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Drew Badger the founder of EnglishAnyone.com and the English fluency guide welcome back to another
live video here on YouTube we are working if you have any questions or comments uh just post them
in the chat like usual and we'll get rolling I thought this would be Amar nice to see you there I
thought this would be an interesting video uh just to tal
k about some of the differences in how
I communicate in these videos so how I speak in a lesson like this versus how I speak in a
normal conversation with another native speaker especially in a casual way so many people complain
uh many English Learners complain that they have trouble or they can understand English teachers
but they have trouble understanding Natives and the reason is because people actually speak
differently and I want to give you a demonstration of this in this video so I
wanted to talk uh I
give you an example really from a conversation I had uh with a friend of mine about uh him looking
for a present for his wife uh so we're going to talk about that we're going to look at part of
that conversation and I'm going to show you how natives communicate differently uh even though the
native language uh it's still correct so the the kind of things that you would learn in a regular
uh English classroom uh they are correct English but again if you don't have exposu
re to Native
speech especially actual conversations between Natives and lots of exposure to this then it's
going to be more difficult for you to understand natives so let's take a look at this so today uh
I knew I would be writing something so I actually prepared look at that boom a whole conversation
right here for everybody actually it's not a whole conversation and it looks like a lot but uh
as you will see it's actually not that much and we're going to talk about how we can take this
a
nd make it into a a shorter faster easier more natural and Native uh way of speaking and I'll
talk about pronunciation A little bit as well uh so what I've done as I mentioned earlier in this
video is that there really are two different ways of speaking and of course we get a fire truck
or something like usual uh so there are two different ways uh of speaking you have the more
kind of textbook version and this is the way most people are teaching English and this is why it
becomes really dif
ficult even if you take private lessons with an English teacher to transition to
real communication with different kinds of native speakers so you must you really must have this
different kind of uh exposure to lots of different native speakers uh so we're going to talk about
that now uh This what I have written up here is not the actual conversation uh this is a more
textbook version of that and so we're going to go through and I'm going to help you understand
this and then we will train u
h kind of train you a little bit on some more natural speech all
right hopefully that makes sense uh if you have any questions before you get started let me
know I'll just go through comments right quick but nice to see everybody here I want to make sure I
get through all this without taking too much time but nice to see everybody here uh let's see nice
to see everybody hello from Miami so we just got started Julio says hello from Dominican Republic
when I started learning English on my own
a couple of years ago I used to watch you all the time
and your videos really helped improve my English skills glad to hear all right let's get started so
I'm going to go through this again this is a more textbook version of the conversation and I will be
saying it uh slower more easily so you understand everything but uh hopefully this should make sense
to everyone so uh my friend begins so this will be my friend a and I am B uh so a asks uh may I ask
your opinion may I ask your opinion I
need an idea for my wife's birthday may I ask your opinion
I need an idea for my wife's birthday hopefully this makes sense it should be pretty easy this is
a typical way of asking what someone thinks uh or if you want to ask for someone's opinion you can
also say may I get your opinion that's something you can also say so may I ask your opinion or may
I get your opinion or uh an even longer way you can say may I ask for your opinion or may I ask
you for your opinion but as you'll see uh i
t's much easier we can uh eliminate many words we'll
cut some of these out in the conversation uh as we get to the more conversational version but I
want to make sure everybody understands this what we have so far so this should be pretty easy may
I ask your opinion I need an idea for my wife's birthday and I respond how about getting her some
flowers how about getting her some flowers So This Is My Idea okay what if you get her some flowers
so how about is actually a very native and natura
l way of expressing what if so why don't you do
this uh or here's a potential idea so how about uh particularly we use this uh with kids a lot so
we're asking kids questions like how about this or how about that or what do you think about this
it's not only for kids but uh children learn this uh when they're very young but often adult natives
or adult non-natives who are learning English do not all right so why not buying her some flowers
yes Tom that's another thing you could say nil is ni
ce to see you there from Wisconsin so again
uh I want to say before we go any further that yes there are many ways we could express these
ideas and you are welcome to post more just like Tom did so you can say like why not get her some
flowers so that's another way of expressing this uh and this is uh I talk about this in speak
like me this idea of moving like water where if you have lots of ways of expressing yourself
you never get stuck with only one thing if you can't remember what that
is so there's always
something else I don't remember this way well why don't I say it this way instead so instead
of how about you can say why not why not get her some flowers okay hopefully that makes sense and
so he responds no I have already given her flowers many times I have already given her flowers many
times all right so I say what about flowers and he says no I've I've done that many times before
so I have already given her flowers many times or you could say you don't even need th
e already in
there uh it makes it sound a bit more natural uh people will use this but I have given her flowers
many times it means the same thing so already uh you don't really need to put that in there but
natives will use this a lot actually so I have already done it all right it puts a little bit
more emphasis uh on like yes I did this thing in the past like yeah I already did that so my friend
is a little bit frustrated he's trying to think of an idea and so I give you know pretty like
bad
you know use of the idea like what about some flowers that's a pretty basic thing most people
think of that already Tom asks can I use yet at the end of this phrase let no uh at the end of
which phrase time the correct sentence is why not buy her some flowers uh well you could you
could say why not why not buy her some flowers or why not get her some flowers that's all that's
all fine all right so you can get is another very common word that you could use in place of buy
so instead of
saying buy her some flowers why not get her some flowers all right again uh there
are already a few kind of more native ways of expressing things instead of saying buy we use
get which is just much more common and we can use this very easily for all kinds of things so I
could get her some flowers it means I could like pick some flowers or I could buy some flowers or
I could get some flowers from somewhere else but get really could be any of those things so the
the idea is just we're going
to give her some flowers and it doesn't really matter where we
get the flowers all right uh given her flowers many times no you wouldn't say yet because it's
already happened uh so like already is that we're talking about the past here and so if I say no I
have already given her flowers now if we wanted to say the opposite like uh oh I have not given her
any flowers yet uh again you don't need to use yet but that would be the use of that so if you're if
you're talking about you did not do s
omething uh I have not given her flowers yet I have not given
her flowers yet Vladimir nice to see you there all right so he says uh no I have already given her
flowers many times he's a little bit frustrated and I say well what are her current interests
abdil AB nice to see you there from Egypt what are her current interests so now I'm trying to think
uh you like how can I uh like how can I help him find something and make him think more about his
wife so he's asking me what to get his wif
e and I don't really know so I'm trying to think okay
well what are her current interests what is she uh what is she interested in what does she like
okay so what are her current interests what are her current interests so what does she like right
now what is she interested in right now like is there a TV show she's watching or does she like I
don't know she's talking about something whatever and my friend says I'm not sure I'm not sure I'm
not sure so you could also say I don't know or I d
on't really know uh I'm not sure so any of
these things would be fine remember there are always multiple ways to Express certain things
this is really just one General situation and each one of these phrases is a kind of mini
situation within this conversation so here I don't know that's the idea he's trying to express
and these are the words he's using but he could use something different all right and then I
say she must have said something she must have said something so he's saying well
I don't know
what she's interested in and I say well she must have said something so she must must be uh saying
something like I like this or talking about this or I have a problem or something like that there
must be something she said that she's interested in uh and you should pay closer attention you
should pay closer attention all right so to pay attention means to watch and to listen carefully
like right now you should pay attention uh this is an interesting idea to talk about paying
attention so if we think about attention we giving attention uh to something right now like
you were watching this or you were listening to some music or something you were giving attention
or you are paying attention you are paying like just like you pay money for something you were
paying attention all right let me go back through comments before we go through uh and adjust some
of this so right now you are paying attention glad to hear all right uh let's see yes to get Muhammad
is it is
like a magic word I've done actually quite a few videos on the verb get uh what does
she like most currently you wouldn't say most currently you would just say uh recently if you
want to say most so we don't say most currently but we do say most recently most recently that's
an interesting thing sometimes you will have these slight differences in the language where one
thing is okay and another thing is not and so really pay attention so again pay close attention
or pay even closer cler at
tention so you can hear and and listen to what natives are saying in
different situations all right so we wouldn't say uh what was that most uh most currently
we would just say most recently uh Neil says the only thing that helps is a handbag or shoes
that's Neils are you married let let me know if you're married or you have a a special someone
over there uh Min says hi Drew since a few days back I started to watch your YouTube video videos
