hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's
first and number one English Fluency
Guide and it is a pleasure to welcome
you to... well we're going to do something
very interesting in this video and this
is solve another problem that learners
have and this is why do I always forget
my words when I'm speaking now there's
kind of two problems together the first
one is maybe it's like a confidence
issue where like you know the words but
then you're in a conversation you feel
nervous and then you forget kind of like
if you're giving a speech maybe you
practice that speech a hundred times you
know all the words but you get what
people call stage fright so stage fright
means okay now I'm here everybody is
looking at me and oh no I feel really
nervous about that so I want to
communicate with people but I can't
really say anything so that's one
problem the other problem is if you
didn't really learn the words well in
the first place so initially if you're
maybe you're reading a text book you
have a whole bunch of vocabulary words
and phrases in there and you're trying
to remember those things but like when
you get into a conversation you actually
just can't remember them so it's kind of
two problems that people have and I'll
talk about like a few ways to do that
the first part of this is focus on less
and really that's the secret to
developing fluency whether you know 10
words or a thousand words like if you
can't use the words you know confidently
and automatically then like you're not
going to be able to speak at all it
doesn't matter you know anything else
about your fluency so you have to have a
vocabulary of some amount of words but
you have to know how to use these
automatically and fluently so don't
focus on trying to have a large
vocabulary unless you can learn it and
master it all
so always begin it's kind of this cycle
of starting with a small vocabulary
reviewing it over and over again
practicing it in different ways until
you can use it automatically and then
begin adding more
words and phrases to that the second
part of this is in order to grow that
vocabulary to become or to go deeper
with the information that you're
learning so in my case I came to Japan
to learn about Japanese gardening so
that's why I'm here even though I don't
get to do much gardening right now it's
like a skill I've been following and
learning about for many years and really
it's just it's really why I came to
Japan in the first place so I did not
come to Japan to teach English but I
couldn't get a visa to do the gardening
I wanted to do so I got a teaching visa
instead but actually I really enjoy
teaching it's a lot of fun to do it but
gardening is also like a passion of mine
so I let that passion develop my
vocabulary because I'm using the the
connection idea of taking things like
gardening or some kind of basic words
about that but deepening my
understanding of that so I know names
for garden tools and Japanese that I
don't know in English or even some
things that we just don't use or that
I'm not aware of in in English so I've
never I've never worked as a
professional gardener in in America but
I have in Japan so when I'm working with
that like I can talk about I know I know
words for different kinds of moss crazy
like little green moss like I like I
know different varieties of moss in
Japanese and you might think like okay
who cares about different varieties of
moss or whatever but what's happening is
that as I'm deepening my vocabulary
about a particular thing I'm learning
how to use all those things not just the
words but with the grammar as well so I
begin making more complex sentences and
I'm developing my fluency with that
limited vocabulary and as I learn more
words as I go deeper with that thing I'm
already interested in it so I'm taking
my passion and using that to drive my
fluency and the increase of my skills
and also the increase of my vocabulary
so most things you can find a connection
between you know one thing like I can
make fine a connection between two words
like you know
in Japanese and something else but again
I'm focusing on a limited amount of
things and then letting my interest in
that grow it naturally so as I want to
learn more oh that's a really
interesting thing like I take an idea
like philosophy philosophy is a really
big idea you could go to a particular
kind of philosophy than a particular
writer in that kind of philosophy and
then it goes like deeper and deeper and
deeper so you can learn all these
different things and so you let your
vocabulary grow as a result of your
desire to improve that thing and once
you do that you can start adding more
words and other things because it
becomes a lot easier to pick up new
words this phrasal verb to pick up means
you're kind of understanding things
naturally so as you're in conversations
you develop your fluency and speaking
confidence so you can express yourself
automatically so if you are in a
situation where you're trying to speak
in a conversation but you can't because
I like I can't remember what I want to
say or I forget my words when I speak I
feel stuck all of these things are
really from those two problems either
you have a problem with the actual
memory of it or you're just feeling kind
of scared and you just forget the words
so to solve both of these problems use
these two steps I'm giving you focus on
a limited thing and then let your your
passion like grow that for you so you
can use your passion whatever that is it
doesn't matter if you like cars or
animals or you know whatever it doesn't
matter what that thing is but that's
what should be letting you improve your
English so don't watch like a lot of you
know YouTube videos about learning
English about some like random thing
like here you know some idioms about
whatever like it's useful to learn that
stuff but it's most important for you to
find something that a native speaker is
making or that you can communicate with
a native speaker and then use that to
drive your interest so I came to Japan
to learn that and learning that from
people is much more powerful than me
trying to just like learn some random
things like that so if you're interested
in it it becomes easier and it drives
your passion your fluency your speaking
confidence so you destroy those problems
and can communicate automatically well
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have a fantastic date and I will see you
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