Get Stuck When Speaking English? How To Connect Words For Fluent Sentences

think we're good let's see erase this over here we should be live I think so all right this should be a fun video I am Drew Badger the founder of englishanyone.com  and in this video we're going to talk about how to make fluent sentences well let's see we got  somebody uh oh I'm the first nice Phil all right everybody is uh starting to starting to funnel in  to file in uh so today this is a big problem for Learners it's really the fundamental problem of  communication and that's why I wanted to

make a video about this specifically so it's great to  learn new vocabulary but if you can't actually put everything together uh in your sentences then  you're really you know you're obviously not going to get anywhere you'll be wasting your time so  nice to see everybody here uh as usual I will get right to the lesson at the beginning and  then I will stay around and answer questions if anybody has a name so we're going to talk about  uh brought actually I made something for you guys look at th

is it's a little origami boat hello well  hi from hell somebody somebody's watching this in hell oh my goodness I didn't know they had Wi-Fi  down in hell but I guess I guess everybody's uh everybody's enjoying themselves all right so we're  going to use this origami boat uh but the basic idea of what we're going to talk about today  is that you really have to have uh the actual individual pieces uh of communication so these  are like your words and phrases and just like a chain we're going to d

raw a very simple chain  here it's not a very good chain but basically maybe you have some similar expression in  your native language where the chain I'll write this down so the chain or I'll just say a  chain because it's really any chain so a chain does everyone know this expression or maybe you've  heard this before well it's 4am oh my goodness so a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link a chain is only as strong as its weakest link  a chain is only as strong as its weakest link who ha

s heard that before maybe you've heard me talk  about that if you've been following my channel for a while this is the same idea that applies  to all of your communication skills so as an example maybe you you know a lot of vocabulary  but you feel very shy so if the weak Link in your communication chain is shyness then that's  going to be the biggest thing that's stopping you from communicating okay so a chain is only  as strong as its weakest link and the idea here is for sentences as well so

if we've got words  we're connecting different words together in a sentence and if the words themselves are not very  strong then the whole sentence will be weak so it only takes one word to break the chain okay does  everyone make sense or is that making sense to everyone so a chain is only as strong as its  weakest link so what I'm going to show you in this video I really want to prove that fluency is  built word by word as you understand vocabulary very well I want to make this idea very clea

r  for people because people think they need to go after like the whole language when really they  should be really mastering individual words and phrases and grammar is part of this as well but  when you do this you automatically improve your grammar your pronunciation your listening  all these all these skills will improve all right so let's take a look so I have my  my little boat with me and I thought that would be a good way to teach you some very  useful vocabulary so we're going to do tha

t first and then we'll talk about putting those  things together in a sentence in just a moment all right so I made my origami boat this  morning especially for you guys I had to learn how to make this and of course uh just  go online and learn how to make a little bit a little boat but what I'm going to do is  use this boat to teach you some very useful vocabulary so let's get started so the first one  the first vocabulary we're going to practice you probably see me use this before it's a commo

n  example I use and this is the phrasal verb to go under to go under so imagine you have a boat right  here and this is you can imagine my hand is the surface of the water and the boat is moving like  this and oh no something happens maybe it gets hit by lightning or something but oh no now the  boat is going under the surface of the water so the boat is sinking okay it's pretty pretty easy  a pretty easy concept to understand so right now we are above the water now we are going under  to go un

der when you go under so it's the same thing like if you're going underground or you're  going uh under you know like under a blanket or something like that to go under to move so if we  have a an object here we're going to go from here Down Under that thing to go under all right  so very simple phrasal verb to go under now if we take a physical idea like this to go  under we can also use the more figurative idea of like a company going under in the  same way so a company you might have the prof

itability of a company let's say a company  is making money so a company is making money and then suddenly oh no it's not making money and if  it hits if it passes this line here just like a boat oh no it's going under so just like a boat  going under something like that it's actually going under this line going into bankruptcy so if  we talk about a company going under so a company going under what we mean is it's going  really below this line so it's not making money anymore and it's actually

becoming uh you  know basically it's going to go bankrupt okay all right any questions about that I really want  to make sure everybody understands this to go under it's pretty simple idea uh and I thought  again this boat would help you understand that all right any questions about that I really want  to make sure you understand this because again if you don't understand even the basic pieces of a  sentence then of course you're not going to make fluent sentences okay so here we have to go unde

r  and then a company is going under in the same way doesn't look like any questions about that so  let's move on to a little phrase number two all right so this next phrase it's a little bit more  complicated but it's same basic idea all right So Undercover yes it's the same way again like when  you talk about being Undercover the same idea all right so going under we'll put that phrase up  here I'll leave that in the next phrase is to be in the same boat to be in the same boat so we got one pe

rson  sitting over here another person sitting over here on the same boat what do you suppose that  means what does it mean to be in the same boat to be in the same boat all right now we could  use uh you know there could be an expression like a car to be in the same car to be on the  same train or something but the reason we use to be on the same boat is because a boat is really  just floating by itself out in the water like this and whatever happens to one person is going to  happen to the oth

er person all right or it could be many people on the same boat yeah so Mohammed  says to be in the same situation but I really want to make so very good that's correct and I want  to make sure people understand why that is all right the goal is not just to learn the the folk  like the vocabulary and then the definition of it is to understand why we use this okay so the  history the origin of the word why do we have this so you can imagine you know two guys or two  women or whatever or two peopl

e sitting on a boat and now there's a hole in the boat oh no so they  are in the same situation it doesn't matter who the person is they are both in the same situation  they are in the same boat so this is why we don't use uh to be in the same car like I don't see  how I'm in the same car as you because we just get out of the car and walk away but with a boat  you're surrounded by water there's nowhere to go you're stuck you're in the same boat you're in the  same situation so you all have to wo

rk together to do something all right so whatever happens to the  boat will happen to everyone if the boat is going under everybody okay yes the same character guys  that's right we'll put a put some hair on this guy over here all right so they're in the same  situation and this is the physical idea of where this comes from but I want to make it clear why  we say you're in the same boat and not on the same train or on the same whatever all right it makes  sense all right glad to hear it now we b

egin again just like going under we have a physical idea of  the origin of this something is physically going under something else and then we start using  more figurative uses and we start coming up with different ways to use the vocabulary in  a more figurative way so we have to go under then to be in the same boat so what times  might we use this expression it's not just for physically being in a boat when else might you  be in the same boat as someone else all right so remember we're thinkin

g about it not just from  a physical okay here are two people or three people or ten people in an actual boat we're  talking about a situation so when else might we have a group of people working together  to do something just give me a comment let me know what other situations might we use this  phrase in to be in the same boat all right I'll give you a few hopefully you can come up with  a few more you might be on a team together you might be in a class can you think of any more love your pron

unciation  glad to hear it yes I am being intentionally clear and smooth so people can understand what I  say so you could be on a team together so everyone on the team wins or loses at the same  time everyone in the class maybe they all have to do something together a family a business  excellent family we'll just put biz for short financial situation yeah for sure  so if you have a group of some kind and it might even just be two people a project  are you speaking about a company that closes f

or financial reasons for example yep to  be in the same boat yes again it doesn't mean it's not necessarily negative it just  means that you're in the same situation so let's say my daughter is going to college next  year and I meet another guy just like out at a grocery store and we start talking about our kids  and he says oh my daughter is going to college I say oh we are in the same boat we're in the same  boat it just means we we have the same situation okay so it's nothing about being nega

tive or  money specifically or business it just means you have the same situation as someone else all  right so it's not only negative things often we will talk about as like again as I just said when  I'm doing something similar to someone else and this is a great phrase maybe you discover this  when you're meeting somebody and like oh like I'm also moving to a new city I'm in the same boat  or we are in the same boat or you can be talking about someone else so maybe I'm talking about  my kids

my younger daughter just started school and she's maybe feeling a little bit nervous oh  you also know someone else who is uh you know starting starting school and maybe they feel a  little bit nervous too uh they are in the same boat they are in the same boat okay everyone  getting all these should be pretty clear let's see what we got with uh with the chat over here  like a movie scene yep a political decision yep very good so in workplaces family business  yeah so all those are great examples

and the point is again it could be a team it  could be a group of people or it could be just you know two people that meet and they happen  to be doing the same thing okay I really want to make it clear that we're all in the same boat  here so you are trying to improve your language skills that's very good I'm trying to improve  my language skills too we are in the same boat we are in the same boat yes another good example  another similar thing is to be on the saying page now as you begin gett

ing more and more  fluent and learning things you will hear other again we have a situation so  the situation is at least two people are doing the same thing and look at that we  have many different ways of expressing that so the situation is I'm doing something oh you're  doing the same thing well we are on the same page we are in the same boat now typically uh on the  same or in the same boat this is really talking about a situation to be on the same page is is is  almost more specifically abo

