hi there i'm Drew Badger the world's first and number-one English Fluency
Guide and it is a pleasure to welcome you to another video here on youtube
where we're going to solve yet another problem that lots of english learners
have and this is i speak english too slowly now this happens for a lot of
reasons but it's a really frustrating thing people get into conversations and
other people maybe if you're with a native English speaker they're speaking
quite quickly but then when you start speaking i have to speak very slowly and
maybe it's because you forget your words or you feel stuck in conversations or
you know the vocabulary you want to use but it just doesn't come out and so you
feel nervous and there are actually a couple different problems that make it
more difficult for you to speak in a quick way so what we'd like to do in
this video is help you reverse that problem I hope that sounds like a good
idea anyway let's talk about that right now
so for developing your speed and speed is just one of the habits you need in
order to communicate fluently like you could just say but I'm just
communicating fluently but I'm not actually so where I'm communicating
quickly I should say but I'm not actually saying anything so it's part of
the problem here but then there are other things like your pronunciation
grammar your ability to listen all of these other things that come together
and this is why fluency can be a tricky thing I like to talk about it as a
combination lock and this just means that when you have a regular you know
like a lock with the little numbers on it so if you get all of the numbers
correct the lock opens but if you get maybe three numbers out of four you can
have everything but one number correct and then if you can't open that last
number then the lock doesn't open so even if you know a lot of words you can
understand a lot of things you still maybe if your pronunciation is like
already quite good you still can't speak fluently if you're
missing one or two pieces even just one piece of the fluency puzzle and that's
why we work on all of those on this channel and in programs like mastering
this conversation and the fluency course but in this video let's just talk about
the actual skill of communicating faster now I like to think about it in general
when you're just maybe walking down the street of like
bullying forward so when I was learning Japanese initially I would just you know
I'm trying to get faster with my speech I would just say words even though they
didn't really make sense just just to get into the habit of communicating
faster and just as another metaphor here a way of connecting this idea if you've
ever been to a sporting event for young kids like a soccer game or baseball game
something like that so I've played both of those sports when I was a little kid
but it's interesting when you're watching a lot of the parents especially
the fathers are watching their kids play and the parents always have lots of
advice they want to say like hey you should do this or you should do that
and they're giving their kids lots of advice don't make this mistake do this
thing do that other thing and it confuses the learner and like the the
sports player in that instance so what you should be doing is just picking one
thing and focusing on it and this means that you just focus on speed even if you
make mistakes while doing that thing so just like me when I was saying even
random words or even just sounds in Japanese excuse me that didn't really
make much sense so I'm just I'm saying things but just in a kind of Japanese
sounding way excuse me but the same thing actually happened to
me when I was I was maybe like 10 years old or 12 years old I think but I used
to sing in a choir and we had some Russian students that actually came and
stayed at our house that we also had another choir so there's a choir that
came and that stayed with us so lots of the families of people that were in my
choir were hosting these people in our house and I was sitting there playing
video games with these kids and I was trying to just say things that sounded
like Russian though didn't I didn't actually know any Russian and but like
they were just sitting with me and I was like yes yes you know like just trying
to say things in a way that sounded like it was Russian so I was just trying to
speak quickly and they you know they're kind of laughing at me a little bit
these are also younger kids about my age but they understand what I was doing and
I was I was kind of like picking up a little bit of Russian at that time I
don't member any of it now but in that
instance I was thinking okay right now I'm just going to focus on speed I'm not
really trying to learn anything I just want to just try to like mimic the way
they speak so if you can do that if you can just focus on focus on the speed
without thinking about any mistakes just like right now if I'm trying to give you
a particular message I might make a mistake maybe in my speaking or if I'm
like maybe I don't express myself as eloquently or as crisply as perfectly as
I'd like to it's okay because I'm communicating the message and the
message is the most important thing that's what I'm focusing on so in the
same way just in you know try to be like that parent that's giving advice like
just one thing to their kid and I would say hey son hey daughter all I want you
to do now is just focus on watching the baseball I don't care if you make any
