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number one English fluency guide and
and the co-founder of English anyone
anyone dot com and is a pleasure to
to welcome you to a special kind of
of video where I think I will hopefully
hopefully accomplish two things I
I will kill two birds with one stone
stone
stone this
this is a really great English expression
expression you can use when you want
want to talk about doing one action
action in accomplishing two or more
more goals so this is maybe even something
something in your own language I know
know the expression two birds with
with one stone is in Japanese well
well he said he needs so one stone
stone or one rock into birds so basically
basically what I actually like to
to do is kind of inspire you but show
show you a way of learning and really
really talk about the most difficult
difficult part of language learning
learning which is that even between
between time where you actually have
have to train yourself to practice
practice now as a language learner
learner like yourself like myself
myself I'm learning Japanese in the
the same way you're learning english
english or any other languages the
the most difficult part of that is
is not really learning the words it's
it's easy to find lots of information
information it's more how can you
you get in front of people in practice
practice and make mistakes and do
do the kinds of things that you have
have to do when your training with
with people in the same way that you
you get to the gym in you know you
you exercise and you train yourself
yourself and how do you deal with
with that when you make mistakes and
and that's the difficult part because
because again the learning of the
the actual language is really not
not so difficult the grammar and vocabulary
vocabulary and all that it just takes
takes time to review but when you
you make mistakes that's where it's
it's really problematic so a lot of
of people because they're pretty good
good actually learning the language
language itself they're really good
good at taking tests so maybe that's
that's you you're the kind of learner
learner they can take tests and you
you can do well when you're listening
listening to something that maybe
maybe when you have to speak by yourself
yourself you're not so good at it
it and the reason is because you're
you're probably shy to speak and you
you don't want to make mistakes in
in you know all the typical things
things that happened with that so
so hopefully this video inspires you
you as I'm showing you a example of
of not necessarily language learning
learning but the same way the principal
principal language learning which
which is either really of learning
learning to get to rate means
means to have various versions of
of something to start with something
something basic and continue to mold
mold in changing over time but to
to do it with other people so that
that you can get feedback from them
them and this is a very common thing
thing you see with technology companies
companies they make a particular application
application or they make some software
software something or maybe they try
try one business idea and maybe it
it kind of works but it's not really
really that good silly change and
and do something else but the whole
whole process happens with other people
people so you're continuing to create
create something and work with somebody
somebody else or a bunch of other
other people and the same thing happens
happens when you're practicing your
your English so when you're learning
learning to speak you have to go through
through this phase so the only way
way you can really do it the only
only way you can get through and the
the same way with you know practicing
practicing the violin or playing the
the piano were getting good at any
any particular sport all of these
these things it's not about learning
learning tracks or information it's
it's about the actual training because
because it's a physical skill so what
what I thought I would do today is
is give you an actual demonstration
demonstration of something I'm working
working on which is an iterative designer
designer and iterative way of learning
learning myself and this is our very
very first application wow look at
at this actually got my iPad right
right here in this is our very first
first appt getting clear they're showing
showing for you though it is called
called scroll phonics and you can
can see that it's actually not very
very beautiful looking it's actually
actually incredibly simple the color
color scheme and the fonts and all
all of that stuff is really not very
very nicely designed but the point
point is that we just want to start
start with something that we can share
share with people so this is the you
you know the point where you're starting
starting to make something and maybe
maybe you think it's going to be good
good maybe it's not but if you're
you're too scared to get that initial
initial version out for people to
to tests and people are complaining
complaining about this people are
are saying way like it doesn't look
look very good or you know maybe I
I don't have so many levels in the
the game or something like that but
but that's ok I'm happy to hear that
that criticism even people are also
also excited about it is well but
but I'm happy to hear the criticism
criticism
criticism people
people are making about the game with
with the application because that's
that's what helps me learn in making
making much more valuable apt so I
I thought I would actually take you
you through the app and talked about
about in the same way that we try
try to improve our language skills
skills I can actually show you what
what we're thinking about behind that
that why were designing it in the
the way we're designing it and hopefully
