The power of noticing in language learning 🔴LIVE

hello everybody and and welcome to another kangaroo English live class today as you can see I'm not at the board ok I'm not sitting at the board I'm seated here at my desk and I'll explain why I'll explain why very soon but I've started a little bit early because I wondered if I wondered if any of you had any questions about yesterday's class about about the vocabulary class that we were talking about you know that's why I started a few minutes early so that I can hopefully answer any questions you you have about vocabulary hello to to everybody here there's there's some students here who've been who've been here for a long time today we've got a letter with God's prob ha ha Ron Val a pen D nice easy name that one Edison mr. Sammon dentistry AB Chuck is here say jam Aaron Aaron Aaron Gina Fritz Juara lolli lolli Geraldo Fernandes Wow Alex silver Ramesh a lot of people it's it's fantastic to see you all here thank thank you very much for for participating in this class I really appreciate it so so yes so if you're wondering if you're wondering what kind of what what motivates teachers and and how teachers can survive doing such a difficult job the the answer is the answer is whiskey no not really the answer is passion of course it's all about the passion yes so the same as yesterday the same as yesterday at the end of this class I'm going to be talking to some students via skype so if you have Skype installed on your telephone or on your computer you can find me to search for me okay it's my email address info at Kangaroo english.com like that just search for me and you'll find me and and hopefully later on hopefully later on we can chat that would be nice yes Anna Rita you're absolutely correct yesterday I didn't notice that the volume okay the volume of the Skype calls was really low so today I'm going to fix that problem so well it seems that nobody really has any questions about about yesterday's class so that's good so let's get started okay it's it's 4:30 let's do this so the name of this class is the power of noticing okay and that there was there was a guy who proposed something called the noticing hypothesis and he said that noticing is one of the most important things that you can do in language learning right but unfortunately his his hypothesis has never been proved and and one of the reasons is probably because it's very difficult to test something like that noticing you like what exactly is noticing you know what what what is it how do we test if it works is it conscious or subconscious noticing it's it's a very difficult thing to test but we do have we do have some other science which does tell us about the importance of noticing and actually actually I'm going to talk about this okay this this this is the name of the paper okay it's fortune favors the bold and the italicized effects of disfluency on educational outcomes okay and this was published in cognition now if if you've watched if you've watched any of my previous live classes then you know that my my handwriting is really bad it it might be the worst handwriting in the world right maybe but what what's interesting is that this research proves that that my terrible handwriting actually helps you to learn English so I've been looking for an excuse for I've been looking for an excuse for my terrible handwriting and I think that today I I haven't right so so let me let me tell you a little bit more about about this paper so this this paper what they did was they took text they took some different text and they had the text in a kind of normal a normal easy to read font like maybe like Arial or something like this and then they took the same text and they put it in in other fonts like Comic Sans Comic Sans and and what else are bodoni right which which are fonts which are very which are well you can see a couple of examples here in in the title of this paper you can see the for example this is a very unusual font here and this is also unusual and and what they discovered was that they discovered that when the students read text with a kind of difficult to read font okay when I had it difficult to read font they remembered more of the text right and we need to ask why that is okay now they do explain you know why in this paper but I want to I want to ask you the question so who here which one of you who has a theory as to why you would remember more if it was difficult to read any any ideas any ideas I want to hear your theories about this there's there's a little bit of a delay so I have to wait for you to to reply okay so Demetrio says that maybe because they pay more attention maria laura herrera says because you need to be more concentrated yes I had a shower but this is permanent ink it doesn't come off lolly lolly says because you have to decrypt the text Maciej says because we have to spend more time trying to make it out you concentrate more you focus more so the question was why is it why do students remember the text better if the font is difficult to read why would a difficult to read text be better why yes oh I think so you all have basically the right idea right that what it does is it forces you to concentrate right but why but why because if I'm if I'm reading a piece of text I'm reading a piece of text right and if if the font if I'm accustomed to the font and if it's easy for me to read then all of my attention goes to goes to the message right goes to the to the concept and when I encounter when I come across something which is difficult to read suddenly my my my kind of my fluency is actually broken in in this paper they call it disfluency so you're flowing with the text and then boom your your your fluency is broken and and according to them the reason that that it makes the the text easier to remember is actually because it reduces your confidence so think about that so it reduces your confidence you feel less sure about what you're reading so your brain goes okay focus focus all right so my terrible handwriting and this is evidence right my terrible handwriting helps you to focus and helps you to learn right yay and so the the reason the reason I'm sitting at my desk today is because we are going to kind of we're going to put this into action okay we're going to put this into action not by using a font but by using our powers of concentration okay what I want to do is I want to show you how you can study alone by yourself and really you know really um really learn in a deep way it's really important so I'm going to simulate you in your house reading some text now yesterday yesterday I asked about what people were interested in because as I showed yesterday okay when when we talk about things in class that that students are