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here and then we'll get started with today's party let me know where you're from and as usual if you have any questions as we go I will keep my eye on the chat and we'll see how we do all right YouTube let's get started all right we should be going any minute now all right uh let's see okay I think we're going now pardon me as we get started all right here we are I am Drew Badger the founder of englishanyone.com and the English fluency guide welcome to another live video here on YouTube today as

always we're going to be talking about fluency and I'm going to be helping you understand how to do this by reading so we're going to focus specifically on reading there are lots of different ways you can improve your speaking ability but reading is a really great one uh and the reason this is Possible Oh no [Laughter] G all right well good morning nice to see everybody there uh do post your comments let me erase the board and we'll get started uh it's been a while so there all right uh so let's get started right here

at the beginning uh the I had an interesting conversation with a learner and this this is a typical thing uh it's really not just one learner but many Learners uh I hear this from and the conversation usually goes like this uh learner says please teach me English and I say okay great here's how I'm going to do it I'm actually just going to speak a lot and you're going to get fluent by understanding the language better and they say no no I need to speak and I say well aren't you trying to speak now and

usually they say yes or you know maybe they have uh some way to practice online or something like that but they're thinking they need to speak to become fluent but I have to explain to them that actually the reason you're not speaking now even though you could just talk with yourself if you have nobody to speak with just talk with yourself you could do that but the reason that's not helping you get fluent is because it's not helping you understand the language better so the what I call the strangest fluency secret is that you actually

become fluent by understanding the language better because understanding the language helps you really feel confident that you'll speak correctly and then you speak all right so if you have any doubt that's stopping you from communicating you need to clear up those doubts and then that will allow you to speak all right so reading is a really good way to do this it's something you can do by yourself you don't need anybody with you to to speak with or anything like that the point is just to do it systematically strategically which is what we'll talk about

in this video so let me just begin uh very quickly checking uh chat make sure everybody is uh live here T ni Tom is there the boss good morning Paris is back barocco uh look at that lots of lots of returning folks AA yes I hope to improve my English good evening hello Muhammad from Morocco let's see I'm I'm a good that Diana says hi hna says Al love Vincent says from South Africa hey there Globes keep keep revolutionize the world hi there Globes teacher keep teaching revize the world what Anette is back another good

morning from Anna and all right right on time yes we're getting getting started a little bit early today but hopefully uh this shouldn't be that long of a video because this is not really uh a a complicated idea but I'm going to show you how I do this uh personally for my own training to become fluent in Japanese all right and Lea says hi my teacher thanks so much for uh things you are doing for us you're the best one what my pleasure Ellena nice to see you again kich you and truck from Vietnam nice

to see you there all right uh let's get started it's hot so hot out here I have the uh the air conditioning on blowing on me but it's still it's still really hot all right uh let's get into it though so I brought some books here uh actually two Japanese books and one English book because I want to again explain this uh not only for you learning English but how I do this for learning Japanese now you may have heard of something called extensive re reading let me write this up here for you e ex

t n SI i v e so extensive extensive is like something that covers a wide area someone might have extensive knowledge of something I think somebody brought that up on the the chat before knowledge so extensive knowledge means you have a wide range or you know a lot about something so extensive reading all right uh so usually what native English speakers are doing and when I say natives like the people who are born usually to parents who speak English fluently and these would be like kids in the United States so what they're doing when they're

learning the language and especially learning to read is we have these things called graded readers graded readers now I I'm I'm not going to talk any uh specifically about like one kind of grading or not what I do when I'm teaching my own kids like the grading system I use is what is the phonetic rule that's being taught so we begin with something like uh short vowel sounds like C A so we begin with something very simple and then we start moving up to more difficult things like Kate all right so Kate itself is not

a word but you can learn to pronounce this correctly by understanding the rules of phonics so a graded reader like this this is where we're starting to usually we begin with something simple uh especially if we're focusing on a particular sound that we're teaching and then we help students uh like our own kids or kids in a classroom learn to read in this way and so what's happening is like a few basic things here so we're we're starting uh typically we we have like kind of a a simple stair system of very short books so

even something that's maybe four or five pages and that might even have only two or three words on each page so something very simple because there is a a nice psychological effect that happens when you complete something so if a child is reading a book and even if the book only has you know two pages or something uh the child can feel good that like wow I read a book all right and so this is uh again speaking specifically about how native speakers are learning the language how how they learn to read uh and you

can learn to read the same way so we created an app called Frederick that does this and lets you teach yourself how to read the same way natives do so it also helps you at the same time learn to pronounce and build vocabulary and understand grammar all of those things so another thing you notice we're only trying to teach maybe one new thing at a time so we have most of like the these kinds of books that we're using it will be something very simple maybe we'll introduce only one or two new things uh and

in the case of people uh like trying to understand new vocabulary this would often be maybe some new words but you can understand those words in context because the the rest of the vocabulary is something you already know all right so in general when you're trying to read and you're and you're trying to read as a way of developing fluency in a language like spoken fluency not just being able to read something but being able to speak the language well uh this is where we really want to make sure we understand things very well and

if we have to spend time looking things up in a dictionary it's going to be more frustrating so often we're we're not trying to like read something with a lot of complicated text or things that maybe we we don't know most of the words in the book so you should understand at least like 80 to 90% of that some people would say even higher than that just to make it easy for you uh but this is the basic idea of extensive reading so we want to get lots of information we want to read many kinds

of books uh and typically things that are fun and at our level so whatever our level is we're not trying to push ourselves too much but the basic idea is that if we can understand things by reading then that can help us develop for fluency but I want to take this idea a little bit further uh and show you the way I do this for Japanese and then it's actually the same way uh I would teach my own kids and I do teach my kids and this is what I recommend my students do for improving

their fluency in English now a lot of people uh let me erase this here I know probably many people watching this video right now can read a lot of English so you don't really have a problem with reading itself and you can probably even read a uh like a thicker novel so a novel like a longer book with a 100 Pages or 200 Pages something like that you could probably read this and not really have a problem understanding a lot of it now some maybe some people they might struggle with this but a lot of

people who watch my videos are able to read a book in English all right so even a longer book or you know maybe even something if it's a little bit at a lower level like a like a Harry Potter book or something like that that's maybe for elementary school students but it would still have uh it's still basically a novel uh so the the problem is not really trying to read uh a book or being able to read what we want to do is use reading to develop fluency so we have to be strategic and

systematic about how we do this so the reason I don't really recommend people reading novels I don't really recommend you do this is because it's really difficult to review strategically if you read a novel so you will spend a lot of time like let's say let's say it took you I don't know 5 days or a week or however long it takes you to finish a book then you are not going to want to go back and reread that book again it's going to be uh much more frustrating for you uh and and just like

the again like the the length of the book makes it more difficult and it's hard to find time to go back and review specific parts of the book that maybe you want to review and so again what I'm always recommending people do is start with things that are much shorter so even this uh so this is one of my uh children one of their favorite books is is called Mouse tales and this actually has a few different stories in it I'll show you the inside of the book in a moment but you can see how

thin this is uh there are looks like 60 pages and the print of the book so the print meaning the size of the text and how the text looks so the print is quite big the sentences are pretty short there are some more complex sentences in here uh but you'll notice a lot uh what I'll talk about in just a moment that it really gives you a great way to review the information and you won't get tired of reviewing it so each time we're trying to review things we want to review them in different ways

all right so uh if you begin with something like a novel and you can read that a novel is good for getting uh just a passive story but if we're really trying to develop fluency we be have we have to be more active about how we're practicing with a book okay so the practice comes as we get more review and we review things in different ways so let me just give you an example of something I do uh with Japanese and uh again the the first part part of this is really the selection of the

