How To Speak Fluently In English About Almost Anything

I think we're actually live this time I'm Drew  Badger the founder of englishanyone.com and   welcome to another live video here on YouTube  and we'll see if we get this working should be   coming through clearly all right making sure  we're okay uh so I'll give people a moment   to come in we should be live and working right  now but the reason I wanted to make this video   is because I get really one question actually I  get a lot of questions but I get one particular   question over and over and over again from  students and this is how can I actually   speak fluently about many different kinds  of things well huddle [Laughter] yesterday uh so a lot of people again they can understand  a lot of English but they have trouble expressing   themselves and especially if the topic is new  or unfamiliar or something uh then they have   trouble being able to speak so I wanted to talk  about this because in a video I did a couple of   I think what was that last week I did on Instagram  I'd spoke with a few Learners and one of them in   particular was talking about how she's reading  lots of books and taking time to improve her   English but she doesn't feel like she's actually  becoming more fluent and so fluency again just to   make this very clear for people this is how  well you can communicate it's not how much   you know and we know this because often little  children like you know four five six year old   kids native English speaking kids can communicate  better than many adult English Learners and so   the the goal is not to just try to learn more  and more and spend more time learning what you   really should be doing is actually focusing  on vocabulary because this is how people get   fluent it's how you got fluent in your native  language it's how you develop Mastery in anything   uh so I had a couple of notes actually uh there  are quite a few things I want to talk about [Laughter]   all right so we got let's see here hopefully  muted issue hopefully the hopefully the uh the   volume is loud enough to let's see uh welcome  from Germany nice to see everybody I want to be   quick go through a couple of different examples  about this just to make the point about how you   can actually speak fluently about almost anything  uh but also just to let you know this is not like   an instantaneous process uh but it really actually  does happen quite quickly if you start doing the   right thing so that's what we'll talk about in  this video uh so I wanted to talk about this   again I mentioned the learner at the beginning  uh but also just because I really want to show   how natives are learning and remind you about  how you learned your native language so I had   my uh actually before I do that let me give you  a quick a quick example of something uh just to   kind of contrast these two ways of learning  so the typical uh we'll just call this the uh   the ESL approach so this is English as a second  language and then we have the efl approach   over here which is learning English as a first  language and what most people do is they spend   a lot of time trying to learn as much vocabulary  as possible so imagine each one of these is a new   phrase so if you spend today trying to learn 10  new phrases or 10 new words or whatever the efl   approach really you're trying to focus on one  thing and and learn it very deeply okay this is   basically the simplest contrast between these  things so children they will often be learning   something like a child will watch the same movie  you know a hundred times so they're they're just   naturally getting lots and lots of review while uh  most English Learners are trying to just and again   this is it's not really the fault of Learners  part of it is your brain just trying to get you to   learn new things and part of it is teachers that  are really not spending enough time focusing on   things and so they will learn something new and  they will learn another new thing and then they   will forget other things that uh that they thought  they knew so before I talk about uh exactly what   you should be doing and give you some examples  of this uh I thought it would be interesting to   just use a brick example to get you all thinking  about something very simple like a brick so just   imagine I have a brick right here I want you to  write down in the comments right now just think   of how many different ways you can use a brick  all right so very simple object you could do the   same thing with a marker or you know an eraser or  something like that but how many different things   could you do with a brick all right this will help  you get thinking more like a native speaker about   vocabulary because what we want to do is get  you focusing on something rather than trying   to you know we we look at one way a brick could be  used and then we go to some other object all right   so Arc just popping in look at that keep up  the good work here we go uh so yeah everyone   take your take your time and uh and give me just  any kind of use you can put it right in the chat   how could you use a brick all right just think  try to try to be a little bit of creative you   can think about this as a creativity uh  let's say you could build something okay   so even if we have only one brick I mean  obviously if we have many bricks we could   probably build a wall but yeah we could build  something we could make something that's true   it could be the like the first piece uh  of a wall uh we could throw it for sure   you could use it as a weapon if you wanted to  throw it as something yeah it could be a bridge   yeah maybe like even a bridge a small bridge for a  mouse or something like that so if we put I don't   know something under here and then we have our  brick like that it could be a little bridge over   some some water something like that so we could  probably think of I don't know 30 40 different   uses as a supporter sure so you could put  something on top of it you could sit on it that's   right you could use it as a chair very good so  we could also so again we could put things on top   of it or we could put the brick on other things  like using it as a paper weight a paperweight so   things maybe if it's a windy day we put the  brick on paper to stop it from blowing away   I don't know maybe we throw it in some water to  make a loud Splash just to hear the sound of that   all right I don't want to spend too much time in  the video going over all the different ways you   could use a brick but the point is if you think  a little bit about it you spend just a little   bit of time thinking you can probably think  of some pretty creative uses for a brick okay   and then we also have maybe there we could have  different kinds of bricks you could have like a   Lego brick where you're you know you got your  little pieces in there you're connecting it to   something or it could be uh maybe made out  of plastic or something a different kind of   brick or it could be a different color maybe  you just use it as a decoration or something   all right so why am I bringing up this example  uh the point of this is really just to show you   the difference between what Learners are doing  so what teachers are usually doing in classes   and what natives are doing all right so I was  walking uh walking my older daughter Arya to   school today and uh while we were walking  she said dad what does harsh mean harsh word harsh all right let's see do you think pay  attention at native English math can help you   with pronunciation yes if you obviously  if you're if you're watching what people   do but listening is more important and it's  better to listen to like 10 different people   speaking than to try to watch one person's  mouth if that makes sense so Arya my older   daughter asks what does harsh mean uh and  I said oh where did you hear that and she   said oh I was watching a show boss baby  maybe you've heard of this show boss baby so there are actually a lot of complicated words  and expressions it's really a show for adults but   because it's a cartoon kids like to watch it but  she's learning lots of interesting vocabulary and   so one of the words that she learned was harsh  so she's asked what's harsh mean and so I said   okay where did you hear that you're watching  Boss baby what's happening in the scene or in   the show when you hear something or someone use  the word harsh so I I think uh like one character   and these are I don't know babies or whatever  I I didn't I didn't see the show but but just   listening to her talk about it so one character  uh is is kind of like yelling at yelling at this   other character maybe we'll give him like an angry  face uh and the other character says like don't be   be so harsh so this is one example  of this so don't be so harsh   so what's happening here is okay if we we  imagine the scene we can think about one   character as being angry at another character  uh and they're saying some some harsh words some harsh words to the other character and you  can start to understand what harsh means or kind   of one one example of what harsh means but after  she she kind of understood this it's like okay   it's maybe kind of something maybe a little bit  mean or something difficult or something hard   hard to hard to deal with something hard to accept  something that's harsh like that but I didn't stop   here as we're walking to school I start giving  her more examples of harsh and so you might have   we'll just put some more examples up here and  I'll just leave this so we might have some harsh foreign harsh weather now if you think about it  okay we understand this meaning of harsh then if   we have harsh weather do you think that's like  good Pleasant weather or maybe not good Pleasant   weather and a child can imagine oh wow that looks  like there will be some harsh harsh weather today   there's a snowstorm and lots of wind so that's  what we mean by harsh weather harsh weather all   right so you might have a harsh storm or we could  have a harsh season again we're still talking   about similar kinds of things here but again the  point is that we don't stop with just one example   of something we really want to make sure that you  can understand that vocabulary very well so when   I'm teaching my own kids we spend time with the  vocabulary yeah so bad weather again harsh weather   the same kind of thing and you understand it from  the situation from the context rather than trying   to get a definition or a translation of the word  so this is why I asked my daughter like when did   you hear that what situation what's happening to  those characters when they say that because I want   her to be thinking about that when she's learning  new things again it's going to be much easier for   her to understand new vocabulary this way so we  got harsh weather uh harsh storm harsh conditions all these things they mean something that's  difficult or it's going to be bad and again   we already have the example of harsh words  someone might use some harsh language maybe   they're cursing at someone they're angry  at someone does this make sense is it is it   starting to be a little bit more clear what harsh  means you've probably heard this word before but   have you heard all these different uses of  it maybe maybe not but this is usually what   natives are doing so they don't learn like I I'm  actually very efficient about how I teach my kids   because I understand how they should be learning  but usually what children do is they will hear   maybe one example of something and then it could  be weeks or months later they hear another one   and they make that connection so I want to help  my kids make that connection as fast as possible   like look at that here's something harsh here's  another thing that's harsh these are all different   harsh examples so they understand very well  what it means okay so this is just one example   but I wanted to give some more especially kind of  higher level things but uh remember just because   the the vocabulary looks simple you might have a  word like harsh and it seems like a short simple   word uh like okay that's not an advanced word but  again in in a real conversation would you be able   to use harsh in these different ways would that  vocabulary come to your mind automatically if   you learn this way it does so if you can think wow  like harsh uh and and now because I have this word   and because I know it so well I've gone deep into  the vocabulary we're going to focus on something   rather than trying to learn a bunch of different  things so remember the traditional ESL approach we   have a lesson I try to teach you 10 or 20 words or  something but we're not going to go very deeply or   spend much time on them and then next week There's  No review of any of that vocabulary so you learn   a few things and then you don't spend time  reviewing them but with the efl approach