hi there I'm drew badger the world's
world's number one english fluency
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another advanced listening practice
practice lesson I
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beginning of each one of these episodes
episodes that you should please enjoy
enjoy some of the different series
series earlier videos that I've made
made may be talking about grammar
grammar or phrasal verbs or idioms
idioms something like that when I'm
I'm speaking with a slower and more
more clear voice that way you can
can understand everything and prepare
prepare yourself to understand and
and enjoy all of the things that I
I cover in this series so
so this is why i speaking native or
or faster than native speed and well
well if your prayer prepared for this
this lesson let's begin anyway
anyway i am going to talk about a
a couple of interesting things in
in this episode number one I guess
guess the first reason I haven't been
been appearing in the advanced listening
listening practice series is because
because i've been experimenting with
with some different video series you
you notice the latest videos you know
know between the previous episode
episode in this series and this one
one
one we've
we've got a whole bunch of new things
things when i'm trying to help people
people improve their pronunciation
pronunciation and also their vocabulary
vocabulary so they sound much more
more native and can pronounce things
things much more clearly like native
native speakers anyway
anyway uh because i do like to experiment
experiment with different things sometimes
sometimes I'm a focus on one series
series for a while and then come back
back to something else but people
people were saying a brew where's
where's your beautiful hand some faith
faith
faith so
so here I am anyway I'm back here
here and I'm happy to make this video
video
video although
although I must say I am a little
little bit disappointed because i'm
i'm inside right now on such a lovely
lovely day not
not because I have to make this video
video I really uh really been excited
excited to make this video for a while
while actually I just haven't had
had much time but i'm kind of disappointed
disappointed because i'm inside and
and i'm working on our advanced scroll
scroll phonics series or kind of not
not really a series but all of the
the different levels that are going
going to be in our ultimate guide
guide to pronunciation so scroll finest
finest will be helping you improve
improve your pronunciation and it's
it's a really a fantastic system but
but it's such a huge thing that we're
we're building it takes a long time
time so I'm kind of looking outside
outside you can see a little bit of
of the beautiful sunlight coming through
through the window on my face right
right now
right now and
and this is just you know coming from
from the outside and it's kind of
of a kind of trying to pull me outside
outside so i have to sit on the computer
computer and actually do a lot of
of things with scroll find X to get
get prepared for the release of that
that but anyway so I thought I would
would take some quick time while I'm
I'm here and make this video for you
you which I am excited about anyway
anyway in this video i wanted to talk
talk about emotional learning and
and kind of something about emotional
emotional learning is also just the
the the stories that we tell and
and the reason why I make the videos
videos in the way that I do especially
especially this advanced listening
listening practice lesson where I
I tend to ramble I
I guess maybe not really rambling
rambling but I get off topic or people
people kind of complain occasionally
occasionally like hey drew why don't
don't you get to the point get
get to the point so it just means
means why don't you say what you want
want to say directly and well i kind
kind of do this for two reasons it's
it's not that I don't want to say
say anything directly but I want to
to kind of set things up and tell
tell a story which makes information
information a lot more memorable for
for you if I just say hey guys welcome
welcome to the video here are three
three steps you need to do most people
people would just forget that in the
the same way that you would go to
to a movie and you don't want to just
just say hey before I even watched
watched the movie you know that the
the main character will probably win
win at the end he will probably get
get the girl or she will win the movie
movie or whatever that thing is you
you know you don't go to the movie
movie theater to know what's going
going to happen because you already
already know what's going to
happen
happen you
you go to watch the story and it's
it's the story you connect with the
the other reason that I do talk in
in the way I do and maybe if I don't
don't like say everything exactly
exactly how i was thinking about saying
saying it or exactly in a way that
that might be perfect or easy to understand
understand is because it's important
important for you to see how a native
native English speaker is speaking
speaking without having any kind of
of script so I'm right now I don't
don't have any kind of script I just
just have an idea in my head about
about something basically and this
