hey there this is drew badger the
the world's number one english fluency
fluency guide and the co-founder of
of English anyone . com and welcome
welcome to a new advanced Listening
Listening a practice lesson in this
this lesson we haven't had one of
of these in a while so I'm excited
excited to make it again as always
always whenever we make these lessons
lessons this is a really fast speaking
speaking practice for me I like to
to get to speak more quickly because
because I spend a lot of time making
making videos at a slower pace so
so if you are new to this video series
series i highly recommend you go back
back and watch some of our previous
previous videos especially are like
like beginning grammar series which
which you can find on youtube so that's
that's on our youtube channel you
you can look for the playlist that
that says beginning english grammar
grammar and that is a lot slower version
version of me speaking but it's still
still my same voice this
this video series is all about advanced
advanced listening and that means
means i'm going to be speaking at
at an even faster than not been kind
kind of native or normal pace so that
that will give you a chance to get
get used to the sound of my voice
voice but also the blending of sounds
sounds and if you can try practicing
practicing speaking along with
me
me this
this is called shadowing and this
this just means that you're trying
trying to copy the way I sound the
the same way I do so
so not only the way I speak but if
if you see my hands moving around
around
around I
I like to communicate with my hands
hands especially to non-native speakers
speakers because hopefully i can communicate
communicate a bigger idea or something
something more specific but
but you know using my hands it helps
helps to complement the way I'm speaking
speaking
speaking so
so in this video series again we're
we're going to be speaking more quickly
quickly so if you're not ready for
for that please go back and watch
watch the other videos if you are
are
are let's
let's jump right into the lesson today
today I want to talk about something
something I've been thinking about
about this a lot recently and this
this is something near and dear to
to my heart this is actually a phrase
phrase to be near and dear to my heart
heart is something that appeared in
in a recent master English conversation
conversation lessons set and it just
just means something that you're passionate
passionate about you love very much
much but it's a native way of saying
saying this to be near and dear to
to my heart like soccer is very near
near and dear to my heart but this
this is very near and dear to my heart
heart as an English educator in English
English fluency guide someone that's
that's trying to help people get from
from the kind of plateau level of
of their app to the highest level
level where they
they can actually be speaking confidently
confidently and so i'll be talking
talking about that specifically in
in this video a lot of lessons in
in this series maybe i'm just talking
talking about whatever the first one
one is actually about laundry bags
bags
bags if
if you go back and watch that video
video in this series so it's actually
actually a really interesting collection
collection of lessons but this one
one specifically i was just thinking
thinking about this a lot recently
recently so I want to bring this up
up for this lesson out but hopefully
hopefully it won't be too quick for
for people but again you might have
have to watch this a few times until
until you can get it all and really
really understand everything anyway
anyway so the point of this lesson
lesson what I want to talk about is
is practice and why it's such an important
important thing and I know this seems
seems kind of like a very obvious
obvious thing that most students like
like yes of course i have to practice
practice if I want to get better but
but i really want to talk about first
first understanding what language
language learning is and what language
language learning is not and then
then why such you know practice would
would be such an important thing to
to think about so first of all when
when you think about a subject like
like math or you're trying to learn
learn science or something like that
that where you have to memorize a
a bunch of facts and then use those
those again when you're taking a test
test
test these
these are formulas that kind of thing
thing I talk about this over and over
over again but learning a language
language is not like learning that
that kind of information it's
it's not something where I can take
take a test and i have time to think
think about it I can take a rule and
and use the rule and there's lots
lots of time again that time factor
factor is the most important thing
thing
thing so
so when you're studying a language
language in a classroom and you're
you're thinking about taking tests
tests you have that time you know
know you're listening to a reading
reading eggs and exercise or a reading
reading exam for listening practice
practice exercise or exam and you
you have to you have time to think
think about your answer but most times
times in conversations you have to
to be very quick otherwise
otherwise you're just sitting there
there pausing like this and you don't
don't really know what to say and
and this can be you know frustrating
frustrating and embarrassing for people
people so the whole point to be able
able to speak fluently and continuously
continuously just the way I'm speaking
speaking right now you're still kind
kind of thinking as you speak in the
the same way i'm thinking right now
now but you really want to be able
able to to make this process go much
much more quickly and the only way
way to do this is through practice
practice
practice so
so what people normally do is they
they they spend maybe ninety five
five percent of their time learning
learning something in a textbook or
or you know whatever it is that thing
thing could be it could be listening
listening practice like you're watching
watching youtube videos something
something like this so it's all the
the input
the input it's
it's all input but everything changes
changes
changes the
the moment you actually have to use
use that in a real conversation and
and so it's only that time you'll
you'll have to forgive me there's
there's like a truck backing up outside
outside but hopefully that little
little beeping will go away soon anyway
anyway
anyway so
so when you're thinking about the
the difference between the way you
you practice and so if you have this
this specific problem of you know
know when you're talking to yourself
yourself you may be doing some practice
practice by yourself everything seems
seems to flow quite well but as soon
soon as you get in front of other
other people it's like i like i like
like what am I going to say I don't
don't know what I'm going to say and
and then you start getting worried
worried
worried and
and it gets worse and worse and then
