How To Understand The Highest Level Of Native English To Speak Fluently

all right looks like live is working hello I  am Drew Badger the founder of englishanyone.com  

and the English fluency guide and today we  are going to talk about how to understand  

the highest level of native English all  right I wanted to make this video because  

in my previous video I was talking about code  switching and so this means where you you start  

speaking one way with one person and then you  change the way you speak maybe for a different  

person or other people maybe in a different  conversation or even in the same conversation  

and also I have my magnetic eraser back which  is awesome all right so new markers new erasers

and I'll do my best to keep  everything clean as I go

so I will try to uh let's see Lynn says how  are you I'm doing fine uh I will go through  

uh everything I want to talk about and then I  will go back and check uh questions so if you  

have any questions let me know but this should  be an entertaining lesson especially if you have  

trouble understanding native speakers I want to  explain why this is but really go into detail  

about this uh lots of people uh even myself have  made videos talking about why you understand but  

don't speak but this is really more of a  situation of the opposite or even having  

both problems where you can't stand I can't  understand and you also have trouble speaking  

so let's talk about that so in this video we  are going to talk as I just mentioned about the  

different levels of understanding so I'm just  going to I'll keep this very simple but as I  

mentioned about code switching before uh usually  what happens is that native speakers are speaking  

differently depending on who they're speaking with  all right so if you're speaking with someone or  

you're speaking to an audience so right now I'm  speaking to you I could say I'm speaking with you  

as well but so right now I'm giving you uh really  the lowest level of native English all right so  

this means uh we're looking at basically three  things when we talk about what kind of speech  

uh you're listening to so the first thing we're  looking at is the vocabulary itself so the kinds  

of words that I'm using uh and then the second  thing we're looking at is the clarity the clarity

and Clarity just means how clear my speech is  am I mumbling my words and my speaking where you  

can't really earn from you can't understand what  I'm saying or am I enunciating am I pronouncing  

words clearly and is my accent easy to understand  so I could actually be speaking clearly but maybe  

my accent is different difficult to understand  and then the third thing is the speed my speech

so what you will notice in my videos often a lot  of people say drew I can really understand your  

English I love listening to your videos because  all of these things are at really the lowest level  

of native speech so right now I'm speaking to you  I am a native English speaker and I'm speaking to  

you the same way I could be talking uh with a  native so a native speaker could listen to me  

right now they would have no trouble understanding  me and they also wouldn't be like upset about my  

speech so there's nothing bad about what I'm doing  but I'm intentionally making my speech simple  

so I'm using simple vocabulary and by simple  vocabulary I mean the kinds of things that my  

audience so the people watching my videos would  understand so I'm not using slang I'm not using  

many I might have a few phrasal verbs in my in  things like I might say turn off or or come over  

or something like that but it's usually pretty  simple things that most Learners would know so  

not a lot of difficult phrasal verbs I'm not using  cultural references or other things that you might  

not understand so I have to understand my audience  and know who can understand me now some people  

will be at a higher level but many people will  not and so I want to make sure that my vocabulary  

really that's the most important Point uh is  easy to understand for everybody watching okay  

so I'm at really the lowest level down here so  my vocabulary is easy to understand I'm speaking  

intentionally very clearly and also you notice my  accent so the way I might speak normally with a  

friend of mine I'm probably not going to prepare  my speech this well uh I will probably be lazy  

and Mumble some words because I know the other  person can understand what I'm talking about and  

we can even go even deeper into understanding and  how how a lot of understanding really comes from  

from what you anticipate what other people will  say so if you expect certain things from another  

person you will understand those things much more  easily it's like when you're reading a book and  

you expect certain things then you will be able  to read faster but if you don't read those things  

often or you don't expect certain things then  you will have more trouble doing that so often  

I think I gave this example in a video to someone  a few videos ago but I was talking about actually  

you can watch this video on YouTube and this is  a uh like a it was a psychology experiment about  

counting passes of a basketball so you had a group  of people standing around they're walking around  

a room and they have a basketball and they're  just passing it to each other so they throw the  

ball to one person that person throws the ball  to somebody else and they just do that and so  

they asked people watching the video to count the  number of passes so if I pass the ball that's one  

and catch the ball two and three and four and so  you have to count how many times now at the end of  

this video I'm going to spoil the video a little  bit just because it's a really good psychology  

experiment I recommend you watch it anyway but I'm  going to spoil kind of the the trick of this video  

so what happens in the video is there's actually  a person in a gorilla suit that walks through the  

video and you can see it very clearly when you're  looking for the gorilla so the guy walks in or  

the woman I don't know who's in the suit but  the guy walks in and he's waving to the people  

so he's waving to the camera you can watch the  video of it moves around and then just walks off  

so while people are still passing the basketball  a large number of people I don't know if I don't  

remember what percentage of people but a large  number of people did not recognize the gorilla  

their brain just did not process that information  all right so they're counting the number about of  

passes of the basketball but then when the when  someone asked hey did you see the gorilla and  

people said what what gorilla so they didn't  even their brain was not even recognizing that  

a gorilla was there because they're focusing  on the basketball and so what this means like  

understanding this part of our psychology  is that a lot of what we were our ability  

to communicate comes from the preparation we have  or what we can't anticipate or expect will happen  

in a conversation so if I I understand certain  things about a culture or about a person I'm  

speaking with and I know how they speak then I  can anticipate what will happen and it's much  

easier to understand them so the preparation  nation is so important if you want to speak all  

right hopefully that makes sense just wanted to be  clear about that but vocabulary this is probably  

the most difficult part for people because there  are so many different things to learn and usually  

what happens in a regular conversation class is  a teacher will give you maybe one or two examples  

of something that a native might use even maybe  not that a native would use just something that  

like let's say how's the how's the weather today  so that's a very simple question that a native  

speaker would understand but they might not say  how's the weather today they might say like I  

wonder like how is it outside how is it outside  how is it outside and so that means how is the  

weather today but if you're not prepared for  that if you're not if no one taught you that  

expression or you don't recognize it when it  happens just like that gorilla example it would  

be more difficult for you uh to to understand  that okay so yes part I think somebody just  

mentioned awareness here so yes this is like at  what level do you understand the vocabulary I  

often talk about the different the three levels  of understanding vocabulary so the first one  

is just recognizing it or or actually I guess  I'm just more like experiencing it would be a  

better thing uh I forget what word did I use  exactly uh basically you're you're just kind  

of coming into contact you're experiencing the  vocabulary but you might not even recognize it  

so maybe you hear something like a song on  the radio but you don't really understand that  

thing then you move up to the more awareness level  where you have recognition of that thing you might  

understand it when someone else uses that and then  the higher level or the highest level is ownership  

where you really understand the vocabulary and  you feel confident using it fluently all right  

so just I wanted to be clear about this vocabulary  is really important because really it's the it's  

it's kind of the most uh versatile thing that you  really need to practice and this is why a lot of  

people are very interested in learning more words  okay so people want to build a vocabulary and  

that's understandable so you're prepared for more  in conversations and remember a lot of people ask  

me do you need to learn idioms and phrasal verbs  and other things like that and I basically say  

yes you should learn these things even if you  don't use them yourself so you should be able  

to understand what others are saying to you so  if they use idioms or phrasal verbs or things  

like that you can understand them but it's okay  if you still respond with simpler things all  

right so that was just a lot about vocabulary  what you'll notice even right now so I'm I'm  

a native speaker speaking native English but  I'm just using a very simplified form of that  

all right so the next Point Clarity you notice  that I'm speaking very clearly I'm not trying  

to make it difficult for people to understand  me and also the speed of my speech so I could  

speak more slowly some people do ask me to speak  more slowly but notice that even if I'm speaking  

more slowly as I am I'm still blending the  sounds of my words together so I really want  

to help you understand what Native speech sounds  like by blending my sentences together blending  

phrases words together but again we're going  through these three things so at the next level  

so this is level one level two the next level  up uh now this is where you might be having a  

conversation with a native speaker all right so  at this level we might just call this like teacher  

teacher English and this one is  maybe like a one-on-one conversation  

with a native all right so often I will hear  from people they will they will be trying to  

check their their level of understanding and  they say drew if I can understand you am I  

fluent or Drew if I can understand you uh like  what does that mean about my ability all right  

so if you can understand me what it means is  great you can learn a lot of vocabulary uh but  

you're still not yet prepared for the highest or  maybe even uh the second highest level and this  

is when you're having a conversation even with a  native and the reason this happens the reason we  

have a higher level here is because I'm I'm very  very conscious I'm always thinking about using  

vocabulary the right way or making sure people  understand what I'm saying okay so I want to be  

very clear and if you're speaking with a native  let's say you work in an office so we for example  

you work in an office and you have to speak with  some native speakers often they will they will do  

this code switching where they speak one way with  Natives and they will change the way they speak  

for you okay so natives are actively changing the  way they speak for you because they want to make  

sure they're understood now they're probably  not thinking about it as deeply as I am so if  

