Advanced English Vocabulary: Heavy - EnglishAnyone.com

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all right I'm Drew Badger the founder of  englishanyone.com and the English fluency guide  

and today I'm going to help you with some more  native vocabulary remember the goal is not really  

just to learn the vocabulary it's to understand  how to learn so you can get fluent automatically  

all right uh let's see there Louise says  hello nice to see you there all right so today  

working with some more advanced vocabulary make  sure you can see this how high can we go up here  

okay all right yeah nice to see you if  you know other people who would like to  

get fluent automatically you can just sit  back relax and learn something and actually  

become a more fluent speaker let them know so  tell everybody call your mom and your friend  

everybody say hey watch this feed right now very  important so we're going to talk about heavy

and before we do just uh as people get started  over here nice to see everybody it is my morning  

over here in Japan hopefully uh doing well  wherever you happen to be uh we're going to show  

you in this video as I like to do the difference  between learning like a student and learning like  

a native so I'm repeating these lessons again and  again but I'm giving you naturally varied review  

so we're not going to cover exactly the same thing  every time but because of the slightly different  

review you actually develop fluency automatically  all right I'm understanding all the words you say  

fantastic all right so remember as we go through  these videos I I want to make sure that everyone  

understands what I'm saying but it takes time  to get you to the level where you understand  

natives I have to do that in a few steps and I  can't really do that in just one video so the  

purpose of these videos on YouTube is really just  to show you that you can understand and that you  

can learn like a native so that you speak like  one but taking you to that level where you can  

also understand lots of native speakers that's  something I do in fluent for life if you'd like  

to learn more about that you can click on the  link in the description but let's see I mean  

the meaning of the words fantastic yes we like to  start with some basic things and we'll become a  

little bit more challenging from there and that's  why we get into the advanced native vocabulary now  

it should be loud enough you can turn up your  volume this is the same volume level I have  

every time I do these I don't change the volume  level at least I don't think I do but Michelle  

nice to see you there hopefully you're enjoying  your day too all right so again we're going to  

contrast the way that natives learn versus the  way students learn so very quickly before we  

talk about the word itself volume is good here  glad to hear it yes I can't affect everybody's  

volume so just turn your volume up if you can't  hear me very well it should be fine all right so  

the learner what the learner typically does is we  have a translation or we have a like a definition  

and typically you get maybe one or two or  three examples of something like that so A few  

examples and then there's very little review so  there might be uh some like you know maybe you  

hear something one time or two times uh but very  little review what level of can you understand  

you I don't know if that's a question for me  or not but we'll come back to that in a moment  

all right so a learner is learning like this so  usually they have like a word in their native  

language and they're going to translate that into  English so Japanese uh like heavy for example uh  

you might have a word like omoy oh boy in Japanese  and heavy in English but we don't want to do that  

as a learner Learners don't learn that way and  you'll understand why they don't learn that way  

in a minute so what natives are really doing  they're getting lots of reviews so many many  

many many many many examples of something and  that's how they automatically develop really  

strong confidence about their vocabulary but since  maybe if you've seen a few of these recent videos  

with me where I'm using naturally varied review  to help you understand native vocabulary I want  

to make it clear that this is just one part of  becoming fluent and one part of developing strong  

understanding so if you think about this like uh  the way a learner or a typical student learns it's  

like you can think of like 1D so it's like one  dimensional learning that just just having this  

single connection here between their word and  their native language and their word in English  

okay and so if you lose this connection here then  you can't speak and this is what causes a lot of  

people to struggle they forget their words and  conversations because again this you're making  

one link between these two words so it's one  definition or one translation or one example  

something like that but the native way of learning  is multi-dimensional multi so many many multi LT  

uh multi-dimensional so we're going to think about  it like uh you might have like the vocabulary  

dimension or you might have the grammar Dimension  or you might have the uh maybe the pronunciation  

Dimension so each time you're getting naturally  varied review you're getting different review  

along each one of these examples so right  now you're only listening to my voice which  

is really not enough to help you understand  exactly why people are saying hey Drew I can  

understand you very well but when I get into a  real conversation or when I watch movies it's  

hard for me to understand people so I'm just  giving you one example of this and in programs  

like fluent for life or in your actual real  life you will get lots of different examples  

of people saying these same things all right  so this is the focus of this video is really  

just helping you develop strong understanding with  vocabulary review so let's get into some examples  

now if you can think of anything we'll start off  the same way a native speaker learns the word have  

and if you can think of anything heavy let me  know just type it in the comments section tell me  

something heavy tell me something heavy very very  easy very easy example so in the same way that a  

native speaker a native child would learn the  word heavy tell me something heavy just quickly  

type it in the in the comment section below  I'll give you give you a second so heavy what

come on now come on now can't think of anything  heavy tell me something heavy this should be  

pretty easy for you guys I need to wake  you guys up wherever you happen to be all  

right let me give you some examples then if you  just want to sit back and relax but again heavy

heavy weight or heavy weights if  we're going to have like multiple  

heavy weights heavy rain oh look at that wow  you guys are getting getting higher level on  

me already all right now notice like the same way  that a native Native child would learn this they  

learn something heavy like the difference between  heavy and Light heavy and light and so when  

they're learning that they usually learn it with a  physical thing like a child tries to pick up their  

their mom or dad or something like that and they  say oh you're too heavy or I say oh I can't pick  