interested in then you know that that just engages you okay so a lot of people yesterday said they were interested in history so I I just happen I just happened to have purely by it by coincidence by by miraculous coincidence I have this book alright look at whoo I think this was my old school book from history from Australia okay two centuries a profile of modern history now personally I hate history I couldn't think of anything more uninteresting than history but my job is to teach what you are interested in you know a good teacher doesn't focus on being in the front of class and talking about what they want to talk about a good teacher is focused on what the student wants right that that's actually what teaching is right so what I did was I chose a random a random paragraph okay from this book this this paragraph from page 662 okay and the chapter the chapter is the second Odia the the chapter is the Second World War the Second World War now my my goal my objective here is to show you how one little paragraph about history can really tell you and an incredible amount of things about the English language and it can also be actually really interesting and if I think that history can be interesting then I promise you that that anybody can find history interesting okay so the first thing I want to do is I want to read this paragraph because it was going to read it okay so here it is the Second World War was fought not by throwing repeated human waves against the enemy but by men and machines submarines and to a lesser its extent aircraft and tanks had been used in the first world war but in the Second World War battles were largely decided by tanks motorized troops heavy artillery submarines anti-submarine craft airplanes and aircraft carriers machines both widened the front of battle and gave warfare a new mobility using air supported ship-borne invasions Japan extended its sway over a vast area of the Pacific in 1940 exploiting the speed of the tank and motorized infantry Hitler's generals knocked France out of the war achieving in six weeks and at a cost of 27,000 lives what had eluded the German army during four years of bloody trench fighting after 1914 well again not the most exciting paragraph in the world okay but let's let's go in and let's be entertained by this because there's plenty to be entertained by okay so um let's let's just let's just dive straight in so let's engage our noticing hypothesis rather than rather than read this are the first the first time you know we we read this text we read this text we absorbed the message now let's let's notice because notice so I have a question okay let's look at the very first sentence and actually look that was a very bad Christian say should be capitals let's let's let's have a look at this this very first sentence so again I'm gonna try and put the put put some pressure on you so can anyone tell me which verbal tense this sentence is in so you know let's uh let's let's have a look at our verb here and and who can tell me what what verbal tense it's in okay Hasan come very good it's in the passive voice John constant no it's not the past simple it's the passive it's a passive now it is the past passive that's exactly right so the passive we can easily identify it the passive because the passive is always the same structure okay the passive is always to be plus the verb in the participle okay that is that is the passive it's it's always the same so you can see here we have the verb to be was and then we have the verb fort in the participle okay what's what's the passive now that's you know a piece of Grandma that's not particularly interesting so my question is because this is the real question why is it in the passive why not use the active or maybe you know maybe the subjunctive voice or so so tell me why why do you think this writer why do you think this writer would have used the passive voice okay Hassan come very fast again has some come is because the doer is not important okay Anu Anna dev says because the action is done by people okay Denis RIA Brooke says we don't talk about the subject and Geraldo Fernandez says that someone is telling story so again watch out for that Geraldo it's not a history it's a story okay and and out to me a Pagani hai Altima it's great it's great to see you here says we don't know who made it or maybe the writer didn't want to say it exactly now there are some very famous books about style and and some of the a lot of those books say the same thing they say you should never use the passive voice if you can use the active voice and you know one of those books for example is the elements of style by Strunk & white which is the most assigned textbook in the United States okay so basically if you go to school in the United States then you have read that book the problem with that book is it's terrible advice right it's full of terrible prescriptivists old-fashioned nonsense right thank you Anna dev exactly um but and in that book they say you should use the passive instead of the active why because because of the exact reason that that Altamira and other people have said because there's this idea there's this idea that the passive voice is for cowards do you know what that means for cowards for chickens for people who are weak and pathetic and afraid because because when we use the passive we don't put any responsibility on the subject right so here if if we cut our text right we could I text the Second World War was fought right now the question is who did the fighting well you could say you could say for example you know the Americans the British the Germans the French that a fought the Second World War we could do that or we could say you know people fought the Second World War but it's it's not elegant is it it's not elegant because there's too many different subjects right so here in this case the passive voice is not cowardly the passive voice is not you know is not because you are afraid to say the subject it's because it would be it would be in elegant and it would be confusing and and and long to use the subject so actually and this is one of the reasons that Strunk and white you know we're wrong is that using the passive voice here makes it more elegant not less elegant right so that's something for you to think about okay that's just here in um in in this in this first sentence now again with pain we've paid attention to just one little thing we've noticed one little thing but we're learning right we're asking questions we're asking you know that's that is part of noticing the ancient Greeks who who I admire a lot you know they were the first people to to take the idea of kind of you know noticing and paying attention and asking questions you know they were the first