this is giving you an opportunity
opportunity number one to see how
how I speak but number two to understand
understand the words and phrases I
I use when I'm talking about things
things
things so
so what do I say you know what I'm
I'm thinking about something so right
right now if I say on I'm
I'm thinking about something i don't
don't exactly know how I want to express
express myself so
so what I'm thinking about something
something like that or what to say
say or if I'm expressing a certain
certain kind of emotion you
you get to see that so there's kind
kind of two lessons that happening
happening every one of my videos especially
especially in this advanced listening
listening practice series the
the first one is the actual lesson
lesson I'm trying to give like hey
hey you should learn in this way or
or you should be thinking it in this
this way or something like that but
but the second lesson is actually
actually listening to the words and
and phrases i use in particular situations
situations because you always want
want to not be translating from your
your language into English or from
from english into your language but
but from the situation to the vocabulary
vocabulary so
so when you watch native speakers
speakers if you put that extra step
step in there so situation happens
happens and native speakers says something
something and then you translate that
that into your language and then try
try to think about it in English again
again when you want to use it that's
that's what's really going to make
make it difficult for you to express
express yourself so
so if you can look at a situation
situation like even a situation right
right now like if I'm surprised a
a ghost suddenly comes into my room
room I what do I say so if i make
make a certain facial expression or
or my hands on my body language or
or the words or phrases that i use
use all of these things come together
together and it will help you remember
remember those things much more clearly
clearly if you can connect the words
words and phrases i'm using with the
the actual situation that I meant
meant
meant so
so anyway this is why I go on and
and on and on and I talked about lots
lots of different things but maybe
maybe not directly so if you're looking
looking for really quick information
information I
I do have other lessons where I just
just say hey you should remember this
this thing and this is how i do something
something like our series on how to
to get fluent in English faster that's
that's a whole bunch of videos that
that just gives really quick tips
tips and it's really not you
you know trying to go into how you
you should be speaking in other ways
ways like that so
so there are different video series
series on the on the channel four
four different kinds of learners but
but if you don't mind this and you're
you're actually kind of understanding
understanding the two different kinds
kinds of lessons that we have in these
these in these video series again
again number one you've got the actual
actual lesson number two the kind
kind of meta lesson mbta but we pronounce
pronounce it meta meta lesson which
which is actually how speaking so
so if you can copy that and really
really pay attention to both of those
those lessons that's
that's what's going to help you get
get through it faster so talking about
about all this and getting back to
to emotional learning I wanted to
to tell a quick story as I like
I like to tell stories so this one
one was actually from a long time
time ago when i was about maybe 10
10 or 11 years old I had a birthday
birthday party at McDonald's McDonald's
McDonald's so back you know where
where i lived in chicago the local
local mcdonald's you know kids with
with sometimes go there and you know
know is actually a lot of fun and
and went there with you know maybe
maybe like 10 or 12 of my friends
friends and we got someone like the
the old happy meal boxes and stuff
stuff so I my birthday is in September
September
September but
but you know i got like I don't know
know some old Christmas toys and halloween
halloween stuff even a lot of just
just like little things that we got
got from mcdonalds that they aren't
aren't really doing anything with
with any way because those toys aren't
aren't being given to children for
for the new season or the current
current season at that time but anyway
anyway so it was a lot of fun we get
get to go to McDonald's and we get
get some like reduced prices on stuff
stuff and they also let us go behind
behind the counter so we got kind
kind of a tour in the back of mcdonalds
mcdonalds and I don't know if people
people can still do this now I'm
I'm sure maybe some mcdonalds you
you can have a birthday party there
there I haven't really heard about
about that but it was kind of something
something people did when I was younger
younger and they also let us go into
into the freezer because i think around
around that time there had been like
like a robbery of a mcdonalds not
not that McDonald's but a different
different mcdonalds back in Chicago
Chicago and what the robbers it was
was tell the staff to go into the
the freezer and they kind of like
like lock them in there i think they
they were safe though like somebody
somebody let them out but