you up anymore because you're too heavy so I tell  that to my girls now so they are uh very heavy or  

heavy thoughts wow you guys are getting again  you're taking it to an even higher level but if  

you can imagine this like over a period of years a  heavy metal yes you got like the heavy metal music  

uh you've also got uh like the heavy metal like  the kind of metal like heavy metal contamination  

heavy metal contamination but again we begin  with something very simple and the point of  

this is just to have really strong understanding  of it without giving you a definition of the word  

all right so it's really we we almost don't want  to give you a definition because then it's going  

to make it more difficult for you to understand  more uses of it so typical students will learn  

one definition and then they hear something  different and they think wait that that doesn't  

fit into my definition okay so this is why we  do this naturally varied review so it looks  

like we've got a bunch of good examples already  let's see a very strong conscious that the world  

will be better heavy metal heavy thoughts heavy  vehicle heavy meal ooh heavy duty look at you guys  

very good so we've got yeah the same kind of  thing So Physical weight we're beginning with  

something like these you might have like a  heavy machinery let me spell these correctly

heavy machinery so heavy  machinery or heavy equipment

so heavy equipment this is you know big  trucks and things like that that you would  

see at a construction site so you have like  a large you know like a big vehicle like this  

it's got like a like a little hook on the end of  it this is called a backhoe so this this machine  

this is a hoe so it's on the back of this thing  so we call it a backhoe it's just a big digging  

machine but this is an example of heavy machinery  or heavy equipment heavy equipment and again we're  

just talking very basic I know people already  gave some really good examples of higher level  

things that you've heard before which is fantastic  but I really want to take it nice and simple for  

people and then get more advanced as we go so  again heavy equipment we've got uh let's see  

we had Heavy Rain that was another example from  before heavy rain heavy artillery wow look at that  

Heavy Artillery so that's where we're shooting you  know Rockets or missiles or uh something like that  

Let's see we got oh adriano's back nice to see you  there I'd like to stay more but now I have to rest  

this week are going to be difficult  nice to see you drew yes well you  

can come back and watch this later if you  like all right I will make this available  

So Heavy Rain uh Heavy Artillery another  great example that we got before let's see  

if we've got anything else that we might  have heard before do you know what this is  

foreign like if you walk up some stairs very  tired heavy snow not another good example  

so in the same way that we might have  heavy snow might have heavy rain as  

well so really that's really raining a  lot so the game example I just gave you

heavy breathing heavy breathing heavy heavy  heavy Army yeah heavy Army a heavy woman  

hahaha I'm a little bit scared to write that  on the board a heavy woman we'll put a heavy  

heavy people we'll put that up there so we're  not we're not only talking about the woman  

you know the woman or the man or whatever so  heavy people yes you can have anything being  

heavy all right so the point is we understand  basic like a physical example like this like  

a heavy drink oh very good heavy furniture look  at that you guys got lots of good ideas coming  

out already all right so heavy drink as well so  slightly d-r-i-n-k so slightly different usage  

it's the same around kind of general idea  we begin with something like heavy and you  

notice we've got all these different ideas we  we start moving off here in different ways and  

it's the network here the network that builds  your fluency all right so you can always feel  

confident about something some heavy cloth yes  that's right you could have some very thin and  

often we have the opposite of these when when  children are learning these examples they learn  

and they start asking questions they Wonder can  I also say light instead so like light rain and  

heavy rain heavy cargo another good example so  heavy if we make a heavy drink you can imagine

so a typical drink let's say we have maybe this  much alcohol in the bottom of it and then this  

is you know sugar water or whatever else people  put in there if you want to make a heavy drink  

we put a lot more alcohol in that heavy make  a heavy drink you'll also hear this known

as a stiff drink that's a stiff drink  that's a stiff drink a lot of alcohol in  

that a stiff drink all right but you guys are  getting it so the point is not one definition  

or one usage that helps you build the fluency  for this all right it's the network the network  

of vocabulary that you build that really  makes this on very strong understanding  

for you all right so let's get a little bit more  creative here we'll work into some phrases as we  

can think about that but lots of good examples  so far I like heavy woman that's pretty funny  

every woman you guys are going to get me into  trouble over here heavy breathing yes all right  

heavy heavy breathing heavy breakfast all right so  the same idea again we're making these connections  

and it's helping you understand it like a  native so we just had the heavy drink example  

and so we can also have a heavy meal a heavy  meal so we have a Like A light meal A light  

meal might have just you know maybe I  just have a few you know here's like  

a banana and you know some little carrots  or something that's a light a light meal

but if we want to have a heavy a heavy meal  that's where we really have something I've  

got like a lot of food on the plate a lot  of Curry or you know some bread and other  

things like that that are very filling very  thick that's a heavy meal all right so I had  

a heavy breakfast where I had a light breakfast  same kind of way hippie Journey you can see that  

all right let's see well I'm a Muslim I do not  drink alcohol I meant a heavy drink like mango  

and guap yes in that case we don't typically  yeah you can we we wouldn't really call that  

like a heavy a heavy drink if you want to  talk about the thickness of it or the actual  

weight of the drink so something some liquids  will weigh more than than others but natives  

when they talk about like a heavy drink or we  can talk about a heavy drinker heavy drinker

heavy drink

what is a heavy drinker do you think what is a  heavy drinker a heavy drinker a heavy drinker  

now you could think like that it could be  like the person is just like very heavy

