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all right let's see how quickly this gets going here come on YouTube anybody out there feel free to comment we'll see if this is this starting or not all right looks like we're going in live I am Drew Badger the founder of englishanyone.com and welcome to another live video here on YouTube today I thought this would be a very fun and entertaining and interesting lesson especially for a lot of people who would like to think more in English and the reason to do this is because it stops you from Tre translating hesitating those kinds of

things uh I'm going to show you why it's possible for you to do this that this really is easier than most people think uh and we're going to talk about Five Laws uh I really call them laws because if you follow them it's almost automatic that you will think more in English and if you don't follow them you will not so it's pretty simple all right uh also apologies because I was not here yesterday I thought uh I would be doing this yesterday but I was wrong anyway even you know I'm I'm wrong sometimes I

guess but hopefully everyone is doing well feel free to post a comment uh let me know how you are doing this should be pretty easy to understand these are actually the same principles I use in all of the videos that I make all the lessons that I make these are the things I'm thinking about uh but I thought this would just be a really good a really good chance to explain all of these things in a simple way that anybody can understand you can start applying this yourself you don't have to uh think about anything

special because your brain is doing this already uh so let's get into it all right let me make sure all right I think yeah comments I'll check comments uh in a moment make sure those are doing fine uh let's see all right so before we get into uh the lesson I just want to explain uh about thinking in English why it's possible to do this uh why people don't usually do this uh and that will lay the foundation for these five laws that we're going to cover uh but very quickly let me see if anybody

had any questions AR nice to see you there Muhammad can you suggest me tips or techniques to enhance my speaking well yes that's what we'll be talking about on this uh video uh Neils nice to see you from Wisconsin ildo to see they good listening to you this morning glad to hear it all right well let's get into the party uh this should be again an entertaining video so first of all the the basic idea uh is that your brain is already following these laws automatically you're doing these things in your native language and we

know you're doing these things in your native language because it's just kind of naturally how the brain operates it's not just for languages we really apply these laws uh to everything but we're just talking about them specifically for languages and I've heard uh like some people might say well it's it's more difficult to think of a new word in English because you already have a word for something in your native language u i talk about this but really the truth is uh most people have multiple words for particular things like in English we've got many

ways of talking about money uh or different ways of talking about many different things we can actually that's part of one of the laws we'll talk about uh in this video how you can describe things in different ways um so this isn't a reason to stop you from being able to speak or learn and think all in English because you're doing this already uh and even further uh rather than only maybe trying to have uh like different ways of describing words you would have whole ways of speaking that are different so you might speak to

children in your native language in a way that's different than you would speak to adults or you have a formal way of speaking speaking or a not formal way of speaking or you have a way of talking or the vocabulary you would use for your profession that people outside of that profession would not know and you learn all of these things the same way all in your native language so it's really like you're actually knowing and using multiple languages already and if you simply apply that same thinking the same laws that your brain is using

the same automatic things your brain is doing if you apply those to English then you will think uh think and speak with uh without hesitating and translate all right so it should be pretty simple uh if people want to talk about talk about tprs technique I don't know what that is but you can uh if you if you want to tell tell me more about what that is uh I I try not to confuse people uh or worry about like particular techniques it's really just uh what we're going to get into right now which is

either you're learning English as a first language or you're learning it as a second second language and this is where really the foundation or the heart of the thinking in your native language and translating where that comes from so the goal uh as I mentioned just a moment ago so in your native language you probably have multiple ways of describing the same thing and you also use different ways of talking for different situations again professionally casually with children those are just different examples but the main point is that you can either do something within the

language itself or you can try to cross over from one language to the other one and so really the goal if you want to think in English you need to learn in English because how we learn is how we speak all right so uh the typical way that people are learning like let's say this is your your native language I'll just use Japanese as an example uh that's not fitting up there put the J right there uh so Japanese is your native language for example and this is English over here and so if you trying

to learn English typically people will Begin by thinking about something in their native language in Japanese and then they will have a word uh and then try to translate that way so you're going from one language to another one so if you learn that way again you will be thinking that way when you try to speak so when you want to speak uh you will have to think about those same things in your native language and then translate them in your head so the goal is really to learn everything within the language itself okay that's

the like the core foundational idea of this and as I just said you're doing this already okay you already have multiple ways of describing things even multiple words for the same thing like in English we talk about money or cash or bones or greenbacks or frog skins or different ways of talking about cash uh and so that's the same object but we actually describe it in different ways so this is one of the laws we'll get to in a moment but if you apply that same thinking just to English so the same things that you're

already doing in your native language if you apply these same laws to English then you will start thinking more in English and then speaking more fluently all right hopefully everybody gets that let me check comments before we get into these actual laws over here uh but this should be let's see all right really appreciate your effort sir says K and it says looking forward to seeing today's lesson glad to hear it vocabulary is somehow lacking in my case said Leah uh yes so pretty much all of the problems that people have will be solved by

this all right so it's really just learning everything through your native language so you're again you're you're beginning with your native language and trying to translate as you learn something in English so you have a word you want to say in your native language and then you translate that into English or you just learn it all in English Okay so very easy I'll show you how this works all right so just uh again as I talk about this usually we'll call this learning English as a second language and then learning English as a first language

over here and so all of the laws again I really want to repeat this again and again just so people believe me they know it's possible they're doing it already I just want you to do it with English rather than only the things in your native language all right so let's talk about the Five Laws this is actually very simple you will see these are all connected uh and they do build off of each other but I teach them in this order or I'd like to cover them in this order uh because I think it's

a little bit easier to understand how we learn new things and then expand on our understanding so we expand upon our understanding of words as we learn the native way all right let's see here yes code switching we talked about that before in a previous video Marcia says I'm your I'm from Brazil God bless you thanks it's my pleasure glad to hear it Mohammad says learning by storytelling what do you think about tprs I don't know someone tell me what that means I've heard of that but I actually have not well I've heard I've heard

tprs but I don't know what that refers to but again I try to keep it simple it's just either you're learning things in English or you're trying to translate as you learn them all right so the goal is really to apply these laws the same way you're doing that already in your native language but just to English all right uh Bridget says nice to see you there George Alo MC my goal is to think in English hope it arrives one day well it does today is the day now that's it uh Vagner nice to see

you from Brazil all I usually complicate my way of talking well you can be more specific about that anyia uh but hopefully this should simplify your way of talking by removing steps like thinking and translating from when you taught Z says H low watch with subtitle with or without subtitle it doesn't matter I think if you if you need subtitles that's fine to use them and they are good for checking your understanding so that's that's perfectly fine to do hello I'm from RDC I appreciate your teaching glad to hear and public says what's the difference

between uh I hope to learn much English from you and I hope I am going to learn much English from you both ways of them correct yeah both of those are fine Jose says uh my technique to improve my fluent English speech is reading a lot is correct I think it is correct because it is the manner I can get the culture and acquisition of the language uh reading is a part of developing fluency and understanding but remember that uh if you're only trying to understand things then reading can help but if you need to

communicate quickly and also like follow what other people are saying you really need exposure to lots of different native speakers uh so this is how you become used to the faster speed and the different accents and the various vocabulary so various idioms are slang other ways of expressing things so we'll talk a a little bit about that in this video but you need all of that exposure so you can learn a lot from reading but you learn a lot more when you also have all of these influences these different examples the exposure to native English

all right so let's get into it so the first law we have the law the law of Association all right so this is really the core the foundation of really just all learning in general what humans are really trying to do is make Con ctions with different things so we begin by making uh certain associations you might have just as a very quick example I was uh many years ago living in a different part of Japan I was in kilo um and I met a woman she had kind of a like a sour she looked

like she looked like she was eating a lemon all the time she had kind of like an angry kind of like a you know like a like a face like this and her name was saah uh and I said oh like she looks like she's eating like a sour lemon so it helped me remember her name so this is just one example of like a natural Association a connection that we make rather than me just trying to force myself to remember something uh like you know trying to repeat it many times and trying to again

force myself to remember that thing which is the typical way of learning so we're going to tell it tell a student here's the word we want you to remember it but the brain doesn't work that way the brain works by making associations and we do this naturally so what I want you to start doing if you are not doing this already and again uh rather than trying to think of a word in uh in your native language and then trying to translate that we would really want to learn something all in English and then make

as many associations or connections with that thing is possible the other laws will also be applying the same idea of Association because everything is really just about making connections anyway uh but hopefully the the five ways I describe this should make it a bit EAS easier to understand and maybe a bit easier to to apply again you are already doing this naturally in your native language I'm just really reminding you that you're doing it and encouraging you to apply it to learning English all right hopefully this makes sense so if we take a word uh

let's say uh let's say exasperated exasperated exasperated exasperated now what we want to do when we learn a word like this you might not know this word maybe you do maybe you don't but what we want to do is again keeping keeping the word like inside English rather than trying to take something uh where if we don't know what the word is okay now we need to learn it and understand what it is first in our native language and then translate it into English we don't want to do that we want to understand it and

