hi there I'm drew badger the world's
world's number one english fluency
fluency guide and it is a pleasure
pleasure to welcome you to another
another advanced listening practice
practice lesson anyway let's get right
right into the lesson today I want
want to talk about actually a lot
lot of people ask me questions about
about especially this series of videos
videos they say wow how can you just
just talk like that for you know five
five or ten minutes without having
having a script or reading anything
anything honestly I'm not there's
there's no script i'm just sitting
sitting here in a chair in this room
room and I just enjoy trying to help
help people learn and so I think maybe
maybe that kind of motivates me in
in a way to think of things to say
say
say typically
typically the way I speak about these
these lessons is I have a general
general idea of something I want to
to talk about in
in the case of this lesson I'd like
like to talk about actually making
making these kinds of lessons and
and how I'm trying to give you examples
examples of speaking fluently but
but I want to talk more specifically
specifically about how i'm actually
actually doing that as i'm doing it
it so it's kind of a weird lesson
lesson but just talking about how
how i'm actually speaking fluently
fluently
fluently while
while I'm speaking fluently in the
the lesson so hopefully this is an
an entertaining video for you but
but I just wanted to talk about a
a few things you can do to practice
practice so that you can start developing
developing developing this same habit
habit
habit so
so the first thing you can do is you
you can actually take the same thing
thing and just express it in different
different ways now
now this is something i did a lot
lot when I was first getting fluent
fluent in Japanese I would just take
take a sentence like this is red and
and then I would just ask myself like
like oh is this red is it red is that
that red is that not read and I'm
I'm taking really just one or two
two changes in the sentence and just
just asking the same thing you're
you're saying the same thing over
over and over again so
so let's say I'm here is just a pen
pen that i have with me here so
so if i'm going to describe this in
in English so this is a pen is
is this a pen yes it is this is a
a pan and it's a black pen a long
long black pan and I don't have to
to say anything complicated about
about it
about it I'm
I'm just talking about the basic descriptions
descriptions of the pen as much as
as I can describe it so you want to
to try to ring as much out of a particular
particular object as possible all
all the information that you know
know
know so
so to ring something is like when
when you have a cloth and you have
have water and you bringing
bringing it out and all the water
water drips out the bottom so you
you want to suck all of the information
information out of something even
even very simple and the fact that
that this is simple it helps to constrain
constrain you're thinking so to focus
focus your thinking on a particular
particular thing when people start
start talking in conversation lessons
lessons i noticed a lot of them they're
they're talking about politics or
or something like that and it almost
almost gives you too much information
information to discuss and that shut
shut your brain down so the reason
reason I take a very simple object
object like this and lately I've been
been making these up this other video
video series where I'm talking about
about specific things like describing
describing a pen or whatever maybe
maybe a shirt or a hat or shoes or
or something but I'm just trying to
to take something very basic just
just to show you that you really can
can develop fluency and you can actually
actually improve just by describing
describing a little things like this
this
this so
so again i'm talking about pen a pen
pen in this case a black pen this
this is a pilot super grip of seven
seven this is a pan that I got here
here in Japan so
so when you begin describing something
something you begin by practicing
practicing just to speak longer by
by talking about a particular object
object for as long as you can so
so ask yourself questions this is
is a black pan is this a black pen
pen yes it is so
so even if it's a question that you
you know the answer to the point is
is just to train yourself to speak
speak for a particular length of time
time like maybe 45 minutes or if you
you can't even do that for 20 seconds
seconds and then try to speak longer
longer and longer so
so even if i'm talking about this
this pan like look I've been talking
talking about this pen or something
something related to this pen for
for around 0 2 minutes or something
something like that and there's nothing
nothing amazing about what i'm doing
doing i'm not even using a really
really complicated vocabulary I'm
I'm just talking about the basic shape
shape of a pain in the way that a
a basic native speaker would or maybe
maybe not a native speaker but somebody
somebody that's just learning the
the language it's learning this is
is a long pan this is a pan is this
this app and yes it is this is a pan
pan is this a cat no
no it isn't it is not a cat so I'm
I'm just I'm even just saying sentences
sentences that maybe don't mean anything
anything its there's no real relevance
relevance in my everyday life to talk
talk about is this a cat no it isn't
isn't but the point is that i'm using
using the language so that I've become
become able to use it for a longer
longer period of time so
so when I do that I'm training myself
myself to to start thinking of ways
