don't did it in hi James
Greer James Greer from engvid not bond
and I know you think I was going to say
bond I know but listen bond always had
an important mission he's got to do
right double-oh-seven
and so do i today we have a mission
we're going to learn how to study
English I know in many places many
websites they tell you in them to teach
you grammar and idioms and phrasal verbs
but then there's the big question of you
and how do you study and how do you
choose what is important for you at this
moment
maybe you're advanced maybe you're a
beginner maybe you know this and maybe
you don't after today's lesson and we do
our mission you'll know exactly what you
have to do okay so we're going to go to
the board in a second and take a look
what steps should we take in order to
learn by the time you're done this video
you'll know exactly or you should know
where you are where you need to go and
when you're going to be done ready let's
go e e is standing here saying where do
I start
grammar vocabulary or speaking common
and seems to make sense
I mean you go to learn a language right
you go on a website they start throwing
things at you you go to a school they
say you need this this and this but you
don't really know so I'm going to give
you a tool to decide that first thing
we're going to do is what's the first
thing you need grammar know what
conversation no vocabulary what oh look
if you can't say bathroom when you go to
a country you're going to pee yourself
okay hungry you won't get food you don't
need to know everything to get basic
information done and that's what we
should look at first basic information
for a beginner really is vocabulary and
instead of all the fancy stuff you need
you don't need much you need you a
little bit of time and to have some fun
why I'm going to suggest for basic
communication get vocabulary I'm telling
you right now if I see you or any
english-speaking person sees you and you
see you say drink thirsty
there's no grammar but they'll go oh the
bar is over there
if you say washroom please they go Oh
toilet is over there they use sentence
you use words sometimes you just touch
your belly go oh oh you want food you
don't need all that stuff people will
tell you need to learn grammar and this
and that you don't and here's how you
get your first vocabulary do what you'll
have to do play video games I've had I
don't know how many students play video
games say they learn how to fire dock
words that we wouldn't teach them for a
while because they were playing games
other people come in that it is singing
I go what the hell I love to sing and
they sing a song they sound like they're
just you know from this country then
they speak lady dateable accent dunno
what I'm seeing right yeah but when they
sing it's like the gods have come down I
mean literally you go are you you were
born here right cool swag
you know Yolo you only live once right
ASAP as soon as possible when you do
these things you're learning because you
want to learn you're not even realizing
you're learning and it's going to make
you want to learn more because you know
we'll get to the second one you'll
understand but you want to communicate
in a much better way okay so get the
meaning of basic words hungry food
toilet money you know that one right you
need those things if you have those
things you can start your adventure and
learning English okay and you're going
to do it by doing things you love video
games music cool slang right come on now
I'm making language fun and easy for you
and that's what we should do
cuz you learn it foster all right and
the kids the bad news hard work is on
its way so let's move over to the
intermediate so if you're still on
vocabulary and you can't put a sentence
together you're a beginner okay but at
least you're better than other people
you know words in a foreign language
cool intermediate is when we start and I
think you should introduce grammar this
is when your vocabulary is rich enough
that you can say things like need water
where it's not a sentence so you kind of
smell stupid I'm telling it right out
you sound stupid have many students
brilliant people sounding like I
called them kids and I love them I
thought they were great people but I
would call them kids because they sound
like two and five-year-olds mommy water
now understanding sentenced not really
grammar some teachers don't think it's
necessary it is it's like a skeleton in
the body right when you're crawling on
the floor
you still need a skeleton something to
hold everything together that really is
the muscles and everything else that
make you move but the skeleton is
necessary or needed those are those
bones right these are the bones of the
language you've got you know your
vocabulary but these hold everything
together that skeleton now when you
learn grammar we do this to be
understood we said basic communication
to be understood we need grammar this is
Sal and you can sound like you
understand oh I can't have your
girlfriend and all of your money oh I
didn't know that I understand you sound
like you understand someone you can
communicate an idea I would like to be a
millionaire but I don't want to work see
I've communicated I am lazy but I still
want to be rich like everyone in North
America okay but we're going to take our
vocabulary see this is when you have the
vocabulary you take it you put it with
some muscle
you put vocabulary and function words
that's what grammar is it's the words
that function is the verbs right it's
the pronouns there's all these things
that go together it's like making a
hamburger okay you got your meat now you
need a bun some lettuce and everything
else this is your grammar this makes it
good okay so now you can sound pretty
intelligent not like a child but some
people have great grammar skills and
good vocabulary but this is where we go
to the advanced they don't sound like us
they still haven't got it quite together
