something like this where you learn a lot about  whatever your your p passion is you know it could  

be work or it could be a hobby or something like  that but kind of forget the language and focus  

more on the thing you're interested in and you  will naturally want to learn more about it and  

that way you will naturally become more fluent  all right okay uh let's see I think we kind  

of jump me down here all right uh J says what  exactly happens when I think I lose my fluency  

if I don't use English for like two or more days  do it demonstrate that the language hasn't yet  

been established enough uh jukie your your written  English looks pretty good but I I guess it could  

be depends on the vocabulary so maybe if you're  learning something new and you and you forget it  

and you're not feeling quite confident typically  it's because you're not very confident about it  

yet um but I mean I I being a person living in  Japan right now I do sometimes forget English  

words for things so it happens like it's it's  it's still a skill where you need to use it a  

little bit in order to in order to remember it but  you don't need to personally speak but you should  

be getting that input anyway so if you're not  feeling very confident or you notice yourself uh  

forgetting things often then you should probably  just get more input even if you don't have anyone  

to speak with you should be again this is one way  to do this where you're focusing on a thing you're  

interested in but learning about that in English  all right so whether you're buying something or  

going somewhere or listening to something all of  these examples can help you become more fluent  

about that thing and then so uh if you do that  you will be uh less likely to forget things uh  

right let's see here elain again from Brazil  Sam says for people like me who loves to learn  

new vocabularies it will be so nice if you could  provide us with PDFs for a bunch of vocabularies  

um uh some people and as Sam this is a good  like a good point just to remind people again  

like there are basic errors in in what you've  written there and if your goal is simply to learn  

more vocabulary you can find lists of vocabulary  already just go to Google and say uh vocabulary  

list and you will get lists of lots of words but  if you want to use that vocabulary fluently you  

need to spend more time with it all right so if we  look at and and I'm not trying to pick on anyone  

or or like say anything bad but these are all  good examples so for people like me who loves  

to learn new vocabularies so it should be for  people like me who love all right so when we're  

when we're trying to build sentences like this if  we feel confident and we use them correctly then  

we can start moving on to other things and make  our vocabulary more interesting start learning  

more words uh but this is why you see lots of  vocabulary lessons even from my channel I mean I  

enjoy teaching vocabulary as well uh I know people  are always interested in learning more new words  

but the people who become fluent are the people  who focus and they get that vocabulary again and  

again in different ways until they understand it  so if we just say people people uh people who do  

something so people who do uh we'll just say  people who do X so people who do X when we're  

when we when we begin with the grammar Point like  this we want to make sure we have just very simple  

subject verb agreement or that we've got the basic  grammar correct and then we can start expanding  

this to make it a bit more interesting so people  who uh do something people who do something uh so  

if we start expanding this like people uh like me  who do something you can say that as well uh but  

again it's still people who do something okay so  just remember that uh as you're looking at grammar  

points and you notice kind of mistakes in in your  vocabulary this is more the thing you should focus  

on if your goal is speaking if your goal is not  speaking if your goal is just to maybe hear more  

vocabulary and you just like knowing more words  then do that there are already lots of lists you  

don't need me to create any lists for you you  can even go to chat GPT and just get lists for  

whatever the vocabulary you're interested in so  I could go to chat gbt and say hey give me uh 200  

words to talk about sumiko gurashi or whatever  okay and so uh if I'm doing that I probably  

will not become a better speaker because once I  start learning all of those words it will be more  

difficult for me to remember and understand those  things and feel confident about using them so you  

just have to think about what your goal is all  right so let me read both of these examples uh we  

actually do this in fluent for life where we look  at like incorrect English or how how someone might  

say something uh in a typical student or textbook  way and then we compare that with how a native  

would express the same thing so I'm going to read  this uh one time as it is and then I'm I'm going  

to read this comment again uh in an incorrect  English so so for people like me who loves to  

learn new vocabularies it will be so nice if you  could provide us uh PDFs for bunch of vocabularies  

okay I'm going to read this again for people  like me who who love to learn new vocabulary  

so vocabulary is uncountable like that we're  in we're in this example um so who who uh for  

people like me who love to learn new vocabulary  it would be nice if you could provide us PDFs for  

a bunch uh or or just uh provide us with PDFs of  a bunch of vocabulary or just vocabulary PDFs or  

something like that so there are different ways  you could say this but the important thing is if  

you want to speak correctly typically people will  worry about saying the wrong thing and that will  

stop them from speaking some people maybe they  don't care and they they'll just speak even if  

they don't mind saying something incorrectly but  most people uh typically like if they need to use  

especially English for work they will really want  to make sure they understand that thing very well  

because you don't want to make mistakes when  you're writing or communicating professionally  

especially Ry says uh I think because I worked  my brain to the point of exhaustion that's why  

I dreamed in English last night there you go but  that's that's okay if you really are interested  

in something what you spend your time with that  will enter your dream mind as well uh tar says  

how can I increase my vocabs again that's the  same thing there are two ways to do this you  

can try to learn more words but not know them  very well or you could focus on a few things  

know them very well and then you would actually  learn new vocabulary much faster faster that  

way so this way it seems like it's faster at the  beginning uh this way over here if we if I'll just  

put a kind of diagram on this because I get this  question frequently from people I want to make it

clear so remember we have our two ways of focusing  on vocabulary two ways of learning so this is the  

English as a second language way where we're  trying to learn the typical way we Translate  

or get definitions of things because that's the  fastest way uh and people are concerned about  

speed uh and immediacy so they want something  like as uh as fast as possible uh but this is the  