this guy really likes uh he's uh he's just like  a fat person yeah there you go an alcoholic  

yes so you can call someone an alcoholic but yes  someone who drinks a lot all right so heavy all  

right we talked about heavy before about weight  so we have the basic idea we have a little imagine  

this is like a little little weight that you can  carry so the weight idea about heavy but we can  

also talk about how much you do something okay  so a heavy heavy a heavy drinker so maybe you  

could like this person over here it could be very  thin and drink a lot too this person could be a  

heavy drinker and this person could be a heavy  drinker all right so I could be a heavy partier  

someone who likes to party okay all right so a  heavy drinker heavy partier same kind of idea  

is everyone getting this I really want to make  sure so heavy means adding good amount of anything  

well heavy heavy could mean that not always so  you could have a greater amount of something or  

you do something more but like a person who is a  heavy drinker or a heavy user of something like  

that a heavy user so if like I remember there  was a uh there is a movie called supersize me  

about a guy Morgan Spurlock was the name of  the guy he went to McDonald's every day for a  

month I think and had to eat breakfast lunch and  dinner to see if it was a healthy healthy option  

and so if he tried to eat that direndra oh  thank you very much too kind so he went to  

McDonald's every day and uh and McDonald's calls  people who go to McDonald's every day heavy users  

all right so just like a drug user like people  who go to McDonald's every day it's like a heavy  

user of something all right so you do something  a lot all right you notice how again your idea of  

heavy is expanding not just from from getting  one definition of it but from getting lots of  

different uses okay let me erase these examples  over here so we had a a slightly more a little  

bit more figurative uses of those so let's  talk about those right quick as well heavy

foreign workload  

so maybe you're at work and usually your like your  workload is like this but today you've got a lot  

all right uh the name of the movie is a Super  Size Me yes it's a funny movie it's a documentary  

so Morgan Spurlock is the name of the uh the  director or the like the creator of the movie  

uh but yes it's a funny movie Supersize Me So if  you go into McDonald's and they say would you like  

to supersize that I think they actually stopped  offering super size after that movie came out  

because it's just like oh it's so unhealthy  to eat that much food all right Supersize Me  

so right here uh if this is your heavy workload  what might this be over here I was about to tell  

you a drinker you can also think about it  but I don't drink alcohol Heavy Music yeah  

think about heavy leaves same kind of idea  so we have a heavy workload here and a light  

work load over here same idea so heavy and light  now you won't always have heavy and light these  

these kind of opposite things that you can talk  about but natives are thinking that way they're  

always asking in the back of their mind can I use  something like this can I change the meaning of  

something or can I use a different thing instead  so heavy workload you might have a heavy heart

does anyone know what that means  to say you have a heavy heart  

a heavy heart what do you think it might mean so  from what we've talked about before about heavy  

feeling like it's got a lot of weight to it  are you doing something a lot what do you  

think a heavy heart might mean let me know in the  comments I'll put up a few more here just to get  

your mind thinking so we've got a heavy heart let  me know in the comments what you think about this

that we get a little bit higher than that what  kind the heart is grieving is it sad yeah it could  

it could be a couple of those things typically  a heavy heart means sad you've got a heavy heart  

about something usually like you're light-hearted  so the opposite would be to have like a light  

heart a lighthearted person usually they're  uh very fun and uh you know they're excited  

about life so a heavy heart is feeling more  sad or Melancholy you feel a little bit sad  

about something so with a heavy heart I had to  reject your your application something like that  

so I felt sad about doing it have a heavy heart a  heavy heart heavy emphasis this is another please  

stay true if you have a Facebook site I wanted  yeah just look for English anyone on Facebook  

so heavy emphasis so right now I'm putting  a heavy emphasis on the word heavy I want to  

give you lots of examples using the word heavy  so I'm emphasizing something a lot to put heavy  

emphasis heavy emphasis heavy emphasis on the word  all right and you will hear this a lot so people  

not just putting emphasis on something I want to  put heavy emphasis really really make that clear  

so if I'm giving a speech and I'm saying  something I want to highlight one word  

I want to emphasize this I'm putting  heavy emphasis on this particular word  

all right let's see what  else we have we might have

let's imagine a person here this person uh he's  got a backpack on and there's another person  

over here I know everyone likes my my drawing  and this person has a massive bag like this  

what do you think we might call this one  now the basic idea we have a physical thing  

like a heavy bag like this but you can also  have the mental or figurative idea as well  

you can see heavy heavy elections in terms of  that was intense ah we wouldn't we don't really  

use heavy elections in that way it'd be shade we  wouldn't use that either heavy shade or yeah you  

could talk about heavily shaded or well shaded  all right so we can talk about this as a heavy

a heavy Burt yes you could have a heavy mind in  the same way that you have a heavy heart you have  

a heavy mind all right I'm really thinking about  something yeah and I feel like my there's like  

a weight on me so you can have mentally like  a heavy burden yeah heavy font the same thing  

all right so heavy burden is you're carrying  something or you feel there's a weight on you  

somehow mentally or physically a heavy burden so  if you maybe you were taking care of your family  

or something or you have to do a lot at work  there's a lot of responsibility a heavy burden  

is something you might add do you support Biden or  Trump I don't really like either of them I'm not  

really I don't know why I have to support one or  the other but uh yes focusing on this yes a heavy  

load that's right heavy load but again the idea  is that you can have it mentally as well so not  

