well hello out there in YouTube land
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I thought it was kind of a rainy day
day but it's now starting to become
become fall here in Japan a little
little bit anyway it's still kind
kind of hot but
but I thought for this advanced listening
listening practice lesson and give
give you some interesting background
background to look at and near my
my home actually here in Japan and
and so I had a lovely japanese garden
garden or a kind of small one behind
behind me just for a little bit of
of ambiance but i like it especially
especially being able to sit here
here in a Japanese room and look out
out and I get to see some lovely trees
trees and a little bit of rain falling
falling so I hope you enjoy that as
as well as always this is our advanced
advanced listening practice this new
new series i will be speaking much
much more quickly then maybe you're
you're used to if you enjoy english
english lessons here on youtube so
so if you're not familiar with me
me or my channel you're new to the
the channel I do highly recommend
recommend you go back and watch a
a lot of the previous videos so you
you can get used to my voice so that
that way when you're listening to
to me you can start you know enjoying
enjoying a lot more of the faster
faster english i'm speaking and this
this will help you get used to watching
watching the fast spoken english in
in conversations and movies or in
in just everyday conversations you're
you're having with people so if your
your understanding that and you're
you're ready to go let's
let's begin well today i wanted to
to talk about something pretty interesting
interesting actually so
so you know i have a new baby i mentioned
mentioned that in a previous video
video if you've been watching these
these already she's
she's doing very well thank you for
for all the congratulations and the
the well wishes again but this is
is actually something a
a few days ago so I was you know just
just sitting at home and we had some
some visitors come over these
these are two elderly women so they
they came over these are family friends
friends we've known them for a long
long time and obviously you know you
you have a baby and everybody wants
wants to come look at the baby especially
especially a half baby now in japan
japan since you know it's a mixed
mixed baby they call them half kids
kids out here you probably wouldn't
wouldn't use that in America but up
up here you know she's known Aria
Aria my daughter is known as a half
half maybe so
so they're very cute and being obviously
obviously people want to come over
over and take a look and see what
what they're like especially
especially if they've never met one
one in person before anyway so we
we have these two elderly women come
come over one of them i think is about
about maybe 80 years old and another
another one is in her i think maybe
maybe next week or next month she'll
she'll be turning 90 years old so
so the slightly younger one is actually
actually still quite active and likes
likes to do a lot of stuff and so
so is the the older one or so does
does the older one I should say but
but you know she's still moving a
a little bit more slowly and it's
it's a bit more difficult for her
her to get around so
so you know she has a cane and we
we try to help her move but so anyway
anyway they came to the house they
they written relaxed with us for a
a little bit got to see the baby and
and hold the baby a little bit so
so they really enjoyed that but
but I happen to be going back downtown
downtown when the both of them were
were leaving the house and I actually
actually went home where I didn't
didn't go home but I was going out
out for the day I was going out to
to do some errands or something like
like that after they left and
and so I took the same training as
as the the 90 year old woman or the
the one that's about to be 90 years
years old now it was really interesting
interesting about this and this is
is actually something very important
important for fluency or for whatever
whatever it is you happen to be studying
studying when you're you know thinking
thinking about well actually before
before I get it is i'll let you kind
kind of explore you get you get used
used to the young just a story a little
little bit but so anyway so we're
we're going to the the the train station
station and we're walking downstairs
downstairs and everything is taking
taking a lot longer I'm actually holding
holding her by the hand and walking
walking really really slowly as we
we go to the train station and then
then we get on the train and then
then we take the train all the way
way downtown together and we're talking
talking on the train about different
different things about how she had
had
had an
an open heart surgery so she had a
a double bypass 21 years ago and she's
she's still alive so
so she's still doing very well and
and should get into the pool and do
do some walking in things like that
that
that now
now that in and of itself that by
by itself is not so interesting but
but when we got to the train station
station
station I
I actually held her hand as we walked
walked all the way to her house now
now if I'm walking by myself it would
would probably take me maybe two minutes
minutes to get where she lives but
but it took us about 20 and she was
was still winded this
this is a great work here wing did
did WI nded to be winded by something
something means you're kind of tired
tired like you're doing a lot of running
running or exercising and then when