we   really want to take something and go deep into  that vocabulary so we learned the word harsh   and then we want to hear lots of different  examples of how the word might be used and   it's all of these examples that really make you  fluent in that vocabulary all right now here's the   amazing part about this now that you do this with  one word you can use this word when you're talking   about other things like don't judge me so harshly  so people are being critical they are criticizing   you hey like you know this is a bad presentation  or something like wow don't don't be so harsh   please give me some kind helpful feedback okay so  again it's another example of like harsh feedback   harsh words harsh language and this is just one  example okay so when I'm teaching my kids this   is what I'm trying to do I don't want to give  them a definition of the word I want to help   them understand really what it means by covering  lots of different things does this make sense let   me know in the comments if this is like yeah  so rough another idea and these are all kind   of similar because often words don't have maybe  one definition or the definition might be broad   so it could cover many different things but in  this way my daughter Arya now understands ah okay   harsh means something difficult wow that test was  really harsh well that was a difficult a difficult   thing okay so the point here is uh if you want to  be able to speak fluently about almost anything   the the you actually should do the opposite of  what most people think so the English as a second   language approach says uh if we try to learn all  these different vocabulary words let's say we have   like a thousand thousand word vocabulary uh and  if we if we try to learn a whole bunch of words   or try to learn more words than that then we can  talk about anything but what happens is that they   don't actually know very well the vocabulary and  so they actually can't have conversations about   anything they can have a very limited conversation  about some things but the uh the efl approach the   English has a first language approach what we're  doing is really trying to help you understand   something very well and then you can move on to  the next thing so once you feel confident about   this then you move on to the next word or phrase  or whatever but because you know this so well now   you can use it when talking about everything you  can use it when talking about relationships or   going to the doctor or whatever you now know that  vocabulary and you can use it when you're talking   about almost anything okay so the point is not  to know every word the point is to know like   the vocabulary that you have very well and the  better you know it this is how you do it so you're   getting lots more examples you're really trying  to understand something very well hopefully this   is making sense let me know in the in the comments  if everybody is getting this uh before I move on   to some additional vocabulary for this all right  yes you could have some harsh parents that's true   uh let's see Alfonso that's so I just want to know  if it is possible uh so who is fluent in English   be able to express one's thought on all topics  yeah but do you see how this works so now that   I know the word harsh I understand how I can  apply it in different topics okay so if I   just learn the word harsh and a definition maybe  I'm only thinking about harsh weather all right   but actually harsh doesn't it doesn't only mean  weather that's not harsh does it mean that it's   meaning like as you look at all these different  examples you can understand that what that means eh yeah me and that kid on there yes use your English though  use your English got his own I was just watching that this morning that's from a Japanese TV show called  hanakapa uh if I'm talking about the same   if we're talking about the same thing uh but yes  that's kind of a harsh name over there all right all right hopefully this makes sense though uh  so the idea again is to focus on something to   understand it very well and that's how you can  use it to talk about lots of different topics   so you can use this vocabulary and other things  all right let me give you two more examples uh   of something so this is just a single word but I  thought I would also give you uh two other ones   I know Learners love phrasal verbs so  we will talk about that very quickly phrasal verbs are things that young kids  learn when they're trying to understand uh   more complicated things than just a single verb  like stand we might have stand up or we might   have sit down or sit up so again we're not just  we're not just looking at sit because we have sit   we might have sit down and we also have to sit  up so sitting down just means to sit down in a   chair but sit up means actually to have correct  posture when you're sitting all right to sit up   uh but let's just give another example of bring up now usually when kids are learning these things  for the first time they will hear somebody using   a physical visual example of something so if  I say oh I might bring up like if I bring up   a marker I'm going to raise something up so if  I'm maybe walking from uh the first floor in   my house we're going to draw a house here it's  got two floors in it and here's some stairs so   if I walk from here up to the second floor and I'm  carrying something with me I'm bringing up a like   a thing I might bring up a marker from the first  floor all right to bring something up all right   yes all right we're getting there we're getting  there very good Nina uh but again this this same   idea we begin with something physical that you can  see and this is how kids are able to understand   the vocabulary without using translations  all right so we're going to physically   bring something so pull it from one place to  another to bring it up bring it up all right   and so we might have another  thing so we've got another example   if we imagine a conversation two people are  talking about something so here's one person   and another person talking and the first one  says oh like I had an idea about something uh   and they're they're just introducing that in  the conversation so that person might bring up bring up a topic so again you're kind of imagining  if it's like inside your head and you you bring it   up to the to the topic you know bring it up to  the conversation it's a similar idea of carrying   something from one lower level to a higher level  so if you bring up a conversation oh my friend   just brought that up in the conversation so we're  talking about something and my friend brought up   I don't know some idea about that what we kind  of mean is they're bringing something maybe from   their mind or from the inside of their head  and now they're making it uh obvious okay   bring up your date yes and so another  example another uh very common one is   like to bring up a child to bring up a child so if you bring up a child same kind of idea  on August you're gonna sneeze uh oh no it went   away maybe it'll come back so if we bring up a  child we can think about that child physically   getting bigger over time so they're bringing we're  bringing them up we're trying to raise them up   trying to help them grow to bring up a child all  right so all of these examples the ESL approach   would be okay we're going to bring up and then  maybe they would learn one example of something   but the efl approach is really to help you  understand the vocabulary very well all   right does that make sense so the the thing that's  really stopping people from communicating it's not   their vocabulary again you might have uh like a  child that knows 100 words and an adult that knows   1 000 words but the better Communicator will be  the one who knows that vocabulary really well all   right so me speaking Japanese in the same way like  my my Japanese vocabulary is I don't know how many   words I know in Japanese I know actually I can't  even count how many words that would be but I have   no trouble communicating in different situations  about different topics okay so confidence is a key   factor yes confidence is key but confidence comes  from your understanding of vocabulary so you don't   you don't just magically become confident for no  reason you become confident because you think ah   okay now I get it now I really understand what's  happening I really understand the vocabulary   okay I'll go back take a look at a few  comments and I'll give a final example here uh all right Chris says I like your way  of teaching from India glad to hear it   uh why native people use this like going  doing it's just to be faster so they're   speaking uh faster English Shihan says where  are you from I'm from the United States uh   that makes sense means I heard in lots  of movies yeah so that makes sense to make sense means to be understood so if I say  oh am I am I being understood do you understand   what I'm saying I can say does that make sense so  am I am I talking something up yeah bringing up   a ball so that usually like if you're like  playing basketball or something it's again   bringing something like forward down the court  to bring something up all right but again the   point is that you're spending more time with fewer  words so it's it's like you're learning less okay   I know people are they really want to learn more  and like here's how to have a massive vocabulary   but you don't get there uh for speaking unless  you actually spend time with the vocabulary but   it's it's new for your mind as you're learning  these different examples just like we talked   about with harsh all right so I'm going to teach  a new phrase maybe some people know this already   maybe some people do not uh but this is the same  way I would explain it to my own kids and again   this is important really want to help people  understand it the same way natives do all right   Zora says uh bring up something that happened in  the past yeah exactly so something in the past   you might bring that up as well all right and  as you feel more confident about the vocabulary   then you will feel much more comfortable in  a conversation using it all right so we're   going to draw a tree here for this last expression  then I'll take more questions uh if we have them   so here's uh my this is supposed to be a tree  I can draw a tree okay and so each one of these   things we can call this a branch or a limb this  is a silent bee a limb so a branch of a tree or   a limb of a tree now if you look at this if I  climb up some of these branches are going to be   stronger than others so maybe I will uh I could  if I stand like on a on a very strong Branch up   here I know I am safe I will be supported  but if I'm out here if I try to stand up   out here you think that's that's is that safe or  not safe and again this is the same way I would   teach it to my own kids just to make sure it's  understandable so if I'm standing up here on   a very strong big limb then it will probably be  pretty safe I will not fall from there but if I   try to stand out here do you think that would be  safe or not now forgive me if this seems like an   easy question but I'm trying to get you to think  like a native as I do this so let me know in the   comments all right bring down is that possible yes  so that's another example you can bring something   down as well so you bring something up you bring  something down and you'd also learn different   expressions like uh like another person is uh  maybe you make them feel bad so if I'm depressed   and I'm talking with my friend like I can bring  him down too I can bring him down to my level yeah you you can improve your English if you  understand what I'm saying you can you can improve all right so I can't create a sentence  while speaking what should I do so yes   this is the point the point is about getting  lots of input to help you really understand   uh the vocabulary so we have the person  up here it's the very strong Branch or   strong limb and out here very weak because  uh the person is too heavy maybe they will   fall fall down all right so here's where  we get the expression to go out on a limb   what do you think that means to go out on a live  so to go out on a limb what do you think that   means try to think about it like a native English  speaker to go out on a limb I'll give you a moment   to try to give me even a simple explanation  of what that means not safe okay [Music]   anyone else just post it right here in  the comments uh is it possible to improve   my English by listening to something that I  don't even understand uh probably not I would   not I don't know if you don't if you're just  listening to something you can't understand at   all you're probably wasting your time other than  hearing maybe how the sound of the language is   uh let's see so dangerous awful very good very good and how to motivate  low Achievers