people to do that systematically right and that's what you need to do if you want to learn a language you need to develop curiosity all right you're reading this boring history text and you say why all the time why why why why develop your curiosity about language and okay so okay now now again let's go back and we're gonna look at another at another thing here okay this this little part here the Second World War was fought not by throwing repeated human waves now can anyone tell me what is strange about this this this word order who can tell me who can tell me what's a bit strange about this word order here okay sage am very good the word order is not normal right it's not normal as Sayed is saying and as chowmander is saying and I mean and also yeah and also Nick Smith the word order is not the typical word order in English in modern English okay so in modern English it would be more natural to say I would put the not here in this position I would say was not fought right the Second World War was not fought okay but no the writer the writer decided to put the word not after the verb okay so again I'm going to ask you why would the right to do that why would the writer break this you know kind of fundamental rule of English grammar why would they do that let's let's ask let's ask why lolly lolly says it's for emphasis this order emphasizes the phrase exactly to emphasize the word throw right loser loser yes Oh Luther I'm sorry it's a matter of style it's more elegant for emphasis exactly so so think about it actually the reason that the author changed the word order is the same reason that are difficult to read font makes you remember more because imagine you're not you're not paying attention you're sleeping right and you're going through the sentence and then whoa what wait a minute the knot is here suddenly that knot becomes really powerful you like wow okay not not by throwing repeated human way okay so yeah it moves that emphasis onto the knot great work guys you know this and again we're paying attention and it means that next time you're you're writing a sentence maybe maybe you will do that you try it try it out experiment okay now let's um let's have a look at some at the next at the next sentence here now it actually is there so it's it's quite a big sentence this one right we've got a big sentence with with lots of lots of nouns separated by commas now separated by commas now the first word here is submarine okay now oh dear we have our first troll in the chat no okay how do I get rid of this user hide user on this channel okay goodbye sir it was nice having you not sorry about that so let's look at this sentence so the first word in this sentence is submarine submarine now I I like to I like to look at a word and again I like to ask why okay so and I know and I know that this is very may be a very kind of stupid question right a very childish question but who can tell me why it's called a submarine again I I I'm sorry if this seems like a stupid question submarine [Music] because submarines are new in comparison to the first world war okay so Globus pallidus says that sub means under right so we have under the water right that's some exactly it's really transparent and really clear right so we we know that sub means under and marine means water and so then you know we know that that we have these two parts of the word that we can you know use for other things you know we have colors like aquamarine we have you know marine animals the place where you put your boat is is in a marina in a marina okay all these things now if we're interested in history were also interested in the history of submarines right I mean why not why not take one word and let's go on a little journey so who can tell me what is the name of the of the thing that they fire from a submarine who can tell me what a submarine fires okay so Danny lo says it's a missile no missiles are above the water they are what would it be I don't know above over marine good so yes there's there's lots of people who know who know what the word is and the word is Globus pallidus says it's a big bullet well sue Santa Potter says a projectile great word love that word so projectile is more something which kind of flies like in general you know like a so yeah a torpedo is the type of projectile a bullet is a type of projectile a rocket is a type of projectile it's a bigger category so okay so we have this we have this great word torpedo and and again because this word is from a Latin it has a Latin it has a Latin root right and this same Latin root gives us the English adjectives torpid so I have a question I don't know if any of you are have this word in your vocabulary who can tell me what the word torpid means who knows what torpid means it's an adjective an adjective it's a great adjective from Latin yes maybe maybe everybody's on their telephones right now what does what does torpid mean impulsive no bad no ooh su Santa pas da says torpid means sleeping very good Lali Lali indolent oh great word Hassan Combe says lazy physically inactive Luther says numb paralyzed slow okay that is actually the meaning of this adjectives in English torpid means lazy and slow so this this brings us to ask a question right why would a torpedo which is something very fast and very explosive how could that be related to the Latin word which is actually means something lazy and sore and numb does anybody have any ideas about about the possible explanation for that so gasha says because it's in the water because in the water are so there's no sound there's no sound Diego says maybe it's figurative figurative right it's slower than other projectiles okay because it's it's not lazy but the water is very dense well I think that the the theory is good right like I can see how it's under the water so it's slower than a normal a normal maybe a rocket but the true story is actually much more strange okay so in in in the world of submarine animals there is an animal called an electric eel okay an electric eel is uh is an eel right it's like a like a snake thing right and it lives under the water and it kills its prey remember yesterday we had predators and prey okay this electric eel it kills its prey by electrocuting them and actually it's a very powerful electric shock let you go now what happens to the prey of an electric eel well the prey of an electric eel if an electric eel attacks you then you are lazy and sleepy and numb right so the reason it's called a torpedo is actually because it's like an electric eel not because it's slow and lazy because when that torpedo goes in it immobilizes and makes the target destroyed and and destroyed so and the name was given by the by the American a guy who invented the torpedo although his