3 SIMPLE STEPS TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH FLUENCY

today i'm going to teach you three simple steps to help you speak english more fluently i'm teacher tiffany let's jump right in [Music] all right three simple steps to help you speak fluently in english step one focus on your interests step two don't stress and step three provide good content now let's dive into step number one the focusing on your interests what you need to do is read and talk about your current interests in english this will help you stay focused speak with more confidence and remain consistent so let's break this down a little bit more think about what you are currently interested in right now i've mentioned so many times before that i love cooking and that i love food maybe you also enjoy food maybe the food in your home country is whoa amazing so you already have thoughts and ideas about the food of your home country so when you're studying english if you learn words or phrases related to that topic you will grasp them faster and be able to use them quicker here's the thing again when you're focusing on your interests not only will you grasp information faster you'll also stay more focused why because the information that you're interested in is not boring that's so important when you're trying to become fluent in english also you'll gain more confidence think about it when there's something that you are sure of something that you're interested in something that you know a lot of information about when someone asks you a question about that topic you answer oh i can tell you all about that it doesn't matter that it's in your second language or your third language being english because you're already interested in that topic and it'll also help you be more consistent and you won't get bored so let me show you some example conversations that can stem from your interests here we go for example my interests currently some of them are reading basketball and cooking now again i told you all how much i love basketball i played it my entire life so these are three things that i'm interested in right now so how can we use these interests to have better fluency in english so let's say for example we were talking about reading what you can do is describe the most recent book you read and why you liked it now whatever that book may be you were interested in it which is why you picked it up to read it so all of the information is already stored in your brain now you just have to tweak the information just a little bit to explain it in english well what about basketball do we talk about a basketball game or we can actually talk about how you fell in love with basketball you see what's happening right the topic the interest is there but there are many ways of talking about that interest because you know so much about it for example for me um i fell in love with basketball when i was very young i still remember watching my dad playing all the time at the park every weekend with his friends and i was like three or four years old so i fell in love with the game watching my dad now even when i speak in korean i can speak about basketball very easily why because i already have the ideas in my head now i can say a little bit in korean for you for those that are curious like so what i said was i'll translate don't worry i said i really love basketball then i said wow it's because when i was younger my dad almost every weekend would play basketball with his friends so i said that in korean and i was able to switch that quickly why because i already have the ideas in my head and it's very interesting to me and i'll be honest with you i haven't spoken korean in a while of course basic sentences but i'm back in america now so i don't have the opportunity to speak as much as i did when i was in korea however i'm so interested in basketball that my brain already has the information needed to speak about it whether it's in english or in korean and the same is true for you when you focus on your interests as you study english so what about cooking the same is true i could talk about the food that i cook best i love to cook salads i love to cook mexican food i like to cook indian food and these are things that i think about on a regular basis so i'm just switching to the language i'm learning and that's what you need to do again step number one focus on your interest and you'll start speaking fluently in english now i do want you to remember one thing start the conversations about topics that you are interested in this is so important for you to remember when you get into a conversation with someone when someone starts a conversation in english you may feel a bit nervous well it's okay take control of the conversation by kindly starting to talk about what you're interested in like oh hey do you like cooking i really love cooking tell me what you like about cooking you've started the conversation about something you're interested in now i want to challenge you all again this is something that i feel is very important for you to be interactive and to participate so again step number one is to focus on your interests what i want you to do is in the comment section that's right right now tell me your top three interests right now again by recognizing and knowing what your interests are you'll be able to find out what you need to focus on when you're studying english so in the comment section write your three top interests right now i put reading basketball and cooking but what are your three top interests now there is a prize so i'm gonna pick one winner now everyone who participates you'll have the opportunity to get an amazing coupon code this episode is being sponsored by cambly and you all know how much i love cambly they have amazing tutors from america canada australia and they will help you practice what you are learning but they wanted to give one student an amazing prize so everyone that puts in the comments section their top three interests will have the opportunity to possibly win a 60 minute that's right free 60-minute tutoring session with a cambly tutor again i believe that as you're learning you need to put into practice what you're learning so all you have to do is right now in the comment section type your three top interests and 24 hours from now i'll select a winner and that winner will get a free 60-minute tutoring session with cambly cambly thank you so much for partnering with me you know how much i love you all all right so again guys number one is focus on your interests now as we move on we have to go to step number two which is don't stress that's right don't stress now this is so important here's the thing guys instead you need to enjoy speaking in english you see when you stress you also stress your brain i'm gonna explain that a little bit so stay with me when i say you stress your brain think about it when you're stressed maybe you clench your fists right you get a little nervous start breathing a little heavy but your brain also gets stressed and you're not able to think clearly when you're feeling all of this stress this makes it again difficult to think clearly however when you are relaxed you are able to speak in english more fluently now stay to the end i'm going to tell you guys a story about this during story time i have a story about when i felt stressed and i wasn't able to think clearly so let's look at different ways you can practice being stress free here are some methods that i like to use again ways to eliminate stress these are called stress relievers so you have short breaks watch movies and track your progress so the first one short breaks figure out how long you need to relax