to speak English well you just   make the language easy that's it if you make  the language difficult people don't want   to learn if you make the language easy then  people want to learn it's really that simple   all right something that's not saved do  you think shadowing is a good way to learn   a new language uh it's not really the best  use of your time not reliable yeah foreign very sloppily here not reliable all right so yes  the idea here to go out on a limb really it means   to do something risky that's not safe yes it could  put you in a dangerous position all right but you   can understand physically how this works so you  can imagine a person again this is the same way   I would teach my own kids I would actually draw  something like this if they say Dad what does it   mean to go out on a limb to go out on a limb so I  have to explain what a limb is and talking about   their their kind of like going out further and  further so they're not just standing here next   to the tree where it's safe they're really going  out and going much much further they're going out   on a limb all right so you can understand what  this means from the picture all right and that's   why people have given some good examples over  here of what it means Okay so we've got something   that's not safe dangerous not reliable yes there's  probably going to be some issue or something wrong   that will happen it's risky okay so where do you  think we might use this expression now so we take   a physical thing like this we understand what it  means as many Expressions can be understood this   way when do you think someone might use this  so yes visual visual examples are key if you   can understand them especially if you understand  okay what is a limb so often if you if you begin   with trying to teach people an expression like  this if you just translate this whole thing into   somebody somebody else's language you're  not really teaching them anything you're   not actually helping them understand the language  like a native speaker so that's why again in the   English as a first language approach we really  want to help you understand everything so you   can really feel confident using it a newbie  does it literally mean a beginner yes like a   new person who's doing something yeah so an unsafe  situation like what be specific mean a very good   so think about uh when you might use this when  might someone go out on a limb all right uh do   you have more videos about minimal pairs actually  uh I don't think I have I have some videos that   cover that but I would recommend if you just if  you want to compare different sounds in that way   uh get Frederick so you can click on the link  in the description below this video but rather   than having a video of that you can actually  go back and test that out oh adiaginkio foreign we're going to go back to that  kind of stuff in a minute all right   do you have some vids about pronunciation yes  again uh if you if you just search our YouTube   channel for pronunciation and also get Frederick  as well that will improve your pronunciation as   well all right so if we imagine this situation  everybody understands this is something risky a   person is doing something maybe they should not  do for themselves so maybe I go out on a limb   uh I'll see if I can fit all  this in here so I went out so I went out on a limb to help someone so again  I did something risky to help somebody else now   I'm not actually in a tree uh in the example uh  maybe I went out uh I don't know like I had to   I had to go out and swim in some some shark  infested water so sharks lots of sharks in   the water and I had to go out and try to save  somebody so I went out on a limb to help them   or I went out on a limb uh to create a new uh  like try to create a new product at work so it   was a risky thing to do maybe maybe not many  people will buy the product or something wrong   will happen to it it's risky all right to go out  on a limb all right now watch we're going to take   it to an even higher level but I want to make sure  everybody understands this as it is all right it's   just another way of saying to do something  risky to do something dangerous do something   that maybe uh like if I'm if I if I'm talking  about like a friend of mine at work and I say   some good things about him even though he maybe  did something I don't know not so good at work or   something like that so I'm going out on a limb to  say something nice about that guy so I could get   in trouble for that or I could lose my job or  something all right so I'm going out on a limb   all right yeah so you could you could like  to to talk about like investing in a stock   or something so I I went out on a limb to  to try to try doing something like that   to try uh investing in something all right  and so it could mean something that's like   actually dangerous uh or it just means like a  kind of risk in a in a certain way like this   is this session devoted just for teaching  idioms now this is this is one one example   this isn't I mean you really wouldn't call this  an idiom it's really just like and and an idiom   is typically something that you can't understand  from the words this is usually like this is to go   out on a limb is a thing that you can usually  understand like natives would understand what   that means uh physically in this way but some  things are more difficult to understand uh so   some people might call this an idiom but this  is an easier one but the point is I want to   show that number one you should be understanding  it and spending more time with it as a native uh   so in the same way that we don't want to just  get a definition or a translation of the word   we really want to help you understand it like a  native so you feel confident about using it all   right and that means you're getting lots and lots  of examples of something you really understand it   well and again that's how you become fluent  and and when you become fluent in this like   if I know how to use uh to go out on a limb  then I can start talking about that in lots of   different situations so if we take it to an even  higher level let's imagine uh uh we have a kid so he's got he's got like a hat on  backwards uh actually and I just   drew a face on his hat put his face  on his face uh he's got some kind of   baggy clothes here uh and he's uh I  don't know some baggy baggy pants and he looks like he has a picture of a skateboard   on a shirt now I might say when I meet  this kid I like I'll go out on a limb like   I might be going out on a limb but do you  like skateboarding all right so I'm going or you could say I'll I'll go out on a limb as an  even even easier way to think about this so I'll   go out on a limb and say like skateboarding so I'll go out on a limb and say or I'll go  out on a limb and guess you like skateboarding   so here I'm using the expression ironically so  there's I'm not actually talking about risk at   all because like I can look at him and and guess  like it's probably you know like he probably likes   skateboarding he looks like a skateboarder  has a skateboarding shirt on maybe he's at   a skate park and I say oh like I'll go out on  a limb and say you probably like skateboarding   all right so I'm I'm using the expression in an  ironic way all right and so I if I if I mean it   in a serious way I might say I'm gonna go out  on a limb but I bet you like Stock Investing   so there I'm actually I'm saying something that  like it's not really risky like for my personal   health or something but it sounds like a there's  there's no no real reason why it should be true   just looking at him so if I say I'll go out on  a limb I'll go out on a limb and say uh you look   like you invest in stocks and so it's a funny  thing to look at that and think maybe he does   maybe this kid likes investing in stocks but  judging by the way he looks like he doesn't you   know he should have like you know maybe uh like  a stock like ticker or something on his shirt and   then you know maybe maybe some other things like  that he's got a tie on uh he's carrying I don't   know a briefcase he's got some charts in his hand  something like that all right so whenever you have   a situation like this where you're you want to use  it in an ironic way you can use it in the same way   all right now I don't expect you to remember all  of this and try to use it confidently today the   point is that if you spend time with vocabulary  and maybe the next day you review this again and   another day you review it again and you hear  it in different ways that's when you start   feeling confident and then you can use that  expression in lots of different ways all right   let's see so uh Brahim yeah so we have a whole a  whole app about about it covers everything about   phonics just get Frederick it's already done and  waiting for you so you don't need a video about   phonics uh we have a video series on YouTube about  that already uh and yeah just get Frederick by   clicking on the link in the description below this  video all right so we've covered a few different   things in this video and each of them are examples  of how you spend more time learning something so   you really understand it and then that's how you  can use it in different situations I'll give you   an example in Japanese uh so for me like uh a joke  that I learned like something I use all the time   and I have to remember like did I use that joke in  front of this person or I can't say it in front of   my wife because she's already heard me use it so  many times but in different situations I will say I bet all right so this is just the English translation  of uh the Japanese is like shine waribiki which   is like an employee discount so let's say I see  a friend of mine uh this happened to me a couple   of days ago so this friend of mine is a doctor  and he has he had like a like a cut on his eye   uh and I said oh like but it's you know  you don't have to pay for medical bills   like because you're a doctor you know like  I bet I bet you get an employee discount   uh or like a friend of mine another friend of  mine he was uh I think he was like cutting his   own kids hair so he's a barber but he's cutting  his own child's hair at home and I was like oh   like that child gets an employee discount all  right but I can use this because I'm like very   confident about this particular expression I  can use that in lots of different situations   and pretty much any time I could be speaking  about anything and would would be able to find   a way to use that all right so I I didn't just  like memorize this I really understood what it   means and then I can use it in a fluent way in  different situations all right so this video is   not about how to learn like one word uh and now  you can speak fluently about everything the point   is that you will build up very quickly uh the  ability to communicate if you learn in this way   all right all right so let me go back answer  questions uh it's been about 40 minutes let's   see here if I missed anybody yes I went out  on a limb and spent all my money yes so that   would be like going out on a serious limb right  there and you will learn uh very good Mina also   um you will learn the nuances of expressions like  this as you hear more people use them all right   so to go out on a limb and you also improve your  understanding of tenses because you're learning   like to go out on a limb or she went out on a  limb or she would be going out on a limb that   kind of thing as you're hearing these different  examples this is all just naturally varied review   uh what does it mean to come out of the woodwork  what does it mean to come out of the woodwork all   right we'll give one more example Alfonso because  uh that's a good one and that goes along with what   we're talking about here so if we use that last  expression here uh to come out of the woodwork all right so if we imagine like a piece of you  know wood or something like that the woodwork   usually refers to uh like the pieces of wood  or you might have a door or you know some nice   like design something like that uh I don't want  to move the camera because it's going to mess   up the video but let's say we have like a lovely  piece of I don't know there's like a column with   little little other I don't know fancy Spirals  and things like that so this is the woodwork   uh in a building or in a room the woodwork and  so we talk about like things are coming out of   the woodwork imagine if there's like a design of I  don't know like a person or some kind of animal we   have I don't know like a a dog or something like  that so if we have pictures of things that are   carved into the wood so into the woodwork we've  got some lots of interesting designs but suddenly   all of these things they become real and they  come out of the woodwork and oh now now we've   got like a dog here and another