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another advance to listening practice
practice lesson I want to begin by
by apologizing it's
it's very early in the morning here
here I wanted to wake up before everyone
everyone else was awake and running
running around the house especially
especially my daughter so
so I'm awake a kind of well pretty
pretty really actually over here but
but i'm excited to be making this
this video so i apologize if i do
do not quit claim that quite clean
clean shaven over here that's something
something you could try to say five
five times fast quite clean shape
shape and quite clean shaven quite
quite clean shaving anyway
anyway i'm excited to be here I've
I've had a couple of vacations recently
recently
recently so
so the first one I was going back
back to California I was actually
actually visiting my younger sister
sister out there and my mom and her
her husband or not my mom's has been
been but my younger sister's husband
husband so I get to stay with them
them in san francisco and i had a
a lot of fun traveling around doing
doing lots of interesting things out
out there and then on this most recent
recent trip just a family vacation
vacation here in Japan I went to kill
kill dough Japan so
so it was a nice opportunity to take
take my daughter to their take my
my daughter there for the first time
time and get to shore what everything
everything looks like and killed was
was a special place for me i really
really like just the whole design
design of the entire area the entire
entire city it's
it's built not based on the ancient
ancient kind of chinese designed for
for capital cities and so it's a really
really nice grid formation with all
all the streets that are really easy
easy to recognize and understand but
but within all of these big easy to
to understand places you've got lots
lots of tiny little places to explore
explore lots of beautiful gardens
gardens
gardens we
we took a trip to the zoo which you
you can find on the youtube channel
channel as well so that was another
another really interesting thing we
we wanted to do and i spent a lot
lot of time just walking around my
my daughter just showing her interesting
interesting things and getting to
to spend more time with her because
because that's really the best thing
thing I can do to help her start speaking
speaking and help her start reading
reading as well she
she actually really likes letters
letters so anytime we see letter she
she stops and wants to look at everything
everything so I'm really excited about
about that anyway
anyway in this video i wanted to talk
talk about something that i mentioned
mentioned in a mail to subscribers
subscribers not that long ago and
and if you'd like to learn more about
about that you can learn more about
about that at our website actually
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take a really great quiz that we've
we've got there now that really helps
helps people give a lot of great information
information specifically for people
people that have really whatever your
your problem areas with your English
English but it's something that you
you know typically when people are
are learning a language there's one
one or two there are one or two things
things that people have a specific
specific problem with and if you solve
solve that it could be listening or
or reading or speaking or whatever
whatever the problem is but if you
you solve that then
then it takes your fluency up to a
a much higher level maybe two three
three or even ten times or more higher
higher just because you're solving
solving all of these individual problems
problems with your fluency and you're
you're tackling the number one frustration
frustration that you have with your
your fluency so you can learn more
more about that there but so since
since we're talking about you know
know learning and trying to improve
improve as we always are something
something I wanted to talk about in
in this video was when you're really
really thinking about I
I think the best way to explain it
it is that like the people that get
get fluent or the people that succeed
succeed or the people that do really
really well at whatever the thing
thing happens to be these
these are people that attend to every
every philosophy of ready fire aim
aim now you hear this a lot in kind
kind of business books and other things
things as well but when people are
are talking specifically about how
how to do something such
such that you can succeed quickly
quickly especially something that
that requires a lot of time and a
a lot of patience and dealing with
with other people so something like
like fluency is I was talking about
about with newsletter subscribers
subscribers recently so I mentioned
mentioned a friend of mine that had
had been he had spent a lot of time
time
time he's
he's really talented guy and I had
had seen him back in California and
and he was totally kind of telling
telling me this story about how he
he was
he was I
I guess I could say I could remember
remember it from college as well but
but basically he was talking about
about how he had spent a lot of time
time trying to get into lots of different
different things but never quite completed
completed any one of them because
because he was really focused on being
being
being perfect
perfect that one thing and so I would
would say oh why don't you tell people
people about it why don't you design
design these things with other people
