MASTERCLASS: How To Build a BRILLIANT Vocabulary

guys what's up we are live and I'm very excited  about this video we're gonna talk about how to  

build a brilliant vocabulary so going from basic  vocabulary to a brilliant vocabulary that makes  

you feel super good competent expressive confident  in English Okay so we're going to talk about how  

to transform the way you express yourself in  English by building a bigger vocabulary and  

how this is going to help you finally understand  native speakers more so welcome everyone who's  

joining I announced yesterday that I was going  to do this video I just finished the outline  

for it like right before right before going  live so there's a lot we have to talk about  

as always a lot of information I want to share  with you guys and insights into this topic and  

I just have to say I'm actually really surprised  that I'm talking about vocabulary because  

my focus throughout being the English coach  and everything like that it's it's really been  

fluency mainly and pronunciation okay I've  talked about grammar and then recently like  

in the last few months I had this big epiphany  where I was like oh my goodness I really need  

to be talking about vocabulary and I realized  how this is such a struggle and a pain point  

for English learners but I think the reason why I  didn't talk about it so much before is because I  

had not put in the thought to understanding  the problem and coming up with the solution  

like I feel like it's pointless to just talk  about something if I don't know the solution  

and so I literally spent months okay you can  talk to the people on my team they will tell  

you I spent months thinking about this problem  with vocabulary the problems it caught it causes  

and the best ways to solve these problems and  we're going to talk about all of this right now  

on this live video you can consider it like your  introduction Master Class to vocabulary okay so  

here's what we'll do I'm gonna go through  everything that I have in my notes  

I'm reading the comments as we do this and  then we're gonna do questions okay you guys  

because I'm not good at multitasking most people  are not I just have to get through everything  

that I have to say and then I can take your  questions and stuff for that and stuff like  

that okay okay so here we go and we're gonna  make this a little bit interactive as well  

the first thing I want to do is I want to make  sure you're in the right place do you even need  

to be having this conversation with me right now  okay do you even need to improve your vocabulary  

because some of you probably don't okay some of  you probably have a great vocabulary maybe your  

vocabulary is even better than mine okay so let's  talk about you know whether or not you need to  

actually improve your vocabulary so first of all  you know you need to work on your vocabulary if  

you feel repetitive in English does anybody  here feel repetitive in English like you're  

always saying the same words over and over the  same expressions over and over and you just  

don't feel like you're like you have variety  you know in in your speech in your words  

you just feel repetitive I remember that when I  was a Spanish learner back in college that's how I  

felt okay I would say like oh how are you how's it  going that's nice thank you um that's interesting  

okay I would like this I would not like that  and like I could express myself I could talk  

I could say what I wanted but it's almost  like my language skills were just so basic  

and I know a lot of people feel this way in  English and they like describe it like caveman  

English or something you know like you can get  your point across but you don't feel great and  

it's it's a hard work it's a chore and in your  native language you're just like oh my gosh my  

native language is so easy I'm so expressive  you know how to use your own idioms that you  

have in your language you can tell jokes you  understand your own cultural references so you  

just fit right in with your native language  but with English there's that barrier right  

there's like maybe you don't understand the jokes  because you don't understand parts of the culture  

or you know stuff like that okay if you're missing  technical terms you might not understand what  

people are talking about where you work in the  office okay if you don't know certain cliches  

certain jargon you're going to be lost and the  worst part is it sucks it feels really bad and  

sometimes most times I think we try to save  face okay do you guys know this expression  

this is like we don't want people to know that  we don't know what they're talking about so we  

we smile we're like oh yeah I get it I get it we  laugh at the jokes even though we don't get them  

you might even lie without realizing it you might  be like oh yeah yeah I understand keep going even  

though you really don't understand okay so all of  these things can come down to vocabulary okay if  

you don't have enough words you're not going to  be able to express yourself well or understand  

other people okay so now sometimes expressing  yourself might come down to just simply a lack  

of confidence or you know a thick accent  that people can't understand or maybe you  

don't understand someone else's accent that's  not what I'm talking about those are separate  

problems okay what I'm talking about is you  understand like you understand the accent you  

understand the pronunciation but you don't get  the meaning behind what somebody is saying okay  

also because maybe they're not being literal maybe  it's an expression that's not literal at all right  

but native speakers know how to understand it  because we grow up with the language right by the  

way I want you to rest assured it's 100 % possible  to achieve a high native level vocabulary in a  

language okay and we'll talk more about that in a  second so anyways you feel repetitive in English  

next you know you need to work on your vocabulary  if you overuse words like thing and something and  

you struggle to be specific okay one of the true  marks of somebody who's advanced in a language is  

that they can be very specific they know exactly  what they mean they say what they mean they mean  

what they say and they're able to use the right  words they don't necessarily have to be advanced  

words that are multi-syllable okay like me am I  using very advanced words right now no okay but  

I'm able to put everything in the order that  I need for you to understand my message okay  

so by the way I don't know if I said this in  the beginning of the video um but especially  

for those people that are just hopping on we're  talking about vocabulary we're talking about  

what you need to work on to improve your  vocabulary how to express yourself better  

we're going to talk it talk also about what to  focus on and how to study okay so like how to  

actually fix these problems and then at the  end I'm going to tell you guys about our new  

vocabulary course basic to brilliant vocabulary  that we just launched yesterday it's open for  

enrollment and the link is in my bio for more  information on that but let's go back to what  

we were talking about I just jump right into  videos I just jumped right into teaching I  

forget to like paint the full picture and let  everybody know okay this is the agenda anyways  

now that I got through that um okay so again you  overuse words like thing in something okay these  

words are the go-to words for so many language  learners and for the same thing for for me in  

Spanish when I was more of a beginner okay you  overuse words like oh that thing over there  

because you don't actually know what that thing is  called but that thing has a name right so you want  

to learn the names of the things around you so  you can be specific because when we're able to be  

specific in a language my goodness it feels good  okay that will improve your confidence if you're  

struggling with confidence there's a big chance  it could be because you simply lack vocabulary  

it is so hard to be confident when you don't  look and sound competent okay so just let that  

sink in a little bit it's just the truth okay not  trying to be mean not trying to be anything just  

we're here to learn and understand these problems  together and solve them together so also abstract  

words for or words that are there to represent  abstract ideas or feelings right so you might be  

talking to your friend and they're like oh you  know how's your day going and you're just like  

um I just feel um you know like when um something  happens and then you just you know like okay you  

get what I'm saying right it's like you don't have  the word to say right now I am whatever you're  

feeling okay just whatever that word is boom right  there are so many words to express what you're  

going through in English I mean some off the  top of my head let me think you could be feeling  

disappointed you could be feeling uh overwhelmed  you could be feeling disrespected okay  

um there's so many words to express something  that's going on internally and again the more  

you can give specific names to everything around  you to your ideas okay to your feelings to the  

objects around you the more specific you are the  better people will understand you okay and the  

better you'll feel when you communicate that's  another thing when people don't understand you  

in English how do you know if it's because of  your accent maybe it's not your accent maybe  

it's not your pronunciation maybe they don't  understand you because you're not communicating  

a specific idea this actually happens a lot when  I communicate with non-native English speakers  

um and they're saying something I might have to  ask for clarification like okay sorry what do  

you mean by that obviously it depends on their  level because the more advanced a speaker is  

the more aware of these things they are  and advanced speakers can self-identify  

when they are being vague they might even  stop themselves I even do that sometimes  