ut do we agree about something or are we understanding each other about  something so let's say right now I'm explaining something about vocabulary and I want to make  sure you're listening and paying attention and understanding what I'm saying so oh are we are we  on the same page are we on the same page so just like a page in the book or a page in a book so we  are both reading a book I want to make sure we are reading from the same page reading from the same  page or reading the same page of

the book okay so it's very similar a little bit different  again uh on the same page again similar to being in the same boat but you'll hear both  of these quite frequently there is another example uh like reading and this is another  similar one about people having the same idea and you will probably hear variations  of this as well this is to read from the same to read from the same hymn sheet does  anyone know what that is what is a hem sheet to read from the same hymn sheet to read  from the

same hymn sheet it's basically the same meaning as to be on the same page  it's just a more specific usage from like leading of reading hymns so these are songs  that you would sing in church A Hymn A Hymn so people are reading from the same hymn sheet  or they are singing from the same hymn sheet it just means again they are on the same page  they are on the same on the same wavelength to be on the same wavelength as someone all  right so if I'm here I'm on this wavelength but you're on some o

ther one over here we're  not maybe we're not aligned somehow there's something wrong with the way we are we are  seeing or we disagree about something but if we are on the same wavelength well  we agree everything is going smoothly okay yes so you will hear most of these things  these are the as you go deeper into the language and you are paying attention for the kinds of  things natives say in situations so remember we begin with a situation and then these are the  kinds of phrases that native

s will use all right but notice what I'm doing here I'm I'm staying  on one particular topic one particular idea and really helping you understand that thing so  trying to teach a lot of different phrases explain why they work where they come from so  you can imagine like again on the same wavelength so we are on the same wavelength or we are reading  from the same hymn sheet all right we share the same opinion yes so that is when when native  speakers are trying to be more figurative or say som

ething a little bit maybe fancier or poetic  or more interesting this is what we would say uh we we are on the same wavelength we are  on the same wavelength all right so these specifically like to be on the same wavelength  or to be reading from the same hymn sheet or to be on the same page those really mean we agree  about something or we understand each other to be in the same boat is a bit more broad uh where  we're talking about some situation we're both in so I might not like agree about s

omething but  we're in the same situation often you will have people in the same boat who do disagree so  imagine we have a company so obviously it's not a physical boat but we have a company and we have  a couple of different people on that boat [Music] and each one of them is disagreeing with  the other but they're all in the same boat so they have to figure out a  solution to their problem or they're all screwed they're all  going to have a problem okay so remember like these people might not

be on the  same page they might not be on the same wavelength they might not be on the same or reading from the  same hymn sheet so if you imagine like some people in church singing they have their like the music  that they're reading for for that church service okay yes Julian so now we are on the  same page we understand each other okay yeah so remember when you learn these  things you will you will notice the subtle slight differences between these different expressions  and the the way to u

nderstand them is to really pay attention to the situation and then what  people are saying for that situation okay so remember we can be on the same boat and  still disagree often this is what happens let's say we all like uh maybe 10 of us want to  get uh I don't know we want to get some pizza we are hungry and we want to order a pizza  okay how do we what kind of pizza do we get so we are all in the same boat we are hungry we  all want something to eat and the only thing to eat is pizza but w

e might not be on the  same page about what kind of pizza to get okay does that make sense pretty easy so we have  a couple of different things maybe I want cheese maybe you want pepperoni maybe someone else wants  sausage so just like all the different people in a company or in a group you're going to have some  different agreements they might not all be on the same page on the same wavelength reading from the  same hymn sheet okay so again I'm repeating myself I'm going over these again and ag

ain because  I really want you to understand the vocabulary remember that if we want to use these things  in sentences so a sentence is a chain of words that's it it's just a chain of words and so  if we can't use any of these individual words correctly then of course we're going  to struggle to make fluent sentences so we must be fluent in each individual thing  if we are going to learn something we focus on it until we really understand that thing  and we're going to do that by look at this al

l these different angles okay so if you have a  problem this specific problem with communication where you know a lot of words but you actually  can't connect them well in situations it's because you really don't know them as well as you think  you do it's because you don't spend enough time actually reviewing things and really understanding  them okay so often people will will try to learn something like they'll go to a website and and  okay here are here are some phrases I can learn but they d

on't really help you understand them  like a native and when you understand something like a native you know it well you understand  why we use that thing you've reviewed it a number of times you feel very confident about  that vocabulary so if you feel confident about each of the the pieces each of the links in this  chain then of course you're going to be able to connect the chain and communicate fluently all  right now for anyone joining us late this video is not specifically about blending w

ords together  this is actually about using words fluently so how do you create smooth speeches all right so it  could be smooth sentences or whole conversations but each one of these is built from the individual  pieces okay any questions about that so far so we've covered two words or two two phrases uh but  we're talking about being on the same wavelength reading from the same hymn sheet on the same  page and these are all really about agreement to agree about something we share the same  ide

a I want to do this oh you want to do that also well I guess we are on the same  wavelength we're on the same wavelength we're on the same page are we on the same page  is everyone on the same page about this way of learning does anyone disagree with this does  anyone disagree is anyone not on the same page all right so again this video is for people who  know a lot of words but they still can't express themselves fluently the reason this happens is  because you don't have the individual Links o

f the chain very strong so that's why in this  video I just want to cover this just teach you a few phrases and then because we've learned  them very well you'll be able to put them together in sentences or you can add these phrases to  other sentences that you already have okay so we'll cover that uh in just a second so the  first phrase we covered was anyone remember two go under and we take the the boat example of  a boat going under the water when you're alone okay so the boat is going on th

ere  oh no here's the boat ah it's in the it's in the it's in the frame right  now the frame of the camera and the so Julian uh is asking if  uh these are expressions for what is that uh for informal conversation no you  can use these for anything uh basically everything I teach can be used in business it can be used  in casual conversations so you can be on the same wavelength with like a romantic partner you could  be on the same wavelength with a business partner you could be on the same wave

length with a  friend and this is again like people people think there is specific business vocabulary but  the technical information or the technical terms that you might use in a business situation that's  a very small and not so important part of actual business communication business communication is  how can I communicate things in a simple and easy way and maybe sometimes I have to say something  a little bit more interesting but the important thing is that you will hear things like this i

n  business situations especially if you're dealing with native speakers people will be in business  and they will be using idioms or expressions or phrases that come from relationships or  war or sports or other things like that so I have like let's say one person I'm at  a company and a friend of mine has to give a presentation after me so I'm giving a presentation  first so I'm up to bat I'm up up too bad this is a phrase from baseball and I'm using it  in a business context a business settin

g so I'm up to bat it means I'm the one giving the speech  right now I'm the one I'm the the main event I'm the highlighted person I'm up to bat but my friend  who is next to me or he's coming up to speak after me so the person who is next on to backed or  next up to bat in a baseball game is on Deck foreign so you have the batter if you're watching  a baseball game and you listen to these phrases you will use these in business communication as  well lots of sports idioms and sports Expressions

especially from baseball or football because a lot  of these things are connected okay I don't want to get too distracted now we're talking about a  bunch of different things I really wanted to just stay focused on this but again the important Point  here is that we focus on something so you really understand that now before we go on to the next  phrase let me see if we have any questions over here all right looks like a bunch of questions  came up here good questions from everybody all right uh

it is also to put someone in my shoes  yes again another good expression like if you are uh putting like to be in the same shoes  as everyone else or as someone else usually this means uh you could be doing something that  someone else did but it's not at the same time okay so if you're talking about if you want to use  the Expression to be in someone else's shoes you could use this like to be in the same boat you  could say oh I was in the same boat last year I was in the same boat so if we ar

e actually both  of us are at the same time doing something ah okay now I'm in the same boat as you or if you just  you're you're this is about connecting with other people showing empathy uh and so when you are in  a conversation you're talking about someone else uh maybe doing something at a different time say  oh like I I was I was in the same boat last year so my daughter just graduated college and your  daughter is graduating college in in two years okay so who's in the same boat yeah so yo

u could  you could ask if you if like is any if I'm if I'm describing a situation right now uh I just moved  to a new city so if I'm giving a speech in front of a group of people like this I just moved  to a new city is anyone else in the same boat so I'm asking is anyone else having experiencing  the same situation right now is anyone else in the same boat okay so it doesn't need to be a bad  experience or a good experience it just means the same situation so I could also say I just got  fired

from my job is anyone else in the same boat I just got fired from my job as anyone else in the  same boat all right so that's a negative usage but we're still talking about people being in the same  boat and notice how that's a little bit different from being on the same wavelength so someone else  could be fired from their job just like me so we are both fired from our jobs we are both in the  same boat but maybe maybe we hate each other or whatever so we're not we we don't we don't we  don't h