you are so inspiring and your videos are awesome p
lease continue regular update I am improving
by the way I'm from Nepal well I'm glad to hear their health uh if you know other people who would
also enjoy them please recommend us buter says hey Drew it's Drew isn't it you seem like talking in
a Southern accent don't you yes some people uh say or they think I sound a little bit Southern uh I'm
from actually the south side of Chicago and uh the way I'm speaking right now it's a kind of special
voice voice I have uh really for these lessons u
h to make sure people can hear me but I'm speaking
a little bit more slowly uh and that maybe that has a little bit of that southern way of speaking
that's a little bit uh slower just to make sure people can understand what I'm saying all right
uh oh you are married oh okay great well hopefully maybe you can think about something for your wife
too for for her birthday or whatever all right so let me go back I'm going to read over the whole
thing again uh and then we will look at the more na
tive natural version that I actually said okay
so the actual conversation we had uh again this is a more formal textbook version of it just so you
can understand each of these situations remember we have the the general situation of trying to
figure out a a present for somebody's wife but then each one of these little sentences is an idea
and we could express that in different ways all right so my friend says may I ask your opinion I
need an idea for my wife's birthday and I say how about g
etting her some flowers no he says I have
already given her flowers many times many times and I say well what are her current interests and
he says I'm not sure all right don't say that to your wife if you you can say that to your friend
but don't say that to your wife like I don't know what my wife is interested in uh and then I
say she must have said something so probably usually women will tell you something uh and you
should pay closer attention you should pay closer attention all right
so hopefully uh it doesn't
look like we have any more questions about this so let's go back and tweak some of this uh Ohio
from Yokohama nice to see you there at subasa Tom I'd like to listen to you sometimes speaking
faster so I can see whether I understand you uh if you look at some of our conversation videos or
if uh I think you are a member of fluent for life if you are not uh you should be in the program
but that's where I speak normally uh how are you from aeran wish to talk with you
VI email address
if you have questions you can email us just go to info@ English anyone.com all right uh let's see
Mohammad says can we say why don't you get get her you wouldn't say get to her you wouldn't say
get to her you would say just get her something uh if I want to get to someone usually this
means I'm trying to communicate with them in some way like I'm trying to get to my son maybe
he does doesn't want to do his homework and I'm trying to get to him like get through to him it's
it's a different idea of just getting something for someone so you can get flowers for a person so
get like get flowers or get a present for someone so that's the where the the action is going I'm
getting it for my wife or I can just get my wife some flowers all right sometimes in English uh
the language can seem confusing if you don't use those words so like here how about getting her
some flowers or I can say how about getting some uh flowers uh for her I could say that as well
so there
are different ways of saying it but you wouldn't say get to all right we get something
for because we're doing it for like the benefit of someone else it's not just the direction but we're
talking about uh doing something for their benefit all right uh so let's talk about this we're going
to erase some of this and if you want to see the textbook version of this again will be down in the
description uh below this video all right so may I ask your opinion can you think of a better way to
expr
ess that what's a different way what's a way a native might say this we're asking for some help
or we're asking for some advice can you think of another way to say this now I'm going to give you
one what I actually said or what actually uh my friend said in the conversation uh but there are
different ways you could say this in addition to what I'm going to what I'm going to show here
so may I ask your opinion we're going to erase this and see get my black marker here can I can I pick your br
ain can I pick your brain so
you can think think about like there are ideas in my head and my friend is asking can he like pick
pick at some of those ideas in my brain so can I pick your brain can I pick your brain uh again
uh can I pick your brain I mean we we would also say like may I but pick your brain this is the
idea of doing something where you're just you're like trying to get at the ideas in somebody
else's head okay can I pick your brain this is one way of expressing this all righ
t I don't
want to cover lots of different things but this is the basic idea of I need some ideas so can I
pick your brain can I pick your brain all right what we had before is perfectly fine but again
this is just a more natural native way of saying this that you could also use it's correct oh bega
says all ears so all ears would imply like that that's kind of something you say after you're
asking for help so if I'm listening to someone then I'm all ears but first if I'm asking for
someone
's help or they opinion about something I'm beginning by saying this can I pick your
brain can I pick your brain can I pick your brain so remember we have the idea of picking uh
to pick something like to choose something like I pick uh like this food or this drink or something
for my lunch I pick this or I pick this person to be my wife but picking also means like you can
you're kind of scratching at something like if I have a pick axxe and I'm trying to get some gold
out of the side of a m
ountain like a pick axe so I'm picking at someone's brain I'm not choosing
your brain I'm picking at it like this hopefully that makes sense all right make sure people
are following along here uh oh nil says I am a woman and my name is Anette Neils hogr is this
name of the ship that took oh that I took oh wow oh okay oh I didn't know that well all right uh
so I guess maybe all right well you can you can tell me then I guess you know about Handbags and
and shoes I guess I don't know why I th
ought you were why I thought you were a man I guess oh
because of the name that that's where that's from you didn't correct me this whole time uh
let's see she might have mentioned something around you you must uh be more all ears all ears
when dealing with women yes so that's we we don't really use the expression that way we don't just
say like I'm all ears in general but uh typically when we're listening to someone in a particular
situation oh I'm all ear so I'm really listening carefully
to what you have to say uh so can take
your advice or you would say can I get your advice or can I ask advice can I ask uh for your advice
about something all right uh Ze lumbo says your way of teaching is very impressive really I'm just
helping you understand same the same way I would teach my own kids uh it's figurative saying I'm
going to have your brain and see what you yes so that that's the basic idea uh it's just like I'm
I'm literally looking for ideas in the same way you would pic
k for for goal gold or some kind of
you know like an actual I'm looking for something I'm using a pickaxe we draw a pickaxe for you
so it's a pretty large like shovel kind of thing you swing it like that and try to get gold or
something out of rock uh and so I want to pick like some of the good ideas out of your brain so
there already are lots of ideas in your brain and I want to pick I want to pick your brain and try
to get a few ideas from you that's the idea can I pick your brain all rig
ht so I need an idea for
my wife's birthday we're we're going to keep this one the same because this is about as simple as we
could get or just say I need an idea for my wife's birthday and so I say how about getting her some
flowers all right now now I'm going to take this and just shorten it just to show that this is
the way uh like I could say this is it's fine to say how about getting her some flowers uh but
I could just take this and just say erase this how about flowers very simple ve
ry easy remember
natives like we understand the point we don't need to say like where we're getting the flowers
from or what kind of flowers we're not talking about the the the main point the idea is just
how about flowers how about flowers how about flowers yes I think the name Nils is is a is
man's name and the only way I knew that was from die hard that Die Hard movie so how about flowers
okay so I could say this with anything how about I don't know like any any other thing any other
pr
esent how about shoes how about handbags how about jewelry how about something like that all
right I could also say what about that'd be the same way to do it how about what about but you'll
notice we can try to make things much shorter and easier because we don't need to say the whole
sentence that that idea is all implied okay all right Nils is looking good over there or Anette
I should say all right actually I think I'll just call you Nils still I think I will I will just
like think abou
t that the whole time but let me see here make sure I got that correct let's see
all right a net all right I'll I'll try to try to use that over there all right I can understand
all words in the sentence but it takes me some time to digest this information and Gra askas what
is being conveyed to me yeah uh so this happens uh typically the I'm when I'm giving these lessons
some people it might be a little bit too easy other people it might be too difficult uh but
hopefully you can get at lea
st a little bit of information from this and have it make sense so
don't worry if you don't understand everything here I'm actually giving a lot of information
in this lesson uh teaching quite a few different phrases uh so even if you only remember one
from from from this video it's okay come back and watch it again later and you will learn even
more each time so how about flowers uh and then he says no I have already given her flowers
many times so what would be a different way of expressi
ng this idea so we've done something
many many times already that's really the idea so no I've already done something many times I'm
going to write something up here and if you have a thought or a different idea of a way we might
Express this then go ahead and put it in the comments so no I have already given her flowers
many times all right I mentioned before we don't need to have the word already in there it adds a
little bit of emphasis but it's not necessary uh so no I have given her fl
owers many times I just
erase this part no I have given her flowers many times as fine but I'm trying to think of a more
or he is using actually a a more natural way of expressing this uh so first instead of no going to
erase this whole thing here so we don't say like we we don't have to repeat give flowers because
that's already implied that's already understood so he said nah now instead of saying No this
is a common way people will say it's like nah like nah nah and and the pronunciation
is not so
important uh it some people will have a more Nas sounding like nah nah or some people have a more
relaxed sound like nah nah I don't care about that or n but it just means no all right it's just a