I'm like okay wait let me start over I'm being  vague okay and you're not gonna understand this  

you can identify when the next person won't  understand you right okay but if you can't  

if you're not at that level you need to get to  that level and again the solution is building  

your vocabulary and we haven't even talked yet  about active versus passive vocabulary because  

you might have a really strong passive vocabulary  where you understand a lot of English but then  

when you have to speak it's a whole different  story and I don't actually have a lot of time to  

talk about active versus passive because I didn't  include that in my notes and we have so many other  

things to go over but we're going to talk about  that in the course a lot so you'll get it there  

um next you know you need to work on your  vocabulary in English if you feel quote so  

much smarter in your native language does anyone  here feel like that where you're just like uh  

I wish they could hear me speak Spanish I wish  they could hear me speak Russian I am so smart  

I am like one of the smartest people I know  but then you speak English and you're like oh  

my gosh everybody must think I'm so dumb you know  that feeling sucks and I'm actually going to tell  

you guys a very personal story about when I went  through something like that a little bit later  

on it was humiliating okay so I'll tell you guys  that story in a little bit but you know another  

one you need to improve your vocabulary if you  struggle to talk about a variety a variety of  

topics in conversations so let's say maybe you  have mastered the everyday introductions like Hi  

how are you your name my name what do you do for a  living maybe you've mastered that and maybe you're  

able to communicate okay with people at work let's  say you're a programmer we tend to attract a lot  

of programmers into our courses you're able to  talk about coding and you're able to talk about  

all kinds of things in English but then maybe you  want to go on a date with a girl and this girl  

loves psychology and she just wants to talk to you  all about psychology and you're just like I don't  

know how to talk about narcissists I that that  would be an awkward conversation for a first date  

but yeah like I don't know how to talk about these  things and you just you it'd suck you know so you  

want to have a vocabulary that is basically equal  to your native language okay so what do I mean by  

this I mean that in your native language if you're  able to talk about things like psychology okay you  

want to also have those skills transfer over  into English and have the vocabulary for that  

but if there's something you don't talk about  in your native language there's no need for that  

vocabulary in English okay and we're going to  talk about this a little bit later because it's  

one of the eight basic principles of building your  vocabulary right studying stuff that's relevant to  

relevant to you everybody has different vocabulary  needs because everybody has different interests  

also by the way your vocabulary expands  and contracts naturally over time this is  

something I just thought of it was not in my  notes but it's something I wanted to mention  

for example my brother right now is into  cryptocurrency I don't know if you guys  

are into crypto the market is crashing everybody's  freaking out right now um and he has been talking  

to us a lot about cryptocurrency so now I'm  learning about cryptocurrency and I'm adding  

all kinds of words to my vocabulary that I did  not know before like let me let me think of some  

off the top of my head well first of all the  currencies like ethereum Doge uh what else what  

else am I learning decentralized okay like all of  blockchain like I'm not just learning the words  

I'm also learning what they mean and how to use  them so my vocabulary is expanding in that area  

however there are words that I used to use  when I was a child that I no longer use and  

I was thinking about that the other day too it's  really interesting like the things we say when  

we're kids that we don't say anymore as adults so  anyways just something interesting to think about  

the same thing is going to happen for you in  English okay or in languages it'll happen in  

your native language it'll happen in English but  the basic idea here is whatever you're able to  

talk about in your native I'm sorry in your  native language you want to be able to talk  

about in English so think about the things you  know in your native language okay what are your  

hobbies what are your interests what's your job  what are the things you could just talk about for  

hours because it's like a favorite conversation  it could be video games it could be marketing it  

could be entrepreneurship it could be blogging it  could be just being a mom you know talking about  

your kids and like oh my gosh my kid got this rash  and I don't know what to do and there's a lot of  

mom groups on um on the internet where you know  people gather and they talk about these things  

um so anyways there's that now two more that  I have for you you know you need to work on  

your vocabulary if you feel intimidated in the  workplace because your English is quote so basic  

okay so this is one of the easiest places where  you can feel intimidated because if you have a  

job where you work in English you're working most  likely mostly with native English speakers these  

are people obviously who grew up speaking English  and they use the language a certain way they have  

certain you know phrases idioms expressions  that are part of their everyday communication  

and you might not know what half of that stuff  means and so it makes you feel incompetent okay  

it makes you just lack confidence like you just  don't open your mouth you're like oh my gosh like  

you know I'm not gonna understand them they're  not gonna understand me I'm just going to keep  

to myself and pretend I'm shy even if maybe  you're not shy and that's not cool you know  

you don't want to live life like that you want  to talk to your co-workers like go out and have  

a beer with them after work if that's something  you're into or or whatever like raise your voice  

speak up in a meeting and share an idea you want  to be able to do this without feeling intimidated  

because of the difference in ability basically  ability to express yourself they have words that  

you don't have they have expressions they have  understanding that you don't have but as soon  

as you get to that level or you know start working  your way up there you're gonna feel better because  

that is one of the ways to increase confidence by  the way there's three ways to increase or four I  

was talking about this the other day with some of  my students there's three or four ways to increase  

your confidence okay one is changing your mindset  just change the way that you look at the world and  

boom you can instantly have more confidence okay  but sometimes it's not that easy sometimes you  

actually have to increase your ability because  it's hard to be confident when everybody around  

you is better than you at something okay so  sometimes the answer is increasing your ability  

and that's what we're talking about here  and the last one I have for you guys  

is you know you need to work on your vocabulary if  

you don't understand native speakers and actually  we already talked about this a little bit so if  

you don't understand the jokes the cultural  references stories when people tell stories  

if your eyes just glaze over and you're like  oh my gosh and you you're thinking in your head  

