hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's
number one English Fluency Guide and in
this video we're going to be talking
about the number one grammar mistake
that English language learners make I
get so many questions from learners that
have problems with being able to
understand grammar or more importantly
even if they do understand how grammar
works they can't use it automatically
and fluently when they speak so I wanted
to begin this video before talking about
the actual mistake people make more
talking about why you actually have this
problem typically people will be not
having the ability to use grammar
automatically because they have learned
it in a way that's taught them grammar
rules but hasn't taught them how to
actually use the grammar without
speaking now people are learning the
language like a robot or a computer in
most traditional language classes they
get a list of grammar rules and often
even in the videos that you'll see right
here on YouTube with people are teaching
grammar they're doing it the traditional
way to give you a list of things written
on a whiteboard and they explain its
this tense and then if we want to talk
about the past then you change it and it
basically goes on to explain things that
you understand logically but because you
haven't trained yourself to use these
things automatically that's really what
stops you from being able to get fluent
now this isn't your fault because this
is the way that native speakers have
taught non-native speakers for many many
years or even people that are non-native
speakers that are also trying to help
other non-native speakers learn the
language I've been teaching it it's just
a traditional typical way and this is
what we were fighting against with
English anyone and trying to help people
see that you should be learning things
visually and then understanding things
and practicing them much more so that
you can actually use them confidently
and correctly automatically when you
speak so the number one mistake people
make is not with a particular grammar
point it's more about the learning of
grammar in general you may have been
learning this way ever since you began
learning the English language or any
other language you're studying but it's
now your opportunity to change the way
you learn so you can start training
yourself to speak because what you
really need to do if you want to use
correct grammar automatically is to
practice using grammar and to learn it
the right way the first thing you need
to do to become a master of grammar so
that you can use it automatically is to
learn it visually you don't want to
learn
things where you're just reading it in a
textbook and getting a translation of
what your verb is to what a verb is in
English this is another one of the
really big problems that people make and
this is why maybe if you do hesitate
when you speak this is one of the big
reasons why this happens as an example
if I'm trying to learn Spanish I don't
actually see somebody running or
drinking or whatever and then learn the
spanish word for those things i'm just
reading in a dictionary maybe I see the
word like I don't know bear for drink if
that means drink I don't remember I took
like a little bit of Spanish and failed
it in school anyway but this idea of
just having something in a textbook
where you have to drink and then you
have the opposite thing the translation
of that next to it and then you're just
supposed to remember what those things
are now some people are able to do this
but I was not and I know a lot of the
people that follow me here watching
these videos have trouble understanding
in that way as well so what you have to
do number one is learn everything in
English and the way you do that is doing
it visually especially with verbs and
this is why we have all these little
video clips in these videos and I try to
demonstrate things visually as opposed
to just writing things up on a
blackboard it's important to see what
things look like you know to have the
spelling something like that but really
the most important thing is connecting
the meaning of something that you're
learning with the word that you're
trying to remember so I'm not trying to
translate from your language into
English but by taking a word where
you're seeing somebody running and then
you see I ok the word is to run for that
so the first step to grammar mastery is
to learn everything visually through
English the second step is once you've
mastered the grammar itself to
understand and practice using it by
telling it in different ways as an
example I could just maybe if I'm
speaking in a very simple way talked
about yesterday I went to a party or
tomorrow I will go to a party so I'm
taking something and I'm just making
different sentences in my mind by
practicing something and again I'm
connecting the meaning of something not
with a particular verb tense but in the
same way children would learn it it's
almost like you know if we look at the
verb to eat so if a child is listening
to a verb like that and I here as a
young
someone says I eat dinner and I'm
watching them they are eating right now
ok I understand what that means I eat
but if I here I ate dinner yesterday I'm
actually hearing these as two different
words it's not until we get a little bit
older that we connect oh these are
different tenses of the same thing so
we're actually really getting to the
meaning of something just this word
eight means to do something in the past
tense but then maybe like it's a little
bit easier to see when you have a
regular verb but something irregular
like to eat when it becomes eight
something it becomes a little bit more
difficult to understand but again this
is why you should be connecting with the
meaning directly so the first time
you're connecting with the meaning
directly is seeing something visually
and the second time is you're connecting
with the tents by hearing that thing and
understanding what the meaning of that
is so if you understand the time period
ok yesterday my friend did something so
we're not talking about right now we're
talking about a period in the past
instead of he does something now or he
will do something in the future he did
something in the past now these are both
of the steps that we do in master
English conversation but however you
like to learn keep these two things in
mind and that will help you improve your
English grammar and use it and really
become a much more competent user of
correct grammar automatically well I
hope you have enjoyed this quick video
really it's a very simple process for
mastering grammar once you stop doing it
the traditional way so if you're trying
to learn something like you're a Spanish
speaker and trying to learn English
through Spanish or Portuguese or any
other language Chinese French Italian
you have to remove all of those other
languages and connect exactly with the
English language through visual
exercises so something where you
actually get to see what's happening and
learning in the same way a child does
and then listening to stories which
explain okay we have a particular tense
and we're trying to show you exactly how
something works but we're again
connecting with the meaning of that as
opposed to trying to drill tenses and
remember grammar point all of these
things are really simple and will help
you improve but you have to actually
practice these things so just take a few
things maybe a few sentences and then
play with that so learn it as a visual
thing and then try practicing okay if I
did that thing yesterday how would the
sentence sound so yesterday I
sindh to music today I am listening or
right now I am listening to music if you
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difficult to become a master of grammar
but you have to stop learning at the
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