that's why we're doing the special
YouTube live maybe we'll do more in the
future
but it's a special event because last
week we just hit 1 million subscribers
here on YouTube thank to all your guys's
support and love for what we're doing
for helping us to really bring it more
fun ways to motivate learners all around
the world so that they get out of the
classrooms go beyond the classroom and
actually make English a part of their
life all right and maybe today's lesson
is going to be a little bit more
difficult because there's no subtitles
we almost always have subtitles on the
video and today you don't but I will go
slow I'll try to speak at like teacher
speed and hopefully you'll understand at
least like 60 to 90% of what I'm saying
all right so good for you if we're
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new lessons and in case you just jumped
into this and you're not sure what
exactly we're doing today in this
youtube live so I actually asked you
guys on our YouTube community for some
questions for things that are difficult
or confusing for you in English and I
actually chose the ones that were the
most popular so they got the most likes
and the ones that I just thought in
general were the best that might be the
most useful for the most people and so I
want to keep this just 15-20 minutes so
that people who don't have a lot of time
will still be able to get some value out
of this so I'll try to go through as
many of those questions as possible and
really thanks to all of you that
actually spent the time to think of
great questions and to write to me
alright and I'll be sure to mention who
of the original question came from but
I'm sure that many of you will have the
same question alright so without further
ado let's just jump into the first one
alright so Julianne she asked what
inspired you to making videos here so
it's not too often on our videos they're
usually very focused so I don't talk too
much about myself but my name is
and I'm actually one of the cofounders
of real-life English and real learning
for the TV series is actually a part of
real-life English that's really what we
started with we started about seven
years ago in Belo Horizonte Brazil and
it was me and my business partner Justin
who is actually in the live chat right
now so he can say hi to you all and
we're both from the United States but we
were teaching English in Brazil and we
met there and actually Justin with some
other with some other Americans and
Australians that were living there in
Belarus on to Brazil was organizing some
English events and I started going to
them and I just thought wow this is such
like a great way to help people to learn
English because we would get together in
a fun space and do some different
activities and Brazilians whose first
language is Portuguese would actually
get to speak in English during these
events and it was in a fun setting so we
saw that like people would really change
what they thought about the language
because they're actually putting it to
use and maybe you've had some sort of
experience like this where you've gotten
to go somewhere and maybe speak with
other people who are learning English or
speak with natives and you're just like
wow this is actually like a tool for
communication it's so much different
than what you learned in the English
classroom right so basically from that
we started the company real life English
and we started just doing a blog and
kind of giving advice to learners there
in Brazil and it started just growing
all over the world of the community and
a few years later we we actually started
experimenting with teaching with the TV
TV series friends we were already doing
this in our classes and we saw that
learns to get a lot of value out of it
because they saw you know that it wasn't
just grammar rules it wasn't just
vocabulary but this was actually if the
living and breathing language that the
natives that people in the United States
or in the country that that series comes
from that's what they actually are using
that's a real language and that really
would help them to learn so much more
about the language as it's really spoken
they could remember it better and so we
actually developed a course called
fluent with friends to teach with this
to actually take the TV series friends
which we met so many people
who had really beautiful fluent English
and we asked them how did you get such
good English and they would say you know
I really just love the language I would
like TV series and watched all friends
and we heard that so many times they're
like there's something to this and we
actually looked into it and there was a
lot of scientific data showing the
friends is probably the best TV series
out there for learning English just
because of the language that's used in
it the situation of friends getting
together in New York City and so we
developed this course and we saw
learners from all of the work and
benefit out of it and basically as an
experiment we decided to take the format
that we have for the course and bring it
on to YouTube and basically we ran one
experiment we did one video then we did
a couple more and they just started
taking off meaning that a lot of people
started watching them and commenting and
saying how great it was and they say
that's the history we did that I believe
two years ago maybe we're coming up on
three years and now the last year or so
the last year and a half I actually took
over actually hosting the videos and we
have two video editors that helped me a
lot max and easy they helped to actually
bring all the all of the different
content together and to make it into
what you see but it's been two years
that I've actually been doing the videos
and the voice and everything and
basically since then we've gone from
being just twenty thousand I know some
of you told me that you've been here
from the very starts to being 1 million
last week so again thanks so much for
all of your love and support this is
like really huge that in just two years
we would never have expected to be able
to make such a huge impact here
alright so Julianne thanks so much for
your question again and I'll move on to
this one to maybe some more technical
questions but that's a little bit about
the story of real-life English and
learnings with TV series so the next
question is is watching your lessons and
TV series and movies enough to make me
fluent am I going to be able to speak
like them like people on the TV series
fluently and even better so basically
the answer oh this is by the way this is
from Ahmed thank you I meant for this
question and the answer to this question
is no but so I'll get the but in a
little bit so no matter how many videos
whichever
channel that you're watching just
watching videos just studying books just