like I'll just try to laugh at the key points  to pretend that I understood that's not good  

and I know all about that because I've done that  before and occasionally I may or may not still  

do it in Spanish or when someone's giving you  instructions this is really important especially  

at work if someone's giving you instructions  and you don't understand how are you going to be  

able to do your job well right um I'm pretty sure  without even asking anybody I'm pretty sure people  

have gotten in big trouble over stuff like this  before like even maybe gotten fired right just  

from doing something wrong at work simply because  you didn't have the words or whatever okay so  

here's the idea vocabulary is the key one  of the keys to expressing yourself better  

in English but it is the key that we're talking  about in this video okay and for some English  

learners remember at the beginning I said not  everybody has to work on their vocabulary well  

after we went through that list of you know you  need to work on your vocabulary if hopefully  

you've been able to self-identify do you need  to work on your vocabulary or not okay next

a little insider information for you guys a native  English speaker okay actually first let me ask you  

a question how big is your vocabulary in English  active and passive like what do you think it is do  

you know what it is okay do you think you know  like do you think you have 5 000 words in your  

vocabulary and by the way when I talk with you  guys we always talk about the same thing here  

we're talking about English so there's a lot of  words in my vocabulary that you never hear because  

I don't talk to you about other topics like being  a mom going on a hike stuff like that but if I did  

you know you might not understand me as well a  lot of people say oh I understand you so well  

part of the reason besides the fact that I speak  clearly is the topic that we are discussing is one  

that you are well acquainted with it's one that  you know well um so how many words do you think  

you know in English do you know three thousand  do you know five thousand do you think you know  

ten thousand okay here's the deal native English  speakers on average have about twenty thousand  

words in their vocabulary okay with University  educated people tending to have around 40  

000 words so those are like the targets just so  you know if you want to have like a high native  

level vocabulary that's actually more than twenty  thousand okay high native level would be thirty  

to forty thousand okay now here's the here's the  thing those are just individual words right what  

about expressions what about fixed phrases uh  what about phrasal verbs what about cliches what  

about popular sayings that we just grow up knowing  right that that takes it to a whole new level and  

I'll just pop this in here right now even though  we're going to talk about this later if you try  

to learn all of these words by studying lists  like oh I'm just going to grab this list of 100  

phrasal verbs I need to know okay we're talking  about well over 40 000 words and expressions okay  

studying the list I don't know how to say this  is not going to be effective there's go there  

there's so many better ways you guys to study  vocabulary and I'm actually I apologize if that  

came off a little bit harsh because I realized  that actually not a lot of people know this and  

so you are doing the best you can you're trying  to learn and maybe you don't know that there's a  

better way so I was laughing about it but I caught  myself because I'm like oh my gosh that's so mean  

like sometimes people don't know that they're  not doing something the best way that they can  

be doing so anyways I apologize about that but  anyhow so yeah basically there there's a big gap  

and if that's you know hopefully that explains to  you though like where you might be where you want  

to be and there's a lot of work ahead of for  you but you can do it right you can get there  

and I really want you to walk away with this  confidence today that um where you are now is  

not where you have to be forever or where you  will be forever so a really important thing is  

one learning to enjoy the journey and two being  confident even with where you are like trying  

your best like even if you don't have the whole  vocabulary you want to have yet okay anyhow before  

we jump into what we are going to talk about next  I want to tell you guys a very embarrassing story  

okay very humiliating embarrassing story but I  think it's important okay so here's the deal you  

guys probably know that I speak Spanish I learned  Spanish I started learning when I was a teenager  

I lived in Argentina for a while my husband is  from Argentina so Spanish is an everyday part  

of my life now but the way we communicate just so  you guys know usually he communicates in Spanish  

and I respond in English and vice versa that's  just how we do it so one day I was working I had  

this job where I was a sales representative for  a company I sent an email about it this morning  

if you guys are on my email list you got this  email so go read it but anyhow I was on the phone  

okay actually let me back up so I was a  sales representative for a company and  

I'm actually sorry I'm just worried that I need  to check the time because I don't know if this  

if Instagram will let me make a live video longer  than an hour so I better not make this longer than  

an hour it has cut me off before so I have to be  careful okay back to the story so I was a sales  

representative at a company fifth time I've said  that now and sales was actually new for me where  

you have to like you know talk to potential  clients tell them about the products help them  

decide you know what they're gonna get and hope  that they don't decide to go call the competition  

right after and buy from them instead right  so sales is a really high stress job it's hard  

I was new in this but anyways in this company  I think there was one other person that spoke  

Spanish so one day I was talking to my manager  and I told her I spoke Spanish and she's like  

oh my gosh we can totally use you we need to send  Spanish-speaking clients your way we can make more  

sales you can make more commission it's going  to be amazing one second I might have something  

on my lip okay it's gonna be amazing and um I  was a little doubtful because I was like yeah  

I'm fluent in Spanish but this job is hard in  English so imagine doing it in Spanish but I  

didn't want to let them down so I was like  okay I thought it was actually I thought it  

was a great opportunity to practice my Spanish I  was like oh this is awesome I'll get to talk to  

clients it's gonna force me to improve my Spanish  even more little did I know I was like setting  

myself up for failure because it was so hard  most of the people I spoke to were kind you know  

they were patient with me because I would you  know Spanish wasn't my first language and I was  

nervous and stuff but I remember this one day this  man called and he was so like down to business  

and then he just started going off on me because  I was not explaining things well okay it was  

me I was not explaining things well and so he  starts going off on me and yelling like I don't  

understand you and you're saying this and please  send like like what did he say like I want to talk  

to somebody who actually speaks Spanish you know  how many times have you heard that like pass me  

to somebody who speaks English right that's like  so offensive but sometimes it's true it's like I  

am the client I'm calling to get a problem solved  and you're not helping me right oh it's stressful  

though you guys oh my gosh um has anybody here  cried over a situation like this because I  

certainly have so anyhow that was kind of like  my wake-up call trying to deal with this guy  

being on the verge of tears you know on a sales  call him just yelling at me about my language  

skills and that's when I was like you know what  I can't do this I don't want to do this this is  

too stressful and I knew I was also leaving the  company soon I wasn't going to be working with  

them for a long time so I did not feel like  it was worth my time and effort to work on my  

vocabulary you know since I was leaving in like  one or two months so I basically had to set up a  

meeting with my boss and um explain the situation  and she did not understand because to somebody  

who's not fluent in a foreign language they don't  understand or someone who speaks one language they  

don't understand what it means to be fluent but  not fluent enough to do a certain job right so I  

really had to explain to her like no look I can  tell jokes at the dinner table with my in-laws  

um and I can speak Spanish on an everyday-day  basis but what you're asking for is high level  

you know sales professionalism that I barely  have in English and now you want me to have it in  