casual way of saying this so not I've done that to death now I've done that to death now I've done
that to death I've done that to death so I've done that to death to do something to death means
you've already done something many many times and especially in this case I've already given
my
wife so many flowers or i' like I always give her flowers it's just boring I've done it to death
all right so I I did it so many times I killed that thing I've done it to death I've done that
thing to death all right ban says how to master phonetics uh in English uh if you click on the
link uh don't spam the comments though uh if you click on the link in the description below
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uh and pronunciation listening and spelling so anyone who would like to learn
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below the video all right uh let's see uh vas says I can can I pick your brain I never have
heard of this way of asking for opinion thanks yes well that's the point of this video to share
new ways of expressing things um and again if you are if you were not in a native environment or
you're not getting a lot of native inp
ut uh like we give influent for life if you're not getting
that uh then you are going to miss a lot of these things in uh in real conversations so can I pick
your brain I need an idea for my wife's birthday how about flowers nah I've done that to death n
I've done that to death I've done that to death all right now this could apply to anything
that you've done so many times like like oh I've watched that movie to death all right I've
watched that movie to death or I've played that game to d
eath all right so anything you've done
it like so many times you don't like doing it I don't like playing it or I don't like you
know because you've done it so many times uh or even common expressions like oh people
have used that to death people have used that expression to death done that to death it just
means they did it so many times or so much or so often that they killed that thing all right right
hopefully everybody's getting it it's pretty good expression uh but you know when I whe
n I hear
things like this like this is not the kind of thing you hear in a regular English lesson like
in a textbook but you will again like people are trying to be more expressive like no no I don't
want to give flowers I've done that to death I'm so tired of that my wife is tired of that too by
the way uh so I've done that to death I've done that to death all right uh let's see uh Anette
yes I whenever I think Nils now I will think Annette all right I got you all right uh let's
see subas
a with the DAP over there boom gotcha look at it made its way all the way to Japan
uh yes and says welcome very useful to death very useful expression all right uh thank you
Frederick is the best yes Tom if you know other people who would enjoy it please recommend the
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me don't worry I'm I'm trying to go through them uh yes's
with a little heart over there I just try freder R after this class you'll enjoy it a lot oh let's
see it's like some other language I can't read let's see I don't have any writing and listening
problems but I hesitate to speak I have none to practice could you provide some advice to me uh
remember and this is for everybody else that you don't improve by practicing your speaking if
you if you think and I know this sounds like weird a
dvice because everybody tells you you have
to practice but if you think about what speaking practice really is what are you really doing when
you practice speaking the idea is that you repeat things because that's all it would be is so if I
like let's say I have a thing like how about and I just repeat that how about how about how about
how about so I'm not really learning anything more more uh and what really stops me from speaking
is doubt so if I'm uncertain about grammar or vocabulary o
r pronunciation or anything else
that's what really will stop me from speaking so instead of repeating things again and again
and again I need to get more examples or whatever will help me eliminate that doubt and so the
what I'm going through here is I'm I'm going I'm taking you through just a simple quick part
of a conversation and help helping you eliminate some doubt about particular things so as I'm
answering questions from people I'm eliminating the doubt so I call this a fluency trig
ger uh
this is kind of a longer version of that uh but the idea like this idea over here so I'm giving
you a kind of visual way of thinking about this idiom here of like picking someone's brain okay
so I'm not choosing that I'm actually like click click click click I'm picking I'm picking at your
brain to try to get some information from you so this is just a way of asking can I have your
opinion about something or can I get an idea or some kind of help for something so can I pick
your bra
in and so we don't become better speakers by speaking we actually become better speakers
by getting lots of different examples that help us understand the language better so once you
understand then you feel confident because you don't have doubt anymore and then you speak all
right so even if you are in a conversation with other people uh especially if you're talking
with a native uh you really should be paying a lot of attention like that where did I have
that before about like paying att
ention to pay attention because the Improvement will really
come from listening to what the native person is saying to you it's not from what you say it's
what the other person says to you okay so this is the opposite uh the opposite advice that
you will normally get from people about like you should just speak and that's how you will
improve but you don't really improve if you do that because just repeating things doesn't help
you understand them better you just need to get more informatio
n until you feel very confident
about individual words and phrases and then you will use those things fluently so you don't need
a practice partner you just need to get lots of examples that help you understand something you
need to eliminate the doubt that's when you start speaking all right it's my quick speech about that
all right um let's see Mom says I usually hang out with friends to celebrate birthdays of each other
yes you would say each other each other you don't need an s on yet w
e send many hearts that's right
uh Andy says thanks very much it's my pleasure hello Mr Drew to death means number one I did it
so many times well yes you could say it's it's a way of talking about something being boring but
it also means that you've done that thing many times all right so it's not interesting anymore
or people don't like it so uh the reason it's not boring like just the meaning of boring by itself
is because I could watch a movie one time and that movie could just be a bor
ing movie I've only
seen it one time I wouldn't say oh I watched that movie to death if I watched that movie to death it
means I've seen that movie a hundred times so it's it's more the idea that you've done something so
many times and that's why if you look at the the original version of the the textbook version of
this conversation where uh my friend is saying well I've already given her flow many times all
right so that idea of I have already done that done that thing many times uh so th
at that's the
more important part about doing something to death all right so it just means you've done it so many
times and because of that now it's boring or not interesting or whatever but the more important
the the main idea of that phrase to do something to death means it's it's it's just been done so
many times it's overused uh or it's cliched or any anything else where it's just not interesting
anymore okay hopefully that makes sense all right uh and let's see what's the best way to
ask the
cost of something is it correct to say how much does this cost so you would say how much does
this cost so no s on the end of it remember the the subject verb agreement there so how much
does this cost or you could say like this thing costs uh however much it is but yeah you just how
much is fine how much how much uh Zelo says how many languages do you speak I speak English and
Japanese I know a little bit of French and Spanish a little bit uh MOS from Bangladesh hi from ukra
uh Uk
raine glad to see you here live again uh I have worked to death but my employer didn't even
pay my salary yes that's another excellent use of the expression so just like we can take any verb
really and say like I've done something to death like oh my boss is working me to death my boss
is working me to death he's working me too much it's like he's actually doing something that's
that's going to kill me and so you notice an interesting thing about conversations is people
will exaggerate uh j
ust to make the like the conversation or the speech more interesting so
it's the same idea I I'm actually saying I have done something many times but I'm making it sound
a bit more interesting like oh I've done that to death I've done it I've done that thing to death
okay so same basic idea uh you can say both of those I have given my wife flowers many times but
this again nah I've done that to death nah like nah I don't want to do that so especially this
this nah right here we often use th
is when we're especially speaking casually so you wouldn't want
to talk with your boss like this unless you were very friendly with your boss so your boss says uh
hey I need you to come into work tomorrow and you say nah you probably would not do that but if
you're talking with your friend and your friend says oh should we get pizza for dinner you say nah
I I had pizza yesterday okay so that's where the the nah rather than no comes from okay so that's a
slight Nuance there all right hopeful
ly that makes sense will what are her current interests what are
her current interests so what's a better way to express this well what are her current interests
uh let's erase this so well what are her current interests and I can ask well what's she or she into lately nice and simple well what's she into lately
all right so to be into so what is she into lately lately what is she into lately what is she into
lately now the reason we use lately instead of recently you could use recently uh b
ut lately and
this is this is one of those uh kind of tricky tricky words where we would prefer to use lately
uh what's the best way to describe it well like if I if I say well what she into recently I guess in
this case you really could use both I think lately would sound more natural um you would probably get
more examples if you did a Google search for these uh but there there are times that so this is a
case where you could use lately or recently uh but lately sounds a little bit more n
atural I'm
trying to think about the best reason to explain why that would be um just to help you understand
that because there are times when you would not use both of them at the same time so an example
of that might be uh like uh the company has been doing something um actually yeah I guess in in
this case you really could use either you really could use either I actually want I want to do a
lesson I think I I did a lesson many years ago about like lately versus recently uh and I can't
think of something uh immediately I don't know maybe I'm still sick uh but anyway so the idea
here is so what is she into lately or what is she into recently I would probably prefer lately yeah
just like a personal personal preference I guess um but you could use either one of those but the
