well hello there I am Drew Badger the
world's first and number one English
Fluency Guide with the most boring
background I'm so sorry about this
really I apologize I wish I had a more
interesting entertaining background
hopefully I find one at some point but
if you live in a small town in Japan
it's hard to find good places to record
because the walls are so thin anyway I
hope you can bear with me until I do
find a place but really you are
presumably here for the fantastic
information I have to offer you and not
because of really even my pretty face or
the way the background looks anyway what
I'd like to talk about in this video I
was really excited I've been really
excited to make this video for a while
because really it's the explaining
almost everything about what I do in one
video so I thought that would be really
cool to make this because it answers
just like a really big question that
people have and this is I can read write
and understand people even if you can
understand me or you can understand
everything you see in a movie but you
can't speak so why is it that people
have this problem where they have it's
like they go to school they go to an
English learning program where you learn
with programs like this you know you're
watching videos or you're you know maybe
you've taken some classes or read some
books about it and it seems like you
should be speaking fluently so that's
why it's confusing you should be
speaking okay you learned all these
words and you know some grammar points
and you can understand things quite well
so why can't you speak it is really it's
really frustrating and really the reason
the whole thing about the way I teach is
explaining this one thing now this one
thing is really important so remember
this and whether you learn with me
whether you learn with my lessons or not
this one thing is the most important
thing to remember and to understand
about developing fluency and that is the
way you learn to read write and listen
is different from the way you learn to
speak so in general like just looking at
these couple of skills very quickly
reading writing and listening are all
when you apply them whether it's just
like listening to something or reading
or writing something these are all slow
skills so what I call slow skills or
things that you can take time when you
so when you apply these things in your
conversations or if you just by yourself
reading something you can always take
time to think if I'm saying something
right now maybe you don't understand
everything exactly you can still get the
general idea of what I'm saying or you
can read the transcript and follow along
if you try to understand some words or
you can even take a word I use that you
don't quite understand and you can look
it up but all these things they take
time when you're in a conversation so if
you're listening to a video like this
maybe you don't have to think so much
about it okay I understood maybe 80% of
this and you understand the general idea
of what I'm saying the same thing is
true when you're writing or when you're
reading something now you can take time
you can think okay I want to write this
maybe I have to translate it in my head
maybe I have to look up a word but when
you're taking something when you're
reading and writing you have time to go
back and think about these things when
you do them and so when you're
practicing learning these things the
things that you learn in school all of
those skills have to do with these slow
things and so when you're learning how
to read write and listen to things
there's a very if any kind of emphasis
at all on speaking it's really just to
remember things and practice saying that
but the reason for this is because in
most skill most schools especially if
you go to like maybe you learn English
in your elementary school whatever like
you had a public education and you had
to learn English for that the reason
that you're only learning these slow
skills is because those are what are
required to pass a test so we can't
really sit like one teacher can't speak
with a whole bunch like 30 students and
do a test like that it just you know it
just doesn't have the time or the
resources to do that and so as a result
okay we're just going to focus on a test
where we can test your reading writing
and listening because you can check off
you know some circles do you check the
right answer you have a multiple choice
thing and it doesn't matter at all about
how you speak and while you're taking
these tests you can take time to think
about that somebody gives you something
to listen to maybe they repeat it two
times okay they're really giving you
time to think about that and then that's
why you're good at those skills but when
it comes time to speak you haven't
learned how to do that and typically
that's because you're not applying those
same or you are trying to apply that
same way of learning to learning how to
speak so just explaining this and making
sure it's very clear because this is the
most important thing to understand
especially if you're confused or you're
angry even like why I've been learning
English for years why can I read listen
and write but I can't say anything why
can I not express myself it's because
you're developing these slow skills over
here but not the fast skill of speaking
and when you're speaking you need to be
able to respond automatically you need
to be able to express yourself
spontaneously to respond to people
quickly and with like some smart
sounding thing that will impress that
person the more you can do that wow
that's amazing and that's when you can
actually speak fluently and the only way
to do that is to actually practice those
things and that's why it's a different
skill the actual skill of speaking is
different from these other skills so you
have to learn them in a different way so
whether you're learning with me whether
you're you know taking classes with me
like this is exactly how we teach people
in the fluency course in master English
conversation we're walking people
through a series of steps that trains
them to think because those are the
skills that you did not get when you
were learning and really pretty much any
kind of language course so you're
learning how to read write and listen to
things because okay you're understanding
the language you're learning the
language but the reason you can't put
all those things together the reason you
know grammar but you can't use it
confidently when you speak or the reason
you know vocabulary but you can't use it
confidently when you speak again all
these things like you have all this
information but you can't use it
fluently because you haven't been
trained to do that so if you haven't
been trained to do that this is exactly
what we do and again things like