I do this professionally I help people I really  think about my speech and even when I'm writing  

lessons often when I'm teaching other teachers how  to teach or if they're if I'm teaching them how to  

write lessons other things like that I'm really  trying to get them to understand you should not  

be teaching more than one thing at a time so  look someone's already asking me speak slower  

and so again uh if I speak too slowly it will it  will take a long time to go through everything you  

can also read the transcript when it's available  or read the subtitles when those are available  

that usually takes about a day to process but  I do recommend you go back and watch this again  

if you're still having trouble uh understanding  even this speed of my English you should probably  

go back to lower levels on my Channel watch some  of the vocabulary lessons and also the beginning  

English playlist I recommend that all right so  in a one-on-one conversation they may still use  

things that you're not prepared for so they  don't know what you know and and obviously I  

don't know what you know either some people who  are watching this could have like a very high  

level of English even if they don't yet feel  very confident speaking but the point is it's  

not usually as good as as a teacher about making  things understandable about the vocabulary making  

sure they are clear and making sure the speed is  not too fast okay now the highest level obviously  

is two natives or more speaking with each other  so two natives or more speaking with each other  

and we could put this almost like two different  groups so one is just like real conversations

so real Converse conversations  

or it could be things like movies and TV  shows or whatever we'll put movies over here

now real conversations are actually at a higher  level than movies and TV shows because movies  

and TV shows are scripted these are things that  native speakers are practicing so a person even  

if they're speaking not very clearly in the  movie or show they're still practicing that  

so they're intentionally trying to speak that  way maybe their character in the show is not  

supposed to be speaking well but usually like  people in movies are are intentionally trying  

to be understood all right so I I put these  two together because this is the these are  

the two kinds of content that native speakers  get and all of them have uh advanced level of  

vocabulary often a low level of clarity and even  native speakers might have trouble understanding  

one another not everybody speaks very clearly so  again it's not just your fault or your issue if  

you have trouble understanding people a lot of  people don't speak clearly so are there actually  

classes for even native speakers to learn how to  pronounce things click you know like maybe they  

need to be a I don't know in a in a bot like a  boss in a company or something or they need to  

learn to give presentations well whatever that  thing is so they still have to focus on these  

things and obviously the speed is going to be at  the highest level all right so as we go up through  

these levels we go through vocabulary Clarity and  speed and it just gets more difficult as you go  

all the way so you might even be in a one-on-one  conversation so let's say this is you here  

and this is another native speaker and so  you're talking with the person and they're  

making their speech at this level for you but  then maybe another uh native speaker comes  

over and says something and they say something  back at this higher level but maybe you don't  

understand that so maybe this person comes and  tells a joke and this person laughs and you're  

standing there like I don't get it I don't know  what that person just said okay so that's where  

you're experiencing both of these even within  the same situation or the same conversation  

okay so typically like if you want to be prepared  for native English and for Native conversations  

even even just to understand movies and TV shows  you need to be spending a lot of time with this  

okay so watching the kind of content that I make  uh specifically for uh for English Learners like  

this this kind of stuff on YouTube it's a little  bit different from what I do in fluent for life  

because we have specific steps to get you up to  this level but just so you understand the the  

English that I'm giving you now is is only part  of what you should be doing for for learning so  

most of the content that I make it's really just  to help you learn some vocabulary and often teach  

some strategies about how to get fluent but  you really need to spend more time with this  

information and we're going to talk a little bit  about how you can do this by yourself or obviously  

you can do it with me all right but hopefully uh  this makes sense again I will go back and check  

questions after this so if anybody uh uh you  know has questions about whatever I can do that  

but first I want to get through all this  make sure everybody can enjoy all this all  

right here we go so uh we're going to  uh let's see We'll erase these for now

and I'll actually be very quick about  this so the second part of this is  

really how to do this by yourself so how  to prepare yourself for understanding this

all right let's try red all right so when  usually we're comparing these different  

things again we've got three levels of spoken  English so there's the teacher level we have  

the medium one where a native speaker might be  speaking with you so they're code switching a  

little bit they're changing the way they speak  for your benefit and often like you will also  

maybe not get honest responses from people about  how your English is and the the real test of of  

being in a conversation with a native is are they  code switching with you or not so in like in my  

experience like you know coming into Japan when I  was first in Japan I noticed people were speaking  

to me extra clearly so extra like making it very  easy for me to understand not using any uh like  

difficult idioms or anything in Japanese they're  just being very specific and often using very  

formal Japanese but now I get you know more idioms  and other things like that because people get a  

sense from me that I can understand what they're  talking about all right so this is also a thing  

like let's see so an example when I walk into  a situation where I'm meeting somebody for the  

first time I'll give them like a very like loud  and confident greeting in Japanese just to let  

them know hey I can speak all right so I'm telling  them without you know being like specific about it  

just saying hey like I can speak it's okay we can  communicate with each other all right so rather  

than people being nervous like I know they can't  speak or or they think I can't speak then that's  

where we have like more difficulties and also  especially people will be very polite out here and  

tell me that my Japanese is good even if it's not  all right so especially when I came before I don't  

really hear that you know it's interesting now  people don't tell me my Japanese is good anymore  

nobody nobody really cares we're just in  a conversation uh but anyway so this is  

how you can do this by yourself obviously you  can do this with me too but if you're doing it  

by yourself basically I break this down into  two things so the first part is the vocabulary  

and the second part is the clarity and the speed

foreign

so the clarity and the speed so let's talk about  vocabulary first now you've probably heard me  

talking about uh like naturally varied review  naturally varied review is really the secret for  

both of these things I'm just going to abbreviate  this actually I'll write the whole thing naturally

varied

naturally varied review now naturally varied  review is the kind of review the kind of not  

actual repetition but the review and the  practice that natives get that help them  

learn the vocabulary and become used to the  clarity and the speed of native English or  

native whatever that language is all right  so there are different ways of doing this  

we'll talk about two different ones the first  one is for learning vocabulary and usually  

what happens in a situation is there will be  something happening whatever that situation  

is let's say it's a native speaker uh like  one native speaker says or like maybe they  

do something amazing so one so one person says  and these are two natives talking to each other  

so this is the highest level of speech and  they're going to be using some higher level  

or more advanced vocabulary so the first person  does something uh like he says like watch this

foreign and I take I don't know like this bottle  and three markers in the Eraser and I juggle them  

with my eyes closed all right pretty amazing  the other person says so person B says wow  

all right pretty simple and then we're gonna  I'm not gonna do c pardon me you're gonna go  

back to a so a says watch this he does something  amazing or she does something amazing second  

person says wow and the other person basically  says they were responding with like uh like I'm  

good at that or they mean like uh that was easy

for me so I'm giving you this in these little  brackets here because what's happening this is the  

situation so the person says watch this they do  something amazing second person says wow they're  

impressed with that and then the person wants to  express like that was easy for me okay so yes I am  

skilled at doing that and this is something that a  teacher might say like a more textbook English way  

of expressing this so how might a native speaker  respond instead of using this what are some basic  

Expressions a native would use so understand here  we're going from the situation to the vocabulary  

from the situation to the vocabulary we're  not trying to translate from one language  

to another we want to understand in English  because really what what's happening when  

you're learning the native ways so when you're  learning English as a first language not through  

your second language is you understand from  the situation oh okay so in this situation  

these are the words that a native would say all  right so I'm going to see if you can think of  

any way to express this how would a native  speaker say like well that was easy for me  

that was easy okay so they're they're feeling  confident so watch this I do something amazing  

the other person says wow and I want to say well  I'm good at that or that was easy can you think of  

anything I'll give you a moment in the comments as  I go back and look at the chat and see if people  

have any questions but just let me know something  how might a native speaker say that was easy okay  

so you can say these things these are perfectly  fine like yes like I'm good at juggling a piece  

of cake uh let's see Roger says very good a  piece cake very good A Piece of Cake a piece  

of cake that's a snap yeah you'd say that's a  snap or it was a snap or you can just say it's

it's a snap anything else you guys are fast today  let's see anybody else go back and check comments  

right quick see here all right so remember as I  look through these feel free to to write something  

down in the comments all right nice to see people  here from Guatemala Mexico City nice to see people  

from Canada Chile Georgia Canada Brazil Malaysia  look at that everybody is representing Jose says  

I know maybe many times asked you the same  question what is the best way to memorize  

vocabulary we'll come back to that in a minute  Jose let me write that down so memorize vocab

make sure I answer that for you all right good to  hear from you again Iris said how are you doing  

watching from Dominican Republic please tell me  your schedule yes these videos are not scheduled  

but I do have them regularly typically on Monday  and Thursday Japan time like I'm doing them now so  

it is Monday morning in Japan Love From Italy says  Marilla nice to see you there this is awareness  

test yes hey Drew says dan how are you doing I  want listen I wanted to ask you about expression  

your handle like when you ask someone what their  handle is handle typically means a name if you're  

talking about like a computer name something  like that so if I'm playing an online video game  

