10 FLUENCY HACKS FOR RAPID PROGRESS IN ENGLISH

Hey, today I'm going to give you 10 English fluency hacks.

These hacks will help you improve your English fluency faster.

Are you ready?

Well, then I'm teacher Tiffani.

Let's jump right in.

Fluency hack number one.

Rapid fire.

One minute flashcard discussion questions.

Let me explain how you can do this.

You see, you've been studying English for a while.

You've probably purchased many different books.

You probably have a notebook, and you've probably been following the same

study pattern for months or for years.

Well, with this hack, you're gonna change things up a bit.

What I want you to do is to get some flashcards.

Let's start off with five, and on each flashcard, you're going to

write an English discussion question.

You can pick the topic.

You'll start with five.

Write down the discussion questions, then put the cards together, and

you're going to pick one and just start talking about it immediately.

That's right.

Pick a card, read the question and start talking about it.

You can look in the mirror if you'd like.

You can do it with a friend.

It's totally okay.

The point is to give spontaneous responses.

Many times in English conversations, you won't know what the person

is going to ask you next.

So if you practice this way, you'll be able to feel.

Much more comfortable in a real situation.

So hack number one is to do this rapid fire flashcard trick.

Write down the discussion questions, mix them up, and then pick a

question, read it and answer it.

And keep doing this for as long as you possibly can during your study session.

Make sense?

Alright, here we go.

Number two, hack number two.

This is what I want you to do.

Alphabet sentence practice.

Now explain.

You're gonna go through the alphabet and create sentences for the first

letters of the alphabet, using the first letters, for example.

A, B, C, D, E, right?

Let's stop there.

Letter A, create a sentence that starts with the letter A.

For example, a woman I met decided to call me yesterday to ask me for help.

Check letter B.

Before I travel abroad, I need to purchase a new bag.

Check C, can you call me tomorrow and remind me to pick up my car?

Check?

You see what I'm doing, right?

I'm using the first letter.

That letter becomes the first letter or the first letter

of the word of a sentence.

I create.

This is what you're going to do, and you're going to go

through the entire alphabet.

Remember, these hacks are meant to help you with your English fluency.

You're probably wondering, but Tiffani, how is this going to help

me improve my English fluency?

English fluency?

Being able to express yourself is all about being able to think on

the fly, to think spontaneously, and to express your ideas clearly.

This will help you practice the spontaneity and also the creative

side of speaking English fluently.

So again, take the alphabet, go through each letter, use

the letter as the first word.

Or the first letter of the first word when you create a sentence, you got it.

Excellent.

Now, I hope you're taking notes.

Remember, these hacks are going to help you immensely.

Let's go to hack number three.

Hack number three is also a good one.

Write a daily journal about what happened during your day.

This is key.

So I have always loved keeping journals.

This is one that I have right now where I keep some information for my assistant.

But if you are watching this video, I'm gonna slide a little bit right behind

me, behind my desk, there is a series of about four or five journals that I have.

I always have a journal near me.

I like to jot things down.

This is going to be beneficial for you as an English learner.

Every day you're doing something different.

Maybe you're cooking, maybe you're working, maybe you're visiting your

family, maybe you're hanging with friends.

You're doing something slightly different every day.

Pick one action.

Pick one event and write about it.

At the end of each day, write in your journal.

You decide how long it's going to be, you determine the amount of time

the key is writing every single day.

About your day.

Because what's going to happen is later on when someone asks you,

Hey, what did you do on Friday?

On Friday?

You already wrote in your journal what you did.

So your thoughts have already been organized.

So you'll be able to answer very quickly.

You'll be able to give a fluent English response.

Why?

Because you already wrote about it in your journal.

Woohoo.

You got it right.

Okay.

Let's go to the next hack that will help you improve your English fluency.

Here we go.

Number four, image describe.

This is one of my absolute favorite hacks.

Now you'll notice in parentheses it says five Ws.

Who?

What, when, where, and why.

Now I want you to understand how to do this properly.

So let me explain how you can do this.

Now, you might be saying to yourself, whoa, Tiffani, who is this guy?

This is a random picture that I was able to find online.

Remember, we're talking about.

Image describes, so I'm gonna write it down.

Image describe.

All right, this is the hack image.

Describe, so we're using the five wss once again.

The point of this is to help you think creatively in English.

So we have this as our image.

All right.

We're looking at this image of this young man, and I want to use the five W.

So the first W is what?

Actually it's who?

But I said, what?

Who, so who is this?

I'm going to guess.

I'm gonna say, ah, this is a model.

He's a model.

What is he doing?

I think he's actually taking a picture.