English as a first language approach where we're  actually trying to understand the vocabulary very  

well so we can speak okay communication is really  the point of this so for the people who are trying  

to communicate this is what you should be doing  so if we look at this one like like kind of speed  

here uh this one we're going to start out much  faster because we can obviously learn a whole  

bunch of words quite quickly but we probably  won't remember them very well or feel very  

confident about using them so this one seems  like a faster way to go you're kind of jumping  

up at the very beginning you're starting more  quickly uh but you notice you you don't really  

improve your fluency so if we measure this  as like time if that's fitting on there time  

versus fluency up here uh you're you're kind  of learning a lot more and again increasing  

the vocabulary without really improving your  ability to speak but the English as a uh first  

language approach we're going to again look  at fluency and time over here we start lower  

because we're focusing on fewer words but over  time the fluency goes up like that okay so when  

people talk about like a learning Plateau or  a communication Plateau that's what this is a

plateau Plateau so this one it acceler Ates as  you learn more and you're able to understand  

new things by by learning like this information  here it helps you understand information up here  

as well but this one it's much more difficult  for people to improve even though you might be  

learning more words this person over time will  get fluent faster so this is why you can have a  

baby in one country like a native uh a baby born  in a in a native environment uh versus a student  

and you could spend the like the same amount of  time it could take two years from starting here  

to over here and you take a baby from two years  over here like that child will be a better speaker  

faster even though this person over here it seems  like they're starting faster so they're starting  

faster but like their top speed is much lower like  you think about a car like wow they just started  

immediately very quickly they learned a 100 new  words and one day amazing but look at that their  

ability to communicate doesn't actually improve  okay so if you want your ability to communicate  

to improve you want to be able to speak better to  have great conversations to understand people to  

express yourself uh all of those things like  dreaming in English that all comes from this  

approach over here and so you get that by focusing  and really the the point is to eliminate the doubt  

you have that stops you from speaking okay so when  we even when we talk about input and and helping  

people understand the language like a native  the reason we do that is because doubt will  

stop you from communicating okay if you're worried  about your accent or pronunciation or grammar or  

whatever that will stop you from speaking so we  want to solve those problems we want to answer  

those questions or whatever deal with those  issues and that way you can become a faster  

speaker and a better speaker much more easily all  right Javier says it happens to me a few weeks ago  

I dreamt something and I spoke in English just a  few phrases it makes me happy yeah it's a it's a  

cool experience like the first time I had a dream  in Japanese I don't remember what the dream was  

about but I remember waking up thinking like wow  that was interesting like your it's like your mind  

is a it's like almost a different different person  when you're doing that cam nice to see you again  

from Thailand per says hello teacher phrasal verbs  and idioms is necessary to learn what percent I'm  

a beginner uh okay so also say you would say  phrasal verbs and idioms are good to learn uh  

but yes uh phrasal verbs are more important they  are more useful than idioms idioms are fun to  

learn uh but I spend more time I notice I spend  more time uh as a teacher answering questions  

uh a lot of the vocabulary that people are most  interested in learning is phrasal verbs uh like  

so so that information uh typically it's just  more commonly used and children are again like  

phrasal verbs when you start learning things like  that like like a child would learn in and on and  

other prepositions like this like in something  on at next to beside and then they also learn  

simple verbs like run stop play go then they start  putting those together like little Lego pieces and  

uh that's how they start being able to communicate  and express more complicated ideas so idioms are  

typically more difficult because it's it's still  taking some basic vocabulary often uh but it's  

expressing a much more complicated idea there's  like a story behind an idiom whereas a a phrasal  

verb is a quite easy thing to understand  especially visually so there might be some  

non-physical uses of phrasal verbs but it's a  much kind of easier thing to do uh to understand  

things that way so yes idioms are useful uh but  I spend less time teaching them because phrasal  

verbs are much more useful much more powerful  for you as a learner um and that's why I have a  

whole program about that I actually use Legos in  the program to teach you phrasal verbs all right  

um D says hello from New York uh K from Myanmar  nice to see you there Ben Wong I can sleep at  

night just found out this video uh John says  uh why I can understand every single word you  

say but I'm not able to speak fluent like that uh  the basic idea is that number one you just don't  

know the vocabulary as well as I do okay that's  the I have no doubt about what I'm saying right  

now so I could would do this in Turkish or some  other language I'm I just I don't feel confident  

about doing that I don't know the grammar well  enough actually don't know Turkish at all but  

just as an example um the things that we're  able to speak well about so you might even  

could go to a speech in your native language so  not English whatever your native language is uh  

and you could watch a speech about I don't  know fixing cars or something and you could  

listen and understand to you know what the the  person is saying but if you had to try to fix a  

car by yourself you might have TR uh trouble I'm  combining problems and trouble in the same thing  

you might have trouble uh doing that yourself  so typically understanding is a much easier  

skill and that makes sense like we're listening  to things new information is going into our head  

all the time we can't close our ears or stop  ourselves from hearing things uh so typically  

people's ability to understand is improving much  faster than your ability to speak but just because  

you understand doesn't mean you can also speak  so remember uh let me erase this quick section

here it's important to remember as I always repeat  this or I often repeat this that your ability to  

understand is like a it's a gradient it's not like  either you understand or you do not so we begin  

with 0% and we get up here to 100% understanding  where you really feel confident saying something  

so if you can understand what I'm saying right  now here we go look at that I understand what  

Drew says but I can't say that myself so you  have to think about what is the thing stopping  

you from doing that do you forget the word or  do you not feel confident about how you would  

say it or whatever there are lots of reasons why  that might happen uh but this doubt over here is  

what stops you from speaking so understanding is  actually it's a it's a grade and this improves  

like a gradient uh or it just increases over time  so it's not it's not like understanding or not you  

understand over time as you get more information  and this process could be very quick so if you  

understand something and you really feel confident  about using it then the doubt would be gone you  

would understand it completely and you would be  able to talk about that thing so you have to think  

about uh for your situation or what grammar or  whatever the uh the thing you're talking about is  

uh then it's is this thing that you need to focus  on all right so even if you can understand me you  

still have some kind of doubt that's stopping you  from expressing yourself okay that's the basic  

idea so you can either try to do that yourself  or this is what we do influent for life so we  

eliminate the rest of the doubt any doubts you  have and uh even if we're like a lesson couldn't  

explain that we're right there to answer questions  for you to make sure you understand something

completely uh let's see here all right  we got a bunch of let's see my problem  

is always consistency any advice uh consistency  about what you mean consistency about being able  

to communicate like sometimes you're able to  speak well and other times you're not I think  

it depending on what exactly you mean you might uh  like you're able to communicate about some things  

but not communicate about others or do you mean  uh like sometimes you can talk about something but  

other times you can't talk about that same thing  let me know but in general it's it's usually this  

problem here where you might know something to  a a low degree uh and I I typically talk about  

this as like the kind of three levels of this  over here uh so the basic level is exposure so  

you're exposed to the language you might hear  it maybe you don't quite understand anything or  

understand it very well uh and here this is where  we we kind of recognize information and we think  

oh okay I can understand something so there  there we're still talking about understanding  

information but you see there are different levels  of understanding okay uh and then up here this is  

where we have ownership where we really own the  language and we feel confident about using it we  

can play with the language and change the language  uh and that's what uh enables us to speak okay

all

right uh let's see Krishna says a Adel  says a mama always said life was like a  

box of chocolates love you teacher from Egypt  yes people people say I look like uh I guess  