typically if we if we can't if like I I just gave an example before using a pneumonic so a pneumonic is a like a memory aid where you're trying to make a connection that helps you remember something uh but if you just learn a new word I want you to really try to draw on as many connections and associations as you can by understanding things from the context or the situation so let's say I'm at home uh I am uh trying to take care of my babies I've got two babies sitting in high chairs I'm

trying to feed them dinner uh and the dog is running around the house uh and I've got two other kids running uh like hanging on the ceiling fan and they're causing a mess and I have things in the kitchen something is about to boil over I'm getting very like very excited and I'm really really getting frustrated I'm getting H I feel exasperated okay I feel very very uh very very stressed out very very irritated and the emotional connection of this I can feel it oh oh this is an exasperation ating situation okay so I want

you to make connections with the word try to connect with the uh as many associations or make as many associations as you can and this is why it's so important to connect vocabulary with situations rather than connecting vocabulary with words in your native language okay so if we want to think in English we need to recall that situation oh wow like I remember when I was uh I was standing in line uh and I had to wait to I was at a government office and I wanted to get a new driver's license so I filled

out some forms and I waited in line for 20 minutes and I got to the the front of the line and I was very happy and I said to the lady look here's my form and she said no this is incorrect you have to you forgot to fill in this other thing and I said okay let me do it here and she said no no you have to go back to the back of the line again so fix the form go back go to the back of the line and then wait again and then you

can come in and and we'll try to like take take care of your license stuff and I was already pretty angry uh but I went back and okay I I fixed the form and I went back and I waited in line and then I have to go uh all the way through that and I said okay look I've got it I finished the the line uh or finished waiting through the line and I showed her the paper again and she said oh no like there's another error on the paper and I was like I was

I was like now I'm feeling exasperated I'm very irritated I'm very tired I'm very frustrated very angry I'm exasperated I'm like really really angry she wants me to go to the back of the line and like after I've filled out this thing because she made a mistake she forgot to tell me that I didn't notice this other error on the paper Okay so I've gone through the line two times already and she wants me to go through a third time and now I'm like ah and I just get angry and I leave I'm so exasperated

I just go home okay so uh from the story I'm telling you this is a way of understanding it within English itself you really understand like like and and again the goal of doing this just like all the the things that I teach here uh is trying to remove the doubts you have that stop you from speaking because if you don't really know what something means or you don't really understand when you should use it or if you don't know how to pronounce it that will stop you from using that vocabulary okay and that's why

a lot of people who learn English as a second language they Translate and they think about things in their native language and try to move that into English that's why they get stuck because they have doubts about things they don't really feel confident enough about the language maybe they could recognize it if they have someone else tell them the word but uh the process is actually very exasperating for people because they've been studying English for a long time and they still can't use the language fluently okay so exasperated yes you can just look up a

definition of the word but I encourage you not to do that that when you hear a word you hear something new you should be trying to make associations look at the situation try to make some kind of emotional connection with that thing understand why people are saying that word where it comes from and that's going to help you understand it all in English okay remember you probably learn new words in English that are part of your language in the same way that words in Japanese like uh tsunami for example that's an English word so that's

a word borrowed from Japanese tsunami so if I tell you like oh look look at that there's like a big tsunami coming like people know what that means in English and their brain doesn't recognize that as a Japanese word even though it is all right so it's it's all psychological it's just your brain making a connection between like am I learning it and understanding it directly or am I learning it through another another word or another language okay so if like tsunami I'm going to teach you like a very quick Japanese lesson here so this

is like a tsunami oh my goodness and there's a person standing down here uhoh like the tsunami is going to get this guy but this person over here is looking at just like a regular Nami NAMI so we have a tsunami and a Nami over there so Nami just means a wave all right but this tsunami over here is like what it's a giant wave okay so when you're learning things like that if you understand it within the language itself you're not trying to make any translations or get definition I of the word you really

want to make associations that help you understand the word and so that's why we begin with Association this is how we start learning new things all in English and making sure uh we really understand what words mean all right yes I apologize I know my drawing is not the best I'm trying to do it quickly all right let me look at uh comments to see if anybody gets this or if they're not getting this uh I really want to make sure people understand this idea because you can do this by yourself your brain is doing

this automatically you're always trying to make connections but if you break this law and you try to learn through definitions or even worse you try to use translations that's what's going to cause you to think and translate when you speak okay so if you learn in English and you understand in English you will connect directly with the language and use the language automatically all right hopefully everybody's getting it and so as you get more examples of this word it will also help you understand it even better all right C says good morning your faithful follower

Bruno says love your content a lot I used to watch your videos when I started learning English I Was preparing for my job interview and made it uh glad to hear it I'm working there for seven years now thank you so much yeah good work you did it all by yourself Bruno nice work let's see uh Neil says uh what comes first reading or listening skill uh I don't know you could do both of those at the same time you don't necessarily need to do one or the other but typically you combine them if you

think about how a child learns a child would be listening first uh but you have the advantage of being an adult who could learn and uh learn to read and also get like listening practice at the same time L says give me tips on what to listen to while I work out you should watch my videos listen to those all right ilder says uh look Drew I saw the video there where UK helicopter pilot politely say BS the situation recognize me like [ __ ] exactly aha the moment works good thank you good d nil

say do I have any pets uh no I do not I used to have quite a few little pets that would like what did I have uh like frogs and hamsters and lizards and chameleons I had two iguanas some turtles lots of stuff all right so exasperated like if you if you exasperated like part of it is like you're you're exhausted but you're also really frustrated so you're you're kind of angry now you're getting really frustrated now you're just exasperated it's just like like ah you're you're you're mentally going crazy uh because you're just so

you're so angry about a particular situation all right L says no guts no glory Deus says Brazil is in the house yes Milton thanks for the explanation I thought in a totally different meaning for exasperated yes uh so again this is why we want to get more more examples of it we want to see people in exasperating situations if we see someone who is exasperated you know that we like see like ah they're going crazy we actually learn the word and understand it the same way a native does and that's how I use it fluently

okay so you understand it fluently you can use it fluently uh yes MC says we have the same word in my native language I guess what it means obviously yes so if you're coming from a language like French or Spanish or other other languages that are similar s the same thing like if you're coming from uh Chinese to Japanese a lot of the meanings of the characters are the same and so it makes it easier for people to understand uh hello says Teresa uh how can I share this live I'm back you are the best

thank you uh I well I don't just use your social media I guess take the link of the URL and post it there I guess I don't know what what you do with it I should probably know that n says Namaste from India uh Brazilian is in the building yes lots of Brazilians over here bro says Sal oh okay you guys are speaking to each other I found the word outrage isn't easy to use well I mean no word is like intrinsically so bias itself easy or hard to use it's just do you understand the

word well well or not so you could be outraged by a particular thing like you see a a man kicking like a little kitten down the street and you're like ah I'm outraged by that you know like I feel like I feel a lot of RA like you think about the rage the anger that you feel and it's just it's coming out I'm out I'm outraged by that particular thing so it just means you're incredibly angry but if you look at at people you know going to protests or whatever and they're like they're yelling like

this ah they're outraged usually outraged about something or I'm outraged by you know some some particular situation so if you're feeling unsure again if you have doubts about vocabulary get more examples of those things and again the point is to build more associations rather than just try to translate the word okay so we want to find more associations to really understand something all in English rather than try to take something like a translation through our native language uh right let's see Adriana says uh nice draw sounds like da vincius everything you do and you choose

daily has a response in the future yes that's correct all right Neil says I love your examples glad to hear it uh anime 2 Let's see we can also make a connection with a short story yes like I just did so like I'm I'm actually in a very good mood but if I let's say I'm you you could watch me in a video and I slowly start to get more frustrated or angry like if there's loud noises around me and I I lose my calm and I start getting I'm getting very exasperated like oh I'm

it's just it's exasperating I'm so tired of like listening to these people there's construction noise or something like that and it's really frustrating the video and that's where we get that feeling of exasperation from so I can describe myself as being exasperated or I can feel something like that so as many situations or or examples as you need to really understand that thing all in English but if you begin with a translation you are going to think through a translation when you speak so that's why again I call these laws because if you break the

law then that's when you think in your native language you follow the law that's when you start thinking in English all right neilton says thanks oh my God I'm late says Nicholas yes better late than never Kate nice to see you there Brett nice to see you there too hi uh Blue Sky good morning I'm late hin says when our brain automatically translate everything that we need in our second language we're going to start being fluent the language no you're not going to do that you're you're trying to do it faster so just like trying

to translate faster is not the way to to do everything the point is to make it easier for your brain your brain doesn't want extra work your brain is lazy your brain is trying to make associations to help you understand understand things and you make it more difficult for your brain when you translate okay so again this is breaking the law don't break the law you will exasperate your brain if you break the law and it will be more difficult for you to communicate if you try to translate can you can force yourself to do