torpedo didn't work there's another see that that's a whole story ever in history you could read about the about the development of the torpedo right so now I'm not I'm not telling you this because I have a great interest in history especially the history of torpedoes but I'm trying to show you that by asking a question about a simple word like submarine by just asking questions you can learn some really amazing stuff about language you've got a new act adjectives torpid and you you remember that because of torpedoes and you know you also know about electric eels so gosh' says that in the morning she's a torpedo me to go show i'm this morning i was such a torpedo this morning i actually I've been trying to to to eat better cuz because like even even when I was younger my my my family when when we when we sat down to dinner my family would say damn Christian why are you eating so fast is there a taxi waiting for you and I think I think the reason that I that I that I eat fast is because you know I just want to eat and so I can do things I want to eat and then I can I don't know go and work I'm a little bit obsessed with work so this morning I don't know I don't know if I should I don't know if I should admit this on the internet but this morning my breakfast my breakfast was chocolate these chocolate cakes things and and a glass of whiskey but you know it's it's Wednesday okay so by the way by the way that's not my normal breakfast just okay because because I don't want to because I don't want to you know talk too long about about this because we've this class has already been thirty eight minutes so far I just I just want to show you show you one more thing which which i think is quite quite interesting okay and something that I think is important to talk about so let's let's have a look at this let's let's let's have a look at this this this little sentence here okay so using air supported ship-borne invasions Japan let me just um so so this is the final sentence we're going to look at okay before we before we we move on to Skype so that using air supported ship-borne invasions Japan extended its way over a vast area of the Pacific so first I want to talk about this air supported and ship born now who can tell me what's interesting about these oops I'm in to highlight all of that who can tell me what's interesting about these two adjectives what's cool about them why are these adjectives cooler than my breakfast air supported ship-borne okay so born is an interesting and interesting word we're going to talk about born in a minute okay but I'm specifically thinking about the form of the adjectives so ZyXEL B says that they're split okay but okay chi minh de Sena virasana I feel I feel quite proud of myself for pronouncing that name chime in I want to say it again chowmander sin of Erath now what a great name because they are connected with a - right so these are called compound adjectives let's talk a little bit about these okay compound adjectives and what we do when we use this this - let me just a scroll up a bit here when we when we use this - here to connect and supported we use the - okay the little - becomes like glue it joins together those two words and temporarily those two words become one word with one meaning and I'm going to show you why this is important okay so let me write to two possible things okay we have a whoops okay so let's let's have a look at at this right here we have a French style teacher and we have a French style teacher and we have a French style teacher now there is a massive difference between these two between these two sentences right a massive difference okay so in the first one both of the adjectives the the adjectives French and the adjectives style they independently modify the noun teacher they independently apply so it's a teacher of style hmm so it's a teacher who teaches style I need a style teacher and it's also a teacher who is French right that so they're they're a French teacher and they are also teaching style right but this one here at the bottom is completely different we have a teacher who teaches in the style of a French person it's a French style teacher really big difference the - okay the - is not a question of style it's a question of meaning really important and I want to remind you that like with with all you know with all punctuation with commas with hyphens with brackets with all of this stuff it's not a it's normally not a question of right and wrong okay most of the time it's not right and wrong most of the time it's a question of helping the person who's reading your text to understand that's what that's what punctuation is you're helping me when you have good punctuation you help me for example you know when I'm reading this about about the French style teacher you're helping me to understand that the two adjectives you know are one thing and here you know all of these in this sentence here all of these commas you know all of those commas help me to separate you know those those words in my mind by pause right submarines and to a lesser extent aircraft and text now there's no law you know there's no there's no there's no book from the English Academy that says you must place commas in no there is no book okay there's no right and wrong you put the commas to beat to be nice to me to help me from I'm just I'm just going to give you one more one more example of a of a situation right there might be right so you can see how this an old furniture salesman is very different to that you can see how one of them is you know a Salesman who's old and sells furniture and the other one is a salesman who sells old furniture and we don't know we don't know how old he is big difference okay and so that's what's so so that's that's interesting okay and again we just we're asking questions why is it like this why do we have a - curiosity now so again this is the final sentence I'm nearly finished and then we're going to go to Skype okay so let's let's have a look let's have a look at this adjective it's a ship born invasion so so let's have a look at this word born who knows what it means can anyone can anyone tell me what it means when something is born lolly lolly you are absolutely correct very very fast born is the the past of the verb to bear now so bear bear has the word bear there's the noun the bear which is you know which is my my wife in the morning and my and my mother-in-law 24 hours a day no no just kidding so so baby bear is the noun right bears the noun and and and then we have the verb to bear okay the verb to bear is basically means to carry right and so if you think about it right we know there's we know that there's a noun in English born right I was born in Australia right here and let's think about