ave like we're not reading from the same hymn sheet we're not on the same page we're not  on the same wavelength we're just in the same boat all right let's go back and answer some more  but very good lots and lots of people commenting here nice to see all right so yeah so people  understanding yes I'm in the same boat over here all right uh let's see business says I really need  to learn fluent English but most of my use case or in business situation pitching to investors Etc  does your course

include business English yes so number one fluent for life does include specific  topics that do have business related material so we talk about sales and marketing we talk about  money and investing uh accounting is in there uh small and small business a couple of different  things but it's important to remember that native speakers are using just like I explained uh Sports  idioms for talking about business relationship idioms for talking about business so it's not  just you don't like have a

course about business English that only teaches you technical vocabulary  because you're still communicating with people and this is the big mistake that most people even  native English speakers make when they're trying to learn business English so there was a uh there  was a guy who created an English course I think 100 years ago his name is Sherwin Cody and he  made a couple of different courses actually uh and he he created one for business specifically  for people learning business English

and this is the exact same lesson that he was teaching I  actually got that course just to see what he was teaching and he's teaching the same thing so a lot  of people they will use technical vocabulary or they will try to sound more like a corporate like  we regret to inform you that we have terminated you from so they're using that kind of vocabulary  but actual business communication is really done you're you're still speaking with people all right  so although we do cover specific business

topics we also make it clear in the program that look  here's a way you can use this same vocabulary for business here's the way you can use this for  talking about relationships okay and so what I'm doing when I'm teaching you this is is is to show  that we're we don't want to just learn vocabulary we want to understand the situation when people  would use that because this situation can happen in many different places I might have a situation  where I'm in the same situation like in the same b

oat in business in relationships ordering a pizza  getting stuck in the rain having my car break down there are lots of there are lots of reasons why  I might be in the same situation as someone else and I might want to use something like in the  same boat as a way to connect with that person so I could say oh look we we are  experiencing the same situation we are experiencing the same situation but it's  much more native and natural to say we're in the same boat we're in the same boat and so th

is is  something natives will understand because they've heard this so many times in their life from all  kinds of situations all right so don't don't draw a a very like a very I don't know strong line  between oh this is business English and this is casual English over here all right the real world  doesn't work like that all right good question though of course now we get I it moves my comment  space Google Google needs to change that so I can see where my actual comments were and I don't  hav

e to leave my finger up here for you guys all right uh uh I think we answered those all  right yeah so political political discussions as well same thing so we are on the same page is  it common yes very common uh so we are all on this so in the same boat trying to reach our fluency  goal yep that's a very good use very good use uh creciendo very good Emanuel says hey Andrew  nice to see you there Julian don't worry I'm in the same boat there we go is it wrong to be on  the same boat well we wou

ld we I mean you you could say that like technically you can be on a  boat or in a boat but the expression is really to be in the same boat if you're ever trying to learn  something like this and you're curious uh is it on or in I would just put those phrases into Google  so just type the whole phrase into Google and see which one gets more hits so if you if you type in  on the same boat or in the same boat you will get weight uh you should get more I haven't checked  but I'm guessing you would

get way more uh for in the same boat we're in the same boat although  you will have people uh like just talking about being on a boat because you are on a boat as well  really the idea of being in the same boat is is like you're you're kind of physically surrounded  by the boat so a larger boat like you like when you talk about like a like a cruise ship so a  cruise ship is like a pretty big thing so we would say oh I'm on the cruise ship right now just like  you would talk about being on a bus

or on a train but when you have a small boat like this the the  idea of the phrase is that okay we're we're really in a actually a tiny boat that maybe only two  or three people could fit in like a row boat and in that way there's a it's like a bowl that you  sit inside so that's where we get the expression okay all right let's see here all right so it's  the first time to hear that expression it says Muhammad yep well now you know it all right good  job Professor hi coach greetings from Nicarag

ua so in the same boat on the same page all right in the  same institution that's correct all right I like this guy he is so humble well you were too kind  I'm guessing you're talking about me uh I like the way you teach thanks a lot yeah so when people  talk about liking the way I teach what I'm really doing is just making the language understandable  so you can use it fluently when you understand the language like a native you start thinking like a  native and then you speak like a native as w

ell all right you are a great teacher I'm having a  problem to speak English you're a good teacher I like your courses glad you're Kevin says does it  matter whether you learn new vocabulary initially through translation or through the target language  as long as you get a lot of examples and a lot of review to my mind it doesn't matter whether they  use translations or understand it through the L2 because it's going to be forgotten anyways without  review to me the most important thing is getti

ng a lot of examples as you recommend uh yes I I mean  I don't I don't understand the point of teaching unless you're going to remember the vocabulary  so that would be the basic idea is that we should do everything we can to make the vocabulary  understandable and and memorable and so if you're just saying well here's a translation and  then maybe you get some examples maybe you forget it maybe you don't if you don't really care like  if you're trying to prepare for a test uh in that way you do

n't it doesn't really matter and maybe  they don't they don't actually need to use uh the vocabulary later so some people just want to get  vocabulary and learn it quickly and pass a test and maybe they don't care about using English at  all they just want to get a job or something and that's fine but if you want to actually speak you  you really should give yourself as many chances as you can to understand that vocabulary  all in English the reason most people will use translations in a class i

s because they're  not doing a good job of making the vocabulary understandable all right and when you do that then  you're making it more difficult for for students to remember what they say and that's again  one of the reasons that we have these problems so it's okay to use translations if you don't  care about communicating fluently but even yeah like I I don't I don't I don't use any  translations at all when I teach I might use like I'll give some examples in Japanese just to  just to show

what it's like for people who don't uh know Japanese and they can learn something and  see what it's like kind of to learn like a child again uh but all of the all the teaching I do is  helping people understand something in English and I would rather make it understandable in  English than try to give them a translation so a translation is kind of the easy simple quick thing  you can do but really I'm trying to help people build a network in their mind and the network is  what creates the fluen

cy all right read the rules to make sure we are on the same page yeah exactly  perfect usage of that I learn a lot from uses a manual some Vice repairing for IELTS essays I'm  on my way uh doing that yes I'm not an authority on IELTS I would look for teachers who are I'm  glad I've helped you and again anybody taking any kind of test will improve if they learn the  native way just like native speakers do I should actually take the IELTS and and see what it's  like I wonder how I would do uh but

again the the point is find someone who is an expert in the  particular test and get advice from that person uh let's see and let's see red Kit to be fluent  it is important that there are connections between the words in English in someone's brain we can  achieve it by seeing the words in a lot of context yes so this is the idea of naturally varied review  which is what we're doing today so I'm giving you vocabulary review really going over things  so if you notice like we've been talking for a

lmost 40 minutes in this video and in a regular  YouTube video you might cover I don't know like 20 different phrases and then you get a quick  definition and then that's it and then you just forget the thing that you learned so my goal here  is to really push this deep into your brain help you understand it to make another link strong for  you to use in your conversations okay that's why we do this so Jericho says my problem is that  even though I get all the Expressions I can't think of them d

irectly in real conversations  all right the question I would ask is do you really know the vocabulary as well as you think  you do so there's a difference remember I made that video a while back talking about uh getting  exposure to the language then awareness of the language and finally ownership I'm trying to make  it so easy to understand this that you really own the expression that you really understand it very  well so you can easily say to someone it just pops into your mind oh look we're

in the same situation  I'm here you're here we're both like we both were running for the bus and we both missed the bus  now we have to wait for the next bus so we are in the same boat we are in the same boat all  right when you know something so well you understand it you can really see it Ah that's  where the phrase comes from I understand why we use that expression you can imagine you know  two people in a boat way far out in the ocean and that's a you know it could be a good thing it  could

be a bad thing but whatever happens to the boat is happening to both of them so they are  in the same situation they're in the same boat and notice this is these are all basic words  in the same boat these are words that little kids would learn you know like my all my  daughters know all these all these words so even a four-year-old would know these  same expressions or they would they would learn this expression uh by by hearing natives  talking about that oh look here's the situation and here

's the vocabulary we use for that  we are in the same boat okay so everybody watching this video is in the same boat trying  to improve their fluency you're in the same boat all right so hopefully hopefully this makes sense  the whole point of this video is to say You must get fluent in these individual words and phrases  that's how you make fluent sentences we're going to show you a little bit about that later but I  just want to make this point very clear I'm going to say it again and again as