just something physical like we talked to little  kids when we're teaching them about this this is  

the same way that you're learning the language  even as an adult so you begin with something  

physical like an actual heavy bag but then we can  think about wow you have a heavy responsibility  

heavy responsibility heavy responsibility same  idea all right can erase some of these over here

another more advanced example here

heavy reliance

so typically a person so if they have uh you  know they have some kind of responsibility  

that they're carrying you might think  like other people you can even carry  

other people like a parent will carry their  family you know mentally like this figuratively  

and so the the children they have a heavy  Reliance on their parents have heavy Reliance  

on their parents to rely heavily on them to  rely heavily all right any questions about  

what we covered so far again I want to give you  so many examples that you're just like I'll be  

okay I get it drew these are these are great I get  enough examples okay I understand heavy all right  

but there's always something new to learn and so  when you are the point is really to get your level  

to such a good level that you can  then learn new English just out in  

the world and you hear the word heavy and you  understand what it means you can integrate new  

meanings and New Uses new phrases into your  vocabulary all right that's why we do this

all right now if we think maybe of some  phrases finish this up hopefully this is  

making sense let me know if you're if you're  enjoying this video or not click the like  

button let me know it makes sense I can see  if people are understanding this video or not  

has heavy knowledge about grammar yeah you can you  can talk about heavy knowledge typically we heavy  

is almost more of like uh not really a negative  thing but you learn that as uh as you're as you're  

improving your understanding you think ah it's  usually more kind of negative things or like a  

weight on you that something maybe you don't like  you can talk about like a heavy knowledge so yeah  

you can kind of talk about heavy knowledge you can  talk about being heavily into something all right  

Veronica says is a great tutorial glad to hear it  all right making sense all right now let's think  

if you can think of any phrases with heavy in them  so we had a few of them before talk about someone  

drinking too much heavy problems yeah same kind  of idea heavy accent oh very good a heavy accent  

so someone who speaks clearly right now you can't  really tell I have an accent or not because I'm  

just speaking very clearly I don't have a heavy  accent but someone you can't really understand  

what they're saying ah they have a heavy accent  you can have a light accent in the same way so  

just a little bit of an accent a light accent  all right it's a heavy accent or a light accent

all right so let's look at a  few more examples with phrases

foreign

pay a heavy price pay a heavy price all right  now again you might have a like a high price  

when you're talking about physical money all right  if I go to a store and I buy an expensive shirt so  

this this shirt cost me five hundred dollars  amazing oh heavy float there you go it's very  

strong heavy float uh and women will you know  that's also like uh like a women's uh a woman's  

a woman's word for a special time of the month  I'll let women figure that out by talking about  

like Light Flow and heavy heavy flow all right yes  so heavy in this case sounds like strong or hard  

yeah so play to pay a heavy price so let's say  I do something uh and uh there's going to be a  

big sacrifice somehow so I pay a heavy price for  doing that thing all right so maybe I have to I  

have to leave my job let's say I I hate my job but  uh I really I just want to go out and like live in  

in the forest somewhere but I still need money  maybe to to survive or get something like that  

so if I quit my job I pay a heavy price I'm losing  all of my income I pay a heavy price heavy price  

all right so even if it's not talking about money  specifically you still have it just means there's  

uh some kind of sacrifice that you have so have to  pay a heavy price for that all right we're getting  

a couple comments in here let's take a look at  what these are all right so Hi teacher I'm from  

Guatemala thank you so much for sharing your  knowledge with us it's my pleasure in our uh in  

Arabic what we also say this man is heavy in his  field of work it indicates that he is an expert in  

the field yep yeah you can talk about like heavy  knowledge in that example yeah but typically we  

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah when  you you can hear me when I'm I'm get I'm thinking  

of examples in my mind of how natives would use  that and I and I wonder if I would say yeah he's  

like he has heavy knowledge in something typically  we would talk about deep knowledge in that way  

and you could talk about like light knowledge  and deep knowledge but more so uh rather than  

like saying someone has like heavy knowledge you  could say that people would understand what you're  

saying but deep knowledge is more common deep  knowledge so someone who is deeply knowledgeable  

so this means that he has a lot of experience  skills and information and programming yep yep  

all right so everybody gets this so so to  pay uh a heavy price for something another  

great expression you will hear a lot now this is  related to the physical weight example is to do

the heavy lifting heavy lifting

I can't carry this box it is so heavy yes this  is a very basic example of that so to do the  

heavy lifting you will see this when we're going  to do something for someone or a machine will do  

something for you instead of me carrying something  or moving some kind of weight I have a machine do  

it for me I have a machine do the heavy lifting  for me all right so I might let's say I a person  

you know has to has to walk up some stairs but I  make an escalator and an escalator does the heavy  

lifting for you it does the heavy lifting for  you escalator does the heavy lifting for you so  

you can put a box on here and the escalator just  just pulls it up for you to do the heavy lifting  

for you all right so the point again is not to try  to remember all of these phrases at one time it's  

just to let this let this begin sinking into  your brain and the more examples you hear and  

the more time you spend with the words and also  the more examples you get from different people  

as I talked about before about multi-dimensional  learning you're hearing the different grammar  

examples or the different pronunciations uh  different contexts all these different things  

are what build your pronunciation and you have  not spoken anything to me you might be speaking  

out loud to yourself but I'm not hearing anything  you're saying so you're improving your fluency by  