then you know after a while you're
you're just like I screw it i don't
don't want to talk to people anymore
anymore I'm too nervous and I make
make too many mistakes and it's too
too frustrating and then you stopped
stopped
stopped so
so this is what we want to reverse
reverse we want to reverse this process
process of kind of a downward spiral
spiral
spiral it's
it's like a spiral going like this
this where it's like something bad
bad happens and you feel bad about
about it and it gets worse and worse
worse
worse we
we want to do the opposite where you
you get excited about something and
and start wanting to practice more
more and more which helps you start
start get fluent and you know getting
getting more confident as well when
when you speak so the thing I'd like
like you to really remember for this
this video is that practice is the
the most important thing and practice
practice is not learning and studying
studying so these are really two different
different things where you're just
just you know kind of getting input
input only you're not putting anything
anything back out again with learning
learning a language you should be
be spending like the exact opposite
opposite amount of time maybe you
you spend five minutes learning something
something but then you spend two hours
hours practicing it and if you can
can do that more instead of sitting
sitting here and watching videos and
and it's great if you can watch videos
videos you can learn a lot of information
information but until you get into
into that actual situation where you're
you're using what you learned it will
will never become automatic for you
you
you and
and the reason this happens is because
because language learning again is
is not like math or science it's like
like learning a sport or an instrument
instrument and me playing basketball
basketball right now is a perfect
perfect example of this so I'm actually
actually you know I played I really
really enjoyed having fun i played
played on the playground back in America
America when I was living in Chicago
Chicago when I was a kid and so I
I would go out and play basketball
basketball and everybody be running
running around in the street basketball
basketball it's a much different thing
thing than regular organized team
team basketball which I don't really
really know how to do it all and i'm
i'm off and i'm awful at it now trying
trying to play basketball out here
here in Japan so
so I'm on a team and they're having
having to tell me like okay just do
do this move and then just just do
do that move and really like as a
a teacher so the coach of the team
team that's trying to teach me how
how to do these things I
I understand logically and he understands
understands logically it's a very
very simple action but when you're
you're unable to do it over and over
over again it gets really frustrating
frustrating and this is the same thing
thing about language learning so
so you really have to take that time
time between the understanding of
of something logically and then the
the actual being able to do it without
without thinking and so the language
language learning process happens
happens in the same way whether it's
it's a sport or an instrument or any
any other thing that's a physical
physical thing it's a combination
combination of what your mind has
has with what your body is doing with
with that information and the only
only way to get your body up to where
where your mind is is to repetitively
repetitively practice over and over
and over again that's
that's the only way to do it what
what you can see the Sun like creeping
creeping up on me over here this is
is kind of freaky anyway here goes
goes
goes oh
oh my eyes Oh anyway
anyway I'm getting excited over here
here it's nice to get a little bit
bit of sunshine as it's starting to
to get colder but i really want you
you to keep this idea in mind it's
it's such an important thing that
that the learning of something when
when you talk about like yeah I'm
I'm learning English right now I really
really want you to be thinking about
about
about i'm
i'm using English right now I'm practicing
practicing English right now instead
instead of I'm learning something
something so you wouldn't really talk
talk about i'm i'm i'm learning basketball
basketball you would talk about practicing
practicing basketball and so a coach
coach will show me a move and then
then i'll do it a few times and i'll
i'll do it badly but i keep practicing
practicing it until i can do it automatically
automatically so
so it could be dribbling drills or
or like screening drills anything
anything like that where I'm having
having to do something but because
because i'm thinking about it too
too much that's why I start making
making mistakes so
so if you want to do this in English
English you have to spend less time
time
time actually
actually what kind of like learning
learning getting that inputs you you
you get whatever input as you want
want and then ok you stop I
I spent five minutes learning a new
new phrase just like you know some
some of the many
many videos that we have on our channel
channel where we're teaching just
just one or two phrases get one of
of those you watch a video for five
five minutes and then go out and find
find people to practice with now
now this is the part of the video
video where I can hear people complaining
complaining like why don't have anybody
anybody to practice with where i live
live like okay okay there's
there's no more excuses like especially
especially with the internet right
right now it's really easy to find
find people to practice with and
and even if you just live you know
know without internet at all if you
you live in any kind of a city where
where you have access to native speakers
speakers because they're coming into
into you know view
view your country in the same way
way they be you know a tourist like
like you'd be a tourist in America
America that kind of thing a really
really great way to do this and this
this is something i actually do is
is you go to get like a tour like
like especially taking like a regular
regular to or getting on a like a
a bus to her but for non-native or
or for native excuse me native
native English speakers so lots of
of tours and things like that are
are organized for the benefit of American
American or you know British or Australian
Australian tourists so english-speaking
english-speaking tourists that come
come to your country so
so let's say I'm in Vietnam just for
for an example i mean like Ho Chi
Chi Minh City when I was there there
there were lots of the English speaking
speaking tours that people have and
and so you have like the Vietnamese
Vietnamese people on like the Vietnamese
Vietnamese tour and then you have
have the Americans on the american
american tour now
now if you really want to learn the
the language if you're an American
American speaker you get on the Vietnamese
Vietnamese language to her and