I usually do you get  fluent word by word if you learn something quickly and then forget it then of course you can't use  it fluently in conversations you will remember it maybe when you hear it I understand what that  word is but you won't recall it quickly and automatically and use it fluently in conversations  okay all right so all the phrases used on except for the boat we use in for that one yeah so  we're again like try try not to think about it and this is a really good uh I guess a good

  example here about thinking more like a native so a learner looks at these phrases  and it's like oh look like to be on the same wavelength or to be reading from or  to be on the same page but he said in the boat that's interesting and you're trying to  form a kind of pattern the way a student would but you really have to think about this  like a native speaker all right I don't have a all right I have like a piece of paper  towel over here we're going to use this like a napkin so imagine this

is a a sheet a  sheet of paper all right it's a page in a book so I'm looking at a physical thing and  when we have something like the writing is on the same page it's like physically on there  and so I might be like I can't really go inside the page the page is a flat object and you  can't go inside I can't be in the page but because I'm looking at this page it's like  I'm not on this page I'm on this one okay so pretty easy so we have to think about it  like a native and really from these ind

ividual situations uh we can be on the same page you're  on the same wavelength we don't really get in a wavelength you can think about yourself almost  like a roller coaster going on it's like oh I'm riding on the same wavelength okay so rather  than trying to imagine like this like we use on for this situation and on for that one  just try to think about it like a native that's the whole point the whole point of  what I do is trying to help you understand things like a native but that's why we

talk  about a small boat so the boat is like this it's like a cup and we have people kind of  you know they're sitting inside the boat so we're in the same boat all right but a larger  thing like a ship you know we talk about being on that thing I mean I suppose you could be inside  rather than standing on the top of it something like that but this is a way we think about  these expressions it's interesting because uh like riding on a bus let's imagine this is a bus  and not a cruise ship we do

n't talk about like being on the bus like we're sitting on the top  of it although maybe some people could do that I guess we still say oh I'm I'm riding on the bus  right now I'm riding on the bus I'm on the bus all right but even if natives use like oh I'm in  the bus right now even if a native said that what they mean is like they're kind of physically  inside the bus like they have not gotten off the bus but we typically talk about being  riding on a bus like that and rather than trying to m

emorize that just listen for lots  of examples when teachers or native speakers are talking about these things like when they're  writing a bus or riding a motorcycle so like I'm sitting on the motorcycle I don't I don't ride  in a motorcycle because I'm sitting on it it's like a like a bicycle so I'm riding on that thing  okay but rather than try to memorize rules look at examples and connect the situation with the  vocabulary and try to do it like a native speaker all right let's see here uh [

Music] uh okay all right I'm have to go  faster we have too many too many comments over here all right okay I think I got that all right  uh so watching so 103 watching and only 50 likes get the like up yes feel free to like the video  and share it with other people if you'd like to help out the channel and actually show more  people that it's possible to learn English like a native if they want to speak like one so  I'm scared to talk most part uh of the time at work because I'm afraid of makin

g mistakes and  not finding the word yeah so again this just means that you you don't know the vocabulary as  well as you think you do so if you're worried uh maybe I'll say the wrong word or I'll use the  incorrect pronunciation or something then it means you might know what you have an awareness level  of vocabulary but you don't own that vocabulary so you'll notice when you're talking about  something where you feel very confident about that even if it's in your native language when  you're c

onfident about something you speak about it easily because you know it so well but when  you don't feel confident like I can't I can't talk in a YouTube video about uh I don't know  how to make satellites or something like that I could probably learn how to do that and spend  some time researching but I could not do that right now how do you make a satellite and send  it into space I don't know how to do that so I can't speak confidently about that thing okay but  if you want to improve your not

only your fluency but your confidence the whole point of this video  is that you should be doing this with all of your vocabulary you should be trying to learn things  and when you really understand something you will feel it and that's where the confidence  comes from so you can speak but if you have a bunch of weak links in your chain then of course  you won't be able to use those things fluently all right let's see how can a deck did with  English I don't know what that means how many hours

should someone speak to be fluent as native  speakers uh it's really like it's really the wrong kind of question to ask it's more again like how  long does it take to get fluent in a phrase like to be in the same boat five minutes how long  does that take we've actually spent a lot of time covering additional things that people are  asking about but to learn something it's like oh look at that those people are sitting in the  same boat it's pretty easy to understand you know the vocabulary alrea

dy now we understand it  as one phrase oh look we are in the same boat we are in the same boat so it doesn't take long to  become fluent in this so what I'm saying is that you get fluent in each link in the chain and if  you are not fluent in something then that's what breaks the chain in a conversation so you could be  speaking fine and then oh no I I forgot a word or I don't I don't feel confident about pronunciation  or some other reason and that's what causes me to struggle to speak all righ

t Kamal says you are the  same as before I don't know if that's referring to me or someone else how from Iraq says Ali so him  she has to do with music yes so again A Hymn A Hymn is a like a church song like him saying the  words in their English context over and over here allows English words to be associated with each  other yes that's correct that's what we're doing here I'm notice what like the when you're talking  about associations this is what I mean by building a network in your mind of

all these different  things and how they connect to each other that's what allows you to speak fluently all right  so this allows English words to automatically call each other without the need for another language  yes exactly and remember you are doing this in your native language already this is what native  speakers are doing in their native language okay and this just means they've developed a network  they feel very confident about individual words and phrases and then they use them fluent

ly  they connect them together the connection becomes automatic and that's how they can speak  now what's interesting I've talked about this before is that sometimes native speakers like  let's say I'm writing I'm writing I don't know a letter or an email to someone but I forget how  to spell a word so I think oh no I'm not feeling confident about this word these other words are  fine I can spell them no problem but this word this link right here is not good so I can try to  look for the correct

pronunciation or spelling in that case if I'm writing something or I can just  use a different word that I'm more familiar with so a lot of native speakers will do this they're  writing something and they will forget a word or something and they will switch to something else  but it happens very quickly and most people don't think about it but a lot of English Learners they  actually get stuck thinking about individual words and phrases because they're really not knowing  them very well so that

's why I spend a lot of time telling people to get naturally varied reviews so  you want to be look at it we've spent 40 minutes 50 minutes talking about two two phrases to go  under and to be in the same boat now of course if we do this and I teach you the right way then you  will remember these things very well okay and even even with a good lesson it's always good to get  more review so tomorrow you would be hearing these things again but you will probably be recognizing  them maybe you watch

a movie and some characters say oh look we're in the same boat we're in the  same boat so we are facing the same situation yeah yes that's correct do you believe this method I do  believe this method works too uh uh I just wonder how long it will take for me to get fluency  I need yeah so you have two choices the first choice is to learn like a native speaker and you  will get fluent much faster the second choice is to continue learning like a student and you will  probably not reach fluency so

as it's basically like either you understand like a native so you  understand like a fluent speaker or you do not so that's basically the the the choice that you  make now it seems like you would be uh learning faster by just getting translations so if you're  just trying to put more words into your head as quickly as possible then just get translations of  those words the problem is you won't be able to use them fluently so it doesn't help you to learn  a bunch of words if you will just forget

them this is why we do this so at the beginning of the  process like if I'm taking two people and I start teaching them today but I'm going to teach them  differently the first person I'm going to teach them like this the second person I'm going  to teach them hey here's a sheet of 100 words I want you to just memorize those words and hear  translations at the end of day one one person will know like the first person will know maybe like  two or three words and expressions and the second person

will know 100. so it seems like I should  be using translations but the next day I'm going to teach a few more and they don't forget those  the the phrases they learned on the first date so they're continuing to learn more phrases and they  don't forget but the second person they will have forgotten uh all of the phrases or most of them  really by the second date and so they're just wasting their time they're like they're running  in circles and that's why they don't get anywhere so this notice

like all the things that I'm doing  here if you really pay attention I'm giving you different ways of expressing things for particular  situations we're really trying to understand what they mean so you think about them like a native  and then because we have reviewed them so many times they will just come out naturally that's the  goal so uh I I have not found a a more effective way to learn a language than this and if there was  then native speakers would probably be using it like the native

speaker is the is like you  know the the the standard the benchmark now this this method actually can get you fluent  faster than native speakers get fluent because if you think about a child learning they're spending  a lot of time listening and often the lessons are not very good so the lessons are not systematic  and most parents are not being very systematic about how they teach so they're not like okay  let's focus on this word today and we're going to really help you understand that thing

very  well they just maybe say something and the child is listening the child is really working hard  trying to understand different words and phrases all right but if you learn this way the whole  point is to learn as quickly as possible to learn it systematically so you remember it and  use it fluently we want to make each chain link so each chain link each individual Link in the  chain we want to make those all strong so you can use them fluently all right let's see here  if we have uh so I h

ave a problem did I let's see all right all right so Ray kit again translation  allows a word to automatically call up a foreign word but we don't talk like that English words  need to call up yet so the whole point is yes so if you're thinking if you learn through  translations you will think about translations when you speak that's correct all right so I have  a problem with uh with that when I'm writing an email at work uh and I write in English and  then translate into Spanish just to make s