animal and other  things over here so things are coming out of the   woodwork it just means like imagine you're  in a room and suddenly you're getting lots of   examples of all these things something like that  so another example might be uh let's say if I'm   I'm in a room and there are a bunch of people  sitting and listening to me talk and I say oh   no I have a problem uh does anyone have uh  I I need like medical help and all of these   doctors start coming out of the woodwork  so people I didn't know they were doctors   they're just people sitting in a room and they  all are like Oh I'm a doctor I'm a doctor I'm   a doctor they're coming out of the woodwork  so it's if you imagine a situation where uh   something is it just seems like normal and and  every day and you don't really think much about   it but suddenly all of these things appear at  the same time so it's like they're coming out   of the woodwork they're coming out of the woodwork  all right let me know if that if that makes sense all right [Applause] so something that is  typically different from the actual word yes   so that's more of an idiom uh so me and you hello  sir uh it is going always I'd like to learn uh a   bit maybe you mean a bit about phrasal verbs thank  you drew lessons are really valuable for us glad   to hear Alfonso again I'm struggling to express  my expressing my thought in English would you   mind telling me the secret to overcoming it that's  it this is the whole the whole video is about that   all right so when we're we're talking about how  you become more fluent you become more fluent by   understanding the vocabulary better okay it's not  about practicing repeating phrases I don't become   fluent I would not say okay now I want you to  repeat come out of the woodwork come out of the   woodwork you don't get fluent in the vocabulary  by repeating it you get fluent by hearing lots   more examples of of how it's used so that way  you feel very confident about using it yourself   uh I'm a dead loss when it  comes to drawing on the board   yes I could probably draw nicer than this  maybe uh but I'm trying to be quick that's   why I'm drawing it like that uh bro I think  your drawings are not uh I think your drawings   are not as mine like not as good yeah maybe  not I bet I go at a limb and guess you like   me yes so you could say that like I could go out  a limb and guess you like me let's see let's see yes we um so just asking if I'm like not not coming  to the park uh but yes drop some vids about   phonics yes hey there good to hear you you're  getting old says Noel really getting older   but I'm I'm guessing that's what happens as time  goes by yeah we get older hopefully I'm not I'm   still still all right you know I'm not not too  tired all right uh diggis if I'm pronouncing that   correctly d d is just say my listening is very  good I can understand most of what they say but   when I want to speak it's hard to create sentences  what do you recommend for me for improving my   speaking this is it the the exact thing I'm  talking about in this video is how you get there   all right so you get there by uh understanding the  vocabulary better so what's great about this the   English as a first language approach is you don't  have to go anywhere you don't have to speak with   anyone you just have to get more of this input  all right so just like I'm giving you one example   of harsh you don't stop with one example you get  many examples of harsh and that will help you use   the word and remember the word so you feel very  confident about using it in your conversations all right so yes that is that is the whole the  whole secret here Monday morning live class   become a good habit thanks no end uh my pleasure  Hilda your kids are getting a teacher's discount   bam you got it yes my children get an employee  discount my kids get an employee discount so   that's a perfect usage of that same expression  very good do you think grammar is important in   speaking yes it's the most important thing  become alive get alive hi sir today is my   daughter's birthday could you call her name  she'll be very happy I'll tell her her name   uh in your live stream her name is Baron if  I'm pronouncing it correctly happy birthday   all right how to use VOC VOC in context to use  VOC yes you want to learn it in context yes   yes all right I'm going to be okay Mina again says  I come out of the woodwork and carved a beautiful   tree yeah in that case you would like unless  you are kind of like hiding somewhere like I   came out of the woodwork also the the idea and  and this is one of those things you get better   at understanding the vocabulary as you hear more  examples of it so typically things are coming out   of the woodwork like like lots of examples of  something at the same time all right so if we   have a bunch of things are hidden and they all  appear at the same time they are coming out of   the woodwork so it's like they were there all  the time but nobody noticed them all right so   in my example about having many doctors in a  room uh they're all coming out of the woodwork   so it wouldn't be just like we wouldn't really  talk about one thing coming out of the woodwork   it's usually like I mean imagine uh like something  in woodwork it would be like you know some   patterns of something we would have many examples  of that so it would be more than one thing   uh let's see yourself to more  listening and speaking yes let's see yeah you got food poisoning oh my goodness great  job hi everyone from Turkey greetings from Morocco   let's see if we got anybody else greetings  from Mexico yes we got people from all over   the place nice to see everybody and it's  Tsubasa there all right does this make sense   does everybody understand what I'm getting at  here what it what is the point of my message   today I want to make sure everybody understands  what I'm talking about and yes uh and then happy   birthday to Baron as well what's up us from  Yokohama uh let's see Future Hope a kid asks   his dad what's a man that does is a man is  someone who is a responsible and cares for   his family the kid says I hope one day  I can be a man just like Mom [Laughter]   yes that's something something he would  probably hear in uh in more conversations   uh in this day and age interestingly all right  to make this very clear and simple for people I'll just write it up here you get fluent you get fluent when you know vocabulary extremely  well extremely well and this can be a very quick   process so you can learn something and maybe  you understand it right away the first time   you hear it and then you could start using  it in your in your conversations it would be   very easy to do that uh and so like me as I'm  learning new Japanese this is how it is for me   for many things some things it takes more  time uh you know to to use that vocabulary   all right but you get fluent when you know  vocabulary extremely well so I notice I don't say   anything here about speaking practice or meeting  native speakers or chat groups or anything like   that you get fluent when you know vocabulary  really well so if you don't feel confident   about something it means you don't feel confident  about the usage or the vocabulary or it could be   many different things about that but the point is  you're you're not you don't feel confident enough   to use it and that's what's really stopping you  from communicating so it's not the amount of words   that you know that helps you speak it's helpful  but only if you know that vocabulary really well   so it's much better to learn something you  know a hundred words really well you could   easily have conversations about many different  things and so very quickly if you follow this   approach you can get fluent like in days or weeks  and then and then have a good vocabulary that you   can use to talk about many different things so  if you want to have conversations about lots of   different things quickly this is how you do it  I know it seems like okay we should we should   do the ESL way where we're trying to get like  you know a thousand examples in a month it's   not it's better to do like 10 examples in in a  month or something or is really as long as you   can understand exactly how they are but it should  be vocabulary you know very well oh my goodness let's see uh go back to all right I think I got all those hello I'm late  and I don't have any idea of the topic the topic   is how to speak fluently about almost anything and  this is how you do it so you just have to spend   more time reviewing things and making sure you  really understand them so anybody that's asking   how can I speak fluently that's that's how it  is so I mean again when I got in trouble in   the pool many people came out of the woodwork  to help yeah so you could say like lifeguards   lifeguards are coming out of the woodwork like I  didn't notice them before but wow suddenly there   are so many people around uh to help me right  now uh hi everyone from the uh USA I pray prep   I maybe appreciate appreciate you do your  teacher for your practical lab lessons glad   to hear greetings from Sri Lanka from Brazil  and my team loses today oh my goodness foreign could you recommend some American dramas for   beginning ESL student and  intermediate ESL student uh most most TV shows like that are going to be  more difficult than than kids would be able to   understand I would recommend actually watching  kids shows rather than trying to watch like a   TV drama I know it might be more interesting but  you will spend a lot of time trying to understand   the vocabulary and there's very little review  in that you have a story and then you go on   to the next story Sometimes some of the same  vocabulary will be used but often it's not so   it's really difficult to review in that way  so I would stay away from that even for like   intermediate intermediate Learners it's better  for them to really understand at least like 80   uh 80 to 90 percent of the vocabulary in a  TV show or a cartoon or whatever or a book uh   to make sure that they can learn new things in  context so you don't want to make it like okay   you only understand half of it imagine trying  to read a book and you only understand half of   the words that's going to be a very bad learning  experience you won't understand most things and   you'll have to look in a dictionary and it  just destroys the atmosphere of the book so   really you should know 80 to 90 percent because  if you have a sentence with you know five words   in it and you know four out of five of those you  can understand that last word pretty easily from   from the context of the sentence or the  the context of the paragraph or whatever   so I would recommend like uh stuff for kids I  don't know what's what's popular now though for   for English stuff I actually don't recommend even  boss baby my my own kids should not be watching   that show uh just because it's it's it's way too  difficult for them but they're picking up lots   of uh lots of interesting uh interesting phrases  uh tell us about the story when you got the scar   on your chin so I have if you look see here it  might be hard to see but there are two scars   two scars on my chin I think I told this story  maybe at least in a lesson or in another YouTube   video but I can tell it very quickly again that  review is important so the first one came from   my older sister who was holding me and she was  swinging me around uh like just I think I think   holding me by my hands maybe it was holding me by  my feet that seems like a little bit easier for   the story but she was just like swinging me around  like this turning around really fast and Swinging   me uh and she let me go and I went flying and  I hit like a window sill and split my chin open   so that's the first Scar the second scar is from  my younger sister so I was climbing out of a pool   and she just like pushed my head back down onto  the pool and I cracked my chin open again I split   it open I split my chin open all right so now I  have two scars one from each sister on my chair   all right so if you're listening carefully you've  learned ah you can say split open like to cut   something like that split it open some very good  vocabulary there all right uh me and you even if   I learned one important vocabulary sentence of  your class is good for me yeah again take take   your time there's no rush to try to learn a whole  bunch of things if you if you don't feel confident   in using them so every day if you could feel like  fluent if you could become fluent in one new word   or phrase every day you would feel very confident  in a month you would be like wow like now I can   say a whole bunch of things and your improvement  it accelerates over time so it starts getting   faster you make progress faster as you start  learning that way so I know it seems like wow   it seems like you're learning a lot