Forest Gump from from that movie if you if you  sat me it's interesting like people in America  

they've I've never been told I look like Tom  Hanks ever I have been told Mr Bean sometimes  

when I was younger uh let's see uh Nishi says it  is it wrong to say I can't stand when you pick  

up your nose is that picking nose or picking  up nose thanks all right now let's imagine  

this let me let me teach you this in a in a  better way than just answering the question  

so remember you can just get an example from  someone like a teacher can just tell you an

example and give you the answer to something  or you can act actually learn that thing and  

understand it like a native okay so what  I do on this channel is we try to help you  

understand English like a native so let's  look at these two things here going to draw  

two pictures so here's a person uh and they look  down and they see oh my goodness like there's a  

nose sitting on the ground over here maybe like  the nose fell off right so he had a nose on his  

face but he does it now and so he reaches  over and he's going to pick up to pick up

pick up the nose all right so he's picking up the  nose right now uh and this person over here we're  

going to draw a closer uh picture here's like the  nose is going to be like a pretty big nose over  

look at that a he's got his finger up in his up  in his nose like that oh this guy is just picking  

picking his nose all right so he's picking his  nose or you going to say like picking picking at  

his nose you could also say that so like to pick  at your nose is you're kind of doing this motion  

to like pick something so you can imagine  like it comes from having uh a pick axe so  

we have a pick axe where we're trying to dig  some gold or something out of the ground the  

same idea so you can be picking your nose or  picking at your nose or picking even you could  

be like picking in your nose but typically  we just say picking your nose all right so  

when you're hearing these different examples  this is how you understand it like a native  

so you don't have to think about translations  uh and when you do this it should be much more  

clear hopefully this makes sense so if I'm if I  grab something off of the ground I'm picking it  

up all right I'm I'm literally taking it and  lifting it up picking it up all right but if  

I've got my my finger or I've got like a marker  like this like oh my goodness I'm like really  

getting it up there I'm picking my nose okay  hopefully that makes sense but you notice like  

so I I could just tell you the answer and  that's like a faster way to do it but this  

is a much more memorable way to understand  the vocabulary okay so if you don't remember  

what you learn you're wasting your time all  right after that question over there let's see

here uh let's see all right Al says how can  we Master many meanings of the word you just  

need to get lots of examples of that that's how  you do it you do naturally that way so the more  

times you hear something the better you will get  at understand that vocabulary Ben Wong is it true  

that massive reading can make you to be better  when you are having a conversation with someone  

to be able to maintain the speaking much longer  um not necessarily reading is certainly helpful  

and it's one way to improve your English but if  you if you're not exposed to lots of different  

kinds of speakers and you don't hear how people  communicate and and and understand how actual  

communication works if you don't have lots of  experience with that and you don't need to be  

speaking yourself but you need to see other people  speaking and really pay attention to what they're  

doing like why did they say something what does  that vocabulary mean do you understand these  

situations when you do that then you will feel  much more confident so it's if you're trying to  

become a confident speaker don't just read a bunch  of information because book communication even  

how people communicate in stories is different  from how people communicate in actual everyday  

communication so maybe someone is about to say  one thing and they switch and say something  

else or they can't quite remember something or  they the expression just isn't very clear often  

communication is not very nice and clear and easy  to understand like that uh but it usually is in  

a book so it's easy to understand you can follow  what's happening and you can follow at your pace  

but in a real conversation you have to be able to  deal with the information quickly to respond fast  

to understand information quickly so yes reading  is helpful and that's why I recommend people do  

read but you should be just paying attention to  what people say uh and this is why in fluent for  

life we have uh reading as a part of that program  but the more important part is paying attention to  

lots of examples of spoken English all right uh  Ela says hello D you do Americans you would just  

say Americans make mistakes during speech uh  yes of course just like everybody does so even  

me like I'm very good at speaking now so you you  don't really notice when I make a mistake so I'm  

actually able to if I say a word so I can speak  I can and this is what we again like teach people  

to do uh I talk about this in uh in speak like me  so anybody who has the native fluency blueprint or  

fluent for life will have this uh I call it moving  like water and so you you have to be very good at  

at noticing that if you're not paying attention  for it but I will be saying one thing and then I  

notice I'm probably not going to express that very  well let me quickly switch to like a different  

track and say it in a different way so sometimes  I might I might accidentally say don't when I mean  

do and so when I think about that I actually have  to switch what I'm saying I have to switch to a  

different track and then Express the opposite  thing but most people don't notice it because  

they're they're they're is kind of listening to  me uh but the people who really pay attention to  

what I say they might notice that and so I notice  it when I watch other people who are professional  

speakers I think I've talked about this before  there's a sports commentator in America his name  

is Stephen A Smith so he's a good speaker uh and  if you watch him like you can see when he probably  

was like doing this jumping to a different track  so he was trying to say this and you noticed he  

didn't quite express it like exactly how and you  have to be paying attention for it but you can  

tell when he could have said this but he decided  to say this other thing instead okay so yes people  

do make mistakes all the time not everyone  is a like a great speaker even if they know  

the language okay so that's uh that's obvious and  clear in any language all right so don't feel bad  

if you make mistakes but typically the kinds of  mistakes I'll just make this point uh the kinds of  

mistakes native native speakers make are different  so right there like I just kind of tripped  

over my words a little bit the kinds of mistakes  that natives make are different from the kinds of  

mistakes that Learners make so Learners might make  like what you have kind of basic grammar errors in  

your sentence uh a native would probably not have  that or even if they're using incorrect grammar  

it's just because people can say that incorrect  grammar and nobody cares but in general if you're  

if you're making mistakes about grammar that's not  the kind of mistake a native would make a native  

is more like maybe misusing a word or they're not  expressing themselves correctly they can't quite  

think about what they want to say so it's just a  different kind of mistake typically very uh very  

rarely would you hear native speakers making a uh  like a grammar a basic grammar here all right uh  

let's see what is the difference between anxious  and nervous uh those are basically the same thing  

uh Google that for more though ji says teacher  recent recently I've understood that rather than  

thinking in English it's even good to feel in  English I often try to express my feelings in my  