but anyway say we were like hey can
can we go in the freezer - and see
see what it's like so
so you know we're just being kind
kind of silly kids and we wanted to
to check that out anyway
anyway the interesting thing about
about this is that my mom sent me
me a mail and just a regular email
email not that long ago with a picture
picture of a cup that she got from
from that party so again mcdonalds
mcdonalds they're just like giving
giving us random stuff because we're
we're having a birthday party over
over there and one of the things that
that she got was a little cup with
with a kind of cup holders section
section at the bottom now
now i don't have this cup but i will
will put a picture of it up here for
for you
for you and
and there you go so you get to see
see what it looks like now
now this is just a simple plain boring
boring mcdonalds cup it's even got
got the address of the mcdonalds where
where it used to be actually don't
don't think that you know I guess
guess that McDonald maybe isn't there
there anymore remove doctor
doctor or something I don't know what
what happened to it I haven't been
been there in a long time but
but anyway just looking at the Cup
Cup by itself the Cup by itself it's
it's just a yellow cup with some red
red letters on it and the symbol for
for McDonald's and there's nothing
nothing amazing or spectacular about
about the cup although
although my mom really did like how
how the design of it was specifically
specifically fit it's kind of a little
little coffee cup a coffee mug made
made a plastic but it's a really great
great size for cup holders or at least
least kind of it was you know many
many years ago I don't know if it
it is or not anymore but she's kept
kept this month this whole time so
so that was like 25 26 27 years ago
ago something like that whenever i
i have to party but she still had
had it and she still keeps it and
and still drinks for me and travels
travels with it and does different
different things but again that the
the the kind of the whole reason I
I want to explain all this is because
because the emotional connection of
of all of the story all of the ideas
ideas that go into this one thing
thing like there's nothing about the
the cup
the cup that's
that's amazing it's just a regular
regular cup but all of the ideas in
in the emotion they come out when
when you look at the cupping like
like my mom you know maybe she's cleaning
cleaning out her kitchen and maybe
maybe she finds the cup somewhere
somewhere and says wow and all of
of a sudden all these emotions come
come flooding back to her and
and these are the things that you
you should be thinking about when
when you learn as I study Japanese
Japanese I actually try to study lesson
lesson I don't really sit and study
study much text book learning at all
all
all I
I don't really like learning that
that way maybe occasionally i look
look at dictionary just to find some
some kind of information but then
then i'll focus on that word and really
really try to use it over and over
again and I copy people
people all the time and I try to really
really limit myself to the kinds of
of things I study so maybe I don't
don't not more than like a few words
words a date and
and so that's what i do in master
master English conversation we have
have maybe a know like five to ten
ten words if that I think it's probably
probably actually far less than that
that that we would have people learn
learn but what I want to encourage
encourage you to do is number one
one to learn less if you want to get
get fluent and then actually have
have something that you can practice
practice with but the second thing
thing is that you should be emotionally
emotionally connecting with these
these things now
now this is a related story but i
i think i remember maybe
maybe it was like a year ago or two
two years ago excuse
excuse me that I was uh I was watching
watching where I was actually reading
reading an article online that was
was talking about some goods that
that were being sold on ebay and they
they were doing a comparison between
between just the object by itself
itself so it could be a plate or some
some little toy or a picture or something
something like that or the object
object with the story in the description
description and they wanted to see
see which one's soul better and obviously
obviously they found out that the
the one with the story so better because
because this is what people are connecting
connecting with people do buy things
things but really they're buying a
a story they're buying the experience
experience of the thing so
so if i say here is like here's a
a cup would you like to buy this for
for five dollars and it's just a regular
regular cup and you say well there's
there's nothing special about this
this why would I buy that from five
five dollars but if i say well I've
I've got this great story this is
is like a special captain they went
went out on a boat and he was like
like you have to like kill a shark
shark or you know do something amazing
amazing like that and then this was
was the the cup that he drank from
from after that is like kind of a
a special toast then all of a sudden
sudden a whole bunch of people are
are like wow that's really cool there's
