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well hello there I am Drew Badger the founder of englishany1.com and the English fluency guide and
today I want to help you just go through the exact process I used to get fluent in Japanese
this is what I've been teaching for 20 years to Learners all over the world about how to
get fluent in English because it works in any language I just happen to focus on English but
hopefully you're enjoying your day I will keep the chat open so people can ask questions but
I'd really like to go through this with you so I want to make sure everyone can understand how to
get fluent and the exact steps so this will be like like a checklist of really the only three
things you need to become a fluent speaker how I found these things and how you can get them
been actually become a great speaker all right uh so let's talk about this very quickly
so if you don't know my story I know many people are new to the channel and they have asked lots of
questions about me and my programs and everything so I wanted to answer a lot of those in this video
and also if you have questions in the chat you can let me know I'll try to keep them focused
to this video but for my story basically I started learning my first uh different
language when I was like a first grader in elementary school uh and so that was Latin
long time ago and I failed at doing that uh and just my my whole kind of long language
learning story basically goes from Latin uh to French in high school Spanish and College
and then Japanese uh learning here in Japan
and so the problem I experienced probably a lot of the same things you all experience over there
I'll get back to comments in a second I want to go through this but keep saying hello let
me know where you are and I'll go back and read comments in a little bit but basically I I learned
I I struggled to speak and I thought uh it was basically impossible for me to to get fluent
because I had struggled for so many years and I want to talk about why I struggled and why so many
other Learners struggle as well because I spent so many years thinking about this trying to solve
this problem not only for myself but also for all the people that I helped now so after I was
struggling and failing so I I know a little bit of Latin I mean I remember some of the words I know a
little bit of French and a little bit of Spanish as well and then Japanese this is the only other
language I can speak fluently I'll explain why I wouldn't be why I became able to speak fluently
in a little bit but I want to go through the problems and show you exactly what's missing from
the traditional methods that most people use and show you that really there are just three things
that you need to become a fluent speaker so when I looked at the problems I had you can think about
like the traditional methods that people use or you can think about where people live so a
lot of people a lot of Learners assume that if you live in an English-speaking country you get
fluent I thought the same thing so if I moved to Japan then I definitely will get fluent but
I didn't actually get fluent uh and so this was a we call this a wake-up call you know it was it was
just crazy to see uh wow I actually didn't become a fluent speaker even though I was living in Japan
so I want to talk about why that happened uh and also as I go through this video
But first you can let me know in the oh yeah nice to see people chatting in the comments section
so let me know if you have specific problems with your learning but they probably fall into
three categories so the first one these are the things I experienced when I was learning Japanese
so even after living in Japan for almost a year and studying every day and being around Japanese
people every day I still couldn't speak so the basic problems I had so number one make
sure this fits on there oh it looks like it just fits so number one uh the language I was studying
was not the language that people were really using in conversations so this is
the thing that that English Learners will often complain about so it sounds like a different
a different language so I'm going to write this pretty badly up here but the language
I was learning in the classroom is basically a different language from what people were
speaking in the real world so I couldn't really understand people even though I had a textbook I
often tell the story of a uh just learning basic greetings in Japanese and so I was working at a
school and I came into the building and I said hello I said good morning I said
Ohio gozaimasu a nice clear Japanese and the uh one of the guys working there he just said us
it was that's all he said and so I was really surprised because wait a minute that that
wasn't the language that's in the textbook so again I'm I'm not learning uh the actual
language that people are using and so I couldn't understand and I couldn't speak naturally people
so the second thing or the second kind of set of problems I had uh is that I'm
struggling with my actual communication so the communication itself I'm having all of
these difficulties about expressing myself so like remembering I'll just say forgetting words
pronunciation
grammar
so I'm having trouble remembering what I want to say having trouble thinking about particular
grammar rules I'm making mistakes about uh like maybe trying to think and organize sentences in
my head before I speak um and so I'm going to answer that so we just got a question asking
about grammar so this whole video is talking about all of these different pieces and how
they work together to improve your fluency so these are the the kinds of problems that I
experienced so the first one it was days basically a different language than what I was learning uh
or the the people that are actually speaking the language natively are using different vocabulary
than there's and they're speaking faster uh and their pronunciation is is much more difficult to
understand so their accents are different as well so number two I had these communication problems
and I'll talk about why I had those in a second and then number three I had no confidence so no
so no confidence and no fluency all right now all of the people I help they fit into one at least
one of these categories of problems so either they they they don't understand what the actual words
natives are saying and so they have problems understanding or they actually have trouble
with their communication skills so the way they learn and I'll talk about that in just a second
is causing them all of these difficulties and then so we have number three here which is the lack of
confidence and the lack of fluency and so let's say I don't let's see the correct way okay never
mind so make sure I'm not getting distracted by the comments over here so the basic idea is
that you will have at least one of these three problems uh if you're watching this video right
now if you don't have any problems then you should go do something else because this is going to be a
waste of your time all right so let's talk about how I solved these and how I figured out actually
how to become fluent Because unless you solve all three of these problems then you will not be able
to speak so if you know the actual vocabulary that natives use but you can't use it fluently then you
can't communicate and even if you are learning maybe you're studying with some textbooks or
something like that and you know the information very well if you don't feel confident then you
won't actually use anything in a conversation fluently okay so this is a system it's like a
like a stool where we got three legs and you can think about them actually supporting each
other if you only have two of them or you only have one then the thing will fall over all right
so when I was thinking about this I was really trying to understand because uh most most people
when they ask ask me questions about fluency ask me questions about learning they just say I have
trouble with fluency or I have trouble speaking or something so I want people to understand this and
get these pieces uh really understand these things very well because when you understand exactly what
your problem is it's very easy to solve all right so the first thing I'm thinking about because of
these problems number one is I don't understand what what natives are actually saying so the
first thing I have to do we can we can imagine kind of what I'm learning at first we can we can
call this like textbook textbook textbook Japanese or textbook English for for the people learning a
language typically in a classroom you're getting this but natives actually know this much so they
know the textbook vocabulary but they also know all of this out here all right so this is the
slang and the idioms and all of that the real conversational language that natives are speaking
and not just the vocabulary but the faster speech the uh the weird incorrect grammar that they might
use the slang cultural references other things like that that's all out here so this in here
the textbook version of the language is like the kind of safe and easy version that people teach
in the classroom but if you only learn this then it becomes much more difficult for you
to actually have conversations all right I want to make sure I want to take this very slowly and
make sure everybody understands all these pieces because they're all very important all right so
you will know exactly what your particular issue is and how to solve that just by following these
steps so the first thing you must do is you must move into this space over here so some of the the
English that you know it's perfectly fine English it natives again use the things in textbooks as
well but they also use way more that's found outside of that so the first thing I had to do
in order to become fluent in Japanese so number one we call this check number
one on the fluency checklist is to learn or we just call this
the real spoken language
foreign so I know some people are already learning and even if they don't have any
of these things maybe they can understand some of what I'm saying it's because they've already
studied some textbook English but they're not really learning all the things outside uh in
that happen in real conversations so we have the real spoken language and I'll just give you a
quick example of this but I would be in meetings so I came to Japan to teach English and I would
be sitting in meetings at the school where I was teaching and listening to people talk and there's
the kind of the like the business maybe the formal vocabulary that people would use during meetings
and I knew a few of those expressions like greetings and okay we're going to talk about
this or that I could understand some of that but then the like my uh like fellow teachers