when you get tired like that so you're
you're feeling winded so
so anyway so I'm walking with her
her and I really noticed the whole
whole bunch of things it was much
much different from my normal walking
walking because i'll put some headphones
headphones on and i'm usually you
you know I'm you know fairly tall
tall and about six foot one and i
i moved through this through the city
city pretty quickly I like to walk
walk around and it's nice and relaxing
relaxing for me that's my exercise
exercise sometimes and instead of
of taking a tram or a bus around the
the city all just walk from different
different places and in Nagasaki there
there are a lot of hills so we can
can go climb up and get a little bit
bit of extra you know get a little
little bit of extra work out like
like that like working on a treadmill
treadmill that's going up like that
that
that so
so anyway I'm walking with her and
and instead of what I normally do
do walking really quickly I'm really
really really walking slowly and this
this isn't even normally like just
just slow walking like I'm in a museum
museum looking around like even more
more more slowly than that but i really
really appreciated the chance to do
do that I wouldn't walk around by
by myself normally that slow as I'm
I'm saying but
but walking with her i'm kind of talking
talking with her and I'm noticing
noticing all these little shops and
and things like that that I wouldn't
wouldn't notice normally now you probably
probably get a good feeling for this
this if you maybe take a car or you
you take a train or something like
like that with each mode of transportation
transportation you're getting to the
the mode where you're getting to the
the location you want to be at
at faster so if i take an airplane
airplane or I take a train or a bus
bus or something like that or even
even a bicycle I'm
I'm getting there faster than by walking
walking but what you sacrifice is
is not being able to notice a lot
lot of the things very quickly and
and this really gets to the heart
heart
heart what
what I wanted to talk about today
today and something that's very important
important really part of the way that
that I teach and try to help students
students learn and this is about how
how you can really begin to focus
focus by deciding on what your real
real objective is a lot of people
people want to get to fluency quickly
quickly and you know we really try
try to help people get there as quickly
quickly as possible but really one
one of the best ways to get there
there quickly is to get there slowly
slowly not know that sounds weird
weird but what you're really trying
trying to do is focus on things and
and in the same way instead of walking
walking really quickly to try to get
get to this end destination all the
the things that you're missing in
in the middle of that when you move
move so quickly those
those are the things that you know
know really are going to help you
you get fluid so right now i'm using
using a metaphor here to try to connect
connect the speed at which i'm walking
walking so I know it is all these
these things and you know i'm speaking
speaking with this woman and she was
was explaining to me what's changed
changed in the neighborhood and some
some new things that happened and
and other things like that where she
she lived and so I walked all the
the way to her house and we saw all
all these interesting things even
even in it was only like two or three
three blocks that we want walked across
across an overpass down from Nagasaki
Nagasaki station and then we just
just walked up to streets and walked
walked over another street cross the
the river and that was her home so
so it was actually a really quick
quick walk but within all of these
these faces all of these different
different things were happening and
and my view of all that had changed
changed because even though i walk
walk that same way before you didn't
didn't really notice those things
things it's not the same way you would
would you would think about that you
you maybe you just don't care it's
it's not so important to you but what
what I'd like you to think about is
is instead of trying to rush through
through things you know maybe you
you get a like a video lesson for
for me or somebody else you get really
really excited you want to watch the
the whole thing and that's what you
you do what I would really encourage
encourage you to do is to take time
time with things like that let's
let's say I make you know even this
this video it's longer than a few
a few minutes or I have some videos
videos that are longer than this maybe
maybe 30 minutes long but you don't
don't have to watch the whole thing
thing you can focus on maybe five
five minutes of that thing and really
really try writing it or reading it
it or you could try speaking along
along with me as i speak there
there are lots of different ways to
to practice and instead of rushing
rushing to try to get to something
something because like you you think
think that's fluency is a is a location
location or a place you have to get
get to as quickly as possible really
really the fluency is the journey
journey now I know this is kind of
of a cliché like a cliché is something
something that will everybody knows
knows that and you know it's just
just not you know I'm something worth
worth saying but it's really important
important and I think it's something
something that a lot of people forget
forget the same thing with business
business or anything else that takes
takes a lot of time the actual journey
journey but especially with fluency