ure it makes sense uh I know that I don't know how  to stop doing it yeah it just means spend more time with the language as a native with learning  that's it so that's what I'm doing here so this this video this whole video we're doing here  together this is an example of how you should be learning we want to take we've taken two  phrases so we have to go under it's just one Link in the chain of the vocabulary you know  uh and then we have like to be in the same boat so each one of these this i

s a chain  link this is a chain link right here and as you get fluent you will use  those more naturally in conversations so this is what we do in fluent for life where  we're giving you uh vocabulary helping you understand it like a native but you're seeing  that again and again in many different ways all right uh it's me the learner my name is  Hamad by the way okay uh perhaps uh preposition I don't know what that if that's referring  to something Helen says I'm in a serious situation here in

the past I didn't focus on  the grammar structure and I was not and I was not stuck I could get my message across now I'm  studying grammar for a test and I feel confused yes so if you're if you're depending on how you  learn I don't know enough about your situation Helen uh but if you're learning grammar like  a native speaker so like we're you're learning grammar you notice there's grammar in this so you  can't really separate vocabulary from grammar if you have two words together that's gramm

ar it just  means the rules of how you connect the vocabulary so often if you're learning it like a native does  you come to understand it over time by connecting it with situations it's like look they're in  the same boat they are in the same boat that's grammar we're talking about the preposition of  where somebody is but without me giving you like a textbook lesson about prepositions I can just  show you look at that like here's here's a boat so here they're under under the boat all right  no

w they're in the boat now they're next to the boat and this is what you do with little kids  when you're teaching them their native language so you don't explain what a preposition is you  just show them the words and help them understand from the situation that's what this little circle  is up here it's a situation all right good evening teacher I just entered in the classroom glad to  hear it yeah I try not to think about this as a classroom I know there's a board up here but just  so I can wr

ite things I actually have a I have whiteboard wallpaper in my house so I can write  on my wall and my kids like I'll teach them things like this too but it's not like a classroom it's  just oh look at it let's let's write something or show you how it works like a native but even a  simple translation of four languages still has words that do not fit or do not make sense to  add a meaningless reason without a function in the English sentence really yes so again another  good reason not to use tr

anslations all right so hopefully everybody watching this video is on the  same page hopefully you are reading from the same hymn sheet about how you should be learning  all right people come to my channel because they want to learn like a native rather than  just get a bunch of vocabulary and forget it all right greetings from the Yokohama yoroshiku  says beautiful day out here yes it's pretty nice in Nagasaki it's a little bit cloudy here uh but  it's a nice day a little bit chilly uh Julian a

gain the idea is to ruminate to the vocabulary  internalize the Expressions you are a great guy yes that that is it exactly all right you want  to you want to really get into it you want to understand the vocabulary like a native all right  even even better than a native now you should be able to go to a native and and explain what this  means it's like oh look we're on the same page and native speakers is what what do you mean  we're on the same page like yeah we you know we think the same way

we think the same and this  is how new vocabulary is created or how we might take vocabulary and then use it in a new way all  right but it's still the same situation so look at that like you and I are both reading from the  same physical page over here we're still reading from the same page all right uh uh let's see  all right uh hi from Seoul Korean and Japanese are so poor English why is that asks Yoon he  if I'm pronouncing that correctly uh Koreans and Japanese I I don't know so much about

Korea  but I can tell you about Japanese people uh and this is maybe broadly for uh for like East Asians  as well but number one for communication uh well I guess at the the most basic thing is that they  don't learn this way so they spend a lot of time reviewing vocabulary through their native language  so Japanese kids if you look at a Japanese textbook from elementary school a lot of the  vocabulary is in Japanese and then they're also using Japanese translations for uh for learning  pronunci

ation so like my name in in Japanese I'll write it down here for you here  try to write it write it clearly so this is don't do you don't you and it sounds  funny but like my the English in my name this sound here the r Dr is not in Japanese and so they  it just won't fit in the language and so they just use this so people people have a hard time with  my name and sometimes I just say oh call me Andy I don't really like that name but it's  easier for Japanese people to say Andy don't you it soun

ds like like a drill go to you uh but anyway for so that's the first problem  and this is this is people all over the world so Germans are learning English through  German and it's it's same thing most places um but the the additional thing is the the worry  about making mistakes so it's it's a really it's a really frustrating problem especially like for  Koreans and Japanese uh maybe Chinese as well um but you have there you're you're you have all  these doubts about the language because you're

learning it through your native language so like  this like people see my name and they don't know how to read it because they they never learned  how to read it correctly so they're thinking in in the Japanese way of reading it it's like ah Doh  dod you dod you and I say no it's Drew Drew and so very few people are able to say my my name even  like my my mother-in-law it's it's funny to see my my two daughters so their pronunciation is perfect  and they can switch between Japanese and English

pronunciation very easily and so they will correct  like people in the house about how to say they're like no no don't say it like that say it like this  and you know these are you know four-year-old or my seven-year-old daughter doing that so you've  got the the problem of uh like worry and people not wanting to make mistakes so that's a very  very strong thing especially in in Japan probably in Korea as well you know I heard an interesting  story I'm kind of taking too long about this but I kn

ow a lot of people have this problem there  was a study done about airplane crashes and so what different countries were having more problems  with airplane crashes and they found like South Korea was number one for airplane crashes and  people were trying to figure out why that was why is South Korea uh like higher than any place else  in in like having airplane crashes and they found that if you have a pilot so a Korean pilot and a  Korean co-pilot if the co-pilot notices a problem he won't sa

y anything to the pilot because he's  it's like part of the culture that they they won't say anything about that and so they had to kind of  retrain a lot of the pilots to make sure it's okay like maybe culturally you have a very strong like  I am higher than you socially but in the airplane we really want to make sure people can communicate  well so they don't crash the airplane so there are cultural reasons why people might struggle with  learning languages but the nice thing about this is any

body can do this anywhere okay so I I like  I teach this if I'm talking with Japanese people and I have the opportunity to teach them something  in English this is what I do and so this is why I teach my children this way this is why I teach  you all online uh in the same way all right uh uh all right do you speak fast English or not do  I speak you're asking me do I speak fast English or not well I could yeah I could speak I could  speak much faster than I'm speaking right now but most people u

h would probably not understand  me are you teaching live regularly I teach maybe once or twice a week on YouTube Just because it's  fun for me to come on and teach I enjoy teaching I don't have a private class or a classroom  anymore so I do this and of course like for the people that don't care about having me live they  just want to get fluent as fast as possible this is what we do in fluent for life if you'd like to  learn more about that you can click on the link in the description below th

is video all right uh so I  wish you had been my English teacher our teachers taught us to do translation and advise us to study  grammar yeah yeah and this is what most people do because in school often you don't need to speak  you just need to pass a test so teachers are doing you know what they think is the kind of fastest  easiest thing uh that they know how to do and often a lot of English teachers actually they are  also not feeling very confident about the language and many English teache

rs could not explain the  language like this even like a high level English teacher who's a non-native so in Japan there are  lots of Japanese English teachers who don't really feel very confident themselves about teaching the  language unfortunately uh I said do you spoke I was asking answered that already so Lima nice  to see you there again I know all grammar rules I know 20 000 words in English I don't speak  fluently let's see because I know them one by one separately not with connections y

es I want  to make it very clear to people that like you what you're really doing with this approach is  you're making the individual words and phrases fluent so you're you're becoming fluent in  words and phrases so you become fluent in this phrase by itself all right so you could be  fluent in this but not fluent in something else all right so as you learn some vocabulary you use  it often you know it very well you are fluent in that vocabulary so the goal is to become fluent in  more things a

nd as you become fluent in more words and phrases then you become a fluent speaker  then you express yourself without thinking all right so I think your method works for a  Babu well my method works for everybody it's how everyone got fluent in their native language  my problem is to speak with people when I am alone a listen or reading is different yeah so there  are also people so shark says that this is another problem where the confidence comes from like how  you speak it's almost a connecti

on where you have with someone else I noticed my Japanese is better  with with random Japanese people I don't know but when I'm speaking with my mother-in-law I'm kind  of scared of her so she's like a little lady but I get worried and so my Japanese is like [Laughter]  it should because she'll give me an angry look she's like I like much like dinner I like it like  you like use the wrong expression or something so she corrects me and then I correct her  English too it's interesting uh she doesn

't she doesn't want me to teach her English even  though she because she she still kind of learns the traditional way listening to like radio  English in Japan for many many years and she still can't speak but I'm in the house I'm  in the house I said look I'll teach you for free you don't have to pay me any money  and she was like no I'm not gonna do it so she's got a lot of Pride I love her though  she's she's a good lady all right ABDO says sorry I have a question out of out of today's lesson