Taking, I'm gonna say photo.

Taking a photo.

Who, what?

When?

I'm gonna say, mm, when was this?

Yesterday.

You see what I'm doing?

Right?

I'm going through the five Ws to describe this image, so stay with me.

Where?

Mm.

Let me see.

Where was this?

I think it was at the studio.

And why?

He's trying to improve his portfolio.

Okay, so improve his portfolio portfolio with images of himself.

So what do we have right here?

Again, this is image.

Describe the hack that we're looking at.

So, Make a sentence.

You've described the picture, who, what, when, where, why.

So this is a model and he's taking a photo, but remember I said it

was yesterday, so let's go back.

Yesterday a model was taking a photo at the studio because he

wanted to improve his portfolio.

You see what happened, right?

You're picking an image and you're using the five wss.

Who, what, when, where, and why.

To describe it, we're talking about hacks that will help you

improve your English fluency.

Make sense?

Again?

Pick an image or a series of images and use the five WSS to describe those images.

You got it?

Alright, here we go.

Hack number five.

Image.

Describe three details.

Image describe three details.

Now I'm gonna go right back to the picture we just looked at.

Now I'm gonna erase what I wrote.

So now we're gonna be doing is trying to give three details about this image.

So you see me erasing the five wss right now.

Don't worry, we're gonna write some details now.

All right.

Again.

We're talking about the image, the same image we were just looking at.

I'm gonna erase it off screen.

Don't worry.

My hands are moving fast.

And we're gonna think about three details.

Remember details, just refer to descriptions or facts about

a situation or about an image.

We're using this image right now.

So let's go back to the image.

Right now.

We're gonna think of three details.

Think about a way to describe this image.

What is happening in this image?

Who is this?

What are some details?

So, I can say the first detail is he has very thick and lovely hair, a

detail, again, describing the image.

What else I can say?

He has deep eyes.

He has a deep look in his eyes, so deep eyes.

What else he has?

A nice beard.

Remember, we are talking about the hack related to describing an image using three

details, so we have detail number one.

Detail number two and detail number three, thick and lovely

hair, deep eyes, and a nice beard.

Again, describing an image by picking three details.

You got it.

Remember, this is actually helping you think creatively in English.

It's helping you describe situations which will help you

improve your English fluency.

You got it.

Excellent.

All right, so let's move on to the next hack.

The next hack is, Vocabulary flashcards.

That's right.

Create sentences in 30 seconds.

This is something that is very important for you to understand, so you are actually

going to create your own flashcards.

Now, these flashcards, I'm gonna show you an example very quickly.

Of what you can do.

So you're gonna create some flashcards.

Let's say, for example, you are going to have some flashcards with new words, new

vocabulary, words that you just learned.

In one video I mentioned to you that I taught my students the word elated,

so let's write that on the first card.

Elated.

It just means very excited, very happy.

Let's say for example, you learned another word, maybe you learned the word.

Squash squash, which means to crush something, right?

Squash something.

Well, in our previous lesson, you learned some slang you learned.

Ghost.

Let's write that one.

Actually.

I wanna write ghost.

You learned ghosting.

Someone.

If you haven't seen that video, please go back and watch it.

There were some very interesting and good slang terms.

All right.

Let's say you also learned intervened, which means to

help someone in this situation.

All right?

And let's say you learn something simple like, um, let's see.

I'm just gonna write simple.

Flashcards.

We have five flashcards.

Now remember, this hack requires you to create sentences in 30 seconds.

So what you're gonna do is you're gonna set a timer.

You're gonna have a timer, and you're gonna set it for 30 seconds.

All right, set your timer.

And as the timer is going, you are going to try to create as many sentences

as possible in that 32nd period.

In 30 seconds, you're gonna create one sentence for each flashcard,

and you're gonna try to go through as many flashcards as possible.

Again, speed is very important.

Pick up the flashcard, make a sentence, put it down.

Next card, make a sentence, put it down.

Next card.

How many cards can you go through in a 32nd period?

Make sense?

Excellent.

This hack is gonna help you a lot.

Alright, next, hack number seven.

Speed reading.

Read the same thing three times, but try to read it faster each time.

Now this is a very good hack.

Why?

Because it's going to help you improve your pronunciation and

also, Speed reading will help you speak faster when you speak English.

This is going to help your English fluency.

It's going to help you get used to new words because once you pronounce them one

time, it'll be easier for you to pronounce them the second time and the third time.

This is a very good hack and trick for you trying to improve your English fluency.

All right, hack number eight.

Vocabulary challenge.

Use one word to describe your morning, your afternoon, and your evening.