or other staff members they would ask me questions about things that are not out that are not in this
so they would ask me about like my weekend or they would ask me like about a movie or
they would ask me about other things like this that are completely outside of this textbook
information and because I didn't know any of this I couldn't talk about that I was really
nervous and worried about having to talk with anybody so I'd be very shy and it was hard for
me to to actually develop any relationships with the other people I worked with so other than the
like the English teachers who spoke English so I could talk with them but I really had difficulty
communicating with people uh about these other things over here all right so when I'm talking
about learning the real spoken language when I decided okay I've got to learn this stuff
over here that's where I start okay now that that makes that's like something I must have in order
to become a fluent speaker does that make sense to everybody I know you might know this already but
I want to cover everything very slowly just let me know in the comments if if you understand this
so the first thing you must have okay you must have this you must have real spoken English so
you must develop an actual vocabulary for using real spoken English any questions about that
asking my students out there any questions about that making sure this makes sense all right
all right this one should be pretty easy to understand because if you don't know the words
then you won't understand people and you won't communicate fluently or you won't communicate
naturally even if you're speaking slowly okay so once I once I learned this or I discovered okay
I'm not learning the real vocabulary that natives are using so I should start learning that so the
question is how do you learn that information all right so step by step thank you Andre
or Henry make sure I'm pronouncing that correctly so you have to have real spoken
English the question then uh so I'm going to understand in one form or another okay [Laughter]
so if you have real spoken English then the question is how do you learn that
how do you learn that information all right so I'm so far I'm learning with the kind of textbook so
we have this over here so we're going to try to solve this problem up here about the language
being different but now we want to actually solve this more difficult problem of how do we learn the
language how do we understand the language so that we can use it automatically and I spent a lot of
time thinking about this and this is where I went to a park in Japan not far from my house and I
was very frustrated because even though I knew I had to learn the real language I didn't know
how to do that so I would get phrase books and at that time there was no YouTube I couldn't I
was even in Japan before YouTube and for learning things like that but there were phrase books and
other things that you could get to try to learn the language or watching TV that kind of thing
so I tried doing lots of these different things and they didn't really work even trying to have
a uh like a private tutor someone who could try to speak with me a little little bit it really
wasn't working and I didn't understand why it wasn't working until I was on this walk and
I'm walking through this park and I start seeing little kids talking with their parents and I all
of a sudden I noticed like wow they're doing the exact opposite of everything I'm doing to learn
the language so when you when you remember kids and how you learn the language and especially
like you know if you look at if you have children yourself or other children you know when you are
teaching a child to learn a language you do not use any translations and the reason you don't use
translations is because a child doesn't understand even that first language so there's nothing to
translate with and the only way to teach a child then you can't teach them to read because they
don't really know how to read yet they don't know how to write yet either so the only thing
you can do is make the language understandable all right so make the language understandable
so when I'm thinking okay I need to learn real spoken English so maybe I should get some
phrase books or in my case learning Japanese but for you trying to learn spoken English
so the second thing you need is you need to get understandable
the understandable messages and this is all in English All In English all in English
now the reason you do that again is because if you do not do this this
is what's causing all of the problems that people have when they're learning all right
so if you're forgetting words or if you have trouble with your pronunciation or if you have
trouble with your grammar or any of the other basic skills of communication it's because you're
not learning with understandable messages all right so I talk about this a lot but how you learn
is how you speak so how you learn is how you speak and what happens is if you are learning through
translations or you are studying grammar tables or you are trying to basically you're learning
through your native language the same way you would learn any other language you're going to
actually do those same kinds of things when you speak so if you learn through translations then
you have to think about translations when you speak and this is what will cause you to stutter
and hesitate in conversations does that make sense so the reason a lot of people like they even even
though people are still learning the real spoken language and you can find a lot of this right
here on YouTube there are plenty of YouTube videos that will teach you real spoken English but again
this is only one part it's one third of the the three pieces that you need in order to get fluent
so the second part here this is even more important because you can really learn
anything if you learn it the right way but the point is to get understandable messages
and the more kind of technical term for this is I'll just write it up here comprehensible
comprehensible input so comprehend to understand something in input just means it's coming to you
so comprehensible input so I'll give you some comprehensible input in Japanese I've
done this example many times but I think it will be helpful for more people especially people who
are new to the channel so I'll just teach you some Japanese right quick very simple lesson
maca Maca maca akaimaka AKA awimaka how kuroimaka kudo hakka AO kudo
AO how how all right very simple lesson in Japanese and again even in that I didn't use
your native language to teach you some people watching this might know Japanese already hello
if you're a Japanese speaker but the general idea is that if you're learning in the language that
you're learning so you're not learning through Portuguese or French or Taiwanese or Spanish or
whatever any whatever the language happens to be an alien language it doesn't matter you're
learning everything and understanding everything all in the language and remember how you learn is
how you speak so if you can learn the language in the language then you speak the language without
translating all right so this is solving problem number two up here where all of the particular
issues that people have about communication they come from the way people learn okay so it's not
where you live it's it's not that people struggle because they don't live in an English-speaking
country uh or because they uh like they don't have native parents or whatever they don't have
an English-speaking friend or something like that really the only the only reason is because of this
so learning it like a student rather than learning it like a native so when you understand the
language as a native speaker then you can speak without having to to worry or stress about the
language all right I want to stop right here and make sure everybody understands this because this
is very important and this is this is probably I wouldn't say that well again all three of these
things are very important to your ability to speak because you need all three of them but
this one might be the most difficult to understand uh and not because it's it's a difficult lesson
but because it's unbelievable so I have I have trouble uh explaining this to people because uh
they find it unbelievable that they can learn a language like a native does anybody think that's
unbelievable does anybody think they cannot learn English the way they learn their native language
all right I want to just stop here and answer any questions that people have about that if I do not
see any questions I will assume people understand everything and I can just move on all right but
I'm guessing maybe some people still don't believe this is possible so some of the kinds of things
I hear uh yes learn like an alien so this is exactly the same the same way an alien coming to
planet Earth how would an alien learn the language there's only one way an alien can learn any Earth
language and that's this way the alien would have to understand things all in the language
they're learning because you can't translate what you don't there's no way to translate anything
all right John says yes anybody else any questions about this I want to make sure well Henry says I
could but oh we have a butt over there if you have questions let me know that's why that's why
I do these live presentations because I want to make sure everybody understands the process how
it works and then it really becomes a lot easier as an adult is complicated okay so people think
some people yes I've heard this uh this this reason before why do you think it's complicated
if anyone thinks it's difficult because you're an adult let me know
and I don't know how old you are if you are 20 years old or you're 80 years old
let me know but again the ability to understand something just like I gave that example before
you can understand the language with just me speaking Japanese I don't need to teach you
Japanese through your language all right and the reason I do that is because I want you to
not translate in your head when you have to speak alright so remember how you learn is how you speak
just making making this clear you'll see that it actually is possible to do this uh and the
advantages that people have because they're adults are much stronger than anything you might think so
I'm 39 is it possible for me to speak English fluently yes absolutely I have people over 80
years old in my programs uh and it's because uh there's nothing stopping you from learning if
you're if you're still able to learn things in your native language then you're then of course
you would be able to learn things in a different language as well now sometimes a child you know
they might think wow there's nothing in their mind already so we can just put lots of language in