Spanish I'm sorry I'm simply unqualified and I'm  not capable and it was so embarrassing to have to  

admit that and I had to beg I had to beg them to  not send me Spanish-speaking clients because they  

wanted to keep sending them anyways and I was  like I don't want to do this then I had to you  

know um explain to my co-workers why they could  no longer transfer calls from Spanish speakers to  

me they'd be like Stef what's going on so then I  had to admit to everybody that my Spanish is good  

but it's not that good okay so it really sucked um  and here's the thing that I realize in all of this  

I had the luxury as an English speaker of turning  down that work and saying I don't want to do this  

without it really truly affecting my career or  my paycheck very much do you have that luxury  

probably not because the reason most of you are  learning English is not just because you like the  

language okay because then maybe you could learn  Swedish or German it's because it is the language  

that the world uses to communicate there are more  opportunities for English speakers so that means  

you're going to be able to provide a better  life for yourself for your family have more  

opportunities for places where you can live around  the world where you can work where you can study  

how much money you can make okay so it's like you  don't have that luxury that I had and that's the  

part that it's kind of like a hard pill to swallow  you know but then you gotta get right back up up  

on the horse again and get to work because it's  like that's the way the that's the way the cookie  

crumbles are we gonna cry about it this is the  way the world is we gotta just roll with it so  

anyways what I can say is I've learned from that  situation and I'm glad that I can come here today  

and help you guys through this kind of stuff and I  understand what it is and where it's like but your  

situation is different and it's not like mine was  because I had that luxury and unfortunately you  

guys don't but again we're not just gonna sit here  and cry about what we can't change about the world  

right we're gonna face the challenge and you know  facing challenges builds resilience okay so when  

you come to a workplace something you need to keep  in mind is not only am I able to do this work but  

I'm doing it in a foreign language okay so that  should give you some confidence in yourself and it  

should help you be a little easy on yourself when  you're you know maybe not as good as the other  

English speakers around you okay remember you guys  this is a journey but I know where where I see  

you guys in the future so I hope you see yourself  there and I know that you know together we can get  

you there so that's my embarrassing story someone  says oh my gosh you're using a lot of sayings yes  

I think that happens when I start storytelling  when I start storytelling it just comes out  

um when I'm just talking about basic English stuff  it's you know just basic English stuff okay so  

moral of the story is more competence equals more  confidence more when you're more competent okay  

when you're able to do something better you know  better ability more ability equals more confidence  

so what do I have you written here next okay so  basically the key to expressing yourself better  

and finally understanding native speakers is  increasing your vocabulary again this is the  

main theme great now we get to now we get to talk  about what to focus on and how to study what to  

focus on and how to study because as I was saying  earlier there are a lot of study methods out there  

that I don't endorse that I don't think work that  are not optimal okay for your brain okay basically  

when I teach languages when I teach anything I  always try to work with your brain not against it  

because your brain has a natural way of absorbing  information and it there's unnatural ways it can  

absorb information but why would you want to do  that it's like hitting your head against a brick  

wall right and hoping that something magically  pops in right that's dumb okay so basically you  

you have to first start with where you're at  okay what when we talk about increasing your  

vocabulary what are we talking about we're talking  about learning more individual words okay so just  

random things like what is that thing called  what is that thing called remember we talked  

about abstract words um concrete words things  you can actually see versus things you can't see  

you need to learn more phrasal verbs right and  then the alternative for a phrasal verb which  

is usually like a Latin root type word that most  people already know you need to learn more idioms  

more jargon okay jargon is like the the words that  people overuse within certain industries okay like  

industry jargon like for example within the realm  of entrepreneurship you're going to hear the word  

sales funnel a lot sales funnel sales funnel  what's a sales funnel well sales is a word you  

might know funnel you might even know that word  but what is a sales funnel so understanding the  

meaning behind the jargon it's not just the  individual words it's like what is that thing  

understanding that thing and understanding how  it works right that's a big part of vocabulary  

because if you know a word but you have no idea  how to use it right that's not good and by the  

way one of the biggest mistakes learners make is  they use words like immediately they just think  

they can add it to their vocabulary right away  um and then you hear people making these really  

unnatural sentences or using using too many  idioms for example which doesn't sound natural  

or using words incorrectly because they don't  actually understand how that word is supposed  

to be used and that happens a lot with slang okay  because slang is very specific terminology meant  

to be used in a certain way and if you just find  a slang word and go cool I like that word I'm  

going to start just you know flowering my language  with that word boom all of a sudden you can have a  

problem where people are like I'm sorry why are  you saying that that does not make sense or it  

sounds like you're trying too hard right and I  don't know about you guys but when I'm learning  

a language I don't like looking like I'm trying  too hard we we want to make it look effortless  

oh my goodness right standards are  high you guys standards are high  

okay next you have to learn technical  terminology for whatever your work is  

maybe you're a doctor maybe you're a nurse  pharmacist okay there's all kinds of words  

that you use in your native language  now you got to learn those in English  

next expressions the things people say that they  just that just come out that are um they're fixed  

phrases but they're like uh how would you say this  an expression is different from a fixed phrase  

because a fixed phrase is not necessarily an  expression I'll just say that um but like that's  

the way the cookie crumbles that's the way the  cookie crumbles but that's also an idiom so anyhow  

idioms are not always expressions expressions are  not always idioms we're not going to get too far  

into that we'll talk about that more in the course  though and then there's cliches there's sayings so  

there's all kinds of word groupings individual  words and word groupings that make up this thing  

called vocabulary and improving all of these  areas is what improves your vocabulary and helps  

you express yourself better and understand people  better okay so there are eight basic principles  

for building your vocabulary right for learning  and remembering okay because one of the biggest  

problems you have is you don't remember the stuff  that you study and learn now we only have time  

to go through three of them right now I'm not  going to go through all of them um just three  

we'll go through all all eight in the course  I'm gonna get some water I'm thirsty hang on

okay this is my big water bottle it comes in  very very handy I call it my water canteen okay  

okay so um eight basic principles we're  only gonna go through three the first one  

you should only focus on learning words in  context okay so there are words all around  

us right there are words all around us  and all kinds of content and contexts  

and that is how you want to learn them you want to  extract from what's around you you do not want to  

study lists of words that were randomly created by  somebody else who thought that those words would  

be important to you because maybe those words  are not important who knows but beyond that it  