if you try  to learn a hundred phrases in one day it seems   like you're learning a lot but because you will  forget you will forget most of this vocabulary   so look you just spent all that time and now you  only remember one thing but you still don't feel   very confident about it you're thinking okay is  the pronunciation correct is the usage correct or   maybe the grammar or whatever and so in in these  situations you're really wasting your time it   seems like you're learning a lot but if you forget  all the vocabulary you're just wasting your time   but here we know we're learning we can actually  feel it and you don't forget the vocabulary   so you hear many different examples like the word  harsh earlier today so maybe today when I come   back home I will use I will intentionally review  the word harsh with Arya in uh in some natural   ways so I might say yeah it was a I was walking  home and I forgot my sunglasses the sun was really   harsh it's a really harsh sun on my eyes and  then like without her saying anything even if she   doesn't say the word she's thinking automatically  like ah like okay another example of harsh okay so   I was I was like washing my hands after uh after  dinner I was doing the dishes but I used the wrong   soap it was really harsh on my skin it was really  harsh on my skin and so it was kind of rubbing my   rubbing my skin badly and making my skin cracked  so I split some of my skin like split open again   that same split open you see what I'm doing how  I'm reviewing the vocabulary naturally in context mm-hmm all right so when you're thinking about  this again if your issue is you understand but   you don't speak I talked to another in another  recent video about the three levels of fluency   or the three stages of fluency how it works so  you begin by just being exposed to something   so my younger daughter or my older daughter Arya  hears the word uh like I don't know she hears the   word uh harsh okay so we use that same example  more review so she hears the word harsh in uh   in a TV show she's just being exposed to the word  but she doesn't really understand what that means   and so she asks me again Dad what does harsh mean  and so now we're moving from exposure to awareness   where now she can recognize the word because I've  given her some more examples of it and then when   she is feeling like finally confident enough  because I've given her enough examples or she   heard them from other places she heard harsh like  don't be so hard like be kind to people don't be   so harsh don't judge people so harshly or the  weather is Harsh or the sun is harsh after she   hears all those then she will feel very confident  about using that uh in her conversations all right   the meaning says I've been listening to for more  than uh 10 years wow oh my goodness hopefully   I've been improving your English in that time  hopefully all right let's see here all right   Noel again hello uh thank you I learned how to  improve my English glad here how's your daughter   yeah both of them are doing well uh maybe I'll get  Noel in a video that's my younger daughter I don't   think she has ever been in a video before thanks  for this wonderful class glad to hear it when I   finish my uh finish my money many friends came out  of the woodworking album yes that's a good example   right there so like people when I I was when I  was broke many people came out of the woodwork   so I was not expecting people to help me but when  people heard I had no money they came out of the   woodwork like people came out of the woodwork  to help me all right good usage and again don't   feel bad if you don't get something the first  time remember like if I just say the word harsh   the word harsh like vocabulary by itself doesn't  mean anything it's only when you're hearing it in   context connected with some kind of situation  that's why it's important to learn vocabulary   in context and really understand it rather  than trying to connect it with a translation   okay so I hear like harsh weather uh I had like  a really harsh time at school like it was really   like the class was really difficult all right so I  can use lots of different examples of that and as   you get more examples this is where you really  feel strong about that about that vocabulary   all right uh uh let's see here all  right how to watch movies and TV   shows to increase listening and speaking uh  again the the best thing to do is really to   to focus on something I would not I  mean I know like people want to watch   TV shows let me let me draw this and make  an even like easier way of explaining this all right so this is hopefully this will make  sense to people you hear me using this expression   again and again hopefully this is understandable  uh this is our English student right here so   someone who wants to learn the language uh  the goal over here uh let's say the goal   is to understand the TV shows uh and conversations  or whatever and so what people think they do we're   going to put a line here there's an e uh SL so  English as a second language uh they're trying to   go directly here they're trying to go directly uh  to this vocabulary uh and so in the ESL approach   we go directly let me let me draw a different line  here make this a little bit easier to understand so this is so we're going to contrast these two  methods here trying to get to this trying to get   to this goal over here so to enjoy conversations  movies TV shows or you know all of that kind of   stuff just regular everyday life and they want to  go there but because they try to go directly they   never reach this it's like this this just it's  what they what they think they're doing is like   they're getting to the goal but what's really  happening is they're kind of they're going like   around in a circle like this so it looks like  they're they're making progress but but really   they're just learning more vocabulary but not  actually becoming fluent in that vocabulary   okay and so it's for the efl approach so English  as a first language what's happening is like   you're you're kind of taking like a slow a slow  step each day as you build up your vocabulary   and you really become fluent in that so it seems  like this is like the faster way it seems like   it's faster uh but the problem is you're moving  faster because you keep getting like all this new   vocabulary but you're not actually fluent in it  all right so you can keep you just go faster and   faster and faster but aren't actually getting  closer to the goal but in the English as a and   this is the same thing natives are doing here they  spend more time learning things and and over time   this like it accelerates and gets much faster and  this is how you get to to understanding TV shows   and music and movies and having conversations that  kind of thing it's because they spend a lot of   time really understanding vocabulary very well  so at first it seems like a slow process so if   we imagine like on day one uh so the English as a  second language person has learned or I mean they   had a class about let's say like 10 words but the  efl approach was only just one okay on the on day   two they learned like 10 more and on day two over  here it's you know they're on the second word or   phrase so it seems like the efl approach is is  moving more slowly all right but the problem is   they're they're never going to get over here by  doing this approach it's only going to have them   just go faster and faster as they try to learn  more vocabulary the traditional way but they   don't actually become fluent in that so they never  reach this okay so the only way to get this is to   become fluent in individual words and phrases if  you don't become fluent here and here and here   then of course you will not be able to do this but  if you get fluent in this word and you get fluent   in this word and fluent in this word and this word  then of course you will have great conversations   okay as I as I often say like people think about  getting fluent in English or in Japanese or in   French or in German or whatever the language  is so they think about and they talk about   getting fluent in a language when what's really  happening is you're getting fluent in vocabulary   you get fluent in a grammar point and you really  understand pronunciation but you get all that like   one thing at a time and this is why like even  some ESL students like they will be fluent in   some things but not others so they can have a  conversation or speak maybe about work because   they've talked about those things so many times  so this is not about trying to watch a particular   movie or TV show uh instead of doing that it's  much better to find something you can focus on   that's like a shorter easier thing uh like you  know like watching a YouTube video about about   doing something you're interested in like  growing roses or something so I give these   examples in this one like we would watch you  know on one day we would watch four or five   videos just just talking about one topic like  how to how to break uh I don't know how to how   to make bread or something all right so here like  if we're gonna contrast these two examples again   the English as a second language approach is  learning about baking they're learning all this   like vocabulary about about baking stuff but  they're not actually getting fluent in being   able to talk about baking okay so the difference  here is like if you get fluent in uh in each one   of these things then of course you get you get  over here to the goal why wouldn't you you're   getting fluent if you get fluent in each of the  pieces then of course you get fluent in the hole   all right but I don't know Korean you have to tell  me what that tell me what that means uh hopefully   this makes sense though so when you're looking  for like a TV show what will happen if you watch   a TV show is you will learn you will get a lot  of vocabulary and then you will not be fluent in   most of it and so you will be able to understand  but it will not really improve your conversations   you really have to take time and focus on things  and that's why like what we do in fluent for life   is we will have one conversation you're focusing  on a single conversation for a month think about   that most people are like well that's crazy you  can't focus on one conversation for a whole month   why not think about the the opposite of that we're  going to try to learn like a whole conversation in   one day that seems like the ridiculous thing  to me we're gonna we're gonna try to like go   through a whole TV show in one day really I  would take I mean if you're going to learn   with a TV show at least spend like the whole day  like you know like learning about that all right   you need to get the review to really understand  the vocabulary if you can understand everything   right when you're learning it that's fantastic  most people are not able to do that because   the languages isn't understandable or you don't  quite understand a joke or something like that   so instead of trying to learn a bunch of things  and not really understand them it's much better   to focus on something and do that so if you want  to watch a TV show or something really take time   like a whole week and just focus on one episode  review it in different ways watch YouTube videos   of people talking about that episode you really  want to get lots of input about that same episode   all right I got some more good questions over  here all right whom it says you are the best   teacher you are too kind over there all right  uh let's see how I went to school like a year   ago unknown how to write or read but knew some  spoken English grammar F me up in my fluency   uh I'm sorry to hear that but that's typical  yes that's that's basically how most people   do it but now my comprehension is much better my  classmates know grammar yep thank you I understand   95 of your speech glad to hear Felix uh yeah and  so again their spoken English was bad and so and   I think that's what you mean by bab uh but yes  if you're if you're learning if you if you focus   on the same thing and really Mastery that's  that's why I called originally uh the name of   the lesson sets in fluent for life are called  Master English conversation because that was   the whole point it was to develop Mastery to  develop fluency about that and so many people   will know the rules English as a second language  students will often know the rules about something   but they can't actually apply those rules in real  conversations uh even I've joined the English Club   attended English speaking class but my English  still stuck can you help me with the good method   is that able to approve well yes so everything  I'm talking about in this video is explaining   about that remember uh speaking it it I know it  seems like a crazy idea it seems the opposite of   what you should