there but the difference is that an adult also has the ability to focus the ability to ask questions
and they can learn much more systematically than a typical child can all right so there are lots
of advantages to being an adult let me go back and make sure all these questions get answered
here I listen to a lot of videos in English in my comprehension is like 70 80 percent depends
on the content but I still in the same level for a long time okay I'm going to talk about that too
don't you think of for don't you think of foreign you've already spoken can prevent
you to speak another one like a native I'm 35 and just finished high school one year where
should I start from okay so great questions so let's see the this specific question about about
having a language that is like preventing you from learning a new one remember that
in your native language whatever your native language is if it's Spanish or Portuguese or
Chinese or whatever the language is you already know multiple different languages within that
So within your native language you've got maybe how you communicate professionally how
you communicate like in bed you know talking with your like your spouse or your girlfriend or your
boyfriend or whatever uh you got how you talk with little little kids how you talk casually
these are all actually different languages and you would communicate in a different way
from each of these and you also learn different languages like computer programming or learning
the language of your particular industry so you have to learn that language or even the language
of your particular company if you have you know particular processes things like that so again
all of these things are different languages that you already speak they're within this same native
language but the point is you can easily learn something new there's nothing stopping you from
learning a different language it's just you know there's no difference from learning something in
English or learning something over here to your mind it's just some new words and vocabulary and
and maybe some grammar something like that all right but the basic idea is that you're not too
old to do this because you're still doing this in your native language all right and you have
the ability if you learn the right way to to get this same fluency in a different language
but remember to your brain there's really no difference between like something in this
language and something in that one it's it's more psychological uh than actually like a practical
thing about the language all right so if you speak one way to a child and you speak one way
professionally those are really two different language systems that you're using all right
there's going to be some overlap there but you actually have a different pronunciation different
way of speaking you might speak with your parents One Way speak with your friends a different way
you use completely different vocabulary in some cases all right so these are all examples where
you already know multiple languages fluently all right and so it's easy to do this with a different
language the only difference is that let's see thanks so much for the answer okay all right just
want to make sure that makes sense because again it's it's often the beliefs people have about how
they learn that stop them from getting fluent and once you understand oh look I I already do speak
multiple languages I know I know like multiple languages already and now you can just apply that
same way of learning to learning more English all right let's say I agree with you confidence is the
key to become more fluent yes so confidence is a key but we'll explain how how the confidence
develops all right so any more questions about this we've had some good questions already but
I want to make sure everybody understands this so this idea of understanding the language all
in English so I love learning English because my Spanish vocabulary increase at the same time
yeah so there are a lot of a lot of words that are also the same between the two languages I
remember when I was when I was young living back in Chicago I had Spanish-speaking friends and I
worked on a construction crew so helping to remodel houses and I worked with a team of
Spanish guys uh Spanish speaking guys I should say and they would listen to the radio like
Spanish radio all the time and so I learned some words and and just talking with them and trying
to improve my pronunciation I love saying like Univision I I dislike the like the sound the
sound of those words over there it always uh made me laugh when I was getting to practice
that with them and they thought my pronunciation was very funny all right someone said I'm still
young fantastic I'm 42 years old I don't know if that's young or not but it feels young to me all
right but I love that K Buena I remember that show I don't know if that's all all kinds of uh
like what like Central America South America as well but I love I love the sound of that anyway
so if there are no more questions about this this [ __ ] it shouldn't make sense so far so the
first thing you must have if you want to become a fluent speaker you have to know the actual native
vocabulary that natives are using okay it's pretty simple second thing is that you have to understand
that like a native and that means that you're not thinking about words uh and translations as you
learn something so just like I gave you with this little marker example all right well I'm young
young and handsome says Marie all right young and handsome well thank you you're too kind all right
so the third thing now as I'm as I'm learning these and I'm thinking okay how can I develop
fluency uh for myself so I need to learn the real spoken language and I need to understand it like
a native if I want to use it without struggling and and stuttering and forgetting my words and
conversations so the thing I was still missing and this is the big thing that most of the students
I help now are missing all right can anybody guess what this is what it what is the thing oh
[Laughter] yeah uh so let me let me know what what this third thing is here what are we still missing
so lots of the people I help they're already learning real language
and often they can understand it like a native but they're still missing one thing
can anybody guess what this is what is the one thing the last thing we need
to become a fluent speaker so this was the thing that I I struggled with for a
while I said okay I know I need to know the real vocabulary all right practice
all right so very simple stop translating in your head confidence yes confidence confidence
is a result speaking practice thinking in English practice practice all right so what does that mean
and how do you actually practice the language all right so we know really fluency fluency is a habit
thank you
fluency is a habit fluency is a habit no we definitely do not want to translate
so fluency is a habit this means it's something you do automatically without thinking about it
when you do it correctly all right just like I'm doing right now I'm not really thinking I might
try to organize something in my head but I'm doing it all in English all right so fluency
is a habit something you do without thinking and to develop the Habit you need practice
okay but how do you develop that that's the question
how do you develop the practice how do you develop the practice
can anyone answer that for me how do you develop practice how do you practice your English so you
become a fluent speaker let's keep this going how do you practice so you become a fluent speaker
how do you practice I'm going to take a sip of water while you answer that
for me how do you practice so you become a fluent speaker
started learning English in an American language
School in Brazil reading Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer
getting some by speaking every single day record yourself by
speaking every single day so we've got some options up here speak every day
record yourself
anything else speaking English with someone listening
so you can speak I guess you speak by yourself speak to yourself speak to other people
Echo I guess that's maybe repeat talk to other people in other languages listening reading
speaking and writing listening reading speak with yourself watch videos try to talk like a native
listening to Native people all right so we've got a lot of a lot of good ideas here a lot of
the same basic ideas that most people are using you have probably done or tried to do most of
those things already all right right so watching TV reading speaking all right so what I'm going
to recommend is that you don't do any of this all right now this is going to sound very weird
but the these kinds of things are not going to help you and I'm going to explain why all right
so this is going to sound a little bit weird but this is this is the most the most difficult thing
for people to understand because it's the most unbelievable all right now if you have
been doing all of these things so most people think okay I need to speak to become fluent
I need to speak to become fluent I need to record myself to become fluent I need to I
need to again Watch News to become fluent I need to do all the baby baby method I don't
know what that is baby method yes you should understand you understand understand like a
native that's up here but this part this is the practice that builds fluency and the thing that
most people think they need to do is not what they actually should be doing all right I know
again this will be so unbelievable to people that I really need to take I need to take time
uh explaining it to you so you do need practice okay the question is how you get the practice
so let's look at speaking by itself so we'll erase these over here and let's say your goal
is to practice speaking all right so I just I'm going to practice I'm going to speak to myself
speak to myself now if you don't already uh so what should we be doing yes I'm going to
explain that right now but I I first want to talk about the things that you should not do and why
they don't help you all right because if I don't explain that first people will just continue doing
them and they will they will keep staying stuck because most of the people probably the people
watching this video the people who watch most of my videos uh they're doing the same kinds of
things so they know like okay I should be speaking so I'm going to speak I'm going to talk to myself
I'm going to look for speaking practice Partners I'm going to try to find somebody like that but
here's why that doesn't work all right so most people again if you're doing those things but
you're not fluent then that should be a clue that it's not working okay so if you're speaking right