is studying lists is not optimal practice for the  brain that works against your brain not with your  

brain okay that is not how the brain remembers  because there's no context and the way we remember  

things is like there's a spider web okay there's  a spider web in your head and it needs to connect  

to lots of different things so how many of you can  remember where you were when you learned a certain  

word okay this happens to me all the time like  I'll learn a word and then I remember the context  

in which I learned it where was I what was around  me who was I with what happened why did that word  

even come up in conversation right so that is how  the brain members by creating a spider web that's  

connected to individual things and then all these  spider webs are connecting in your brain okay to  

help you remember things that's how you remember  your experiences that's how you remember new words  

that's how you remember important information  and when something is not connected it's just  

like floating out here like a little detail it's  not part of the web okay so the brain goes bye-bye  

you're not important I'll see you later I'm not  gonna remember you take care so we don't want that  

right so you want to study words in context now I  have a little example and I don't even think this  

is the best example but we're just gonna go with  it okay I have three words for you now these are  

big words okay but they're important they're good  to know but I'm just using them for this example  

so the first word is conundrum conundrum do you  know this word second word is accolades accolades  

do you know this word third word is ostracize  ostracized do you know this word okay so we're  

just gonna study this as a list conundrum this  is a confusing and difficult problem or question  

accolades this is an award or privilege granted  as a special honor or as an acknowledgment of  

merit ostracize this is to exclude someone from  a society or group okay now imagine having 20 of  

these words and now you have to learn all of them  what I don't even remember these three right so  

now I just have a couple sentences where I use  these words and let's pretend you're reading  

this in the newspaper okay so it says the current  situation is proving to be quite a conundrum while  

accolades are being passed out left and right to  politicians who don't keep their word anyone who  

questions them is being publicly ostracized okay  so boom all of a sudden you have context you have  

a story you have something happening right and  maybe you don't know those words and what they  

mean but now you can go look them up and be like  I'm gonna go find out what that word means because  

I want to know what the heck is happening  to these people in this story okay so that  

like heightens your interest basically in the  subject and anytime your interest is heightened  

in anything boom memory retention kicks in okay  and your brain is like primed for learning and  

absorbing new information so you gotta study in  context next okay you gotta study words that are  

relevant to you not random again not random words  always always always relevant words so you gotta  

find where these words are where are these words  these words that are so relevant to you okay you  

get to be like a hunter okay you get to hunt these  words you get to find these words obviously in the  

course that I run I'm gonna show you how to do  this because as you guys can see there's a lot  

of information here there's no time for me to do  this all in one live video that's why the course  

is an eight week course because I'm gonna break  everything down take you through it step by step  

you're going to have an experience that is going  to help you truly understand how to learn these  

new words start adding them to your long-term  memory and being able to use them right away  

anyways so again think of your lifestyle your job  your hobbies your interests you can even make a  

list of all these things in fact I recommend  that and ask yourself where is my vocabulary  

and my native language what am I able to talk  about okay and then a tip just start finding  

content okay that has those words in English and  start extracting vocabulary really analyze it and  

be like what is here that I don't know okay most  people when they consume content actually this is  

I'm giving you guys a fourth principle okay it'd  be extracting right the extracting vocabulary most  

people they understand they understand content  because you can understand a lot through context  

so it tricks your brain it makes you feel like  you know it already but maybe you don't know it  

maybe you don't know it enough to actually use  it this is why you have to get really detailed  

and structured with your study if you want to  improve your vocabulary actively and not passively  

wait for your vocabulary to just expand on its  own if you want to do this actively you have to  

extract vocabulary yourself and really analyze  every word every sentence and the way words are  

connected to each other because maybe there's an  expression there that you never realized before  

you know that it is an expression or maybe  there's a a fixed phrase that you're like oh  

my gosh I just realized I see that all the time  in English but I never use it I never realized  

it was a fixed phrase it's not just a random  you know creative set of words because there's  

you know certain ways to communicate through  fixed phrases and through creative communication  

and I don't know maybe it's like 50 50. maybe we  use 50 fixed phrases and 50 creative communication  

by the way I just thought of this on the  fly on the fly see that's another one  

um and I really like this explanation so  I'm gonna just pat myself on the back there  

creative communication versus fixed phrases um  so you have to identify what is what because if  

it's a fixed phrase boom you can take it like  a magnet and stick it to yourself and be like  

all right I'm gonna grab that and I'm gonna use  that and I'm gonna grab that I'm going to use  

that but if it's creative communication obviously  you know somebody else created it you can take it  

and use it if you want or you can learn how  to make your own creative communication okay  

um the last thing I'm gonna say about the eight  basic principles so this is actually going to be  

the fourth one now always always when you learn a  new word check the pronunciation because generally  

we learn words by reading them okay and you  want to make sure you're saying it correctly  

because English is the worst language it is  not phonetic at all and um so many people go  

around pronouncing words incorrectly the English  learners because they don't know how to pronounce  

something because they never looked it up when  they learned the word and this is especially  

true of you guys who are super super smart  okay in your native language and you're like  

reading articles all the time in English and  you understand exactly what you're reading and  

everything but then when it comes time to opening  your mouth people are like I'm sorry what okay so  

um just keep that keep that in mind and this was  the case with Renzo when I met him my husband  

um he could read English and understand I don't  know 85 percent or more maybe but when he would  

speak to me I was like what are you saying  so always always check the pronunciation okay  

now it is time to talk about our new vocab course  all right you guys I'm really excited about this  

and we'll talk now for 15 minutes about the  course I'll answer questions and we will wrap  

it up so the video doesn't get too long um  but basically like I said in the beginning  

um I created this vocabulary course because  I realized how important it is for you to  

increase and improve your vocabulary but more  importantly I put in a ton of time to thinking  

about the most methodical approach okay to solving  this problem for you so courses with me are not  

just me teaching in a video like this or something  like that okay this is the coaching this is like  

the type of coaching that I do so there's going  to be videos like this live coaching videos in  

the course and as you can see I can put in a  lot in one hour but basically what I do is I  

like creating experiences for my students because  this is one of the best ways for you to learn is  

through having an experience not watching a video  okay not doing something on your own not you know  

getting a course and just doing it DIY style on  your own okay but actually having an experience  

right so what you could expect basically is that  you join the course and on week one you're gonna  

get a project I love doing this every single week  this is my project-based teaching method I give  

you a project where all you have to do is steps  one through ten or whatever complete this complete  

this complete this it seems really simple but then  when you do it you go oh my gosh like this works  

this is why it works wow I've never done this  before I'm so glad I'm doing this and then at  

the end of the week I do a coaching video like  this because you know you turn in your homework  

and then I look through all the students homework  I take notes on what people are doing well what  

they need to improve so that I can give feedback  I collect questions and then I do feedback and  

every week is completely different and you will  never ever be able to guess what I am going to  

give you in the next week somebody asked me today  can I have a sneak peek of your course I just want  

to see what it's like that's impossible with my  courses because and those of you who've done my  

courses you know that this there's no sneak peek  I could give because every week is so different  

it's not like standard basically it's not like  I'm just gonna share vocabulary with you oh by  

the way this course is not that kind of course I'm  not just going to teach you vocabulary because can  

you imagine how much time that would take for me  to like teach you 200 new words or something like  

that oh my gosh that would take a lot of time and  it would not be effective so in this course what  

