hi there I'm drew badger the world's number one english
fluency guide and in today's
advanced listening practice
lesson
lesson
lesson what I would like to do is
answer a question I've received
lately or actually been
receiving for quite awhile but
more late recently here on
YouTube and this is how can i
know which fluency habit to
focus on so if you're not
familiar the kind of two
different ways i really want to
give just a very quick general
overview of this when you're
trying to become a fluent
speaker it's much more important
to think about not learning more
kinds of individual pieces of
information like how do I learn
more words how do I learn more
grammar rules how do I learn
other things like that really
the important thing is to
develop the kind of skills are
developed the habits that are
required to become a confident
fluent English speaker so you
don't want to learn information
you want to be the kind of
person that can actually speak
fluently and confidently now
typically you can feel which one
of these things and maybe it
will be more than one which is
lacking so if you just kind of
go through the the different
steps when I try to think about
where it is where is the where
does the struggle begin for you
so if you think about the
English fluency habits and you
can learn more about those on
right here on YouTube actually
if you watch a video maybe a few
videos before this one I forget
which one but it's something
called the English the seven
English fluency habits or what
are they so i recommend you
watch that video to learn more
about them specifically but this
video is just talking more about
like evaluating testing your own
habits and thinking about how
you can become a more confident
speaker by figuring out what
your weakest habit is because
all these habits work together
and just like a chain if you
think about the links of a chain
if one of the links is weak then
the whole chain becomes weak so
if you can maybe know a whole
bunch of words but you have no
confidence then you won't be
able to speak fluently so a lot
of people in this case maybe
they lack confidence but they
continue to study more words
you're making basically that
link in the chain stronger but
you're still having an overall
week chain because you're not
building your confidence and
this is why the idea of
developing the seven English
fluency habits is so important
it's so essential to being able
to become a confident fluent
speaker because so many students
are taught that they have to
learn a whole bunch of
information and that's the way
that the school system or just
language education in general
prepares you to become a well i
guess a person who can pass a
test but they're not really
preparing to become a confident
speaker so again you want to
develop all of the seven fluency
habits and you begin by working
on your weakest one so how do
you know which one that is now
typically you can just think
about this in general like what
are the things that you struggle
with or what are the problems
that you have at the moment
you're in conversations or even
before you get into a
conversation so if you feel
nervous before you have a
conversation you can think about
why just take a moment to think
about this but it could be
because i don't know like my i
will like forget what i want to
say or my words will not come
into my mind at that time or I
will have to translate in my
head right won't be able to
remember how to use grammar
rules other things like that but
there's typically one or two
reasons why you're feeling
nervous about a particular thing
so if it's maybe my
pronunciation I'm worried about
that like maybe somebody laughed
at me one time because my
pronunciation was a little bit
bad and now I'm feeling
self-conscious about that so I'm
less wanting less likely to want
to speak in conversation so if
you take a moment and kind of
think about that for yourself
you can really judge fairly well
whether or not that something is
like a good habit that's maybe
your weakest one and it might
again some people have more than
one week Abbott and that's why
it's important to improve all of
them so that you can develop the
habits that a native speaker has
but if you just walk through
them you can kind of begin with
maybe the first one which is
listening now listening is the
number one habit I maybe not the
number one in importance but
it's typically the first thing I
work on because if you don't
understand what other people are
saying then you won't be able to
have any conversation with
anybody else it won't matter
what your pronunciation is or
how you speak or your grammar or
anything like that so if I've
got only like five fingers over
i should be holding up seven
like this but we're just looking
at these but really the first
one you should start thinking
about
about
about if you're working through them
is your listening ability now if
you have the ability to
understand what I'm saying
that's great if you also have
the ability to understand what
people are saying movies and TV
shows and other things and
that's fantastic then you can
forget about listening you've
already got that you don't need
to sit and listen to any more
listening practice exercises you
can move on to the next thing so
you work through each of the
habits like this and we show
people how to do this with our
English fluency have it guide so
all seven guys that people can
find an English of anyone calm
but just thinking about this for
yourself if you again have
thought about maybe you're
listening is just fine we can
move on to pronunciation and
grammar and vocabulary other
things like that when you work
through each one of these it
will tell you okay this is the
one like this one and this one
is ok but this one maybe
pronunciation or grammar is the
one I'm struggling with so I
don't want to give you too much
information about that but this
is how you do it you kind of
think about each habit
individually and also not just a
logical thinking about it but
you can also think about how
does it how does it make me feel
when I think about each one of
these things so when I have to
sit and listen to a speech how
do I feel about that do I feel
nervous about that because I
won't be able to understand
anything or do I not feel
nervous because I understand
everything very well how do I
feel about being able to use
complex grammar automatically
and correctly without thinking
in conversations if you feel
great about that you feel
confident about that then that's
not a problem for you but maybe
you feel like your words are not
sounding very natural or you
feel like your pronunciation is
a little bit difficult to
understand all of these things
again how they make you feel are
really good indicators of what
you should be working on so
again my learner's the reason
they become fluent quickly
especially my personal students
that have been learning with me
for a long time it's because
they understand this idea the
difference between trying to do
more things try to learn more
pieces of information and trying
to be someone who's a confident
fluent English speaker so just
like you would model the
behavior of a millionaire you
would do what they do if you
want to become a millionaire
also you have to do the same
thing by
thing by
thing by learning like native English
speakers this is what's going to
help you become a confident
fluent English speaker much
faster so take some time today
go through this process maybe
think about the seven fluency
habits go back and watch that
other video to learn more about
what these are we learn more
about that in English anyone .
com we have a quiz you can take
that will actually tell you
which of these is the one you
struggle with so that we can
give you personal information
about this specific for you
whether it's pronunciation or
being able to improve your maybe
your fluency in general or
learning more words and phrases
it sound more natural in
conversations all of these
things we can help you with that
in English anyone . com you can
click on the link in the
description for that
well that's the end of this
lesson again I don't want to
give you too much information
but think about these things
today
today
today think about what they are
logically and then how they make
you feel and then come back like
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