hopefully you will be inspired yourself
yourself to get out and make some
some mistakes and kinda do the same
same thing so again even though this
this isn't the most beautiful app
app you've ever seen it's
it's a great start and it's something
something it's actually are like I
I was saying our very first absent
absent never built one of these before
before and I've got a great team helping
helping me and we're just getting
getting it out and trying it out so
so I know we're in the middle of a
a beta test right now and I know a
a lot of people are not able to test
test the app so I figured I would
would just you know put it up here
here in show you what it looks like
like so scroll phonics kind of the
the background of the game here what
what I wanted to do is have a system
system where people can actually teach
teach themselves how to read and so
so what I was doing is instead of
of having the kind of typical after
after you add you know how to find
find lots of letters and what kind
kind of tell you what to learn I really
really wanted to give students the
the ability to find things for themselves
themselves so just looking at the
the very basic application that we've
we've got here there's only one button
button to get started so we push on
on that and then we've got some various
various levels that you can choose
choose from right here so the level
level select screen again it's not
not very beautiful but it's just a
a very basic thing not already gone
gone through the games all the levels
levels are unlocked you can scroll
scroll through and choose a particular
particular level you like to have
have you as an example we start with
with the alphabet appear so the very
very first letter is the letter A
A and we can start with the alphabet
alphabet and just look at that but
but I thought it would be a bit more
more interesting to look at some of
of the higher levels in the game so
so we're gonna go too bad so as you
you can see here we also wanted to
to make the application be something
something that it was really easy
easy for people to understand without
without being able to read because
because a lot of fun its apps if you
you give them to a child or something
something you know they've got a way
way to look at the application but
but if they can't understand the instructions
instructions and it kind of defeats
defeats the purpose of learning with
with the application so
so for this one we've got find and
and explore and listen and we've got
got tests so we're gonna check out
out two of these actually two of the
the modes in the game right now so
so the first one is explore some disc
disc gonna go in here and all we're
we're doing what I've done with my
my teams we've created a set of wheels
wheels that people can actually test
test different combinations of words
words and all you do I can get a good
good grip on this year and he's actually
actually pretty big so this is the
the basic you know kind of game play
play of it will look much different
different than this when we actually
actually finished the full application
application but you can scroll through
through and create different words
words so instead of having someone
someone tell you what something is
is the whole point of the APIs for
for you to go through into Teach Yourself
Yourself by experimenting with different
different combinations now in the
the App currently we only have a very
very limited phonics election so we
we actually only wanted to go up to
to
to consonant
consonant vowel consonant because
because we wanted to give people the
the opportunity I just a tested in
in really experiment you know as they're
they're being able to play with the
the game so we wanted to make sure
sure it's something you know I could
could go through and scroll through
through now and if it's an actual
actual word than a little picture
picture or an animation comes up some
some now means to take something so
so as a non native speaker you
you would be able to learn with this
this is well without having a lot
lot of explanations now
now some of the words maybe it's a
a little bit more difficult to understand
understand but this is again more
more of a reading app then really
really teaching language native
native speakers and nonnative speakers
speakers can use it as well so what's
what's interesting about this is that
that even if a particular like pat
pat now pat is not a word in so no
no picture appears up here but if
if we want to you know find this in
in some other words you know others
others like maybe it won't appear
appear as a word by itself but pat
pat will be you know as a a part of
of a particular word like perhaps
perhaps that's actually kind of beer
beer something like that or we can
can have other words that again even
even if it's not a word by itself
itself you're learning the phonics
phonics rules such that you can put
put this into another word so something
something like pad you know it wouldn't
wouldn't necessarily be aware by itself
itself
itself would
would find it in something else so
so I can play up here is a bit so
so I can play individual sounds are
are gonna play the whole thing like
like that now again if I'm just scrolling
doing is exploring with the alphabet
alphabet as opposed to someone telling
telling me what each of these you
you know words are things like that
that are so when I'm finished with
with testing there are a couple different
different modes we can use all actually
actually just show the final test
test mode we're going to have a lot
lot more games when we finish the
the final version of this but for
for now I just want to have something
something nice and simple that people
people could test their ability so
so what we've got here is a really
really simple just a game where you're
you're trying to you know if you have