I might have a handle that's like I don't know  awesome Drew 22 or something like that so I might  

not use my real name I will have a handle all  right uh let's see I got a question how old are  

you you can try to guess how old do you think I  am some of you guys are trying to guess my height  

in a previous video all right now this is back  let's see a co-worker from me she talks so  

fast that I don't know what language that is  yes again this is uh as a typical thing yeah  

it's okay to ask men how old they are but I'm  curious what you all think all right uh wow I  

can understand what's up Andrew I bought fluent  for Life yesterday so I hope I'm going to speak  

good English soon nice to see you there gluco  I'm guessing your real name is not glucophone  

but if it is that's an interesting name but yes  if you follow the steps in fluent for life it  

will become a fluent speaker guarantee there's no  reason why you would not you're learning the same  

way native player all right uh let's see tarsal  says what's up teacher I can understand 99 what  

you say but only 10 percent speak it why again  there there's a that's another another question  

so no but not speak now these are my notes I'm  writing for myself to make sure I go back and  

answer those questions all right uh look at  that not rocket science not rocket science

yep not rocket science is uh yeah you  could use that in this one not the not  

rocket science comment or uh uh in in this it  kind of depends on what you're talking about  

usually if you demonstrate knowledge that's  a better idea for talking about not rocket  

science so if I'm explaining someone like how  does I don't know how to do something or how  

like the sap flows in a tree or something  like that so I'm talking about knowledge  

um that's a it's usually a better fit for that  expression of it's not rocket science uh but  

you could like if I do something physical  like if I jump up and do a back flip like  

I could say yeah it's not rocket science I  could say that but typically it's more for  

for knowledge type things that's usually when  you'll hear that but that's a good example  

uh let's see yes that's a snap no sweat that's  right no sweat [Music] no sweat uh and so we  

will we will hear like you guys have a lot of  good examples over here I'm the Man easy peasy  

very good I'm that dude 42 yes that's it exactly  hello from Brazil good job you like that don't you  

yes you could use that if you want to be very  confident and say like yeah you like that didn't  

you very good yes I think I've actually used  that on on my own on my videos before uh let's  

see social Vibe says have a question what's the  difference planning on versus planning to Google  

that we are now focusing on that in this video  but you will you will see that more you can see  

actual if you ever have questions about that kind  of vocabulary just put those into Google and you  

will get the answer easy peasy when it comes to  his age he isn't a spring chicken rather over the  

hill you think I'm over the hill oh my goodness  over the hill no spring chicken that's true yes  

I'm definitely not a spring chicken anymore but I  still still got some I've still got it still got  

some Spirit to me all right so so what happens  in in a native conversation or a native kind of  

the the native life children are watching this  and they're listening to the different ways that  

natives will use these okay so people will say  like a piece of cake or it's a snap or not rocket  

science or no sweat some other ones let's see if I  had anything for that would I have that a cakewalk

a cake walk it was it's a cakewalk it's a cake  walk all right now if you're at like the highest  

level of understanding you know what a cakewalk  is so you can use the vocabulary like oh that's  

a cakewalk but often people don't know what  a cakewalk is so they're using the vocabulary  

which is fine but just so you understand why  do we use that that's where you really take  

your English to the next level where you go deep  into the vocabulary so a cakewalk is actually a  

game it's usually a party game or some game  like if you go to a bake sale or something  

like that and it's so easy because everyone  wins so you walk around and you you kind of  

stand on a number or something and then if you  stand on the right number then you win a cake  

so people you know it's like they're they're doing  a party so people can have different kinds of cake  

but it's so easy like everybody wins all right so  that's why we say that something really easy is a  

cakewalk now natives you'll notice here like  they could say these things so a native in a  

conversation yeah I'm good at that or yeah that  was easy that was easy all right or you could say  

it was nothing so nothing so if you want to be  more modest if you want to be more modest so it  

was nothing like oh it was nothing I I didn't  do anything special so I do something amazing  

people are very impressed I say oh it was nothing  it was nothing all right nothing nothing special  

nothing special okay or you could  say it was a walk walk in the park

it was a walk in the park what could  be easier than a walk in the park so  

you're just walking nice and easy nothing  difficult about that at all a walk in the park  

so native speakers are building a vocabulary  remember we're talking about vocabulary first  

natives are building a vocabulary of all of  these different things they could say and  

even if they don't use them maybe you just use  like one or two of these in your conversations  

but you would be able to understand and know  why natives are saying these things all right  

so this is again if you don't even understand  natives then you're going to have trouble  

communicating so you first need to understand  what they're saying all right so how do you get  

this vocabulary how do you get this vocabulary  so when I talk about naturally very review  

for vocabulary specifically we're looking at  situations and whatever those situations are  

you can usually find that right on YouTube where  we're talking about I don't know like being angry

so we talk about being angry I can actually search  right here on YouTube for that particular thing  

so I'm searching for being angry and I'll get  lots of content about that so it could be actual  

situations of someone being angry at someone else  and that could be real like a like a video of  

somebody being angry you can find that on YouTube  as well or it could be maybe a drama or something  

where one person is getting angry at someone  else you could be more specific like scenes  

of people being angry in movies and then you will  see like best like Angry scenes in movies uh that  

kind of thing all right so again we're looking  for a particular scene and then we would watch  

a couple of different examples of that to see  how different natives might Express that okay  

so if I say I'm angry at someone it's fine to  say I'm angry but I could say like I'm furious  

I'm a furious so I could talk about Fury where I'm  like really angry I'm furious Furious okay or I  

could say I'm really upset or I could be if I'm  angry at someone and say what the hell is wrong  

with you what the hell is wrong with you all right  there are different ways I could express this and  

the more of those that we see the better prepared  we are for real conversations all right so this is  

just one example of using naturally varied review  to try to get this same we want to simulate the  

way native speakers uh are the way the way native  speakers are learning so often like many native  

speakers have never maybe they don't know like  the origin of this like they don't know like why  

we say I don't know why why we say it a cakewalk  like why is that easy and then like I remember the  

first time when I was a kid I went to a cakewalk  like I had heard this expression so maybe let's  

say at like I don't know seven years old I hear  that expression from people uh what is a cakewalk  

and and I just I understood oh okay I connected  like oh that's easy so I recognize when people are  

saying something is a cakewalk they mean it's easy  but even as a native speaker I didn't understand  

what that meant why but when I went I don't know  maybe I was like 14 years old and I was at a like  

a big a bake sale so a bake sale is where people  make different things like cookies or brownies  

or whatever and then sell them and so I was at a  bake sale and the the lady announced we're going  

to have a cakewalk who wants to be in the Cakewalk  and I said oh look a cakewalk I've never I don't  

like I've heard of that but I don't know what  that is so I went to that and they just said  

okay you can walk around here and you stand on  these numbers and I don't remember it was a long  

time ago but like maybe they play some music or  something or they just call out the number but you  

can stand on like another you know like whatever  number and if you they call your number then you  

win that cake so who is number 32 then you get  cake number 32 pretty easy very easy so I don't  

have to do anything I stand on a number and wow  that was so easy and that's why we call things a  

cakewalk now all right so remember that there  are different levels of understanding a native  

speaker will learn the vocabulary and they will  know when to use it and they can use it correctly  

even if they don't really understand the origin  or the history of that but you feel much more  

confident when you do know that all right that's  why when I'm teaching vocabulary in lessons I like  

to explain why we say the things that we do so  you understand you feel more confident and often  

like you might know something better than a native  and that makes you feel very confident all right  

so this board is getting a little bit uh busy  over here but when I'm using I'm talking about  

naturally varied review it means we want to learn  like a native speaker and get so many examples  

of something that we really understand it like a  native okay like a native like a native here I'm  

blending my speech like a native like a native  all right hopefully this makes sense basically  

the point is if we want to learn like a native so  we speak like one this is how we do it we want to  

find and just focus on a particular situation what  we do in fluent for Life obviously we're going to  

focus on a particular conversation that's talking  about this and then we will learn the kinds of  

vocabulary people use for that situation so  very simple all right now the next piece of  

this look at that red erases quite quickly oh no  I want to address those other questions over here  

no but you can't speak all right  these are very common questions  

so how to remember the vocabulary and  how to learn it so you use it fluently

I just erased this other one over here so  we have Clarity and speed now for this one  

the kind of naturally varied review we want to  get for clarity and speed is we really want to  

get the same content or something very very  similar and then listen to that by different  

speakers all right so the two main things we  can do for this so number one we can listen

to different speakers

different speakers saying the same thing

now one example of this might be a popular speech  or you could might listen to a popular song and  

this is called a cover so if the Beetles make a  popular song and other people play or perform that  

same music they are doing a cover of that song a  cover you can think about it almost like covering  

up that song maybe they change it slightly uh but  they uh but but it's it's really interesting to  

hear that like one example I heard recently uh  there is a song called what is that uh time the  