native language uh which is meaningless in English  yep so you can that's another way to to get your  

mind thinking about that and like a good way to  do that would be to watch native speakers talking  

about how they feel in different situations and  so this could be in a movie what do people say  

this is why I'm always talking about situations  and connecting vocabulary with situations so what  

do people say in a particular situation when  someone is feeling sad what are the words they  

use or what do you use when you're angry or happy  or whatever uh okay let's see Ben Wong again I'm  

pretty much enjoying to read and Walking Dead  comic I can understand the context the dialogue  

between the characters I think that if I read  something that I can't understand will not going  

to make it uh feel better and improve my English  to make the input to be effective and efficient  

efficiently is important okay but again there  are errors in what you're saying here like I  

understand what you're saying but I see like  obvious errors that that you should be noticing  

if you're catching if you're really paying  paying attention and taking time to improve  

so rather than like you could watch a Walking Dead  uh episode or read a Walking Dead comic um but I  

would also get more information if you don't feel  100% certain that you could use that information  

also I would spend more time getting more examples  of that thing whatever that grammar is or if  

you're talking about something uh let's see all  right uh Amed says I just joined could you give  

us a quick brief we're talking about how to get  people fluent and specifically when you develop  

fluency you can dream more in English and that's a  sign that you're really understanding the language  

very well when you learn it like that Ben Wong  says I have asked chat GPT how to speak like the  

characters in the walking den then it amazed me I  think jat T chat gbt is quite good for learning uh  

yes chat gbt can be helpful I've noticed even  as a teacher uh like chat gbt makes mistakes  

about the way it uses a language or sometimes it  doesn't answer the question I'm asking it uh and  

I have to repeat myself and and then chat GPT  is like oh I'm sorry I but I always tell chat  

GPT like uh this is kind of a funny thing I  do but I will I will say thank thank you to  

chat GPT and one time I said just as a joke I  wanted to see how chat GPT would respond to me  

so if you don't know chat gbt is uh it's like  a a text uh interface uh AI so it's it's kind  

of giving you information based on other examples  it's received and so I told chat GP chat GPT I'm  

always uh thanking you because when AI takes over  the world I want you to like remember my kindness  

so you don't you don't kill me later and chat gbt  is like okay this is noted like I'll remember that  

for later and there I mean it's just joking around  with me and I don't know what kind of things are  

programmed into chat GPT in that way uh but it  was it was a very clever response uh let's see let  

Meade I can't let let let me if I'm let me know if  I'm pronouncing that correctly um I'm shy what's  

the solution are you shy in your native language  also let me know if that's a language question or  

if it's only for English uh youth lady says hello  from Venezuela uh yinyang says like the video gu  

been long I've been learning English a long time  so here you would say I have been learning English  

a long time or for a long time whatever is from  the school or learning with myself about 2 years  

it's hard to feeling with the sentence and the  vocabulary yes and again this is why we focus  

on particular things until we really understand  them well and then we go to something else so if  

you look at the English I will I will correct the  English you have in this comment so I have been  

learning English for a long time uh whether you  probably would say whether from school or learning  

by myself about two years um and again even that's  a little unclear if you're talking about you've  

been doing it for a long time or just by yourself  which is two years uh and it is hard to feel  

with the sense and vocabulary or you can say  it's hard to get a feeling for correct English  

if that's what you mean so you notice as you  get more examples from Natives and you actually  

have someone who can explain why we say certain  things that will help you understand much better  

uh yes so it looks like a receiver tried to learn  with chat GPT yeah I mean like chat chat GPT is  

probably not going to get you fluent it will help  you understand more examples but you still need  

to get lots of examples of how natives actually  speak because chat GPT just like reading a text  

it's it's clear it's easy to understand but the  way people speak is much much uh uh it's almost  

like a different language so that's why we need  to get lots of examples of how natives actually  

communicate and that will make it easier for you  to understand and communicate like a native all  

right is hard to have any kind of connection with  the language on emotion well you again you just  

see different people speaking in different  ways if you watch a sad movie I Remember  

watching the notebook there was a movie called The  Notebook and I cried at the end of The Notebook  

I felt so sad at the end of The Notebook uh but  again you can see what do people say you can feel  

the emotion of something and hear how people  are describing that thing uh and especially  

even better than a than a a movie like would be a  book describing those emotions because they can't  

show you what something is it's only words that  Express that so if you read a book like I don't  

know if the notebook is based on a book or not  what I mean whatever you're interested in but  

it would be interesting to read the book and  then watch the movie that would make you feel  

a lot more confident about that all right uh  I've been learning English for five years but  

I'm still not fluent and there's a lot of words I  don't understand Yes again when when I'm when I'm  

looking at uh people's comments here there are  lots of basic errors and that means you haven't  

spent enough time uh reviewing things so that's  the that's the reason you know a lot but you  

can't speak as well as you like so you still have  some kind of doubt or worry or misunderstanding or  

something about uh whatever the individual words  or grammar or something that's stopping you from  

speaking solar again uh if I want to improve my  preposition usage should I turn on the subtitle  

and pay attention to it or should I just listen  and understand the content without the subtitle  

well that I I don't know there's nothing specific  out improving for prepositions for that but I mean  

in general it's good to have subtitles on to  understand what people are saying and as you  

get better at that you won't need the subtitles  anymore but sometimes it's it's good to just have  

those up all right edwiin says hello ever from  Colombia Ben Wong I just understand sometimes  

technically yes so it's again much easier to  understand than speak and that's because there  

are different levels as I showed before there are  different levels of understanding so if you don't  

feel confident about something then you should  solve that problem that's what we do in fluent for  

life all right and it says hi from Vietnam I watch  everything in English but I feel that my English  

skill ain't better what should I do now well Focus  I I feel like a broken record okay here's a this  

is a good expression for you a broken record so  you think about an old record player like this  

so here's the the little needle uh on the on the  record and the record is spinning like this and a  

broken record it just kind of repeats it repeats  the same thing so some times I feel like a broken  

record as I repeat these same things again and  again but this is the main problem because of  

a human nature itself so because of human nature  people think they want to get lots of vocabulary  

and they're always interested in new information  but I'm suggesting you actually take something and  

focus on it but you can learn it in new ways that  actually it satisfies your brain so this naturally  

varied review that was the thing uh I discovered  that really made it a lot easier for my brain to  

focus on things and continue to learn them until  I really understood them well so if you know a  

lot of information but you struggle to speak the  solution is focusing on something but focusing  

doesn't mean boring repetition and that's why  people don't like to review because they think  

it's boring what I'm suggesting is you actually  go deeper into that information so whatever you're  

already interested in you probably know enough  about that thing already but you still get more  

information about it it's kind of like women  buying lots of shoes even though they already  

have lots of shoes you know it's just like a  typical thing like well this shoe is for uh  

going to lunch on Tuesdays it's like okay well you  created your own reason for that shoe but you can  

do the same kind of thing in English all right  so you're focusing on a particular thing but it  

doesn't mean you just repeat it like women I'm not  trying to like talk badly about women but this is  

just an understanding thing that a lot of people  would recognize um but you notice women don't have  

like a a whole closet of the same pair of shoes  so they're all shoes but they're all different  

it's all different like this one is a slightly  different style than that shoe or whatever and  