reading material so I already mentioned things that are short uh and again the reason to do something uh short is because number one you're going to feel good when you finish it like yay I finished a book and then number two it's going to be easy to review all right and then typically these shorter books are usually made for kids or you know beginning readers and so when we have something like this for kids often there's a lot of good repetition in the book but it's what I call naturally varied review so like the story

of The Three Little Pigs is a really good example of this and this is in Japanese as well so I have actually three different versions of this same book I only brought two of them um but I can find more copies of them online or different versions of them or different stories uh and as I read these different things I'm getting lots of review from all the various versions of it and really learning how to tell that kind of story and with really my my own words rather than only trying to memorize I'm not trying

to read these books and memorize them I'm trying to read for a couple of different things and I'll go through those uh in just a second but the point is I'm taking something uh looking for material to practice that's short so it's typically going to be for kids it's usually got pictures in it which can help you understand the the like the content whatever that is I'll look open this one so I think this is a this is a British translated version here uh this one is a Japanese original version so it's actually a slightly

different story uh in this one uh the wolf actually gets killed but in this one the wolf does not so it's interesting even you can see different versions of how people uh how people tell the story but what's uh kind of interesting about this is we're trying to get the practice to mirror how people really communicate so each of the people you will meet in your daily life or at work or you know seeing people online or whatever uh each of them will speak in a different way so you really need to get exposure to

lots of different versions of books in the same way so if I only take one book and I just read it one time I can probably understand that but it's a much better idea if I review the content and then I'm going to maybe check different versions of the book see how other people might tell the story and then really focus on particular passages of the book so that I can understand those so when I first get a book like this uh you know whatever the book is I'm I'm just FOC fusing on this one

I have a few different uh kind of collections of things like this that I read uh and again you don't need to buy books you can find most copies of things uh online as well excuse me uh and also have uh like the the video of people maybe reading the book so that's another part of this I I'll I'll just mention that right now since I'm talking about it um but but another thing I do as I'm reading I will also listen to other people reading this book so I can find this same book right

here on YouTube and actually hear a a few different people telling the story so I've listened to uh like there was a little boy I think if you can actually search for this book on uh YouTube and you can find um different people so one was like a a woman telling a story uh or or reading a different version another version that I have but there was a little boy telling the story or reading the story and so I can hear how he reads it and this is improving my pronunciation improving my listening and helping

me kind of go through the book at the same time so you notice I'm trying to get all this strategic review of the book I'm trying to get this from many different ways rather than just taking one novel reading it once and then not really being able to remember much of the information in it okay so even if I do again the point is to really understand specific passages of books and really understand how they work so I will take a book like this the first thing I'm doing uh once I've selected some material and

again you want to look at something short books pretty easy to read and the when I talk about graded readers it could be things that like you as an English learner you're probably more uh looking for specific language patterns rather than specific maybe phonics rules or something like that um but so I might read something like this and I'm looking for I I'll show you the English version in a second uh but when I'm reading something like this I'm looking at like what are the specific language patterns and then how can I review those so

that I can understand that and start using that fluently again the point is not to remember the book it's to it's to really understand what the patterns are so I can start using those myself all right I don't want to just have passive understanding I need to eliminate any doubt I have uh so let's look at Mouse tales and see if I can find some interesting passages in here uh that give you a bit more example of this so we have uh the contents over here you can take a look at that uh and this

is actually uh so like part of a kind of graded reader series here uh so this is reading with help and they have a few different levels here this is I don't I'm not really a big fan of this like kind of specific reading level because when I look at it often the way uh English books are are kind of graded the the grading is not really done by how how the phonics are so it's not really working through the the levels uh that the English is taught uh or English should be taught normally and

it becomes more difficult for some readers to like a like a younger child uh could maybe read this book with help but they would probably have trouble because there are many difficult phonetic rules that are taught or used in this book all right so even here like here is some chewing gum so gum over here this is a very simple word like like cat that we had before so a short vowel sound like G gum so lots of beginning readers would be able to get this but chew the the ew here this long u this

uh the cheing so that sound we've got like a diagraph and then we've got the ing in there as well and so something like that would be a bit more difficult so again this is speaking about graded readers for people who are learning how to read like learning the uh the actual sounds of the words and how they work but uh more specifically for you as an English learner who probably can read a lot already this is really about understanding language patterns and focusing on those specific specific things uh that maybe uh maybe you you

you kind of understand you have a passive like you can recognize it but you wouldn't feel very confident about using it so anytime you're reading something like that you want to look through as you're going through the book and think like okay if I'm reading something could I use that myself would I feel comfortable using that and if you don't then that's something you should go back and review so you actually take your time and and and think uh strategically and actively about what you would review if you need to review something or not so

if you were reading a book like let's say we uh like there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother so something like this like this is actually a fairly complicated uh sentence uh especially for English learners but let's just say like we we would take something like this and then break it down into smaller pieces and make sure we understand each one and then we put them back together to make sure you can understand everything and use it fluently so if you're looking for something like this like even just this first sentence of

the story here there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother so the first thing we would do we actually start with the end of the sentence and we've got visit his mother or we could even have just something very simple like just understanding the idea of mother all right so we take one word like this we start at the end of the sentence and work back forward so mother okay like I understand that idea pretty easy I could use that I feel confident about using that all right so we go back another letter

here or another uh another word his mother so we're talking about a person's mother do I understand how to use that do I feel confident about using that these are just you know questions you can ask yourself but you would normally feel do I feel confident about saying something or not all right so probably you feel confident with something like this this just very quick uh two-word combination here so his mother then could you take this and use it in a different context like you have uh his father or his mother or his dog or

whatever so if you feel confident about doing that then you can again go back further into the sentence and then look for maybe longer pieces that maybe you might have trouble with so here we have visit his mother again we're just taking a step back pretty easy to do so visit his mother pretty easy idea if you feel confident about that it's a person or in this case a mouse going to visit his own mother so visit his mother you don't have to think about a sentence as as a whole thing we have to think

about the the units of information or the ideas in a sentence to understand the whole thing so we have visit his mother all right pretty easy and then if we go back a little bit further wanted to to visit his mother all right so here we have okay want to visit his mother I have a pretty good idea of how to say this uh maybe I have like I want to do something so we understand want to like want to visit you can even focus on that as a particular thing to uh just just to

look at that can I take that can I can I change it a little bit like want to go want to play here we're talking about the past so he wanted to do something again I want to focus on things and really spend time reviewing it looking at things in different ways to clear up any doubt that I have about that all right and as we move back through the sentence it becomes easier if we look at the little pieces so the the kind of chain of each of these things the sentence becomes easier to

understand if you understand the little pieces of it so we have wanted to visit his mother all right and so now we have who like who wanted this who here is actually connecting the these two parts of the sentence so the first one is there was a mouse that's it like that's a pretty simple idea One Thing by itself so there was a mouse and we could actually make this as two different sentences if we wanted to so there was a mouse the mouse wanted to visit his mother so when we understand that idea okay

this is a way of connecting those two ideas in one sentence so there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother all right and remember as we're reviewing things we try to take them play with them say them in different ways and again in this case we could just make two different sentences so if we wanted to make the book even simpler for people there was a mouse that's it or even simpler than that although not a sentence is just a mouse all right so we're just having a picture like that and again when

we have just a picture of something it's just very easy there was a mouse and then what did the mouse do well he want wanted to visit his mother there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother all right so once I'm feeling confident about that I'll know I'm able to say that in a conversation if I have no doubt if I could make maybe some different sentences all right so we want to take something just like we're we're taking this like we we talked about the steps of of trying to read something we