fluency all these little things that
that you learn like even this you
you know sitting around in this this
this room right here you know I've
I've got the names of plants behind
behind me or I've got the the style
style of the room or you know even
even this like the names of physical
physical objects that you wouldn't
wouldn't think about like the window
window pane or the windowsill or the
the window cover or other things like
like that and you know there's lots
lots of different things that if we
we take our time instead of just learning
learning the word room we can really
really dive into a particular thing
thing and what you should be using
using for that is something you're
you're really interested in so
so as an example you not here with
with a lovely japanese garden behind
behind me because I'm interested in
in that and I want to share that with
with you a little bit and you know
know get you involved in the atmosphere
atmosphere and part of the reason
reason i came to japan was because
because this actually the main reason
reason i came to japan was because
because of what you see behind me
me there's actually a Japanese maple
maple in the background that taller
taller one of these couple of bushes
bushes here but that's one of my favorite
favorite treats it's
it's a it's really beautiful look
look at especially you know you can
can see the rain coming down a little
a little bit after it's got a little
little bit of light rain just discovering
discovering the leaves a little bit
bit but anyway you can see that instead
instead of trying to rush through
through things that taking your time
time is really the secret to getting
getting it is you know whatever the
the particular thing you're after
after but especially fluency so
so just like me taking that old woman
woman by the hand and walking and
and talking with her and taking a
a moment to really walk you know not
not just not just slowly but extra
extra slowly to really take even more
more time in almost two it kind of
of felt uncomfortable for me but really
really when you think about something
something feeling uncomfortable for
for you it just means that it's new
new and different but it doesn't necessarily
necessarily mean it's bad our
our bodies and our minds they naturally
naturally want us to be doing things
things that we are feeling comfortable
comfortable with so
so it's easy to do what's comfortable
comfortable what's every day and all
all these other things but if you
you really take your time and try
try to do something new and different
different it's going to feel uncomfortable
uncomfortable but it's probably going
going to be worth it for you as well
well so i highly recommend you do
do that
do that a
a great English phrase where we kind
kind of talked about this with the
the idea is connected with is is stop
stop and smell the roses so
so take time to stop and smell the
the roses
the roses this
this means if I'm walking down the
the street I should stop and maybe
maybe take a look at some things like
like some beautiful flowers by the
the side of the road and smell them
them
them so
so take a moment to enjoy that not
not be so hurried and trying to do
do things quickly all the time if
if you look at people the people that
that get fluid are the ones that steadily
steadily improve a little bit each
each month and this is exactly why
why we teach people how to do this
this in master English conversation
conversation that's
that's why we don't give thousands
thousands of phrases we give maybe
maybe a few hundred and let you maybe
maybe do two or three phrases a day
day that you could learn and then
then that's what's really going to
to help you get fluid so when you
you can really build a foundation
foundation of things that you really
really focus on you come at that information
information from a lot of different
different angles then you have a really
really solid foundation of information
information that you will forget that
that you build on that each
each month and that's why master English
English conversation members really
really enjoy the program they know
know they're not moving as quickly
quickly as possible but they're going
going to be overall approaching fluency
fluency much faster because they're
they're actually learning things and
and remembering them and they won't
won't forget the later so that way
way we won't have to study things
things over and over again so that's
that's just another fantastic reason
reason to join the program if you're
you're not already a member if you'd
you'd like to learn more about master
master English conversation you can
can also click on the link in this
this video or in the description below
below this video but
but whether you learned with me or
or not it doesn't matter the point
point is I really want you to see
see improvement in your fluency and
and other aspects of your life your
your health your wealth all
all of these things and a lot of that
that is going to come from stopping
stopping and smelling the roses well
well that's it for this advanced listening
listening practice lesson I hope you
you enjoy it I
I look forward to seeing you next
next time as soon as this gets to
to 100 million views all
all right we'll just make it easier
easier to say 10,000 views again you
you guys have been actually doing
doing that pretty quickly but you
you know if it gets a hundred million
million views maybe I'll do something
something even crazier we'll
we'll see anyway I look forward to
to seeing you in the next lesson be