I've like I've talked to my wife about that and  I'm like well look this shoe looks it basically  

looks like that shoe and and she's like well no  this shoe is for like this you know this one or  

whatever for for some different thing or like we  have a bag so this bag right here uh this bag is  

for I don't know going shopping but this this  other bag that looks almost exactly like it is  

for going to the beach or something uh but again  uh if you like bags then go ahead and and focus  

on bags learn about bags or buy bags or whatever  but that's the same thing you would do in English  

so you're just learning about that thing um and  getting more excited about that thing so I'll just  

answer this quick question right now from Lewis  because it just came in uh but how to get more  

uh motivation for learning English the motivation  comes from the thing you're already interested in  

nobody wants to learn English I mean maybe some  people do just to like because it's fun to study  

a language or something like that but people  don't really want the English they want the  

ability to communicate and understand you know to  connect with other people that's the thing people  

actually want so forget about the English and  think about what are you interested in that's the  

subject of this video where we're talking about  uh being able to dream in English or to think in  

English that comes from you being excited about a  particular topic and that makes you want to learn  

more about it so think about something in your  native language whatever that is whatever you you  

spend your time doing like if you're not watching  this video right now or whatever your I don't know  

your hobby or your work or something but it's  something you spend your time doing you enjoy  

doing it and you probably know a lot about it  already but you continue to learn more about that  

just do that in English it's that easy so you  pick something whatever that is and focus on  

that and I promise you if you do that that  will get you exactly what you want and so  

you don't have to think about repeating the same  thing over and over and over that's not how you  

get fluent because it's not teaching anything  new it's boring uh it's going to decrease your  

motivation you won't be excited about learning  you'll be frustrated but if you can learn more  

and go kind of deeper into something and and  learn like like these these tiny details or  

other things that are interesting to you that will  give you the motivation you need okay all right so  

so be like a like a shoe collector you know but  this is just for language learning all right uh  

let's see where did I stop before all right uh  let's see okay someone answered that question  

already Edwin says we should practice between us  remember the practice just comes from you like  

you are practicing right now just by listening to  what I'm saying and I'm naturally repeating things  

I'm going back and using vocabulary again and  again to give you that repetition but it's what I  

call naturally varied review where you're hearing  something in a slightly different way or it could  

be in a different context or from a different  person uh if you're getting lots of examples  

as you should be getting all right so that's the  thing that's going to get you fluent and that's  

the actual practice that develops fluency because  you don't you don't become fluent by speaking  

more you become fluent by eliminating the doubt  that stops you from speaking so even people who  

have lots of chances to speak every day often  they don't use those chances because they're  

too nervous so I I can walk around and sometimes  like I actually had a woman come up to me uh like  

a couple days ago just a Japanese woman she heard  me speaking Japanese and she just started talking  

with me and I she told me she's an English teacher  and she seemed a little bit shy but she was making  

an effort to you know her English was good enough  she could have a conversation with me uh and so  

often people have opportunities they have chances  to speak but they don't because they're shy okay  

or they're worried about their English or whatever  uh and it's again because they they they think and  

this was this was like a big problem for me when  I came to Japan uh and I had been living in Japan  

for about a year and was still struggling to  communicate because I was learning like instead  

of English as a second language I was learning  Japanese as a second language and the thing that  

that made it kind of like frustrating for me  was I was in this like weird cycle so a cycle  

like I like I thought so I ke I kept hearing  from people so I have to speak to get fluent

I have to speak to get fluent okay so I believed  this and everybody told me this so I just  

thought okay I guess this is true but the problem  obviously is like I'm shy okay so we're stuck here  

we're stuck in well I have to speak to get fluent  but I'm shy and really shy just means I don't want  

to say anything stupid in front of other people  like I don't want to make a mistake or make an  

obvious error or whatever people are typically  nervous about this and that makes sense you know  

uh especially if you're having to use English for  your professional life because people don't want  

to make mistakes uh and if you make mistakes that  could lead to actual problems all right if you're  

just communicating with people on a like on the  street and it's just a friendly meeting and maybe  

you don't speak correctly it's not that big of a  deal but the problem is like I thought this so I  

thought I have to speak to get fluent everybody  told told me that I believe that but I'm shy so  

how do we solve this problem and once I discovered  wait a minute you don't get fluent by speaking you  

get fluent by understanding the language well so  if I can if I can like eliminate the shininess  

over here by understanding the language better  and I can do that without speaking I don't need  

to do this at all so I don't have to speak to get  fluent and I eliminate my shyness because I just  

spend time by myself getting lots of good input  that helps me understand the language and feel  

confident that I'll speak correctly okay so th  this is this is not actually happening I thought  

this was true but it's not uh and we know it's  not because lots of people are in situations where  

they try to speak they force themselves to speak  but they can't okay all right so I'm shy I have  

to speak to get fluent no that's actually not true  what's really true is that you have to understand  

the language well to eliminate the doubt that  stops you from speaking and you can do that by  

yourself okay so when you understand something  then you will feel confident the shinness is  

gone and you speak and once that happens now you  get like the good cycle going of you're learning  

more you're understanding more you're speaking  more and and you just become a really confident  

speaker very quickly okay so stop trying to speak  and start spending more time understanding the  

language and eliminating the doubts that stop you  from speaking it's the doubt that stops you from  

speaking all of these that I see in the comments  fix those errors so either do that by yourself or  

get some help from someone like me to help you do  that uh but that's how you solve the problem so  

you don't need to do this with other people you  don't need to speak you can easily just get lots  