this but it's much much easier if you just learn things all in English all right all right Juliet says hi is nice to see you how you doing in your opinion how many words necessary to speak English as a second language one you only need to know one word to speak fluently and that's it uh and I've talked about this in other videos the basic ideas that you get fluent word by word just like we've shown with the word exasperated so I can teach you one word like exasperated and if you don't know any other

words but you understand what that means then you're fluent in that word and then you just need to build a larger vocabulary but it depends on who you're speaking with so maybe you're speaking with kids and they have a smaller vocab but they're still speaking fluently so it doesn't doesn't really matter uh don't look for a particular number of words the more important thing is how well you understand things and that comes from how you learn all right all right I am from India there a share there's a share button in the bottom of this

video uh oh okay well great yeah I don't know I guess maybe it depends if you're if you're on uh YouTube yeah there's a share button on YouTube I don't know if it's on mobile or not uh did I still need recite basically Awards I don't know what that means Sean Saudi and Raphael hey Drew folks get exasperated over phrasal verbs when they learn them as ESL yes that's often what happens to people so it becomes really frustrating and this exasperated feeling everybody knows what this is like they've experienced it in their own life in

some way and many people have experienced it as language Learners all right if we don't have any more questions about this mil says can you teach us any method of learning new words memorize it easily some tool that's what I'm doing with this all right so the be the beginning thing uh this video is it's also about learning vocabulary uh but it's about learning grammar learning pronunciation and all of these things come from following these laws but the core one the foundation of the whole thing is Association remember your brain is doing this naturally already

and all you have to do is apply that to learning English so instead of trying to think about things through your native Lang language just apply these laws the brain wants to learn through associations let it learn through associations but just do it in English so when you're learning something new if it's a completely new word uh even if it's a word maybe you've heard before you really want to make connections with that thing in English connect with the situation itself rather than trying to make a connection so this is forcing a connection uh like

a translation is an association but it's a bad one because it it basically forces you to think about translations when you speak so if you don't want to translate when you speak there's only one option left make associations in English okay all right I think everybody is getting it though all right xdl back again I'm about to buy a new phone iPhone 15 or 14 cuz I'll get some money package for Chinese New Year thank you for sharing that hopefully you can play Call of Duty on that phone all right let's continue with law number

two law number two again you you probably uh maybe you can even guess some of these because I do apply these things in all of the lessons I teach but I wanted to just lay them all out for people so they they can really understand these things themsel you can just really ask yourself are you doing these things as you learn all right let me write this better I can't really I'm going to write this clearly for people this is the law of substitution the law of substitution s u St t i t b t

i o n substitution the law of substitution states that there is usually more than one way to express something and so what we want to do is as soon as we begin making connections we want to make further connections to make that vocabulary even stronger and to understand different ways of applying things in that same situation so learning further vocabulary we might use to say something all right now uh I'm going to go back to the ES L versus ESL connection here because it's really important this is especially important for learning uh substitution and it's

the the fewer connections that you give to your brain the better so when your brain is trying to think of something if you have like a chain of connections like this thing leads to that thing leads to that thing it really slows down your your mental process and makes it more difficult for you to think and then speak so if I have to think of something and then I make an association with this other thing and then this other thing and then this other thing over here and then this other thing like the distance from

here to here that's going to take me a long time to process that so mentally I will be thinking about this thing like a translation then something in English and something else so I'm making these these kind of different Loops over here uh and so usually what happens is like like you will learn a word let's say a word like beautiful as an example one of the first words that people are learning when they're learning English as a second language so they learn a word like beautiful wow that is a very beautiful woman or that

is a beautiful car or beautiful sunset or you know whatever you're going to describe something so people will typically begin with a word in their native language uh as an example in Japanese it might be like k k as an example so there are different ways of describing this I don't want to make this a Japanese lesson but just so I I just give you an example so we begin with a word in your native language and then we learn the word beautiful and then if we want to think of a different word uh typically

we will think of like there's some other like related word in our native language and then we try to think about that word as well I'm I really want to make this very clear and simple uh because it's a it's a tricky thing to understand how our brain is working and we make it more complicated by thinking through our native language so as an example We Begin uh let's see I don't want to use Japanese as an example actually let's just say I'm going to use like an alien language so nobody knows what these words

are uh but you begin with a language uh an alien language it just means like M and M in English means beautiful as an example so om means beautiful but let's say we don't want to say beautiful we want to say something else all right so instead of thinking in English about other ways we could uh Express that so other substitutions for that thing we try to think of like uh we'll say uh uh cut so that cut in the alien language also means beautiful but it's slightly different okay and it becomes more complicated because

we're trying to think about these different things the relationship of these things and translate that into English and we don't want to do that instead we want to understand everything all in English so we begin with a word like beautiful and then we think about how are the different ways we might describe something and so we get that from again connecting with the situation and then seeing how those things might like other people might uh say those things in English so let's say I'm describing a beautiful sunset because a beautiful sunset is it's really a

different situation than describing a beautiful car or a beautiful woman we would actually use slightly different vocabulary uh if we're talking about these things I think somebody Nicholas just said cute so cute is uh quite different from beautiful and you learn that not by trying to get a translation but by understanding examples within English itself so looking at situations and the situation is the key so I'm really trying to get people to connect things the English language with situations rather than the English language with your language okay so we begin by associating things now we

want to extend that by making substitutions because this is how native speakers are ADV advancing uh like into new ways of talking about things or more nuanced ways or even just different ways of describing exactly the same thing so I want to see just with the help of the chat here can you think of some different ways we might describe a beautiful sunset all right so pretty Monica says pretty now just to compare these things pretty is is is a little bit lower if you if you want to say kind of at a lower level

like if you and like we could contrast this with women as well like a pretty woman and then a beautiful woman is like it's going to be like a higher level of of kind of like like attractiveness or whatever so we talk about amazing so these are different ways of describing a beautiful sunset wonderful so we could talk about how it looks or we could be talking about how it makes us feel okay so in these examples like the sunset itself is pretty or gorgeous that's another good example mesmerizing breathtaking all right some good examples

of that thing over here so let's say I go to a like a Scenic area so I'm driving and I and I drive over here and I see I get out of my car uh and there are actually quite a few people people over here so looking at this this is like the sea over here and the Beautiful sun going down and they're each describing it in a slightly different way they're each describing it in a slightly different way so one person might say amazing that's an amazing sunset or another person might say like captivating

like it captured me Captivate Captivate Captivate so a captivating or arresting something like that yes you could talk about it being unbelievable and you'll notice that each of these words has a slightly different meaning and you could get more specific like talking about what that means like do I feel amazing because of the sunset or is the sunset just amazing to look at okay so if I'm talking about uh just understanding something like this this is again connecting with the situation and the vocabulary is everybody getting this so a native speaker like a native child

will know the situation they say wow look at that a beautiful sunset and people have seen uh many sunsets over their lifetime so they have heard many people talking about these things in different ways all right I think people are getting it though we're still getting lots of good examples but the point is this is the law of substitution it reminds you that there's not only one way to say say something all right remember when you translate things you're you're kind of teaching yourself that there's one way to say something but there isn't usually one

way to say something there is I I I'll just say there's always a different way of expressing something you might use different words but that's the basic idea all right so you might not have like there might be only one word for saying something but we can always maybe use some different words or describe things in you know like with a some other way all right typically just different vocabulary but there are multiple ways to say anything and so we train ourselves to do this when we remind ourselves oh natives are expressing things in different

ways all right this is the law of substitution so if you're if you're just thinking about a translation like you learn uh you know some you're an alien and you come to the United States and you're trying to learn some English that way you begin with a word in your native language no no no no you begin with English and you look at at the situation we have all these people looking at a beautiful sunset and they're all describing the same thing in different ways all right it's the same situation the same context but they

will describe it differently and that's because there are different words there are always different words for doing that and as we hear these words we can make further connections with these words to other things all right so I could have like an amazing dinner or a wonderful dinner but I wouldn't talk about the dinner being captivating because the the dinner doesn't like it's not holding my attention it's a slightly different word so I wouldn't use it in that situation and as we get these examples we'll talk about that in a further law here but as

we get these different examples it's that that really helps us understand the vocabulary well so we use it fluently okay I keep repeating over and over and over again because we get new people coming to watch the videos but also because everyone should be reminded of this that you really become fluent as you understand the language well all right marvelous another good example all right everybody's getting it though if you have any questions about this idea of substitution let me know remember you are already doing this in your native language already you probably can think

of multiple ways to describe almost anything and I just want you to do it in English Okay so we begin by making associations these substitutions these are associations as well okay it's all everything I'm going to share with you today is all about making associations but I'm trying to make it more clear kind of how the brain is working and thinking about things in different ways okay but really it's just about making connections within the language itself so the more connections you make in English the easier it is to speak all right checking comments make