I  am trying to read books and something in English but I discovered a lot of words how I can remember  them large amount yes so that's the there's a trade-off about about remembering words it's it's  a slower process at the beginning all right so this you see we've taken go under and to be in the  same boat that's all I've tried to teach you for one hour isn't that crazy we're spending an hour  an hour on two things but because we've done that you will know them very well and then you will  no

t forget them later all right uh let's see all right I think I answered that already yeah so  again the point is not to try to learn a bunch of vocabulary you want to focus on a few things  and learn them well and then that will help you uh connect with other things as well Lewis  says do you know about shadowing technique yes people mention shadowing to me sometimes and yes  uh shadowing can be helpful but I say if you're spending more time learning like this that's the  most helpful thing you

can do and another part of this we're what we're covering in this video  is naturally varied review and that means we're looking at like one situation and looking  at different ways we might say that but you might also hear this in different tenses so if  I say hey we were in the same boat or we will be in the same boat tomorrow all right so again I'm  trying to look at it and teach it to you give you different contexts and you should also be hearing  from different speakers so it's much better

rather than to be kind of shadowing one person to hear  10 different speakers if you could hear them talking about something uh let's see so thanks  when I watched the video I always want to watch the subtitles that's why I want to ask because I  want to know whether I can understand the teacher yeah it's not a bad thing to watch subtitles I  don't worry about that I will watch subtitles in Japanese sometimes if I'm watching like a song  or some movies or something just so I want to make sure I

hear what people are saying there's nothing  nothing bad about using subtitles what you should do I mean you don't want to use like captions  in in a different language so you should be using like the actual captioned uh subtitles if  you're if you're following something in English I think your method works for baby Ah that's what  you meant you wrote you wrote Babu and it's funny because my my younger daughter she will she will  pretend to be a baby sometimes and she's in like like that so I th

ink your method works for baby  learning it naturally but what about us growing up uh ready to uh okay so let me make this clear  for everybody what I'm teaching you here like this is not something you would teach to a baby but  it's in the same way you teach a baby okay so this vocabulary itself is like a baby doesn't  need to learn oh we're in the same boat and a baby couldn't say that anyway but a baby is still  learning the language the same way and recognize that in your native language it

doesn't matter  what your language is your maybe your language is Thai or whatever but when you're learning new  things in your native language you're hearing them from different people you're hearing it in  your native language and you're getting the same kind of naturally varied review so you're doing  the same thing at every age it doesn't matter so it's not like this only works for babies  and it doesn't work for adults like we don't we don't change the way we learn as we get older  like tha

t we can try to be more efficient about things but really this is the best thing  you can do to become a fluent speaker so the human mind thinks in stories and connections  it doesn't think like okay let me remember like a like a matrix of grammar points we're not  really thinking about the language that way all right hopefully that makes sense I still have  not gotten to the third phrase I want to teach you guys all right I went through a very long  process and finally realize why translation u

h method will never work yeah so again just think  about what you do in your native language and then apply that to learning English that's all you have  to do I don't know how to watch the videos without subtitles yeah it's okay basically you should be  spending more time uh listening to things and you will get used to listening to English if you get  naturally varied reviewed so this is what we do in fluent for Life the whole point of the program  is to get you used to lots of different kinds

of speakers so the more you do that then it becomes  easier when you're in conversations or watching movies so if you if you if you try to watch a new  movie every day it's like a different speaker and the content is different it's really difficult  for you to start following that because one person could have a clear voice and they're talking about  rabbits and trains or something and then in the next movie it's someone with a hard to understand  voice maybe they have a difficult accent or they

speak very quickly and they're talking about I  don't know nuclear experiments or something I have no idea but the point is uh you you need to  review the same information in different ways you need to hear really the same movie from a couple  of different speakers this is why watching plays is a good thing to do or listening to speeches or  popular music because you can hear the same song sung by different people now if you listen to 10  different people sing a popular song you're going to get

very good at hearing the slight differences  in their pronunciation and that will make it much easier to understand movies or TV shows or other  conversations all right but it's the review that gets you fluent it's not watching new content all  the time you have to review that to get fluent all right uh I don't know how to okay I answer  that one question uh to ask if yours really works for us what I meant is that it is too late  to learn like this no you're learning like this right now so of c

ourse it's not too late like I  said you learn new things in your native language all the time you are still learning new things in  your native language right now you don't change the way you learn the process doesn't stop until  either you're dead or you know you're you're maybe your brain just doesn't work very well but this  is the way we get fluent you learn new stories new vocabulary all these new things in your native  language and you're learning them like this if you learn a new word or

phrase in your  native language and you don't hear that again and again in different ways you will  forget that vocabulary too you might hear it and recognize it so you're at the awareness  level but you're not at the ownership level you couldn't actually communicate  fluently about that thing so that's why we get this same process it doesn't  matter what language it is uh all right you need to go out okay if someone is  talking about subtitles so YouTube will probably not generate subtitles fo

r like  for my live video but I put subtitles on later it takes usually like a day or two  but you can definitely use subtitles to watch videos it is not natural for Japanese  ears to hear consonant at the end of a word yes that's another another issue  specifically for Japanese people hello teacher good evening for you I live  here in Brazil but it seemed we live on the moon wow that's pretty cool live on the moon it's  incredible how schools all over the world teach English with such ineffecti

ve method we just need  to forget the traditional way of teaching yeah and again they're thinking about it for just passing  tests and they want to try to give you like 10 000 words as quickly as possible to pass a  test but then then those people can't speak and so that's why like they're they're creating  all of these learners for me basically so hello welcome uh it's not your fault if you have learned  that way I learned the same way as well and that's why a lot of people struggle to communic

ate uh  many thanks to you we all like your kids yeah again I teach my own children the same way I  teach my wife things if I'm trying to teach her something and this is how I learn Japanese as  well so I have a question I think uh I'm trying to read okay I read that one all right so Julius  in just two weeks I have acquired more knowledge than I did during my entire five years of high  school things are you referring to like watching my videos or something Julian or something else  are you are

you in fluent for life I don't know if you are or not your English is really good  though are you written English anyway uh but yeah I'm glad to hear it uh Roma says I have  many vocabulary but when I speak with other I forget them all Yes again if you you think  you know them so you have awareness level maybe or exposure level for most of the vocabulary but  then you can't use it fluently in a conversation all right I'm gonna have to go through  these pretty quickly I understand a lot of vocabu

lary but I can't speak very well yes  so that's the issue we're talking about today we hope you do some episode of podcast just  random talking it will be very useful yeah well this is what we have like we have this  influent for life and also about uh yeah you can go back and watch some of the podcast  episodes these are a bit more uh useful for people I think than just listening to the podcast  but there's lots of information about that already uh let's see Optimist and Jasper with the with a 

big pink hand there yes a lot of Boom there we go and Ellen is back konichiwa Drew I just got here  better late than never glad to see you teaching live yes it's my pleasure let's see teach me  thanks for explaining so again we would say many thanks for your explanations explanations if we're  talking about the noun there uh why don't drink some warm water now because you already talk a lot  for us actually I'm a little bit oh look at this I have my usual bottle of water but I got something  el

se in here today you can guess what it is it's not beer uh it's not beer I promise it's something  else see if you can guess what it what it is and it's not tea it's also not tea all right um because I'm drinking water  now learn vocabulary apple juice it's like apple juice looks like apple  juice a little bit no it is not apple juice all right now I want to get  I promised you I would teach three phrases we've actually covered quite a few  but let me remove some of this from the board and we'll

go back to our little  boat these lessons always take longer than I expect barley tea no it is not all right last phrase for the date we'll go back to my little boat example over here  so we began today talking about going under so you can imagine a boat sinking in the water  the boat is going under we also talked about in the same boat so we have like two people  sitting in this little boat oh look at that we're in the same situation we're in the same boat the  final phrase that we're going to

is a two right the ship so another phrase having physically to do  with a boat and this one we're going to turn it this way even though it's a flat boat  if you look at the way A Boat Works usually it's a long thin thing like this and they  usually have some kind of Keel so the keel the Keel is the kind of fin just like  a fish along the bottom sometimes they have one sometimes they don't but  the point is to help the boat so it doesn't tip over like that to tip over  it's another good phrasal

verb to tip over tip over so the boat might lean from  side to side like this this is called listing and you don't have to remember all these  words I'm just putting them down in case uh people might want to know what  they are but again we want to if the boat goes over too far oh no you capsizes  and now we get water all in the boat so if you can imagine a boat I should have gotten like  a thicker boat an origami boat is probably not the best idea for this but hopefully you  understand it anywa