don't want to change too many things about the sentence we just want to change maybe one thing just to see if we can understand the sentence and feel feel confident about using it so as an example uh there was a dog who wanted to visit his mother okay so maybe instead of a story about a mouse we have a story about a dog but I'm just changing one thing about the sentence and then I'm still feeling confident that I understand what's happening but this will help me get that naturally varied review so I eliminate the

doubt that stops me from speaking all right so there was a cat who wanted to visit his mother or there was a rabbit who wanted to visit his friend or there was a rabbit who wanted to go to the park there was a rabbit who wanted to go to the park now this might seem like wow this is we're we're kind of like focusing a lot on something and really going deep into this and the point is we want to do that because most people who struggle to speak they struggle because they actually don't feel

very confident about these little things they think know them they think they understand that but if you ask them make this sentence into something different so I could ask chat GPT I could give this this sentence to chat gbt and it could give me a hundred different versions of this sentence and it would alter the words in some way so there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother can I say it quickly can I say it clearly do I feel confident can I change the sentence in some way could I change the tense

so maybe I could say there was a mouse who Maybe baby would go visit his mother so we're talking about in the future even like there kind of like there was a past thing but uh he had not gone yet uh maybe to visit his mother so I could change the sentence a little bit and not really change the structure very much but I could talk about again a different person or a different setting or doing a different activity uh but you get the idea all right so the more you you spend time focusing on

this this is what I'm doing when I'm reading something in Japanese I'm not trying to read a long novel and my my Japanese uh speaking is is much better than my ability to read because there are so many uh Kani to learn these are Japanese written the the Japanese written language you have actually three different uh character sets uh in addition to some English words that are used as well so uh let's just go through this again and you'll hear as as I repeat these things but I say them in slightly different ways it's not

boring to listen to because you get to hear different versions of this and this is something you can do by yourself as you read so there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother there was a dog who wanted to buy a house there was a cat who wanted to do you know this or that all right hopefully that makes sense all right let's just continue here so he bought a car and started to drive to his mother's house all right now this is an interesting thing here like we're trying to teach uh if

I'm teaching my kids about doing something so we have so he bought a car so we have here's the conclusion of that and started to drive to his mother's house he started to drive to his mother's house so here maybe you know like he drove to his house but here we're learning oh we can make this a bit more interesting by talking about the beginning of an activity he started to drive or I could use the different word he began to drive you can use both of those in this sentence so so he bought a

car and began to drive to his mother's house pretty simple all right so as we're looking at these things the point is not to uh just like read through it one time and then okay I I understood the information but did you eliminate all the doubt would you be able to tell this story yourself uh if you were if someone said okay like you read it now like tell me the story of what happens and so people might be like well maybe I can and you don't have to say it exactly but the point is

do you remember it well enough that even uh in your own words you could tell that story again so I will spend time and it I usually when I'm doing this it's maybe 15 minutes in my day so I will read like as an example if I'm just you know getting a new book like this like it would actually take me uh some time to to get used to it especially in Japanese because my Japanese reading is still really slow but you can see here like it's a pretty simple uh well if you don't speak

Japanese but but uh when you're looking at something like this even if I'm reading it slowly like I might listen to someone else I can read you a little Japanese here um and I learn uh like the patterns that we have in Japanese just like we have patterns of speech in English so mukash mukash see I can't can't even read well so this is the same kind of idea like we just read with uh the mouth so it's just like mukashi mukashi like a long time ago so the same kind of thing we start these

stories with in English uh like the name of uh you know really any any kind of book it's like a long time ago or once upon a time you will learn these so so lots of Japanese stories in the same way they begin with like mukashi mukashi arut so like a long time ago there was something that whatever so uh again when I'm reading this uh I'm also reading it out loud so like the other I don't know a few nights ago I read this story to my daughters so usually I will read to them

in English but I read them this book uh in Japanese but it was also a good practice for me so if I can listen to this I might Listen to As I said other people telling this same story or reading this book you can hear people read whole books I'm not going to read through uh any of these books over here uh but I'll show you this uh the cover over here I think someone was asking about that um the specific book book you read is not so important but it should be something that you're

interested in at least I mean these these stories are actually quite funny and and they're good and my kids enjoy these uh Arnold Lobel so this is a guy who wrote a few different books and he illustrates these as well and so he wrote uh like owl at home and frog and toad our friends that series of books uh he actually had a uh or I guess I don't know if he's still live or not but there was a a museum exhibit with his pictures which was really interesting that came to Nagasaki not that long

ago anyway uh so hopefully you get the idea uh we're picking something that's short so we feel confident that we can understand that thing and that we will want to review it and reviewing doesn't feel really boring because we're going through and and kind of picking different things as we read so when we're when we're reading something we really want to make sure that we're uh we're not boring ourselves so I might find something and I'm looking like okay how many like can I look for a specific grammar point I'm interested in or specific words

or whatever that particular phrasing might be uh or am I trying to learn how to connect longer phrases because often I I will hear people complaining about how uh either they are not able to use longer more complex sentences or they have trouble understanding natives or other people on movies or TV shows or whatever uh when they are speaking longer so if someone is speaking continuously for a long time it can be difficult to follow that information so this kind of training will allow you to do that so these are uh some quite lowlevel books

like even these uh this Japanese uh version of this this is this actually has some some interesting phrasing in it uh some things and I was able to learn some new vocabulary with this as well that I was then able to use but also uh when we're looking for things like this it's it's still going through those graded readers to make sure okay at this level I would feel confident saying that thing and that's the real test so it doesn't matter if you understand it it's how well do you understand it so you feel confident

about saying something okay hopefully that makes sense uh let me see if I can find uh oh here all right here's a good one right here uh I will uh I'll read this another section of this here but we can apply those same rules we did earlier so I'll read you the full sentence first and then we'll go back and look at it piece by piece now this is also another thing we do uh INF fluent for life so we actually have a whole lesson set that is about this kind of thing where um we

we look at different pieces of things and try to build up the sentences and help you understand that all right so he helped his mother pick flowers so this little mouse here he was uh I'll just tell you the quick story for some background so this mouse was out walking so see how like I feel fluent that I could tell the story about this this is a story called The Clouds there is a mouse at the beginning of the story he's very happy he goes out and looks up at clouds and he sees you know

a mouse and a castle and other things in the clouds but then the clouds start to turn into a cat and he gets very nervous about that oh no and so he runs away from the cat and then he runs down to his mother and his mother says okay there's nothing to worry about it's just a cloud and look it's disappearing it doesn't look like a cat anymore so he goes back down and starts helping his he was on a hill and he goes back down and he just starts helping his mother pick flowers and

he does not look up at the clouds again for the rest of the day all right so that's the that's the basic story uh and because I'm fluent I could tell the story after reading it a few times I know what the story is it's pretty easy to understand even if I don't remember the exact words okay the point is not to remember it to memorize it but to understand what's happening so they we can take pieces of the story or even tell the whole thing if we wanted to uh but now let's look at

this sentence here so he helped his mother pick flowers but he did not look up at the sky for the rest of the afternoon all right so this second part of the sentence here but he did not look up at the sky for the rest of the afternoon he did not uh look up at the sky for the rest of the afternoon so we're we're we're connecting like two ideas here uh one is the thing he did or did not do so he did not look up at the sky and then we put this up

here for the rest of the afternoon so if you maybe heard of something like this like uh hopefully now if you didn't know it before you can say like oh that's an interesting uh like sentence construction here or or just a language pattern of like the rest of something so if I'm if I have some kind of uh time period like we have here maybe I uh I start doing something at this point so right now it's uh let's say 3:00 so I started doing something uh at 1:00 and then this thing ends at let's