Time of the Season I think it's the time for the  season of love you know that song maybe you've  

heard that before but I heard an interesting cover  of that song So if you look for popular music you  

can actually find on Google like just name some  popular songs whatever you like you know find  

something you enjoy but anything that's really  popular like Michael Jackson or the Beatles or  

something like that will usually have covers of  that okay and so if you listen to those different  

things that will get you used to different ways  of people speaking okay so the same person we want  

to really train our ears the same way natives  learn okay everything I do we're trying to do  

this learning like a native and you notice you  don't need to live in the United States to do  

it you just need to surround yourself with these  specific examples all right but notice I I don't  

like calling this immersion because immersion  really means like it's like dropping yourself  

into a pool and you're filled with English just  English everywhere but you don't really understand  

and it's overwhelming for you we don't want to  do that we want to be very specific we want to  

be targeted about the kinds of things we learn  because if you give yourself too much information  

it's going to overwhelm you and be frustrating  so we want to be very specific we pick one song  

listen to that song by different people the other  thing we can do is read the transcript so we can  

read whatever that information is so it could be  a song it could be a movie transcript it could be  

something else now you notice this takes a little  bit of effort you have to find this information  

like find the transcript or you can just watch  these subtitles for a movie but make sure you're  

watching the English subtitles and not something  translated from your native language okay but this  

is how you do it so we want to get clarity and  this will also help us with the speed because  

each of the different people saying something  or or whatever it could be the song then they're  

going to perform those things or say those things  a little bit different now notice this is exactly  

like the way native speakers are learning in their  own home all right so I say something my wife says  

something my uh my my like brother-in-law  says something and like all those different  

examples like these are like you know one of my  daughters right here she hears the same thing

from all of these different people okay she hears  the same thing from all of these different people  

and this is what's preparing her to understand  that so if I hear wash your hands maybe one  

person like your mother will be very clear with  you uh wash your hands all right but maybe you go  

to your grandma's house and she doesn't speak so  clear she doesn't wash your hands wash your hands  

watching yeah oh dirty watch your hands wash  your hands now if I taught you that word first  

if I said today we're going to learn wash your  hands wash your hands you don't understand what  

I'm saying it's like what I don't understand what  you're saying so your mother says wash your hands

wash your hands so if you hear wash your hands  first you recognize the situation wash your hands  

now I could talk about wash a car or whatever okay  so when you're in that situation with someone else  

and it's not very clear then you are prepared  for that all right do you get it so this is why  

we would watch uh like you can pick a song or  something like that the same kind of naturally  

varied review works even for situations where  you can look at this for kids so it could be like  

kids songs about going to the toilet all right so  we'll just pick something like everybody goes to  

the toilet you know everybody has to go everybody  has to go so my daughter's actually recently they  

were watching I think it was like a Coco melon  video do you guys know Coco melon maybe you have  

kids so these are just popular uh kids you know  videos and songs and things like that and I think  

the song was I don't remember the name of the  song but the lyrics so the lyrics were like go  

before you before you go so go before you  go something like that go before you go  

all right now if I explain that to you it's like  go before you go and I'm trying to teach this as  

an English lesson people might think well that's  that's weird what do you mean go before you go if  

I'm just like here's some vocabulary but if you  understand the situation we're talking about go  

to the toilet before you go out and do something  else so before you leave before you leave your  

house before you go to school or restaurant or  whatever go to the toilet but you'll notice like  

native speakers so we have different ways of  expressing this and so little kids are like I  

gotta go I gotta go I gotta go I gotta go I gotta  go all right especially they're like they're like  

holding themselves ah like I gotta go I gotta go  and they don't mean like I have to go brush my  

teeth or I have to go to school or something they  mean I gotta go so I have to go to the toilet I  

gotta go I gotta go so this is something a child  might say it's a little bit easier English and  

they're also like I'm sure you could write in  the comments other things that natives would  

say like men might say something different or  depending on what you have to do like you could  

be more specific like I gotta pee I gotta pee  Oh no I gotta pee all right now it sounds funny  

but these are the the things that natives are  saying and and kids understand that vocabulary  

so usually when parents are teaching kids  for the first time notice that they can't  

translate anything you just have to make it  understandable so they're giving their kids  

understandable messages and this is how you got  fluent in your native language as well no one was  

translating yes uh sleep says uh when Nature call  same thing so children do not know Nature Calls  

when Nature Calls that's another example like  when Nature Calls well okay I have to go to  

the toilet like up nature Nature's calling I gotta  go to the toilet I gotta go okay but again notice  

that we're taking a situation like going to the  toilet going to the toilet whatever even as basic  

as this thing is it's a common thing isn't it so  people will hear these things uh you know even if  

you don't talk about them you will notice them in  movies so things that are common about life people  

will be talking about these things and you could  be looking for specific content about that but  

you want to get your naturally varied review so  you would watch like here were like 10 different  

songs about going to the toilet so if you if you  go into Google or YouTube search like song about  

or even like children's song about something and  it would probably give you a lot of those examples  

yeah take a leak is another one yeah I remember  watching there's a movie called From Dusk Till  

Dawn this is a Mexican vampire movie with George  Clooney and Quentin Tarantino if you have not  

seen that so there's a bar there's like a a bar  scene or most of the movie takes place at a bar  

uh but like early in the early in the movie one  of the characters he's like a police officer in  

a convenience store and he's like I gotta take  he said I gotta drain the lizard there you go I  

like dream so there's another one yeah I gotta  let's leave before I can he said I got a drain

drain the lizard

I got a drained lizard I got a fart there  we go all right it's a very common very uh  

interesting things you can learn it's like ah  to drain something just like you drain a pool  

so if we have a pool of water here it's all  filled with water we open up the drain and  

then here all the water goes down so I got  to drain the lizard I'll let you guess what  

the lizard is okay but the point is we're  looking at lots of different examples and  

this is how natives get fluent and notice  even adult natives they're not using any  

translations so drain the lizard equals P yes  correct so drain it means and the lizard means  

like the lizard in your pants for you men  watching the show all right so when natives  

are learning they're not translating  anything they're really taking one idea

and and learning a bunch of nuances about that  thing so we have like go to the toilet and then  

how might we express that and there are really  lots and lots of different ways and this is for  

anything so how might we talk about money how  might we describe that lots of different ways to  

talk about money so if you watch people talking  about money people counting money you will hear  

lots of different expressions for that and the  point is to focus this is why influent for Life  

what we will do is take like a single conversation  and just focus on that and really help people  

understand all the different things here are some  of the culture here is the vocabulary the grammar  

pronunciation all of that thing so you really go  deep into that okay some dough yes some dough some  

money might have some green backs some scratch  some frog skins some dough some moolah some cash  

okay lots of different ways we might Express  that now I'm not like I might not use all of  

those things uh I might not use all those things  in a conversation but I will understand them all  

when other people do or especially if I'm seeing  them in movies and things like that all right so  

that's it for this when you're doing this it  can be tricky to find things and obviously you  

can it's it's kind of easy to find things by uh  like by yourself but then understanding all the  

vocabulary you have to really just look things  up if you don't understand what things are but  

it's much easier to do it this way than trying to  just learn like go to a Blog and learn you know  

whatever some like one textbook English version  of that so if you want to understand the highest  

level you really have to go to the highest level  of English and get the same content that natives  

are getting so what we do in fluent for life  is we take this and we space it out we give  

it to you in steps so you're not overwhelmed with  too much information okay looks like a lot of you  

guys understand about money already and lizards  for that matter all right so uh that makes sense  

hopefully uh the point is again you're using  naturally varied review to learn like a native  

so you're prepared for the things that natives do  and the things natives say in real conversations  

so it's easy to get and you can either do this  by yourself it's just a little bit more difficult  

to understand everything and collect the right  information or you can do it with someone like  

me all right so I will go very quickly over these  two questions and then I will go back to uh the  

chat so we have memorizing vocabulary how do you  do that I actually just released a new guide on  

englishanyone.com about memory and the different  ways you can do this I also have a program about  

that called how to remember any English word if  you look on my YouTube channel you will also find  

uh I think there's like another video called  how to remember 10 000 English words and again  

it could be like a million words it doesn't really  matter but there's more changing the way you think  

so you think more like a native speaker rather  than thinking through translations so I talk  

about that you can find that on the channel this  is also included in fluent for life and also if  

you know but can't speak this is where I talked in  another video previously about the three different  

levels I actually mentioned that in this video  about usually people have because understanding  

uh is is the easiest thing that's what you can  get so kind of the lowest level of understanding  

uh is where you're just kind of getting  like exposure I think that's what I call it

so to be exposed to the language maybe I'm  at a mall and I hear some song on the radio  

but I can't hear it very clearly so my brain  is getting exposed to that information but  

maybe I'm not I don't actually understand what  they're saying or I hear an announcement like  

there was an announcement at a like a Japanese  toilet talking about toilets again so there's  

an announcement at a Japanese toilet and  I couldn't understand I was like what is  

that what word is that and after I found  out what the word was it's like oh like  

that's what they're saying okay so either you  need to have it explained to you by someone or  

maybe you see it written down or something like  that but that's where you get to the awareness

and you could also call this recognition  all right so we're moving up here from  

understanding to fluency and so we begin  with exposure just being exposed to the  

language then we have awareness where we can  recognize it and this is where most of the  

people who learn with me get stuck so people  who find me because they understand so when  

people say hey how can you watch these videos  if you don't speak fluently and that's because  

fluent speaking and uh fluent listening are  two different things especially if I'm making  

my speech very clear so we have exposure  awareness and then what I call ownership

to own the language all right so if you were  listening and you understood Cake walk and you  

understood the history why we use that the  cultural reference of Cakewalk now you have  

the ownership level of Cakewalk so it takes  more time usually you need more naturally  

varied review more examples or someone just  taking more time to go into the vocabulary  

so we do teach a lot of vocabulary I  think fluent for life has I don't know 13  

000 words in it or something like that  it's even more than that but most of the  

the vocabulary is me giving very short simple  lessons about understanding things like where  

does a cakewalk come from why do we learn these  things what do they mean and then helping people  

understand so they have the ownership level of  using that vocabulary so the notice that the  

the understanding improves and the confidence  improves as well and it's the confidence that  

lets you speak so a lot of people are Converse  like in conversations they have confidence of  

the awareness level or they could watch a movie  and understand what what what's happening in  

the movie but they don't feel confident enough  about using that vocabulary because they don't  

have ownership of that vocabulary all right but  this is why hopefully this makes sense so you can  

you can recognize something but not use it in  a conversation so when people say drew why do  