we know you're not from here this is
change at all and this is something that
I find interesting some students don't
want to do they think it's a waste of
time
and then I remind them in your country
are there people who don't know how to
read and write
what do you call them some people say
this is a fancy way they are illiterate
I say no they're stupid because you say
hey read this they go I did not read you
you're stupid
didn't you go to school stupid don't be
stupid
learn to read and write it's not just
for that reason for your ego that people
it makes you feel good it's also because
it teaches you how to think in the
language huh well when you write
something down you have to remember the
author wrote it three years ago or the
author is the writer of the book could
be a male female or whoever made it they
wrote it three or four years ago you're
not there so when they write about it
they have to think in a way that you
would understand it three years later
and not have to ask questions because if
you have to say I'm confused what does
he mean
let me call mom yo'ii on page 47 you
wrote this thing as an awkward phrase
you've got a dangling modifier so I'm
not really sure it doesn't work like
that they have to write it properly so
you understand it this is when we become
advanced because you learn logical
thought how we put it together when we
talk about logical thought we talk about
syntax how the words go together how
things flow how we think every language
is different and the syntax is a bit
different okay this will make you think
like a native speaker you have to put
the words and even the sentences in a
way that makes sense to us okay remember
I said you sound here I meant not stupid
that was it
you don't sound stupid reading a writing
makes you sound intelligent and there's
a difference
suddenly I want to hear what you have to
say because you seem to know what you're
talking about
and you present your ideas in a way I
can understand it also gives you the
time to think about the language so it
goes on your brain so it knows how to
analyze and present the language for us
this is something people skip because I
want to speak and don't realize this is
a very important part reading gives you
an understanding of how we're thinking
you read you get that when you write you
have to write in a way that we would
understand it powerful stuff
and how does it do that well we have
three components or three parts number
one the grammar see grammar we talked
about grammar has to be in something you
write okay then that has to be true what
you say has to make sense to us it is
logical they can't be just I am an alien
and I live in the sea and I have fins in
the baby back ribs it doesn't make any
sense even if the sentence is perfectly
grammatically correct it's like this is
not true I will not listen to you and
then finally we have to connect them and
this is what we talk about syntax and
when we put all of these things together
suddenly you're speaking and people
understand you accent or no accent you
are an English speaker not quite almost
when we put all these three together and
we go to speaking and you monster
speaking which will happen if you take
these steps you will notice you are
being understood when you speak not five
times sorry huh sorry sorry sorry
okay oh I'm sorry no sorry no you will
speak you will be understood when I
speak and some of you think I speak very
quickly and you're right my students
actually often laugh and go
you don't speak quickly on those videos
you speak quickly in real life but I
like it when people understand me you
will find that you understand me more
you will have more understanding what I
say and English people say you won't be
guessing what they're saying you will
actually understand them finally you
know that accident that you really don't
like all you wish you could get rid of
you will speaking and using a practice
of speaking helps you with proper
pronunciation that's what helps you with
being understood and actually helps you
with understanding other people because
you realize it's not the absolute
pronunciation but where you put the
stresses what the real meaning is right
all this comes with language or speaking
you can communicate and have most of the
language that's what we talked about by
speaking and I wrote that for a reason
when you are speaking it's right or it's
wrong there is no time to think about it
that's what your practice in reading and
writing is for okay so once you can
actually speak you're done
congratulations you learned a new
language now look I want to do I want to
go through a couple of hints to help you
out and second or two and then I want
you to go out there and practice figure
out where you are you'll know because
I've already told you you're either a
beginner and you get to work on your
vocabulary that means most of what I
said you didn't understand or you're
intermediate you got something out of
what I'm saying but you know you can't
express yourself that way you're
advanced you're already smart enough to
be writing every day and reading every
day or you're basically fluent and
native get out of here go outside and
play that's what you should be doing you
ready let's go to those helpful hints so
we've talked about where you might be as
a learner advanced beginner or native
now I want to give you some more basic
hints on acquiring or getting the
language are you ready okay basic hint
number one thirty minutes a day goes a
long way whether you're a beginner
intermediate or advanced thirty minutes
if you're not willing to spend thirty
minutes learning you really don't want
to learn all right you need to practice
regularly give you a good hint or a good
example when you're a baby you were
trying to walk you would fall down you
would never stand and walk you kept
falling but every day you tried and
sometimes hours hours hours then one day
you started to walk then you started to
run if you told that baby that 30