other mistakes you just focus on this one today and we'll worry about another
problem tomorrow because you don't have to solve all the problems in one day you
just have to focus on one thing and the people that get fluent are the ones that
just find a problem they focus on that they solve that thing and then they move
on to the next one and this is everything we do with helping people
develop the second English fluency habits and we have you start thinking
about and improving on the weakest one so whatever that is if it's confidence
if it's pronunciation it doesn't matter but you focus on the weakest one first
you just focus on that and then as you improve that it starts to improve all of
your other habits as well so when you're thinking about what's the best way to to
improve your skills and I think it's like I want to I wanted like not not
communicate in a slow way when I'm speaking just focus on the speed first
so that's what's really going to get you much more motivated and excited to speak
even if you're just speaking with other people you don't have to you know really
practice it with others if you if you don't want to but you can just you know
listen to other people in practice even you're taking a video like this and you
can shadow what I'm saying and to shadow just means you're speaking along with me
so right now as I'm communicating you can go back like maybe play this section
of the video right here like play this section of the video right here repeat
it a few times and then you can actually go back and practice with us as well
actually we have we developed an English see video player that lets people do
this all the people in the fluency course and master English conversation
get this is a special player we developed that lets you automatically go
back and loop these sections and have as much time as you need to practice after
that but you can do that right here on YouTube and what's nice is that after
you practice shadowing me just saying a couple things exactly as I do them
watching how my mouth moves so it's not trying to repeat after me it's trying to
speak along with me but after you do that use that little it's like a gear
icon on the video right here on YouTube and you can click on that and change the
speed of this video so you can make it slower if you need a little bit more
practice but you can also make it faster so try shadowing me in the same way that
I'm speaking when I'm speaking faster because you can communicate much faster
if you just practice doing it so do that same thing right here that's a really
great way just to develop the speed you can after you develop the speed you can
start thinking about how do I put more vocabulary and make sure I don't make
any grammar mistakes when I'm speaking all of those things we can help you
develop again like with the fluency course or master English conversation
but first right now just focus on your speed so that's what's going to help you
communicate much faster but you just have to practice doing it you can't
listen to a video and speak faster you have to speak along with it so click on
that little gear icon change the sound speed on this video so you can make it
maybe like 2 times faster or one and a half times faster but then you can
practice speaking with me and so you'll see it get faster and faster but you can
try speaking that over and over again so you get the kind of the flow and how I
speak and then you can start shadowing that and if you practice at a much
faster level when you get into a regular conversation that's back at normal speed
you'll find wow I'm communicating quite quickly now and now I just need to learn
more new words and phrases so I can develop a vocabulary that helps me
communicate even better but that's how you do it
so try that technique out take this video right now or pick anything else
you know whatever you enjoy listening to if you have a scene from a movie or
something like go find a movie trailer here on YouTube and then do that same
thing so watch it in a faster speed shadow it and then take it
to the slower speed and see if you can repeat that same thing again but in a
much more casual and actually comfortable and confident way well
that's it for this video do try that if you want to become a faster speaker
again it's just something you need to practice the only way you can really
improve is to practice that's how you develop the habits that make you
communicate fluently if you have enjoyed this video do click that like button and
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share this video with plenty of other people who also have the same problem if
you're at a school and you know other students that are also struggling with
communicating fluently and they can't communicate quickly and they want to be
able to speak faster tell them about the video finally if you'd like to learn
more about not only developing your all of your English fluency habits really
but you know specifically about speed or vocabulary everything else your
listening your pronunciation we can help you do all of that at English anyone
comm with our free English fluency quiz so click on the link in this video or on
the link in the description below this video to learn more about that and we
can help you solve that problem absolutely free well I look forward to
seeing you in English anyone calm and I'll see you in the next video bye-bye