yourself as you do this does anyone feel more  fluent as they're doing this hopefully this is  

making sense if I'm teaching you correctly you  should feel more fluent as we're going over this  

and you should feel more confident about using  the word heavy in your conversations is that true  

let me know in the comments see if I have any  if I can think of anything else as you post that  

down below but I want to make sure my English  is already fine so this is not for my benefit  

this is for you all right Veronica says absolutely  all right so the point of these videos is really  

to show you that you can become more fluent  by yourself all right even in a conversation  

imagine you're having a conversation with someone  else now people think they need to speak in order  

to get fluent and the reason is because well  everybody says that's what you have to do you  

have to speak in order to get fluent but really  what's happening is like let's say you're talking  

with a native person so this is you over here  you're in a conversation with a native person the  

native person is going to give you all this input  over here now you will say things maybe you heard  

from other people or you're repeating something  practicing something like that but it's all of  

the the information that you're getting from the  other person that's really building your fluency  

so you're getting other uses of heavy or other  uses of other words that are helping you build  

your fluency all right let me see if we have any  other more examples but if you have questions  

about anything related to this or anything  else you could let me know in the comments  

down below but hopefully you're getting the idea  about this let me see if I have other let's see  

so if I someone someone mentioned uh well  different just a different uses of heavy over here

very quickly I want to give some more top  heavy what do you think that means top heavy  

top heavy top heavy while you think  about that let me put some more up here  

what we might have I'll put this  I'll put this one up as well

because I know people have  probably not heard this before  

going to use to do the heavy lifting meaning  the most amount of work at the office I mean  

figuratively yep you can you can say that so you  can see I do the heavy lifting uh at the office  

and typically we we say like one person  is doing something more than other people  

or a machine is doing something  more Hello nice to see you there  

so heavy so top heavy means you can think about  something like this like the top of something  

is much bigger than the bottom so it's unbalanced  it's hop heavy you could have bottom heavy in the  

same way if we flip something over but this is  like a little bit a little bit stronger so the  

weight the weight down here is better if you have  it on on something but this is not very balanced  

well it's probably going to fall over it's top  heavy top heavy it's all right heavy petting this  

is talking about uh is more of a more of a sexual  kind of thing I don't want to go into detail about  

it I bet you can figure out what it's what it's  talking about so you have regular petting where  

you like touch something like petting a dog but  heavy petting that's where you get serious you  

know maybe you have some romantic music playing  or something I'll let you imagine what this uh  

what's going on there you can Google that later  heavy Petty all right so someone is heavy means  

what well it's someone if you're talking  about well heavy means heavy um heavy heavy  

heavy doesn't necessarily mean difficult so again  we're we're thinking about the word heavy here  

and we begin deepening so deepening improving  increasing our understanding of the word so  

we might have the weight we might have  the amount we might have the strength

so if I'm if I'm a boxer I might have like a  heavy punch a heavy a heavy Punch or a heavy  

blow to hit someone very hard that's  oh that's a heavy blow a heavy punch  

or heavy blow and we have the word  flow before as well heavy flow  

so you might have like a light River like this a  very very gentle thing and then you have wow it  

was a heavy flow we got a lot coming through heavy  flow all right but the point is as you're learning  

more of these examples your mind is automatically  doing this your mind is automatically thinking ah  

okay I can I can use it this way I can use it  this way or I can say like heavy versus light  

so heavy flow Light Flow a heavy punch or  a light punch a heavy kick a light kick  

so you play like a fighting game usually they  will have those buttons it's like light kick  

versus heavy kick so just like you know a  little Punch or a stronger one same thing  

it is also heavier to crab although  you mean grab grab all those  

if you mean the examples remember the the point is  not to give you a thousand explanations and then  

and then try to make you remember that because  you will probably forget some of this uh maybe  

tomorrow you know you will remember some of these  but the point is this the network remains and  

that's what that's the important thing so even if  you forgot a particular thing like heavy punch you  

know maybe you forgot that whatever it doesn't  matter but you understand the deeper meaning  

of what heavy is talking about so heavy weight  heavy amount of something heavy strength okay  

so all the examples we've got you your mind is  is putting these into these different categories  

all right makes sense and see if we have any more  I think we've gotten uh another one I'll give you  

one last one last kind of like like I don't know  maybe I probably shouldn't do this but I'll do it  

anyway see hot and hippie this is also another  thing you should Google if you want to figure  

out the meaning of it but it's the same kind of  meaning where you're in a physical you know time  

spending with your your significant other your  you know somebody and you're getting getting hot  

and heavy things are getting hot and heavy I'll  let you look that one up though all right that  

is enough for this lesson about heavy and again  this is just one way of building your fluency  

where you're you're learning lots of different  uses of vocabulary but there are many more  

so again you're taking uh the vocabulary that  you learn you're learning it in different ways  

you're learning it in different grammar text  you know in Grim different context different  

grammar points uh and hearing the vocabulary from  different speakers so when I'm learning vocabulary  

as a child I'm hearing heavy from my mom and my  dad and my cousins it was a heavy lesson today  

yes I'm giving you a heavy load heavy  mental load all right long speech  

all right let's see so fam says hello how to speak  longer with long sentences longer speech all right  

so we're finished with this uh we'll cover  a couple of questions that people have those

now this will sound like a simple example  but how to have longer how to have  

longer or I guess what is it how to  say or how to make longer sentences

so how to have longer sentences how to how to  speak for longer periods of time uh the training  

