hi there I'm drew badger the world's
world's number one english fluency
fluency guide it is a pleasure to
to welcome you to another advanced
advanced listening practice lesson
lesson well in this video we'll be
be talking about is fluency itself
itself i really wanted to make a video
video about this and maybe just answer
answer a few general related questions
questions to fluency and learning
learning English because people ask
ask me a lot of the same question
question so maybe I'll just answer
answer some of them in this video
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anyway just to begin with I wanted
wanted to talk about what is fluency
fluency because people have lots of
of different definitions of what it
it means or what a person who is fluent
fluent can do in my definition the
the way I like to describe it best
best is the fluency is actually a
a collection of habits now fluency
fluency most people believe that fluency
fluency is like knowing a whole bunch
bunch of words and so that's why they
they spend a lot of time learning
learning vocabulary as opposed to
to learning how to weave that vocabulary
vocabulary together and you would
would be surprised that there are
are many adults so non-native english
english learners that know maybe even
even like a thousand words or more
more and then they're trying to talk
talk with a young child that's maybe
maybe two or three years old that's
that's an English speaker and that
that child has probably a fairly limited
limited vocabulary they may know quite
quite a few words like you know colors
colors and birds and animals and other
other things like that but the advanced
advanced speaker or advanced d the
the learner i should say the non-native
non-native english learner that knows
knows a whole bunch of words maybe
maybe knows lots of advanced words
words about politics and philosophy
philosophy and the environment and
and economics but they actually can't
can't we've all that information together
together to speak fluently now it's
it's a little bit confusing for people
people when they think about speaking
speaking a language fluently so try
try to think about it as like playing
playing a sport fluently or playing
playing an instrument fluently these
these are all things we are doing
doing something you're able to take
take that object you know it could
could be like a basketball
basketball and where you're dribbling
dribbling and doing different things
things with the ball without thinking
thinking about it or you could be
be playing an instrument but you got
got a trumpet in your hand and you're
you're playing it over and over again
again and trying to do interesting
interesting things with that but you
you do it without thinking and the
the reason you do it without thinking
thinking is because you've practiced
practiced and you reviewed it so many
many times so language is not a set
set of ideas are rules that you can
can just apply whatever you want to
to like you're doing a math problem
problem you know okay one plus one
one equals two and you're going to
to practice doing that and then maybe
maybe you like can apply that rule
rule to something else it
it doesn't work that way for english
english because it's almost a physical
physical skill like you're training
training your mind and your training
training your voice in order to connect
connect and make these different speech
speech patterns and being able to
to say things when your understanding
understanding and how you're anticipating
anticipating all these things come
come together to inform and to produce
produce fluent speech so right now
now i'm just i'm speaking fluently
fluently but my vocabulary maybe i'm
i'm not talking about a whole bunch
bunch of difficult things are even
even using a lot of difficult vocabulary
vocabulary but i'm able to speak in
in a current like fluid way just so
so I can explain myself with having
having to think and having to take
take long pauses in between what i
i want to say now of course you can
can take your time and think and some
some people maybe they asked me a
a question and I try to be thoughtful
thoughtful about it and take a moment
moment to think about what I'm saying
saying but it doesn't mean i'm not
not fluent i'm able to actually respond
respond in to form a coherent idea
idea and form a like an idea that
that speaks and expresses myself in
in a very clear way in a grammatically
grammatically correct way when I'm
I'm speaking and it's because I've
I've taken the time to practice in
in a certain way where I'm trying
trying to develop fluency itself and
and again fluency it doesn't mean
mean I'm trying to remember a whole
whole bunch of vocabulary real or
or learn a lot of rules it
it means i'm able to produce fluent
fluent speech without thinking about
about it and it's because i've developed
developed the habits that have helped
helped me do so now a lot of the reason
reason that maybe if you are struggling
struggling out there the reason that
that you have problems developing
developing fluency are being able
able to speak fluently is because
because the traditional language learning
learning methods you use didn't help
help you develop all the habits that
that are required for fluency now
now fluency I've been trying to think
think about fluency and how to explain
explain it in a really simple way
way for a long time
time because it can be tricky it's
it's a it's not really step-by-step
step-by-step process where first you
you learn this and then you learn
learn that thing and then you do this
this other thing it's really it's
it's almost like a web of things that
that come together so when I described
described like what I call an English
English fluency profile it's all of
of these different habits that you
you have these habits and abilities
abilities and how well developed they
they are individually so the more
more well-developed each of these
these habits is individually the more
more your overall fluency improves
improves and so these habits are things
things like being able to speak confidently
confidently for being able to speak
speak fluently or being able to in
in this to end when I say fluently
fluently I just mean like continuously
continuously and without having to
to think for long periods of time
time for being able to speak using
using grammatically correct English
English without taking a lot of time
time to think about where any time
time at all really to wonder like
like am I using the right grammar
grammar . or am I saying the right
right thing so
so all these things they come together
together and typically the reason
reason non-native speakers dont i
i dont have the ability to speak fluently
fluently or don't have that fluency
fluency overall is because they don't
don't have a most or all of these
these habits well-developed they have
have maybe one or two and these are
are the things like listening so this
this is why a lot of people watch
watch this series and they're thinking
thinking wow like my understanding
understanding of Drew right now in
in this lesson like I'm speaking you
you know a little bit faster but I'm
I'm still quite clear about how I
I speak and a lot of people are like