there's a great story behind that
that cup or you know whatever that
that thing happens to be and that
that raises the price of that thing
thing so it's actually raising the
the value of that thing now
now in the same way that you should
should be raising the value of like
like something if you want to be selling
selling it by telling that story you
you need to be raising the value of
of the information that you're learning
learning when you just look through
through a whole stack of flashcards
flashcards there's nothing valuable
valuable about that and that's why
why your mind doesn't care about that
that information so
so when you're looking through you're
you're using and like your flashcard
flashcard app on your computer on
on your phone or something like that
that or even if you're just using
using paper flash cards if
if you're just looking at this information
information like okay this word that
that were that word and maybe i'll
i'll come back to it in an hour in
in two hours and three days and see
see if I remember it number
number one you're not going to really
really remember that and number two
two what would be the point why spend
spend your time thinking about these
these words if there's nothing valuable
valuable and by valuable I mean like
like actually memorable to you so
so if you think about one word or
or two words or even ten words that
that you could really learn and really
really master such that you can use
use them automatically in conversations
conversations without thinking wouldn't
wouldn't that be better if you can
can do just a little bit of that kind
kind of learning each day rather than
than trying to go through a whole
whole bunch of different things that
that you're just going to forget so
so what I'd like to leave you with
with today for this advanced listening
listening practice lesson is to always
always be thinking about emotionally
emotionally charging the information
information that you're learning so
so it could be the environment you're
you're in like I'm learning a new
new word and i happen to be in some
some situations it's very memorable
memorable to me like the sights and
and the sounds and it's you know unique
unique in some way or even the smells
smells like if you're at a restaurant
restaurant and you remember some weird
weird word like the word pungent pungent
pungent I believe that's p UNG ENT
ENT
ENT I
I think again I'm not the greatest
greatest speller but the word pungent
pungent means like kind of like a
a really fragrant smell like a very
very strong smell so if you're in
in a like a situation where you're
you're at some chinese restaurant
restaurant for example or some other
other restaurant and you're sitting
sitting with a native speaker and
and he's like wow this is something
something like punching food or some
some pungent aroma the aroma arom
arom a is another word for a smell
smell so a pungent aroma is like what
what like a really strong smell it
it could be like a good strong or
or not so good strong if it's like
like well we don't really like the
the smell of that kind of thing anyway
anyway I want you to think about well
well I'm like in this situation right
right now and I'm smelling this food
food and I'm hearing this word and
and i'm connecting that so when connecting
connecting it with the situation and
and emotionally charging what it is
is I'm trying to learn so
so that's how you remember things
things and you do it by focusing on
on a few things not by trying to jam
jam a whole bunch of information into
into your head and it obviously it's
it's just not going to stick in there
there
there so
so if you've been trying to do it
it that way for a while like trying
trying to go through flashcards and
and learn as much as possible what
what I really like you to do is emotionally
emotionally charged a few things and
and try to learn all that and that
that will actually help you remember
remember and be able to use it confidently
confidently without thinking and of
of course the more you practice the
the more you'll be able to do exactly
exactly what i'm doing right now which
which is just sit and keep speaking
speaking about whatever it is you
you want to be talking about and
and even if you don't know the information
information or you're in a conversation
conversation where the topic is
on
on familiar
familiar you can use information that
that you already know to connect that
that information with that subject
subject or whatever it is you're discussing
discussing anyway I don't want to
to talk too much because i do have
have to get back to work working on
on this and kind of don't even know
know what to call it really but it's
it's because it's so many different
different things it's a reading tool
tool a pronunciation to listening
listening tool but it's our ultimate
ultimate guide to pronunciation scroll
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forward to releasing it very soon
soon anyway have a fantastic day and
and do like this video if you enjoyed
enjoyed it and think about all the
the vocabulary that you're learning
learning and how you can emotionally
emotionally charged it in some way
way so that you can remember it more
more easily I
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