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 i will be speaking
speaking to quickly in this one but
but I think it's just important for
for you to listen to well
well not only my speech at this regular
regular speed but also I try to give
give things that are even faster on
on occasion just because this is really
really trying to Train individual
individual parts of your fluency and
and this is how i teach so it's part
part of the things like when you're
you're you know learning to improve
improve a particular muscle group
group it's important sometimes to
to just focus on that one thing or
or you approach that muscle group
group from different areas or do different
different exercises that are trying
trying to focus on one particular
particular thing so obviously i don't
don't want you to just listen to really
really fast speech because people
people don't normally speak like that
that but when you stretch yourself
yourself by trying to listen to something
something that's faster they want
want then what you would normally
normally listen to then that's going
going to train you and be more comfortable
comfortable train you to be more comfortable
comfortable i should say when you
you get into actual conversation with
with people and they're speaking at
at a much more kind of everyday and
and more normal and regular speed
speed kind of speech anyway just wanted
wanted to throw that out there just
just to say that right before we begin
begin this lesson set for this lesson
lesson i should say but today what
what I wanted to talk about is developing
developing your fluency kind of in
in the same way i develop mind by
by focusing focus focus focus lately
lately I've been making quite a few
few videos that have been describing
describing various things in the basic
basic intermediate and more advanced
advanced way and the reason I've been
been doing that is because while people
people were asking for it but also
also it's a really great idea for
for you to just see how you can take
take something and when you focus
focus on something simple that will
will restrain the wave kind of your
your options for what you can talk
talk about and actually make you much
much more creative so
so you look for ways to explain things
things and to describe things when
when you don't have the opportunity
opportunity to just talk about anything
anything you want to you get to focus
focus and it really draws your creativity
creativity out so i think i was i
i am i've been like making so many
many lessons lately that i only remember
remember what lessons that I was talking
talking about this in or what lesson
lesson i was talking about this in
in but the costume ball example where
where you're having like a costume
costume party and if you say I'm talking
talking about having a costume party
party about you know people that are
are having yeah
yeah or maybe eighteen nineteen eighties
eighties TV show characters so you're
you're making it very specific and
and the more specific you make something
something while still giving a little
little bit of freedom there that's
that's what's really going to help
help you improve so what I'd like
like to talk about today in this advanced
advanced listening practice lesson
lesson is and how I got fluid and
and how you can use the same principle
principle yourself for trying to learn
learn lots of new things and actually
actually develop the ability to speak
speak in the way I'm speaking right
right now so when I was first came
came when i first came to Japan I
I really struggled it was really like
like a serious pain in the ass I almost
almost thought about returning to
to America it was that depressing
depressing for me because I'm living
living in a small town and nobody
nobody else spoke English really except
except maybe one teacher and one other
other person that I didn't even meet
meet until a couple of months after
after i had moved there so I'm talking
talking to people and even kind of
of just getting along when I was first
first learning language i really struggled
struggled I did all the typical things
things that people do when they're
they're trying to learn a language
language and they're they're trying
trying to use textbooks and flashcards
flashcards and you're you're basically
basically trying to build like a wide
wide vocabulary because when you get
get into like a new country to learn
learn the language for the first time
time you're thinking like oh my god
god there is so much information I
I need to know I need to know how
how to go shopping I need to know
know what to say at the bank i need
need to know what like how to get
get my internet turned on and you
you know what to say when i go to
to the coffee house to get my particular
particular morning coffee and you
you get overwhelmed by all these things
things and that's why I really like
like you to return to the idea of
of focusing and so you kind of pick
pick a few things or pick maybe ideally
ideally just one thing to focus on
on and you go really deep with that
that thing and you develop the ability
ability to speak fluently about that
that particular thing because typically
typically whether you're talking about
about coffee or you're talking about
about like getting an airplane ticket
ticket or getting your haircut or
or any of these other particular things
things you might be doing there's