sure everybody's doing all right everybody's getting it let's see if you know other people who would also like to think more in English share the video uh uh right all right Bruno says I used to create daily situations in my brain I would start to speak to myself so I could feel that I was talking in correct form what I've heard from native speakers before not yep that's a good way to do it see says uh should we put a reason case behind adjective we want to remember should we put a reason Case by well

you should put you should make the vocabulary more memorable in general it doesn't matter if it's an ad itive or or whatever so like the examples I give here I don't just give a list of things I'm I'm actually trying to give a smaller number of things and then help you understand those by making associations all right so part of that could be just associating with the word itself or I'm also making associations with other words all in English so everything I'm going to share in this video all these laws are helpful for remembering vocabulary

it could be adjectives or verbs or whatever Aman says what's the difference between between exasperated and angry so exasperated if I'm angry I'm just like I'm like I'm pretty angry but exasperated is a whole other level so it's a much higher super frustrated super angry just like ah all right I'm done I'm finished I'm finished with this video that's when you are exasperated all right some good examples over here all right oh my got got a bunch of got a bunch of comments here all right here let me see here Lucas goes blank I think

you're talking about your mind he has a great way to learn English is associating with other English words you already know yes all right jack says sorry teacher means of Association so you just go back and watch the video again where we talk about that but the core thing is if you have a word and you don't know what it means at all try really understanding the situation you find it in and you can do that by getting more examples of the word or seeing it just in different different situations where people are like I'm

exasperated at the motor vehicle place because I want to get a new driver's license and it's really frustrating or I'm at home trying to take care of a bunch of kids and ah like there too many things going on I'm getting frustrated I can't handle that and so I get exasperated okay so the more examples you get that's how you do it all right hi teacher I have a question I'm asking you lend or borrow does it mean the same thing no uh like lend is like you're giving something and borrow is something you're getting

okay so if I go to the library the library is lending me the book but I am borrowing the book from the library so it just depends on uh where you're what like who who the perspective is all right so if I borrow a book or I'm getting something like I'm getting that thing I'm borrowing that thing but the book is being lent so the library is lending me something like that you can just remember it like Lending Library that's typically we talk about something like that a lending library uh Delo says Hi teacher do

you know I lived in Salt Lake City today I live in Utah I like your class glad to hear Sean says when you learn a new language you still need some common words okay I get it I can recite you need some common words well the the point is that it doesn't matter what the words are you should be learning all that in English all right so it's not like you begin by learning some things in your native language and then stop translating no no you from the very beginning so what I'm doing in my

videos is trying to help people who who did not learn the language this way so they spent many years learning English as a second language and now I'm trying to get them to to like retrain their brain so they can think and speak in English all right all right I think more effective better than learn longer which I man kind is you feel more excited relaxed and take a break for learning 30 minutes you do a little stretch all right let's see Hello Drew greetings everyone what about kind amazing wonderful gorgeous mesmerizing okay lots of

good examples over here Neil says why do we say that women are beautiful and men are handsome uh I don't know the atmology of that like the the history of that but uh like typically we just have different words for describing things because it's slightly different like a handsome like handsome is that's an interesting question actually uh but like the the typical like male like male Beauty I guess you could call it is like it's like of a different kind than female Beauty and I think like sex is part of that uh let's see but

it'd be interesting to learn more about that uh let's see and Lucas says what are your musthave smartphone apps uh like for learning languages I don't use any language learning smartphone apps stunning my blowing Second To None easy it's see easy on the eyes easy on the eyes but easy on the eyes is it's like again the like a lot of the examples you've get you've given are good but they are you notice how they are slightly different and as you get more examples of these things it makes the network that much better so you

really understand things and you understand a subtle difference between pretty and beautiful so if you look at like oh that's a pretty actress she's like you know like an eight out of 10 but a beautiful woman is like you know I don't know like nine or 10 out of 10 something like that so people typically rank that higher and a woman I mean you know I'm not a woman but I could you know if a man if like if a bunch of men called me pretty but I had a friend and and those men were

saying she was beautiful I would feel a little bit sad I would think oh okay like like I'm kind of at like a lower you know a lower rank it doesn't mean I'm a worse person I'm just you know like physic physically attractiveness you know just thinking about that Lucas says is there a quote or saying that you live uh your life by I don't know I guess my quote for you would be learn English as a first language that's your quote you need to live life by that I don't really have a particular quote

I think for my life generally uh I don't know I should think about that but uh how to apply this kind of laws all right remember Muhammad your brain is doing these things already in your native language I'm just trying to remind you that these things are happening so that you can follow follow the laws in English follow the law I'm I should have like a policeman hat on for this video follow the law all right uh hello good night teacher uh Brazil now remember when you're leaving a conversation you say good night or if

someone is going to bed but if it's just evening you would say good evening all right so subtle difference between night and evening with this greeting when you see someone hey good evening and now I might begin a long conversation with them but at at the end of the conversation I would say oh good night all right uh x uh let me get this somebody said socialism better than capitalism but you know what with Berlin while fall came to the other side xdl you you are like your brain is always on some uh some interesting

unrelated uh subjects over Luke says what's my level I have no idea Brad said learning phrases especially the longer ones are a lot harder to remember yes Brad uh Brett but it becomes easier uh if you understand the pieces of those things and uh that's why I continue to remind everybody about that like an idiom for example you would have different meanings it like an idiom is tricky because of each of those words uh you understand it as kind of like a core unit by itself uh but the meaning changes with an idiom but uh

the the same law kind of applies here where if you understand the individual words then that will help you understand the the whole of something uh and with an idiom that becomes like its own core Thing by itself so whatever the smallest unit of meaning in a in a particular phrase or a situation whatever that's the thing you need to understand from the situation and that's why we begin with Association over here so if I have an idiom I might know the words in that idiom like kick the bucket so kick the bucket I know

those words but the idiom like what does that mean that doesn't make any sense it just means to die but if we have a story about that we can understand something like that there are examples there's there are reasons why we have these particular meanings so the idiom is not as crazy or weird as we might think and it's not actually difficult if we take some time to try making associations all right so we'll talk a little bit about that more in these future uh further laws down here but I want to make sure I'm

getting everybody's questions all right uh papa says please teach us all the forms of the verb get no I'm not covering that in this video uh but I do have videos on get and fluent for Life members uh get lots of that as well hello from Colorado Springs let's say ages is good morning Lucas uh what do you do to improve student speaking skills I help them understand the language very well so they feel confident about speaking that's my job okay so when people ask like what do I do what's the what what is the

purpose of me like it's not to teach the language it's to help you understand the language really well so feel confident you don't have doubts about what does this word mean or how do you pronounce it or when do I use the word as soon as you like solve all of those if you answer all those questions that's when you unlock your ability to speak so it's more about unlocking the vocabulary that's what we do here at English anyone okay so I don't want to just give you a bunch of like here like memorize this

list of words that's not that's not uh teaching anything like you could open up a book and just get a list of words words you get that from the dictionary the point is do you understand that do you feel confident about using it that's the whole point all right uh let's see MC says you are so patient and clever wow and I get an award a gold medal for that thank you very much MC great explanation says Manuel ilar says yes handsome M says I liked your point and adapted to learning English as my first

language and not doing translation in native language it's helping thank you glad to hear it yes remember you are doing this already in your native language so if you think about your native language you're already making associations when you learn new words and you're already learning substitutions you have different ways of describing things so you might be having a conversation in your language so not English in your language and maybe you forget a word I can't remember that or I don't really know what that means let me use a different word instead you're simply using

the law of substitution okay so I'm encouraging you to learn this way but we learn substitution within English itself I'm not trying to learn different substitutions in my native language and then try to translate those things I want to understand those things uh all in English uh let's see Pang Lucas says how do you motivate your students well I make the language easy easy to understand that's it the the motivation comes when you when you're like oh wow I got it I understand what that means especially if you discover that yourself so the motivation I

I don't need to make you motivated I just need to make the language easy to understand and if you understand it then you feel confident and you are motivated to learn more that's like why people join fluent for life because they they learn with these videos on YouTube and they want the whole system to get fluent faster so that that's it's it's like self-motivation but I'm I'm really just my job is to make the language easy to understand uh do you have any questions for us uh no not at the moment uh let's start says

uh hi good morning from Indonesia just joined here don't know what the topic is yet so let me see what's going on well just look at the title of the video that should give you a clue all right a how long does it take to speak English fluently about almost everything well I mean about almost everything I mean even native speakers could be learning for many many years and can't there are many things I I just don't know about like talking about biology uh or space travel or I don't know lots of industries that I

don't know anything about so I couldn't speak fluently about most of those things but the good news is most people don't need to speak fluently about everything there's like 2% of the language 2% that people actually use for most communication uh and that's really what you need to know and it doesn't take that long to learn that stuff especially if you learn it as a first language all right should I write down some case to know when to use a precise personality for instance Mr Andrew dropped his marker free frequently so he's clumsy yeah you

can think of a story like that that's a good way to make another Association all right so it's good good way to good way to think about that all right says the YouTube content for Native slightly complicated but good for sharpening listening skills on a daily basis yes and that's another reason why it's good to have a teacher because if you jump from English learning content to Native content there will be a lot of things that you don't understand so if you have uh if you have a good understanding then you're okay okay to follow

that content but if not it's good to have some help all right uh Sean says uh why I can understand what you say but I can't understand other people so this is a common question and it just the answer is very simple it's you are listening to a different kind of English right now than what Native speak so I'm speaking more slowly more clearly and I'm using uh just easier vocabulary that I think you would know so I'm not using movie references or cultural references or difficult idioms or or phrasal verbs or other things that