it it's obvious it's related born because you carry the baby in your tummy carry the baby in your tummy oh yes axel axel s'en my wife will kill me but she doesn't watch my my youtube videos so yeah so so it means it means to carry right so now we can look at this adjective right we can look at this adjective here and we can say okay so it's an invasion it was an invasion that was carried by boats right so the the soldiers the troops the troops were carried were carried by boats okay and just just out of curiosity I'm very curious can you please type in what what is the verb in your language in your in your native language what is the verb born could you um could you type it in for me I'm very curious to see the verb in in all of the languages we have here okay so in yeah we can see in um in nastad now said I hope that you are all noticing a kind of pattern here NATO night a well apart from of course when we when we move over to the Cyrillic kind of we move over to the to the town of Russia and kind of zone things things change a bit but you can see here if you look you can see we have now sayin I say in a tone it it's obvious that we have a similar a similar route right we have a similar word origin and and actually there is an adjective in English that that we have that's a real adjective that's quite well not common but not common but it's nascent okay nascent and it means something which is like being born something which is being born right so I might say for example um let me think of a new company imagine imagine there's a new company called kangaroo kangaroo English is a nascent company all right and what that means is that it's a company which is being born it's in the early stages of its development means the same thing it means the same thing so again we're asking why we're curious about language we love language okay now I don't I don't want to talk about any more vocabulary but I do want to show you something quite funny okay so here you can see we're talking about the Pacific Ocean right so let's have a look at Google Maps sometime just bring this up here Google Maps I get Google Maps Google Maps and I can type in the kangaroo English okay which is here in a renze look there it is and you can see here I can zoom in I think yeah here we go look Wow I've got I've got five stars I've got five stars on Google Maps I'm so happy now just out of curiosity let's have a look at the Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean Oh No the Pacific Oceans only got three and a half stars are literally writing reviews of the ocean oh it's quite funny if you read the reviews funny look at this four out of five too much water look at this - blue didn't like it never going back it's just water I have water at my house and then this one this one here what's the point really there's nothing to see that's that's a great pun I don't know I don't know what's wrong with people rating the Pacific Ocean alright um guys it's time to jump onto Skype so [Music] my my skype address is info at Kangoo can guru English comm okay you can find me on skype and what I what I want to do today is I want to hear your your history we're talking about history and I want I want it to be meaningful to you I want you to talk about something you're interested in so tell me your history it could be you know well I don't want you to talk for 15 minutes about you who's you know give me a short summary of your history and and I can tell you maybe some grammar tips or some pronunciation whatever you are whatever you want so let's let's let's let's let's say let's see who wants to who wants to chat who wants to chat what time is it 15 21 so let's see if this gentleman here is online and wants to chat so yeah someone here wants to know the difference between no and not so no you use with a noun okay like I have no telephones you are no idiot I'm senior with nouns and not would be with verbs like or adjectives I'm not happy I am NOT going simple so my skype at ID info at kangaroo in oops can connect a kangaroo English calm okay it's my email address okay so vassal can't talk for two minutes let's have a chat to on my release na Diego and hopefully so on Morales isn't answering I'm afraid let's see if we can talk here to bleep a bleep a Martin's hello Lipe hello I can't see your video do you have a video do you have a webcam yes when a moment I needed to close the window YouTube because Navitus interference yeah no problems okay I will I think let me see if I can no that's not working ah there you are sir hello oh no you've gone again maybe you're gonna come back I hope you come back alright turn turn or one day if the video yeah could you watch me no I can't see you I can see only the screen you're sharing your screen with me okay sorry I come back here sure do you want me maybe I'll call you back hang on a sec this is 2019 this is this is modern technology you know it's like it used to be so simple back in the day now it's not connecting to leap a leap and I'll try again I'll try again in a minute let's see if we can talk to Marcus Vinicius mother gonsalvez could you have a longer name it's asking what is impeachment engagement is the process of removing a present through through legal through legal through legal means that's what they're trying to do to us to trump let's see if they can do it hello vassal hello sir hello Christian how are you I'm fine thank you how are ya good good I'm excellent wait where are you I'm in the west part of Ukraine in Jersey City okay well actually it's interesting cuz now in American politics there's a big scandal about your prime minister talking to President Trump and right actually I don't know because I don't listen to news very often but I know about new prime minister about new president it looks like they are very good team and it's going to be some changing in cranes III I hope so I hope so so so tell me tell me about your history I'd love to know something about your history okay both my about myself I'm 31 and I study English I've been studying English for two years what I was I'm a network engineer here in Oakland I've been working for 10 years network as a network engineer okay but I used to I didn't use English for my work okay so now it's time to to learn a little bit English it's awesome actually well I am really happy to listen to you speak to you actually it's you are the best teacher thank you thank you very much and actually I know I noticed just now that when you were speaking that you you almost said used to but then you changed it to two used right yeah you you were gonna say I I maybe you were gonna say I didn't used to speak English but now I okay yes yeah and but what you did is you stopped you stopped and you corrected yourself and that