I understand your videos but I can't speak part  of that is is what we talked about in this video  

about not having the highest level of English  so often what I'm teaching I will be teaching  

um like highest level vocabulary but  I'm doing it in a very low level way  

so I want to make sure I'm not using lots of  idioms and slang and cultural references without  

teaching you those things all right so I want to  make it easy for you to understand all right so  

when if you're and this is another thing like  if you only watch kind of people teaching the  

language on YouTube you're not going to become  a fluent speaker you must get the actual input  

that natives are using the question is like are  you going to try to do that by yourself or do you  

need help all right and so it's just faster if  you have someone explain to you what things are  

and tell you exactly what you need to do which is  much easier to do it that way but it certainly is  

possible so that's how I get fluent in Japanese is  like doing this kind of thing so I pay attention  

for situations and watch what do people say in  those situations okay like what do people say  

like what does my mother-in-law say when she needs  to go to the toilet so she's like uh you know when  

we when we come back from uh like you know she's  been out shopping or something and she's like

this means like I'm like I want to pee it's  it's the same basic thing but just listening  

she's like she'll say that same thing  all the time well not all the time but  

but that's that's like a common a common thing and  I noticed like my wife will say the same thing too  

because she got that from her mother probably  you know I can guess that so lots of people you  

notice like you might even do kinds of things that  your parents do or the things your parents did uh  

because you were getting that that influence when  you were young all right but uh hopefully this  

makes sense so this is how you can know English  but not speak so the only way to get to that  

highest level the only way to get to ownership is  like on a uh like a word by word basis this means  

you learn individual words and phrases and you get  to the ownership level of those and then you start  

expanding out from that so as you learn more words  and you understand and have ownership of that  

vocabulary then you feel confident speaking but  uh I I would not recommend you force yourself to  

speak before you feel very confident about that  what you should be doing is really just being  

quiet so you don't have to say anything and just  get to the ownership level and then start speaking  

and this is why you can like the the things  that I'm giving you now like teaching you what  

cake walk means that is the practice that gets  you fluent and when you have that aha moment  

like ah I get it now I understand why natives  use these things and now I can use them too  

so hopefully everybody watching this if you  watch the part where I'm talking about what  

a cakewalk is you should feel very confident  about using that okay if you disagree with  

anything I'm saying let me know but this is  how we all get fluent in our native language  

and it's how you will get fluent in English as  well all right now that's basically it for the  

lesson I will go back and check comments see  if anybody has any uh questions that maybe I  

missed from before how much time do we have well  we should be okay wait why am I let me see here

okay all right let me look back if you have any  comments about anything uh that I've said so far  

or if you have questions about new stuff let me  know all right I think I had those up at uh let's  

see here all right I answered that one two and  any more uh all right so Iris says teacher what  

the difference between have got and have I Really  they mean the same thing in this situation I have  

a marker or I have got a marker it doesn't there's  there's like no no difference here I don't want to  

go into a long Grammar example like so I I will  spend a whole video talking about a specific  

thing like have and how to use it in different  ways in fluent for life but you can also just  

Google like like what's the difference between  have and have got so the key also is to not just  

like understand it logically but to get lots of  examples of that thing uh let's see and writer  

says why you're so pissed off so you would say why  are you so pissed off why are you so pissed off  

but yes pissed off that's another another good  example someone says how are you I'm sulmanshaw  

from Pakistan this is my first time joining you  welcome throw that away toss that away take this  

out a bit talking about cake makes me hungry  yes so you would say talking about cake makes me  

hungry talking about cake makes me hungry makes me  hungry remember people get even simple things like  

this if I know people don't want to practice this  they like learning more interesting vocabulary but  

it's really the simple things that will make you  feel much more confident in your conversations  

uh let's see yes all right so we got lots of  other examples over here going to the toilet uh  

uh by the way what's up y'all nice to see you  there okay all right remix is rearrange the music  

and the covers when someone else sings a song yeah  so you could have both you could have a like a  

remix of the music and like if it's like exactly  the same thing I mean often a remix just means  

you're changing maybe the instruments or or the  like the actual melody or something like that but  

it's the same basic song but yes any more examples  that you can get from that uh that's the better  

yeah so dangy is again asking what's your  handle yes so just if you ask someone it  

just means what's your name that's it uh uh  Jennica says why did you migrate to Japan  

if it's a personal thing that's okay so again  I'd say if it's personal or if it's a personal  

thing so if it's a personal thing so I came to  Japan to to learn Japanese gardening and teach  

English that's why I'm here so I don't actually  do anything with the gardening nowadays I will  

probably get back to that in the future even  though I still enjoy it and I love going to  

Gardens out here but I just really enjoy teaching  a lot that's why I'm talking with you guys here  

uh what time is it there it is what time is it  here 11 A.M in Japan uh and let's see says please  

briefly explain how to teach a lesson before  a lesson I understand your Mario example but  

struggle to translate it to a lesson when teaching  what do you mean how to teach how to teach a  

lesson before a lesson my Mario example what do  you mean give me more give me more information  

what do you refresh my memory AJ English says  how do you say good morning in Japan language  

so you can just say in Japanese you say Ohio Ohio  gozaimasu that's a good morning in Japanese Ohio  

hi from Chile and I see you there Diego and uh Pig  Outback bolt gun behind door what pig Outback bolt  

gun behind door Pig Outback uh I don't know what  what that means pig out so like if you're if you  

have and this is an interesting thing about  the language depending on what you're saying

pig out back

now if you're talking about Outback I have  to draw maybe a picture of this for you  

and I don't have a lot of uh like clarity about  that but um like if you're if you're in a house  

like the the Outback would be the backyard area  and maybe there is a pig in the backyard would  

just draw a pig like that uh so Pig Outback  meaning there is like they're like there is  

a pig Outback so like there is a pig behind the  house like in the backyard uh and I think what  

was the other thing you said a bolt gun what  was that pig Outback bolt gun behind the door  

so a bolt gun is like it's a if what was the name  of that movie where a guy had a like a bolt gun  

is is basically a little like an air pressure  gun and it's got a piece of metal in it that  

shoots out really fast so you can use this to uh  kill people maybe that's No Country for Old Men  

I think there's a guy who uses a bolt gun uh in  that movie uh but this is where you like hold it  

up and use it to kill animals so rather than  using a bullet that shoots out like the bolt  

gun you can use it many times but it's usually  air air powered so I don't know what that means  

though like pig out like there is a pig Outback  or maybe that maybe that's talking about pig out  

which is a more advanced phrasal verb  that just means to eat a lot of food  

like oh I was really pigging out at the  buffet so I ate too much food like a pig  

all right so it depends I don't know what the  situation is but uh from what from what I hear  

but it's pretty interesting uh okay was the age  limit for language learning there isn't one why  

would there be an age limit for language learning  and imagine if you in your native language like  

you turn 30 years old and like oh no I can't learn  anything in my native language anymore nobody  

would say that you're always learning I mean until  your mind if you have a like maybe you're just too  

old to learn anything but there's nothing special  about languages that are different language just  

means you're learning new information so you're  learning new ways of of describing something or  

you're learning about new vocabulary like like  the word computer so many people you know before  