I think you might not know all right so I make the language easier to understand so what we do influent for life is we get you from this level so understanding me to understanding natives but you have to do that in the right steps to really make it uh easy for you to understand natives all right uh s says could you tell me about dangling a dangling sentence no this is not the time for that anything like that like information you can just Google that you don't really need me to explain anything like that for

you Muhammad says when we listen to when we listen a lot we acquire this laws well you you're applying the law when you when you think about it I'm I'm trying to get you to know what the laws are so you apply them consciously so you think hey here's a new word in English but I don't quite understand it maybe I should try to make some more associations or get some more examples of that word so uish docomo so if I want to know what a party is like the word party I should look up

different examples of that and so it could be like a party of people it just means a group so I go to a restaurant and people say how many in your party all right how many in your party and I say oh there are six of us all right so in that case like a party it doesn't mean like Yay like having fun like a birthday party it just means a group of people all right but we could have a birthday party or a pool party or something like that just means a group of people

so a party of people could be together on an adventure and the more examples of that we get so if I getting if I'm getting as a native speaker more examples of party then that will help me understand the word all right and so this is how we make associations within the English language itself to understand the word better I think people uh get the idea though all right uh alexanderson says is it okay to use Advanced vocabulary if the person will maybe not understand what I say well that's that's up to you I I

I try to the reason I'm speaking using the vocabulary I use now is because I want people to understand me but if you don't care about people understanding you then say whatever you like it just you know it depends on what what the goal of the conversation is all right uh let's see what's the opinion about Biden required Taylor Swift to stand with him kind of interesting well I I guess Taylor people know Taylor Swift and I guess Democrats and Republicans would both like to stand next to Taylor Swift I I guess I don't know

uh how long are you fluently in Japanese as song well again when I become fluent my my Lang my personal language learning Journey for learning Japanese I came to Japan in 2003 and I started learning uh Japanese as a second language so what I'm telling you not to do I did that thing so the typical thing instead of learning English as a second language I was learning Japanese as a second language and that means I'm trying to study vocabulary I think about things in English and translate them into my head but I could never speak

fluently and I did that for about a year and after that I discovered oh I should actually be learning Japanese the same way Japanese people do and that means learning Japanese as a first language rather than learning it as a second language and once I did that I also discovered you become fluent in individual words and phrases as you understand them so uh the the process of becoming fluent was actually very quick and you and it could be like you know a minute or less to understand even one word and feel confident about using it

and then it just takes longer depending on on how many words or whatever you want to learn uh but the process is much faster when you learn a language as a first language rather than as a second especially if you have someone to help you learn all right so with me it was a bit more difficult because I'm basically like teaching myself Japanese and I continue to do that I don't have a like a Japanese teacher right now now even my wife is like too my wife gets exasperated if I if I ask her like

hey what what about this like Japanese or whatever I'm asking a question she's like I don't know like I'm like hey you're supposed to be my wife help me learn something you know uh XD again uh he's 82 or 81 I'm not sure but he uh he does it again I'm moving 85 yeah I like I don't know God help us if he wins you know he'd be he's all so many videos of Joe Biden is like all what's going on here you know oh my goodness all right uh Happy Jesus Drew can you please

recommend an English word book for me how many words are there in English I always feel like I can't learn no no don't worry about a book don't get a book watch my videos and this will this will get you understanding what you should do don't buy another book about vocabulary the point is to understand the language like a native so begin with like the video like you're watching here on YouTube think about a topic you're interested and get lots of examples of that you can see an example I have on YouTube called uh how

to make espresso in English watch that video just search my channel for that uh let's see all right I think all right uh how to improve pronouncing a difficult or new word it just you m you just need to get different examples of people saying this that's it so if you hear a word just get more examples of that thing that's how you do it so find other people saying that thing uh it could be videos or podcasts or whatever uh Brett again do you happen to know when we speak or think we tend to

visualize the words by themselves it just visualize the situation or idea it just it's like you can think about it like a like a unit I know you you might want to overthink this and think like well now we get a really analyze the language and how we're speaking about it it's just do I understand what I'm saying or not so if I'm I'm thinking about something and I say like wow that woman is that woman is ugly all right now I mean beautiful but I say ugly like because I just got the words confused

in my mind and everyone looks at me like I can't believe he just said that woman is ugly like and I was and I'm think why is everybody looking at me I thought I'd said she and I ah I said the wrong word and so there that's like it's just I'm not trying to visualize what it means I just understand I I I didn't understand the word I used it incorrectly or I used one word where I meant to use another one okay so in that situation like I'm not trying to visualize what like ugly

or beautiful means it's actually the opposite like the situation is giving me the visual and here's the the way I would describe that thing but I just used the wrong word so oh I'm sorry I meant to say beautiful you know so like I've done that like in Japanese where I say one thing and I meant to say something else just cuz I used the wrong word uh and so I'm but it's I'm not like thinking about about it like consciously it just either I forgot the word or I didn't understand it well enough to

use it correctly all right so get more examples of things that's really what's going to help you understand things especially if you're making uh like basic errors you really want to get lots of examples so you feel confident about what you want to say all right how to learn vocabul probably using images according to you I thought it would be a trigger my brain when speaking uh it really it doesn't matter how you learn the vocabulary it's just do you understand the vocabulary or not so you notice when I'm making associations with the word it

could be a visual Association it could be like a mental Association it could be just like how I feel so if I'm watching a scary movie and someone says wow that was a frightening scene then I I I can understand from the context like oh like frightening that must mean like scary all right or like really scary and so I'm I'm not like I'm not trying to overthink this it's just like do I understand what people are saying and do I feel confident about using that vocabulary as well if I don't feel confident it means

I have a question or a doubt about that vocabulary that I need to answer okay so solve that erase that doubt and that will help you use that thing fluently that's how it works uh let's see because we want to talk we can't talk any politics in uh in Canada or H China I guess so if you are interested in history or politics it'll be a little sad for you seriously if you criticize the bad action of the government you might be in trouble yes uh increasingly that's happening more in Western countries as well uh

mesh says your point is absolutely right but practicing doesn't help real- time speaking sure it does again like the point when I talk about practicing vocabulary I mean getting varied examples of that thing until I really understand it that's how I speak so the reason I can speak Japanese fluently even though I don't know the whole language and I I don't know the whole English language either but the words I do know I can speak mostly like using them fluently um but the reason I can do that is because I've had lots of examples and

I feel confident that I understand something if I don't understand something then I just you know either ask people questions about it or or do something that's going to help me understand the vocabulary uh let's see uh M says do you still help your wife uh with you could say help your wife with her English do you still help your wife with your English uh yes I do uh and I'm teaching her and obviously I'm teaching my kids all the time and so I'm like giving I'm giving them lessons they don't realize they're learning but

they're learning lots of things and uh my wife as well so I'll be I'll be kind of teaching her and often I share many of those lessons like with with Learners or in these videos all right uh all right that's enough about B all right uh Alex serson is it uh thinking Eng to start interpreting the world in a different way I mean in terms of time and space for example using verbal tenses which don't exist in your native language well that that it could be part of it but like I'm not asking you to

like change your life you know this is just again you were doing these things already all right I gave the example before about learning the word tsunami all right so an English child learns the word tsunami and they don't know that that's from Japanese or they don't I mean they don't even know about the history of many words that are from French or German or Italian or Spanish or Latin or whatever they just understand it like it's in English so the point is they're learning it as a first language rather than learning it as a

translation or thinking like oh that's a Japanese word that I'm learning they don't think about that at all and so when you think about how do I express something with a different verb tense or something uh all of it could be different from your native language but this isn't like a uh it's not like a lifechanging thing I mean actually it could change your life if you do it properly but I'm not asking you to change your life in order to do this you're doing these things already as you learn but your brain will think

about English like it's your first language if you learn this way okay so don't over complicate it but the point is that you should really be understanding things uh the same way that you do in your native language all right Danielle says I've just got here teacher in your opinion which is better to improve my journey learning English reading or listening because that's what I do the most uh I would say both of those are helpful but it doesn't matter if you don't really understand the content that's the most important thing you should understand something

well enough to feel confident about speaking all right I don't mean just understand something like you recognize it you should understand it well enough to feel confident using it in your regular conversations or everyday life or writing how often do you broadcast live uh typically ones a week I guess all right uh it's such it's you could say it's so interesting to hear you live all right I decided not to sleep tonight it's so interesting and so and such you should review that uh in the lessons uh but yeah this is a common thing like