I do is I teach you how to learn vocabulary how  to absorb it and acquire it the best strategies  

that work okay and then I give you tasks one task  a week that will help you implement what you learn  

and start acquiring the vocabulary that you need  for your life to express yourself how you want to  

express yourself everybody's vocabulary needs are  different so I think it's insane to you know just  

I mean unless I were making a course with like  oh the most common vocabulary you need to know  

but I honestly think that what we're doing what  we're going to do in this course is so much more  

important and powerful um than something like  that so that's why I'm doing this as a course  

as opposed to something more traditional so what  else can I say this is an eight-week course it's  

live in the sense that there's going to be a  week one a week two we're gonna have a bunch  

of students everybody's gonna do it together okay  um if you fall behind obviously that's okay this  

is not regular school I'm not gonna scold you  and say you fail no you have lifetime access to  

the course you'll be able to do it again and again  and again and what I'm trying to do what my goal  

is for the first eight weeks and I call it the  the course is eight weeks but I'm calling it the  

first eight weeks because I want the learning  to continue in our study group after the eight  

weeks so for the first eight weeks I'm just gonna  teach you and show you and you're gonna have an  

experience that will help you understand how to  study but then you have lifetime access to our  

community and I expect the students to continue  studying together using the methodologies that  

you're going to learn in the course so that means  studying together that means studying individually  

that means studying the way that I show you to  study that means posting your your content posting  

your homework okay creating new assignments  for yourself right it's going to be really  

great it's going to be very transformational very  active it is not the kind of course where oh you  

have to come to class and we're going to do you  know small group classes with eight students or  

four students and then we're gonna do big group  classes because I am such a big believer in not  

wasting people's time and I know how to teach in  a way where I know when to bring people together  

and I know when to make them do stuff on their  own okay and that that's just the simplest way I  

can say it and you just have to trust that I know  what I'm talking about and we offer a 14 day money  

back guarantee so if you're scared like oh my gosh  this sounds good but I don't know you can join do  

the work see if it works for you see if you like  the method see if you like the community see if  

you like me and then you can decide whether  you want to stay with us long term or not  

okay so that's I think the most important points  eight week course weekly like schedule there's no  

overwhelm in this course by the way I don't know  if you guys have ever seen or bought courses where  

it's like 300 videos in this course we have you  know 50 or 100 hours of content I don't believe in  

courses like that because I can teach a lot in one  hour I don't need 500 hours to teach you what you  

need to learn so that you can take action and get  the results okay so just putting that out there  

It's very effective the stuff that we do and I  only teach you what you need to know to be able  

to take action and get those results and then of  course we do the coaching video so it's not going  

to be overwhelming it's not going to require a ton  of your time to watch videos and stuff like that  

you watch the video you learn what you need to  learn you get your task you start working because  

I'm sorry the the real learning takes place  and this is a quote that I made I don't know  

if you guys saw this the real learning happens  when you do the work not when I talk about it  

so when I talk about it stuff is good it helps  you understand but then you have to do the work  

okay so I just want to mention the goals of  the course uh one goal number one help you  

achieve a high native level vocabulary okay now  this isn't gonna happen overnight honestly okay  

right we need we need to be honest here and and  set the expectations but here's the thing when  

you learn certain strategies and you put them  in practice and then you have ongoing support  

it's totally possible okay when you achieve it  is going to depend on you okay and your time your  

schedule what you need to learn where you're at  right now but that's the goal of the course and  

the course will show you exactly how to do that  okay and it will help you and will support you  

along the way so goal one help you achieve a high  native level vocab level of English vocabulary two  

a goal of the course help you get immediate  results I want you to start feeling your results  

immediately and you will okay and I want you to  enjoy long-term success I don't want this to just  

be something that works right now okay it's going  to help you get immediate results now and set you  

up to have long-term success with your English  communication another goal of the course I want  

you to learn the best methods for long-term memory  retention okay not just like how to memorize you  

know 10 words fast so you can just memorize them  no long-term memory retention so there's again  

we're going to be using methodologies that  work with your brain not against it and it's  

so funny you guys I have to say this I am not a  like psychologist or like a person that studied  

the brain a neuro what are they called scientists  but I just observe things around me okay I just  

observe how people learn how I learn and then  I came up with all these conclusions based on  

my observations about best methodologies best  practices and then I did the research about the  

brain and I was like oh my gosh yeah I figured  this out before even reading the research so that  

was really cool and it was really cool to know  that everything I'm going to be teaching in this  

course is lined up with what the research says  about optimal memory retention and stuff like that  

um next another goal of the course is to help  you guys have a safe place to practice with and  

a supportive community if you have never been in  one of my courses or communities before you might  

be like why do I need a community just wait just  wait you'll see it makes a huge huge difference  

you know people in our community they become  friends for life practice partners they go  

visit each other okay they go to each other's  countries to go on vacation together it's insane  

next I want you guys to have a fun life-changing  experience I don't want this course to be boring  

so it's not it's not going to be boring and I  want it to be life-changing so I designed it in  

a way where you'll go through it and you'll be  like oh my gosh if you do the work though okay  

that's that's the thing it's uh obviously it's  not going to change your life if you don't do  

anything with it but you have to follow the  steps step by step and just trust me on this  

and finally of course I want to just set you on  the path to success with your English vocab so  

you can look back fondly on this memory years  from now and go ah I remember when I did that  

course with Stefanie it was so great and um you  know just enjoy this amazing vocabulary okay  

so in the course there's going to be a lot of  coaching you know also we're going to talk about  

all of these things you know and I'm going to  be really paying attention to what people are  

struggling with in the moment so I can address  all of that on a weekly basis okay so if  

people are like oh I'm really struggling with  remembering these words I'm really struggling  

with knowing what kind of vocabulary I should  focus on personally or whatever I'm going to  

be answering all of those questions and just  guiding everybody week by week it'll be a very  

personalized experience in that sense so yeah  you're gonna get content community and coaching  

eight weeks and then I'm gonna unleash you okay  and you get to stay in that community for life and  