I don't know 1950 or whenever the first computer  was invented uh people didn't know what that was  

so they learned the word computer and my 80  year old grandmother maybe she gets a computer  

and we're like look Grandma this is a computer  and so we're teaching her the word computer so  

it's it's new language for you and there's  nothing unless you have a mental problem or  

like a disease that's destroying your mind or your  brain or something like that you should be fine  

so there is no limit for doing that theoretically  anyway you shouldn't have any problem doing that  

so you don't have a problem doing that in  your native language so you shouldn't have  

one in your uh like learning learning English  or whatever so I could I could teach you like a  

new word in Japanese and you would be learning  that just like it's a new word even if I told  

you that's a word in your native language  uh let's see so pissed off means angry all  

right sleep sorry I meant how to teach a lesson  before a lesson like you said in the FFL audio  

um how do I teach you mean like how do I prepare  like if I'm teaching using the program to teach  

my students or something like that so like the  the actual process of of teaching someone is  

like the the preparation for a teacher if you're  if you're trying to use the lessons or whatever  

it's really the same format that we go through in  the program but the goal is like to understand a  

particular conversation but we don't start there  this is the goal so we go back to like the first  

level so we're just understanding one kind of  grammar point and we make it clear that like  

there will be many different grammar points used  in a particular conversation but we only want to  

focus on one thing all right so just like my older  daughter Ari just started taking karate lessons  

and when I'm watching this I notice there's a lot  of information coming in so that they're like okay  

we want you to do this and like it's kind of a  high level and it just means like they're they're  

they're they're giving her a lot of information  at the same time so I told her it's okay if you  

don't understand everything just focus on one  thing and really try to do that so listen to the  

teachers but just try to focus on one thing and  in her case like try to like spread your legs a  

little bit more when you're when you're walking so  get lower and then just focus on that because she  

kind of stands up a little bit taller so just  focus on that one thing so if we're trying to  

prepare people to understand something we're just  going to have them focus on one thing like this  

particular grammar thing and then we will focus  on that again and again in different ways and then  

we'll do the vocabulary then some of the culture  and then we'll be ready for the conversation now  

if you're also doing this as a teacher you can  also give even more information about particular  

things depending on what your students need  so maybe your students are like oh I'd like  

to learn more about this or whatever some other  word something like that so have a focus for the  

lesson and the point is to get lots of review  of that particular thing and then as you go  

through and see this finally in the conversation  then you will be having they will be much more  

prepared for that all right if I still haven't  answered your question let me know let's see um

all right the American teacher again if someone  talks about this same over and over you can say  

this is a remix especially with women talking  about the same thing uh yeah I suppose you could  

use that I've never heard natives using it in  that way but I suppose you could how long did  

it take you to learn the Japanese language so  I'm not finished with the Japanese language I'm  

continuing to learn it but hopefully I want to  make this very clear I try to mention this in  

every video because we always have new people  learning with us is that you get fluent word by  

word so if I can help you understand something and  use even that one word fluently you have become  

or kind of gotten to the ownership level of that  vocabulary so you become fluent in that thing you  

become fluent in that particular vocabulary when  you can use it fluently I know it sounds like kind  

of funny or whatever but like Learners think  the the traditional way of learning languages  

it it it it makes you ask a question like how  many words do you need before you get fluent so  

they begin with zero let's say today I'm going  to start learning Turkish or Arabic or Thai or  

something like that so I begin with no vocabulary  I don't know any Turkish at all and I'm going to  

start learning that language now I could think  to myself like okay after I get 10 words or a  

hundred words or a thousand words or whatever  then I become fluent but it doesn't work that way  

fluency doesn't it's not like it's not like this  this kind of process where I'm like or actually  

that's not even a good way to draw it like what  what actually happens or what people what people  

think happens when they're learning a language is  that they they kind of go like this so they think  

they're learning and then boom I get I hit a magic  number and then and then I get like finally I get  

the uh I don't know like the fluency or whatever  but fluency doesn't work this way it's not like  

you learn a thousand words and then suddenly you  can get fluent what really happens is actually  

the uh the graph that I drew or the line I drew  before let me draw that in a different color

so fluency actually works like this so as you get  fluent in individual words your overall fluency  

improves but you get fluent word by word okay so  these are two different ways of learning this is  

the English as a first language English as a first  language and you can be a native speaker learning  

this way or you can be like you you're learning  with a native speaker like me but I'm teaching you  

the native way or you can do what most people do  which is English as a second language all right so  

when you learn English as a first language you're  trying to get fluent in each of these words and  

phrases individually all right so if you learn  something as an example I teach you some word  

and I just give you a translation in your native  language but you don't really understand it very  

well you're unsure about the pronunciation or the  grammar point or whatever then you will not feel  

confident using that thing fluently okay so you  will not want to use that in a conversation so  

most people they continue to learn more words they  have a large vocabulary but they still can't speak  

okay any questions about that so the is if these  are the two different ways of learning and this  

is why like I could I could have a person and  and have two different classes and they could  

know the same vocabulary so let's say I have class  one uh is knowing like a hundred words over here  

so I take one person teach them the native way  and then one person teach them the non-native way  

and the fluency you can see this is what I call  the fluency Gap so it's the difference between  

where you should be with your ability to speak and  the vocabulary you know all right so if you're you  

don't you don't keep learning more words and  get fluent you have to get fluent in each word  

as you learn it all right so a good lesson should  make you feel fluent about that particular thing  

now a lot of what I do on YouTube is helping  people understand these kinds of principles about  

language learning so rather than just trying to  get a bunch of vocabulary but but you don't really  

understand that very well you should understand it  pretty easily now now I could actually teach you  

a bunch of words like I do in uh like our phrase  Builder videos so if I teach you like cake walk  

I don't know and like this word and that word and  that one it could be like a 30 minute video where  

I teach you a bunch of different vocabulary  but you become fluent in those things as you  

understand them like a native and then you  continue to practice them more but you notice  

this way is going to get you to fluency much  faster because you're getting fluent in each thing  

all right so you don't get fluent as you  learn more you have to get fluent in each  

thing as you learn it if you don't do that  then you don't really understand and you're  

not going to feel confident about speaking  and this is why you can have people who know  

a lot of English but don't speak all right  so they know a lot of English but they don't  

feel confident because they they don't really  own the vocabulary the same way a native does  

so remember there will be babies who were born  today so you have all already been learning  

English for however many years but like maybe the  baby born today like for the first maybe a year  

they're they're just listening to the language  usually by about six months children can tell  

one language from another so they know their  mother is speaking to them in this language  

and someone else is speaking a different one  they recognize that and then you know by the  

time they're a year and a half or two years old  they're already starting to speak a little bit  

and then by the time they're three or four or five  they're usually like way better than most English  

learners but it's so it's in like the the you have  like a head start so you are you should be much at  

like a much higher level and this is what happened  to me when I got to Japan so I'm looking at little  

kids I'm like wait a minute this kid is is like  three years old and he's speaking better than me  

and I've been trying to learn Japanese I mean  even you know a year or whatever but like I know  

probably way more words than that kid knows  but he's a better speaker than I am and it's  

because he got fluent in all these things as he  learned them but me I'm just getting an English  

translation of all these words in Japanese all  right so either you learn English as a first  

language or you learn it as a second language and  that's where you're going to continue to struggle  

all right let's see here any more questions about  that uh uh ah yes I if uh yes if you're talking  

about the example of only one car uh parking at  this at a time yes so that that this that's the  

idea about uh uh slee the like the way we learn  vocabulary and so when you we have to create a  

new category in our mind uh to understand new  words but that's how we can have like a bunch  

of different words uh that fit like one in our  native language one in English and even different  

versions of that so you might learn different ways  of saying money or whatever let's say Mark Antoine  

says uh hi there Andrew I'm watching from Haiti uh  keep up the good work you're one of the teachers  

that I encourage my English students to watch on  YouTube glad to hear thank you for recommending me  

I gotta hit the can all right there you go  another another reason for uh or another way  

of going to the toilet why teenagers learn  language faster than adults uh well part  

of that is because they're they're just exposed  to more of the language usually they're they're  

just getting a lot more I I would if you took a  teenager and an adult and like everything was the  

same about how they learned the child might get  fluent faster but uh if you took a child and put  

like if you take a teenager and put a teenager  in a regular language class and you give an  

adult like my kind of training the adult will get  fluent much faster than the child would for sure  

so it's more about how they learn rather than  their age but typically like younger kids they  

don't have their their mind isn't already full  of other things and a lot more experience so it's  

it's like as you get you as you get older it's  like a boat traveling and it's harder to turn  

the boat than move into a different direction so a  child is a much smaller boat so it's easy to turn  

and start thinking in a new way so if you're four  years old and you don't know or you only know one  

language and then you move to a different country  and you have to speak a different language it's  

much easier to start learning that second language  but if you're 40 years old and you've been doing  

something your whole life and then you try to take  traditional English as a second language lessons  

and you're probably going to struggle and that's  what what happens to a lot of people unfortunately  

uh let's see let's say random speech from  Mozambique nice to see you there love your  

classes Samuel here by the way nice to see you  thank you for joining us Mark angel I agree with  

you I've been telling my students and colleagues  that we really need to go outside of the box  

teaching languages in a whole new way yes I think  the the way I get people to do this is to say I'm  

not really teaching people in a new way I'm going  back to the way you learned your native language  

so it's not even like like uh I don't tell people  I have a new technique all I did was just break  

down what natives are doing so I just spent many  years looking at that trying to explain to people  

how that works and it's really the things I  talked about in this video so we have uh the  

real vocabulary that natives are using and you're  getting naturally varied review and understandable  

messages that really help you understand that  like a native uh let's see what time is it all  

right we're still okay uh Max says good evening  sir I've just arrived now I have a question in my  

mind when use a and to describe general things  can also be used to describe one thing example  

this is an apple yeah watch my video about the I  think I talk about that so the difference between  

uh like Anne and uh but typically if we're if  we're just introducing something this is a bottle  

this is a bottle this is a bottle so I'm not  telling you anything or you don't have any any  

previous prior information about that uh if I say  like this is the bottle I was telling you about  

yesterday so I wouldn't say and unless they're  like more than one or it's not it's not important  

also watch the beginning English playlist uh on  our Channel find that channel playlist and then  

you can watch those those things as I explain that  the same way native will learn it how long you've  

been living in Japan uh almost 20 years on and  off Mark Antoine is again asking us a question  

what about phonetics so if you click on the link  in the description below this video for Frederick  