whether it be minutes hours days or weeks now this is something that is very very important for your english language journey as you're studying english now i know that you are an amazing student and maybe you've been studying english for months or years and you've been studying very diligently but there are times when you feel a little bit overwhelmed you feel a little bit stressed you feel like i really just want a break now if you've been studying for example for several months you need to take a few days where you don't do anything you don't study anything at all if you're studying one day and you've been studying for six hours you need to take about an hour break you have to give your brain an opportunity to relax think about exercise again i tell you all the time how much i love sports and exercising when you're exercising right you you push the body really hard whether it's running or weight lifting or doing something strenuous right but you can't do that all day every day you push push push then you relax push push push then relax the same is true for your english language journey as you're studying you have to have moments where you just relax take breaks it's so important several months ago well maybe about three months ago i took a break i took a vacation and a lot of you all knew that i hadn't taken a vacation in almost two years but my family my friends and they were everyone was telling me tiff you have to relax i love what i do but they could see that i was actually getting a little bit stressed they said take a week off and don't do anything it was such a good stress reliever to take that break sometimes you need to do the same thing maybe you're wondering teacher how is this break going to help me speak english fluently well here's what happened to me when i took that break that vacation when i came back from the vacation i had tons of ideas and ways to improve the business that i was working on ways to serve you better why because i gave my brain a chance to relax the same will happen for you you're taking in so much information and it's great but you need to give your brain an opportunity to process the information to relax and see how it can connect to other information that's already in your brain your brain has triggers you're putting more information in and it needs to connect those pieces of information so when you take that short break it allows your brain to make those connections now another stress reliever is right here simply watching movies or watching something that you enjoy and i want to emphasize don't take notes i want you to turn off your student brain i know it's a little weird coming from me right as your teacher but there are moments when you have to just stop and just relax just enjoy i remember when i was first learning korean it was difficult but there are moments like on the weekends i said i'm not i'm not going to study i would just watch korean dramas i didn't take any notes didn't have a pen or paper i just sat down or i laid on my bed and i watched hours and hours of korean dramas well you see what happened was my brain was still making connections but i was in a relaxed state so many of the expressions many of the situations that now i understand about korean culture or from korean culture came from those moments when i was relaxed not stressing and just taking information in and you have to give your up your brain the opportunity to do this as well okay finally you can also use this stress reliever tracking your progress basically acknowledge how much you have improved now i know you can agree with this one you've studied a lot right but you still feel like ah i'm not as good as i should be or i have a long way to go right i felt the same way before and there are moments i feel the same way now but here's the thing when you do that you actually stress yourself out so the way to counteract that feeling is to literally track your progress see how much you learned last month see how much you've learned this month compare the two see how much more comfortable you are in speaking with people about certain topics that will actually give you more confidence and help you speak more fluently in english because you'll feel good about yourself it's all about being easy on yourself don't beat yourself up so much relax and realize that you are learning a lot so these stress relievers are very important again step two is eliminating stress don't stress now you must eliminate stress in order to improve now the final step is step number three provide good content here's a fact content is greater than grammar i'll say it again content is greater or more important than grammar now don't misunderstand me this is an important fact that i need you to understand you see content is more important than grammar as an english learner grammar is important but even native english speakers sometimes make grammar mistakes so you must remember that your content is very important when you are trying to improve your fluency let me explain it like this let's say you get into a conversation right and the person asks you a question they say hey what's your favorite movie right and you say oh i love the sound of music perfect sentence but then you stop and they look at you waiting for you to continue again because they want to know more about the movie or why you like it but you were only focused on making a perfect sentence so you stopped and that means the conversation also stopped however let's imagine i'm gonna make some sentences that are incorrect but i'm gonna add more content here we go um my favorite movie are the sound of music people movie are amazing the husband wife they spent time together children ran around together and there was exciting things happening in the movie and they had to save their lives or work hard to save their lives now you notice that i made many grammar mistakes purposely however you got the content right there was a husband there was a wife there were children they were together saved lives i gave you more content now again i want to emphasize grammar is important but when you're trying to improve your english fluency you must focus on the content as well so let me teach you how you can improve your content which will help your fluency there are three methods that i like to use when i'm teaching students how to organize your content here we go the five w's three details and three examples so with the five ws you use the five w's to organize your content who what when where and why now for you i'm sure you've been with me for a long time so you know about the five w's again who what when where and why when you have all of these w's organized you can give the right amount of information about any subject any topic any event your content is important so the person listening to you will feel like you are fluent in english because you provided all of the necessary parts to explain what you were talking about so again the five w's that's the first way to organize your content or your idea now the three details is another way of organizing your content think about the three most important details of the topic you are discussing this is so important so again let's go back to what i talked about earlier with cooking right i said i enjoy cooking mexican food for example all right well if i want to speak fluently about this topic and i choose three details i can give you three details about mexican food or three details about my favorite mexican food right for example i love taco salads taco salads are really good because they have so many different ingredients all put together next i really enjoy mexican food because i had it all throughout my younger