hi there I'm drew badger the world's
world's number one english fluency
fluency guide and it is a pleasure
pleasure to welcome you to another
another advanced listening practice
practice lesson well
well I hope you're excited for another
another lesson set where I'm speaking
speaking really quickly and I've actually
actually spent this whole afternoon
afternoon recording lessons for a
a new master English conversation
conversation less than set and since
since i was talking about connections
connections in this one I thought
thought I would talk about some connections
connections in this video too but
but hopefully my don't lose my voice
voice because I've been speaking a
a lot in life I'm
I'm really excited to teach but you
you know sometimes it can be the death
death of me this is a really great
great word when something is the death
death of you it just means you know
know you're passionate about that
that thing or maybe you do it too
too much and maybe you shouldn't do
do it
do it some
some so much something like that so
so in this case i really enjoy teaching
teaching so I can you know talk so
so much
so much it
it becomes the death of me something
something like that anyway if you're
you're new to this series i highly
highly recommend you go back and watch
watch some of the previous videos
videos where we're talking about specific
specific grammar points like our lessons
lessons set or our video series here
here on YouTube about beginning english
english grammar or if you want to
to learn slang or any of those things
things but all of those lessons are
are where I'm speaking more slowly
slowly so you can get used to the
the sound of my voice that
that way when you're watching these
these videos it's much easier for
for you to understand things anyway
anyway if you're ready for this lesson
lesson
lesson let's
let's begin well I wanted to do something
something kind of different picture
picture kind of begin these lessons
lessons all talking about that i'm
i'm always trying to be different
different in you know do something
something crazy or strange or whatever
whatever because I get bored easily
easily
easily but
but maybe that's the death of me -
- I'm always trying to do something
something new and interesting and
and what's interesting actually this
this is kind of a different topic
topic is something that you know just
just kind of came up right now while
while i'm talking about it while I'm
I'm thinking about it but to do like
like I had a interesting conversation
conversation with a friend of mine
mine
mine we're
we're talking about business and like
like the people that succeed become
become like really successful it what
what they do and often it's like the
the people that can do one thing really
really well and then they just do
do that thing like almost mindlessly
mindlessly like they can just like
like practice over and over again
again to really get good at that thing
thing
thing and
and so like my problem with that is
is like like I can get kind bored
bored with something maybe you can
can relate to that idea so when I'm
I'm asking you like maybe you can
can relate this
this is a great way and native conversation
conversation way of saying that like
like oh maybe you can appreciate what
what I'm saying or maybe you have
have a similar experience so
so maybe you can relate maybe you
you can relate with what I'm saying
saying
saying so
so maybe you can relate with what
what i'm saying what i'm talking about
about well you're like kind of a smart
smart person or you think you are
are anyway in your you know going
going together with like trying to
to pursue a particular thing but maybe
maybe it gets kind of boring and you're
you're like I don't want to do this
this thing like I don't do this thing
thing again I want to try something
something different and that's why
why I my youtube channel is filled
filled with lots of different kinds
kinds of videos different series as
as I try different things and see
see what happens so
so even if something is really successful
successful I like get bored with it
it didn't want to do something different
different so hopefully you can tell
tell me down in the comments below
below which series you actually happen
happen to enjoy and i'll try to like
like focus myself and do those things
things and more anyway
anyway so in this video what I wanted
wanted to talk about is a Minimum
Minimum Viable Product i like to make
make different connections between
between things because there are connections
connections everywhere that most people
people don't see so
so if i can make connections between
between maybe business or sports or
or you know whatever anything else
else that can help you improve your
your fluency i'm very excited about
about that so
so in thinking about building a business
business a lot of people do kind of
of like what I did actually the kind
kind of stupid way of building a business
business and this is what I don't
don't recommend people do which is
is spending a whole bunch of time
time thinking about your own idea
idea and then you try to produce something
something and then you release a particular
particular thing and then it doesn't
doesn't sell whatever that thing is
is I've definitely done that before
before
before multiple
multiple times actually multiple times
times a day i kind of wish I am ashamed
ashamed to admit it took me more than
than one failure in order to learn
learn how to do things the right way
way but now that I do I'm much happier
happier for it anyway so the opposite
opposite approach what i do now is
is really listen to people and try
try to figure out what the actual