I made a whole app that goes through all 44 sounds  of English and teaches them systematically so you  

can learn them like a native so if you're trying  to improve your own pronunciation and listening  

you want to sound more like a Native American  speaker or if you want to help kids learn the  

language all in English so if you want to teach  especially people ask me how they can help their  

kids learn the language that's how you do it with  Frederick I'll put the link or the name of it

f-r-e-d-e-r-i-c-k for Frederick so Frederick is  

the world's first app that you can use  to learn the language all in language  

all right so I get later uh but it seems  like I've been watching from the beginning  

I don't know what that's referencing Raphael  says in your experience teaching English how  

long does it take to learn and be fluent example  Asians and Hispanics uh I I think it's it's less  

about the I mean it could be like the difference  in the the language but as I've as I've said in  

many videos if you just begin with a baby in a  native language they all get fluent at the same  

time generally it's it's not like Chinese babies  take 10 years to get fluent and Japanese babies  

take two months or something like that pretty  much everybody learns to speak the language now  

learning something like the written language is  more difficult so in in English we can learn the  

written language very quickly because there  are only 26 letters or I guess you multiply  

that by two if you count the capitals and the  lower case but there are thousands of written  

characters in Chinese and Japanese so it's it's  it's different for learning those skills but for  

being able to speak and communicate everybody  does does that about the same time so I haven't  

really noticed a difference and I get people  like especially people in uh fluent for life  

from all over like all over the world people join  that program because you're just learning English  

like a native speaker and so I haven't noticed  uh particularly like one group of people doing  

better I suppose maybe that's the possibility  if like the grammar is a little bit different  

but you know there are kind of differences from  every language so it could be pronunciation or  

the grammar might be a little bit different but if  you understand something like a native then it's  

much easier to do that so when I'm giving examples  like teaching people I'm actually building a new  

uh video series about like learning learning like  a native just to explain this and so I was I kind  

of created like an alien language what I don't  remember even I just made it for one video but the  

the basic idea was like if we have like different  colors and if I'm trying to teach you what this is  

and I'm using Japanese I don't know if there are  any Japanese viewers watching this I'll just use  

Japanese but if I'm teaching you this and I want  to teach it all in Japanese like maca maca marker

marker marker

our our shots

Kuro kuroi shots now I can get you fluent in  Japanese in the same way and if I'm again just  

giving you simple examples to begin because  maybe you don't know any Japanese probably  

most people do not watching this but the point is  if I start that way and I continue just making it  

a little bit more difficult and I continue to  give you more review each day I would get you  

fluent in Japanese so there's nothing really  you have to do other than just enjoy the videos  

and your mind is like ah it's like he didn't  he didn't tell me what the word was he just  

made it clear what the word was so I could  discover that for myself so if I can teach  

you that way really the goal of the teacher  is not to tell you what stuff means it's to  

make you understand what that means and so you  feel much more confident like ah I got it now  

okay all right let's see Seb get says how do  you pronounce eight and eight it's the same  

pronunciation again get Frederick if you want to  if you wanna see those like we we cover all that  

so a t e and you and you will learn when you when  you go through Frederick you will understand why  

we have these rules so e i g h is the a sound  so the long a sound same thing so long a a uh  

this is the same sound as well a like play and  day and then if we have a t e this is what we  

might call magic e or bossy like bossy e or  silent E so if we have the last letter is e  

typically the sound of this letter will say its  own name all right so we have a word like cat  

the a is a short vowel sound cat cat [Music] but  if we put an e over here we have eight and then  

we don't say the name of the e or the sound of the  E Kate Kate like educate yourself educate yourself

same thing magic e bossy bossy e silent E so  when you're learning the sounds you can learn  

uh as you go through these but notice like  right now I'm kind of giving you a like a  

language lesson when it's much better if you play  with The Language by yourself and then you like  

this is what we allow you to do so in Frederick  instead of me telling you the rules you discover  

the rules for yourself okay this is why the app  is so important because I want you to understand  

things without anyone telling you what they are  because if you do that then you own the language  

you get to that ownership level all right so  if we have pin and we have pine all right so  

the same rule over here so we have the silent E  and we have a vowel here so for the short vowel  

sound but then the long I sound is Ein Pine  so like a pine tree and a little a little pin  

and so if we have this I want to give you  some just very simple examples about that  

but then you understand the pattern and  then you can use that all right so like

so by understanding this rule we think  like okay that's going to be the short u  

so uh the Cub like a baby bear or a baby  lion a cub but then what would this be  

so we look at these examples I've  given you this one okay we have eight I

you Cube

a cube okay so instead of like the traditional  pronunciation lesson where a teacher will just  

give you a bunch of random words it's much  better to learn them and just understand  

them step by step and so we begin with something  very simple like the alphabet so you learn the  

name of the letter and then we go up and start  teaching you all these different pronunciation  

basically rules but this is the way natives  are learning the language so if you do the  

same thing you also learn the language and  understand the pronunciation the way they do

uh let's see all right uh Bruno says  I agree with you about learning from  

situation listen to real English when it comes  to speak English sounds maybe different from  

our language is repetition the key should we  start prac when should we start practicing so  

remember Bruno that the the practice that you  get is the varied review that you get so what  

what students think they're doing by practicing  the language when they think about practicing  

this is another like very important point about  language learning that a lot of people don't  

think about uh they just assume like all skills  are the same so if I'm playing the piano so we  

can have look at these different skills over  here or if I'm trying to do like gymnastics  

I'll just put GM for that or some kind of physical  thing like a sport and then put language over here

pardon my quick writing so if we have piano  gym Sports typically you're trying to repeat  

the same thing over and over and over  again until you do it perfectly so it  

could be a golf swing or playing a song on  the piano or the guitar or whatever but in  

languages there is no perfect thing you learn  because you have to be prepared for different  

things in conversations so I might speak with  one person and this person is talking about  

like they could be talking about the same thing  they're talking about the idea of like I'm cold  

but this person says like oh like oh it's  freezing in here it's freezing in here so  

they're saying they're meaning I'm cold or  even I'm very cold but they express it in  

different ways so one person says I'm freezing  and the other person says turn up the heat  

turn up the heat these are two different ways of  saying I'm cold so what we can't do we can't try  

to practice like saying I'm cold I'm cold I'm cold  over and over and over again what we have to do is  

get lots of examples of how different natives are  doing this so this is how natives are doing this  

this is how natives are learning this is how you  learned your native language so we have to try to  

systematize this and get this input as fast as we  can so we can be prepared faster for conversations  

so if I want to learn how to talk about going to  the doctor then I should listen to you know 10  

people going to the doctor like look at 10 10  visits of people sitting in a doctor's office  

okay so we don't practice by trying to repeat  words and phrases again and again this is time to  

repeat all these we should be using that time to  get more different examples so this is naturally  

varied review all right so when we're trying  to practice it's not like you uh you you like  

practice it a few times all of the pronunciation  all of the listening the grammar all of that stuff  

comes as you get more examples so it's the review  the input the understandable messages that get you  

fluent it's not you trying to repeat something  by yourself because even if you can say I'm cold  

even if you say it perfectly nobody maybe nobody  says I'm cold in the conversation and then what  

do you do you're not prepared for that all right  so when you're learning languages you should be  

spending all of your time being prepared for this  and that's what makes you feel confident and gets  

you ready for conversations so if you just do this  you will feel confident about saying I'm cold all  

right but other people might not use that or maybe  you don't have an opportunity to use that in a  

conversation all right so when we when we prepare  the practice is the input that's why I can teach  

you and get you fluent without you saying anything  all right so my job is easy I'm not like if  

imagine if I'm like a gym instructor or something  and I have I have to like tell you to do exercise  

nobody wants to exercise everybody wants to  be fit and have a good body but they don't  

want to exercise but in my case I can get you  fluent all you have to do is just like watch a  

video or try to read something it's pretty easy  but all the all the hard work is done for you  

it's just preparing all this and making sure you  can do that that's what fluent for life is all  

right so don't worry about trying to practice  like you're like you're reviewing something  

by yourself the point is to understand things and  be really prepared for conversations uh let's see

uh all right I answer that one right hi  there nice to see you online thank you  

for the lessons it's my pleasure uh Solis is  how do I encourage my students to trust the  

process as they transition to the efo away  from the ESL way uh they say that we have  

well the wfl way is too slow that's weird  that's interesting I I'm surprised anyone  

should would say that like the the learning as  a first language is slower I mean the learning  

as a second language is much slower certainly  for being able to speak but the way I do it if  