is that is actually a sign that your English is really good right thank you so you know when you when you stop and correct yourself it's it's a good thing not a bad thing but I feel question I can see you yes I know I'm sorry it's because because my webcam is being used for YouTube I can't use it for Skype so okay not a problem I'm so so so so tell me a little bit about your you know your history like growing up when you were younger when I was younger yeah yes so let me think I was growing up in Chelsea here okay I don't know okay so maybe you fit some question can you help me what what can I take what can I tell you yeah of course well I mean um I'm kind of interested in maybe about you know and this is something that you can think about if you ever decide to enter a conversation and especially for students who are thinking about doing an exam right is that if someone asks you a question like tell me about your childhood you know the best thing you can do is to just be honest and tell a story right and and so for example maybe you could tell me about you know a memory that you have from your childhood just any story that comes to mind about when you were younger when I was younger I used to make is to make a lot of bad things like I didn't listen to my parents I used to do some kind of I don't know how to describe it i I used to do what I'm I wasn't allowed to do I guess right and and so you were like a rebel right okay so I remember I used to smoking okay okay it's my secret well I think that's normal I think lots of young people experiment with smoking and drinking alcohol and I think it's normal really so what one thing I noticed because I noticed and this again this is a this is a really common thing I'm just going to bring this up here is that you you said that when I was younger I used to make a lot of bad things right but what is the difference between make and do I used to do I used to make when I say if I say I'm something you ate but like my pain might be or make some create sure exactly right exactly it's like you're creating something yeah and do with more factions right yes if I say do it means I do some action like rioting speaking right exactly very good very good so so tell me about why why did you decide to learn English why did I decide to learn English yeah like why why did you start because it is kind of ideal if you have like a second language you like new life or something and it's really works for me because when I started studying English and speaking English and thinking in English it I've noticed something something changed alright something get I feel better I have a lot of different emotion experiences I can speak to different people around the world so I can make new friends meet new friends the tenet also beautify I interested in like globalization because English kind of global language this oh and I wanted to be like a part of this process wow that's that's that you know that makes me so happy because you know if a student says to me are you know I learned English because you know I wanted to I needed to get a certificate for work or I'm learning English because you know some reason like that that always makes me sad and then when somebody says they do it to have experiences and to understand other cultures and to you know that make you know that is exactly why people should learn languages right right so I'm really a big fan of English and culture of English difference between UK USA the USA Australia history about English how it used to be how it used to be when English comes to countries like Australia because they didn't they didn't speak English right so they had they had like their own language yeah exactly um yeah the story the story of the aboriginal languages of Australia is a really fascinating story because well because those languages have some really unique ways of kind of looking at the world and and also they they have well this is something of kind of that I plan to talk about in the future but but actually a lot of Australian Aboriginal languages their total of vocabulary is only maybe four or five thousand words in total and you because you're your native language is is Ukrainian kind of okay so you probably know it depends on your level of education but you probably know about forty thousand words so yeah probably and and you probably know four or five thousand words in English all right so so it's it's incredible to think that the total vocabulary of an Australian Aboriginal language is about the same as your vocabulary in English right now yeah well do you have anything you want to ask me before before I go yes because of mine because of all of this allows you from the students you know I I'm just um you know uh I feel really lucky that I've discovered something in my life that I'm passionate about and I think it's it's easy to do something well if you're passionate about it I think so who knows I was born this way definitely you was born for doing teaching ditched III appreciate it so much thank you thank you sir and and I hope that we can chat on skype another time soon okay okay I'm actually on yes you are you are yes well thank you all speak to you soon okay okay okay Wow he was super cool that's still here man cool guy super cool guy yeah so before I call the next person before I call the next person because I know that you guys you guys are amazing students right so I want to ask you a question why why would Aboriginal languages in Australia why would they have such a small vocabulary compared to compared to say to say a European language does anybody have any ideas why that might be who can who can guess so Thiago says he has no idea Marina de Argentina says it's a more simple life mm-hmm because of conjunction because they're separated and isolated because they're not too talkative hmm because it was ancient times no connection to other parts of continents well there's there's there's there are a few reasons but the main reason and this is this is something for you to know when you're learning a language the main reason is that they were illiterate right so they didn't read or write okay so if you think about it what it means is that passive vocabulary doesn't exist now it's it's a question that people ask me every day how teacher how do I convert my passive vocabulary into active vocabulary how can I convert all of these words that I don't know into active vocabulary well the first question is where does the passive vocabulary come from well normally it comes from from writing right because writing is a way to store to warehouse to to record vocabulary permanently right and without this if you don't have any writing imagine imagine if I have no writing and I have my my family right now my passive