say 5:00 and so if I start doing something from here to here this is the rest the rest of the time so the rest of the time it's the remainder what's left so there are different ways of expressing this but one way to say this is the rest of the time so when you read something you should be thinking oh look at that isn't that interesting here's here's a like just an interesting uh kind of piece of the language and if you feel confident about using it then you will use that in your conversations and

you will feel more confident and fluent and everything works from you understanding because you eliminated doubt so we have something like this like the rest of the time or the rest of the day the rest of the afternoon the rest of this video all right so the remaining part so not the the the part we already finished the part that's finished it's the remainder the rest of it and just like we could have the rest of the time we could also have like let's say I have a pie so I'm eating a delicious piece of

pie over here and I have this amount of pie over here left so this is the piece of pie that I ate and this is the rest of the pie okay so it's the remaining part the rest of the time the rest of the pie and this is why again it's important to understand these things and when you see something like that maybe you knew this already but uh if you yes it's supposed to be I'll draw maybe a better uh picture of a pie uh how does that look so this is looking at it

from the side now all right so this is my my delicious uh look at that steaming hot just out of the oven my piece of pie so if I have I cut my piece of pie out of that and the remaining part is the rest of the pie the rest of the pie so anytime we have something and we take a piece out of it so one if we have like two people over here and eight people over here two people leave well the rest of the people the rest of the people okay so uh

it's really important to understand things like this like within context so we're understanding okay this is uh we're talking about like the whole story so the mouse began he was looking up at the sky and he was out with his mother and then for the rest of the afternoon he did not look up at the pie or at the sky so he did not for the rest of the afternoon he did not look up at the sky all right yes people get hungry when I start talking about pie you want some pie some pie all

right so if you're learning a language where typically people will Begin by where's my blue marker where did that go oh here it is uh so like often you will have like let's say I'm a Japanese person uh learning or not j a Japanese person learning English for example so I would begin with like a word like rest if I ask a Japanese person who knows English even a little bit I would say what does rest mean they would probably think like yasumu like to uh like to take a break or something like that like

they might know the word like like restroom going to the toilet you know like the restroom you take a rest like let me let me have a break a rest a a relaxing time or something like that and the reason they think that is because usually they learn the English word through a translation so if you're learning English the typical way learning English as a second language then you would think like oh okay rest means uh like to you know relax or we're going to sit down or do something like that but here it's a

different meaning and and so we're not trying to look at the word itself and get a translation we're trying to understand how it works in the sentence okay so in this sentence it's like oh look at that the rest means the the continuation or the like the Japanese translation of this would be like no like no boom so what the the remaining time or the remaining amount or the remaining number of something so we we take this when we understand the idea again uh like I showed you before with the other example in the book

about playing with it so we could have the rest of the people the rest of the book the rest of the time the rest of the book you know what the rest of the the movie or something uh and then you have something now I've got this pattern that I can use fluently in conversations okay so again instead of taking something like a novel we take something short and even you could just take one short story I mean these are only a few pages uh from a book like this but it's very easy to understand

and the point again like I I really want to make this clear it's not about just understanding something the point is do you feel confident enough to say that thing in a conversation if you do not then get that review go back and make sure you really understand it you could you know ask Google or chat GPT or whatever to just explain what a what a grammar point is like what's happening but for uh books like this it's much easier to understand because you can see pictures showing what's happening and okay like I am going

to go or I'm going to pick flowers said mother I will stay here and watch the clouds said the little mouse so you can see what's happening like the mother is leaving and the little mouse is talking with his mother oh okay I I understand what's happening so I get the general idea I can understand if someone said it to me but okay I will stay here and watch the clouds could I take that sentence and could I change it would I feel confident saying this in a conf ation if you have zero doubt then

yes you would be able to do that but if you do have a doubt about something excuse me uh then I would spend more time looking at that so when when I'm reading through a book if like like the uh like this Japanese uh book that I'm looking through you know myself the first time I read it I'm just getting a feel for the language but maybe I would read this I don't know I've read this like I don't know 50 times or something and each time I'm I'm looking for maybe something different to focus

on for that particular reading so I want to make sure like I get you know maybe good pronounciation or pronunciation one time so I might uh listen to someone else read the story or I might listen to two or three other people read the story and that's why it's a really good idea to uh to make sure I have uh I choose the right content and that content means there are different versions of that that other people might also know so that's why I pick something pop popular like The Three Little Pigs or in Japanese

there are other like momot or something like that that's another kind of popular children's story uh but a Japanese story so I can find lots of different books that would give me that same information even though it's in a slightly different way all right let me go back and check chat uh I think people are getting it though does this make sense so the the point is when we're reading something it's not do you understand it it's do you feel confident about saying that thing and if you if there is any kind of Gap there

then spend more time with the individual words or sentences or whatever that are causing you doubt and then you solve that doubt you end those doubts and then that will enable you uh enable you to say those things in a real conversation all right uh let me go through let me know if you have any questions but I'll go back and check make sure I answered other people here all right looks like we got a quite a few questions here all right uh Vincent from okay I think I read that one already uh let's see

where did I stop re says Salam Al Alum Alum uh n says guys I'm in the country of people see me speaking out L with myself uh they would think I'm crazy what about your culture is that all around the world yes uh I don't know I suppose you could talk to yourself but you don't even have to talk to yourself to become more fluent you can see like just from looking at this example that I'm showing you with uh with these books that you get fluent by understanding the language better not just by repeating

stuff to yourself if you can already feel confident saying something then you already know that thing you become more confident as you introduce new things so you're kind of giving yourself new challenges or new individual words and phrases that help you understand the language better that's the point Mike says hi all good night from Colombia so you would say good evening if it's the evening unless you are leaving the conversation so I think we talked about this last time uh let's see Carlos says I have good English accent or a good English accent but when

it comes to speak uh in a conversation I struggle because I want to find the right words in the English but the good is that I don't have to translate in my native language ah yeah so your you're kind of problem Carlos is that you just need more uh you need more experience with with the content and so so when you're talking about like people Express this idea of not being able to find the right words and that's because they're they're usually thinking about one way to say something but when you look at uh like

if we're comparing different books like this there are different ways to tell the same story so there's not only one version of The Three Little Pigs and there are some people tell the story where the the wolf gets killed at the end some people tell the story where the wolf runs away it kind of depends on the the kids or whatever like this one this one here uh the the the last pig eats the wolf at the end of the story so it's a it's a different a different version of that and I was explaining

that to my uh to my younger daughter I was saying well pigs could actually eat wolves she was she was surprised to hear about that uh but again you you get that information as you spend more time when you when you focus on something like that it's the focus the Strategic review that gets you fluent it's not just trying to sit there and and repeat things to other people so you you do have to have some kind of active role uh if you're not having someone else do it for you so INF fluent for life

we take you through these steps uh where we help you eliminate the doubt from things like this uh but this is how you would do it by yourself if you're trying to do that as well well K says hi TJ Drew Ohio goas nice to see you there and Neo so says thanks and okay thank you for free lessons yep so go out and enjoy be sure to use what I'm learning and if you or use what I'm teaching uh and if you have questions let me know and if you like what we're doing click

the like button and share the videos all right I don't translate in my mind I think in English when I try to find the right words can you give me some advices to improve that so based on the the way you're speaking and and like you might have some mistakes like advices instead of advice which is uncountable um I would spend more time getting input strategically like I'm showing you in this video so that will make it if you really spend time with something so me instead of trying to read 10 books I would read