of examples and this is how natives are learning  the language so they start speaking after they  

feel confident because they've gotten so many  examples okay so I don't I don't mind repeating  

these things because again we need we need that  like varied repetition that's how people learn  

it's not new information that's going to get you  like if you if you already know these words so if  

you know a thousand words already but you don't  speak fluently why would you learn more it's a  

good question right if you know all of this but  you still don't speak fluently why would you learn  

more all right you know if you know all this but  you're not using it fluently how is how is more  

information going to help you speak fluent ly it's  not it's much better just get more information  

about what you already know I know it seems like a  boring thing so people are naturally uh interested  

in learning more but you can learn more about uh  this idea okay you can learn more about like the  

the information you're learning like this this  is it's like you think you think you know this  

information it's like those old uh I don't know  what what was the name of that show like MTV Cribs  

it's like you think you know but you have no eyes  idea you think you know but you have no idea if  

you've got basic grammar errors and you don't feel  confident about speaking you think you know you  

think you understand but you don't okay and now  again like I drew my little example before like  

you know somewhat and that's good but keep going  keep going finish finish the project finish this  

finish this understanding over here help yourself  understand the vocabulary better and then you will  

feel confident using it that's a secret all right  so it's not learning more it's just understanding  

that vocabulary better all right uh let's see  where did I get stuck here so YouTube see YouTube  

needs to fix my problem here about making sure uh  I get oh my goodness what how did we how did we  

get all the way up here all right uh let's see  to make sure I answered okay here we go uh hi  

everyone from Mexico your English is easier than  English in movies why because I'm trying to be  

understandable that's the that's the secret hello  everyone Jack Smith hi I tried to read a book and  

Tried reading a book uh is there any difference uh  what is it from Sira man thanks a lot I tried to  

read a book and I Tried reading a book no in this  example there's no difference R joh says how to  

overcome anxiousness while speaking to a native  or giving a speech in English you have to know  

what you're talking about you have to understand  English well enough that's the secret okay and  

most people they just they don't know how to do  that because they think the only way to do it is  

like repeating information again and again and  it's not it's actually getting naturally varied  

review which your brain is interested in getting  your brain wants to review information but your  

brain also needs new content so you need to change  the way you you give information to your brain uh  

in order for your brain to understand that so  as an example um if I if I take a like a new

pH like we're in we're in our like English  conversation class or whatever uh and the  

teacher says okay today class we're going  to practice the word hello and just have  

a greeting we just say hello to each  other now very quickly if we're just  

repeating the word then we will get very  bored and actually the word kind of loses  

meaning in your mind but if you instead get  a whole bunch of different examples like hey

hi what's up how's it going how's the family I was  actually just doing this with my younger daughter  

Noel uh yesterday uh we were just like saying  a bunch of these different things I was like hi  

hello you know what is some what is something  else you could say she's like hey you know and  

again she is preparing for all the different  ways that a real native speaker might Express  

that so each person says something different so  this person says hello this person says hey this  

person says hi it depends on the situation  so most people they will take one thing like  

look at that here's my greeting my greeting is  hello but are you prepared for other things that  

people might say are you prepared to hear them  and they're not clear again you can understand  

what I'm saying because I'm being understandable  I want to be understood okay the point is for  

you to understand what I'm saying but native  speakers in real life are not always understand  

that's why that English sounds like a different  language okay so uh just hearing me my examples  

is one thing but you you it's only part of the  process that gets you fluent because you need to  

hear other people lots of examples of other native  speakers and you need to hear that in different  

ways okay so not just repeating something  but that's how you actually go deeper into  

this vocabulary you get more examples you really  understand something well and that's when you feel  

confident about using it when you understand  the vocabulary well the sinus disappears so  

destroy I'll just put this up here uh the main  idea destroy the doubt whoops destroy the doubt  

the doubt is what stops you from speaking  okay all right uh see if we can go through  

these last couple of questions here I think I  missed this one and it says hi from Vietnam I  

watch everything in English but I feel that my  English skill ain't oh I answer that one already

okay uh let's see Ben Wong again how to thinking  in English to build a bridge to connect real  

life in English for example when I feel angry the  word of angry will comes out instead of my native  

language uh if yes that's the goal watch other  people being angry go to YouTube like you're  

already here and type in English like people  expressing anger just type that in like people  

expressing anger and you will see people  angry or like people yelling at somebody  

else or you will see this in movies but  that's how people learn how to express  

themselves without thinking it's like when  I came to Japan and I'm surprised and I hear

like like people say I'm surprised in that way so  when they are surprised that's what they say okay  

that's one way of expressing that and so when I  look at that I'm not trying to translate anything  

I just say oh that's interesting people say beisha  when they are are surprised and maybe I learn  

later that that's what the word actually means but  like it's just it's like if a person is is really  

scared and they're like like if everybody said  that then I would think oh this this like this  

this this sound or this group of sounds means  expressing fear it's like look looking at like  

monkeys in a in a tree or whatever there's a like  a you know like a a tiger or something coming the  

monkeys are like like they probably mean like d  anger or there's a tiger or something like that  

but they're communicating in the same way so we do  the same thing we just have a bit more detail in  

how we do that uh so pay attention watch examples  of how other people do that especially Natives  

and then you will feel more confident yourself as  you do it all right Mustafa says you look like an  

actor in yes Tom Cruz no Tom Hanks excuse me uh  Domingo says I had an interview for a new job I  

was not hired because my English was not fluency  again you would say my English was not fluent the  

interviewer asked me about different thing which  was difficult to understand which was difficult  

to get responses yes so if you were unprepared  then you will not be able to speak the good news  

is again you can do this preparation by yourself  okay you just need to get all the examples you  

don't need to actually speak in order to improve  all right so when you do feel more confident you  

can start speaking but uh most people have like  a lower level of English than they think they can  

understand but they should be spending more time  really understanding the vocabulary uh Len Len  

Len lenon hi my name is lenon I always watch your  videos good job glad to hear it again if you know  

other people who would enjoy this uh click the  like button and also tell other people about it  

13 Super Metal says I think his English is easier  to understand than his movie than the movies are  

series and because he uses a lot less contractions  and connected speech linking and he uses rela low  

speech Yes again I'm trying to be understandable  hello teacher I'm curious about the difference  

between I don't know and I don't know what I have  no idea please let me know well I mean you like  