do but speaking is not how you get  fluent all right you get fluent by understanding   something really well all right so you don't  have to uh like spend time meeting people or   going to I don't know speaking practice event or  or trying to like try to spend any of your time   doing that it's much better if you and I made a  whole video about this if you go to the YouTube   channel and look up uh if you only have 15 minutes  a day to learn English do this and the basic idea   of that is that it's much better to to spend  your time getting lots of examples of something   so you really understand it rather than trying  to learn things a traditional way all right so   ESL is English as a second language I'll just put  this a second some English as a second language   and this is English as a first first language so  we'll just put second up here and first down here   all right so when you're learning English as a  second language it means that you think there's   like a second language so we have to learn it  in a new way rather than learning it uh just   as like a language we would learn like our native  language and so the truth is if you learn it like   you learn your first language you become fluent  in that language it doesn't matter all right I   have another video on the channel that's talking  about uh like the truth about second languages and   why there's no such thing as a second language  all right so for me there is no such thing as a   second language there are different languages like  French and German and Italian uh but how you learn   them is the important thing so if you learn them  like it's a like a second language like you're   learning through your native language that's what  will stop you from speaking but if you learn it   as a first language and you understand everything  which is what this is that's how you become fluent   in that vocabulary all right so you don't need  to spend time speaking with people if you only   have 15 minutes a day just get lots of input you  will automatically feel more fluent because you   can you'll feel you will understand the uh the  vocabulary much better and then again your your   improvement accelerates I know that this is like  it looks opposite or whatever but the point is we   get to the goal faster over here where these uh  most English as a second language Learners they   can be trapped in this for years okay so they can  be stuck going around and around just learning   more words more words more words but they never  get closer to fluency that's why this happens   it's because they they're they're if each one of  these words that you learn if you're not fluent   in each of these things then of course you won't  be fluent over here you can't reach that goal but   for here like if I get fluent in one word and then  I get fluent in another word and another word in   another word like of course I become fluent okay  all right maybe I'm taking my ex my explanations   are going too long over here uh thanks for doing  class live listen streams helps me a lot glad here   I watch English TV shows so much in my child  when my teacher asked me uh can we tell me the   rules in this line I don't know what that means  I love your way uh instant visual explanation   and they work glad here me thanks all right all  right there's that sneeze from half an hour ago   all right me I've watched it  but I don't know why it happens   I don't know what that's referring to thanks for  the X1 explanation uh is this the same Theory as   Stephen crashing yes uh so he discovered the same  thing I did and before I was born so he he found   uh that you get fluent by getting comprehensible  input in a low stress environment so meaning that   like if you if you feel nervous if you're in a  classroom and your teacher is like okay stand   up in front of the class and repeat something then  of course your language learning will be hurt as a   result so what you should be doing is actually not  speaking at all and that's the same thing crash   and recommends so the same thing I discovered the  way I discovered it was after failing to learn   different languages for 15 years and then living  in Japan and then I just had a park I just started   paying attention to what uh kids were doing and  how they were talking with their parents so you   got Japanese kids speaking with their parents  uh and it's like oh look at that like they're   not learning Japanese through English they're  learning Japanese in Japanese it's just the   first language for them so if I learn Japanese as  a first language then I become fluent and that's   what happened and so it's the same thing that's  why I teach English as a first language rather   than teaching it as a second language now I could  probably be more popular on YouTube if I made   Japanese videos like for Japanese learners but  the problem is it would not help them speak and   so I like again I have to think about that as a as  a teacher like if I just want to get more clicks   and more views on my videos there's other things  I could do but it makes it worse for the learning   so I'm always trying to figure out obviously I  would love to have more people watching videos   but I want to make sure people can actually  benefit from them all right uh let's see here all right so in my experience I have enhanced my  English by learning words in context to know how   to use them in a phrase I still have a lot to  improve them yeah great work Henry but that's   what you should be doing determination motivation  is really important for learning English yes but   the most important thing is making sure you do  the right thing so you can feel very motivated   and still try to do the ESL approach and like  you're still likely going to fail at doing that   rustam says I usually watch YouTube about  homeless people they had interviews and you   can learn from their experiences and learn  a lot of vocabulary yeah so again if you   focus on like if I'm just watching videos  about homeless people or whatever you pick   a topic and you focus on that of course you're  going to become a much better speaker because   you will understand the language better what  should I do if I don't have anyone to talk   with while learning as your method yes for this  you the whole point is not to speak with people   I know it sounds weird people like well how  do I speak where do I speak like why are you   worrying about speaking if you don't really  understand what you're saying then don't talk   the point is just to sit and listen until  you feel like wow like I really really   feel very good all right I'll give you another  another like contrast these examples over here again we will contrast the English  as a second language approach versus   the English as a first language  approach and what people think   they're doing so in a typical class you  will spend if we uh if we just split up uh like understanding down here we'll put a u for  this and then uh actually that's kind of a bad   little here this is a bad oh my goodness I can't  even draw a little bracket looking thing all right   we'll just say uh here here okay and then this one  is like okay all right so in the ESL approach what   you're doing is like you spend very little time  trying to understand what you're learning and this   is why teachers are using uh like phrase books and  translations and dictionary definitions and things   like that explanations about grammar that make  the language more difficult all right so it's very   little spent time uh on understanding the rest  of it is like okay now class I want you to speak   it doesn't make any sense it's this is a crazy  way to teach languages because number one uh it's   demotivational all right you don't understand if  you don't understand why would you try to speak   now people like okay I gotta now I gotta try to  speak the teacher says okay like here's a here's   a language uh we're going to teach you like I'll  teach you a word like here's uh I don't know a   Japanese word uh equals this word in English  all right the teacher didn't teach anything   they didn't actually help you understand anything  they're just giving you a definition so this is   again uh understanding is like the lesson of that  and so the rest of the time it's it's just up to   the student like hey why don't you speak now now  go out and try to use that but the student is like   uh I don't understand what I'm saying and there  are lots of reasons why they struggle to speak   part of it is that the real language that natives  use in real conversations is different from what   they're learning in the classroom all right that's  just one example but the point is this is what it   looks like for ESL now if this is what it looks  like for ESL for English as a second language what   do you think it looks like for the efl student  what do you think is happening now if you've   been following this video it should probably  be pretty obvious we're going to do the exact   opposite the exact opposite look at this we're  going to spend most of our time on understanding and then really the fluent speech just comes out  automatically at the end all right so we don't   we don't want to just like help you understand  a little bit we want to really really help you   understand a lot just like we gave that example  of harsh so the example for ESL we learn a word   like harsh uh like if we do it in Japanese it's  like kibishi uh to harsh so we're gonna just like   translate something like that uh and we're not  going to spend much time using it in different   examples so if you learn this like I guarantee  you if you if you're in an English classroom uh   the first context that you learn that in is what  you think it is so if you learn harsh weather   then you will think harsh is only about weather  okay harsh weather so the teacher says harsh   weather wow a lot of harsh harsh weather today  okay so the student thinks okay harsh must be   connected to weather because they only get one  example of that they only think okay harsh it's   like yeah I understand maybe it's kind of bad but  in a real conversation they might hear like harsh   words and suddenly they're like uh what I thought  it was about weather and like after they learn   like no no it's not like harsh doesn't mean  weather it's just talking about something is is   difficult it's frustrating it's maybe like grading  on you somehow but that's what you get over here   so we're going to learn harsh harsh words  harsh weather harsh uh like harsh environment   a harsh storm harsh language if you're yelling  or cursing at someone and then by the end it's   just like ah you know you know harsh very  well boom it just comes out automatically   all right so think about it like again it's  it's the exact opposite of what people would   be doing in a in a regular classroom but this  is why people struggle to speak over here it's   because they don't understand what they're talking  about so of course they can't use it fluently all   right so you don't have to feel bad if like  it's like oh like why why can't I speak it's   because you don't understand what you're saying  okay all right hopefully that makes sense I keep   trying to explain this in different ways about  the different ways people are learning but what   this shows is like the actual speaking part is a  very small part of the language learning process   all right the and that's why and again uh Stephen  crash and discovered the same thing amazing right   like another person discovered the same  thing about this and it's pretty obvious   because it's how we all get fluent in our native  language so if you spend your time understanding   something you really feel confident then when  it's time to speak the words just come out   now at this point maybe yeah okay you want to like  practice your I don't know like how your mouth   moves or something but if you've heard a hundred  examples of something from different speakers I'm   pretty sure you would use something automatically  the first time you had to say it so the goal is   not to speak it's not to try to understand and  like and then and then like quickly start speaking   you want to spend a lot of time you just relax  start getting all that input and this is exactly   what we do in fluent for life this is why we  structure the program the way it is because we   really want to help people understand something  the first time you hear it you might not feel   very confident about it that's okay we're going  to teach it to you again you're going to hear it   again in a different way you're going to hear  a different speaker say it all of these things   and then when you start using it in conversations  you will feel a lot better about it all right but   you don't get there from here speaking is not  what you need it's not more speech all right all right [Music] okay so hopefully that answered that  question for Felix yes so don't