I'm trying to teach teachers and this  is about when you're trying to change  

any kind of behavior or get somebody to do  something new then you have to have quick wins

so quick wins meaning that I'm trying to  like there's a long-term goal over here of  

being able to to speak fluently or whatever uh  and I want to make sure that people like from  

the first lesson understand something just like  I'm doing in Frederick like from the very first  

lesson when you're playing with it you can start  teaching yourself things and like you need to have  

this win as quickly as possible and so if I'm  you trying to teach that to people I would be  

teaching them things in English and just teaching  some vocabulary all right so without trying to do  

grammar or other things like just just have  them learn some new words like I like I gave  

the example of Cakewalk earlier so if you can  help people understand something even something  

basic but they can understand it in English then  they will feel much more confident about that so  

you demonstrate that it works and so it's much  easier like if we have two lessons one of them is  

a translation and the other one is me helping you  understand something just like I gave with these  

markers and I'm teaching you Japanese I use that  example because it's a quick win you will probably  

forget that Japanese but the idea works and so you  think oh like I understood what Drew was saying  

it's like crude oil shots so what does Kudo mean  black so you can guess that without me telling  

you and as I give you more examples you're like  wow look at that I'm learning Japanese and like  

it's really easy all right so quick wins this  is how you get people to change their behavior  

you have to demonstrate that it works and then as  they're doing that it's like wow if I can learn  

a few words like this then I can keep going and  get like fluent much faster and especially like  

within the first week and especially within the  first month if you go through the whole process  

with Learners then they will think wow it actually  works all right but remind them of the alternative  

so the alternative is to continue doing things a  traditional way where you know it's not going to  

work so if you have been learning English for 20  years or or 10 years or however long and you still  

can't speak then we know for sure that way is not  going to work okay so yes tangible progress It's  

again like quick wins you want to show proof  that it works so often people ask me for like  

testimonials or whatever and I could do that but  people people won't believe testimonials either  

so it's like well I don't well that person  had this or you know some other thing or Drew  

you did it because whatever like people will make  excuses or or you know rationalize whatever but if  

I can prove it to you that it works so when people  watch my videos that's when they join my programs  

they say oh like like it works you know if you if  you go through the the process it's not it's not  

difficult I just need to show you how to learn it  and help you understand it like a native speaker  

all right so that means without using translations  or anything but I make it easy for people and when  

they do that like you don't need to give a lot  of examples like that Japanese lesson is like  

I don't know three things or whatever hopefully  that makes sense uh Lavita red says why Frederick  

so I think yeah I think um because he taught  himself to read uh yeah so this is named after  

Frederick Douglass uh who did taught him  he taught himself uh how to read English  

see you this never ceases to amaze me yes  hopefully if so if you can Amaze your students  

if you can teach them something in English without  using their native language they will be surprised  

and impressed because most people don't think  it's possible to learn another language uh without  

translating AJ tell us how to pronounce ordinal  numbers in English get Frederick you can find all  

those numbers in there uh Rafael says what do you  think of the courses to reduce accent I know that  

in India many people who want to get a job in  a call center need to pass an accent reduction  

test uh I don't know what specific courses like  might be available for that I mean again like  

the the answer for me is very easy it's just  getting naturally varied review because that  

covers everything where I'm getting pronunciation  listening uh vocabulary grammar all those things  

I'm learning at the same time and so the more  rather than like an accent reduction course I  

don't want to like reduce my accent I want to move  into a different accent I know that sounds sounds  

like the same thing but it's really not if I if I  talk about like accent reduction it's easier for  

people to understand like here are some examples  of the kind of speech you should be listening for  

and if you want to have an American accent you  should be listening to different American English  

speakers saying the same thing and you will  find find your right English voice within that  

so just like you you have your own unique voice  I sound a little bit different from my parents  

even though we all speak American English but I  have my own you know my body shape or my mouth  

shape everybody is a little bit different and  so we're going to sound a little bit different  

but people recognize me as a native English  speaker hopefully that makes sense though  

uh let's see I'm from Brazil or Ricardo nice to  see you there AJ again Wendy lab I don't want to  

miss the boat please uh probably around this  time on Thursday so three days from now uh in  

Japan time let's see if anyone wants to know how  to pronounce Look up the word on Google and listen  

to the pronunciation stop being so lazy or just  get Frederick because again it's not just if you  

learn the pronunciation of a random word that will  help you but it's much better to learn why we have  

those pronunciations and so to go through learning  the pronunciation step by step like we teach in  

Frederick that's why I made the app so people can  actually learn pronunciation the same way you do  

let's see is it the same nobody wants to learn  English but everybody wants to speak fluently  

yes and so I know people don't want to learn  English because like learning English is is boring  

especially if you learn it the traditional way  but people love watching movies and other things  

like that and so if you can take something where  like I'm trying to help you learn it the same way  

a native does it's much more entertaining and you  learn new things in your native language all the  

time so maybe you hear some like popular music  or movie or something like that and you learn  

new things in your native language that's how it  works all right uh Drew when I finish your course  

please come speak on my podcast just to brief  the students about efl versus yeah sure if you  

have if you have uh after you go through a month  let me know what you think and find some find some  

of your students and even if remind people that  like if they're just starting that they've been  

learning maybe many years the traditional way  and they're trying to learn this like it it can  

I don't know it can change your brain and it takes  you a little bit of time to get used to it because  

you're like you're looking for the translation  at first like where is the translation but if  

you relax if the teaching is good you don't need  the translation you should be able to understand  

everything all right so the lesson should be  in English it should help you do that but yeah  

it would be great to get more feedback from you  about how they're they're working with it as well  

so you will prove it all by yourself as you  use it I think the English language has too  

much so you'd say too many Expressions I  think I'm gonna call my toilet gym instead  

of John and people will think I'm working  out whatever I say I'm going to the gym  

very clever uh please tell us when you  will be again on YouTube so I'll be uh  

probably three days from now the pronunciation  is not the only word in the habit to speak yes  

I like your videos you explain very well every  topic Marco from Cozumel I really like Cozumel  

that's a great place too I've been there it  was a while ago but uh King tanaru as well

uh not so easy to rebuild speech apparatus again  it's easier than most people think in Germany you  

can say the toilet in an office or you can  say you got to go to 17. that's interesting  

Ricardo with some goats over there the goat the  goat all right I think that should be it for  

today but if you would like to learn more all of  the systems have been built for you so fluent for  

life will get you fluent Frederick will teach  you how to pronounce words and understand them  

and learn lots of vocabulary and it's also perfect  for kids so anybody who has kids out there anybody  

have kids watching this video and you're trying  to teach them English like like young kids or even  

a little bit older if you do give them Frederick  all right you can find the links for both of those  

things in the description below this video all  right uh let's see how you were from Bangladesh  

over there nil says thank you and good to see you  go watch die hard again Nils is dead Nils is dead  

oh no Nils is dead I really like Nils you know  Nils was awesome see now every time I'm thinking  

about this I'm like remembering Die Hard sleep  says okay I'm using your method to learn Mandarin  

uh to say Elise I wish I bumped into your course  sooner yes so you can like I don't know if anybody  

teaches Mandarin using my like the way I teach but  you sit uh if you could that's great I don't know  

if anybody else does that I want to make maybe  like a network of people who teach this way but  

you certainly can do it by yourself it's just a  longer and more difficult process because it's  

it's more difficult to understand you really have  to focus more uh when you're doing it by yourself  

and even me today I'm still learning new things  in Japanese and whenever I discover something  

I feel really great about that it's like yes I  figured it out I solved the puzzle I understood  

what something means I think I was talking about  that in uh in my last video about the word uh Koso

I'm not writing that very clearly either  my Japanese is also pretty bad but I was  

talking about this word and and like what  it meant and I finally after getting enough  

examples like I finally understood what it  meant like really understood like a native  

speaker and then my wife used it today she  was like no it's your fault about something  

and she used that word and I was uh  I was like oh yeah that's great so  

I wasn't upset with my wife or anything I  was just happy I understood the vocabulary  

so there are new things I learned all the time  it's obviously much faster uh if you have someone  

to do it but it certainly is possible to do it in  any language you like but remember learn like a  

child learn like a native speaker and that's how  you do it get that naturally varied review and  

you will become much more confident fluent English  speaker guaranteed all right sleep I'm moving like  

water glad to hear it yes keep learning things  and you and Moving Like Water for people who don't  

know this means you're prepared for different  things in conversations so if you can't think  

of one thing to say you can easily transition  into something else all right have a fantastic  

day click on the links in the description be  sure to like this video too I never asked people  

to like videos or subscribe or whatever but uh I  don't obviously do like advertising on my videos  

the only way I collect any money from these  other than the stuff that Google makes me do  

is having people join programs so if you like  what we do even if you don't join us like and  

share the video so other people can find us as  well uh let's see do I do a stream every day  

no I don't uh but once uh once twice twice a week  usually all right thank you again can't thank you  

enough yeah it's my pleasure and thank you again  for joining me we'll see you next time bye-bye