actual problems people have and you
you know whatever they're trying to
to solve but when kind of a thing
thing in business now is really having
having a minimum viable product and
and these are like three things that
that come together so minimum means
means like the least the
lowest the smallest
smallest amount of something that
that is actually like helpful whatever
whatever that thing is so viable means
means that you know it actually is
is like helpful in some way it's something
something that like can become a product
product and then the product is well
well it's just like whatever that
that thing is so a minimum viable
viable product or minimum viable service
service
service so
so this is kind of a buzz word and
and the word buzzword just means it's
it's kind of like a a popular term
term people use to sound important
important or like you included in
in whatever like the popular language
language happens to be so a buzzword
buzzword for businesses a Minimum
Minimum Viable Product so as opposed
opposed to taking a long time to produce
produce something that's really polished
polished
polished it's
it's looking really beautiful and
and really great but it takes a lot
lot of time and money you
you just try to make the most basic
basic thing possible just to see like
like if that's what people want and
and then you use that opportunity
opportunity as a way of like working
working with the people you're creating
creating that product for so it could
could be maybe I'm trying to develop
develop a new software product something
something like that and i'm working
working with a group of people like
like ok they want me to develop it
it in this way so i try this and then
then I say what do they think they're
they're like oh this is great but
but that's maybe not so good something
something like that anyway so I'm
I'm talking with these people and
and trying to create something from
from a Minimum Viable Product so I
I begin with something that like will
will solve the problem even
even if it's not perfect so a lot
lot of people can do that they can
can build like a very simple version
version of a game that's really fun
fun to play but it may be it doesn't
doesn't look so great so this is a
a Minimum Viable Product anyway the
the reason I'm talking about minimum
minimum viable product is because
because I really want people to think
think about fluency and practicing
practicing their english or practicing
practicing whatever that thing is
is but you know especially learning
learning English because that's why
why you're on this channel the
the reason I want you to think about
about a minimum viable product is
is because I also want you to not
not make that same mistake of trying
trying to polish your english first
first and then trying to practice
practice it doesn't work that way
way
way so
so you can't like polish your English
English try to sit and learn a whole
whole bunch of words like you're sitting
sitting by yourself at your desk and
and trying to learn all these vocabulary
vocabulary words or something like
like that so that when you get into
into a conversation you can use them
them but that it doesn't work that
that way it doesn't work that way
way you gotta you gotta build you
you know this why talk about building
building fluency it's not like you
you get fluent and then you go practice
practice it doesn't work that way
way
way you
you have to build fluency by practicing
practicing so you learn and practice
practice learn and practice learn
learn and practice and it's the combination
combination of these things and the
the minimum viable product or the
the like the most basic kind of thing
thing you can do to to to prepare
prepare for a lesson or just to prepare
prepare to speak is really like you
you know maybe learning a few words
words or something like that but then
then actually making more effort to
to go out and practice so you should
should be spending maybe twenty percent
percent of your time learning and
and eighty percent or more you know
know whatever you can have actually
actually practicing that thing because
because the practice is really where
where it comes from that's the discipline
discipline of actually speaking and
and developing fluency and being able
able to use words and phrases without
without thinking all of those things
things are connected but you don't
don't get it first unless
unless you practice so you can't you
you can't try to like polish your
your english first and then go for
for like trying to practice after
after that such an important point
point I really want you to understand
understand this and remember it and
and use it because it's really the
the the same idea from business is
is exactly true for learning English
English as well so anytime you're
you're doing something it's actually
actually the process of working with
with someone so having conversations
conversations is what develops your
your ability to have conversations
conversations but you begin with simple
simple ones and then you work up to
to more complicated conversations
conversations from that so
so this is a really important idea
idea and you should see exactly how
how it's working right here on the
the YouTube channel now
now excuse me when I'm like making
making new videos i'm trying new things
things
things recently
recently I got a green screen and
and some nice or lighting things like
like that and I'm just kind of experimenting
experimenting with different things
things but i was thinking about it
it like what's the minimum viable
viable product what's
what's the minimum like the most basic
basic idea what's a way that I can
can really make videos quickly and