vocabulary stays in my brain I don't pass it on to my children I don't pass it on to my wife I don't pass it on to my friends so the passive vocabulary disappears and so what it means is that you know well it tells us that really you know on average you know humans don't need sixty five thousand words with four or five thousand words we can say anything we want to say and the rest is just the rest is just gravy okay let's see if we can talk to [Music] let's see if Lee pays webcam is going to work no I'm just waiting for his video to connect hello Lee pay hello nice to meet you so so are you Lee pay or are you Philippe Oh Philippe it yes my nickname is it sleeping okay and and who who gave you your nickname yeah so who did your friends give you this name or did your your your parents give you this name yeah some some friends call me with lately more closer friends but normally it's more common to call me a with Philip okay and and maybe if your if your mum is very angry with you she says Philippe yes no Mike when my mom is angry with me is philippa da Matta come here I totally understand so so tell me a little bit about your history so yeah I was born in Brazil in south of Brazil my grandmother is how can I say Who I my grandmother I live it with my grandmother do you know I grew up with her and I was I had childhood because in that in that time I I used to complain a lot and in that time it don't exist like it's much fun and so fun we we really playing a heavy plane how can i it's more happy in that that in the past yeah do you feel like maybe that modern technology is making people unhappy yeah sometimes yes because when we don't use it we don't manage managing this the things you can you could you not happy and not giving a happening for your friends or your family yes so so in you know in in in any language so in in in Portuguese in in French and in English we have words that that go together naturally right so that so some words just just the people who speak that language they prefer specific combinations of words right and you could say I mean it's possible for you to say that you give happiness right but yeah it's it's what natural because it's not the most common okay so so actually we would say that you make somebody happy yeah so they um they can someone can make you happy or make you unhappy I think I think your English is really great actually so tell me about tell me about your experience of learning English well I I am I already studied before with English course pay when we pay but in that time I don't like it some I didn't like so much to to study because I I thought the English was boring but yeah and now and I have been I have been studying during about two years okay and my teacher I I have a teacher once time for week I have a video conversation with her a nice guy be honest guys okay and she gives me some types to to learn English alone and one day one this type it was you you needed to watch the video of kangaroo in which is amazing you can observe a lot of vocabulary a lot of types and when I started watching your video you you give me more confidence to learning because I thought I thought that I needed to pay a good course to have or be fluent in English but now I I think my thought is change that's cryin yeah I can I can I can study alone and improve my English and having time and watch a video watch are types totally free now that makes me really happy there's that there's one thing I noticed when you were speaking that you said that you were studying you were studying English during two years right yeah so do you do you dude see any problems with that with that sentence studying during two years studying doing studying here in two years because there's some there's something wrong with that sentence on and I'm just wondering if you know what it is happy steding no so it's not the verb it's actually it's actually the during okay yeah so so and I know that in Portuguese how would you say this in Portuguese it's toasted under the rain today turn yeah exactly so we we have the word in English during which which sounds really similar and actually it's it's like the same the same word but in English we use it in a different way so during you can only use it for nouns right like for example during World War two during the recession during during my my childhood for example but if you're talking about a duration right like for example two years then you have to say four so it's actually really stupid because because in English if it's duration you don't use during so it doesn't it doesn't make any sense but you know sometimes language is a bit crazy yeah but I think I think you should be you should be really happy with your progress in in such a short time really happy yeah yeah I am I am good well it was it was a pleasure to talk to you and and I hope that we can talk again soon yeah I'm too and I would you like to to say for you thank you so much to help me with your your videos and continues to make because this is help help it's a lot thank you thank you very much I appreciate it thank you sir I'll speak to you later I pick you later bye bye Wow another another super cool guy Wow amazing okay let's see if I can talk to this person here Marlene do one more so these many Skype calls hello Marlene hello hello how are you and fine thank you can you see me I think it's quite dark let me turn on the light okay it is better now yeah it's great uh you have you have you have your baby yes quite surprised I thought that you wouldn't see my my message no I did I did um is it a boy or a girl I can't see it's my baby girl how old is she come on Wow and what's her name it says Excel mm-hmm Wow how cool I like it I like it's a great you know it's it's a great word yes it's a it's a name if Mexican names imagine from the major and major name the meaning it's a itself what in the median culture it it's ground eggshell and it's the goddess of medicine and fertility I think wow wow that's a great story so so tell me what where do you live I live in Mexico ah okay and well tell me a little bit about your history well I started to learn English and about I think 20 years ago when I was a teenager okay well I reach this level although I don't feel quite comfortable with it but I start to register of the OMC about two years ago because I started to practice a lot okay and and why did you why did you decide to start practicing what why did you decide to start practicing to two years ago well because my husband and I we we want we have this plan of moving abroad okay for my career I need to prep a tool to practice to learn English to read the book most of the information especially in the science in the scientific field are in English in fact for scientists English is