going to classes that's not going to
make you fluent it's just impossible you
can watch hours and hours and hours of
videos here on YouTube you can study
grammar books for hours and hours and
hours you will not get fluent it's
basically impossible just just watching
just studying it's not enough but first
of all before I kind of like get more
into this answer I wanted to say what is
fluency because a lot of you out there a
lot of learners here English fluency and
they think that means speaking perfect
like a native so first of all natives
don't speak perfectly we make mistakes
all the time and really being perfect
isn't really the goal because mistakes
are just so important if you want to
keep improving you have to make mistakes
and you have to learn from those
mistakes correct those mistakes and by
doing that that's how you're going to
actually advance and get to English
fluency
what is fluency actually so it's not
speaking perfectly fluency is the
confidence aspect of it so it's when you
get to the point where you can have a
conversation with someone and you know
you're able to maybe you don't know
every word sometimes you're missing a
word maybe sometimes you make a mistake
sometimes you don't know the right way
to conjugate a verb or to say something
grammatically but you're able to
communicate in a very smooth fluid way
if you don't know how to say something
you can explain it in a different way
and basically this allows you just have
a conversation for however long so being
at ten minutes an hour two hours
you're just being conversationally
fluent and of course there's different
different degrees of fluency and there's
someone who can be really really fluent
and they almost sound like a native and
I've met people like this who even
without living the United States are
able to get a level of fluency where
they almost trick me into thinking that
they're a native speaker and there's
actually kind of funny because like I
said before we got the idea for fluent
with friends because we met so many
people like this we just had this
beautiful fluency and they had watched
all the the series of friends sometimes
multiple times but that's fluency so you
could have a low level of fluency and it
would just mean that you can confidently
have a conversation and that should be
your initial goal so can you get this
just by watching TV series just by
watching videos on YouTube of course not
if you want to get able to if you want
to be able to speak English fluently you
have to speak right you have to practice
the language and this might sound
difficult because a lot of people think
oh I have to speak it so I have to go to
America that's really expensive but no
you don't have to necessarily go to
America you can live in a small town
where there's no native speakers and you
can be able to get start to get practice
and start to speak fluently how do you
do this so the first way if you don't
have anyone around you that you can
practice with I imagine you live in a
small village or something like that
speak to yourself actually grab a
recorder and record yourself speaking
and take different questions different
topics and just start talking about it
by yourself this is really great if you
have a commute so a commute if you don't
know it is when you have to drive or
take the bus or walk to work or to
school or whatever when you go to the
grocery store or anything like that when
you're basically by yourself you can
grab your quarter or or even just in
your head or even just speaking boldly
into yourself just start speaking about
something ask yourself a question think
about some something that you read in
the newspaper and just comment on it and
although you're not going to get the
feedback you're not having anyone
correct you this still helps you get
fluent because you're practicing taking
what's in your mind and producing words
with it and a lot of you say like that
it's really difficult for you to
actually take what's in your head and
speak it because it's like you just
forget everything well this is a really
great way to start thinking in English
and to get better at that to get better
at the actual speaking taking what's in
your head and being able to have it come
out of your mouth all right
so that would be the first thing the
second thing is don't just depend on
natives so you know it can be really
expensive to get a teacher or something
like that I do highly recommend that if
you can afford it get a teacher because
the Hublot a good teacher will make all
the difference but even if you have
other people in your English class if
you're younger or you have other friends
that you know that speak English or if
you're in a bigger city there's usually
like some sort of different language
exchange or English speaking events that
you can go to look for these
opportunities look for other learners
even if they speak your own language and
be really proactive about being able to
get the opportunity to speak with other
people if you do this then you're going
to really see like if you imagine you
can do this every single day or even
just a couple times a week just within a
couple weeks or a month you're going to
notice a huge difference in your ability
to take your thoughts to take everything
that you've been studying in English and
actually be able to communicate with it
alright so basically that's the the
short answer it wasn't so short but just
by watching TV series just by watching
movies you cannot get fluent but when
you do this in addition to doing things
to practice speaking it will make a
humongous impact on your English fluency
why is watching TV series so useful or
movies because I know a lot of you enjoy
watching movies too I don't recommend TV
series over movies because movies are
really long they dedicate a large amount
of time to watch and really TV series
you can especially something like
friends or any sitcom like Modern Family
like Big Bang Theory you can watch short
chunks of it and you know that's alright
but with a movie usually you want to
watch it all the way through it's very
long it's more requires more time which
a lot of us don't have but anyway if
watching TV series is really useful
because this gets you inside of that
kind of native speaking world so even
when you're if you're speaking you're
speaking always to non-native you have
this input of the TV series where you're
getting kind of that flexible everyday
language that the natives use alright so
I'm not going to say anything else about
that because I think that could be a
video in and of itself just why is TV
series so useful for learning but that's
kind of the short answer of it and I
think this leads greatly into the next
question which was from actually there
were two questions that were very
similar so Lena asked what would you