there's a particular way of talking
talking where you're all you're doing
doing is really exchanging vocabulary
vocabulary when you move from one
one subject to another so actually
actually learning to connect your
your words and speak fluently is quite
quite easy to do if you just focus
focus on one thing but if you try
try to learn about the bank and the
the coffee shop and the haircutting
haircutting and all these other things
things at the same time you're going
going to get a very you get kind of
of a wide range of things where you
you have
you have a good
a good vocabulary but you won't know
know how to connect that vocabulary
vocabulary because you haven't focused
focused on that so
so the focus happen for me because
because i was able to focus on gardening
gardening and I spent a lot of my
my time like two days a week just
just like doing nothing but gardening
gardening and talking about that and
and of course at the beginning I wasn't
wasn't very good i was just learning
learning individual words but by even
even just learning like okay this
this rock goes on that rock or we
we put this plant behind that thing
thing something like that I'm
I'm starting to learn how we put phrases
phrases and sentences and Colin whole
whole conversations come together
together just by focusing on a particular
particular thing so in the same way
way that I'm making these lessons
lessons now that are helping people
people describe things the way they
they needed speaker would understand
understand them or the way about native
native speaker would say them I'd
I'd like you to do the same thing
thing just pick your number one interest
interest and you'll be able to come
come back to the other things that
that you want to learn but just pick
pick one thing that you're really
really interested in and it should
should be something that you enjoy
enjoy studying or enjoy doing in your
your own native language so if you
you like skateboarding then learn
learn about skateboarding in English
English whatever that thing is but
but you should be focusing on that
that thing and learn to go deep with
with it so learn lots of vocabulary
vocabulary learn how to work with
with different grammar points within
within that topic and then it will
will be much easier when you move
move to something else because really
really the grammar doesn't change
change and this is why people are
are like asking me like and I learned
learned some like more advanced grammar
grammar and other things and really
really if you think about fluency
fluency like a tree the grammar kind
kind of goes up to a certain point
point and then it stops the grammar
grammar doesn't get infinitely more
more difficult i mean you could kind
kind of make more interesting language
language but it's more about interesting
interesting phrases and metaphors
metaphors and other things like that
that it becomes more about different
different subjects so out here like
like the grammar is the same for all
all these different subjects that
that come out but the vocabulary is
is the thing that's really different
different
different so
so if you can focus on the grammar
grammar and then focus on one particular
particular subject then you can you
you know once you've mastered this
this thing it's much easier to move
move on to different subjects and
and learn about those different things
things in the same way that a native
native speaking college student they
they already have a good understanding
understanding of the language so that
that they can learn economics or social
social studies or you know whatever
whatever the other thing is they happen
happen to be learning in their particular
particular classes so I'd like you
you to do the same thing and that's
that's what the this lesson set is
is all about this lesson i should
should say and
and when you're thinking about something
something again find something you're
you're interested in really go deep
deep with it and try to learn as we
we do with these descriptions of things
things we're taking not just the object
object itself but the pieces of the
the object trying to ask questions
questions about it how can you describe
describe that thing more and this
this is what's going to help you get
get from much faster so you might
might have to sacrifice a little bit
bit of time like knowing about all
all these things in a small way but
but the people that succeed are the
the ones that go deep with something
something and this is how you can
can master the actual art of speaking
speaking before you start learning
learning more things like vocabulary
vocabulary so it's much easier to
to master the art of speaking first
first and then add more vocabulary
vocabulary to that than to try to
to do the opposite we're
we're trying to learn a bunch of different
different vocabulary words for different
different things and you don't really
really know how to connect them very
very well
very well so
so practice doing that find something
something interesting that you liked
liked learning and go deep with that
that thing focus on that thing learn
learn a lot of aspects of that vocabulary
vocabulary and then try to practice
practice different grammar points
points within that thing and you'll
you'll be much more motivated and
and excited to learn well that's it
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