y so we have our boat if it tips over too far to one side oh no and we  get water inside the boat it capsizes to capsize all right to capsize so this just means it's tipping over  to one side it gets filled with water and no Norm all right so in when this happens we want to  write the boat to make it right so this is a verb to write the ship to write the book to write  the boat to make it go up straight all right so this is the physical idea of where we get  this so this phrase comes from just t

rying to get a boat to stay up straight to right the  boat or to right the ship typically we will use uh ship because we're talking about like a  larger thing so a larger boat like a cruise ship or a larger ship rather than a small boat like  we're in the same boat we're in the same boat all right so now if we have the to right the ship  so we want to write to the ship the basic idea of there again we're trying to make something go  correctly the way it should be going and then we can of course

use that in much more figurative and  a lot of different situations which I'll give you now so as opposed to uh where we have something  I'll just give you a few examples and make this very easy so in a let's say a business situation  you might be starting a new project that's actually going to do something very bad for the  company so it's going to cost the company a lot of money uh the company will not do very well  and and then oh no the company goes under the company goes under so we want to

right the ship  so people might be trying to do one thing but they're actually not doing it very well or they  should do something different instead we want to write that thing or a university for example  maybe they have a new policy so they have a new rule or a new law but the students don't like it  people are very upset about that and it's it's causing the university to go in a bad direction  if they continue doing that they will capsize so when you write something it usually means  there's

a problem of some kind but you can see how this could be talking about a problem  anywhere all right so this is not just about boats often vocabulary will come from a particular  situation but then we use it to talk about things in like a figurative way so we could talk about a  problem in business a problem in a relationship a problem with a local community a problem with  cooking a problem with all kinds of things all right so we want to write the ship we want  to make the situation good agai

n all right so now that we understand this any questions  about so far so a company is going down the drain yes that's another way you could express  that as well so if we think about like a like a bath we're looking at it from the top this is  the drain down here and the water is going around so the boat goes down the drain if we look at it  from the side maybe this is our bathtub there's a drain down here there's a little pipe and  here's the boat oh no it's going down the drain okay so you ca

n see how something physical gives  us a figurative expression I know all of my hopes and dreams are going down the drain my plans are  going down the drain I know I spent all my money my money is going down the drain makes sense so  once you understand something physically like a native it's much easier to start thinking oh there  are lots of things that could go down the drain okay but good example so the same kind of thing  just like we're talking about riding a ship we can talk about somethi

ng going down the drain oh no my  career is going down the drain I've been wasting my time and not doing what I should be doing all  right my time is going down the drain same thing all right hopefully everyone is getting this  all right people are still asking if I'm what I'm drinking over here this is it's just myth  so some brewed mint water mint water I guess you could kind of call that tea because you're  you're Brewing some leaves but my wife made that for me so she just took some some boi

ling water  poured it in a like a pot of mint some mint leaves and then there we go it's actually a little bit  it's a little bit too strong uh but it's pretty good I watered it down a little bit I watered it  down another good expression for you look at how this is all these Expressions just magically  naturally come up here to water something down so this is something I want to say X easier that way part of the reason my writing is  bad is because I'm trying to write quickly for people all rig

ht so to water something  down if we imagine I have a drink here it's got some ice cubes in it and I've got  maybe this much let's say this is all rum so I've got some rum in here and wow that rum is  very strong I need to I need to pour some water in this and so it raises the level up here  I've watered it down I've watered it down so I've diluted that so dilute something to dilute  it okay but back to the vocabulary at hand back to the specific vocabulary we're talking about  here so again we

want to write something and we could there are lots of different things we  could write so we could write the ship about a company we could write the ship about uh you know  many of the other examples I gave business Sports Community uh family life all kinds of things  all right check questions one last time here so yes in terms of pronunciation A lot of people  focus too much on segmental pronunciation I don't know what you mean by that but you you should  be learning for pronunciation you shou

ld be learning how words connect together but you should  also learn the sounds of English this is what we teach in Frederick but you should click on the  link in the description to learn more about that kind of liquid that can drink apple juice yes  mirin is funny all right Rocky says I have always thought people around the world did not  speak 100 are native language because we spoke 100 of our language we would speak about Anatomy  maths engineering medicines and so on yes that's correct so i

f you if you look at like the actual  percentages of of vocabulary it's like two percent that people use so if there are like a hundred  thousand or a hundred seventy thousand English words and common use people use about two  percent of those you if you know two percent of the vocabulary that's most of you know movies  and TV shows books newspapers that kind of thing so everything else is like like you're saying uh  specific technical vocabulary and other things like that all right so a company

going down dream  got that one hey dude how was going I missed you here great teacher greetings from Brazil says  uh Thiago nice to see you there Elizabeth says hello at the beginning my software project had  problems but the team was able to write the ship very good excellent usage for the first time  watching you live yes welcome welcome to the show okay so uh for today we're gonna wrap this  up wrap this up to end this close this lesson now so we have spent time today talking about  specific

vocabulary and really helping you understand it like a native the whole point is  to spend a lot of time and really you don't want to just spend time it's just as much time  as you need to really understand something and you'll know you understand something when  you feel it you have that feeling like I got it I know exactly what I'm talking  about here so we have to go under so we have to go under uh to be in the same boat  and then we have what's the final expression do you remember somebody

write it somebody be  quick write the final expression here two right all right to ride the ship so we can take all  of these and we can form sentences out of this so if we know all of these like oh there's  a problem with the company we are all in the same boat right now if we do not write the ship  we will go under okay so I can work all three of these into one sentence or I can just use  them individually in sentences just to make my English sound a little bit nicer oh you also  are studying

uh to be a doctor we're in the same boat we are in the same boat even just  using this by itself we are in the same mode all right the company is not doing very  well right now we need to write the ship the political party I'm nervous about the  Democrats or Republicans or whatever your political affiliation is they need to write the  ship or they are going to lose a lot of people they need to change the way they're  doing things they need to fix the problem so there's nothing wrong with saying

like fix  the problem or something different the point is that if you know the vocabulary very well it's  like look to write the [ __ ] you understand what that means we're trying to take a ship that's  tipping over to one side and we got to write the ship get it going straight get it moving  ahead okay and then to go under oh no look at that the boat is going down down down oh no it  went under the company went under unfortunately so actually there's uh on there's video or  channels on YouTube

talking about old companies that don't exist anymore I think uh actually  I don't remember any of the names of these channels but you can look and find those about  like I think actually defunct defunct land is one so d e f u n c t defunct defunct means it's not  working anymore not available anymore defunct so like Disneyland you have defunct land defunct land  but this is about companies that have gone under so companies that used to be around like many  years ago I would go to the local video

store and get a like a video cassette to watch in  my house this was a place called Blockbuster Video and so that was a a large company and there  are there are more than just uh more than just uh Blockbuster but Blockbuster went under or if  they're still around I don't know what they're doing but basically they have gone under I think  okay so you don't have to think about okay how do I like squeeze all of these into one sentence  but the point is if you know them well enough you will recogni

ze them easily you will understand  them you will feel confident about them you will remember them and you will be able to use them  in conversations okay any questions about that all right uh okay I think hello from Turkey everyone else  says if we are talking about a company this ship word in the phrase means the company right yes so  you're talking about like the ship so we need to write the ship so the expression the thing you  say is ship but the meaning is the company or the team or the lo

cal group or something like  that so people know what you're talking about we're talking about it uh as like a figurative  expression not literally so we are not on a boat we are talking about it like it's a boat so  there's a problem with the company maybe we don't like what management is doing or they are  losing money or they are making bad decisions so they're causing the boat to list like that  it's slowly tipping over then oh no that's the end and then it goes under okay so right now  we n

eed to write the ship or it will go under all right so you might have a big company meeting  hello everyone unfortunately we had some some bad uh months where we didn't get much sales didn't  have many sales and so now we are in the same boat with some trouble for the company so we are all  in this together we're all in the same situation and we are going under right now we need to  write this ship if we want to save our jobs okay so there are different ways you can  practice these I'm again you

notice how we've we've taken an hour how long is this 90  minutes gee gee 90 minutes with three it's like 30 minutes for each phrase we didn't do that  but we spent a lot of time uh talking about these different things but hopefully that makes  sense the more the more time you spend with the vocabulary the more memorable it becomes and  the more confident you will feel about using it all right so idiomatic expressions like these  can help increase speaking band score in the Alex exam yeah I thi

nk that's true so defunct I  learned that recently from a word to book yep so again like you you have awareness of that so it's  like ah like I heard that word before that means you have an awareness of it but when you own it  it's like yeah defunct I know what that means do defunct bro greet me please I'm from Colombia it  says Alejandro Alejandro bro greet me please greet me please here we go actually uh going under is  a song by Evanescence yeah it's probably a song by many people is defunct