people because they depend on other
other people especially businesses
businesses it's
it's really difficult to try to build
build a business by yourself and then
then release it to other people when
when you're finally finished with
with it and you think it's perfect
perfect and then most of the time
time the business does badly because
because the business depends on other
other people being there so I was
was talking to my friend and explaining
explaining and this is another thing
thing that I explained in the newsletter
newsletter was that for something
something that's a social idea or
or a social learning thing or something
something that depends on other people
people like business or learning a
a language the important thing is
is that you actually have to do it
it really from the beginning with
with other people and that's why when
when I design courses or when I do
do anything like I make a lot of mistakes
mistakes at what I do but the reason
reason that I make mistakes is because
because i'm happy to actually start
start getting involved with other
other people and the truth about what
what I do is really important to me
me
me so
so let's say like everybody hated
hated this video and i got the whole
whole bunch of comments down below
below you know I might be a little
little bit sad about that but at the
the same time I'd be really happy
happy to know okay so people don't
don't like this video I bad rather
rather make something else or people
people are more interested in hearing
hearing about something else but you
you don't have access to that information
information until you put it out there
there for other people to understand
understand or to try to you know to
to consume or try to use or something
something like that so
so in the same way that people are
are starting to build more businesses
businesses now the real the whole
whole business landscape the landscape
landscape of business so just talking
talking about business in general
general especially software development
development is starting something
something and really building it with
with people in the same way that you
you would build fluency with other
other people and the ready fire aim
aim philosophy means that instead
instead of getting ready and you're
you're going to aim like really try
try to focus on a particular topic
topic or tip a particular target like
like I said it was earlier it is early
early and then fire so
so instead of really focusing on something
something and trying to make it exactly
exactly perfect and then pulling the
the trigger what
what people are really doing more
more now is just getting ready so
so starting things getting a little
little bit ready and then pulling
pulling the trigger so
so you're starting to shoot and
then
then you're
you're aiming after that so you shoot
shoot your first shot and maybe it
it hits well maybe it doesn't but
but you learn from that and then you
you start correcting and then you
you actually get fluent faster or
or you build your business faster
faster or whatever that thing is you
you have to do so people talk about
about failing quickly such
such that you can start learning more
more quickly and then you can actually
actually get to your success you know
know whatever your goal is much much
much faster so
so the important thing to think about
about about ready fire aim with learning
learning with you no business like
like my friend back in California
California or you with fluency or
or whatever else it is in your life
life that you're interested in doing
doing the point is to especially when
when you're involved with other people
people so something like fluency particularly
particularly because it requires you
you to be with other people into practice
practice in front of other people
people in order to actually get fluent
fluent
fluent because
because if you just sit him you know
know look at a textbook in your your
your room you're sitting studying
studying by yourself excuse
excuse me so he's just sitting and
and studying by yourself it's going
going to be really difficult for you
you to actually when you finally get
get in front of people and you think
think you're perfect you think you've
you've practiced you haven't actually
actually build the confidence by practicing
practicing in front of other people
people
people so
so it begins by starting to do something
something a little bit in front of
of other people and then starting
starting to learn from that and then
then starting to improve and then
then it gets much much much better
better over time so I thought about
about this now is I'm sitting there
there and I'm talking with my friends
friends and just walking around talking
talking with people and killed two
two and now I i can actually speak
speak fluent Japanese and the reason
reason i can do that is because I
I stopped learning that traditional
traditional way where I was thinking
thinking about okay need to kind of
of sit down and study a whole bunch
bunch of flashcards and text books
books and things like that now
now this is good if you want to study
study a test where it doesn't matter
matter if another person is involved
involved again this this difference
difference between having people involved
involved in what you do so
so if I'm learning math or something
something that is just a test that's
that's going to be literally testing
testing me about something it doesn't
doesn't matter if i spend time with