look for people   to speak with just spend more time getting input  that's what you need and that [ __ ] that's easy   right that's all you have to do you can get input  anywhere like YouTube or whatever uh how can I do   to have good speaking and become fluent in  English think in advance yes Muhammad that's   exactly what I covered in this video watch this  video again very important and I'm explaining this   in different ways and make sure people understand  that doctor I I move let's say thank you so much   for your classes my pleasure I've watched tons  of your videos imagine become familiar with your   speeches my question is how you evaluate My Level  if I'm able to understand 100 of your lessons   uh and uh as I talk about in other videos I talk  about um the the seven fluency habits and so you   can you can break down your ability to communicate  or your English level uh based on different skills   so your understanding might be strong uh but you  could have really poor speech all right and again   like because we can look at these as as different  skills so some people like their pronunciation is   really good but they don't know many words okay so  we're not we can't really give an overall uh value   of your speech really the the overall fluency is  is judged by your weakest communication skill so   if you know a whole bunch of vocabulary but you  don't feel confident using it your confidence   is limiting you so you need to build that  up first before you start trying to speak   uh can I do that by repeating a movie again and  again um yeah so I I would recommend again a movie   is is really too long I would it's much better  to focus on something short like 15 minutes half   an hour at the most uh some movies are going to  be too long and it's going to be too difficult I   would I would focus on a scene from a movie if you  want to do that but really like a very good way uh   even better than just repetition so watching the  same movie again is helpful and you will learn   things from that and you will notice new things  that you didn't find before like new vocabulary   will be coming out of the woodwork be coming  out of the woodwork uh but the interesting thing   is that if instead you watch different content  about the same thing then you will learn a lot   more much faster so like you watch five different  YouTube videos about I don't know peeling a banana   even something as simple as that how do we peel  the banana if you watch 10 different people talk   about peeling a banana you will learn a lot  of vocabulary and you will feel very confident   about that and you will also be able to take that  vocabulary and use it for much more uh than just   peeling bananas I do need to learn with Google  Translation or images yes Google image search   is great uh thank you for your work Drew says uh  slager got uh glad to hear it uh can you recommend   any phrase book or vocabulary books uh I don't  really recommend anything because it's just really   finding something that you are interested in and  then focusing on that vocabulary so whatever the   vocabulary is for you for your life whatever you  need to focus on I listen you don't understand   what you say but when I listen to TV shows like  Made in Chelsea is very difficult what should   I do uh good question Harold so again that's the  same thing like the way I'm speaking is different   from the way people speak in real conversations  and most people who are trying to teach the   language are doing that to make make sure they're  understood so what we do in in fluent for life   uh so we start people down here at this level  that can understand like teacher English and   then we want to get you up to this level whereas  uh the natives are so it's really difficult for   you to just jump to like from a teacher where you  understand everything to a TV show where you don't   understand everything so what we do in fluent  for life is we want to take you up in steps like   that so that you can move from one to real actual  conversational English so that's how you basically   have to go uh from one step to the next to do that  all right uh do I need to learn with Google or   you don't need to learn with Google no the point  you should be learning with things you understand   I'm glad you are so patient with getting the same  questions over and over again Yes again like uh   uh I I it's some people they learn they get like  the uh aha the I call it the aha moment when they   understand how they should be doing something uh  but different people may need different examples   for that uh I learned 50 words each week  in my class but can't use even 10 of them   yes so that that is again the the whole the  whole point of this is like you know your way   is working like if you if you're just like I  don't know how to learn what should I be doing   if if you can learn one word and get fluent in  one word uh that's the method you should be using   but if you learn something and can't remember  it then don't do that anymore if your goal is   to speak and to understand and to remember the  vocabulary uh this is it so learning English as a   first language rather than learning it as a second  language uh why some words are hard to acquire uh   that's a good question it could be the vocabulary  from uh something else you already know uh like I   talk about this and how to remember any English  word where you're you're trying to make it a new   uh like a new compartment or new category in your  mind for vocabulary because like let's say I'm   trying to learn Japanese I already have a word  in my native native language that I know harsh   uh but I have to learn something and fit something  in that for Japanese as well so that's like one   reason why vocabulary is a little bit difficult  there's already something in there so we try   to create a new category for that uh and I I've  already covered that in many other videos uh but   some of it could be I mean the basic idea is that  you don't spend enough time with the vocabulary   um but yeah I mean that's for individual  vocabulary there's a couple different   reasons but usually it's just because you  don't you don't learn it like a native   uh I said movies because I like it or maybe could  watch some movies of the same topic yeah so again   like you you will you will find like there  is there is a little bit of sacrifice at the   beginning of this it's like I want to watch movies  remember the ESL way is like I quickly want to get   to the goal of I want to watch movies it's kind of  like a young entrepreneur like let's say like a 18   year old kid wants to start a business and their  goal is to make a million dollars they're like   wow I really want to have a million dollars uh and  so they try some different things and and within a   month if they don't make a million dollars they're  angry about that and it's like well you know you   should probably spend some more time and learn  and focus on something rather than trying five   different kinds of businesses or something like  that everyone knows someone in their life that's   like okay uh on one day they're like trying  this business and the next day they're trying   this business and the next day they're trying  a different thing it's like of course you're   not it's the same way kids are you know  like people are learning languages it's   like you spend one day on one word another day  on another word and another day on completely   different vocabulary of course you're not going to  remember it or become fluent in that so the goal   really is to is to spend more time on stuff  if you enjoy vocabulary or you enjoy movies   whatever the thing is that's great but sometimes  you need to take a step back from that and and   focus on something where people might be talking  about it but if you really want to watch a movie   uh you can go ahead but just understand it  will probably make the the overall process   slower but if you do watch a movie then try  to add other things into that like reading the   transcript of the movie just listening to the  movie sometime while you're walking around uh   or like watching YouTube videos giving reviews  of the movie that kind of thing so that's how   you're going to get get fluent in that vocabulary  but you will be spending more time doing that   uh it's good to listen to audio books and put on  the subtitles in English to read uh yes but again   uh like a movie and an audio book like those  are both really long things and it's hard to   review them because you're not likely to watch  them again or listen to them again but if you   have a five minute clip of something like a  five minute speech or a five minute you know   conversation between two people you can really  focus on that and then become fluent in that much   faster and if you do that even a few times the  next time you watch a movie you will understand   much more okay so I know the goal is to get movies  but you like don't go directly uh for the movie   you want to go kind of like in a roundabout  way but it actually gets you there faster   all right uh I work with many people from India  most of the time it's very hard to understand   them this may affect my productivity what do  you think I should do uh yeah so that's common   you know people are if I speak with Japanese  people who who know some English some of them   maybe their pronunciation will not be very good  some of them can speak very well but again yes   it could potentially hurt your progress I would  maybe spend more time talking with them or like   you know an interesting thing you could read  you could where you could an interesting thing   you could do is make kind of like a challenge  so if you have a few different people who are   around you write down a sentence in English maybe  something you've heard me speak and just say like   hey like this is like I'm trying to improve my  listening or something like that like don't make   it about them you make it about yourself and like  I'm trying to like it's like just a kind of thing   for you and so if you have like five different  people say that you know or read that thing   you will improve your pronunciation or you will  improve your your ability to hear them as well   oh my goodness run out of time we've already been  going for an hour and a half oh my goodness an   hour and a half over here uh uh say how can I  speak better English uh explain that already so   this whole video go back and watch it I know some  people are coming in late Joe I think your work   is really Advanced compared to other teachers I've  found limiting beliefs and the person's motivation   play a huge role in his learning process how do  you deal with this yes uh so I talk about limiting   beliefs as well and I don't know what you mean  about my work being Advanced uh the I'm actually   trying to do the opposite and really simplify what  most people think they need so Learners again they   will spend a lot of their time trying to get  translations or grammar rules or something like   that when it's really just just try to understand  it like a native that's really the whole point and   the the limiting beliefs that people have uh in  my experience it's more about trying to get them   to to learn in a new way so what's interesting  about the English as a second language approach   for me as a teacher uh is that even though it's  not getting students fluent they will continue to   do it and this is like this is like a thing that  I I spent a lot of time thinking about because   if I can solve that problem then I can help a lot  more students so again if you if you continue to   do the English as a second language approach and  it's not getting you fluent then the first thing   is just to stop doing that and then it's easier  to be open to to new ways of learning uh so if   like for your whole life you've been told you  need to speak to get fluent and then I say no   no like speaking is actually a very small part of  that uh people are like well that's that's crazy   it's like okay well if you don't believe me that's  fine uh but we know for sure that the English as a   second language approach is not going to help you  so it's already not helped you for years why would   you continue doing this and why would you not try  something different and so I recommend to people   that's why I try to give examples of how they how  they should be learning in in all of my videos   um like I did earlier but sometimes I'm  talking about you know Theory or what what   people should be doing as students but this is  it so the the limiting beliefs are more about   um about how they should be learning and what  they think they need so they think they need   a lot of vocabulary they think they need to  speak a lot when really they just need like   a smaller vocabulary and less speech so it's  it should be like a really exciting idea for   people like wow I can learn less and uh and