I want you to continue using the strategies for  years to come okay because like seriously you guys  

feel improving your vocab I probably don't even  have to say this but it literally will open so  

many doors for you and I want to get those emails  where you're like Stefanie I got a job you know I  

got this I did so well in the interview I knew  exactly what to say and how to say it and thank  

you okay because then I know that I'm doing my job  okay so I this is how it works I help you and then  

you let me know that I've helped you okay now  we can do a key a bit of Q and A oh my goodness  

we have three minutes I really hope that this  doesn't cut me off and let me see if there was  

anything else I wanted to say about this I feel  like there was but now I don't remember oh yes  

you guys if you're thinking of joining please  please please join right now join today and  

here's why because before the course starts and we  start next Thursday okay before the course starts  

we're doing a mini speaking challenge in our  private community and you can take advantage  

of that so you're going to get a lot of speaking  practice okay and conversation practice before  

the course starts because the course starts  on Thursday enrollment closes on Tuesday at  

midnight all the information is linked in my bio  so just check it out there if you're like well  

what time zone is this in okay just check it out  there um thank you so much if any of you guys have  

to make a faith jump before enrolling in a course  this is the right woman to do it with improvement  

guaranteed yay and by the way I love how you  said a faith jump we say a leap of faith a leap  

of faith but jump faith jump that's creative  that goes back to creative communication okay

how to activate passive vocabs  because this is a common problem  

um the answers sounds so stupid you have to  make it active okay no but here's something  

that I say when something becomes a regular part  of your life then it automatically becomes active  

so let's say you're trying to learn you  know car mechanic vocabulary or something  

but it's passive it's like you kind of know  it you understand it when people say it but  

you don't use it the minute you start talking  to people about mechanics and the cars that  

you fix and all this stuff that's when it's  going to become really available in your mind

my fear is to use a lot of words but use them  in the wrong way because in my head I think in  

Portuguese and translating everything in English  yeah and that's a common problem a lot of people  

learn words a lot of words and use them in the  wrong way but I'll show you guys how to avoid this  

and it's a lot of it is going to come  down to seeing those words repeatedly  

in different contexts so that your brain can  actually understand how that word is supposed  

to be used because someone can tell you how to  use the word but sometimes that doesn't matter  

you actually literally have to see a word a  hundred different ways or 20 different ways  

for your brain to click and go oh that's how to  use the word that's when to use the word that's  

when not to use the word and one of the mistakes  that you know beginner learners make is they learn  

a word and they go yeah I can use this word  this is a great word and then they're just  

using it wrong all over the place I'm guilty  of that so I can say it I've done that before

how to contact you for participating in  the course you guys the link is in my bio  

okay and like I said join today because I  really want as many people as possible to  

participate in our speaking challenge the more  people that do it the better it's going to be  

um and it's just going to be a lot of fun and it's  gonna help you get to know people in the course  

so that when the course starts you'll already  like have your buddies if you know what I mean

nope there's no limited space in the course  for our first round of enrollment so we're  

enrolling students everybody is welcome that's  the beauty of this online learning thing and  

the way that I teach right since I don't do  like small group classes or anything like that  

um you know everybody's welcome I'm a content  writer I face issues in copywriting in particular  

when I just don't think something creative  word wise oh yeah this can help you for sure  

for sure I don't know what strategies you use  currently but I think this can definitely help you

ah yeah okay someone says thank you for my  YouTube videos you've learned a lot from them  

that's awesome I will get back to YouTube you  guys eventually but it's just been rough I've  

been busy working and juggling juggling do you  know that word I've been juggling a lot of things  

so YouTube has not been a possibility for me  right now but I have not forgotten about it  

okay I'm scrolling up to see if I missed  something that I can answer maybe right away  

because there was no new comments

how can I know if the new words I'm using  are out of context in terms of formal and  

informal this comes naturally with time  and practice in the beginning you might  

not know and you might just have to roll  with it and be like I don't know okay but  

with time you will know and I'm going  to give you strategies so that when you  

learn new words you'll actually be able  to classify them and know is this formal  

is this not formal where should I use this  when should I use this how should I use this

okay I'm not going to scroll up  anymore because I was just getting lost

I know people with great vocabulary and  poor pronunciation and vice versa exactly  

and that's why I said at the beginning of the  video this is not the case for everybody some  

people don't need to work on their vocabulary  and you need to identify yourself if this is  

you you need either way you need to know  do I need to work on my vocabulary do I  

not I'll tell you guys right now as a Spanish  speaker I've got fluency I've got pronunciation  

I've got understanding native speakers  vocabulary is the one thing that if I were  

to work on anything in my Spanish I would work on  vocabulary and I would do it with the methods I'm  

going to teach you I love these methods so much  you guys that I even started using them myself  

I just haven't been able to use them as often as I  want because I've been creating the course for you  

guys but I can say wholeheartedly I adore these  methods and I don't know I just love it what else

is there much social media tasks involved  in the course okay so this sounds like a  

question that's coming from someone who  is in my fluency breakthrough challenge  

you will be posting your homework okay  in our private Facebook community but  

it's private so you don't have to  worry about doing anything public  

um but yes every single task will get posted  in the community okay a lot of the tasks though  

you do by yourself like in your own home first  because you know it's vocabulary you're going to  

be working on extracting vocabulary and and mining  for it and digging for it and classifying it and  

studying it but then there are other elements  too like um talking with your your peers okay  

so it just depends social media is just  a tool and we're going to use the tool to  

help you achieve the goals that I mentioned  earlier like reaching a high native level  

vocabulary getting results learning the best  methods or just using social media as a tool

what else

can I take the vocabulary course  and the challenge course yes  

the challenge or fluency  breakthrough challenge starts in July

I will be honest every course that I make is going  to require four to five hours of your time a week  

okay so just keep that in mind so that when  you're planning your courses if you're thinking  

of overlapping courses you have time like right  now we have a bunch of students who are finishing  

the daily English program and some of them are  probably thinking oh maybe I want to join this  