ways of responding to questions or
or to start thinking of things i can
can say in a particular situation
situation such that they appear to
to me automatically so
so what I'm really doing in this is
is the second part of this is I'm
I'm thinking about what to say as
as I'm saying something else so if
if i try to start talking about one
one thing it's generally creating
creating ideas in my mind about what
what i want to say next that are related
related to that thing so
so I have kind of a particular goal
goal that I have like in the case
case of this video my goal is to help
help you speak more at length so to
to speak at length means to speak
speak for a long time and really just
just talk about things it doesn't
doesn't matter what you're talking
talking about but just to get into
into the habit of being able to speak
speak for an extended period of time
time about something so even something
something as simple as a pin if
if you can't talk about a pin for
for one minute then it's going to
to be even more difficult to talk
talk about politics I
I know that sounds really weird because
because really there's a million things
things you could talk about with that
that but the idea comes back to focusing
focusing your mind and when you have
have too many options to talk about
about things that's
that's what really kind of trips you
you up so in general in my own mind
mind I'm thinking about what i want
want to say as I'm saying something
something else so
so right now if I'm talking about
about this pen in the back of my mind
mind I'm thinking okay is this leading
leading me to the main point is this
this like kind of staying attached
attached to that or is this going
going off on a tangent as I sometimes
sometimes do in this series or
or is it helping people or now can
can I talk about like the pen itself
itself
itself can
can I talk about the shape of it can
can i talked about how it was made
made
made excuse
excuse me or where it was from or
or you know maybe how long I've had
had it something like that there
there are lots of different ways to
to approach discussing even something
something as simple as a pin so i
i know people think well this is kind
kind of boring we're just talking
talking about a pen there's nothing
nothing amazing about that but actually
actually the point is again just to
to use something simple like this
this and sometimes I'm reiterating
reiterating i'm speaking again and
and again about a particular thing
thing because again this is part of
of being able to speak at length and
and part of that is really when you're
you're trying to make sure you're
you're connecting with the audience
audience and making sure they remember
remember something because you do
do have to repeat things over and
and over again to make sure that your
your point is heard often
often people that are like really
really fantastic marketers this
this is a problem i have because i
i have a Bible like a tendency like
like to try to go into a whole bunch
bunch of things and teach a whole
whole bunch of information but really
really it's best to keep things simple
simple and just to repeat those pieces
pieces of information over and over
over again so
so the first part of this is to take
take a basic object whatever that
that is and just try to think about
about approaching it from a few different
different angles so approaching it
it from a few different angles being
being how it was made where
where did you get it how long have
have you had it or even like what
what else could you do with this pan
pan or like you could tell a story
story thats related to this pan or
or pens in general something like
like that
like that oh
oh my father used to work at a pan
pan factory and i'm just i'm thinking
thinking about ways to connect this
this pen with other things and more
more connections you can build the
the more you practice doing that the
the more your mind will automatically
automatically do that when you're
you're just in regular conversations
conversations so here i am i'm talking
talking about this pin but at the
the same time in my mind I'm thinking
thinking about different ways to create
create ideas or connect ideas with
with this pen so this pain is a very
very simple object but it's only simple
simple if you think about it that
that way if you think wow this is
is actually a really cool thing it's
it's got lots of connections that
that are helping me talk about or
or bring other things into the discussion
discussion into the conversation then
then wow like it actually is a pretty
pretty interesting thing so
so this uh this is actually a pen
pen that i got from the the president
president of a local company he was
was saying hey thanks so much for
for doing some great writing for us
us and he gave me this pan actually
actually that's not a true story but
but this is just a great example of
of how you can even just make up a
a story just for the purposes of explaining
explaining something now right now
now I'm speaking quite quickly because
because this is an advanced listening
listening practice lesson but let's
let's slow it down for a second and
and we'll just take it more to an
an intermediate or basic way of describing
describing something so
so again I really just want to make
make this very clear for you while
while i'm talking about this i'm thinking
thinking of ideas in my mind that
that are connecting with this thing
thing and at the beginning when you
you start doing this this
this is red is this red no it is not
not oh this is not ready this
this is a black pan this pan is black
black
black this