more important thing here is what is she into so to be interested in what is she into okay so what
are her Hobbies or what movies is she watching or something like that what is she into lately what
is sh
e into recently all right let me go back and see if anybody all right let's see so to death
means a lot like I'm scared to death by the way well uh Bruno in that case like you wouldn't be
talking about there's there's like being scared to death and then doing something to death and
so I'm not necessarily scared of something like this example here so no I've given my wife many
many flowers I'm not scared about anything so death it it can be used when we're talking about
something else but it
's a completely different usage of the word all right so done something to
death rather than to be scared to death like you could be scared to death of doing something to
death you could say that um and that would mean like you don't want to do something too many
times that's what that would mean I'm scared to death of doing something to death all right
uh let's see I like the way I like your way to explain S jerma I really enjoy your class glad to
hear it saludos uh what's she into right n
ow yes you could also say that as well so what's she
into right now uh lately or recently implies a little bit more time span so if we just say like
right now it could I mean and this is this is a it's not a specific idea where right now is like
only immediately it could be you know within the past week or something as well when we talk about
like what is your wife into that's why it's better to say something like lately or recently because
that extends that amount of time it just makes it
a little bit more General so what is she into
recently or what is she into lately um and uh and when we when we're using this again you could say
right now what is she into now another way like what is she into now uh or right right now right
now is even more specific it's like that like what is she doing today or the past week something
like that but we can a bit more general or have a bit more time so what is she into lately what
is she into lately uh let's see all right musle please give
specific class for I speaking yeah
there are plenty of people who do that already just find those speakers on YouTube uh onto you
would not use onto you say what are you what are you into like what is the thing you are you kind
of inside it uh almost almost like you are you are a part of that thing all right so you you really
get into your work I really get into something to get excited about that thing I'm not kind of
sitting on the top of it I'm I'm inside it I really like that thing uh
bega says watch Drew's
videos to death if you want to start your new life with yes so so you could it is possible to watch
my videos to death but hopefully you don't watch them too much well go ahead if you like but
all right uh let's see Hassan says who want to practi his English with me remember the practicing
doesn't come from you you don't need to like meet someone to practice your English you just need
to get more examples that help you understand the language better after you feel con
fident
that's when you can look for people to speak with and in that case you don't really need a speaking
practice partner just find people who are sharing your interests n says thank you let's see uh her
current interests are traveling in new countries and sightseeing so I guess a trip to Paris could
be a great idea yes uh the the wife his wife might might prefer that I don't know I don't know his
wife well so I can't say but yes if she's into that I mean you you could do that maybe she's
into
travel or she's into cooking or something whatever that is uh but my friend says I'm not sure so he
doesn't really know and that's why I say well you you she must have said something you need to be
paying attention to to what your wife is doing all right so let's look at this phrase right here I'm
not sure what's a different way we could express this all right so native uh definitely would
say I'm not sure uh but my friend did not use that expression what did he say instead he said
a
nd this is pretty a pretty common pretty casual expression beats me beats me I think I've
actually used this on uh on I've talked about this before this is also in a uh in a
book that my my daughters like so there's a character uh that like the one lady is saying
Hey do you do you know about uh taking care of kids and she's like well beats me I don't I
don't know anything about that so I don't know or I'm not sure uh beats me is really like you
have no idea at all all right so I'm not sure
uh is it it implies there's a little bit more
certainty there so like I kind of know but remember that people exaggerate so if someone
says I'm not sure about something then they probably they probably don't know it all and
this is a this is a it's a way of using the language like another thing like you've
probably heard this before uh let me see if this fits up here uh what and this is this
is just a different example so what does mean exactly or you will hear we can move exactly
over her
e like what exactly does something mean all right now the reason I think I've talked
about this in in videos before I I definitely have influent for life um but this idea here
this is a this is more a psychology thing about communication where if I say what does something
mean like what does uh rubicon mean just a word like what does that mean uh if I say what does
that mean it makes me sound less intelligent because I don't know a word and it's okay really
if you don't know a word but uh t
he point is when people are when people are communicating uh they
they sound more intelligent if they use the word exactly because that implies that you know a
little bit about something already so so if I say like like if we if we imagine how much like
I know about like a a particular word over here from 0 to 100 I'm sorry I'm taking time to explain
this but it's it's important to understand these like the the deeper ideas about communication
and you probably have things that are similar i
n your language as well uh so let's say there's
a word like uh I don't know now I can't I can't think of just like a random word what's a random
word uh let's say uh invite it just invite so the random word is invite uh and maybe I don't know I
don't know what that means at all I don't know the word invite I don't know the meaning of invite
at all so if I say what does invite mean what does invite mean it means like I'm I'm kind of
stupid or or I'm ignorant it just means I can't I don't kno
w what something means so if I say what
does invite mean it means basically zero I don't know anything about it but if I say what exactly
does invite me it means I I maybe have like some idea about what that means so this is a subtle
interesting thing uh in in speaking when when people will use this word here what exactly does
that mean what exactly what do you mean exactly all right uh because it means uh typically it
could mean that they actually know something uh but maybe they don't the
y don't know anything
actually all right so I just thought this this was an interesting thing you will hear natives
use this a lot whenever people use uh exactly in a conversation often it's because they have like
no uh like no particular uh maybe they they don't know like anything about that particular thing so
like what what exactly is biology or like you know any it could be any anything like that if I say
what is biology it means I I'm I'm just saying I don't know anything about it but
what exactly is
that I sound a bit more intelligent a bit more knowledgeable and it's just trying to make myself
seem better about that all right like less stupid or less ignorant uh whatever all right part pardon
that that little little uh interlude there all right uh let's see all right we got a bunch of a
bunch of things while I'm talking over here okay what is she okay we got that already all right uh
our boss always picks our brains to death to see what we are into yes yes you could us
e it that
way like your boss is like if your boss has no idea he's always picking your brain to death like
he doesn't think of anything himself you know uh Conan says Drew is there any difference between
American accent and Canadian accent uh because there's a lot of Canadian teachers on YouTube
and I get nervous because I think they're a huge I think they're huge I don't know what you
mean by that the words rather than American well Canada and um uh in America are quite similar and
maybe
some people have a thicker accent I mean we we would call it an accent they just call it how
they speak so it's it's always like an accent to the other person um but they're quite similar and
you will have many people like you can't really tell but if you're an American or a Canadian
usually you can tell the difference between like a Canadian speaker and an American speaker
I remember actually a Canadian told me a joke many years ago I'll tell you the joke right now
it's it's actually about
Canadian accent uh and so this was uh different countries were getting
together to to think of what their names would be uh and they they were just like picking they
have this is a kind of common thing in in America um but like or I I actually many people do this
like you have a bowl or a hat and you just have letters in there and you pick them out and that's
going to be the name of your country so the first guy he's going to pick the name of his country
from the letters in the Hat and and
the first letter he says okay u s and a and then he says
okay our country is going to be called the USA so the first guy pulls out those and he he gets
the he says like u a and then guy let me erase USA and he says he pulls out the cards
it says ca na da so it means like Canada CA na a DA so you will have that like a at
the at the end and the the end of a lot of sounds like that so that's one difference that that we
don't have in the United States a all right all right hopefully that makes
sense all right all
right uh let's see yeah rub Rubicon is the name of a river but we we also have like there's a
more figurative usage of it like where we're we're going to do something like from the idea of
this Crossing the Rubicon uh meaning we're going to do something in like we can't go back after
that so now like we commit to doing something I'm Crossing the Rubicon I'm actually going to do
something uh that I can't go back on all right so I'm making a decision all right all right y
es the
ambulance is back all right uh let's see so again when you're getting different accents like what
we do in fluent for life is we actually have you listen to different speakers from different parts
of the world so you can listen to their different accents and get used to them all right so that's
again we prepare people for all of that so tired uh could be beats me well uh if you're if you're
talking about being tired that's actually I'm beat if you're talking about you feeling physica
lly
tired like oh I feel beat or I'm beat it's like almost like you know the work or the day or
something has been hitting you all day long and now now you're tired I'm beat well I'm beat
all right uh let's see um Mohammed says uh let's see oh wait maybe I ski that let's see all right
uh a says you're my favorite teacher I have been watching a video since 2017 thank you for all
your hard work it's my pleasure all right let's see Hello teacher I'm late today that's all
right Suzanne says he
y there can't sleep so I thought I come here nice seeing you drew nice