and if you want to learn English you
you get on the American speaking tour
tour it's really that simple so
so what I did you know I'm on the
the the tour bus with people and i'm
i'm speaking with them and I had a
a great time over there and when i'm
i'm getting to practice and listen
listen to people that's a whole day
day or even longer than that of just
just getting lots of practice with
with within that environment so
so when people talk about the immersion
immersion to put yourself inside of
of that language situation you
you don't need to travel to a different
different country in order to do that
that you just have to be smart about
about how you practice because learning
learning the English language actually
actually makes it much easier to do
do that than learning anything else
else
else now
now i'm in Japan right now so it's
it's quite easy for me to go outside
outside and start practicing Japanese
Japanese but maybe if I mean you know
know algeria or something like that
that that's going to be more more
more difficult but for English learners
learners there's pretty much English
English speakers all over the world
world somebody that you could practice
practice with or even if they were
were not native there are actually
actually more non-native speakers
speakers of English then there are
are native speakers of English around
around the world right now isn't that
that amazing and
and so if you can think about that
that like it's really easy to get
get out and meet people you just have
have to think like a native speaking
speaking tourists and think about
about you know what would the natives
natives bad native english-speaking
english-speaking tourists go to do
do or how could you help a native
native speaking tour is something
something like that so
so another thing i do is i actually
actually pretend to be a tourist in
in places and i recommend to a lot
lot of English learners where you
you take a camera out to places and
and then you can ask people like hey
hey can you take my picture so
so another thing like if you're physically
physically in the same space as people
people you can walk up hey can you
you take my picture and then usually
usually you get a little bit of a
a conversation out of that as a result
result
result so
so all these things that you can do
do that's the real thing you should
should be spending your time doing
doing yes it's great to watch videos
videos and have lessons and all that
that thing as long as you're learning
learning the right kind of information
information and you're not teaching
teaching yourself english
english through your native language
language which you should not be doing
doing everything you should be doing
doing should be in English just at
at a particular level that you're
you're comfortable with but get out
out in practice the most basic example
example i have of when i began changing
changing the way i learned this is
is the grocery store example that
that I gave all the time about when
when I was first learning japanese
japanese and I did it the wrong way
way for many months and I was trying
trying to use flashcards and listening
listening practice exercises and I
I was really too shy to speak and
and because i would try to get into
into a conversation where they would
would be really too many options for
for me like a person the Japanese
Japanese person would say something
something to me that I wasn't prepared
prepared for so I didn't know how
how to answer that question and I
I felt shy and stupid about it so
so what I did was i'm going to get
get in control of the situation and
and pick one particular thing that
that I can work on and this happen
happen to be like where is such and
and such now there are lots of different
different things I can practice but
but in my case what I did was go to
to the local grocery store in my area
area and I walked around to everybody
everybody that was like a person at
at the shop and i would say where
where is the salt where's
where's the sugar where is this and
and didn't really matter if i was
was buying that thing or not i just
just walked around asking
asking that person that question so
so these people are all busy they've
they've all got stuff to do they don't
don't have time to ask me about what
what my history is or anything like
like that
like that they're
they're just practicing you know kind
kind of helping me practice while
while they're listening to me and
and they're saying oh like the sugar
sugar is over here so i know i said
said the right thing when they understand
understand me and
and really all I'm trying to do is
is get in the habit of actually speaking
speaking in front of people because
because really that skill right there
there if you have the habit of being
being able to speak in front of people
people then you can develop fluency
fluency from there but
but if you're too shy to even speak
speak then there's no way you're gonna
gonna get fluid it's just not possible
possible because learning the language
language again is not the same thing
thing is learning like you know math
math or science again I'm trying to
to like impress this upon you over
over and over again it's such an important
important idea to remember that if
if you can't even speak if you can
can even practice dribbling the ball
ball if you won't even pick up the
the instrument and start playing it
it that you're never going to get
get good so whatever you're doing
doing right now you want to spend
spend a little bit maybe time for
for the listening the watching of
of youtube videos are you know looking
looking at websites things like that
that
that learn
learn the lessons and then go out
out and use that as best you can and
and this is exactly why we organize
organize master English conversation
conversation lesson sets the way we
we do so we spend a lot of time helping
helping people learn particular phrases
phrases so we really want you to learn
learn the right kinds of things that
that help you help you actually sound
sound more native and natural but
but then we want to teach you how
how to practice those things in the
the real world so
so that's why every month we have
have a program kind of a unique part
part of the program that's actually
actually how to practice because that's
that's like the most important part
part of being able to speak you
you want to learn things so you can
can listen and understand but you
you want to get out and practicing
practicing actually develop the confidence
confidence to speak and you can only
only do that if you practice well
well that's it for this lesson I hope
hope you have enjoyed it if you'd
you'd like to learn more about master
master English conversation you can
can do so at our website if you're
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need to do in order to get fluent
fluent as well as how to practice
practice you can finally become a
a confident English speaker well
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