this is black this object is black
black now i'm at the beginning i'm
i'm just saying things that are talking
talking about the description of it
it physically describing the pan but
but I can talk about how i use the
the pan so i use this pen for writing
writing or I don't use this pan for
for brushing my teeth and I'm just
just using ideas that are helping
helping me connect this thing while
while in the back of my mind I have
have maybe a few it's
it's almost like a program that i
i run so can I talk about the history
history
history can
can I talk about the use of it can
can I talk about maybe where i received
received this pen something like that
that but this is how you train yourself
yourself to number one speak
speak at length but also to get your
your mind thinking so that you're
you're not in a conversation thinking
thinking a and this is really a skill
skill that you can develop in your
your own language because it helps
helps you understand how it works
works just the process of being able
able to think about things so i think
think even a few people have commented
commented below like what I'm doing
doing right now people they can actually
actually speak about something for
for you no more than a minute something
something like that even in their
their native language so
so if you can develop this habit a
a lot of the habits i developed that
that helped me got that helped me
me become fluent or help me get fluent
fluent are the same things i used
used in order to like be more successful
successful my everyday life in english
english as an English speaker so being
being able to walk up to people i
i don't know and say hey like can
can I get directions to a particular
particular location so let's say I'm
I'm an American because I am an American
American but I'm in a different city
city like Seattle or San Francisco
Francisco or Cincinnati it
it doesn't matter where I am if I
I have a very weak confidence in general
general for walking up to people and
and saying hey can you help me give
give me directions to a particular
particular place then i'm going to
to be lost but if I don't have that
that problem i can just walk up and
and say hey excuse me can you help
help me find you know whatever this
this place it is i'm looking for so
so this is a skill that i developed
developed in my native language that
that I now carry over to using when
when i'm in speaking in Japanese so
so because I don't have a problem
problem asking people i don't know
know about hey
hey where is this or where is that
that something like that even if I
I make a mistake in Japanese I don't
don't have a problem asking people
people for help so
so this is the kind of thing just
just in the same way that you can
can practice speaking for a long period
period of time and right now he's
he's just like a little thing that
that sits in the back of my mind as
as I'm describing this I'm
I'm remembering an idea or I'm remembering
remembering a time from may be my
my fourth grade when we had to give
give presentations in front of the
the class and just stand up for a
a minute and give a presentation about
about whatever we wanted to actually
actually the kind of tricky thing
thing about it was we couldn't prepare
prepare for it I
I think like all of the students just
just wrote you know the name of some
some object or something like that
that it could be a person or an object
object or something down on a piece
piece of paper and then the teacher
teacher would pull out at random a
a piece of paper with the name of
of that thing on it and so the student
student had to stand up in front of
of the class so all it's already embarrassing
embarrassing you know standing in
in front of the class and being the
the one that like everybody is looking
looking at because you know as a kid
kid that's pretty scary and embarrassing
embarrassing but also you didn't really
really know what exactly it was you're
you're going to talk about how you're
you're going to describe it so
so now I don't have a problem doing
doing that at all but i remember getting
getting up and I even like the funny
funny thing about what I did so this
this is back in again like fourth
fourth grade and I'm sitting there
there and my name gets called and
and I'm like oh shit like I don't
don't want to get up in front of the
the class and you know i'm going to
to say something stupid now
now the interesting thing about my
my cases that they actually pulled
pulled the car that I wrote so
so even though i wrote the thing it
it was about plants or something i
i just wrote like plants on it or
or something and like I couldn't speak
speak for like a minute about plants
plants even though that was the thing
thing i wrote i think maybe I was
was really nervous about it but it
it just goes to show so
so this is an example of something
something that goes to show that if
if you don't practice doing this it's
it's not something that you would
would be able to do naturally for
for a lot of reasons number one because
because it's kind of embarrassing
embarrassing if you make a mistake
mistake if you don't know what you're
you're talking about or
or if you can't you know be able to
to speak it fluently and and continuously
continuously about something then
then you maybe feel or seem a little
little bit awkward but also it just
just shows like you're not quite prepared
prepared for what it is you want to
to speak about so
so in my case I was standing up there
there and like I was thinking about
about plants like how do I describe
describe plants and i was like ok
ok they have leaves and you know your
your your your mind gets focused on