minutes a day was a lot of work you'd be
sitting in a chair for the rest of your
life right so 30 minutes a day hey an
ingot video is 15 boo half your works
done am i a genius yeah helped you out
okay so thirty minutes a day is a good
thing to do okay goes a long way to help
you retain or remember the information
number two spend five minutes and review
what you did the day before
I know it's 35 minutes but it's still
not an hour okay
so before you know you do your new
lesson think for five minutes what did i
do yesterday when I did English did I
were you reading did you write what did
you write about were there any things
you wanted to change in your writing
okay
so remember your 30 minutes that could
be 30 minutes of writing 30 minutes of
reading 30 minutes of going through the
dictionary looking for words you need
basic words right or I don't know
listening to like I said an nvidia
watching it twice the first time you
watch it second time make notes about
things you want to learn right that's 30
minutes painless five minutes review is
good because it's like eating food if
you take a burger please put it in your
mouth it's not as good as when you take
it and chew it and taste it when you
taste it that's where the joy comes from
that's what you should do with language
just taste it play with a bit number
three imagine yourself in the situation
where you have to use the English you've
learned that could be part of your 30
minutes read for a little while stop put
the story in your head close your eyes
and imagine it if you imagine it it
becomes real when it becomes real it
becomes useful okay if you just write
some grammar down and you write some
rules and you never think about using it
then guess what you won't so why don't
we take a couple minutes with our review
imagine okay I just learned this new
vocabulary and James said something
about a pharmacy now imagine I had to go
what did he get say I have to say can
you help me with now imagine asking the
there you go next thing you know you're
in the situation the words come out of
your mouth practice number four set
goals what do you want to do with your
English I know I want to speak English
today it's not going to happen sorry
okay
just like if you want a burger you have
to actually catch a cow kill a cow bring
it to the store grind it up or make meat
for it then put it on the barbeque
doesn't happen right there's many steps
to it so in this case set goals may be a
five-minute conversation with a native
speaker two minute one-minute
conversation
maybe it's learned turn 10 wet words
really well okay so you read a book you
pick out ten words you don't know
go to the dictionary write it out then
write out sentences with those words
talk to try and use them in a
conversation with somebody so that they
become something you've digested that
means taken in and you understand okay
you understand it completely apply for a
job here's one you say
twenty-first-century bub get on the
internet I would like to work for your
company send it out right see what
responses you get back now most the most
hey hey your grammar is really bad right
or you can do a phone interview say hey
can we do a Skype interview for this job
practice just because you're not living
here right now it doesn't mean you can't
put it into practice and through your
mistakes you can learn and then go back
and use that for your thirty minutes of
work right they didn't like my accent it
was too strong okay work on
pronunciation they said my grammar
skills seem to be a bit weak okay work
on grammar skills my vocabulary was
limited I noticed I kept repeating the
same thing okay work on vocabulary work
on synonyms you will start making your
own lesson plan based on you not on what
some book or some teacher tells you to
do finally travel I should do like say
this right Travel I know this is not
easy you don't have money right don't
have time for why are you learning it
everything you really want you have to
do something we call the sacrifice you
have to give something to get something
you really want you want to eat you buy
food the foods not free right you want
to really use your language you got to
travel you don't have to do it do a big
trip you can find things on the internet
where it's exchanged somebody's family
comes to your house you go to their
house for two weeks or something like
that governments do exchanges where
there's learning programs right hey you
can go to startup programs hi I want to
learn English send me to a country and
some people if you give a good enough
story I live in a farm out in Lithuania
and my family is you know always wanted
me to do better with my life and we know
English is important so my father is
willing to give up three cows to have me
go to Canada put it out there somebody
who will go L come on man I'll give you
the money you know miracles happen
things
happen but you got to do something
traveling is the one thing that makes
you go out there because you got to do
something you can't pretend you want to
learn because you have to put your money
there that would be hard and I admit
that but once you do if you're doing all
of these things there's nothing sweeter
than getting off a plane and saying hi
can you help me with this I'm looking
for a friend of mine and the other
person going sure no problem let me take
you and you're understood all right cool
I think it's cool anyway where do I
start you know where to start now
whether you're a beginner intermediate
advanced or your native giving you some
helpful hints that you can use starting
right this minute right you're watching
one video so 15 minutes of your time is
done hit the next one or go do the quiz
right cool listen I hope I've done my
part for you now it's time for you do
your part study practice review and when
you can and if you can and if you can
get the help travel see the world all
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