this one book 10 times and then really try to understand it and I would become like oh I now I understand like ah mukashi mukashi like I would I would know how to structure that sentence in the same way like if I'm if I'm speaking Japanese and talking about a uh you know something like a long time ago something something happened like that so I'm spending more time getting review and most people just don't do that you know for for whatever reason usually because it's it it's it's boring to to try to just read the

same book over and over again so you have to introduce some kind of variety that makes it more interesting for you all right T says sir is there any you would say off on way just speak more slowly in situations often config as high stakes I don't know what I mean are you when you say high stakes what do you mean by that like are you in a hostage situation like someone is is holding a gun to your head or something like that usually you can control conversations by either you speaking more slowly or I

would like let's say someone else is speaking faster I might say like that's an interesting point I'm I'm just kind of stopping the conversation and and and controlling the conversation in that way just to slow them down uh right Roberto Roberto says what's about people who do not has good good English well I would start with very simple things that that little kids watch just do that so if you're if you're watching videos on this channel this is really for people who already understand English quite well uh but let's see I want these books yeah

you again like you don't you don't need like this book specifically there are lots of good books like this and you can either find them online or go to the library and get them for free or whatever let's see it says I bought two books in Great Falls The Mouse and the motorcycle and A Long Walk to Water I hope it is the right for me you could say I hope it is right for me or they are right for me and so we have like uh let's see good evening oh from India Little Red

Riding Hood is another example mouse tails yeah uh good evening from Portage Indiana all right I think you guys are talking with each other over there hello from Chile nice book can't handle the mass amount of American idioms says Amia hii uh where where you where are you getting all these idioms so now when you'll notice I don't really use idioms when I'm when I'm teaching these lessons unless I'm specifically teaching or introducing something like that U but it depends on the the kind of content you get so I you you have to control that

as a learner so if you're trying to watch something that's too difficult and you feel overwhelmed by that then you probably should not be learning with that unless you can you can have a uh you know like a teacher who can help you do that a go say says good method automatic Association good evening greatest teacher well welcome Leo uh what about Golden Books yeah Golden Books are fine an easy method for training let's see Unice says hello teacher Drew hello everyone all right I'm going to go quickly through these I remember that the mouse

wanted to visit his mother and that is all that's okay I didn't really tell the whole story but I I just because this that's probably my I think in this book uh as as my my favorite story I'll just I'll just tell you this uh this very quickly I won't read the whole thing uh but so there was a mouse who wanted to visit his mother and I guess he lives very far away so he buys a car and he drives for a long time but then the car breaks down look at that so the

car falls apart like until the car fell apart look at that I'm learning a very useful phrasal verb in context here and I can see it like the actual pieces of the car like they fell apart so the car fell apart and so he got some roller skates and he was skating for a long time until the wheels fell off another useful phrasal verb right here that you're learning in context you can actually see it happening like the wheels are falling off because he rode so much and then at the side of the road he

met someone who was selling boots and he walked and walked until the boots wore out he got big holes in them and then he got some sneakers and ran and then he took the sneakers off and he walked on his feet and he hurt his feet so bad he actually found someone who was selling feet by the side of the road so look at that so he bought some new feet and he walked all the rest of the way to his mother's house and his mother when she saw him she said you are looking fine

and what nice new feet you have so I always I enjoy reading that one to my kids they like that story too but uh but this is a a it's another uh really good example of naturally varied review because we're taking basically the same joke or the same story and saying it again in a slightly different way so he bought some shoes and then he bought this and then he bought that and then he bought that and then he bought that okay and so as you're reading this like it's it's the naturally varied review as

you go through the book as well so lots of good things in the story to help you feel more confident and use the language more fluently all right the whole idea is to eliminate doubt not to sit and like practice saying things to yourself you will not become a more confident speaker sitting and saying things to yourself because either you know it well already and you feel confident or you do not that's it all right so if you if you can say something confidently you don't need to practice that because you already know how to

do it you now you need to go learn something else and increase your uh your active vocabulary the number of things you can use fluently all right let me see here did I oh I think I got all those all right but hopefully you enjoyed that the advice you give us is always a spot on and really helpful thank you it's my pleasure yeah so mukashi uh is old but like mukashi mukashi is like really old so you can see oh that's interesting in Japanese it's like they they took that like mukashi mukashi or some

some people just say mukashi uh but you will hear both of those in U uh in Japanese stories so again like this let's see how they introduce it in in this one so this this this version actually doesn't begin with mukashi mukashi but it's a similar kind of sentence so it's just like there were three brothers you know so there were like three three brother pigs that's it uh and so it doesn't have to be in the same way but as you're reading those you think oh like these are different ways of people telling the

story just like people speak differently in real conversations all right now where did we go all right people talking about pi over here let's see mukashi mukash yes see like a long time ago in a in a land far away all right I'm hungry says cam it is a very skillful book well the book is you know it's it's just a regular book but if we use the book in a skillful way then we can use that book to become more fluent JD says hello from bogot I'm Juan Carlos I was a Warner ing how

long you have lived in Japan and if you're ready to speak Japanese fluently yes uh I've been in Japan for 20 years on and off so not continuously but I guess maybe how many years now 16 17 years uh and yes I speak Japanese fluently but basically what that means is that like I can have good conversations and talk with all different kinds of people but there's still many things I don't know just like there are many things in English I don't know all right Muhammad says I'm watching from koala lur Malaysia fabios is nice

method and I'm not going to try to pronounce it I'm going to pronounce it badly I'm sure when you learn Japanese a new word do you write down its meaning in your own language English or explaining in Japanese uh usually I don't I don't use any English to learn it unless it's I don't know unless it was like really difficult or something but in that case I really want to understand things within English or excuse me within Japanese if I can uh and writing the word down is helpful but if I if I can connect

with it and eliminate the doubt then I usually don't need to do that uh so hopefully like the example I gave you before about what the word rest means so it could mean you sitting down or going to the toilet or like that kind of rest but it also can mean the remainder of time so when I'm when I'm learning new words like like another uh word I learned recently was like like down payment on a house so that's like uh a uh and and like atama is like the head and I was thinking oh

isn't that interesting here's another use of that same word and I understood it within the context so I didn't need to write it down so just like at the start of the month we can call that the head of the month in Japanese and so when I when I'm getting these examples I'm basically building a network in my mind that helps me understand the vocabulary so I don't need to write them down it's nice if I do but I mean often I I I don't need to do that often I will I will try to

write something if it's a sentence pattern that I would like to understand and I and I want to give myself different examples of it so I might say that to myself or I will actually write down different examples and and really that's for me just getting practice with writing and reading in Japanese because that's a different skill and it's a different alphabet so if you are for example a Spanish speaker you already know all the letters in English even though the the pronunciation might be a little bit different so you wouldn't really need to write

that down but for me like I actually should practice writing the characters and things like that just to get faster at doing it uh Leo says for me Brazilian it is a much more easy you would say much easier because AR rest of the same word Resto in Portuguese yes and so you have other things like that like if you have Resto I don't know if that means uh remainder for you or if it just means relaxing uh but you can see why it's important to learn the language in the language so I'm not trying

to translate anything I really want to understand it very well within the language all right Tom again mouse Fabio let's see and leelu good morning from Thailand and can can great Sammy says Hi everyone from Yemen Muhammad Ali restroom mean we have another Furniture in room we need to take from in room outside house well the English word restroom it usually just means toilet because people don't want to say toilet just like in Japanese like you could say toilet or you could say like like handwashing like washing place so that's called a euphemism it's a

way of saying something without saying that thing all right times of lots of messages above yes Christian says I am new here greetings all from El Salvador advice is uncountable yes uh and if you think about it like you can't you can't really count advice you just like you can't count water but you could count one piece of advice or word of advice or a you know a like some some advice you could you could you could count that so I think I made a a video before about uh talking about the like the container