their mandatory language so if you speak English or you don't write in English you will left behind yeah so so what so what is your job then I'm a geologist but right now I'm I'm a stay-at-home mom but I'm a geologist okay so so to be honest when I think about geology I think about just rocks and that's it remember it could say you could say for most people is that rocks and but for me it's more than that it's the way that they understand the history of the earth how everything was formed and and it's very interesting interesting Wow well tell me tell me something interesting about geology I'm curious for example and where where do you live now it's in Spain yes I live really close to the Pyrenees yeah well I live I live on the same on the same latitude as as the Pyrenees yes well I'm not very familiar with geology in Spain but the mountain of the perience it's a mountain range and I don't remember them the year one with it was formed because they would see there's some words I don't know I know in Spanish that I know in English that's Noble that's perfectly normal of course it's painful that world yes this the Spanish Peninsula yes Spanish Peninsula and I'm not sure about I think that it crashed with with what is now a French Peninsula but in this this is why this motto probably was I should talk about something that I know and I I don't know I I have read so more about geology in Europe but I'm more familiar with the energy here and I live in Baja California really close to you know so well here at what can I say well there's a mountain range from LA to the sort of back south part of Baja California which there were 100 100 million years ago there was a volcanic island here I know that because of all my that was my thesis my thesis okay but but I read the other day something about the period because they have a similar you know the world set so that's something that really frustrate me when I speak English because my vocabulary in English is not as wide as my vocabulary in Spanish well you know it's actually I'm going to tell you my observation right now what what normally happens with someone who who is like you right who is a scientist who reads a lot of scientific you know journals in English and you know what normally happens is that type of person has a fantastic vocabulary for their work but they can't talk about other things like small talk or general conversation but I've actually noticed that you're the opposite to that which is really surprising like I think that you you seem really super comfortable and super fluent talking about your cut of life in general and then when I asked you about geology stuff you were like so do you think that's true probably yes because when I work although I read everything in English mm-hmm well I think you know and and if and if I was your you know if I was your teacher I would say to you well you know geography is something that you're really interested in and it's important for your work as you've said so if I was you you know I would spend more time actually writing it and and speaking about geology in English I forgot I need to find what some well some of also likes this subject at least seems curious yeah well you know what what you could do and this is this is something that anybody can do right is that you you have to remember that if if you decide to learn English like it's really hard right and so you have to depend on yourself in a big way right and if you put if you put the kind of responsibility on to other people then you know you're not going to succeed right so what I'm saying is you don't need a speaking partner to practice your your your your geology English what you can do is you can start a blog it's completely free I think Google have blogs WordPress have free blogs you start a blog and you just start writing articles about geology and maybe zero people will read them and maybe zero people will care and maybe they will be terrible but you don't do it for them you do it for you you know it's something that it's really complicated for me to write in English I feel really insecure about it if they're in you know the Ariat is the area that I have to work most yeah well you know the only way to feel more secure is by doing it a thousand times like you will not get more secure about writing by doing something else like speaking or really not listening exactly exactly so that would be my advice to you is to just write especially if you think it will be good for your career right yes practices because my plan is to start a PhD so in English yo your daughter she's being so good she's sitting there quietly yeah she's super cute I just wanna I just want to squeeze her little cheeks she sits in there the screen for inherit this is you well it's super cool well do you have anything you want to ask me before before we finish or well I will know that congratulate you because I really admire your work especially because for me I think that you are like a scientist of language I didn't really enjoy all your daily daddies because every day I learned something new you said you read you actually read papers and I found that matter well it's great and they they interviews with the people that you always invite to the videos it's excellent your work is excellent sir I really like what you have what you are doing for us for the student or around the world is excellent thing and up and ugly you are one of the best teacher in the world you are the teacher and I have seen that actually read papers about language to vote the language and in that amazing well III I don't want I don't know what to say thank thank you very much for your very kind words I appreciate it and I think all I do are do think I have a lot of from you thank you thank you very much well I'm gonna say a big goodbye now to both of you and especially to little excel well I I look I look forward to you to you sending me the link to your geology blog okay I think with our Instagram account with a small piece excellent that is perfect I love that idea perfect idea okay take care I'll speak to you soon well yeah that was that was that was she issues while that was awesome so yeah look wow we've been we've been going for an hour and a half and yeah I'm enjoying the life classes loving it unfortunately tomorrow I can't do a live class because tomorrow I have I have two interviews to do with some very exciting people but on Friday I'll be back with another live class so thank you thank you very much everybody for watching I appreciate all your love and support and and I'm Christian this is kangaroo English and I'll see you in class

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Length: 97min 7sec (5827 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 25 2019