that I gave you earlier in this video about heavy  the we're laying the foundation for your ability  

to speak so by getting these different examples of  how you can talk that's how we're going to improve  

your speech and let you speak for longer periods  of time all right but we begin again just like  

the the word heavy that we talked about we have  getting the basics these short examples together  

and making sure you can use these short  things well often Learners will they will  

they want to say a longer sentence even though  they can't yet say short sentences very well  

all right so it's it's important to get good  at making short sentences before you try  

to say longer sentences all right I know this  seems like an obvious thing but many Learners  

are excited to say longer things even though they  they don't really feel confident saying short ones  

and you get good at these short things by  building your vocabulary with naturally  

varied review like I just talked  about in this video with heavy  

all right so if you want to be able to say  longer things just like I'm doing right now  

so I'm using phrases that I've learned and I'm  just putting them together to make a longer  

sentence I'm using phrases that I've learned I'm  using phrases that I've learned so that's like one  

idea I'm using so I'm using I'm using so this  is one idea I'm using I'm using something I'm  

using phrases that I have learned or you can  say phrases I know so I'm using phrases I know

together

so I'm using phrases that I've learned together  or I'm using phrases that I have learned to make  

longer sentences so if you can use this if  you're very good at saying I'm using I'm  

using I'm using I'm using I understand how  to say that you can say that automatically  

then you can talk about something more  interesting that you're using all right  

I think we talked about this in the uh  late last week I did a video about this  

I forget the example if maybe someone can give me  an example but uh let's say you're talking about I

so I'm using just very simple example  I'm using and you're using what

so I'm using a pencil

can you say that quickly I'm using a pencil  I'm using a pencil all right so what other  

things can you use this is exact same ideas  naturally varied review that we just did with  

heavy all right so you're not talking about  one thing you're not getting just one example  

you're talking about all these different  things that you could use so I'm using a car  

another very simple thing so you know what a  pencil is a car is and you can build the the  

like the fluency here even if it's not logically  correct like I'm using uh I don't know I'm using  

I'm using a nail or I'm using a refrigerator  or something just just to have something where  

you're making sentences and you're and you're  getting more confident about using the grammar all  

right so even if it if it doesn't sound logically  correct so I'm using a pencil to do what same idea  

so I'm using a pencil to write so very simple I'm  using a pencil to write I'm using a car to write  

now this is not a logical sentence you don't use  a card to write but grammatically it's correct  

all right so when you're when you're practicing  with things like this like even little little  

children as they're learning the language they  will begin making these different examples and  

playing with the language like this so if you  want to get good at making a longer sentence all  

right so I'm using a pencil to write it's still a  couple of just simple ideas and we're practicing  

using these again it's naturally very review  you're just getting lots of different examples  

so I'm using whatever what what we might  use something like that I might use a kite

to uh catch let's see to catch  

fish I'm using a kite to catch a fish so again  it's not logical it doesn't it doesn't make sense  

but grammatically it's correct all right you could  maybe use it maybe use a kite to catch a fish  

but the more important example is that  you're you're practicing these things  

and you're you're playing with the language this  is how children learn to get fluent in a language  

so they're getting lots of different examples  and they're making jokes or other things like  

that that maybe they don't sound logical but  they're still correct okay and the grammar is  

a thing that we want to get confident about so we  feel confident speaking if we don't feel confident  

about grammar then we won't use the grammar  we know all right let's see if we let's see  

all right so the airplane had difficulties to  take off because it carried a heavy load yep  

you could say that as well wonderful lesson  you are the best teacher oh thank you very  

much please keep up this Joe maybe mean job I  guess but yes yes it's my pleasure all right so  

hopefully that answers that question this could  be a very light it could be a light day for me  

so I've done videos that are much longer  than this but this is your chance to ask  

me questions if you have but you can see  the the foundation of fluency is right  

here it's the different review that we're  getting and most people don't become fluent  

because they don't get the review I don't  understand what does the oh it's a kite  

that's my my poor writing pardon me okay I T  E like a kite you know like a kite in the sky

kite so you're flying a kite so I'm using a  kite to write you don't you don't really do  

that but the point is it's still grammatically  correct and just making even a silly sentence  

like this it will help you understand how to make  proper sentences because the goal is to is to use  

all of these things correctly and I can just  switch any of these anytime I like explanation  

is too long oh my goodness we got somebody  complaining hi I'm Korean what do you teach

I teach Korean people how to speak English what  do you think about that just like I think about  

uh teaching anybody really all right but for  anybody just joining us I know some people  

will join us late in the video and that's okay  uh what I do is I help people understand English  

like a native speaker because when you understand  English like a native you can speak like a native  

it's very it's really that simple all  right any questions about that let me know  

but uh kind of a quick Foundation because  I know many new people are joining us  

uh most Learners most Learners think so they  they have beliefs that stop them from getting  

fluent so as an example I need to live in  an English-speaking country to get fluent  

so many Learners believe I need to live in an  English-speaking country in order to get fluent  

but we know we all know many people who do live in  English-speaking countries and do not get fluent  

all right so we know this is not correct so part  of what I do is just helping people understand  

that they can become a good speaker even if  they're not in an English-speaking country  

so you don't have to be a native and you don't  have to be in an English-speaking country to  

understand English like a native but what I  do is I help people understand the language  

like a native rather than giving you examples  so you notice in this video today I didn't use  

any grammar tables we're not we're not going  to like do heavy heavy or heaviest and do that  

you're going to learn all that from context so one  person is heavier than someone else or I'm lighter  

than someone else but I'm not trying to give you  grammar rules the point is to help you understand  

the grammar like a native because most natives  cannot explain grammar rules to you and if you  

ask them questions like what is a past perfect  they will not be able to answer that for you  

all right let's see so I think we should practice  familiar connections and phrases is that correct  

yeah so the the point is that you're you're  practicing things that you know and you really  

get good at things that you know before trying to  do something more difficult all right let's say  