to see you there solve it kind of American accent and Canadians resemble each other beats me let's
see kind no problem but if you'd accept that free offer that you would have changed your life but
now the offer is not I don't know what you guys are talking about uh but keep it clean over
here don't need any trouble in the comments what exactly do you mean by saying this I don't
know I don't know now now I'm confused over
here all right uh let's see Fabio what's up what's all
right Fantastico what does covid-19 mean exactly yes that's a good example all right so I am beat
means I am tired yes that's correct so I am beat so remember it like the the way non-natives will
learn the languag is they will take a word and then they will typically get a translation
of it so like let's say uh I could I could use the word like like to hit something or to
beat something like in Japan would be like or Japanese is like T
um that's one example so one
way I could express that uh but if I'm learning it in English like there are different uses
of the word and I hear those different uses in different situations uh yes Suzanne it's like
I'm exhausted and so you can hear a beat like to beat a drum but then you also hear like I'm beat
it's like oh like I'm kind of like I feel kind of like hit in a certain way like I'm tired
like I'm getting very uh very exhausted about something and so sometimes there is a meaning
that's it's connected like that and sometimes you just have words that have completely
different meanings like the word trunk for example so a trunk this could mean like the
nose of an elephant uh or it could mean a box for travel so there sometimes the same word
actually has just completely different meanings but the important thing here is that as
you get all these different examples it really helps you understand the core meanings
of words uh so you can use them more naturally and more
confidently uh let's see so kind
says Drew when I read an article or book I get bored as fast as my brain won't
imagine it is that a question I don't understand um but I if you're you should just
if you're talking about reading things unless you have to read it for work or for school or
something you should read something you enjoy find something you are interested in especially
if you're trying to learn English by doing that all right let's continue so we got beats me
uh and then she mus
t have said something she must have said something what's a different
way we could express that she must have said something and here we go she must be dropping hints all right to drop hints now
to drop hints if you think about about like like women imagine this situation it's This
Woman's like his wife's birthday coming up so she's probably dropping hints meaning like
here's a hint about something she doesn't want to say it directly like hey you should take
me to Paris or you should do thi
s or buy this thing she will probably drop a hint like you
know I'd really like a new something I really want a new pair of shoes or I really want to go
on a a trip or something like that so she might not say it directly but she will drop some hints
drop some hints a dropping hints so you could uh give a hint You could also say that like she
must be giving hints but dropping hints this is a specific expression for just kind of like
laying out little little crumbs something like that where y
our wife is telling you what
she wants even though she doesn't want to say it directly uh and so your wife is dropping
some kind of hint of about that all right she's dropping hints so she must be dropping hints
or she's probably dropping hints something like that she must be dropping hints pretty easy
to understand so this is one way of saying this there are more but I just wanted to teach this
one specific thing or uh because it came up in the conversation she must be dropping hints
she
must be dropping hints all right and then the last one you should pay closer attention
uh and this one is I'm just going to replace this you better you better is a very common uh way of
expressing that you should do something or I recommend you do something but this is a very
native and natural way of saying this often like you should do something it sounds a little bit
more formal uh you can say that like you should pay attention but you better pay attention you
better pay attention you be
tter pay attention uh to drop a hint on or over well you just say
like to drop drop hints you don't need to add add any preposition to that to drop a hint my
wife is dropping hints typically dropping hints about something so my wife is dropping hints about
what she wants for her birthday all right so she's dropping hints oh you better pay attention you
better do your homework you better get up early you better do this you better do that you better
you better all right or he better or I bett
er or we better now typically you will have like the the
longer construction of this is like you had better you had better do something it's the same idea
but remember uh like typically in conversations if we understand like I'm talking to my friend
here uh I can say you better pay pay attention or you had better pay attention uh but I don't need
to say like you had better pay closer attention I guess I could say that but just pay attention
you better pay attention you better pay attention
but you better this is very common uh especially
when talking about uh like children needing to do something like children need to do uh whatever
that is you better do your homework you better you better be nice or there's going to be trouble
you better be nice all right so we don't it's it's it's a little bit stronger than you should but
it's also more relaxed and more casual you better pay attention all right yes I mean it's it's it's
talking about for the future but like the future also
implies right now so like you better like you
should be doing that right now okay you better pay attention so it means like we we can't really say
this for the past like it's better if you had paid attention we could say that so it's better if you
had paid attention but that's a slightly different usage of better all right you better do this all
right you better pay attention you better pay attention all right uh let's see all right Lauren
nice to see you there good evening to the best teac
her in the world you're too kind all right
got other people talking to themselves I think or each other di says Drew you are the greatest
English teacher that ever seen because you know what you're teaching us well I hope so I I do my
best I couldn't it some sometimes it's difficult because all of these live videos I have to think
on the spot I have to think on my feet about examples and often I like to take my time that's
why when I'm making lessons I actually spend a lot of time uh prepar
ing things especially for videos
I make because there's a lot of planning to make sure that I can eliminate the doubt for people I
have to anticipate what kind of questions people have uh but it is more difficult for me to think
more I'm still recovering a little bit from my uh from my my flu a little bit a little bit recently
uh let's see I'm effortlessly understanding you I effortlessly understand you is this because
you're explaining things like parents to kids or I'm actually good in En
glish well it I mean
it's both but my job as a teacher is to make the language understandable because that's when you
become more confident and eliminate the doubt and you feel like speaking so yes like remember that
you become fluent in individual words and phrases as you understand them so you might understand
me and you're used to me and you can learn some new vocabulary but maybe you hear someone else
like a person in a movie or a native speaker somewhere and you don't understand them a
s well
but that's okay and it just means you just need more practice listening to that kind of speech or
maybe that kind of accent something like that so uh so I guess your your the answer to the to your
question is yes and no so yes you are like like getting good but also you know like it it's it's
you get fluent one piece at a time all right so if you understand one person but don't understand
someone else don't feel bad about that all right uh let's see uh you say Hi teacher I have one
problem with English the problem is I can't expand my vocabulary why not I first of all I I would I
would question I would recommend I would actually say you better so you better uh focus on the
vocabulary you already know uh rather than trying to learn new vocabulary and I promise you you
will actually expand your vocabulary as you focus on the words you already know so you look at what
we're what we're covering here today I'm actually trying to go very deep into a few different words
and
expressions just so you understand them better all right so my goal is not to teach you 2,000
new words in one video because you probably not remember that and you won't really feel confident
you will still have doubts and questions and concerns about that information but if I can focus
on a few things help you understand at least one of them really well uh and hopefully understand
more of that um but if if you do that you will feel a little bit more fluent so you should feel
more fluent be
cause you feel more certain and confident about the vocabulary or the grammar or
whatever it is we're covering all right but that's the goal of each one of my videos you should leave
the video uh feeling more confident and certain uh let's see here damn you YouTube why you always
have to I should be able to go back to where I was that would be a nice uh inter interface thing
here to drop a hint on or over or about what is the correct prepositions yeah well you you I
mean yeah I think I ment
ioned or answered this question already but you would typically drop
you might drop a hint uh up about typically we would we would say that solve it danila I'm in
hot water people tease me annoy me hurt break my heart What About You uh let's see ought to Fabio
says Hey teacher what's the difference between a typhoon a hurricane and a tornado uh a hurricane
is in the Atlantic Ocean and a typhoon is in the Pacific Ocean and a tornado is on land um that's
the basic difference uh so typhoon lik
e a comes like from the like both I don't know if a chinese
also uses it but like the taiu is the the Japanese word for that uh but it's it's basically the
same thing YF says I can recommend you something really good for fluency let's see you better pay
attention sounds like advice but sounds for the past for me well it's it's it's talking about now
and for the future I think I'm repeating myself here because I got stuck on these comments here
uh I think the children good more than us let's
see kind of advice and tips let's see says jwy
you're awesome I'm sure you only can be a reason behind my fluency in future I request you please
make videos regularly uh you should get fluent for life that's like hundreds of videos that are
already the whole system is is right there waiting for you all right so you don't need to wait for
me to make anything new uh Manisha is from Nepal uh what's the differ you think between imply
and infer uh well imply typically means like it's coming fro
m someone like I imply something
by saying a particular thing like like let's say I think like yeah that shirt that shirt looks
a little bit tight around your stomach if I say that I'm implying you're fat all right uh but like
I the inferring is more what the other person does as they're like listening to that like the other
person infers from what I said that they're fat all right so I'm implying something and they are