So let's go back again.

This hack is all about using one word to describe different parts of your day.

Again, using words in context.

So let's say the new word you learned.

Going back to elated.

All right.

Elated meaning extremely happy.

All right, so you learned the word elated.

Now how can you use the word elated to speak about your morning?

Let's say this morning.

True story.

I had a delicious breakfast sandwich.

Alright, so I can say I was elated to go to the breakfast restaurant to go.

To the breakfast restaurant.

It was a breakfast restaurant.

All right, here we go.

Breakfast.

Let's change this right here.

Breakfast restaurant.

Again, you're using the same word to speak about different parts of your day.

What about your afternoon?

Right?

Think about your afternoon.

Maybe you can say, I was elated to speak with my friend this afternoon,

and what about the evening?

I was elated to watch the movie last night.

I was elated to watch the movie yesterday.

Again, you're using the same word to describe your morning,

afternoon, and evening.

We're talking about useful hacks to increase.

Your English fluency to improve it with rapid progress.

You got it?

Alright, here we go.

Let's go to hack number nine.

Talk about your day for two minutes.

That's right.

I want you to get your phone or a timer or your watch.

Set it for two minutes and I want you to talk about your day for two minutes.

Two minutes will feel like a long time in the beginning.

But the more you do this, the faster you will improve.

Set a two minute timer.

Tell your friend or talk to yourself, telling about your day

from who you met, what you ate, where you went, what you did.

This will help you improve your English fluency.

Alright, hack number 10.

Hack number 10.

Look in the mirror and tell a story for two to three minutes.

I actually helped my other friend who's an American improve her ability

to speak in public by looking in the mirror, by watching herself speak

about a experience she had, something that happened to her, a story.

This is so powerful to help you improve your English fluency.

When you look in the mirror, it will help you take away your nervousness.

And speaking for two to three minutes about a story will help you

be able to organize your thoughts and describe things properly.

So this hack is very, very important now.

I hope you enjoy this lesson today.

I hope it helps you improve your English fluency.

Don't forget to practice what you are learning and I'll talk

to you in the next lesson.

You still there?

You know what time it is.

It's story time.

I said it's story time now.

I have a shorter story for you today, but it's a very special story.

So, um, looking at the calendar at the time of this video being.

Launched or going live?

Yes.

About a month and a half ago, I turned 41.

That's right.

41.

I know.

Um, you were probably surprised.

I look young, black don't crack.

That's another expression for you.

But I turned 41 and I decided to go on a trip with one of my friends from college.

So we went to California to hang out.

She's the exact same birthday, same day, same year.

So we decided to go to California to hang out for our birthdays, and

I was getting on the plane, so I got on the plane, I put my, I took my bag

off and put it underneath the seat in front of me, and I was sitting down

and I got a notification on my phone.

The plane hadn't took taken off yet, so it was okay.

I had my phone on and I saw that some of my students were

messaging me in our private group.

I said, okay, let me check this message before the plane takes off.

And it was a video.

And so I said, oh, this is sweet.

I thought it was going to be a few students just sing Happy

Birthday, and then I hit play about 20 or 30, if not more.

Students had gotten together to not just say happy birthday, but to send

me special messages about how they felt about me and how their lives have changed

and how they appreciated me and how they wanted me to have a great birthday.

And I kid you not, as I was watching the video, tears

started to, well, up in my eyes.

Now I'm sitting on the plane.

People are sitting really close to me, so I'm trying to turn towards the window

and wipe my eyes, wipe my tears, right?

It was such a touching video.

It's a video that I will never forget.

The fact that these individuals from all around the world chose to

come together just to tell me happy birthday meant the world to me.

And at the end of the video, we have one student in our group, Pedro.

Hey man, he's one of my favorite students as well, and he likes to put

music videos in our private group.

And periodically I'll go through them and just kind of look at them.

He sings well.

He's a funny guy.

And at the end of the video, Pedro sang me a special song and it just

made the tears come even more.

So I just wanted to let you know that I'm honored to be your

English teacher, and I sincerely, I almost said that in, in Korean.

I pause because I was about to say chita.

Chita means really, uh, sometimes Korean comes out first.

I really, really appreciated the video and I told them, and I wanna tell

you all now, you guys mean the world to me and I truly appreciate you.

And I also want to say that you never know how much people appreciate you.

There's someone around you that appreciates you.

There's someone around you that loves you more than you even realize.

As we go throughout this next week, let's make a promise to let those around us

know how much we appreciate them because it just might change their lives and it

just might help them have an amazing day.

I love you.

I'm honored to be your English teacher, and I'll talk to you in the next video.