now if you're already finding people to speak with you're talking to yourself you're trying to record
yourself or whatever you're watching the news or whatever those kinds of things if you do those
things and you're not speaking fluently then it it's a it's a clue it means you should probably
not be doing that but let's explain why or talking to your cat that's the secret right there
yes talk to your cat that might be actually a good a good idea but the the idea of speaking
to yourself the reason this is not a good idea all right let's say you've got uh like 15 minutes
fit this in here so I've got 15 minutes to practice my English so I've got a busy
schedule I've got work I've got taking care of my kids I only have a little bit of time during
the day to practice my English so if I've got 15 minutes a day and I want to speak all I can
really do is just repeat words to myself so you can only let's say this is your vocabulary here
so these are all the words you know the only thing you can do by talking to yourself is
just repeating things that you already know okay you're repeating things that you already know
I know that this is kind of a complicated idea but it's basically you can only use
the vocabulary you already know okay so like you you can't use anything else outside of
that and this this is not a problem by itself but if you already know something like if I
know the word cat all right we'll just take the word cat as an example and I just repeat that
word to myself cat cat cat cat or I'm going to look at a flash card with the word cat on it
and uh if it doesn't have a you know a translation or something that's better but
really I don't recommend flash cards either so either you're just repeating it to yourself or
maybe you were getting uh what some people call spaced repetition so you're trying to
learn something okay I'm going to learn it now and in five minutes or in two days I will try
to cover it again uh but you're only just repeating the things that you already know
and usually what happens when people learn is they will learn something one time and they will
just repeat that one word again and again so as an example I think last on Monday I did a video where
I was teaching the word uh what did I teach heavy so I was talking about uh the different examples
of when you're when you're learning a particular word there's like two things you can do when you
learn vocabulary you can you can learn one example of something like a translation and then repeat
that again and again or you can do what I'll recommend in just a minute but the point here
is that you're not actually developing fluency in something by repeating a word to yourself
okay you're not developing fluency by repeating a word to yourself
you're not developing fluency by repeating a word to yourself I'm repeating myself right here but
I really want to make this point very clear the repetition isn't what builds the fluency
repetition isn't building fluency repetition isn't building fluency all right I'm repeating
myself because this is very important but the repetition is not what builds fluency
so shadowing I'm not worried about shadowing either we'll talk about what you should do
in a moment but I'm trying to explain at this point you need practice you need review but just
repeating something to yourself or saying that to other people is not going to build your fluency
because the fluency the fluency doesn't come from the repetition fluency comes from a network
that you build in your mind of the of the language all right so fluency comes from the network that
you build in your mind of the language and we're going to talk about that right now all right
so just to be clear you need to have practice but repeating something to yourself or speaking
to others let's say you have only 15 minutes a day I'm going to maybe find someone to practice with
I'll try using my English a little bit or I'll try repeating myself or talking to my cat or my dog
or whatever talking to the Mirror these things are less helpful because they're taking what
you already know and repeating that rather than building the network that you need to communicate
all right it's not individual words that help you speak it's a network
that helps you speak all right so what should you do if you actually want to speak fluently this is
the final thing I discovered that was like oh my God the the biggest secret the biggest uh
thing so first of all just to recap these other things that we learned over here if you want to
speak fluently you have to know the real spoken language okay and that should be very obvious
to people everyone should understand uh second you have to understand it like a native so you
should be learning all in English and making sure everything is understandable so you're not getting
grammar tables or translations or definitions it's the same way if I teach my daughter if I
say don't touch that stove it's hot I can tell her that I can tell her it's hot but when she
touches the stove by herself she learns the lesson okay that's understanding it like a native so the
raw real understanding of the language that's how you get that and again this is just called
comprehensible input all right so the final piece of this is how do you take the knowledge
how do you take the knowledge and turn that into fluency and how do you do this
automatically without needing someone to practice with because again for spending
your time if you only have 15 minutes a day and just repeating something to yourself or
to other people that's not really going to build your fluency so what do you do
now if you if you've spent any time learning with me or watching my videos here's the secret
naturally varied review naturally varied review naturally varied review now what do I mean by
naturally varied review so typical review again in a textbook or in a language lesson
you're going to repeat something again and again like you will practice saying a certain word
or phrase to yourself over and over again when when really what actually builds the
fluency the practice that your mind needs is the network that you get from naturally varied review
and so if you look at some of the the videos that I've done before like teaching the word
heavy or teaching over or teaching uh it doesn't really matter that's just vocabulary
examples with naturally varied review but you're getting lots of different examples
of the same thing in different ways okay so you're getting something in different ways
I'm going to erase these over here maybe I'll put them back up on the board again in a second
but just to review uh some of the examples I gave with my lessons previously so we talked about the
word over as a child when you're learning this if you're following these three steps so the first
thing you're learning is the real vocabulary as an example you might learn the word over so a
young child hears this the second step to this is we're going to have to learn this like a native to
have to understand this like a native rather than using a textbook so wording different contracts
yes that's one example one example so we get we begin with the word over and next we're going
to have it we're going to try to understand the word uh just to understand what it means simply
so we begin with the word over and again this is kind of like you would find this in a textbook
and you also would find this just in regular conversations but to understand the context
so here's how I would teach you the word over without using your native language so let's say
if you don't understand any English at all so the circle is over and this circle is on
all right so very simple so this is a simple example we get much more difficult things from
stories uh and lots of examples when you're seeing natives actually speaking but the basic idea is
that you're understanding it like a native so if we put this together so we begin with a word
this is a real word that people use in everyday conversation so that's number one a real language
number two you want to understand it like a native all right it's okay I'm learning this in English
not through Japanese or or Portuguese or whatever or Hindi or whatever you can see the difference
so this ball this circle there's a space here and your mind can understand that without me
giving you lots of explanations or translating or grammar tables or any of that all right does
everyone everyone get this part so far so we begin with a word that people really use in conversation
second step we understand it like a native like a native so we're not using translations it's like
oh I can I can see that that makes sense to me all right makes sense over doesn't necessarily touch
yes so it's a it's above it's on top of that thing so fluency practice of myself uh inward in my mind
copying every Diaries and responsibilities uh talking to myself in English helping me each
moment Google translate just at the moment I went somewhere that I'll know it don't say but
and viewing your wise lessons yes people call me master and Professor I'm not a master I'm
not a professor either I'm just a guy who figured out how to learn the language are
there any Vlogs dedicated learning English where we can learn visually yes I have a whole program
about that but I just want to make sure this is clear so far so we begin with a word okay
now we understand the word like a native okay very simple and this is just a basic example you might
say well this works for something you can see but what about like a more difficult thing obviously
the language is built up over time so natives begin with these things and then they move on to
that naturally varied review all right so how does that work so you begin with the naturally
varied review we begin with a word like over and now we're going to get that in lots and lots of
different ways and this is what builds the network so right here we just have it at this point
we only have one one usage one meaning of this word that we understand okay the word over now
we're going to expand your understanding over and out okay we're going to start using the word and
help people really understand what it means by building the network of understanding it's the
network that builds your fluency and that's what allows you to speak all right so we have over
and what we talked about in that video like let's say we we have the idea of physically
over something like this and we might go like we have pay and then we have overpay
now this is vocabulary naturally varied review vocabulary naturally varied review
so we're going to take the word and we're going to play with it a little bit to make
it easier to understand all right so we begin with over and I go to a restaurant for example
and I say oh I've got I was supposed to pay like five dollars but I paid 10.