it's so nice of you it's so interesting but it's it's such an interesting thing so you could say and this is why people get confused so this is an understandable mistake that people have but like it's so interesting to do something all right but it's such an interesting thing that's how we would hear but yes I'm glad you're enjoying it well Scot yes says Tucky and a little heart thank you very much Danielle and another question please I'm moving to Chicago in June what can I do there to finally achieve my C1 level uh spend

time around Natives and listen to them in different situations uh an example go to the Lincoln Park Zoo and just stand at like stand at the monkey cage or whatever and listen to kids talking about the monkeys I know this seems like a silly example but this is a just one way where we're trying to get associations as well as substitutions when we're listening to different people describing something so they're everybody's looking at the monkey cage and you know little kids are talking about things or parents are trying to teach things to their kids so

that's like a really good place like I I enjoy going to the zoo here in Japan for the same reason or the aquarium or anything where parents are also teaching things to their own kids so kids are speaking and uh parents are like oh look at that fish over there and so I'm listening to that like oh I'm I'm just standing there like I'm pretending I'm watching the fish but I'm I'm there to listen to people speak all right so you can apply the same thing like if I sit at a cafe and I listen

to how people order how people give uh like how they take orders different things like that so the point is again we want to make associations and apply the law of substitution as well so that we can learn how different people express the same situation in different ways all right and the more examples we get the more confident we feel about the language uh let's see where I can have someone to talk with me you don't need anybody to talk with you you just need to get more examples uh do you like uh burning the

Midnight Oil uh no I go to bed early I like to I like to be in bed by like 9:30 if I can how many languages do you know and how long did it take you all I explained that earlier uh but I speak uh Japanese and English all right I don't know some of those some of those Kani but that's good xdl you know Japanese as well I guess maybe if you know the uh know the the the Japanese and you probably know the Kani as well M says the bad part is when someone

asks you to translate a word you only learned in English yes but that's like an interesting thing like if you if you only know it so the same thing happens to me uh like when I'm gardening out here and someone will ask me what the name of a flower is or something and I I don't know what that is in English I only know it in Japanese all right Dan isn't a kind of intersemiotic translation sometimes when you try to explain a word well I mean it's not about getting a definition or something you're but

the the point is I want to make associations within the language okay that's that's the important thing rather than trying to make an association between two different languages so I want to I want to make my my vocabulary in the target language Stronger by making connections within that language I'm making it more difficult for myself if I try to make connections across two different languages there's no reason to do that all right the whole point is to learn everything within English and make those different connections there so yes you you are making an association still

but it's just a weaker one that's going to make it more difficult and cause you to translate when you speak uh let's see alexanderson says what do you think about those academies that offer learning English without any grammar uh I don't know what that means you can't you can't really learn a language without understanding um like the grammar rules would be naturally found within the within the vocabulary you're learning now they might be like phrasing that a certain way where we're not going to study grammar rules but we'll help you understand the grammar automatically which

is what I do so I'm not trying to like teach you rules or like I don't that's why I don't talk about the names of grammar points or like this is the past present or the participle or other things like that because it's not helpful it it actually be more confusing uh for people if a native doesn't know that vocabulary then you don't need to know that vocabulary either it's only really useful for looking up examples of things so it's like if I need to like okay what's like the past perfect of something and I

need to get examples of that and I can look up in Google like what is the past perfect um so that I mean that's the the the way you would you would get examples of that thing but uh right aristocat says cool thing about hearing a lot of examples of the same word but I have a problem with conversation service such as a chat roulette CU in every conversation how are you and where are you from that's all well you can you can definitely learn various ways of expressing those things if you spend more time

around natives there are lots of ways we can greet each other all right I used uh what kids show to learn English you mean you used to watch is that what you mean yes I still watch Japanese children's TV shows all right hopefully everybody I think everybody's getting it all right you are the first of what I can understand in English language like Father all right well I I am your father is that what you mean like you mean you can understand me like well that that should be the point I'm trying to make the

language understandable thank you so much for the live Corrections I'm far from my goal no you are close because and this is a thing naturally that people do we will we will remember the one bad thing that we did and not the 99% good that we did so everything else was great about your sentences and those are just simp things that you just need more examples of to really feel confident about using those things all right suan I already answered that question uh let's see yeah I've learned Japanese for two semesters all right uh let's

see what do I think about shadowing I think it's less important than just understanding the language like a native but let's move on because we've already been oh my goodness 70 minutes you guys are going to keep me here all day I will be burning the midnight oil if I stay here all day all right [Music] next all right the law of extension uh and so this is where we want to take things and start like broadening our understanding let me see if I had some specific laws about this or specific examples now I've covered

this often you'll see me talking about this thing uh in in English but this is where we take V vocabulary you'll notice each of these things is connected you will see four and five they are connected as well but I'm I'm teaching them in this order because I really want you to to to Really make the connections very strong within the language itself and it's easier to do that by thinking about it this way so we begin by making associations within the language now I'm exasperated with these fire trucks over here but I feel worse

for the people who are you know calling the fire truck I suppose I should be I should be grateful actually that I'm still having uh good health over here and I'm still alive anyway so we begin with associations we want to move into substitutions that starts broadening our vocabulary uh but now we want to extend our understanding of vocabulary by thinking how else might we use this word that we're using as an example uh I could I've covered many things like this but I'm just explaining to you what I'm doing when I'm teaching so when

I'm applying this law of extension we want to extend into something like I'm extending my arm I'm applying something in a different situation in a new way uh even though it's related and so a basic example of something like this is we have a physical understanding of vocabulary and then we apply that to a more uh figurative uses so as an example the word navigate so navigate you can think about let's begin with making an association so if you don't know what the word means you can imagine I'm on a like a boat over here

and I have my the steering wheel uh and I got my like pirate as a pirate hat right there here's my hook uh and I have a sword so I'm a a pirate on this ship over here and I'm looking at the stars up here so I'm finding my way I am navigating to figure out where I'm going so I'm navigating something I'm navigating so I'm trying to figure out like do I want to go this way or that way or whatever this is too n navigate something to to figure out where I'm going all

right so the figurative use of that we might think like well I can physically navigate something like if I'm walking uh on a a sidewalk and there are many people here I need to move around those people I need to navigate my way uh through this sidewalk or I need to navigate my way through a park like you know here's I'm looking at the park from the top and I need to get from here to here to here like a map and so I need to navigate that thing okay or I'm using a map for

navigation navigation all right so the point is to make again We Begin by making associations we're not really going to talk about substitutions because I've covered that already but again we want to extend this idea to how can we apply this to other situations so I might navigate like I've just given the example about something physical like I'm navigating with a boat or navigating with a map but I could also navigate my life okay so how do I navigate challenges how do I figure out how to deal with something to get around something or get

through a challenge all of these things we describe as navigating that thing and so as you learn more examples and this is why it's so important to get examples you will get a variety of examples of things that are like physical usage or figurative or maybe related to something else okay hopefully everybody is getting the idea I wanted to use maybe a slightly more challenging word that some people might not know navigate okay so a car might have a navigation system all right so how do we figure out where to go that's like a physical

usage of the word navigate but again I might navigate my life or how do I navigate my career all right how how do I navigate the challenges that I have in my life so how do I get through those things how do I understand that and this is what natives are doing they are extending they are naturally extending the vocabulary they're thinking how can I apply something in various ways we want to get more use out of the vocabulary all right another example another way we could extend something where we take something from one situation

and apply it to another one all right uh so let's say like a baseball situation so I'm playing the game of baseball I am the batter and the pitcher throws me the ball and I hit the ball out of the par Park I hit the ball out of the park that's called a home run in baseball and I get one score like one point for that and if there are other people on base I could also get uh points for those people as well and so uh if we think about that like I hit a

home run that means to do a really good job it's like a great thing you can do in that sport we can take that and apply that to other situations I did very well at my job presentation so I had to give a presentation to my bosses and they said wow you really hit it out of the park or you really hit a home run with that one I'm extending the vocabulary from the original place where it was to some different situation so it began in sports and now it's being used in business I'm extending

the vocabulary so people are always thinking like how can I take this and apply in someplace else uh and your brain is doing this naturally so it's it's helpful if you're actually like kind of using your brain and encouraging your words uh to do to do these things okay so if I'm I'm I'm showing you these laws I'm I'm just reminding you that you have them so that you remember oh I wonder how else or where else what other situations or other contexts might I use this word okay so it could be the same thing

so I like navigate is a word or hit the ball out of the park that's a a like a a phrase or just like like you hit the ball out of the park so you could say that whole thing but in lots of different situations so anytime someone does an amazing thing they give a great speech they deliver a great presentation they I don't know anything else that someone could do very well wow you you hit a home run or you hit a like even if I find like let's say I I bring my girlfriend