on Blake what I don't know or like
like all the information I don't have
have
have but
but if you think about restricting
restricting your information to something
something very specific ok let's go
go through the list i want to talk
talk about what this object looks
looks like what are the physical properties
properties of it and I try to talk
talk specifically as specifically
specifically as i can about as much
much of this pan as possible so i
i could talk maybe even just describing
describing this for I don't know 20
20 minutes talking about how we shape
shape and I like the the interesting
interesting mechanics of the pen on
on the inside so we can open this
this pan up I
I could let's see if it even opens
opens up ok so you have to unscrew
unscrew the front part we've got the
the actual ink cartridge on the inside
inside and there's a spring here as
as well and we can talk about the
the spring action of this and how
how it opens and closes its got the
the front little case made out of
of plastic here this
this is this case is plastic looks
looks like clear plastic or you could
could call that translucent it means
means that the light can shine through
through it so this is clear it's
it's not opaque so the opposite of
of that again when you're talking
talking about things whenever you
you describe something you can always
always talk about the opposite of
of something else so
so maybe like instead of saying like
like I have a smile on my face you
you could say I don't have a frown
frown something I don't have a sad
sad face
sad face so
so when you maybe know some vocabulary
vocabulary for something you actually
actually have like twice the vocabulary
vocabulary because you can describe
describe something one way or you
you could describe it in a different
different way so I'm actually going
going to put the cap back on this
this and then put the ink back inside
inside the actual pen itself it's
it's got a rubber guard on it so
so this is like the hand grip right
right here rubber grip and it's got
got its a couple of lines on here
here so your hand doesn't slip and
and you can push on the top here to
to load the actual pen so
so to keep the pen from coming out
out and maybe writing when it shouldn't
shouldn't are getting ink when it
it shouldn't you can release it back
back into the pan so it's actually
actually really interesting mechanism
mechanism and again I'm like obviously
obviously I'm a fluent speaker in
in my vocabulary is probably larger
larger than yours but these aren't
aren't things that are difficult to
to learn
to learn it's
it's just being interested in something
something like this and recognizing
recognizing the potential of even
even something as basic as a pin to
to give you a lot of practice with
with your fluency so
so these kind of two things I'd like
like you to think about four the
the video again I am repeating things
things I want to come back so we talk
talk about some things and I try to
to repeat them at the end to make
make sure they're remembering or you're
you're remembering them that they
they are memorable so
so this one is the first one is when
when you're trying to think about
about describing something just to
to develop the ability to speak at
at a longer rate or for a longer period
period of time the
the most important thing is just to
to take something simple so it doesn't
doesn't get your mind thinking of
of how about a whole bunch of things
things that like again like with politics
politics or philosophies become much
much more difficult to talk about
about you just want to develop the
the habit of being able to speak for
for a longer period of time and you
you do that by just describing something
something as best you can this is
is long or this is longer than a pencil
pencil this is longer than a mouse
mouse this is longer than any racer
racer and make as many sentences you
you can just to get to the process
process of being able to speak like
like that automatically and the more
more you do that the more you will
will actually develop fluency to be
be able to speak about maybe even
even more complex things or even you
you know like the things like philosophy
philosophy or politics but really
really when you're in a situation
situation where you have to talk about
about philosophy or politics and you
you don't really know much that's
that's your opportunity to learn so
so ask people what their views are
are and why they think them in like
like you're you're kind of doing the
the opposite approach where your again
again like what's the physical thing
thing they're talking about what's
what's the history behind that thing
thing how is it connected to other
other things you're thinking about
about all these things at the same
same time and then the second part
part is that when you're thinking
thinking about things you're asking
asking questions you're also in the
the back of your mind because you've
you've been practicing your starting
starting to get more ideas so that
that you always have something new
new and always a new direction and
and take people in so
so this is exactly what I do in my
my master English conversation lessons
lessons when i'm sitting in talking
talking with people about particular
particular things now most people
people they come on to the program
program or they join me for a video
video and they're a little bit nervous
nervous because people are you know
know it's kind of new for many people
people to be in front of the camera
camera and speak without any rehearsal
rehearsal and the reason i don't have
have people rehearsals because i really