inferring something so they are kind of trying to get some information
for me and I'm trying to
give some information all right that's a slight slight difference in there I I don't want to
spend a long time uh going over the difference but that's how you would think about that well and
Tom says a let's see and Zak says hi Drew do you have any books about how to become more fluent or
something like that you don't need any more books to become fluent you just need to eliminate the
doubt that stops you from speaking that's it uh and if you'd like to learn more ab
out that just
click on the link in the description below for fluent for life is said can you please tell me
what I can do bro please tell me what I can do about what uh Lou says you have to improve your
high frequency vocabulary I think well yeah I mean but it's like flu like high high fluent high high
frequency vocabulary uh is certainly very useful and we cover uh all of that in fluent for life
but it's also frequent vocabulary for particular situations and so you need to think about that
for your own life uh this is why people get to the program uh and they focus on specific things
like you need language for business you will also learn how to apply that same vocabulary to other
situations and even how to take other situations and apply that to business uh but the point
is you should be focusing on the frequently used vocab that you need for your life uh let's
see are these phrases bad to use if you want to sound professional no these aren't particularly
bad I mean the on
ly thing like nah nah that's that's a little less professional and you probably
shouldn't write that uh unless I mean but again it it could be a professional situation where you
have uh even a like a casual friendship like you have friends or co-workers and you speak with
them casually even at work all right so it's not like there's only one way of communicating for a
particular situation all right but in general uh yes like this this kind of vocabulary you can be
using this in a profession
al or a casual situation and the more examples you get so this is why it's
a good idea to pay attention to what other people are doing so we get our kind of Clues other people
will drop hints about the kind of vocabulary you can use all right so if you're in the workplace
you listen to people are speaking or how the boss speaks is the boss speaking more casually uh then
you can use that more casually as well will you drop a hint about what your next lesson will be
so drop a hint about what
the next lesson will be about so in that in that sense like we would
probably just say like what your next lesson will cover uh actually I don't know uh I don't know you
you tell me what would you like uh the next lesson to be about you tell me uh like uh uh all right
sir so many idioms in English and it's sometimes confusing yes uh it's not really necessary to
learn a lot of idioms you can actually become a fluent speaker just by learning a lot of basic
and simple vocabulary and that's rea
lly all you need to be able to speak but this video is just
an example of how to extend that I know a lot of people are interested in learning more vocabulary
even though I tell them hey it's much better to improve the vocabulary you already know but people
are always trying to learn new words and phrases all right Dan says teacher could you give us some
techniques uh or some tips in other understanding all Native English speaker please uh well that's
what we do in fluent for life so the th
e basic idea for understanding different native speakers
is you just need exposure to those different speakers so if you want to understand people from
like the southern part of the United States or New York accent or something you need to get exposure
to those different kinds of people that's how it works so that's there's no there's no getting
around that idea it's it's just what you have to do uh Roger says let me get this straight you're
saying if I focus on the words that I already kno
w I grow up my vocabulary yes so like right now
you're using something like I will grow up my vocabulary like so you're you're using those words
but you're not using them correctly I understand what you mean but like you would you would say
like you increase or just grow your vocabulary so it means that you you know the vocabulary but
you don't know it well enough that you you could you could actually review that vocabulary more
and you would feel more confident about using it because you'd
use it correctly all right so lots
of people if you look at the comments in these videos lots of people are explaining things but
it's not 100% correct most people have some kind of errors in what they're saying and that means
they have a question or doubt or something about that vocabulary and this is for the words even
that they already know so remember that you go through different phases as you learn so when you
first hear something you're getting exposed to it as you hear it more and
more you get more aware
about that you become like you can recognize that information or that vocabulary when you hear it
but maybe you still have some kind of uncertainty about it that's how you need to get uh basically
eliminating those doubts in order to move up to the fluent level for that particular vocabulary so
the the Trap that a lot of Learners get in is they they think they need to know more words to become
fluent but you don't become fluent by learning more words because why woul
d you become fluent by
learning more words uh if if you don't actually speak fluently with the vocabulary you already
know so as an example let's say I know 100 let me fit this in here somewhere my Canada example so
if I know 100 words for example but I still can't speak very well then why would 1,000 words help me
all right now remember I'm talking about knowing vocabulary uh really well like knowing it well
enough that you feel confident about speaking that you won't feel uh like worried
about mistakes and
pronunciation or grammar or something like that so adding more vocabulary doesn't actually help you
improve unless you're actually feeling fluent in that vocabulary and this is why most Learners many
Learners I would say uh they can they can continue to learn new vocabulary for years and years and
years so they watch lots of YouTube videos oh it's like here's 500 expressions or whatever here's
like a thousand expressions for you but you don't really uh actually improve un
less you improve the
fluency of that individual vocabulary okay so if I learn some words but I don't really understand
them well enough I'm wasting my time it's much better to learn a few things spend my time really
understanding them and then as I do that then the my my my fluency actually increases much faster
okay so you don't need to know more words to get fluent you actually need just one word to be
to really be fluent like let's say I need to like need to be get a a greeting to someon
e and
I say hello if I know how to say that correctly smoothly with good pronunciation I know how to
respond I don't have any doubt or any worry in my mind about saying it it's getting fluent in one
particular word or phrase at a time so I learn how to say hello and I understand when to say that I
can say it correctly confidently now I learn other words okay but I get fluent in these things and
I know it seems like this might take longer but think about people who study the language for man
y
years and still can't speak that's a long time of continuing to struggle and they think they need
to know more words if I just know more words I will be a better speaker but then they can't speak
all right and it's it's not because they they like don't know a lot of words it's it's they don't
know those words very well they still have doubts or worries about that and typically people are
learning English as a second language so they're learning English through their native language
and w
hen you do that then you really have lots of doubts and you're translating in your head when
you speak but if you look at how children learn they focus on a few things and they're getting
lots and lots and lots of examples okay and so they feel very confident that they will speak
correctly then they start speaking and then wow like that's how they get fluent very quickly all
right so you can do the exact same thing and you can actually get fluent faster than a native child
if you just get l
ots of input the same way a child does all right right but the goal really is to
eliminate the doubt it's not just to like put lots of English into your brain it's to eliminate
the doubt that you have about vocabulary grammar pronunciation all right I repeat this often
because it's the most important thing about language learning all right uh let's see that's
a good expression though let me get this straight good work uh let's see Juan says hi my first time
here I want to improve my English
welcome welcome welcome uh there's a lot of people who can speak
English like a native but if you ask them about grammar they get stuck why that's happened well a
lot of people can't explain what the grammar rules are because they're not they they understand how
the grammar rules work it's like using a toilet lots of people understand how to use a toilet
but they couldn't explain to you how the plumbing works you know same idea and so if a native
speaker recognizes how the how the rules wo
rk uh they just do it now naturally and automatically
but they can't tell you what a past participle is okay you know and so it like it it just shows you
that it's not necessary to know that information and typically when when natives uh if you ask a
native like why something is they probably won't be able to tell you the way a teacher would about
an explanation about grammar or something but if you say what does a word mean they will give you
just some examples of well when would we use it
we would use it in this example and this example
and this example and this is typically how natives are thinking about the language so they're not
thinking about rules they're thinking about what vocabulary do we use in what situation okay I
think I talked in last week's video about um what was that like the like present present perfect
tense uh and instead of talking explaining about it about it like as a rule you're more trying to
think about what is the situation we're describing so as
an example uh I can talk about myself
like I have short hair or I have two ears or I have green eyes uh I'm describing myself and
these are things you can see or I can talk about like my shirt I have a red shirt or something
um and I can also talk about the experiences I have so I have uh played baseball okay so like
playing baseball I can talk about the activity like I played baseball many years ago but I can
talk about that also as a part of who I am so I have played baseball I have that
thing all right
and so we we we can talk about this as like oh this is the the present perfect or whatever uh
but instead of talking about the grammar rules natives don't really think about that if you
ask a native what is the present perfect they probably can't tell you but they do know how
to use the present perfect correctly because they're just they're thinking about it as as like
vocabulary connected with situations not trying to memorize as rules all right so that's why you
will get
uh people who can't answer questions like that um I think May did I I thought I skipped over
a question asking about my dad if he's still alive while back and yes he is just to answer that