that something is in so this water the water itself is uncountable but if I I could take that water and put it into different containers like I could have uh a drop so this is a drop of water or I could have a cup of water or a bowl of water or a lake of water all right so the water itself is uncountable and instead of having water I could have air or pasta or advice I could have like a drop of advice or a cup of advice same kind of thing okay uh let's see

okay look at that all right yber says I from Colombia Bridget hello T Drew I am following your advice on staying on one subject until I get the understanding it is working thank you yes look at that people listening and achieving very good very good jungle boy says thanks a lot Drew by the way which is better for learning English physical or ebooks uh it does it depends on you as a person I like having physical books maybe that's just because I'm getting older or something but I like a physical book uh it helps me

remember like where maybe where a page is in a book or I can uh write something down easily I can feel the words it's just a different kind of thing than uh than having a digital version but it depends on you some people like I don't I don't like e-readers I don't like reading on a screen really I can do it on a phone for a little bit but I would not want to read a digital Book on a phone like that uh but it depends on you let's see an experience hair specialist that's a

great name uh this is my first time being live with you well welcome Muhammad Ali says I can understand English language but can't speak English what can I do uh the point is that you understand well enough to recognize things but you don't understand well enough because you still have doubts about the language that's it so until you solve those doubts you will still have trouble speaking so if you if if you uh like I've shown you one way to do that using books and a specific kind of book a specific kind of practice like

systematic uh like systematic reading where we're we're really trying to focus on something and really understand it well to eliminate any doubt we have that's the whole goal and so if I have no doubt about whatever I want to say then I will speak fluently like right now I have no doubt about what I'm saying so I have no trouble speaking but often Learners like they could understand me but they can't speak as well as I do because they still have doubts about various you know some phrases or some grammar or whatever the the thing

is so if you want to eliminate the doubt then focus on that particular thing and really understand it well I've just I've shown you one way to do that with books but uh other videos I have we uh show you different ways to do this and you know you it's it is possible to do this by yourself it just takes a lot more time and it's more frustrating because the the amount of time you spend trying to figure something out you waste a lot of time with that that's the that's the biggest kind of time

wasting part of learning a language so what I discovered as I got fluent was the actual fluency develops in those specific moments where you understand something better the rest of the time is just like finding information or organizing information or asking people questions other things like that so most of the time is wasted so if you have someone who can just tell you what everything is you can understand it very quickly you eliminate the doubt and you feel more confident about speaking okay so you can do it yourself it just wastes a lot of time

uh but yes there are different ways to do that and I would recommend just watching the other videos we have on the channel and I show you different ways to do that uh let's see all right Richard says thank you for sharing ever since I learned from your channel I can rest assure that I will be able to speak fluently as soon as possible yeah so you focus on particular things you get fluent in those things and then you move on to the next thing and that's how it works so that's all I'm doing in

Japanese like I just f focus on this one book for a little bit and I learn a lot and I become more fluent and I can use things like like uh like he it's like to start a fire and then I could use that like in a different situation and talk about starting a fire somewhere else and so when I understand that it's like oh okay I understand what that means I feel confident there's no doubt now I can use that in my conversations and that's exactly what happens uh so here's here's a perfect example

of that so I was uh I was reading so at this at this point in the story and I mean I knew I knew this like this uh this grammar already uh or this just like a verb so right now the the the pig is putting the uh the well the wolf anyway let me tell you the rest of the story so the wolf is up here and he goes down the chimney if you don't if you don't know what this is this is called a chimney a chimney and so this is where the smoke

from the fire comes up out of a house and the and the W goes down and so the wolf is very quickly he's going to light a fire so I understand you know what this means in Japanese I understand the situation and it's like oh look at that so this is the actual Japanese here you get a Kani character he osima so he he lit a fire this would be the past tense of that and so uh like just like I knew what that was already but I hear this uh again in the book and

then I don't know I think like 2 days later after I was reading this my mother-in-law she had a uh like a paper towel roll or something like that and she was um and this is like a common thing in Japan like little massage kind of little massage tools people buy these a lot and you know people you will see Japanese people like with like little little stuff like this and they're just like like giving themselves massages or like rubbing the tops of their heads or something like that and so she was uh she was

taking this and like rubbing the like the inside of her foot you know kind of like a like a pressure point for a massage thing and I was like be careful you're going to start a fire I was like Kil get to heal course and she started laughing about that and so I took the the Japanese I had learned in context and was able to use it in a funny way in that situation and she thought that was funny and my wife thought that was funny too so here we are like when I understand something

you feel oh like I get it the doubt disappears I can understand something I feel confident about saying it then I speak all right that's the biggest advice again like I call this the strangest fluency secret because everybody thinks you're supposed to speak before you start you know like like before you become fluent like speech is the way you become fluent but it's actually the opposite speech is the result of understanding the language well all right so you don't need to spend a lot of time trying to speak with people to get fluent you just

need to understand the language better all right all right C got that I think anyway so like my you know she's always using like a little like a you know some kind of massage tool or something and like you know something like that especially like older Japanese people do that a lot um but I don't maybe it's a good idea I should start doing that as well uh but anyway I I just thought that was very funny because I'm I'm able to take something I understand it well so I can use it fluently that's how

it works okay so before like and I had like learned that word before but uh it kind of It kind of finally made sense to me I could feel that trigger uh like the switch in my brain flipping because I understood it well it's like oh look at that like he kosim like the the the pig lit of fire and like I understood what he was doing and then I could take that same thing and like you know my mother-in-law is doing this on her foot and I was like be careful you're going to start

a fire over there and she you know so I was able to take something understand it and use it fluently all right so the fluency actually develops as you understand the language better all right mud says hi I just moved to the US and my main problem is listening I have no idea how I can deal with native speakers then you need to you need to focus on particular things just like we're doing with this book so I need to remind myself if I'm uh focusing on something like this if there's something else outside of

this book that I don't understand it's okay my only job right now is to focus on this one thing and make sure I understand understand that that is the world I can control okay so you will find lots of things I might go watch a movie or hear somebody speaking some Japanese and not understand what they say that's okay like I you know he would maybe go through that same process to try to understand them better but there will be lots of times I'll hear some Japanese and not know what it is just like I

might hear some English and not know what people are talking about like if it's I don't know some subject I don't know much about but uh if I focus on something that that is the thing for me to work on and I I don't need to worry about everything else that I have trouble with so even if you can't understand everybody just work on on solving the problem one piece at a time uh let's see I'm frustrated with learning English study for 24 years and nothing nothing nothing well you probably have a pretty good understanding

but you've developed a large passive vocabulary so you can understand some things but the way you're learning is probably still like everybody learns in school it's basically learning uh English as a second language instead of understanding the language directly so I'm giving you examples of that and in today's video we're just talking about uh how to do this with books all right where did we go here let's Louis say welcome is welcome I got you all right Persona says hi Drew how are you nice to see you on live uh I have been waiting for

a long time waiting for long time you to come you could see I have been waiting for a long time I am happy to see you here and Manuel from Brazil all right let's see my I just oh I got answer that one already let's see you says you can throw a like here and make a wish to improve your you'll improve it for sure I promise very good Yes actually that's a great idea you know there's another story uh in Mouse Tales called the wishing well and this is a this is a story about

a mouse who uh tries to put money into a wishing well and the wishing well says ouch it's actually painful for the well and so the mouse has to think of a solution to that problem so speaking of wishes speaking of wishes uh let's see in English AOS is a let's see how can I learn spoken English through well just like I showed you in this video or like I showed you in in all my videos the whole point is to understand the language without a doubt and most people do not they understand the language

a little bit so they can hear it and maybe recognize some things but they stop there so they're always trying to learn new information but not really become fluent in the information they already know so if you know a lot of English but you can't speak fluently stop learning new information focus on the stuff you already know and make sure you understand it really well uh uh let's see and lwis says okay with a kind of sad face B well the point is not to just like study more it's not like go study it's like

the point is to understand the language well just why you you should watch more of my videos where I talk about this you will hear me explain this same idea in many different ways today we're just talking about it with reading specifically all right uh Leo says much easier and don't uh much more easy let's see I wrote wrong before thank you for correct you would say thank you for correcting me Bobby says Drew send to my Kindle please well I don't go go get it yourself go to Amazon and and put it on your