with other people or not but if what
what I'm doing depends on other people
people again like having a business
business where your successfully selling
selling something to other people
people or you're trying to speak fluently
fluently in front of other people
people it really depends on having
having other people there to practice
practice with so that's really so
so in the case of you know me trying
trying to do that are you trying to
to get fluent whatever that the case
case happens to be if you are more
more of a ready fire aim and then
then you continue this process over
over and over again that's
that's what's going to help you learn
learn and really going to help you
you get for him so
so you have to be able to build speaking
speaking confidence and again the
the way i did it was stopping learning
learning the traditional way and then
then starting the very first thing
thing so this is just one of my the
the the ways that really changed my
my learning in my ability to get fluent
fluent was the speaking practice missions
missions that i started creating begin
begin because i realize like yes
yes it's nice to maybe know a few
few words but if I can't use them
them confidently if I feel nervous
nervous and scared and don't want
want to make any mistakes and I'm
I'm never going to actually build
build the speaking confidence and
and the fluency required to speak
speak fluently so
so what I did was in this is a example
example I've given probably dozens
dozens of times two different learners
learners of so if you're new to it
it i hope you take this example and
and use it yourself is I would go
go to like a grocery store this is
is the first thing or one of the first
first few things I started to do to
to get fluent in japanese and I would
would just say to people hey
hey where's the sugar where is the
the salt where is the you know whatever
whatever something like that so i
i did that number one because all
all the people working at a grocery
grocery store busy they're not just
just standing around with nothing
nothing to do so
so they can answer a quick question
question for me and i can know if
if I'm using the language correctly
correctly or not so I just practice
practice one thing and I focus on
on it and review it over and over
over again until i can say it perfectly
perfectly where is this where is this
where is that where
where is that so
so I practice that thing in the practicing
practicing of it again it's that ready
ready fire aim thing where I'm taking
taking a particular thing ready part
part of it is just the phrase I want
want to practice the fire is where
where I say it over and over and over
over again and then I aim by getting
getting better each time I'm
I'm learning in each time I'm using
using something so my pronunciation
pronunciation improves my listening
listening improves maybe
maybe the person its replying to me
me or the staff at the grocery store
store is a little bit different each
each time but i would just walk around
around
around two
two different people in the store
store and say hey where's the sugar
sugar where is a solid you know even
even if I didn't really need that
that thing i would just walk up to
to everyone I could find and ask them
them for their help so
so if you're willing to do this if
if you're willing to actually do this
this
this that's
that's what's going to help you get
get fluent or help you succeed at
at whatever else you're happy to be
be doing is anyway I don't want to
to be talking too much here I wanted
wanted to just give you this but this
this is a really important point about
about how you think because it extends
extends you know the kind of new things
things that are happening in business
business
business how
how the same things that happened
happened in fluency and anything else
else that requires you to deal with
with people so
so when you're thinking about dealing
dealing with people and having for
for having the chance to get fluent
fluent this is the thing I'd like
like you to think about today anyway
anyway I hope you have enjoyed this
this lesson you give me specific feedback
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learn again everything on this channel
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so I try different things and see
see how they work and i'm still still
still trying to ready fire aim around
around YouTube and figure out you
you know things I'd like to do like
like well I continue with this series
series or I can you know create something
something new but the best way i can
can do that is if I learn more from
from you
from you so
so if you like this video tell me
me why and if you don't like this
this video will you can tell me why
why as well we've been watching this
this this whole thing and if you don't
don't like it will maybe that's a
a little bit weird but if you're trying
trying to help me improve in that
that way I can help you improve then
then we get a connection here where
where we can have something that you
you know both of us or everyone here
here actually gets to improve a lot
lot because we're both trying to think
think about different ways are trying
trying to do that ready fire aim approach
approach of going back and forth to
to create something that's really
really helpful for you to help you
you learn my english is already great
great so i don't really need to practice
practice so much i'm here for you
you
you anyway
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