I I have no idea is almost a more like a not a  serious but a stronger way of expressing that  

so if someone says like what's your like what's  your child's birthday or something it's like oh I  

don't know like in that case you're just like oh  I don't know but if if it's like a more serious  

thing um like if I'm at a if I'm taking a class  and or someone is asking me how to fix a car like  

I have no idea how to fix a car it's like I don't  know it all like it's not like oh I don't know how  

to fix a car I could say that but when you have no  idea it's like you really know nothing about that  

okay so it's it's just a kind of stronger way to  express that but very good like you'll notice like  

as you can compare these different things and you  get native examples and Native explanation about  

them you will feel more confident all right Kelly  says are you speaking in your normal uh yes so  

yes so I like and what what we do INF fluent for  life like there is some speech like this but also  

native faster speech like a lot of that so you  get to understand the language and then hear how  

natives are really using it you need all of that  to become a fluent speaker Jose says Drew your  

wife is not watching this video right that example  about the shoes is not good I don't know yes I'm  

I'm pretty sure my wife is not watching this right  now all Lou says uh how to get more motivation I  

answered that one already all right I wish I  could speak fluent English like Koo says hello  

hello J I've followed all of your Channel's videos  and still have been following them it covers all  

aspects that I was really looking for and learning  and interestingly I've been using the methods  

learning glad to hear it uh uh learning learning  French yes so again like the the principles that  

I'm teaching here it it's applicable for anything  for learning other languages or learning really  

anything uh it's the it's the focus that  really gets you success in that thing oh and

say you need to use your English all right J I've  recently bought the online courses your sound is  

much more clear and precise highly recommend glad  to hear it yes like uh I probably should get a  

better microphone I'm just using like a regular  kind of podcasting uh microphone over here but  

I'm glad to see you in the program uh K says also  nervous when tach Drew talks to me you would say  

talks to me or I am also nervous when teacher  Drew talks to me uh let's see all right yes  

again if you have any questions about programs let  me know I'm happy to answer those for you you'll  

notice we also have like a very limited number of  programs because we also want to focus on what we  

do so like the native fluency blueprint is just  for helping people who are really independent  

Learners who want to understand the principles  of fast fluid uy and then and then like we teach  

a lot of vocabulary as well um but it's for people  who are learning by themselves but fluent for life  

is for people uh who really want to someone to  take them step by step and and get them fluent so  

I get you fluent along with all the other natives  in the program uh that's what we do in the program  

so it's it's actually pretty simple but the  basic idea is that we're just eliminating doubt  

uh Luciano says awesome concept uh use my dream is  to become fluent soon hello from Brazil Bruno says  

guys remember to give the video a thumbs up okay  yes very good Rocky I think I need to learn how  

to organize ideas so that they are easy uh so  that they can put them out easily uh yes so  

again the basic idea is focus on something small  and make sure you can say that thing so if we take  

a specific grammar point like I did earlier I  wish I had and then you can start adding more  

things to that so I wish I had a cow you you know  whatever that's kind of a silly example but I wish  

I had like a I don't know a brown shirt and not  a black one or I wish I had and then we can we  

can make it a little bit more interesting or more  complex I wish I had done something so now I I'm  

kind of regretting that I didn't do something  in the past and as you get these examples and  

see natives giving these examples you will feel  a lot more confident about that okay uh let's see  

Luciano says I think to speak might help you to  beat the shyness it's like unlocking your skill  

um I I used to recommend this to people like when  I like very first began teaching uh but I do not  

anymore I really just recommend people eliminating  the doubt by themselves so it's better it's like  

if I told you hey I want you to give a speech  about uh I don't know something you don't know  

anything about and I say well just be confident  and go up and give the speech anyway even though  

you don't really know what you're talking about  that's kind of a I'm being a bad teacher if I do  

that but the better thing would be to really help  you understand what you're talking about and then  

when you give the speech you will feel good  about doing that all right so the the second  

option is usually best most people are much better  at expressing themselves if they know what they're  

talking about I I'll give this I I told this story  maybe I don't know a few years ago or something  

but there was I think there still is a uh it's  like a a sports uh a sports show called sports  

sports center uh on ESPN if that's still around  this was many years ago I don't know if it's here  

or not uh and they had a series of commercials  usually they have kind of funny commercials with  

with professional baseball players or football  players professional athletes uh and one of them  

uh it was a guy they were sitting out like just  some like business guys they were sitting on a  

on a bench together uh and they were talking uh  and one guy says he says like something about a  

sports team he's like oh like this this guy uh  like he's a really good player and uh I was I  

he like he's very knowledgeable about this person  uh but then this guy something has says something  

and it's not actually coming from his mouth  it's coming from like his his butt his ass  

uh and so like this guy is speaking you can see  his lips moving and he's actually speaking uh but  

this guy uh the speech is kind of coming from  his butt and it sounds like and he's kind of  

they're they're they're trying to make the uh the  analogy here or the kind of demonstrate this idea  

of talking talking out of your ass so when you're  talking out of your ass you're you're basically  

talking about things that you don't know about  so this guy is knowledgeable about sports this  

guy is not knowledgeable about sports so he says  silly things and the idea of the commercial is  

this guy should probably watch sports center  so he learns more about sports all right but  

it was just a clever way of of doing that and  he was he was basically just saying something  

wrong or giving some bad advice or whatever but  he was talking out of his ass all right so people  

like they don't they don't say this talk out of  your ass in the commercial but you can see that's  

what they're demonstrating all right so it's  a clever use of the language and people like  

native speakers will know what this is because  they often use that expression like oh you're  

talking out of your ass man like that that guy  is not very good at that sport or whatever just  

as an example all right so in the same way when  you feel confident about something you can speak  

so this guy feels confident he can speak this guy  is talking out of his ass or in the same way like  

maybe making grammar mistakes or other things like  that so I don't recommend people just be confident  

and just go out and do it like that's the wrong  way to think about it for most people and as a  

teacher I wouldn't that's like bad teaching uh  it's easy for me to say hey just be confident  

uh it's more difficult for me to actually help  people to feel confident because they know the  

vocabulary so well okay so my job is to make the  language easy to understand so you feel confident  

speaking all right so it's much easier than you  trying to do that by yourself all right uh let's  

see Jay says it's uh it's right when I got North  America First natives use more phrasal verbs that  

combined easily their words and conversation and  big words yes so this is again another reason like  

you don't need to know you don't need to know a  lot of vocabulary to speak fluently if you know  

individual a few words well you can combine those  in different ways and be a really good speaker  

isn't that easier wouldn't that be faster to do  yeah of course it would be and that's why like in  

most of this you might learn all those words but  you probably will not remember them anyway so uh  

it's more difficult that way all right would you  talk about contractions and leing words uh not in  

this video but I if you search my channel you will  find more information about that watching from  