home to my family to meet my family the first time uh and my dad is talking with me in the kitchen he's like wow you really hit a home run with that girl you know like so you really like you found like a you know that's like a nice she seems like a nice girlfriend or whatever okay so you can see how something might be applied in various ways this is the law of extension so your brain is automatically doing this I'm just reminding you to think consciously about these things how can I make more

associations how can I substitute this for something else how can I extend this to other things all right let me check comments before we move on to the next one I think people are getting it though chat is a little bit more quiet right now but that's good all right uh let's see I mean every conversation in those Services Chat Roulette is not going further than how are you where are you from and it's hard to hear well you should get out of that situation get off chat roulette and talk talk with people elsewhere find

some actual people that are interested in the things you're interested in and talk with them that's how you do it uh let's see J say my man Hi man from English anyone there you go I just discovered you recently I was looking for an English interview cuz I was looking to be interviewed for a job in the US and I wanted to see what English interviews are like y there's watch natives interviewing people and about interviewing for for jobs uh I would I would encourage you this is not about the English language but in general

find information about the company find out what their problems are and explain how you can help solve those problems all right that's a much better way to get a job than to just you know like I could I could have bad English and still get a job um if I'm able to solve the problem that a company has so that's making yourself more valuable and more likely to get hired all right Sean says because I can't understand other only speak English uh only if I listen to what you're talking about I like to listening more

yeah well I'm glad to hear you're understanding this all right uh very good let's see now navigate is the best I need yeah the best way to learn English yeah so you're trying to navigate your English learning Journey or navigate like all the you know the different ways of learning English or lots of things maybe you've heard on YouTube it's uh it can be frustrating you can be exasperated or it can be an exasperating experience uh trying to figure all that out uh yes Midnight Oil is also an Australian band it's a great experience to

follow the live for the first time I enjoyed watching it all right and you're navigating between your learners and your whiteboard yes Excell usage MC very good so that means you got it so you should feel that in your brain like wow like yeah I got it you know maybe you knew the word already but very good excellent usage Sean says new words from this lesson is very soon or you mean like uh many many many many words or they they are coming quickly XD again fun fact every time I speak to someone they be

like bro you from La cuz I've watched a lot of movies like rush hour and Jackie [Laughter] Chan like like yes Chris Tucker talking in that movie that's a funny movie all those are I like when he goes into a he's in like a museum or something and he sees a Buddha statue and he's like he's like man that that Buddha would look good in my bathroom that Buddha would look good in my bathroom all right my says you are amazing teacher you would say you are an amazing teacher or you would just say you

are amazing I guess but if you want to say teacher specifically you would say you are an amazing teacher Japanese child show you make my day all right wow amazing teacher yes you would say and a nice amazing teacher I navigate a gay become a dolphin lover what what all right Moving On Moving On as I get rid of this uh pirate over here we'll navigate our way through the video I didn't think I would be talking this long uh today but anyway it's okay all right the law of deconstruction deconstruction so now we're trying

to get even at pieces of words and really understand what they mean as we get more examples of things so remember sometimes we will hear a word monacle monacle monacle let's say you hear a new word but you don't know what it means now don't be frustrated by that hopefully you can make some Association I'm going to teach this in a slightly tricky way just for example uh but if we hear other examples huh that's interesting like both of these have this word mono in there and a monor rail maybe we know what a monil

is a monoral is a instead of having two tracks or a regular train line a monil has just one so the train is riding on a single rail like that mono all right let's say I'm a mono I'm monolingual monolingual what do you think that means if I'm monolingual monolingual monolingual monolingual does anyone know what that means anyone heard that word before monolingual you might be able to guess what it means I'll let you post that in the chat so if we know that's interesting a monoral means one ra so what might monolingual mean monolingual

monolingual this means one language y you can speak just one language so a uh if we go back and look at this as we we might learn a word like this people might not know what this is this is monacle monacle a monacle is one eye glass one ey glass so maybe you've seen like the Monopoly man like he has a he's got two eyes like this and a little like a mustache and he's just got a like a monol hanging down like that little top hat so the monole so you kind of you hold

it in place by squeezing your eye like that a monol yes monolith is another example so monolith is one stone a large tall stone or it could be a long Stone as well but a monolith and so again if we take the law of extension before that we've got monolithic which is something that's like very big oh my goodness this is like a monolithic problem all right so if a monolith it's like one big Stone like this we are deconstructing The Language by understanding things as we get more examples of them so now we learn

a new word like monacle so monacle is just that one eyepiece instead of glasses where we have two all right and so we can also make further connections if monolingual means I speak one language then something like bilingual it should be easier to understand oh I bet monolingual means one language so we know this means Language by means two okay so monolingual bilingual trilingual trilingual all right so as we get examples this is a it's another way of making associations but we're kind of deconstructing words and understanding them within the language itself so I'm not

trying to translate from another language I'm understanding everything within English and I I'm the reason I'm bringing this up is because I want you to be uh conscious that you're doing these things yes prefixes suffixes root words things like that so the same thing it even within a word like uh will'll have maybe prefixes or suffixes or you could have a situation like a phrase with a couple of words and you understood the whole phrase but you didn't understand what like what maybe one word meant but as you get more examples as you as you

continue to expand your vocabulary and make more connections then you will understand more words better and you can begin producing new words and even making up new words yourself okay everybody getting it let me check comments here this should be pretty easy easy to understand this is something that naturally happens as you learn but I'm encouraging you to think consciously about it so that you make more connections all right so you start looking for things like this like oh that's interesting look at that like the same part and that had the same meaning I bet

that also means the same thing in other situations so we're deconstructing words we're deconstructing phrases to understand what individual words might mean and then we're using that to make our own vocab ulary stronger so all of this is about answering questions removing doubt learning more so that we feel more confident and that's when we speak fluently this is following the laws follow the law I'm like Judge Dread I am the law okay I'm telling you follow the laws and you will think more in English don't follow the laws fail to follow the laws and you

will struggle and you will be thinking more in your native language all right I think I just saw someone mention water as a good idea ah all right I'll check comments uh before we go on to the next the last law but I think everybody let's see uh Dr says FIS nice to see dran over there it's been a while uh no I know what burning no I know what burning M uh man that can speak one language Ang yeah so it just means uh like anyone who can speak one language so monolingual you could

be multi or multi- lingual that would mean many languages all right but as you get more examples now you start feeling ah like I'm I'm getting it I understand what these things mean and you're thinking about it you're understanding it like a native that's the point when you understand something like a native you can use a language fluently all right CA what nice to see you there the manager all right I'm late but I'll watch on the replay now any new words from chat uh now any new words from chat not from teaching Monopoly monograph

yeah so lots of examples uh let's see so we have monocycle another term for unicycle yeah people typically say unicycle but like it'd be the same kind of idea uh let's see how to link deconstructing with Association so again mamed these are like I'm making you're you're connecting words together that is it's just a different kind of Association so that's why I said really like language learning is really all about Association the question is are you making associations within English or are you using your native language and making associations there so you get fluent when

you make more associations in English itself rather than trying to make associations across two different languages okay so if I'm deconstructing things I'm still learning how how these associations work by learning what the pieces of words mean okay so we go to learning words and as we get more examples we might think oh these are good substitutions or this is an extension this is another situation or another context when I might use a word or we might be able to deconstruct the words and really understand what they mean by themselves and we're able to do

that as we get more examples so one word is is really going to teach us much but if we have a few related words that's where we really start making these natural associations remember your brain is doing these things already but I'm encouraging you to make uh make it more active more conscious like hey how can I make more associations with the vocabulary I'm learning how can I substitute this vocabulary with something else how could I extend my vocabulary to use it in a different situation how can I deconstruct that maybe I can take this

vocabulary and uh use it elsewhere or I could even break the pieces of it and see how those are connected with other words so all of this these are all associations they're all connections it's just here are specific ways of thinking about that I think everybody has got it though uh ah monogamous yeah it means having uh well um like a mon monogamous person is is uh like having one partner so a polygamous person would me many like poly meaning many polygamus when I hear the sentence Follow You Lord I think of Kanye good one

explosion two w three ownership ah are you you're talking about like the levels of understanding that I talked about before uh I'll mention that very briefly before we move on to number five so I'm I'm really just giving names to things that people do already so people are are you're naturally doing all these things in your in your native language and typically like more successful people are actively applying these things even in their native language so that's how they have more interesting writing or more interesting conversations or speeches or whatever they're just actively applying these

different things so when I talk about different levels of understanding uh you could be exposed so be exposed to the language you're just hearing it somewhere or you're reading it or you're getting it but maybe you don't really understand what it means so this is the lowest level then we move up to awareness this is where you understand something and you can recognize it when people are talking to you oh I understand what something means uh but when we go to ownership pardon this fat marker ownership means you understand it well enough to feel confident

using that vocabulary all right but this is how you can think about it so any any vocabulary will go through these three phases but people typically get stuck here at awareness so they think they know something but they don't really and they say why can I understand a lot of people but I can't speak I say oh it's because you are able to recognize vocabulary but you don't know it as well as you think you do so you don't have ownership of the vocab so as soon as you try to speak you'll think oh wait

