hello i'm julian norfolk from doing
english.com randy porsche
the dead now maybe for about a decade
American computer scientist famously
said if you don't get the fundamentals
right the fancy stuff isn't going to
work nothing could be further from the
truth really when it comes to anything
and kind of skill any kind of activity
any kind of pursuit if you haven't taken
the time to master the fundamentals the
anything that you layer on top of that
ready just isn't gonna work very well
this is especially true for something
like speaking English as a second
language a lot of people will make the
mistake of believing that because
they've got to a certain point if they
want to go beyond that if they want to
reach the so called advanced stage of
speaking English as a second language
what they need to do is start to study
advanced English big complicated
sounding words rare grammar
constructions and what they actually do
is completely the opposite of what
they're intending to do they actually
make themselves just sound confusing and
actually show themselves up as
non-native speakers of English and sound
more unnatural than they did in the
first place because not only are they
using these big complicated words that
even not a lot of native speakers really
aren't short about sure about and
grammar constructions that are pretty
rare which means they end up sounding
unnatural as well but because they
haven't mastered the fundamentals that
he also make a lot of mistakes that are
very very basic and again just really
just show themselves up as being far far
lower level than they want to be
advanced knowledge is not about learning
advanced stuff I'll put it another way a
basic knowledge of advanced English does
not make you advanced an advanced
knowledge of basic English does nail
down the fundamentals really master the
basics and that will take you much much
further
in point this is just an example because
unless you're already a member you don't
have access to this but recently in my
extraordinary English speakers group
where every week I do a new lesson to to
study basically we take dialogues and
conversations and I analyze those in my
new detail explaining all the phrases in
a practice the chunks of English and the
social dynamics that are happening
between people and how they are using
language to do certain things in those
conversations and recently I've been
working on a new series that I am
tentatively loosely calling an advanced
to look at the basics and when we did
the first one which was essentially a
conversation between a person in the
supermarket and the lady on the till
that's the the rigid the register the
check out for those of you in the US I
guess we call it the checkout here any
in Ireland the UK as well but on the
till and a couple of my members
commented when I first saw this lesson I
thought Jim what do you what are you
doing like this is far below us this is
far too basic for us like you know we
don't need a lesson that teaches you how
to speak English like in the supermarket
but those same people said that when
they actually went through the lesson
and they realize just how deep and some
of the subtle things that were doing in
those conversations that they never knew
about never noticed previously that they
realized that actually they even these
basic conversations go much much much
deeper than you would actually first
realize because native speakers are
doing a lot of things in conversations
very very subtle things to build rapport
with other people to make connections
with other people to again do certain
things in conversations in language is a
huge part of how we do this so
understanding what people are saying and
really knowing how to understand them
and engage with them in conversation
that's two very very different things
and just learning a load of fancy
sounding words ain't gonna help you to
do that no it's about nailing them mouth
during the fundamentals and only then
can you start to layer on more you know
difficult sounding stuff knowing when
it's appropriate to do so and exactly
what it's going to do in that
conversation so if you want to speak
advanced English master the basics
master the fundamentals now if you're
interested in extraordinary English
speakers
if you don't know how to join already
you're probably not eligible you've got
to finish my master English fast
accelerator course before you can join
extraordinary English speakers really
it's the graduate program is for people
who graduate metha and want continued
help support lessons over time from me
however if you're interested in metha or
you're interested in my lessons courses
methods in general head over to doing
English comm slash free training and
check out my free introductory training
which is really just gonna teach you I
guess the fundamentals of everything
that I teach in my courses that's doing
English comm such free training this is
me Judy in Northbrook signing out from
this video bye-bye how do I stop is
there