and get things out there that's really
really necessary so
so let's say I have like like a minimum
minimum viable product for YouTube
YouTube would most likely be a video
video like actually showing my face
face
face so
so if i have like like a completely
completely black screen if you can't
can't see my face right now you
you can just hear me like it's helpful
helpful
helpful but
but it's more helpful if you can actually
actually see me just because for learning
learning languages yeah
yeah it's really appropriate and helpful
helpful you know to see me moving
moving my lips and how I move like
like all of these things about the
the way i move are important to understanding
understanding what I'm saying but
but also you see you can copy these
these things and start improving your
your own fluency so
so a minimum viable product would
would be like having sound and having
having video so
so that's just like the tomb like
like most basic things i need to do
do now the quality of that like it
it could depend like right now like
like you know this is a high definition
definition video that I'm making and
and you know it's pretty good it could
could be like 4k or something like
like that but like does that really
really matter do
do you really care about having it
it be like a 4k video versus you know
know like this basic thing that I'm
I'm making right now so now high definition
definition is almost like a kind of
of basic thing like you know one for
for TP or 360p something like that
that
that so
so these are like lower levels of
of quality for making videos so
so when I'm thinking about it like
like do you really care if there's
there's a like an interesting-looking
interesting-looking background behind
behind me maybe you do maybe you don't
don't know some people do care about
about that some people don't but for
for the minimum viable product if
if I'm like let's say I was just starting
starting making YouTube videos right
right now what I want to go out there
there and like okay I'm going to get
get great lighting and I'm gonna get
get it like an awesome background
background or make a green screen
screen and like all of that stuff
stuff takes time and effort and money
money and if i want to go out and
and do those things like thinking
thinking about all that is going to
to stop me from actually producing
producing videos so
so that's why when i first got started
started on YouTube and most of the
the videos I produces just me setting
setting up a camera in a room that's
that's pretty bright and I produce
produce the videos so i actually record
record the sound like it's important
important to me to have high-quality
high-quality sound so I record the
the sound and put that on the video
video like my video camera is not
not recording the sound i have a separate
separate recorder for that but that's
that's really the time that it takes
takes me to connect those two things
things so that i can actually have
have a good quality video for you
you
you so
so there's a certain basic level this
this is the minimum viable product
product like if you can't hear me
me where the sound is really bad you
you don't want to listen to it then
then even if I have a good message
message then it's just kind of difficult
difficult to hear it's a no .
. so when you're thinking about your
your fluency I'd like you to think
think about it in the same way so
so don't wait don't polish first you
you want to practice to polish so
so practice in order to polish don't
don't don't polish first it doesn't
doesn't work that way you actually
actually have to go out and use the
the same kind of idea of like a Minimum
Minimum Viable like practicing ability
ability something like that so just
just knowing even a few words is enough
enough to get you out there to start
start practicing and if you're watching
watching this video right now your
your understanding is already pretty
pretty good because i'm speaking quite
quite quickly and you can understand
understand what I'm saying for
for most of it anyway we will have
have transcripts for these lessons
lessons
lessons we're
we're getting a whole bunch of new
new i just got 26 transcripts made
made for the first 26 videos in this
this series and they will be appearing
appearing on the new English and 1.com
1.com shortly so
so if you're watching this in five
five years that's where you can find
find anywhere they will be up shortly
shortly but do take this idea seriously
seriously
seriously that
that don't look for like I really
really want you to kind of an even
even better way to think about it
it is
it is what's
what's the least amount of effort
effort you can do to get out in practice
practice what's the least amount of
of information you need to know that
that you can start this process here
here so this process is the important
important thing not not this like
like learning stuff over here you
you want the processing practice of
of learning and developing fluency
fluency inside of conversations that
that kind of thing so
so get out there if you can if you
you can understand this video you
you already have that so don't be
be shy don't be nervous get
get out there and actually start improving
improving well I think I've spoken
spoken too much today as it is I'm
I'm like losing my voice over here
here but man these videos are going
going to be the death of me so enjoy
enjoy them while I'm still alive and
and can make these videos but if I
I do die because it it will have been
been worth it for me i really enjoy
enjoy making these videos and I hope
hope you have enjoyed them as well
well
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