like to sorry
let me ask that again what would you
like to recommend movies for learning
real-life English so just to rephrase
this what are the best movies for
learning real-life English so that was
from Lena and Al Madina asked a very
similar question what TV series except
her friends probably because we suggest
when all the time would you recommend
for advanced students all right so thank
you your Lena and Alma Dean for those
questions so this is very similar so
what are the best TV series and movies
so first off before I actually go into
any recommendations I just want to say
that the most important thing is
actually that you enjoy what you're
watching so in the end you know I can
say like oh you know these series are
really great for learning English but if
you find all those series really boring
then I know it's not going to work for
you because you're not going to watch
them you're not going to stick with it
so the first thing that's really
important is if you enjoy series that
maybe it's not the best for learning
English but you just loved it you want
you look forward to watching it every
day watch that series watch that movie
that's the best one if you don't like
series and I just said you know series
are better for learning English don't
watch series watch movies or read or do
the thing that you really love doing
because when it comes down to it the
most important thing is that you have
fun with it that it's something that you
look forward to because all of us know
that that experience of like going to a
classroom and studying boring grammar
and the repetition of it while that can
be useful for some things it really does
not give you the motivation that you
need to keep going because learning the
language is very difficult so motivation
is key it's very important crucial all
right so the first thing that's very
important remember you better enjoy it
enjoy whatever you're watching for
learning yes some series are better than
others some movies are better than
others and as I said before series are
probably better than movies for most of
us and for kind of the specifics on our
newsletter I'm not sure how many of you
actually get our weekly newsletter but
you can sign up for that on our website
at real life global comm on our
newsletter we actually I send it every
week and usually if I'm watching some TV
series I'll recommend it and I'm
watching different TV series all the
time so that could be a great way to get
new suggestions if you if you want my
advice on what TV series to watch and if
we have similar tastes that's important
too but basically I want to give you
something more useful than just like
specific examples of series and I think
that something more useful is actually
what type of series what type of movie
are useful so there are like so many
series out there
about so many different kinds of themes
so many different types of topics and
while many of them are very entertaining
the language that's used isn't
necessarily what you're going to find if
you go to the United States or the
United Kingdom so that might be one of
the first things you want to look at is
like what accent are you learning are
you focusing on British English or
American English or another English then
probably look for series from that
country but then after that you want to
look for something that is kind of
modern that that has to do with the
English is spoken today because there's
some great series like like Game of
Thrones like the crown that are taking
place you know maybe fifty years ago or
in the case of Game of Thrones it's like
medieval English but it's it's fantasy
English as well so at least for like
English fluency that's not very useful
because you know the vocabulary that is
in Game of Thrones and stuff there's
stuff in there that I don't know that I
would probably have to look up in a
dictionary some of the words because
it's stuff that you never hear and so
that's kind of not a good place to be
focusing your English learning energy
what you want to look for is maybe more
sitcoms so like comedies like friends
and Almondine ask for ones other than
friends like Big Bang Theory Manar
family How I Met Your Mother Seinfeld
any of these are really great because
they take place in modern day or you
know more or less 20 years but the
English really hasn't changed that much
to make a big difference and they're
about kind of real-life situations so
it's the same things that you do you
probably very often get together with
your friends at a cafe or at a bar or to
go do different things together and this
is kind of the English that's used in
those series and that's the kind of
English that you need is to be able to
go probably and go talk to your friends
right
they have everyday conversations to be
able to talk about the weather to be
able to talk about current events to be
able to talk about things that are
happening in your life people you dated
your husband or wife
so like any of these that kind of have
the everyday situations of life are
really useful and then another
suggestion that I can give is that you
know like if you are looking for a
specific kind of English look for a
series about that so for example if you
work in science or maybe technology Big
Bang Theory could be good because
there's a lot of that kind of English
if you're a lawyer then you can watch a
series like suits or law and order that
take place in the courtroom that are all
about lawyers if you're a doctor then
you might want to watch like house or
Grey's Anatomy that take place in
hospitals and etc etc so kind of look
for like what is the kind of English I
need and what series can I find that
will contain that kind of English all
right so I hope that that was a useful
answer for you we also have a video that
I did on her channel actually
recommending specific series that I
enjoy and that I think are really
beneficial for English learners and
there might be someone there that you
probably haven't seen even if you really
watch a lot of series and that's
probably due for an update because I did
it about a year ago so you know maybe
I'll have a video coming out for that
soon so thanks again for that suggestion
Almudena and lena and i'm sorry with all
these guys all you guys if i'm
pronouncing your names badly and just
for times sake i think i will not answer
the last question that i had here but i
just wanted to wrap this up by kind of
saying thanks again to all of you guys
for all your love and support guard
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because really you're doing this
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be something that you know but something
that you actually live with you actually
use that brings much benefit to your
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