I don't know can I handle the workload especially  because in the daily English program like the last  

two weeks are some of the most intense weeks but  it's up to you it's up to how much time you have  

the priority that you give to each thing etc  what time is the course is it every day okay so  

um every week on Thursday at 4 pm Pacific time you  are going to get access to new material okay that  

material is going to include whatever lesson I  need to share with you whatever task I need to  

give you for the week so you get it you go through  it and then boom the same day you're able to start  

completing the homework okay your project your  task and then the following week is when I do  

the live video to give the group feedback and  everything so you don't have to worry about  

showing up for anything if you can't make the  live video don't worry you can watch the replay  

that's how it is that's the  structure of the course because  

um the way we learn one of the best ways to learn  is like getting the information and then just  

doing the work right you don't necessarily have to  show up to learn something I know a lot of courses  

are structured like that okay but that does  not work with a lot of people's busy schedules  

and with all of our time zones and plus what I'm  going to teach you does not require that type of  

delivery right there are certain things maybe  that you need to have delivered in that way like  

for example if I want singing classes I'm going to  want to be with somebody who can hear me sing okay  

and then give me feedback right direct instant  feedback that's what I would prefer but then  

again there are singing courses where it's just  like hey just do the course on your own I don't  

know I wouldn't prefer it for singing but for  building vocabulary I think it's totally possible

how much hours each class it depends it depends  

um some are going to be half an hour some are  going to be a whole hour okay maybe more maybe  

less but that really does not matter unless  you're worried about not having enough time  

because again remember you guys I teach a lot  and I teach it fast and the stuff that I teach  

it's like the you could re-watch the video you're  like oh my gosh there's a lot to digest there I'm  

gonna watch that video again all right so I don't  like bragging about like oh my course has so and  

so many hours in it because I don't think it's  about the hours I think it's about the quality  

of the content the quality of the teaching and all  of that stuff and I think based on the hearts a  

lot of you guys agree with me awesome 

yes I I guess your assignments are going to be  on fire yeah you guys I'm super excited about  

this by the way I want to shout out the daily  English program also all my students there the  

creating that program you guys was the catalyst  for me to understand truly how to deliver a  

transformational course the methodology we use  in the daily English program for anybody who's in  

that program it's the same that we're gonna do in  the vocabulary course it's the here's the lesson  

here's what you need to know here's the homework  and then boom here's the feedback video and you  

daily English students you guys know how powerful  and effective this is and this is probably going  

to be the only methodology I ever use when I  create courses because it's just so powerful  

and I just figured it out one day and  I realized it worked that's the best

even though the video is for I think you mean  the course is for learning vocabulary it will  

also help with grammar yes actually that is  a really cool like side I don't know what I'm  

trying to say here but I don't have the word for  it right now side effect I guess that's what I was  

trying to say of um the kind of studying we're  gonna do is that it actually will if you're an  

observant person which I'm going to teach you  how to be if you're not this course can even  

help you improve your grammar so it doesn't it  won't explain grammar rules and why something  

is the way it is but it will really help you  internalize a lot of patterns that you come across

okay how can we pay for this course you guys  we accept credit debit and PayPal okay and  

the link is in my bio okay so just go to the  page read through it okay and if you have any  

questions even if you think it's a dumb question  just send me a message or send us an email okay

some people say don't say very for instance  say destitute instead of very poor but does  

it sound natural to say destitute in everyday  English no you guys I've I have a highlight in my  

stories about people that make this kind of  content they are not serious English teachers  

they don't know what they're talking about they're  just trying to get clicks they're desperate for  

attention they don't know what to teach what  people actually need to learn and so they pull  

this content out of their ass basically they  do it because they see everybody else doing it  

and so they think oh this this is popular  this is what people want and we use the word  

very all the time in English so you don't ever  have to be afraid of that word or any word and  

you're not going to sound smarter just for using  other words or dumber just because you use very  

there's so much more that goes into communication  than just individual words by the way that is a  

telltale sign when people talk about stuff like  that of somebody who does not truly understand  

language acquisition okay so just anybody can  call themselves an English teacher online or an  

English coach or whatever and they can even have  a certificate they can even work as an English  

teacher that does not guarantee that somebody  understands language acquisition and how to help  

you acquire language okay so just keep that in  mind as I always say choose your teachers wisely  

now what English level should I have to  take part in this course whatever level  

you have now is fine because if you're  understanding my video and participating  

you're definitely at the level you  need to participate in the course

and by the way some of my courses I say oh this  is for more advanced learners or something like  

that but this course this course even if you are  at a lower intermediate level you can totally do  

it as long as you understand English because it's  about the methodologies you're going to learn yeah

PayPal is blocked in my country okay so I  hope that you can either use credit or debit  

and guys get creative okay like if you're  like oh I don't know if I can do this but  

I really want to it's gonna help me like just get  creative think how can I make this a reality for  

myself like I'm not even kidding maybe there are  people in your family who could help sponsor your  

education you don't have to put it like can you  buy this course for me but hey like I'm trying to  

improve my English so I can one day provide more  for my family whatever could you help sponsor my  

education oh what do you mean by sponsor your  education well I'm trying to get this course  

that I know is going to help me and I'm trying  to find five people who can give me however much  

you know it is so you can get creative there  was a one of my students who confessed to me  

recently she's like I did not have money  for your daily English program she's like  

I wanted it so bad she's like I just I ended  up asking for money so I could have it and  

she's like I was so surprised you know people  gave me the money they wanted to support me  

so I know money can be a problem sometimes you  guys but that's why I say get creative I had  

to get super creative when I wanted to study  in Argentina and I had no money I did so many  

things I can't believe I made a fundraiser I got  people to donate items to like this big basket  

okay and then I sold raffle tickets okay I sold  raffle tickets and I made my own raffle and then  

the winner got the basket of stuff and I got  the money so that I could go to Argentina that  

was one of the fundraisers that I did then I did a  fundraiser where I it was a GoFundMe okay and then  

um I I actually went in a shopping center and  I just asked people if I if they could spare  

any change okay and I think it's crazy  that I did that but I was so desperate  

for this educational life-changing experience  that I did whatever it took to to get it okay so  

I just want to put that out there as like a little  nudge a little inspiration for whoever needs it

let me see anything else about the course you guys  

okay I think we're done with questions  about the course okay so that's it  

again if you guys have well stuff you're so  brave yeah I don't know if I'm brave or if  

I was just desperate okay I think desperation  helps us do brave things I think that's just  

the truth okay so you guys it was a pleasure  speaking with you thanks for watching this  

video I talk so much I can see my lips are  very dry so I'm sorry not very pretty but  

that's okay all right so you guys again I look  forward to seeing you guys in the course and  

um um any other questions send us an email  don't hesitate DM me I'm here for you I am  

here for you okay and I'll talk to you guys soon  yeah let's call it a day that's right bye guys