I'm trying to learn a martial art or even a video  game I want to learn how to do a combo so a combo  

this is short for combination so doing like a  fighting game or something I'm going to learn  

a combo where I have to do this move and then  this move and then this move and then that one  

now everybody wants to do the combo from the very  beginning it's because it looks cool wow look at  

that and I do five different things at the same  time but you have to learn how to do each one  

of these things and then you get faster at doing  them all so with these I'm using it's very simple  

that's something you can understand every day it's  just a regular verb I'm using something and you  

can get good at even just switching something else  in here so I'm using I'm playing I'm going I'm  

talking I'm speaking I'm I'm acting I'm drinking  I'm writing I'm eating and if you can get really  

fast at doing those things it means you understand  what you're talking about you understand what  

you're doing and you can talk to yourself in  that way as a way of practicing these things the  

point here is that it doesn't need to be logically  correct you know I'm eating an alligator right now  

I'm eating an alligator am I eating an alligator  no I'm not but again it's grammatically correct  

all right so this is how you develop fluency  and it's the review that gets you fluent it's  

not learning more it's the review of  this information that gets you fluent  

and you review in many different ways to get  fluent so you review in different contexts so  

you might hear the same phrase in different  ways in different times you might get the  

uh the grammar in different ways and different  times you might hear it from different speakers  

and your pronunciation develops from your  ability to listen rather than you trying  

to repeat something again and again so it's  much easier if your ear well imagine this is  

your ear and we've got all these different  people around you are saying the same thing  

so each one of these people says uh hello hello  hello hello hello hello hello hello now I'm just  

repeating it and so you're not getting that  review the naturally varied review I'm just  

repeating something but you might hear like hello  hello hello hello Mike you know you get all these  

different examples and and that's what builds  your understanding okay so it's not just one  

example and this is why even me just one teacher  here is really not enough for people you should  

be learning with many different people I think  someone mentioned this in a video maybe last week  

about it takes a village to raise a child it's the  same kind of idea all right it takes a village to  

raise a child so that's why influent for Life uh  you learn with like a hundred different people  

I think over 100 I don't remember how many we  have but that's the same idea okay and so your  

pronunciation develops naturally as you get to  as you develop your your listening so people  

are worried about like their mouth movements or  whatever but it's it's really you're listening  

that the builds your uh builds your pronunciation  all right let's see if I have a couple things all  

right so I like to now to incorporate connectors  between sentences all right so that's the same  

same kind of thing here so you get good at  using the individual pieces and then you start  

thinking about how to connect them after that  all right oh good uh you just teach how to speak  

I teach people how to speak that's great yeah  that's exactly what I do I teach people how to  

speak so it's not just learning the language it's  it's it's actually helping you use the language  

all right and if you learn like a native you  can speak like a native too all right uh let's  

see Akil says uh uh by the way you're my favorite  teacher well that's a very kind of you so a kite  

is uh papa in Spanish I think it's the English  pronunciation is easier than Spanish probably  

yeah it's funny how some words they might be  longer in one language or or another you know  

a question out of topic what do you recommend  have to pass the mtel so I don't know anything  

about uh particular tests I would find people  who focus on that so always look for the advice  

of people who can give you for a particular  test because I don't know specifically what  

I do for for helping people speak if you have a  speaking part of your test actually even if you  

don't my students do well on tests because they  actually understand like a native but again I  

would I would get specific help from people who  uh who people who focus on that particular test  

uh how often do you open a live chat this is my  first time and you are looking good looking good  

looking good over here well I'm I'm trying to  eat right trying to eat well not not eat all  

that heavy heavy food you know uh I'm I'm trying  to do more lives lately because I enjoy doing  

them and also it's helpful for me to to talk with  people about how they get fluent because it's it  

can be uh it can be like a tangled like a tangled  mess about fluency there's so many beliefs that  

people have that stop them from getting fluent  and there's so much bad information and so many  

uh years of traditional lessons that stop people  from learning so you know you can think about like  

like I have a German student who joined me  recently and you know they had been learning  

English through German for many years and now I  have to rewire their brain so it's easy to do once  

you start doing it but you you there are a lot of  things that make it difficult for people to learn  

all right so it's how they learn it's the beliefs  that they have about learning and all that can if  

you can it can be corrected easily if you  if you're let's say able to do that though  

oh I always ask Combo Number Five yeah so combo  in the same thing you might get a combo at a like  

a restaurant or something like that like a drink  with some fries or something that's gonna get a  

combo about that all right let's see some bar you  have to subscribe and click the bell and YouTube  

will tell you yeah the YouTube YouTube does not  always tell people about about videos I don't  

know if that's just my Channel or whatever but it  happens uh so you know it's one of those things  