like being lazy or  something no defunct means it just it doesn't work anymore or it doesn't it's like you could  have a defunct machine or a defunct company so there might like it doesn't exist or it doesn't  work anymore Henry says uh great lesson from El Salvador I hope more idioms like these yes we  teach thousands of these things uh in fluent for life so this is what we do we don't spend  like time kind of going through things like in this much detail because you spend the whole  month focu

sing on words and phrases like this so hopefully tomorrow if you come back I recommend  you actually watch this video again tomorrow even just the same video and it will help you even if  you only listen to it you will learn a lot more all right I'll answer a few last questions  here Mido says we want the most important 3 000 words Cambridge please according to we  want the most we want the most important 3 000 words yeah that's I think like that's a  typical thing people ask for but everybody h

as different kinds of conversations so it's better  to focus on the vocabulary you need for your life so Bruno asks are we live we are until we are  not and then this will just be a video you can watch anytime Beatrice is during the covid-19 most  uh most Industries go under yes many industries did go under or went under or you can talk  about specific businesses I remember there was a uh there was like a children's play area  inside a local mall around where I am now uh and that went under so I

think like a lot of those  around Japan because parents didn't want to take their kids and play at those so they went out of  business they went under I think it's defunct now which is the past of the word which is the past  of the word I don't know what you mean by that can we say let them be in your  boat instead of being your shoes well yeah I mean remember remember that the  difference between being in someone's shoes means you're you are kind of in a situation  where where they used to be

it's not like at the same time so if you're in the same boat with  someone at the same time like I could be in one city and someone else could be in a different  city but maybe we are both looking for work so we're in the same boat we're both experiencing  that at the same time that's what that means so you think about it physically like two people  sitting in the same boat but you can also talk about someone like in the past so right now I have  a job but I was looking for a job last week and s

o if someone else is looking for a job right now  I can say oh last week I was in the same boat all right so you're you're talking about  the same situation even if it's not at the same time but the the same situation is the  important part to be in someone else's shoes and usually means like you're now experiencing  you could you could talk about it that way like I'm ins I'm in I'm in the same boat as that  person but usually it's at a different time so uh like or I mean it could even be like I

'm  like I have a job and maybe someone else does not have a job and like if I'm laughing at that  person they say aha like you don't have a job or whatever so I'm like being mean to that person  making fun of that person um then I would be like if I lose my job then oh no now I like I'm  in their shoes and now I understand so usually there's a little bit of a lesson there where it  doesn't mean you're only doing something bad but uh it means like now you're in a situation where  you understand

what they feel or how they feel all right uh yes ask chat DBT for the  3000 most commonly used words yeah so again people are looking for a list of words when  you really should be looking for fluency in words all right so whatever uh you know Cambridge  will tell you what those important words are but uh they release a lot of textbooks that  a lot of people maybe aren't getting fluent with so you just have to think about what your  what your priority is what are you interested in do you need to

become a fluent speaker  or you just want to know a bunch of words you can be both but you have to learn the native  way so I'm an English teacher in Indonesia and I have recommend you to channel my students thanks  for the great work thanks my pleasure thank you very much for recommending uh let's see Rainier  says do you recommend stories pictures books as a way to learn like the book tennis tense  situation in contrast and context by heart I don't know what those specific books are but  yeah

absolutely I recommend books so we created a whole app that teaches people how to read so  they can start teaching themselves the language that way it's called Frederick if you have not  downloaded that already get that you can track for free just get it in the link below this video  all right uh yes I think we are done look at that we really need the 10 the 3 000 most yeah yeah  it does it doesn't doesn't matter you a lot of people will know that vocabulary but still not  speak so if you it do

esn't matter if you know the vocabulary if you can't use it then you're  wasting your time so it's much better to have a smaller vocabulary think about children just  remember children uh they know fewer words my daughters like maybe they don't know the 3000 most  I don't know cambridge's most used vocabulary but they speak better than a lot of my students and  it's and and not even my students just like any English Learners and that's because people are  folk I'm focusing on my my daughters dev

eloping fluency rather than just trying to memorize  a bunch of words all right so over time they will have a huge vocabulary and they will use  it fluently but it's a little bit slower at the start because we're taking time to really build  that foundation for them we really want them to have a strong uh like a web or a connection  inside their head to help them speak all right Ronaldo says thanks a lot uh graphic books I  think they mean uh yeah but any anything that as long as it's understand

able and you're doing  it in English then that's great uh s-a-a-j Kumar say J says how are you doing today I'm doing well  uh I would like to know the difference between Ian on to and on to all right I'm not covering that  right now I've been talking for a hundred minutes so you can any any things like that I would  recommend just getting more examples of those things on YouTube you can even find examples uh  go to our YouTube channel uh if you're not on it already and you can watch the uh best

beginning  English playlist it covers prepositions like that in 2020 I did know around 3 000 words however I  was unable to speak yeah so again I don't want to laugh at that but this is this is what happens you  know it's like wasn't this fun was this not fun for people where you where you learn like a native  speaker is that boring for people was that not fun would you rather I just give you a list of words  and and and you get translations for them would that be better I hope not that's that's

like every  other YouTube channel teaching English yeah if you if you prefer that there are lots of channels  that do that already they'll teach you in Japanese or Thai or Chinese or whatever and then you will  start thinking through your native language so you will learn some more vocabulary but I'm always  curious uh if this is it maybe this is not fun for some people like they don't like learning the  native way it seems weird to me but but maybe not everybody is interested uh thank you for

being uh  with us in the same boat yes it's my pleasure so I'm also trying to get fluent I'm also trying to  and when I say trying to get fluent it's like my my chain of vocabulary that I know in Japanese  there's some things that I've like just heard for the first time and I think oh wow that's an  interesting thing I've got my awareness level of that but I don't own it yet I don't yet feel  confident enough about using it but over time I do so I spend more time with the vocabulary  to really b

ecome good at using it all right all right oh my goodness it's time time for uh for  me to shut this down so Bruno's is totally agree with you on it glad here uh thank you so much  you're the best thank you for your lessons thank you Mr Hanks yes I was waiting for someone to call  me Tom Hanks again I think I get more Tom Hanks uh uh well saying I look like Tom Hanks whenever  I get a haircut I got a haircut yesterday all right absolutely not says Ronaldo do you have  a show on TV or something b

ecause I think I've seen you on TV uh I've been on TV in Japan but  not I mean not in like I'm not famous anything Cedar says hi she love the learning the way you  teach things so much I like your style I like to get fluent in a natural way yeah and so again  it might seem slower like oh look we just talked about three phrases but you will feel much more  confident if you learn this way and you will learn faster over time I promise thank you for your help  and uh fuching says I'm really happy to

find your channel and surprisingly I'd be able to understand  what you say yes so it shouldn't be surprising I'm intentionally being slower and more clear easy for  people to understand so what we do in fluent for life is take you from understanding this level to  understanding a variety of actual native speakers so I'm a native speaker as well but I do a lot  of teaching in this this is my my speaking voice all right so to help you make sure everything is  understandable make sure it's all cle

ar no is not him as it was Tom Hanks on TV yes it was probably  Tom Hanks on TV as well why are you guys still asking him let him rest it's fun and satisfying  thank you very much appreciate it okay we're going to cut it there because you can hear my voice if  you go back and watch this I will make this video available for people to watch and you can hear  the difference in my voice over time now I have to drink my my special mint water again give it a  try if you like mint it's very tasty all r

ight uh Julian says we are all present here because we  have come to the realization of the previously attempted methods have proven ineffective yes  you're very you are a word Smith you have a way with words Julian very good thank you uh yes are  you in Japan right now yes I'm in Nagasaki Japan is your name because your name is uh like amidori  or something are you Japanese all right uh red kid over there leaving with a smiley face I hope in  the future wouldn't what I hope in future would be f

luent like you and be in the same boat yes so  you could and you will be if you learn this way it's the same way you got fluent in your native  language and it's the same way you would get fluent in English no I'm not okay all right well  everybody hope you have enjoyed this it's been my pleasure teaching you today and helping you learn  like a native in the same way I help my own kids if you'd like to learn more and you want to get  like me all the time without having to be you know add a live

video then just click on the link to  learn more about fluent for life it will help you go through this process and I promise you you will  become a much more fluent confident speaker very quickly if you follow the steps that's all you  have to do all right the plan is very expensive for me do a discount please if you're talking  about the price of fluent for Life probably get uh get the native fluency blueprint first so this is  more for people who are independent who just want to know some ste

ps and things they can do to  speak more clearly have better pronunciation improve their grammar things like that so we  cover all those different things fluent for life is really for people who want me to take them step  by step and show them actually how to communicate all right I'm going to shut it down have a  fantastic day and I'll see you next time bye-bye