[Music] uh let's see about phrases or Advanced vocabulary oh you talking about like um like
videos what we' got plenty of those already Drew do you have Monsoon weather yeah we we do get
uh we have like a typhoon season we actually we kind of have like two of them here uh and it's
a little bit rainy now b
ut no typhoon but my friend dropped a hint that he will buy a Ferrari
this summer wow pretty cool all right idioms are so interesting many times yes there are lots of
interesting idioms and if you understand how they work then they're not really very complicated uh
yeah it can help if you feel confident yes you'd say it can help not it can helps it can help and
so here that's an example of like this is basic uh subject verb agreement but it's still incorrect
which means that you're still no
t understanding or you're probably not feeling very confident about
that and I don't want to make anyone feel bad like I'm singling you out like oh no there's an error
in your grammar or pronunciation or whatever just by looking at comments um but I'm trying to help
people remind them that look like you're using basic things incorrectly so why would you try to
learn more difficult things focus on the things that you still don't understand that you're not
using correctly really understand th
em well and then all the the advanced stuff becomes very easy
after that uh it's finish your live stream well I'll be finishing uh soon Mino but your no problem
with pronunciation is that or my problem with pronunciation is that I get influenced by the way
different speakers pronounce certain words I can't really stick to one particular way this gives me a
headache and I end up stuttering get get Frederick just click on the link in the description below
this video get that and it will teach
you how to do it you can listen to me pronounce uh thousands
of words and and learn how to pronounce them uh do you know what take a rain check means yes it
just means do something later a rain check so the uh like and here's a perfect example of like an
English lesson so a typical lesson either you get a definition of something or you get a translation
of that so the student asks what is a rain check and I say oh it just means to do something later
now if I stop the lesson right there the
n you probably will like okay I I guess I understand
but I haven't really eliminated the doubt so let me give you a little bit of History a little bit
of story this is the fluency trigger that helps you understand the vocabulary so you eliminate
the doubt so the idea for this comes from people maybe you go to a baseball game or something like
that uh but if there's rain then the game gets it's cancelled and you get a little check like
a little ticket to come back for another day so you get
a rain check uh for another game you can
come back and watch it for free later so that's where the idea of a rain check comes from uh but
when you understand that then we can apply that to other things like my uh doctor's appointment or
something well I can't come uh this weekend but uh let me take a rain check all right so it means
let me come back let me apply that to a different time okay so that's the difference between just
getting like a quick regular English as a second language less
on versus getting a fluency trigger
that helps you understand something hopefully that makes sense but the point is uh if I can help
you eliminate the doubt and really understand something then you will feel much more confident
about speaking uh all right it's 308 for me huh well hopefully get some sleep over there do you
think that exams like Toof will really measure the level of English uh well they measure your ability
to take the test I'm sure I mean you have to be able to speak a littl
e bit especially if they have
a speaking test like a speaking part of the test but uh the way people speak in those tests is
going to be different from how people speak in a regular conversation so the only thing that can
really test you is how you are in the real world so if I go to a Japanese class and I sit and I
study and I listen to the textbook and examples and things like that it will be a very different
situation than uh how I am in the real world so if I can't really understand peo
ple in the real world
then it like you see there's there's that that disconnect between the lesson and the real world
and this is what I'm I'm showing you with this uh lesson today so that's why we're contrasting how
a textbook might present the English and how the native language would express it uh more lessons
like this one where textbook language altered into the Casual one good job yeah uh again we we do
this in fluent for life as well but yeah it's I do this sometimes in email lessons
also uh
you can advice your friend giving a wife yeah so you can uh you can recommend to your friend we
wouldn't say you can advice you could say you can give advice or you can advise advise your friend
uh like advise your friend that he should give his wife a watch I have around 500 words or more but
I can't use it okay then go back and review what you know Zak says Drew how many hours per day
to practice listening to have real Improvement to understand English natives uh well if it
depe
nds on what you're listening to if you're listening to real examples of native speakers
and you understand what you're learning then you will improve really quickly but if you're just
listening to traditional test prep information or textbook English that kind of thing it will take a
lot longer uh but you again you you improve uh in individual words and phrases as you understand
them better uh Dana says teacher I would like you to make an English class where the students
can react speaking
with you uh i' I've done that occasionally but it's not really necessary for
you to speak with me it's more important that you understand what you're listening to uh and you can
still ask uh ask questions if you have them here lowbudget stuff says do you think the best way
learning English on YouTube is stop watching how to learn English type videos well there obviously
there's there's a there's value in getting lessons where you're it's like a controlled environment
where you're understand
ing things but you also have to add to that more information and more
real examples of natives speaking so this is why we created fluent for life so we want to have
like me being able to explain things well because I'm good at that but also you get to see how
native speakers are actually communicating so we're taking like all of the fluency triggers
you need to really understand the language and then you get to hear lots of different examples
of native speakers with different accents from d
ifferent countries and you get to see them
actually speaking so whether you're in the program or not this is what you have to do and you
can do this by yourself on YouTube it's just more difficult without having someone there to explain
it so like if I were trying to learn by myself and I'm not in a program or something and really for
me uh this is how I have to learn Japanese because I'm not aware of anybody who teaches English or
teaches Japanese the way I teach English um but it's more a
bout like uh instead of me looking for
uh like Japanese lessons for English speakers I'm looking at like Japanese content for children
or Japanese content for teenagers or Japanese content for adults so I I listen to content or
watch TV shows or whatever that are for native speakers or I I sit in a park or something and
I listen to people talk so just getting actual input from actual native speaker so I don't I
don't have like a program like I created for people I have to structure that for
myself so it
can be frustrating and difficult because I don't have people to explain something I can't listen
to Somebody's conversation and I and I interrupt them and say oh excuse me I'm listening to your
conversation right now what did you mean by that uh but I can maybe take something and I'll write
it down or something like oh that's an interesting word and that's how I'm teaching myself Japanese
um so it is possible to do that so you should uh like find some information on YouTube li
ke learn
about that thing but spend more time with just the actual native content about that thing whatever
that is so I I made a video about how to make espresso in English and it gives four different
examples of other native speakers talking about making espresso and so you can hear how different
natives talk about that and each time you're you're getting a new uh like a new perspective
on the vocabulary that helps you understand it so some of the vocabulary is used again and again
other
things will be new but as you as you keep getting all this you're you're kind of improving
your fluency in layers uh and so that's how you would do it so you don't have to stop watching
people but I would watch uh like get maybe a few lessons and then try to use that information about
something so if you watch a video like if I have a video about I don't know getting like if I talk
about the word get or something like that like you can actually find YouTube videos that are talking
about ge
tting a present or getting something for your birthday or whatever and then you will hear
people use that word get and as you learn that your brain will be paying attention for these
specific words that you hear in conversations so people like and this is why this is exactly
why we structure fluid for life the way it is so each lesson set is focusing on a particular
grammar point so that your mind is getting lots and lots and lots of review of that thing in
different ways all right so you d
on't need to spend time practicing speaking uh you don't need
to watch a lot of lessons but you do need all all that input that really helps you understand the
language better all right um let's see all right that really triggered glad to hear it all right uh
thank you very much for the great way of teaching it's my pleasure let's play now take a rain check
to your study yes thank you drew the lesson helped me glad to hear it sir where are you from I'm from
Chicago in the United States grow
up is different from increase I got my mistake there I better
use increase next time well you can remember like you can grow something like I'm just like growing
growing something like there there's a difference between and again this is the whole point of
really focusing on vocabulary because as you you realize you don't know it very well and that's
not a bad thing it's more like wow there's so much more I can learn about that so let's look at the
word grow for a minute because you did a
good job recognizing an error and you want to improve so I
want to encourage that uh I'm going to erase some of this over here again if you would like to look
at both versions of the conversation just go in the comment section below this video you can see
the uh kind of pre version or the um uh like the textbook version and the native version all right
so let's look at just very very simply if we have a word like grow versus growing up like anything
that grows it can it can increase in size
but we can have like increase in size or we could have
increase in number so when we talk about growing a vocabulary we're talking about increasing the
number of it all right but when we're talking about something growing up typically growing up is
talking about increasing in size so if we want to talk about like a child growing up over time it's
like think about a plant that's getting bigger all right it's actually increasing in size it's
not increasing in number it's increasing in size a
nd so this is where we talk about growing