Kindle all right H says I don't get why the word vocal is countable like her vocals are excellent uh people often say so just hearing a single song she sings well they're talking about like the way the way she sings the vocals so it could be like I don't know I mean even like if you're if you want to be technical about that maybe they're talking about I don't know stereo channels or whatever but like we wouldn't say like her vocal it's it's just in general like when we're talking about um uh sounds like that

but that's it's an interesting thing maybe it'll be easier to remember that way let's see Tom says Lewis uh let's read some mouse books there you uh let's see I teacher thanks for what you do greetings from columia glad here Gabrielle says hello Drew is it possible to speak like a native sure all right the only like nobody is born native I had to become a native just like anybody else could become a native too so if I could learn if I could listen to a bunch of Japanese people read these stories like if I

hear some Japanese people read this book then I'm going to start sounding more like a native okay all right well it looks like we're getting to the end over here 71 minutes all right and th coins I don't know what those referring to hello and duck Oz is auna sp when you're learning in the wrong way so you could just say learning the wrong way also uh Tom Leo ala don't know that advice yes well now you know there you go and the English is back since I started watching your videos my English got to

the next level thank you so much Drew glad to hear it if you know other people we can help then send them to the channel say hey come get the get these videos this guy will take your English communication skills to the next level and the way we do that I like to actually explain how this works is eliminating the doubt that you have about the language that's how it works it's pretty easy all right leou says what do you recommend me or you what do you recommend for remembering new words um you should search

my channel for that but we actually have a program called how to remember any English word and that's with uh fluent for Life members get that uh and you can also add that if you're in the native fluency blueprint let's see hi sir how can I improve my English uh just watch my videos that's how you do it so my I try to make this this idea very simple and I repeat the same idea again and again but you'll notice I do this in different ways so I'm also giving you different vocabulary as we go

uh through like you know the different things like maybe we talk about the word rest in this video but I talk about different words or use uh other vocabulary in other videos but the basic idea is that when you're learning something and I think this answers uh let's see Moo's uh question what is the way to learning English it's just all you have to do is solve the particular doubt you have for for learning the language uh I I'll give this like a very quick review I haven't done this in a while uh but you

seem very passionate especially if you have been struggling for a long time to solve this problem for yourself now what happens in the brain when we're learning we're unable to speak about something until we actually get that thing until we feel confident that we will say something correctly so most people they will feel nervous about using a word or a grammar point or saying anything if they don't think they will say it correctly because people don't like making mistakes in front of other people you know that's uh kind of an obvious thing so just to

give you a uh let's see like a quick let me see see here I'm going to draw my usual little flash card flash card let me see here okay one two three so I'll give you some flash cards I'm going to give you a word in an alien language and this word is uh uh atis this is an alien language word this is not an English word but it will prove a point about how we learn languages so I'm teaching you a word called tis and now I'm going to give you some examples of what

that word means and show you why uh typically when people are if we're back post the comment if you can see this live or not I think we are all right I think we're back I don't know why that was that was weird anyway uh so I show you this and the word is TI tis what does that mean what do you think tis means all right Anette is there that was weird all right you were back all right sorry to scare people let's continue this all right so hopefully I I really want to make

the point about how people learn languages and usually what happens is because it's difficult to just understand something with one example people usually just get a translation of whatever that thing is so this is not an English word I'm just telling you I'm using like a madeup word like tis what do you think that means anybody just post in the comment what do you think it means all right Anette says I anyone else what do you think tis means in this alien language I I don't know what happened like my internet just cut out for

a second which was really weird but but I think we're I think we're okay I guess it looks like it's still cuz it's still showing me live and it's still uh transmitting over here but that's weird maybe cuz I walk to the other side of the screen I don't know anyway uh so anybody else we are okay go ahead post your comment let me know what you think this means TI all right let me get a drink of water while this is loading over here no one else so Muno says what is TI well I'm

asking you I'm teaching you a word right now what do you think it means so cam says I another person says I I lash all right so maybe maybe I could just tell you what it means but usually what happens or it means look good idea could mean look uh let's see kich is Marcelo con with the W on the end open could mean open all right let me give you another one to stare well that's interesting stare that fit in there stare all right so you don't really know for sure I'm just giving you

a word and and this could happen in real life anytime where you hear a word and maybe you think you have a good idea of what it means but maybe not all right let me give you another example all right now what do you think tis means tis TI what does tis mean so tis means eye and it means mouth you think is this is this mean are these like the same thing is that what tis means you think oh look at that Tom part of the body senses that's another good [Music] one tis tis

tis tis t t t t all right so as you get more examples of the same thing you're thinking well I mean like it could be the senses I give you even more examples like here's a tis as I continue to give you more examples it's those examples that clear up the doubt that you have about whatever some word means and in this case TI means body part okay so uh the idea for language learning is that you want to eliminate the doubt as quickly as possible and you do that by getting lots of varied

examples to help you understand something okay and so this works not just with language learning but like for anything in life so i' I've told this story before about how I was at a cafe and I saw a guy looking at a like a tablet so he looking at his screen and he was wiping or kind of waving his hand in front of the tablet like that and uh I said oh like is that uh is that like a fly or something like I was I was saying that to myself or or like you know

I had no idea what he was doing but I thought maybe it was like a motion control for the tablet so I said oh wow that's really cool like he can he can do a motion control on his tablet without touching the screen and then I was I continued to watch him and I saw finally like oh he's not uh he's not using motion controls it just there's just a fly buzzing around the screen he's trying to wave the fly away like that and so and that was like I'm getting more examples of seeing something

and then when I finally understand the the real thing and the the real thing is the the fly flying around the screen and then that guy left and now the fly was flying around me at that point in the story but anyway the point is I'm seeing uh as I get more information I feel more confident that I understand something all right so the first time you hear something like you hear a word and then you see something or maybe you make a connection but you don't really know for sure and that's that's going to

stop you from saying something so you might say the word but you've said it incorrectly like I might say oh like tis and then like uh like I also think like I point to some other thing that I think is an I also but like that the word I is not TS it's a different word all right but all of these together like it just means a body part all right and so as you're learning a language what most people do is they just get one example and a translation of something so they don't really

understand that thing very well in English or whatever word they're learning so when I'm learning Japanese I don't want to get just one example and try to translate something I want to hear many different examples to really understand what something means and when I really understand it when I understand something completely that means that I have no doubt about using something okay so that that's the basic idea of uh how we get fluent in a language and this works with uh with everything so it wouldn't be like parts of the phas cuz this is my

foot so that is not a part of my face but you get the idea that's why as a teacher I need to give many different examples to really help you understand something well all right and even my my drawings are not very good but you know if I'm if this were like a real lesson I would probably have some better pictures of of you know whatever the thing is I'm trying to teach like I do in Frederick so we actually have good drawings in Frederick all right so that's the app that will teach you things