I just do videos uh when I feel like them I  will probably be doing one on Thursday this  

week so Thursday Japan time it is uh Monday  morning here in Japan but I will probably do  

video on Thursday morning as well I watched  all of your videos thank you so much glad to  

hear it Vladivostok is over here let's see  you're a good teacher and I maybe that's in  

g-clad something Green's from Korea I'm  going to have a heavy lunch today nice  

yes heavy food heavy food does taste good it's  very filling if you want to enjoy some heavy  

food all right well I think that should be it  should be a pretty quick wow we finished in  

under an hour today but if you'd like to learn  more about how to do this with with everything  

for the people who do want to speak I know some  people maybe they just need to pass a test they  

don't really care about having to use English for  their career or maybe they're University students  

and actually need to understand and speak so  those are the kinds of people I help and those  

are the students I can help best so if you'd  like to learn more about that you can click on  

the link in the description for this video but  it sounds like that's the end of this video and  

hopefully I'll see a couple of you again or maybe  you can join me on the live video on Thursday  

but it's been a pleasure helping you and uh yeah  thank you for joining me bye-bye oh no why don't  

I make more podcast episodes you guys always  got to ask me a question right before I leave  

uh I haven't I haven't done more podcasts I mean  these are basically like like podcasts uh for me  

because it's easier for me to make this kind  of content so I like getting to talk live with  

Learners and answer questions from people rather  than uh uh rather than just make podcasts about  

whatever but I can talk about those those other  uh other ideas uh now all right so now now I'm  

now I want to like mention one thing I thought  about doing not really a podcast but almost like  

a video kind of thing about how many words you  need to get fluent so I see people asking about  

that on YouTube or just you know we get questions  about that from time to time so how many words you  

need in order to speak fluently and the answer is  one all right I know this sounds like a little bit  

kind of a weird thing but when people think about  how many words you need this is a it's a question  

that that kind of confuses Learners where they're  thinking more about needing to needing to know  

vocabulary rather than actually understanding it  like a native so I've talked about this before but  

you can have a child who knows more information  than an adult and the child uh even if they  

know less they can still speak more fluently  than than that adult learner so the amount of  

vocabulary that you know has nothing to do with  your fluency it's more about maybe being able  

to have conversations about more topics but your  fluent level actually is determined word by word  

as you understand things really well so that's  why I talk about even just one specific word in  

in a video like this so the the common thing that  you will find here on YouTube is a video about you  

know like a whole bunch of Expressions that aren't  really connected to each other but today's video  

is about one word and all the different uses of  it that really help you understand that word uh  

very very strongly very deeply all right so I  want to give you a heavy dose like medicine a  

heavy dose a strong dose of vocabulary so  that you really feel confident about that  

and I know it seems like well you're learning  you know if you look at look at two students  

uh one of them is learning you know they begin  with like a typical YouTube video uh they start  

with here like 20 20 phrases you should know  so they're jumping over like uh I taught 20  

20 phrases in this video but Drew's video only  taught me one oh no Jude has taught me uh heavy  

today that's all he did but if you look I really  taught you a whole bunch of different useful  

phrases using heavy so you actually learned a  lot but over time what what will happen is this  

person up here they will learn a lot of these uh  vocabulary videos here 20 more phrases here's a  

hundred I've seen all kinds of videos like this  like you know people have lots of vocabulary and  

then today I'm going to do something tomorrow  I'll give you a different one and the next day  

I gave you a different one but this person is  going to get fluent way faster than this person  

this person will will learn these words and  then they will learn these and while they are  

learning these they will forget these over here  because they didn't actually learn them correctly  

they didn't review the vocabulary all right so  everything I do is yes about helping you speak  

so the people who actually want to speak and not  just learn the language all right I don't want to  

help you just learn learn some things and then  okay that's that's it I want to help you really  

understand the language all right so you can  use it fluently that's what I do all right so  

there are familiar phrases we can use again and  again yeah all right uh so how to speak better  

pronunciation maybe closer to a native so uh I  like the the things that I talked about in this  

video will help you pronounce things much more  like a native as well but a lot of that comes  

from the naturally varied review of different  speakers so if you're only listening to me you  

might sound like me after you you know the whole  world is like learning to sound like Drew you know  

that would be you know actually I don't want  everyone to sound like me but the the people  

that you're learning for your native language  you're getting all these different examples  

from people in movies and your parents and your  community and the people at your school or work  

or wherever that's how you develop your listening  so that you get uh really strong pronunciation  

so if you want to have good pronunciation you need  to get lots of different examples this is what we  

do in fluent for life and also in Frederick as  well I'll put this up here f-r-e-d-e-r-i-c okay  

so if you go to englishany1.com uh and look  look up Frederick download that app and it  

will train your listening and your pronunciation  automatically all right and see if we got there

for I'm in love with K drum I don't  understand most of the words but  

yes Korean dramas are popular out here in Japan  as well all right it has been an hour and I think  

that's it for this video but thank you for joining  me it's been a pleasure and I should be around uh  

in three days I think so probably Tuesday no  Thursday my time have a fantastic day remember  

to get your naturally varied review if you don't  get that you're not going to become a good speaker  

let's see oh greetings from Florida  nice to see you there did you go to  

study English literature does studying English  literally in American literature the same thing  

oh my goodness I'm going to  turn off comments over here  

well like studying uh you know there's like  British literature in American literature you  

might cover both of those but they're you know  all right I'm gonna get out of here bye-bye