I overpaid I overpaid and as soon as a native speaker hears this so a child hears the word over
and then they just think okay over means this but when they hear this the network begins to build
does that make sense this is just one more example where it's like ah okay over can also mean this
over can also mean this all right so it's a it's related to that
and then they think to themselves wait a minute well if by if I overpay What if I underpay
so they begin using their native understanding of the language to construct a network
and as you add more and more examples of this this
is what really gives you strong understanding of the language
okay so this is just one example you should get many many many many and this is only
vocabulary all right so another way you get this is listening and pronunciation
if I hear the word over in different contexts from different people at different times and
so I'm hearing it like maybe in the past in the present that's the grammar naturally varied review
pronunciation listening all of these things are connected so the practice that you're
getting right here is the naturally varied review this is the practice
and without you speaking so if you could spend 15 minutes
you could spend 15 minutes repeating the word over to yourself or you could spend 15 minutes
building your network and that way when you get into a conversation you know all of these
different things and wow I really understand how to speak and you just start speaking fluently
all right does this make sense it's very very important it's a game over
game over uh the meaning is not connected with over as you just said well it's just finished
so we have like the start of it that's over yeah it's finished game over all right now remember
not every usage of the word will be exactly the same or linked up in that same way all right so
not everything is like that you might have a word that has like a completely different usage and you
will learn those over time over time over time all right but the point is you're yes overdue overdue
overdue so here it's do oh no now it's overdue we're late
all right I'm over time so here's time here overtime so here's the game game over
game's finished okay but remember that you're you're you're thinking like a like a student
like a learner if you're if you're trying to put everything neatly into like one one category or
one space all right when the truth is that most of the time this works but you you will still learn
obviously things outside of that but you will have a much better understanding of those things
if you build this network rather than trying to repeat one word or one phrase over and over again
so and this is this is not just my idea but this is this is basically how language experts have
found that we uh we learn languages and so Dr Stephen krashen is a very good example of this
he discovered the same thing I did I discovered it at a park in in Japan but I mean he did it after
lots of research but he found in the same way uh that you don't get fluent by speaking to yourself
or talking to yourself in a mirror even in a conversation it's the listening to other people
it's the network you build that actually gets your uh gets your fluency developed that's the practice
okay so once you're doing this then you get into a conversation and the words just come
out automatically because you know the language so well most Learners they will know one meaning
of something and so when they hear a different meaning they get into a conversation and they
hear overpay they're like wait a minute I thought over means like above something
okay but the truth is they're all connected it's a it's a network that you build that
actually helps you speak fluently do you work overtime yes same idea so this is the amount of
time this is an additional to that over time I'm feeling overworked I'm working too much
I overpaid okay and so once you start developing this you're and you're thinking more like a native
you begin asking questions like ah what about under so I can underpay and overpay or overwhelm
same thing does fluency for life have a study plan that you can follow until you become fluent
yes so Malik is asking about fluent for life I can answer questions about that if they like so I need
someone to train my English is there anyone may I be in contact with someone overwhelmed all right
so if you get this every day and you learn in different ways with different speakers and you
hear different examples you get the grammar uh and you get this you build the network
then when you get into a conversation you would build that automatically and you can feel the
network building as you learn this way so when I begin with over and just a very simple like your
mind is thinking about over like physically above something over but then I think overpay
in your brain makes that connection your brain is automatically doing that you don't need to have a
like I don't know what do you what do you I forget what I what I called it before just
the uh the structured review in that way it's not about having the uh now I'm forgetting that
I'm forgetting that word uh or that phrase but when you're learning a little bit uh each time
you're kind of remembering something and maybe trying to practice it in the next five minutes
that's crazy I just I just used it like 10 minutes ago now I forget what I'm talking about
uh but the point is that it reviewing the same exact thing uh if I'm gonna if I'm gonna practice
one time I learn the word over and then in five minutes I hear the word over again in five more
minutes and five days or whatever uh it's much much faster to just build the network like that
all right so I don't need to do this this building of like the repetition or whatever
it's much faster if you just build the network so if you learn in a structured way that's
how it would actually help you uh build your fluency without having someone to speak with
now one final point I'll make about this is that if you if you speak to yourself I mean you can
speak to yourself if you like but it's much you're going to get more uh like for the time
that you spend doing it like you're not going to find anything better than getting more input
so getting the naturally varied review so it's not about spaced repetition that's the thing
I'm looking for spaced repetition it's not about repeating the same thing it's about building your
understanding of that word or phrase and hearing that from many different people all right the
brain is built like the method you describe exactly the brain is built like the method
I described now what's interesting about this is this is how everybody learns their native language
this is how everybody learns their native language this is how you learn to speak your native
language but people think they just believe that a native language is different somehow than a new
language so I learned French as my native language and now I'm trying to learn Japanese or whatever
and I have to learn it in in like a special way with a textbook or something no no no you learn a
new language the same way you learned your your native language or your first language they're
all just different languages it's not a different way you learn them you learn them all the same way
all right and so if you build the network that's how you get fluent that's what fluency is
all right so and and I want to make it clear here uh that it's not it's not just vocabulary this
is an example with vocabulary but you're also hearing it from different speakers
remember how you learned your native language your mother would tell you something your father would
tell you something you have maybe brothers or sisters or friends or your teachers other people
so all these different people are saying things so you're listening and your pronunciation will
put like a little ear right here you're getting from all these different people
and that's how you build your pronunciation that's how you build your listening this
is how you're able to understand uh even difficult or fast speech
because you're used to it in a typical classroom you're going to hear the word over one time
and it's usually from one speaker so one teacher will say the word over nice and clearly
so when you're in a conversation and someone says like oh over there over there you don't
you don't understand what they're saying because you're not actually getting that naturally varied
review you're getting one example of something someone says over there over there over there
over there I'm saying the same words but people don't all pronounce them like that this is the
point of getting the naturally varied review all right now I wanted to say like last point about
that is if you do want to speak it's okay there's no problem with getting into a conversation it's
just the input from other people that's really building your fluency all right and you should
not speak if you feel uncomfortable doing so if you feel shy about speaking because maybe
you'll make mistakes or you're worried about your pronunciation or something like that if you don't
feel comfortable you will only hurt your ability to get fluent by speaking so this is the way to
get fluent without speaking with other people okay as long as you're getting the input you get the
input you understand you can actually develop your pronunciation this way just by listening
to lots of different people saying something often Learners are very they're very hard on themselves
about trying to say something exactly like their native teacher all right over there over there
yes from predator so again that's another the Predator the Predator he didn't really learn
over there but I mean he was repeating what the uh what what uh Bill Duke was saying or the other guy
was saying like come here or whatever all right so if you want to become fluent without worrying
about the uh uh like the the problems that people have about communication so they have to find
somebody to practice with uh they have to spend time practicing and that's a pain just by itself
to look for people find a good person to practice with uh but also if you're worried about making
mistakes in front of other people this is the solution to that problem it's how you got fluent
in your native language and it's how you will get fluent in English all right so if you want
to speak you can but if you don't feel comfortable Don't force yourself to do that it's not necessary