like wow I wish to every native speaker
speaker spoke this way i wish i could
could make that happen but I'm sorry
sorry i cant the best thing I can
can do is kind of help train you so
so that you know it doesn't matter
matter what people sound like because
because really that's the best kind
kind of feeling you have when you
you go out and no matter who you're
you're speaking with you can have
have great conversations and understand
understand what they're saying so
so typically the reason that people
people can understand what I'm saying
saying is because i'm speaking clearly
clearly and then they're not able
able to understand other native speakers
speakers or just you know lots of
of people even in movies or TV shows
shows and music because they're not
not speaking in a clear way so every
every person that's a non-native speaker
speaker typically I would say like
like a hundred percent of people but
but most people may be ninety-five
ninety-five percent or more people
people are learning English in a typical
typical school environment so when
when they're young maybe they go to
to english classes if you're in France
France or China or Brazil it doesn't
doesn't really matter people are typically
typically going to the same English
English schools and even if there
there is a native English speaker
speaker there to teach you that person
person is not teaching you the same
same way native speaker would teach
teach their own children so the way
way I try I try to teach people in
in that red train people is in the
the same way that I would teach my
my own daughter so right now I'm like
like teaching my daughter now like
like it's actually funny to see how
how how she's improved with her ability
ability with the English and she can
can she can use she's about I'd say
say Oh year and month now or maybe
maybe like just over a year old but
but she knows quite a few words she
she knows like the word diaper and
and moon and other things and i can
can say or do you want to read this
this book in here or in the other
other room and she will say like over
over there you know and we will walk
walk over to the other room and she
she understands what I'm saying and
and it's interesting that she spends
spends much more time with English
English why should say much more time
time with the Japanese because we're
we're at home and she spends more
more time with her mom because i'm
i'm working or doing whatever else
else I have to do but her English
English in her use of english is much
much better than her use of Japanese
Japanese and I sometimes do teacher
teacher like a few things in Japanese
Japanese but I'm focusing much more
more on English because like she doesn't
doesn't have as much time with English
English as she does with Japanese
Japanese but it just goes to show
show you it's an interesting example
example of it doesn't matter like
like where you're living or how much
much time you spend it's more if you're
you're doing it in the right way that's
that's how you're going to develop
develop the habits required to speak
speak fluently so I look like a lot
lot of people like thinking about
about developing these habits i try
try to explain to people I I really
really make like a strong effort to
to to explain how this works it's
it's almost like a chain where you've
you've got many links together and
and each of these habits as connected
connected as one link in that chain
chain and if one of those links is
is really weak then it makes the entire
entire chain week as a result and
and so if people are sitting and listening
listening to this and they're thinking
thinking like wow I can understand
understand what true saying but I
I have trouble understanding what
what other native speakers are saying
saying and I keep learning more words
words but I don't feel more fluent
fluent the reason is because you're
you're working on things that you're
you're already strong so you're listening
listening to these videos but you're
you're not also actually trying to
to go out and maybe you are but like
like maybe not making as much of an
an effort to develop your fluency
fluency through speaking confidence
confidence so if you focus more on
on your speaking confidence or other
other things where the things that
that your week at these other skills
skills and you develop those these
these are the things that like
like the individual links in those
those chains were in the chain of
of your overall fluency much stronger
stronger so that's why fluency is
is a tricky thing because you can
can have a really strong vocabulary
vocabulary but really weak fluency
fluency because you don't really know
know how to use all those things together
together so if you develop each of
of the habits that you have and i
i learned i teach people more about
about this i'll put a link in the
the description below the video actually
actually if you'd like to learn more
more about that developing each of
of the habits that are required for
for fluency but the important thing
thing is really just to do kind of
of think about what your personal
personal problem is whatever your
your biggest fluency frustration isn't
isn't for me like
like when i came to japan i talked
talked about this in videos and I
I explained that like my biggest fluency
fluency frustration was no matter
matter how many more words I learned
learned it didn't feel like I was
was getting any more fluent and so
so it was really frustrating for me
me and if you have a similar thing
thing it's likely because you're not
not developing the other habits that
that are required to speak and once
once you develop all those habits
habits together it's like these like
like you know teams on like Japanese
Japanese shows for kids where it's
it's like five you know range your
your guys get together and they combine
combine to form some like ultimate
ultimate you know fighting monster
monster robot or something like that
that so this is a typical idea of
of you develop strength in each of
of these individual things so that
that when they come together they
they produce something that's really
really strong and that's your overall
overall fluency so i'll just leave
leave maybe the the question open
open for you if there's other particular
particular questions you like to know
know about about learning English
English about how to do this or how
how to do that whatever those things
things are but for this video I really
really like you to just focus on whatever
whatever your weakest in try to focus
focus on that first and try to focus
focus on that thing specifically without
without worrying about how do I learn
learn more words or other things and
and because it's very easy to want
want to do those things like just
just to sit back and watch more YouTube
YouTube videos I mean it's great if
if you want to watch more you will
will learn more by doing that but
but you will improve your fluency
fluency much more by actually using
using so the fluency is like a muscle
muscle that you develop with use and
and you won't develop the use of it
it by just watching videos anyway
anyway that's I'd like to leave you
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