up and so as you focus on a word like this and you get different examples that help you
compare okay so grow up like I wouldn't grow up my vocabulary because I'm I'm not I'm not like
making my vocabulary larger I mean I am but I'm like we're we're talking about the number of words
that I know all right so it's not like increasing like the size of an animal or a plant or a child
or whatever that's where something would grow up or you can think about
like a city getting bigger
over time like the city is growing up all right so something uh we can typically just use grow by
itself or if you want to use the phrasal verb grow up we're talking about the size difference rather
than the number all right and so as you get these different examples you feel feel in your mind
like ah now I got it okay now I got it that's what we're looking for all right so I'm growing
in size rather than growing in number all right how we doing for a time over he
re 11:30 oh my
goodness all right we're going to wrap this up uh almost done but very good though very good
I could listen uh only to today uh what do you think about a't construction should people use
more intell sounding English uh watch the what was that video I did Nils you remember that we
were talking about a't like either either the previous video or the video before that I covered
eight watch those uh thank you for coming and explaining all that stuff yes it's my pleasure uh
it is
pointless to watch movies in English if you can't understand a lot of words uh I don't know
about pointless but it's certainly it will feel frustrating for you all right and so like it's
the the motiv ation you need the the psychology about um about how how you feel about learning
is really important and so if something is boring or frustrating for you it will become more
difficult for you so it won't be pointless but it will be difficult so if I don't know let's say I'm
learning Japanese a
nd I don't know a lot of a lot of characters if I try to read a novel in Japanese
I'm it's going to be a very frustrating experience for me because I will look at this character
I don't know what it means I know how to like look it up in a dictionary but that's that's just
not a very enjoyable experience it's much better for me to read a comic or something like that for
kids that my level is appropriate for and so as I improve my level then I level up the content I'm
learning with like that
and that's how I improve so I'm not trying to learn uh like Japanese novels
or whatever because it would just be too difficult for my level of reading uh is okay that works for
me I hope you will correct me if I make mistakes well you could you could communicate the same
thing when you're writing as well uh yes you don't need to use ink uh but yeah you it's again there's
some things it's important for you to understand the vocabulary like a't if you watch movies and
there are people using
slang or something like that in it but you don't necessarily need to use
that same vocabulary uh renan says oh no I didn't get any notification about the live stream going
to watch it later from the beginning sorry to hear that I don't know how YouTube notifies people or
not uh but yes we always make the videos available so people can watch them again uh zakara says
when I read some book with difficult sentences how to fix that well try to not read difficult
books or you know go go to somet
hing where you understand at least 80 to 90% of that information
already that way it's much easier to learn new information in the context and you don't need to
have a dictionary or something like that to learn with uh thank you drew I hope you will be back
soon yes so I don't have a a a video idea yet for Thursday but I should have um something by then I
guess let's see W says my idea doesn't grow up yet yes well if you're talking about like an idea
growing up as a similar kind of idea all
right thank you this actually a huge live stream glad to
hear it if you know other people who would enjoy this do recommend the stream yes for some reason
YouTube doesn't like like recommend the channel or whatever I think I think I'm guessing I don't
know this for sure but I like years ago I turned off advertising on my channel so I don't get
like advertising Revenue like I get like a very very tiny amount from YouTube but you'll notice if
you watch my videos there's no advertising before
that so I don't know if YouTube uh doesn't show my
videos because of that or not like some videos it does but other videos it doesn't but I don't know
so anyway um but I don't I don't have monetization on uh on the YouTube channel so I don't know
if that like hurts my uh I don't know then like showing the channel uh but yeah so if you know
other people who would like it then please share it g says hi Drew you are a you're very teacher
maybe mean very good I guess I realize that we can lear
n a language uh that we can learn
a language by listening and understanding vocabulary yes that's the whole point that's how
you learned your native language all right so the what what I'm doing to help you learn English is
how you learned your native language all right uh wherever I behind you you would say I behind you
for your name uh I've watched some of your videos I have to say you definitely teach English very
well glad to hear uh bega says my ability to speak more spontaneously has
increased like five times
since I started watching you well fantastic again if you know other people who would enjoy that
recommend they watch the channel uh zakar says I want to learn linking words uh we'll search
our channel for that or just search YouTube in general I'm sure you'll find lots of videos uh
but I'm going to lose my voice again if I keep speaking but hopefully you all have enjoyed this
if you have remember the main goal of this video is just to help you feel more certain abo
ut
vocabulary and explain that there really are different kinds of English the kinds of English
uh that you get get in the classroom it's useful and it is good to know that but again it's just
a different thing it's like a different language than how natives really speak so you really need
to get more examples this is the kind of stuff we do in fluent for life so if you'd like to learn
more get the whole system that we have for getting people fluent you can click on the link in the
descrip
tion below this video and Frederick as well for improving your pronunciation listening
and spelling all right uh last uh questions over here was it says first time to cat you live
I came late but next time I will well again watch the videos anytime you like knowing says
thank you so much for your lessons I think you should add some ads N I don't want to have ads on
the videos I it's I don't I don't like watching ads on the videos and I don't want to make people
watch ads so like the only wa
y I earn money is if people join my program all right let's see why do
you turn off advertising when you can make money because it's it it ruins a learning experience
it's frustrating for people to to have that uh so like the the typical way people make money
on YouTube especially like teaching English or whatever is like they just they need to get you
to watch the video so they can get advertising Revenue um and so like the video doesn't need
to be very good it doesn't really need to help
you learn it just needs to get you to click onto
the video uh but for me like I actually have to help you speak uh or I don't get paid so that's
more of it's like a personal thing for me for for teaching and like like I don't I don't want
to waste your time with watching other content I know not everybody can join my programs which is
fine but for the people who do uh thank you to all those people because those are the people who
really support what we do uh but yes that's why I don't have
ads on my videos so enjoy all the the
adree videos uh uh Ellen says this is my first time joining I want let's see I don't know what's
that I want to teach my students to read fluently I'm Bismark from Gunner oh you should get get uh
Frederick click on the link uh below this video and that will teach them how to read they can
teach themselves uh do you think it's better to talk with some grammar mistakes or it's better
to think more before talking I think it's it's a it's a personal decisio
n for you some people
don't mind making mistakes uh and if you don't like you can you can kind of push yourself to
do that uh but a lot of people do mind making mistakes and so if you want to speak correctly
and uh and you worry about making mistakes then I would spend more time really understanding the
vocabulary all right so it's up to you personally for me like I don't mind making mistakes but I'd
rather not make them so like I I I I really want to like learn something and really underst
and it
well first uh the thing that you turned off ad says a lot about you well it says like I'm I'm
kind of consistent I don't like watching ads either I understand that's that's like kind of
part of how the process works but I think more people would be better teachers if they turned
off ads because then they really have to show that they can teach well uh but again it's just
it's it's just a different it's a different model you know uh do you think it's a good idea to
learn the short st
ories and remember them if well yeah like any any it doesn't matter like
what you're using to learn the point is do you feel certain about that information or not all
right so you should be learning something and you should actually feel oh I get it now now I
understand what something means uh and now I feel confident about using it so it doesn't matter if
you're using stories or podcasts or whatever like do you understand the information and are you
getting lots of examples from different
people so like lots of short stories or whatever uh is
a good example of something to do but there are many is this the end of the lesson yes it is but
thank you for joining me uh I don't know yet what I will be talking about uh in the next video but
it should be this Thursday if I'm not here it's either because I'm sick or dead or something
I don't know uh so I apologize if I don't uh notify everybody but YouTube doesn't even notify
people if I am here I don't know why that is but uh but y
es but thank you all for joining me I
hope you have enjoyed it if you have do click the like button and do recommend the channel
to anybody else uh that will help us grow so we're not growing up the channel we are growing
the channel we are increasing the size of it to grow it up to grow the channel all right have a
fantastic day and I will see you in the next video bye-bye
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I missed it live, but I'm watching it now. Thanks Drew!
hi my deasr teach. how are you sir, i am really happy to listen you From Turkey your online student regards Moh.Zahir Muratoglu- Istanbul
As usual, a great lesson!.thaks a lot.
what i also like about your videos , is that you make them long .Our ear can adjust to your accent and it keep sounding in my head later . Of course , i will never be able to imitate it , but it's extremely helpful in mastering the language in pronunciation and intonation aspects besides grammar and vocabulary you teach us your remarkable way .And when you laugh ...well this is one more special thing your lives are worthy watching ,lol Best wishes from Russia .
very good lesson. thanks drew. maybe a horse as birthday present? 😊
Woow, good teacher
Thanks❤
Ah oh no i missed your Episode 😢
Why don’t you give her some flowers
Can you suggest me something