really want to have them be
be fresh and being able to say things
things that it's like a real conversation
conversation so that's why we don't
don't rehearse anything for actual
actual conversations in master English
English conversation but anyway so
so people get on the program and they're
they're feeling a little bit nervous
nervous but I'm there to direct them
them so whenever they talk about something
something
something excuse
excuse me again you drink some water
water i'm like talking too much over
over here but anyway so when people
people are on the program maybe
maybe they don't know exactly what
what they want to speak about for
for a particular thing there thinking
thinking okay like I I been asked
asked about like maybe what my job
job is or my boyfriend or girlfriend
girlfriend or something like that
that but I don't know what else he
he wants me to talk about so that's
that's what I'm leading them on to
to something else oh
oh that's interesting it's interesting
interesting how this connects with
with this other thing so
so your job as a person is trying
trying to learn how to speak in other
other languages to learn to find as
as many connections as possible that
that there are easy patterns to this
this and just as I showed you in this
this video look at me i'm talking
talking about a pin and other things
things like that like i have no script
script for this at all but it's just
just because i'm using connections
connections between things and this
this is exactly what you should be
be doing to get fluent so
so remember to number one you want
want to speak about something for
for our as long a period of time as
as you can even if you're just saying
saying the same sentence over and
and over again with a slightly different
different way like this pain is longer
longer than a mouse this pain is longer
longer than an eraser this pain is
is longer than my foot if
if that's true whatever or this pain
pain is not longer than my put my
my foot this pen is not longer than
than you know a snake or something
something like that so
so I'm just trying to like again get
get into the habit of speaking about
about something continuously so that
that way
that way I'm
I'm training myself to look for connections
connections and I'm doing that kind
kind of intentionally at first but
but it becomes automatic it becomes
becomes something that I can do my
my brain does subconsciously when
when I'm speaking so
so if you can do the same thing and
and even if you're practicing first
first in your native language that's
that's particularly helpful then feel
feel free to do that then practice
practice in your own language first
first but then go back to english
english and start doing the same thing
thing took take a look at something
something like this and try to like
like even just write down all the
the things that you can describe about
about this and get like very specific
specific if you want to start with
with writing that's perfectly fine
fine too but it will get you to think
think about things almost like a template
template what does it look like physically
physically where
where did it come from how is it made
made what is it connected to this
this looks like something else this
this brings back this memory of this
this other thing i had when i was
was a kid and all these things are
are examples of giving you in this
this very video so go back watch
watch this video a couple of times
times actually it's really important
important video and if you're watching
watching this you're still watching
watching this right now I
I applaud you that's fantastic you've
you've been sitting here watching
watching me speak for like 20 minutes
minutes
minutes I
I can't believe I'm talking for like
like 20 minutes about this video anyway
anyway that's it for this video I
I don't want to give you too much
much information but hopefully I've
I've given you a lot of hope and show
show you some very specific ways that
that you can develop your fluency
fluency
fluency well
well now i need to go relax and get
get some water and soothe soothe my
my throat because i'm speaking too
too much over here but it's been a
a pleasure hopefully I'm giving you
you some really great tips here that
that are helping you express yourself
yourself more fluently get
get out in practice don't just sit
sit here like this and watch these
these videos I
I want you to get out and use what
what you learn start picking out anything
anything like when you're on the bus
bus or you're at school or you're
you're at work you're visiting your
your family while you're having dinner
dinner look at even something like
like chopsticks or a fork or a knife
knife or anything specific like that
that and just start talking about
about it like even if you're just
just talking in your head that's just
just fine but that will get you to
to start speaking more fluently I
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fluency is not about learning a whole
whole bunch of words it's about the
the habit of speaking such that you
you can speak continuously and while
while you're speaking you're also
also thinking about other things to
to say
to say so
so you never run out of things to
to talk about in conversations you'll
you'll never be boring again but just
just kind of as an aside this is when
when you want to speak the
the other time it's really important
important to listen so be sure to
to listen especially when you don't
don't know what's happening and you
you want to learn a bunch of new vocabulary
vocabulary anyway
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