like this and we actually do this in Frederick so when you're playing Frederick if you learn a new word you can actually scroll through different images that show you what the word means because if we just give you one image it's more difficult to understand okay so the whole language learning process works in this way it works this way not just for language learning but for any kind of learning the point is to eliminate doubt that's it and so when you feel no doubt the like oh okay I really understand tis means body part I

will feel very confident saying that all right let's see here all right we'll go through last questions here but I think that makes makes sense for people I think everybody got that though uh let's see all right so uh mono hopefully you understand now the way to learn English is to eliminate doubt is quickly as possible that's how I do it so as I explain to people the fastest way to become a fluent speaker is to eliminate the doubts that stop you from speaking that's it all right so I'm trying for many many many ways

but it's typically all the same kinds of ways that don't eliminate doubt and that's why people struggle to speak even if they learn for a long time or continue to study they still have doubts that stop them from speaking that's just that's the that's the basic reason uh so you don't need to find other people people to speak with you just need to eliminate the doubt I'm marelo I've been learning English since 2013 and nowadays I'm able to understand people and to be understood clearly you helped me a lot thanks glad to hear it click

that like button and share the video all right uh Tom Leo Drew is an amazing teacher yes I'm just trying to eliminate doubt that's all I'm doing here English my battery is running down and I think I'll rewatch live in the morning that's all right TI a new word yes no Tom don't remember this is not an English word all right Denny says I love this topic then you would probably enjoy uh Frederick a lot it's kind of like a game like this all right uh yes Anette says you are back okay like that was

weird let's see I agree let's see I open all right you guys are getting it everybody understands and duck off says if you're wondering how to improve your English well as long as you're watching this live you already got your answer yes all right but it's interesting the the differ uh the different meanings that you thought the word meant like does tis mean eye or does it mean mouth or or a sense or a body part something like that there there lots of things that it could mean and that's what the brain is trying to

do it's trying to connect the meaning of something with the the word itself and like what what does something mean and if we don't really know what something means then we have doubt and and humans don't do very good or don't do very well with doubt so if we feel doubt about something we usually don't act and that means we also don't speak all right so eliminate the doubt and this is something you can easily do by yourself all right Keo says I'm sorry I have to go again I'll take my leave for today uh

demo no yes you can you can take your leave that's fine uh this has been very informative glad to hear it let's see English is the S ears okay you guys are some members of the body organs all right everybody got it let's see so okay well we'll see you again I thought it was tissue yes so this is not I'm just trying to think of a you know like an alien word that is not a word in English so Anette likes my drawing all right let's see uh but everybody I think uh everybody got

it all right uh I only have one right arm and you ah well I have I have two I mean I have two arms I only have one right arm I guess but but uh and by the way Frederick is much better than dual lingo guys you should try it well thank you very much Tom you are our uh our manager for I think you can you can join our other manager you're you're the the app manager so go ahead and recommend it look at it uh let's see how many hours we need to study

English every day uh I don't know five minutes 15 minutes however much time you can spend but the point is your time should be spent in the actual learning the actual learning learning time so if you are not if you are trying to teach yourself how to get fluent you will spend a lot of your time just finding information and trying to understand what it means okay so if you have like uh like an hour of something in your day and you need to learn something and you're trying to teach yourself there will be like

a lot of time is spent just like finding information or maybe you don't quite understand it so you have to spend time looking things up and addtion AR or whatever uh and then like maybe you understand something there's a moment of understanding where you feel okay I understand something I feel more confident and then you go back to like searching you know looking for more stuff and then maybe you get another moment of understanding here all right so the benefit of having someone teach you is we eliminate all this stuff and just give you these

moments so if you have only five minutes in your day and you can just get those moments then you will get fluent faster all right so you don't need to spend the amount of time you spend is not important it's how quickly do you get the actual moments of learning where you understand something better so if you can eliminate the doubt that's what helps you speak uh let's see English says your amazing teaching strategies are the best in the whole world Barone well glad to hear it remember you would say your like uh let's see

your amazing teaching strategies are the best in the whole world oh you did that I'm I'm reading that incorrectly yes you said that correctly uh Elder says sup Drew nice to hear you this morning welcome uh tuckier says sir is there any video tutorial on how to use the Frederick app uh you can search our YouTube channel for that and Leonardo is back knowledge all right uh yes so uh tar if you search our YouTube channel for Frederick it shows you how to do it but basically you just play with the app and and the

point of it is to actually discover how to use it yourself so I'm still trying to think what's the best way to to organize the information in the app but if you're looking for a video that shows you how to do it then uh search our YouTube channel uh let's see and Zeo says hello my teacher I am following you would say I'm following you from Egypt your video about efl and ESL was incredible I'mma start this technique as soon as possible well welcome to the party over here and look at that LS with some

uh nice uh Spanish uh emojis over there I like that heart one after having dinner I spent the rest of the day learning English very good you use that correctly to spend the rest of the time or you could spend the rest of your money or the rest of your time or something like that the rest very good T I got eight out of 10 in the first lesson but was unable to progress beyond that thank you teacher you are answering all of my questions thank you do you understand hopefully let me know if there's

anything unclear about this because many people learn for many many years and they still can't speak because the typical ways that people learn they only give you part of the lesson they don't give you complete understanding which is why people struggle to speak all right so let me know I I really want to make sure you understand this because if you understand this whether you learn with me or not this is what you should be doing and so I just make it easier I'm basically like enabling people to learn much faster because I did all

the hard work of organizing things and making it easy to understand all R said says Hey sir I'm understanding what you're teaching in your videos but during speaking I'm getting stuck because of pronunciation of words get Frederick click on the link in the description below this video and get Frederick it will teach you how to do that all right yes Tom knows what I'm talking about Marcelo the secret for me was when I stopped questioning the rules and comparing to Portuguese I just accepted the language the way it is and I learned to fast yes

so if you like part of that is like like kids they just kind of accept uh the language and Z says how can I improve my f phonetics without learn A and E is well like there there is no way to understand phonics without actually looking at words so I don't know how you would do that but we make it very easy in Frederick so if you click on the link in the description below this video get the app and it will show you how to do that but it will make it fun as you

learn because the point is to discover how the language Works rather than just have a teacher like telling you stuff so you get to figure it out yourself and when you do that you explore you feel a lot more excited because you discovered something rather than a teacher telling you what something means all right hopefully that makes sense uh just a a very quick recap at the end of this video when you're trying to learn uh a language and like you guys are trying to learn English or I'm trying to learn Japanese the point is

to focus on something strategically so that we can learn it and really understand it to eliminate any doubt we have about that thing so we're not trying to learn a lot of information quickly we're trying to really take time uh as quickly as I can to um to make sure like that we understand something very well all right so it's not about trying to like uh like like learn as many words as quickly as possible I would rather know one word really well that I very that I I feel no doubt at all about using

that so if you can do that then you you've shown yourself how to how to get fluent uent all right so if you can get fluent in one word then you can get fluent in as many words as you like all right so that's the focus that's the secret the strangest fluency secret again and it's strange because people think they need to speak to get fluent when the truth is you really need to eliminate the doubt that's already stopping you from speaking so if you want to speak but you don't feel able to because you

feel doubt then eliminate the doubt don't worry about finding people to practice with just solve the actual problem that's stopping you from speaking and then you will speak if you'd like me to do this for you you can click on the link in the description to learn more about fluent for Life uh and Frederick as well which I've talked about in this video but uh everything I do in these videos is really explaining how to get fluent and showing you examples of that and then if you'd like help uh you can either do it yourself

or you can do it with me and get fluent a lot faster so click on the links and I will see you in the next video bye-bye