am I pronouncing it correctly is this grammatically correct is this the right word uh if you have any doubts about the vocabulary you don't have ownership of the vocabulary uh let's see gu do English is let's grow together Ahmed says only listening podcast and improve my language specifically my speaking well I don't know why you would only listen to podcast it's much better to watch video because you can see physical examples of people doing stuff it's the same same way children learn all right yes monop filament same idea all right uh last one the law

of inquiry law of inquiry and this means we're going to take what we know and we're going to try to extend even further we might ask like what's the opposite of a word or uh what might be like a more casual or more professional way of saying something uh what might be the history of this word so the more I actively am asking questions about that word I'm trying to create even more or further associations with that word by thinking about the origin of the word so that's the etmy uh where the word comes from

like if it's a different language or somebody created that word in English I'm asking further questions again the whole point of this exercise is to understand that we really become a confident speaker when we feel certain about vocabulary okay so we feel if we still have questions this is where we apply the law of inquiry our brains are naturally doing this anyway that's why people ask me lots of questions all the time they're like oh how do I say this or is this the right word for that situation that's inquiry and so this fills in

really anything you might have left if you still have questions or doubts about the vocabulary but these are the Five Laws you can follow and I guarantee if you follow these laws you will think and speak more like a native speaker okay so remember just as a wrap up a conclusion for this video you have lots of examples already of things in your native language where you have different ways of saying words so you can't say like well I I have a way to say money in my native language already well that's great you probably

have many ways of saying money in your native language so that doesn't stop you from learning new ones and the only difference it's just psychological where you're where you're thinking like oh am I translating to learn this word or am I understanding it all in English all right so anything you learn as a first language you will be able to use as a first language if you understand the vocabulary all right so this is why we want to make associations we want to find substitutes for that vocabulary and we do all of these things naturally

as we're paying attention but as an adult learning you can actively do these things so if I learn a word and I don't quite understand it I should get more examples of that thing maybe I should also learn some different ways of talking about that same situation so if I go to a cafe and I listen to different people ordering food I'm getting substitutions of that particular vocabulary or different ways of describing the same situation all right I can also extend that by thinking how else might I apply this situation so if I'm calling and

ordering a pizza I might use similar vocabulary when I'm ordering I don't know some other thing it could be other food or other thing off of the telephone all right I could also be deconstructing naturally the language when I'm looking at different ways that people are using the language getting different words and noticing their natural connections like we talked about with mono and by before so if we got monolingual bilingual trilingual okay we can talk about how many languages a person knows like a tricle here's a little bike for kids uh with one two three

wheels on it tricle tricle try okay and if anything is still left after we've gone through all of these things we still have just naturally again you are people are doing this already if you look back at the chat it's a whole bunch of people asking me questions the law of inquiry the brain is naturally trying to find enough information until it feels satisfied until it feels sure and certain this is like the most uh like the biggest thing that people are looking for in life in general certainty we'll put that the big seat certainty

people want to be certain all right people want to know like it's like if you're making an investment or whatever will I get my money back people want to be certain they want to eliminate risk they want to eliminate the risk of being embarrassed in a conversation and that's why they continue to ask ask questions until they have ownership of the vocabulary okay all right let's see what time it is it's already 11:30 look at that 100 minutes oh my goodness but it felt good look at you guys I thought this might be a long

one but wrapping up I'll look at last comments here but hopefully this makes sense remember you follow the laws and you will think more in English break the laws or just don't apply them for learning English and you will continue to struggle all right it's really that simple but remember you're already doing these things automatically in your native language and uh if you actually do them consciously if you apply these things consciously even in your native language you will become a better speaker of your native language as well okay all right last uh questions over

here uh let's see XD again Mr Drew have you ever tried Chinese food before CU I've seen a lot of Chinese restaurant running in Japan videos on YouTube yes and again I'm from the United States so we got quite a few Chinese restaurants over there too uh actually I heard like a lot of Chinese food like in Chinese restaurants it's like it's kind of New Year's Chinese food not what people normally eat I have no idea I just heard that but CU I was wondering wow this is like it's like really kind of fatty rich

food and it's like people like I don't see a lot of like fat people in China but I don't know maybe for whatever reason but they can't be eating like that every day all right uh how to get ride of awareness and reach ownership uh you just need to follow these laws that's it so you get more examples of things the more you understand something as you understand it better you become oh wow like now I really understand what that means and I feel confident using it that's when you own the language that's where you

become a native or fluent speaker of that language so you understand a specific word or phrase you feel confident that you will use it correctly and you do use it correctly you have ownership of that if you have questions about it these are the things you need to apply so either get more examples more associations substitutions uh try to figure out how you could extend it to something else all of these things will help you make stronger connections with the vocabulary okay and that's when you can use it fluently uh can you explain more details

and real life example of inquiry well like if just look at look at the look at the question you just asked right there so you're you're uncertain about something and you're looking for more information about it and this is uh inquiry just like it it applies to to anything like your brain is naturally doing that you just did that with your own question so I could ask about the history of something I could ask what the opposite word might be I could say like what like a uh um like if I like what would be

a casual way of saying this like how might a casual restaurant say something rather than a uh like luxury restaurant or something more expensive okay so when I'm asking those questions this is me just it's looking for even more information to to understand vocabulary or to expand my vocabulary but inquiry is just for like any general questions you might have that help you understand the vocabulary better that's the idea uh thanks again we appreciate your time and teaching says jento it's my pleasure when will the next live lesson be I think I think now I

thought this last week but I was wrong I think it's next Friday I think but if I'm not here don't be mad so don't plan your schedule around me let's see all right n says thank you for 100 minutes that was great yes that is a long a long time it flew by all right uh you have any thoughts on let's see on basketball Michael or Lebron James I'll assume you pick Jordan rather than LeBron James cuz Chicago loves MJ uh the the reason I like Michael Jordan or I would I would pick Michael Jordan

over LeBron James as as you know the best ever is because Michael Jordan is like he's just he's just tall enough so he's 6'6 I think so I'm like six like six or 61 so Michael Jordan is like where would he be he'd be like you know couple couple inches taller than me I guess U but like Michael Jordan he's he's not like if you imagine a basketball player that's 10 feet tall just imagine that and the guy had like a 100 points he could just stand at the at the basket and just dunk the

ball in all day like that wouldn't be a great basketball player he's even if he has more points than everybody else but someone like Michael Jordan it's like he's he's almost like a kind of a kind of Superman version of of regular regular people so reg like I could play basketball and like but he has he's not super tall U but yeah like he just so LeBron is I think 68 and just a bigger guy in general like physically bigger than Mike but like Mike is he's like kind of crafty and to see some of

the plays that that like Mike did because I was I was you know growing up in Chicago when Mike was uh was was playing and yeah just to watched like some of the moves that he did and how he fak people out and he wasn't these are like larger players but he was still uh he was still doing people so I would I would would pick him as like a better better allaround um player but it would be interesting to see them uh play against each other America's Chinese food not authentic taste says George yes

I imagine that and it's the same thing anywhere really like you you can go to get Japanese food in America and it's you know like California rolls and stuff like that is quite different from regular Japanese sushi or whatever all right Karina says you're are great thanks a lot son you are an amazing teacher guy a teacher guy I like that uh all right uh yeah I only understand his English if you're referring to me I I understand okay I think I got you all right look at that we got to the end uh only

107 minutes but thank you uh hopefully this makes sense I was excited to do this video because it really covers everything and you can ask yourself these questions about vocabulary like if I don't really understand something or if I'm still trying to translate I should probably get more examples of that thing and then I should figure out once I understand the vocabulary how else might I say something so there could be times where you learn something and you don't really understand it but you understand the situation so if I if I like if someone is

describing a beautiful sunset and one person says beautiful another person says uh like breathtaking or something and maybe I forget the word breathtaking it's okay like I can kind of understand like oh it's taking my like H it took my breath away it's breathtaking you know something amazing like that so even if I don't remember a particular word I can usually think of some kind of substitute uh but you're able to do that more in English so if you do that by trying to translate things it will be much more difficult for it uh come

to China of a lot of yes maybe I will I've never been to China uh but I would like to come someday anyway uh go back and watch this video again if you are joining us late or if you'd like more examples but remember the basic idea is we want to make associations within the language itself just like you're already doing in your native language so you can do this you're doing it already and it works for you you're already getting fluent you already speak well in your native language just apply the same rules into

English all right have a fantastic day uh if you would like to learn more about pronunciation uh or even just all of this stuff all the things like applying all this stuff I do that automatically for everyone influent for life I just like do all the hard work for you making it uh easier for you to understand and become a fluent speaker so if you'd like to learn more about that you can click on the links in the description below this video all right I can listen to you for hours on in it's so interesting

well glad to hear MC uh thank you for the stream says H well thank you all for joining me Papu thanks and I'll see you next time byebye