years i was raised in arizona true and when i was younger i was from about from birth to about six years old i was in arizona there were a lot of spanish and mexican people in arizona so my mom learned how to cook authentic mexican food so mexican food became a part of my life i love mexican food so again i'm giving you more details and you see what's happening right you're learning more about me more about the topic and i'm speaking fluently about it three details now the other thing is three egg samples think about three examples related to the topic you are discussing this is another way to improve your fluency again organizing your ideas no matter what the topic is if the topic is basketball again i mentioned that earlier if that's the topic well three examples maybe i can tell you three examples of games that i played in throughout high school and university again you want to think about things related to your interests and organize your thoughts either based on the five w's the five three details excuse me or three examples now the last thing i want you to remember about this is right here you must organize your ideas in order to speak fluently this is a must so three steps again you need to speak fluently one of your interests focus on your interests number two don't stress and provide good content again number one changed a little bit right it's okay you knew focus on your interests now i hope these three steps help you speak more fluently in english remember i'm always here to help you don't forget the challenge in the comment section write your three current top interest and remember i'll pick one individual to get the free 60 minute tutoring session with the cambly tutor but don't worry everyone that participates will have access to some coupons that will be amazing guys thank you so much for joining me i hope this lesson helped you and i want you to speak fluently so i'll see you next week but as always remember to speak english you still there you know what time it is it's story time hey i said a story time all right guys so today's story i've told part of this story before but i wanted to go into a little bit more details about the story so today we talked about the three things the three steps you can follow to speak english more fluently and step number two dealt with stress right eliminating stress so i want to tell you about one of the most stressful situations i've ever experienced in my life now i've told you all that i had to take an exam right to pass to get my graduate my master's degree when i was in graduate school i had to take the exam three times in korean so it was very difficult when i got to the third time right i remember like it was yesterday again prior to this i had actually come back to america for six months and all i did every day all day was study for the exam so i i felt that i was prepared right six months studying every day all day so i walked into so again there were a group of students that had come together for the exam there were hundreds of students there so we had all you know the doors open and we walked into the room where the test was going to be i was a little nervous but i had kind of managed my nervousness a little bit because i had studied for so long so we all found our respective seats we all sat down and the individuals who were administering the test they you know they handed out the test they said don't touch it though leave it face down okay makes sense we had 90 minutes for the test so they wanted us to all turn the test over at the same time so i sat down you know i was breathing i was i was pretty calm i said okay god you know i was praying god you know we're gonna do this it's the third time i've studied hard we can do this so the person that was administering the test said okay everyone you can now turn over your test and the timer started so you heard paper rustling of course flipped it over right had my pin ready and there were two questions on the test so i read the first question time stood still i had no idea what it was talking about so i said okay i said okay i'm not gonna get stressed yet let me look at question number two so i went to question number two and i said i had no idea what question number two meant this is when the stress started coming up when i say i was sitting in that seat and literally everything just stood still i heard students behind me writing writing really fast i wasn't writing anything and i felt like the the people that were standing in front of me who were watching us they were just staring at me because i literally was just sitting there i wasn't moving i wasn't writing anything and i was just i was shocked i said i don't know what this test is about lord so all the thoughts started pouring into my head i spent six months studying i went to america i spent day and night studying all for this test hours and hours and this is my third time i failed twice and i started getting more and more and more and more stressed and in the midst of this stress i heard god's voice say tiff you need to relax you need to calm down and i need you to read the questions one more time now i'm like god i don't understand again this is all happening in my mind but i was extremely stressed he said i need you to calm down i need you to relax and read the questions again so i prayed i turned the test over and i read the question again something about the question started to make just a little bit more sense he said read it again i was starting to get a little bit more calm i read it again and all of a sudden everything started to click once the stress dropped down i had relaxed my brain was now able to pump normally instead of being restricted and i understood the question and now the funny thing is i felt like the holy spirit said now tiff get your pen and start writing because the time was flying by honestly i had been sitting there for almost 20 minutes not writing anything because i didn't know what it said i didn't understand it so i immediately started writing and writing and writing and writing and everything just started clearing up for me i started understanding and i was writing connecting all that i studied all of these things started to make sense and i started writing and i completed the test right on time now fast forward as you know i graduated so i passed the test um but what i realized about that situation was the moment i started to get stressed the moment i started to allow my temperature to rise and i was getting nervous and i was i wasn't shaking but i knew that i was stressed i realized that i wasn't able to think clearly and nothing was coming out i had been studying korean for years so i could speak korean but nothing was coming out until i managed my stress and relaxed the same is true for you when it comes to speaking fluently in english and that's why i wanted to tell you all this story because there are moments when you feel like you're not able to speak fluently in english and it's not because of your intelligence you are very smart however it's sometimes because of your stress level so like number two step two you have to stop stressing you have to eliminate that stress and figure out ways to relax now i got through that ordeal and now i have many stories to tell my children later on in life but i hope it helped you and i hope you learned a lot from it i will see you all next week remember to study hard remember you can do it and don't forget the three steps and also don't forget to write your three interests in the comment section i will see you next week

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Length: 25min 40sec (1540 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021