have about five minutes where you
you want to find all of the words
words and make all the words before
before the time runs out so if you
you forget what the sound is okay
okay so I'm looking for the word bag
bag right now so I have to find all
all the letters in order and it shows
shows me what the word is now ok here's
here's one of those words it is not
not an actual word but you would have
have CAG as a part of larger words
words and that's why we wanted to
to make something like this we could
could actually teach yourself some
some gonna put seek tag that is another
another word that's not actually a
a word well I guess you could be kind
kind of BaP something it's like a
a sound effect but here we go back
back
back gap
gap year ago and
and how to get just means to talk
talk I'm not going to go through all
all these I just wanted to show you
you basically how the game works but
but again the important thing here
here is that I'm releasing something
something that's not very polished
polished but it looks you know it
it looks ok and it's enough to get
get the idea across to people of what
what we're creating and the same thing
thing happens when you're learning
learning the language so when you're
you're trying to speak the easy part
part again is the actual learning
learning of the vocabulary it's just
just the practicing of it that you
you need to do and that's what takes
takes time and if you go out and you're
you're free to do those things if
if you're free to create something
something if you're afraid to show
show people then that's that's the
the thing that's going to stop you
you so I'm just here to show you I'm
I'm here you know showing this video
video of something that's not quite
quite perfect it's actually very far
far from perfect and there's really
really not much to it sexy very simple
simple thing again we've only got
got a few modes I can go back into
into like a particular mode I can
can change their particular level
level I'm on like the alphabet is
is very simple as well we're just
just going to go to Explorer year
year ago and I'm just going to school
school to voters you and if I go to
to my word book up here I can scroll
scroll through and it'll tell me the
the different letters that I'm playing
playing with over here so again you
you look much different you know when
when we finally finished it it's a
a little bit kind of textbook issue
issue right now so we're going to
to make it a bit more lively but we
we just want to have a basic idea
idea of how to do something so this
this is exactly the same thing you
you should be doing even if you don't
don't sound perfect even if you don't
don't do know create something that
that you think is you know actually
actually correct sentence or a true
true sentence just get out and start
start speaking this is the same thing
thing I had to do when I was starting
starting to learn Japanese and when
when I finally decided okay it's okay
okay to make mistakes in front of
of people that's when I started making
making real progress so if you can
can do the same thing I hope this
this video inspires you not only to
to you know maybe learn more about
about designing your own app and also
also to think about this you can actually
actually learn more about school funding
funding so put a link in this video
video if you'd like to learn more
more about that if you have any questions
questions but hopefully we like to
to release the full version of the
the app and maybe the spring of 2016
2016 so we're working again with people
people that are on the list right
right now so we're actually testing
testing it and if you want to get
get a copy of this we have a think
think still a few spaces available
available you can send me an email
email at info at English anyone dot
dot com if you'd like to get estrogen
estrogen and if we still have versions
versions of it available as we only
only have a certain number of them
them that Apple will let us release
release so if you'd like to get a
a copy of this to play with the app
app actually goes from the alphabet
alphabet 23 letter words that begin
begin with B&N have in the middle
middle so actually for the current
current version pretty cool anyway
anyway I thought this was a really
really great thing because this is
is exactly the tool that I wanted
wanted to create for a long time and
and this is how I taught lots of little
little Japanese kids how to read but
but instead of doing it with a nap
nap I was just doing it with cards
cards and actually being the voice
voice of the at right now you can
can actually have a really good native
native voice fits perfectly native
native when you actually hear the
the words it's a regular native pronunciation
pronunciation and the individual sounds
sounds as well so it's a really simple
simple app you can go in here again
again like you can look at all of
of the words and I think it's really
really cool so it's a very basic app
app still but again get out in practice
practice this is how you learn this
this is how you improve and you have
have to go through this phase of trying
trying something and making a whole
whole bunch of mistakes making something
something that maybe doesn't look
look perfect but that's how you get
get there you go up in steps you don't
don't make an immediate jump to fluency
fluency just like we're not going
going to make any immediate jump to
to a really fantastic especially not
not the first time or making one well
well I hope you've enjoyed this video
video and it's given you a reason
reason to get excited about learning
learning and also to getting so excited
excited about you know even building
building something like this where
where you're creating something for
for other people and helping them
them learn have a fantastic day and