and  I don't have to speak I can actually improve my   fluency without speaking yes that's the idea  and it just it just sounds unbelievable to   people because they have been learning the  traditional way for so long uh so when you   actually start learning this way you really  don't have many troubles uh with limiting   beliefs because it's just easy to understand  so you can understand the vocabulary and   you start using it and so you don't have lots of  problems with confidence or other things like that   all of those problems come from learning English  as a second language all right yes so try efl so   again like think about how you learn your native  language that's the exact same thing you're doing   all right uh what are your thoughts  on writing yeah writing is a good idea   uh could it support and improve your speech  and skills in any way yes exactly and this is   why influence for life people do some writing  writing is good for slowing the language down   so when you really write something out you can  actually feel it like I recommend using uh like   a pen or pencil and paper so you're actually  writing down I can give you let me see here just to show you like I practice what  I preach so this is a look at this so   this is this is a notebook of mine where I'm  just practicing this writing down kanji and   I've got some uh like examples of uh like  it's kind of hard to read over here but   just writing down sentences just for  the practice all right uh let's see Drew my name is Diego from Venezuela is teaching  English to a new learner helpful to learn more   oneself well I don't quite understand the  question is teaching English to a new learner   helpful to learn more English oneself ah okay  so like if you were teaching other people yeah   I think well if you if you feel very confident  about what you're teaching then yes you will   you will learn more about it I think more of  the uh the the responsibility you feel as a   teacher it motivates you to learn more you  know like me if I want to teach something I   want I want to make sure I understand it very  well uh so that's a good way to do that uh how   to understand vocabulary without translating  so that just means you understand something go   back and watch this video again you'll learn more  about how to do that I hate ESL I just follow uh   uh their book every word they want you to use as  they teach you the same meaning I notice native   speakers use a lot of rising tone when speaking  can you please expand a bit on that topic it   would depend really on the situation I don't know  exactly what you're talking about but most of the   time it's in a situation and it's better to look  for that pay attention for those kind of things   why English people invent phrasal verb it makes  English hard now it's they're they're actually   inventing phrasal verbs that make the language  easier but you have to think like a native   speaker if go watch my my phrasal verb videos on  my YouTube channel and you will see how easy it is   uh Hassan says when I tried to listen to people  talk I understand most anything but when I try to   talk to people I'm slow in a response most of the  time I say the wrong thing then realize that what   is your suggestion yeah learn English as a first  language that's my answer to basically everybody   and and again it's it's it it it's true in many  different ways about listening and speaking and   improving your pronunciation all of that uh as  you understand better you will communicate better   Harold says do you have video about how to use  prepositions uh yes you could search the YouTube   channel and also in uh fluent for life if you  click on the link in the description below   this video um it will it will explain more  about that we have whole whole lesson sets   on prepositions Adrian says I just watched  the movie and if I hear a new vocabulary I   pause the movie and use the subtitles to see  the word or phrase but only in that case I   will use subtitles yeah there's nothing wrong  with using subtitles I think subtitles are good   as long as you're not translating that if you  can to try to learn it all in English is ideal try efl more instead of ESL Drew are you uh you  are should be you are awesome I started from   scratch glad to hear it uh the batter traditional  English class that they instead of helping you to   understand they teach you teach you rules so  you need to learn rules as the professional   that goes to the university yes and again like  there's very little that you understand for   using it in an actual conversation it actually  it actually hurts your ability to communicate   how to start teaching speaking with beginning  Learners uh let's see watch my number one download   Frederick so this is like a full like efl uh  approach so English as a first language it's   an app that people can use to teach themselves  the language all in English so they'll learn   vocabulary grammar pronunciation without studying  rules so you can get that by clicking on the link   in the description below this video but if you'd  like to see videos of me actually doing this so   teaching English to uh to non-natives all in  English go to the uh the playlist on my channel   it's called the best beginning English playlist  or something like that but it's a series that goes   from absolute beginner to higher level uh like  phrasal verbs and adverbs and things like that   I think to communicate you don't need to focus  learning grammar rules as a professional student   yes so the the whole idea is that like you want  to understand how to use the vocabulary but you   don't need to know like grammatical terms so if  I go to a native speaker and I say can you give   me an example of like the past simple and it's  like okay it should like most people would not be   able to do that actually they know noun verb and  adjective maybe adjective most people know noun   and verb and that's it all right in their native  language uh uh let's see why are you learning   Japanese I think that language is so difficult  yeah I mean again like I don't think about   anything as like a second language I don't rank  Languages by their difficulty either uh I talked   about this in another video where if you look at  children children learn to speak their language at   basically the same age all over the world whatever  the language is so it that means that there isn't   like one language it's more difficult than another  it's just how people teach that's that's the whole   the whole difference here so I learned Japanese  as a first language just like Japanese kids   learn Japanese as a first language that's same  thing uh so yes I live in Japan that's correct   uh can I recommend any website for efl uh we'll  just watch watch more videos on my channel because   I'm basically the only person who talks about  this uh with lessons specifically for learners   so everybody else is teaching English as a  second language so you will probably not even   find much we're trying to get more information  on our site right now about that uh just to help   people understand English as a first language  but if you watch all of the recent videos on   my on my even well even older videos on my  channel you will find lots of information   about it but it's really a very simple process  I think maybe next week I will do a video would   that be helpful uh like how to teach English as a  first language would that be helpful let me know   um I think the best way to improve English is  a more listening more phrases don't focus on   grammar yes again like the point is not to think  about grammar or phrases or whatever because these   are all things that naturally come together in the  language so you're if you're learning English as a   first language then you don't have to worry about  like okay I'm studying grammar rules or something   like that the point is you just understand  it automatically naturally my students have   the Translating habit I don't know how to fix  that issue yes uh get send us an email at info   at English anyone if you have questions info at  English anyone.com but definitely try Frederick   with them and show them that beginning English  playlist you will see how I'm how I'm teaching   people that don't know in English uh Judy do  you think it's okay to learn two languages   or is it better to finish or getting a high  level with one example English and Portuguese   um I think if you can understand that thing it's  it's the same thing as like learning English and   learning to code for a computer they're both  languages that you're trying to learn and so   if you learn them the differences like um in if  you're trying to learn uh like for for coding   or something you would try to learn it I mean I'm  not even going to go into how to teach coding but   it should work the same way that you're learning  this so you're kind of learning coding as a first   language kind of like the ideal way for learning  code is like you have a split screen computer   you type something in and then something changes  on this side of the screen so you can see like   this thing does that you know you can see the the  opposite thing there but it works the same way   for learning English all right Felix again I feel  more confident since I focused on your videos like   one month ago I'm using your method since that  day glad to hear it uh demonio says hello from   Brazil please put translations on Portuguese well  this is just a live video we won't even have uh   uh subtitles for a few days I think but yes if  you I I don't make translations for any of these   videos but uh maybe I could maybe in the future  we will do something all right I'm running out   of time uh but hopefully people have enjoyed this  video and it looks like people have I recommend   you go back and watch it again for the examples I  try to do examples of things when you're learning   um at the beginning how would you approach  unfamiliar sounds unfamiliar sounds   uh I don't have time to talk about sound  transitioning but if you want to listen for   different sounds get uh get Frederick just click  on the link in the description so you will find   information about fluent for life and uh and  Frederick below below the uh below this video   uh thanks a lot for your time yes uh so send us  an info send us a mail at info English anyone.com   if you have any questions but we had another uh we  had some some people some teachers in Vietnam who   are using Frederick and they said that was like  the best thing they had ever tried for teaching   phonics and pronunciation and things like that  so give it a try last year a company recruiter   told me or evaluated B2 but honestly I feel like  I'm between B1 that makes me feel hesitant likely   you're probably good at some things and maybe less  good than others that's how that works uh so I   don't know about the live stream uh yes I want  to say thank you yes I know you are commenting   on a lot of our videos and I know I don't know if  pawar is that your first name or your last name   uh Power but yes thank you for for spending time  and learning with us and supporting what we do   thank you for the topic uh interesting topic  the way you have shown us have a good day so   efl can you repeat teacher I don't hire exactly  what you're explaining Yes again the point is to   learn English the same way natives do and you can  actually just get lots of input and that will help   you become a fluent speaker rather than trying to  learn lots of rules and vocabulary and speak when   you don't actually feel confident all right that's  the basic idea but I think maybe next week I will   do a video um if that would be helpful People for  People do you have intonation videos on YouTube uh   yes you can look for so anything you want to look  for like just search our channel for pronunciation   or intonation or whatever um uh all right but  I think that's it I have to go now that's the   end of the video but again thank you for joining  me I'm glad you all have enjoyed this if you're   just getting late uh to the video I recommend you  go back and watch this again or at least you will   learn a couple different examples of how this  works but I think maybe next time I will make   a video specifically about like the principles of  English as a first language so people have that oh   no please sir one last question please sir please  Suresh go ahead what you got for me hurry up   don't type don't tape what do you got here  which English what should we do for for   learning English go back and watch the video  it explains that and it answers your question   all right so go back I know you're probably  late to the party over here go back and watch   the video and it will make sure I explain it  a couple different times in different ways   have a fantastic day and I'll  see you guys in the next video

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