to become a fluent speaker all right and this is not me like research has proved this this same
thing so the basically the way your brain works is there's what I call a fluent communication
switch inside your brain if you understand something and you getting this naturally varied
review then you can use it fluently but if you don't understand something then you can't speak
okay if you're worried about your pronunciation or your grammar or you're worried what other people
might ask you then of course you won't be able to speak fluently so it's much better to build
the network by yourself which you can do very quickly and that's how you become a fluent speaker
all right any questions about all this I know this is a complicated thing I re I wish I wish
what Indonesian is watching all right I wish I could say this as like one one thing that you
can do it's really just understanding like a native all right when you when you you put all
this together if I'm gonna going to put it all as one thing it's understanding like uh native
understanding like a native but if I tell people you have to understand like a native or learn
like a native they just think that's impossible so this is why I explain all this I really want
you to understand the pieces of all these things and that way you know what part you are stuck on
many Learners know conversational English you can find this anywhere but if you go to YouTube
you will find most videos it's like here's we're going to learn a hundred useful phrases
or 10 useful phrases about whatever and then you forget the information because you don't get this
okay so you can you can have native vocabulary and you can even some teachers are actually
actually good about understanding it or helping you understand it like a native
some of them are you will find though most of the language learning lessons on YouTube are grammar
tables and and trying to explain something to you rather than help you understand it intuitively
okay so how can I use this method with difficult words give me a difficult
word what's it what's a difficult word what do you mean by a difficult word
if anyone has any questions about this now is the time now is the time I will
also answer questions about fluent for life if you would like to know
more about this because fluent for life is how I help you build this automatically
shot all right so an example like that if you're going to take uh and that's a German word but
yeah we'll use we use that in English as well uh but if you're going to take an example like that
then you would hear it in many different contexts
all right contemporary all right contemporary so contemporary in the same way uh you you're
using all of these different things so we've got the vocab so we're going to work
like contemporary I'll just put contempt over there so I might talk about contemporary music
and again we're talking about something like temp and I might even break down the word smaller like
uh like a period of time like temperature or temperature time uh so contemporary
Khan meeting with at the same time contextual and I might if I'm teaching something like this and I
want to focus on just vocabulary naturally varied review I'm going to just I'm going to go at this
from many different angles that's really the whole point of when you're teaching something like this
and then once we look at the language we're going to look at it in different contexts
so I might talk about contemporary music or I might talk about contemporary historians
or contemporary any anything else in that way where we're talking about really just getting
you to understand okay what does it mean without uh like telling you the definition
so it's okay to use a definition but it's much better if you can help someone understand what
something means so two things are happening you know at the same time so a contemporary of that
person or something so we begin with vocabulary and then we want to give it maybe a context
so I would teach you uh we're going to hear it like from this person from that person so that's
like listening and pronunciation as well and then we also want to do it in sentences where you're
getting the grammar uh for for helping people understand it without trying to think about the
rules all right so it doesn't matter what the word is the point is to get the network to building
that and even just hearing that in different ways in different times from different speakers
okay so this is how you reach conversational level one this is how you become fluent in the language
okay so it's not it's not like there's there's really nothing other than this this is the only
way you do it so I've been working in English for more than a year and I feel that I don't speak it
fluently let's see so Network thinking is a very good solution and quiet cognitive Revolution so my
teacher said make mistakes and you will learn from them all right you're overqualified for teaching
is I'm overqualified I'm way too qualified all right I'm actually I'm like perfectly qualified
for this position because of all the things I've done studying about psychology philosophy
language learning learning it myself and me understanding this me speaking another language
I know this inside and out as a learner and a teacher and I've been doing this for 20 years
and that's why I know I can get anybody fluent in England just like I'm doing for my own kids
at home and they spend most of their time speaking Japanese so I get a little bit of time each day to
practice with them in English and their English is is developing very well reading and writing
all right I want to make sure I don't miss anybody here so why it seems easy to hear and understand
but difficult to speak fluently again it's the same thing if I'm if I'm riding in a car and
someone else is driving I can get a pretty good idea of where I should be going but when I have
to drive now I really have to think the passive like listening and and reading that kind of thing
it's much easier skill than having to write uh or to create language yourself and that's only
possible if you build that Network okay so as long as you know the meaning uh uh um as long
as you know the meaning again like what meaning of that the meaning is the network this is the
thing most most Learners don't understand the word by itself if I say what does this word mean
what does that word mean bark
a word can have more than one meaning and so the point is to understand that
and to build the network we're like ah okay it might mean like the sound
that a dog makes so we have a dog over here barking like but we also have the
the bark of a tree the outside skiing of the tree this is just one example so the
point is not to just hear it one time and know know the meaning it's it's really building the
network so you can understand that when people are saying oh like they're not talking about a
dog they're talking about a tree okay so it's the outside skiing as the the bark of the tree
the bark of a tree all right see if I have any more questions over here I've always loved you
forever to the moon and back wow thank you very much for uh for is that freed or fried fried
all right I think that's every everything if anybody has any questions about this let me
know would anyone like to learn how to do this by yourself I can show you how to do that right
now if you'd like to know just let me know that that's the this is the the end of the helping
you uh understand what fluency is how to do it and then I'll show you how to do it right now uh
with a program called fluent for life if you're interested in that if you're not already in that
so you need the context to understand some words yes exactly that's the whole point the context
is is part of the way that you learn it and the reason you get the context is because you have
to learn and understand it like a native it's the network that builds your fluency not just
having like one example that you're trying to remember I downloaded some app recently
just seeing how how other people are teaching and it's like okay here's one word and a translation
of that like no no no no no no no no no no don't don't do that of course that's going to stop you
from communicating because you're going to think about translations and you're getting one example
of a word that's not learning the language and it's not learning to speak you won't build the
network unless you actually learn the way I've described here so we've got these three basic
problems and that's how you solve them you have to learn the real language that natives use and
you have to understand it like a native and then you have to get that naturally varied review to
make sure you really really understand it well and that's how you build the memory that's how
you build the speaking confidence and it's really how you build the certainty about the language
so as you get more and more examples about something you feel more certain that you will use
something correctly in a conversation or that you will understand natives or you will communicate
well without thinking about it and it's the certainty that gives you the confidence to speak
all right so what uh why does the sentence contain two had had all right you can go
back and watch my video on half where I explain that I want that beginning Japanese class with
you you are teaching Japanese oh no no I'm not I'm not a Japanese teacher there are plenty of
people who already teach Japanese I don't I don't think anybody teaches the way I do uh
for Japanese but that's that's not something I focus on in the future I might do something
but right now just helping lots of people learn English as I also learned Japanese in the same way
but the the things that I'm telling you to do in English these are all the things I do in Japanese
I'm trying to learn the actual language that Japanese speakers use and I want to understand
it like a Japanese person and I'm going to have naturally very review all right do you
think Duolingo is a good tool to learn languages I don't recommend Duolingo because number one you
can't really control what you're learning uh the way I teach in Frederick so the the highest level
of language learning is where you can discover something yourself so I made the world's first uh
basically English language Discovery system so you can actually teach yourself the language and it's
the first level for understanding pronunciation spelling reading it's called Frederick if you