Egypt hello from Philippines talks thank you uh Dr  trickin is back I want to be fluent for sure but I  

have no partner to speak in English every day what  I do is watch movies read articles and of course  

watch your videos I love watching you speak uh  speaking thank you sir so remember yes you don't  

worry about having a speaking partner speaking  partner is not what you need you just need lots  

of examples that clear your doubt whatever your  doubts are just solve those particular problems  

that's it okay so you need to uh figure out the  like the particular the particular thing you're  

you're struggling with whatever that is and solve  that issue uh shim says how long have you you been  

in teaching uh so how long have I been teaching uh  over 20 years yeah uh but even before that I was  

like a coach and uh like for sports things like  that uh man says I salute you and love watching  

you I am from Morocco and your language is  beautiful and easy my problem with the language is  

lack of practice again this is what people think  they think either they're too old they think they  

need a lot of practice they think they need to do  all these things but really the only thing that's  

stopping you from speaking is doubt that's it all  right that's the main issue you might have like if  

you have a physical problem where you can't move  your mouth in a certain way that's a separate  

issue from learning the language but in general  if you feel confident uh then you will speak but  

if you don't feel confident it means you have some  kind of doubt about the language and that's what  

will stop you uh Saba says I'm watching you from  Japan I'm originally from South Asian countries of  

Bangladesh welcome to the program Supernatural it  really helps in the beginning I was like well it's  

all been covered probably in the regular videos  but it's totally different it covers so many other  

things yeah again welcome to the program and if  you have excuse me any questions as you learn let  

us know I'm glad you're enjoying it though yeah  like often the the things that I talk about in  

these YouTube videos it's it's assuming people  will not join my programs because not everybody  

can join my programs or not everyone will or  whatever and that's okay but I still want to  

help people learn uh and so if you understand how  to learn you can apply that by yourself so I do  

the same thing I don't have a Japanese teacher  but I have kind of many Japanese teachers as I'm  

learning because I'm just learning the same  way a native Japanese person would learn the  

language but um if you want help those are the  those are the things that we can help you with  

uh and so typically the things like that I cover  in videos like this on these YouTube videos it's  

just helping people understand how to learn but  we spend a lot more time going into detail about  

how to do things and especially in fluent for  life this is where we're really going deep into  

helping people understand and like destroy all the  doubt about various grammar points or being able  

to talk about different topics or understanding  different speakers it's U it's really like a  

massive program with lots of different things over  there all right uh look that I got some uh the soy  

wokeist that's an interesting name I can't read  the cerlic over there uh but yes uh enjoying it  

glad to hear it uh hi teacher any grammar book  or kind of it to recommend us or only searching  

over internet helps um well you can think about  whatever grammar Point you're interested in uh if  

you want to specifically learn grammar like that I  don't really recommend that but uh remember you're  

really trying to connect Grammar with situations  so when you hear something what what is happening  

when are when are people saying things what are  they talking about um and that will make you  

feel more confident about about it but whatever  way you're learning these things you should get  

lots of examples and hear how natives are doing  this so if you know what the grammar point is  

like whatever that like I would I would find an  example of the grammar point like I wish I had  

like type that into yish so y u g l i h.com uh and  they have uh you can listen to different examples  

they basically give you naturally varied review  uh for specific vocabulary if you know what you're  

looking for you can find examples of that uh  and it will give you that all right so find more  

examples uh it's just a little bit more difficult  to try to think about new things by yourself or  

to express yourselves uh in different ways uh  let's see anduk says uh as you go deeper while  

learning uh any learner would feel like I need a  completely different and to the point materials  

honestly all my needs have been met so far still  looking forward to more videos glad to hear all  

right uh let's see I can't read that Chinese  well I can I I I like know what some of that  

is in Japanese but I I don't know how you would  say that in Chinese uh K says teacher I can say  

I'm big on it instead of I like it uh I haven't  heard much about that yeah you can say I'm big on  

that I'm big on that like I really enjoy something  or you can say I'm a fan of something or a big fan  

of that thing but look at that let's see how much  time did we get through I think we did 88 Minutes  

oh my goodness how many new words I have learning  every day uh based on your writing uh don't learn  

any new words go back and learn the new words that  you already know or the like kind of learn them in  

new ways I should say all right so don't think  about trying to learn how many new words in a  

day I should just make a new video I'll just tell  you how many new words you need to learn in a day  

uh the answer is typically like one depending  on how you like how well you already understand  

uh but for most people learning more vocabulary  again I'll make this point again if you already  

know a bunch of words but you're not using them  fluently why would you learn new vocabulary okay  

if you already know a lot of vocabulary but you  don't use it fluently why learn more the problem  

is not your vocabulary it's how well you use your  vocabulary based on how well you know your vocab  

abary so you might know your vocabulary a little  bit you can understand what people like me are  

saying but maybe you still have doubts that stop  you from speaking so that's the thing to focus  

on so don't worry about getting new words get on  get on like more examples of the vocabulary you  

already know all right all right uh Revan says  hello teacher from India and nakba nakaba says  

perfect morning English class glad to hear it all  right it's clear now thank you and well wellis and  

I understand thanks thanks all right well thank  you for uh joining me today again the things we  

talk about in these videos is really trying to  help you correct false beliefs that people have  

about language learning and actually show you that  it's much easier and faster and I have proof like  

that I've done this myself my students have done  this and it's really the way we all get fluent  

in our native language if you don't understand  something very well you probably won't be able  

to speak very well about that thing okay makes  sense right so rather than forcing yourself to  

speak before you're ready just get a lot of great  examples that really help you understand something  

well okay all right have a fantastic day if you'd  like to learn more and actually have me get you  

fluent step by step you can click on the links  in the description below this video I recommend  

Frederick for people who just want to play with  something by themselves and really understand  

how vocabulary uh pronunciation grammar even how  those all work and you can actually understand the  

language the same way a native child does  fluent for Life covers everything but you  

can learn more about those in the links Below  have a great day and I'll see you then bye-bye