mastering this conversation in the
fluency course where all these programs
are designed to train you to do the
things that you did not learn how to do
in school and so really my my job like
I'm trying to educate people but really
my job is to like to clean up the
problem created by traditional language
learning methods so all these things
over here if you're just reading writing
and listening you're learning all this
information you know lots of words and
phrases but if you can't use it now
you have to begin training yourself the
other important point I want to make
about this so the most important thing
the one thing is that these skills
reading writing and listening are
different from the skill of speaking so
you have to learn them in different ways
you can't take that same way of learning
how to read write and listen and then
apply that to speaking it doesn't work
that way you actually have to train you
actually have to speak and you use it
the same way you're developing any habit
like maybe an instrument or getting into
the gym to build some muscles but the
other thing I want you to remember is
that if you do struggle to speak if you
can read you can write you can listen
you can understand almost everything I'm
saying in this video but you still can't
speak it's not your fault and I really
want to make that clear because so many
people they they learn it they learn
English through the traditional way and
then they think they're stupid I
certainly thought I was when I was a
failed French I failed Spanish and I was
failing zappa news initially when I was
first starting to learn it and it was
only after I realized okay I have to
actually start training myself to speak
I can't be using these same a feint
methods with reading writing and
listening if I want to become a
confident speaker so the the second most
important point of this and really the
the other big thing I try to teach
learners is that if you do struggle it's
really not your fault you were just
trained you are given a bunch of
information but you were never trained
how to put it together so there's
nothing wrong with you and that's really
the most important point about this
video I guess specifically besides that
you need to learn in different ways but
really there's nothing wrong with you
that will stop you from becoming fluent
if you just start learning how to
practice your listening and your writing
and your speaking or excuse me if you
just start and start actually applying
you're speaking in the same way that you
should be like you would train you know
any kind of other skill so I can't tell
you like everything because it would
require a lot of information to explain
everything we do in the fluency course
our mastering this conversation but just
the first step to this I'll give you
just like the first step to make it
really easy is to focus on the most
commonly used conversational phrases you
hear in everyday speech and if you learn
these things these are the things that
people are mostly learning
and mostly using everyday so I give an
example I have friends of mine back in
America that whenever something positive
happens they say like that's awesome
that's awesome so somebody got a new job
that's awesome somebody got somebody got
a promotion at work that's awesome
somebody found a kitten on the street
and took it home wow that's awesome
or if it's a negative situation they say
oh that sucks that sucks all that sucks
you lost your job all that sucks man I'm
sorry about that that sucks so people
are using a very limited vocabulary and
if you understand the limited vocabulary
then it doesn't really matter what your
what situation you're in because you can
apply the same limited vocabulary in
many different ways whether it's a
professional situation or a more casual
and common one but I don't want to give
you too much information in this video
but really the two most important things
I want you to remember number one if you
can understand and you can write and you
can read things but you can't speak you
need to change the way you learn and
this is again something we can help you
do with the fluency course and master
English conversation and these are
really the same program it's just
different collections of lesson sets for
that the other thing is that it's not
your fault really I want you to
understand that like I thought for so
long that I was too stupid to learn a
second language I thought why am I doing
this like there must be something wrong
with me all these other people can get
through it but maybe I can't maybe on
the exception I am behind the stupid one
but as soon as I started changing the
way I learn it becomes as easy as like
learning to dribble a basketball or play
an instrument or sing or play the drums
or do anything else it's just a skill
and if you learn it the right way
anybody can do it well that's it I don't
want to give you again too much
information but hopefully I'm giving you
some positivity and giving you that
first step right there again this is
something we do in mastering this
conversation in the fluency course to
help people learn but think about
learning the most common things the most
casual things even watch like a couple
of my videos and listen for the same
words that I use over and over again
you'll say hi like that's a word and
actually if you watch my videos enough
times you'll you'll get to see me like I
think drew is going to say this you act
we develop a skill a really cool skill
that native speakers have where they can
anticipate what other people are going
to say and when you know what people are
going to say before they speak wow it's
like taking your fluency to a whole
nother level
anyway again I don't want to give you
too much information but just remember
to learn the same way that you would be
training you know you actually have to
speak you have to communicate with
people you have to drill you have to
rehearse you have to practice and then
you have to find the right ways to meet
native English speakers not native
English speakers to practice with but
the other thing the most important one
is not your fault
if you have problems it's just because
of the way you learn not because there's
anything wrong with you anyway I will
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hopefully I'm not speaking too quickly
people been asking me to speak faster so
trying to give a little bit of that and
again like to help you understand this
like you got it you got a train you're
listening got a train you're speaking in
the same way so all these things they
come together from training you're
speaking in the right way remembering
that you can't do it the same way you
learn reading writing and listening but
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bye-bye