don't have this app already definitely get that one Frederick f-r-e-d-e-r-i-c-k
you can find that in English anyone.com but this is the world's first language Discovery system
and the point here is that you control what you're learning and often when you're trying
to learn a language you're really just answering questions in your mind about what about this and
what about that this is why students have so many questions for teachers when they're
learning because actually teachers are creating a lot of doubt in the minds of students so they
don't explain something fully they don't give enough naturally varied review and that's why
people have so many questions about things they don't understand them very well so they don't
feel confident about using things all right so in Frederick I actually show you you can control the
language yourself and start teaching yourself you understand uh over 2 000 words this way so
it's using Discovery you're teaching yourself rather than someone telling you what it is
so why is it easier to read or write English but when speaking I tend to stutter or freeze
so for Fernando as a good question that's a very common problem many people have and
that's again it's these three things if you don't get all three of these things that's why you will
stutter typically the stuttering comes from like either you don't know something very well or you
haven't reviewed it enough so most Learners again they might know a word but because they learned it
through their native language or because they didn't get naturally varied review they don't
really feel confident using it so I have a student uh wrote me recently he knows a lot of vocabulary
but he'll worry about the pronunciation sometime I said well you're still not getting enough review
so you need to hear more people saying that vocabulary
okay so you need to get more and more examples of that thing for you to feel very confident about
him if you go uh some people might be watching this in the United States right now but different
places in America just like maybe where you are you will have different accents different dialects
and each of those places like in the United States I gave the example like a while ago
pie so I'll draw a picture of a pie right here here's a lovely Delicious Pie
like a blueberry pie or something so if I ask native speakers please say this word for me I'm
going to hear lots of different pronunciation they'll be similar but some of them will be
quite different so when I was a kid I used to go have a dinner at this friend of my parents
place and she was from Georgia this is a Southern state in the United States and
she would say so after dinner I love I loved her accent I love the sound of her voice so
this is a thing you won't learn unless you're getting lots of different accents from people
she'd say y'all want some pie y'all want some pie y'all want some pie
so y'all is you all you oh so would you all like some pie
would you all like some pie all right but she said Pat
it's the same word but people pronounce it differently the only reason natives
are getting this is because they're getting naturally varied review
it's not because they're born native it's because they just get lots and lots of review
this way this is the thing that's building their fluency this is how you can understand people
in your native language who speak different dialects you know if you've heard them before
but some people even in your native language it will be hard to understand
y'all want some pie y'all want some Pat y'all want some pie okay so when I'm teaching in a lesson
like this I'm intentionally being more clear with my speech so you can understand what I'm saying
but in fluent for life I'm going to take you from understanding this level to understanding like a
native because you're going to listen to lots and lots of different speakers saying things
okay all right so native people speak differently that's why learning is difficult yes so why okay
so I answered that one can you please tell us some eBooks to download some eBooks to download
you can get I mean you can learn with anything you want to if you understand it and you're
getting naturally varied review all I've done in fluent for life has made this a very systematic
process to teach you this incredibly quickly so I take the native process where you're learning
for many many years and just chunk it down into something very simple and that's fluent for life
so you will find a link in the description of this video if you'd like to learn more about
that but very simply what Native for life does number one it's going to give you the
freedom to learn what you want to learn all right so right now you're you're having this
lesson with me and I'm talking about fluency by itself sometimes I'll talk about you know
have or a different vocabulary or whatever but influent for life you have the freedom
so the freedom to choose
do you want to learn about uh things that you would use in business contexts or academic or
just everyday conversations talking about people or places or different experiences
travel moving to different locations you pick what you want to learn and then I get
you fluent in that in 30 days or less all right so we're going to give you a system
for following this so This same approach that I'm talking about in this video is what I do in
fluent for life but it's it's just again like taken systematically and the problem with me
doing a live video as I'm stopping to answer questions or other things like that but fluent
for life is set up systematically so it gets you fluent even if you have no one to practice with
so you get fluent by yourself
guaranteed
if you have watched my videos on YouTube and you have improved with them but you're still
not getting enough review this is what you're missing right here all right and so you get me
this is where I go through and actually explain all like the little things that uh that you learn
as you've been doing something for 20 years so I know a lot about language learning I know a lot
about the language itself and how to use and learn things much more effectively so I share those
things as well but fluent for life is for people who need to use English like for their career uh
or I mean anybody could use it but really it's for people who actually need a strong they have
a strong reason uh to give me or like to to get fluent so you need to have a good reason to get
fluent uh if you don't really care about it you will probably not enjoy the program I mean it's
a good program but you will probably not care so much you know if you just want to maybe understand
some movies or something just keep watching movies if you want to do that but if you want to speak
that's what this is all right all right let me see here all right let me answer a couple more
questions over so as we were talking about fluency do you think mastering phonetic is
a good way to have a good pronunciation yes that's what I do in Frederick so Frederick
teaches you all about uh pronunciation and again it's giving you naturally varied review
all right perfectly okay I can't say thank you enough I remember a video of you and your friend
uh he told you I don't care about your complaint yes I think you're probably talking about Richard
about the character yes there's a carrot cake that we made that's correct yeah yeah you can
find that video on YouTube that was the food and baking uh Master Class video example and
so in that lesson set I take you through all the vocabulary and teach you that before you hit the
video and so that way it makes you understand everything really easily again the point is they
give you naturally varied review and as you go through the different lesson sets as well those
lesson sets are building on each other as you learn more and more all right so Maria would
like some pecan pie yeah so some people say pecan and other other people say pecans and pecan pie
became pie hello from Brazil thank you for your helpful live you have an amazingly clear English
yes I'm speaking intentionally clearly so people can understand what I'm saying my normal speaking
is a little bit more difficult to understand all right but I do that in fluent for life so I want
to teach English for beginner as voluntary but looking for resources uh if you go to my YouTube
channel where you're already on my YouTube channel go to uh the best beginning go to
my playlists video playlists and you will see from absolute zero uh to it's like 20
videos I think they begin in that in that video series so do that and download Frederick as well
so Frederick is for uh beginners but it's also for people who want to improve their pronunciation so
you use the same system for all these different people to improve so if you'd like to learn more
excuse me about fluent for life if you want to become a fluent speaker just click on the link
in the video or the link under this video under this video and you can learn more about that I
explain everything about the program and if you have any questions you can always email me at
info englishanyone.com and we'll get back to you all right let's see if we have any final questions
here uh what is the level required to subscribe on the course so if you're talking about fluent for
life if you can understand what I'm saying right now but you cannot speak fluently you are at the
right level for the program all of the lesson sets have the same level so at at that point
you're you're kind of focusing on basic grammar and more difficult things but you the language
doesn't become infinitely difficult it's more about learning different topics and then building
your fluency and making your connections and your network from there so building a network that
helps you understand fluently rather than trying to learn just a bunch of random words and phrases
do you recommend reading a lot I recommend doing anything that will give you naturally
varied review so part of that is Reading part of it is writing listening speaking all of those
are important to do but the point is you should be getting naturally varied review focus on one
thing it could be one topic one phrase or whatever and then hit that from different angles until you
really get it until you really feel confident about that thing typical review is very boring
because people try to practice or repeat the same thing again and again all right but it's just
really very boring for people because the brain is always looking for new information that's why you
will find people uh making videos on YouTube that are it's it's like a new 10 you know 10 phrases or
something but you forget the previous 10 phrases that you learned all right so it's good for people
making the videos but really not good for people watching the videos if you're already at a high
level and you can learn something that quickly great most people cannot it's much better to focus
on something until you know it very very very well and so that means you're understanding it for
grammar pronunciation all of those things and that way you can use it with confidence all right can
you speak you know let's see do you can you speak your normal English just to see how it comes out
for one minute all right what is a tefl and how can you help getting better at teaching uh well
if you're looking for a specific uh teaching test or teaching qualifications I don't know anything
about those specifically I'm sure you could find uh like online some information about that
uh I'll give you a just a quick example of some of my regular spoken English right now so it depends
on what I'm talking about but I mean usually especially if I'm with my friends and they you
know I'm like really speaking quickly and trying to get things out you guys are probably a pretty
good understanding of what I'm saying right now even though I'm speaking more quickly uh
but typically I kind of like Mumble some words and really if you don't understand exactly what
I'm saying if you're not really paying attention you don't know my voice already it's going to be
much more difficult for you to understand so if I'm like let's say you guys you know you've
been spending some time with me already I'm just really like wow you know I kind of know his voice
already you kind of have a like understanding of the way I speak you might understand better than
other two other maybe students who don't really know like they've never heard me before they've
never heard my voice to them it would just sound like they can't quite understand what I'm saying
but typically if I'm speaking quickly if I'm really excited about something I'm trying to
speak very fast and explain a lot of information but it's much easier if I slow down and make sure
everybody can understand what I'm talking about speak more clearly and again it's how you you
level up to that level so if you if you want to go from understanding this Drew to understanding
fast Drew and not just me but all like just native speakers in general that's how you do it you do it
in simple steps and that's what we do in fluent for life any more questions if there are no more
questions we've been going for 82 minutes already I don't know what time it is but 82
minutes I can feel it in my voice I'll give you one more minute to see if anybody has questions
did you use that methodology to learn Japanese yes that's exactly what I did
so basically I struggled with these same problems and I wanted to figure out why exactly I wasn't
learning and why I wasn't getting fluent and this was it so number one I was not learning
the real vocabulary that natives are using number two I was not understanding it like a native so I
was translating trying to study grammar tables that kind of thing and number three I wasn't
getting enough review so it had nothing to do with speaking it was just I didn't understand
the language well enough and I wasn't getting the review that I needed to speak so everything that
I teach now because I do speak Japanese fluently I can I can teach those same lessons if I didn't
get fluent I couldn't really teach you anything because I wouldn't have like a way to prove that
it works so I know number one it works because uh linguists like Stephen crash and discovered
this already and number two this is how we all get fluent in our native language number three I
did this personally to become fluent number four I've got lots of students who've also done the
same thing I've been teaching for about 20 years and this is how they've all become fluent speakers
so all the people I help this is what they do and it's a it's much easier than
trying to find people and learn through your native language and then try to find speaking
practice partners and all that uh can you speak Japanese to us what would you like me to say
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foreign
all right so that's just an example of me talking about Japanese and this this
particular video uh and like when I came to Japan and I didn't know any Japanese
so when I came to Japan I did not know so
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all right Steve Kaufman also yeah this this is the way to get fluent in any language so
it doesn't doesn't matter uh what language you're learning this is how you get fluent
in New Lynn like in New languages within your native language all right so how many languages
do I speak I only speak English and Japanese but I know quite a bit of other languages and I could
use this to learn other languages but it's much much easier if I if I have someone to teach me
so it was difficult for me to learn Japanese this way because I'm I'm trying to teach myself
so I wanted to make it easy for English students and that's why when I created
fluent for life so fluent for life is a collection of lesson sets that I used to
offer monthly and so each month we would cover a different thing but I made fluent for life so
that you could go back and actually review all of these things in in whatever order you like
all right so uh no I do not speak Korean uh but I do actually yeah I'll tell you a
quick story about that so this is an example of understanding the language like a native I was in
this would be my last story before my voice uh before my voice leaves me I was in a Korean
barbecue restaurant here in Japan in a different city actually and I was waiting for a friend of
mine to come up and uh I looked on the wall at this restaurant and I saw a movie poster for the
movie After Earth and it was all in Korean and I said oh I wonder if I could figure out some Korean
could I discover something myself so again I want to understand it like a native rather than trying
to think through translations and I couldn't translate anything I don't know Korean but I
looked at it and I'm going to draw some characters on the board but these are not Korean it's just
for example purposes but I'm trying to discover something and understand it from the context
so the movie that this is the English English movie after oops a f t e r Earth
so the English movie After Earth this is a Will Smith movie and his son Jaden Smith is in the
movie also and knowing that so we got a picture of like here's Will Smith and here's his son Jaden
Smith in the movie and I look up at the top and usually a movie poster will have the uh the name
of the actors up at the top and usually like from left to right is like the more important actors
and they go kind of like from left to right like that so I looked at the at the name it was kind
of like this it was like blah blah blah and then it was like this and then something something and
then same same thing over here uh so I looked at this and I said oh my goodness I bet this
means Smith I bet this means Smith and so I'm looking at it and so in Japanese if I'm gonna
if I'm gonna write it in Japanese uh it's like Sue meat Witness so the Korean language is is
similar in this way to Japanese whether you've got these uh pieces of the of the vocabulary
it's like phonetic sections of it so suit me suit and the same thing up here so it's like
so I figured out okay the same character here this probably means a suit this means a Sue and that's
probably meat in the middle and then this same thing is also over here so we have like Will Smith
and Jaden Smith so I couldn't figure out anything else but from the context this was Smith and then
in the name of the movie so we have After Earth and just like uh Japanese like they don't have the
th like after Earth sound in Korean or at least not not for this but the the name of the movie
also had this same triangle character in it and so I said look at that I figured out some Korean
now I forgot it because again like the second step is only understanding something like a
native it was like yes but the exciting part is when you understand something not because
a teacher told it to you but because you really got it and your brain you feel that
thing when it when you learn you're like ah yes I got it okay does that make sense and
understanding it is just this just the Second Step the third step is all the review because
you will forget even a lesson that you learn like that if you don't get the right review
okay looks like a bunch of people are still watching me though
all right but I really I really want to make it clear uh that it's again understanding the real
language like a native speaker and then the naturally varied review that gets you fluent
all right you need to have all three of those things if you are missing even one of these things
you will not speak so if you don't get review you will just have a passive vocabulary that
you can understand quite well but you struggle when you speak if you have that problem fluent
for Life we'll solve that for you by giving you the naturally varied review that you need to speak
all right see if there are any final questions over here all right good night hello from Brazil
all right I think uh do I also teach private lessons I don't know if that's for me or not but
uh no I do not let's see here all right I think that's it I think we have uh everybody covered if
you have any more questions you can just email us at info englishanyone.com but this is it this is
how I got fluent in Japanese this is how all of my students get fluent in English and again if you'd
like to do this anywhere anytime without needing a speaking practice partner or a live teacher or
a native speaking friend or anything you could be living on some Mountain up somewhere it doesn't
matter where you live if you get fluent for life you will be speaking fluent English in the next
30 days or less just by doing this all right we will leave it with uh Enrique right there
for the final comment from Mexico from Medina hopefully uh or medina right there hopefully you
all are enjoying your day thank you for joining me and I'll see you in the next video bye-bye